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  • Booker: During Address Trump Was Blatantly Lying in a ‘Mocking Tone’

    03/05/2025 6:45:03 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 39 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/05/2025 | Pam Key
    Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) declared Wednesday on MSNBC’s “All In” that President Donald Trump lied blatantly in a mocking tone during his speech to a joint session of Congress. Host Chris Hayes said, “You were in that room last night if I’m not mistaken. There was a very long section. We played a little bit, but I mean, that whole section on the fraud and Social Security went he did a long riff each age bracket reading out these numbers, you could hear the boos, which I think were coming from Democrats. What was your reaction in that moment to...
  • Putin's Military Purge Ramps Up as General Gerasimov's Top Deputy Arrested

    05/23/2024 4:07:59 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 30 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 5/23/2024 | Isabel van Brugen
    Vadim Shamarin, deputy chief of the Russian General Staff, has been arrested, local media reported, marking the latest detention of a Russian high-ranking military official in recent weeks. The development was reported by Russian newspapers Kommersant and Izvestia, citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the matter. Kommersant reported that he was detained on Wednesday "in connection with the case of alleged fraud."
  • Putin offers staggering sum for new recruits as Russia desperate to bolster shriveling forces

    11/17/2023 10:56:28 AM PST · by Chad C. Mulligan · 38 replies
    Fox ^ | 17 Nov 2023 | Peter Aitkin
    Moscow is trying to bribe its citizens into signing up to serve in the military as Russian President Vladimir Putin watches his forces continue to shrivel up in Ukraine the longer the conflict lasts. "Putin has launched a full-on recruitment drive," Rebekah Koffler, a strategic military intelligence analyst and the author of "Putin’s Playbook," told Fox News Digital. An analysis from The Atlantic Council found that Russian armed forces have turned to the civilian population to help fundraise for additional equipment, including drones, thermal sights, vehicles and medicine, through a group called "All for Victory," run by propagandist Vladimir Solovyov....
  • Ukraine procures 100 Poland-made 'Rosomak' armoured vehicles

    04/01/2023 8:53:27 AM PDT · by Timber Rattler · 18 replies
    Hindustan Times ^ | April 1, 2023 | Lingamgunta Nirmitha Rao
    Ukraine has ordered 100 Rosomak multi-purpose armoured vehicles, which are made in Poland under a Finnish license, Poland's prime minister said on Saturday. "I bring an order placed yesterday by (Ukrainian) Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal for 100 Rosomaks that will be fabricated here," Mateusz Morawiecki said during a visit to the Rosomak manufacturing site in the southern Polish town of Siemianowice Slaskie. The order will be financed through funds that Poland has received from the European Union and US funds that Ukraine has received, he said, without providing details or the overall cost of the contract.
  • Search requests for how to break limbs 'painlessly' trend after Putin’s ‘mobilization’ announcement

    09/21/2022 11:52:40 AM PDT · by canuck_conservative · 18 replies
    National Post [Canada] ^ | Sept. 21, 2022 | Staff
    Google searches for ‘how to break an arm at home,’ (как сломать руку в домашних условиях) have spiked since Putin made a decree for a ‘partial mobilization’ at 2 a.m. ET on Wednesday, giving rise to speculation that Russians are taking drastic measures to avoid conscription. Similarly, how to break a leg (как сломать ногу) have also risen according to Google Trends data.... Reports of panic spreading among Russians have also flooded social networks. Anti-war groups said the limited airplane tickets out of Russia reached enormous prices due to high demand — and swiftly became unavailable. Some postings alleged people...
  • Goat accidentally neutralises several invaders in Zaporizhzhia Oblast

    06/23/2022 10:17:20 AM PDT · by Widget Jr · 27 replies
    Ukrayinska Pravda ^ | June 20, 2022 | Mykhailo Zagorodniy
    A nanny goat has injured several Russian servicemen by triggering their tripwires with pinned grenades in the village of Kinski Rozdory in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.Ukraine’s Chief Intelligence Directorate has shared a curious incident that happened at a local hospital.A total of 40 invaders have been stationed at the medical institution in Kinski Rozdory.The Russian military installed a "circular defence" and placed tripwires around the perimeter of the hospital.The aggressors regretted this decision after a goat from a neighbouring farm decided to pay a visit to the hospital.As the frightened animal moved chaotically around the area, she accidentally "disposed of" several grenades....
  • DHS Warns Americans That Dropping COVID Restrictions Might Lead To ‘Acts Of Violence’ By ‘Extremists’

    02/09/2022 10:37:45 PM PST · by TigerClaws · 177 replies
    The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warned Americans on Monday that as COVID-19 restrictions are dropped, there is an increased risk for “acts of violence” such as mass shootings. “The United States Remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several actors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories,” the DHS warned. “As COVID-19 restrictions continue to decrease nationwide, increased access to commercial and government facilities and the rising number of mass gatherings could provide increased opportunities for individuals looking to commit acts of violence to do so, often with little or no warning,”...
  • CDC Joins FDA, Wants To Hide Jab Safety Data From Public Even Though The Taxpayers Paid For It

    12/31/2021 7:46:05 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 18 replies
    Red Voice Media ^ | DECEMBER 31, 2021 | ZACH HEILMAN
    While Americans debate the COVID-19 drug and the best way to protect oneself from the coronavirus, the F.D.A., which promotes people getting the jab, has secretly been working hard to delay the documents and findings of Pfizer’s pre-licensure safety data. And although postponing the documents isn’t uncommon, the F.D.A. doesn’t want to make the findings public for 75+ years, leaving many to ask, “Why?” Wanting to know exactly why the F.D.A. was trying to bury the findings, ICAN filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the C.D.C. The lawsuit hopes to force the...
  • Quo Warranto Filed in the Arizona Supreme Court

    05/09/2021 1:22:10 PM PDT · by Hostage · 56 replies
    Telegram\ ^ | May 7, 2021 | Daniel Wood and Josh Barnett
    Quo Warranto Filed in the Arizona Supreme Court by We the people of Arizona potentially unseating all state elected officials As average citizens of Arizona, from all walks of life. we have discovered that our past elections in 2018 thru 2020 arc out of compliance per the U.S. Election Assistance Commission [EAC]. The Help America Vote Act [I IAVA] of 2002 established the EAC and our State of Arizona takes a strict view on this Federal Election Law. Our State of Arizona went out of compliance in February of 2017 (or possibly sooner) and was only recently purported to...
  • Flubros and Flubras! Day 160 (a place for Flubros and Flubras)

    08/30/2020 3:40:50 AM PDT · by impimp · 33 replies
    www.freerepublic.com ^ | 30 August 2020 | Impimp
    It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm I have complained before that CDC has their data on a terrible lag. Essentially you can only guarantee the data is fully reported and complete several months after the fact. That being said, it is starting to seem that there are excess deaths beyond those that are reported to be CV. We have massive testing going on and we have large numbers of deaths being falsely attributed to CV. So how can we have excess deaths (excess deaths are deaths beyond what one would expect this time of year)? The only explanation is suicide,...
  • President Trump asks AG Bill Barr to investigate allegations that Hillary Clinton hired someone ...

    10/22/2019 7:25:11 AM PDT · by COUNTrecount · 16 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | October 22, 2019 | Megan Sheets
    President Trump asks AG Bill Barr to investigate allegations that Hillary Clinton hired someone from the Ukraine to write the bombshell Steele Dossier Donald Trump spoke to Fox News' Sean Hannity in an interview aired Monday The president said he's heard rumors that Hillary Clinton hired someone from the Ukraine to write the anti-Trump dossier complied by UK spy Christopher Steele Donald Trump has asked Attorney General William Barr to look into potential ties between Hillary Clinton, Ukraine and the bombshell anti-Trump dossier compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele. The president claimed that he's heard rumors that his 2016 rival...
  • Senator Murray: Allow Working Families to See Trump Supreme Court Nominee’s Full Record

    08/29/2018 8:08:14 PM PDT · by mdittmar · 42 replies
    U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) ^ | Aug 27 2018 | U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA)
    News Releases Senator Murray: Allow Working Families to See Trump Supreme Court Nominee’s Full Record of Undermining Workers’ Rights
  • Once again, Trump tweets a meme linked to a brazen racist (LA Slimes chases Trump's shiny thing)

    07/03/2017 8:38:10 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 34 replies
    LA LA Slimes ^ | July 3, 2017 | Matt Pearce
    Lots of people tweet memes without checking who made them. The president of the United States — or someone close to him who manages his social media account — seems to be one of those people. On Sunday morning, President Trump tweeted out a doctored old video of a professional wrestling match in which he, appearing in character as himself, pummeled another performer and sent them to the ground. Except someone had replaced the other wrestler’s head with the CNN logo — a jokey meme that reflects the president’s long-running feud with the cable news network. But Trump didn’t create...
  • Report: Comey’s Brother Works for the Law Firm That Handles Clinton Foundation’s Taxes

    05/12/2017 8:51:50 PM PDT · by blueyon · 23 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | 05-11-17 | Carter
    Ousted FBI Director James Comey’s ties to the Clinton Foundation and the conflicts of interest that lie there are too close to not raise red flags. Comey served as general counsel at Lockheed Martin until 2010 when he departed with over $6 million to show for it. That same year Lockheed Martin became a member of the Clinton Global Initiative and “won 17 contracts from the U.S. State Department, which was led by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,” Big League Politics reports. Comey just so happened to have joined the board of the British bank HSBC Holdings in 2013, which...
  • Special Report: Russian elite invested nearly $100M in Trump buildings, records show [Fake News]

    03/18/2017 9:48:03 AM PDT · by SoFloFreeper · 28 replies
    Fake Yahoo/al-Reuters ^ | 3/18/17 | 5 FakeJournalists: Nathan Layne, Ned Parker, Svetlana Reiter, Stephen Grey and Ryan McNeill
    During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump downplayed his business ties with Russia. And since taking office as president, he has been even more emphatic. “I can tell you, speaking for myself, I own nothing in Russia,” President Trump said at a news conference last month. “I have no loans in Russia. I don’t have any deals in Russia." But in the United States, members of the Russian elite have invested in Trump buildings.
  • Michael Moore Melts Down, Tells Trump "Resign By Morning" Or Face "Impeachment, You Russian Traitor"

    02/14/2017 10:19:46 PM PST · by tcrlaf · 106 replies
    Zerohedge ^ | 2-14-2017 | Durden
    Michael Moore, the ultra-liberal documentary filmmaker who infamously predicted a Trump victory well before election night last November by stunningly calling Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania for the Republican nominee, has, over the past 24 hours, decided to broadcast his latest nervous breakdown over Twitter for all to see. It all started with the following tweet storm posted by Moore in the wee hours of the morning saying that, among other things, "Flynn DID NOT make that Russian call on his own" but rather "was INSTRUCTED to do so." Moore went on to insist that Flynn was just the first...
  • (Vanity) New Poll in Wisconsin shows Trump ahead by many points and the lead is growing! (

    04/03/2016 8:31:57 PM PDT · by cba123 · 193 replies
    OK let me try this again. I tried to post this once, but the thread was pulled, apparently I improperly credited the story. Here it is again: You will find this story referenced at the link above. The link above is just a website. However it (apparently) links within that website, to coverage on Fox 2 of a poll from this weekend of a poll, in Wisconsin, which shows the following percentages: (this is from the linked videoclip, not the story itself) Trump 41% Cruz 32% Kasich 19% Please note, there is included at the link (included in the story)...
  • SEAN HANNITY: EVERY REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN MUST RECONSIDER BOEHNER’S CRED AFTER SCALISE SCANDAL

    12/30/2014 10:04:19 PM PST · by Jim Robinson · 109 replies
    Breitbart ^ | December 30, 2014 | by MATTHEW BOYLE
    Fox News anchor Sean Hannity, also a nationally syndicated radio host, is tripling down on his calls to demand new blood in House GOP leadership. In the wake of Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) rebuffing his call to run against Speaker John Boehner after the white supremacy scandal that has rocked Boehner’s ally, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, Hannity is calling on every Republican member of the House of Representatives to reconsider whether Boehner is in fact an effective leader. “Every Republican member needs to ask themselves if John Boehner is really the best person to lead the conservative movement at...
  • Obama to Boehner: 'We Don't Have a Spending Problem'

    01/06/2013 6:53:43 PM PST · by Nachum · 52 replies
    breitbart ^ | 1/6/13 | Ben Shapiro
    In an interview with Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal, newly re-elected House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) opened up about President Obama’s utter unwillingness to cut a single dollar from federal spending. In a stunning admission, Obama reportedly told Boehner, “We don’t have a spending problem.” Boehner added that President Obama continues to maintain that America’s federal deficit is caused not by governmental overspending but by “a health-care problem.” Said Boehner, “They blame all of the fiscal woes on our health-care system.” Boehner told Obama, “Clearly we have a health-care problem, which is about to get worse with Obamacare....
  • Did Santorum ever complete his taxes and make them public? Has not been vetted thoroughly.

    02/09/2012 10:31:58 PM PST · by mitchell001 · 60 replies · 1+ views
    February 10, 2012 | Ralph Mitchell
    Rick Santorum went home to do his income taxes on his home computer. Did he ever release them? Seriously, Santorum has been given passes by the media and the other candidates and the public. He seems like his accomplishments are weak and his grasp of issues are couched in 1990's rhetoric. He needs to release his taxes and he needs to communicate and explain in detail his economic plans for America. Agree?