Cedric's Big Mix

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

All the horrible Republicans, where do they all come from

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

FOLLOWING HER SECOND DIVORCE, U.S. HOUSE REP. NANCY MACE HAS WORKED HARD TO AVOID BEING A THREE-TIME LOSER. AS A RESULT, SHE'S BEEN RATHER LONELY OF LATE. EVEN SITTING ON HER DRYER LATE NIGHTS DOESN'T SEEM TO ADDRESS THE LONELINESS.

SO SHE AND SPEAKER OF THE CONVERSION MIKE JOHNSON ARE USING THE ELECTION OF DELAWARE'S SARAH MCBRIDE TO THE HOUSE AS AN EXCUSE TO SPICE UP THEIR TIRED SEX LIVES.

BOTH SAY THAT YOU MUST PROVE YOUR GENDER TO USE A BATHROOM.

MIKE STILL BEATS OFF TO MEMORIES OF STARK TIMES AT CONVERSION CAMP SO HE'S DOWN WITH THE PAT DOWNS. HE ALSO STATES THAT SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM AND HE HAVE BEEN IN CONSULTATION REGARDING HOW SOME MIGHT PREFER TO USE THE MEN'S ROOM -- MIKE TOLD THESE REPORTERS, "BECAUSE IT'S COOLER AND THERE'S EVEN A SONG ABOUT IT, AND WE HAVE REALLY COOL HOLES IN THE STALL WALLS AND GUYS ARE JUST CUTER AND MORE FUN TO BE AROUND" -- SO THEY MIGHT STUFF THE CROTCH OF THEIR PANTS TO DISGUISE THEMSELVES AS MALES.

"TO PREVENT AGAINST THAT," MIKE TOLD THESE REPORTERS WHILE WORKING UP A BIG POOL SCORE IN HIS POCKET, LINDSEY AND I HAVE AGREED WE WILL STRIP SEARCH AND THOROUGHLY INSPECT ANY MAN OR 'MAN' THAT APPEARS TO BE OVER NINE INCHES. IF NEED BE, LINDSEY AND I ARE PREPARED TO SNIFF AND TONGUE TO MAKE SURE IT'S THE GENUINE ARTICLE."

"HANDS, NOSE, TONGUE, I DON'T CARE," MACE TOLD THESE REPORTERS, "HELL, IN A PINCH, I'VE BEEN KNOWN TO USE PEANUT BUTTER AND A STRAY DOG."

IN A LOUD VOICE, TINY MIKE SHUT MACE DOWN, INSISTING, "TO BE 100% CORRECT, EVERY TEST I DO ON A MAN WILL START WITH A SNIFFING OF THE CROTCHAL REGION, A STRONG TOUCHING AND CUPPING OF THE PUBICAL AREA, AND A TASTING ROUND OF THE PENILE EQUIPMENT. ONE HAS TO BE SURE. AND ONE HAS TO BE SATISFIED. I WILL HANDLE ANY MANLY NETHER REGIONS IN ORDER TO TO KEEP MY FLUSHES AND WIPES SACRED."

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Nuclear energy is not safe. The byproduct of it is not safe and is deadly for millions of years. A nuclear plant makes a much better target for terrorism than a world sky scraper. It is a danger to all of us.

Some people got taken in by Oliver Stone. He's a pig and he lies. But some on the left treated him like a god.

Words? Pretty words trick a lot of people. Equally true, there are a lot of sell outs.

And there is just the grotesque. That would be people like John Stauber who made their money and name on the left but turned out to be psycho nut jobs who now platform and embrace Laura Loomer and other hate merchants.

I'm not in the mood to play. What John Stauber puts on his social media is disgusting but the left -- even those who promoted him -- looks the other way and refuses to call out what he's become -- a racist troll.

I'm not playing that game.

Francis A. Boyle is a legal professor who once had a working brain. He's repeatedly sent stuff to this site over the years and I've tried to include it where possible. Didn't mean I agreed, didn't mean I disagreed.

But we're done.

I knew of him through members of Congress -- including John Conyers.

He keeps sending garbage and doesn't seem to realize that it's not being missed in the inbox. That can happen. That's not what's happening with him.

I don't care that he wants to impeach Joe Biden.

That is his 'new' and 'productive' effort.

Joe Biden steps down in January, it's almost Thanksgiving, buy a damn clue, read the room. Francis is a damn loser. Maybe he always was, maybe he just became it.

But not only do I not have time for that garbage nonsense, I also don't have time for Alex Jones. Is this the first time his name has appeared here in our two decades? Ava and I covered his nonsense for a media piece at THIRD.

But Francis has sat down with Alex Jones and done a great interview on impeaching Joe Biden and . . .

And shut the hell up.

Seriously, you embarrass yourself. You shame yourself.

I am appalled that no one calls out John Stauber. But when I saw all the e-mails of Francis trying to promote himself and Alex Jones, my first response was to just ignore it. So maybe that's why some on the left who were so cozy with John Stauber have refused to call him out for the hate merchant he's become? I don't know but I'm not playing that game.

Francis A. Boyle is nuts and has no place on the left. He can join the other grifters like Glynneth Greenwald and Fatt Taibbi in promoting and defending Alex Jones.

We won't miss him. If you're looking at what's going on in this country right now and your 'answer' is to impeach Joe Biden? You're beyond insane.

People are living in fear of what's coming.

And your answer is to defocus with a bunch of nonsense while you play footise with Alex Jones?

You're a disgrace and a good reason why our country is at the point it is right now and why so many Americans rightfully are worried about what's coming after the January inauguration.

Senator Elizabeth Warren issued the following:

Washington, D.C. – Today, in response to the news that President-elect Donald Trump has named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released the following statement:

“Donald Trump’s appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. poses a danger to public health, scientific research, medicine, and health care coverage for millions of Americans. RFK Jr. wants to stop parents from protecting their babies from measles and his ideas would welcome the return of polio. He has spread conspiracy theories on everything from COVID to mass shootings. I will have a lot of questions about Mr. Kennedy’s fitness to serve as health secretary when he appears before the Finance Committee.”

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Senator Ron Wyden issued the following:

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement on Donald Trump picking Chris Wright to be nominated for Department of Energy secretary and Doug Burgum to be nominated for Department of Interior secretary.

“It’s sadly not the least bit surprising that Trump’s picks to do his bidding at the Department of Energy and the Department of the Interior have long track records cheerleading for Big Oil, corporate America, and the ultra-wealthy gas executives plotting to fill their already over-stuffed pocketbooks,” Wyden said. “These nominees were selected with the goal of taking our country back in time and rolling back climate progress. American workers and families will pay a steep price as Trump's agenda destroys jobs and shuts down renewable energy projects all over the country that Americans overwhelmingly support.

“But make no mistake: as a senior member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will watchdog the Trump administration’s every move. Oregonians voted for elected officials who will stand up to Trump’s climate denying policies and keep fighting to protect our state’s beloved public lands from being pillaged for profit. That’s exactly what I’ll do–all while keeping a spotlight on the urgent need for climate action so all Oregonians have a bright and better future.”

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Senator Richard Blumenthal issued the following:

[HARTFORD, CT] – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) joined Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and all Senate Judiciary Democrats in a letter to the House Ethics Committee urging the House Ethics Committee to preserve and transmit to the Senate Judiciary Committee all relevant documentation on former Congressman Matt Gaetz, including the report that the House Ethics Committee was reportedly prepared to vote to release tomorrow. The letter follows Mr. Gaetz’s resignation from Congress yesterday after President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Mr. Gaetz to serve as Attorney General.

The Senators wrote, “The sequence and timing of Mr. Gaetz’s resignation from the House raises serious questions about the contents of the House Ethics Committee report and findings. We cannot allow this critical information from a bipartisan investigation into longstanding public allegations to be hidden from the American people, given that it is directly relevant to the question of whether Mr. Gaetz is qualified and fit to be the next Attorney General of the United States.”

The Senators continued, “The Senate has a constitutional duty to provide advice and consent on presidential nominees, and it is crucial that we review all of the information necessary to fulfill this duty as we consider Mr. Gaetz’s nomination. We thus request that you immediately provide to the Senate Judiciary Committee your Committee’s report and all documentation related to your investigation into Mr. Gaetz’s alleged misconduct. The Senate Judiciary Committee will accept this information in any format that accords with your Committee’s rules, but please include all underlying source materials on which you relied, including interviews and contact information for any of these sources.”

In April 2021, the House Ethics Committee announced that the Committee was “aware of public allegations that Representative Matt Gaetz may have engaged in sexual misconduct and/or illicit drug use, shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted campaign funds to personal use, and/or accepted a bribe, improper gratuity, or impermissible gift, in violation of House Rules, laws, or other standards of conduct,” and as a result, the Committee had “begun an investigation and will gather additional information regarding the allegations.”

In June 2024, the House Ethics Committee issued a statement noting that the Committee had “determined that certain of the allegations merit continued review” and that “the Committee has also identified additional allegations that merit review,” including allegations pursuant to Committee Rules 14(a)(3) and 18(a) that Representative Gaetz may have: engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct.”

There is substantial precedent for the release of such materials in both chambers of Congress. In 1987, the House Ethics Committee released a preliminary report about former Rep. Bill Boner after he left Congress, stating: “In the Committee’s view, the general policy against issuing reports in cases such as here involved is outweighed by the responsibility of the Committee to fully inform the public regarding the status and results of its efforts up to the date of Representative Boner’s departure from Congress.” Similarly, in 2011, the Senate Select Committee on Ethics released its preliminary report on former Senator John Ensign after he resigned from Congress. The House Ethics Committee has also continued investigations after Members have left Congress, such as in 2010 when it twice reauthorized its investigation into former Rep. Eric Massa after his departure.

Along with Blumenthal, the letter was signed by U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Chris Coons (D-DE), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Peter Welch (D-VT), and Laphonza Butler (D-CA).

Full text of today’s letter is available here and below:

November 14, 2024

Dear Chairman Guest and Ranking Member Wild:

In light of President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement of his intent to nominate former Congressman Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General, we request that the House Committee on Ethics immediately preserve and transmit to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary all relevant documentation on Mr. Gaetz, including the report that your Committee was reportedly prepared to vote to release tomorrow.

In April 2021, you announced that the Committee was “aware of public allegations that Representative Matt Gaetz may have engaged in sexual misconduct and/or illicit drug use, shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted campaign funds to personal use, and/or accepted a bribe, improper gratuity, or impermissible gift, in violation of House Rules, laws, or other standards of conduct,” and as a result, the Committee had “begun an investigation and will gather additional information regarding the allegations.”

In June 2024, the Committee issued a statement noting that the Committee had “determined that certain of the allegations merit continued review” and that “the Committee has also identified additional allegations that merit review,” including “allegations pursuant to Committee Rules 14(a)(3) and 18(a) that Representative Gaetz may have: engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct.”

The sequence and timing of Mr. Gaetz’s resignation from the House raises serious questions about the contents of the House Ethics Committee report and findings. We cannot allow this critical information from a bipartisan investigation into longstanding public allegations to be hidden from the American people, given that it is directly relevant to the question of whether Mr. Gaetz is qualified and fit to be the next Attorney General of the United States.

The Senate has a constitutional duty to provide advice and consent on presidential nominees, and it is crucial that we review all of the information necessary to fulfill this duty as we consider Mr. Gaetz’s nomination. We thus request that you immediately provide to the Senate Judiciary Committee your Committee’s report and all documentation related to your investigation into Mr. Gaetz’s alleged misconduct. The Senate Judiciary Committee will accept this information in any format that accords with your Committee’s rules, but please include all underlying source materials on which you relied, including interviews and contact information for any of these sources.

Thank you for your time and prompt consideration of this important request.

Sincerely,

US House Rep Joaquin Castro's released this:

WASHINGTON — Today, Rep. Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (NY-05), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Sen. Majority Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led the release of a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) that examines the role of U.S. firearms in Caribbean arms trafficking. The report found that nearly three-quarters of firearms recovered from the Caribbean and traced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) could be sourced back to the United States, with many originating from U.S. retail sales.

A bicameral group of top Foreign Affairs, Homeland Security, and Judiciary Democrats joined Castro, Meeks, and Durbin in releasing this report, including Reps. Bennie Thompson (MS-02), Ranking Member of the House Homeland Security Committee, Lou Correa (CA-46), Ranking Member of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement, Dan Goldman (NY-10), Seth Magaziner (RI-02), Ranking Member of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement and Intelligence, and Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-20), Co-Chair of the House Haiti Caucus.

Key findings in today’s report include:

73% of firearms recovered from 25 Caribbean countries and tracked by ATF’s eTrace system between 2018 - 2022 could be sourced to the United States. Among these firearms, 45 percent could be sourced back to an initial retail purchase in the United States, with most sales originating in Florida, Texas, and Georgia.

Handguns represented the majority (88 percent) of firearms recovered and traced from the Caribbean. During the study period from 2018 to 2022, the number of long guns submitted for tracing across the Caribbean nearly tripled from five percent to fifteen percent of all weapons examined.

A full copy of the report can be found here.

“The most effective way to address violence and instability in the Caribbean is to prevent U.S. guns from falling into the hands of criminals,” said Congressman Joaquin Castro, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. “During my time on the Foreign Affairs Committee, I’ve met with dozens of leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean who plead with the United States to stop the gun trafficking that is wreaking havoc on their countries. Today’s report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office demonstrates how criminal organizations across the Caribbean source their weapons from the United States in a deadly trade that has contributed to the collapse of Haitian society and devastating loss of life across the region. The Biden-Harris administration has taken important steps to curb gun trafficking, including through strict enforcement of penalties in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and the subsequent establishment of a Coordinator for Caribbean Firearms Prosecutions at the Department of Justice. To continue this progress, Congress must pass my Americas Regional Monitoring of Arms Sales (ARMAS) Act, which mobilizes resources across the federal government to disrupt firearms trafficking from the United States. No approach to the challenges facing our hemisphere can be complete without a comprehensive strategy to end gun trafficking. I hope the next administration will treat this issue with the gravity it deserves.”

“Leaders across the Caribbean have long called on the United States to address the pernicious effects of arms trafficking from our shores to their countries. These weapons destabilize communities and compound the challenges faced by our Caribbean neighbors, enabling gangs and transnational criminal networks to perpetrate crime that undermines U.S. national security and regional stability. We must invest in efforts to stem the flow of illicit weapons from our shores to the Caribbean. Doing so will protect communities in the United States, Caribbean and wider Western Hemisphere,” said Ranking Member Gregory W. Meeks.

“Enabled by the NRA and Republican extremists, our country’s lax gun laws have created a vicious cycle of firearms trafficking to international drug cartels and criminal organizations, recklessly destabilizing countries throughout the region. Today’s report demonstrates the severity of this phenomenon, which unleashes violence, drug trading, and chaos in its wake. We need to stem the ‘iron river’ of firearms trafficking and pass additional commonsense gun safety legislation. I stand ready to do so with any of my colleagues ready to fight this fight,” said Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“As this report shows, the overwhelming majority of guns recovered in the Caribbean were trafficked from the United States. We need to ensure that guns from the U.S. are not getting in the hands of the cartels and criminal organizations. Our homeland security depends on it,” said Congressman Bennie Thompson, Ranking Member of the House Homeland Security Committee.

“As this nonpartisan report highlights, nearly three-quarters of firearms recovered in the Caribbean can be traced back to the United States, underscoring the urgent need for stronger action to combat arms trafficking. We must strengthen screening and enforcement at our ports and hold bad actors accountable for smuggling firearms into the region. That’s why I introduced the Caribbean Arms Trafficking Causing Harm (CATCH) Act — to build on the progress we made with the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act by specifically targeting illegal gun exports to the Caribbean. Together, these efforts will help curb the flow of deadly weapons, reduce violence, and enhance security for our neighbors and ourselves,” said Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Co-Chair of the House Haiti Caucus.

“Illicit firearms trafficking from the U.S. is fueling violence in Caribbean countries including Haiti, destabilizing the region and causing a growing number of people to flee their home countries for their safety,” said Congressman Seth Magaziner, Ranking Member of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement and Intelligence. “We need double down on efforts that will crack down on illicit firearms trafficking and stop cartels from spreading violence using U.S. weapons.”

"American firearms traffickers aren’t just fueling a gun violence epidemic here at home, they’re also arming cartels abroad and contributing to the drug and human trafficking operations at the border, including the fentanyl crisis,” said Congressman Dan Goldman. “The GAO's startling report drives home the urgent need to crack down on the trafficking of American firearms abroad. Congress must pass legislation like Congressman Castro's ARMAS Act and my Disarming Cartels Act – to keep these American manufacturers from fueling the crisis at the border.”

Background

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Caribbean countries accounted for six of the world’s 10 highest national murder rates in 2021, with the majority of homicides stemming from gun violence. Data from the Small Arms Survey indicates that legal civilian firearm ownership rates in the Caribbean are relatively low, with gun laws and regulations that are restrictive by global standards. Nevertheless, the Department of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has reported a significant increase in the quantity, caliber, and type of firearms illegally trafficked from the U.S. to the Caribbean. Particularly in Haiti, the flow of illicit firearms from the United States has facilitated the growth of violent gangs and contributed to increasing displacement and U.S.-bound emigration.

In 2022, Congress passed, and President Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which created new federal criminal offenses for firearms trafficking. More than 500 defendants have been charged to date under these new provisions. In 2023, the Department of Justice appointed a Coordinator for Caribbean Firearms Prosecutions to elevate regional firearms trafficking investigations and prosecutions. In today’s report, GAO recommended that the State Department additionally establish indicators specific to firearms trafficking in the Results Framework for the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI), a longstanding security cooperation partnership between the United States and thirteen Caribbean countries. The State Department has concurred with GAO’s recommendation.

But we've got nut jobs like Boyle taking up oxygen with nonsense about impeaching Joe?

The left is never wrong to promote the expansion of civil rights and liberties and that battle does not hurt election results. What does hurt is nut jobs and not calling them out to make clear that we do not stand with them.

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Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Pockmarked face Tulsi to pretend she's intelligent

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

THOUGH HE CLAIMS TO BE AGAINST DEI HIRES, INCOMING PRESIDENT AND FOREVER FELON DONALD TRUMP-DUMP HAS SELECTED TRASHY GARBAGE (STAGE NAME TULSI GABBARD) TO BE THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE. DOES A TUTOR COME WITH THAT JOB? INTELLIGENCE? TULSI?

WE REACHED GABBARD FOR COMMENT. WHAT FOLLOWS IS A WORD-FOR-WORD TRANSLATION.

US: IS THIS TULSI GABBARD?

TULSI: ARE YOU A BILL COLLECTOR?

US: NO.

TULSI: IS THIS ABOUT THAT SECTIONAL SOFA I NEVER PAID OFF RENT-A-CENTER FOR.

US: NO. THIS IS CEDRIC, WALLY, BETTY, ANN, ISAIAH AND C.I. AND WE'RE CALLING ABOUT YOUR NEW POST.

TULSI: OH! WHAT A RELIEF. AND MY FIRST CONGRATULATIONS CALL!

US: WE DIDN'T CONGRATULATE YOU.

TULSI: OH? WELL, ON THE DOWN LOW, CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT I'M GOING TO BE? DIRECTOR OF SOMETHING OR OTHER. DOES THAT MEAN I MAKE FILMS? I'M OKAY WITH THAT, I JUST CAN'T STAND IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA. OR AT LEAST NOT UNTIL I GET SOME SANDPAPER AND SAND DOWN ALL MY ACNE PIT SCARS. I LIKE DIRECTOR, THOUGH. I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A CRUISE DIRECTOR BUT PLAYED BY FRED GRADY, YOU KNOW?

US: DO YOU HAVE ANY CLUE WHAT YOUR NEW ROLE ENTAILS?

TULSI: IN TAILS? DO I GET A TOP HAT TOO?

US: DO YOU FEEL PREPARED TO SERVE?

TULSI: DRINKS? I WAS KIND OF HOPING WITH THE TITLE "DIRECTOR," SOMEONE ELSE WOULD SERVE SNACKS AND DRINKS.

AS WE CONCLUDED OUR INTERVIEW WITH TRASHY GARBAGE, WE WERE LEFT WITH A SCARY THOUGHT: WHAT IF SHE WAS THE SMARTEST PERSON IN TRUMP DUMP'S ADMINISTRATION?

MEANWHILE KRISTI NOAM IS TRYING TO MAKE FRIENDS AT HER NEW JOB.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Did Kamala never say "working class"? The house pet CNN brought on raised that issue -- wasn't asked, raised it. But she qualified it with "as far as I know." Weasel words because facts didn't matter, it was about getting her attack in.

It's the same nonsense -- and Roland's called this out and Karen Hunter has called this out -- that people are using to water down the Democratic Party.

I know this is hard for Zac and Cody and the other youngsters to believe but Bernie is not a god. He's not even a decent person.

Decent people don't give their lives to public service jobs and end up millionaires. Bernie's got over three million dollars. How did he get the money?

Not by being a threat to the world of corporations.

Here's what the toddlers don't grasp: Bernie talks a good game frequently.

Talks.

Does?

He never does anything. Now back in the day, when he was in the House of Representatives and progressive were rightfully outraged by his failure to ever actually deliver (or fight for that matter). And what we were told back then was that due to being a member of the House of Representatives, he was limited by the fact that he had to run for office every two years. He'd show up in documentaries and Robert Greenwald's 'documentaries' and make statements that he never followed up on. Then he got the Senate. How long are people going to make excuses for him?

I stopped when he chaired a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing. We were there to cover the issue. And the press was there for another issue. The VA was keeping two sets of books. Veteran care was appalling and the wait lists were appalling. So the VA was keeping the true wait time book and the false one that they had been providing to Congress.

And what did Bernie do that morning? Please grasp that veterans were dying due to lack of care. This was a huge scandal. And Bernie insisted, in his opening remarks, that the focus would not be on the emerging story and asked that those on the Committee stay on topic -- the topic being holistic health care.

Veterans are dying and the VA has been caught lying. Lying to our government representatives and president and lying to the people.

And Bernie's more interested in holistic healthcare.

That's when I stopped making excuses for fake ass Bernie.

He might have made a great president in 2020. If he had, it would have been due to the people behind him -- his supporters -- and not due to Bernie.

His remarks this week were racist. Not surprising, he's over 80 years old.

Remember Ralph Nader. Remember him in 2008? Running against Barack Obama and Ralph using terms like "ghetto" and using the term blindly and repeatedly anytime he was asked about any issue effecting Black people? And people thinking Ralph was out of touch and racist. Ralph was only in his 70s.

"Working class"? Kamala did use the term. She was more often using the term "working families."

You might not like it, I might not like it. It was used because it was poll tested and this was done before Zac and Cody even got out of diapers.

Now if we want to have a conversation -- post-election -- about terms, let's do that. But let's be honest about it.

Black women turned out in this election. And no one wants to explore that Danielle, Olay, Tabitha and so many more strong Black women could be a part of this conversation taking place right now -- could be and should be.

But they were taken for granted before the election, taken for granted during the election cycle and are still being taken for granted when we pretend we want answers.

We don't want real answers. Sam doesn't want real answers. He wants to jawbone about conventional wisdom. I have been told Sam is incredibly intelligent. I would love for that to be accurate. But nothing I see right now speaks of anything more than a half-wit.

Currently, the election results are Kamala got 48.1% of the vote and Donald got 50.2% of the vote. You wouldn't know that by the coverage and the hand wringing.

By all means, wring the hands over what Donald's going to do. But this isn't a mandate and it's not a landslide -- and thank you to Lawrence O'Donnell who points this out when everyone else ignores it. Here he is from last night.

Let's also note that currently, only 79% of votes have been counted in California.

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Like Natalie Cole said . . . (Ava and C.I.)

The results appear to be in so, being good sports, let's say congratulations to our next president . . . JD Vance. Yes, Miss Sassy is the new president. You can't be as grossly overweight as Donald Trump and as old as he is without the health issue coming in to play and then there's the senility.

It's very likely we may see him removed from office due to the senility at which point JD would have the title of president but, make no mistake, JD is the new president.

Donald didn't do any work the first time. He didn't like briefings. He was lazy when he was four years younger.

So congratulations to JD, our youngest president ever.

Let's say thank you to two people. Thank you to Joe Biden for stepping aside. As bad as the results have turned out to be, they would have been even worse if Joe had been on the ticket. After the debate, the media was not going to change their narrative. Thank you to Kamala Harris who ran a strong campaign and did so in a very short manner of time.

Our sympathies for the nation.

It would be great if some last minute development exposed voter fraud on the part of MAGA but that's probably not going to happen.

So we're all screwed.

And let's be clear about who screwed us.

No, we're not talking about MAGA or other elements of the right wing. Certainly, FOX "NEWS" lies and they are a danger. But they're actually far less of a danger then the cheap whores like Glenn Greenwald, Megyn Kelly, et al.

But again, we're not talking about them.

No, we're putting the blame where it rightly goes: The left media.

Now stop your nonsense if you're a right winger and thinking we mean THE WASHINGTON POST, CNN, THE NEW YORK TIMES, et al.

That's not the left media.

The left media is the beggar media who always asking for a hand out, for a donation, pretending they're serving the left.

We're talking about IN THESE TIMES, we're talking about DEMOCRACY NOW!, THE NATION, THE PROGRESSIVE and oh so many more.

We had the votes to win. Where were they?

The grifter Jill Stein got some.

Cornel West got some. Claudia De la Cruz got some.

If you're unfamiliar with those last two, unlike Jill Stein, they were real candidates.

You didn't hear about them because our supposed left media didn't want you to.

It was Jill wall to wall.

They pimped her like crazy.

No surprise, she got less votes than she did in 2016. Because she's a con artist and a grifter. She's opposed to the genocide . . . except for her stock in Lockheed Martin. The American Friends Service Committee notes:

The world’s largest weapons manufacturer, Lockheed Martin supplies Israel with F-16 and F-35 fighter jets, which Israel has been using extensively to bomb Gaza. Israel also uses the company’s C-130 Hercules transport planes to support the ground invasion of Gaza.

Lockheed Martin manufactures AGM-114 Hellfire missiles for Israel’s Apache helicopters. One of the main weapon types used in aerial attacks on Gaza, these missiles have been used extensively in 2023. Some 2,000 Hellfire missiles were delivered to Israel sometime between Oct. 7 and Nov. 14.

Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky manufactures the CH-53K King Stallion heavy lift helicopter, used to transport Israeli soldiers into and out of Gaza. On Jan. 8, Sikorsky was awarded $18.3 million from U.S. taxpayers' money for continued work on the CH-53K aircraft it has provided to Israel.

On Dec. 28, Lockheed Martin was awarded a $10.5 million contract for continued support for Israel's fleet of F-35 warplanes.

On Dec. 11, the Israeli Air Force used a Lockheed Martin C-130-J Super Hercules aircraft to drop approximately seven tons of equipment to Israeli soldiers engaging in ground attacks in Khan Younis, located in the southern Gaza Strip. This was the "first operational airdrop" that Israel has carried out since the 2006 Lebanon War.

On Nov. 9, an Israeli missile hit journalists sitting near Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The missile was reportedly a Lockheed Martin–made Hellfire R9X missile, a version of the Hellfire that was developed by the CIA for carrying out assassinations. Instead of exploding, the missile shreds its target using blades, allowing for a direct hit without collateral damage. The target in this case was not a military one.

The Israeli military also uses Lockheed Martin’s M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS). Used to fire Elbit Systems’ high-precision AccuLAR-122, the weapon was used by Israel for the first time, since the 2006 war in Lebanon, on Oct. 6, according to the Israeli military.

On an Oct. 17 call with investors, Lockheed Martin CEO, Jim Taiclet, “highlighted the Israel and Ukraine conflicts as potential drivers for increased revenue in the coming years.”

Lockheed Martin is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, and has key production sites in Denver, Houston, New Orleans, and San Diego. For more locations, see this map.

For more information on this company (not including these latest developments), see our company profile on the Investigate database.

Josh Fox, at THE NATION last Friday, noted:

Stein says she’s against fracking, but Stein has hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in the oil and gas industry. Did you know that? Did you know that she actually profits off of the oil and gas industry, that she has had investments in the Keystone XL pipeline and multiple fracking companies?

Did you know that she has investments in Raytheon, that she’s had investments in ExxonMobil? Did you know that she has investments in Home Depot—one of the most rapacious companies in the world, guilty of horrific deforestation throughout the world?

How is it that the Green Party candidate hasn’t divested her own personal fortune from fossil fuels? It’s sheer hypocrisy. And so is the strategy of running for president every four years but never showing up for battles like this.

In 2016, Stein defended these investments by saying they are mutual funds and indexed retirement funds.

But that, plainly speaking, is bunk.

Her claims are a slap in the face to the entire fossil fuel divestment movement. It is easier now than ever to have investments that are fossil free; doing so is a huge plank of the environmental cause. Hundreds of real activists were arrested this summer in New York City calling for Citibank to divest as part of the Summer of Heat campaign. For Stein to ignore all this and still attempt to call herself an activist is beyond hypocrisy, it is political malpractice. Shame on you, Dr. Stein! Shame on you for profiting from fracking and oil drilling.

That some of you voted for that whorish grifter is bad enough but that's not the real damage that was done.

The real damage was in suppressing the vote.

In 2008, when Barack Obama ran for president, the same beggar media did everything they could to build him up. FAIR embarrassed themselves after the Hillary Clinton and Barack debate during that year's Democratic Party primary by slapping one of the moderators for asking about Barack's friendship with activist/terrorist Bill Ayers. Ayers -- a nobody, he was arm candy for his wife -- had been underground and, more to the point, when his friendship with Barack came to light, everyone rushed to lie that they knew each other because their kids were friends. No. That was a damn lie. And beggar media knew it was because, although they can't get real jobs, they can do simple math. Bill and Bernardine turned themselves in as Jimmy Carter was finishing his presidency and Ronald Reagan was due to be sworn in. They thought they'd get a better deal under Carter. Their children were already born by that time. ( We're not referring to Chesa but even he was born in 1980.) Barack and Michelle's oldest child was born in 1998. No, the two Ayers boys were not friends and playmates of the Obamas' daughters.

But that's what the beggar media did -- that and a whole lot more.

For a Black man, that's what they did.

And we saw in July, August, September and October what they'd do for a Black woman -- not a damn thing.

While running for the nomination, Barack did many things that went against what he stated he stood for (putting homophobes on stage at campaign rallies, telling Michael R. Gordon of THE NEW YORK TIMES that any US troops he might pull out of Iraq he would send back in based on the security situation, changing his timeline for withdrawal, his advisor Samantha Power telling the BBC that the promise of a withdrawal really wasn't a promise, etc). But that didn't result in beggar media attacking him the way they did Kamala.

Kamala was attacked from day one. Oh, sure, THE PROGRESSIVE or COMMON DREAMS might do a puff piece on . . . Tim Walz. But they considered Tim to be one of their own. Supposedly, that was due to him being a progressive, but speak to Black women and they were wise to the fact that the real difference was that these outlets could get behind a White man but not a Black woman.

Day after day, they could and they did rip her apart.

Naomi Klein thought she was doing a favor going on DEMOCRACY NOW! and declaring that you hold your nose to vote for someone like Kamala.

Huh?

That's how you build enthusiasm? After one guest, in July, was allowed to praise Kamala and be excited about Kamala running, DEMOCRACY NOW! never offered that again until October 31st.

People weren't allowed to be excited about Kamala, no, beggar media wouldn't let them be.

Beggar media wanted to hang Gaza around Kamala's neck.

She wasn't the president. She didn't get to make policy. Most of us knew she wanted a cease-fire and was the first to call on Joe to move towards that. Most of us knew what her family -- including her niece -- thought.

But that didn't matter.

It didn't matter that the Supreme Court was at stake. It didn't matter that reproductive rights were at stake.

Nothing mattered but the Palestinians.

Amy GoodWhoreman brought on, the day before the election, the Mayor of Dearborn.

His city, he insisted, had to think about Palestinians first.

We think a real interview would have required asking this American citizen exactly where on his list of priorities this country landed? We further think inviting on that man, mayor of a city of homophobes, also required asking him: How much is this opposition to Kamala based on her defense of the LGBTQ+ community?

But we're not supposed to ask those question. No, we're just supposed to fetishize an entire population segment despite the fact that this community in question only stopped voting majority GOP due to the Muslim backlash in the US following 9/11. That detail was never passed on to readers and viewers and listeners of beggar media. There are progressive Muslims in Michigan. There are many more homophobic and conservative Muslims in Michigan which is why the first city council in the state to have an all Muslim composition promptly went around destroying LGBTQ+ rights.

But we didn't get told about that, we only got told about these wonderful Disney-like animated creatures who woke up signing and smiling and sniffing the flowers while the birds landed on their shoulders.

How different would reactions have been if the truth had been told?

Again, we didn't get the truth, not from beggar media.

'Ava and C.I.! You just noted THE NATION's piece about Jill!"

We did and that was published only after the groundswell of Katrina vanden Heuvel being called out for her racism. In fact, for a few days there, she shut down all comments to her Twitter feed unless you were pre-approved -- so much for free speech. We were among the ones leaving comments about the racism -- we did that a full week before Josh's piece. We did it when we learned that THE NATION has just published an editorial opposing Kamala Harris -- by their 'interns.'

We don't give money to that rag to hear from their 'interns.' Sorry, but you're learning a trade, you're not in the position to be writing editorials. And what position you'll have in the future is open to debate because we're vengeful bitches.

Norman Solomon knows that. Learned it the hard way this year. That's when the Democrat who was a pledged delegate for Barack in 2008 announced -- COMMON DREAMS carried the crappy column (others did as well) -- that he would be voting for Jill Stein.

He later pulled that back because he learned real quick that those of us who have helped keep beggar media afloat weren't going to do it for racists.

All the lip service in the world to the importance of Black women in US elections. But when a Black woman ran for president, these same outlets wouldn't take a moment to allow joy over this. Kamala is the first Black woman to be presidential candidate for one of the major parties. And, yes, that was historic, and, yes, it did matter to many Black women.

Katrina and Amy are both racists. Sadly, they're not equally blamed because few people even know who Katrina is. Don't worry, Katrina, we plan to increase your public profile. But they knew Amy and they knew her program and they were shocked by the garbage she offered day after day.

Again, they all offered it. All of the beggar media offered insults and put downs of Kamala day after day.

When they weren't being racist, they went with sexist.

This was not our first presidential election to observe and comment on. So it stood out to us that Barack, Joe, John Kerry, whomever didn't have columns (plural) every day telling them what they needed to do. And columns, mind you, written by men.

A reflective left media would have taken several pauses over the three months to ask, "What are we doing? Are we being fair?"

But apparently begging everyone for money takes a huge toll so they don't have time for reflection.

Good news, bums, we plan to help you there, we plan to make sure you have a lot more free time.

By repeatedly trashing Kamala, by refusing to ever feature the people who were excited by her, they worked overtime to defeat enthusiasm for the candidate. Amy Goodman, as we pointed out repeatedly at THIRD, was damn happy to have a Civil Rights pioneer (who was also the widow of another Civil Rights pioneer) on DEMOCRACY NOW! over the years. But when this woman, Myrlie Evers-Williams, endorsed Kamala in September and spoke of how excited she was by Kamala's campaign, Amy couldn't even note the news in a headline.

We weren't the only ones commenting on the racism from leftists. The YOUTUBE program TABITHA SPEAKS did a great segment on it. And Tabitha noted a Latina who was also dismayed by the attacks on Kamala and on those who supported Kamala. In fact, if you were avoiding the White beggars, you'd find many women online lamenting the way Kamala was being treated. And, as we noted for weeks, we heard about it pretty much every time we spoke.

Jill Stein is a con artist. But they could get behind Jill and pretend that she was an answer and an ally. Which is why they didn't report on 'Butchy' Ware -- her little running mate -- being a transphobe and calling for restricting abortion.

These very real issues didn't matter.

Well, Gaza Freaks, we hope you're happy. We hope as the blood continues to be spilled, that the screams of the dead haunt you. That's their blood on your hands. Trump and Netanyahu are good buddies. He's made clear what will happen: A bigger green light for Netanyahu to continue the slaughter.

We can't work with people we can't trust so lots of luck stopping the Trump genocide.

You've already, Gaza Freaks, alienated many people who were on your side. It's only going to get worse for you. Students protesting on campus? Under Trump. Oh, this is the man who wanted to attack non-violent Black Lives Matter protesters.

And Hamas? It's a terrorist organization per the United States government.

We defended the Palestinian people. We never made the mistake that the Gaza Freaks did in defending Hamas. We point that out for a reason: In January, Joe Biden is not the president, Donald Trump is. You do get that, right? You do get that he will probably be exploring what kind of legal consequences he can impose for those openly supporting a terrorist organization.

Might be time to start recalculating your speeches and articles and programs.

What will we be doing?

Probably our usual role: Cleaning up the messes of lazy White people.

We're tempted to walk away. We actually could. We're fortunate in ways that many other Americans aren't. And we've more than put in our time.

But instead, we'll probably stick around online a little bit longer. Probably focus on important issues like climate change, opposing homophobia, fighting for reproductive rights, fighting for real free speech (which includes opposing book bans), fighting for reparations and --

Wait. That last one.

Oh, Katrina vanden Heuvel. We're back to her. She never made a penny herself but her grandfather left her a ton of money -- money she went to court over because she didn't want to pay the estate tax., What a great liberal, right?

That money she has? Her grandfather made it off the backs of Black people. Lena Horne, to name but one, was always clear to us what trash Katrina's grandfather was and how he undercut the pay of Black artists -- he was an agent working on commission -- to get better money for club performances from his favored White artists.

Lena would tell us tales in person and in writing.

Katrina, we're going to be circulating those letters to people who might be thinking about donating to your garbage rag.

But that's not all we'll be doing. We'll spend a lot of time in your state just to make sure everyone knows that your racist grandfather made money off the backs of Black artists and that's how you afford your mansion in Harlem.

Do you get that, Katrina? Do you get how insulting that is to Black people? The money you have is from their work and you use it to live in Harlem. Do you get how bad that looks?

Give us a year or two and see how much worse we make it look as we get the word out on you.

Reparations should start with people like you. You live a rich life thanks to racism. And you can move over to the right wing and they'll embrace you. But do you really think the left's going to embrace you as they realize what and who you really are?

And don't, as you did in 2007, send us an e-mail from you or your assistant, offering us a bribe to shut us up. It didn't work in 2007 when were exposing the sexism at THE NATION under your leadership -- see "The Nation featured 491 male bylines in 2007 -- how many female ones?" -- and it won't work now. And probably after we're done with you, will get to work circulating the #MeToo realities of THE NATION.

Again, we've vengeful bitches.

We're also smart and informed bitches. And we knew all along that enthusiasm was needed for Kamala to win and we registered it when so many left and 'left' outlets pissed on Kamala to avoid praising her, who did hold-your-nose-and-vote-for-her articles and segments. The whole country will now suffer because of your actions, so we believe it's only fair that you suffer as well.

We've got a Friday call, post-election analysis, with other donors you've depended on in the past. How do you think that's going to go?

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