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2023 NOTES IN PASSING
Powerline ^ | 31 Dec 2023 | Lloyd Billingsley

Posted on 12/31/2023 9:54:22 PM PST by Rummyfan

Back on July 23, the Obamas’ personal chef Tafari Campbell “disappeared while paddleboarding in the waters of Edgartown Great Pond on Martha’s Vineyard.” The death of the 45-year-old was “ruled an accident,” but troubling questions failed to float away.

Campbell had posted videos of himself swimming laps, so it was strange that an able swimmer perished in eight feet of water, in a pond for the most part half that depth. Several reports mentioned another paddleboarder who saw Campbell go under. According to the Daily Mail, the observer was a 26-year-old female who worked for the Obamas, but the eyewitness remained unidentified.

It was also unclear who had called 911, but the dispatch was directed to the Obamas’ estate. The official police report is heavily redacted but does reveal that the medical examiner found a “small ½ centimeter abrasion” on Campbell’s upper lip.

Any personal chef is in a position to gain intimate details about his employer, especially a chef regarded as a beloved part of the Obama family. Tafari Campbell could easily have seen or heard something he wasn’t supposed to see or hear.

Like Luca Brasi in The Godfather, the chef now sleeps with the fishes, and like Paulie Gatto the Obamas aren’t going to see him anymore. A week after Campbell’s death, more realities about the former president came to the surface.

In Tablet’s August 2 “The Obama Factor,” David Samuels interviewed Pulitzer Prize winner David Garrow, author of the massive Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. On page 538 readers learn:

Dreams from My Father was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work of historical fiction. It featured many true-to-life figures and a bevy of accurately described events that indeed had occurred, but it employed the techniques and literary license of a novel, and its most important composite character was the narrator himself. (Garrow’s emphasis)

The composite character didn’t like Garrow’s revelation. “He wants people to believe his story,” Garrow told Samuels. “For me to conclude that Dreams from My Father was historical fiction—oh God, did that infuriate him.” A reporter also told Garrow that Obama’s staffers were “terrified of people poking around Obama’s life. The whole Obama narrative is built around this narrative that Obama and David Axelrod built, and, like all stories, it’s not entirely true. So they have to be protective of the crown jewels.”

For David Samuels, the fictitious character of Dreams is responsible for “the disaster we are living through now.” The Tablet editor provides a roster of Obama officials still running White House policy to this day.

The composite character would surely like a fourth term through wife Michelle, whose books also bear the auto-hagiographical style of “Obama’s narrator” David Axelrod. A fourth term would give the Dreams author, formerly known as Barry Soetoro, the opportunity to fulfill his transformative role as national undertaker. While the election awaits, other events portend what the people might expect in 2024.

Last January, China’s spy balloon crossed the United States surveilling military bases and wasn’t shot down until it reached the east coast. Under Joe Biden, the Chinese can do pretty much anything they want, so expect more Chinese incursions in the new year.

On March 27, in the run-up to “Trans Day of Vengeance,” Audrey Hale murdered nine-year-olds Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney and Hallie Scruggs and also shot dead adults Mike Hill, Katherine Koonce and Cynthia Peak. The Biden White House failed to condemn the shooter or name the victims, and portrayed the “trans community” as “under attack.” Expect more trans murder sprees in 2024.

On August 9, the FBI shot and killed Craig Robertson a 75-year-old woodworker who had allegedly made online threats against Joe Biden. The FBI now regards anyone less than worshipful of Biden as a domestic terrorist or violent extremist. Expect more deadly violence from the FBI in 2024.

On October 7, Hamas terrorists committed the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, launching a tsunami of Jew hatred on American campuses. Harvard president Claudine Gay tries to see anti-Semitism “in context,” and gets support from the composite character as she faces charges of plagiarism. Expect more plagiarism and anti-Semitism on Ivy League campuses in 2024. There could also be more mysterious deaths like that of Tafari Campbell.

According to the police report, his case is closed “pending any future information that would warrant it being re-opened.” Investigative journalists should look into it. As David Garrow confirms, when you poke around the composite character’s life, there’s no telling what you’ll find. Happy New Year everybody.


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 2023; review
Here's to 2024! I hope and pray our Republic survives the year. But hope and prayer will probably not be enough.

I had two friends tell me tonight they would never speak to me again if I voted for President Trump. Well.....

1 posted on 12/31/2023 9:54:22 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

I hope and pray our Republican survives the Obamas.. it doesn’t look promising.

I’m sorry your “friends” won’t speak to you if you vote for PDJT. That is so very sad.

Not making a joke out of the situation, but you need to get new friends. Sigh.


2 posted on 12/31/2023 10:19:13 PM PST by Reddy (BO stinks)
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To: Rummyfan

“Last January, China’s spy balloon crossed the United States surveilling military bases and wasn’t shot down until it reached the east coast. Under Joe Biden, the Chinese can do pretty much anything they want, so expect more Chinese incursions in the new year.”

Obv it came out that it had internet access-

I’m wondering if Comcast forcing all of their customers to change passwords recently is related?


3 posted on 12/31/2023 10:42:51 PM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: Rummyfan
I had two friends tell me tonight they would never speak to me again if I voted for President Trump. Well.....

Then they are not really friends.

It's hard to deal with stuff like that when you have been friendly and considered them friends. It's betrayal.

I'm sorry for your situation,

4 posted on 01/01/2024 12:07:36 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Rummyfan

With friends like that, who needs enemies.


5 posted on 01/01/2024 2:07:34 AM PST by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: Rummyfan
Obama was pictured scraped up the day after the chef's "drowning". Lover's spat? ChappaquidDick II?
6 posted on 01/01/2024 4:27:00 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: Rummyfan

This is a good article by Billingsley.

Obummer is Beelzebub and Axelrod is one of his minions.

Tafari Campbell likely made the mistake of resisting Obummer’s advances and it cost Campbell his life.


7 posted on 01/01/2024 6:41:22 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: SharpRightTurn
I don't believe it was 'likely'. Was Tafari known to have homosexual preferences ?

Obama had all the time in the world to have had some encounters with Tafari, had that been Obama's intent. It hadn't happened in 8 years, so why now ?

My guess is that Barry and Michelle were 'away' from the house and that the 'girls' (or at least one of them) was at the house with Tafari.

I further would speculate that Tafari was playing hide the sausage with one of them, and the other called Momma and Poppa and tattled. That is more likely to have set in motion the event that led to Tafari's death.

8 posted on 01/01/2024 10:24:24 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370)
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To: Freest Republican

It wasn’t a spy balloon. It was a monitoring balloon much like the ones that students and researchers in the US would use. However, it was a new model that was larger, carried more equipment, and could be navigated by changing it’s altitude (to catch a favorable wind).

Everyone says it was owned/ran by the Chinese Govt. By the CCCP. By the Military. All TRUE. All things in Red China are owned and ran by those three, which are really just one thing.

But that doesn’t prove that this balloon was planned to go over the US and ‘spy’. We and they have satellites that can do this. What satellites can’t do is sample the ‘air’ at different elevations, for instance.

The reason this balloon was noticed was because the Chinese had lost control of the craft. Whether due to inability to communicate or failure of physical equipment used to ‘navigate’ we are not sure of. We do know they used the internet to communicate (or try to communicate) with it, but it failed to regain the ability to ‘navigate’.

The Chinese were concerned about the craft passing over the US while not under control. They notified the US. They didn’t have to, we already were monitoring it.

The problem was it interfering with aviation traffic or causing a crash. That’s why we have the FAA and their computer center. It was decided to let it go and monitor it’s position, while having the FAA route traffic past it.

It was not a big deal until the balloon had descended enough to be visible to aircraft passengers. A balloon at a much higher altitude is almost impossible for anyone to see.

But this one, out of control, became easily visible. When is got to the East Coast, it was decided to spill it because (1) it wouldn’t cause damage being over the ocean and (2) it would be out of domestic radar monitoring range heading off away from land.

The Chinese agreed and so it was spilled.

What the NEWS told us about the event is propaganda designed to cover for the WH looking like they were idiots when the real truth would have been the right thing to disclose. But they didn’t believe that the public would accept the truth. (and they were correct)

To paraphrase the Bible, In order to appear wise, they became liars and fools.


9 posted on 01/01/2024 11:04:26 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370)
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As I posted at the time, the White Hospice attempting to inflate / conflate weather balloons with the actual Chinese spy dirigible, so as to put one over on the average Democrat low-information voter was ... hilarious.

You cannot do comprehensive ground-radar penetration overhead from a low-earth orbit [LEO], even if you are at the necessary angle. But you sure as shit can do it from 60,000 feet, and map which Minuteman silos are full and which are empty.

Meanwhile, of course, it turns out that Silly Milley's Military had tracked that Chinese balloon from takeoff at the PLA balloon farm on Hainan Island and decided to permit it to ground-radar our Minuteman silos and scoop TikTok-transferred data from our Minuteman staff. And then knock it down once the packet blast to Beijing was completed.

It's time for reciprocation, and by that, I mean the tungsten rods "Hammer Of The Gods" stored in orbit, right down on the Forbidden Kingdom.

I am just done with these godless confucian communist scum who should be swimming in radioactive glass.

10 posted on 01/01/2024 12:40:25 PM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: UCANSEE2

You can verify this story?


11 posted on 01/01/2024 3:14:40 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: UCANSEE2

Thanks for taking the time.

I appreciate it.


12 posted on 01/01/2024 4:18:11 PM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: ealgeone

Which paragraph is not backed up by facts available to the general public ?

Possibly the one where China consented to shooting it down ?


13 posted on 01/06/2024 5:51:43 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370)
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