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‘A Coven of Sexual Predators’

Posted on | September 2, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘A Coven of Sexual Predators’

Well, at least they weren’t Catholic priests:

Multiple cheerleading coaches in South Carolina — including a coach who recently killed himself — sexually abused at least six boys and girls and provided them with drugs and alcohol, a federal lawsuit alleges.
A “coven of sexual predators” surrounded Rockstar Cheer of Greenville for more than a decade, according to one of the lawyers for the alleged victims.
Attorney Bakari Sellers contends that what happened is a result of the same kind of institutional failure seen in the case of Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University doctor who is serving a minimum of 40 years in prison after admitting that he molested some of the nation’s top gymnasts for years.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday by four girls and two boys who said they were abused by Scott Foster and others affiliated with Rockstar gyms. It suggests there could be up to 100 more survivors of the abuse.
“Scott Foster and his allies did their best to intimidate and isolate their targets, making these young people feel alone and somehow responsible. Well, they’re not alone anymore,” attorney Jessica Fickling said in a statement announcing the suit.
Foster, 49, was found dead in his car at a state park on Aug. 22. He shot himself in the head, the Greenville County Coroner’s Office ruled.
“He knew this was going to be a moment when the light was going to be shined on what I think will turn out to be a coven of sexual predators surrounding Rockstar,” said attorney James Bannister.
A number of people either knew Foster was abusing his cheer students and ignored it or did not have rules and procedures in place to stop the abuse, the lawsuit says.
Foster and other coaches not named in the lawsuit had sex with cheer students, sent and asked for explicit photos over social media, gave them alcohol and marijuana at their homes and in hotel rooms at cheer competitions and warned them to not tell anyone about it, according to the lawsuit.
“We have video of Scott Foster on Snapchat with beer bongs drinking with his underage cheerleaders,” Sellers said at a news conference this week.
The suit also names Varsity Brands, which runs cheerleading competitions; the U.S. All Star Federation, which is an organizing and governing body for competitive cheerleading across the country; Bain Capital, which bought Varsity in 2018, and others.
State and federal police are investigating Foster’s Rockstar Cheer and other cheerleading outlets, seizing computers, cellphones and other evidence, Bannister said.

Jeffrey Epstein could not be reached for comment.




 

Category: Crime, South Carolina

Sarah Palin’s Setback Can Be Not A Bug, But A Feature

Posted on | September 2, 2022 | Comments Off on Sarah Palin’s Setback Can Be Not A Bug, But A Feature

by Smitty

There’s been little for me to add to the blog the last couple of years, but Ranked Choice Voting is the Devil’s ballot. I hope that Sarah Palin both:

  • recovers in November, and
  • we nip this evil in the bud.

“The Devil’s ballot” sounds pejorative. It is meant in the diabolical sense of something that seems a positive thing, but ends up proving a Faustian bargain. Read more

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Joe Biden’s Blood-Red War Speech

Posted on | September 2, 2022 | 1 Comment

Everybody noticed the optics of the speech Thursday night in Philadelphia: The “blood red” lighting, the Marines standing at attention:

It didn’t take long after Biden finished his rancid, combative remarks in Philadelphia for the reviews of the latest divisive screed from “Mr. Unity” to come in, and they predictably were not favorable from those among the 70 million Americans he declared were hatefully working to bring about the end of democracy . . .
Meanwhile, even CNN talent was unnerved by the display. Chief National Affairs Correspondent Jeff Zeleny took issue with the staging of the Marines behind Biden for such a political speech, calling it a “break with White House traditions.”

As many observers remarked, Biden essentially declared war on the 74 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump in 2020, declaring them a “clear and present danger” and a “threat to the country.” Thirteen times he used “MAGA” to define these enemies:

Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.
Now, I want to be very clear . . . very clear up front: Not every Republican, not even the majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans. Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology. . . .
But there is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country. . . .
And here, in my view, is what is true: MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people. . . .
MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards — backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.
And they see their MAGA failure to stop a peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election as preparation for the 2022 and 2024 elections. . . .
That’s why respected conservatives, like Federal Circuit Court Judge Michael Luttig, has called Trump and the extreme MAGA Republicans, quote, a “clear and present danger” to our democracy. . . .
There are far more Americans — far more Americans from every — from every background and belief who reject the extreme MAGA ideology than those that accept it. . . .
MAGA Republicans have made their choice. They embrace anger. They thrive on chaos. They live not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies. . . .
We must be stronger, more determined, and more committed to saving American democracy than MAGA Republicans are to — to destroying American democracy. . . .
Democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election: either they win or they were cheated. And that’s where MAGA Republicans are today. . . .
MAGA Republicans look at America and see carnage and darkness and despair. They spread fear and lies –- lies told for profit and power.

“Kulaks! Wreckers! Saboteurs! Trotskyists!” It’s not an exaggeration to compare Biden’s rhetoric demonizing opponents to the way totalitarians like Stalin demonized their enemies, and this was clearly more than an attempt to excite his party’s “base” for the November midterms.

Bonchie at Red State gets very close to it: “It sure feels like Biden wants to provoke some kind of violent response.” William Jacobson sees the same thing: “Understand that Joe Biden is trying to provoke conflict, he wants it, his handlers want it. They launched this campaign about a month ago. It’s calculated.” Biden’s motive can best be understood by reference to Sun Tzu in The Art of War: “When the enemy is close at hand and remains quiet, he is relying on the natural strength of his position. When he keeps aloof and tries to provoke a battle, he is anxious for the other side to advance.” (Emphasis added.) Biden’s insulting language was part of an effort (along with the raid on Mar-a-Lago) to provoke “extremists,” to cause some right-winger to engage in a violent act that then can be used to say, “See? We told you they were dangerous!”

We are now less than 10 weeks away from Election Day, and what Biden wants is for some fringe kook to go off on a rampage that will serve to dramatize the “clear and present danger” theme he rolled out.




 

Category: Joe Biden

In The Mailbox: 09.01.22

Posted on | September 1, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.01.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in August!
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: 50 Years Ago – Bobby Fischer Won The World Chess Championship
Director Blue: Introducing The Kids’ FBI Agent Kit!
EBL: Joe Biden – Super Pimp, also, Fetterman Fears Debating Oz
Twitchy: The Gist Of President Biden’s “Soul Of The Nation” Speech, also, Blue-Check White-Knights NBC Reporter Who Called Jackson Mississippi’s Water Crisis “Environmental Racism”
Louder With Crowder: Woke energy company locks customers out of setting their ‘smart’ thermostats and too bad if you don’t like it
Vox Popoli: “So Staggeringly Bad”, Mailvox: Dyscivilizationation, and Destroying Democracy to Save It

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Putin’s Last Laugh, also, Is the World Weary of War in Ukraine?
American Greatness: FBI Agents have Allegedly Lost Confidence in Director Christopher Wray, also, Joe Biden’s Antifa Politics
American Power: Biden Will Summon His Supporters to Wage a War For the ‘Soul of the Nation’ Against Republicans Who Are ‘Semi-Fascists’ and a ‘Threat to Democracy’
American Thinker: We Have Been Thinking about This All Wrong
Babalu Blog: Meet Charlie Crist’s running mate Karla Mats, the union boss with a soft spot for Fidel Castro, Not all attack dogs in Cuba run on four legs, and Havana headquarters of the Ladies in White ‘gifted’ with Afro-Cuban witchcraft hex bomb
BattleSwarm: Peter Zeihan on The Kherson Counteroffensive
Behind The Black: NASA awards SpaceX new $1.4 billion contract to launch its astronauts, On Mars you can find glaciers everywhere in the mid-latitudes, and Today’s blacklisted American: Google scholarship sets racist quotas favoring minorities
Cafe Hayek: Wall Street Journal: Bankruptcy Doesn’t Equal Death, also, Maybe Covid Loves the Blue-State Scene
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Chicago Boyz: Speaking of Surveys
Da Tech Guy: Men’s Retreat and September Indulgence Calendar, also, Democrats used the FBI as an attack dog to censor Americans on social media during the 2020 election
Don Surber: Why people 16-40 don’t follow the media, also, Sanctuary cities — for criminals
First Street Journal: European socialism has saddled Europeans with skyrocketing electricity bills, also, Jim Kenney: The Buck Doesn’t Stop Here!
Gates Of Vienna: Throwing Robert Habeck Under the Bus
The Geller Report: Fear of Trump kept Iran in compliance of nuclear deal, says former Israeli security chief
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Time and Grammar, Statistics v. Natural Selection, and Meanwhile, in Lower Middle Earth
Hollywood In Toto: Purple Hearts Heals While Biden Stirs Up Hate, Division, Why Rob Schneider Went Viral for ‘SNL’ Slam, and Alec Baldwin Calls Hollywood’s Conservative Blacklist ‘Unfortunate’
The Lid: Biden Tried To Talk Crime This Week — And Failed, also, Economist With Long Record Of Accurate Predictions Says A Whopper Of A Recession Coming In 2023 And 2024
Legal Insurrection: Biden Admin Colluded With Social Media Platforms to Censor and Suppress Content, Chinese Communist Party Loyalists Are Stifling Dissent on College Campuses in America, and Herschel Walker Leads Raphael Warnock in Georgia Senate Race In Two New Polls
Nebraska Energy Observer: In other news
Outkick: Police Release Photo Of Oakland A’s Fans Who Engaged In Ballpark Sex Act, Junior Hockey Player Eli Palfreyman Dies At Tournament, Shannon Sharpe Calls Aaron Rodgers a ‘Prick’ For Not Getting Vaccinated, and Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk Refuses To Shake Hands With Belarusian Victoria Azarenka At US Open
Power Line: Joe Biden, Soul Doctor, For Your Video Viewing Pleasure, and Peltola prevails
Protein Wisdom: Alex’s War
Shark Tank: Marco Rubio Calls Woke Culture “The Epitome Of Insanity”
Shot In The Dark: “Semi-Fascists” Vs. Not-Semi-At-All Authoritarian, Part III, “Semi-Fascists” Vs. Not-Semi-At-All Authoritarian, Part II, and Great Moments In Feminism
STUMP: U.S. life expectancy fell almost 1 year (again) in 2021 – what does that mean?
The Political Hat: Transgenderism is Magic
This Ain’t Hell: Biden lies about AR-15s. Again, This is how we judge their sincerity, and Leftist undercover operations are as bad as their memes
Victory Girls: “Dissent is Fascism” — Latest Democrat Mantra
Volokh Conspiracy: Not Everything Bad is “Anti-Democratic” – and that which is Democratic isn’t Always Good
Watts Up With That: Oops: Alaskan Electric Buses Run Out of Power in Winter
Weasel Zippers: Palin Loses Special Election In Alaska, US Air Force: Stop Using Gendered Language, It Increases Your Lethality, Biden Press Sec: “MAGA Agenda” Is “One Of The Most Extreme Agendas That We Have Seen”, and Video Shows Angry Feminist Get The Sh*t Smacked Out Of Her By Cop Who Isn’t Having Any Of Her Sh*t
The Federalist: McConnell Sounds Like He Wants To Abandon A Ship Rick Scott Wants To Captain, Bombshell Emails Show The Biden Administration Colluded With Big Tech To Censor Covid ‘Misinformation’Amid A Self-Inflicted Energy Crisis, California Gives Its Last Nuclear Power Plant A Five-Year Extension, How Senator Biden Helped Create The Student Debt Crisis President Biden Is Pretending To Fix, and Pope Francis Ushers In Radical Environmentalism Under The Guise Of ‘Catholic Teaching’
Mark Steyn: Crimes That Shame a Nation, also, Vindicated Conspiracy Theorists

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In The Mailbox: 08.31.22

Posted on | August 31, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.31.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1826
EBL: Mikhail Gorbachev, RIP, also, Has Christopher Wray Lost Control Of The FBI?
Twitchy: Wide Shot Of Biden’s Pa. Crowd Explains Why WH Didn’t Want Wide Shots Of The Crowd, Politifact Rates WH Spin On GOP PPP Loans True, and Wiener Pulls Out
Louder With Crowder: Californians told not to charge their electric vehicles days after state announced a ban on gas-powered cars, also, ‘We’ve been voting Dem for 59 years’: Charles Barkley goes off on Democrats failing the black community
Vox Popoli: The Informing Principle, TikTok On the Clock, The Big Ticket, and Progress

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Can You Heat Europe With Von Der Leyen’s Hot Air?
American Greatness: House Republicans Making Plans to Impeach Biden, also, New York City Struggles to Find Housing for over 6,000 Illegals Bused in from Texas
American Power: Bed Bath & Beyond to Close 150 Stores
American Thinker: Reiner, Klobuchar and the Big Lie of January 6
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Long Term Memory News, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cubans clash with police violently preventing them from boarding rafts to escape the island, Political prisoners from Cuba’s July 11 protests punished for rejecting communist reeducation, and Reports from Cuba: Many Cubans with dengue fever hide at home to avoid bad time at a hospital
BattleSwarm: Mikhail Gorbachev, RIP
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches another 46 Starlink satellites into orbit, Ursa Major makes rocket engine deal with Air Force, and Today’s blacklisted American
Cafe Hayek: And Again, Then A Miracle Occurs, also, Internalized Costs Are Not Evidence of Market Failure
CDR Salamander: A Stain Unfaded by Time: a Year After the Fall of Kabul
Da Tech Guy: Under the Fedora: Missing Those Pillows, Blackout Futures, Hot Air Countdown, Formerly Common Knowledge and Betting vs Cutting
Don Surber: WaPo praises USSR’s Biden, Barr defends raid on Mar-a-Lago. Lefties still want his hide, and Judge Nap makes another Trump indictment prediction
First Street Journal: Now the Biden Administration wants people to take a completely untested-in-humans vaccine!
Gates Of Vienna: Affirmative-Action Jihad in Lugano, Cultural Appropriators Must Be Cancelled!, Imam on the Run, and Enough of the Nuisance!
The Geller Report: DeSantis calls for IRS audits on lawmakers who voted for Inflation Act
Hogewash: No, Joe, They Won’t Need F-15s, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, and Tonight’s Sky: September, 2022
Hollywood In Toto: Schwarzenegger’s Running Man Delivered More than ’80s-Era Cheese, also, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul Delivers Toothless Megachurch Satire
The Lid: Biden Lies About AR-15s, Claims Bullets Travel 5x Times Faster Than Any Other Round
Legal Insurrection: Fetterman Uses His May Stroke to Justify Not Debating, Biden Chooses Lois Lerner Associate to Oversee Massive Expansion of the IRS, and VA Gov. Glenn Youngkin Slams California Law Banning New Gas-Powered Cars
Michelle Malkin:
Nebraska Energy Observer: No Apologies
Outkick: Myles Garrett Responds To Baker Mayfield Vowing To F*** Up The Browns, Tennis Influencer Rachel Stuhlmann Takes Over At U.S. Open, Tennis Star Sara Bejlek, 16, Addresses Her Father & Coach Grabbing Her Butt At U.S. Open, and College Football Playoff Could Expand To 12 Teams By Friday
Power Line: The West’s Energy Disaster Worsens, Semi-moronic, and A Footnote on Reagan & Gorbachev
Shark Tank: Progressive Karen Green To Face Combat Veteran Cory Mills In November
Shot In The Dark: “Semi-Fascists” Vs. Not-Semi-At-All Authoritarians, Part 1, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Urban Progressive Privilege: Defunding For Ye, But Not For Me
The Political Hat: Synthetic Embryos Mean One Thing: Mass Produced Genetically Engineered Catgirls
This Ain’t Hell: Navy looking for a few good … thumbs, WP Opinion: Student Loan Forgiveness = Stolen Valor, Mikhail Gorbachev passes away at 91, and Hot!! USS Texas is afloat and sailing to Galveston NOW!! YOU CAN WATCH!
Transterrestrial Musings: Mikhail Gorbachev
Victory Girls: Problems And Questions About That Classified Documents Photo, also, Fetterman Admits He Can’t Handle A Debate
Volokh Conspiracy: President Biden’s Apparently Incorrect Claim That AR-15 Bullets Travel 5 Times Faster Than Others
Watts Up With That: Arctic Ice at Decade-High Level: Can Doomsayers Explain?
Weasel Zippers: California Tells Residents Not To Charge Electric Vehicles Because Of Blackouts A Week After Saying State Would Ban Sale Of Gas Cars, Senior Moment: Biden Totally Screws Up Who Is Running For What In Pennsylvania, Joe Rogan Says Jen Psaki Was A Propagandist While Comparing McEnany To Michael Jordan, and WH Says Biden’s Economy Is In “Transition”
The Federalist: The Real Hero Of The Soviet Fall Wasn’t Gorbachev, Democrat Candidates In Key Battleground States Are Ducking Debates With Their GOP Opponents, It’s Too Late For Corrupt Media To Decide Political Violence Is Bad, and Wall Street Bigwigs Are Left-Wing Activists Using Your Money To Push Their Politics
Mark Steyn: Into The Sunset, also, When Nothing Works

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In The Mailbox: 08.30.22

Posted on | August 30, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.30.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Another Hopperesque piece from u/itskaiwan

 

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Freezing In The Dark
EBL: FBI Agent Timothy Thibault Out, Nikole Flax to lead IRS , and Big Win For Gibson’s Bakery 
Twitchy: DNC Advisor Tells MSNBC GOP Should Be Treated Like Domestic Terrorist Cell
Louder With Crowder: Business community says if progressive city won’t do anything about crime, they’ll stop paying taxes, also, Chris Rock rejects offer to host Oscars again with joke
Vox Popoli: Quantum Edit List, Qui Tam vs Cui Bono, Post-EU Europe, and The Last of the Summer Offensive

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Trivium classical learning system
American Conservative: Neronian Ruling Class Fiddles While West Burns
American Greatness: One Giant Problem with the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Raid, Republican Senators Demand Facebook Hand Over FBI  Communications FBI About Hunter Biden Laptop Story, and What Is to Be Done?
American Power:  The Unmaking of American History by the Woke Mob, also, Ukraine War Is Depleting U.S. Ammunition Stockpiles
American Thinker:  Unelected Bureaucrats Unilaterally Impose the Green New Deal, also, Expect More Democrat Hail Marys
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Relative Happiness News
Babalu Blog: Cuban State Security raids home of adolescent girl beaten by police, Cuban hospitals overwhelmed by dengue epidemic and power blackouts, and As the Cuban dictatorship teeters on the verge of collapse, Biden cuts funding to Radio Martí and VOA
BattleSwarm: Kherson Counteroffensive Finally Begins, also, Kherson Counteroffensive: Day Two
Behind The Black: Astra gets contract to provide engines to OneWeb satellites, The Ukrainian War: After Six Months, and Today’s blacklisted American
Cafe Hayek: Nor Does the Free Market Read Shakespeare
CDR Salamander: Nice Ammo Dump You Have There, Shame if–
Chicago Boyz: Who Knows?
Da Tech Guy: Report from Louisiana: On this Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Opportunities for the GOP in MA and Car Dealers in the Northeast States, and A voyage into history
Don Surber: WSJ takes on the FBI, NYT gleefully reports WaPo woes, and NBC is about to chuck Todd
First Street Journal: If the gun laws are the problem, why aren’t the homicide rates for Philly and the rest of the Commonwealth fairly similar?, also, The hypocrisy of elected Democrats
Gates Of Vienna: Vehicular Jihad in Brussels, Mass Immigration? Austria Says “Forget It!”, Beware of Criminal Migrants!, and The Winters of Our Discontent
The Geller Report: Elon Musk: We Need Oil and Gas “Because Otherwise Civilization Will Crumble”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, Aiming DART
Hollywood In Toto: Rob Schneider on Saturday Night Live – ‘It’s Over’, Entourage Creator Flees Crime-Infested L.A., and Why Can’t Joe Rogan Make Up His Mind?
The Lid: Thirteen States Set To Tax Amount of Canceled Student Loan Debt
Legal Insurrection: Jean-Pierre Tells Fox’s Doocy No One Just Walks Across the Border, Gibson’s Bakery Wins! Ohio Supremes Refuse To Hear Oberlin College Appeal, and ‘Severely Immunocompromised’: Media Carefully Words Report of Person Dying With Monkeypox in Texas
Michelle Malkin: Stop Mental Health Data Mining of Our Kids
Nebraska Energy Observer: Here’s a fun fact to start your Monday, also, It’s a concert
Outkick: Parents Of Punter Matt Araiza Say ‘War Waged On Our Son’, ‘Tried And Convicted In The Media’, ‘F*** Scott Frost’: Enraged Nebraska Fans Rip The State Of The Program, Jon Gruden Gives Emotional Response To Raiders Firing And The Aftermath, and Keith Olbermann Thinks He Lives Rent-Free In Aaron Rodgers’ Head
Power Line: Ohio Supremes to Oberlin College: Pay Up, also, Timothy Thibault exits FBI
Shark Tank: First Responder Groups Endorse AG Ashley Moody In Droves
Shot In The Dark: Somewhere In Hollywood Tomorrow Morning, Buried, and Karen’s House
STUMP: Student loan reduction: short-term and long-term effects
The Political Hat: The War On Gas Automobiles Is Upon Us
This Ain’t Hell: Armed ANTIFA personnel guard ‘kid friendly’ drag show, Iranians try feeling up Navy drone, Hunter Biden Laptop Denier to be appointed to Intelligence Advisory Board, and Iran Deal II Disaster
Transterrestrial Musings:  Hangar Queen, also, The Kherson Counteroffensive
Victory Girls: Meat Eating Man Owns Screaming Vegans
Volokh Conspiracy: Court Rejects Suit by Volunteer Yale Psych Professor Fired for Public Diagnosis of Trump and Alan Dershowitz
Watts Up With That: Why “Zombie Ice” and other claims of Greenland ice melt raising sea levels are just modeled hokum
Weasel Zippers: Pennsylvania Dem Senate Candidate John Fetterman: “I Am Horrified” By Voter ID Requirements, California Now A Sanctuary State For Trans Kids, WH Denies Unvaccinated Illegal Immigrants Are Walking Into Our Country, and Florida GOP Office Vandalized After Biden Refers To Republicans As Fascists
The Federalist: Google Nukes Truth Social From App Store, Yes, Mitch McConnell Would Rather Lose The Senate Than His Leadership Status, If Young People Are Mature Enough For Trans Surgeries, They’re Mature Enough To Pay Back Their Student Loans, and Who Are You Calling A Fascist, Mr. President?
Mark Steyn: Candle in the Wind, Performance Art with No Performers, and The Bill Comes Due

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‘Deep State’ Cracking Up? Top FBI Agent Resigns Amid Political Bias Charges

Posted on | August 30, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘Deep State’ Cracking Up? Top FBI Agent Resigns Amid Political Bias Charges

“Don’t f**k with Charles Grassley” is always good advice:

A top FBI agent at the Washington field office reportedly resigned from his post last week after facing intense scrutiny over allegations he helped shield Hunter Biden from criminal investigations into his laptop and business dealings.
Timothy Thibault, an FBI assistant special agent in charge, was allegedly forced out after he was accused of political bias in his handling of probes involving President Biden’s son, sources told the Washington Times on Monday.
The agent was escorted out of the field office by at least two “headquarters-looking types” last Friday, the sources said.
Thibault and the FBI didn’t immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment on Monday.
Thibault, a 25-year-veteran, had already been on leave for a month after the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), started raising concerns about whistleblower claims that the FBI had obstructed its own investigations into the first son.
In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray in July, Grassley said Thibault and FBI supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten were allegedly involved in “a scheme” to “undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation.”
Thibault also allegedly tried to kill off a valid avenue of investigation of possible Hunter Biden criminality until at least one month before the November 2020 election, according to Grassley.
“Thibault allegedly ordered the matter closed without providing a valid reason as required by FBI guidelines … [and] subsequently attempted to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future,” Grassley wrote.
Meanwhile, Republican senators have also publicly scrutinized Thibault’s alleged anti-Trump social media activity ahead of the 2020 election, including a retweet of a Lincoln Project message that called Donald Trump a “psychologically broken, embittered and deeply unhappy man.”
He also allegedly tweeted that he wanted to “give Kentucky to the Russian Federation.”
Wray admitted under grilling from GOP senators earlier this month that allegations of political bias at the hands of FBI agents, including Thibault, were “deeply troubling.”

Exactly when did it become “deeply troubling,” Mr. Wray? Was it shortly after Republican senators started asking questions about it in public hearings? Because my hunch is, you were OK with it, as long as you were getting away with it, but after Grassley found out about it, then it became “deeply troubling.” And let’s not forget this story from Paul Sperry: “FBI Unit Leading Mar-a-Lago Probe Earlier Ran Discredited Trump-Russia Investigation.” Thibault worked hand-in-hand with the same operatives involved in all this anti-Trump activity at the FBI, and the fact that Wray is throwing him under the bus now suggests maybe they don’t trust him to keep their dirty secrets hush-hush. So I’m going to get ahead of the news cycle here and declare: Timothy Thibault did not commit suicide.




 

Category: Corruption, Scandal

Our Divider-in-Chief Has Done It Again

Posted on | August 30, 2022 | 1 Comment

I was semi-fascist before semi-fascism was cool:

President Joe Biden called on Democrats Thursday “to vote to literally save democracy once again” — and compared Republican ideology to “semi-fascism” — as he led a kickoff rally and a fundraiser in Maryland 75 days out from the midterm elections.
Addressing an overflow crowd of thousands at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, Biden said: “Your right to choose is on the ballot this year. The Social Security you paid for from the time you had a job is on the ballot. The safety of your kids from gun violence is on the ballot, and it’s not hyperbole, the very survival of our planet is on the ballot.”

(“Vote Democrat or die!”)

“You have to choose,” Biden added. “Will we be a country that moves forward or a country that moves backward?” . . .

(“Backward” to the time of lower gas prices, maybe?)

Ahead of the rally, Biden raised about $1 million at an event with about 100 donors for the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund in the backyard of a lavish Bethesda home. . . .

(Democrat “grassroots” = Bethesda millionaires.)

Biden on Thursday expanded on his effort to paint Republicans as the “ultra-MAGA” party — a reference to former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan — opposing his agenda and embracing conservative ideological proposals as well as Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election.
“What we’re seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy,” Biden told donors at the fundraiser. “It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the — I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism.”
“I respect conservative Republicans,” Biden said later. “I don’t respect these MAGA Republicans.”

The feeling is mutual, I’m sure. The thing I enjoy most about the Biden presidency is the great job he’s done “uniting our country.”




 

Category: Joe Biden
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