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Democrats Are Now The 'People's Revolutionary Party' — Issues & Insights
2025-04-17
[ISSUESINSIGHTS] In February, a bunch of centrist Democratic officials gathered in ritzy Potomac, Maryland, to complain that the party had become too radicalized and needed to ''get out of elite circles and into real communities (e.g., tailgates, gun shows, local restaurants, churches).''

The response of rank-and-file Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
? ''Go left, young gender-fluid person!!''

This week, RealClearPolitics reported on a poll from Survey USA that found 74% of Democrats either want the party to be even more ''progressive'' (50%) or like it just the way it is (24%). Fewer than one in five wants the party to move toward the center.

Yes, some are trying to keep sanity alive.

Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Gov. Gavin Governor Hair Gel Newsom
...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland...
— who desperately wants to be president — has been pretending to be a moderate by inviting conservatives onto his podcast and saying things such as ''the Democratic brand is toxic.''

Former reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is warning Democrats that they ''can't be a party that believes in equity and allows two-thirds of your kids who can't read.'' He's also said that Democrats have ''sunk'' their own party.

Democratic New Mexico District Attorney Sam Bregman is running for governor against the ''radical Left.''

But this isn't the 1990s, and there is no interest or appetite among Democrats in reviving Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is...
's ''New Democrat'' corpse.

The party is now irretrievably in the grip of those toxic, party-sinking radical leftists. In the Survey USA poll, there wasn't a single demographic group where even a plurality felt the party should be more moderate.

More than half of young, urban, college-educated, well-paid whites — the very people who make up the ''elite circles'' and will never venture into ''real communities'' — want the party to move further to the left.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, another bullet hole appeared in Butch's hat......
avowed socialists Bernie Sanders

...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
and Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez
Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore
are drawing big crowds and generating loads of fawning press for their ''fight the oligarchy
... derived from the Greek words oligos, a few and the verb archo, to rule, to govern, to command. Oligarchies are invariably effectual rather than established, to whit, they disguise themselves as other systems, working as the real government behind the face of of democracy, fascism, socialism, monarchy, or what have you...
'' tour.
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Home Front: Politix
Insiders reveal how the Democratic Party is locked in a nasty 'knife fight' as top politicians seek revenge for Kamala's $1.5 billion 'circus of lies'
2024-12-19
Via Ace of Spades
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Warring Democratic factions are in a 'knife fight' for control of the Party after Kamala Harris
former senatrix from California, 2020 Dem presidential hopeful and ultimately Joe Biden's intended successor
's humiliating election loss, say political insiders.

The battle lines are now drawn between West Coast liberals, Bernie Sanders

...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
-socialists and moderate technocrats in the Midwest, who insist the party has completely lost touch with the average American voter.

But first, there is one thing that all sides seemingly agree on: The current political establishment must be chased out of national politics for good.

A reckoning is coming.

'The people that are responsible for this s**tshow are the Obama people. They're just grifters,' a well-connected Democratic donor exclusively told Daily Mail.

He singled out Jen O'Malley Dillon, who went from Biden 2024 campaign chair to serve in the same role for Harris's camp, and David Plouffe, an ex-Obama 2008 campaign manager turned top Kamala adviser.

Deep-pocketed lefty patrons are enraged by Plouffe's post-election admission that Harris never led Trump in their internal campaign polling, despite public surveys showing her ahead.

'[Polls] came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads that we never saw,' Plouffe revealed late last month on the Democrat-friendly podcast 'Pod Save America.'

'They lied to us. It's just a circus of lies,' the donor erupted, complaining that Harris' team regularly painted a much rosier picture when speaking to supporters who were signing big checks.

Particularly appalling to these critics is that Harris' campaign also managed to blow through an unprecedented $1.5 billion in donor cash over the course of 15 weeks — and with barely anything to show for it, losing control of the White House, Senate and failing to flip the House of Representatives.

The campaign, for instance, spent nearly $1 million to light up the 366-foot-high, 516-foot-wide LED screen wrapping around The Sphere arena in Las Vegas.

The strip landmark played a 90-second Harris campaign ad for a week.

'$900,000 to put her face on The Sphere in Las Vegas! The ego!' griped Democrat mega-donor and trial attorney John Morgan last month. He describes himself as a 'Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Too old and senile to be prosecuted, not too old and senile to set national policy...
Democrat.'

Other examples of alleged profligate spending included $2.5 million on the production costs for an Oprah Winfrey town hall event in September.

And there were purported donations totaling $500,000 paid to the civil rights hustler Al Sharpton
...Tawana Brawley's spiritual advisor...
's National Action Network charity (Harris was later treated to a softball interview on Sharpton's MSNBC show).

'People are pissed, and they are rightfully pissed,' fumed Democratic strategist Mike Nellis, a former senior advisor to Harris, to the Mail.

Donors like John Morgan are seriously suspicious.

'There's a lot of whispers. There's a lot of names about who got paid this, who got paid that, and a lot of people got rich on the back of donors trying to stop Trump,' he said.

Of Harris, he concluded, 'I think this disqualifies her forever. Forever.'

'If you can't run a campaign, you can't run America... The same thing is going to follow Harris for the rest of her career. She cannot be trusted with the money.'

Certainly, those vying to be the next boss of the Democratic National Committee are determined to get to the bottom of all of this.

Ken Martin, the Minnesota Party chair and frontrunner for the top DNC (If you're white you ain't right!)
...Democrat National Committee, where all those off-the-wall talking points originate...
job, has called for a third-party audit of the entire Democratic party infrastructure.

'I think you're looking at everything. It's not just contracts and consultants, it's not just ad spends and media buys, it's A through Z,' he told MSNBC this week.

Another DNC chair hopeful, Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler agrees: 'There needs to be a full review, a full and formal evaluation of this last cycle — the good, the bad and the ugly.'

Regardless, Harris insists she is not going anywhere and has, according to reports, been 'instructing advisers and allies to keep her options open.'

The VP still has supporters, even among those vying to be the next chair of the DNC.

Consultants speaking to the Mail described her four-month race as 'near perfect' and 'nearly flawless,' despite the result. If given more time, they say, Harris could bounce back in a future bid.

'Kamala Harris, whether she knows it or not, is the face of the party, if she wants to be,' said Democratic strategist Michael Trujillo. 'The day after Trump is sworn in she could announce her run for president in 2028.'

They blame Biden for staying in the race too long and not giving Harris enough time to get a campaign off the ground.

Indeed, relations between the Harrises and Bidens has appeared to turn downright frigid.

At a Kennedy Center award ceremony in Washington DC on Sunday, the president and first lady were seated next to the second couple, yet they didn't acknowledge their presence or even look in their direction.

Things are getting ugly.

Former Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
is reportedly working behind the scenes to sabotage on Congresswoman Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez
Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore
bid to become ranking member of the powerful House Oversight Committee.

Former reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
mayor and outgoing ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel has in recent weeks been vocal in slamming his party for its elitism, focusing too much on woke notions and special interests instead of the average American.

'Here's what I would say to the Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
: You have a YETI cup? Sit down and shut up,' said Emmanuel this month.

Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Governor Gavin Governor Hair Gel Newsom
...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland...
threw a shovelful of dirt on Biden's political grave after the president's pardon of his son Hunter despite vowing that he would not.

'I took the president at his word,' Newsom said last week. 'So by definition, I'm disappointed and can't support the decision.'

And even Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has gotten in on the action.

He triggered an angry response from establishment Democrats almost immediately after the election, when he lamented Harris's 'disastrous campaign' for 'abandoning' the working class.

To some, all this bloodletting is welcome.

'Stare into the abyss and see what comes of it because I think that the Democratic Party does a poor job of having tough internal conversations about what went right and what went wrong,' said former Harris adviser Nellis.

But it's what comes next that's most critical — and there already early signs of the skirmish.

'There's a reckoning inside the Democratic Party,' said CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
commentator and left-wing activists Van Jones. 'Kamala Harris promised us freedom... well, she delivered it to us, because now we're free from having to run anything in Washington, DC.'
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Home Front: Politix
Proud Boys descend on Springfield as debate over 'migrants eating pets' in the small Ohio town
2024-09-17
The Daily Mail jumbles together a bunch of different stories centering on Springfield, Ohio over the past few days. With regard to the Proud Boys and Blood Tribe: I do hope the FBI is not stirring up trouble again in a way that can be traced back to them — remember the Seventies, man.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The far-right Proud Boys descended on Springfield, Ohio, as Donald Trump doubled down on his promise to visit the town at the center of pet-eating rumors.

Members of the group were spotted marching amid reports that the KKK has been distributing recruitment leaflets in a town that has been hit by a wave of bomb threats directed at schools and colleges.
33 out of 33 bomb threats were from overseas. Hoaxes.
Around 20 members of the Proud Boys, some seen carrying flags and placards, were seen in video and photos posted to social media.
Always a role for the useful idiot.
Plans for a visit by the ex-president are still taking shape, his campaign team insists, after he repeated debunked claims that the town's large Haitian population was killing and eating their neighbors' pets.

GOP leaders have angrily dismissed the stories as 'garbage' and told him to stay away.

'Look, there's a lot of garbage on the internet. This was a piece of garbage that was simply not true, there's no evidence of this at all.

'Any comment about that otherwise, I think, is hurtful and is not helpful to the city of Springfield and the people of Springfield.

'We need to focus on moving forward, not dogs and cats being eaten, it's just ridiculous.'

The Proud Boys, which have been banned as a terrorist group in Canada, currently have five chapters in Ohio, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

They have been at the forefront of some of the most violent political confrontations in recent years, and five of its leaders were indicted on seditious conspiracy charges over the January 6 riot.

Former leader Henry Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in the violence.

Donald Trump has distanced himself from the group since telling them to 'stand back and stand by' in his 2020 presidential debate with Joe Biden.

Their arrival comes a month after around a dozen masked members of the neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe held an 'anti-Haitian immigration march' in the town as the first rumors started to emerge.

The group promoted the rumors online, and member Drake Berentz spoke at a Springfield City Commission meeting on August 27 to warn that 'crime and savagery will only increase with every Haitian you bring in'.

He was ejected from the meeting, but group leader Christopher Pohlhaus was euphoric after Trump brought up the rumors in his presidential debate.

'The president is talking about it now,' one of his members wrote on the social media platform Gab.

'This is what real power looks like.'

Ohio officials reveal why man in viral photo was holding two geese
Sure ... a roadkill buffet.

Will the Media Apologize to Trump and Vance After Bomb Threats in Springfield Turned Out to Be Hoaxes?



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Related:
Southern Poverty Law Center: 2024-09-13 New ‘Hate Map’ exposes left-wing hostility, antisemitism on college campuses
Southern Poverty Law Center: 2024-06-14 A Virginia man was convicted of terrorism offenses and sentenced to 25 years in prison after taking inspiration from the @SPLCenter in 2012 by using their target map list to attempt a mass shooting in D.C.
Southern Poverty Law Center: 2023-12-11 Montana woman under arrest for driving vehicle into ‘religious group’ on sidewalk
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Home Front: WoT
White House scrambles to distance itself from Islamic group after leader's praise for Hamas' Oct 7th slaughter
2023-12-08
[FoxNews] White House had listed the Council on American-Islamic Relations as a group committed to combating antisemitism
The more fools they.
The White House is scrambling to distance itself from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
...one of many branches of the Muslim Brotherhood in America...
after its leader appeared to say that he was "happy" to see Palestinians in Gaza "break the siege" during Hamas' deadly Oct. 7 terrorist attack against Israel.

Nihad Awad, CAIR's executive director, is seen making the comments in a video making its rounds on social media.

"The people of Gaza only decided to break the siege, the walls of the concentration camp on Oct. 7," Awad says in the video, which quickly went viral on social media. "And yes, I was happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land and walk free into their land that they were not allowed to walk in."

"And yes, the people of Gaza have the right to self-defense, have the right to defend themselves," he added. "And yes, Israel, as an occupying power, does not have that right to self-defense."

After being contacted regarding the comments, a White House spokesperson told Fox News Digital they are removing the group from its publicly listed pledge to fight antisemitism.
Somebody in the Biden administration still cares about such things. How odd.
The White House spokesperson said CAIR was "one of several independent organizations" listed in a supplemental document regarding the efforts and that the White House is "removing their commitment" from the record.

White House spokesperson Andrew Bates told Fox News Digital, "We condemn these shocking, Antisemitic statements in the strongest terms."

"The horrific, brutal terrorist attacks committed by Hamas on October 7th were, as President Biden said, ‘abhorrent’ and represent ‘unadulterated evil,’" Bates said.

"October 7th was the deadliest day for Jewish people since the Holocaust," he continued. "The atrocities of that day shock the conscience, which is why we can never forget the pain Hamas has caused for so many innocent people."

"There are families who are in agony mourning loves ones, and there are also families in agony as they do everything in their power to free loved ones being held hostage," Bates said. "Every leader has a responsibility to call out Antisemitism wherever it rears its ugly head."

More than six months after the announcement, Awad appeared at an American Muslims for Palestine event on Nov. 24 and made the controversial comments that led to the White House removing the group from its supplemental document on combating antisemitism.

In a lengthy statement to Fox News Digital, Awad said his comments were taken out of context by an "anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian hate website."

"During my remarks last week at a conference in support of Palestinian human rights, I condemned violence against all civilians and all forms of bigotry, specifically including Islamophobia and antisemitism," Awad said in the statement.

"Despite this, an anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian hate website selected remarks from my speech out of context and spliced them together to create a completely false meaning," he added.

"What I actually said while discussing international law: Ukrainians, Palestinians and other occupied people have the right to defend themselves and escape occupation by just and legal means, but targeting civilians is never an acceptable means of doing so, which is why I have again and again condemned the violence against Israeli civilians on Oct. 7 and past Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians, including suicide bombings, all the way back to the 1990s—just as I have condemned the decades of violence against Palestinian civilians."

"The average Palestinians who briefly walked out of Gaza and set foot on their ethnically cleansed land in a symbolic act of defiance against the blockade and stopped there without engaging in violence were within their rights under international law; the extremists who went on to attack civilians in southern Israel were not," he continued. "Targeting civilians is unacceptable, no matter whether they are Israeli or Palestinian or any other nationality."
Related:
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Council on American-Islamic Relations: 2023-11-23 Maryland AG suspends hate crime task force member who claimed babies murdered by Hamas were 'fake'
Council on American-Islamic Relations: 2023-11-21 Vandals attack home of Jewish US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel by defacing fence with the word NAZIS as anti-Semitic attacks soar to a 'historic level' across America
Related:
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Nihad Awad: 2019-09-12 After Bolton ouster, five vie to be Trump’s fourth national security adviser
Nihad Awad: 2019-02-21 Lawfare: Muslim group seeks congressional probe on US terror watchlist
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel, Hamas reach deal for 50 hostages in exchange for multi-day cease-fire in war...now delayed to at least Friday while war continues
2023-11-23
[NYPOST] Israel has approved a deal with Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
in which 50 hostages held by the terror group would be freed in exchange for a temporary cease-fire in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
lasting at least four days and the release of Paleostinians detained in Israeli prisons.

The Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
-mediated agreement was overwhelmingly approved by the Israeli cabinet early Wednesday local time after more than six hours of debate — marking the first major diplomatic breakthrough since the start of the war.

"The government of Israel is committed to bringing all of the hostages home," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement. "Tonight, the government approved the outline for the first stage of achieving this goal."

Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs later formally announced the deal in a statement on X and said a start time to the halt in fighting would be revealed "within the next 24 hours."

As part of the deal — struck more than six weeks into the war — Hamas is set to release 50 of the 240 hostages taken during its Oct. 7 attack on the Jewish nation, according to the Israeli government.

The first hostages to be freed would be women and kiddies.

Or perhaps not:
In surprise delay, top Netanyahu aide says hostage release ‘not before Friday’

[IsraelTimes] National Security Council chairman Tzachi Hanegbi announces talks for deal on at least 50 hostages and 4-day fighting lull ‘progressing’; truce also on hold, war to continue
Related:
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Israel: 2023-11-21 Vandals attack home of Jewish US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel by defacing fence with the word NAZIS as anti-Semitic attacks soar to a 'historic level' across America
Israel: 2023-11-21 How many aid groups knew Hamas was hiding in a hospital and lied about it?
Related:
Qatar: 2023-11-21 1,000 boats said set to leave Turkey for Gaza waters in new ‘Freedom Flotilla’
Qatar: 2023-11-21 ICRC director meets with Hamas leader in Qatar, calls for release of hostages
Qatar: 2023-11-20 Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: November 19th, 2023
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Government Corruption
Maryland AG suspends hate crime task force member who claimed babies murdered by Hamas were 'fake'
2023-11-23
[NYPOST] Democrat Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown took action against a member of his own hate crime task force on Tuesday after numerous antisemitic social media posts by the member surfaced, including a claim that the babies murdered in the brutal Oct. 7 Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
attack were "fake."

Zainab Chaudry, an anti-Israel activist who serves as the director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ...
’ (CAIR) Maryland office, made the posts in the weeks following Hamas’ attack, which saw more than 1,200 people killed, including children and babies, as well as numerous rapes and destruction of property.

"The Office of Attorney General learned last week about personal social media posts of a member of the Maryland Commission on Hate Crimes Response and Prevention, Zainab Chaudry, Executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations — Maryland Office," Brown said in a blurb.

"Attorney General Brown has determined that Ms. Chaudry’s social media posts risk disrupting the work and mission of the Commission, so he is announcing steps that he took today to ensure that the vital work and mission of the Commission can continue without interruption," he said, adding that Chaudry’s membership on the commission would be "temporarily suspended."
Until it all blows over.
He went on to say that his office would "develop a draft values statement" concerning personal communications by commission members, and called on those members to "to exercise great care in their communications and conduct."

Related:
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Anthony Brown: 2021-03-11 Biden Administration Imposes First Iran Sanctions
Anthony Brown: 2019-07-13 Congressional Black Caucus Slams Justice Dems for Targeting Black Reps
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Hamas: 2023-11-21 How many aid groups knew Hamas was hiding in a hospital and lied about it?
Hamas: 2023-11-21 Censorship here? Yes, We Knew It All Along
Related:
Zainab Chaudry: 2016-09-16 NYPD seeks man who tried to set Muslim woman ablaze
Related:
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Council on American-Islamic Relations: 2023-04-30 Man charged with setting fire to two mosques in Minneapolis
Council on American-Islamic Relations: 2023-05-01 Man charged with setting fire to two mosques in Minneapolis
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Chicago's Protections for Felons, Gang Members Ensure Zero Criminal Illegal Aliens are Turned Over to Feds
2022-12-14
[Breitbart] The sanctuary city of Chicago is turning zero criminal illegal aliens over to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency for arrest and deportation in part thanks to Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) protections for gang members and felons.

In the third quarter of 2022, city records show that none of the three ICE detainers filed with Chicago police — requesting custody of criminal illegal aliens — were honored. Likely hundreds, potentially thousands, more illegal aliens were arrested in Chicago during the period, but ICE agents have been restricted in issuing detainers by the Biden administration.

The refusal to honor any ICE detainers by Chicago officials is the result of Lightfoot’s expanded sanctuary city policy.

In February 2021, Lightfoot signed the expansion, which prohibited local police from cooperating with ICE even in cases where arrested illegal aliens are in the gang database, are convicted felons, have pending criminal charges, or have outstanding warrants.

Lightfoot’s expansion came after former Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) signed Chicago’s initial sanctuary city policy into law in 2012 which prohibited police from questioning suspects about their immigration status.

Emanuel’s sanctuary city policy was later expanded in 2016 to mandate that “city employees treat documented and undocumented immigrants with respect and dignity.”
Related:
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Home Front: Politix
Biden gets 40 judges confirmed in first year, double Trump's number
2021-12-19
[WashingtonExaminer] President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. A latter-day version of Romulus Augustulus, only more friendly to the barbarians at the gates...
is moving at twice the pace filing vacancies in federal court than his immediate predecessor during his first year in office, but the Democrat has a long way to go in catching up to Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
's total first-term number.

With the Senate confirming a raft of judicial nominees late Friday into early Saturday, Biden's 2021 total was brought to 40 federal court nominees confirmed, which is 21 more than the 19 Trump had in 2017.

The confirmations will be the last ones of the year, though the Senate voted to advance the nominations of two other judges, Gabriel Sanchez and Holly Thomas to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, who are set to have their final votes in January.

The last president to have at least 40 judicial nominees confirmed in his first year was Ronald Reagan, who had 41, according to a tweet from Thomas Jipping, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

Despite the head start, Biden is nowhere near Trump's total number. Trump had 234 judges appointed to lifetime tenures across four years, including 54 appellate judges and three Supreme Court
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
judges. Biden has not had an opportunity to nominate any judges to the high court in his first 11 months in office, but he is making headway in diversifying the federal bench.

Whereas Trump had Republicans, led by then-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
...Senate minority leader from Kentucky. A politician's politician, Mitch is smarter than he's given credit for, not as smart as he thinks he is. He is married to former education secretary Elaine Chao, whose father has extensive shipping interests, including a company in China, which makes sense since he's Chinese. He is sometimes maligned as Cocaine Mitch because a few million bucks' worth of the drug was once found on one of his father-in-law's ships in Colombia, which is kind of a tenuous assertion, to say the least...
, in control of the Senate during his one term, Biden is working with an upper chamber split 50-50 along party lines, with Vice President Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism or misogyny or something like that. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's, and bimbo votes. She's an outstanding exemplar of the Peter Principle, proudly displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge
as the tie-breaker.
And if the Democrats lose control of the Senate next November, which looks possible, two years of confirmations will be all they get. Something to ponder when those on the Left get excited.
The Senate also confirmed other sorts of nominees in this final batch of the year, including former reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was an Obama adviser, to be ambassador to Japan. Roughly 30 senators missed the votes, with the tallies for each one hovering between the high 60s and low 70s.
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Home Front: Politix
Hawley threatens hold on State, Defense noms unless Blinken, Austin, Sullivan resign
2021-09-15
[NYPOST] Sen. Josh Hawley is threatening to place a hold on all of President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences. So does Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle......
’s civilian nominees for positions at the Department of Defense and the State Department at the secretary and deputy levels unless Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan resign over the administration’s chaotic troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Hawley argued that the Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra)
...the gang of subgeniuses trying to pass themselves off as the adults in charge of the series of calamities characteristic of the administration of a mentally challenged geriatric case...
has failed to take responsibility for the botched withdrawal that led to the deaths of 13 US servicemembers and at least 100 Americans left stranded, and that his move is necessary to hold those at the top accountable.

"This was never necessary. It did not have to be this way and it shouldn’t have been. Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us...
is responsible for today’s failure and now there must be accountability. Instead, the president’s team is even now coming to Capitol Hill and blaming others, shirking responsibility — that’s cowardly. And I, for one, am not willing to look the other way," he said on the Senate floor on Tuesday afternoon.

"So let me be clear, I will not consent to the nomination of any nominee for the Department of Defense or for the Department of State until Secretary Austin and Secretary Blinken and Jake Sullivan resign — leaders take responsibility for their failures and the failure of these individuals, the failure of this administration has cost Americans their lives and has left American civilians to the enemy. There must be accountability and there must be a new start."

In addition to calling for the administration officials’ resignations, Hawley went as far as calling for President Biden’s resignation over his "disgraceful" handling of the withdrawal, slamming his remarks calling the evacuation a "success."

"This president is a disgrace. His behavior is disgraceful. He has dishonored this country with his shameful leadership in this crisis and it is time for him to resign," he said.

"And if he had the responsibility of leadership, he would resign for the crisis that he has himself led this nation into and the responsibility he bears for the lives that have been lost and for the American citizens who are even now as I speak trapped in Afghanistan, left to the enemy because of his failures and his shameful, disgraceful leadership."

Hawley’s vow to blockade nominees could lead to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 45.77634 years, or 320.43438 years in dog years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...
(D-N.Y.) to take procedural steps to confirm individuals who would likely easily pass by voice vote.

The move comes as Blinken faced heated criticism from members on both sides of the aisle during a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing, where politicians grilled the secretary on an array of missteps that critics argue alienated US allies, weakened the country’s ability to gather intel from adversaries in the region and potentially heighten the risk of an attack on the homeland.
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Economy
Biden White House Approves Licensing Deal For Chinese Communist Party-Linked Huawei, Reversing Trump
2021-08-26
[THENATIONALPULSE] The decision follows the Beijing-backed tech firm hiring several lobbyists, including the brother of Biden’s White House Counselor Steve Ricchetti and CNN
...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for...
guests who have pushed the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.

"U.S. officials have approved license applications worth hundreds of millions of dollars for China’s blacklisted telecom company Huawei to buy chips for its growing auto component business, two people familiar with the matter said," Rooters reported.

The reported approval follows a Trump-era crackdown on the telecommunications firm, which has extensive links to both the Chinese Communist Party. Labeled a "national security threat" by the Trump administration and a decades-long Chinese military collaborator by the U.S. Department of Defense, Huawei routinely provides the regime backdoor access to its products, networks, and devices.

Former President Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
’s State Department also emphasized that the Chinese Communist Party uses Huawei as an "instrument not only for making money but also for pursuing the Party-State’s agenda and fulfilling its strategic objectives [...] deeply enmeshed in Beijing’s system of oppression at home and its increasingly assertive strategic ambitions globally."

The Biden White House, however, has taken a considerably softer approach to the company, as Rooters notes:

Huawei, the world’s largest telecommunications equipment maker, has been hobbled by trade restrictions imposed by the Trump administration on the sale of chips and other components used in its network gear and smartphones businesses. The Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra)
...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know...
has been reinforcing the hard line on exports to Huawei, denying licenses to sell chips to Huawei for use in or with 5g devices. But in recent weeks and months, people familiar with the application process told Rooters the U.S. has granted licenses authorizing suppliers to sell chips to Huawei for such vehicle components as video screens and sensors.
Related:
Steve Ricchetti: 2021-08-13 Biden family-linked lobbyists see sharp increase in cash streams
Steve Ricchetti: 2021-06-20 Ethics experts are concerned that the children of top Biden aides are getting jobs in the White House, report says
Steve Ricchetti: 2021-05-15 Biden Cracks Under Pressure w/Blasphemous Language
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Huawei: 2021-06-16 Feds Investigating Chinese Spies' Return to US Ahead of COVID Travel Ban
Huawei: 2021-05-31 Rahm Emanuel's China Ties Are ‘Disqualifying' for Japan Ambassadorship, Hawley Says
Huawei: 2021-03-21 Brad Raffensperger denied election as GOP Delegate
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Government Corruption
Straight From The Marxist Playbook: Evidence Of Election Manipulation Mounts
2021-07-19
[Blue State Conservative] n the late 1960s and early 1970s, Marxist community organizer Saul Alinsky taught Democrats that the path to political power is not to solve society’s problems, but to exacerbate them, to use them to create an atmosphere of perpetual crisis. As Obama’s former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, put it: "Never let a good crisis go to waste."

Democrats did not let the COVID-19 pandemic go to waste. Instead, they used the national health emergency as an excuse to implement unprecedented changes in America’s long-standing election process. One of those changes was sending millions of unrequested mail-in ballots to every dead or alive person on voter rolls, a change that opened the door to virtually unlimited opportunities for massive election fraud.

Alinsky believed that socialism is so morally and intellectually superior that its proponents must prevail at the ballot box at all costs. When the post-1960s Democratic Party adopted Alinsky as its most revered political strategist, it embraced his belief that Democrats should employ any means necessary to win elections. The primary means through which Democrats have carried out that reprehensible mandate is by election rigging.

In 2016, I began compiling a file of documented instances of suspected or actual election fraud in major Democrat strongholds. Following are partial findings of 2020 election audits in Arizona and Georgia. What appears below is but the tip of a massive iceberg of methodical election fraud just now being uncovered. Because the audit findings are so damning, Democrats are in full panic mode, and their propagandists in the once-respected mainstream media are leaving no stone unturned in attacking the audit results.

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-Great Cultural Revolution
Chicago Mayor Lightfoot says criticism is '99 percent' because she's a black woman
2021-07-03
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Democratic reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
Mayor Lori Lightfoot
...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway. A racist to the bone, Lori sez that people with the same skin tone all think alike, not quite getting the implications for a city with a population less than thirty percent black...
said complaints of her having an ill-temperament is "about 99 percent" due to the fact that she's a black woman, according to Chicago Tribune.During an interview on Wednesday, a news hound asked Mayor Lightfoot how many of the complaints regarding her temperament were due to the color of her skin.

"About 99 percent," Lightfoot replied.

"Look at my predecessors. Did people say that Rich Daley held tea sessions with people that he disagreed with? Rahm Emanuel was a polite guy who was a uniter? No," Lightfoot said, according to the Chicago Tribune. "Women and people of color are always held to a different standard. I understand that, I've known that my whole life."
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Lori Lightfoot: 2021-06-28 Gunman with Fully Automatic Rifle Opens Fire in Chicago Traffic in Broad Daylight
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