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As per normal Clint and BZ tore through the gristle of today’s screaming headlines and ripped out the sinewy Tendons of Truth ensconced within, all from the Hoary Streets of Shatramento, Fornicalia, exposing the trembling toadies, sniveling jackanapes and fripperous fopdoodles infesting Leftist and Progressive ant farms nationally.
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Why? Because you’re not a monolithic bloc that will vote for Demorats in perpetuity.
Simple as that.
From the WashingtonTimes.com:
Trump hosts ‘Angel Families’ to highlight crime by illegal immigrants
by Dave Boyer
President Trump highlighted “American victims of illegal immigration” Friday, hosting families of people killed by illegal immigrants to tell their stories and hitting back at critics of his rescinded policy that separated illegal child migrants from their parents.
“These are the American citizens permanently separated from their loved ones,” Mr. Trump said at the White House. “These are the families the media ignores. These are the stories that Democrats and people that are weak on immigration don’t want to discuss.”
He was surrounded on a stage by so-called “Angel” families who lost loved ones to violence by illegal immigrants. Many of the parents held large photographs of their dead children.
Referring to the furor over separating child migrants from their parents, Mr. Trump emphasized repeatedly that the families gathered with him had lost their loved ones forever.
“They’re not separated for a day, or two days,” the president said. “They’re permanently separated, because they were killed by criminal illegal aliens.”
“Screw ’em,” say the LDAMM (Leftists, Demorats, American Media Maggots). “They’re not nearly as important as these poor illegals and children. They can just take a large cup of shut the hell up.”
Here’s what an illegal immigrant did to the son of Laura Wilkerson, whose relationship with her son was severed forever, not temporarily. The description:
“He was brutally tortured, strangled over and over. He was set on fire after death. His last hours were brutal.”
This isn’t good for children, this isn’t good for Americans, this isn’t good for anyone. It is a topic that has been weaponized by the LDAMM in order to create such a furor in terms of emotions that facts and statistics become meaningless.
Steve Ronnebeck, father of murder victim: “63,000 Americans since 9/11 have been killed by illegal aliens.” pic.twitter.com/v35WAXIhji
Because now illegals realize that, at least for the time being, bringing a child allows you to stay in the United States.
Further, the powder kegs in Central and South America are soon to explode, flooding the southern US border with hordes of people fleeing their shithole countries and with Mexico stopping no one as long as they don’t stay in Mexico and flow through to the US. This, from the DailyCaller.com:
‘IT’S A HUMAN RIGHT’ — MEXICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE CALLS FOR MASS EXODUS TO AMERICA
by Dominic Mancini
Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) called for mass immigration to the United States during a speech Tuesday declaring it a “human right” for all North Americans.
“And soon, very soon — after the victory of our movement — we will defend all the migrants in the American continent and all the migrants in the world,” Obrador said, adding that immigrants “must leave their towns and find a life in the United States.”
He then declared it as “a human right we will defend,” eluniversal.com reports.
While the election is not until July 1, Obrador is by far the frontrunner.
This is Obrador’s attempt to do to the US what Cuba under Castro did to the US in 1980: empty out all his jails and criminals and send them to the US, full well knowing that it would make his life easier and that of US citizens harder. No more than the impending Cloward-Piven Strategy utilized against the United States.
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HOUR 2:An update with BZ’s East Coast Political Goddess, KARI BAXTER DONOVAN;
KBD and BZ talked about her being the official photographer for the Virginia Women for Trump “Afternoon Tea” at the Trump International Hotel on June 24th, as well as other issues including recent SCOTUS decisions. KBD told us about getting a response from Maxine Waters on Twitter — calling her a Russian bot. And also about facing a Leftist photographer who claimed she was the “official photographer” for the VWT event when, in fact, she was talking to KBD — THE official photographer for VWT. Heh.
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— Occupy Wall Street (@OccupyWallStNYC) June 19, 2018
The post features a CPR infographic altered to include instructions on how to kill ICE agents.
Occupy Wall Street captioned the picture, “What To Do If You Encounter An ICE Agent.”
One of the instructions reads: “Grab the ICE agent from behind and push your knife into his chest with an upward thrust, breaking through his sternum.”
Of course, if you click on the link provided there is no photograph available from Twitter; they have taken it down. But because there is something called the internet I have captured the graphic for you below.
It reads:
If an ICE agent tries to take your child at the border, don’t panic.
Pull your child away as quickly as possible by force.
Gently tell your child to close his/her eyes and ears so they won’t witness what you are about to do.
Grab the ICE agent from behind and push your knife into his chest with an upward thrust, breaking through his sternum.
Reach into his chest and pull out his still beating heart.
Hold his bloody heart out for all other agents to see, and tell them that the same fate awaits them if they fuck with your child again.
Leftist stupidity and their reprehensible antics didn’t stop there.
Remember: when everything else ails or fails, Leftists resort to either the advocacy for violence or violence itself. Peter Fonda weighed in on the issue of illegals. From FoxNews.com:
Peter Fonda tweets he wants to ‘rip Barron Trump from his mother’ and put him in a ‘cage with pedophiles’
by Sasha Savitsky
Actor Peter Fonda has a social media army and the Secret Service on his back after a twisted Twitter call to “rip Barron Trump from his mother’s arms and put him in a cage with pedophiles.”
The brother of Jane Fonda also called for violence against Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen and called White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders a “c—.”
But here’s an interesting contrast with an applicable pertinent question:
Donald Trump Jr. stood up for his younger brother, who is 12, calling Fonda’s since-deleted tweet “sick” and asking for Sony Pictures to drop the actor from “Boundaries,” which is due out on Friday. Trump Jr. also called on his followers to go after Fonda on Twitter.
“As an FYI @SonyPictures has a movie with him dropping in a few days. I wonder if they will apply the same rules to @iamfonda that they did to @therealroseanne. I have a strange suspicion that they wont do anything. Please RT, we deserve an answer!,” Trump Jr. tweeted on Wednesday.
Sony Pictures did not immediately return Fox News’ request for comment.
I think, as Conservatives, we know the answer, do we not?
Melanie Trump took the threat seriously. As she should.
But wait; there’s more. More advocacy of violence by Peter Fonda. And guess what? Leftists appear to be responding. What a great guy, that Fonda. From DownTrend.com:
LIBERAL CELEB WANTS DHS SECRETARY STRIPPED NAKED AND WHIPPED
by Don Marten
Pure unfiltered hatred is pouring out of the left as if a dam has suddenly burst and unleashed a flood of biblical proportions.
The completely manufactured hell-storm over the separation of illegal alien kids from their “parents” never elicited so much as a peep from the left when it was Barack Obama wrapping them in foil and stuffing them into cages but the Dems and media are working hand-in-hand to whip up a wave of hysteria that they hope will sweep them into control of Congress in November.
The advocacy of violence frequently begets violence. Mostly by Leftists against Conservatives.
Things are starting to get heated to the point where one spark in the wrong place could ignite something that the Democrats may not be able to control. We saw it in Washington D.C. on Tuesday night when a flash mob materialized at the restaurant where Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen had stopped for dinner and organized leftists looking to incite a pogrom sent her fleeing into the night for her own safety.
SOCIALIST ACTIVIST WHO HARASSED HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY WORKS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
by Joe Simonson
One of the activists who chased Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen out of a Mexican restaurant Tuesday night over the Trump administration’s immigration policies is an employee of the Department of Justice, The Daily Caller News Foundation has confirmed.
Members of the Washington, D.C., chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America crashed Nielsen’s meal with a demonstration full of chants and other outbursts.
One of those participants, Allison Hrabar, actually works for the Trump administration — as a paralegal in the DOJ.
“Kirstjen Nielsen, you’re a villain, locking up immigrant children,” activists can be heard saying in a video.
An employee within the Trump administration initially tipped TheDCNF off about Hrabar’s presence at the protest.
The Washington Examiner spoke with Hrabar Wednesday and she defended her behavior as off government time and a use of her First Amendment rights.
Of course it is. So it would be if I brought a crowd into a restaurant you were attending, Socialist DOJ Employee Allison, and turned your dinner into a screaming nightmare, forcing you to leave. It would only be fair, Socialist DOJ Employee Allison, you see. Turnabout is only fair play.
Socialist DOJ Employee Allison says:
“If you see these people in public, you should remind them that they shouldn’t have peace,” she told The Examiner. “We aren’t the only ones who can do this. Anyone who sees Kirstjen Nielsen at dinner, anyone who sees anyone who works at DHS and ICE at dinner can confront them like this, and that’s what we hope this will inspire people to do.”
Cute little privileged Caucasoid Socialist DOJ Employe Allison, by the way, has worked at the Department of Justice since July of 2016. Before that, she was a student at the incredibly elite Swarthmore College where tuition runs over $50,000 annually. Socialist DOJ Employee Allison is part of the very exclusive northeast monied elite, and previously attended a charter school in Arizona because, after all, public schools are for the unwashed, the proles, the groundlings, the serfs, the undeserving.
Socialist DOJ Employee Allison Hrabar is also a member of the Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America. Say hello to her on Twitter @allisongeroi. Wish her well.
To continue, it didn’t get much better for Nielsen when Hollywood actor Peter Fonda called for the “gash” to be stripped naked and publicly whipped.
The tweets have since been deleted.
This is a wakeup call for America because we are now at the point where The Resistance is openly targeting political figures and calling for violent reprisals ostensibly over the poor children but in reality, as blood vengeance over a lost election.
No Democrat running for public office should be allowed to weasel their way out of answering some questions about their allies like Fonda.
But they will. Because the American Media Maggots will simply fail to ask.
Did it stop there? Of course not. From TCPalm.com:
Stuart man charged with threatening Rep. Brian Mast’s children over Trump policy
by Ali Schmitz
A Stuart man was arrested Tuesday after a federal complaint states he threatened U.S. Rep. Brian Mast’s children over the Trump administration’s child-separation immigration policy.
Laurence Key called Mast’s Washington office Monday and said, “I’m going to find the congressman’s kids and kill them,” an intern who took the call told the FBI, according to a federal complaint filed in U.S. District Court. “If you are going to separate kids at the border, I’m going to kill his kids.”
Key is charged with communication of a threat to kidnap or injure a person in regard to Mast’s children, a girl and two boys younger than 8.
Key previously has called Mast’s office 478 times, the complaint says, and also contacted the offices of Florida Sens. Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson Monday.
This past Friday the tables turned again, when White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was told to leave a Virginia restaurant because, well, she worked for the Trump Administration. From the WashingtonPost.com:
The owner of the Red Hen explains why she asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave
by Avi Selk and Sarah Murray
Stephanie Wilkinson was at home Friday evening — nearly 200 miles from the White House — when the choice presented itself.
Stop. See what the WaPo and the owner did there? Intimating that your tax dollars are somehow being improperly spent because, well, just why would SHS eat dinner so far away from the White House on your taxpayer dime? That’s the sub rosa implication.
Her phone rang about 8 p.m. It was the chef at the Red Hen, the tiny farm-to-table restaurant that she co-owned just off Main Street in the small city of Lexington, in the western part of Virginia.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders had just walked in and sat down, the chef informed her.
“He said the staff is a little concerned. What should we do?” Wilkinson told The Washington Post. “I said I’d be down to see if it’s true.”
Wait. So SHS merely sitting down in a restaurant is sufficient to cause massive consternation requiring an immediate and emergency telephone call to the business owner? AYFKM? No, not kidding — these are Leftists we’re talking about here.
It seemed unlikely to her that President Trump’s press secretary should be dining at a 26-seat restaurant in rural Virginia. But then, it was unlikely that her entire staff would have misidentified Sanders, who had arrived last to a table of eight booked under her husband’s name.
Because after all, why would fire-breathing, Nazi bootlicking racist homophobic sexist Trumper gargoyles from DC ever want rural food in Virginia? Hell, they eat children, not real food.
As she made the short drive to the Red Hen, Wilkinson knew only this:
She knew Lexington, population 7,000, had voted overwhelmingly against Trump in a county that voted overwhelmingly for him. She knew the community was deeply divided over such issues as Confederate flags. She knew, she said, that her restaurant and its half-dozen servers and cooks had managed to stay in business for 10 years by keeping politics off the menu.
And she knew — she believed — that Sarah Huckabee Sanders worked in the service of an “inhumane and unethical” administration. That she publicly defended the president’s cruelest policies, and that that could not stand.
Wilkinson is a shrinking violent. She says so. No confrontations for her.
“I’m not a huge fan of confrontation,” Wilkinson said. “I have a business, and I want the business to thrive. This feels like the moment in our democracy when people have to make uncomfortable actions and decisions to uphold their morals.”
Wilkinson didn’t want to simply not customize a cake for the party, offering other cakes instead. She just wanted the entire Sanders party the hell out of her restaurant. She had a Leftist profile to keep, you see.
She was tense as she walked up to the press secretary’s chair.
“I said, ‘I’m the owner,’ ” she recalled, ” ‘I’d like you to come out to the patio with me for a word.’ ”
They stepped outside, into another small enclosure, but at least out of the crowded restaurant.
“I was babbling a little, but I got my point across in a polite and direct fashion,” Wilkinson said. “I explained that the restaurant has certain standards that I feel it has to uphold, such as honesty, and compassion, and cooperation.
“I said, ‘I’d like to ask you to leave.’ ”
So guess what? SHS did, quietly, with the rest of her party. She and her husband went home. The remaining party went across the street to another restaurant. And here’s what the rest of the Washington Post (whose motto is “Democracy Dies In DC”) purposely failed to cover from that night. I wonder why?
Red Hen restaurant that booted Sarah Huckabee Sanders has mixed health inspection record
by Kevin McCoy
The small restaurant in rural Lexington, Virginia, which bills itself as a “farm to table fine dining” establishment that focuses on Shenandoah Valley-inspired cuisine, has a mixed inspection record from the Virginia Department of Health.
Trump criticized the restaurant’s “filthy” canopies, doors, windows and paint job, even as he praised Sanders. “I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside,” he tweeted Monday.
Guess what?
However, the Red Hen was hit with two violations in an April 2014 inspection. One cited raw beef stored above cooked ready-to-eat food and thawing meats stored above cookie bars. The other violation cited ready-to-eat container of grits stored in a refrigeration unit without being properly dated.
Both violations were deemed “critical” under the Department of Health’s inspection regulations before a 2016 update.
Then there was the recent violent case of Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. From FoxNews.com:
‘They Were Trying to Create a Fight’: Florida AG Bondi Confronted by Protesters at Movie Theater
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (R) said Monday that the protesters who confronted her at a movie theater this weekend are “bullies” who were looking for a fight.
Bondi said that while waiting in the ticket line to see “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” – a documentary about Mr. Rogers – a woman approached her and claimed Bondi was responsible “for ripping babies out of the arms of mothers.”
“They were trying to create a fight,” Bondi said on “Fox & Friends,” explaining that the hecklers were right in her face and trying to goad her boyfriend into responding physically.
Then there was the lovingly-insane Mad Maxine Waters, whose mouth rivals that of a Navy A-7 Corsair. From of all places, CNN.com (see, I can use media when necessary):
Maxine Waters encourages supporters to harass Trump administration officials
by Jamie Ehrlich
Washington (CNN) Rep. Maxine Waters called on her supporters to publicly confront and harass members of the Trump administration in response to the “zero tolerance” policy that led to the separation of families at the border.
The California Democrat and vehement critic of President Donald Trump made the comments on Saturday, first at a rally in Los Angeles and later in a television interview. The comments, which come after several Trump administration officials have been recently protested at restaurants, have raised fresh questions about the state of American political discourse and were seized on by Trump for political gain.
Facing a new wave of potentially dangerous threats, called for by a top Democratic lawmaker, legal and gun experts are calling on top Trump aides to get their concealed carry permit and back it up with a pistol.
“There are simply not enough police in D.C. or Virginia or Maryland to protect all Trump officials at their homes and when they go out to restaurants. Getting a concealed handgun permit would be helpful to protect themselves and their family,” said John R. Lott Jr., president of the influential Crime Prevention Research Center.
“High level officials in the Trump administration, especially if their faces are likely to be recognized by many in the public as a result of appearances on TV, might want to consider applying for a license to carry a concealed weapon in the District of Columbia, and/or other states they frequent, in view of the call by Rep. Maxine Waters for the public to ‘absolutely harass’ these officials in public places, and other recent events indicating the increased danger they are in,” added public interest law professor John Banzhaf.
We can’t leave out this most recent story from the GatewayPundit.com:
“Leave My Husband Alone!” Mitch McConnell’s Wife Screams as Angry Protesters AMBUSH THEIR VEHICLE
by Cristina Laila
Pro-open borders protesters confronted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and his wife, US Secretary of Transportation, Elaine Chao as they were leaving a Georgetown event Monday evening.
McConnell’s wife screamed at the protesters, “Leave my husband alone!”
Hispanic protesters [all appear to be males] approached the Republicans as they were walking out of a Georgetown event.
The protesters blasted Propublica’s audio of children separated from their families as they accused McConnell of ‘separating the children.’ McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao repeatedly told them to ‘leave her husband alone.’
Protesters continued to scream, “How does he sleep at night?!” as Senator McConnell and his wife got into the vehicle.
Where was security? Why were the protesters allowed to get so close to Senator McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao?
Then there’s this also:
Senator McConnell was struck with Polio when he was 2 years old, leaving him handicapped. This is why he slowly and carefully walked down the steps while holding onto the railing as protesters approached him.
Have you noticed the thread between all these incidents? They are against women or older, infirm men. Senator McConnell was damaged by polio as a child.
One person out there is one bad day away from an answer to these Leftist confrontations. One bad piece of news away from responding badly to these Leftist confrontations. Being informed of a divorce. Having been served papers for a lawsuit. Notified that a scan comes back for cancer. Knowing that a loved one was recently seriously injured or killed in a vehicle accident.
Because we are dealing with humanity, there may be human responses. Some of those responses may involve violence as, after all, the pressure is increasing rapidly.
I served for 41 years in law enforcement, retiring in 2016.
As an officer I labored for the federal side and the local side. Whilst in Detectives I happened to work in Theft, Warrants, Child Abuse, Sex Assaults, Robbery and finally Homicide. I had to get arrest warrants. I had to get search warrants. I had to write and submit affidavits and warrant requests with my hero pages. If I had to do it, the rest of law enforcement should have to do it. I had to respect the 4th Amendment. All of law enforcement should have to respect the 4th Amendment.
Supreme Court rules warrant required for cellphone location data
by Alex Swoyer
The Supreme Court on Friday said the government must obtain a search warrant before demanding an individual’s cellphone location records from a telecommunications company.
In the 5-4 decision, the court said it’s a violation of the 4th Amendment for police to search a suspect’s cell-site location information (CSLI), which is stored by a telecommunications company, without a warrant.
The case arose when a defendant was convicted of a series of robberies based on his cellphone location data. He moved to suppress the evidence, saying the records were obtained without a warrant and thus violated his 4th Amendment protection.
The lower courts sided with the government, but the high court decided the 4th Amendment’s guarantee to privacy extends to new age technology.
“A person does not surrender all Fourth Amendment protection by venturing into the public sphere,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts wrote in the court’s opinion.
Yes, I was in law enforcement. But I had to obey the law. On the federal side I could acquire pen registers and Title IIIs. With warrant requests and applications. And they came with serious limitations “back in the day” when you had reel-to-reel recorders. You couldn’t just activate the recorder and perch all day. You could only listen for a brief time and then switch off if you heard nothing. Timing was everything.
Technology is confounding, certainly. But law enforcement can get lazy and can’t afford to. My advice to cops: don’t get lazy. On homicide scenes, depending on the case, I may have had possession of a house or a certain scene but in order to buttress my case I also went to a judge and acquired a search warrant to make my investigation more bulletproof.
The government had argued the information was kept by a third party, the telecommunications company, so it did not violate the suspect’s 4th Amendment rights.
This isn’t rocket science. Everyone knows that most people leave the GPS activated on their cell phones and by doing so the cell provider knows, generally, where the phone — and hence you — are located. Truly, you don’t even have to activate GPS. The cell towers just know.
But the court said a company’s constant tracking of an individual carries concerns.
“In light of the deeply revealing nature of CSLI, its depth, breadth, and comprehensive reach, and the inescapable and automatic nature of its collection, the fact that such information is gathered by a third party does not make it any less deserving of Fourth Amendment protection,” Justice Roberts wrote.
He was joined by the courts’ four Democratic appointed justices, but the court’s four Republican appointed justices disagreed with the holding.
This next bit of information aligns with my way of thinking and the analogy is proper and correct.
The ruling follows a case six years ago where the court said a GPS tracking device on a suspect’s vehicle without a warrant is unconstitutional.
Allow me to go a bit further. Your cell phone is much more than a simple communications device that allows you to talk to people. It is a texting machine, a camera, an audio recorder, a video recorder and, frankly, a computer. People have their lives in their cell phones these days. Breaking into someone’s cell phone is not unlike breaking into their personal computer at home.
Also, quite a number of law enforcement agencies have Stingrays these days. This is a device called an IMSI catcher. It can be used to track and locate cell devices and users, block signals, intercept communications content, force cell phones to disconnect from their standard carriers and connect to it — and a host of other functions. See the graphic.
If you’re in or near an urban center and not under the flight pattern of a military base or commercial airport, you know that air traffic is a fraction of what it used to be when I was growing up. To even see a military aircraft these days is an uncommon occurrence. But have you ever heard a small plane buzzing about at night in what seems to be some kind of a pattern for a lengthy period of time?
Chances are pretty good that its occupants work for a federal, state or local law enforcement agency and that they are employing a Stingray or a variant.
Court rules Stingray use without a warrant violates Fourth Amendment
by Mallory Locklear
The ruling could have widespread implications for the technology.
Today, the Washington DC Court of Appeals overturned a Superior Court conviction of a man who was located by police using a cell-site simulator, or Stingray, CBS News reports. The court ruled that the defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated when law enforcement tracked down the suspect using his own cell phone without a warrant.
Stingrays work by pretending to be a cell tower and once they’re brought close enough to a particular phone, that phone pings a signal off of them. The Stingray then grabs onto that signal and allows whoever’s using it to locate the phone in question. These sorts of devices are used by a number of different agencies including the FBI, ICE, the IRS as well as policeofficers.
The use of cell-site simulators, especially without a warrant, has come under question a few times in recent years. In 2016, a federal judge suppressed DEA evidence obtained via such a device, the first time a federal judge had done so. Last year, members of Congress called for legislation that would protect citizens’ privacy and require a warrant before Stingrays could be used by law enforcement. Two such bills were introduced in the House of Representatives earlier this year.
Obviously, this is my Libertarian side coming out. I am a great advocate of privacy — and why I say:
When I was a law enforcement officer, I had to acquire search warrants. There is no reason current law enforcement shouldn’t do the same thing. It will help your case to acquire even more strength. If you lack PC for said warrant, you’d best start rethinking your case.