An actual political thread

[Kidlicious]

They are going to try to blame Trump, Republicans, capitalism or whatever, but the real cause of this is leftism.

The Washington Examiner spoke to six truck drivers near the Long Beach/Terminal Island entry route, and each described crane operators as lazy, prone to long lunches, and quick to retaliate against complaints. The allegations were backed up by a labor consultant who has worked on the waterfront for 40 years. None of the truckers interviewed for this story wanted to provide a last name because they fear reprisals at the ports.

The crane operators are part of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which also represents longshoremen. Veteran operators who have a set schedule make approximately $250,000 a year, while others who receive daily work assignments make $200,000, said labor consultant Jim Tessier, who represents longshoremen in disputes against the union.
A Hong Kong cargo ship is unloaded in Long Beach harbor.Tori Richards
“What you are talking about is perfectly described behavior,” Tessier said of the crane operators. “This is all a reflection of the management they have down there, the inmates run the asylum. The managers are all afraid to say anything because the operators are so powerful they get management fired if they don’t like them.”

Most truckers are independent contractors who are paid per container delivery and make a fraction of a crane operator's salary. They only arrive at the docks after receiving notification that the cargo is ready for pickup. Waiting hours for shipping containers to be loaded onto their trucks is frustrating, and those who have complained were swiftly dealt with, they say.

“They’ll go get the police and kick you out and tell you to leave,” said trucker Chris. “Then, you get banned from coming back in there.”

Or sometimes, the crane operator will mete out punishment by skipping the trucker and working on someone else, exacerbating the wait.

While three-hour waits are common, some truckers have been at the port for days....

[Kidlicious]

Absolute clown world. This is an economist and advisor to Mashed Potato Brains.

Ron Klain's 'high class' tweets 'not a top priority' for White House, Psaki says

Katherine Doyle
Thu, October 14, 2021, 4:41 PM·2 min read
In this article:

• Ron Klain
  American civil servant and White House Chief of Staff
• 
  Jen Psaki
  American political advisor and White House press secretary
• 
  Joe Biden
  46th and current president of the United States
• Jason Furman
  American economist, advisor to US President Obama

The White House dismissed concerns over tweets shared by one of President Joe Biden’s closest advisers through his official account, calling the issue a matter of personal speech.

White House chief of staff Ron Klain’s Twitter habits are “not a top priority” for the Biden administration, press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Thursday. She said Klain is speaking “on his own accord,” with staffers free to “tout points they find interesting.”

“That’s the purpose of public speech,” Psaki added.

WHITE HOUSE INSISTS INFLATION IS DECREASING AFTER RECORD-SETTING NUMBERS

Klain’s Twitter feed is scrutinized as a leading indicator of where the Biden administration stands on key issues. So when Klain, a prolific Twitter user with more than half a million followers, twice shared a tweet claiming the nation’s inflation, supply chain, and other economic woes apply to a narrow and privileged population, the outcry was swift.

The original tweet by economist Jason Furman called the economic strain “high class problems.” Furman, who chaired former President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, said the problem was tempered by low unemployment.

“Most of the economic problems we’re facing (inflation, supply chains, etc.) are high class problems,” Furman said. “We wouldn’t have had them if the unemployment rate was still 10 percent. We would instead have had a much worse problem.”

Klain endorsed the tweet, writing “This.”

It’s not the first time Klain has drawn attention for his Twitter activity.

Biden’s chief of staff often uses his Twitter account to promote the administration’s policy agenda and to boost articles that explain or defend it.

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Frequent retweets of writers who praised Biden as “wise” and “reminiscent of FDR” and tweets praising Klain’s own tenure as “masterful” after just a few weeks in office have also prompted scrutiny

[Kidlicious]

"Let's go Brandon" the song is at the top of the iTunes hip hop chart.

[Kidlicious]

"You also clearly believe that it's "my body my choice" when it comes to masks and vaccines -- but not when a woman's reproductive system is involved.
Your blatant hypocrisy and transparent faux morality of political convenience know no bounds. You disgust me."
- JR

So to repeat again, this is what they do.. They abort babies all the way up to 9 months in the womb. Sometimes the babies survive the abortion and are then born, living babies. The abortionist tells the mother that they screwed up the abortion and that she has to tell them that it's ok to kill the baby. If you are against that being legal then you are "anti-choice" and if you say that the government can't just do whatever it wants to woman then JR is disgusted by your hypocrisy.

But it gets worse folks. JR is more than fine with the government shooting an unarmed woman through the neck and then not only not apologizing for it, or taking any responsibility at all, saying that she was going to murder a lot of people because she was a domestic terrorist. No one was armed on that day. No one killed anyone. Anyone that says that Ashli Babbot was going to murder anyone is a disgusting liar. That's what disgusting is JR.

[-Jrabbit]

So you think you're proving me wrong by demonstrating your misinformed view of the law, biology, and human agency?
Then you try to use Ashli Babbitt's tragic death as an excuse for a personal attack?

Apparently, this is your way of saying that you'd rather be known as ignorant and stupid, rather than morally repugnant and intellectually dishonest.
Fun fact: It's pretty clear that, in your case, both are true. Own goal.

[Egbert]

I must say that I would prefer to be known as ignorant and stupid rather than as morally repugnant and intellectually dishonest.

[Kidlicious]

Ashli Babbits death was tragic because she was murdered and now her murderers are lying about her. WTF is wrong with you dude?

[Ming]

And Kid does it again... claiming somebody said something or implied something when they didn't. Kid just keeps doing it, he can't help self.
Just more BS from Kid. Sheep

[Kidlicious]

Whatever. I guess it's some petty thing for you that some people fall for that bit.

[Ming]

Typical KId. Lying is just "whatever" for him.
Sounds like the same way he feels about facts... he doesn't care.
Sheep

[Kidlicious]

Christopher Steele WILL BE INDICTED. That's why they are trying to make him out to be not an enemy of the US.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/...uary-2017/amp/

[Kidlicious]

They are the enemy of the people.

Steele's defense of dossier collides with an avalanche of evidence to the contrary


Even statements by Steele's lawyers, his main source and his friends undercut his claim about the "professionalism" of his now-infamous dossier.





































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By John Solomon

Updated: October 18, 2021 - 10:45pm

• Article
• Dig In

Christopher Steele, the former British spy whose dossier fed both a media and law enforcement frenzy over now-discredited allegations that Donald Trump colluded with Russia, has resurfaced in a media documentary to argue his work for Hillary Clinton's campaign law firm was professional and well-sourced.

"I stand by the work we did, the sources that we had, and the professionalism which we applied to it," Steele told ABC News host George Stephanopoulos in an interview aired Sunday that was part of a larger documentary released Monday on Hulu.
Steele's defense, however, flies in the face of an avalanche evidence — some of it offered by his lawyer and his friends and his own primary intelligence source — that he had not corroborated much of the intelligence he gave to the FBI during the 2016 election and that he suffered from strong anti-Trump biases.
Steele was terminated by the FBI as a confidential human source on Nov. 1, 2016 for leaking, and his work has been widely discredited and criticized by several subsequent investigations. His own legal team has also claimed Steele failed to aggressively validate the allegations he penned.
In a British court case he lost, Steele's own lawyer told the judge that Steele simply passed on raw information from sources he knew and trusted but did little to verify, even admitting the information would not pass an accuracy test for a court of law and should not be held to a high. bar of accuracy.
"It is raw intelligence. It is the basis for further investigation by the recipients," the lawyer argued last year. "So to put the bar too high in terms of establishing accuracy at that stage would be quite wrong in principle.
"We can say the critical consideration is that his confidential human intelligence was not factual evidence to be used in a personal or public report or in court or anything like that. We have just discussed what it was. It was raw intelligence to be passed on as part of a much bigger intelligence picture."

In fact, Steele's British lawyer even suggested that the news organization who published his dossier, Buzz Feed, was reckless to publish the information because of its unverified nature. "It was an editorial decision, probably a bad editorial decision, we say it was a bad editorial decision," the lawyer argued.
You can read the lawyer's statements here:

File
SteeleLegalArgumentsBritishCase.pdf

The lack of verification was confirmed by an FBI spreadsheet that tracked every statement in the Steele dossier and found that the vast majority were disproven, never verified or Internet rumor. You can read that spreadsheet here:

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2020-10-14 RHJ CEG to ODNI FBI (Steele Spreadsheet).pdf

Likewise, U.S. intelligence warned the FBI within weeks of Steele's dossier being received that some of the information in it was Russian disinformation inserted into Steele's network of sources by Moscow's intelligence services, according to declassified footnotes from the Justice Department watchdog report that faulted the FBI for failing to alert the FISA court to the weaknesses in Steele's reporting.
U.S. intelligence "stated that it did not have high confidence in this subset of Steele's reporting and assessed that the referenced subset was part of a Russian disinformation campaign to denigrate U.S. foreign relations," the footnote declared.

Those same footnotes reveal that Steele's primary sub-source, upon whom he built the dossier, was suspected of being tied to Russian intelligence and was even the target of an FBI counterintelligence probe.
You can read those footnotes here:

File
04-15-20_ODNI_Declassified_Footnotes_20-00337_Unclassified.pdf

Tom Fitton, the president of the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch that sued to unearth many of the documents undercutting Steele's dossier, told Just the News on Monday he was dismayed that the ABC interview did not go far enough to challenge Steele's veracity.
"I was disappointed that ABC ... gave him, you know, more time to spread this disinformation," Fitton said in an interview with the John Solomon Reports podcast. "You know he's been, in my view, thoroughly debunked by official and unofficial investigations, documents you've uncovered, we've uncovered, the IG has uncovered."


When interviewed by the FBI in January 2017, Steele's primary sub-source acknowledged having contact with Russian intelligence and giving Steele information from bar talk and gossip. He disowned some of the information attributed to him. At various times he used terms like "inconclusive," "has no idea," and "did not know the origins" of information attributed to him or his network of sources, according to the FBI's own notes of the source's interview.
You can read those notes here:

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SteeleSubSourceDebriefings.pdf

Even friends of Steele raised serious concerns about his dossier. Former National Security Council expert Fiona Hill, whom Steele testified introduced him to his primary Russian sub-source, told Congress she believes Steele may have been compromised by Russian intelligence disinformation and dismissed his dossier as a "rabbit hole."
"It's very likely that the Russians planted disinformation in and among other information that may have been truthful, because that's exactly, again, the way that they operate," she told lawmakers in 2019.
Bruce Ohr, the senior Justice Department official who passed along Steele's information to senior FBI and DOJ officials in summer 2016, cautioned agents it was unverified raw intelligence and that Steele was seemingly "desperate" to defeat Trump.
Steele himself acknowledged bias when he was reinterviewed in fall 2017 along with one of his business partners Christopher Burrows nearly a year after his termination as an informant, according to the FBI's now-declassified interview report.

"STEELE and BURROWS described President TRUMP as their 'main opponent' and indicated that they were fearful about how Trump's presidency negatively impacted the historical US-UK alliance and the US-UK special relationship," the memo stated.
You can read that full memo here.

File
Steele2017FBIDebriefing.pdf

So just how bad was Steele’s information passed to U.S. officials during the election?
The FBI and Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller both concluded that one key allegation — that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen met secretly with Russian intelligence in Prague in summer 2016 — was false. Cohen denied it, and his passport showed he never went to the Czech Republic during that time frame, they reported. U.S. intelligence concluded the Cohen tale was likely one of the Russian sources of disinformation, according to the footnotes from the DOJ inspector general report.
Likewise, the FBI and Mueller concluded Trump adviser Carter Page never met with two senior Russians close to Vladimir Putin as the dossier alleged.
And a senior State Department official named Kathleen Kavalec recounted to the FBI how Steele met with her in October 2016 and peddled a story about how Russians were funding some of their election influence operations through their consulate in Miami. There was just one problem with Steele's allegation.

"It is important to note that there is no Russian consulate in Miami," Kavalec wrote in notes she shared with the FBI, exposing just how little due diligence Steele conducted on the allegations he peddled.

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409364009-Kavalec-Less-Redacted-Memo.pdf

In his testimony in the British data privacy case he lost to two Russian bankers maligned by his dossier, Steele admitted he had "not personally been to Russia" to investigate the claims he made in his dossier and that most of the information came from hearsay he gathered from Russians and others in London.
You can read that testimony here:

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SteeleTestimonyBritishCourt.pdf

In the end, the British judge ruled against Steele and ordered him to pay damages for the same reasons the FBI dismissed his dossier: Key allegations he spread around Washington weren't verified, and inadequate effort was given by Steele to validate them.
"The steps taken to verify that proposition fell short of what would have been reasonable," Justice Mark Warby wrote. "... The allegation clearly called for closer attention, a more enquiring approach, and more energetic checking." You can read that ruling here:

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Aven v Orbis.Judgment Summary.pdf

In his ABC interview, Steele acknowledged his dossier was imperfect even while defending it. He also claimed he was unwilling to concede that information like the Cohen allegation were untrue.

"I'm prepared to accept that not everything in the dossier is 100%," he said. "I have yet to be convinced that [the Cohen allegation] is one of them."
That leaves Steele in a very small crowd since friends like Hill and Ohr, investigators like the FBI and Mueller and judges like Warby have all found his work to be severely lacking.

[Ming]

Enemy of the People and Democracy

[Kidlicious]

I wonder if Ming's fake news is going to cover the inversion of Taiwan, since they aren't covering China launching a supersonic missile capable of carrying a nuke around the world at low altitude. ****ing enemies.

[Ming]

More BS... I've read stories on that from MANY real news sources... so yes, the REAL news outlets are covering the story.
But keep posting nonsense like your masters want you to...
Sheep

[Kidlicious]

Chicago is now putting police on no-pay leave. One wonders how they could do worse, but they keep finding ways, because they only destroy.

[Ming]

Blah blah blah... The policeman have the choice to get vaccinated or not. And the City has the right to put them on no pay leave for the safety of all the other policeman and the people they have to interact with.

And talk about only Destroy... What about Trump trying to destroy democracy. You never seem to mention that

[Kidlicious]

The Capitol Police recommended that a person that threatened to assassinate Congressmen Matt Gaetz and who travelled to D.C. be arrested, but the corrupt DoJ did not arrest that person.

[Kidlicious]

Fake News with their fake fact checks in 3, 2, 1, ...

[Ming]

I'm just wondering if there is any proof to back up his claims...
We know you don't care about facts, but some of us do.
I look forward to seeing all the proof to back up the claims he has made.