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Thursday, August 20, 2020

Kim Foxx's scandalous efforts to protect hoaxer Jussie

Team Jussie is still trying to cover up for their criminal hero. Background, actor and failed singer Jussie Smollett insisted he was attacked at a Subway by Trump fanatics in MAGA hats. Jussie lied. He hired people. Two brothers. The brothers rolled over on him. Jussie tried to create a national panic with his lies and his pathetic need for attention.

He should be in prison for his actions.

He's not because Kim Foxx is besties with Jussie's sister.

If you missed it, the review of Chicago Attorney General Kim Foxx's actions came back negative. She was found to have lied to the public, lied to the media, lied to everyone. She quickly announced that she was focusing on family issues. Her husband has cancer. Now, despite this, Kim's been campaigning every day for re-election. The report comes out late Monday morning and, immediately, Kim announces she has to focus on her family.

What a liar.

AP notes:

Among the false public statements by Foxx’s office amid intensifying scrutiny last year, Webb said, was the assertion that the dropping of charges against Smollett was the kind of thing that state prosecutors had done thousands of times before.
“There were not thousands of (or, arguably any) similar cases” resolved by Foxx’s office the way they resolved Smollett’s case, Webb said.
Webb said the terms of the deal dismissing the case were exceptionally lenient, including the requirement that Smollett forfeit only his $10,000 bond as restitution. Webb said that was a fraction of the $130,000 in overtime paid to officers investigating Smollett’s claims. And Smollett, Webb noted, was able to walk away without admitting any wrongdoing.

She's a liar. New York Daily News:

Webb also claimed Foxx “made false statements” when she told reporters she had stopped communicating with a family member of the actor — his sister, Jurnee Smollett — and was critical of Foxx’s decision to hand the case over to a member of her office, Joseph Magats, when she recused herself, instead of giving it to a special prosecutor.

She's a liar. She's the perfect friend to liar Jussie. And this nonsense of speaking to Jurnee has me done with her as well. The editorial board of The Chicago Tribune notes:

Foxx also made false or misleading statements about her communication with Smollett’s family, Webb determined. Foxx continued to communicate with Jussie Smollett’s sister, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, after he came under investigation, but misled the news media.
In another strange aspect of this case also related to Smollett’s sister, Foxx botched the decision of whether to recuse herself because she’d had those conversations. Foxx’s actions were mystifying at the time. Had she recused herself or not? Her statements were unclear. Webb said Foxx’s office knew better but ignored her “major legal defect seemingly because they did not want to admit that they had made such a major mistake of judgment.”
To be a prosecutor is to be in the business of making judgments. Foxx had an opportunity all through this winding case to tell Cook County residents she didn’t think criminal prosecution was the right outcome. At many points along the way, she also could have acknowledged any errors. They happen.
What Webb found is that Foxx chose another path that resulted in her seeking to give a rich, connected TV actor a way to avoid potentially serious punishment. This was not only inappropriate, it ran counter to her identity as a prosecutor who believes in reforming the criminal justice system and giving a voice to those with no clout when they show up before a judge.

Lori Loughlin tried to shelter/protect her child and she's going to prison. Jussie's sister trying to get special treatment for her criminal brother? She should go to prison for that. She won't. She didn't break a law. But it was unethical and goes to the way that whole family thinks rules do not apply to them.

This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"

Wednesday, August 19, 2020. Night two of the infomercial being passed off as a convention goes no better than the first night.

The embarrassment that is the Democratic Party's national convention continued last night. Key takeaway? Vote Republican.

Some corporate whores are telling you a propaganda film narrated by Cindy McCain -- wife or c**t of the late War Hawk John McCain (that's what he called her, take it up with them -- and with the DNC for celebrating a sexist like John to begin with) -- told you how great a friend Joe was with the thankfully dead John McCain. He worked with John.

Yes, he did. Joe worked repeatedly with John to destroy the world. Murder allies, that's what they were, complicit in the murders of millions but let's put a happy face on it and call it 'bipartisanship.'

Question: Do Democrats want control of both houses of Congress? Do they want control of even one house of Congress?

The DNC's nonsense does not draw a line between the two parties. Yes, the DNC exists every four years to promote the presidential ticket. It also exists to expand the party. That's why you choose someone you think will be a rising star to deliver the keynote address. (We'll get back to Michelle Obama in a little while.) You also use the convention to promote your candidates for Congress and to put out the party line that argues why you should vote Democratic.

But they're not doing that. This obsession with Donald Trump has defeated them.

Donald Trump may win a second term. If he does, he does. The United States will go on. Life will continue. B-b-b-but his policies! Congress could fight back on any policy. They didn't the last four years. They were too busy with nutty conspiracy theories and Nancy Pelosi's empty gestures and attempts at bad political theater.

Grasp that in the midst of a pandemic, the party is offering nothing. There is no monthly stipend -- despite most Democrats in office -- and most of the American people -- feeling that there should be. Nancy and her lazy ass can't even protect unemployment benefits. They're promising America nothing.

To garner votes, they are promising nothing.

And, on top of that, they're spending a week promoting Republicans who argue for slashing school funding, who are anti-choice and don't even believe in abortion if the girl or woman is raped or the victim of incest. They are telling you these people are the 'good guys.

They aren't the good guys.

But watching this garbage, why in the world would you feel the need to vote Democrat?

Let's get to the supposed postal crisis. I don't believe it. It feels like more theater drummed up by a desperate party that will not meet the needs of the people.

But what I do know is mail-in ballots are not 'the answer.' I'm all for mail-in voting. But the notion that this makes it easier?

I'm sorry, is it 2020 or 1950?

How stupid are we? How stupid are leaders of the Democratic Party? They're pretty damn stupid.

Mail-in ballots? If I vote absentee -- and I have -- I don't just fill out a ballot, put it in an envelope (my own or one that comes with the ballot) and drop it in the mail.

I have to put something on it.

A stamp.

In 2020, how many people do you know who have a damn stamp?

Oh, just buy one!!!!

At the grocery store? Most customer service booths/desks are going to tell you that you need to buy a book. I think that's a little under ten dollars right now.

So it's the Monday before the election and you're feeling like maybe you should vote, so you fill out your ballot and you put it in the envelope and then . . . A stamp. You need a stamp. Are you driving to a grocery store? If so, when you're told you need to spend $10 dollars -- talk about a poll tax! -- are you going to do it.?

These are issues that should have been addressed and talked about.

Unemployment is huge. I mean, I guess the Democrats don't want that vote. That would explain why unemployment benefits were cut weeks ago and Nancy Pelosi still can't come up with a package to restore them. If I'm unemployed, I'm not wasting ten dollars for a book of stamps.

'You can go to the post office!' Post offices aren't always nearby. And, if it's after hours, is it going to take change and are you going to have change? Or is voting now going to be just for those with a credit card? Also, you want someone to drive cross town? Better choice would be a FED EX pick up location which would probably sell stamps. And that's something the convention could have educated on since, clearly, the elected Democrats are not bothering to.

Elected Dems have quickly become the biggest idiots in the world. Most haven't mailed anything themselves in years. (Having an assistant drop something in the plastic box where someone picks up office mail is not using the post office yourself.) They are so out of touch, they are beyond George H.W. Bush's apparent shock over the fact that groceries are scanned at check out. They are out of touch.

And on the post office, they're out of touch at at time when many voters don't use the post office to mail letters or bills. Grasp that this is the first presidential election in which people born in this century, the 21st century, will be voting. Grasp that people born in the 90s aren't postal senders either. E-mail, text, social media, that's largely taken the place of pen pals and letters.

Good luck with mail-in ballots when you've not bothered to factor in how many people do not use the mail that way (for sending) and how many have not ever used the mail that way.

Out of touch and stupid, today's Democratic Party.

And that's what the convention conveys.

It's an infomercial that forgot about the need to be live. No one wants canned speeches.

And why do we need Bill Clinton? The 90s were forever ago. His abuse with regards to Monica Lewinsky is not something we need to be reminded of. He was a married man, fifty-years-old and occupying the most powerful job in the US -- some would say in the country. He began an affair with a 22-year-old. And he was a selfish pig, let's be honest. Calling it an affair is being kind. He got off and wasn't too concerned whether she did or not. He abused the office, he abused the position. She was working for the government which made him her boss. It was wrong in every way possible including his attempts to get her to lie.

But there he was blustering his way through like we don't all know that he was visiting Jeffrey Epstein's pedophile island and like we don't all know that he lied about it. Like we don't all know that Juanita Broaddrick's charges of rape are highly credible. There he was acting like he was on the stage at MTV and they were all giggling over his answer to boxers or briefs.

Bill is as outdated as that question. He didn't belong on stage and shouldn't be again.

He has a lot to answer for.

John Kerry spoke. Why? To make Bill look better? John doesn't belong on stage. Hillary Clinton will speak this week and she doesn't belong on the stage either. John lost in 2004, Hillary lost in 2016. Why are they on the stage?

In 1988, Michael Dukakis lost to George H.W. Bush. Anyone remember the 1992 convention?

For those who don't, Michael Ross, LOS ANGELES TIMES, July 15, 1992:

Like Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, he was hailed as a man of vision and skill, someone who could unify the Democratic Party’s fractious ranks and lead it to victory in November.

That was four years ago, however. Mention the name of Michael S. Dukakis at the party’s current convention and eyeballs roll, shoulders shrug or fingers cross in the fervent hope that it won’t happen like that again.

[. . .]

While Clinton basks in the limelight this week, the fallen stars who preceded him to the banner-draped podium in election years past also are on hand: Dukakis, former President Jimmy Carter, former Vice President Walter F. Mondale and former South Dakota Sen. George S. McGovern.

But, with the exception of Carter--who as an ex-President has special status--all of these former champions of the party’s quadrennial quest for the White House are buried in the background of the gala festivities unfolding in and around New York’s Madison Square Garden. Grim reminders of earlier defeats, they have been consigned to the political shadows as the ghosts of conventions past.

“The Democratic Party tends to put you on the shelf after you’ve lost,” acknowledged McGovern. “It can’t afford to look back. It must always look toward the next election, not the last.”

Not this year. This year they promote the saggy mashed potatoes -- wait, the dried mashed potatoes, that's how old and moldy these speakers are -- while doing their best to undercut politicians who are actually popular with the people. Perfect example? US House Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Name a politician who's gotten more heat and more support in the last four years. You can't. And so the party responds by letting her speak for . . . sixty . . . seconds.

She should have been the keynote speaker.

But instead, we get Republicans. Apparently, the Democratic Party can't celebrate it's own but it can celebrate any nut job from 'across the aisle.' War Criminal Colin Powell will speak later this week, we'll note it then and we'll note how his War Crimes didn't start with the speech to the UN -- that speech filled with lies about Iraq. [ADDED: I got lucky, Colin spoke last night, I got lucky and missed it. Patrick Martin covers it at WSWS.]

So stars like AOC are sidelined or ignored -- the Squad deserved 15 minutes on stage together, at the very least -- and tired fixtures from the last century are brought on.

It's not your party, 21st century Americans. It's a party of the past.

There has never been a worse convention.

Let's go to Michelle Obama finally.

We called her out yesterday morning. We were right to.

Corporate whores and partisan hacks lined up to tell you she was amazing. She wasn't. She wasn't even adequate.

How are you going to speak to the electorate when you don't even understand them?

You lie and whore and that's supposed to be repeated often enough to confuse the American people and make them vote for you?

The American people ditched Michelle. Check the ratings. They didn't get many viewers to begin with (especially compared to 2016) but notice the drop off the minute Michelle starts speaking. It's there in the ratings Americans who bothered to watch decided to stop watching when she started speaking.

That's not a surprise.

She's not an elected politicians. She's accomplished nothing with her life.

She's a professional spouse. That's all she is. A First Lady is popular when she's not political. That's reality. Michelle got political. It's not a role anyone wants to see her in. The ratings proved that.

AOC should have been the keynote speaker, not some tired fixture from a few years back who has make-work projects to busy herself with. She doesn't speak to the American people. The press loves her -- they're paid to love her. There's no reason for the rest of us too and it's way past time that a hard hitting biography was published on her and it addressed how she harmed healthcare in Chicago.

Let's move! -- away from that topic? Michelle would like us to.

Best Tweet this morning? Yashar Ali:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Upgraded To Full DNC Speaking Slot After Announcing Support For Iraq War

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Upgraded To Full DNC Speaking Slot After Announcing Support For Iraq War

All the latest politics coverage from The Onion, America's finest news source.

Apparently, that's what it will take for her to get a real slot of time at the convention.

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Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Alexander Payne is disgusting

Rose McGowan Tweeted:

FIX YOUR HEADLINE @Dailybeast
 & all media. It is sexual abuse. A PRIEST is a PREDATOR. An OSCAR winner gets ‘SEXUAL MISCONDUCT.’ Misconduct is an ass grab, not penetrating a 15 year old. THIS IS RAPE CULTURE.

When she was 15-years-old, she was pursuing an acting career and encounter Alexander Payne. He invited her to watch a movie -- it turned out to be a porn. He was a 28 year old man grooming a 15 year old girl for sex. This is statutory rape.

He needs to be held accountable.

He's disgusting. His silence since she went public is disgusting.

This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"

Tuesday, August 18, 2020. Fake Ass Michelle Obama presided over the fakery sold as a convention.

The job shouldn't have been that hard. Air a boring convention that reassured those who were starting to weaken on Joe. No fancy guest stars, no innovative camera work. Just bore America into believing that Joe could be trusted.

But they failed. Epic failure, in fact.

Before we go further, can anyone explain why Michelle Obama was speaking -- in prime time, no less. What elected office did she hold? That's right, none. What other former First Lady gets to speak? In 2004, it was a fight to get Hillary Clinton on in prime time. And she was a sitting US senator. The DNC had a real woman problem but because of the pushback and because Hillary was a senator and was a fundraising star, the Democratic National Committee finally caved. Michelle's husband isn't running so why is she speaking at all?

Not only did she speak, she spoke for 18 minutes and forty seconds.

18 minutes.

Someone running for office could have used that time -- as was the case in 2004 when her husband was the keynote speaker and was running to become a US senator.

He gave the keynote speech which, by the way, Michelle did last night. Last night? We'll come back to that. But grasp that a spot that's always used to promote someone running for office was given to someone who held no elected office. And who had nothing to say.

She had nothing to say.

She had nothing to say yet she spoke longer than her husband did in 2004 -- and he had to take periodic breaks for applause and cheers.

Michelle had no audience to cheer her on -- just whores who were paid off. Stephen Colbert -- looking more like a child molester than ever now that he and others go without make up -- was happy to show what a whore he was:

Stephen Colbert on Michelle Obama's DNC speech: “I’ll be honest with you. My job is to have a joke for every time somebody says anything in public. After watching Michelle Obama’s speech, I have never been more happy to fail at my job.”

Where the wealth's displayed

Thieves and sycophants parade

And where it's made,

The slaves will be taken

Some are treated well

In these games of buy and sell

And some like poor beast

Are burdened down to breaking

-- "Dog Eat Dog," written by Joni Mitchell, first appears on her album DOG EAT DOG.

Sycophant -- that's Colbert.

No jokes?

How about . . .

Was it past her bedtime?

Were they afraid she'd show up at the podium in granny panties, the way she did in 2008?

There was a lot to mock. Some wrongly think a cat fight is brewing between Michelle and Senator Kamala Harris. Why do they think that? Because Michelle spoke -- and spoke and spoke and spoke and spoke still more -- for nearly 20 minutes and she never once mentioned Kamala.

It's not a cat fight, it's not jealousy.

It's that Kamala was announced as Joe's running mate after -- after -- Michelle recorded the speech that aired last night. No, she wasn't live. What's worse? Her keynote speech -- one of the most important speeches of the convention, of any convention -- was canned. It was filmed ahead of time. And not, grasp this, earlier that day.

Seven days ago, August 11th, Joe announced his pick.

Michelle's speech was filmed before that. AP:

In keeping with the virtual nature of the convention because of the coronavirus, Mrs. Obama’s remarks were recorded before Biden’s announcement last Tuesday that he had chosen California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate.

This isn't a convention, it's an infomercial and it's a really bad one. But sycophants will tell you differently.

The garbage and hate Michelle served up included, "Right now, kids in this country are seeing what happens when we stop requiring empathy of one another. They watch in horror as children are torn from their families and thrown into cages [. . .]" As Micheala Watkins character used to say on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, "Bitch, please."

POLITIFACT, September 2019:

But Biden mentioned "cages," specifically, and reporting from the time he was vice president described an enclosure for migrant children with that word.

Controversial use of ‘cages’ description

The term "cages" has continuously been used by Democrats in attacks against Trump and the detention of immigrants arriving at the border. The Trump administration says that the facilities it uses are not cages.

The description has been used to refer to chain-link enclosures holding immigrants at border processing facilities during both the Obama and Trump administrations.

Notably, critics of Trump’s "zero-tolerance" policy that resulted in family separations circulated a photo that purportedly showed children face down on the floor behind a chain-link enclosure during Trump’s tenure. However, the photo was from 2014 when Obama was president.

Our fact-check showed the Associated Press photo was taken in 2014 at a Customs and Border Protection facility in Nogales, Ariz. The photo was used in an Arizona Republic article centered on an influx of children arriving at the border unaccompanied by a parent or guardian.

The Arizona Republic article, in part, said:

"They are undocumented. They entered the country illegally. And when they were apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, they were shipped to Nogales from overwhelmed processing facilities in Texas.

"But they are still children in cages, not gangsters, not delinquents. Just children, 900 of them, in a makeshift border-town processing center that is larger than a football field."

The article adds that the children are "housed behind 18-foot-high chain-link fences topped with razor wire."

Jane C. Timm (NBC NEWS), "The Obama administration did detain people in cage-like structures, earning criticism from activists. Last year, Democratic activists circulated photos of children inside chain link fenced spaces in an attack on President Donald Trump, only for onlookers to later realize the photos were from 2014."

With her blow out and extremely false eye lashes, you had to wonder if she recorded early so she could work a hotel lobby?

You're a real whore when you get on national television to repeat a lie that's already been endlessly fact checked and determined to be a lie.

And you're a bigger whore for acting outraged about cages while staying silent while your husband put people into them. Michelle had nothing to say of value because she's just a liar. That's all she's ever been and that's all she ever will be. In 2008, the times were still incredibly sexist and she benefited from that. She gave a disgusting and anti-woman speech and the press lapped it up (we called it out in this community). Now it's the #MeToo era and she wants to style herself as a feminist -- forget that she and Barack asked Harvey Weinstein to create an internship for their daughter -- so we're all supposed to pretend that she's some sort of feminist. She's nothing. She had a lifetime to make some accomplishments. She did nothing.

And last night, she spewed lies and preached hate.

What an accomplishment.

The most amazing thing about 2016 was how hard the Democrats had to work to almost beat Donald Trump in the election. It's a sign of how pathetic and corrupt they were that they had to work so hard. They're even more pathetic and corrupt today.

They've got nothing to help the American people -- in the midst of a pandemic, no less -- so they offer attacks on Donald Trump's character. That didn't work in 2016 so this time around they're going to just lie.

Donald Trump, grasp this, is not disgusting or offensive enough to the Democratic officials, they have to lie to make him worse.

That's because the Democrats in office agree with the Republicans. That's why we never end wars anymore. It's why the American people are suffering.

And Michelle thought she could lie her way through a key note speech? Shame on her.

And shame on the DNC for putting Kristin Urquiza on stage. She lost her father to the coronavirus. And she was on stage to rip Donald Trump apart for it.

Really?

Because they also featured, among other, Andrew Cuomo. I love Andrew. I thought he showed leadership when none was being offered -- national leadership. RISING has repeatedly noted the problems behind his speeches and how his actions impacted, deaths he's responsible for. I love Andrew, but we've reposted that coverage here.

When you use someone to attack Donald Trump over coronavirus, you don't then put Andrew on stage.

When you do that, it makes it clear that it's not about the coronvirus, it's about destroy and trash Trump. You've taken a national tragedy and you've turned it into a partisan issue. It's ugly and it's not helpful.

Jamil Smith Tweeted:

The

@DNC

keeps trying to be down with plutocracy rather than turning out its base. Bloomberg, Kasich, and Whitman are speaking at the convention this week. But not Latino Democrats like

@JulianCastro

, whom I spoke with about his party’s issues last year.

Julio Ricardo Varela Tweeted:

Am still taken aback at how the only Latino presidential candidate in 2020,

@JulianCastro
, is not speaking during any prime time slot at
@DNC
convention this week. It's not like he was a keynote speaker in 2012. Dems are sending a really bad message here. Do they want to win?

No time for Julian, no time for Muslims or Latinos. The big-tent they're proposing is really just letting some really disgusting Republicans take the stage.

Wally Wests Tweeted:

ohio voters @ the dnc Am I A Joke To You?

What's he talking about? This DNC Tweet:

FACT: As governor, John Kasich cut $1.8 billion from Ohio public schools' funding.

10:51 AM · Jul 21, 2015

Republican John Kasich was put on stage. To speak at length. AOC will only get sixty seconds. She's a Democrat. She's a Latina. But Republican Kasich, whom the DNC warned about many times, was given the mike and treated like a hero.

That's whoring. There's no other word for it. You embrace someone as disgusting as John because you both don't like Donald Trump -- excuse me, because you both hate Trump. You're ruled by hate and it's why you look so desperate and pathetic.

And yet, as soon as he's out of office, Michelle will be sharing candy with him and hugging him. Just like she did with Bully Boy Bush because whores get paid off. And she certainly did. A really bad book that went through multiple ghost-writers. Podcasts no one wants to listen to and NETFLIX 'programming' that's a joke. She got paid off big time.

That the DNC has produced garbage TV is no real surprise. They're a party at war with their base. They're unable to make even the mildest of concessions. They want your vote, they just don't want to earn your vote. So they're going to tell you Donald Trump is worse than they are -- and, to really convince you, they will lie about him like Michelle did. How corrupt do you have to be to invent lies to make Donald look worse than he already is?

They have no Muslims this year. In 2016, they used a family to make Donald look bad. As though they hadn't been engaged in the witch hunts against Muslims, as though Barack's Drone War hadn't terrorized Muslims. But they don't really care about Muslims so they ditch them this year. They use everyone they can. They'll use anyone, tell any lie. What they won't do is come up with actual programs and plans that would help the American people.

While you're pretending Joe Biden didn't assault Tara Reade, you can also pretend that the party's working overtime to help the American people.

In 2008, Barack went around the country promising to end the Iraq War with shouts like, "We want to end the war and we want to end it now!" He had eight years in office and US troops are still in Iraq. He's a liar and his wife's a liar. But Colbert found nothing 'funny' about a ridiculous woman wearing cow-eye lashes and a fake weave on national TV in that ugly dress as she spouted lie after lie and appealed to you not to remember the promises made before -- promises never kept.

The Iraq War continues. That alone should silence Michelle Obama. That alone should shame her into silence. Instead, she shows up with a round of new lies.

The biggest lie -- that a pre-recorded informercial is a live convention.

I forgot to include this yesterday, Kat's "Kat's Korner: Haim and how it took a lifetime to get here" went up Sunday night.

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