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September 26, 2024
Corruption
Politics

Indictment of NYC’s Eric Adams Unsealed. Here’s What It Alleges…

Federal agents searched New York City Mayor Eric Adams‘s official residence, Gracie Mansion, early Thursday morning. The operation occurred just hours before the indictment against the Democratic Party politician was unsealed.

Mayor Adams’s attorney, Alex Spiro, stated that agents arrived at 6 AM to retrieve the mayor’s phone, which had already been seized once during the investigation late last year. Meanwhile, the unsealed indictment against Adams reveals the New York City mayor faces five counts ranging from wire fraud to bribery to accepting campaign donations from a foreign national.

The indictment alleges that Adams knowingly solicited campaign contributions from Turkish foreign nationals beginning in 2018 in the lead-up to his 2021 run for mayor. Federal prosecutors further allege that Adams and his campaign conspired to hide the illegal contributions through straw donors and fake paper trails, concealing the criminal activity. In exchange for financial support from representatives of the Turkish government, Adams pressured officials in the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) to approve Turkey’s consulate building in Manhattan despite safety issues.

Furthermore, the indictment alleges that Adams used illegal foreign donations to fraudulently increase the public matching funds his campaign received in the 2021 election. In addition, federal prosecutors claim the New York City mayor received not just financial kickbacks through the campaign finance scheme but was granted other benefits from Turkish officials, including free or discounted travel on Turkish Airlines.

The charging document contains a bevy of evidence detailing Adams’s free luxury hotel stays and transportation clandestinely provided by the Turkish government. Already, several individuals close to the New York City mayor have either been raided by federal law enforcement, forced to resign, or pleaded guilty to campaign finance charges.

Image by Anthony Quintano. 

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Federal agents searched New York City Mayor Eric Adams's official residence, Gracie Mansion, early Thursday morning. The operation occurred just hours before the indictment against the Democratic Party politician was unsealed. show more
September 26, 2024
William Upton
Politics
TECH

Zuckerberg Hires RINO Republican to Help Mend his Right Wing PR Problem.

Tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg—chairman and CEO of Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—is taking on the services of establishment Republican money man Brian Baker to help smooth relations with GOP lawmakers and center-right think tankers in Washington, D.C. Baker is no stranger to the Facebook co-founder and billionaire, having helped Zuckerberg’s so-called “election infrastructure” efforts during the 2022 midterm elections.

Baker has a long history in Republican establishment politics in Washington, D.C., serving as the political money man for the billionaire Ricketts family out of Nebraska for over a decade. Former Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts (R) currently sits in the U.S. Senate as one of the state’s two Republican senators. The family also owns the Chicago Cubs professional baseball franchise.

Additionally, Baker—a Chicago, Illinois native—heads Ending Spending, Inc., a nonprofit group that engages in electioneering. In 2017, Ending Spending, Inc. paid Baker $3 million.

The GOP establishment money man is a fixture—alongside lobbyists for companies like Apple, Comcast, and Microsoft—at political fundraisers around the nation’s capital, with many center-right think tanks and candidates hoping to gain access to the Ricketts family wealth. His longstanding ties on Capitol Hill and history as a conduit for wealthy GOP donor money will undoubtedly make Baker an effective force of influence for Zuckerberg and Meta.

Prior to the 2016 election, Baker was a staunch opponent of Donald J. Trump. Though following the America First leader’s Republican primary victory, Baker eventually formed a SuperPAC focused on funding anti-Hillary Clinton campaign advertisements.

ZUCKBUCKS & ELECTION INTERFERENCE. 

Zuckerberg’s relationship with America’s political right has deteriorated drastically since the 2020 presidential election. The Meta CEO has been accused by many on the right of using his vast wealth and companies to interfere in American elections.

He admitted that his social media platform, Facebook, was pressured by the Biden-Harris government to censor Americans who posted about the COVID-19 pandemic on his website. Additionally, the tech billionaire acknowledges that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had warned them about potential Russian disinformation regarding Burisma and the Biden family, which directly resulted in the New York Post‘s Hunter Biden laptop story being suppressed on Facebook.

Meanwhile, the Facebook founder’s Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) pours vast sums of ‘Zuckerbucks’ into what are supposed to be improved voter access initiatives, such as new absentee ballot drop boxes. However, the schemes overwhelmingly benefit Democratic-leaning areas, with election integrity groups arguing they grant leftists greater voting access than conservatives and are, therefore, unlawful.

 

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Tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg—chairman and CEO of Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—is taking on the services of establishment Republican money man Brian Baker to help smooth relations with GOP lawmakers and center-right think tankers in Washington, D.C. Baker is no stranger to the Facebook co-founder and billionaire, having helped Zuckerberg's so-called "election infrastructure" efforts during the 2022 midterm elections. show more
September 25, 2024
William Upton
Culture
Politics

A ‘Bipartisan’ Bar Tried to Open in DC, Then Libs Cried That an Elephant Image Was ‘Hurtful.’

A new bar in Washington, D.C., whose political theme focused on bipartisan agreement and debate, succumbed to partisan pressure before the establishment could even serve its first drink. Originally billed as Political Pattie’s, the bar was flooded with complaints by liberals who said the establishment’s logo—specifically the Republican Elephant—was offensive and ‘hurtful.’

The complaints have prompted Political Pattie’s owners to not just paint over the elephant—along with its accompanying Democrat Donkey—but to apparently drop the “political” theme altogether. New photos of the bar’s exterior—and new paint job—show its name now simply being “Pattie’s.”

D.C. liberals celebrated the harassment campaign’s achievement, tweeting, “Bullying works.”


While the concept of a politically themed bar in the nation’s capital might seem ironically kitschy, it’s perhaps a bit too on the nose.

Residents of Washington, D.C. would be hard-pressed to name a bar in which at least one person isn’t discussing the political topics of the day. The city, after all, hosts Marx Cafe, a bar and restaurant that serves Greek and Italian fare and is dedicated to Karl Marx and the communist revolution.

Political Pattie’s—located among a string of gay bars along Washington, D.C.’s U Street corridor—promised to be ill-conceived and maybe even dangerous before its hasty rebranding following the left-wing backlash. The cocktails on its menu all have—or had—politically themed names like the “Capitol Mule.” However, perhaps most concerning was the owners’ insistence on placing toy gavels on the tables in the establishment. While most political debate in the capital is peaceful, placing small plastic weapons near inebriated think tankers, lobbyists, journalists, and Capitol Hill staffers may not have been the best idea.

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A new bar in Washington, D.C., whose political theme focused on bipartisan agreement and debate, succumbed to partisan pressure before the establishment could even serve its first drink. Originally billed as Political Pattie's, the bar was flooded with complaints by liberals who said the establishment's logo—specifically the Republican Elephant—was offensive and 'hurtful.' show more
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September 24, 2024
Data
Election 2024
Politics

Dems Are in a Polling Panic, Fearful That Trump’s Numbers Are Actually Being UNDERCOUNTED.

Democratic senators fear polls are underestimating former President Donald J. Trump’s level of support. RealClearPolitics gave Vice President Kamala Harris a lead of 2.2 points nationally as of Monday, September 23—a narrower margin than Joe Biden’s seven-point lead and Hillary Clinton’s three-point lead over Trump at similar times in the 2020 and 2016 election campaigns. On election night, Biden’s lead over Trump nationally was significantly lower, at four points. Clinton‘s was also lower, at 2.1 points—and she lost the Electoral College.

One Democratic senator, speaking anonymously, called the numbers “ominous,” adding: “There’s no question that [they are] concerning… My sense is there’s not a lot more you can do than we’re already doing.”

Another anonymous senator lamented, “I don’t think any poll right now means much of anything,” complaining that voters are looking back on the Trump economy as “being so good” compared to the Biden-Harris economy.

Democratic pollster Celinda Lake told the media, “I, too, share the concern that there are going to be some surprises” on election day.

“What accentuates my concern is when you poll people who have not voted in ’20 but are planning to vote today, they are disproportionately Trump voters,” she added.

A poll earlier this month also shows Trump gaining major ground among independents and Latino voters, leading over Harris in both groups.

Image by Gage Skidmore.

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Democratic senators fear polls are underestimating former President Donald J. Trump's level of support. RealClearPolitics gave Vice President Kamala Harris a lead of 2.2 points nationally as of Monday, September 23—a narrower margin than Joe Biden's seven-point lead and Hillary Clinton's three-point lead over Trump at similar times in the 2020 and 2016 election campaigns. On election night, Biden's lead over Trump nationally was significantly lower, at four points. Clinton's was also lower, at 2.1 points—and she lost the Electoral College. show more
September 23, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
Politics

Kamala’s Husband is Lashing Out at The Teamsters for Refusing to Endorse Her.

Doug Emhoff, the Second Gentleman and husband to Vice President Kamala Harris, is lashing out at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union for refusing to endorse his wife’s 2024 Democratic Party presidential campaign. Despite rank-and-file members of the Teamsters overwhelmingly backing former President Donald J. Trump, according to the union’s internal polling, Emhoff believes the labor organization should still have thrown its support to his wife.

“Even though Trump, you know, bullied the leaders of the Teamsters to not do an endorsement, the Teamster locals are all endorsing her, including right here in Pennsylvania,” Emhoff claimed at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania on Sunday. A corporate and entertainment industry litigator whose past clients include the aggressively anti-union Walmart Inc., he added: “These Teamsters are not going to listen to some guy in D.C. who does not have the courage to stand up to Donald Trump, right? Can’t have that.”

The “some guy in D.C.” Emhoff is referring to is Teamsters president Sean O’Brien, who spoke earlier this summer at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. O’Brien has repeatedly stressed that his priorities are serving his union members’ best interests, upholding their political preferences, and building relationships with both political parties to ensure the voices of his members are heard.

CRITICAL UNION VOTERS.

In Pennsylvania, union households—including the Teamsters—could prove pivotal in deciding whether Trump or Harris wins the state. Election experts continually point to white working-class areas of Western Pennsylvania, in which Joe Biden secured higher levels of support in 2020 than Hillary Clinton in 2016, as the deciding factor in that state’s swing to Democrats in the prior presidential election.

Last Wednesday, the Teamsters announced they would not endorse a presidential candidate for the first time in 28 years. The union’s publicly released polling data shows former President Trump winning its members by an almost two-to-one margin over Harris.

Image by Gage Skidmore. 

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Doug Emhoff, the Second Gentleman and husband to Vice President Kamala Harris, is lashing out at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union for refusing to endorse his wife's 2024 Democratic Party presidential campaign. Despite rank-and-file members of the Teamsters overwhelmingly backing former President Donald J. Trump, according to the union's internal polling, Emhoff believes the labor organization should still have thrown its support to his wife. show more
September 23, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election 2024
Politics

Liz Cheney Wants a New Party for Neo-Cons.

Liz Cheney, the former chair of the House Republican Conference, wants the GOP to lose control of the House of Representatives and says that a new, neoconservative party may be needed to supplant it if it does not shed former President Donald J. Trump’s influence. Cheney and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, have already endorsed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.

“The [Republican] party itself really has rejected the Constitution in the name of supporting Trump,” she alleges, suggesting a new party may be required “because, again, so much of the Republican Party today has allowed itself to become a tool for this really unstable man. It certainly has moved away from standing for anything of substance, anything of policy. We’re going to have to have some entity that actually can be making the case for the kind of conservative causes that I believe in.”

Cheney and her father—regarded as a chief architect of the Iraq War—are far more in favor of foreign military interventions than Trump, the first President not to start any new conflicts since the 1970s. Trump believes there has been a permanent shift away from neoconservatism since he became the GOP’s leading man, vowing conservatives are “never going back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove, and Jeb Bush.”

BIG SHIFT.

Cheney seems to fear he is right, saying of organizing a new party, “Look, it’s hard for me to see how the Republican Party, given what it has done, can make the argument convincingly or credibly that people ought to vote for Republican candidates until it really recognizes what it’s done.”

“There is certainly going to be a big shift, I think, in how our politics work… I don’t think it will just simply be, well, the Republican Party is going to put up a new slate of candidates and off to the races. I think far too much has happened that’s too damaging,” she added.

The 58-year-old says it is “really important that Mike Johnson not be the Speaker of the House on January 6, 2025,” claiming “the Republicans have shown that they will not certify the results if Donald Trump is not the victor.”

Cheney says she has already spoken to Harris, advising people to “stay tuned” for her next moves. She already has a history of collaborating with the Democratic Party, joining the corrupt January 6 Committee in 2021.

Image via the Hudson Institute.

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Liz Cheney, the former chair of the House Republican Conference, wants the GOP to lose control of the House of Representatives and says that a new, neoconservative party may be needed to supplant it if it does not shed former President Donald J. Trump's influence. Cheney and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, have already endorsed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. show more
September 21, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Politics
UK

‘The Sky is the Limit!’ – Farage Rallies Thousands at ‘Reform UK’ Conference.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage MP has forecast that his Reform UK party can win the next British general election. He told supporters in Birmingham, England, that the party was now consistently gaining new voters, supporters, and activists, will of whom are fed up with the establishment parties.

Farage, who was elected into the British parliament earlier this year, addressed thousands of delegates at his party’s annual conference on Friday and Saturday, saying, “The energy, the optimism, the enthusiasm that we’ve got in this room is not something that can be replicated by any other political party in this country.”

“The sky is the limit,” he remarked, laying the groundwork for the next five years of campaigning that will hopefully see him returned as Prime Minister to 10 Downing Street by 2029.

Farage took shots at recently elected, far-left Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who has been revealed to have taken expensive clothing donations from wealthy donors.

Speaking of why he decided to quit his job as a broadcaster at GB News, among other ventures, to run for office, Farage noted the failure of the past Conservative government, which has seen a surge of violent crime and mass migration on a scale not seen in the UK in generations.

PROFESSIONALIZING REFORM.

Farage explained that the party would vet candidates at all levels of the party in the future as part of his bid to professionalize the party.

“We haven’t got time, we haven’t got room, for a few extremists to wreck the work of a party that now has 80,000 members and rising by hundreds every single day,” he said.

According to Farage, Reform UK needs to look to the example of the Liberal Democrats, who, despite winning far fewer votes nationally, were able to win 72 seats in parliament due to the first-past-the-post system.

Calling for the party to be credible on the ground everywhere, he stated that Reform UK can bring “success after success.”

“If we do those things – I never thought I’d say this – but I genuinely believe we can change the future of politics, the future of our country, perhaps get back a bit of pride of what it is to be British, respect our history, stand up for our values,” he said.

The first speech, from Friday, begins at two hours and six minutes, here:

The second speech begins around one hour, 18 minutes in, here:

Picture by Stuart Mitchell/IncMonocle and used with permission.

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Brexit leader Nigel Farage MP has forecast that his Reform UK party can win the next British general election. He told supporters in Birmingham, England, that the party was now consistently gaining new voters, supporters, and activists, will of whom are fed up with the establishment parties. show more

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September 20, 2024
Politics
War
World

Dems Demand More Cash for Hamas-Linked Group.

Democrats are attempting to get funding restored to a U.N. Agency whose members participated in the October 7 mass killings in Israel last year alongside Hamas. At a press briefing outside the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, several Democratic Representatives called for reinstating funds to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the passage of H.R. 9649, a.k.a. the UNRWA Funding Emergency Restoration Act.

Among the lawmakers pushing the legislation are Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), who heads the House Progressive Caucus; Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), a staunch ally of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA); André Carson (D-IN), the bill’s lead sponsor; and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), a vocal support of pro-Hamas policies. Overall, 65 House Democrats have joined Rep. Carson in cosponsoring the bill.

Earlier this year, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres assigned the investigative arm of the U.N. to look into Israel’s allegations regarding UNRWA involvement in the October 7 attacks. After investigating roughly 20 staff members, the U.N. found grounds to dismiss nine employees. Significant donors to the agency, including the U.S., subsequently suspended funding, creating a $450 million shortfall. While other donor countries, such as Canada, have resumed their contributions, the U.S. has not.

Anne Bayefsky, Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, argued that reinstating funds would overlook the alleged “connections to terrorism” within UNRWA and send an inappropriate message to both Israel and adversaries of the U.S. In a statement, Bayefsky claimed extensive links between UNRWA employees and Palestinian terror organizations, including Hamas.

Over the last ten years, Western nations have donated over 8 billion dollars to UNRWA, with the United States as the second-largest donor behind the European Union (EU).

Former President Donald J. Trump cut off funding to UNRWA in the final two years of his presidency, only for the Biden-Harris regime to restore it.

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Democrats are attempting to get funding restored to a U.N. Agency whose members participated in the October 7 mass killings in Israel last year alongside Hamas. At a press briefing outside the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, several Democratic Representatives called for reinstating funds to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the passage of H.R. 9649, a.k.a. the UNRWA Funding Emergency Restoration Act. show more
Migrant Crime
September 20, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Crime
Immigration
Politics

158 Democrats Vote AGAINST Deporting Illegal Alien Sex Criminals.

Most Democrats in the House of Representatives voted against the Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act, banning migrants convicted of crimes including rape, stalking, spousal abuse, and child abuse from entering or remaining in the United States. Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus, denounced the Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) sponsored legislation as “another partisan bill that fearmongers about immigrants instead of working together to fix the immigration system.”

The bill passed with 215 Republicans and a minority of 51 Democrats voting in favor. However, over three times as many Democratic lawmakers—158—voted against. Whether it will survive the Democrat-controlled Senate is unclear.

“158 Left-wing members of Congress just voted against deporting rapists, pedophiles and murderers of women and kids,” Mace remarked on social media.

CLOSING LOOPHOLES.

Leading Democrats, including Rep. Jerrold “Jerry” Nadler (D-NY), tried to justify voting against the bill by claiming the Immigration and Nationality Act, which has not been updated for decades, already provides for migrants convicted of many domestic and sexual abuse offenses to be denied entry and made eligible for deportation. However, the bill’s supporters argue it closes several “loopholes,” and it is unclear why Democrats would try to vote down the bill merely for what Nadler describes as “redundancies.”

Democrats have previously blocked the Laken Riley Act, which would have required migrants suspected of crimes including burglary and theft, such as the suspect in Laken Riley’s murder, to be held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody.

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Most Democrats in the House of Representatives voted against the Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act, banning migrants convicted of crimes including rape, stalking, spousal abuse, and child abuse from entering or remaining in the United States. Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus, denounced the Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) sponsored legislation as "another partisan bill that fearmongers about immigrants instead of working together to fix the immigration system." show more
September 20, 2024
Health
Politics

REPORT: Obamacare Has Made America The Most Expensive and Lowest Ranking Wealthy Nation for Healthcare.

A new report states that Obamacare ranks last among all high-income nations in terms of healthcare systems, despite the fact that the United States spends more money on healthcare than any other country in the world. The analysis, which compared the healthcare systems of ten high-income countries, used data gathered from the World Health Organization and other sources dating back to 2020.

The evaluation focused on five key healthcare measures: health equity, access to care, care process, administrative efficiency, and health outcomes. Countries were ranked based on their overall score: Australia, Netherlands, United Kingdom, New Zealand, France, Sweden, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, and the United States, which came in last place.

The report’s findings highlighted that the United States performs the lowest in health system metrics, such as access to care and health outcomes. However, it does perform relatively well in the care process category.

Despite its high financial investment in healthcare—surpassing all other nations in the study—the United States also exhibits poor performance, particularly in life expectancy and avoidable deaths. Conversely, Australia and the Netherlands—which lead the rankings—spend the least on healthcare among the analyzed countries.

The report suggests that while differences in performance among the countries studied are typically minor overall, the stark contrast with the American healthcare system’s lower performance is significant. This appears to cast doubt on Democrat claims that Obamacare has improved healthcare access and health outcomes for American citizens.

Former President Donald J. Trump stated during his debate with Kamala Harris last week that he is developing a plan to replace Obamacare after he was unsuccessful in repealing the legislation during his last term in office, largely due to other Republicans surrendering on the issue.

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A new report states that Obamacare ranks last among all high-income nations in terms of healthcare systems, despite the fact that the United States spends more money on healthcare than any other country in the world. The analysis, which compared the healthcare systems of ten high-income countries, used data gathered from the World Health Organization and other sources dating back to 2020. show more