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Add THIS to Biden's LEGACY: Taliban Reinstates Policy of Stoning Women Remember when Biden pulled out of Afghanistan which resulted in the deaths of 13 members of our military AND the Taliban 'receiving' millions and millions of dollars worth of our military equipment? Yeah, that sucked. Want to know what sucks more ? This. Ooooh, that's right. He's also giving them money ...

Another fabulous tweet by the Obama Biden campaign.

Hey ! Kamala resurfaces. Well, it's not like anything else is going on in the world. .

A good sign.

Not a chance. But you knew that. So did I .

Not a chance. But you knew that. .

Here are some other "potentials" who were not on the CBS list. Tulsi Gabbard Sen. J.D. Vance Kari Lake Vivek Ramaswamy Sen. Katie Britt Rep. Byron Donalds I would even throw in Ron DeSantis, with Trump you never know. The thing is, with most V.P. selections in the past the candidate would weigh which person would help the ticket the most (ex: state, sex, experience) But with Trump who knows ? I think that he followed the usual pattern in 2016 and picked Pence an established GOPer to balance things out. I don't think that he feels that type of 'restriction' this time around. .

Chinese Illegal Alien Arrested at US Military Base, but That May Just Be the Tip of the Iceberg Nick Arama FTA: There have been a lot of questions about Chinese men of military age coming across the border in ever-increasing numbers. Now, there's a report that a Chinese illegal alien was arrested by the Border Patrol after he breached a military base in the El Centro sector of California. He was there without authorization and refused to leave. His purpose & intent behind his actions are still being investigated. https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/03/29/illegal-alien-at-military-base-n2172075

Jack Smith’s Case Against Trump Appears to Be Falling Apart. Special Counsel Jack Smith's efforts to imprison Donald Trump for mishandling classified documents have hit a few snags recently, and the latest snag is, indeed, a big one. "Special Counsel Jack Smith could be blocked from using evidence against Donald Trump contained in grand jury investigation files, which were transferred to the former president's Florida classified documents case this week, a former prosecutor has suggested," reports Newsweek. "In 2023, a grand jury in Washington, D.C., heard evidence from witnesses—including Trump's attorney, Evan Corcoran—while considering whether charges should be brought against the former president and others for hoarding classified documents. However, Trump and his co-accused were later indicted in Florida and, under federal rules, the grand jury files were transferred on Monday to Trump-appointed judge, Aileen Cannon's court." According to former prosecutor Bill Shipley, the transfer of the case from D.C. to Florida gives Judge Cannon control over what evidence can be included—especially testimony that may have violated attorney-client privilege. https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/03/29/jack-smiths-case-against-trump-appears-to-be-falling-apart-n4927763 .

We need a thread for an (honest) discussion of who Donald Trump will pick as his running mate. He teased that he already knew it back in January, but no one seems to know who he meant, only that it will be a surprise. Who might Trump pick to be vice president? Here are 7 possibilities By Olivia Rinaldi The presidential primary season is over, and now that former President Donald Trump has secured the Republican nomination, he's getting questions about who's on his VP short list and what qualities he's looking for in a running mate. In February, while the primaries were still underway, Trump told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo that he wasn't planning to announce his choice "for awhile." He said he was looking for someone who's "able to be a good president" and told Bartiromo he had been talking to a number of people and mentioned South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem. In January, he'd said of his potential running mate, "I know who it's going to be," but offered no further detail. Most candidates don't announce a running mate until the official nominating conventions are held in the summer, and Trump is expected to follow that precedent. Sources close to the Trump campaign say they have advised Trump to withhold announcing the nomination until the convention to build suspense and increase his leverage over candidates vying for the role. Potential picks whom sources within Trump's orbit have discussed for the role have been prominently featured on the campaign trail with the former president. Here are seven of them. (in depth discussion of each at the link) New York Rep. Elise Stefanik South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Former HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson Florida Sen. Marco Rubio https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-potential-vp-picks/ (I am aware that there was another thread started earlier, but it was Classic Frankish. A reasonable title followed by sarcastic, snarky filler disguised as "analysis" from CNN and him) I invite all sides of this issue to post their guesses and conjecture, I know the usual suspects will post their usual responses. .

Meanwhile, at the "most important American problem today" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Remember Ukraine ?

Tim, he is a liar. He posts known lies to get a response.

Back to the thread. DNC Desperate to Change the Subject After Yesterday's Optics Disaster for Biden Yesterday President Biden held a "star-studded fundraiser" in New York City with Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Stephen Colbert, Lizzo and others on the same day Donald Trump attended the wake for a slain NYPD officer at the family's invitation. Even former Obama adviser David Axelrod admitted it was a bad look but probably worth the $25 million the Biden campaign raised that'll be used to buy ads lying to people about how great everything's going while blaming Trump for the rest. The Dems are hoping nobody noticed -- or maybe they just don't care https://twitchy.com/dougp/2024/03/29/bs-detected-dnc-goes-all-in-to-clean-up-for-biden-after-yesterdays-optics-disaster-n2394557

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But, but, but the only reason anyone cared about Epps was to highlight the hypocrisy. Now that J6 has been proven to be a protest turned riot, the narrative is passé . Let us know if anyone gets convicted of insurrection 😆

Now THAT'S funny.

It Could Take HOW LONG to Rebuild Francis Scott Key Bridge??? STEPHEN GREEN Could it really take twice as long and four times as much money to replace the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge than it did to build it in the first place? The Key Bridge was built at a cost (adjusted for inflation) of about $200 million. Replacing it could take a decade and cost $400 million to $800 million dollars, according to experts in what has become a dismal field. “To actually recreate that whole transportation network" could take a decade or more, structural engineer Ben Schafer told USA Today on Wednesday. Huge projects, Schafer said, now take “rarely less than 10 years." Well, they didn't use to. By comparison, the Apollo program that put a man on the moon required seven years, eight months, and 23 days. And — this is the really exciting part — everything about Apollo, from the massive Saturn V rocket to the "tiny" flight computer, had to be created from scratch. Those seven-and-a-half years included a monthslong delay following the tragic loss of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee during an Apollo 1 dress rehearsal that ended in a deadly crew capsule fire. Construction began on the Hoover Dam on July 7, 1930, and five years later, it was complete. It started generating electrical power on Sept. 11, 1936 — exactly six years, two months, and four days after the first shovelful of dirt was moved. The Empire State Building was fully erect (heh) after just one year and 45 days of construction. But those were all 20th Century projects, back when we used to get things done. Welcome to 21st Century America, where everything is needlessly time-consuming, expensive, stupid, or (most likely) all three. The timing "all depends on factors that are still mostly unknown," the AP explained. "They range from the design of the new bridge to how swiftly government officials can navigate the bureaucracy of approving permits and awarding contracts." {snip} The replacement bridge will have to be new and somehow improved — or so they'll claim — and require months or years of study on the environmental impacts, even though there's been a bridge there for 50 years already. Hiring contractors will likely take twice as long as they'll have to meet strict new DEI standards. Competence and speed? Tertiary considerations, at best. Planners will likely require three years just to decide on a new name. They'll eventually settle on "The George Floyd-Pete Buttigieg Antiracist Inclusive Transit Structure" or some such BS. This is why we can't have nice things anymore. That's not entirely true, of course. We can have nice things — sometimes. But only when the stars align, the tea leaves are correct, and the progressives are distracted by something even shinier. https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/03/29/it-could-take-how-long-to-rebuild-francis-scott-key-bridge-n4927756

We could clear the bridge in weeks IF 1) our federal maritime agencies @DOTMARAD & @USCG were fully funded and functional 2) we had heavylift, salvage and offshore construction ships on hand. We don’t The Navy sold off almost its entire fleet of salvage ships. We don’t even have a single fireboat in the Navy’s most important port. 3) The Navy hadn’t outsourced the majority of its salvage operations to a European company Sailing assets from Europe would take weeks and would anger certain powerful lobbyists 4) The Army didn’t sell off the majority of it’s watercraft fleet and deprioritize the Corps of Engineers maritime missions 5) If our DOT Ready Reserve fleet was fully functional and not a half a century old 6) if the balance sheets of our US shipping companies, tugboat operators, construction companies encouraged growth 7) if silicon valley investors didn’t have a revulsion to investing in maritime startups with revolutionary new ideas 😎 if the media understood ships and focused on the right stories and pushed DC in the right directions 9) if environmental regulations were not onerous 10) local port politics

New Georgia Voting Rules Approved. “While there are plenty of people talking about improving election security, Georgia appears to be doing something about it. Just in time for this year’s elections, the Georgia legislature has passed reforms that will impact access to the presidential ballot. They have also altered the rules defining the criteria for being able to submit a ballot and how ballots can be challenged. Ballot challenges will be under strict scrutiny this year with more people expected to be monitoring the process from each party, particularly in swing states like Georgia. The measure has been sent to Republican Governor Brian Kemp, who is expected to sign it into law. Needless to say, many Georgia Democrats are not happy about this.” Of course they’re not. It makes cheating harder. https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/03/29/new-georgia-voting-rules-approved-n3785598 .

Will Democrats’ Abandonment of Law Enforcement Finally Haunt Them in 2024? “As we’ve seen in recent years, it’s not just that the left is anti-law enforcement, but that they’re pro-criminal. Donald Trump and his supporters are the only people they want to see in jail, the real bad guys get sent right back out to return to their criminal ways.” https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2024/03/29/the-morning-briefing-will-dems-abandonment-of-law-enforcement-finally-haunt-them-in-2024-n4927748 .