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They gotta go through the motions to trick the peasants...except the average peasant is smart enough to see right through this shit by now.

She'd probably be doing better in the polls if she DID hide in the basement. Every time Kamala opens her mouth she embarrasses the whole nation.

Are you looking forward to 4-8 years of "It was her turn 2: Electric Cunt Mambo?" Where suddenly the most transparent and secure elections in history aren't transparent nor secure and what's that? Oddities that helped Trump? Gaassp! The media will just have to repeat that on blast every 5 minutes forever, all while Kamala runs around claiming to have won and seeking someone deal with this meddlesome orange man and UN intervention or what have you.

I refuse to believe that the DNC will try and play the Podesta Gambit. They cannot be that suicidal.

Can they?

They don't believe in consequences
they don't believe in second order knock on effects
they don't believe complex systems can change unless they directly act upon them
they believe only they are allowed to make systemic changes to the us, especially cultural changes
they fully embraced post-modernism which teaches as long as it gets them power, it's justified correct ethical and moral
they literally have no theory of mind to represent people who disagree with them on ANY matter no matter how small
they've embraced the same domestic terrorists and their successors that brought us the 1970s days of rage (1500+ terrorist bombings in a single year, including congress)
they believe that the entirety of the country outside some vanishingly small "bigoted rednecks" out in the fog who don't count as people yet alone citizens so can be ignored entirely (until they're replaced or can be put in camps)
AND they still think the complete lockstep control they have over the media will result in everyone believing and agreeing with them no matter how bad things get.

It's entirely possible to believe that they've tried to murder Trump, openly, twice. Yes, if Trump wins them trying to balkanize us or set up a "real government in exile" is 100% possible. After all, the only thing stopping them would be us all pinky swearing not to do so.

 

[mlanguishi]

Gee Jack, maybe not blow this out into the open??

 

[tehpope]

I would assume yt dlp has an option to use your credentials to get around the age restriction.

--cookies. use an extension like this to get the cookies file generated.

https://github.com/hrdl-github/cookies-txt

Go full civil war unless they can get major concessions most notably Puerto Rico and DC are made full fledged states (effectively rigging the Senate for Democrats until further notice since both would be permanent blue territories) or else the West Coast secedes from the United States.

California is a leech. They take water from other states to keep themselves solvent. A month cut off would kill them. I don't think the dems really thought this through in 2020.

I've attached the full document.

 

[Pentex]

DHS chief Mayorkas spends under six hours in Helene-hit NC before bolting to grab sushi at DC Nobu​

Something’s fishy about this.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas spent less than six hours visiting hurricane-hit areas of North Carolina on Thursday — before retreating to Washington to grab an early takeout dinner at Nobu.

Mayorkas touched down in the Tar Heel State around 10 a.m. before jetting back to the nation’s capital, where he was spotted by The Post at 5:15 p.m. carrying bags of food from the posh international Japanese restaurant chain — where sushi and sashimi selections are priced at $60 a plate and the highest-grade Wagyu steaks go for $40 per ounce.

A photographer snapped the apparently peckish Mayorkas, 64 — still wearing his navy blue suit and white dress shirt — exiting the Northwest DC establishment at 5:30 p.m., just 30 minutes after it opened.

The cabinet official was home by 5:40 p.m., dodging DC’s notorious rush-hour traffic.

Mayorkas had returned to Washington at 4 p.m. after remotely joining a White House press briefing shortly after 1 p.m. and “speaking firsthand” with FEMA responders, “impacted communities” and other “first responders on the ground” in Raleigh.

“This Administration has completely failed the American people, again,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told The Post. “It is offensive that the secretary is wasting time eating over-priced sushi rolls at fancy restaurants, when he should be working to get disaster relief out the door immediately for the people in desperate need of basic necessities.”

Mayorkas touched down in the Tar Heel State around 10 a.m. Thursday but jetted back home in time for takeout at 5:15 p.m. from Nobu.

Johnson has himself spent two working days visiting hurricane victims in Florida and western North Carolina and held a press conference earlier this week in Asheville.

“I think it’s important for the speaker of the House to come,” he told reporters Wednesday. “It’s symbolic to show that it’s the whole of Congress that has our eyes and our attention, our prayers on the community here and those who are affected. We want them to know they will not be forgotten and that we will get recovery dollars to these communities as is needed.”

Mayorkas previously visited North Carolina on Oct. 2, when he joined Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and President Biden for an aerial tour of storm-wrecked regions.


He had arrived back in DC at 4 p.m. after joining a White House press briefing remotely and “speaking firsthand” with FEMA employees and other “first responders on the ground” in Raleigh.

Lawmakers who oversee the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and serve in states ravaged by Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton said Thursday’s pictures proved Mayorkas had committed dereliction of duty in the midst of once-in-a-century disasters.

“It just shows you that he’s not a hands-on individual,” Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) told The Post from his home in Miami. “He’s shown over his last three and a half years to be totally incompetent in his job.”

“To be honest with you, I haven’t seen him,” said Gimenez, who was scheduled Friday to tour the devastation from Milton on Florida’s Gulf Coast alongside Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). “I see more, you know, it’s the mayors and the governors that are coming out, and police and firefighters are the ones that are coming out that I’ve seen.”

Mayorkas, 64, was home within an hour of the sushi restaurant opening at 5 p.m. with two bags full of the Far Eastern fare in hand, still wearing his navy blue suit and white dress shirt from work.

“He’s been a complete failure as the secretary of Homeland Security, just as this administration has been a complete failure,” he added, pointing to Mayorkas’ failure to secure the southern border that led to his impeachment by House Republicans in February.

“The House appropriately impeached Mayorkas for lying to Congress (which is a felony), but Senator Schumer dismissed the case claiming it didn’t rise to the level of a misdemeanor,” noted Senate Homeland Security Committee member Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). “Mayorkas’ most recent dereliction of duty dealing with hurricane relief only confirms he should have been convicted and removed from office.”

Gimenez, a former firefighter who sits on the House Homeland Security Committee that led the impeachment effort, couldn’t help but lighten the mood a bit: “If I were bothered every time that this administration does something wrong, I’d be needing psychiatric help.”

The fancy feast even appalled Democrats, with one congressional source, who asked not to be identified by name, telling The Post it was “the definition of insensitive and the epitome of elitism.”

A second Democratic source resorted to punnery, telling The Post: “During a hurricane, particularly a storm like Milton, the protocol is all hands on deck — 24/7 work to support the area that has been hit and to flex the competency of the administration amid crisis.

“However, it appears that when it comes to being a roll model in crisis, Secretary Mayorkas thinks of sushi,” this person added.

At least 232 Americans have been killed by Helene, which made landfall in Florida Sept. 26 before sweeping across Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and North Carolina.

Another 16 have died since Hurricane Milton struck Florida on Oct. 9, ripping the dome off the Tampa Bay Rays’ home of Tropicana Field and causing more than $100 billion in damage.

Mayorkas appeared before the White House press corps for just 23 minutes on Thursday to discuss hurricane recovery efforts.

But he declined to answer any questions about an Afghan national indicted earlier this week for plotting an ISIS-inspired Election Day terror attack.

The 27-year-old suspect, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, entered the US after the Biden administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Kabul in August 2021 and settled in Oklahoma City.

Subsequent reports show Tawhedi previously worked for the CIA as a security guard — but Mayorkas was mum about the migrant’s background or why he was allowed to stay in the country on a special immigrant visa after receiving humanitarian parole.

“I’d be very pleased to answer your question in a different setting, but we are here to talk about emergencies and the support that we can deliver to people in desperate need,” the DHS secretary dodged in response to questioning from Fox News correspondent Jacqui Heinrich.

As Floridians were battening down the hatches for Hurricane Milton last weekend, Mayorkas was snapped by the Washington Free Beacon at the pricey menswear store Sid Mashburn in DC’s historic Georgetown neighborhood.

The DHS head strutted through the brick-and-mortar retailer in a smart navy blue polo, light khakis and New Balance tennis shoes while eyeing more items for his own wardrobe — possibly the $795 corduroy Butcher Jacket with a trendy camouflage design.

Sid Mashburn’s suede and leather penny loafers are priced at $350 a pair, while black calfskin loafers have a sticker tag of $550. Classic wool suits run as high as $3,695 a pop.

“Luxury shopping and now dinner at Nobu?” Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) told The Post in disbelief. “Mayorkas seems to care far more about keeping up with the Kardashians than any sort of disaster response. The only thing we’re seeing him work hard at is allowing millions of illegal aliens, including potential terrorists, into the country.

“I’ve seen the devastation from Helene firsthand, and heard from countless North Carolinians who are rightfully appalled by the slow federal response. Let me tell you, the people of western North Carolina aren’t eating fancy dinners at Nobu right now,” thundered Bishop. “Mayorkas should’ve resigned long ago, but he clearly has no shame.”

“If you’re gonna be in charge of an operation … you need to go to the areas that are affected and you need to see it firsthand,” Gimenez emphasized. “Whenever we had any issues here in Miami-Dade County, I went out myself and took a look at what the heck is going on. You got to put your feet on the ground.

“You need to have boots on the ground, you know, a knowledge base from which you make those decisions — just can’t sit in an office and think that, ok, we’re gonna do this, this and this without actually going out there and seeing it firsthand, seeing it firsthand is invaluable,” he said.

Of Mayorkas and FEMA Administrator Deanna Criswell, Gimenez gave the withering assessment: “They’re not really good operations people.”

Congress authorized more than $20 billion for disaster relief funding right before going into recess Oct. 1, but Criswell revealed in a briefing earlier this week that $9 billion has already been spent.

But only $210 million in aid has gone to the affected regions, with $11 billion still left over in disaster relief funding.

The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General audited FEMA in August and found at least $7 billion could potentially be redirected toward disaster relief.

Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) accused Mayorkas of trying “to politicize a tragedy for personal gain” when the secretary claimed last week: “FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season.”

“We supplied FEMA with the resources that it needed to respond directly,” Johnson said during his Wednesday presser in Asheville after touring the devastation. “As of Monday, only 1% of those funds had actually been distributed. There’s concern that the federal response was too slow, and that needs to be addressed. But FEMA and the administration have the resources necessary right now to address the immediate needs.”

Following the publication of this story, a DHS spokesperson told The Post Mayorkas was picking up takeout for his wedding anniversary — though a DC insider revealed Friday the secretary is also a semi-frequent customer at the eatery on non-special occasions.

The secretary received multiple briefings with FEMA team members during his two visits to North Carolina, the DHS flack added, and provided updates to the president on the operational response to the hurricane’s destruction.

Mayorkas has not, however, directly visited affected areas, the rep continued, since that would divert resources away from responders on the ground there.

A Nobu rep declined to comment on the cost of Mayorkas’ meal.

https://nypost.com/2024/10/11/us-news/dhs-chief-mayorkas-spends-under-six-hours-in-helene-hit-nc-before-grabbing-sushi-at-dc-nobu-complete-failure/

https://archive.is/5Req6

Joe's handlers are just not even trying to manage optics at this point.

 

[RisingPhoenix]

I feel like this is a real fucked up move on Trumps part and is just walking into a ambush from the last remain of the Neocons.

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I actually think this is a good move.

For a lot of women the whole right to choose or being able to actually raise kids is a HUGE issue for them and might be the one area Kamala is "strong" in - she's gonna reinstate Roe v Wade, she's gonna protect Women's rights because that big mean Trump guy is gonna force you to have babies or tell you that you better have them natural y'all!

I'm not sure how she'll do those things but it sounds good. Of course anyone who has paid attention knows an outright ban isn't happening.

Trump needs to get his message out there. At least to people willing to hear him out. But I think it being this late means he isn't too worried about it

 

[Betonhaus]

Maura Healey would burn Massachusetts down before it turns red.

All that means is that Massachusetts will be red and burnt down.

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

what is this strange feeling I have?

Is it...hope?

 

[tehpope]

He does fine in town halls.

No more debates though like Harris is pushing, that's her last gasp attempt. Voting has already started in places.

ETA: It is amazing how unenthusiastic these women look over the 'all men are hitler' talk these days. It's a lost argument.

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Men are upset that the society that was built & maintained by their forefathers is being destroyed & torn down by people who have no idea what they're doing. These same people are using their feelings to guide their actions over facts & reality. Men are also upset that these same idiots have ruined the economy, basically made upward mobility & home ownership highly improvable to most people.

Edit: not to mention these so called "leaders" are purposely destroying the country. Partly to enrich themselves. Partly to weaken the country for our enemies. Partly to spite the work of our ancestors. Partly in the name of "Social Justice", "Equity", and "Progress".

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

All that means is that Massachusetts will be red and burnt down.

If only.

Recently, the Massachusetts state legislature sneaked in a seriously fucked up gun bill. Even some Democrats in the state legislature opposed it because it was too far-reaching. Well, Healey was about to sign it into law until pro-gun activists got in the way. Enough people signed petitions to prevent the law from going forward right away, but Healey used emergency powers to force it through over the established rules. No one in the state judiciary is batting an eye and there isn't enough support in the state legislature to do anything.

Imagine California, but the politicians are actually good at what they do. That is Massachusetts.

 

[tehpope]

Objectively speaking, what is Obama's legacy besides the eternal virtue signaling of him being the first black president?

Executing American citizens without trial.
Giving guns and aid to cartels.
The worst economic recovery in history.
The disintegration of race relations.
Losing Ukraine.
Weaponizing the IRS and DOJ against his political enemies.
Proliferation of sex trafficking at the southern border.

I am sure I am missing some of his other great achievements but it is pre-coffee so.

https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/obama-252/

https://lists.grabien.com/list-complete-guide-scandals-obama-administration

Some lists to start with that show the whole picture.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

I believe this conversation actually happened. lol.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Gee Jack, maybe not blow this out into the open??

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Reminder of the day to hate all journos no matter the side

I believe this conversation actually happened. lol.

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Bet biden did, he hates her so fucking much lol.

 

[ExsanguinateHorizon]

I think it's a great sign that Trump has appeared on so many podcasts, and how friendly those podcasts have been to him.

It seems implied that Barron is advising Trump to do these to reach the public, especially younger generations. If true then the boy is very keen on the public pulse and imo shows some humility that Trump is willing to trust him. I know there's jokes about Kamala/Walz being unlikeable amd difficult guests but surely any of those podcasts would be willing to talk to them too, so it's not like podcasts have a political bias to avoid talking to those two.

 

[Scale Smerch]

I feel like this is a real fucked up move on Trumps part and is just walking into a ambush from the last remain of the Neocons.

Part of this is also a calculated thumbing of the nose at Harris. CNN tried getting both Harris and Trump to participate in back to back townhalls, which Trump naturally refused. Doing it instead on Fox, and with an all-female audience to boot, makes her look even worse since she always rejects anything to do with Fox.

I fully expect increasingly desperate calls to get both of them to appear either together or back to back given how the mainstream media narrative is now developing.

 

[TheDarknessGrows]

A Great Depression is simply inevitable at this point. Them triggering it as a last fuck you to Trump is a blessing in disguise.

Conditions are not exactly different than the last time, either. We have an uneasy market in a world where systemic anxiety in and about the financial system is high, plus the prospect of a new option for global finance.

All that is missing is a massive default like what happened in the 1930s to Great Britain when they stopped loan repayments to America (they never did pay those off either).

Thankfully no nation with a large share in global finance is facing a debt crisis and possible default in the next decade. That would be poetically awful.

 

[pwnest injun]

If only.

Hell, California is such a lawless corrupt shithole that I'd recommend their statehood be revoked until they come into compliance. They can't be independent though. It'd be like Puerto Rico, where they aren't allowed votes in congress, but they have to do what we say.

 

[northstar747]

what is this strange feeling I have?

Is it...hope?

 

[pwnest injun]

It's really hard to say because we shifted into a timeline where Trump didn't die. I believe that they put all their stock into what was an easy shot to kill him and it failed. The 2nd attempt was stopped before it even happened and I'm sure he has more security now. Like @mlanguishi said, they had an event where they had Elon, JD and Trump in one place at the same time and they didn't do anything.

Keep in mind that everything that we've seen post assasination attempt wasn't in the plan. Kamala wasn't supposed to be out talking because Trump would've been dead and the election would've been about his replacement instead, since Trump is still alive and everyone knows him the election becomes about Kamala and the more she talks, the more she sinks.

It really is insane how much of a setup that shoot was. The fact that it was foiled by local cops is some real majick shit. Local cops confronted the shooter, forcing a rushed shot, and local cops were the ones who riddled the guy with bullets before the counter-sniper bothered to fire once. Bumfuck PA uniform officers might have saved the human race.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

It really is insane how much of a setup that shoot was. The fact that it was foiled by local cops is some real majick shit. Local cops confronted the shooter, forcing a rushed shot, and local cops were the ones who riddled the guy with bullets before the counter-sniper bothered to fire once. Bumfuck PA uniform officers might have saved the human race.

The really fucking retarded part is if, God forbid, anything remotely similar happened to Kamala Harris, the news would be talking about it until Kingdom Come.

 

[tehpope]