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[tower9]

What a democracy. You vote against Israel but they still get to control your party.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

Merging this thread into US Politics.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

Called it:

'Traitor!': Jeffries gets rude awakening at Democratic convention as heckler erupts

Activists demanding a Green New Deal and an arms embargo on Israel interrupted Hakeem Jeffries at the What's Next Democratic conference.

www.foxnews.com

Jeffries is going to have a tough time becoming Speaker. He just doesn't have the clout that ol' Nancy carried

 

[Davey Crockett]

Evacuations are underway.

 

[Davey Crockett]

Obama CIA Chief John Brennan's Son Arrested On Child Porn Charge: Report​

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According to a sworn affidavit entered into court on Friday, the FBI's review of Brennan's iPhone "observed approximately 88 images that appeared to depict minor girls, including prepubescent girls, engaged in sexually explicit conduct."

The affidavit also describes an image of a female toddler, and another of a pubescent girl whose wrists and ankles were bound and whose mouth was gagged.

The criminal complaint was signed by a Virginia judge on Friday, and Brennan was scheduled to make his first appearance in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia later in the day. The FBI executed a search warrant on his personal cell phone Thursday night, according to a law enforcement source cited by the Mail.

If convicted, Brennan faces a mandatory minimum of five years and up to 20 years in federal prison.

Police reports say the iPhone was obtained during a traffic stop on July 24, 2024 - but the investigation wasn't referred to the FBI until Oct. 2, 2026, more than two years later.

The arrest comes one week after the US attorney overseeing the Justice Department's so-called "grand conspiracy" probe resigned without bringing a single charge. Jason Reding Quiñones, who ran the Southern District of Florida, stepped down on Nov. 6, days after the midterms, after DOJ leadership reportedly admonished him in private meetings over his lack of progress.

Obama CIA Chief John Brennan's Son Arrested On Child Porn Charge: Report<!-- --> | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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Press Release

Warrenton man charged with transportation of child sexual abuse material​

Friday, November 13, 2026


For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Virginia

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/warrenton-man-charged-transportation-child-sexual-abuse-material

 

[RabzonKhan]

Democrat Jonathan Tomkins has officially flipped Alaska's governorship. Democrats now hold 30 governor's mansions to the GOP's 20 after the 2026 elections, flipping six governorships in a single cycle.

What's even crazier is that because Democrats now govern many of the country's largest states, more than 75% of Americans appear to live under Democratic governors. That's one heck of a blue wave!!!



The infamous Lauren Boebart fled Colorado's 3rd District for the supposedly safer 4th District, one of the reddest seats in the state and a district that Trump won by about 18 points in 2024. She figured the move would protect her seat. Instead, she lost the election anyway. Looks like when the blue wave gets big enough, even the lifeboats start taking on water.

 

[RescueRanger]

No one likes the house negro....

The scene at the dining table always reminds me of this powerful speech by Malcolm X:

 

[RabzonKhan]

An amnesty for all 20 million illegals is too much but I think for half of them should be fine. They are already living here, integrated and paying taxes. Closing all the illegal immigration loopholes used by people and businesses is key and a lame duck Trump working with a Democratic Congress can finally accomplish this. I hope Miller does not sabotage any immigration deal.

Just make work visas easy for agricultural workers and laborers. All the work visas were gobbled up by educated folks like immigrant doctors, engineers, tech workers in the last 40 years , forcing the foreign laborers to work illegally.

I get where you're coming from on wanting a practical fix, though that 20 million figure is really just a Republican talking point. Even then, there's zero political appetite for sweeping amnesty right now, at best, maybe Congress makes work status permanent, for tax-paying DACA folks with no criminal record.

On the farm labor part, agricultural workers actually have their own separate seasonal visa category (H-2A), so white-collar visas aren't blocking them. We use it all the time in my state for apple season. They fill jobs Americans aren't taking, make good money, and go back home afterward. Pretty solid setup already!

 

[RescueRanger]

Democrats are already proposing a $15B aide package to Ukraine.

How does that address the affordability crisis in the US that they created? If I was a Democrat and dumb enough to have voted for them because of that issue, affordability, a $15B aide package for a country I could care less about would be the first thing I'd be screaming about.

Trump is going to use up a lot of pens with his vetoes. I'd just have a rubber stamp and ink pad handy.

This... For goodness sake your own electorate are living off food stamps, stop funding foreign wars and focus at home.

 

[RabzonKhan]

You live here and would know the role VPs play: They are basically POTUS' yes-men. IIRC, I think it was Humphrey who had more visible disagreements with Johnson over the Vietnam war but even that was fairly muted and happened over half a century ago.

Vance is a breath of fresh air as the VPOTUS go: He had opposed attacking Iran before the 2024 elections, he tried hard to get the MOU going--some say against Trump's wishes--and he also stood up against the H1Bs / Microsoft unlike Trump. Those, along with his public statements against Israel--truly make him stand out especially considering the limits a VPOTUS has. Notice how the Israel-Firsters are after Vance these days?

Too bad Vance has been sacrificed by Trump's follies.

Fair enough on JD. My real issue is with the present Republican Party as a whole. I used to support their fiscal conservatism, but they have completely walked away from it.

From Reagan and both Bushes to Trump’s two terms, the pattern is always the same: cut taxes for big corporations and the filthy rich while tossing regular folks crumbs, then increase military spending toward $1.5 trillion and get us into Middle East wars.

Both parties share blame for our $40 trillion national debt, sure, but those unpaid tax cuts and trillions spent on Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran alone make up nearly half of it.

On top of that, decades of GOP deregulation have led to deforestation, pollution, and now let huge data centers police themselves while they use up our water, raise electric bills, and cause noise pollution in local neighborhoods.

Democrats aren't perfect, of course, but helping people in need is important to me, and aside from Dwight Eisenhower, almost every major program for working people like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, the minimum wage, the 40-hours workweek, and overtime pay came from Democrats. I cannot vote for the present GOP unless Democrats nominate someone trying to turn our capitalist economy into a socialist one.

 

[RabzonKhan]

What a democracy. You vote against Israel but they still get to control your party.

Nah, it's way more complicated than that. You can't undo 60+ years of foreign policy overnight, even with Dem voters shifting over Gaza and Netanyahu dragging us into this Iran war. In most of the big Senate and House debates, Israel itself barely came up outside a few states, folks were way more focused on gas prices spiking from the Iran war and Trump's trade war, especially hitting border states and ICE. Some politicians are still cashing those checks, no doubt, so it's gonna be a slow burn.

Just gotta keep pushing and keep up the pressure.