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CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour said Monday on CNN’s “News Central” that she believed former President Donald Trump’s comments on NATO were “literally insane.” At a rally, Trump said, “One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, sir, if we don’t pay and we’re attacked by Russia, will you protect us? I said you didn’t pay, you’re delinquent? He said yes. Say that happened, no, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You have to pay. You have to pay your bills.” Amanpour said, “People are...

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Squatters are ruining entire neighborhoods in Atlanta and police response to evict is so slow, some homeowners have resorted to paying nuisances to leave. Brazen squatters even opened an illegal strip club on a property they had taken over — one of the 1,200 homes which has been squatted in the city according to the National Rental Home Council (NRHC) trade group. “I’d be terrified in Atlanta to lease out one of my properties,” Matt Urbanski, who manages a local home-cleaning company, told Bloomberg. Urbanski’s company cleans out homes for corporate landlords, and in some cases has to remove squatter’s...

Meta has warned investors that Mark Zuckerberg’s martial arts hobby carries the risk of serious injury or death. The social media giant said that its founder’s fondness for competitive fighting, which saw him undergo surgery for a torn ligament last year, could affect the company if he was sidelined. In an unusual disclosure to investors, Meta said: “Mr Zuckerberg and certain other members of management participate in various high-risk activities, such as combat sports, extreme sports, and recreational aviation, which carry the risk of serious injury and death. “If Mr Zuckerberg were to become unavailable for any reason, there could...

I'm comin' up on Pennsylvania inspection and my cats are shot (already tried "guaranteed to pass" and it failed, etc.) and a certified mechanic diagnostic . . . the cats are dead.I may as well get the 02 sensors as well.

There are many names being floated as former President Donald Trump’s running mate, including the ever-loyal Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), whom he reportedly believes would be a “killer” pick. But Megyn Kelly named the possibility of another woman that could be chosen—one which would infuriate his base. “Is it out of the realm of possibility that he chooses [Nikki] Haley? Absolutely not. It’s not. I realize that MAGA doesn’t want it. They’ve convinced themselves that Nikki Haley is against all the things that they stand for,” she told Dave Rubin. Kelly argued he may have to just deal with the...

Circumstances aren't looking good for Fani Willis. The Fulton County, Ga., district attorney who has made a personal crusade out of trying to prosecute Donald Trump now has to give account to a judge regarding the allegations that she is in an improper relationship with one of the special counsels she hired for the Trump case. "The judge overseeing the election interference case against former president Donald Trump in Georgia has reportedly scheduled a hearing for Feb. 15 to examine recent allegations that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her lead prosecutor 'engaged in an improper relationship and mishandled...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) predicted Wednesday that this year’s election cycle will be a referendum on abortion, warning of a national abortion ban if Republicans consolidate control of government in 2024. “If the Republicans had the House, the Senate, and the White House, if that happened, I don’t think there’s any doubt they’re going for a nationwide abortion ban,” Warren told MSNBC’s Alex Wagner during an interview this week. The Supreme Court upended the long-standing status quo on abortion in 2022 when it overturned Roe v. Wade, effectively ending the federal right to abortion access and sending the issue back...

After visiting all 99 counties in Iowa and failing to win a single one, specifically because he visited all 99 counties in Iowa, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared the dark, unknown and mysterious forces of universe tried to stop him, “threw everything at him,” yet he alone stands victorious. Yeah, he actually said that. The DeSantis campaign put most of their resources into Iowa and gained a total of 23,000 votes (roughly 21%), quickly declaring victory in a tenuous 2nd place finish and proclaiming their victory ticket has been punched. The cognitive disconnect is exceptionally strong; but hey, everyone has...

Thought someone should start a live thread about today's festivities.

Joe Biden has spent approximately 40% of presidency on vacation, and apparently he’s not the only one in the White House who likes to be missing in action. According to a recent exposé from the Los Angeles Times, Kamala Harris is spending more time at her home in California than she has previously. Why? Well, she wants to get away from the “scorn and criticism” that’s coming at her from both sides of the aisle. For Harris, the impulse to escape Washington — where she faces Republican scorn and criticism within her own party — for downtime at home has...

I received this from a source in O’Hare Airport in Chicago. Parts of the airport were sectioned off to house illegals. There were too many illegals and now they overflowed into the terminal area. My source says they were mainly Hispanic men and he was asked not to record. Why are they trying to hide this?!

OKLAHOMA CITY — A woman was taken into custody after meeting an undercover agent for sex in a vacant Oklahoma City apartment as part of a prostitution sting. The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics took Mary Heath, 48, into custody after she agreed to meet an undercover agent in the same apartment complex she worked at. OBN agents took her into custody at the complex, where she worked as a leasing agent, according to an arrest affidavit. The affidavit showed that an OBN agent found Heath's commercial sex advertisement on a website and started reaching out to her via text message....

I think deep down all intellectually honest political researchers knew The Lightbringer could not possibly permit: (a) Joe Biden to try winning an election on his own without fraud; and (b) the scale of risk that Donald Trump represents. There is far too much personal risk to the Obama embeds who have weaponized the systems of government.The media are now reporting that Chicago Jesus has stepped back into the arena.There was a report in the Washington Post outlining the Obama concerns, and NBC has confirmed some of the details. [Short Video then article]:After reviewing the WaPo article, I’ll show you...

A mob of sticky-fingered migrants stormed into Manhattan’s Bloomingdale’s and tried to swipe a trove of Versace, Dior and Prada designer sunglasses totaling $5,300 — before all but one of them escaped, police sources said Sunday. About 15 asylum-seekers swarmed the high-end Midtown retailer shortly before 6:30 p.m. Saturday and grabbed more than a dozen pairs of the pricey sunglasses before making a run for it, sources said. An alert cop on paid detail at the store was able to grab one of the crooks while the rest ran off, according to sources. Steven Matos, 23, was charged with robbery,...

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Chicago Alderman Brian Hopkins acknowledged that city leaders did send a message that anyone could come by being a sanctuary city — although he doesn’t agree with sending that message — but nobody “had any idea that it would lead to this today” when the city became a sanctuary city in the 1980s and the current situation “was completely unpredicted and it’s completely unprecedented and nobody thought a sanctuary city would mean what it means.” Co-host Sandra Smith asked, [relevant exchange begins around 3:30] “[D]idn’t leadership in your city say,...

On the three-year anniversary of the Capitol protest, Joe Biden will portray himself as a modern-day George Washington saving "democracy" from evil. But the public is buying his schtick less and less. Joe Biden plans to commemorate the third anniversary of the events of January 6 by giving a speech Friday morning near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, the historic site where General George Washington regrouped the Continental Army despite all odds in 1777-78. After years of comparing Jan 6 to 9/11, Pearl Harbor, and the Oklahoma City bombing, Biden will again desecrate hallowed ground and the graves of the victims—roughly 2,000...

The mass shooter at Perry High has been identified as Dylan Butler. It appears that the shooter was an online LGBTQ activist & part of the community.

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg will convene a meeting between NATO diplomats and officials from Ukraine on Jan. 10, following a recent wave of heavy Russian air strikes on the country, the transatlantic defense alliance said Thursday. The meeting, taking the format of the newly establish NATO-Ukraine Council, was being convened at Kyiv's request...

American intelligence agencies “will attempt” to interfere in the 2024 presidential election to help President Joe Biden defeat President Donald Trump, former CIA analyst Dr. John Gentry alleged Tuesday.The threat of election interference echoes previous attacks against American workers:*Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell” *The Russia Hoax So-called “lawfare” by way of Trump indictments “My guess is that the proverbial deep state within the intelligence community will reemerge because presumably a Republican candidate will again be seen as a threat to the internal policies that many intelligence people like,” Gentry told Fox News.Gentry, a Georgetown University professor who spent 12 years...