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Friday, April 30, 2021

Our loyal and trustworthy FBI







They were MIA in this case to:


He committed suicide...


Sure he did.









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Wouldn't be surprised to see her protesting against the very cop who saved her life








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Saturday, April 24, 2021

Ma'Khia Bryant's biological mother 'plans to SUE' as family blame foster system for failing daughter


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9506033/MaKhia-Bryants-biological-mother-plans-SUE-blaming-foster-failing-daughter.html

 Paula Bryant, her biological mother, said she is 'hurt' and 'wants answers' after her death

Paula Bryant, her biological mother, said she is 'hurt' and 'wants answers' after her death



Bryant's biological mother said in an interview on Thursday that her 'beautiful baby' was taken from her.

Give me a freakin’ break! I smell Sharpton right around the corner. The bitch is coming out of the woodwork looking for a payday. Take a hard look at this photo. These people are incapable of rational thought. She wants to sue because she believes the foster system failed her daughter? Isn't her kid in foster care because of her actions?


Paula Bryant:

"I want people to know that we should be holding somebody accountable for the 16-year-old kid's death."

Better look in the mirror.

BTW... Based on this photo if the cop gets convicted all the other cops around the nation should walk off the job... because you're never going to get a fair shake!





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Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Columbus police try to avert a new wave of BLM anger over the fatal police shooting of a 16-year-old girl by releasing bodycam that shows her attempting to stab two women





Wonder how many millions her family is going to get?




Here she is about to stab somebody.
What are they going to say the video is lying?


If kneeling on George Floyd's neck was bad what in the hell do you call this?


Remember when Nancy Reagan said, "Just say no to drugs." 

Common sense ...right?

So is this!











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Tuesday, April 13, 2021

What's really going on behind the scenes at BLM?




On a tip from Ed Kilbane



We already know when 65 black people get shot in Chicago on a holiday weekend no one gives a damn. That is, until the 66th one got shot by a white cop.

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Now this:

Inside BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ million-dollar real estate buying binge


(All you suckers please continue to donate... she's got her eye on a pink Bentley Flying Spur) 



As protests broke out across the country in the name of Black Lives Matter, the group’s co-founder went on a real estate buying binge, snagging four high-end homes for $3.2 million in the US alone, according to property records.

Patrisse Khan-Cullors, 37, also eyed property in the Bahamas at an ultra-exclusive resort where Justin Timberlake and Tiger Woods both have homes, The Post has learned. Luxury apartments and townhouses at the beachfront Albany resort outside Nassau are priced between $5 million and $20 million, according to a local agent.

The self-described Marxist last month purchased a $1.4 million home on a secluded road a short drive from Malibu in Los Angeles, according to a report. The 2,370-square-foot property features “soaring ceilings, skylights and plenty of windows” with canyon views. The Topanga Canyon homestead, which includes two houses on a quarter-acre, is just one of three homes Khan-Cullors owns in the Los Angeles area, public records show.

Some fellow activists were taken aback by the real estate revelations.

Hawk Newsome, the head of Black Lives Matter Greater New York City, called for “an independent investigation” to find out how the global network spends its money.

The "custom ranch" Patrisse Khan-Cullors owns in Georgia.

Realtor.com

“If you go around calling yourself a socialist, you have to ask how much of her own personal money is going to charitable causes,” he said. “It’s really sad because it makes people doubt the validity of the movement and overlook the fact that it’s the people that carry this movement.”

Last year, Khan-Cullors and spouse Janaya Khan ventured to Georgia to acquire a fourth home — a “custom ranch” on 3.2 rural acres in Conyers featuring a private airplane hangar with a studio apartment above it, and the use of a 2,500-foot “paved/grass” community runway that can accommodate small airplanes.

The three-bedroom, two-bath house, about 30 minutes from Atlanta, has an indoor swimming pool and a separate “RV shop” that can accommodate the repair of a mobile home or small aircraft, according to the real estate listing.

The Peach State retreat was purchased in January 2020 for $415,000, two years after the publication of Khan-Cullors’ best-selling memoir, “When They Call You a Terrorist.”

In October, the activist signed “a multi-platform” deal with Warner Bros. Television Group to help produce content for “black voices who have been historically marginalized,” she said in a statement.

It is not known how much Khan-Cullors received in compensation in either deal.

Khan-Cullors began her buying spree in LA in 2016, a few years after the civil rights movement she started from a hashtag — #blacklivesmatter — with fellow activists Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi began to gain traction around the world. 

That year, she bought a three-bedroom, 1.5-bathroom home in Inglewood for $510,000. It is now worth nearly $800,000. Khan-Cullors added her wife, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter in Canada, to the deed in a family trust last year. The couple married in 2016.

Khan-Cullors' home in Inglewood, Calif., is now worth $800,000.

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Two years later, in 2018, Khan-Cullors purchased a four-bedroom home in South Los Angeles, a multi-ethnic neighborhood. Khan-Cullors paid $590,000 for the 1,725-square-foot home, although the price has since climbed to $720,000, according to public records.

Three of the homes were bought in Khan-Cullors’ name, and the Topanga Canyon property was purchased under a limited liability company that she controls, according to public records cited by “Dirt,” the real estate blog that first reported the March 30 purchase. 

Last year, Khan-Cullors and Khan were spotted in the Bahamas looking for a unit at the Albany, a real estate source who did not want to be identified told The Post. The elite enclave is laid out on “600 oceanside acres” and features a private marina and designer golf course. Current homes for sale include a nearly 8,000-square-foot, six-bedroom townhouse with a media room and marina views. The price is only available upon request, according to the resort’s website.

Khan-Cullors paid $590,000 for this South Los Angeles home.

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“People who buy at the Albany are buying their fourth or fifth home,” said a resort worker who did not want to be identified. “This is not a second-home residence. It’s extremely high-end, and people are coming here for complete and total privacy.”

While it’s not clear if Khan-Cullors purchased a property at the island retreat for the super-rich, her mere interest shows just how far she has come from the hardscrabble Van Nuys neighborhood in LA where she spent her childhood with two brothers and a younger sister. 

In her memoir, Khan-Cullors describes growing up in a housing project less than a mile from the affluent and largely white neighborhood of Sherman Oaks, a community of wide lawns and pools where “there is nothing that does not appear beautiful and well kept.” The four kids were mostly raised by her single mother, who worked 16 hours a day to support the family, she writes. The Albany residence Khan-Cullors reportedly looked at is on 600 oceanside acres.Handout

Growing up, Khan-Cullors lived in “a two-story, tan-colored building where the paint is peeling and where there is a gate that does not close properly and an intercom system that never works,” she writes. “The only place in my hood to buy groceries is a 7-Eleven.”

Khan-Cullors embraced activism and Marxism at a young age. “It started the year I turned twelve,” she writes. “That was the year that I learned that being black and poor defined me more than being bright and hopeful and ready.” 

But she didn’t rise to national prominence until 2013, when she and two other activists protested the not-guilty verdict against George Zimmerman, who shot dead Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager in Florida. 

Black Lives Matter protests erupted again in 2020 after the May killing of George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck during his arrest. Patrisse Khan-Cullors at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP

Donations and pledges from corporations and individuals poured into the movement at that point. In February, the BLM nonprofit co-founded by Khan-Cullors told the AP that they took in $90 million in 2020, with $21.7 million committed to grant funding and helping 30 black-led groups across the country.

Black Lives Matter leaders would not specify how much money they took in from prominent donors, according to the AP report. 

It’s also not clear how much Khan-Cullors makes in salary as one of the leaders of the movement, since its finances are split among both nonprofit and for-profit entities and difficult to trace.

Patrisse Khan-Cullors' Topanga Canyon property was bought under an LLC.

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Founded by Khan-Cullors and another activist, Kailee Scales, the nonprofit Oakland, Calif.-based BLM Global Network Foundation was incorporated in 2017 and claims to have chapters throughout the US, the UK and Canada, and a mission “to eradicate White supremacy and build power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities.” The group does not have a federal tax exemption and donations are filtered through ActBlue Charities and Thousand Currents, two nonprofits that manage the cash.

At the same time Khan-Cullors incorporated the nonprofit, she also set up the similarly named BLM Global Network, a for-profit that is not required to disclose how much it spends or pays its executives.

Some have criticized the lack of transparency. An overview of the homes bought or looked at by Khan-Cullors.

Newsome of NYC’s BLM said, “We need black firms and black accountants to go in there and find out where the money is going.” He added that his group does not receive any financial support from the BLM Global Network.

Neither Khan-Cullors nor BLM Global Network Foundation returned requests for comment.





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Friday, April 9, 2021

There are somethings I'll never understand




North Carolina just paid a man for 15 years of wrongful imprisonment. He was in prison for 44 years


This poor guy spent 44 years in jail for a crime he didn't do. After all that time they're going to give him a lousy $750,000? Looks to me like he just got bit on the ass again by the justice system again. How could George Floyd be worth 27 million bucks and this guy gets a piddly 750,000?


Ronnie Long was wrongfully imprisoned for 44 years on a rape conviction in North Carolina. But the state is only compensating him for 15 of those years. 



He says he deserves more. 

In 1976, Long, who is Black, was accused of raping a white woman and then sentenced to life in prison. His attorneys have said that more than 40 fingerprints and other evidence collected at the scene were never shared. Long was freed in August 2020. He just received a $750,000 check.

North Carolina law states anyone wrongfully convicted of a crime can receive $50,000 for each year they were imprisoned, but the catch is the amount caps at $750,000. That means Long, who is 65, will not be compensated for 29 years of the time in prison.

"You took my 20s, my 30s, my 40s and my 50s and you still talking about this is worth that?" Long told USA TODAY. 



Long's criminal attorney Jamie Lau said in a statement to USA TODAY the amount given to Long is "inadequate." Long's parents passed away during his time in prison and had no savings prior.

"He entered prison healthy and left broken. His ongoing financial security is the least he deserves after so much was taken over those 44 years," Lau said.

Other states have similar caps. Mississippi law allows annual payments of $50,000 for each year a person is wrongfully incarcerated but sets a maximum of 10 years' payment.

Curtis Flowers, a man who spent 23 years on death row after being convicted in the 1996 shooting deaths of four people in Mississippi, was tried six times, with each trial resulting in an overturned conviction or mistrial.

In 2020, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch said the state would not try the case a seventh time, leaving Flowers a free man. And in March, a state judge ruled Flowers would receive the state's maximum compensation of $500,000. 

Lau said Long's case and those similar highlight the inadequacy in the cap and Long shouldn't have needed a pardon from Gov. Roy Cooper to receive the money.

"It's time to revisit this amount since we are learning the magnitude of the harm caused by wrongful convictions in North Carolina. It's also time to revisit the compensation statute as a whole, as the governor should not have full authority over who does and does not receive compensation," Lau said.

Long told WCNC-Charlotte several civil attorneys have reached out to him about the check and he is considering his options. He added that he is blessed to be free, and he is looking for a new home with his wife, Ashleigh.





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Biden border crisis comes at ‘massive cost’ to American people

 



Illegals warehoused at the border are costing the US taxpayer $60 million a week!!!!!!

To put things in perspective the average VA Hospital cost $112 million to build. 



So inside of a month they could have used that money to begin building 2 new VA Hospital’s with enough money left over to send everybody (legally) in the United States a voter ID card. You know, because a lot of people just can't make it to the DOT to get a free ID.



Would this ever take place? Of course not! For Dems common sense went out the window along time ago when they realized importing illegals and embracing voter fraud (for their new voting block) was the way to go, and for the most part except for conservatives, the American people gave them the green light.







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Groups pressure Senate to end filibuster as Jim Crow relic

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/groups-pressure-senate-to-end-filibuster-as-jim-crow-relic/ar-BB1fsilW

We're at the point now where they could link Jim Crow to a Big Mac and McDonald's would have to get rid of it. 





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Thursday, April 8, 2021

You got to see this!!!









Another reason he disavows any knowledge of his laptop. Hard to believe this scumbag's father his is POTUS!

Although 'scumbagness' is a family gene.


I'm sure they'll cover the hell out of it tonight.




Oh, and it looks like the Daily Mail did a better job of investigating his computer than the FBI.
There is evidence of criminality on the computer which is far more serious than this. Have you heard a peep out of the FBI?




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Tuesday, April 6, 2021

'60 Minutes' proves the days of Mike Wallace are long gone





Tick tick tick tick tick tick... is now the prelude to deception.




60 Minutes ’ Dishonest DeSantis Hit Job





Before you continue bear in mind '60 Minutes' couldn't find enough ammunition on these two. They had to go after DeSantis.




One is in the process of being recalled with almost 2 million signatures and the other the infamous
 "Andrew Weinstein"/ killer of New York who may very well go to jail. 


The 60 minute take? No story here let's go profile DeSantis.


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There is no more accurate way of describing last night’s 60 Minutes segment on Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida than as a political hit job. It was an aspersion, a slander, a smear — a calculated and premeditated calumny contrived for one purpose and one purpose alone: To hint darkly at scandal where none exists, and, thereby, to damage DeSantis in 2022 and beyond. Americans who tuned in to 60 Minutes yesterday are now less informed than they were before it aired.

The supposed “problem” that 60 Minutes highlighted was that Florida’s government has used the popular grocery chain Publix to help it distribute COVID-19 vaccines, that Publix gave $100,000 to Governor DeSantis’s re-election efforts last year, and that the combination of the two represents a quid pro quo.

This claim is absurd on its face. Not only is Publix the largest and most widely trusted grocery-store chain in the state of Florida, but the majority of its 831 stores in the state have well-equipped pharmacies at which Floridians are accustomed to getting flu shots. Irrespective of any other logistical considerations, it would have been surprising if Publix had not been one of the major players in the state’s effort. It is true that Publix has recently given $100,000 to Ron DeSantis’s gubernatorial reelection bid. It is also true that it gave a million dollars to the progressive Urban League last year, and that, back in 2018, it gave $100,000 to Democratic campaigns in the state. To believe that there is a connection between this routine behavior and decisions that were made during an unforeseen once-in-a-century pandemic is to stretch oneself to the breaking point.

The producers of 60 Minutes know this, which is why they edited out the portion of Governor DeSantis’s answer that explains beyond question why Publix was chosen for its role. In the offending segment, CBS’s Sharyn Alfonsi is seen asking DeSantis, “Publix, as you know, donated $100,000 to your campaign, and then you rewarded them with the exclusive rights to distribute the vaccination in Palm Beach. How is that not pay for play?” But only DeSantis’s initial response is shown in full. Deliberately missing from the governor’s comments was his detailed answer laying out how the distribution system has worked in Florida in general, and how Publix has slotted into it in particular. In the unaired portion, DeSantis says:

First of all, the first pharmacies that had [the vaccine] were CVS and Walgreens and they had a long-term care mission, so they were going to the long-term care facilities. They got the vaccine in the middle of December, they started going to the long-term care facilities the third week in December to do LTCs. So that was their mission, that was very important and we trusted them to do that. As we got into January, we wanted to expand the distribution points.

So yes, you had the counties, you had some drive-thru sites, you had hospitals that were doing a lot, but we wanted to get it into communities more. So we reached out to other retail pharmacies: Publix, Walmart, obviously CVS and Walgreens had to finish that mission and we said we’re going to use you as soon as you’re done with that.



None of this was apparent to viewers of 60 Minutes. The show did not note that CVS and Walgreens got the vaccine first; it did not explain the difference between the strategy for long-term-care facilities and the strategy for the broader population; it did not mention that Walmart was also used in the delivery of vaccines to the general public; it did not reference the work DeSantis has done extending the state’s effort to minority communities; and, crucially, it did not make clear that the reason Publix was so prominent in the second phase of vaccinations was that it was the first grocery chain to be ready. Instead, the show took two facts that in no way intersect and pretended that they had a causal relationship. There is a word for that sort of conduct, but it’s not “journalism.”

So egregiously dishonest was 60 Minutes’ attempt that, shortly after it aired, the director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management took to Twitter to condemn it. “I said this before and I’ll say it again,” Jared Moskowitz wrote. “Publix was recommended by FLSERT [State Emergency Response Team] and HealthyFla [Florida Department of Health] as the other pharmacies were not ready to start. Period! Full Stop! No one from the Governors office suggested Publix. It’s just absolute malarkey.” Moskowitz, note, is no ideological ally of Governor DeSantis. On the contrary: He describes himself as a “progressive,” served as a Democrat in the Florida legislature until 2019, and has worked in various capacities for Al Gore, Joe Lieberman, and Barack Obama. His father, Michael, is one of the top Democratic fundraisers in the state.

Unlike the producers of 60 Minutes, however, Jared Moskowitz is not a liar.

Alas, he is fighting against the tide. 60 Minutes’ lies will now be laundered and repeated until, in millions of minds around the country, they are habitually referenced as “facts.” In that status they will be joined by the oft-repeated lie that Florida has been “cooking its books,” which it has not. From the moment the pandemic began, the mainstream press has proven itself incapable of writing about Florida as anything less than a mysterious, godforsaken backwater that, somehow, has managed to stumble through this crisis despite itself. That Florida ranks in the middle of the pack for deaths, despite having the fourth-oldest population in the country and being the destination of choice for young people, seems not to matter. Nor do many commentators seem much to care that Florida has done this while managing to stay largely open; that there have been real, verifiable, and under-covered scandals elsewhere; that the most populous state in the union is holding a recall election for its governor over his COVID response; or that, at the moment the 60 Minutes segment ran, it was not Florida that was in crisis, but Michigan.

In part, this monomaniacal failure of imagination has been the product of the false reputation that Florida enjoys among a certain sort of sneering Acela-corridor journalist. Bubbling below the surface of all of last year’s coverage has been an unlovely implication: “That guy, in that state? Something tricky must be going on.” Last night, 60 Minutes made that explicit.

As it turned out, though, it wasn’t DeSantis who was playing games with the truth. It was CBS.






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Monday, April 5, 2021

Rubio it's a home run... pun intended






Marco Rubio calls out MLB Commissioner for Augusta membership


Sen. Marco Rubio joined conservative voices calling foul on Major League Baseball for moving its All-Star Game from Atlanta. The Miami Republican specifically called out Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred for keeping a membership with the Augusta National Golf Club.

“I am under no illusion that Major League Baseball will sacrifice business revenue on behalf of its alleged corporate values. Similarly, I am under no illusion you intend to resign as a member from Augusta National Golf Club,” Rubio said. “To do so would require a personal sacrifice, as opposed to the woke corporate virtue signaling of moving the All Star Game from Atlanta.”

The league on Friday announced it would move the All Star Game in protest of Georgia’s new election law, which includes strict photo ID requirements and a prohibition on handing water and food out to those in line within a certain distance of polling sites.

In a letter to Manfred and shared with press, Rubio called out the Commissioner for making a decision that could hurt Atlanta’s economy while keeping an Augusta membership card in his wallet.


“I write to ask you whether you intend to maintain your membership at Augusta National Golf Club. As you are well aware, the exclusive members-only club is located in the State of Georgia,” Rubio wrote. “Last week, you ‘decided that the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year’s All-Star Game’ from Atlanta because of Georgia’s revised election law. It is a decision that will have a bigger impact on countless small and minority owned businesses in and around Atlanta, than the new election law ever will. And one that reeks of hypocrisy.”


A long-time foreign policy hawk, Rubio also slammed MLB’s relationships with China and Cuba. The Senator notably heavily criticized a deal MLB cut in 2018 regarding Cuban nationals playing in the league.

“Will Major League Baseball now end its engagement with nations that do not hold elections at all like China and Cuba? Will you end your lucrative financial relationship with Tencent, a company with deep ties to the Communist Party and actively helps the Chinese Government hunt down and silence political dissidents?” Rubio wrote.

“Since Major League Baseball now appears eager to use its ‘platform’ to demonstrate ‘unwavering support’ for fundamental human rights, will you cease your relationship with the Chinese Government, which at this very moment is committing genocide against the (Uighurs) Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.”





Rubio voiced recognition the league can choose to conduct its business how it chooses, but questioned the integrity of the decision.

“In the end, as a citizen of a free nation you, and Major League Baseball, have the right to speak out against laws in the U.S. you disagree with, even if it is on the basis of false information,” he said. “What would be truly bold, however, is if you would speak out on behalf of the voiceless who face arbitrary imprisonment, forced sterilization, coerced abortions, rape, and other horrific acts at the hands of one of your business partners. I am under no illusion that Major League Baseball will sacrifice business revenue on behalf of its alleged corporate values.”



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Coca-Cola helping fiction become reality


They went from:




" I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)..."

To this:





In case you're planning on boycotting the company thought I would offer some assistance. 


These are some of the major brands that Coca-Cola owns.


https://learn.stash.com/brands-companies-owned-coca-cola#:~:text=%20Top%20Companies%20%26%20Brands%20Owned%20by%20Coca-Cola,alternative%20to%20the%20iconic%20drink.%20It...%20More%20



The list of Coca-Cola brands around the world is staggering!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Coca-Cola_brands


You have to wonder how a company with all this on their plate could find the time to listen to Bribem tell lies about people who will die of thirst in the voting lines in GA. To reiterate, I guarantee you Coca-Cola, MLB, and the rest of these lap-dog large corporations never even read the Georgia election law. The 'poll officers' who police the lines allow the voting public waiting in line to get all the refreshments they want as long as it is not provided by political interest groups. 


Remember this blatant violation? Where was MLB and the rest of those “we care" corporations then?


A judge ordered it removed.                   This was the result.






Section 33 of the Georgia election law:


This Code section shall not be construed to prohibit a poll officer from … making available self-service water from an unattended receptacle to an elector waiting in line to vote,” the bill reads. Or if they thought they were going to die of thirst they could simply bring a bottle of water with them.


But Coke and the rest of the lap-dog corporations (the most blatant bastards of the bunch by far is Nike who might as well belong to the Black Panthers) prefer to believe Bribem’s unsubstantiated remark coming from a borderline dementia patient who also never read the law. The fact he was discredited (4 Pinocchios) by his commie cohorts at the Washington Post they pay no heed too. Not only did he lie about the water but other aspects of the election law. Just like everyone else they didn't read the Washington Post, or the Georgia election law for that matter, because they're so blinded by their devotion to the Democratic Party they can't see anything else.


Think we heard Bribem's departure from reality before. 

A true classic:

Video 626


PS:

Still dumbfounded this asshole is president.







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Sunday, April 4, 2021

Worse than I thought





So not only was Hunter bonking his brother Beau's wife Halle he was also bonking her married sister Elizabeth. 


Video 625


The rash of infectious scum emanating from this family could give Covid a run for its money! 







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AOC and Pelosi rank among least effective Democrats in Congress



This is a good thing. Otherwise we would be driving someday from California to Hawaii because of the $93 trillion Green New Deal.


Don't think you could get more absurd than the Green New Deal but we're talking about AOC. So to take it a step further the demented moron now wants to give illegals reparations. New York's 14th congressional District should be declared an insane asylum ward.

BTW... I just discovered this maybe some of you have already seen it. I presumed she was at least in eye shot of the children. It appears AOC missed her calling she should've been an actress. The whole thing was staged.

The photos seem to back it up.






She's at a parking lot! See any kids before she goes into her theatrics?



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Despite being some of the most well-known members of Congress, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Speaker Nancy Pelosi rank near the bottom of the table in a measure of legislative effectiveness. 

In a study of legislative effectiveness, Ocasio-Cortez was ranked No. 230 out of the 240 Democrats who served in the 116th Congress. Pelosi was ranked 237th in the measure. Rep. Jim Cooper, a Tennessee Democrat, was the least effective legislator in his party. 

The New York Democrat introduced 21 “substantive” bills in her first two years in office. None of the legislation received committee action, floor votes, or became law, according to researchers from the Center for Effective Lawmaking

“It’s clear that she was trying to get her legislative agenda moving and engage with the lawmaking process. But she wasn’t as successful as some other members were — even among [other] freshmen — at getting people to pay attention to her legislation.” Alan Wiseman, a political science professor and the co-director of the CEL, told the New York Post. 


The CEL, a joint project between the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University, ranked Rep. Ilhan Omar 214 out of 240 Democrats. The Minnesota representative sponsored 33 “substantive” bills, none of which made it into law. Rep. Rashida Tlaib did substantially better than her fellow “Squad” members and was ranked 92nd. Three bills she sponsored made it to a committee, and one became law.

Craig Volden, a co-director of the CEL, told USA Today that the “workhorses” of Congress were “less likely to be called upon by the media,” and among the “ show horses,” who tend to have more of a national spotlight, “there tends to be more of an interest in talking about ... politicking and personalities.” 

Rep. Michael McCaul and Sen. Marco Rubio were the most effective Republicans in their respective chambers, while Rep. Nita Lowey and Sen. Gary Peters topped the charts for Democrats.




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