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-Lurid Crime Tales-
UPDATE: Democratic Aide Fired for Backdoor Love Romp in Senate Hearing Room Finds New Role as Bottom-Tier Sex Worker
2025-02-20
[FreeBeacon] Disgusting Content Alert!

Aidan Maese-Czeropski, the former legislative aide to Sen. Ben Cardin (D., Md.) who lost his job after filming a backdoor sex romp in a Senate hearing room, has launched a new career as an independent sex worker. Before his retirement this year, Cardin served alongside notorious Democratic pervert Ted Kennedy as well as convicted felon Bob Menendez, also a Democrat.

The defrocked aide appears to have relocated to Sydney, Australia, where he recently launched accounts on p0rn websites OnlyFans and Just For Fans under the moniker "Senate Twink." Urban Dictionary defines "twink" as "a gay or effeminate man, or a young man regarded as an object of homosexual desire, usually a 'bottom.'" For just $9.99 a month, subscribers can gain access to a trove of Senate Twink (he/his) content, including "hardcore bareback sex, Q&As, kink and custom content, and lots of nudes."
Related:
Aidan Maese-Czeropski 12/17/2023 Senate staffer who allegedly filmed public sex in Congress ousted from Ben Cardin's office

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-Obits-
On this day in history, July 19, 1969, former Kennedy aide killed in 'Chappaquiddick incident'
2024-07-19
[FoxNews] Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts served no jail time, had his driver's license suspended for a year.

Mary Jo Kopechne, 28 years old and a respected political operative, was found dead in the overturned car of Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., in a tidal pond near Chappaquiddick Island on this day in history, July 19, 1969.

Known as the "Chappaquiddick incident," the drowning death of Kopechne and the chain of events before and after the tragedy became a national scandal for the young senator from Massachusetts — and "derailed Ted Kennedy’s presidential ambitions for good," noted the History Channel.
Related:
Mary Jo Kopechne 07/18/2023 Today (18 July) Should Be Named Mary Jo Kopechnie Day
Mary Jo Kopechne 01/18/2023 Biden helped sink CIA nominee in 1970s with classified documents allegation
Mary Jo Kopechne 06/15/2020 Secretive 'ninja sword' R9X airstrike reported in Idlib

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Home Front: Politix
How the Kennedy Family Caused Today's Immigration Crisis
2024-03-19
[Front Page] When LBJ signed the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act into law, JFK had been dead for two years, but it, more than the Cuban missile crisis or the race to the moon, was his real legacy which still impacts us today when there are no more Americans on the moon or nukes in Cuba.

At the signing, LBJ paid tribute to "the vision of the late beloved President John Fitzgerald Kennedy". Little did the 36th president know that the 44th president, born to a radical Kenyan student, was already growing up in this country due to JFK’s personal intervention during his 1960 presidential campaign.

"This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill," President Johnson argued. "It does not affect the lives of millions. It will not reshape the structure of our daily lives... Yet it is still one of the most important acts of this Congress and of this administration." Only the last was true.

It affected not only millions, but tens of millions, and it reshaped our lives and our country.

At the signing ceremony, LBJ was flanked by the newly minted Senator Ted Kennedy and a grinning RFK to cement the bill which ended national quotas for immigrants as the Kennedy legacy. The bill would be described as Senator Ted Kennedy’s "first legislative victory" which "helped change the face of the country" and "fashioned the modern day immigration system."

"The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs," Senator Ted Kennedy had promised in the Senate. All of these promises proved to be false.

The 1965 bill was a sequel to a battle that Rep. John F. Kennedy had narrowly lost to Senator Richard Nixon over the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. President Truman had vetoed the 1952 bill because it imposed national restrictions on immigration, favoring Western European immigrants and drastically limiting immigration from the rest of the world.

Kennedy had upheld Truman’s veto in the House but Nixon cast a tie-breaking vote and the 1952 bill became law.
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Home Front: Politix
How can anyone even consider reelecting the ‘senescent, sticky-fingered, ill-tempered, spavined' Biden?
2023-07-24
[Wash Examiner] In a recent interview with Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo, former President Donald Trump recounted a long-ago conversation he’d had with the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. He claimed he asked Kennedy whom he considered to be the smartest senator. "I won’t tell you the answer because I don’t particularly like the guy. I said, ’Who’s the dumbest?’ He said, ’Probably Joe [Biden].’"

According to Trump, Kennedy said, "He’s hale and hearty and well meant, [great] personality, but you go to policy or you go to taxes or anything that’s complicated, he doesn’t have a clue."

It’s not hard to imagine this conversation taking place. Even in his prime, President Joe Biden often came across as a buffoon. When we think of Biden’s long career in Washington (before his presidency), we think of his humiliating forced withdrawal from the 1988 Democratic presidential primary for plagiarism, his vile treatment of Supreme Court nominees Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas, his unwanted touching, and his lies and exaggerations.

But his reemergence on the national stage in 2019 brought new attacks. Accusations that he had enriched himself and his family members during his tenure as vice president were leveled against him — serious charges he managed to dodge ahead of the 2020 presidential election with a little help from his friends.

But those allegations have not gone away. In fact, they’ve only grown louder and more damning since his first day in office. And today, four years later, they’ve become too big to hide.

Since taking back Congress in January, House Republican investigators have uncovered incontrovertible evidence that the Biden family enriched itself by trading on the ability of its patriarch to influence U.S. policy decisions for cash. The evidence includes bank records, the content on Hunter Biden’s laptop, and the sworn testimony of a growing number of IRS and FBI whistleblowers who participated in and even led their agencies’ investigations into Hunter Biden.
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Government Corruption
Supreme Court packing just the latest Dem effort to control the court
2023-05-22
[Washington Examiner] Many Democratic leaders just won’t give up their nefarious court-packing schemes. They also keep repeating flagrant falsehoods to support the idea.

Last week, Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and other Democrats introduced a bill to expand the Supreme Court from nine seats to 13. The goal, obviously, is to rig the high court for the Left to take over what is considered a 6-3 conservative majority.

As we have argued before, court-packing flies in the face of history, tradition, and logic, not to mention legitimacy in the eyes of the public. The court has stood at nine members for 154 years and has exceeded that number only once during the emergency of the Civil War.

That case is easy to make. What bears recapitulation is the refutation of the Left’s falsehoods to remind the public of the record of 40 years of judicial nomination battles.

Markey’s explanation for the latest court-packing bill was mendacious to the max.

"When a bully steals your lunch money in the schoolyard, you have to do something about it, or else the bully will come back over and over again," he said. "So we’re in this fight, and we’re going to reclaim these seats. We’re not going to allow the bully to win."

Markey is alleging that conservatives or Republicans have been the collective "bully" in the court fights. The facts show the opposite. For four decades, the Left has abused the process, with Republicans being the victims.

By the middle of President Ronald Reagan’s first term, the Left was using the American Bar Association to scuttle judicial nominees on spurious ideological grounds. By 1986, leftists earned their first major scalp by blocking the judicial nomination of Alabama’s Jeff Sessions, leveling accusations of "racism" against him despite the public record strongly indicating the opposite.

Successful in that endeavor, they used what then were utterly unprecedented bullying tactics to block the Supreme Court nomination of the eminently qualified Judge Robert Bork, with Massachusetts’ Sen. Ted Kennedy unleashing a screed against Bork so defamatory that "borking" became a new word in the political lexicon meaning false and extreme character assassination. It was the forerunner of cancel culture.
Related:
Court-packing: 2023-05-15 Planned Parenthood calls for court packing, term limits
Court-packing: 2021-04-13 They'll "Get What They Deserve" - Trump Blasts "Pathetic" Supremes As Biden Court-Packing Looms
Court-packing: 2021-04-07 Justice Breyer Warns Dems: 'Think Long And Hard" Before Trying Any SCOTUS Court-Packing'
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Economy
Social Security Solvency: Lindsey Graham Thinks Seniors May ‘Have to' Take Less Money
2022-06-17
[GO Banking Rates] In a June 13 Fox Nation debate, Sen. Lindsey Graham said seniors may have to “take a little less” and “pay a little more in” when debating Social Security solvency, reports Knewz via MSN. Graham made the comments while debating Sen. Bernie Sanders during a “Senate Project” debate.

“Let’s do something like Ted Kennedy would do: get Republicans and Democrats to find a way — like the Gang of Six, the Simpson-Bowles plan. Senator Sanders: bring your Social Security plan to the floor. All it does is raise taxes. To get out of this mess, people like me are going to have to take a little less and pay a little more in. We’re going to have to adjust the age one more time like Ronald Reagan and Tip — Tip O’Neil did. There is a bipartisan way forward. You describe problems, but your answer is always the government — it’s always socialism,” Graham said.

The estimated average Social Security retirement benefit in 2022 is $1,658 a month, announced the Social Security Administration. While this is a $93 increase from the year before, benefits only cover a portion of seniors’ living expenses. For his part, Sanders admitted that Social Security “does have a solvency issue,” but that his proposal — also backed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren — would extend solvency for 75 years while increasing benefits for recipients by $2,400 per year. Sanders’ proposal would ostensibly fund this expansion of Social Security via a tax on high-earning households, per CNBC.
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Omicron Has Killed As Many People As … Alec Baldwin's Gun
2021-12-28
[Howie Carr] Dementia Joe Biden could have gotten America’s attention a little more forcefully Tuesday if only he’d just led with the latest ominous omicron death toll:

"My fellow Americans, today I regret to inform you that as of this morning, about a month after it was first discovered, omicron has now killed as many Americans as ... Alec Baldwin’s gun. Or Ted Kennedy’s Oldsmobile."

He could have paused for effect to let that grim milestone sink in for all 330 million Americans. Then he could have begun again:

"By Christmas, only four days away, I am informed by the all-knowing Dr. Fauci that the U.S. death toll will likely equal that at O.J. Simpson’s home in Brentwood on that grim evening back in 1994."

When the news of the death in Houston broke Tuesday, it got the most play of any passing in Texas since Nov. 22, 1963. It was a two-fer — the guy had had the virus before, so the TV "experts" all got to shout in unison how antibodies didn’t save him and you better get a booster or two or three. The company line, in other words.

It was another bleak day — for Dementia Joe’s poll ratings. The panic porn-industrial complex is just not clicking on all cylinders anymore. They can’t keep their stories straight, and I’m not just talking about the trademark Biden incoherence.
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Home Front: Politix
Biden nominates JFK's daughter Caroline Kennedy to be ambassador to Australia
2021-12-16
[JPost] "Like, um, and yeah, umm, and I love sushi, I mean Koalas."
Appears she sobered up long enough to say yes.
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Caroline Kennedy to be US ambassador to Australia and Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan as ambassador to Belize, the White House said.

Kennedy, 64, is the daughter of John Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States who was assassinated in 1963. She previously served as US ambassador to Japan.

Kwan is the winner of two silver Olympic medals in figure skating. She has served as an adviser to the US Department of State on women's issues.
Related:
Caroline Kennedy: 2021-11-05 Gore Touts Technology Tracking ‘Identities' of Greenhouse Gas Emitters ‐ ‘We Can Take Action'
Caroline Kennedy: 2021-07-24 Biden has nominated the wives of three key political allies - including the widows of John McCain and Ted Kennedy - to coveted diplomatic positions in Europe
Caroline Kennedy: 2021-06-09 Obama blames ‘White America'…Video
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Former Sen. Barbara Boxer Assaulted & Robbed In Oakland
2021-07-27
[Breaking911] Former Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer was attacked in Oakland’s Jack London Square Monday. The incident happened in the 300 block of 3rd Street.

“Earlier today former Senator Barbara Boxer was assaulted in the Jack London Square neighborhood of Oakland,” her representative wrote in a Tweet. “The assailant pushed her in the back, stole her cell phone and jumped in a waiting car. She is thankful that she was not seriously injured.”

The suspect remains at large. The Oakland Police Department is offering a reward of up to $2,000 leading for an arrest in this case.
Related:
Barbara Boxer : 2018-10-04 GOP-doxxing suspect arrested; worked or interned for Feinstein, Jackson Lee, other Dems
Barbara Boxer : 2017-12-16 Hanoi Jane Donates $100K to Defeat GOP Rep. Darrell Issa
Barbara Boxer : 2017-11-20 ‘Year of the Woman' senators condemn sexual harassment, campaigned for Ted Kennedy
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Home Front: Politix
Biden has nominated the wives of three key political allies - including the widows of John McCain and Ted Kennedy - to coveted diplomatic positions in Europe
2021-07-24
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Three wives of his political allies have been nominated to key diplomatic roles

  • A fourth influential woman - Caroline Kennedy - could be given a plum job

  • Caroline Kennedy was previously Barack Obama's ambassador to Japan

  • Another Kennedy, Victoria - wife of the late Ted Kennedy - has been nominated

  • She is being asked to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Austria

  • Jamie Harpootlian, wife of a South Carolina senator, is being offered Slovenia

  • The coveted jobs in Paris and London are also likely to go to women
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Home Front: Politix
Second Debate Moderator Worked For Biden, Tweeted Resistance Screed
2020-10-02
[Zero] Since PJ Media and a handful of other conservative reporters first drew attention to the fact that the chosen moderator for the second debate, Steve Scully, has a long history of anti-Trump tweets (he also got his start in politics by interning in then-Sen. Joe Biden's office during his college days, before taking a job in the office of Sen Ted Kennedy), more of Scully's ramblings attacking Trump during the 2016 race and after have surfaced online.

In one now-infamous tweet, Scully shared a column from the NYT along with the line: "No, not Trump, not ever."
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Mary Jo Kopechne tried to breathe from last air pocket of sinking car
2020-05-21
  • Mary Jo Kopechne, 28, died after drowning in a car crash off the waters of Martha's Vineyard on July 18, 1996, known as the Chappaquiddick scandal
  • The car was driven by Senator Ted Kennedy, who fled the scene of the accident
  • He failed to report the accident for ten hours claiming he 'was overcome by a jumble of emotion – grief, fear, doubt, exhaustion, panic, confusion and shock'
  • New book Before Chappaquiddick, The Untold Story of Mary Jo Kopechne and the Kennedy Brothers takes a deeper look into Mary Jo's life and death
  • Ted never apologized to Mary Jo's parents but he went on national television to ask the people of Massachusetts for their forgiveness
    But see the graphic
  • The author reveals Mary Jo had been thrown into the back and her head was cocked back with her face pressed into the foot-well of the floor trying to get air
  • Despite Mary Jo being a loyal and trusted staffer to Robert Kennedy, the political family closed ranks and let the press run stories that she was an opportunist
Related:
Mary Jo Kopechne: 2019-07-20 From Chappaquiddick to Tranquility Base in One Weekend
Mary Jo Kopechne: 2018-12-04 'Scandalous: Chappaquiddick' Premieres With First Episode, 'The Bridge'
Mary Jo Kopechne: 2018-03-30 Hollywood Made a Great Movie About a Kennedy Tragedy Homicide
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Ted Kennedy: 2020-04-16 RFK widow Ethel Kennedy ‘loves' Che Guevara, ‘has a subversive streak'
Ted Kennedy: 2020-03-03 AOC Shuts Down Ted Cruz By Making A Baking Soda Volcano
Ted Kennedy: 2020-02-07 An Al Qaeda Ldr Came to USA as a Refugee, And Applied for Disability for Bullet Wounds
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