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Post by soonernvolved on May 29, 2019 14:33:09 GMT -6
Well, this backfired spectacularly on Chris Cuomo:
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Post by kcrufnek on May 29, 2019 19:26:24 GMT -6
Representative Cummings blasts the report of his wife running a "Pay for play" scheme: www.foxnews.com/politics/cummings-fights-baseless-allegations-against-wifes-non-profit-agency“These baseless claims come from a group funded by right-wing mega-donors known for their political hit jobs,” Cummings said in a statement to Fox News. “I am confident that they will be exposed for what they really are – a fabricated distraction from the important work being done on behalf of Americans, such as lowering the skyrocketing prices of prescription drugs.” .......... Hopefully he will explain how ten years ago he was in deep debt but with his new wife he's now doing just fine.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 30, 2019 3:40:45 GMT -6
Representative Cummings blasts the report of his wife running a "Pay for play" scheme: www.foxnews.com/politics/cummings-fights-baseless-allegations-against-wifes-non-profit-agency“These baseless claims come from a group funded by right-wing mega-donors known for their political hit jobs,” Cummings said in a statement to Fox News. “I am confident that they will be exposed for what they really are – a fabricated distraction from the important work being done on behalf of Americans, such as lowering the skyrocketing prices of prescription drugs.” .......... Hopefully he will explain how ten years ago he was in deep debt but with his new wife he's now doing just fine. I believe he needs to show us their tax returns for all those years without any redactions, etc. You know, for transparency and accountability.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 30, 2019 4:06:08 GMT -6
More fake/manufactured news:
President Trump responded:
President Trump critics pounce:
And then, the truth came out:
Summed up:
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Post by kcrufnek on May 30, 2019 8:08:36 GMT -6
More fake/manufactured news: President Trump responded: President Trump critics pounce: And then, the truth came out: Summed up: Maybe Megan MooCain would like to explain why her patriot father stabbed the president in the back every chance he got - including delivering the dossier. lol at the libs crying about "erasing history". I guess a battleship isn't as easy to hide as a statue or a cross.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 30, 2019 10:15:43 GMT -6
www.kqed.org/news/11750792/nancy-pelosi-doctored-videos-show-facebook-willing-enablers-of-russians-in-2016House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lashed out at Facebook on Wednesday, saying the social media giant’s refusal to take down altered videos of her calls into question their contention that they were unwitting victims of Russian interference in 2016. Facebook has allowed doctored videos of Pelosi — slowed down to make her appear drunk — to stay on the social media site even though they are clearly manipulated. The videos have been spread by right-wing websites in an attempt to discredit the speaker as she publicly feuds with President Trump. Trump shared one heavily edited video on Twitter, which was first featured on Fox News, accusing the speaker of “stammering” through a news conference. Pelosi said Facebook knows the videos are false and should take them down. “We have said all along, poor Facebook, they were unwittingly exploited by the Russians. I think wittingly, because right now they are putting up something that they know is false. I think it’s wrong,” she said. “I can take it … But lying to the public.”
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Post by soonernvolved on May 30, 2019 11:32:29 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/05/29/white-women-dinners-shamed-racism/Saira Rao, who ran for Congress in 2018, has co-founded a group where white women can go to dinner to listen to why they are complicit in racism and white supremacy. Attendees’ only job is to “bear witness” to the pain of “Black and Brown” women. Race To Dinner invites women to “set aside their white women tears” and schedule a dinner with the co-founders. White women around the country are invited to join private dinners where they can “bear witness” to the pain of “Black and Brown” women. Race To Dinner is aimed at white women and was co-founded by Saira Rao after her 2018 congressional run, according to the website. The group’s website points out that the company’s goal isn’t to make white women comfortable. Its aim is to be seen and heard by white women, whose only job is to sit during the dinner and “bear witness” to their pain, which they say white women have caused. These dinners aren’t for people who want to feel good, learn or be an ally, and it is not for white women or about white women, the website states. White women already know everything about white supremacy, because “you and your dudes wrote the book,” the Facebook page notes. The website says that it isn’t personal, it’s just how things are. Even if you don’t think that you are racist, you are, according to Race To Dinner. Denouncing Trump, the KKK and Nazis does not exempt you from racism, this group says. Rather, “as a white person in America, you are an active participant in upholding white supremacy.” Everyone is a part of the system, the website says, but “Black and Brown” people are “on the receiving end of white supremacy” while white women “are on the giving end.” Race To Dinner is co-founded by Colorado resident Regina Jackson. Jackson is a self-employed real estate broker, according to her Facebook page. Her bio on the website talks about her life growing up in Chicago during the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., the Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner murders, and other violence “perpetrated on innocent people” by white people. This is why she is driven “to push for real change in America,” and why she agreed to be a co-founder, the website says. Rao ran for Congress in 2018 and the website says that she is a racial justice activist. After she lost the primary, she tweeted that she should “give up on white people” with a link to an opinion piece that she wrote for the New York Times. She also said that she was taking her children and moving out of Colorado because of all of the racism that she was subjected to. What’s for dinner? On the menu is “sounding off about what it’s like being a Black and Brown woman in this country” and “how white women cause harm every single day,” the group’s Facebook page states. The group’s Facebook page writes that “white women hosts and attendees are there for one reason and one reason only: TO BEAR WITNESS TO OUR PAIN.” The intent is to “reveal the naked truth about RACISM in America and YOUR COMPLICITY as white women,” according to the group’s website. Jackson and Rao have a short letter to white women in the “About” section of the website, detailing what a Race To Dinner entails: Dear white women, you have caused immeasurable pain and damage to Brown and Black women. We are here to sit down with you to candidly explain how you caused this pain and damage. We are not here to change anything. We are here to express the pain you have caused, white women. What you do after you leave the dinner is up to you. WE don’t care about your feelings. SIT WITH THAT FOR A MINUTE. Your feelings pale in comparison to the violence you have caused Black and Brown women. Sincerely, Regina Jackson & Saira Rao During Rao’s 2018 Congress run, the website details how she was subjected to “throngs of white women” that came to tell her how they weren’t racist. “There was a whole lot of ‘me’ and ‘not all white women,'” the page details. Rao alleges that she dealt with these meetings for a long time, and finally was finished getting “berated by white women” when a white friend of hers stated that she needed to talk to Rao about “this race stuff.” At this point, the website says that Rao declared, “I’ll do a dinner to talk to several white women at once as long as you are there.” This is how Race To Dinner began. (RELATED: Black Radio Host David Webb Speaks Out After Being Accused Of Benefiting From White Privilege) Race To Dinner also details why white privilege is racism and how it is involved in every aspect of life: It is a multifaceted, complete system that functions in all areas: economic, political, educational, health, religion, war, media advertising, entertainment, labor, law and every other system, which all work to keep all things in place that support white supremacy. Our goal is to dig out the tumor called white privilege, power, control and reveal it for what it is, as an even more sinister and toxic form of RACISM. You are an integral part of this system. It is time for you to own that. If you’re a white women and would like to “set aside your white woman tears,” the Race To Dinner website has a section where you are able to schedule a dinner with Jackson and Rao. Race To Dinner did not respond to requests for comment.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 30, 2019 11:39:03 GMT -6
Monty Python star John Cleese got the left riled up with some recent comments: www.dailywire.com/news/47842/monty-python-star-john-cleese-says-london-isnt-hank-berrienOn Wednesday evening, actor John Cleese, most famous for his work with the comedy troupe Monty Python, which he co-founded, and his work on “Fawlty Towers,” which he co-wrote, suggested on Twitter that his opinion expressed years ago that London was not English anymore was even more true now, connecting it to the fact that Londoners were the most vociferous group in the United Kingdom to favor staying in the European Union. For his remarks, Cleese was pilloried on social media. Cleese precipitated their outrage by writing, “Some years ago I opined that London was not really an English city any more. Since then, virtually all my friends from abroad have confirmed my observation So there must be some truth in it... I note also that London was the UK city that voted most strongly to remain in the EU.” London mayor Sadiq Khan reacted, "These comments make John Cleese sound like he's in character as Basil Fawlty.Londoners know that our diversity is our greatest strength. We are proudly the English capital, a European city and a global hub." One British TV and radio writer snapped, “Some years ago I said something a bit ignorant and dog-whistly. I hang out with people who are also a bit ignorant and dog-whistly. So it must be correct... Whilst I'm at it, here's another example of confirmation bias for you.”
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Post by soonernvolved on May 30, 2019 14:42:15 GMT -6
From the liberal utopia Los Angeles: www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/LAPD-Officers-Diagnosed-With-Salmonella-Typhi-Typhus-510589141.htmlAn officer at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Central Station has contracted Salmonella Typhi, the bacteria that causes typhoid fever, and another is suspected of contracting typhus, a disease carried by rats and fleas, the LAPD told the I-Team Wednesday. A spokesman for the LAPD confirmed to the I-Team that an officer stationed at Central Division has typhus-like symptoms but has not yet been diagnosed with the disease. Typhus can be spread by infected fleas that live on rats that have been linked to growing homeless encampments. ........ Heaps of trash, rats, typhus, exploding homeless population and tent cities — isn’t liberalism grand?
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Post by soonernvolved on May 31, 2019 12:35:19 GMT -6
Kudos liberals, you brought back typhoid & possibly the bubonic plague: www.dailywire.com/news/47888/bubonic-plague-likely-already-present-los-angeles-joseph-curl“We have a complete breakdown of the basic needs of civilization in Los Angeles right now,” Pinsky told Fox New host Laura Ingraham. “We have the three prongs of airborne disease, tuberculosis is exploding, rodent-borne. We are one of the only cities in the country that doesn’t have a rodent control program, and sanitation has broken down.” Pinsky said bubonic plague — also known as the “Black Death,” a pandemic that killed off millions in the 14th century — is “likely” already present in Los Angeles. The plague is spread by infected fleas and exposure to bodily fluids from a dead plague-infected animal, with the bacteria entering through the skin and traveling to lymph nodes. Typhus, which broke out in the city last year, will likely return, Pinsky said. Already, a Los Angeles police officer has contracted typhoid fever, which infects fewer than 350 Americans each year. The various types of typhus are caused by a bacterial infection and spread by body lice, chiggers or fleas. In the 1600s, the disease decimated Germany. “This is unbelievable. I can’t believe I live in a city where this is not Third World. This is medieval,” Pinsky said, according to Fox News. “Third World countries are insulted if they are accused of being like this. No city on Earth tolerates this. The entire population is at risk.” Pinsky said the city simply can't handle the demand for services, noting that many homeless are mentally ill and don't want to accept housing.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 31, 2019 12:49:49 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 31, 2019 18:05:29 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2019/05/31/de-blasio-cuomo-9-11-memorialNew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo were absent from Thursday’s dedication ceremony for a 9/11 memorial for recovery workers affected by toxin exposure. De Blasio’s office said the event conflicted with the mayor’s schedule, but he was spotted at a nearby gym about 30 minutes prior to the start of the ceremony. “They ought to be ashamed of themselves,” the sister of a firefighter who died from 9/11 related illnesses in 2016 told the New York Post. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo were nowhere to be seen at the Thursday morning dedication for the new 9/11 Memorial Glade, a monument dedicated to recovery workers affected by toxin exposure following the 2001 terror attacks. De Blasio’s office said the event conflicted with the mayor’s schedule, but the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate was spotted at a nearby gym about 30 minutes prior to the start of the ceremony, the New York Post reported. “The Mayor’s team determined they could not make the event work with his schedule,” de Blasio spokesman Freddi Goldstein told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “The event was not brought to his attention and if he had known about the invitation, he would have attended.” More than 2,000 rescue and recovery workers have died from inhaling toxic fumes following the attacks, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s World Trade Center Health Program. Cuomo was also absent from the event, despite being listed as a guest speaker in a pre-event press release. A Cuomo spokesman told TheDCNF the press release was issued in error, as the governor never confirmed his attendance for the event and was “always going to be in Albany dealing with issues relating to the end of the legislative session.” “Our administration was always participating in this event as the state, under the Governor’s direction, contributed $500,000 in support of the memorial,” Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi said. “The Governor’s Counsel Alphonso David and Port Authority Executive Director Rick Cotton were there representing the administration at the ceremony.” A fireman who aided in rescue and recovery efforts in the aftermath of 9/11 found it “appalling” that neither Cuomo or de Blasio showed up at the event. “De Blasio has had some major issues with the police and other emergency service unions in the city for his lack of support in the past,” the fireman, who wished to remain anonymous, told TheDCNF. “This is like another slap in the face to them.” (‘Worst Mayor Ever’: Protesters Drown Out Bill De Blasio At His Own Climate Change Event) Maureen Fritz, whose firefighter brother William Gormely died in 2016 due to illnesses related to 9/11, told the New York Post it was “unacceptable” that Cuomo and de Blasio skipped out on the memorial dedication. “They ought to be ashamed of themselves,” Fritz said. “They should not be reelected at all because that’s not how you treat your citizens, your first responders.” Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg and former “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart attended the hour-long dedication ceremony, which was held on the 17th anniversary of the end of 9/11 rescue-and-recovery efforts. Today we are dedicating this memorial glade to all who became sick or died because of causes related to the attacks and to all the men and women who took part in the rescue and recovery effort that ended on this date 17 years ago,” Bloomberg said. “We have a duty to care for those who need it and to honor the memory of those who died. The memorial glade helps us to fulfill that duty.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 1, 2019 20:45:09 GMT -6
The woman who threw it at him was Amanda L. Kondrat’yev , who police arrested for battery. She ran against Gaetz as a Democrat back in 2016. Liberals celebrate the attack: Well, if anyone deserved to have a milkshake throw on them it's the Presidents lying evil attack dog Matt Gaetz. He's the guy that thought it would be funny to make the Pencil Act against Adam Schiff. That milkshake is funny. t.co/QRjoRHYB1T— George (@george24377377) June 2, 2019
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 2, 2019 4:20:45 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2019/06/01/kamala-harris-microphone-protesterDemocratic California Senator Kamala Harris briefly lost her microphone to a protester at a Saturday event in San Francisco. The incident reportedly happened at MoveOn.org’s Big Ideas Forum, an event held after California’s Democratic Convention that included several other Democratic presidential candidates. Harris had just taken a question from the audience about the gender pay gap when a man took the stage. Video shows the protester, a man named Aidan Cook, go on stage, dodge a moderator as he took the microphone from a shocked Harris, then tell the Democratic presidential candidate that he wanted her “attention” on “a much bigger idea.” As security wrestled him from the stage, DJ Carmen Spindiego said, “Thank you so much sir, for your big idea, but we want to make sure that we are able to get through this. It’s OK, folks. It’s OK. People have their own big ideas. But we also want to make sure we are being respectful to the folks who have come here to speak with us.” The crowd then broke into chants of “Kamala! Kamala!” as things settled down. “I’m good. I’m good,” Harris said. (RELATED: Kamala Harris Says She Owns A Gun — Meanwhile She Wants To Ban Them) California animal rights organization Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) issued a statement calling the man an activist who wanted to encourage the senator “to support ordinary citizens rescuing animals rather than the factory farms that abuse animals,” The Hill reported. “[F]amilies of ordinary Americans are being endangered, and whistleblowers who expose criminal violations are being targeted,” wrote Wayne Hsiung, the group’s founder. “The typical voter — especially in the Democratic Party — doesn’t approve, so we’re asking for the party to end its support for corporate Big Ag.” Guardian reporter Lois Beckett later asked Cook if “he had considered the optics of literally taking the microphone away from women of color.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 2, 2019 12:52:19 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/06/02/daily-beast-backlash-doxxing-black-forklift-operator/The Daily Beast took a fair amount of heat over the weekend after doxxing a black forklift operator from New York over the fake “drunk Pelosi” video that circulated on social media. The article, written by Kevin Poulsen, claimed to reveal the identity of the man who doctored the video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and was published on Saturday. (RELATED: Liberals Pounce After Facebook Execs Explain Why Doctored Pelosi Video Is Staying Up) Shawn Brooks, the man identified by Poulsen as the culprit, admitted that he is an admin for several political Facebook pages that shared the doctored video but claims that he did not create the video and that the article got a number of other things wrong. He also suggested that the media latched onto him as a convenient “fall guy” because he’s a black conservative with a criminal record. The criticisms from others immediately began pouring in as well. A handful of journalists closed ranks, defending the Daily Beast and claiming that because Brooks had allegedly posted the video to pages that were labeled as news aggregators it was reasonable to expect that his name and information would be made public. Headshot:
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 2, 2019 16:36:16 GMT -6
Some more information on the doxxing: It also appears Facebook assisted The Daily Beast and gave them the private citizens’s personal information. CNN later spread the news. They know about doxxing conservatives. According to a report out by Big League Politics, the Daily Beast writer who doxxed the black conservative, is a convicted felon who was previously banned from the Internet for committing espionage against the United States. bigleaguepolitics.com/daily-beast-writer-a-convicted-felon-previously-banned-from-the-internet-doxxes-man-who-made-pelosi-meme-video/In November 1989, Poulsen was indicted on 19 counts of conspiracy, fraud, wiretapping and money laundering. If convicted, the charges could have brought him up to 37 years in jail. But Poulsen did not go quietly. He fled, and was beyond the reach of law enforcement for 17 months. Poulsen had burrowed deep into the giant switching networks of Pacific Bell, exploring and exploiting nearly every element of its computers. His forays led to a now-infamous incident with KIIS-FM in Los Angeles. Each week, the station ran the “Win a Porsche by Friday” contest, with a $50,000 Porsche given to the 102nd caller after a particular sequence of songs announced earlier in the day was played. On the morning of June 1, 1990, the trio of songs was played on the air. Businessmen, students, housewives and contest fanatics jammed the lines with auto-dialers and car phones. But Poulsen had a different method. He and his associates, stationed at their computers, seized control of the station’s 25 telephone lines, blocking out all calls but their own. Then he dialed the 102nd call — and later collected his Porsche 944. But that wasn’t all. He allegedly wiretapped the intimate phone calls of a Hollywood actress, conspired to steal classified military orders, cracked an Army computer and snooped into an FBI investigation of former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos — all while working on national security matters.
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Post by kcrufnek on Jun 2, 2019 16:44:29 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2019/06/01/kamala-harris-microphone-protesterDemocratic California Senator Kamala Harris briefly lost her microphone to a protester at a Saturday event in San Francisco. The incident reportedly happened at MoveOn.org’s Big Ideas Forum, an event held after California’s Democratic Convention that included several other Democratic presidential candidates. Harris had just taken a question from the audience about the gender pay gap when a man took the stage. Video shows the protester, a man named Aidan Cook, go on stage, dodge a moderator as he took the microphone from a shocked Harris, then tell the Democratic presidential candidate that he wanted her “attention” on “a much bigger idea.” As security wrestled him from the stage, DJ Carmen Spindiego said, “Thank you so much sir, for your big idea, but we want to make sure that we are able to get through this. It’s OK, folks. It’s OK. People have their own big ideas. But we also want to make sure we are being respectful to the folks who have come here to speak with us.” The crowd then broke into chants of “Kamala! Kamala!” as things settled down. “I’m good. I’m good,” Harris said. (RELATED: Kamala Harris Says She Owns A Gun — Meanwhile She Wants To Ban Them) California animal rights organization Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) issued a statement calling the man an activist who wanted to encourage the senator “to support ordinary citizens rescuing animals rather than the factory farms that abuse animals,” The Hill reported. “[F]amilies of ordinary Americans are being endangered, and whistleblowers who expose criminal violations are being targeted,” wrote Wayne Hsiung, the group’s founder. “The typical voter — especially in the Democratic Party — doesn’t approve, so we’re asking for the party to end its support for corporate Big Ag.” Guardian reporter Lois Beckett later asked Cook if “he had considered the optics of literally taking the microphone away from women of color.” Who cares that he took it away from "a woman of color."? Play that card.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 2, 2019 18:47:08 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 3, 2019 3:20:06 GMT -6
This is the man who was doxxed by the Daily Beast for the Pelosi video:
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 3, 2019 9:58:18 GMT -6
So, President Trump is going to London to meet with the Queen and then go to France for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings & the anti-Trump super leftist London mayor decided to lecture President Trump on women's rights:
In an unprecedented move Khan then added another video telling Theresa May to tell President Trump to “stop governing in self-interest.”
The video is not only reprehensible it makes absolutely no sense which is typical for leftist arguments these days — even in London.
President Trump responds:
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 3, 2019 10:16:50 GMT -6
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Post by redstripe on Jun 3, 2019 11:07:46 GMT -6
So, President Trump is going to London to meet with the Queen and then go to France for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings & the anti-Trump super leftist London mayor decided to lecture President Trump on women's rights: In an unprecedented move Khan then added another video telling Theresa May to tell President Trump to “stop governing in self-interest.” The video is not only reprehensible it makes absolutely no sense which is typical for leftist arguments these days — even in London. President Trump responds: "He is a stone cold loser" OMG. Hilarious but, someone has to get him of twitter
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 3, 2019 11:17:51 GMT -6
So, President Trump is going to London to meet with the Queen and then go to France for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings & the anti-Trump super leftist London mayor decided to lecture President Trump on women's rights: In an unprecedented move Khan then added another video telling Theresa May to tell President Trump to “stop governing in self-interest.” The video is not only reprehensible it makes absolutely no sense which is typical for leftist arguments these days — even in London. President Trump responds: "He is a stone cold loser" OMG. Hilarious but, someone has to get him of twitter Agree. It's as you, I & others have discussed previously and that is, his greatest strength,(the will to fight back), is also his greatest weakness.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 3, 2019 13:15:21 GMT -6
Wikipedia Co-Founder and avowed President Trump hater:
He also retweeted these:
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 3, 2019 13:19:23 GMT -6
A former Democrat Congressional candidate attacked white people and the American flag in a series of angry tweets Sunday.
Saira Rao, who ran for Congress in Colorado’s first district last year, blamed white people for making her life “miserable,” and said that she can’t stand the sight of the American flag.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 3, 2019 13:45:13 GMT -6
Liberal utopia: www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-skid-row-rats-trash-20190601-story.htmlThe good news is that two trash-strewn downtown Los Angeles streets I wrote about last week were cleaned up by city work crews and have been kept that way, as of this writing. The bad news is that I didn’t have to travel far to find more streets just as badly fouled by filthy mounds of junk and stinking, rotting food. Then there was the news that the LAPD station on skid row was cited by the state for a rodent infestation and other unsanitary conditions, and that one employee there was infected with the strain of bacteria that causes typhoid fever. What century is this? Is it the 21st century in the largest city of a state that ranks among the world’s most robust economies, or did someone turn back the calendar a few hundred years? We’ve got thousands of people huddled on the streets, many of them withering away with physical and mental disease. Sidewalks have disappeared, hidden by tents and the kinds of makeshift shanties you see in Third World places. Typhoid and typhus are in the news, and an army of rodents is on the move. On Thursday I saw a county health inspector on rat patrol between 7th and 8th streets on skid row. He was carrying a clipboard and said he had found droppings and other evidence of rodents, and I asked where: “Everywhere,” he said. Well, it’s nice to know somebody is doing something, but you don’t need a clipboard. I’ve seen so many rats the last two weeks in downtown Los Angeles, I have to suspect they’re plotting a takeover of City Hall, which vermin infiltrated last year. The city of Los Angeles has become a giant trash receptacle. It used to be that illegal dumpers were a little more discreet, tossing their refuse in fields and gullies and remote outposts. Now city streets are treated like dumpsters, or even toilets — on Thursday, the 1600 block of Santee Street was cordoned off after someone dumped a fat load of poop in the street. I’m not sure when any of this became the norm, but it must have something to do with the knowledge that you can get away with it. Every time sanitation crews knock down one mess, another dumpsite springs up nearby. You wanna take a tour with me of how things looked Wednesday and Thursday? OK, the shovels were still out on Crocker Street, which was looking pretty good, so I went over to East 10th Street and Naomi Avenue, several blocks away, near the Coca-Cola distribution center. The north side of 10th Street looked like a landfill. Trash was scattered in the street and on the sidewalk, and there was a little bit of everything. Splintered lumber, metal poles, soiled blankets and clothing, a sofa, buckets, boxes. “Trucks come by and run over the trash,” said Ron Riego, 60, who lives under a tarp on the corner and pointed out where some of the debris has been flattened by traffic. Riego said he was just back from the hospital, where he was treated for congestive heart failure and water on the lungs. On returning to his tarp, he discovered that someone had set fire to some of his belongings. Now he was sorting through his things to see what was salvageable, and planning to move a few feet to the west. “Rats chased me out,” he said, so he was surrendering his lean-to to the rodents.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 3, 2019 13:49:38 GMT -6
More from the liberal utopian dream: www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-rats-homelessness-city-hall-fleas-report-20190603-story.htmlyear from city workers about rats infesting L.A. City Hall, most city officials said little about whether the problem was connected to several homeless camps right outside. But a newly uncovered report from a pest control company hired by the city has raised fresh questions about whether officials wrongly downplayed that possibility during discussions at City Council meetings. CatsUSA Pest Control, brought in to assess areas outside City Hall and nearby buildings, warned that homeless people create “harborage for rodents,” according to the report issued Dec. 28 and obtained last month through a public records request by a frequent critic of City Hall. The company said it found “poor sanitary conditions” — including leftover food, human waste and hypodermic needles — and recommended that the city clear away the homeless population living in the Civic Center. The findings were a topic of internal discussion for staffers at the Department of General Services, the agency that maintains city buildings. The day the one-page report was issued, a maintenance official sent an email to the department’s general manager, Tony Royster, describing the filth that had accumulated in the pits that surround City Hall, which are covered by metal grates. “The homeless are using the grated areas above the pits as their bathroom and relieving themselves,” wrote David Costa, building construction and maintenance superintendent. “This is also attracting the rats. Custodial will need to do some hazmat cleaning of the grates and the pits. There are even hypodermic needles being tossed in the pits along with human waste and other garbage.” Two months after the report was issued, officials in the Personnel Department told council members they believed the increase in rat activity was triggered by the demolition of Parker Center, the former L.A. Police Department headquarters on Los Angeles Street. They delivered the same message to city workers in a letter sent the same month. Councilman Joe Buscaino, who has criticized the city over its handling of sidewalk cleanups of homeless people, was the only council member to argue during council meetings that the camps attract vermin. He said he was unaware of CatsUSA’s findings until he was contacted by The Times last month and said he always viewed the encampments, not Parker Center, as the reason for the surge in rats. “At the onset of this mess, I saw a correlation between the rat infestation and these encampments surrounding the Civic Center,” Buscaino said. “I’ve worked skid row as a police officer. I’ve done cleanups as a council member.” The Department of General Services said in an email to The Times that it responded to the CatsUSA report by ordering regular cleanups of the sidewalks around City Hall and nearby municipal buildings. Department officials didn’t directly mention the homeless encampments, or CatsUSA’s recommendation to clear them, at any of three council meetings devoted to discussing the rat infestation earlier this year. Asked why that information wasn’t presented at the Feb. 8 meeting — the first one — Royster told The Times that his agency had been asked to talk about strategies for addressing the rat problem. The “discussion therefore primarily focused on the plans and steps taken by [various city departments] to comprehensively address this problem on the interior and exterior of City Hall and surrounding area,” Royster said. Discussions with the council were based on observations by CatsUSA and county health officials that identified burrows, trash from uncovered dumpsters, debris from homeless encampments, unsecured food and overwatering of plants as possible sources of rodents, Royster said. Cleanups of homeless camps currently take place every weekend in the Civic Center and include the disposal of hazardous materials, the removal and storage of items owned by homeless people, and the power washing of sidewalks, said Elena Stern, spokeswoman for the city’s Bureau of Sanitation. Royster said General Services also does daily cleanups. City agencies can’t permanently remove homeless people from the areas around City Hall because they have a legal right to be on the sidewalks during certain times.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 3, 2019 13:52:42 GMT -6
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Post by redstripe on Jun 3, 2019 14:21:38 GMT -6
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Post by redstripe on Jun 3, 2019 14:29:21 GMT -6
Could you imagine the media if this shit (pun intended) were happening in this many conservative cities? It would be failed conservative policies, blah blah, Trump, blah blah. There is the chance Los Angeles has brought back the bubonic plague. Holy shit (no pun)
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