Unearthed Posts Show Dem Senate Hopeful Praising Vulgar Graffiti, Making Crude Porta Potty Admission

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GOP strategist calls the years-long trail of posts a 'character issue' ahead of a potential race against Susan Collins.

Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner of Maine released a video of himself with a tattoo of what appeared to be a Nazi symbol on "Pod Save America."

Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, who is already facing criticism over past Reddit posts, made graphic sexual comments on his now-deleted account about masturbating in portable toilets and explicit graffiti found in military restrooms.

In one March 2017 post on Reddit’s r/Military forum, Platner responded to a discussion about nostalgic military smells by writing: "I still have to jerk off every time I sit in a portas----er… that blue water smell conditioned me."

The archived posts were made under "P-Hustle," a now-deleted Reddit account that Platner previously acknowledged was his.

In another post from March 2021 on Reddit’s r/USMC forum, Platner described a crude penis drawing inside a portable toilet while deployed overseas.

Responding to a thread dedicated to so-called "GWOT Dick Art," Platner launched into an extended monologue praising the explicit graffiti in unusually vivid terms, calling it "beautiful," "engorged and veiny," and moving "towards its penetrative glory."

"Oh s---!!!," Platner wrote. "You’ve got the Hot Rod C--- from Manas!"

Manas was a major U.S. military transit hub in Kyrgyzstan used during the wars in Afghanistan. Platner enlisted in the Marines in 2003 and served three combat tours in Iraq. In 2010, he joined the Maryland Army National Guard for a fourth tour, serving in the infantry in Afghanistan. He returned to Afghanistan eight years later as a security contractor.

The post accompanied a photograph of a smiling serviceman posing beside the explicit illustration inside the portable restroom.

"I sat there in sheer awe," Platner wrote. "The soul filling joy to be allowed to witness such glory."Fox News Digital reached out to Platner’s campaign for comment on Monday.

Platner has previously responded to questions about his controversial posts by suggesting he was joking.

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"You should read the comments in context. It's very clear I'm joking," he previously told Fox News Digital when asked about them. "It's called s---posting. It's when you argue with people on the internet and try to bother them. So, yeah, no, it's very obviously not true."

The posts, which are accessible in the Maine Monitor’s archive but have not been previously reported, are the latest in a series of vulgar and inflammatory social media comments that critics say raise questions about Platner’s judgment as the progressive Democrat emerges as his party’s Senate nominee in Maine.Republicans are likely to use the resurfaced posts, along with others, to portray Platner as too erratic and extreme for statewide office as Democrats rally behind the first-time candidate.

Mehek Cooke, a GOP strategist and senior national security and legal analyst for the Daily Signal, told Fox News Digital that, politically, Platner’s "vulgar" posts will "matter" to voters because they are "deciding whether Graham Platner has the judgment, temperament, and basic decency to represent Maine in the Senate."

"His campaign has been built around authenticity and moral seriousness. These posts undercut both," Cooke said. "Platner is not a truth-teller. He is someone whose instincts appear crude, reckless, and deeply unserious. And by the way, if they were really ‘jokes,’ why delete the posts? That sounds less like humor and more like a CYA cleanup operation."

Cooke said that "one tasteless post" can be chalked up to "immaturity" but a "years-long trail of vulgar, sexually degrading, and slur-filled commentary is a character issue."

Platner, a first-time candidate who is backed by progressive champions Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, became the Democrats' presumptive nominee after his rival for the nomination, two-term Gov. Janet Mills, ended her campaign last month after trailing Platner in polling and fundraising.

Other posts Platner has been questioned about, including in a recent interview with The New York Times, include a 2013 post, which Platner later deleted, that people concerned about rape should not "get so f---ed up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to."

Platner has also faced scrutiny for more recent Reddit posts, including one from five years ago in which he described himself as a "communist" and "socialist." Additionally, Platner’s posts have contained alleged homophobic slurs and praise for military tactics used by Hamas.

"Will every Democrat in Maine care? No," Cooke said. "Platner has shown he can survive controversy inside a Democratic primary. But in a general election, especially against Susan Collins, the cumulative effect of his stances, controversies, and comments matters. The Nazi-linked tattoo controversy, the homophobic slurs, the disturbing comments that have already surfaced, and now these posts create a fuller picture of a morally bankrupt candidate.

Republicans will argue this is not a candidate with a few regrettable moments. This is a pattern that tells voters something fundamental about his character. And character still matters to a lot of Mainers."

Look, folks, this is what passes for a "serious" Senate candidate in the modern Democrat Party. A guy who brags about getting off to the smell of porta potty water and treats military latrine dick drawings like they're Renaissance masterpieces. But sure, he's the one lecturing everyone else about "moral seriousness." The left keeps telling us character doesn't matter until it does, and then they pretend the trail of sleaze is just "jokes." Maine voters might have something to say about that when Susan Collins comes calling.

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The Ramadan Bombathon Between Pakistan and Afghanistan Has Begun

The Taliban savages and their Pakistani counterparts are now blasting each other across the Durand Line in yet another bloody Muslim-on-Muslim clash that exposes the utter barbarism and instability inherent in these jihadist-infested regions. This is no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention, these are not civilized nations but hotbeds of Islamic supremacism, tribal warfare, and terror harboring.

According to reports, Afghanistan and Pakistan exchanged significant cross-border fire Thursday in a major escalation along their shared border. The clashes erupted after the Taliban launched what they called retaliatory strikes on Pakistani military positions, while Islamabad insisted it was merely responding to unprovoked fire. 

It has also been reported that multiple gunshots have been heard near the so called Presidential Palace near Kabul and it has also been reported that Taliban terrorists are hiding out in mosques in the hope of not getting "virginated."

This flare-up threatens a fragile ceasefire agreed upon in 2025 after previous fighting, because of course these groups can't even keep their own phony truces. It follows Pakistani airstrikes inside Afghanistan earlier this week, which the Taliban whined killed at least 18 people (Reuters, Feb. 24). 

Pakistan, naturally, claims it targeted only militant hideouts and denies hitting civilians, standard operating procedure in these lawless zones.But in truth, it's only Israel who takes enormous care to eliminate collateral damage.

The Taliban, ever the masters of propaganda and absurdity, boasted of an "extensive military operation" against Pakistani army positions. Taliban mouthpiece Zabihullah Mujahid crowed on X: "In response to repeated provocations, extensive preemptive operations have been launched against Pakistani military positions along the Durand Line."

In another statement, he ludicrously claimed "specialized laser units" were operating at night—yes, "laser units," because why not throw in some sci-fi fantasy to dress up their primitive savagery?

Taliban military spokesman Mawlawi Wahidullah Mohammadi chimed in via video, declaring the "retaliatory operation" kicked off Thursday evening. Mujahid boasted that "numerous Pakistani soldiers had been killed and some were also captured" which were claims Reuters could not verify. 

Mohammad and Muhammed looking tough

Then, in classic deflection mode, Mujahid posted: "The cowardly Pakistani army has bombed some places in Kabul, Kandahar, and Paktia. Praise be to God, no one was harmed," referring to the earlier strikes, as if we should believe a word from these taqiyya-spouting jihadists.

Pakistan fired back hard, rejecting the Taliban's fairy tales. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting stated on X that Afghanistan's Taliban's "unprovoked action along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border" received an "immediate and effective response." They accused the Taliban of "miscalculated and opened unprovoked fire on multiple locations" in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, with Pakistan's security forces hitting back forcefully.

Early reports, per the ministry, confirm "heavy casualties on the Afghan side with multiple posts and equipment destroyed." Pakistani sources told Reuters that 22 Taliban personnel were killed and several quadcopters downed.

Pakistan vowed: "Pakistan will take all necessary measures to ensure its territorial integrity and the safety and security of its citizens."

This comes amid ongoing Pakistani accusations that the Taliban is sheltering Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants behind a surge in violence and suicide attacks inside Pakistan. The Afghan Taliban, of course, denies it—while Pakistani officials just days before the strikes claimed "irrefutable evidence" of attacks launched from Afghan soil.

Bottom line: Two Islamic regimes, both steeped in the same ideology of conquest and supremacy, now tearing into each other. The civilized world watches and knows—this is what happens when savagery rules unchecked. Support the forces of reason and strength against jihad, wherever it rears its head.

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Another Biden Border Catastrophe: Afghan “Ally” Shoots National Guard Troops in D.C., Yelling “Allahu Akbar” – And He Was Vetted!

Folks, here we go again. Just when you thought the Biden-Harris open-borders disaster couldn’t get any more deadly, an Afghan migrant who was fast-tracked into America under their chaotic 2021 evacuation shoots two young National Guard soldiers patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C. One is dead. The other is fighting for his life. And the suspect? He screamed “Allahu akbar!” while doing it.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, pleaded not guilty Tuesday – from his hospital bed, no less, where he’s recovering from wounds after police stopped his rampage just as he tried to reload.

He’s charged with assault with intent to kill while armed, possession of a firearm, possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, and murder. Bond denied – thank God for small miracles.The victims? Twenty-year-old Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, who tragically died the next day, and 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, who remains in serious condition.

These kids had literally been sworn in less than 24 hours earlier. As U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro said:

“Both Beckstrom and Wolfe ‘were sworn in less than 24 hours before they were shot on the street in Washington.’”

Beckstrom even volunteered to work over Thanksgiving so her fellow soldiers could be with their families. Heartbreaking.

West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey said Wolfe “remains in serious condition,” but is showing signs of movement and awareness.

President Trump, during Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting, revealed he’d spoken directly with Wolfe’s parents:

“They said he didn’t have a chance,” Trump recalled. “I will tell you, the one who said he is going to live is his mother … ‘Sir, he is going to live.’ I spoke to her very soon after this horrible event took place with this scum that is able to come into our country.”

“I spoke to his mother, ‘Sir, he’s going to be okay. I’m telling you.’ No doctor thought that. Nobody thought that. He was hit bad places. She was so positive, it was incredible. And possibly right. … That would be amazing. If he lives, it would be amazing, a miracle, actually.”

Pray for that young man. Pray for both families.

Now here’s the part that should infuriate every American: Lakanwal was brought here in 2021 under Biden’s infamous “Operation Allies Welcome” – the same frantic airlift that dumped roughly 77,000 Afghans into the country with what even DHS now admits was laughably inadequate vetting.

He got asylum in April. Why? Because, we’re told, he supposedly worked with U.S. entities in Afghanistan – including, according to former CIA Director John Ratcliffe, the agency itself.So the same administration that left billions in equipment and Americans behind in Kabul turned around and flew in tens of thousands of people – and at least one of them just murdered an American soldier on our own soil while shouting the jihadist war cry.

The Trump administration has already responded by halting asylum decisions and stopping new Afghan visas. About time someone slammed the door shut.

This is what happens when you treat national security like a giant welcome wagon. Sarah Beckstrom is never coming home. Andrew Wolfe is clinging to life. And the people who created this preventable nightmare still won’t admit they were wrong.Never forget: they called it “Operation Allies Welcome.”

One of those “allies” just declared war on America – again.

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National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom has died and still the Left uses her death politically

West Virginia National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom has died from being shot near the White House by an unvetted Afghan national. She was only 20-years-old and had her whole life ahead of her.

One is almost lost for words when contemplating the sheer grimness of this story, yet it is precisely the sort of story that reveals the fatal conjunction of sentimentality and incompetence that has come to define the Western elite in our time, particularly with the Biden administration.

On Thanksgiving Day itself, as millions of Americans sat down to give thanks for the blessings of family and freedom, President Trump was obliged to announce the death of  Sarah Beckstrom, who had been shot the previous day while on duty near the White House.

"I must unfortunately tell you that just seconds before I went on right now, I heard that Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, one of the Guardsmen that we’re talking about — highly respected, young, magnificent person — started service in 2023, outstanding in every way, she’s just passed away," President Trump said, his voice heavy with the knowledge that a young life had been snuffed out for the apparent sake of jihad, as it was reported that the shooter yelled "Allahu akbar," or 'Allah is greater.'

"She's no longer with us, she's looking down on us right now,” Trump continued. "Her parents are with her. This just happened. She was savagely attacked, she's dead, not with us. Incredible person. Outstanding in every single way, in every department. Just horrible."

When President Trump gets this hyperbolic, you can imagine he is truly feeling the loss of this young woman.

Only hours earlier her father, Gary Beckstrom, had spoken the words no parent should ever have to utter: "I’m holding her hand right now," he said. "She has a mortal wound. It's not going to be a recovery."

Sarah had, of course, volunteered to stand duty over the Thanksgiving holiday precisely so that her comrades might spend the day with their own families. A small act of selflessness, one might have thought, in a country that still pretends to honor such things.

And what do we find at the end of this chain of events? The alleged shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is a 29-year-old Afghan national, who arrived in the United States in 2021 under the auspices of Joe Biden's much-vaunted "Operation Allies Welcome," a program that, in its boundless generosity, managed to import some 77,000 Afghans into America with what can only be described as minimal scrutiny.

The consequences of such reckless virtue-signalling are no longer theoretical. They have names. They have grieving parents. They have a 20-year-old girl who will never again sit at a Thanksgiving table.

As Attorney General Pam Bondi observed: "She volunteered, as did many of those guardsmen and women, so other people could be home with their families. Yet, now, their families are in hospital rooms with them while they are fighting for their lives."

And Jeanine Pirro, the United States Attorney for D.C., added with understandable bitterness: "They answered the call, they took the charge, they volunteered, they put their lives on the line for people they don’t even know, and that unfortunately is becoming a reality more and more for the members of law enforcement."

One hardly needs to spell out the lesson here, though it is a lesson that certain quarters remain determined never to learn. When a society decides that the most important thing is to appear compassionate, when it confuses open borders with moral superiority, and vetting with xenophobia, then sooner or later it will pay the price in the most excruciating currency of all: the blood of its own daughters.

Sarah Beckstrom gave her life so that others might enjoy a holiday. The very least her country can do now is to ask, without apology and without euphemism, how it came to be that the man accused of taking it was ever allowed on American soil in the first place.

And finally, how can people on the Left, simply due to their hatred of Trump and half of America, use this horrific act of what appears to be Islamic jihad, to attack conservatives.

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Ex-FBI agent reveals Afghan vetting screwups: "Ticking time bomb"

 Rahmanullah Lakanwal,

Listen, folks, if you ever needed a neon-lit, flaming-red billboard screaming "Biden’s Afghanistan bug-out was an unmitigated disaster," here it is, gift-wrapped with a bow made of National Guard blood.

Two West Virginia Guard members are fighting for their lives after getting ambushed just blocks from the White House by some guy named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who somehow waltzed into America courtesy of Joe Biden’s "Operation Allies Welcome." You remember that one, the humanitarian clusterfrack where we airlifted tens of thousands of Afghans out of Kabul, slapped a participation trophies on them, and called it "vetting."

Former FBI Special Agent Nicole Parker, who actually worked the mess on the ground, just dropped the mic on Fox News Digital:

'They said it is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode because we've just allowed all of these people into our country… Initially, it was a free-for-all and no one was being vetted… Many times it felt like anyone was allowed to come into the United States from Afghanistan, regardless of who they were… What happened to our National Guard service members is a direct result of their lack of vetting… America is full of people we do not know. We don't know who they are, where they are, or what sleeper cells are here."

Free-for-all. Ticking time bomb. Sleeper cells. Merry freakin’ Christmas, America.

Parker says FBI agents and DoD contractors flagged people who absolutely should not have come here, only to watch the Biden State Department override them like it was a game of diplomatic Red Rover. "There were individuals that were not being recommended to come to the United States, yet they were being overridden by the Biden State Department," she said.

The DHS Inspector General basically wrote a 50-page "We told you so," documenting rushed "lily pad" staging bases, missing records, and vetting so sloppy it makes TSA look like the Mossad. A separate Pentagon IG report found at least 50 evacuees with "potentially serious security concerns" got waved through anyway, and officials lost track of dozens more who pinged the terror watchlist bingo card.

Even U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro (yes, that Jeanine Pirro) unloaded: "This is what happens in this country when people who are not properly vetted are let in."

And newly minted FBI Director Kash Patel said: "This individual is in this country for one reason and one reason alone, because of the disastrous withdrawal from the Biden administration and the failure to vet in any way, shape or form this individual and countless others."

Remember when Alejandro Mayorkas, with a straight face, swore up and down that "well over 99 percent" of evacuees were properly screened? Yeah, about that, when Lindsey Graham reminded him he was under oath and asked if he could guarantee no terrorists slipped through, Mayorkas mumbled, "No. No, I can’t speak to that."

Of course he can't. Because the directive straight from the top was "fill the planes, ask questions never." Senator Josh Hawley uncovered an August 2021 email literally telling officials to "err on the side of excess" and let people board even if their paperwork was, shall we say, creatively incomplete.

So here we are: two American heroes in critical condition, a suspected Afghan shooter who drove cross-country with his wife and five kids to allegedly play jihad near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and a vetting process that was apparently run by the same people who designed Healthcare.gov.

Thank goodness there's a new sheriff in town.

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Senior Qatari Diplomat Warns of Gaza's Descent into Eternal Limbo: 'No War, No Peace'

One might have thought that after the horrific savagery of October 7, 2023, and the ensuing catastrophe in Gaza, the world would have learned to approach Qatari pronouncements with a healthy dose of scepticism. Qatar, after all, is not merely a bystander in this tragedy but a principal enabler of the very Hamas terror machine that ignited it, hosting its leaders in luxury while pretending to play the impartial peacemaker. Yet here we are, in the autumn of 2025, with Majed al-Ansari, adviser to Qatar's prime minister and spokesperson for the foreign ministry, issuing fresh warnings in The Guardian about the Strip's potential slide into a “no war, no peace” purgatory. As if the Qatari capital's five-star accommodations for jihadists hadn't already prolonged the agony.

"We don’t want to reach a situation of no war, no peace," al-Ansari cautioned, his words dripping with the earnestness of a diplomat whose government has bankrolled the very impasse he decries. The scenario he sketches is grimly plausible: Israeli troops lingering in Gaza, not out of imperial whim but necessity, because no sane soul, least of all the international community, with its track record of feckless interventions from Somalia to Afghanistan, would volunteer to plant a peacekeeping flag in a hellscape riddled with Hamas tunnels and booby-traps.

"There is a need for the international community to go in, assess the damage, start thinking about reconstruction, working on reconstruction, and to formally keep the peace," al-Ansari elaborated. "This is what will significantly shift the whole process from war to the day after.” Ah, yes, the "day after," that mythical horizon perpetually receding like a mirage in the Negev. 

One can almost hear the echoes of past follies: the Oslo Accords' grand promises, the Dayton Agreement's hollow vows, all crumbling under the weight of Palestinian rejectionism and Arab-state indifference. Qatar, ever the optimist (or opportunist), pins its hopes on a UN Security Council resolution to "mandate an administration and an international force in Gaza, that we would be able to stabilize the situation."

"In principle, a lot of the countries in the region and beyond have agreed to be part of this," he continued, "but in practice that needs a very concrete mandate for the force." In principle: where all the world's virtue-signaling converges, a cocktail party of platitudes. In practice: the yawning chasm where good intentions meet the rubble-strewn reality of Gaza, where "stabilization" means dodging RPGs and unearthing IEDs. It's a reminder that the UN's grand designs have a habit of evaporating when the first suicide vest goes off.

Al-Ansari didn't shy from the hostage horrors either, those Israeli families still chained to the barbarism of October 7. "There are a lot of challenges before we are able to dispense with stage one [of the deal]," he admitted. "Including the difficulty of excavating the remains of those [hostages] who were killed and ascertaining their identities, and the violations that result in the death of Palestinians every day at the hands of IDF soldiers." Here, in a single breath, the Qatari worldview crystalizes: the murderers' handiwork lamented, but swiftly pivoted to Israel's defensive operations as "violations." One searches in vain for mention of Hamas's deliberate use of civilians as human shields, or the rivers of blood from their unprovoked assault. But then, symmetry is not a virtue in Doha's diplomacy.

Lest we forget Qatar's own brushes with the conflict's sharper edges, al-Ansari revisited the IDF's audacious strike on September 9 against Hamas kingpins luxuriating on Qatari soil. "It was designed to push us out, not only out of these [Gaza] talks, but to push us out as an internationally trusted mediator," he claimed. "We were working on more than 10 mediations on the day of the attack." Trusted mediator? From the nation that has funneled billions to Hamas's coffers while lecturing the West on human rights? The irony is thicker than the fog of war itself. "This was not an attack we could brush off and continue doing the work that we were doing," al-Ansari insisted, revealing that Washington had to issue ironclad assurances against further incursions on Qatari turf before the talks could limp back to life. One wonders: if Doha's salons are so sacrosanct for "peace," why not extradite the Hamas butchers who plot from them? Or is the real "no war, no peace" the endless charade Qatar orchestrates, prolonging suffering while burnishing its image as the Middle East's indispensable broker?

In the end, al-Ansari's warnings serve less as prophecy than as a plea: spare us the consequences of the monsters we've harboured. Gaza's fate hangs not on UN resolutions or Qatari bromides, but on Israel's resolve to dismantle the terror infrastructure that birthed this nightmare. Anything less, and the Strip risks not limbo, but an eternal graveyard of squandered chances.

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BREAKING: Car attacks Munich crowd injuring many--UPDATE

“Fight them, till there is no persecution and religion is all for Allah; then if they give over, surely Allah sees the things they do.” (Qur’an 8:39)

Munich, Germany--The details are not yet complete, but a Mini Cooper, accent on Mini, attacked a crowd of demonstrators in Munich. It isn't reported whether the owner of the car, a 24-year-old Afghan man who was rejected for an asylum claim, was behind the wheel, but according to reports, it seems as if the car had a mind of its own.

Where do these angry cars come from and why would a military-age Afghan man own such a dangerous vehicle? In fact, he was on a German watch list.

It happened at 10:30 a.m. local time. today at a trade union demonstration.

About 27 have been injured, including children, one who is fighting for his life, and it is unconfirmed that several people have died.

Due to the close proximity of the election, outgoing chancellor, Olaf Schultz, has gone from his left-leaning position to a right-leaning one. It seems that when elections come nigh, the left goes right.

Wait . . . it appears that the 24-year-old Afghan illegal alien was actually driving the car and crashed it into the crowd. 

Perhaps jihad isn't really about peace, after all.

More to follow.

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Compromised News Network (CNN) loses defamation suit against Navy vet--punitive damages awarded

PANAMA CITY, FL – After more than eight hours of deliberation, a jury concluded that CNN defamed U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young, holding the network accountable for punitive damages.

Young claimed that CNN damaged his reputation by suggesting he was making illegal profits by aiding people to escape Afghanistan during the 2021 U.S. military withdrawal. In a November 11, 2021, segment on "The Lead with Jake Tapper," Young was depicted as an "illegal profiteer" who exploited "desperate Afghans."

The lawsuit spanned over three years, culminating in an intense eight-day trial in Bay County, Florida, under Judge William S. Henry. The judge had previously determined that Young's actions were not illegal or criminal, contrary to CNN's broadcast.

Jake Tapper introduced the segment by cautioning viewers about "desperate Afghans still trying to escape the country being preyed on by folks demanding that they pay up big time to get out." He later reiterated the exploitation theme, highlighting the segment where reporter Alex Marquardt detailed the "black market" for evacuation.

Marquardt focused on Young, showing his image and stating his company was charging exorbitant fees for evacuation services, like $75,000 to transport a vehicle to Pakistan or $14,500 per person to the UAE. He noted these prices were "well beyond the reach of most Afghans."

CNN showed Marquardt allegedly calling Young, who didn't answer, and reported on texts where Young explained that evacuation costs were "highly volatile and based on environmental realities." Marquardt accused Young of not clarifying his profit margins, despite Young's acknowledgment of market dynamics.

The trial dissected these segments, with CNN's lawyers arguing Young wasn't central to the story, while Young's legal team argued the "black market" label was career-ruining, especially since it could lead to termination under his contract terms.

Evidence included internal CNN messages where staff expressed hostility toward Young, with terms like "s--tbag" and "a--hole" used, and Marquardt's own message about "nailing" Young. Senior national security editor Thomas Lumley, despite his doubts about the report's integrity, was called to testify.

Young, emotional during his testimony, spoke about the impact on his personal life and his efforts in rescuing 22 women from Afghanistan, which CNN did not cover.

CNN issued an apology on March 25, 2022, but internal sentiments suggested it was more for legal reasons than genuine regret. The trial also saw Judge Henry reprimanding CNN's lead counsel, David Axelrod, for wrongly branding Young a "liar" concerning his employment status post-segment.

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Cretin News Network worried over defamation suit's outcome as trial heats up

Alright, buckle up, because CNN's in for a wild ride, or should I say, a defamation lawsuit rollercoaster! Here's the scoop from Fox News, and trust me, it's juicier than a five-pound burger at a vegan conference.

CNN's bigwigs are sweating bullets over this defamation case that's hotter than a summer day in Phoenix. They're not just worried about losing their reputation; they're terrified of another massive payout that could make their already dismal ratings look like the good old days. [I refer to the Nick Sandmann case where CNN paid a bundle to the smiling teen.]

Now, while the network's bottom feeders are dealing with sinking viewership and whispers of layoffs, they're also staring down this lawsuit from Navy vet Zach Young. This guy says CNN smeared him worse than a tabloid does to a Hollywood starlet, claiming he was some kind of black market profiteer during the chaotic Afghanistan pullout under Biden.

"It's a big concern of upper management," an insider squealed to Fox News Digital. "All the damning stuff, text messages, etc., has already been published. So I don't think there's concern in terms of exposure. But I think there's definitely concern about the outcome. It seems very likely that CNN is going to have an enormous payout at the end of this."

Young didn't just sit back; he warned CNN's reporter, Alex Marquardt, that he'd see them in court if they aired what he considered a load of bull. He claims CNN "destroyed his reputation and business" by painting him as the bad guy exploiting "desperate Afghans" in a segment aired on "The Lead with Jake Tapper."

The discovery process? Oh, it's like Christmas for lawyers, with internal CNN chats showing editors had doubts but went with the story anyway. And let's not forget the charming language used by CNN staff to describe Young in private.

But, here's the kicker: while this lawsuit is brewing like a witch's potion, the everyday CNN grunt isn't losing sleep over it. They've got other fish to fry, like their own jobs and ratings that are lower than a limbo stick at a beach party.

Another insider spilled, "I don't know if that pans out. But for some reason it hasn't permeated the org at all. And that is probably because the org is in toxic shock daily and crisis at its situation, so there are bigger morale fish to fry." They added, "Ratings, cuts, confusion on strategy, all of the above. Which isn't unique to CNN but is acute at CNN."

CNN, trying to put on a brave face, says, "When all the facts come to light, we are confident we will have a verdict in our favor." Sure, they're as confident as a cat at a dog show.

New CEO Mark Thompson, who's been cleaning up since Licht's departure, isn't denying the pink slips are coming. They're pivoting to digital, but with ratings that would make a ghost town look lively, it's like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

And let's not forget, CNN's ratings have hit rock bottom, with numbers so low you'd need a microscope to count them. They're losing to the Food Network, for crying out loud!

So, while Thompson's got his game face on, the industry's like a sinking ship with everyone bailing water, from the Washington Post to HuffPost.

"I think people still feel right now it's a very uncertain time in the business overall, so I think that there's still a feeling of, 'what's going to happen to CNN,' and that people don't really know about that," said the insider.

In the end, it's a mess at CNN, and this defamation suit might just be the cherry on top of a very sour sundae. Stay tuned, folks!

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Democrat Gov. and stolen valor perp regrets not correcting interviewers who said he's a Bronze Star recipient

Democratic Maryland Governor Wes Moore is more or less regretful [after being outed] over allowing interviewers to call him a Bronze Star recipient when he did not receive such an award, nor had he ever received even a plastic star.

The Democrat served as an Army captain in Afghanistan and when he included a Bronze Star in his 2006 application for a White House fellowship, his critics were suspicious and the New York Times filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Afterward, in at least two interviews where he was identified as a Bronze Star recipient, Moore did not correct them and has now been labeled the recipient of stolen valor.

"It was an honest mistake that I made nearly 20 years ago, and I own it," Moore claimed in a Fox News Digital interview Friday. Mistake? If someone called you a Bronze Star recipient, wouldn't you correct them? When you know you didn't receive a Bronze Star, how is it a "mistake" not to correct the person who says you did?

"When I was just coming back from a combat deployment, when I was now being thrust into a national media that I'd never been in before, when I was still very much dealing with a lot of the consequences of conflict," he continued. "Should I have, in a long introduction, gone back and said something? In retrospect, I probably should have… And I take responsibility for that." 

Probably? Even now he's trying to minimize the fact that he perpetrated stolen valor.

Moore was misidentified as a Bronze Star recipient in a 2008 interview by the late "PBS NewsHour" host Gwen Ifill and in a 2010 interview with comedian Stephen Colbert on "The Colbert Report." On the other hand, Colbert has often been misidentified as a comedian.

Moore remains proud of his service and said his love for the country is "undying."

"I joined the military when I was 17 years old. I chose to raise my hand and serve with the uniform of this country, the flag of the country on my shoulder, and to serve with one of the most elite units in the entire United States military," Moore said. "I led soldiers, I led paratroopers in combat, and I was rated as a top 1% officer. My senior rater said I was the best lieutenant that they worked with in all of Operation Enduring Freedom, in the entire Afghanistan campaign."

"I am deeply proud of my service. I'm deeply proud of the work that we did. I'm deeply proud of the work that I did, that I'm doing now to support veterans and veterans' families now as the governor of Maryland. And I will always do that, and I will always be very proud of the service I did," he added, but not mentioning the make believe Bronze Medal.

But with Democrats like Moore and Tim Walz, it's SOP [Standard Operating Procedure].

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Blinken subpoenaed by House Foreign Affairs Committee

Secretary of State Antony Blinken keeps ducking requests to appear before the House Foreign Affairs Committee regarding the Biden-Harris screwup with the Afghanistan withdrawal that resulted in the deaths of 13 US service personnel. So Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) issued a subpoena.

McCaul, in his letter says that he asked Blinken several times for a commitment to show up to the Committee, but he didn't, neither for the May 22, 2024 or August 12, 2024 hearings, which requested he confirm by August 19th that he would show up for the September 10, 2024 hearing. The letter included a warning to Blinken.

Crickets.

"This letter further indicated that should you choose 'not to appear voluntarily,' I would be obligated to proceed with compulsory process to compel your appearance. The Committee is holding this hearing because the Department of State was central to the Afghanistan withdrawal and served as the senior authority during the August non-combatant evacuation operation (NEO)," this September 3 letter pointed out. "As Secretary of State throughout the withdrawal and NEO, you were entrusted to lead these efforts and to secure the safe evacuation of Americans and Afghan allies. In testimony before the Committee, current and former State Department officials have confirmed that you served as the final decision-maker for the Department on the withdrawal and evacuation. You are therefore in a position to inform the Committee’s consideration of potential legislation aimed at helping prevent the catastrophic mistakes of the withdrawal, including potential reforms to the Department’s legislative authorization."

"Pursuant to your request for a telephone call and our subsequent discussion on August 19 – the response deadline – I informed you that the Committee’s report on the withdrawal will be released on September 9 and that you needed to appear at a hearing to address the findings set forth in the report. During this call, in the interest of the investigation, I agreed to provide you with additional time to finalize a scheduled date for your appearance, which you indicated would be “nail[ed] []down in the next week," McCaul wrote.

McCaul further reminded that there were additional attempts to secure assurances from Blinken regarding his appearance. These included communications from Committee Staff to the Department on August 26 and August 27. Another request was made as recently as August 30.

But who are we kidding? Blinken et al, are above the law because we allow it and the media covers for our top politicians. 

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Tom Cotton rips Harris & Biden for being AWOL while Trump consoled Gold Star families

Decorated Army veteran Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) criticized President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday for declining invitations from Gold Star families to join them and former President Donald Trump at Arlington National Cemetery last week. It wasn't only disrespectful, but also kind of politically stupid. 

Cotton, who served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, defended Trump's visit to the military burial grounds to help commemorate the third anniversary of the deaths of service members killed by a suicide bomber at the Kabul International Airport during the problematic U.S. withdrawal from the country.

Harris, 59, has criticized her 78-year-old GOP presidential opponent's appearance at the cemetery as a "political stunt."

Cotton retorted Sunday, “He didn’t take campaign photos there.

“These families — Gold Star families — whose children died because of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s incompetence, invited him to the cemetery, and they asked him to take those photos” during the wreath-laying event, Cotton said of Trump on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Gold Star families invited Harris and Biden to join them at Arlington National Cemetery for a ceremony last week, according to Sen. Tom Cotton.

Cotton said he spoke to the parents of fallen Marine Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover and that they indicated “they wanted President Trump there, they wanted to take those photos.

“You know who those families also invited? Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,” Cotton said.

“Where were they? Joe Biden was sitting at a beach. Kamala Harris was sitting at her mansion in Washington, DC,” he said, referring to Biden's vacation in Rehoboth Beach, DE, where he’s been since last Sunday, and Harris’ residence on the grounds of the US Naval Observatory.

“She was 4 miles away — 10 minutes,” Cotton said of Harris. “She could’ve gone to the cemetery and honored the sacrifice of those young men and women, but she hasn’t.

“She never has spoken to them or taken a meeting with them,” he added.

 The senator blamed Biden and Harris for the deaths of the 13 service members outside the Kabul airport, which occurred during the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. The administration elected to allow the freaking Taliban to act as security rather than our military because the administration is inundated with fools.

Cotton’s blistering response follows video messages released by relatives of seven of the 13 victims of the suicide blast criticizing Harris’ attack on Trump.

“We, the families of the brave service members who were tragically killed in the Abbey Gate bombing, are appalled by Vice President Kamala Harris’ recent attempts to politicize President Trump’s visit to Arlington National Cemetery,” they said in a joint statement released by the Trump campaign.

“President Trump was invited by us, the Gold Star families, to attend the solemn ceremonies commemorating the three-year anniversary of our children’s deaths,” they added. “He was there to honor their sacrifice, yet Vice President Harris has disgracefully twisted this sacred moment into a political ploy.”

We need to end this administration in November, because if Harris wins, that's what we'll get.

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Biden demands "immediate ceasefire" by Israel and blames them for hostages not being freed

Mouth breathing Commander in Chief looking for the dead bird

Like the slime balls who blame women in short skirts for being raped, our alleged President Joe Biden is alluding to the notion that it's Israel's fault the hostages are not being released.

In a call to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Biden demanded Israel quit fighting Hamas, their neighbors who have called for their genocide. Biden demands Israel allow Hamas to walk away from what they did to over 1,300 Israelis on October 7, 2023. Who the hell is he or anyone outside of Israel to make such demands?

Biden threatened to withdraw U.S. support of their ally, Israel, if they didn't do as he [actually it probably was his handler] said.

The brain addled President attacked Israel for the situation in Gaza, a situation totally due to the barbarism of Hamas and their use of civilians and their spaces from which they launch their rocket attacks at Israel. He called Israel's response to Hamas attacks with the help of Gazans "unacceptable," in spite of Israel allowing aid to flow into Gaza, only to have Hamas steal it. Of course Israel must monitor the aid in order to prevent weapons from being smuggled into Hamas' bloody hands.

“[Biden] made clear the need for Israel to announce and implement a series of specific, concrete, and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers,” the White House said, without demanding Hamas do the same. “He made clear that U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these steps.”

“He underscored that an immediate ceasefire is essential to stabilize and improve the humanitarian situation and protect innocent civilians, and he urged the Prime Minister to empower his negotiators to conclude a deal without delay to bring the hostages home,” the statement continued.

No similar demands were made of the terrorist group because Biden believes it would hurt him with the Muslim votes in Michigan and Minnesota, states with large Muslim populations who tend to support all things anti-Israel.

White House National Security Communications Adviser the repugnant John Kirby confirmed at the White House press briefing shortly after the readout was published that Biden actually threatened Israel if it did not meet his demands.

“If there’s no changes to their policy and their approaches, then there’s going to have to be changes to ours,” Kirby said.

Biden’s continued shift away from supporting Israel comes as he trails former President Donald Trump in the polls, including in swing states where far-Left Democrats and Muslim voters disprove of his support for Israel.

The shift also comes after The New York Times reported this week that first lady Doctor Jill Biden, reportedly demanded that Biden stop Israel’s airstrikes against Hamas targets inside Gaza.

“Stop it, stop it now, Joe,” Doctor Jill Biden reportedly said.

The doctor's remarks come after several aid workers were killed by accident in an Israeli airstrike this week, for which Israel apologized and is investigating. 

It's amazing how the Biden administration has the audacity to make such demands of Israel considering our own history in wars, as seen in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Dresden for example where we killed innocent civilians on purpose. 

And then there was the U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan that accidentally killed 10 Afghan nationals, including seven children, because accidents happen in war.

“Unfortunately, in the past day there was a tragic event in which our forces unintentionally harmed non-combatants in the Gaza Strip,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “This happens in war. We are conducting a thorough inquiry and are in contact with the governments. We will do everything to prevent a recurrence.”

Biden refused to take any responsibility for the drone strike or the loss of life in the Afghanistan withdrawal. But he refuses to take any blame for anything for which he is to blame.

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Biden finally responds to Iranian-backed strike that killed 3 US troops

Alleged President Biden has finally decided to respond to the drone strike that killed three of our service personnel over the weekend in a Jordan outpost. Without going into the tedious effort to honor our fallen heroes, Biden made it abundantly clear, that he does not want to expand the conflict in the Middle East, and our enemies are well aware of that fact.

Dementia Joe told reporters, as he left the White House amid the loud and chaotic noise of Marine One revving nearby, that he was indeed determined to answer the Sunday drone attack.

“I don’t think we need a wider war in the Middle East. That’s not what I’m looking for,” he shouted. 

It reminded me of my Uncle Harry who, after the city had sent him a dog license renewal form began to fill it out while my Aunt Rose told him, "Harry, don't do it--the dog is dead. Parfait died last year, Harry," to which Harry replied, "Rose, I don't want any trouble." 

Asked whether he holds Iran responsible for the soldiers’ deaths, Biden said, “I do hold them responsible in the sense that they’re supplying the weapons to the people who did it.” [H/T NY Post.]

In the sense that? Isn't that enough, Joe?

Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46, Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, were killed while over 40 US personnel were wounded in the attack, the latest in the slew of anti-American Iranian proxy operations in Syria, Iraq and off the coast of Yemen following the October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel.

This was the 165th attack on American forces and we responded 5 times! This puts American lives at risk because Iran knows Biden is weak and cowardly. 

"Re-elect Biden! Re-elect Biden!"

Republicans are calling on him to get on his feet and retaliate somehow, certainly beyond a mush-mouthed response that means nothing but weakness to our enemies.

It's obvious Biden, an old 81, holds little regard for our military.  You might remember when he checked his watch no less than three times at a military funeral for the 13 service members killed at Abbey Gate, in the Afghanistan evacuation, as the bodies were unloaded on the tarmac. It was Biden's refusal to go with military advice that the lesser secure airport was used in this operation, while Bagram air base would have been the more secure choice. 

And Biden called the evacuation an immense success, because for him, even going up or down a flight of stairs with doing a header, is an immense success.

And let us not forget that it was Biden, the only member of Obama's inner circle to voted agains going after Osama bin Laden after the CIA found him. See, Biden did not trust the US Navy SEALs.

The farther left in his Democrat Party is worrying out loud that Old Joe is going to get us into another war, like every modern president has except former President Trump.

Biden's main strategy is probably best categorized as "patient indifference." He refused to do anything about the Chinese electronics surveillance balloon and until now, he has done nothing to dissuade Iran-backed Islamists from attacking us. 

If it has nothing to do with his political gain, Biden is indifferent.

But this is an election year and Biden has now claimed that he has examined a number of targets to hit and had decided to attack, possibly in the next few hours. But he whispered to the press: "Sshh. Don't tell Iran."

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Antony Blinken thinks lecturing Israelis on what to do with Hamas is okay

"Don't worry, Antony, we'll take care of the problem for you"

Incompetent Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who happens to be Jewish, was widely criticized for telling Israel's war cabinet how to prosecute the war against the Hamassholes who on October 7 attacked Israeli citizens, mostly civilians, and killed, raped, burned, mutilated, tortured men, women, children and the elderly for being Jewish. How dare he "lecture" anyone about warfare, especially people from another nation just because the Biden administration is facing pressure from Hamas-supporting anti-Semites.

Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) is a decorated former Green Beret. Waltz spoke to Fox News and said that Israel will end up in a surrender if they go along with "President Biden's edicts," although we know it wasn't coming from Biden himself because it wasn't gibberish or flatulence.

"I think that will be a green light for Hezbollah, for the militias in Syria and their masters in Iran to realize their dream before they even get a nuke, of genocide in Israel and wiping Israel off the face of the Earth," Waltz said.

He stated that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is well aware that the IDF cannot back down as Hamassholes and terrorists in general only understand strength and diplomacy is for Bud Light consumers.

"I have sat across the table, whether it's the Taliban, ISIS, Al Qaeda or Hamas, they all see the world the same way -- And what they understand are bullets and bombs on foreheads, period."

Of course Waltz is correct and anyone with a functioning cortex [which leaves Alexandria Occasional-Cortex out of the discussion] knows that's true. It's obvious why the Middle East didn't go ballistic when Trump was our President--they know he is unpredictable and capable of "bombing the shit" out of any country that messes with us.

Waltz also said that liberals who continue to cry foul over Israel's response to the October 7 civilian massacre by Hamas ignore the difference between those attacks on civilians and the collateral casualties caused by the IDF's response in Gaza – then adding the administration is "pandering" in a "disgraceful" way.

Waltz also criticized Blinken's recent caution to Israel's war cabinet, in which the pencil-neck geek warned the Jewish State that they don't have very long to continue its war amid pressure from the Biden administration and other western concerns.

Unfortunately, Blinken was not at the Israeli Nova rave when the Hamassholes attacked and started shooting at anyone in sight. Not that he should have been a casualty, but that he should know what he's asking Israel to do. 

Fortunately, they will not comply with such a suicidal request.

At the meeting, Blinken reportedly received pushback from Israeli officials, with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant saying Israelis are fully behind their country's response and its mission to eradicate Hamas no matter the timeline, according to the Times of Israel.

Fox News'"Life, Liberty & Levin" host Mark Levin, a former Reagan Justice Department chief of staff, reminded Waltz of how the late Sen. John McCain, (R-AZ) verbally destroyed Blinken on the Senate floor for over 25 minutes while he was up for confirmation to be then-President Barack Obama's deputy Secretary of State.

"These are ideologues out of these poison ‘ivy’ colleges... [McCain] was pounding this guy, and yet they're never held to account," he said.

McCain lambasted Blinken, calling him "not only unqualified" but "one of the worst selections of a very bad lot [Obama] has chosen," [obviously not counting Biden as his running mate].

McCain added that he didn't generally object so vociferously to even Democratic nominees but that he found Blinken "actually … dangerous to America and to the young men and women who are fighting and serving it."

McCain went on, with a statement that Biden's critics later called prescient after the U.S.' disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, referencing a reported claim by Blinken that Afghanistan's war would be finished by 2014 and that the timetable "would not change."

"This is why I’m so worried about him being in the position that he’s in. Because if they stick to that timetable, I’m telling my colleagues that we will see a replay of Iraq all over again," McCain concluded, which the Biden critics later said was borne out in 2021.

Levin said left-wing diplomats writ-large are rarely held accountable for their foreign policy failures, and are running a "rogue foreign policy," and issuing their own edicts to the sovereign foreign government of Israel.

[H/T Fox News]

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Report: Donald Trump made disparaging remarks about disabled vet that sang "God Bless America"--Really?

Capt. Avila's wheelchair begins to tip in the soft ground as Trump and Avila's wife help him

Former President Donald J. Trump allegedly made disparaging comments about US Army captain Luis Avela, who sang "God Bless America" during his presidency, according to a report that just so happens to be coming out now as campaign season fast approaches.

Really?

Trump supposedly made the nasty statements at a welcome ceremony for Gen. Mark Milley at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in 2019, after Avila sang the patriotic song.  

Avila, who was handpicked by Milley to perform, was severely wounded in Afghanistan and completed five combat tours and lost a leg in an IED attack.

Trump allegedly said to Milley in front of several witnesses as he walked over to congratulate Avila. “Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded.”

Avila has since suffered two heart attacks, two strokes and brain damage as a result of his sacrifice. 

Do you really believe Trump made those remarks? 

It's possible since Trump has a history of making these kinds of comments about US troops. For example, he allegedly referred to fallen troops at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France as "losers" and "suckers" after he decided not to attend a memorial service in 2018, according to the Atlantic, a hard left-leaning magazine.

But Trump denied ever making that remark and we know how honest the left is, especially when it comes to accusing people on the right of bad behavior. Do you really believe that Trump told Milley to never allow the wounded veteran appear in public again? 

Really? Trump is obviously flawed but is he crazy enough to make such statements? In any case, he's a better choice for POTUS than Biden or any Democrat would be.

Milley was reportedly upset by the former president's alleged comments.

“Milley’s family venerated the military, and Trump’s attitude toward the uniformed services seemed superficial, callous, and, at the deepest human level, repugnant,” The Atlantic, a hard-left rag reported. 

Milley will retire next month after 44 years slowly making the military softer and kinder.

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