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Of COURSE the Obama People Were All Grifters He’s a Chicago Pol!

Posted: December 17, 2024 by datechguy in Blame Biden Administration, politics
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John McClane: Welcome to the Party Pal

Die Hard 1988

6th Doctor: Money! This is all about Money. Filthy Luce.

Doctor Who, The Condemned 2007 Big Finish

Seriously?

‘The people that are responsible for this s**tshow are the Obama people. They’re just grifters,’ a well-connected Democratic donor exclusively told Daily Mail.

You have a guy with almost no political experience. who comes out of the combined camps of Marxism who live for the utilization of the useful idiot, and the Chicago Machine who if not the inventors of the corrupt machine pol on the take are the foremost practices of that genre still active in existence and it takes you till the last weeks of the Obama people running the Biden Administration to figure out these guys are basically all grifters?

He singled out Jen O’Malley Dillon, who went from Biden 2024 campaign chair to serve in the same role for Harris’s camp, and David Plouffe, an ex-Obama 2008 campaign manager turned top Kamala adviser.

Deep-pocketed lefty patrons are enraged by Plouffe’s post-election admission that Harris never led Trump in their internal campaign polling, despite public surveys showing her ahead.

‘[Polls] came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads that we never saw,’ Plouffe revealed late last month on the Democrat-friendly podcast ‘Pod Save America.’

‘They lied to us. It’s just a circus of lies,’ the donor erupted, complaining that Harris’ team regularly painted a much rosier picture when speaking to supporters who were signing big checks.

Via Ace and a closing thought:

Biden of course was a corrupt grifter long before Obama was around and there were plenty of other grifters in the parties before this but I was taking to a friend yesterday, a reluctant Trump voter who was driven over the line by the left. He discussed an interview with George Bush Sr. who discussed his dad Prescott’s relationship with LBJ who was a very corrupt pol. He said he liked him and they got along because although they were on the other side and he would beat you and pressure you he never lied to you. He was up front about things, told you what he would do and did them.

When you redefine truth bad things happen

Five Nasty Surprises Under the Fedora: 15 Million Day, Oddly not Blaming the Gun This Time, Bluesky the Robespierre Wet Dream, Israel Doing what Nobody Else Wants to do For Them and More Red Pillings

Posted: December 16, 2024 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, culture, Israel, media, middle east, politics
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As Usual the great Bryon York does a spectacular Job in explaining how the desire to falsely call Donald Trump a rapist was pushed by a Judge with an agenda. Alas agendas are not the same as the law as ABC and George Stephanopoulos found out at a cost of 15 Mil.

There are plenty of lefty influencers who are well paid that Trump can soak, he should go after every one.

It will be a lot of fun to see the Trump organization continue to sue these folks and make them pay.

Justine Bateman and I both noticed something interesting about the left’s reaction to the CEO murder.

So not only is nobody calling for Gun Control as Justine notes, but nobody is blaming the gun this time for the killing, or as it should be if the left was consistent celebrating the gun.

Apparently people are the killers when the left approves of the killing and guns are the killers when they don’t.

Speaking of the left and violence…

Well without risk until Jan 21st 2025 anyway.

If the French Terror had social media Bluesky would be their spot.

Remember when it was said illegal immigrants were “doing jobs Americans aren’t willing to do anymore”?

Apparently the Israeli’s are the “illegal immigrants” doing the job that the west wants done but doesn’t want to dirty their hands with…

…albeit it’s done out of their own self preservation.

Of course I suspect Jihadi’s will get all the nuclear weapons they want once they’re done taking over England.

There is a group of people who will never listen to any kind of conservative media because in their mind to do so crosses some kind of “purity test” so the only time they get any kind of message that penetrates their bubble world is if someone else chooses to report it.

Enter Stephen A Smith:

The number of people who follow Stephen A Smith who have likely never consumed conservative media is considerable and he is a significant enough black voice that the MSM blacklists him at their peril, so when he is reporting that the FBI admits to having at least 26 informants on the ground on J6, that’s going to open quite a few eyes.

It’s as if the whole corrupt mess is collapsing and Trump isn’t even sworn in yet.

In Cook County, Illinois, the most consequential election in 2016 was not the presidential race

Posted: December 15, 2024 by John Ruberry in crime, election 2024, elections, News/opinion, opinion/news, politics
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By John Ruberry

We are told, correctly, that it’s the local elections, not the glamorous races such as presidential contests, that effect voters the most.

That was so true in 2016 in Cook County, Illinois.

While Hillary Clinton comfortably won Illinois and Cook County–where I live– over Donald Trump, it was the state’s attorney race in Cook that had the biggest impact on the 5 million residents in Illinois’ largest county.

George Soros-funded Democratic candidate, Kim Foxx, resoundingly defeated her Republican opponent, Christopher E.K. Pfannkuche. Four years later it was much closer for Foxx, she gathered only 54 percent of the vote in heavily Democratic Cook County, over Republican Pat O’Brien and a Libertarian candidate.

Fortunately, unless you are a criminal, Foxx chose not to run for reelection this year.

Immediately after her swearing-in, Foxx raised the limit for felony theft from the state-mandated $300 to $1,000.00. Shoplifting prosecutions in Cook County dropped dramatically, as did narcotics prosecutions.

Murders soared in the last eight years.

While Foxx is best known for the Jussie Smollett debacle, other actions as state’s attorney will have a lasting, and acidic legacy.

If you want numbers, you’ll find some here, courtesy of the fantastic Illinois Policy Institute. But except for murders, they tell an incomplete story.

For instance, for much of Foxx’s misrule, my daughter, Little Marathon Pundit. worked at a nationally known department store in an affluent suburb. On average, once a day, a shoplifter ran out the door–some calmy walked out–with stolen merchandise. Not only were employees at this store told not to prevent the criminal from leaving, store managers never called the police. Not once. Why call the cops? Even if the perp is caught, Foxx’ office, unless the theft was a massive haul, wouldn’t prosecute it as a felony. Or he may not even bother prosecuting at all.

So those were unrecorded crimes. So crime numbers, outside of course of murders, can’t be trusted at all.

As I wrote on X last month, “the liberal media keeps telling us that crime is down. Six months ago when I last visited this Rosemont IL big box store the cosmetics section wasn’t roped off. Stop gaslighting us, ‘journalists.'”

https://twitter.com/Marathonpundit/status/1863256305886023844

Eileen O’Neill Burke, a Democrat, is the new state’s attorney in Cook County. She is already prosecuting accused thieves at the state-mandated $300 level for felony theft.

EOB is not perfect. She supports Governor JB Prtizker’s no-cash-bail SAFE-T Act.

But O’Neill Burke vows to call for more detainments of accused criminals who are charged with violent crimes.

Elections matter.

Including down-ballot races. Sometimes especially down-ballot races.

Sadly, the results of the last eight years of rampant criminality will wreak havoc for a very long time.

John Ruberry regularly blogs at Marathon Pundit.

December 8 is International Pundit Day

Posted: December 8, 2024 by John Ruberry in blogs, fun, News/opinion, opinion/news, politics
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By John Ruberry

Every day is well, a day.

Except for prominent dates on the calendar, Christmas and New Year’s Day come to mind, there is an official day–although I am unaware of any sanctioning organization–for every day of the year.

Perhaps I am wrong. Because there is NationalToday.com. 

For instance, according to that austere body, February 11 is National Guitar Day and June 26 is National Canoe Day. 

Most notoriously, September 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Our 365 calendar–or 366, since this is a Leap Year–can digest one more “day.”

Today, I officially declare, December 8, as International Pundit Day. NationalToday.com, please take note.

A pundit, according to Merriam-Webster, is “a person who gives opinions in an authoritative manner usually through the mass media.” It is one of the few words in the English language that comes from Hindi.

In the early 2000s, many blogs, most notably Instapundit and Gateway Pundit, appeared on the political radar. And yes, to a lesser extent, my own Marathon Pundit.

Blogging has become mainstream since then, as have podcasts.

Yes, podcasters are pundits too.

Why December 8? Well, why not?

But if you need reasons, December 8 is Ann Coulter’s birthday. As you probably know, she’s a noted opinion columnist, and yes, pundit.

And it’s my birthday too.

Say it loud and say it now, I’m a pundit and I’m proud.

And if you are not a pundit yet, you can begin now.

And if you know a pundit, say “thank you!”

And now is the time in Pundit Land when we dance!

John Ruberry, who is celebrating his birthday and International Pundit Day today, regularly blogs at Marathon Pundit.

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