Pause deep breath, a sigh, fixes hair, no eye contact, explaining the same thing 8 different ways without answering a question! Nope she fits right in with the biden administration
"The vast majority of Americans have common sense, still believe in 2 genders, and don't buy into the woke agenda. If you travel to the U.S.A, expect 2 bathrooms, and we prepared to face consequences if you walk into the wrong one". https://t.co/Vv6DoekwRj
— Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker (@Martyupnorth_2) August 31, 2023
And remember folks, the "+" in this stands for "pedophilia" 💯🎯
“NEW: Chicago residents lose their minds as illegal immigrants continue to take over their city.
Hard to feel bad when these were the same people who opposed Trump’s border wall.
The residents started sounding a lot like Trump supporters when one woman called for the government to “send them back.”
“I don’t want them there. Take them someplace else or send them back to Venezuela. I don’t care where they go. This is wrong. You got 73% of the people homeless in this city are black people. What have you done for them?”
Elections have consequences!”
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Indeed, so enjoy!
They vote 92%+ for exactly this. They complain but will still vote for the same party doing it to them next election.
The church in heartland America promotes a harsh sexual morality. But it sends a mixed message: Premarital sex is sinful, but teens who have babies are revered as mothers.https://t.co/AI9ImCxDF9
It’s almost like they’re hiding the trans shooters for political reasons….
Because they are.
Interesting how this manifesto somehow leaked within days of the shooting, yet it's been over 5 months since a trans shooter shot up a Christian school in Nashville and we still don't have the manifesto.
A journalist would ask why the Nashville shooter’s manifesto is still so closely guarded especially since this one was leaked right away. Seems politically motivated.
When politicized sites like @GoFundMe ban fundraising campaigns for anti-establishment politics, they cite "safety concerns" to justify it.
You know that's bullshit is GoFundMe allowed Rick Wilson to fleece $65k from gullible #Resistance liberals and did nothing about it. https://t.co/f1fhJKtXGr
"City Council voted Friday to make LA a sanctuary city, prohibiting city resources from being used for any federal immigration enforcement. The council recognized the city's rich immigrant history…"
DOOCY TIME: "Eric Adams is saying…any plan that does not include stopping the flow at the border is a failed plan. So, why aren't you guys stopping the flow at the border?"
KJP: "We are stopping the flow…[W]hat [Biden] has been able to do…is indeed stopping…the flow" pic.twitter.com/ZE4MPXXekz
Once again HRW, she’s exposing the left in their own words, and the books they’re trying to push on kids. The outrage is caused by the pervs and the disgustingly vile content they’re pushing on kids, not by those who expose it….
And the persecutions continue, while the #USELESS GOP does nothing.
I think this week has been one of the most active weeks in recent months related to new arrests and charges for January 6. DC US Attorney Matthew Graves fulfilling his promise to double existing caseload to hit 2,000+ total defendants. https://t.co/LSC0oozxAl
A man just got 17 years in prison for tearing down a fence on January 6. Meanwhile a guy responsible for burning an entire police station to the ground during the BLM riots got only 4 years. No sane person thinks this is justice. pic.twitter.com/5HUh04x7uu
But destroy a metal barriers at the capital and you get 17 years.
.@RepNancyMace: 'Biden most corrupt President in U.S. history, China sent nearly 7-figures to young grandchild's shell account, Hunter wrote off about 28 Russian escorts on his taxes.'
"The amount of money in the alleged money laundering and bribery scheme is astronomical…
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@RepNancyMace
: ‘Biden most corrupt President in U.S. history, China sent nearly 7-figures to young grandchild’s shell account, Hunter wrote off about 28 Russian escorts on his taxes.’
“The amount of money in the alleged money laundering and bribery scheme is astronomical…
We know that every time Joe Biden has been asked questions about this, he has lied about it.
We now know Joe Biden used several pseudonyms, the National Archives has more than 5,000 emails that include Joe Biden’s pseudonyms.
He communicated with his son about his businesses. He was on phone calls with his son’s business partners…
We now have Shokin in Ukraine saying that there was a bribery scheme with Biden that Biden literally bragged about on a mic several years ago…
He will go down as the most corrupt president…
The money is in the account of Joe Biden’s brother, his son, wives, and ex-wives. There are grandchildren.
Why does a very young Biden grandchild have any reason to have almost 7-figures from China in a bank account?”
“The Atlanta Judge presiding over the trials of Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants in the wide-ranging RICO and related indictments, has determined that the trial will be televised and live streamed.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports:
A Fulton County judge on Thursday said that all court proceedings in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants will be live streamed and televised.
Judge Scott McAfee also said he is following the precedent set by fellow Fulton Judge Robert McBurney; all hearings and trials will be broadcast on the Fulton County Court YouTube channel.
In an order issued Thursday, McAfee said members of the media would be allowed to use computers and cellphones inside the courtroom for non-recording purposes during court proceedings. There will be pool coverage for television, radio and still photography.
Of course, we don’t know how much of the case actually will stay in state court. Mark Meadows already has a motion pending in federal court to remove the case from state court. A hearing was held on Monday, but the federal court has not ruled yet. If the Meadows case is removed, it’s very likely that at least several other defendants, including Trump, will be able to remove the case.
My initial reaction is that this is a good thing all around. We will not have to rely on media filters as to the evidence.”
BREAKING: Pres. Trump has filed to sever his case from the other defendants in Georgia seeking a speedy trial.
Pres. Trump is arguing it would violate his right to a fair trial…which it would. pic.twitter.com/KiNH6lRjfB
“Parents scurry to get their kids vaccinated before school starts because administrators always say your child cannot even enroll unless he or she has the required vaccines.
Schools are strict about this requirement.
Well, schools used to be strict about it.
As we all know, New York City, a supposed sanctuary city, has been overrun by migrants in the past year. That means around 20,000 children, which also means illnesses because kids are petri dishes.
New York City schools haven’t changed since this past February: migrant children don’t need to show vaccination proof when they enroll in school.
There’s supposedly a time frame:
Children living in temporary shelters do not have to be vaccinated to enroll in school – that includes migrant children.
However, according to city officials, they do have a certain timeframe in which they must complete those vaccinations once in school.
What is that timeframe? Why so vague?
Let’s look at the NYC public school requirements. Those in child care through 12th grade need:
The DTaP (diphtheria- tetanus-pertussis),
Poliovirus,
MMR (measles-mumps-rubella),
Varicella, and
Hepatitis B.
Those in child care and pre-K:
Hib (Haemophilus influenza type b),
PCV (pneumococcal conjugate), and
Influenza (flu).
6th through 12th:
The Tdap booster (by grade 6), and
MenACWY (meningococcal conjugate) (by grade 7).
If your child doesn’t have the vaccines, then the school will give you a timeframe to vaccinate your child. If you miss it, then the kid cannot come back to school until he or she gets the vaccine.”
“GoFundMe is such a great idea in principle. And such a trash company in practice.
Yet another example of their political meddling in what ought to be basic financial services popped up in my email today, via Matt Taibbi (if you don’t subscribe to Matt’s site Racket.news you are missing out).
Liberal Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté run an antiwar website called The Grayzone, and they have been running a fundraiser to bring on staff some independent reporters.
They raised $90,000 from over a thousand donors, but when they tried to access the donations GoFundMe balked at releasing the funds. They didn’t specify a reason other than “external concerns.” Given that the site has taken a lot of flak from the US and Ukrainian governments one has to wonder just what those external concerns might be.
By this point, we had raised over $90,000 from over 1100 contributors. The generous contributions from our audience were accompanied by hundreds of messages of effusive support for our factual journalism holding imperial power to account.
And now, Gofundme is holding the donations hostage, refusing to transfer them to us, while failing to inform donors that it has effectively seized their money. The for-profit site has similarly refused to explain its freezing of their donations, issuing nothing more than a vague allusion – “some external concerns” – to pressure from powerful outside forces.
Gofundme’s financial sabotage follows the de facto sanctions imposed by Venmo and Paypal on our managing editor, Wyatt Reed, after he reported on the Ukrainian military’s targeting of civilians from the separatist side of the Donbas region.”
First it was PayPal—and now @Venmo has “permanently deactivated” my account, citing an unspecified rules “violation.”
Their email says “we do not divulge our decision-making criteria” so I won’t be getting an explanation
“Taibbi rightly reminds us that this is hardly the first time GoFundMe has made such decisions for political reasons. And I would add that GoFundMe isn’t the only financial institution that has been withholding services for political reasons. Debanking has become a thing in the West, mirroring the totalitarian policies of China where social credit scores determine to what extent you can participate in society.
GoFundMe is now officially the poster child for politicization of economic services. They prevented a parents group from renting a billboard to publicize Abigail Shrier’s book Irreversible Damage, froze nearly $8 million in donations to the “Freedom Convoy” Canadian Trucker movement, even wiped out two fundraisers for MintPress. This Grayzone incident is perhaps most loathsome, lacking even a patina of necessity or justification, while serving as a depressingly obvious preview of things to come.
In the case of The Grayzone it is pretty clear that there is an organized and planned intimidation campaign. While the site is left-leaning by my standards, its crime is that it deviates from the accepted Narrative. And as much as it is true that conservatives deviate from that accepted narrative more often and hence are more often targeted, the key goal of these intimidation campaigns is to narrow the Overton window entirely, and not just shut conservatives up.”
British police detain journalist @KitKlarenberg, interrogate him about The Grayzone
Counter-terror police detained journalist Kit Klarenberg upon his arrival in London and subjected him to a 5 hour interrogation about his political views and reportinghttps://t.co/RmxZGY8efppic.twitter.com/YftxSR1Cl0
“Fighting these totalitarian efforts to shut down dissent shouldn’t be a Left or Right issue. It is a freedom issue.
Anybody who makes the argument that GoFundMe is a private company and can do as it likes is missing several points: 1) it has been collecting donations and has seized them without explanation; 2) financial services companies are among the most highly regulated in the world; 3) GoFundMe tried to take seized donations from the Canadian Truckers’ Convoy and redistribute the money to other charities without donors’ approval, and would have but for the intervention of lawmakers in the US. And lastly, financial services companies provide a necessary service without which life in the modern world is nearly impossible. Politicizing them opens the door to making banking services an ideological praetorian guard for the Establishment.”
“This position was on top of the $10 million bribe the company reportedly paid Joe and Hunter to provide access and legal protection, the latter of which was honored through the firing of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Burisma for corruption at then-Vice President Joe Biden’s order. Joe boasted about how he threatened to withhold aid until this was done.
New emails show how chummy Hunter’s relationship was with Obama’s State Department, which garnered further attention when the president’s son met with then-Secretary of State John Kerry weeks before the Shokin firing (via Fox News):
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“Hunter Biden has been tied to multiple officials from the Obama-Biden administration, but an email from the chief of staff of the top State Department official reveals how close Hunter was with the upper echelons of power in the administration.
Less than six months before Hunter and his longtime business partner, Devon Archer, became board members at the Burisma energy company in Ukraine, email correspondence reviewed by Fox News Digital shows that a top aide to then-Secretary of State John Kerry was telling some of his fellow State Department officials Kerry and Hunter had a close friendship and that Hunter asked Kerry to speak to his Georgetown University grad students March 18, 2014.
In an email from the fall of 2013, David Wade wrote to John R. Bass and Jonathan Finer about the possibility of Kerry meeting with Hunter and his students at “HST,” which is the State Department’s Harry S. Truman headquarters.
[…]
The revelation of the email comes as Hunter continues to face questions from federal investigators about potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) when his dad was vice president and in the years following the Obama administration. Throughout the Obama administration, Hunter was involved in multiple foreign business dealings and will likely face questions about whether he requested favors on behalf of foreign principals during communications with government officials.
Congress enacted FARA to minimize the impact of foreign propaganda in the United States. It requires “certain agents of foreign principals who are engaged in political activities or other activities specified under the statute” to update the Justice Department on their activities periodically. They must also provide receipts and disbursements regarding the work.
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Kerry isn’t the only top official Hunter met with or had ties to during the Obama-Biden administration. In July 2015, Hunter met with Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken at his State Department office after they appeared to have rescheduled their meeting from May 2015 due to the death of Hunter’s brother, Beau.
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Hunter and his business partner, Eric Schwerin, also frequently kept in contact with Evan Ryan, who is married to current Secretary of State Antony Blinken. She worked in the Obama White House and State Department and frequently emailed with Hunter and Schwerin about attending White House events and keeping Hunter updated on his dad’s schedule. She currently works in the Biden White House. ”
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“Schwerin also reportedly handled Hunter’s financial situation, according to his ex-wife. These correspondences and the network in which they were shared is the larger point: it shows why Burisma and others paid Hunter and his firm millions of dollars. The access was there; it was not the illusion of access. The dollar amount already shattered that Democratic Party counterpoint. The emails with Blinken, Kerry, and others delivered a double tap to its forehead.”
Column’s up: How a Comedy Cellar podcast backfired on one of Joe Biden’s media gatekeepers … or things that go Bump in the night! https://t.co/Fs4H9uLgp2
“Had journalists just been honest and independent, then-candidate Joe Biden might have lost a presidential debate and even the 2020 election. The public would have learned that Hunter’s business associates and his laptop proved Joe was deeply involved in his son’s illicit businesses.
Later, as the evidence from IRS whistleblowers mounted, the White House stonewalled subpoenaed efforts and sought to craft an outrageous plea deal reduction in Hunter’s legal exposure.
Reporters ignored the Ukrainians who claimed Joe Biden himself talked to them about quid pro quo arrangements.
They again discounted Hunter’s laptop that explicitly demonstrated that Hunter was whining that he had handed over large percentages of his income to his father Joe –variously referred to as the Big Guy and a “ten percent” recipient on many deals.
They played dumb about Joe Biden’s use of pseudonyms and alias email accounts to hide thousands of his communications to Hunter and associates.
They attacked the former Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who now claims Biden was likely bribed by Ukrainians.
Yet the media can no longer hide the reality that the president of the United States likely took bribes to influence or alter U.S. policy to suit his payers. Those two crimes — bribery and treason — are specifically delineated in the Constitution as impeachable offenses.
In denial, the media has instead pivoted with hysterical glee over various weaponized prosecutions of former President Donald Trump.
But now, to use a progressive catchphrase, the proverbial “walls are closing in” on Joe Biden.
So will we at last expect the media finally to confront the truth?
Answer — only if Joe Biden’s cognitive and physical health continues to deteriorate geometrically to the point that he can no longer finish his term or run for reelection — and thus becomes expendable.
Such a cynical view of the media is justified given their record of both incompetence and unapologetic deceit.
From 2015 to 2019, we were suffocated 24/7 with lies like “Russian collusion,” “Putin’s puppet,” “election rigging” and the “Steele dossier.”
When all such “evidence” was proven to be a complete fraud cooked up through Hillary Clinton’s stealthy hiring of and collusion with a discredited ex-British spy, a Russian fabulist at the Brookings Institution and a Clinton toady in Moscow, did the media apologize for their untruth?
Was there any media confessional that perhaps Robert Mueller and his leftwing legal team (the giddy media-dubbed “all-stars,” “dream team,” and “hunter killers”) proved a colossal waste of time?
Not at all.
Instead, the media went next right on to “the phone call” and “impeachment.”
The country then wasted another year.
The same biased reporters now claimed that the heroic Alexander Vindman had caught Trump fabricating lies about the Bidens — given Joe Biden was a possible 2020 opponent — to force Ukraine to investigate them or lose American foreign aid.
On that accusation Trump was impeached.
Then the truth emerged that unlike Joe Biden, Trump never threatened to cancel aid, but merely to delay it.
Trump was right that the Bidens were knee deep in Ukrainian bribes and influence peddling.
And that the whistleblower had no first-hand knowledge of the Trump call but was spoon fed a script cooked up by the gadfly Vindman and California Rep. Adam Schiff.
The result was journalistic glee that we impeached a president for crimes that he did not commit but exempted another president, Biden, who had likely committed them.
Then came the next hoax of the Russian fabricated facsimile of Hunter’s laptop.
The 2020 Biden campaign along with an ex-CIA head rounded up “51 intelligence authorities” to mislead the country into believing that Russian gremlins in the Kremlin had fabricated a fake laptop.
Ponder that absurd fantasy: Moscow supposedly had created fake nude pictures, fake photos of Hunter’s drug use, and fake email and text messages from Hunter to the other Bidens.
The media preposterously convinced the country that the Russians and by extension Trump had once again sandbagged the Biden campaign.
No apologies followed when the FBI later admitted it had kept the laptop under wraps for more than a year, knew it was authentic, and yet said nothing as the media and former spooks misled the country and warped an election.
Now we are enmeshed in at least four court trials on cooked-up charges that could as easily apply to a host of Democrats as to Trump.
For the last eight years, a discredited media has never expressed remorse for any of the damage they did to the country. And they will not again, when their latest mythological indictments are eventually exposed.”
“The Biden administration has proposed a rule that would essentially classify any American who sells guns as a firearms dealer, thereby tightening gun control measures in the country.
At present, individuals can engage in selling firearms for profit without having to be a registered firearm dealer. The new rules would classify gun sales under business activities and require that individuals engaged in it get a license as well as undertake background checks.”
“As retailers reported their quarterly earnings this month, a phrase that kept cropping up is one you probably never heard before – “organized retail crime.” It has spiked enough that it’s eating into profits.
Turns out that, by throwing open the southern border, President Joe Biden has created a booming business for Mexican cartels ripping off U.S. retailers – although you’d never know it based on the media blackout of this trend.
Target, Dollar Tree, Foot Locker, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Nordstrom, and others recently disclosed that organized retail crime – or ORC for short – is hitting their bottom lines.
Dick’s Chief Financial Officer Navdeep Gupta said that the sports retailer lowered its profit outlook for the year in part because “the number of incidents and the organized retail crime impact came in significantly higher than we anticipated.”
Dollar Tree said it is keeping more of its items in locked cases or removing them altogether as organized theft climbs
Just last week, 50 criminals swarmed a Los Angeles mall and made off with $300,000 worth of stolen goods. A news report suggests that they were following orders from organized crime or gang members.
“There’s no doubt that there’s a lot of … criminal organizations behind this. Some of it involves gang members; some of it involves people that are what you would identify as professional retail thieves,” Deputy Los Angeles Police Chief Alan Hamilton told NBC News on Sunday. “It runs the gamut, and there is a black market for purchasing these items, unfortunately. … The same people [are] then turning around and committing these acts again, over and over again.”
The National Retail Federation says ORC cost retailers close to $100 billion in 2021 – a significant increase from the year before – and that money eventually comes out of consumers’ pockets.
The costs don’t end there. States are spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars setting up special task forces to fight ORC. “California alone has invested more than $241.4 million over the past year bolstering law enforcement efforts to investigate and prevent organized retail theft,” reports Reuters. Then there’s also the estimated $15 billion estimated lost tax revenue.
In other words, it’s a huge problem, and getting worse.”
Why the sudden explosion in organized retail crime? When it covers this issue at all, the mainstream press usually just throws up its hands, or says retailers are exaggerating the problem.
But could it have anything to do with the fact that Biden opened the border and let millions of illegal immigrants flood into the country?
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sees a connection. In a statement released last June, it said: “Recent investigations have also identified organized retail crime schemes exploiting undocumented migrants forced to steal goods to pay back ‘coyotes’ who smuggle them across international borders.”
In another report, ICE says that:
Boosters are often undocumented immigrants, labor trafficked into the United States and working off a debt, or individuals suffering from some form of addiction. The boosters are the thieves on the ground that steal (boost) the products. They typically have a list of merchandise to steal from their crew boss and may hit numerous stores in one day. The boosters will likely be paid in cash or through anonymous/encrypted peer-to-peer payment apps.
By June of last year, the problem had grown so severe that ICE announced an effort to crack down on this migrant-fueled crime wave.
“It’s a crime that’s occurring out in our streets that’s becoming large enough where the federal government is announcing its involvement,” Thomas Welch, chief for ICE Homeland Security Investigation’s financial crimes unit in Washington, D.C., said at a news conference last year.
The connection between illegal immigrants and organized retail crime isn’t exactly new. The FBI told Congress back in 2009 about immigrants’ role, informing lawmakers that: “organized retail theft groups … utilize low-level boosters – those who actually steal the merchandise – and higher-level fencers, who frequently coordinate booster thefts. Often these boosters are illegal immigrants working off a debt or individuals suffering from some form of addiction. If these low-level boosters are removed from the criminal enterprise others will simply step in to take their place.”
Is it so hard to believe that there’s a connection between the tsunami of illegal immigrants under Biden and the rise in this form of organized crime?
Coverage of this connection has been sparse.”
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Because they media sucks, preferring to be propagandists for Democrats and their failed policies, rather than actual journalists.
Not sure if you misunderstood me but my point is pretty simple
The Guardian article noted a correlation between Libs of TikTok and subsequent violence or threats of violence. Through editing and lack of context, grievance and outrage are monetised by Libs of TikTok. The question is should she be held responsible for what occurs next?
Your response was to claim she only reported their behaviour and if their behaviour incited violence how was it her fault. This neglects the fact she was not a passive participant – Tiktok requires short videos and thus editing. Secondly, this also neglects the idea that people are responsible for their own actions – you can’t blame the victim for inciting violence; you should blame the perpetrators of violence for their lack of self control.
The tweet posted today illustrates this. She posts excerpts of various books without context. Flamers for examples is an autobiographical story of gay boy’s time in a boy scout camp and the incidents are actually true events. The book is only available in high schools. An analogy would be to post every excerpt in To Kill a Mockingbird or Of Mice and Men which uses the n-word.
Similarly – the tweet you posted on myths and facts of Florida book bans misses the point and the context. Book bans promote a “chill” and teachers will pre-empt it or side with caution. For example, I changed schools six years; despite being in the same board, I noticed a cultural difference and changed the way I interacted with students. Similarly a book ban has greater effect than it legally claims.
“After finally declining in June, giving the Federal Reserve hopes of pulling off a soft landing at last, one of the central bank’s preferred inflation measures was back on a precipitous rise in July. Headline PCE inflation rose by 3.3% in the year ending in July, up from 3% in June. For the first time since January, core PCE inflation, perhaps the most important inflation measure for the Fed, increased to 4.2%, more than twice the Fed’s maximum target of just 2% inflation on an annual basis.
Dig into the details, and the data only becomes more disappointing. Core services sans housing, a favored inflation measure of both the Fed and the White House, accelerated to a staggering 4.7% in the 12 months ending in July, up from 4.1%. This defies the claim of Raphael Bostic of the Atlanta Fed that “stubborn (and lagging) housing services prices” are solely responsible for core inflation not falling to the Fed’s benchmark.
Whether or not the Fed passes at least one rate hike by its November meeting is now a dead heat, according to futures markets. The misguided assumption that the Fed would start cutting interest rates by March of last year has been priced out of futures markets, finally and stubbornly following Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s guidance that rates will stay higher for longer than investors expected even just last month.”
“In anticipation of a major gathering of rural activists a few weeks ago, the Pennsylvania Democratic Party printed out thousands of cards reminding voters to “Vote at Polls: Election Day Tuesday November 8.”
There was just one small problem: Election Day is Nov. 7.
Pictures of the mess-up were shared among Democratic insiders around Pennsylvania. It was, to many of them, the latest sign of a state party in chaos.
With a little more than a year to go until the 2024 election, the state Democratic Party is reeling from financial problems and a lack of trust across the party, according to interviews with 20 Democratic officials and operatives throughout Pennsylvania. They include elected officials, county chairs, state committee members, former state party employees and strategists.
“It’s amateur hour,” said a state committee member who, like other Democrats, was granted anonymity to speak frankly about a sensitive matter. “It’s a @#$%ing disaster,” said a former state party staffer.”
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Just a reminder…..
This guy misled a couple of morons on Twitter too stupid to check. PA Dems sent this to millions.
“Douglass Mackey, a supporter of former president Donald Trump who used Twitter to disseminate false information to redirect would-be voters of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, was convicted Friday on a charge of conspiracy against rights, the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn announced.”
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“The deceptive ad stated: “Avoid the Line. Vote from Home,” “Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925” and “Vote for Hillary and be a part of history.” It also included fine print at the bottom that mimicked a real ad, stating: “Must be 18 or older to vote. One vote per person. Must be a legal citizen of the United States. Voting by text not available in Guam, Puerto Rico, Alaska or Hawaii. Paid for by Hillary For President 2016.””
I find Freeland annoying but that’s not a word salad. She did face the journalist and made eye contact. The pauses are quite typical here as the politician searches for the right word.
Oh and the + stands for Two spirit and others not paedophilia. The latter is attracted to prepubescents and isn’t covered by all the abbreviations.
I’m still curious why the US rates a green light and the UK/Germany rate a yellow light. The Europeans should be asking questions and the Americans should be happy.
The Nation’s own tweet lacks context – not the sentence I would’ve tweeted. The actual article is quite interesting and matches well with the current book I’m reading – Deaths of Despair. Unfortunately the book this article is reviewing, the Forgotten Girls, is only available as an audio book or ebook at my local library. Might be an interesting read.
Go Fund Me is a private site — do you want gov’t regulation? If not, they can do what they please and if they have a political slant, find an other site — apparently its a free market not an oligopoly.
Declaring your city a sanctuary doesn’t mean you are inviting other jurisdictions to send their migrants your way. My city is both a sanctuary city and a city known to bend rules to help the poor and homeless. As such we attract a lot of transients which we don’t mind. However, we did sue various municipalities including Toronto when they offered their welfare recipients a free bus ticket to my city. The free bus tickets have stopped but still we absorb the poor of other cities. Are people annoyed, of course, nobody wants your concern for fellow humans to be taken advantage of.
Any jurisdiction that dumps the poor and migrants on to another jurisdiction based on their decency needs to rethink its approach to humanity. And any person who approves this policy on any basis has to question their own humanity.
Removing or damaging a temporary gov’t fence is vandalism but when done as part of an illegal political action, it’s completely different. I’m not a fan of RICO or conspiracy charges but the act of destroying gov’t property to further an illegal political action is the definition of conspiracy.
That’s a 10 second video of NYC – what does that prove?
Georgia state trials are always available of youtube – anti Trump posters saw this the day he was charged – live TV, no federal pardon, not even a state pardon, etc. One of the reasons this RICO trial scares the people who worked with Trump in Georgia.
Schools always give parents a time frame for vaccines. This is not unusual or favouritism.
From what I read, Hunter Biden barely makes the news. Then again I read more left of centre sources. For the most part, Trump news gets more coverage as its actual criminal indictments of a former president whereas Hunter is a family member (family is often off-limits in western Europe, Canada, etc) The other issue which has surfaced more often is how many times Republicans can call “wolf” before no longer being taken seriously. Many of the articles I read often ask can we take this seriously given how many times Republicans made claims that failed.
The link between “organised retail crime” and migrants is rather thin. ORC seems to be more of a label invented to distract from bad management by many retail stores in the US. For example, Dollar General is reporting massive problems while Dollarama in Canada is reporting record profits. Perhaps massive expansion and record inventory is the problem not theft. Shoplifting and organised retail crime exist in Canada and Europe yet they don’t seem to suffer the same problems as American retailers — maybe the problem is lazy management and not the poor stealing some food.
Current inflation is tied mostly to the rise in costs caused by increased interest rates. That is, neo-con economics is its own worst enemy – raising interest rates is not the answer, it actually causes more inflation at this point. Biden’s not far off by declaring the US economy is the strongest in the world. On some metrics, its doing better than the OECD. The problem with the US is the stats are not always reliable, but this goes for any administration.
Sending out notices of a late election date is an old school technique but it often backfires as your own voters might believe it. Perhaps someone just read the calendar wrong,because its so stupid that I doubt it was intentional.
Wandering Views 
The Kamala Harris of Canada.
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Enjoy!
After all, you voted for this. Biden and Democrats were quite clear, and they loudly proclaimed you were a sanctuary for illegals.
You built this.
“NEW: Chicago residents lose their minds as illegal immigrants continue to take over their city.
Hard to feel bad when these were the same people who opposed Trump’s border wall.
The residents started sounding a lot like Trump supporters when one woman called for the government to “send them back.”
“I don’t want them there. Take them someplace else or send them back to Venezuela. I don’t care where they go. This is wrong. You got 73% of the people homeless in this city are black people. What have you done for them?”
Elections have consequences!”
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Indeed, so enjoy!
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They seem puzzled….
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Weird, right?
It’s almost like they’re hiding the trans shooters for political reasons….
Because they are.
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There are much better alternatives out there.
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You built this, now live in it.
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The Lying President’s Spokesliar….
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Once again HRW, she’s exposing the left in their own words, and the books they’re trying to push on kids. The outrage is caused by the pervs and the disgustingly vile content they’re pushing on kids, not by those who expose it….
CONTENT WARNING!!!!!!!
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1697043528717664280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1697043528717664280%7Ctwgr%5E55c8b3d74f37a78eb34313d6413d1ab695c09955%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fdougp%2F2023%2F08%2F31%2Feducation-secretary-encouraged-to-read-aloud-from-the-books-he-wants-on-school-shelves-n2386751
Yet it’s OK for kids…..?
Not. At. All.
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Hello….?
Useless GOP…?
And the persecutions continue, while the #USELESS GOP does nothing.
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Yep.
But destroy a metal barriers at the capital and you get 17 years.
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@RepNancyMace
: ‘Biden most corrupt President in U.S. history, China sent nearly 7-figures to young grandchild’s shell account, Hunter wrote off about 28 Russian escorts on his taxes.’
“The amount of money in the alleged money laundering and bribery scheme is astronomical…
We know that every time Joe Biden has been asked questions about this, he has lied about it.
We now know Joe Biden used several pseudonyms, the National Archives has more than 5,000 emails that include Joe Biden’s pseudonyms.
He communicated with his son about his businesses. He was on phone calls with his son’s business partners…
We now have Shokin in Ukraine saying that there was a bribery scheme with Biden that Biden literally bragged about on a mic several years ago…
He will go down as the most corrupt president…
The money is in the account of Joe Biden’s brother, his son, wives, and ex-wives. There are grandchildren.
Why does a very young Biden grandchild have any reason to have almost 7-figures from China in a bank account?”
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More Dem run Utopias…..
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This was always their intent, yet another made for tv circus, complete with a clown DA.
“Georgia Trial of Trump And 18 Others To Be Televised and Live Streamed
It’s not clear at this point how much of the case even will remain in state court.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/08/georgia-trial-of-trump-and-18-others-to-be-televised-and-live-streamed/
“The Atlanta Judge presiding over the trials of Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants in the wide-ranging RICO and related indictments, has determined that the trial will be televised and live streamed.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports:
A Fulton County judge on Thursday said that all court proceedings in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants will be live streamed and televised.
Judge Scott McAfee also said he is following the precedent set by fellow Fulton Judge Robert McBurney; all hearings and trials will be broadcast on the Fulton County Court YouTube channel.
In an order issued Thursday, McAfee said members of the media would be allowed to use computers and cellphones inside the courtroom for non-recording purposes during court proceedings. There will be pool coverage for television, radio and still photography.
Of course, we don’t know how much of the case actually will stay in state court. Mark Meadows already has a motion pending in federal court to remove the case from state court. A hearing was held on Monday, but the federal court has not ruled yet. If the Meadows case is removed, it’s very likely that at least several other defendants, including Trump, will be able to remove the case.
My initial reaction is that this is a good thing all around. We will not have to rely on media filters as to the evidence.”
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Of course…..
Your kid can’t attend without them, but the invader’s kids can.
“NYC Migrants in Temp Shelters Still Don’t Need Vaccinations to Enroll in School”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/08/nyc-migrants-in-temp-shelters-still-dont-need-vaccinations-to-enroll-in-school/
“Parents scurry to get their kids vaccinated before school starts because administrators always say your child cannot even enroll unless he or she has the required vaccines.
Schools are strict about this requirement.
Well, schools used to be strict about it.
As we all know, New York City, a supposed sanctuary city, has been overrun by migrants in the past year. That means around 20,000 children, which also means illnesses because kids are petri dishes.
New York City schools haven’t changed since this past February: migrant children don’t need to show vaccination proof when they enroll in school.
There’s supposedly a time frame:
Children living in temporary shelters do not have to be vaccinated to enroll in school – that includes migrant children.
However, according to city officials, they do have a certain timeframe in which they must complete those vaccinations once in school.
What is that timeframe? Why so vague?
Let’s look at the NYC public school requirements. Those in child care through 12th grade need:
The DTaP (diphtheria- tetanus-pertussis),
Poliovirus,
MMR (measles-mumps-rubella),
Varicella, and
Hepatitis B.
Those in child care and pre-K:
Hib (Haemophilus influenza type b),
PCV (pneumococcal conjugate), and
Influenza (flu).
6th through 12th:
The Tdap booster (by grade 6), and
MenACWY (meningococcal conjugate) (by grade 7).
If your child doesn’t have the vaccines, then the school will give you a timeframe to vaccinate your child. If you miss it, then the kid cannot come back to school until he or she gets the vaccine.”
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“GoFundMe does yet another political hit job”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/09/01/gofundme-does-yet-another-political-hit-job-n575065
“GoFundMe is such a great idea in principle. And such a trash company in practice.
Yet another example of their political meddling in what ought to be basic financial services popped up in my email today, via Matt Taibbi (if you don’t subscribe to Matt’s site Racket.news you are missing out).
Liberal Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté run an antiwar website called The Grayzone, and they have been running a fundraiser to bring on staff some independent reporters.
They raised $90,000 from over a thousand donors, but when they tried to access the donations GoFundMe balked at releasing the funds. They didn’t specify a reason other than “external concerns.” Given that the site has taken a lot of flak from the US and Ukrainian governments one has to wonder just what those external concerns might be.
By this point, we had raised over $90,000 from over 1100 contributors. The generous contributions from our audience were accompanied by hundreds of messages of effusive support for our factual journalism holding imperial power to account.
And now, Gofundme is holding the donations hostage, refusing to transfer them to us, while failing to inform donors that it has effectively seized their money. The for-profit site has similarly refused to explain its freezing of their donations, issuing nothing more than a vague allusion – “some external concerns” – to pressure from powerful outside forces.
Gofundme’s financial sabotage follows the de facto sanctions imposed by Venmo and Paypal on our managing editor, Wyatt Reed, after he reported on the Ukrainian military’s targeting of civilians from the separatist side of the Donbas region.”
“Taibbi rightly reminds us that this is hardly the first time GoFundMe has made such decisions for political reasons. And I would add that GoFundMe isn’t the only financial institution that has been withholding services for political reasons. Debanking has become a thing in the West, mirroring the totalitarian policies of China where social credit scores determine to what extent you can participate in society.
GoFundMe is now officially the poster child for politicization of economic services. They prevented a parents group from renting a billboard to publicize Abigail Shrier’s book Irreversible Damage, froze nearly $8 million in donations to the “Freedom Convoy” Canadian Trucker movement, even wiped out two fundraisers for MintPress. This Grayzone incident is perhaps most loathsome, lacking even a patina of necessity or justification, while serving as a depressingly obvious preview of things to come.
In the case of The Grayzone it is pretty clear that there is an organized and planned intimidation campaign. While the site is left-leaning by my standards, its crime is that it deviates from the accepted Narrative. And as much as it is true that conservatives deviate from that accepted narrative more often and hence are more often targeted, the key goal of these intimidation campaigns is to narrow the Overton window entirely, and not just shut conservatives up.”
“Fighting these totalitarian efforts to shut down dissent shouldn’t be a Left or Right issue. It is a freedom issue.
Anybody who makes the argument that GoFundMe is a private company and can do as it likes is missing several points: 1) it has been collecting donations and has seized them without explanation; 2) financial services companies are among the most highly regulated in the world; 3) GoFundMe tried to take seized donations from the Canadian Truckers’ Convoy and redistribute the money to other charities without donors’ approval, and would have but for the intervention of lawmakers in the US. And lastly, financial services companies provide a necessary service without which life in the modern world is nearly impossible. Politicizing them opens the door to making banking services an ideological praetorian guard for the Establishment.”
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“New Emails Explain Why Burisma Offered Hunter Biden That Cushy Board Seat”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/09/01/it-looks-like-hunter-biden-was-pretty-chummy-with-obamas-state-department-n2627845#google_vignette
“This position was on top of the $10 million bribe the company reportedly paid Joe and Hunter to provide access and legal protection, the latter of which was honored through the firing of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Burisma for corruption at then-Vice President Joe Biden’s order. Joe boasted about how he threatened to withhold aid until this was done.
New emails show how chummy Hunter’s relationship was with Obama’s State Department, which garnered further attention when the president’s son met with then-Secretary of State John Kerry weeks before the Shokin firing (via Fox News):
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“Hunter Biden has been tied to multiple officials from the Obama-Biden administration, but an email from the chief of staff of the top State Department official reveals how close Hunter was with the upper echelons of power in the administration.
Less than six months before Hunter and his longtime business partner, Devon Archer, became board members at the Burisma energy company in Ukraine, email correspondence reviewed by Fox News Digital shows that a top aide to then-Secretary of State John Kerry was telling some of his fellow State Department officials Kerry and Hunter had a close friendship and that Hunter asked Kerry to speak to his Georgetown University grad students March 18, 2014.
In an email from the fall of 2013, David Wade wrote to John R. Bass and Jonathan Finer about the possibility of Kerry meeting with Hunter and his students at “HST,” which is the State Department’s Harry S. Truman headquarters.
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The revelation of the email comes as Hunter continues to face questions from federal investigators about potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) when his dad was vice president and in the years following the Obama administration. Throughout the Obama administration, Hunter was involved in multiple foreign business dealings and will likely face questions about whether he requested favors on behalf of foreign principals during communications with government officials.
Congress enacted FARA to minimize the impact of foreign propaganda in the United States. It requires “certain agents of foreign principals who are engaged in political activities or other activities specified under the statute” to update the Justice Department on their activities periodically. They must also provide receipts and disbursements regarding the work.
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Kerry isn’t the only top official Hunter met with or had ties to during the Obama-Biden administration. In July 2015, Hunter met with Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken at his State Department office after they appeared to have rescheduled their meeting from May 2015 due to the death of Hunter’s brother, Beau.
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Hunter and his business partner, Eric Schwerin, also frequently kept in contact with Evan Ryan, who is married to current Secretary of State Antony Blinken. She worked in the Obama White House and State Department and frequently emailed with Hunter and Schwerin about attending White House events and keeping Hunter updated on his dad’s schedule. She currently works in the Biden White House. ”
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“Schwerin also reportedly handled Hunter’s financial situation, according to his ex-wife. These correspondences and the network in which they were shared is the larger point: it shows why Burisma and others paid Hunter and his firm millions of dollars. The access was there; it was not the illusion of access. The dollar amount already shattered that Democratic Party counterpoint. The emails with Blinken, Kerry, and others delivered a double tap to its forehead.”
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Bump is a propagandist, not a journalist.
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Propagandists don’t care, it’s all about the narrative. Whether it’s true or not never enters the conversation.
“From One Unapologetic Media Hoax to the Next”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/09/01/from_one_unapologetic_media_hoax_to_the_next_149704.html
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“Had journalists just been honest and independent, then-candidate Joe Biden might have lost a presidential debate and even the 2020 election. The public would have learned that Hunter’s business associates and his laptop proved Joe was deeply involved in his son’s illicit businesses.
Later, as the evidence from IRS whistleblowers mounted, the White House stonewalled subpoenaed efforts and sought to craft an outrageous plea deal reduction in Hunter’s legal exposure.
Reporters ignored the Ukrainians who claimed Joe Biden himself talked to them about quid pro quo arrangements.
They again discounted Hunter’s laptop that explicitly demonstrated that Hunter was whining that he had handed over large percentages of his income to his father Joe –variously referred to as the Big Guy and a “ten percent” recipient on many deals.
They played dumb about Joe Biden’s use of pseudonyms and alias email accounts to hide thousands of his communications to Hunter and associates.
They attacked the former Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who now claims Biden was likely bribed by Ukrainians.
Yet the media can no longer hide the reality that the president of the United States likely took bribes to influence or alter U.S. policy to suit his payers. Those two crimes — bribery and treason — are specifically delineated in the Constitution as impeachable offenses.
In denial, the media has instead pivoted with hysterical glee over various weaponized prosecutions of former President Donald Trump.
But now, to use a progressive catchphrase, the proverbial “walls are closing in” on Joe Biden.
So will we at last expect the media finally to confront the truth?
Answer — only if Joe Biden’s cognitive and physical health continues to deteriorate geometrically to the point that he can no longer finish his term or run for reelection — and thus becomes expendable.
Such a cynical view of the media is justified given their record of both incompetence and unapologetic deceit.
From 2015 to 2019, we were suffocated 24/7 with lies like “Russian collusion,” “Putin’s puppet,” “election rigging” and the “Steele dossier.”
When all such “evidence” was proven to be a complete fraud cooked up through Hillary Clinton’s stealthy hiring of and collusion with a discredited ex-British spy, a Russian fabulist at the Brookings Institution and a Clinton toady in Moscow, did the media apologize for their untruth?
Was there any media confessional that perhaps Robert Mueller and his leftwing legal team (the giddy media-dubbed “all-stars,” “dream team,” and “hunter killers”) proved a colossal waste of time?
Not at all.
Instead, the media went next right on to “the phone call” and “impeachment.”
The country then wasted another year.
The same biased reporters now claimed that the heroic Alexander Vindman had caught Trump fabricating lies about the Bidens — given Joe Biden was a possible 2020 opponent — to force Ukraine to investigate them or lose American foreign aid.
On that accusation Trump was impeached.
Then the truth emerged that unlike Joe Biden, Trump never threatened to cancel aid, but merely to delay it.
Trump was right that the Bidens were knee deep in Ukrainian bribes and influence peddling.
And that the whistleblower had no first-hand knowledge of the Trump call but was spoon fed a script cooked up by the gadfly Vindman and California Rep. Adam Schiff.
The result was journalistic glee that we impeached a president for crimes that he did not commit but exempted another president, Biden, who had likely committed them.
Then came the next hoax of the Russian fabricated facsimile of Hunter’s laptop.
The 2020 Biden campaign along with an ex-CIA head rounded up “51 intelligence authorities” to mislead the country into believing that Russian gremlins in the Kremlin had fabricated a fake laptop.
Ponder that absurd fantasy: Moscow supposedly had created fake nude pictures, fake photos of Hunter’s drug use, and fake email and text messages from Hunter to the other Bidens.
The media preposterously convinced the country that the Russians and by extension Trump had once again sandbagged the Biden campaign.
No apologies followed when the FBI later admitted it had kept the laptop under wraps for more than a year, knew it was authentic, and yet said nothing as the media and former spooks misled the country and warped an election.
Now we are enmeshed in at least four court trials on cooked-up charges that could as easily apply to a host of Democrats as to Trump.
For the last eight years, a discredited media has never expressed remorse for any of the damage they did to the country. And they will not again, when their latest mythological indictments are eventually exposed.”
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GiveSendGo is the way to go…
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I am curious about how journalists in other nations have treated all the Hunter Biden news? I can’t read well enough anymore to research such things.
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The real agenda? To disarm Americans.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/white-house-proposes-radical-new-rule-for-americans-selling-firearms-5484529
“The Biden administration has proposed a rule that would essentially classify any American who sells guns as a firearms dealer, thereby tightening gun control measures in the country.
At present, individuals can engage in selling firearms for profit without having to be a registered firearm dealer. The new rules would classify gun sales under business activities and require that individuals engaged in it get a license as well as undertake background checks.”
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You mean they aren’t sending their best and brightest?
You don’t say….. 🙄
“Biden’s Border Crisis Fuels Massive Spike In Retail Crime”
“As retailers reported their quarterly earnings this month, a phrase that kept cropping up is one you probably never heard before – “organized retail crime.” It has spiked enough that it’s eating into profits.
Turns out that, by throwing open the southern border, President Joe Biden has created a booming business for Mexican cartels ripping off U.S. retailers – although you’d never know it based on the media blackout of this trend.
Target, Dollar Tree, Foot Locker, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Nordstrom, and others recently disclosed that organized retail crime – or ORC for short – is hitting their bottom lines.
Dick’s Chief Financial Officer Navdeep Gupta said that the sports retailer lowered its profit outlook for the year in part because “the number of incidents and the organized retail crime impact came in significantly higher than we anticipated.”
Dollar Tree said it is keeping more of its items in locked cases or removing them altogether as organized theft climbs
Just last week, 50 criminals swarmed a Los Angeles mall and made off with $300,000 worth of stolen goods. A news report suggests that they were following orders from organized crime or gang members.
“There’s no doubt that there’s a lot of … criminal organizations behind this. Some of it involves gang members; some of it involves people that are what you would identify as professional retail thieves,” Deputy Los Angeles Police Chief Alan Hamilton told NBC News on Sunday. “It runs the gamut, and there is a black market for purchasing these items, unfortunately. … The same people [are] then turning around and committing these acts again, over and over again.”
The National Retail Federation says ORC cost retailers close to $100 billion in 2021 – a significant increase from the year before – and that money eventually comes out of consumers’ pockets.
The costs don’t end there. States are spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars setting up special task forces to fight ORC. “California alone has invested more than $241.4 million over the past year bolstering law enforcement efforts to investigate and prevent organized retail theft,” reports Reuters. Then there’s also the estimated $15 billion estimated lost tax revenue.
In other words, it’s a huge problem, and getting worse.”
Why the sudden explosion in organized retail crime? When it covers this issue at all, the mainstream press usually just throws up its hands, or says retailers are exaggerating the problem.
But could it have anything to do with the fact that Biden opened the border and let millions of illegal immigrants flood into the country?
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sees a connection. In a statement released last June, it said: “Recent investigations have also identified organized retail crime schemes exploiting undocumented migrants forced to steal goods to pay back ‘coyotes’ who smuggle them across international borders.”
In another report, ICE says that:
Boosters are often undocumented immigrants, labor trafficked into the United States and working off a debt, or individuals suffering from some form of addiction. The boosters are the thieves on the ground that steal (boost) the products. They typically have a list of merchandise to steal from their crew boss and may hit numerous stores in one day. The boosters will likely be paid in cash or through anonymous/encrypted peer-to-peer payment apps.
By June of last year, the problem had grown so severe that ICE announced an effort to crack down on this migrant-fueled crime wave.
“It’s a crime that’s occurring out in our streets that’s becoming large enough where the federal government is announcing its involvement,” Thomas Welch, chief for ICE Homeland Security Investigation’s financial crimes unit in Washington, D.C., said at a news conference last year.
The connection between illegal immigrants and organized retail crime isn’t exactly new. The FBI told Congress back in 2009 about immigrants’ role, informing lawmakers that: “organized retail theft groups … utilize low-level boosters – those who actually steal the merchandise – and higher-level fencers, who frequently coordinate booster thefts. Often these boosters are illegal immigrants working off a debt or individuals suffering from some form of addiction. If these low-level boosters are removed from the criminal enterprise others will simply step in to take their place.”
Is it so hard to believe that there’s a connection between the tsunami of illegal immigrants under Biden and the rise in this form of organized crime?
Coverage of this connection has been sparse.”
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Because they media sucks, preferring to be propagandists for Democrats and their failed policies, rather than actual journalists.
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Not sure if you misunderstood me but my point is pretty simple
The Guardian article noted a correlation between Libs of TikTok and subsequent violence or threats of violence. Through editing and lack of context, grievance and outrage are monetised by Libs of TikTok. The question is should she be held responsible for what occurs next?
Your response was to claim she only reported their behaviour and if their behaviour incited violence how was it her fault. This neglects the fact she was not a passive participant – Tiktok requires short videos and thus editing. Secondly, this also neglects the idea that people are responsible for their own actions – you can’t blame the victim for inciting violence; you should blame the perpetrators of violence for their lack of self control.
The tweet posted today illustrates this. She posts excerpts of various books without context. Flamers for examples is an autobiographical story of gay boy’s time in a boy scout camp and the incidents are actually true events. The book is only available in high schools. An analogy would be to post every excerpt in To Kill a Mockingbird or Of Mice and Men which uses the n-word.
Similarly – the tweet you posted on myths and facts of Florida book bans misses the point and the context. Book bans promote a “chill” and teachers will pre-empt it or side with caution. For example, I changed schools six years; despite being in the same board, I noticed a cultural difference and changed the way I interacted with students. Similarly a book ban has greater effect than it legally claims.
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Yay Bidenomics!
“The Fed’s preferred inflation measures are back on the rise”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-feds-preferred-inflation-measures-are-back-on-the-rise
“After finally declining in June, giving the Federal Reserve hopes of pulling off a soft landing at last, one of the central bank’s preferred inflation measures was back on a precipitous rise in July. Headline PCE inflation rose by 3.3% in the year ending in July, up from 3% in June. For the first time since January, core PCE inflation, perhaps the most important inflation measure for the Fed, increased to 4.2%, more than twice the Fed’s maximum target of just 2% inflation on an annual basis.
Dig into the details, and the data only becomes more disappointing. Core services sans housing, a favored inflation measure of both the Fed and the White House, accelerated to a staggering 4.7% in the 12 months ending in July, up from 4.1%. This defies the claim of Raphael Bostic of the Atlanta Fed that “stubborn (and lagging) housing services prices” are solely responsible for core inflation not falling to the Fed’s benchmark.
Whether or not the Fed passes at least one rate hike by its November meeting is now a dead heat, according to futures markets. The misguided assumption that the Fed would start cutting interest rates by March of last year has been priced out of futures markets, finally and stubbornly following Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s guidance that rates will stay higher for longer than investors expected even just last month.”
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Feel the empathy peasants.
This is so much better than the occasional mean tweets.
He feels your pain……
Oh wait, no that’s just gas….
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So can we lock up everyone involved, as they did the guy on Twitter who jokingly claimed this?
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/01/pennsylvania-democratic-party-trouble-00113705
“In anticipation of a major gathering of rural activists a few weeks ago, the Pennsylvania Democratic Party printed out thousands of cards reminding voters to “Vote at Polls: Election Day Tuesday November 8.”
There was just one small problem: Election Day is Nov. 7.
Pictures of the mess-up were shared among Democratic insiders around Pennsylvania. It was, to many of them, the latest sign of a state party in chaos.
With a little more than a year to go until the 2024 election, the state Democratic Party is reeling from financial problems and a lack of trust across the party, according to interviews with 20 Democratic officials and operatives throughout Pennsylvania. They include elected officials, county chairs, state committee members, former state party employees and strategists.
“It’s amateur hour,” said a state committee member who, like other Democrats, was granted anonymity to speak frankly about a sensitive matter. “It’s a @#$%ing disaster,” said a former state party staffer.”
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Just a reminder…..
This guy misled a couple of morons on Twitter too stupid to check. PA Dems sent this to millions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/31/trump-douglass-mackey-guilty-verdict/
“Douglass Mackey, a supporter of former president Donald Trump who used Twitter to disseminate false information to redirect would-be voters of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, was convicted Friday on a charge of conspiracy against rights, the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn announced.”
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“The deceptive ad stated: “Avoid the Line. Vote from Home,” “Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925” and “Vote for Hillary and be a part of history.” It also included fine print at the bottom that mimicked a real ad, stating: “Must be 18 or older to vote. One vote per person. Must be a legal citizen of the United States. Voting by text not available in Guam, Puerto Rico, Alaska or Hawaii. Paid for by Hillary For President 2016.””
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I find Freeland annoying but that’s not a word salad. She did face the journalist and made eye contact. The pauses are quite typical here as the politician searches for the right word.
Oh and the + stands for Two spirit and others not paedophilia. The latter is attracted to prepubescents and isn’t covered by all the abbreviations.
I’m still curious why the US rates a green light and the UK/Germany rate a yellow light. The Europeans should be asking questions and the Americans should be happy.
The Nation’s own tweet lacks context – not the sentence I would’ve tweeted. The actual article is quite interesting and matches well with the current book I’m reading – Deaths of Despair. Unfortunately the book this article is reviewing, the Forgotten Girls, is only available as an audio book or ebook at my local library. Might be an interesting read.
Go Fund Me is a private site — do you want gov’t regulation? If not, they can do what they please and if they have a political slant, find an other site — apparently its a free market not an oligopoly.
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Declaring your city a sanctuary doesn’t mean you are inviting other jurisdictions to send their migrants your way. My city is both a sanctuary city and a city known to bend rules to help the poor and homeless. As such we attract a lot of transients which we don’t mind. However, we did sue various municipalities including Toronto when they offered their welfare recipients a free bus ticket to my city. The free bus tickets have stopped but still we absorb the poor of other cities. Are people annoyed, of course, nobody wants your concern for fellow humans to be taken advantage of.
Any jurisdiction that dumps the poor and migrants on to another jurisdiction based on their decency needs to rethink its approach to humanity. And any person who approves this policy on any basis has to question their own humanity.
Removing or damaging a temporary gov’t fence is vandalism but when done as part of an illegal political action, it’s completely different. I’m not a fan of RICO or conspiracy charges but the act of destroying gov’t property to further an illegal political action is the definition of conspiracy.
That’s a 10 second video of NYC – what does that prove?
Georgia state trials are always available of youtube – anti Trump posters saw this the day he was charged – live TV, no federal pardon, not even a state pardon, etc. One of the reasons this RICO trial scares the people who worked with Trump in Georgia.
Schools always give parents a time frame for vaccines. This is not unusual or favouritism.
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Janice,
From what I read, Hunter Biden barely makes the news. Then again I read more left of centre sources. For the most part, Trump news gets more coverage as its actual criminal indictments of a former president whereas Hunter is a family member (family is often off-limits in western Europe, Canada, etc) The other issue which has surfaced more often is how many times Republicans can call “wolf” before no longer being taken seriously. Many of the articles I read often ask can we take this seriously given how many times Republicans made claims that failed.
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The link between “organised retail crime” and migrants is rather thin. ORC seems to be more of a label invented to distract from bad management by many retail stores in the US. For example, Dollar General is reporting massive problems while Dollarama in Canada is reporting record profits. Perhaps massive expansion and record inventory is the problem not theft. Shoplifting and organised retail crime exist in Canada and Europe yet they don’t seem to suffer the same problems as American retailers — maybe the problem is lazy management and not the poor stealing some food.
Current inflation is tied mostly to the rise in costs caused by increased interest rates. That is, neo-con economics is its own worst enemy – raising interest rates is not the answer, it actually causes more inflation at this point. Biden’s not far off by declaring the US economy is the strongest in the world. On some metrics, its doing better than the OECD. The problem with the US is the stats are not always reliable, but this goes for any administration.
Sending out notices of a late election date is an old school technique but it often backfires as your own voters might believe it. Perhaps someone just read the calendar wrong,because its so stupid that I doubt it was intentional.
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She’s not wrong
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/01/nikki-haley-us-senate-mitch-mcconnell-nursing-home
If it wasn’t for her position on social security, she would be far more appealing.
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