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The Lincoln Project - Just a Gaggle of Hucksters

Since its inception late last fall the circle jerk known as The Lincoln Project has raked in millions, but the bulk of the funds (about 90%) paid to enterprises owned by members or gets dispersed directly to them. This group should be known instead as the ‘’Hypocrisy Project’’, based on the facts showing that what they complain the loudest about.

Rick Wilson has been in the midst of a particularly glaring flameout. The man who loves vulgarly describing President Trump’s racism has been exposed as harboring confederate affections. His infamous Rebel Flag beer cooler has rendered that extension of his bile as now moot. But other contradictions have come to light. Wilson has been harping on Trump about his lack of tax return transparency, but that seems projection now. He currently has a massive tax lien on his home. On top of this, the man who enjoys mocking Trump over being broke is also saddled with credit card debt to the tune of tens of thousands. And Wilson is hardly the lone prevaricator.

Fellow member John Weaver, who hails from the dismal son of a mailman John Kasich campaign is especially noteworthy. As the Lincoln Project has not shied away from the disproven Russian collusion story it has just been revealed he was registered as a Russian agent in order to lobby on behalf of Russian interests. It was not a matter of digging into his past either; Weaver obtained this status last summer, long after all matters concerning Russia have been demonized for years. Weaver has also been on the frontlines of referring to Trump as a tax cheat and fraudster. And Weaver has also found himself sitting on a massive tax lien on his home as well. And just to cap it off Weaver has ironically slammed Trump over his failed business dealings. Well the NYPost has found that Weaver and his wife have a lawsuit leveled against them by a Texas mall owner over their clothing business.

Just to complete the trifecta we get the nasty pointy headed Steve Schmidt, who enjoys a preferred status at MSNBC for being a GOP political strategist, is found to be lacking in political heft. His residence is in the state of Utah, but that state has effectively delisted Schmidt from the voting rolls. He has become labeled as an ‘’Inactive voter’’ due to inactivity over the past 2 years, as well as failing to respond to communications looking to confirm his status.

The crowd of self-guilding political ‘’operatives’’ has been gradually exposed on the regular in recent weeks, and the latest has arrived via the New York Post by Reporter Ebony Bowden and her tasty expose’ on the various members of TLP, and most amusing is they are rather upset about it. How dare anyone resort to their own tactics!

The result of this recent piece has brought out the daggers from The Lincoln Project. Bowden has come forward after the release of the article to say that she has been on the receiving end of serious aggression from the members. This comedy showcase sounds like a film reviewer who can be particularly hostile towards certain movies, but then becomes incensed when anyone dares to disagree with their opinion. Only they are permitted to be harsh and nasty, but the moment anyone comes after them they turn ugly.

The funniest part, what has the members of The Lincoln Project most upset is not conjecture and accusations — it is the facts.

And there is the hilarity to be found in this grift. An outfit that pretends to be the true arbiters of conservatism subsists mostly on fawning coverage in the left-wing media, does work strictly in opposition to those on the right, has come out to endorse Joe Biden, and collects the vast majority of its funding from Democrat sympathizers. You have to admire that level of grifting. Getting rich off of doing hack work to line your pockets with the largesse of liberal hysterics…I am completely jealous for not coming up with such a blatant scam.

[NYPost]
[RedState]
[DMF Center for the Study of  Demented Proglodyte Political Theory]

~ Thank You MJA@IOTWReport for the Linkage! ~

Are We Winning Yet Mommy?

Portland 1AM......The yellow shirt, linked arm local lesbians "Wall of Moms" pretending for media consumption to protect children from the Portland Law Enforcement, having gone home for a Marlboro and their Netflix, "Peaceful Protesters" try set fire to Federal Courthouse right in front of the mayor of Portland......

Rioters have set fire to the Portland federal courthouse. #PortlandRiots #antifa pic.twitter.com/1BZrPpv2fd

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 23, 2020

After a short round of pepper balls and teargas, mayor Ted, surrounded by an extremely hostile crowd toward he administration shits himself and blames you know who for the violence......

.@tedwheeler says, “I saw nothing that provoked this response” when asked about his thoughts on federal law enforcement deploying tear gas.

The building had been set on fire and rioters were throwing explosives. #PortlandRiots pic.twitter.com/M21iOcDfLa

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 23, 2020

Portland mayor @tedwheeler is escorted to safety by his security team. Angry protesters follow and try to assault him despite his support on the front lines of the riot. They try to go inside the building but is pushed back by Wheeler’s security. pic.twitter.com/xUydADlJEv

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 23, 2020

The media is not telling the whole truth about Portland, even to the point of down playing the fact there is well coordinated violence.  No major network is on site after sunset when BLM leaders whip up the crowd with anti-police rhetoric and violent escalation begins. But it all can be seen on various live-streams on site.

~ Thank You WHATFINGER NEWS for the Linkage! ~

That Creepy Noise Coming From The Basement

I was reminded today that Joe Biden was still running for president.  Remember him?  A commuter train ridin' senator for pretty much his entire life, one who praised southern segregationist,  once used the word 'nigger' thirteen times in a committee meeting, wrote laws that made us the largest incarcerators of it's citizens in the world, then got picked to be the Obama Administrations Official Court Jester.  After that he bumbled his way through a series of circular firing squads debates with roughly 85 other would-be Democratic candidates until they all decided to drop out, the DNC gave him the 2020 nomination and he disappeared into a sunken safe-room.

Joe Biden is running probably the most unusual political campaign in modern American history, making videos in his basement that serve to remind us that he is still in fact seeking the office of commander-in-chief without Barky Obama's teleprompter skills and rivaling Al Sharpton linguistics expertise.  I'm not sure how much of it has to do with lockdown measures, which at most seem to be giving Biden's leftist handlers an excuse to push their own extreme ideas in his name.

In addition to pledging not to hold a single rally, Joe recently went three months without taking a single question from a member of the press.  The sanctimonious Dorks at the Lincoln Project have pointed out that Trump is the first president since Andrew Jackson not to own a dog. This is true. But Biden himself is also a throwback to the Age of Jackson by refusing to give public speeches or hold events, or do anything else that would give the general public the impression that he could actually handle the job of commander-in-chief. It is possible that, despite his recent protests to the contrary, he will even find an excuse not to debate Trump, as Tom Friedman and others have advised him. 

If you think about it, there is one remarkable thing about this strategy.  Like Hillary four years ago, Biden is making his opponent the focus of the election, with more or less total airtime from the media. Last time around it seems not to have occurred to anyone that at some point you have to make the case for why you are good alongside the stuff about the all-consuming badness of your opponent.

Back in early February it looked as if  DJT had emerged from three years of show-boating hearings and Democratic scandal mongering more or less unscathed, with record-low unemployment figures. But this is not the country we live in today.

According to our betters in the media, the vast majority of the American people would prefer something that seems like a return to normal. "Normal" here refers to a country in which more Americans died of drug overdoses each year than were killed during the war in Vietnam, continually rising Obamacare induced health-care costs, obesity, depression. This is true for the same reason that it does not matter that the atmosphere of chaos we have spent the last three and a half years reading about was largely a matter of media selectivity. (Ask yourself how CNN would have covered something like Fast and Furious if it had taken place during this administration, much less a tragedy like the one in Benghazi.) Under a Biden administration all of this would disappear.

It would no longer be assumed that it is unconstitutional for presidents to use leverage to secure desired foreign policy outcomes or that meeting with Russian leaders (as every American president has done for more than half a century) was treasonous. Deportations would continue and income inequality would rise. The news, though, would make for more wholesome reading again. And the Tweeter would suddenly revert back to the land of unfunny comedians and being simply what journalists do with most of their time and not the source of their reporting as well.

~ Thank You WHATFINGER NEWS for the Linkage! ~

Sure I’ve lied about everything else, but this time I’m telling the truth......

......says the boy who cried collusion. 

Democrats and the media are currently on a kick that DJT will try to steal the upcoming election, and even if he loses won’t relinquish power. Meanwhile, the notorious liar Adam Schift is crying about a "disinformation campaign against democrats."

Adam Schiff bitching about disinformation is like Michael Moore complaining about obesity; it’s his most obvious flaw. The same man who lied for years about having proof of Russian collusion and created the entire false narrative behind the unsuccessful Presidential coup attempt is now crying that there is a foreign disinformation campaign against him and the democrats in Congress. Having exhausted all his other avenues of bullshit, Shifty is now lying about lying.

Schiff sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray demanding he protect them against a thing they just made up:

"We write to request that the Federal Bureau of Investigation provide a defensive counterintelligence briefing to all members of the House of Representatives and the Senate regarding foreign efforts to interfere with the 2020 U.S. presidential election. 

We are gravely concerned, in particular, that Congress appears to be the target of a concerted foreign interference campaign, which seeks to launder and amplify disinformation in order to influence congressional activity, public debate, and the presidential election in November. 

Given the seriousness and specificity of these threats, as members of congressional leadership and the congressional intelligence committees we believe it is imperative that the FBI provide a classified defensive briefing to all Members of Congress and that the briefing draw on all-source intelligence information and analysis, consistent with due regard for the protection of sensitive intelligence sources and methods."

The letter was signed by Schiff, Nancy Peglosi, Chuck Schumer, and Mark Warner. It also demands that the FBI provide this briefing before the August recess or else.

First off, this looks like Schiff and company are demanding that the FBI pony up some information he can conjure up a interference/collusion twist and leak to the NYT and friends. It doesn’t have anything to do with foreign interference but rather, controlling the narrative. Democrats are the single biggest source of disinformation and the liberal media propaganda machine are the ones who force-feed the bullshit to the American public no questions ask.

Secondly, how the hell does Schiff know about this foreign disinformation campaign when apparently the U.S. Intelligence Services and the FBI don’t?  Yes, he’s the head of the House Intelligence Committee, but he gets information from the Intelligence Community.  This letter comes off like Schiff knows things that the FBI doesn’t, which means he’s once again trying to plant some kind of lie in the media undermine DJT and his administration.

Instead bowing to Schiff’s demand for a briefing on his make-believe foreign disinformation campaign, it would be nice if the FBI actually held Shifty accountable for the real disinformation campaign he’s been engaged in against a President for the last almost 4 years. This scumbag has lied about everything, sometimes under oath, and should be tossed in a federal pen.

[Def-Con]
[intelligence.house.gov]

A Good Monday Morning

Kamala Gets a Reverse Michael Jackson

It appears that the Voodoo Queen had some work done, and had her nose widened to look less Caucasian. This tells Diogenes two things. 1) That she is Joe's V.P. pick and 2) that she already knows it.
 

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Karen Demands the Use of Her Name as a Derogatory Meme be Stopped Immediately

A Middle Finger News Op-ed by.......Karen

OK, so I live in lovely Carmel Valley, so what. Maybe you saw Big Little Lies, set in nearby Monterey. Yeah, I have it pretty good. At least, I had it pretty good. Until this damn Karen meme came around.

My name is Karen.  I am not a privileged white female. I’m a self made real estate investor. Well, I did have a small loan of less than a million dollars from my parents to get me started in the business of owning fabulous real estate in and around Carmel Valley. Well, it wasn’t so much a loan as it was a trust fund. But do you have any idea what a pain in the ass these trusts are to deal with? Why couldn’t my parents have just given me the million dollars straight out? I don’t know, something about taxes, I guess.

Anyhow, the point is, I’m embarrassed to be called Karen now.

I mean, what does this meme signify — everything I hate: white supremacy, entitlement, and basic bitchiness. I am not that. I don’t think the white race is superior. Nor do I think I’m entitled to anything — except my name.

What gives these memists the right to appropriate my lovely name? Were real women named Karen consulted in this matter? Did anybody bother to inform us that we might want to file some papers for a name change as the shit is going to come down soon? That would have been nice to know.

Now every time I introduce myself to a client or a colleague, they get a strange look of condescension in their eyes. “Nice to meet you....Karen.” they say, emphasizing the “cunty” part of the word Kuh-aren. I guess that’s what the Karen meme really signifies, isn’t it — cuntiness? I happen to be one of the least cunty people you will ever meet, ladies and gentlemen. I do spiritual work at the yoga center in town. I chant. I went on a retreat once and didn’t speak for five whole days. I drive a Tesla. Alright, yes, it is the expensive one. But I’m doing my part to save the planet.

Why must my name be associated with cuntiness? And how long will this Karen meme last, do you think? I mean, memes don’t last forever. I remember one meme, about a decade ago — the Sad Keanu meme. Who remembers that any more?

I do not have the “can I speak to the manager” haircut.  Any more. I mean, it is uncanny that the predecessor to the Karen meme had a haircut fairly similar to my own: Yeah, it was pretty great, I have to admit. That haircut made me feel powerful.

But in the end, I decided to go for sexy over powerful. This is the haircut I have now:

That’s right, I’m not fucking around any more. Me and a bunch of other Karen’s are pretty pissed and we are going to start breaking things.

Hell yeah, I was around when punk rock was a thing. True, I was listening to disco but I got some Sex Pistol in me, bitches. You really want a few thousand angry Karen’s burning down your local Target?

Didn’t think so.

So how ‘bout you just cut it out with the Karen memes ‘kay? There are plenty of other cunty sounding middle-aged female names you can use. Trudy, for instance. That sounds pretty stuck up and middle-aged.  Or how about Nancy? Or Pam? Why does it have to be Karen? Huh? Alright, that’s it. I’m calling 911.

“Yes, my name is Karen and I’m being attacked by the internet! Can you please make it stop? Thank you!”

Alright, internet, the cops are coming to arrest you because I told them to. And they listen to me. Know why? Cause I am a Karen! That’s right, take back the word! I am a Karen, hell yeah! A Karen named Karen.

You got a problem with that?

Didn’t think so…

~ Thank You MJA@IOTWReport for the Linkage! ~

"When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead"

According to the Smithsonian NMAAHC, the scourge of white culture is defined by independence, rational thought, hard work, respect for authority and politeness.

[sarc]

NOTICE TO ALL THE COMRADES FROM THE MAAHC CENTRAL COMMITTEE

Your Block Captain and Friendly Neighborhood Rectification Committee will be visiting to make sure you have read the MAAHC instructions and to test you out by asking you to prove that your children do not have their own rooms, that you are not teaching them to be objective and engage in rational thought, that you urge them never to delay gratification. You may also be interrogated as to why you even have children, if you do, in any setting remotely resembling a "nuclear family." 

As to any of you who in your manner of speech show a tendency to "quantitative emphasis," the Committee may need to bring you in for further "reparative justice." 

Oh, and on that rule about how Respecting Authority is also a sign of White Culture, that does NOT apply to the Block Captain and the Friendly Neighborhood Rectification Committee. Don't say we didn't warn you.

[/sarc]

For the record, I consider it racist to assign the value of hard work to white people and leave black people on the other side (exactly where the traditional stereotype puts them). If you look closely at the Smithsonian project, it is probably one of the most racist, anti-black screeds that I have ever seen. The assumption when reading is that blacks are the reverse of all these characteristics.

[Title Quote from Jefferson Airplane's 'White Rabbit']