HAPPY NEW YEAR, FRiends!
Posted on 12/29/2019 4:41:16 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
December 29th, 2019
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md.; Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La. The panel will be former Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah; Marie Harf, AKA Garth, executive director of the Serve America PAC; Chris Stirewalt, Fox News political analyst; and Charles Lane, editorial writer for The Washington Post. Mike Emanuel is guest anchor.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Special Edition named “Alternative Facts” (which will be anti-Trump, you bet!). Dean Baquet, executive editor of The New York Times; Marty Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post; Clint Watts, author of "Messing with the Enemy”; Masha Gessen of The New Yorker and author of "The Future Is History”; and Michael McFaul, author of “From Cold War to Hot Peace” and former U.S. ambassador to Russia. The panel includes Kara Swisher, co-founder and editor-at-large of Recode; Joshua Johnson, MSNBC anchor and former host of NPR’s “1A”; Susan Glasser, staff writer at The New Yorker; and Matthew Continetti, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute..
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Ivanka Trump, adviser to the president; Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del.; Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla. The panel will be CBS correspondents David Martin, Jan Crawford, Nancy Cordes, Major Garrett, Jeff Pegues and Paula Reid.
THIS WEEK (ABC): National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien; Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, *NOPE. The panel will be Rick Klein, ABC News political director; former Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J.; Democratic strategist Stefanie Brown James; and Susan Davis of NPR.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sen. John Kennedy, R-La.; Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass. The panel will be Scott Jennings, former special assistant to President George W. Bush; Karen Finney, former senior spokesperson, Hillary for America; Sarah Isgur of The Dispatch and former Trump Justice Department spokesperson; and Nayyera Haq, former Obama White House senior director and former State Department spokesperson.
SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas; Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa; Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.; Gordon Chang, author of “The Coming Collapse Of China”; Gary Kaltbaum, president of Kaltbaum Capital Management.
*NOPE = “Never Obtain the Presidency, Ever”
Please note how many of the panelists are from the New York Times and the Washington Post. Both of these organizations are heavily Leftist and Anti-Trump. It says so MUCH about a show when they have the same biased members of a panel, week after week, month after month. It’s as if they’re trying to make the news, not just comment on it.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, FRiends!
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• Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.
Police planes over Baltimore
I was born and grew up in Baltimore. Let's us speak truth to power here.
Airplanes to watch for crime down below?
Somebody managed to convince Baltimore and Maryland's elected people to hire this firm, probably included huge campaign contributions.
Airplanes flying over head, watching us. Scares the beejeesus outta me.
BALTIMORE (AP) — The city of Baltimore will be monitored by surveillance airplanes for up to six months next year under a pilot program announced Friday that is aimed at helping law enforcement investigate violent crime and that will effectively restart a tactic secretively used three years ago. The flights, which civil liberties groups oppose, will start in May and gather footage during the hours when the city experiences high rates of crime. The announcement marks a reversal for Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison, who previously expressed skepticism over the use of the planes and described the idea as an “untested” crime-fighting strategy. “We will be the first American city to use this technology in an attempt to solve and deter violent crime,” Harrison said at a news conference. He said he believes they could prove to be “yet another tool” to fight the violence plaguing the city.
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De Niro: Trump Needs To Be Humiliated, ‘I’d Like To See A Bag Of Sh*t Right In His Face’
Robert Di Niro brings nothing to the equation.
Speaking truth to power once again.
He's a good actor but only certain parts. But If I am a good bookkeeper am I worthy to speak about dropping excrement in my president's face? These people need to do their occupations and stop berating our politics. I'd be just as angry if they insisted on so publicly humiliating President Obama?
Speaking truth to power.
De Niro declared that Trump had “no good intentions.” He continued, “There has not been one thing about this person that has been redeeming, as far as I can see. Nothing. For the Republicans who have fallen in line with him, I don’t understand it. It’s a disgrace. It’s beyond a disgrace. Shame on them. Shame on all of them.” He added, “Pigs have dignity. He has no dignity. He is a disgrace to the human race.” De Niro continued, “I’d like to see a bag of shit right in his face. Hit him right in the face like that, and let the picture go all over the world.”
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Time For A Smile
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Came upon, as I surfed the net, the following three stories about New York. The first story below discovers that New York is considered the rudest city in America.
I don't know why this would surprise anyone. And no, I really do not believe that New Yorkers are born ruder than any other human being. Your genes do not take into account the city in which you are expected to be born.
The closer humans...indeed any animal....lives with others of their own kind the more protective and prone to attack they become. Every species has its own evolved living arrangement...whales live in pods...zebras travel in huge herds....and to devolve from it is to change the temperament the species was born with. Whales suddenly alone without a pod seek out another or often die off. Put a bunch of rats in a single cage and see how rude they become.
Human beings on the current hand generally are very social but not meant to live in tiny apartments with horns blaring and fear all around.
During my one and only visit to New York I thought New Yorkers need to be how they are in order to get where they need to go, to stay safe, to earn a living....to survive.
New York is the rudest city in America, survey says.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-is-the-rudest-city-in-america-survey
New Yorkers are the biggest jerks in America, according to a new survey of the rudest cities in the U.S. The Business Insider study found a whopping 34.3 percent of respondents said Big Apple inhabitants were the least friendly. That was nearly twice as much as the next highest city, Los Angeles, which 19.7 percent of the 2,000 adults surveyed online in October and November said was home to the surliest citizens in the country.
So New Yorkers have reacted to being called so rude. Some of the quotes are truthful and impressive.
New Yorkers react to being named ‘rudest city in America’
https://nypost.com/2019/12/24/f-k-off-new-yorkers-react-to-being-named-rudest-city-in-america/amp/
“Hell, yeah, everybody here’s an a–hole!” said the Floridian, who refused to give his name.
But Harlem man Sergio Villanueva, 26, suggested people in New Jersey are “much ruder” than New Yorkers.
Villanueva admitted New Yorkers can be rude, but insisted “it’s not personal.”
“Like, we don’t mean anything by it. It’s just the way we live,” he said.
“People got places to be, people to see. If I bump into you, sorry … but not really.”
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The following New York story is NOT about President Trump. It is about the famous Tammany Hall scandal, which I vaguely remember back from when they taught Civics in High School.
The First Time a Bold New Yorker Got Impeached for Taking on the Swamp
It may sound similar to the current Washington saga and House Democrats’ impeachment of President Donald Trump. But this was nearly a hundred years ago in 1913 in Albany, New York, where Gov. William Sulzer took on the Empire State’s version of the “swamp.” It was known as Tammany Hall.
Trump and John Dingell from Hell
It's been a while but dang if it ain't the silliest political spat ever.
John Dingell is dead. He was a Representative in America's House. After his death, his wife, Debbie Dingell took over his job.
President Trump was at a rally and let us note here that Debbie Dingell voted to impeach Trump and was out and about and bashing Trump every chance she had. Of course she was not alone. Plenty of people bashed Trump during the time of impeachment.
But as is Trump's way, he fights back. He said something referring to Debbie Dingell's husband being dead and looking down from heaven.
"Or maybe he's looking up," Trump said, inferring he's checking in from hell.
My my, the humorless liberals went nuts. Debbie Dingell, who ought to win an academy award, sobbed as here she is a widow and it don't matter what nastiness she said about Trump, it was mean of him to fight back.
Come on people. He wasn't necessarily referring to John Dingell as being in hell. Trump probably would have said that snarky joke about anybody, especially anybody who voted to unfairly impeach me.
They have no sense of humor. Liberals....miserable creatures, so very sad.
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Pelosi won't turn over impeachment papers
At the time of this writing this will probably be old, old news. As of this writing nobody quite understands why she doesn't give the impeachment charges from the House of Representatives to the Senate so that that body can remove him from office.
It's how it is delineated in the constitution.
My guess is that she knows this was an awful idea and it will cost the Democrats dearly.
And for sure the Senate would call Hunter Biden to testify and goodness, we can't have that.
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The finger game
Frankly I think the idea of doing that circle during a televised display during a ceremony at West Point was quite dumb.
But even dumber was how all of a sudden the Twitter air waves were filled with nut jobs accusing the cadets of using the gesture that, so the nut jobs say, was a hate symbol of "white power".
It was no such thing.
Still, it was not appropriate to put on television and those cadets were dumb to do it.
The "OK" hand gesture only recently emerged as a "white power" symbol, stemming from a hoax by members of the website 4chan to "falsely promote the gesture as a hate symbol, claiming that the gesture represented the letters 'wp,' for 'white power,'" according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
An internal investigation by the U.S. Military Academy found that the students were not flashing a white power symbol but were rather playing a game, popular with teenagers, called "the circle game," in which a person makes a circle with their hands and holds it below their waist, in an effort to get another person to look, a West Point statement said Friday.
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Pelosi invites Trump to deliver State of the Union address on Feb. 4
As of this writing, there's no sign if President Trump accepted.
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Space Force
I think the idea of having a Space Force to be cooler than cool.
Indeed we do have satellites all over the skies, the Chinese look to the heavens with dreams of running earth from space, we regularly send up exploratory vehicles leaving astronauts in some danger.
And imagine the movies! A REAL Star Wars. Space soldiers!
Cool. Made official this week by President Trump.
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Time for a Giggle
Top starts after I post the Bray essay, please.
Wow! Faux Snooze panel three-quarters hate-Trump! Just wow!
Beyond middle age is where many of us are,LOl.Happy New Year and a belated Merry Christmas to all freepers and you especially AB.
Good stuff Fish lots to chat about there.
Baltimore may want to look at who has run the city for years, my guess most likely left wingers who treat crime as an after thought.PLanes might work but strong jail sentences might be better.
So granddaughter came down this week and we went to the bank to get her a checking account.
Wow! It’s called a “virtual bank account” and has three sub-accounts. One is the account where money is put to be left alone. You can take money out of it but no more than six times a bank cycle. The second account is where direct deposits go and new deposits. The sit there until you move the money to the third account, which is the place where money is that is for debit cards, checks and such.
The banker spent an entire hour going over all this with Kaitlyn and even took her out to the REAL ATM and had her use it.
When I first got a checking account it was a couple of checks and my signature.
Anyway, we got to talking about the economy and I mentioned, true story.....I MADE TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS LAST YEAR IN THE STOCK MARKET....GO PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!
Now I thought maybe the bank lady might shush up as we all know there are nuts in this country that would kill people who like trump.
But the bank lady raises her hands and makes an arm cheer. She tells us how her husband had to make a mandatory withdrawal and because of the stock market growth during the impeachment, within a day it all came back in.
The bank lady then proceeds to give a little lecture about the economy doing so well that people spend money, much like me who took everyone out to the Tokyo Steakhouse with my new money.
“Multiply that by a million times,” the bank lady said.
We love Trump out here in la la land. We did go out to dinner and all of us....five in total, talked about Trump and how we know he’s a bit harsh sometimes, but that’s part of his charm.
The Democrats.....they’re going down.
Bloomberg News should be shut down until after either 1) Michael Bloomberg drops out, or 2) The election is over AND the Democrats and media accept the results.
And, the DNC rules committee needs to amend the rules to allow for a Death Cage Match in the event of a contested convention. Three actually
1. President candidate
2. Vice-President candidate
3. Whoever has to come out late on election night to deliver Hillary's concession speech.
I dunno. How much personal contact do Los Angelenos have with each other while their cars are stuck in traffic? What would they do if they actually met face-to-face?
I've worked in NYC and agree with Douglas Adams, "The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79", I've also worked in Chicago and common sense is not to be found anywhere on their top 100 list.
Seems like they have the required quotas from the Daily Bezos and New York Slimes today.
The “Hate Trump syndrome” may have started long before any of us knew.
IN fact the entire saga of what the hard left has been doing for some time has just been exposed by an excellent piece given to me by pugmama.
Its literally priceless.
t’Ts here:
https://theamericanreport.org/2019/09/27/the-real-whistleblower-story-dennis-montgomery-the-hammer-the-hard-drives-the-wiretapping-of-trump-and-the-prosecution-of-general-flynn/
This is the story of a CIA turned whistle blower, Dennis Montgomery, a brilliant computer genius whose sole goal in designing machines was to save lives of our troops over seas.
He is and was the inventor of the super computer known as the “Hammer”.Not to be confused with the software run by the Hammer known as the Hamr.Two different animals.
This is an extremely long piece and I will pick selected clips to illustrate just what has been going on for almost 20 years now.
THE REAL WHISTLEBLOWER STORY: DENNIS MONTGOMERY, THE HAMMER, THE HARD DRIVES, THE WIRETAPPING OF TRUMP, AND THE PROSECUTION OF GENERAL FLYNN
Heres the open clip:
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by Mary Fanning and Alan Jones | September 27, 2019
The assault on President Trump by a partisan CIA operative and whistleblower who was placed in the White House to spy on the President is unparalleled in American history. While obstructionists roll out their latest hoax, the real whistleblower story has not been told. President Obama and his yet to be indicted, corrupt Praetorian Guard led by John Brennan and James Clapper, spied on all of America in order to deliver a death blow to the U.S. Constitution and steal our freedoms. Obama’s top intelligence officials spied on America for the purpose of blackmail and leverage with a secret super surveillance system(super computer) called “THE HAMMER.”
Former U.S. military officials told The American Report that the foreign surveillance system known as “The Hammer,” built by CIA contractor-turned whistleblower Dennis L. Montgomery, saved the lives of U.S. troops engaged in the War on Terror. “THE HAMMER” kept Americans safe after 9/11, according to those military sources.
Those sources further stated that “THE HAMMER” was a foreign surveillance tool with multiple echelons of safeguards and sign-offs that logged the identities of all U.S. personnel who accessed the super-surveillance system, up to and including the President. Those safeguards were put in place to ensure that “THE HAMMER” was never misused and turned into a domestic surveillance system to spy on the American people, obliterating their Fourth Amendment constitutional rights.
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heres more:
In February 2009, under newly-elected President Barack Obama, John Brennan and James Clapper commandeered and repurposed “THE HAMMER” by expanding and transforming it from a foreign surveillance system into a private, parallel platform domestic surveillance system. That system was illegal.
Brennan and Clapper moved “THE HAMMER” to a new secret location less than twenty miles from the Obama White House, where they scaled it up and covertly operated it to spy on all of America.
Dennis Montgomery designed and built “THE HAMMER” to protect Americans, not to spy on them. What Brennan and Clapper were doing was in direct opposition to the original mission of “THE HAMMER.” Brennan and Clapper were doing exactly what the multiple echelons of safeguards and sign-offs were designed to stop.
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Mueller’s FBI Supplied Computers For “The Hammer” Then Illegally Raided Montgomery And Seized His Property, Prompting Two Judges To Admonish The FBI; On Cue, The Mockingbird Media Swooped In To Destroy Montgomery’s Reputation
The absurdity of Montgomery’s career is that by the time certain elements inside the intelligence community teamed up with the Mockingbird Media in 2009 to paint Montgomery as a fraud who sold “hoax” technology to the CIA and the U.S. military, Montgomery was already back working as a government contractor for Brennan and Clapper.
Obama was in office and “THE HAMMER” was already underway.
Under FBI Director Robert Mueller’s direction, the FBI in 2006 had raided Montgomery’s Nevada home and storage units. According to U.S. Magistrate Judge Valerie Cooke, Mueller’s FBI used illegally-obtained search warrants to raid Montgomery’s premises.
Painting Montgomery as a hoax in 2009 was nothing short of an insurance policy(is this “the” insurance policy?.) Should Montgomery decided to talk, the intelligence community’s allies in the Mockingbird Media(still alive and well CIA op operations mockingbird has never been stopped its still alive and well) had already painted Montgomery as a fraud and put his veracity in question.
If Mueller’s use of illegally-obtained search warrants to go after Montgomery sounds reminiscent of the Obama administration’s(cia users the same old ops over and over) illegal acquisition of FISA warrants in order to build the hoax FBI Trump Russian collusion case, that’s because it is.
The Mockingbird Media attacks on Montgomery began well after Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte had invoked the State Secrets Privilege (SSP) against Montgomery, which left Montgomery without the right to speak out on his own behalf. The SSP is essentially a government gag order and is typically invoked in order to protect state secrets, including national security secrets.
Montgomery remains under the SSP to this day, leaving him unable to defend himself and his reputation. And those who would continue to have at it knowing that Montgomery is muzzled.
The Mockingbird Media attacks against Montgomery began in 2009, not long after President Obama assumed office.
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THe piece goes on to tell the story of what has been going on and how the intel agencies were used by Obama to attack the US and the entire story is unbelievable but real.Reading the rest of the link should be mandatory for all Freepers,its too long to post it all.
Once you read about the Hammer,a CIA super computer which was used against US citizens by Obama which produced 600 million pages of intel on US citizens under it makes you think twice about electronic surveillance.
Congrats on doing well and getting your granddaughter started on the right trail.!
The year in review: Trump WINS!
Here is some interesting stuff about hunter biden and other well knowns who have been doing a little money laundering over in the Ukraine.
Here's a clip:
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In a recent Arkansas lawsuit against Hunter Biden, a private investigator on behalf of the woman whom Hunter fathered a child with claimed the former vice president’s son ”is the subject of more than one (1) criminal investigation involving fraud, money laundering and a counterfeiting scheme.”
Dominic Casey of D&A Investigations filed the lawsuit on behalf of Lunden Alexis Roberts.
Tyler Durden has the story:
Monday’s “Notice of Fraud and Counterfeiting and Production of Evidence” alleges that Hunter Biden and associates Devon Archer and John Kerry stepson Christopher Heinz engaged in a money laundering scheme which accumulated over $156 million between March 2014 and December 2015.
Netenyahu wins in a Landslide!
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