The New York City Police Department has ordered all officers – including plainclothes detectives and street cops – to be in uniform starting Friday following former Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal’s call for “Muslims head to the squares and streets of the Arab and Islamic world,” the New York Post reports.
“All uniformed members of the service in every rank, will perform duty in the uniform of the day and be prepared for deployment,” the memo to cops reads, adding that all shift changes are frozen.
“The Department of State has no higher priority than the safety and security of US citizens overseas. Starting Friday, October 13, the US government will arrange charter flights to assist US citizens and their immediate family members who have been unable to book commercial transit and seek a safe means of departing Israel. From these locations, individuals will be able to make their own onward travel arrangements to the destination of their choice. These initial transportation options will be augmented in the coming days. Senior State Department officials are actively working with airline carriers and international partners on how best to provide additional options to US citizens seeking to depart Israel or conduct onward travel to the United States. US citizens in need of assistance should complete the crisis intake form on travel.state.gov.”
“We continue to monitor the situation closely and evaluate the demand from US citizens for assistance in departing Israel on a real-time basis but expect these initial travel options to facilitate the safe departure of thousands of US citizens per week. The overall security situation, availability and reliability of commercial transportation, and US citizen demand will all influence the duration of this departure assistance. We will have more to share in the coming days and will provide updates to US citizens who have registered via our online form. We will continue to provide updates and assistance to US citizens as the situation evolves” – State Department press release.
“This Trophy was given to me by Deutsche Bank because they were so proud of the Loan they made. They had the best Lawyers, the smartest Loan Officers, and were thrilled to do business with ‘TRUMP.’ Interest was fully paid every month (no payment ever missed!), never received a default notice, and if Interest came due on a weekend, I paid it on a Friday. THE LOAN WAS PAID OFF FAR AHEAD OF SCHEDULE! Except for me, because of the Corrupt DOJ, FBI, and Racist New York State Attorney General, there were no Victims, there were only happy Bankers! But despite a PERFECT LOAN, I was sued by the Incompetent, Radical Left New York State AG, Letitia ‘Peekaboo’ James, under a Statute that was never used for this before, and where I am not even entitled to a Jury.”
“A Liberal Democrat Judge, with all Trump Haters surrounding him, is going to make this very important decision. If I had a Jury, I would win easily, but regardless, this is a case that should never have been brought. ELECTION INTERFERENCE!” writes fat former President Trump on Truth Social.
And yeah, he included the above pic of the actual “trophy.” We seem to remember back in the very earliest years of Trump’s reign over the GOP that “participation trophy” was a right wing meme mocking liberals for coddling losers and making everyone feel special. Kind of aged poorly considering this and certain other incidents of contrived, default accolades to the fat bastard.
In a new superseding indictment against DINO Senator Robert Menendez, his wife, and buddy Wael Hana, federal prosecutors on Thursday charged the three with conspiracy for a public official to act as a foreign agent for the Egyptian government bribery scheme the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had happily accepted cash, a Mercedes, and gold bars to help further.
“From at least in or about January 2018 through at least in or about June 2022, in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, ROBERT MENENDEZ, NADINE MENENDEZ, a/k/a ‘Nadine Arslanian,’ and WAEL HANA, a/k/a ‘Will Hana,’ the defendants, and others known and unknown, willfully and knowingly combined, conspired, confederated, and agreed together and with each other to have a public official, to wit, ROBERT MENENDEZ, act as an agent of a foreign principal, to wit, the Government of Egypt and Egyptian officials, required to register under FARA, Title 22, US Code, Sections 611-621, in violation of Title 18, US Code, Section 219,” prosecutors wrote.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise will drop out of the House Speakership race after falling far too short of the 217 votes needed in the GOP caucus to win in a full floor vote, Newsmax reports.
And yes, it’s Newsmax, but on Wednesday they broke that Scalise had defeated Jim Jordan more than a half hour before the other guys did, so we feel in this specific instance – especially one with no obvious political motive for them to lie like they did about Dominion and Smartmatic – they’re probably reporting correctly, straight from sources inside the House Republican conference.
Our nation’s support for Israel is resolute and unwavering.
And the right time to praise the terrorists who seek to destroy them is never. https://t.co/5UbfHZ9iPv
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 12, 2023
Responding to disgraced former President Trump’s Wednesday night meltdown in which he called Hezbollah “very smart” and ripped Israeli dictator Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Netanyahu Regime Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi on Thursday told Channel 13 that it’s “shameful that a man like that, a former US president, abets propaganda and disseminates things that wound the spirit of Israel’s fighters and its citizens,” the the Times of Israel reports.
“We don’t have to bother with him and the nonsense he spouts,” Karhi said. When asked if Trump’s demented ranting made it clear that he can’t be relied on in the future, Karhi replied “Obviously.”
Kind of a far cry from when Karhi tweeted “Thank you President Trump for acknowledging Israel’s Prime Minister’s tremendous achievements. The Israeli public salutes you 🇮🇱🇺🇸” back in July of 2019.
Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo on Thursday morning told a group of House Dems the $6 billion in funds – conditionally unfrozen as ransom last month for five American prisoners – that still remain under his department’s control in a Qatari bank account are not “going anywhere anytime soon,” Punchbowl’s Andrew Desiderio reports while adding it “amid bipartisan backlash after Hamas attacks on Israel.” Desiderio did not elaborate further but it could mean the Treasury is going to announce a refreeze of the cash – available only for purchases of food and medical supplies from approved third parties, which haven’t actually happened yet – the MAGA circlejerkers have been insisting is “fungible” in that it freed up other funds for Tehran to support Hamas and Hezbollah.
UPDATE 10/12/2023 11:57 AM EDT: The Washington Post reports that the US and Qatar have agreed to block Iran from access to the $6 billion in cash which, again, remains untouched.
“In Judaism there is an obligation of ‘Hakarat Hatov’ – saying thank you to those who perform good deeds. While I have been, and remain, deeply critical of the Biden Administration, the moral, tactical, diplomatic and military support that it has provided Israel over the past few days has been exceptional. As one living in Jerusalem with children who are Israeli citizens, I am deeply grateful. I pray that American support continues in the difficult days ahead,” tweeted former Trump Administration Ambassador to Israel David M Friedman on Thursday morning. We would’ve embedded on the page it but for some stupid reason it was cut off with ellipses due to its length.
This guy served the full four years of Trump’s failed presidency as his main envoy to Israel and just two days ago pushed the MAGA company line that Biden has been “empowering Iran,” and that they’ve “become a much richer country under the Biden administration’s watch. And that money has been used to help finance Hamas.” Just a hunch but Friedman probably shouldn’t count on getting his old job back if the Orange Ayatollah returns to power, even with that “deeply critical” caveat.
The RNC is planning to recruit and train thousands upon thousands of “poll watchers” to ask lots of annoying questions, make shit up about “suspicious” voters, file false reports to police, and all sorts of other stupid shit at polling places in battleground states on election day 2024, Axios reports.
Election losing expert RNC Chair Ronna Not-Romney McDaniel said the effort to “mobilize” her party’s 15 planned state “election integrity directors” is necessary to “hold Democrats accountable for bad laws that make voting less secure” whatever that’s supposed to mean. Sounds like she wants there to be disruptions and violence at voting sites so they can cry “irregularities” afterward.
Politico’s Jonathan Lemire on Thursday told MSNBC’s Morning Joe that sources say the reason fat former President Trump had ripped former close ally Israeli dictator Benjamin Netanyahu at a MAGA rally on Wednesday was that “Bibi” had “had praised President Biden, of course, Trump’s likely rival in 2024. And Trump simply couldn’t stand for that.” So typical jealousy from the fat bastard.
I respectfully disagree.
I think the vote would likely have been the same public or private – though I surely prefer public.
My basis for this belief is that Republican voters never wanted McCarthy and (in public) I watched most all of them vote for Kevin 15 times in January.…
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) October 12, 2023
Day 8 of the Reign of Terror of Speaker pro tempore Patrick McHenry continues! Okay, it’s not so much a “Reign of Terror” as it is a “Reign of Administrative Mediocrity” for McHenry, who successfully dismissed the House Wednesday afternoon when it became clear Republicans had not settled on a replace to ousted Paul Ryan photonegative Kevin McCarthy.
Scalice won the majority of the Republican ballots with 113 votes to 99 for Jim Jordan–the 212 votes equals the number of Democratic seats in the House–and according to the Washington Post, continues to work to get the 217 votes needed to be named Speaker. At least seven nihilists within the Republican conference–people like Marge, Santos, Boebert, Roy and Mace–have already said they will not support Scalise. Another half-dozen reportedly remain undecided.
At this point, no vote is planned for the House floor on Thursday, with Republican House leadership cognizant of the lingering embarrassment caused by the fifteen rounds of voting it took to install McCarthy for nine months. Scalise will work behind the scenes to sell his soul instead of having it done in front of CSPAN cameras.
Mike Lindell wasn’t kidding: he really must be broke. According to the Daily Beast, Lindell’s MyPillow cut all advertising for a month due to financial distress at the company, a blackout that will end next week. Lindell’s facing increasing financial burdens, from legal fees defending himself in lawsuits from Dominion Voting Systems, SmartMatic, some of those companies’ employees, and perhaps even his own lawyers, to whom he reportedly owes “millions” and who asked to withdraw from the case last week. And all this comes on top of a judge ruling he owes $5 million to a software engineer who debunked one of his key election conspiracy theories.
Federal officials will announce charges against “dozens” of Broward County (Florida) Sheriff’s Office deputies and detention officers in one of the largest investigations into Paycheck Protection Program fraud, the Miami Herald reports.
The officers are accused of using corporations they owned to claim lost income, which was recouped through PPP, which was set up to compensate people for wages lost due to the pandemic. The online watchdog site Florida Bulldog reports that as many as 70 officers could be named when indictments are announced Thursday.
In a fun bit of candor, the Miami Herald notes that the region has gained an unwelcome bit of renown: “South Florida, long known as the nation’s capital of fraud schemes, has incurred more than 140 PPP criminal cases over the past three years, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.” If the expected maximum number of cases is brought tomorrow, that total will jump by 50%.
You probably don’t remember Wisconsin Republican Congressman Derrick Van Orden, a man so unmemorable that the only thing notable he’s done in his first term in the House is dispensing a profanity-laced tirade at Congressional pages who were taking a break in the Capitol Rotunda, something done prior to a shitload of empty liquor bottles were photographed in his office. Van Orden, of course, denied alcohol influenced his conduct, but in a bipartisan move, the House denounced his actions.
Well, he’s at it again, but this time, he spewed an expletive-laced diatribe at Administration officials who were giving members of Congress a briefing on the Hamas attack on Israel, Politico reports. Van Orden repeatedly berated the presenters in what fellow members described as “offensive and inappropriate.” After Minnesota Democrat Dean Phillips shouted “shame on you” as he continued his rant, Van Orden used the word “fuck” in his reply; it’s unclear if he yelled “fuck you” or “fuck off.”
Three teenagers are in custody after police learned of their plot to shoot up their North Florida high school, which included curated target lists of students they wanted to kill and another to which they just “wanted to physically harm,” CNN reports.
Police said they collected text messages sent between the teens discussing targets and plans. One said that he would use an AR-15 assault rifle; it’s unclear if the students actually had access to the weapons they claimed. The teens, ages 14 and 15, attended Creekside High School in the St. John’s County School District. Police were tipped off to the plan by another student who the three warned, saying they were getting revenge for bullying.
“A charitable explanation of your correspondence is that you are ignorant of the United States and Georgia Constitutions and codes. A more troubling explanation is that you are abusing your authority as Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary to attempt to obstruct and interfere with a Georgia criminal prosecution. See OCGA § 16-10-24. Indeed, you confessed to this motivation on Mark Levin’s September 10, 2023, show: when discussing one of my office’s active prosecutions, you boasted, ‘We’re trying to get all the answers, but we’re trying to stop this stuff as well‘ (emphasis added). While you may enjoy immunity under the United States Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause, that does not make your behavior any less offensive to the rule of law.”
“As the person chosen by the citizens of Fulton County to be their District Attorney, I serve them, and my team and I are exceptionally busy. We have already written a letter – which I have attached again for your reference – explaining why the legal positions you advance are meritless. Nothing you’ve said in your latest letter changes that fact. As I have explained, your requests implicate significant, well recognized confidentiality interests related to an ongoing criminal matter, as well as serious constitutional concerns regarding federalism and separation of powers,” writes Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis to Jim Jordan, once again telling him to fuck off.
Was tough picking between this clip and the one when Mace said she “cannot in good conscience, vote for someone who attended a white supremacist conference and compared himself to David Duke,” meaning she’s cool with the Joe Paterno of Ohio State but not the KKK guy for Speaker.
“Pursuant to Fed R Crim P 17(c), President Donald J Trump respectfully requests leave to issue the attached subpoenas duces tecum (the ‘Requested Subpoenas’) for the pretrial production of records, addressed to the following: (1) the Archivist of the United States at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), (2) the Clerk of the House of Representatives, (3) the current Committee on House Administration, which is the successor entity to the January 6 Select Committee; (4) Richard Sauber, the Special Counsel to the President ; (5) Johnathan Meyer, the General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security; (6) Representative Barry Loudermilk, US House of Representatives; and (7) Representative Bennie Thompson, US House of Representatives. The House Committee on Administration has identified these records as missing from the archived records of the January 6 Select Committee. By these subpoenas, President Trump seeks to retrieve certain missing records and uncover information about their disposition,” write fat former President Trump’s lawyers in a motion submitted to DC Judge Tanya Chutkan’s court.
Former Mueller Investigation prosecutor Andrew Weissman says this is complete bullshit: “Nothing about this complies with Rule 17; Rule 17 does not permit pretrial production of generalized documents vs calling for production of specific, known, docs needed for and admissible at a trial.”
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