Pam Bondi shuts Dem senator's attacking Trump nominee

During her confirmation hearing to become the U.S. Attorney General on Wednesday, Pam Bondi encountered sharp questioning from a senior Democratic senator concerning her support for President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for FBI Director, Kash Patel.

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) grilled Bondi over Patel's previous statements, including his idea to close down FBI headquarters and his mention of an "enemies list." Blumenthal asked, "Is that a person who, appropriately, should be the FBI director? Aren't those comments inappropriate? Shouldn't you disavow them and ask him to recant them?"

Bondi responded, "Senator, I am not familiar with all those comments. I have not discussed those comments with Mr. Patel." She continued, despite Blumenthal's attempt to interrupt, "Excuse me. What I do know is Mr. Patel was a career prosecutor. He was a career public defender, defending people. And he also has great experience within the intelligence community."

She added, "What I can sit here and tell you is, Mr. Patel, if he works with running the FBI, if he is confirmed, and if I am confirmed, he will follow the law. If I am the attorney general of the United States of America, and I don't believe he would do anything otherwise."

Blumenthal countered, "Well, let me just submit that the response that I would have hoped to hear from you is that those comments are inappropriate, and that you will ask him to disavow or recant them when he comes before this committee, because they are indeed chilling to fair enforcement and the rule of law."

This confrontation followed similar questioning by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), who also brought up what Democrats have described as Patel's "enemies list." This refers to a list of 60 individuals in Patel's book "Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy," whom he labeled as part of the "deep state."

Bondi defended Patel during Whitehouse's questions as well, while asserting that there would never be an "enemies list" at the Department of Justice under her leadership. Whitehouse, as you may know, is not the sharpest senator.

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Tim Walz wants us to fund college tuition for illegal aliens

Kamala Harris' VP choice, Tim "Fake War Vet" Walz supported the plan to give illegal aliens free tuition at Minnesota colleges where native Minnesotans, and other Americans, pay their own tuition while they also pay taxes that would go to pay tuition for the people who flood into this country illegally. 

This is how communism works and this is one example of how people don't want to accept it and why so many died fighting against it.

Walz signed the measure into law as governor in 2023.

According to a report from the SCRIPPS News, in 2023 an omnibus education bill that was signed into law by Walz, the "North Star Promise" program allowed for illegal aliens to apply for free college tuition within the Minnesota State and University of Minnesota school systems if their families make less than $80,000 a year.

Meanwhile, the suckers who pay for this via their taxes, get nothing in return other than a feeling of being screwed by a corrupt government.

A summary by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education says the North Star Promise "program will create a tuition and fee-free pathway to higher education for eligible Minnesota residents at eligible institutions as a 'last-dollar' program by covering the balance of tuition and fees remaining after other scholarships, grants, stipends and tuition waivers have been applied."

But that's not all. Walz also signed a bill giving illegal aliens driver's licenses, perhaps so that they can vote for the Santa Claus Party that is generous with other people's money.

 “Ensuring drivers in our state are licensed and carry insurance makes the roads safer for all Minnesotans," the stolen valor governor said as per the National Review.

How does having a driver's license make the roads safer? Not driving drunk or drugged makes the roads safer and there have been too many instances where illegal aliens have been guilty of both crimes, not to mention the other crimes we've seen committed by some of them.

Walz is further to the left than the leftist Vice President and he is a serial liar and a coward. He never served in Iraq nor carried "weapons of war" in battle. He left the National Guard and his men two years before his contract was up because he didn't want to go to war. 

Still he pretends he served in battle. He's as bad as Connecticut Sen. Dick Blumenthal who lied claiming he served in Vietnam.

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Self-identified Vietnam hero and US Senator Blumenthal breaks a leg

US Senator and self-proclaimed Vietnam War combat veteran Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), 77, is scheduled to undergo surgery on Easter Sunday after fracturing his femur at the victory parade for the UConn Men's Basketball team on Saturday.

The Huskies won the Men's NCAA Basketball National Championship earlier in the week, causing people who did not play in the game to grab the spotlight along with those who did. In Blumenthal's case, he doesn't only grab spotlights in sporting events, he even tried to grab it in the Vietnam War, which he claimed to fight in, but was later found to be lying.

News 12 Connecticut reported that someone was taking a video of the 77-year-old senator during the parade and fell on top of him which caused the injury.

Blumenthal was said to be in good spirits while speaking to News 12 Connecticut on the phone Saturday night, and told the outlet that his last minute turnaround jump shot was what won the game, so the injury didn't matter to him.

Blumenthal is currently serving in his third term in the United States Senate after being elected in 2011, and after not being a Vietnam War hero as previously believed.

The Huskies defeated San Diego State by a score of 79-56. 

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Buttigieg in September: airline issues would "get better" by holidays

Transportation Secretary Peter Buttigieg said in September that he was increasing pressure on airlines. He told this to insomniacs who stay up late to watch "The Late Late Show with James Corden."

Well, that didn't work out so well for travelers over the Christmas holidays as many thousands were stranded at airports while Pete chest-fed his baby as his husband sat by proudly watching. [Just kidding--men can't chest-feed because they aren't women, the only gender who can.]

Now he's being blasted for his response to the airline clusterfrack after assuring Americans that air travel issues would improve before the holidays, proving talk is cheap and that he got the job mainly because he's gay.

In the September TV appearance Buttigieg said he was increasing pressure on U.S. airlines after travelers experienced an expensive and chaotic summer.

"I think it's gonna get better by the holidays," the incompetent clueless transportation secretary said at the time. "We’re really pressing the airlines to deliver better service. So many people have been delayed, been canceled, it happened to me several times this summer. And the fact is they need to be ready to service the tickets that they're selling."

"If you've ever been mistreated by an airline, if they haven't given you the refund they owe you, if they haven't lived up to their customer service obligations, we will have your back," he claimed. "We went from zero of the top 10 airlines committing that they're going to provide a meal or hotel, for example, to eight out of 10 doing it. So we're pushing them."

This week, Buttigieg called on Southwest Airlines to fully compensate customers for travel, meal and lodging expenses after thousands of flights were canceled and travelers were left stranded at airports over the holidays.

Buttigieg is taking heat from both sides of the political aisle over the situation and his inability to handle it.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) told Sean Hannity that Buttigieg should increase pressure on Southwest Airlines and audit to see how billions in taxpayer-funded relief the company received was spent. She explained that her role on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee was a main reason to her need in finding answers to the problem as well as the fact that her own kids were stranded at BWI Airport in Baltimore on Christmas Eve.

"[T]his hit close to home, because my kids my teenage kids got stranded in Baltimore trying to make it home on Christmas Eve. And even today, five days later, we still don't know where their luggage is right now," she said. "And so we've been personally impacted by this."

Isn't it always most important to politicians when they are directly affected by the policies they voted for? Had this happened to Pete Buttigieg's husband, things would likely have been different.

Beth Van Duyne (R-TX), agreed with Mace's sentiments, asserting to Hannity that Buttigieg is unqualified to serve in his current role, pointing to the supply chain crisis early in his tenure, [and the unfilled potholes in South Bend, Indiana where he was mayor].

"Earlier this year, we had the rail strike potential looming over us," Van Duyne said. "We were going to have, again, I mean, a massive amount of hit to our economy. You're going to have municipalities that couldn't get chemicals to be able to treat their water supply. And where was Pete? Oh, that's right. He was on a family vacation in Portugal."

"This is a man who was not qualified for the job, has never really been on the job," she added. "And we've trusted him with $1.2 trillion worth of taxpayer dollars."

The Alfred E. Neuman 'what, me worry?' impersonator was warned by Democrats in his own party about concerns within the airline industry before Southwest’s mass cancelations. 

"The problems at Southwest Airlines over the last several days go beyond weather," Sen. Maria Cantwell, (D-WA) the chair of the Senate Commerce Committee on Commerce, said in a statement Tuesday. "The committee will be looking into the causes of these disruptions and its impact to consumers."

Cantwell, along with Democratic Sens. Ed Markey (D-MA) and stolen valor perpetrator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) filed a comment in November to the Department of Transportation on the need to hurry its process to finalize a rule to ensure that consumers are properly refunded for cancelations and get accommodations.

In August, a bipartisan group of 38 state attorneys general wrote to Congress saying that Buttigieg was failing to adequately respond to airline consumer complaints, and they asked for legislation to allow states to enforce federal consumer protection laws.

"Americans are justifiably frustrated that federal government agencies charged with overseeing airline consumer protection are unable or unwilling to hold the airline industry accountable and to swiftly investigate complaints submitted to the US DOT," read the letter signed by Arizona’s Mark Brnovic, New York’s Letitia James and others.

The Senate Commerce Committee stated that it would investigate Southwest for the cancelations, but not Pete Buttigieg because he falls into a victim status category. 

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Comrade Blumenthal speaks at commie award show, touts "Build Back Better"

Did not go to Vietnam War

Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal (CT) appeared at the Connecticut People's World Committee Amistad Awards (CPWC) a Communist Party affiliate political advocacy organization. He appeared at the commie event to hand out certificates of special recognition to the three communist recipients of the awards and was introduced as a "surprise guest."

"We invite you to join the Communist Party in this epic time as we make good trouble to uproot systemic racism, retool the war economy, tax the rich, address climate change, secure voting rights and create a new socialist system that puts people, peace and planet before profits," emcee comrade Ben McManus told the communist audience.

"I'm here to honor the great tradition of activism and standing up for individual workers that is represented by the three honorees here," comrade Blumenthal, a fake Vietnam War hero said, and also pushed Biden's Build Back Better blah blah blah bull.

"There’s a lot to be working for in economic justice, in racial equity, in establishing a $15 minimum wage and holding corporations accountable for the basic treatment of the American people. We need to look at our entire tax system, beginning with Build Back Better."

By economic justice Blumenthal means taking from the rich [except not him, although he is one of the richest senators in Congress with assets nearing $100 million] and redistributing their money to people who haven't earned it.

By racial equity, he means equal outcomes for all whether they have put in the work or otherwise earned it, which in the long run destroys incentive.

While a $15 minimum wage will force businesses like fast food, for example, that hire young people who live with their parents, to raise prices so that people who eat at these establishments, will pay more. And the irony is, the people who eat there are less able to afford higher prices.

By holding corporations accountable for the basic treatment of the American people, Blumenthal is not including the tech giants who only hold conservatives accountable for saying things they disagree with by censoring their voices. They even did it to an American President on the other side of the political aisle.

Blumenthal also spoke out against the filibuster, which he said "has been misused by Republicans again and again and again." 

The filibuster is not "misused" by anyone. It's entire purpose is to limit the powers of the majority party. When the Republicans have the majority, the Democrats love the filibuster and vice-versa.

In concluding his remarks, the communist senator thanked the audience for "your help and support over many, many years."

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Putting all his glee aside, once this ambassador of stolen valor got outed for his attendance at a Communist award ceremony, he expressed regret for having done so in a telephone interview Friday with the Hartford Courant.  The fraud claimed that he thought the ceremony "was strictly a labor event."

"If I had known the details, I wouldn’t have gone. ... Let me just say very emphatically, I’m a Democrat and a strong believer in American capitalism. I have been consistently a Democrat and a strong supporter and believer in American capitalism.’' Especially when he gets caught at a Communist award event.

But rather than walking out after emcee Ben McManus clearly invited the audience to "join the Communist Party," Blumenthal stayed and participated in the event, pretending that he goes to so many that he just didn't realize what McManus meant when he invited everyone to join the Communist Party.

If you believe that excuse, well there's no convincing you otherwise.

China is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party on Thursday. If Blumenthal gets an invitation to attend, do you think he'll go?

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VIDEO: Trump campaign launches attack after release of Mueller report

The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that advisors to President Trump are going to use the findings of the Mueller report to attack the Democrats for the way they attacked the president over the Mueller probe over alleged collusion with the Russians in the 2016 presidential campaign.

When asked whether Trump's team plans to go after the Dems, The Journal quoted Bryan Lanza, a deputy communications director for Trump’s 2016 campaign, responding, “You better believe we’re going to bludgeon them.”

The Trump campaign released a video to supporters on Sunday titled, “Collusion Hoax.”  In the video, several Democrats such as Rep. Adam "I Stepped In" Schiff (D-CA),  Sen. Richard "Stolen Valor" Blumenthal (D-CT), Rep. Eric "King of Comedy" Swalwell (D-CA), Rep. Jerrold "My Left Eyebrow Dances" Nadler (D-NY), and DNC Chairman Tom "I Say Dirty Words" Perez, accuse Trump of collusion with Putin, and what sounds like a game show buzzer goes off with the word "WRONG" on the screen.

At the end of the video the screen advises viewers to text "WITCHHUNT" to a number designed to sign them up to alerts.

Schiff has basically camped out in the CNN parking lot and every chance he got, he ran into the studio to show his cartoon character face and colluded with the network to speak of the alleged Trump involvement with Russia.

In April 2017, after CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Schiff, "Can you say definitively that there was collusion, there were people affiliated with the Trump campaign who were working with Russians to time the release of damaging information about Hillary Clinton that had been hacked – either from John Podesta or the DNC?" Schiff responded, “I don't think we can say anything definitively at this point. We are still at the very early stage of the investigation. The only thing I can say is that it would be irresponsible for us not to get to the bottom of this.”

Being a bottom-feeder, Schiff stayed on the bottom and by August of 2018, he bloviated, “I think there’s plenty of evidence of collusion or conspiracy in plain sight.” The video shows Schiff making that statement, followed by “Wrong” and the buzzer.

Enjoy the video.

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Nathan Phillips: Chief Spouting Bull

"If your mother says she loves you, verify" -- Columbia School of Journalism

I am a Vietnam war veteran. I am not a Vietnam era veteran because I was stationed in Chu Lai in the U.S. Marine Corps air wing during the war. We flew A4 Skyhawks [some called the little attack jets 'Scooters'] and people out in the jungle were trying to kill us and destroy our jets. Many times they were successful and I was fortunate like most of my buddies. 

In 2010, in his run for Senate, then Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal  lied about serving in Vietnam and he was outed for it.  

For years, Blumenthal often touted his service in "Nam" as a Marine, but it was eventually discovered that not only had the lying sack of dog crap not served in Vietnam, his USMC service was as a Marine Corps Reserve, which, along with college deferments, kept his sorry butt out of Vietnam. Good for him, but he shouldn't have lied about serving in Vietnam--it's what's known as stolen valor.

Then there's Nathan Phillips.

Phillips is the turd who created a controversy over the weekend as he has done before. He and a group of his phony cronies participating in the alleged Indigenous Peoples March walked into the middle of a group of white Catholic high school students wearing MAGA hats who were the target of verbal attack by another protest group known as the Black Hebrew Israelites, a known crazy hate group.

Phillips [aka Chief Spouting Bull] directly approached one of the kids, got in his face, and proceed to bang his tom-tom right in the kid’s face. 

For about two hours, the leftist lunatics and #NeverTrumpers engaged in a slime-fest of hate. 

But the press jumped on the bandwagon after seeing a very brief video showing the kid standing his ground in the MAGA hat and a smile on his face, and then the proverbial crap hit the fan on Twitter, (the Covington High School administration even admonished the kids before knowing the true story) and of course, Kathy "the Beheader" Griffin and others got into the act, some calling for the doxxing of the kids, some for the burning them to death in the school, some for the firing of school staff, and all the rest of the garbage that gets spewed on social media. 

It was a social media lynch mob.

And then there's Phillips. A USMC veteran who claimed to have served as Recon in Nam but instead, never made it there and worked as a refrigeration repairman stateside. But that wasn't a problem to the leftist media who failed to verify his bona fides. 

One such leftist piece of dog pile is the always dependable Slate: “…Nathan Phillips, a Vietnam War veteran…”

But other media outlets that shouldn't surprise you were:

UPI: “…laughing and chanting at Vietnam War veteran Nathan Phillips…

Washington Post*: “…Phillips, an Omaha tribe elder who fought in the Vietnam War…” which has since quietly edited the story but the original clip is seen below:


The Washington Post: “…Phillips, 64,…”

The Omaha World Herald reprinted a profile it ran of Phillips in November 2000: “Now 45, Phillips has been sober for 16 years” . which evidently confirms his age listed in the Post is accurate. There's no way he served in Nam because he would have been born in 1955 and would have been only 16 in 1971 when the Corps was pulling more guys out of Vietnam than placing them there and he would have needed to wait for parental consent to join in 1972, when he claims he joined. 

Junior enlistees were not sent to Nam in the ebbing of the war, but we know now that he never went to war as the media, which he failed to correct, claimed.

Like Richard Blumenthal, Nathan Phillips is a fake, and the media that failed to verify his history totally validates President Trump's statements about them.

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Blumenthal, the real 'deplorable'

"'Stolen Valor' is a term applied to the phenomenon of people falsely claiming military awards or badges they did not earn, service they did not perform, Prisoner of War experiences that never happened, and other tales of military derring-do that exist only in their minds."-- Stars and Stripes 

Sen. Richard Blumenthal is pushing back against what he calls "slurs" from President Donald Trump. He said he will not be thrown off from talking about legislation designed to insulate Special Counsel Robert Mueller by these "slurs" being hurled at him on Twitter by POTUS.

Any American with a pulse, a TV or a computer is probably aware that Mueller is overseeing the investigation of Russia's possible meddling in the 2016 presidential election, as well as an expanding web of related activity that may turn out to be criminal.

Blumenthal said:

"There is an ongoing special counsel investigation. It is real. It is based on facts. That is the important issue. That's what really matters [not his lies about serving in Vietnam]. Our national security and the rule of law are at stake. I am not going to be distracted or bullied by these slurs."

It's only a slur if it isn't true, senator.

Trump referred to Blumenthal as a "phony Vietnam con artist!"

Even MSNBC had a problem with Blumenthal as you can see in the video.

Trump tweeted:

 "Never in U.S. history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like Senator Richard Blumenthal."

Then he tweeted:

"He told stories about his Vietnam battles and conquests, how brave he was, and it was all a lie. He cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness like a child. Now he judges collusion?"

I don't know when Blumenthal actually told those stories that Trump describes in his tweet. I also don't know whether or not he cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness. I find that difficult to imagine and chalk it up to Trump hyperbole.

What I do know is that Trump's staunch supporters will believe every word of his tweets.

Blumenthal responded to Trump during a Monday routine news conference at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, Connecticut. The focus was on his support for legislation that was introduced by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R- S.C.) that would allow for a three judge panel to review any attempt by either the attorney general of the acting AG to fire Mueller.

The problem with this, beside the fact that Lindsey Graham is not a true conservative and has opposed Trump since day one, is that slowly and steadily, the judiciary is becoming increasingly more powerful and is taking away what was supposed to be our checks and balances.

The immigration restrictions by the Trump administration have been successfully challenged in district courts in spite of Trump's constitutional right to have made that call.

Now Graham would be okay taking the right of the Attorney General to intervene on an investigation in which they have the right to oversee.

I'm not advocating for Mueller to be fired. In fact, I don't believe it's a good idea for the administration to do that in light of how the left will go to town on the firing. I'm merely advocating for the right of the government to follow Constitutional laws and procedures and not hand over more power to the courts. 

Finally, in the eyes of actual Vietnam veterans like myself, Blumenthal's attempt at stolen valor is disgusting and reprehensible.

Trump may not have been in the military, but he doesn't lie about it. And he also shows tremendous respect for the military, unlike Obama and perhaps even Blumenthal who has served, but lied about how he served.


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