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The Question the Democrats Don’t Want You to Ask: Who Is Alexandra Chalupa?

Posted on | October 1, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Bombshell news from The Washington Times:

Two top Republican senators on Monday asked the Justice Department to investigate claims that Democrats worked with Ukrainian officials to dig up dirt on President Trump ahead of the 2016 election.
GOP Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Charles E. Grassley of Iowa sent a letter to Attorney General William P. Barr asking for more information about whether Ukrainian officials sought to undermine Mr. Trump’s campaign. They also want to know more about 2020 Democratic presidential front-runner, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s interactions with Ukrainian officials.
“Ukrainian efforts abetted by a U.S. political party to interfere in the 2016 election should not be ignored,” the senators wrote. “Such allegations of corruption deserve due scrutiny, and the American people have a right to know when foreign forces attempted to undermine our Democrat processes.”
The letter comes just days after the Justice Department revealed U.S. Attorney John Durham is investigating whether Ukraine was involved in any efforts to meddle in the 2016 election.

From the Grassley-Johnson letter:

At the center of this plan was Alexandra Chalupa, described by reports as a Ukrainian-American operative “who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee” and who reportedly met with Ukrainian officials during the presidential election for the express purpose of exposing alleged ties between then-candidate Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, and Russia. Politico also reported on a Financial Times story that quoted a Ukrainian legislator, Serhiy Leschenko, as saying that Trump’s candidacy caused “Kiev’s wider political leadership to do something they would never have attempted before: intervene, however indirectly, in a U.S. election.”
The July 20, 2017 letter further noted that the Democratic National Committee encouraged Chalupa to work with Ukrainian embassy staff to “arrange an interview in which Poroshenko [the president of Ukraine] might discuss Manafort’s ties to Yanukovych.” In March 2016, Chalupa met with Valeriy Chaly, Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S., and Oksana Shulyar, a top aid to the Ukrainian ambassador, to share her alleged concerns about Manafort. Reports state that the purpose of that initial meeting was to “organize a June reception at the embassy to promote Ukraine.” However, another Ukrainian embassy official, Andrii Telizhenko, told Politico that Shulyar instructed him to assist Chalupa with research to connect Trump, Manafort, and the Russians. He reportedly said, “[t]hey were coordinating an investigation with the Hillary team on Paul Manafort with Alexandra Chalupa” and that “Oksana [Shulyar] was keeping it all quiet…the embassy worked very closely with” Chalupa. In a May 2019 article, Telizhenko was quoted as saying,

[Chalupa] said the DNC wanted to collect evidence that Trump, his organization and Manafort were Russian assets, working to hurt the U.S. and working with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin against the U.S. interests. She indicated if we could find the evidence they would introduce it in Congress in September and try to build a case that Trump should be removed from the ballot, from the election.

Reportedly, Telizhenko was instructed by the Ukrainian government to meet with an American journalist about Paul Manafort’s ties to Ukraine. In addition, in May 2016, Chalupa emailed a DNC official stating that she met with 68 Ukrainian investigative journalists about Manafort and that there would be “[a] lot more coming down the pipe.”

Here is a complicated but useful summary of Chalupa’s involvement, including her connection to infamous bomber Brett Kimberlin.

In June 2018, Lee Stranahan briefed me on this story:

Alexandra Chalupa was a DNC staffer who left that job in summer 2016 to focus full-time on the Trump/Russia angle. Her association with Kimberlin was reported in 2017. Yet until Lee started poking around, no one seems to have caught the significance of her Facebook post, in which she asserted that “The Protectors” (apparently an online front for Kimberlin’s tax-exempt Justice Through Music Project, and likely involving Neal Rauhauser) had “teamed up” with federal agencies to encourage investigation of the phony Russian “collusion” narrative. Such a connection, if proven, would almost certainly be of interest to current DOJ officials trying to get to the bottom of so-called “Deep State” efforts by federal employees to sabotage the Trump administration.

Glenn Reynolds: “We need to get to the bottom of this — and the fear that we will is why the Democrats and their press enablers are getting so crazy.” After her name was mentioned by Rep. Devin Nunes last week, Alexandra Chalupa had a meltdown on Twitter. Stay tuned . . .



 

Category: Corruption, Democrats, Ukraine

In The Mailbox: 09.30.19

Posted on | September 30, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The folks at Ammo.com, in addition to sending along the article below, asked me to mention their Resistance Library, whose aim is to arm their customers philosophically as well as physically. There’s some interesting reading in it. Worth checking out.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: Forgive Me For I Have Sinned
357 Magnum: Quote Of The Day
Ammo.com: Food Is Freedom – How Washington’s Food Subsidies Have Made You Fat & Sick
EBL: Happy Birthday Hoover Dam
Twitchy: Intel Officials Alarmed That AG Barr Taking Direct Role In Investigating “Conspiracy Theories”
Louder With Crowder: Girl Who Claimed Three White Boys Attacked Her Admits She Was Making It All Up

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Importance Of Sleep And Relaxation
American Greatness: Impeachment Coup Analytics, also, Biden Campaign Pressures Media To Stop Booking Giuliani
American Power: What John Durham Has Found May Be Very Different From What The Democrats Are Looking For
American Thinker: Adam Schiff’s Impeachment Fun Playhouse, also, The Cynical Plot Behind Global Warming Hysteria
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Socialism In Action – Monthly Food Ration Distributed By Castro Regime Only Provides 10 Days’ Food
BattleSwarm: Will Hurd Running For President? Nope. also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Camp of the Saints: Review – Ken Burns’ #CountryMusic PBS Part II
Cafe Hayek: Economic Ignorance 101, also, Optimal Schmoptimal
CDR Salamander: If No More 355, How Can USCG Be More Help?
Da Tech Guy: Feds Setting Up Massive Corruption Net In Chicagoland, also, The End Is Nigh
Don Surber: Echo Chamber Madness, also, Highlights Of The News
First Street Journal: Maybe They Ought To Consider Men Who Actually Work For A Living
The Geller Report: 40% Of German Welfare Recipients Are Muslim Migrants, also, African Jihadis Execute Two Christian Aid Workers
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Two Words For Democrats Advocating Impeachment
Hollywood In Toto: Only Conservative Media Call Out Hollywood Eco-Hypocrites, also, DVD Autopsy – The Banana Splits Movie
Joe For America: Rolling Thunder Chief Predicts If Trump Impeached, Bikers Will Descend On DC, also, Citizen Confronts Adam Schiff At Airport About Lying To Congress
JustOneMinute: Prior To The Invention Of “Jobs Created Or Saved”
Legal Insurrection: “Resistance By Whistleblower” Was Part Of The Anti-Trump Plan From The Start, also, State Department Intensifies Investigation Into Hillary’s E-Mail Server Practices
The PanAm Post: Evo Morales Blames The Rich For Environmental Damage As His Fortune Triples
Power Line: NYC Bans Wrongthink, also, Adam Schiff As The Voice Of Reason?
Shark Tank: FL State Rep Cindy Polo’s “Hateful & Divisive” Ideology
Shot In The Dark: Running Out Of Options
STUMP: Divestment & ESG Follies – The Case For Divestment In Public Pension Plans
The Political Hat: News Of The Week
This Ain’t Hell: De Blasio Is Back In Town, Unfortunately, also, VA To Share Veterans’ Information Without Their Consent
Victory Girls: Karen Pence Blamed For Attack – Which Was A Hoax
Volokh Conspiracy: “Stairway To Heaven” & The Scope Of Musical Copyright
Weasel Zippers: Antifa Harass, Scream In Face Of Elderly Woman In Walker, also, Rudy Reads Ukrainian Prosecutor Affidavit To ABC – Confirms Prosecutor Was Investigating Burisma, Removed By Biden pressure
Mark Steyn: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, also, Blackface Narcissus

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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Sunday: Summertime Girls

Posted on | September 30, 2019 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I guess most of the country’s moved on to autumn, what with Labor Day being almost a month in the past, football season underway, and friends in states next to Canada already being vexed with snow, but here in Sin City it’s still warm enough to hit the beaches, and where there are beaches there must be lifeguards, hopefully as pretty as Angelica Bridges, seen here reprising her role in Baywatch for a 2016 photoshoot.

All this and brains too. Note that Ms. Bridges wisely encourages healthy hydration!

Ninety Miles From Tyranny dives in with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #755, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Oblivious Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s heifers this week include June Carter, Connie Smith, Kate Phillips, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Dolly, & Loretta Lynn, “You Ain’t Woman Enough”, and Jeannie C. Riley.

A View From The Beach reels in Carnival Row Cuties, Fish Pic Friday – Bow Babes, Iman Don’t Wanna Live Like a Refugee,  More Wednesday Water Bottles, “Fever”, Striped Bass vs Red Drum, A Long Ride, Just Another Palm Sunday and Whence “Fake News”?

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe is Angie Dickinson, and at Bacon Time, it’s Rule Five Eddie Money RIP.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

 

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Category: Rule 5

‘Shared Values’ = $195 Million

Posted on | September 29, 2019 | 1 Comment

In order to “remove arbitrary barriers in our community, and provide leadership that is reflective of our shared values,” the city of Portland, Oregon, will spend $195 million to remove urinals from restrooms in a municipally-owned office building. That’s right — if guys want to take a leak, they can pee in a stall in the new gender-neutral toilets. And to repeat, this will cost Portland taxpayers $195,000,000.

Do you suppose that women will be happy with this result? Because knowing what I know about men, women and toilets, I think not. Most women would prefer never to have to use a public restroom, but if they must do so, they want that restroom to be very clean. And this condition will be hard to obtain in gender-neutral public facilities with no urinals.

And did I mention they’re spending $195,000,000 to do this? Because you extrapolate that to account for every public toilet in America, and the cost of gender-neutral restrooms nationwide won’t be cheap. But it will enable government bureaucrats to lecture us about “our shared values.”

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)



 

Category: The Transgender Cult

If Trump’s Not #Winning, Why Does Biden Want to Silence Giuliani?

Posted on | September 29, 2019 | 2 Comments

What a poker player would call a “tell”:

Joe Biden’s presidential campaign requested in a letter on Sunday that major news networks not invite President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani anymore, after Giuliani spent the morning on a series of talk shows aggressively highlighting what he called Biden’s apparently corrupt dealings in Ukraine and China.
The Biden campaign wrote to NBC News, CBS News, Fox News and CNN to voice “grave concern that you continue to book Rudy Giuliani on your air to spread false, debunked conspiracy theories on behalf of Donald Trump,” according to The Daily Beast, which first reported the existence of the letter.
The memo, drafted by Biden aides Kate Bedingfield and Anita Dunn, continued: “While you often fact check his statements in real time during your discussions, that is no longer enough. By giving him your air time, you are allowing him to introduce increasingly unhinged, unfounded and desperate lies into the national conversation.”

If what Giuliani is saying about Biden and Ukraine is just “unhinged, unfounded and desperate lies,” wouldn’t it be easy for Biden to prove that? But no — they want him silenced. Don’t be surprised if networks comply with Biden’s demand. “Democrat operatives with bylines,” etc.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!



 

Category: Donald Trump, Joe Biden

Impeachment Mania!

Posted on | September 29, 2019 | 1 Comment

Top of this morning’s headline stack at The Drudge Report:

Pelosi 'heartbroken, prayerful' as impeachment moves forward...
First House Republican backs inquiry...
Signs of discomfort in defense of president...
REPORT: Mulvaney on shaky ground...
LEAK: White House restricted access to Trump calls with Putin, Saudi crown prince...
GERALDO: Entire Presidency Defined By Snitches And Rats And Backstabbers...
Embarrassing Leaks Led to Clampdown on Phone Records...
Blowup over calls with Mexican, Australian leaders led to greater secrecy...
How Rudy ended up in the middle...
Was Not Working Alone...
For Trump, high-velocity threat like none he's ever faced...
PAPER: Embracing President Pence might be party's best play...
America digs in...
Politics taking physical, emotional toll...

Is there any fact that could convince the Democrats to desist? Have they become so maniacally obsessed that they are beyond reason?

UPDATE: I am astonished that the comments turned into a Drudge-bashing festival, which certainly was not what I intended. I don’t agree with those who contend Drudge is anti-Trump, although perhaps his assistant(s) might be. My hunch is that Drudge looks upon impeachment (and “scandal” generally) as good for his traffic. Besides, if you think that impeachment is apt to prove disastrous for Democrats (as I do), wouldn’t it actually be your duty as a right-wing journalist to encourage them to pursue this mania? So if Drudge’s choice of headlines seems anti-Trump lately, is that possibly misleading? And deliberately so?



 

Category: Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi, Ukraine

FMJRA 2.0: Alien Turned Human

Posted on | September 28, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Welcome to ‘Bizarre Hell-World’
EBL

Please Hit Kirby’s Tip Jar
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FMJRA 2.0: Crazee Horse
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

Guy Gets Laid, Feminists Get Angry
The Pirate’s Cove
357 Magnum
EBL

A Great Football Saturday
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Cecile Haussernot
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL

Climate Cult Goes Mad: ‘How Dare You!’
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.23.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Accomplices of Evil
Bacon Time
EBL

Trump Country
EBL

Ukraine! Ukraine! Ukraine!
Dark Brightness
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.24.19
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Queer Theory Pedophilia Jeopardy
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Impeachment Madness
The Pirate’s Cove
EBL

Evil Monsters Dox Bill Pulte
Locomotive Breath
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.25.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Democrats ‘Careening from Impeachment Theory to Impeachment Theory’
Locomotive Breath
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.26.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Why the Ukrainian ‘Nothingburger’?
A View From The Beach
EBL

What Is a Man?
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Aaron Calvin and the SJW Boomerang
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In The Mailbox: 09.27.19
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending September 27:

  1.  EBL (22)
  2.  A View From The Beach (9)
  3.  Proof Positive (5)

Thanks to everyone for the linkagery!

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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | September 28, 2019 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

 

Last week, feminist writer Sofia Barrett-Ibarria wrote an article for Vice headlined, “How Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos Became a Cult Hero.” This caused an uproar, and not merely because making heroes of serial killers is a bad idea. The article included this paragraph:

“I think part of her appeal to me personally, in this cultural moment, is that Aileen Wuornos was a woman that men feared,” said Bailey. Wournos’ memory offers hope that terrible men like Jeffrey Epstein, Brett Kavanaugh, and countless others will ultimately get what they deserve. “A prostitute hunting men instead of being hunted is a deeply comforting story.”

Lumping in a justice of the Supreme Court with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein with the suggestion that “what they deserve” is to be murdered? After this raised an outcry, editors re-wrote the paragraph:

As reports of powerful men who abuse vulnerable women continue to surface, it’s hard to deny that survivors are craving stories of revenge — stories where victims not only live to survive the abuse, but fight back. “I think part of her appeal to me personally, in this cultural moment, is that Aileen Wuornos was a woman that men feared,” said Bailey. At a time when we are constantly inundated with stories like that of Jeffrey Epstein and Brett Kavanaugh, her story is an example of men facing repercussions for their actions. “A prostitute hunting men instead of being hunted is a deeply comforting story.”

This is still deeply wrong — Kavanaugh was the victim of a partisan smear, and there is exactly zero evidence that he ever abused anyone.

The real problem with the article, however, is that the underlying theme is morally reprehensible. I am willing to believe that the first man Wuornos killed, a convicted rapist named Richard Mallory, may have attacked her, but he was shot multiple times. How many times do you have to shoot someone in a self-defense situation? Normally, we would be astonished to find “progressives” making a pro-Second Amendment argument, but in the case of Aileen Wuornos, the pistol-wielding prostitute becomes a “cult hero,” and never mind the absence of evidence in support of her story of being attacked by Mallory. The other men murdered by Wuornos were less easily demonized. Peter Siems, for example, was a 65-year-old retiree who devoted himself to Christian ministry; Charles Humphries was a retired Air Force officer. It would appear that the motive was robbery in most of these cases, although it is difficult to determine any rational motive in the case of someone like Wuornos, who was diagnosed as a psychopath by the psychiatrists employed to determine her fitness to stand trial.

Aileen Wuornos, in prison interviews before her 2002 execution.

Yet this murderous psychopath is celebrated (as in the “I’m With Her” T-shirt) by leftists who certainly would not have applauded her had they lived in central Florida in late 1990 after police announced they were hunting a serial killer, a report that terrified residents. Decent people recoil from the claim that a “prostitute hunting men” was somehow justified in killing seven men — most of whom perhaps were guilty of nothing more than offering a ride to a hitchhiker — because of the abuse she had suffered from others. But feminism!

“It’s really easy for society to paint women and other oppressed people as villains when they react in unhinged ways that are often violent, but it’s important to look at how capitalism, cis heterosexist patriarchy, and misogyny really put her in many of the positions she was in that made her murder,” [lesbian activist Dani] Love said. “She was a victim of so many structural oppressions. Sex workers in her field lack protection, which allows violence to happen. Sex workers cannot go to the police for help because they are directly connected to the oppression of so many marginalized groups who often are sex workers: women, black and other people of color, LGBT people.”

Let us stipulate, arguendo, that Wuornos could fairly be described as a “victim of so many structural oppressions.” Was she the only such victim? Had a committee of victims appointed her their avenging angel? Did Wuornos herself articulate any such understanding of her crimes? Or is it rather the case that her latter-day admirers have projected onto Wuornos an interpretation of their own manufacture? Yet this political interpretation is preferred by “progressives” over the ugly truth of who Aileen Wuornos was, and how she became such a monstrous killer. In 2014, I traced her biography briefly:

The other day, I saw a TV documentary about serial killer Aileen Wuornos: She started having incestuous sex with her brother when she was 9 and he was 10. By age 11, Aileen was selling sex to neighborhood boys for pocket change and cigarettes. She got pregnant at 13 and gave the baby up for adoption.
At 15, Aileen’s behavior was so out of control that her grandparents kicked her out of their home and thereafter she supported herself as a prostitute, while also accumulating a criminal rap sheet that included charges like DUI, disorderly conduct, car theft, assault, forgery, armed robbery and resisting arrest. Somewhere along the way, she also became a lesbian and by 1987 she was living with her lover, Tyria Moore.
By then in her early 30s, Wuornos supported the couple by prostitution. In 1989, Wuornos and Moore went on a murder spree, killing seven Florida men in less than a year. Moore agreed to testify against Wuornos in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
So, yeah, if pedophiles want to argue that “consensual” child sex is harmless, maybe they should ask Aileen Wuornos about that. Except she’s been dead for nearly a dozen years. She was 46 in October 2002, when the state of Florida put her down like a dog.

The same “progressive” movement which now wants to make a “cult hero” of Aileen Wuornos has, at various times, supported the abolition of age of consent laws, and argued that children should be included in the “sexual liberation” they so vociferously advocate. But we cannot expect the Left to make logical connections between causes and consequences, because otherwise they wouldn’t be the Left, would they?

And so they celebrate a serial killer, and falsely impugn Brett Kavanaugh, and we can only hope that when some impressionable fool acts on the Left’s rhetoric, no innocent people with suffer.



 

Category: Crime, Progressivism
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