Donald Trump Saturday announced his appointment of Kash Patel as the director of FBI, leading critics to lash out.
"I am proud to announce that Kashyap 'Kash' Patel will serve as the next Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Kash is a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and 'America First' fighter who has spent his career exposing corruption, defending Justice, and protecting the American People," the president-elect wrote over the weekend on Truth Social.
Now let's wind down with, you guessed it, COMMON DREAMS. Yes, them again. Yes, Jake Johnson again. The article is entitled "." One thing you have to understand about COMMON DREAMS is that they have no common sense when it comes to Senator Bernie Sanders. They lust after him so, we're surprised that they have yet to feature Bernie in a tasteful nude pictorial.
There's never a moment of Bernie that COMMON DREAMS doesn't rush to celebrate -- not a single moment in Bernie's long list of one non-accomplishment after another. He's on the verge of serving his 34th year in Congress and yet there are current members of the Congress who will be starting their third year next month and can point to actual accomplishments.
That some idiot thought an 83-year-old man was going to start a new political party was bad enough but that they thought it would be do-nothing Bernie is much, much worse.
And while it would be great if COMMON DREAMS could stop acting like TMZ and also stop pretending Bernie was Drake, that's not the worst of it.
This is:
The senator said the upstart campaign of Independent Dan Osborn—a union steamfitter who launched an unexpectedly close challenge to two-term Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) while shunning the state's Democratic establishment—"should be looked at as a model for the future."
"He took on both political parties," Sanders said of Osborn, who outperformed Vice President Kamala Harris by 14 percentage points in Nebraska and is now launching a PAC aimed at helping working-class candidates run for office.
"He took on the corporate world," Sanders continued. "He ran as a strong trade unionist. Without party support, getting heavily outspent, he got through to working-class people all over Nebraska. It was an extraordinary campaign, and it tells me that the American people are sick and tired of seeing the rich getting richer. They think billionaires dominate both political parties. They want real change, and Dan's campaign raised those issues in a very significant way."
Wow. At last, a path forward for the party! At last, no faux nonsense that's really an attempt to push the Dems to the right.
Oh.
Wait.
That's exactly what Bernie's doing (yet again) and what COMMON DREAMS is enabling them.
Who's the moron from Nebraska? We don't know. We're not Bernie groupies. So we looked him up. And found one unimpressive detail after another as well as the fact that Bernie's yet again lying. We could provide multiple examples but we think Jacob Crosse, at WSWS, did it better than we ever could:
Sanders presents Osborn as a champion of the working class in opposition to both the Democrats and Republicans, when the reality is the opposite. Prior to running for Senate, Osborn was the president of Local 50G of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) in Omaha, Nebraska. Throughout his Senate campaign, Osborn touted his stint as a union bureaucrat to posture as a friend of the working class.
However, Osborn used his role not to fight for the workers against the corporation, but to strangle their struggle and impose a pro-company sellout. During the 2021 Kellogg’s strike, Osborn waged a national chauvinist campaign to keep striking workers in the US isolated from their class brothers and sisters internationally.
In a broadside against Mexican workers, Osborn said in an interview at the time:
A lot of Americans probably don’t have too much issue with the Nike or Under Armor hats being made elsewhere, or even our vehicles, but when they start manufacturing our food down where they are out of the FDA control and OSHA control, I have a huge problem with that.
In a preview of his anti-immigrant Senate run, he campaigned for a boycott of “made-in-Mexico Nabisco products.”
After
the workers had struck for 77 days, Osborn helped Kellogg’s push
through a contract betrayal that expanded the hated “two-tier” wage and
benefits system and led to the closure of the Omaha plant and destruction of 550 jobs.
The
Democrats failed to field a candidate and Osborn only narrowly lost his
Senate race against incumbent Republican Deb Fischer. In the course of
his campaign, Osborn never once pointed out Trump’s fascist politics or
condemned him for having tried to overturn the 2020 election. Instead,
Osborn solidarized himself with Trump and claimed “Fischer stabbed Donald Trump in the back” for calling on Trump to drop out of the presidential race in 2016.
During
and following his campaign, Osborn pledged to work with Trump to
“secure the border,” including through the completion of Trump’s border
wall.
[. . .]
In addition to Sanders, those endorsing Osborn’s anti-communist, anti-immigrant, pro-bureaucracy campaign include Jacobin founder Bhaskar Sunkara and elements of the trade union bureaucracy, such as United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain and Dustin Guastella, director of operations for Teamsters Local 623.
In a November 22 article published in the Guardian, Sunkara and Guastella praised “Osborn’s ideas” and his “class background,” which, they wrote, “was key to his being able to deliver a credible populist appeal.”
Sunkara and Guastella called on the nationalist labor bureaucracies to recruit “talented candidates” and work with “organizations like Osborn’s to get these candidates the funds they need to win elections.”
The “organization” to which Sunkara
and Guastella were referring is Osborn’s political action committee
(PAC), known as the “Working Class Heroes Fund.” The PAC, which allows
anonymous donors, raised nearly $8 million by mid-October, according to
the Nebraska Examiner, which noted that Osborn “benefited from roughly $20 million in outside spending on his behalf” during the campaign.
The “about”
section on the Working Class Heroes Fund website explains that the
purpose of the PAC is provide money for politicians to get elected and
unite “the working class across party lines.” In other words, to forge
pro-imperialist “national unity.”
Get it?
We're being tricked and lied to over and over by a left media that wants our money, that wants us to donate to them. A left media that rightly calls out Mika and Joe but we'll never, ever own up to their own mistakes. Congratulations to MEDIASTOUCH NEWS which is setting new streaming records and to other YOUTUBERS such as TABITHA SPEAKS, COACH D and Danielle Moodie who are increasing their subscribers due to strong and important work. But the bulk of left media is being produced by idiots who, forget actual research, can't even carry out a basic GOOGLE search. It has to stop and, if it doesn't, maybe it's time for Americans to join together in a class action lawsuit against this continued journalistic malpractice.
"Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):
Monday, December 2, 2024. Let's talk about that pardon.
- Outgoing US President Joe Biden has issued a presidential pardon for his son, Hunter Biden, who faced sentencing over charges related to gun possession and tax fraud
- Biden had previously said he wouldn't pardon his son but changed his mind as he felt Hunter had been "selectively, and unfairly persecuted"
- Joe Biden is the first US president to issue a pardon for his son - but not the first to pardon a relative
- Democrats and Republicans have been reacting to the decision with US President-elect Donald Trump describing it as "an abuse and miscarriage of justice"
- Biden’s pardon for his son shows that presidents now act differently, writes the BBC's North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher
It's not an abuse and it's not a miscarriage of justice. A president can pardon anyone they wish to. That's the law.
A miscarriage of justice?
The presidential pardon comes with no qualifiers. It's the power of the sitting president so everyone needs to STFU. Truly, I am so sick of the state of our media.
Was it a good look? I think you can debate that. For now. I think Joe wins the argument in the long run.
Joe Biden took a path 52 years ago this month. That's when the car accident took place that cost the lives of Joe's first wife and his first daughter. Surviving that car accident were their two boys Beau and Hunter. Five years later, he'd marry Jill and they would have a daughter Ashley. Joe had turned thirty right before the car accident. At the age of thirty, he lost a wife and a daughter. His bond and his need to protect Hunter and Beau -- and Ashely, when she was born -- was more than understandable.
Beau was the above the board Biden. He'd join the military and ge exposed to burn pits in Iraq -- dying as a result. Hunter was the younger son, only two years old when the car accident took place. Joe spent his life protecting all three children and often it was Hunter more than anyone else.
In the end, Hunter was convicted of tax evasion and lying on a gun permit.
If Kamala Harris had been elected president, as should have happened, I don't think Joe would have pardoned Hunter and I don't think Hunter would have taken it. Remarks were made when Joe recently met with Satan Trump at the White House and they concerned and worried Joe.
They worried him enough to make him believe that Hunter might be a political target for the next four years.
Joe pardoning Hunter is completely understandable but more so when you factor that in.
The media is trying to make this a scandal. I don't remember that, however, at the end of 2020 when Satan pardoned the father-in-law of his daughter Charles Kushner who also had tax evasion issues. In fact, he was convicted of tax evasion. And illegal campaign contributions. And witness tampering.
Witness tampering? That's such a polite charge when you were setting a family member up with a prostitute so that you could blackmail them. Let's go to WIKIPEDIA:
On June 30, 2004, Kushner was fined $508,900 by the Federal Election Commission for contributing to Democratic political campaigns in the names of his partnerships when he lacked authorization to do so.[21] In 2005, following an investigation by the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, US Attorney Chris Christie negotiated a plea agreement with him, under which Kushner pleaded guilty to 18 counts of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering.[22][23][24] The witness tampering charge arose from Kushner's retaliation against William Schulder, his sister Esther's husband, who was cooperating with federal investigators against Kushner. Kushner hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, arranged to record a sexual encounter between the two, and had the tape sent to his sister.[23][22][25][26] Kushner was sentenced to two years in prison.[22] He served 14 months at Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery in Alabama[27][28] before being sent to a halfway house in Newark, New Jersey, to complete his sentence.[27][28][29] He was released from prison on August 25, 2006.[30]
As a convicted felon, Charles Kushner was also disbarred and prohibited from practicing law in New Jersey,[31] New York,[32] and Pennsylvania.[33]
Republican Chris Christie, who chaired Trump’s first transition team, said Kushner committed "one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes" he prosecuted.[5]
In her book Too Much and Never Enough, President Trump's niece Mary L. Trump wrote that Charles Kushner had given a speech in which he claimed that Ivanka Trump had only made herself worthy of inclusion in his family by committing to convert to Judaism, which Mary Trump found "a bit rich" given Kushner's past as a convicted felon.[34]
When Joe was the vice president for eight years, I weighed in on Hunter only once. I also noted Jill only once. That's because I've known Joe for decades (something noted here since this site started). I like Jill, she's a nice person. Before Joe took over the role of vice president, I noted here that I would not be commenting on Second Lady Jill Biden because I didn't want to get caught up in the nonsense. I couldn't imagine her doing something that would be a scandal but that didn't mean the press wouldn't try to turn something innocent into a scandal. By not commenting on her in a positive way, I didn't have to comment if the press went wild attacking her.
And I more or less kept that for eight years.
The exception was a veterans issue that she worked on and we had to note it because it wasn't getting enough press attention for the veterans.
Other than that, I didn't comment. When Joe began his run for president in 2019, we called out Hunter. When others were dismissing the behavior in question, we called it out.
Hunter had many unethical issues.
And we called Joe out here when he tried to minimize it. Once Hunter was the target of an FBI investigation, we regularly called out Joe for his comments. We even had to call out Jill twice. While the Justice Dept did not answer to the First Lady, in that position, Jill had to watch her words. We noted that.
So Hunter's actions are not a new topic for this site.
Did he get off light before the pardon? I personally think he did.
But we had Merrick Garland -- the idiot Attorney General who couldn't seem to get a tough conviction on anyone -- including Satan Trump.
Hunter got a pardon from his father.
That's not a surprise. It's completely understandable. Joe's an elderly man now. He's 82 years old and the last four years especially took a lot out of him. He's not going to be able to counsel or protect Hunter much longer and an insane and criminal rival is coming into the White House. One who may or may not have been joking in their recent meeting. But it was enough to concern Joe.
That's all that matters to me because I don't pretend that Satan is anything but a psychopath. I wish there was a way Joe could do a blanket pardon for all the people Satan sees as "enemies within."
But he can't.
He can protect his own son and that's what history's going to see this as. And history is not going to be kind to Satan Trump -- even the media sucking up to him right now and jerk off politicians sucking up to him -- hey, Bernie, looking at you, you worthless piece of garbage -- won't last forever.
The only time I noted Hunter here when Joe was vice president, I wrote what I'd already said to Joe about it: It's not our falls that define us, it's how we dust ourselves off and get back up.
Hunter, your father has yet again, out of love for you, sacrificed himself. Appreciate that and use the gift he's given you.
Here's The White House announcement of the pardon:
Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day I took
office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s
decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being
selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted. Without aggravating factors like
use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw
purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges
solely for how they filled out a gun form. Those who were late paying
their taxes because of serious addictions, but paid them back
subsequently with interest and penalties, are typically given
non-criminal resolutions. It is clear that Hunter was treated
differently.
The charges in his cases came about only after
several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack
me and oppose my election. Then, a carefully negotiated plea deal,
agreed to by the Department of Justice, unraveled in the court room –
with a number of my political opponents in Congress taking credit for
bringing political pressure on the process. Had the plea deal held, it
would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases.
No
reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach
any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my
son – and that is wrong. There has been an effort to break Hunter – who
has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting
attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve
tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here.
Enough is enough.
For my entire career I have followed a simple
principle: just tell the American people the truth. They’ll be
fair-minded. Here’s the truth: I believe in the justice system, but as I
have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this
process and it led to a miscarriage of justice – and once I made this
decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further. I hope
Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to
this decision.
###
Executive Grant of Clemency
Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
President of the United States of America
To All to Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting:
Be
It Known, That This Day, I, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the
United States, Pursuant to My Powers Under Article II, Section 2, Clause
1, of the Constitution, Have Granted Unto
ROBERT HUNTER BIDEN
A Full and Unconditional Pardon
For
those offenses against the United States which he has committed or may
have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014
through December 1, 2024, including but not limited to all offenses
charged or prosecuted (including any that have resulted in convictions)
by Special Counsel David C. Weiss in Docket No. 1:23-cr-00061-MN in the
United States District Court for the District of Delaware and Docket No.
2:23-CR-00599-MCS-1 in the United States District Court for the Central
District of California.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto signed my name and caused the Pardon to be recorded with the Department of Justice.
Done
at the City of Washington this 1st day of December in the year of our
Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-four and of the Independence of the United
States the Two Hundred and Forty-ninth.
###
At RAW STORY, David McAfee writes:
Trump over the weekend announced his appointment of Kash Patel as the director of FBI, leading critics to lash out and causing a pre-emptive strike against Senate Republicans by a top MAGA lawyer who said he would make their political lives hell if they opposed Patel.
Sophia Cai, senior national politics reporter for Axios, said, "Trump's decision to name hardline loyalist Kash Patel to FBI director amounts to a massive middle finger to the intelligence community."
Wrong. From Ava and my "Media: Journalistic Malpractice:"
Let's stop there because when we read a portion of this back to smart and educated people we know, they told us we were wrong about something: recess appointments.
We weren't wrong. It's your crap ass left media -- especially on YOUTUBE -- that has promoted a lie because yet again these uneducated lazy talking heads didn't do the actual work.
Matt could not been a recess appointment
in November or December or even, pay attention, for the bulk of next
month. Why is that?
Satan is not the president. That's not
talking recounts or anything else spewing across the internet. That's
merely fact. Learn your Constitution, it is your friend. Much more so
that the bulk of the idiots on YOUTUBE.
Until he's sworn in, Satan is not president.
He can jawbone all he wants -- like a YOUTUBER -- but he's not president.
Joe Biden is president. Until Trump is sworn in, he can't do anything and that would include recess appoint Gaetz or anyone else to a post requiring Senate confirmation.
Do you get it? Because RAW STORY doesn't. Again, they wrote:
Trump over the weekend announced his appointment of Kash Patel as the director of FBI, leading critics to lash out and causing a pre-emptive strike against Senate Republicans by a top MAGA lawyer who said he would make their political lives hell if they opposed Patel.
He can't appoint anyone to head the FBI, he's not president. He won't be sworn in until January 20th. He's declared he wants Kash Patel to be the head of the FBI? Okay. But, no, he has not appointed him. He is not yet the president.
Get your s**t together.
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