Comrade Sanders Urges Sexually Assault Accused Democrat To Quit Maine Race So Party Can Find Fresher Face To Lose To Susan Collins

WASHINGTON—In a stunning display of progressive principles that somehow only apply when it's politically convenient, self-described democratic socialist Bernie Sanders urged Maine's scandal-plagued Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner to drop out of the race Tuesday, because nothing says "believe all women" like immediately throwing your own guy under the bus the second a damaging allegation drops.

"I have spoken with Graham Platner about the best path forward for Maine," Sanders, a prominent progressive backer of Platner and his biggest national ally, said in a statement."In light of these very serious allegations, I have recommended that he step aside."

Sanders, the cranky Vermont independent who caucuses with Democrats and has spent decades railing against the establishment while being the establishment, joins a growing pile-on of Democrats who were all-in on Platner until a woman accused him of forcibly having sex with her nearly five years ago, an allegation Platner has denied.

Senate Democratic leaders and their allied super PAC suddenly decided Maine, that critical battleground state Kamala Harris somehow won in 2024, isn't worth the investment if their guy might be radioactive.

Kirsten Gillibrand, chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and Chuck 'Nostrils' Schumer, the top Senate Democrat, issued a joint statement to the same effect, calling for Platner to withdraw from the race and allow the party to choose a new nominee.

Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib also withdrew her endorsement for Platner on Tuesday, calling on him to 'exit the race immediately.' "These allegations are devastating and must be taken seriously," she wrote on Twitter/X.

Republicans currently enjoy a comfy 53-47 majority in the Senate, meaning Democrats would need to net four seats just to tie things up and keep pretending they run the place. Losing Maine would make that mathematical miracle basically impossible, forcing them to defend seats in places like Georgia and Michigan, states President Donald Trump actually won in 2024 while somehow flipping deep-red territory like North Carolina, Ohio, Alaska, Iowa, and Texas. 

Good luck with that, comrades.

Platner has remained silent after saying in a social media video on Monday that he was taking time "to reflect on the best path forward," and think about all the girls he loved before.

He can be replaced on the ballot if he drops out by July 13. The Maine Democratic Party would have until July 27 to select a new nominee, presumably one without quite so much baggage this week.

Potential candidates, including Democrats who lost last month's primary for governor, were already positioning themselves for a likely Senate run on Tuesday like vultures circling a progressive dream that just crashed into reality.Former state Senate President Troy Jackson filed federal paperwork on Tuesday to form an exploratory committee that allows him to start fundraising, the Bangor Daily News reported.

Nirav Shah, the former director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said the party should hold an open and transparent process to select a new nominee. "Anyone running for this nomination should agree to at least one televised debate and hold multiple public town halls across every corner of the state," he said in a statement on X that notably emphasized he is "not an establishment politician" or "an insider.

"Republican Incumbent Well-Funded, Surprisingly Not Under Investigation The lucky Democratic nominee, whoever that ends up being, will face Republican Senator Susan Collins, who chairs a panel that oversees the nation’s federal discretionary spending and somehow hasn't been canceled yet despite being a moderate from Maine.

Collins, 73, has a nearly $10 million war chest and is backed by multiple super PACs. The Senate Leadership Fund has pledged to invest $42 million in Maine, and Pine Tree Results PAC has spent almost $7 million boosting her campaign. The Pine Tree Results PAC has canceled its ad reservations for next week, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact, which suggests Republicans expect Platner to drop out this week because why waste money on a guy who's already politically dead?

In a statement on Monday, Collins called the allegations against Platner "appalling.""Nevertheless," she said, "it is not up to me to choose the Democratic nominee for Senate." Classic Collins: polite, factual, and ready to watch the Democrats eat each other alive.

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SCOTUS showdown over 'unconstitutional' judicial overreach

Okay guys, let's get ready for another episode of "Judges Gone Wild!" 

Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Iowa Republican who’s been around longer than most of the Capitol’s furniture, and has a voice like a cartoon character, is fed up with federal judges playing emperor with nationwide injunctions that ripple way beyond their little courtrooms. He told Fox News Digital he’s betting this judicial power trip will eventually crash and burn.

 
"Universal injunctions are an unconstitutional abuse of judicial power," Grassley, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s head honcho, said. No kidding, Chuck. These black-robed overlords are tossing out rulings like they’re auditioning for a reboot of Legally Blonde: The Dictatorship Edition.

 
Case in point: "Just this past week, a D.C. district judge issued a universal injunction blocking the president’s executive order requiring voter ID or proof-of-citizenship prior to voting in national elections." Because apparently, asking people to prove they’re eligible to vote is now a constitutional crisis for the Democrats. After all, they were hoping for the illegal alien wife-beater vote.

 
Grassley’s not mincing words here. That kind of ruling spits in the face of the quaint notion that "judges are not policymakers," he said. "Allowing them to assume this role is very dangerous." 

Ya think? When one judge in a cozy D.C. office can hit the pause button on an entire administration’s agenda, we’re not exactly living in a republic anymore--we're living in George Soros heaven.

 
With the Supreme Court gearing up to tackle this mess on May 15 over President Trump’s birthright citizenship order, Grassley’s hopeful the justices will drop the hammer. The case digs into the 1898 U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark ruling, which gave us a super-sized version of birthright citizenship after a child of Chinese immigrants got the cold shoulder coming back from China. Trump’s order tweaking that precedent got slapped with nationwide injunctions from judges in Massachusetts, Maryland, and Washington state—because why not let a few unelected folks in robes run the country? 

Trump’s pushing back, arguing the 14th Amendment was about former slaves, not a free-for-all citizenship buffet.

Grassley’s not just sitting on his hands. "In the meantime, I'm continuing to work with my colleagues to advance my critical Judicial Relief Clarification Act (JRCA) and put an end to universal injunctions," he said, sounding a bit like the lady in the automat. 

Good luck with that, senator. Some bright sparks thought they could sneak the JRCA through via reconciliation in a Senate tighter than a hipster’s skinny jeans, but the "Byrd Rule" says no dice—non-financial bills can’t hitch a ride on that train, per someone who actually understands the process.

Grassley’s been sounding the alarm on this judicial overreach since March, when Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin tried to ram through a resolution demanding Trump bow to every federal court ruling. Durbin, by the way, is not running for reelection.

 Grassley wasn’t having it. "The President of the United States shouldn’t have to ask permission from more than 600 different district judges to manage the executive branch he was elected to lead," he fired back. Preach, senator.

 
Ever the optimist, Grassley even tried to find common ground: "I happen to agree with some Democrats that in previous years have said some judges have gone way beyond what a judge should do on national injunctions. I hope to find a solution for that, and I hope that you and I could work on that together." Aw, Chuck, you sweet summer child. Bipartisanship on this? That’s like expecting a vegan to grill you a burger.

 
So here we are, watching judges act like they’ve got a divine right to rule. Grassley’s fighting the good fight, but until the Supreme Court or Congress puts these robed renegades back in their lane, we’re stuck with a system where one activist judge can derail the will of millions. Stay tuned, patriots—this one’s gonna get spicy.

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UPDATE on Perry HS shooting: multiple victims, cops know suspect

Sheriff Adam Infante

New details have emerged regarding the Thursday morning school shooting at the Perry High School in Iowa. While little was known at the time of the initial reporting, it is now known that multiple people were shot and the suspect has been identified, the Dallas County Sheriff Adam Infante said at a press conference.

Details on the suspect are not being released at this time, possibly due to his age or for other legal reasons. Sheriff Infante stated that law enforcement received reports of a shooting at the school before school started at approximately 7:40 am, and units were immediately dispatched to the school, along with ambulances and other emergency personnel.

Heavy police and medical presence was seen at the high school, which is located in Dallas County, about 40 miles northwest of Des Moines. Streets were blocked off around the school's perimeter and a medical helicopter was also seen at the school around 8:30 a.m.

The first calls reporting the shooting came at 7:37 a.m. according to dispatchers, who were then able to access to cameras in the school and reported seeing someone in the west hallway. A recording of a police scanner had the sound of a dispatcher advising first responder units that there are "reports of multiple subjects injured at this time."

One of the first responding officers, who remains unknown at this time, reported on the radio that he observed a "male subject down in the hallway" with an apparent "self-inflicted" gunshot wound. He later reported that the subject was "deceased." 

The high school students were all evacuated to Perry Lutheran Homes and the Iowa National Guard Armory.

A nearby middle school was also placed on lockdown as a precautionary measure--all students and staff remained barricaded in their classrooms and offices.

Parents began arriving around 9:00 am to find and pick up their children. According to witnesses and students at Perry High School, several shots were heard being fired about 20 minutes before school was supposed to start.

*  What we now know is that a sixth grade student was killed and four other students and a school administrator were injured.

*  A teenage student apparently acted alone and ended up killing himself.

*  The shooting is just days away from the Iowa caucuses and the GOP presidential primary Jan. 15.

What an end to winter vacation. Horrible.

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BREAKING: High School shooting in Iowa Thursday morning

At around 7:40 a.m. local time Thursday, reports of an active shooter at Perry High School in Iowa were responded to by police. The incident was confirmed by the Dallas County Sheriff's Office.

Heavily armed law enforcement of the Perry Police Department swarmed the school which is located about 40 miles from Des Moines. It is not yet clear if there were any casualties and no further information has been released.

To be safe, multiple ambulances had already entered and left the school grounds, WHO 13 reported, and the streets surrounding the school were blocked off as the investigation is ongoing. 

Parents arrived upon hearing the news and frantically searched for their children. One mother, Erica Jolliff's ninth-grade daughter was rushed from the school around 7:45 a.m. and she said that she was still trying to locate her sixth-grade son an hour later.

“I just want to know that he’s safe and OK,” Jolliff said. “They won’t tell me nothing.”

The incident was reported on the first day back for students following the winter break.

Police are expected to provide an update later Thursday morning.

[H/T New York Post]

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Iowa State football player allegedly broke woman's spine and raped her

Mug Shot

Aidan Ralph, a redshirt sophomore football player for Iowa State has been arrested for allegedly breaking a woman's back and proceed to sexually assault her.

Ralph, a linebacker for the Cyclones, was arrested Tuesday in Ames, Iowa, for the incident that occurred on December 3. He allegedly accused a woman of cheating on him and began shoving her multiple times, once into a stairwell, a per a police affidavit.

The unnamed woman reportedly suffered a stress fracture of the spine, and allegedly begged Ralph to call an ambulance, as she lay immobile. He refused to make the call.

She alleged that he removed her pants to examine the injury and help relieve her pain, and subsequently began to rape her.

According to the criminal complaint, the woman had visible swelling and the big, strong football player admitted to shoving her into the stairs.

Ralph, 20, has been charged with domestic abuse and third degree sexual abuse, according to Story County Sheriff’s Office records.

If convicted, the big, strong football player faces up to 12 years in prison, including 10 years for the sexual assault, which is a class C felony in Iowa.

Iowa State’s athletic department said in a statement that Ralph, a big, strong 6 foot 2 inch football player “is no longer a member of the Iowa State football program.”

He did not appear in a game for Iowa State during his freshman season; a link to his bio on the school’s athletics website currently leads to an error page.

Ralph posted the $11,000 bail on Wednesday, according to The Athletic and was assigned a public defender. He was obviously ordered not to have any contact with the woman he allegedly seriously injured and raped.

His next court hearing is scheduled for May 15.

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Ron takes lead over Don in early Iowa, NH polls

Although he has yet to declare his candidacy for the 2024 presidential primary race, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is outperforming former President Donald Trump in Iowa and New Hampshire, according to surveys conducted by top Republican firm Public Opinion Strategies. Both states have early voting so this is where voters in other states pay close attention.

The results of the surveys, which were provided to Axios, were conducted from March 21 to 23 for an outside client — not a candidate or super PAC. It found that DeSantis is ahead of Trump by eight points (45% to 37%) in Iowa and tied with Trump in New Hampshire (39% each).

The other candidates who have announced their intention to run, including Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy and Mike Pence, are well-behind both DeSantis and Trump.

DeSantis had a significant advantage over Trump in the 'favorability' vs. unfavorability' category, where he rated 81% - 11% while Trump trailed him 74% - 24%. Haley's favorability/unfavorability was 60% - 19% and Pence's was 59% - 35%.

In the Granite State DeSantis' favorability rating was 77% - 15% while Trump's was 69% - 29%; Haley's was 54% - 23%; Pence was 50% - 43%.

In spite of DeSantis' high numbers, a significant number of Republicans said they didn't see him as "the best candidate to defeat Joe Biden," even though a box of dead bunnies has a higher intellectual capacity than the current alleged POTUS.

In New Hampshire, only 48% of respondents said DeSantis was the clear candidate to defeat the brain addled Biden, while only 46% thought Trump was more electable.

However, in Iowa, DeSantis fared better with 54% saying they believe him to be more electable than Biden; while Trump had 44% saying the same thing about the former president.

Similarly, 68% of Iowa Republicans said they believe DeSantis has a better temperament than Trump. Of those surveyed in New Hampshire, 71% agreed. 

Things will likely change as they always do in time before the primaries, but once DeSantis announces his candidacy, which he almost certainly will, it should not surprise us to see blood in the water and changes in the numbers.

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Iowa sees a case of the dreaded monkeypox

A man in Iowa has the dreaded monkeypox and the world waits in prayerful silence as health officials worry that another person, most likely a gay man, get the infection. They say this guy may have caught it during an international trip he took and is being kept isolated, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health.

Officials are contact tracing to track possible exposure to other individuals, particularly men who have anal sex with other men at raves.

The virus originates in wild animals but occasionally is transferred to humans, and most cases have been confined to central and west Africa where they know the definition of the term 'woman'.

Recent monkeypox cases have traveled well beyond Africa, and are being reported in the U.K., Spain, Italy, the United States, and in other places where men have anal sex with other men at raves.

Symptoms from monkeypox include fever, intense headache, back pain, muscle aches, a lack of energy, skin eruption, and an intense desire for banana chips, according to the World Health Organization.

On June 28, U.S. health officials expanded the guidelines for people who should get vaccinated against monkeypox to include men who recently had sex with other men at raves and Hunter Biden, just to be safe.

In the United States, around 460 cases [less than 47% of the nation's population] of monkeypox in 32 states have been reported by reliable sources. While not as prevalent as the creeping crud, health officials are concerned that this dreaded disease will cause a run on banana chips and skin concealer.

The WHO [not to be confused with the English singing group from the 60s with lead singer Roger Daltrey] said on June 27 that the current outbreak of monkeypox is "moderate" and also said the number of cases "is likely to be underestimated, because like Drag Queen Reading Hour, it's everywhere, it's everywhere." 

"The overall risk is assessed as moderate at [the] global level considering this is the first time that cases and clusters are reported concurrently in five WHO Regions," [aka Whoville] the WHO said. 

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On a more positive note, there are no known cases among monkeys in the United States and the Biden administration is considering a nation-wide monkeypox vaccination requirement, just to be safe.

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Anti-American teacher wants to teach Marxism and to hate Pledge of Allegiance: brags on video

Megan Geha does AOC lunatic eyes:

An Iowa teacher Comrade Megan Geha made several videos that went viral on Wednesday, and admitted to the world that she is pro-Marxist critical race theory (CRT) anti-flag leftist cretin.

The videos show the bug-eyed communist ranting about not being able to teach CRT to children who are not yet aware of how Marxism is responsible for the deaths of at least 100 million souls and also goes against human nature. Geha is also upset that she is "forced" to say the "Pledge of Allegiance" to the flag of the United States of America; and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

It is not known to which country she willing to have allegiance but she doesn't seem to be leaving anytime soon, and she is also unwilling to share her paycheck to the proletariat and the unwashed. Lucky for her that she's living in the freest country on Earth where she can say negative things about the country and not face extermination.

Geha is a special education teacher at Des Moines East High School, according to the Daily Caller, She is upset with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-naturally) because she banned the teaching of racist Marxism in the form of CRT to vulnerable young minds.

In one video, Geha complained that the new law was the nasty way of saying bovine excrement.

"My governor has put into place some ridiculous legislation that many governors have put into place such as I can't teach anything divisive, I can't teach critical race theory, and I can't teach about racial equity," she whined. By equity she means the same outcome regardless of ability and the work put into getting the desired outcome. 

"So, teachers, in the past we've been activists, and after this s**t show of last year, we really need to stand up and do what's right for our kids now. This is a call to action. We need to stand up and fight for our kids, because this is bulls**t."

But the truth is, the only groups being adversely affected by racially focused law, which are actually racist, themselves, are Whites and Asians due to Affirmative Action laws which favor Blacks and other minorities over them.

In another brilliant video, Geha complained about having to say the Pledge of Allegiance with her class.

"The other thing that my governor has mandated for next year is that every classroom — it's mandatory that we all have an American flag, and it is mandatory that we all do the Pledge of Allegiance every morning," she said. "You're going to be hearing from me a lot next year," the communist loser warned.

Finally, there's a video showing Comrade Geha stating that she ensures her personal and political beliefs are expressed through even her classroom decor. So she brings her political beliefs to work and imparts them on other people's children.

"Fifty-one percent of my students are Latinx, and many of them are undocumented and many more have parents who are undocumented," she claimed, although her math aptitude is questionable if she believes that communism could ever work over the long term, so scratch the 51% claim. And what's with 'Latinx'-- even SpellCheck doesn't accept it.

"When they come into my classroom and see signs that say 'No human is illegal,' they don't need to know who I voted for. ... [When they come into the parking lot and see her alone in her car with two masks on, they also know who she voted for.]

When my black students come into my classroom and see my BLM posters, I don't need to tell them [that she's a self-loathing, miserable White woman]. When my LGBTQ+ students come in and see my pride flag, I don't need to tell them" [that she would jump on any bandwagon that she believes "the cool kids" are on].

It's clear, she said, that she has decided to "vote for whoever is on the side of fighting for human rights." But she is quick to take parenting rights away from the parents of her students.

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Poll: Biden in the Iowa dumper in his approval rating

According to a new Iowa poll, co-President Biden's approval rating is slightly better than genital warts, but not by much. The voters in the state are not impressed with how he is handling even the simplest of sentences, much less other issues.

Overall, Biden's approval rating is 43%, and those people comprise the population who only watch CNN and MSNBC. His disapproval rating, which seems way too low, is 52%, according to the Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll. And 5% of people polled said they have no idea what to think and "please leave me alone."

Co-President [aka Vice President] Kamala Hahahaharris also had similar crappy approval numbers to the surprise of intelligent conservatives who wondered why her disapproval didn't peg the meter at 100%. She received 50% disapproval and 42% who hallucinate on a regular basis and believe she's doing a crackerjack job. Hahahaha.

When it comes to Republicans versus Democrats in Iowa, the results are galaxies apart. Eighty-nine percent of barely sentient Democrats approve of the house plant leading the nation while a mere 6% of Republicans approve due to their failure to reorder their psychotropic medications.

In March, before anyone actually followed what Biden was doing rather than saying, his numbers in Iowa were significantly better. His approval rating was 47% and disapproval 44%.

Iowans trust Biden more on issues such as coronavirus due to his inheriting the vaccine from the previous administration, and also trust his handling of infrastructure, before they realized that he defined it as everything from toilet paper to tooth decay with maybe some roads and bridges thrown in. They did not trust him on criminal justice because he fails to concern himself with victim justice. And immigration? Don't get me started. He only received 29% approval on immigration and those votes came from illegal immigrants who illegally voted.

A national poll in May indicated that most Americans are oblivious to what is going on in the nation and the world and thus approved of Biden's performance at 63% approved and 36% who disapproved.

The Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll consisted of 807 Iowa adults [but not necessarily "likely voters"] and was conducted June 13 to 16. It has a margin of error at 3.5 percent.

Joe Biden is his own margin of error.


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Illegal alien convicted of murder in death of Mollie Tibbetts

In this Sept. 2016 file photo provided to OANN by Kim Calderwood, Mollie Tibbetts poses for a picture during homecoming festivities at BGM High School in her hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa.

The illegal alien, Cristhian Bahena Rivera, who murdered college student Mollie Tibbetts was found guilty by an Iowa jury on Friday after only 7 1/2 hours of deliberation.

The verdict came after the moron testified in his own defense earlier in the week. He tried to convince the jury that two unknown men forced him to follow and kidnap Ms. Tibbetts while she was jogging back in 2018. 

Why would they need to enlist the help of a third person to grab her? Perhaps Rivera thought the jury was as stupid as he apparently is.

The illegal alien [who the legacy media referred to as a "farm worker"] alleged that one of the men killed Tibbetts and put her body in the trunk of his car before forcing him to drive to a corn field where he helped hide her body.

Think about it. If one of the two men killed her, why go along with Rivera to hide the body? Why not just leave him with the body and get the hell out of Dodge? Why not even kill Rivera too and steal his car to hide the body?

Rivera testified that he was afraid of the men and said they had told him they would harm his family, including his daughter, if he did not cooperate.

The murder conviction carries a maximum penalty of life in prison. However, Rivera’s defense team plans to appeal the decision, as is their right. If this crap weasel gets off, you can blame it on the Biden administration.

Progressive writer Zaid Jilani wrote: “Is she going to do some kinda DNA test to assure she upholds this rule?”


Is she going to do some kinda DNA test to assure she upholds this rule? https://t.co/9d7rXZTnCV

— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 19, 2021

“It is unclear when such a practice was enacted and if it only applies to local reporters, particularly after her MSNBC appearance with Stephanie Ruhle on Monday,” Fox News reported. “During her MSNBC interview, Lightfoot told Ruhle she would ‘encourage’ Chicago residents to continue wearing masks despite the new CDC guidance allowing those with the coronavirus vaccine to go without them.”

“I know for me personally, I’m going to continue to wear a mask in public and I’m going to encourage others to do so,” Lightfoot told Ruhle. “We’ve got to make sure that people are continuing to follow the public health guidance that has gotten us this far, and masks, I think, are a big and important part of that.”

Lightfoot said on Tuesday afternoon that her decision to continue to encourage people to wear masks was not based on distrust of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

“But I think their guidance last week regarding masks has people confused…We need clarification,” Lightfoot said. “We still have a long way to go to hit the critical mass (of vaccinations) or herd immunity. I don’t want people to have false confidence.”

“To say, ‘If you’re vaccinated, you don’t have to wear a mask,’ that’s great. But what about all of the other people who are out there that aren’t vaccinated?” Lightfoot added. “There’s no way to know that. So I think for the time being, most people are gonna continue to wear masks outside of their homes.”

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Determines Who Interviews Her Based On Race, Local Reporters Claim

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Death of man who drank fish tank cleaner being investigated as a homicide

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The death of a man who allegedly drank fish tank cleaner last month along with his wife to protect themselves from coronavirus, is being investigated as a possible homicide. [H/T: Daily Wire]

“The Mesa City Police Department’s homicide division is investigating the death of Gary Lenius, the Arizona man whose wife served him soda mixed with fish tank cleaner in what she claimed was a bid to fend off the coronavirus,” according to a report by Alana Goodman of The Free Beacon.

“A detective handling the case confirmed the investigation to the Washington Free Beacon on Tuesday after requesting a recording of the Free Beacon’s interviews with Lenius’s wife, Wanda.”

Gary Lenius, 68, died late last month after he and his wife, Wanda, 61, after the lovely couple allegedly drank fish tank cleaner because it contained chloroquine phosphate, a substance they claim President Trump recommended for the treatment of the Chinese Communist Wuhan Coronavirus.

Trump did not say that fish tank cleaner would be a wise idea.

Ms. Goodman interviewed friends of Gary Lenius and they described him as an intelligent, level-headed engineer who was not prone to impulsive and reckless behavior, like drinking fish tank cleaner. In other words, they did not believe he  would knowingly drink fish tank cleaner.

One of his close friends told Goodman: “What bothers me about this is that Gary was a very intelligent man, a retired [mechanical] engineer who designed systems for John Deere in Waterloo, Iowa, and I really can’t see the scenario where Gary would say, ‘Yes, please, I would love to drink some of that Koi fish tank cleaner’. It just doesn’t make any sense.”

The friend continued, “I would like people to know that Gary was not the fool that some of the media stories and comments are depicting him to be. I really don’t think Gary knew what he was taking.”

Another friend described the marriage of Gary and Wanda as a match made in hell. "Wanda would constantly berate Gary in public."

“Everyone was embarrassed for him, but he outwardly did not seem to care much,” the friend added. “In our opinion, their marriage was seen outwardly to be as one-sided as a marriage possibly could be: Gary worshiped Wanda.”

According to the Free Beacon, seven months after the marriage, the Waterloo PD responded to a domestic incident at their home whereby the couple got into an argument “concerning counseling and a possible divorce” during which Wanda allegedly struck her husband in the chest and swung a mounted birdhouse at him, according to a court affidavit from the responding officer, William Sauerbrei.

Wanda was charged with a misdemeanor domestic abuse assault, but they reconciled and Gary testified in support of his Wanda at the trial, saying he was not hurt or put in fear of injury. The judge found Wanda not guilty.

In another report from Goodman, she delineated how Wanda, who immediately blamed the president over their ingesting the fatal fish tank cleaner, was a Democrat donor who hated President Trump. Perhaps this was what she thought a perfect alibi to get rid of Gary.

It will be difficult to prove.

What do you believe?

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AOC forgets who she was campaigning for at campaign rally

Socialist darling of the left, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), is endorsing fellow socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for president of America. She is also out on the campaign trail as a Bernie stand-in. now that he is back in the Senate in the hopes of removing President Trump from the 2020 presidential ballot by impeachment.

As the new star of the far-left, leftist Cortez [aka Alexandria Obviously-Comatose] goes hither and thither for Bernie, she has been spreading the message of the benefits of socialism [at least in her mind] to her young fans composed of people who are deeply concerned about, and opposed to farting cows, people owning their own businesses, the Second Amendment, the First Amendment and free markets.

With Bernie stuck in the Senate listening to the babblings of bug-eyed, lunatic Democrats relentlessly repeat their call for Trump's removal so they can win the election, Obviously-Comatose is a perfect spokesperson for Bernie's at the rally in Iowa.

AOC, 29, who is her own perfect selfie, along with Michael "I Never Met a Burger I Didn't Love" Moore, went to the rally to speak on behalf of their hope for the presidency.

But only Michael Moore understood why he was there and actually praised comrade Sanders. 

He eventually introduced the belchy-voice AOC who spoke about her main issues: immigration policy [everyone gets a free gift] Medicare for all [everyone runs out of toilet paper] and the environment and her Green New Deal. [We're all going to be dead in ten years, so duh, why bother?]

She honked on about this and that, and everything she deems important, but never once, not one single, solitary time, did she mention Bernie Sanders by name.

She couldn't even get that right because she is so left.

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Liz "Throwing Bull" Warren claims she "objected" to Sondland's confirmation--she threw the bull again

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) swore in a new TV ad that if she's elected president [heaven forfend] she will cease the practice of appointing "big donors to be ambassadors."

In the ad for Democratic presidential candidate, Fauxcahontas specifically goes after Gordon Sondland, who was a big donor to President Trump's campaign, and was nominated by him as U.S. ambassador to the European Union.

Warren claims now that she "objected" to Sondland's nomination--but when her claim was investigated, it was revealed that she told yet another lie to add to her long list of lies to you, the American people, as Sean Hannity would say [over and over.] Specifically, Warren did not in any way, shape or form oppose Sondland's nomination to the Senate floor.

The false ad began running Friday in Iowa. It focuses on Gordon Sondland because of his name recognition. He was the key witness in the House impeachment show into President Trump and who, after being asked whether he knows of any evidence that exists that is appropriate for impeaching Trump, he replied 'no.'

“At the center of Donald Trump’s crimes and chaos is the millionaire donor he made an ambassador,” Warren says in the spot over pictures of Sondland.

“Republicans and Democrats have been rewarding big donors with cushy ambassadorships like this for years,” she says. “It’s Washington corruption at its worst.”

“When I’m president that stops. I’m the only candidate running who has made this promise. I’ll never give ambassadorships to unqualified donors just because they wrote me fat checks,” she concludes, implying that she'll go on the warpath against those evil rich people.

“Donald Trump has made it clear that he has taken a process that has been far too cozy in Washington for far too long and that is just sell the ambassadorships, one after another after another. And that’s why I have called on my fellow Democrats in this primary to say no. No more of this,” Warren said Friday in an interview ahead of a town hall in Dover, N.H. where she danced like no one was watching.

“We are not going to appoint big donors to be ambassadors. We’re going to appoint people who are actually qualified to be ambassadors, who have some history, some experience in this,” she added thoughtfully.

Asked if she opposed Sondland’s confirmation, Warren lied: “When he came through – I think most of these guys came through on consent – I objected to all of them.” Yes, but very quietly.

Asked if she specifically took any action, Warren answered, “I would have to go back and look at the individual ones. There have been a lot of ambassadors that have come through.” In other words, she had to look at her notes to refresh her memory as to how she voted because her memory sometimes fails her, just like it did with her MeeMaw.

Sondland was confirmed by unanimous consent in June 2018. Warren and the rest of the senators consented to a “voice vote” for Sondland’s confirmation to occur at a session in which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was the only lawmaker in the chamber.

Any member of the Senate could have raised an objection to the nomination – but none did.

Warren also did not object to the confirmation of 11 other Trump ambassador nominations and it is rumored that it was apple juice in the beer bottle in the old video.

I suspect she will be dropping out of the race after the first few primaries and caucuses. She isn't believable and she has the public appeal of a polio epidemic.

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Iowa: White supremacist woman ran down girl because she was a "Mexican"

Mugshot of Nicole Marie Poole Franklin

Des Moines -- According to Iowa police, a woman was arrested on Friday who admitted to running over a 14-year-old girl with her SUV because the child was "a Mexican."

Nicole Marie Poole Franklin, 42, was charged with attempted murder after being accused of running down a girl on the sidewalk in Clive, Iowa on December 9 and fleeing the scene, leaving her with numerous injuries and not rendering aid.

Franklin was charged after detectives identified her Thursday as the driver in the hit-and-run and then interviewing her at a local jail where she was being held for an unrelated case, Clive Police Chief Michael Venema said at a news release.

“During the interview, Franklin not only admitted to being the driver of the car that struck this girl but also that she had done so intentionally,” Venema told reporters. “Franklin told investigators that she ran the girl over because she was, in her words, ‘a Mexican.’”

“She went on to make a number of derogatory statements about Latinos to the investigators,” he added.

According to Venema, Franklin was charged with attempted murder.

“I want to say in the strongest terms possible that there is no place in our community or any other for this type of hatred or violence,” the "Chief Obvious" said.

The white supremacist Franklin was accused of driving her SUV up onto the sidewalk as the child was walking to school to watch a basketball game.

"I don't remember the impact," the teenager told a Des Moines TV station several days later. "I just remember the car coming at me."

Franklin was behind bars after being charged with assaulting a Des Moines convenience store clerk with racist remarks. She's just a real peach of a person.


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Booker wants special debate treatment

Dubuque, Iowa -- Cory Booker once heard someone call him a master debater, and now he's bitter that, as a black man, he is being left out of the next Democratic debate just because people don't send him campaign donations or think that he, with his big, angry eyes can win against President Trump. 

The truth is, he may have misheard that person. 

Booker and his angry Mr. Potato Head Eyes is trying to fight his way into the next Democratic presidential debate and just ended an 800-mile, 12-county schlepp of Iowa. On Sunday, he attacked his own party for allowing "elites" and "money," which is evil, to decide who actually has a following and therefore should be on the debate stage.

Booker tried to hint [after pretending he was upset that Kamala Harris dropped out of the race] that there were no people of color [hint, hint] and that makes him very sad. Like his usual histrionic whining, the media wasn't buying it.

“Iowa never lets elites decide,” he lamented to a crowd at his campaign office in Cedar Rapids on Sunday. “Let’s let Iowa have another comeback story.”

Just six candidates are qualified for the Dec. 19 debate, and Booker, who remains black,  is not one of them. He’s met the threshold of donors required to qualify but he has yet to hit the polling qualifications — either 4% support in at least four polls or 6% support in two early-state polls. The deadline is Thursday, and he’s yet to hit the mark on a single poll.

The reason may be due to his lack of fresh ideas that wouldn't bankrupt the nation, but it's more probable that people see through his facade and would rather see someone else going up against the "bad orange man."

“I’m a little upset with the (Democratic National Committee) right now because they seem to be trying to make the decisions for you,” he told a mostly drunk afternoon crowd gathered in a Dubuque bar, hoping they would protest on his behalf and maybe even kick some butt.

Booker also noted the New Hampshire Democratic Party voted this weekend to send the DNC a statement urging the party to revisit the qualifying standards for the debate to ensure greater diversity and give voters “the greatest opportunity” to hear from the candidates and see the level of their melanin and the level of their "poverty" and basic intersectionality.

Xochitl Hinojosa, a spokeswoman for the DNC, called the party’s debate rules “inclusive” and said no candidate who has gone on to be the party’s nominee has polled lower than 4% at this point in past primaries. She refused to add that Booker and the other losers can go whistle for all she cares, and with a name like Xochitl Hinojosa, she can say anything she darn well pleases.

As Booker seeks momentum and a reason to exist, he’s sharing a message focused far more on thoughtless emotion than on intelligent policy and purity tests. He said his policy chops compare to any of his rivals, but it will take a leader who can help Americans see and care for each other to make progress on thorny issues like gun control and climate change. 

And like Kumbaya. 

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Biden admits: "I probably shouldn't have challenged that 83-year-old Iowan to push-up contest

Malarkey, Iowa -- Joe Biden was doing his "No Malarkey" tour [which actually is your father's tour] when he came across an 83-year-old man who looked like he spends his afternoons at the Denny's senior lunch special. Well, it turns out the old guy gave Old Joe some malarkey and Old Joe didn't like it one bit.

Old Joe, the 77-year-young former vice president to "clean" President Barack Obama wasn't taking any of that 83-year-old farmer's horse manure at the New Hampton, Iowa town hall. No siree bob.

“We all know Trump has been messing around in Ukraine,” the old guy said, then added: “You, on the other hand, sent your son over there to get a job and work for a gas company and [who] had no experience in natural gas. You’re selling access to the president just like he is.”

Biden began to walk menacingly toward the old man and then exploded. “You’re a damn liar, man. That’s not true. And no one has ever said that,” Biden said as he approached the man menacingly.

Then Biden, who is known for doing push-ups and helping his son get an $83,000 a month job using his name, challenged the old farmer. “Let’s do push-ups together here, man. Let’s run. Let’s do whatever you want to do. Let’s take an IQ test.”

The former frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination went on to defend his disgusting son, Hunter. “No one has said my son has done anything wrong,” Biden said, obviously not referring to the stripper he got pregnant then lied about not having known her just to get out of child support. And also not referring to how he cheated on his wife with his dead brother's widow. And certainly not referring to his chronic drug usage that got him kicked out of the Navy. Joe added that Hunter "did not on any occasion" do anything wrong, claiming "no one has ever said that." [See above.]

“I didn’t say you were doing anything wrong,” the old man said.

“You said I set up my son to work on an oil company,” Biden fired back. “Isn’t that what you said? Get your words straight, Jack!"

It's unclear if the old man's name actually is Jack.

The man said he heard it on MSNBC, which caused Biden to explode again as he envisioned Rachel Maddow smirking as she said it.

“You don’t hear that on MSNBC! You did not hear that at all,” Biden argued loudly. “Look, I’m not going to get into an argument with you, man.”

Then Old Joe called the man "fat" and it was as clear as day, but his No Malarkey Team claimed that the word Joe actually used was "facts." It wasn't. It was "fat." So his No Malarkey Team employed the power of malarkey to fool the public.

But the old man wasn't going to take Joe's malarkey. He said, "You don’t have any more backbone than Trump does,” he said.

The crowd booed and another out of shape old guy tried to intervene.

“Any other questions?” the obviously annoyed Biden asked rhetorically.

“Well, I’m not voting for you,” the man said.

“Well, I knew you weren’t,” Biden said. “You’re too old to vote for me,” which makes no sense whatsoever.

Biden now says maybe he shouldn’t have confronted the man.

“I probably shouldn’t have challenged him to pushups,” Biden said, according to Axios reporter Alexi McCammond.

More importantly, he probably shouldn't have challenged the guy to an IQ test because he might not be happy with the results.

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Kamala eats pork on a stick and is convinced tradition says to wash it down with pig's blood

The following is satire.

Iowa -- Along with other Democratic hopefuls in the 2020 presidential campaign, Kamala Harris pandered to the Iowa crowd at the state fair, and dug right into their "traditions."

At least that's what they told her their traditions were.

While Cory "Angry Eyes" Booker pandered to corn growers, Harris didn't miss a beat and scarfed down a porkchop-on-a-stick, but when Jamie J. Johnson and Jimmy Joe Jones introduced themselves as "State Fair Officials" and Iowan historians to Senator Harris, little did she know what she was in fer. 

The two kidders from the Buckeye State made a five dollar bet. Jamie said he could convince Harris to wash down a porkchop-on-a-stick with a chilled glass of pig's blood on the rocks. Jimmy didn't think anyone could be that stupid and he was eager to claim his fiver. They shook hands.

"Well howdy, Senator Harris. Welcome to Iowa. I see you're enjoying that roasted porkchop. D'ya like it?"

"Mmfft . . . it's delicious," Harris replied.

"My name's Jamie J. Johnson and this here is my associate, Jimmy Joe Jones Seems like our mommas favored the "J's," Jamie said. Both Jimmy and me are Fair officials, officially speaking, that is. We were wondering why you're not drinking the state's State Fair beverage."

"Whass-that," chomp, chomp.

"We call it 'the red wine of the swine.' It's genuine pig's blood and there's nothing better to wash down the chops than the blood that helped it grow so delicious. Try it; you're gonna like it."

The senator from California took the glass Jamie had prepared and unconsciously grimaced, but quickly held the fluted champagne glass to her lips. "You're sure this is tradition," Harris asked.

"Absolutely, m'am. Take a sip. Taste the bouquet."

She drank the entire glass in one gulp, some of the red liquid trickled out from the corner of her lips.

"Pay up, Jimmy."


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Comrade de Blasio still wants to fight for the 2020 nomination

"I call this my tomahawk chop"

Real Clear Politics poll average for 2020 Democrats has Bill de Blasio [aka Warren Wilhelm Jr.]  polling at an anemic 0.3 percent. Technically, that's less than one percent for you statistics buffs. He was hoping to give his campaign a shot in the arm with his appearance in Iowa but it had the same effect as a ouija board predicting the stock market.

De Blasio tried to promote his appearance ahead of time with this promo:

On Sunday, August 11, you can see de Blasio at 10 am at Parlor City, 1125 3rd St. SE, in Cedar Rapids, and Jay Inslee at 4 pm at Indian Creek Nature Center, 5300 Otis Road SE, in Cedar Rapids. I hope to see you there. #iacaucus

Sorry, I couldn't make it, but if I had, he would've had an audience of about 16 people, not including his staff who were willing to play the crowd in a friendly game of Bandy, the national game of Russia.

His polling numbers, therefore, give us a sense of accuracy.

The New York Post tweeted about his grand appearance:

De Blasio campaign event in Iowa draws roughly 15 attendees https://t.co/oGMFkGAHC3pic.twitter.com/W5wosA7mBx
— New York Post (@nypost) August 11, 2019

The excitement is so palpable you could cut it with a knife:

@BilldeBlasio meets with voters this morning at Parlor City Pub in Cedar Rapids. He tells the crowd he’s planning to compete against son Dante playing games later today at the Iowa State Fair. pic.twitter.com/hv26eNWstR
— Nikki Schwab (@NikkiSchwab) August 11, 2019

I counted about 15 attendees, coming and going, at the @BilldeBlasio event this morning in Cedar Rapids. That’s not including the organizer, nor staff and press.
— Nikki Schwab (@NikkiSchwab) August 11, 2019

Ouch. https://t.co/hMJoAuq11F
— Madison Gesiotto (@madisongesiotto) August 12, 2019

Sitting room only. https://t.co/mFfDPnz3bO
— Protodeacon Michael (@pdnMichael) August 12, 2019

I enjoy the "roughly," as if it's that hard to count 15 people. https://t.co/zyniUNa3eN
— Molly Ratty (@molratty) August 12, 2019

De Blasio doesn't care. He still hopes to rake in some of those campaign donation bucks and use them for his next mayoral campaign.

Funny how Communists need capitalism to promote their communism.



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Biden: 'Poor kids are just as bright and talented as white kids'

Joe Biden may not be the sharpest light in the tool box, but he is absolutely the most fun to listen to when he speaks. The 2020 Democratic front-limper told a crowd of listeners in Iowa that "poor kids" were as clever and smart and clean and wise as white kids. And most of them even comb their hair.

Okay, I'm exaggerating, but at least I'm not speaking "expodentially." Yes, Uncle Joe made up that word on the spot, and that takes guts or something.

Speaking at a town hall for the Asian & Latino Coalition PAC in Iowa, the former vice president and current gaffe gifter said, "The other thing we should do is we should challenge these students. We should challenge students in these schools that have advanced placement classes in these schools. We have this notion that somehow if you’re poor you cannot do it."

“Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids — ” Biden said, to some scattered, mindless applause, before correcting himself, “ — wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids.” 

Kids with slight ghetto accents.

Earlier Thursday, he made another brilliant remark while speaking at the Iowa State Fair, saying: "We choose truth over facts.” 

In the second primary debate, Sleepy Joe made a number of screwups. He warned the country that "eight more years of Trump" would fundamentally change the country, when he meant to say "the Constitution." Just kidding, but you get it--Trump would only have four more years as a lame duck president.

Then at the end of the debate, he asked that his viewers to "go to Joe 30...330" because he evidently doesn't understand the difference between websites and texting. Obviously, he went viral on Twitter and we all were entertained.

At least he didn't do what he once did in Iowa in 1987 when he plagiarized a speech by Neil Kinnock, a British opposition leader, and did not provide an attribution. He was hounded over this for weeks and finally dropped out of the race.

Racist.

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Twice deported and charged with three murders--two were children

Illegal alien altered photo

A piece of human debris blew in from Guatemala illegally and was sent back twice. Unfortunately, this misunderstood crap pile came back a third time and was arrested on Tuesday in connection to the Iowa murders of a woman and her two children.

The alleged killer, 31, was arrested after he allegedly shot the family with which he lived in Des Moines, Iowa, and called 911 on himself, but lied to the 911 operator about what happened.

The suspect allegedly murdered 29-year-old Rossibeth Flores-Rodriguez and her two children, Grecia Daniela Alvarado-Flores, 11, and Ever Jose Mejia-Flores, 5, according an Associated Press report.

The illegal alien was deported in both 2010 and 2011, and convicted of illegal entry. He crossed the border around Laredo, Texas, was sentenced to 15 days in jail and ordered not to return — but even though he crossed his fingers and hoped to die if he was lying, it turns out he was lying, ICE spokesman Shawn Neudauer confirmed with the AP.

The ungrateful illegal alien allegedly killed the family after an argument ensued in their shared home, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. He then dialed 911 and allegedly fabricated a story about Rodriguez killing the two children, saying he had to kill her in self-defense.

Investigators are uncertain about why the murders occurred, but they did not believe the illegal alien's story.

“That’s probably one of the harder parts for the families and sometimes the first responders is, everybody wants to know why. The community wants to know why this happened, particularly the two precious little kids and the sad part is we may never know why,” Des Moines Police Spokesman Paul Parizek told local NBC 13.

The suspect was booked in the Polk County Jail on three counts of first degree murder, authorities say. He gave deputies a fake name: Marvin Esquivel Lopez, [the long-lost brother of Trini] hoping to evade deportation yet again.  

His bail is set at $3 million.

ICE filed for an arrest warrant on him Wednesday and he could face up to 20 years in prison for disobeying the do-not-enter order issued in 2011, not to mention how long he'd get if convicted of a triple homicide. 

The "Squad" comprised of Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez may soon be fighting for his release back into the wild.

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