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Constitutional scholar uses Biden autopen to flip Dems’ ‘democracy’ script against them: ‘Scandal’
Constitutional legal scholar Randy Barnett admonished Democrats' rhetoric claiming democracy is at risk under the Trump administration when "the biggest constitutional scandal in US history" played out under the Biden administration with the use of the autopen."For all the talk of a ‘constitutional crisis' or threats to ‘our democracy’ having the executive branch systematically run by unknown subordinates of a mentally incompetent president is the biggest constitutional scandal in US history – it’s called into question the legality of official acts done in his name but without proper authority," Barnett posted to X Monday.
"Southern secession was a ‘constitutional crisis,’" Barnett added in a follow-up message Tuesday. "This is a constitutional scandal."
Barnett, a Georgetown University law professor who serves as the director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, was referring to an interview former President Joe Biden conducted with the New York Times defending his use of an autopen. Biden said he orally approved a long list of clemency and pardon actions at the end of his tenure, but that his aides used the autopen to officiate the actions.
Amid the Biden autopen controversy, Democratic lawmakers and left-wing media pundits have continued slamming Trump as a threat to democracy – which was a common talking point during the election cycle – and claiming his actions as president, such as deporting illegal immigrants and revoking visa privileges for some foreign students, have thrown the U.S. into a constitutional crisis.
Biden told the Times that he was aware of every pardon ahead of leaving office in 2024, which included clemency and commutation actions related to 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders in his final weeks in office alone.
"I made every decision," Biden told the Times in a phone interview earlier in July that was published Sunday. He added that staff used the autopen for the pardons and commutations "because there were a lot of them."
"Mr. Biden did not individually approve each name for the categorical pardons that applied to large numbers of people, he and aides confirmed," the Times reported. "Rather, after extensive discussion of different possible criteria, he signed off on the standards he wanted to be used to determine which convicts would qualify for a reduction in sentence."
Autopen signatures are produced by a machine, as opposed to an authentic, handwritten signature.
The conservative Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project first investigated the Biden administration's use of an autopen earlier in 2025 and found that the same signature was on a bevvy of executive orders and other official documents, while Biden’s signature on the document announcing his departure from the 2024 race varied from the apparent machine-produced signature.
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nivek
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Federal housing official submitted Schiff criminal referral to DOJ over mortgage documents
Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., has been referred to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution regarding mortgage documents.The director of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in May citing alleged misconduct by Schiff, who owns homes in California and Maryland.
"Based on media reports, Mr. Adam B. Schiff has, in multiple instances, falsified bank documents and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms, impacting payments from 2003-2019 for a Potomac, Maryland-based property," FHFA Director William Pulte wrote in the letter, which Fox News obtained on Wednesday. "As regulator of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks, we take very seriously allegations of mortgage fraud or other criminal activity. Such misconduct jeopardizes the safety and soundness of FHFA’s regulated entities and the security and stability of the U.S. mortgage market."
On Monday, Pulte received a memo from the Fannie Mae financial crimes investigations concluding that Schiff allegedly engaged in "a sustained pattern of possible occupancy misrepresentation" on five Fannie Mae loans, Fox News has learned.
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Trump Admin Braces For “Insurrectionary Judges,” Warns Victor Davis Hanson
As federal courts continue to challenge the Trump administration and Congress, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson predicted Tuesday on his show that the executive branch will next have to confront “insurrectionary judges.”Hanson's comments come in the wake of a nationwide block issued Thursday by District Court Judge Joseph LaPlante, a George W. Bush appointee, against President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship. This ruling marks the first such block since the U.S. Supreme Court recently curtailed lower courts' ability to halt policies on a broad scale.
Discussing the ongoing federal pushback on "The Victor Davis Hanson Show," Hanson did not mince words, labeling the judges as "egomaniac, narcissistic people."
“These guys are so arrogant. I mean they tried to nullify a congressional act, you know about defunding Planned Parenthood. They’d always said they were only going after executive orders,” Hanson stated. “These judges are really egomaniac, narcissistic people. They think that they can run the country."
Hanson expressed concern about the potential for escalating judicial defiance. "I don’t know, I think we’re gonna get to the point though where we’re gonna get some insurrectionary judges," he predicted, though he also questioned the practical implications of such a scenario. "I don’t know how they would enforce it. They’re not federal law enforcement.”
The continued friction between the judiciary and the executive and legislative branches highlights a deepening institutional divide, with some observers, like Hanson, warning of unprecedented challenges to the balance of power.
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nivek
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The Judicial Tyranny of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
How can you tell if the newest Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is an "activist" judge? She admits it. Worse, she appears to think it is her job, if not her duty, to engage in (left-wing) judicial activism.In an interview with CBS News, Jackson explained what she hopes to accomplish in her many dissents. "I just feel that I have a wonderful opportunity to tell people in my opinions how I feel about the issues," she said, "and that's what I try to do." She added, "And I'm not afraid to use my voice." This sounds like a podcaster rather than a judge.
You might be forgiven for thinking judges are supposed to interpret the law as intended by the legislature and apply the law to resolve disputes before the court.
Chief Justice John Roberts, for example, compares the role of a justice to that of an umpire whose job is to call balls and strikes. "Judges," Roberts said, "are like umpires. They don't make the rules, they apply them." As to judges deciding cases based on policy or on "how (they) feel about the issues," on their weighing in on policy, Roberts said, "I don't think you want judges deciding cases based on what is good policy ... there are legal questions here."
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, in her majority decision that reined in the power of district courts to impose nationwide injunctions, scolded Jackson for departing from this conventional view of the role of a judge. Barrett wrote, "We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary."
Jackson's judicial philosophy mirrors that of then-Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall who described his judicial philosophy as follows, "You have to do what's right and let the law catch up."
About the Founding Fathers, Marshall in 1987 on the nation's bicentennial wrote: "The government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, that we hold as fundamental today. When contemporary Americans cite 'The Constitution,' they invoke a concept that is vastly different from what the framers barely began to construct two centuries ago." Marshall's history is true. But it is up to Congress, not judges, to correct the defects.
Marshall considered the Constitution a "living breathing document" whose words and intent can — and should — be altered by (left-wing) judges to suit contemporary sentiment. As to the Constitution, Marshall wrote: "I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia Convention. Nor do I find the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice exhibited by the framers particularly profound."
Therefore, according to Marshall, a judge must "do what's right and let the law catch up"? Does this judicial doctrine apply when the judge is a "conservative" or a "strict constructionist" or an "originalist," defined as one who believes in interpreting the law based on the words of the statute or of the Constitution?
Justice Antonin Scalia called himself "an originalist." Scalia, in 2007, said: "Over the past 40 or 50 years, the philosophy of a living, or evolving, Constitution has become popular. It is enormously seductive. You think everything you care about passionately is there in the Constitution. Everything comes out the way you want it to. ... (The Constitution) is not an empty bottle to be filled up by each generation."
Associate Justice Elena Kagan has spoken of the importance of "public sentiment." She said, "I'm not talking about any particular decision or even any particular series of decisions, but if over time the court loses all connection with the public and with public sentiment, that's a dangerous thing for a democracy." Kagan added, "Overall, the way the court retains its legitimacy and fosters public confidence is by acting like a court, is by doing the kinds of things that do not seem to people political or partisan."
In other words, the Supreme Court, according to Kagan, should to at least some degree decide cases based on popular opinion rather than on the law as written or as intended by the legislature. Why bother with the Supreme Court? Let's just take a poll.
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nivek
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How Obama and cronies created Trump-Russia hoax, and what happens next
Never before in American history has a departing president connived to sabotage and destroy the man who would replace him. Newly revealed documents show that in 2016 then-President Barack Obama and his national security team "manufactured and politicized" phony intelligence to help frame Donald Trump as a Russian asset when they knew it was untrue.Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard who unearthed and released the declassified documents on Friday described it as an "egregious abuse of power" that amounts to a "treasonous conspiracy." Treason is a strong term with an exceedingly high legal standard. So, too, is seditious conspiracy. The use of violence or force is often a central element for both. Closer to the mark are other serious crimes. They include conspiracy to defraud the government and deprivation of rights under the color of law. That is, using knowingly false or fabricated evidence to support a case against Trump and to obstruct or impair a lawful government function such as an election.
Not surprisingly, the genesis of the plot began with Hillary Clinton. On July 26, 2016, she allegedly approved an illicit scheme to sully her political opponent for colluding with Russia to rig the upcoming presidential election. The bogus smear was intended to distract from her own burgeoning email scandal. Hillary’s campaign commissioned and funded a dossier that was little more than a collection of lies supplied by Clinton confederates.
The CIA discovered what Hillary had done and immediately alerted the Obama White House. In two successive meetings on July 28 and Aug. 3, 2016, then-CIA Director John Brennan briefed the president and other top officials, including Vice President Joe Biden, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and FBI Director James Comey. Brennan’s handwritten notes from the Situation Room show how he recounted Clinton’s plan "to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service." From that point on, it was a closely guarded secret.
It was all a hoax, and the above-named participants well knew it. Yet, none of them had the integrity to step forward to tell either Congress or the American people the truth. Instead, they watched in silence as Comey and his FBI acolytes launched a dilating investigation of Trump dubbed "Crossfire Hurricane." They shamelessly weaponized their authority and contorted the law to persecute Trump. As planned, the fake collusion narrative was leaked to the Trump-hating media.
Almost from the outset, the FBI had debunked the dossier and later fired its author, Christopher Steele, for lying. The ex-British spy had been a paid source for the FBI. By concealing this vital information, Comey sought and obtained surveillance warrants from the FISA court on a Trump campaign associate, Carter Page. No evidence of wrongdoing was ever discovered because none existed. When the Russia hoax failed to prevent Trump from winning the presidency, the same malevolent adversaries doubled down on the Clinton-inspired scheme.
The new documents released by Gabbard show that a Dec. 8, 2016 draft of the President’s Daily Briefing (PDB) assessed that "Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure." But that conclusion, compiled by top intelligence agencies, did not conform to the Trump collusion narrative. Comey and others apparently scuttled the PDB and concocted an alternative plan.
The next day, Dec. 9, Obama convened select cabinet officials, along with Clapper, Brennan, and FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. A new Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) was ordered that would undermine the PDB and perpetuate the Trump-Russia collusion fiction. The replacement narrative would claim that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Trump win the presidency. It didn’t seem to matter that it was not true. Brennan and Comey ensured that the discredited dossier was incorporated in the ICA, which was rushed to completion before the new president took office. Why the urgency? So that Comey could use it to entrap Trump into a false confession before his inauguration.
On Jan. 6, 2017, the FBI director traveled to Trump Tower armed with the ICA that deceptively alleged Russian interference in the campaign and also confronted the president-elect with salacious accusations in the dossier that the bureau knew were untrue. Comey’s unscrupulous gambit failed when Trump vigorously denied the allegations as utterly preposterous, which they were.
None of that deterred Comey and his minions at the FBI. They escalated their investigation of Trump and propagated the collusion lie. Clapper leaked the dossier to CNN, as reporters and pundits spent the next year happily convicting the new president in the court of public opinion without a shred of plausible evidence. When Comey was eventually fired, he purloined FBI documents on his way out the door and promptly leaked them to a friend in the media to trigger the appointment of a special counsel who just happened to be his former colleague and mentor, Robert Mueller. In the end, of course, Mueller and his team of partisans —try as they may— could find no evidence of a criminal collusion conspiracy.
Those of us who fairly and honestly covered the faux scandal knew it all along. In my 2018 book titled The Russia Hoax, I wrote on page one that "there was not a whiff of credible evidence to legally justify the probe" initiated by Comey. I described it as "a clever feint for a covert criminal investigation in search of a crime, reversing and bastardizing the legal process." I laid out the facts which still hold true today.
In my follow-up book the next year, Witch Hunt, I offered more incriminating details of exactly how malign actors aspired and conspired to evict Trump from office: "Evidence against him was invented or embellished. Laws were perverted or ignored. Trump was framed for a ‘collusion’ conspiracy that had never existed. They knew it was untrue." The newly constituted FBI has already opened a criminal investigation of Brennan and Comey. That is a good start. But they were not the only ones who should be held to account. The list is a long one, and it goes right to the top —Obama and Clinton.
It started with the collusion hoax, but it didn’t end there. Trump appears to have been the victim of an ongoing criminal conspiracy that stretched for nearly a decade. It eventually evolved into the specious prosecutions brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith that were engineered by the Biden administration and simultaneous coverups of suspected illegality by the Biden family, many of whom received preemptive pardons.
On that basis, the FBI is reportedly examining the possibility of bringing a "grand conspiracy" case that would encompass many of the above-noted acts that were intended to unduly influence three presidential elections, 2016, 2020, and 2024. The advantage of adopting this legal avenue is two-fold. First, it would extend any expired statute of limitations to the date of more recent overt acts such as the raid on Mar-a-Lago and events thereafter. Second, it would allow any prosecutions to be brought in a venue other than Washington, D.C., where the endemic bias of jurors make it nearly impossible to gain convictions.
Meanwhile, there is still more damning evidence that must be declassified —some of it sealed for nearly a decade and buried in the bowels of the FBI and other intel agencies. But even without it, there is little doubt that top officials at the FBI, CIA, Department of Justice and the White House abused their authority for political purposes. Armed with immense power and often lurking in the shadows, they were capable of uncommon corruption. Their allegiance was not to the Constitution and the rule of law but to themselves. Personal animus and a voracious appetite for control motivated their zeal. Trump was their obstacle. He jeopardized their hold on power, so they schemed to destroy him by any means and at any cost.
The only cure for lies is the truth. And the only remedy for lawlessness is justice. The pursuit of what is right depends on both principles.
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nivek
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Hillary Clinton's reliance on 'heavy tranquilizers' and 'psycho-emotional problems' hidden by Obama, Gabbard says
Tulsi Gabbard unleashed a barrage of shocking charges against Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, claiming that she was on 'heavy tranquilizers' and was dealing with 'psycho emotional problems' during the 2016 election. Gabbard, who is President Donald Trump's director of National Intelligence, said Russia President Vladimir Putin had that information and planned to use it against Clinton when she was serving as president.The information was in the September 2020 report by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Russia's attempts to influence the election that Gabbard declassified on Wednesday. 'This report shows Putin held back leaking, held back from leaking compromising material on Hillary Clinton prior to the election, instead planning to release it after the election,' Gabbard said.
The declassified report also claims that Clinton suffered from severe health ailments like type 2 diabetes and ischemic heart disease. It also claimed that Clinton - who then was serving as Obama's secretary of state -had her government aides hold secret meetings with religious leaders where they were offered 'significant increases in funding' from the State Department in return for their political support in the election.
'The intelligence community intentionally suppressed intelligence that showed Putin was saving the most damaging material that he had in his possession about Hillary Clinton until after her potential and likely victory,' Gabbard said. 'There were high-level DNC emails that detailed evidence of Hillary's, quote, psycho emotional problems, uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression and cheerfulness, and that then Secretary Clinton was allegedly on a daily regimen of heavy tranquilizers,' she added.
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Dejan Corovic
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All this focus on melodrama in politics is national tragedy, in every nation, because it moves attention away from "boring" but far more important problems, like fall in productivity relative to China, equality, democratic rights, improvement of power grid, reduction of NASA budget and about x100 of other.
pigfarmer
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I think that the real thing driving all this is positioning for the mid term elections. The Game never ends - it's about perception not reality and isn't required to make sense or actually be of benefit to taxpayers just influence opinion. I honestly can't believe the left wing nonsensical rhetoric coming out of the Democratic party but it certainly does influence opinion.
If I heard some sober opinions, some intelligent policy suggestions I'd listen but I don't.
Pardon me for being a cynic but all this with Epstein, Obama, the Clintons and all that will likely go nowhere. I'd certainly like it to and what the hell, maybe it will but I can't help but think that Musk was right about one thing - our government is a two headed snake not two separate parties.
nivek
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Bombshell report blows apart everything you've been told about homeless crisis... and the sinister force that's REALLY powering it
America's homelessness crisis is fueled not just by sky-high rents or economic hardship, but by the unprecedented wave of asylum seekers flooding shelters under ex-president Joe Biden's watch, a bombshell new study reveals.Researchers from the University of Chicago and Dartmouth College have linked a staggering 60 percent of the record 43 percent rise in people living in US homeless shelters between 2022 and 2024 to newly arrived immigrants seeking asylum.
The eye-opening paper, bluntly titled 'Asylum seekers and the rise in homelessness', lays bare the enormous burden placed on a handful of American cities and the taxpayers footing the multibillion-dollar bill.
'Substantially more than half of the increase in homelessness comes from migration, rather than new individuals falling into poverty,' the University of Chicago's Bruce Meyer said. 'Federal immigration policy changes under the Trump administration that narrow pathways to asylum are likely to slow the growth of sheltered homelessness in the years ahead.'
Meyer said his paper, which partly backs President Donald Trump's border crackdown, was proving 'unpopular' in academic circles - a factor he believes might explain why it has been largely ignored by the mainstream media.
Data from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development show that 771,480 people were homeless in America at the start of 2024 - an alarming 18 percent increase from 2023. Between 2022 and 2024, the number of homeless people in shelters reversed a 16-year decline and skyrocketed by 43 percent.
The researchers estimate that 60 percent of this rise was driven by asylum seekers. Meyer's study takes a sledgehammer to the public debate and previous academic papers that attributed the rise to housing costs and the end of pandemic-era protections.
While those factors do play a role, the researchers found they don't explain the scale or the geographic concentration of the shelter crisis. Instead, asylum policy changes under the Biden administration - including the rollback of anti-immigrant policies from Trump's first term - drove the problem.
Biden's policies included streamlining asylum appointments and temporary 'parole' entry permits at the deluged southern border, says the 21-page report.
New York City, Chicago, suburban Boston and Denver bore the brunt of the crisis, says the report, which was co-authored by Angela Wyse and Douglas Williams. These four jurisdictions alone accounted for 75 percent of the national rise in homeless shelter populations, with more than 77,000 new homeless people in New York City alone.
Each of them experienced a flood of asylum seekers, forcing local officials to scramble for emergency housing; often transforming schools, hotels and airports into makeshift shelters.
The costs were sky-high.
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pigfarmer
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Defund the police .... when you're sitting in Mom and Dad's walled compound in Uganda and will travel as mayor with an armed escort at all times.
This serves to show exactly what quality of shitbirds that are running against The Zohran if he's outpacing them in polling while out of the country. I think Rudy Giuliani was the last Republican mayor and he was a good, Sliwa would be a good one too but he gets absolutely zero media coverage. No, these idiots are about to get exactly what they deserve and will elect that p.o.s. The fact that Bill de Blasio is advising him absolutely boggles the mind. de Blasio is an ancient name that means 'I misplaced a billion dollars and because of blackness and inequity I got away with it.'
My one and only concern is that my wife has to travel there a couple times a month and the subways are a nightmare. Billy Joel was right - sink Manhattan out at sea
This serves to show exactly what quality of shitbirds that are running against The Zohran if he's outpacing them in polling while out of the country. I think Rudy Giuliani was the last Republican mayor and he was a good, Sliwa would be a good one too but he gets absolutely zero media coverage. No, these idiots are about to get exactly what they deserve and will elect that p.o.s. The fact that Bill de Blasio is advising him absolutely boggles the mind. de Blasio is an ancient name that means 'I misplaced a billion dollars and because of blackness and inequity I got away with it.'
My one and only concern is that my wife has to travel there a couple times a month and the subways are a nightmare. Billy Joel was right - sink Manhattan out at sea
nivek
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Why will no one dare say the horrifying truth about the 'possibly white' Manhattan shooter? New York has fallen
Broad daylight.Why aren't we talking about a collapse of law and order so severe that a lone gunman felt comfortable enough to stroll the streets of Midtown Manhattan, late on a sunny afternoon, carrying an assault rifle?
Just look at his posture, his stride, his demeanor. That confidence should chill to the bone.
But we're not talking about that.
No. We're talking about who the gunman was, what his motive could possibly be, and the shock of a mass shooting in a posh Park Avenue office building that left four innocent people, including an off-duty police officer – a father of two with a baby due next month – dead.
If this doesn't wake up New York City and soft-on-crime liberalism at large, nothing will.
The same well-heeled, virtue-signaling Manhattan Democrats who just voted socialist Zohran Mamdani as their nominee for mayor – a guy who, in my opinion, isn't being honest about his anti-cop, anti-Semitic stances – consider mass shootings a problem for other parts of America.
The parts where the poor and uneducated live. Massacres such as this are the province of rural red states, they think, a kind of like-attracts-like.
Not anymore.
If this doesn't wake up New York City and soft-on-crime liberalism at large, nothing will.
Yet this savage attack, in an office tower that houses the gunman's intended target – the NFL headquarters, in a building so large it has its own zip code – was made possible by a deep blue city that, like so many others, has been standing down since George Floyd.
This rot goes back to the BLM riots of 2020, which elected officials and the liberal mainstream media told us was peaceful protest.
Riots and looting? Look the other way. Small price to pay for America's virulent strain of white supremacy.
And the swallowing of this malignant lie led to race hustlers like 'White Fragility' author Robin DiAngelo – herself a white woman! – pocketing millions from CEOs to tell their white workers how intractably racist they are; to DEI policies that encourage discrimination and unfair hiring practices; and pro-crime, anti-public safety policies that see career criminals turfed through the system and back onto streets.
In New York, retail security guards are often told by management to let shoplifters abscond with whatever they like and are explicitly instructed not to interfere.
You know: Not do the very job they were hired to do – the job that's in the job title.
But lawmakers would rather lock up toothpaste at CVS than criminals at Rikers.
This laxity was completely responsible for alleged killer Luigi Mangione feeling emboldened to shoot a healthcare exec, a husband and father – in broad daylight, on the streets of Midtown Manhattan.
And instead of valorizing the victim, Mangione is the hero, lionized in San Francisco's 'Luigi: The Musical' – such a smash that it may be heading to Broadway.
Yes, a musical about an accused stone-cold killer may be mounted just blocks away from the actual murder.
And why not? New York is on the verge of electing Mamdani, a vocal proponent of 'defund the police'.
Mamdani says his position has changed. I don't buy it. I think he's saying the politically expedient things needed to win.
Most of Mamdani's rivals – Mayor Eric Adams, former governor Andrew Cuomo, and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa – have called for thousands more cops to be hired.
Not Mamdani. He'd like more social workers.
As he celebrated his wedding at his family's lavish compound in Uganda night – a wedding that took place back in February, by the way – Mamdani issued a generic tweet about being 'heartbroken'.
Not furious, or incentivized, or ready on Day One to harden up New York's soft targets. Just 'heartbroken'.
It didn't take long for some of Mamdani's old tweets to surface. Such as: 'We don't need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety.'
And this guy has the gall, in his initial tweet this week, to mention last – not first – the off-duty police officer who was shot.
As to that old tweet, Mamdani went on to make his position crystal clear: 'What we need is to #DefundTheNYPD.'
It didn't take long for some of Mamdani's old tweets to surface. Such as: 'We don't need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety.'
This unblinking embrace of America as a wholly white supremacist county, culture and criminal justice system has surely led directly to CNN anchor Erin Burnett looking at a surveillance image of the shooter and telling her rapidly dwindling viewership that he was 'possibly white'.
Paging Jussie Smollett!
White people propagating the myth of pervasive white supremacy led to the Jussie swindle too, and now we're at a point where Sydney Sweeney's ad for American Eagle denim has been tarred as the same.
As national discourse goes, this is a new low.
It's a humiliation and it's beneath us and it's brought us, as with so much of wokeness, to an Orwellian state in which we are told not to trust our own eyes, ears and experiences.
Come November election day in New York, this fresh horror will be but a distant memory, and a wealthy anti-cop socialist hypocrite will most likely be celebrated as the city's mayor and future.
One day after the shooting, while ending a work call, a colleague said two words I haven't heard since the aftermath of 9/11: 'Stay safe.'
We are at war. And the bad guys are winning.
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pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
yup
nivek
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Trump's FBI Chief Kash Patel discovered 'burn bags' with thousands of Russia hoax docs in secret room
FBI Director Kash Patel revealed a discovery of a stash of documents tied to the Russia investigation sealed away in 'burn bags' in a secret room of the bureau. The documents consist of the classified annex to former Special Counsel John Durham's final report on the origins of the FBI investigation into Donald Trump's original campaign, which includes the underlying intelligence he reviewed, a spokesperson for the FBI told the Daily Mail.Durham examined the FBI's investigation into potential links between Trump campaign officials and Russia during the 2016 election and concluded the FBI should have not launched the investigation given the evidence it had at the time. A person familiar with the discovery speculated to the Daily Mail that it was likely an oversight by previous directors that prevented the documents from being destroyed. The person added that it's likely the documents would have never seen the light of day if the FBI wasn't diligently looking through everything it comes across at the bureau.
The findings were turned over to Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and will be released later Wednesday, the FBI spokesperson said. President Trump said he supported releasing the information. 'I want everything to be shown, as long as it is fair and reasonable,' he said. 'I would like to see people exposed that might be bad, and we'll see how that all works out,' he told reporters at the White House.
However the president added if the FBI had something 'they would have released it.' He repeated his old complaint that Democrats were behind it. 'The whole thing is a scam. It is a scam set up by the Democrats,' Trump said.
News of the discovery was first reported by Fox News. A 'burn bag' is a secure container used by government agencies to dispose of classified or sensitive documents, usually by burning or shredding, to prevent unauthorized access. Patel, who used to be one of the FBI's most vocal critics, has set about remaking the bureau, including firing senior agents and reassigning others. When he began his tenure, he promised a 'wave of transparency,' including on the investigation into the possible ties between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia.
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nivek
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Virginia lawmaker is doused with gas and set on FIRE at magazine where he works
A Virginia lawmaker was doused in gasoline and set on fire inside his office Wednesday in what authorities say was a personal attack. Danville City Councilman J. Lee Vogler, 38, was at work at Showcase Magazine around 11:30 a.m. when a man entered the building, confronted him, and poured a flammable liquid over him, police said.The suspect burst in carrying a 'fiver gallon container' full of gas which he dumped on top of the politician, his boss and the magazine's owner Andrews Brooks said. Vogler attempted to flee but was chased to the front of the building, where the suspect ignited the liquid and set him ablaze, Brooks added. Vogler was airlifted to Centra Lynchburg General Hospital.
Brooks described him as 'awake and talking' although police did not provide details on the nature of his injuries. Police said the suspect fled the scene, but witnesses provided a description of both the man and his vehicle. Officers stopped the suspect several blocks away and took him into custody without incident. He was later identified as 29-year-old Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes of Danville.
The Danville Police Department confirmed that Vogler and Hayes knew each other and that the attack stemmed from a personal matter - not from Vogler's role as a public official.
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Dejan Corovic
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Well, you won't believe it, but Kamala Harris says that "system is broken" and she won't be running of office again:
I mean, democracy or no democracy, she was completely clueless and detached from real problems US was facing. It would be x4 more years of showing the unpleasant systematic truths under the carpet.
I mean, democracy or no democracy, she was completely clueless and detached from real problems US was facing. It would be x4 more years of showing the unpleasant systematic truths under the carpet.