Leo

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Leo, the fifth sign in the zodiac, belongs to those born between the dates of July 23rd and August 22nd.

Leo Traits

Bold, intelligent, warm, and courageous, fire sign Leo is a natural leader of the Zodiac, ready to blaze a trail, vanquish injustice, and make a name for themselves along the way. Blessed with high self-esteem, Lions know that they possess enviable traits—and they’re proud of them. They don’t believe in false modesty and will be the first to praise themselves for a job well done. But Leo isn’t self-aggrandizing or unwilling to roll up those sleeves and do the work: this sign knows that in order to be respected and admired, he or she needs to put in the effort worthy of a leader.

But it’s not all hard work for Lions. Intense and energetic, Leos thrive on social interactions and have no problem making friends—although pinning them down to spend time with you is another story. Leos put themselves first, and will turn down a plan that doesn’t fit with their agenda or idea of fun. This trait has gained them an unfair reputation for arrogance. But on the flip side, when a Lion chooses to spend time with you, it’s genuinely because he or she wants to.

Leo signs are passionate in all pursuits, including relationships, and take it upon themselves to be the best partner you’ve ever had. They love grand gestures, and they want to show the world how attentive and caring they can be. They also can’t resist flashiness and often buy their partner the biggest and best presents. Leo is an adventurer, seeking to balance an intense life of social obligations and travel with plenty of downtime to relax and luxuriate. Work and outward appearances matter to this sign, and they’re willing to do whatever it takes to gain a job title or workplace status, even if it means temporarily sacrificing their precious leisure time.

Benevolent with their time and attention, Leos are never cliquey, always showing friendliness and politeness to everyone. While almost everyone else is entranced by the Leonine personality, Leos are their own harshest critic and consider each day a challenge to be the best, brightest, and boldest Lion they can be.

Leo’s Love Style

Passionate, intense, and fiery, Leo loves hard. For Leos, love itself—whether falling in love, thinking about love, making love—is one of their favorite things in the world. A busy Lion will always make sure that there’s plenty of time for passion in his or her life.

Leo Friendship Style

“Friends” is one of Leo’s favorite words, and Lions are known for collecting friends—but not in a transactional way. Leo genuinely adores other people, and innately gets that the more people you know, the easier life can be. Leos easily hand out their phone number, are quick to follow or DM on Instagram, and will invite you to their happy hour five minutes after meeting you.

Leo Career, Money & Success Traits

Leo’s greatest career strength: Passion. Leos bring fiery intensity to everything they do, including work, and when they believe in what they’re doing, there’s no stopping them.

Leo’s Greatest Gifts

A natural leader, Leo’s very presence inspires others to be the best they can be. But with great power comes great responsibility. Leos love the pull of the limelight, and they’re occasionally swayed by what other people want (or expect) them to do. Although this sign has a loud inner voice, learning to listen to it—especially if it’s guiding them toward an unpopular move—is a lifelong lesson that will only make proud Lions stronger and more resilient.

Leo’s Greatest Challenges

Lions are well known for their loud roar. But learning to quiet down and listen is essential for Leo signs to reach their peak power—especially when they’re hearing a voice that doesn’t match their confidence and certainty. And while this sign thrives on their split-second decision-making and reaction skills, they might sometimes benefit from taking a few seconds, minutes, or even days before making their opinion known on a subject. Researching all sides, doing due diligence, and learning from other people’s experiences are all essential for a Leo to be as strong a leader as possible.

Leo’s Secret Weapon

A giving nature. Most people assume that Lions are all about themselves. But appearances are deceiving. A Leo’s secret weapon is his or her boundless capacity for love, affection, and generosity.

Famous Leos

(Pat’s Note: there are a LOT of famous Leos—but there’s also a lot of infamous ones—Obama and Meeghan Markle for example.)

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  1. Morning All!
    hubby and I saw a strange deer this morning. it was a doe but very very light colored–not albino, but pretty close. the other does didn’t want her anywhere near them. she wanted to go around the woodshed and into the woods but they charged her every time she got close. she was eyeing hubby’s woodshed to see if maybe she could go through instead of around, but that would have been a struggle over a pile of logs not stacked yet. finally she got her gumption up and darted around the corner and the 3 other deer chased her! she made it into the woods though. weird.

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    1. Morning, Pat! Not really weird, tbh – most wild animals react badly to their own that are oddly colored. Nice and cool – only 68 – but still humid; rain expected off and on thru the week-end and highs only in the 70’s/low 80’s.

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        1. Yep – ate some breakfast – not as much as usual – and took himself off. The Blue Jays wanted some so I poured some out on the sidewalk for them. LOL

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  5. Catturd ™
    @catturd2
    Dear loser Republican Party …

    You have officially pushed us too far with your weakness.

    I, along with with millions of others, will never vote for your party again except on a very rare occasion.

    You are spineless, worthless, neocon, do-nothing cowards.

    You give zero value to your base.

    Stop sending me requests to give you money, you’ll never get a dime from me. After 40 years, I’ll be registering as an Independent this week.

    Good luck winning in the future without the America first MAGA vote.

    I’ll vote for Trump – but never anyone of you useless cowards again.

    And save your breath telling me this will be a vote for Democrats. What difference does it make? They’re actually arresting their political opponents and you won’t even give Adam Schiff a $5 fine or impeach anyone, for anything. You’re utterly useless.

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    1. I got something like 10 e-mails from the GOP wanting donations – I unsubscribed on all of them and haven’t seen another one….so far.

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  6. DC_Draino
    @DC_Draino
    🚨BREAKING: Pence implicitly admits he had the power to reject fraudulent votes on J6

    He knew there was fraud and if he sent EC votes back to state legislatures for further review, 12th Amendment would’ve kicked in where GOP House of Reps would’ve voted for Trump

    Pence didn’t want that

    He certified the fraud and that’s why he will never be elected to federal office again

    This is also why the Electoral College Act was amended last year – to make sure no VP could send fraudulent votes back to states

    Pence had the ability to do so in 2020 but he backstabbed 74+ million voters like the RINO coward he is.

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      1. Morning Bill!
        how would your mallards appreciate you driving around the water in that duckmobile???
        LOL
        if our pond was bigger, i might consider getting one!

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  9. Giuliani goes nuclear on Pence. Says the former VP is led around on a leash by his wife.

    “She lets him go to the bathroom by himself, that’s about it.” pic.twitter.com/iSvJidiwZp

    — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) August 4, 2023

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  11. Citizen 817
    Citizen 817
    August 4, 2023 12:24 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    10h
    Biden and his family steal Millions and Millions of Dollars, including BRIBES from foreign countries, and I’m headed to D.C. to be ARRESTED for protesting a CROOKED ELECTION. UNFAIR VENUE, UNFAIR JUDGE. We are a Nation in Decline. MAGA!!!

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  16. Diane Feinstein is 90, in her sixth term, rarely knows where she is, her daughter has power-of-attorney over her, and her kids and the kids of her 3rd husband (a military contractor mogul) are already fighting over her money.

    But Dems don’t want her to resign for this reason: pic.twitter.com/oUubEAUOrq

    — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 3, 2023

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    1. Dianne Feinstein is CIA’s most steadfast loyalist of the CIA in Senate history: always defended its budget, power and secret acts.

      The one time she questioned them – on torture – CIA Director/NBC News analyst John Brennan got caught spying on her:https://t.co/bCXCIrNssF

      — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 3, 2023

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    2. sunnydaze
      August 4, 2023 1:48 am

      wow. OK. This should not be possible, in any world:

      Dianne Feinstein, 90, cedes power of attorney to daughter — but still serves in Congress https://t.co/6ii3oDWEeI pic.twitter.com/HZN99fr0uq

      — New York Post (@nypost) August 4, 2023

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  17. Troublemaker10
    August 4, 2023 1:00 am

    Kamala Harris in 2019: I’m running for president to make sure Trump is prosecuted

    Democrats in 2023: The prosecution of Trump is apolitical, has nothing to do with our seven-year political demand to prosecute Trump pic.twitter.com/Jz9efvIj2N

    — Michael Tracey (@mtracey) August 4, 2023

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  18. Feisty Hayseed
    August 4, 2023 1:44 am

    Two U.S. Navy Sailors Charged With Spying for China

    Prosecutors said the two sailors in California gave Chinese intelligence officers U.S. military secrets and sensitive information.

    Two Navy sailors in Southern California were arrested and accused of providing military secrets and sensitive information to Chinese intelligence officers, according to a pair of federal indictments unsealed on Thursday.

    Jinchao Wei, known as Patrick Wei, 22, was charged with spying for China under the Espionage Act. Mr. Wei serves aboard the Essex, an amphibious assault ship moored at Naval Base San Diego, which is the home of the Pacific Fleet. As a machinist’s mate, investigators said, he had clearance that gave him access to sensitive national security information.

    The second sailor, Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, 26, also known as Thomas, was charged with taking bribes in exchange for providing sensitive U.S. military information to a Chinese intelligence officer posing as an economic researcher. Mr. Zhao worked at the Naval Base Ventura County in Port Hueneme, which is home to several aircraft squadrons and the service’s naval construction battalions in the Pacific.

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  19. although i agree it’s a travesty, levin doesn’t mention on what grounds or whatever, President Trump could petition SCOTUS.
    Mark R. Levin
    @marklevinshow
    MY PUBLIC ADVICE TO PRESIDENT TRUMP’S LEGAL TEAM …
    The Biden administration has created a legal morass never seen or experienced in American history, as applies to a presidential election. The attorney general, appointed by the Democrat president, is authorizing indictment after indictment of his president’s possible if not likely political opponent in the middle of a presidential election cycle. He is doing so through his appointment of a special counsel, whose appointment was a misapplication of the special counsel regulation, and whose charges must be approved by the attorney general. (By the way, as an important side issue, Jack Smith is not a presidential appointee; he never even stood for confirmation by the Senate to hold the position he holds and to exercise the authority he is exercising against a party opponent.) It should be noted at the same time, the attorney general refuses to appoint an outside special counsel to investigate his client, Joe Biden, despite the fact that the DOJ regulation was originally instituted for these exact circumstances. Of course, this underscores the purpose and motive of what is taking place before us today.

    The attorney general is approving the timing of dozens of charges against the former Republican president, who is actively seeking his party’s nomination to challenge the Democrat president for whom he directly reports, which are intended to cripple the ability of Donald Trump to effectively run for president, regardless of what polls show today. And regardless of what the commentariat say, and despite President Trump’s strength within the Republican Party, the outcome of the election is unknown. Therefore, the polls are irrelevant in this regard. Moreover, as further evidence that these indictments are being used as political weapons are the timing of the charges — specifically, all of these charges by the separate grand juries, all controlled by the special counsel, should have been filed AFTER the election, as there was no possibility the statute of limitations would run on any of them. Further, the special counsel repeatedly insists that the charges must be quickly adjudicated, meaning before the people vote, for the purpose of having maximum influence on the election.

    In addition, the charges have resulted in the significant depletion of Trump’s campaign funds to pay for millions in legal fees. Trump has to take significant time from campaigning to address the dozens of charges dropped on him by the Biden administration — that is, he has to expend an enormous amount of time working with his lawyers in order to defend himself from charges that, collectively, would result in his imprisonment until his death.

    The fact is that this kind of legal warfare against a presidential and possible if not likely opponent to the present president, is not only unprecedented in the history of our republic it will destroy our electoral system for all time. It is not something that should left to various district courts or local courts to sort out in the course of regular judicial proceedings. In fact, that is part of the intended strategy by the prosecutors who are engaged in this assault on our electoral system. They must not be rewarded for their behavior. They must not be rewarded for their treachery and exploitation of the legal system and the courts to achieve their political ends.

    Even without getting to the merits of these multitude of charges, which are easily unraveled from my perspective, the process is what is being used to interfere with the election. And the near silence by those who are orchestrating this shocking legal warfare, when the American people are left in the dark, is untenable.

    Therefore, I want to publicly encourage the Trump legal team to seek an emergency hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court, not to resolve legal disputes, but to at least temporarily halt the abomination of this legal warfare that is unfolding in front of us — where Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans are unashamedly celebrating the use of the courts by the Biden administration and Democrat DA’s to further their political wishes, as the rest of the nation watches in shock. This unprecedented legal warfare requires an unprecedented response by the only constitutional body left that can do something about it — the Supreme Court.

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    1. okay…here’s a response i missed

      Steadfast
      August 4, 2023 4:12 am
      Reply to Mikgen

      This 👆right here (ie. save the electoral process) is the best rational for the court to intervene, pointing out the weaponization of the federal government, it’s use of “lawfare” as a means of election interference, and the hypocrisy of the Hillary campaign in 2016, who did everything the left accuses President Trump of doing in 2020.

      In other words…

      ”No, the court will not allow a partisan DoJ to use legal means to interfere with the election process.”

      It would set a historical precedent that would put a stop to often-used democrat lawfare tactics in down-ballot races.

      In fact, one could readily argue that the left’s successful use of such tactics at lower levels of election races (ie. congress, governor) is what has given rise to this unprecedented attempt to use the means for the biggest office of all (ie. the Presidency).

      And, this 👆👆👆 right here should be a key point in the argument President Trump would petition the court with (see: Missouri Governor Eric Greitens, and Congressman Tom Delay, among others).

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        1. For some time now….he pushed for an Article V convention in 2013/2014, which would be disastrous, and supported Lyin’ Canadian Ted, lauding him as a “Constitutionalist!” My ass!!!!

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            1. It is easier for me since he reined me in back then – I was a newby and didn’t know better. I’ve learned a lot since then! I even bought several of his books! Same with Glenn Beck – I have several of his, as well as some of Bill O’Reilly’s historical books.

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          1. i am!–well not prettified…LOL
            she’s a stylist not a magician!
            but my hair grows very thick in the back and it’s truly like sleeping on an extra pillow.

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              2. Yep – bear in mind, tho, that I keep it REALLY short! It has also thinned a lot – I never had super thick hair – and is even drier than usual. I’m also not getting normal
                nutrition people normally get every day, which also limits growth.

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  24. it’s yahoo—so it’s just a lot of speculating–that Meadows flipped or McCarthy flipped–someone MUST have provided a copy of the call…sigh
    could be this more he said she said bullshit…Rep comes forward with “HER VERSION” of the call she got from McCarthy. sounds like hearsay to me
    FTA
    The 45-page federal indictment of former President Donald Trump meticulously details his efforts to overturn the election, but there’s one conspicuously unsourced passage that is raising more questions than it’s answering—and could spell even more trouble for Trump.

    The passage deals with Trump’s much-hyped phone call on Jan. 6, 2021, with the top House Republican, Kevin McCarthy.

    “At 3:00 p.m., the defendant had a phone call with the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives. The defendant told the Minority Leader that the crowd at the Capitol was more upset about the election than the Minority Leader was,” the indictment stated.

    At the time of that phone call, House and Senate members had only evacuated their respective chambers minutes earlier. Rioters were still pouring into the Capitol. And Trump was sitting on his hands.

    To hear then-Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) tell it, the phone call was incredibly damning. About a month after the Jan. 6 attack, Herrera Beutler came forward to offer her version of the call, which she said McCarthy recounted to her.

    Herrera Beutler reported that Trump not only didn’t show remorse for the attack on the Capitol, he actually sided with the attackers. He allegedly told McCarthy that members of the mob were just “more upset about the election than you are.”

    While it’s possible Special Counsel Jack Smith is basing his description of the phone call off Herrera Beutler’s public account, that would be a sharp departure from his normal tactics. Indeed, paragraph 115 appears to be one of the very few instances in the indictment where Smith doesn’t lay out his sourcing for a claim.

    By choosing to speak as an omniscient narrator for that paragraph, federal prosecutors have left it entirely unclear how they know what was said on that phone call. And that’s fueling speculation about a number of possibilities: Is there a recording of the call? Did Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows—who is speculated to have been in the room with Trump at the time—provide an account to investigators? Did McCarthy?

    https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/indictment-mystery-did-someone-spill-003021241.html

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          1. I know but still – it breaks one of the cardinal internet rules, like the “read back” rule (I always do my best to follow that one, too) – you don’t encroach on what you know has been someone else’s turf for a long time. For me, it’s a matter of respect. That is one of the beauties of the internet – different people looking in different places and sharing.

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  31. Gail Combs
    Gail Combs(@gailcombs)Online
    Coyote
    Reply to TheseTruths
    August 4, 2023 08:46

    Remember it was Pence’s WIFE that got the letter at the funneral and NOT PENCE.

    As I keep saying, Pence is an EMPTY SUIT LAWYER WITH ZERO on his resume except working for a college, running for office, failing, then working at a radio station [Name recognition strategy?] and then becoming a politician.

    De Santis has the SAME resume except he worked for JAG and then MARRIED a TV personality and wrote a book BEFORE a run for Congress. The 2nd book was written BEFORE his Presidential run.

    BOTH, like so many others are EMPTY SUIT LAWYERS, who did not even do court room work!

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    1. I was having an exchange yesterday with Marica & we were sharing how creeped out we are with Pence.
      Awhile later I shared this with her:
      “I’ve been listening to Devolution Power Hour from last night & all three are of a mind that Pence was in fact playing an integral role that was assigned to him…pretty interesting.”
      At around the 1:55 mark is where it’s discussed:
      https://rumble.com/v347huy-devolution-power-hour-167-featuring-burning-bright-and-just-human-1030-pm-e.html

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        1. He’s soo two dimensional but things are so insane it’s not inconceivable that he could be straight out of central casting.
          I know I’m not the only one that continues to puzzle over Chris Miller making that big fuss over Pence at that public speech thanking him over the complex military operation etc…
          That was NEVER adequately explained…

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            1. I was saying yesterday that it makes my brain hurt!
              Look at that Truth post by DJT & tell me there aren’t comms sitting there but it’s all so opaque…

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              3. LOL – I like to think I’m kind of keeping people grounded in reality….it certainly doesn’t hurt that I am thoroughly skeptical about everything these days!!! I want proof and nothing but proof!

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      1. Ha! See? No-one’s perfect! I didn’t read back before posting – that is my biggest failure, not refreshing first. But I switch back and forth to 4-5 sites thru the day and it takes time to refresh! Impatient me again!

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  34. so a professor can teach a class called The Problem of Whiteness? if anyone dared teach the problem with blackness there would be riots everywhere. enough of the race baiting! this is a predominately (for now) white country. don’t like it? take your ass to another country that suits you.

    FTA
    An anti-white racial inquisition is poisoning America. If you don’t believe it, read my new book, The War on Whites: How Hating White People Became the New National Sport. The inquisition received support from the prestigious University of Chicago when it decided to offer a new course entitled “The Problem of Whiteness.” This is not surprising when you realize that the left has taken complete charge of academia and can get away with overt anti-white racism.

    By a margin of more than ten to one, left-leaning professors outnumber conservatives at our colleges and universities. New professors are required to sign a diversity pledge, a ruse that guarantees leftist control on campus well into the future. A friend of mine who is a professor at a prominent university told me that he is forced to keep his conservative views to himself or risk being ostracized by his peers.

    Ironically, campus commitment to diversity excludes the all-important diversity of ideas. “They are openly hostile to mainstream conservative values,” said Rita Panahi at SkyNewsAustralia. If you are a conservative student in America, you’d better keep your mouth shut.

    One brave student at U-Chicago refused to keep his mouth shut. Sophomore Daniel Schmidt called out “The Problem of Whiteness” for what it is. “This is clearly racist and anti-white,” said Schmidt. “What the heck is that suggesting, that there is a problem with white people or whiteness and there is a solution? It is the most egregious example of anti-white hatred I’ve ever seen.”

    Part of the liberal campus playbook includes active participation in the war on white people. Whites are demonized and marginalized without mercy on today’s campuses. The majority of students are intimidated from complaining, fearing poor grades or even expulsion for going against the party line. Not Daniel Schmidt. You have more power than you think as a student, Schmidt said, as he put his academic career at risk.

    It was no surprise when the course instructor, Rebecca Journey, filed two separate complaints to get Schmidt expelled. The justification, she said, was that Schmidt led a harassment campaign against her and incited violence. Journey received death threats, which she blamed on Schmidt. Journey was supported by the New York Times and CNN, both of them calling Schmidt a cyber-bully. “That’s what you get in America and around the world,” said Schmidt, “if you’re a white student and you call this stuff out.”

    “I never once called for cyberbullying or attacks on this professor,” said Schmidt in self-defense. “This is deliberate smearing designed to scare me away from calling out blatant anti-white hatred. Leftists have ruined the lives of countless people they disagree with, destroying careers and waging harassment campaigns. They get away with it every time and are often even praised. But when I publicly expose a blatantly anti-white course and name the professor teaching it, I am a ‘cyberterrorist’ who needs to be publicly condemned by my university.”

    Fortunately for Schmidt, U-Chicago refused to expel him. That didn’t sit well with Journey. “This was a malicious attack not just on me as a teacher but on anti-racist pedagogy writ large,” Journey responded. “The University has permitted the opportunist to terrorize an instructor, her students, and I would also argue our campus,” she said. “A teacher is not free to do her job if she is fearful that an armed white nationalist, activated by a provocateur, will track her down and shoot up her classroom. We can’t let cyberterrorists win.”

    Amanda Woodward, dean of U-Chicago’s social sciences division, tried to show support for the racist course. “While differences of opinion over course material may arise,” Woodward said, “the university does not cancel classes because of such differences, and the university defends the freedom of instructors to teach any course that has been developed through our faculty-led curricular processes, including courses that may be controversial.”

    Controversial? Are you kidding? Outright racist is more like it. “It doesn’t take a vivid imagination to predict what the typical conversation in Journey’s classroom might look like,” said Steve Robinson at The Maine Wire. “It suffices to ask whether Journey and her ilk would shrug off another university offering a course called ‘The Problem with Black People,’ or a Harvard course, ‘The Problem with Asians.'”

    “Journey,” Robinson continued, “blithely asserts that since someone did a tweet or sent an email she doesn’t like, therefore violence has been committed against her. It’s a type of power move liberals invoke when they’ve been exposed for harboring or advancing radical ideas, like teaching an entire class about white people being a problem. If they’re the victim, you see, they can’t possibly be in the wrong. The undercurrent of her entire post, like much of modern leftist rhetoric, is that freedom of speech is a problem, and institutions like U-Chicago need to use their power to punish those who use their free speech in ways powerful liberals oppose.”

    The left was outraged that Schmidt was allowed to exercise his free speech. “What we have,” claimed one angry left-wing blogger, “is a professional kvetcher who comes down on liberals.” On the contrary, what we have is an articulate teenager who is offended by the war on whites and has the courage to say so.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/brave_university_of_chicago_student_speaks_out_against_the_leftist_war_on_whites.html

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  35. so the UAW want a double digit salary increase, pensions for erbody, and more paid time off? sure that will SOLVE INFLATION. what idiots. this would only increase illegals trying to get union jobs. who the heck makes $49 AN HOUR?
    FTA
    The United Auto Workers is seeking a 46% wage increase over four years as a part of its negotiations with the Detroit Three automakers, according to a page of the union’s written demands.

    The proposal would be the largest pay increase in recent memory. The proposal from the Detroit-based union that represents approximately 150,000 workers making Chevrolets, Fords, Jeeps and more calls for a 20% general wage increase upon ratification of a new contract “to offset severe impact of inflation” over the past few years, according to the write-up obtained by The Detroit News.
    “From this day forward we’re doing things differently,” UAW President Shawn Fain said while talking with workers at auto plants before the start of negotiations with the Detroit Three automakers.

    After that, the union demands a 5% wage increase every September through the life of the agreement through 2027.

    The UAW’s top wage is $32.32 per hour after two 3% wage increases since 2019. The union’s proposal would bring that to $47.14, nearing the $49 per hour average top rate recently achieved in a tentative agreement by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters with United Parcel Service Inc.

    Meanwhile, pay would be well above estimated averages of wages for workers at nonunion competitors manufacturing in the United States.

    UAW President Shawn Fain on Tuesday shared an overview of the “members’ demands” that called for “double-digit” wage increases, a cost-of-living allowance, pensions for all, a jobs bank-like Working Families Protection Program and more paid time off. Fain also suggested the union would fight for a 32-hour work week.

    https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2023/08/03/uaw-demands-46-percent-pay-hike-in-talks-with-detroit-three-automakers/70525605007/

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  37. 3XALADY
    August 4, 2023 11:18 am

    I saw a video this morning that Pfizer made a special ‘vaccination’ for their employees. I wonder if it also went to the electeds who so proudly got their jab reported on a news video. I think it was either that or they were getting saline solution. I don’t think anyone in the news got the Wuhan cootie except for President Trump.

    BOMBSHELL: Pfizer employees were given a *special batch*… different from what was forced into the general population 🚨🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/CDww6wxFif

    — Pelham (@Resist_05) August 4, 2023

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    1. I believe Congress took ivermectin and hydroxy, personally. As to how many got the jab, no-one will ever know one way or the other, IMO.

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  43. Entire Article @ thenationalpulse:

    “Trump Subpoenas Unaired Tucker Interview with Ex Capitol Police Chief?

    “Former President Donald Trump has subpoenaed Fox News in an effort to attain an unaired interview with former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund. The interview was originally intended to air as part of then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s investigation into Jan 6 and the more than 40,000 hours of footage he was granted access to. The National Pulse yesterday released parts of the interview, with further clips due on Thursday afternoon.

    One item of particular interest to Donald Trump’s legal team is comments that Sund may have made to Carlson regarding the presence of federal agents in the crowd on Jan 6. In an interview with English comedian Russell Brand, Carlson stated that Sund believed federal agents were among the crowds protesting the 2020 Presidential election result:

    “I never thought there was a false flag or anything like that. I’m not a conspiracist by temperament… And then I interviewed the chief of the Capitol Police, Steven Sund – in an interview that was never aired on Fox by the way. I was fired before it could air… He was the chief of the Capitol Police on January 6 and he said ‘Oh yeah the crowd was filled with Federal agents.’ He would know of course because he was in charge of security at the site. So the more time that has passed, now it has been two-and-a-half years, it becomes really obvious that core claims they made about January 6 were lies.”

    Carlson’s interview with Sund could be a useful piece of evidence for Trump’s legal defense, casting further doubt on official government claims about the circumstances of that days events. The unaired Sund interview appears to be a part of a broader legal strategy by Trump to demonstrate that the Jan 6 prosecution is not just a question of the former President’s First Amendment protected right to free speech but also to call in to question the partisan media narrative surrounding the 2020 Presidential election and Jan 6 itself.”

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  45. “Anti-Trump NYT Columnist Has Epiphany: ‘What if We’re the Bad Guys?'”
    By Christine Favocci, August 3, 2023 at 5:30pm

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “First Taylor Swift, and now the New York Times? To paraphrase the pop star’s self-examining hit “Anti-Hero,” columnist David Brooks finally admitted to the New York Times and the world that, yes, he and all of the leftist elitists are indeed the problem. This admission is one that nobody saw coming in either case.

    However, like Swift, Brooks evaluates his mistakes but somehow ends up right back where he started — clinging to his myopic worldview while congratulating himself for a moment of insight that still misses the mark. In his column published Wednesday, titled “What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?” Brooks acknowledged the left’s role in making former President Donald Trump the odds-on favorite to become the 2024 GOP presidential nominee.

    Rather than shrink into relative obscurity the way other politicians do after a loss, Trump’s popularity is repeatedly given a boost by the left’s reaction to whatever latest thing they throw at him — and they still can’t quite figure out why. “Donald Trump seems to get indicted on a weekly basis,” Brooks began with the truth. “Yet he is utterly dominating his Republican rivals in the polls, and he is tied with Joe Biden in the general election surveys,” he pointed out. “Trump’s poll numbers are stronger against Biden now than at any time in 2020. What’s going on here? Why is this guy still politically viable, after all he’s done?”

    Brooks began with the tired “because racism and bigotry” take but, in the pursuit of self-reflection, lands on a closer, if still inaccurate, explanation that also reeks of classism. In his mind, Brooks believes he and his ilk have created a “meritocracy” that makes Trump’s voters feel excluded and that the former president paints himself as their ally against the system. “The ideal that we’re all in this together was replaced with the reality that the educated class lives in a world up here and everybody else is forced into a world down there,” Brooks wrote.

    “Members of our class are always publicly speaking out for the marginalized, but somehow we always end up building systems that serve ourselves. The most important of those systems is the modern meritocracy,” Brooks argued. “We built an entire social order that sorts and excludes people on the basis of the quality that we possess most: academic achievement,” the University of Chicago alumnus said. “Highly educated parents go to elite schools, marry each other, work at high-paying professional jobs and pour enormous resources into our children, who get into the same elite schools, marry each other and pass their exclusive class privileges down from generation to generation,” Brooks noted.

    Of course, what he’s labeling a meritocracy is actually more akin to nepotism. Ivy League institutions keep the wealthy in their closed circle with legacy admissions that allow the institutions leverage to attain other woke goals. That practice is under renewed scrutiny along with race-based admissions, but it reveals more about a rigged system than what Brooks has argued is some paragon of achievement-based rewards.

    In fact, the equal rights organization Coalition for TJ tweeted that “elite colleges have ‘bought off’ alumni support for race-based admission preferences with generous legacy preferences – an example of corruption breeding more corruption.”

    Brooks also admitted that these elite institutions churn out half of all journalists at the major news outlets, despite producing less than 1 percent of college graduates. This same wealthy, educated, anointed class also crowds America’s cities, which Brooks believes accounts for the stark divide in Trump’s popularity between the rural and urban areas. What Brooks arguably gets most accurate is the frustration that comes from the way elitists have captured the language and created a chasm between the classes.

    “Meanwhile, members of the less-educated classes have to walk on eggshells because they never know when we’ve changed the usage rules so that something that was sayable five years ago now gets you fired,” Brooks pointed out. The author even brought up the problem of luxury beliefs, whereby the rich and powerful smash a social norm that then decimates the lower class when they adopt the change — only to have the upper classes live traditional lives anyway.

    Brooks explained this phenomenon using the example of out-of-wedlock births. “After this social norm was eroded, a funny thing happened,” Brooks explained. “Members of our class still overwhelmingly married and had children within wedlock. People without our resources, unsupported by social norms, were less able to do that,” he admitted. Brooks went on to cite the statistic that 60 percent of births to mothers with only a high school education occur outside of marriage, while only 10 percent of births to those with a university degree are to unwed mothers. This is a problem, as single parenthood is the greatest obstacle to upward mobility.

    After taking all of this into account, Brooks believes he settled on the reason for such undying allegiance to Trump. “It’s easy to understand why people in less-educated classes would conclude that they are under economic, political, cultural and moral assault – and why they’ve rallied around Trump as their best warrior against the educated class,” Brooks said. The author went on to claim that Trump identified the “professional class” as the working class’s adversary and has appealed to them as a person willing to “stick his thumb in our eyes on a daily basis and reject the whole epistemic regime that we rode in on.”

    (Perhaps Brooks thinks less educated voters are too stupid to realize that Trump is himself a wealthy man who was educated at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.)

    “If distrustful populism is your basic worldview, the Trump indictments seem like just another skirmish in the class war between the professionals and the workers, another assault by a bunch of coastal lawyers who want to take down the man who most aggressively stands up to them,” Brooks continued. “Of course, the indictments don’t cause Trump supporters to abandon him. They cause them to become more fiercely loyal. That’s the polling story of the last six months,” he added. “Are Trump supporters right that the indictments are just a political witch hunt? Of course not,” Brooks claimed.

    “As a card-carrying member of my class, I still basically trust the legal system and the neutral arbiters of justice,” he acknowledged, again becoming the problem he set out to identify. “Trump is a monster in the way we’ve all been saying for years and deserves to go to prison,” Brooks continued, essentially negating every other argument. But still, he adds, “We can condemn the Trumpian populists until the cows come home, but the real question is: When will we stop behaving in ways that make Trumpism inevitable?”

    Even while trying earnestly to assess where Trump’s adversaries are wrong, Brooks can’t get out of his own way. The country club class will never understand Trump, because they can’t possibly understand his voters. They view Trump through the same lens as they do the middle and lower classes and are blinded by the assumption that they are just stupid, bigoted and unsophisticated. For all of the problems Trump has in winning over new voters, the biggest advantage is that his enemies don’t understand him or his appeal at all.

    Brooks tried — bless his heart — but he reverted right back to “orange man and his voters are bad.” Self-reflection is difficult, and change based on what it reveals is even more challenging — whether it’s a perennially jilted, aging pop star or a quasi-conservative columnist.”

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  46. so a former Trump attorney turned over documents/evidence to Smith and Smith never read them? because apparently the documents are exculpatory…

    Thousands of pages of records were turned over by former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik in July, who is an ally of Trump. His attorney, Tim Parlatore, used to work for Trump’s legal team.

    As the CBS News report mentions, quoting Parlatore at length, with added emphasis:

    The documents were submitted to Smith on July 23, according to emails reviewed by CBS News. A source close to Kerik’s legal team said at the time that they believed the records, which include sworn affidavits from people raising concerns about the integrity of the 2020 presidential contest, show there was a genuine effort to investigate claims of voter fraud in the last election.

    In an Aug. 2 email to Parlatore, reviewed by CBS News, a special counsel’s office prosecutor requested “responsive documents as to which the Trump campaign is no longer asserting a privilege,” referring to the Kerik records Parlatore said he previously provided.

    Parlatore said he was “stunned” when, after the indictment came down, the prosecutor contacted him asking for the records he said he had already provided. Parlatore said the “records are absolutely exculpatory.”

    “They bear directly on the essential element of whether Rudy Giuliani, and therefore Donald Trump, knew that their claims of election fraud were false,” Parlatore said. “Good- faith reliance upon claims of fraud, even if they later turn out to be false, is very different from pushing fraud claims that you know to be false at the time.”

    Parlatore told CBS News last week he expected Kerik to be interviewed by investigators “soon,” but that has not yet happened. Parlatore was among the key lawyers working for Trump in the Justice Department’s investigations into the former president, but left the legal team in May.

    That the records “are absolutely exculpatory,” according to Parlatore, is huge. The case is already a weak one, in part because it has to do with looking into Trump’s mindset, and whether or not he actually believes he lost the election.

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2023/08/04/special-counsel-may-not-have-reviewed-records-before-indicting-trump-n2626627

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  48. “Christina Pushaw–A letter to FARA”
    CODEMONKEYZ
    AUG 4, 2023

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Respected members of the FARA Unit,

    I am writing to bring to your attention the activities of Christina Pushaw, who is currently registered as a foreign agent for Mikheil Saakashvili under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Based on [**redacted**], it is clear that Christina Pushaw has also acted as a foreign agent for Grigol Vashadze, a Georgian political figure, and as such, I request that she be required to register accordingly.

    Public records, such as [**redacted**], indicate that Christina Pushaw materially omitted significant lobbying activities she conducted on behalf of Grigol Vashadze’s political campaign in Georgia in 2018. She served as a campaign strategist and communications consultant for Grigol Vashadze, advising him and his party leadership on campaign strategies, speechwriting, messaging, and opposition research. Additionally, in her work for Grigol Vashadze’s campaign, she engaged in managing strategic communications with international stakeholders, including government officials and multinational election observation missions.

    Christina Pushaw’s own admissions, as detailed in [**redacted**], confirm her involvement in lobbying American government officials on behalf of Grigol Vashadze, a foreign principal. These activities, which included briefing diplomats, U.S. officials, and monitoring delegations, clearly meet the criteria for foreign agent registration under FARA.

    It is important to note that Christina Pushaw registered as a foreign agent for Mikheil Saakashvili only recently, after she was notified by the Department of Justice. This delay in compliance raises concerns about her adherence to FARA requirements and her willingness to fully disclose her past foreign lobbying activities.

    Given the evidence presented, including [**redacted**], it is apparent that Christina Pushaw engaged in lobbying activities for Grigol Vashadze and his political campaign. These lobbying activities aimed at influencing U.S. government officials on behalf of a foreign political party and its leader warrant her registration as a foreign agent for Grigol Vashadze.

    I kindly request that you investigate this matter thoroughly and ensure that Christina Pushaw complies with the legal obligations outlined in FARA. It is imperative that she accurately disclose her past foreign lobbying activities and register as a foreign agent for Grigol Vashadze.

    Thank you for your attention to this matter. I trust that you will take the necessary actions to ensure compliance with FARA regulations. [Redacted documents have already been provided to the DOJ National Security FARA Unit, with returned confirmation of receipt.]”

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      1. It’s a gif – a motorcycle that is enclosed in a capsule with additional seating for 1 – not sure if the space at the back is storage or what…maybe it’s electric and that’s a battery? The occupants are protected from rain, etc.

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