Biden Administration Grants a Huge Contract to the Consulting Firm Whose Employee Stole and Leaked Trump's Tax Information

Paul Sperry:

The Internal Revenue Service recently awarded a lucrative contract to help modernize its computer databases to the same Washington firm, Booz Allen Hamilton, that employed the man who pleaded guilty last week to stealing and leaking thousands of private tax returns of wealthy Americans, including former President Trump, according to records reviewed by RealClearInvestigations.
The massive IRS theft is the third major breach of confidential and classified government information by Booz Allen contractors over the last decade -- including Edward Snowden's 2013 leak exposing the National Security Agency's worldwide anti-terror surveillance program.
Cyber-thief Charles "Chaz" Littlejohn was working on an IRS contract for Booz Allen in 2018 when he stole more than two decades of Trump's personal tax records from IRS computers. He later leaked them to the New York Times, which published negative stories on Trump's long-sought returns several weeks before the 2020 election, which Trump narrowly lost in a handful of battleground states.
After the election, Littlejohn leaked a trove of sensitive IRS data on Elon Musk, Michael Bloomberg and other billionaires -- including major conservative donors -- to ProPublica. The left-leaning news site used them to write a series, "The Secret IRS Files," about how the rich use loopholes and tricks to avoid paying taxes. Congressional Democrats cited the series in their push for higher taxes on the wealthy.

Trump lawyer Alina Habba said she suspects Littlejohn was an operative in a broader political conspiracy to sabotage the former president before the 2020 election.
"What Mr. Littlejohn did, I do not believe he did alone," she said last week at the Washington courthouse where he pleaded guilty. Habba added that the leak probably "cost my client thousands of votes and was all by design."
A Democrat donor, Littlejohn struck a deal with federal prosecutors in which he copped to a single count of disclosing tax information without authorization. Though facing a maximum of five years, his plea deal calls for an estimated range of eight to 14 months when he is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 29.

Meanwhile Trump is facing four separate prosecutions and 60 different charges.

"That looked more like a Hunter Biden plea deal," Habba said. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) agreed, saying Littlejohn is getting a "slap on the wrist."
The most profitable government contractor in the world, Booz Allen has been connected to a number of high-profile Democrats over the years, including former employee James Clapper, who served as President Obama's intelligence czar. Clapper was involved in an intelligence community operation just weeks before the 2020 election to suppress information about Biden foreign influence-peddling found on his son's laptop.
At least two Obama administration alumni sit on Booz Allen's board. President Clinton's IRS commissioner also holds a seat. In the 2020 election cycle, federal records show Booz Allen contributed a total of $238,776 to Joe Biden versus $85,657 to Trump. The company also gave almost four times more money to the Democratic National Committee than to the Repubican National Committee.

Federal investigators were closing in on the 38-year-old Littlejohn this summer when the Biden administration decided to rehire his former employer, Booz Allen, through a contract with a ceiling value of $2.6 billion to help overhaul the IRS' IT operations.
The massive new IRS contract may explain why the Biden administration won't identify Littlejohn's employer by name in court papers and press releases about the case.

Unrelated: Uh-oh.

#BREAKING: President Joe Biden interrupts his speech, saying he needs to head to the situation room, and he states, “I have to go to the situation room. There’s an issue I need to deal with.”pic.twitter.com/U5AFgKce0Y
— The Patriot Oasis (@ThePatriotOasis) October 23, 2023

The below is completely unverified. I'm just putting it up with zero fact-checking because that is what the New York Times tells me we should do.

🔸The first image of the massive explosion at the American terrorist army base in Syria's al-Omar oil field.

🔸Biden left his speech halfway through to address an urgent issue.

🔸A few minutes ago, 3 US military bases in Iraq and Syria were attacked by unknown groups#Gaza pic.twitter.com/swbcQR4cJ1
— davood.j (@Spring_of_Adven) October 23, 2023

Caution, I see some photos are being questioned. There was an attack on the same oil fields last year and some photos and videos are being presented as if they show the fresh attacks.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:20 PM

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1 Hi!

Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist at October 23, 2023 05:20 PM (Vu7A1)

2 Lo!

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at October 23, 2023 05:22 PM (DTX3h)

3 Situation room = the toilet.

Posted by: Glenn John at October 23, 2023 05:22 PM (RilAR)

4 Well at least Joe can answer the 5pm phone call.

Posted by: Bete at October 23, 2023 05:23 PM (KuG1T)

5 President Joe Biden interrupts his speech, saying he needs to head to the situation room, and he states, “I have to go to the situation room. There’s an issue I need to deal with.”
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And we can all guess what that "situation" was.

Posted by: Axeman at October 23, 2023 05:23 PM (krQz2)

6 These motherfuckers are looking to sacrifice some troops to drag us into another Forever Conflict.

Posted by: garrett at October 23, 2023 05:23 PM (zDvF6)

7 It's funny because he called an "issue".

Posted by: Axeman at October 23, 2023 05:23 PM (krQz2)

8 how the rich use loopholes and tricks to avoid paying taxes

Or, the way the laws are written. I would if I had money.

Posted by: huerfano at October 23, 2023 05:24 PM (Q4KYm)

9 Well at least Joe can answer the 5pm phone call.

Posted by: Bete at October 23, 2023 05:23 PM (KuG1T)
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"Hello, Joe. It's Nature."

Posted by: Axeman at October 23, 2023 05:24 PM (krQz2)

10 6 But they can't use the most modern philosophy troops, cause they will run when their pronouns aren't respected.

Posted by: Bete at October 23, 2023 05:24 PM (KuG1T)

11 >>It's funny because he called an "issue".

It's like a Friday Document Dump.

But on Monday.

And. In his pants.

Posted by: garrett at October 23, 2023 05:24 PM (zDvF6)

12 Why would they bother to hide it?

It isn't like there are going to be any consequences.

I have been saying for a while, they are rubbing our noses in it. It helps diminish our morale that they can do that to us and we can do NOTHING in return.

Posted by: blaster at October 23, 2023 05:25 PM (dWjpk)

13 hiya

Posted by: JT at October 23, 2023 05:25 PM (T4tVD)

14 They said if I voted for Trump we would get WWIII and it looks like they were right.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 23, 2023 05:26 PM (ZLI7S)

15 Joe is calling Israle right now, saying they should disarm and that will make the jihadies less jihadie.

Posted by: Bete at October 23, 2023 05:26 PM (KuG1T)

16 Lol

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 23, 2023 05:26 PM (5PcUG)

17 I read a short story by Stephen Baxter last night where squid are genetically engineered to be smarter so they can operate in space. They launch a female squid who is pregnant (unknown to the scientists) to an asteroid full of organics and water. The squid's progeny end up colonizing the solar system as humanity dies out.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 23, 2023 05:18 PM (YIVH2)

That already happened happened once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away...

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 23, 2023 05:26 PM (gmo/4)

18 "American terrorist army base"

Who is this guy?

Posted by: Mark1971 at October 23, 2023 05:26 PM (xPl2J)

19 They can't wait for war.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 23, 2023 05:26 PM (R4t5M)

20 Posted by: JackStraw at October 23, 2023 05:26 PM (ZLI7S)

Pure madness he brought upon us.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 23, 2023 05:26 PM (5PcUG)

21 When you look at WWI you think wow this was madness everyone just rushed into war without really thinking about it. How could that happen?

Now I know. To me it seems inevitable that we are going to get dragged into war, and no one is even seriously debating how we can avoid it.

Posted by: blaster at October 23, 2023 05:27 PM (dWjpk)

22 Payback reward

Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2023 05:27 PM (fwDg9)

23 From last thread:
The squid's progeny end up colonizing the solar system as humanity dies out.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 23, 2023 05:18 PM (YIVH2)

Yeah, I think I read that or something similar. A scientist was talking/communicating with an octopus (squid?), and stuff then happened. I have fuzzy memories of that.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 23, 2023 05:27 PM (ufFY8)

24 Oil fields, smoil fields.

Also, glad to hear we still have American boots on the ground in Syria, doing the important work of securing Syria's oil fields.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 23, 2023 05:27 PM (mj0Qp)

25
Caution, I see some photos are being questioned. There was an attack on the same oil fields last year and some photos and videos are being presented as if they show the fresh attacks.

If you're not careful you'll start some precedent and we'll have to begin believing the MSM for the first time in decades.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 23, 2023 05:27 PM (enJYY)

26 >>They can't wait for war.

Well.
They already positioned themselves in the Market...

can't blame them.

Posted by: garrett at October 23, 2023 05:28 PM (zDvF6)

27 21 When you look at WWI you think wow this was madness everyone just rushed into war without really thinking about it. How could that happen?

Now I know. To me it seems inevitable that we are going to get dragged into war, and no one is even seriously debating how we can avoid it.
Posted by: blaster at October 23, 2023 05:27 PM (dWjpk)

Agreed.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 23, 2023 05:28 PM (mj0Qp)

28 Joe's Boom-boom Room.

Posted by: Axeman at October 23, 2023 05:28 PM (krQz2)

29 You asked for it, ace,

https://tinyurl.com/bde86kmn

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan at October 23, 2023 05:28 PM (42IOy)

30 Weak men invite attacks.

Posted by: Archer at October 23, 2023 05:28 PM (gmo/4)

31 IT'S WORLD WAR!

I'M HAVING AN ORGASM!

Posted by: Miss Lindsey! at October 23, 2023 05:28 PM (2tUFv)

32 Payback reward
Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2023 05:27 PM (fwDg9)
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70 grand. What do I win?

Posted by: Axeman at October 23, 2023 05:29 PM (krQz2)

33 I got an email today from a colleague in The Balkans telling me not to even TRY to get there at the present moment, by any airline. He told me to, I quote, 'Stay Home'.

I like the videos of the octopii opening jars, those are cool!

Posted by: LenNeal at October 23, 2023 05:29 PM (/BBNv)

34 The first image of the massive explosion at the American terrorist army base

Huh?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2023 05:29 PM (RSbhh)

35 From the Last Thread
Who can catch more Cabs A guy Dressed as a Nazi or a Black man Anthony Cumia wearing a Nazi Helmet vs Patrice O’Neal
https://tinyurl.com/nzfcsyt4

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 23, 2023 05:30 PM (dKiJG)

36 Would it be wrong to celebrate after Russia/Iran vaporizes Dee Cee?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 23, 2023 05:30 PM (l10hq)

37 President Joe Biden interrupts his speech, saying he needs to head to the situation room, and he states, “I have to go to the situation room. There’s an issue I need to deal with.”
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And we can all guess what that "situation" was.
Posted by: Axeman at October 23, 2023 05:23 PM (krQz2)

The Hunter's Chinese check bounced?

Posted by: LASue at October 23, 2023 05:30 PM (YDB6U)

38 Biden left an event as he was needed in the White House's Situation room. Shortly after two hostages were released in Gaza, Biden quickly left an event as he was needed in the White House’s Situation room. The meeting in the Situation room is likely about the hostages’ release.

The hostages are not being released, but US forces are targeted by attack drones. Not what I was hoping for!

You mean he didn't finish reading "My Pet Goat" while looking like a deer in the headlights? Thank gods for Joe Biden, here and now.

Deal fell through over fuel demand. the release of 50 hostages holding dual citizenship hit a snag Monday over the issue of fuel deliveries into the Gaza Strip, which Israel opposes...Gaza hospitals are also struggling to keep generators running to power life-saving medical equipment and incubators for premature babies.

However, Israel feels certain that the fuel will be commandeered by Hamas to use for military purposes, as Israel prepares to invade the territory and eliminate the terror group.

We’re now told the Sit Room session Biden alluded to was a regularly scheduled update on Israel and Gaza.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 23, 2023 05:31 PM (NCgXW)

39 You asked for it Nurse!

https://tinyurl.com/5f4xc2bc

Posted by: LenNeal at October 23, 2023 05:31 PM (/BBNv)

40 31 In the middle of John McCain funeral proceedings? Then again, it is what he would have wanted.

Posted by: Bete at October 23, 2023 05:31 PM (KuG1T)

41 8 how the rich use loopholes and tricks to avoid paying taxes

Or, the way the laws are written. I would if I had money.
Posted by: huerfano at October 23, 2023 05:24 PM (Q4KYm)

Right. They are neither loopholes nor tricks.

Wealthy people who own their own companies structure their income so that they have very little of it. Through various legal systems the IRS and our congresscritters set up. Which cannot be removed without massively revamping our entire tax code, and likely fucking over a lot of businesses, non profits, and upper middle class people.

Which ... fine. But no one can ever give specifics on what they want to change, or if they do, it makes no fucking sense.

Like taxing people like Elon Musk for unrealized gains. How does that work? TSLA goes up, Musk has to dump shares to pay billions in taxes, it goes down, he has billions in losses to off-set any gains he ever makes?

That system would encourage rich people to just go the bill gates route -- "donate" your shares to a Clinton Family Foundation-esque "charity" you run.

Massive tax write off AND you still get to control the money. And you get good press.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 23, 2023 05:31 PM (mj0Qp)

42 Hot news @TheNewsTrending 31m
The US Central Command admits that their bases in southwestern Syria were attacked by drones.
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How the Harvard Students Union Association and Stephen Colbert got to Syria is unknown.

OSINTdefender @sentdefender 34m
Amazing Work by @AuroraIntel on already Discovering the Original of at least 2 of these Images.

https://tinyurl.com/ytxdrxh2
Nitter thread about old images being used.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 23, 2023 05:31 PM (krqg6)

43 Mein fuhrer, I can valk!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at October 23, 2023 05:31 PM (nnp+f)

44 >>Caution, I see some photos are being questioned. There was an attack on the same oil fields last year and some photos and videos are being presented as if they show the fresh attacks.

Lot of that going on the last few years. I figure we'll see explosions from Christopher Nolan films spread around as war footage eventually.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at October 23, 2023 05:31 PM (/QIWP)

45 Norms restored?

Posted by: Archer at October 23, 2023 05:32 PM (gmo/4)

46 You mean he didn't finish reading "My Pet Goat" while looking like a deer in the headlights? Thank gods for Joe Biden, here and now.
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...

yeah

...

Commercial planes flown into private property vs. a military style attack on a military installation...

They compare. (Make otay sign)

Posted by: Axeman at October 23, 2023 05:32 PM (krQz2)

47 So they are gonna release hostages in small groups her and there to keep the Israelis' from going into gaza ?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 23, 2023 05:33 PM (bs+z0)

48 Alarming if true. Could be Iranian backed groups.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at October 23, 2023 05:33 PM (eYoxG)

49 Abolish The Income Tax.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 23, 2023 05:33 PM (R/m4+)

50 >>Norms restored?

Considering we've been at war somewhere on the globe for most of the last couple decades, pretty much.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 23, 2023 05:35 PM (ZLI7S)

51 Abolish The Income Tax.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 23, 2023 05:33 PM (R/m4+)

If we could abolish automatic withholding, the income tax would die from starvation.

Posted by: Archer at October 23, 2023 05:35 PM (gmo/4)

52
You know who I blame?

I blame the octopuses!!!

Damn mollusks always wrapping their filthy ,dripping tentacles around fish and rocks and
banks and oil companies and barber shops.

Making their damn sexy hentai porn!!!

Well, I say fie! Fie on you octopuses!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 23, 2023 05:35 PM (QzZeQ)

53 49 Abolish The Income Tax.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 23, 2023 05:33 PM (R/m4+)

Replace with what?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at October 23, 2023 05:35 PM (8sMut)

54 5 President Joe Biden interrupts his speech, saying he needs to head to the situation room, and he states, “I have to go to the situation room. There’s an issue I need to deal with.”

Fumy.. I thought national security issues were not supposed to be broadcast.. I guess anything that goes into Joes decrepit brain comes out of his stupid mouth

Posted by: It's me donna at October 23, 2023 05:35 PM (bs+z0)

55 Shits getting real

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 23, 2023 05:35 PM (kK343)

56 He interrupts speech to go to situation roo.?

Effort to make him look like he's involved.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at October 23, 2023 05:35 PM (FxH7T)

57 Norms restored?

Posted by: Archer at October 23, 2023 05:32 PM (gmo/4)
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Just like the norms of publishing headshots of our elite covert military squads.

Trump didn't do that. Now we have a president who will.

Posted by: Axeman at October 23, 2023 05:36 PM (krQz2)

58 5 President Joe Biden interrupts his speech, saying he needs to head to the situation room, and he states, “I have to go to the situation room. There’s an issue I need to deal with.”
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And we can all guess what that "situation" was.

Posted by: Axeman at October 23, 2023 05:23 PM (krQz2)
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Well, his Depends was full and starting to smell. Maybe some dribbled down to his socks and shoes.

Posted by: Ciampino - Squelchy shoes at October 23, 2023 05:36 PM (qfLjt)

59 Quick! I've got to use the situation room!

Posted by: President Charlie Foxtrot at October 23, 2023 05:37 PM (krQz2)

60 ...by Booz Allen...

Well that explains it; they were just drunk when it happened. Sorry boss.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 23, 2023 05:37 PM (ynpvh)

61 53 49 Abolish The Income Tax.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 23, 2023 05:33 PM (R/m4+)

Replace with what?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at October 23, 2023 05:35 PM (8sMut)

Could do a sales tax. Or cut spending massively, there was a time when there wasn't an income tax.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at October 23, 2023 05:37 PM (eYoxG)

62 So, the IRS beats its employees over the head and shoulders (not literally) with the dangers of UNAX - unauthorized access to taxpayer information. They warn you again and again and again that this leads to lengthy federal prison terms and so forth.

Maybe that, like so much in a country like the United States that does NOTHING but incessantly lie, lie and lie again ("This is a country which is all about the rule of law!!!"), that depends on the circumstance?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at October 23, 2023 05:38 PM (8sMut)

63 We are always the first to suffer

Posted by: Incubator babies at October 23, 2023 05:38 PM (nmnu+)

64 Think Joe uses the cone of silence in the situation room?

Posted by: Archer at October 23, 2023 05:39 PM (gmo/4)

65
I think the main question we should be asking is-

How much is Joe Biden gonna pay the people who attacked the American bases?

That's his one move: Throw money at it. Whether friend or enemy. Give them billions in American taxpayer money, so's Senile Joe can look like a Big Pimp Daddy and all.

And collect his 10%.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 23, 2023 05:39 PM (QzZeQ)

66 Biden calls the bathroom the "Situation Room" and his "issue" was a packed Depends.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at October 23, 2023 05:39 PM (KVlfh)

67 64 Think Joe uses the cone of silence in the situation room?
Posted by: Archer at October 23, 2023 05:39 PM (gmo/4)

They would be smart to not include him

Posted by: It's me donna at October 23, 2023 05:40 PM (bs+z0)

68 Joe Truzman @JoeTruzman 2h
Hamas says it has released two hostages. The group also says the hostages were released due to humanitarian reasons. While this may sound like a credible excuse, it's not. It's simply a tactic to create international pressure on Israel to delay a ground incursion into Gaza.

Mahmoud Gamal @mahmouedgamal44 31m
The first footage of the two Israeli elderly women who were held captive in Gaza after arriving in Egypt through Rafah border crossing.

Egypt has played key role in negotiations that led to the release of two Israeli captives. [shows still of an old woman in a hospital corridor on a gurney, with IV etc,]

Breaking911 @Breaking911 2h
BREAKING: Hamas says it has released 2 Israeli hostages, Nurit Yitzhak and Yochved Lifshitz

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 23, 2023 05:40 PM (krqg6)

69 I believe that is the same oilfield that our special forces and Marine artillery defended and kicked the crap out of Wagner troops. Am I correct?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 23, 2023 05:40 PM (PeRgH)

70 There's a lot of asking for it going on in this thread.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at October 23, 2023 05:40 PM (hrDJ1)

71 64 Think Joe uses the cone of silence in the situation room?

Posted by: Archer at October 23, 2023 05:39 PM (gmo/4)

Yes.

https://is.gd/TPcpGL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 23, 2023 05:41 PM (ynpvh)

72 The only explosions were in Biden's pants.

Posted by: 29Victor at October 23, 2023 05:41 PM (M+gBW)

73 Mein fuhrer, I can valk!
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Speaking of ad-libs by great comic actors.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 23, 2023 05:41 PM (krqg6)

74 68 Joe Truzman @JoeTruzman 2h
Hamas says it has released two hostages. The group also says the hostages were released due to humanitarian reasons. While this may sound like a credible excuse, it's not. It's simply a tactic to create international pressure on Israel to delay a ground incursion into Gaza.

It's exactly what they are doing

Posted by: It's me donna at October 23, 2023 05:41 PM (bs+z0)

75 72 The only explosions were in Biden's pants.

Posted by: 29Victor at October 23, 2023 05:41 PM (M+gBW)

Keep away from open flame...
Him and Fettermonster.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 23, 2023 05:41 PM (ynpvh)

76 Is the Pizza for the IDF site still in operation?

'Cause +300,000 IDF troopies massing on the "GO" line sure would need a LOT of pizza!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at October 23, 2023 05:42 PM (e6UQI)

77 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at October 23, 2023 05:37 PM (eYoxG)

Consumption tax. With exceptions to food, not including restaurants, clothes and energy.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 23, 2023 05:42 PM (5PcUG)

78 See THIS is why I usually wait a few days or a week to do open source. It was reported here that the knifing of that woman in Detroit was an anti-Semitic attack and it likely was, maybe, but since Rashida Tlaib and Randi Weingarten got The Sadz over the whole stabby-stabby business, seems the victim was in heavy with a CIA MidEast asset, her Rep Elissa Slotnik.
I note since the ADL (The Arab Defense League) urges that nobody jump to judgment about this Bloody Murder, we should assume it was what? Some random White Supremacist in Downtown Detroit???
The Obit, and now they are scrubbing it, now claiming she got butchered due to her Pro-Palestinian advocacy!
https://tinyurl.com/yv8uf5ch

Also she was a gun-grabbing, anti-individual rights piece of shit.

Posted by: LenNeal at October 23, 2023 05:42 PM (/BBNv)

79 Just like the norms of publishing headshots of our elite covert military squads.

I put the ultimate blame on the unit commander. Idiot. No one should ever have been allowed near that team with any type of recording electronic devices. An officer's first duty is to protect his men as bet he can.

Posted by: Archer at October 23, 2023 05:42 PM (gmo/4)

80 "Biden left his speech halfway through to address an urgent issue."

President Pantload

Posted by: fd at October 23, 2023 05:43 PM (vFG9F)

81 Posted by: LenNeal at October 23, 2023 05:42 PM (/BBNv)

Yessir.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 23, 2023 05:43 PM (5PcUG)

82 77 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at October 23, 2023 05:37 PM (eYoxG)

Consumption tax. With exceptions to food, not including restaurants, clothes and energy.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 23, 2023 05:42 PM (5PcUG)

At roughly 20%, tax revenues should be roughly the same % of gdp as the income tax. Make a lot of other economic transactions and activity more efficient and practical too.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at October 23, 2023 05:44 PM (eYoxG)

83 Commercial planes flown into private property vs. a military style attack on a military installation...

And until the second plane, there was little reason to think it was anything but a horrible accident.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at October 23, 2023 05:44 PM (KVlfh)

84 Posted by: Archer at October 23, 2023 05:42 PM (gmo/4)
The unit commander and the Prez are on the same team.

Kill Americans.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 23, 2023 05:44 PM (5PcUG)

85 Breaking911 @Breaking911 26m
BIDEN: "I'm not introducing me — Mark is — I forgot, Mark. I went straight to the podium."

https://tinyurl.com/4b335kwx
19 seconds; forgetting simple instructions although he doesn't sound too demented at least [faint praise].

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 23, 2023 05:44 PM (krqg6)

86 61 53 49 Abolish The Income Tax.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 23, 2023 05:33 PM (R/m4+)

Replace with what?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at October 23, 2023 05:35 PM (8sMut)

Could do a sales tax. Or cut spending massively, there was a time when there wasn't an income tax.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at October 23, 2023 05:37 PM (eYoxG)

————

Replace it (actually all taxes) with a financial transaction tax.

The criminals on Wall Street will complain about it, but a simple 0.5% tax on financial transactions will cover all government spending in the USA.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 23, 2023 05:44 PM (kK343)

87 Biden is just the right man for this situation.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 23, 2023 05:44 PM (RIvkX)

88 Said nobody, ever.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 23, 2023 05:45 PM (RIvkX)

89 No insects or lizard people were harmed in this news production.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at October 23, 2023 05:45 PM (xfpbL)

90 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at October 23, 2023 05:44 PM (eYoxG)
Glad you did the numbers game for me.

Either a flat or consumption.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 23, 2023 05:45 PM (5PcUG)

91 >>President Pantload
___

"When you're sliding into first and your pants are 'bout to burst ..."

Posted by: Frasier Crane at October 23, 2023 05:45 PM (bNf8H)

92 Think Joe uses the cone of silence in the situation room?
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WHAT?!?!?!

Posted by: joey biden at October 23, 2023 05:46 PM (krqg6)

93 Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 23, 2023 05:44 PM (kK343)

Wouldn’t that hurt people paying bills or am I fucking retarded?

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 23, 2023 05:46 PM (5PcUG)

94 Posted by: LenNeal at October 23, 2023 05:42 PM (/BBNv)
Yessir.
Posted by: thathalfrican - '

Or, it may have been a random Black Guy. It is Detroit.

Posted by: LenNeal isn't really sure himself. at October 23, 2023 05:46 PM (/BBNv)

95 >>I put the ultimate blame on the unit commander.

Pretty sure that Joe Biden is higher on the Flow Chart than their Unit Cmdr.

Posted by: garrett at October 23, 2023 05:47 PM (zDvF6)

96 Dictators do not fear the law or the people.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 23, 2023 05:48 PM (17s+e)

97 Either a flat or consumption.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 23, 2023 05:45 PM (5PcUG)

Flat 10%. Simplified to such a degree we have an IRS in a forgotten corner office of Treasury that is staffed by maybe 100 people.

You DO NOT WANT A SALES TAX, especially given the Congress's need to endlessly tinker. (Unless the idea of paying a 1000% federal sales tax for guns and ammo appeals to you. You know, the money will go into a fund to help curb "gun violence" and to enhance "gun safety". That's just ONE example.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at October 23, 2023 05:48 PM (8sMut)

98 You know, this did not hit me until *right now*.

They tell you not to confuse Hamas and the Palestinians, right?

But when only Hamas struck, so many on the left were quick to say it was about "decolonization", so ... ostensibly a general Palestinian cause.

Like so many things in this emerging Orwellian world, only they're allowed to associate two concepts and they'll tell you what concepts are okay to associate.

Posted by: Axeman at October 23, 2023 05:48 PM (krQz2)

99 Situation Hershey's squirts

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 23, 2023 05:48 PM (NtVYv)

100 Ugh, Booze Allen, hate those guys. In my sphere the gov organizations like to outsource their thinking to BAH.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at October 23, 2023 05:49 PM (hrDJ1)

101 Noam Blum
@neontaster
1h

To liberal/progressive Jews who currently feel isolated I say this: You have a choice. You can chose to step out of your comfort zone, break friendships, be vocally not ok with what you see, or you can keep living with this feeling you have now forever. There is no third option.

You're not going to "wait this out." In six months or a year when everyone has moved on to the election or whatever else will be happening - those people will still be there beside you and will still believe the things they said now. And the rest of us won't let anyone forget it.

Stupid typo aside, this is your Come to Moses moment. I have no desire to engage in I told you sos and what took you so longs, but telling your sob story to a reporter ain't gonna cut it no more. Show me what you intend to DO about it.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 23, 2023 05:49 PM (NpAcC)

102 >>Flat 10%. Simplified to such a degree we have an IRS in a forgotten corner office of Treasury that is staffed by maybe 100 people.

NO.
The IRS should stay as staffed and turned around to audit and police Federal Spending of the aforementioned 10%.

Posted by: garrett at October 23, 2023 05:50 PM (zDvF6)

103 Also:

Israel War Room @IsraelWarRoom 2h
#BREAKING: Nurit Cooper, 79, and Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, both from Kibbutz Nir Oz, have been released from Gaza into Egypt. Both of their husbands are still believed to be held captive by Hamas

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 23, 2023 05:50 PM (krqg6)

104
Replace it (actually all taxes) with a financial transaction tax.

The criminals on Wall Street will complain about it, but a simple 0.5% tax on financial transactions will cover all government spending in the USA.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 23, 2023 05:44 PM (kK343)

The notion that you could generate 17% of GDP in taxes on the sale and purchase of assets seems a little silly, they wouldn't transact that much with such a tax.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at October 23, 2023 05:50 PM (eYoxG)

105 You know, this did not hit me until *right now*.

They tell you not to confuse Hamas and the Palestinians, right?

But when only Hamas struck, so many on the left were quick to say it was about "decolonization", so ... ostensibly a general Palestinian cause.

Like so many things in this emerging Orwellian world, only they're allowed to associate two concepts and they'll tell you what concepts are okay to associate.

Everything the left says about terrorism is intended to prevent anything being done to the terrorists, terrorist infrastructure, and terrorist financers. Because they like what terrorists do.

They don't put Che on t-shirts because he was photogenic.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at October 23, 2023 05:50 PM (KVlfh)

106 >>Situation Hershey's squirts
_____
Operation Rump Mess

Posted by: Frasier Crane at October 23, 2023 05:50 PM (bNf8H)

107 Wouldn’t that hurt people paying bills or am I fucking retarded?
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 23, 2023 05:46 PM (5PcUG)

————

For the most part individuals would never pay higher than 0.5% of income. Again this replaced all other taxes.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 23, 2023 05:51 PM (kK343)

108 Gotta correct you, Ace. It's not stealing if someone gives it to you.
This Booz Allen guy no more stole this info than Dem operatives "stole" info on Repub candidates' military files. Let's place the blame where it belongs - on the worthless hacks in government employ.

Posted by: Wally at October 23, 2023 05:51 PM (hqVaF)

109 To liberal/progressive Jews who currently feel isolated I say this: You have a choice. You can chose to step out of your comfort zone, break friendships, be vocally not ok with what you see, or you can keep living with this feeling you have now forever. There is no third option.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 23, 2023 05:49 PM (NpAcC)
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But then they would have to change religions... away from Marxism.

Posted by: Axeman at October 23, 2023 05:51 PM (krQz2)

110 I have issues that must be dealt with many tissues. Then it's puddin time!!

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 23, 2023 05:51 PM (17s+e)

111 Could do a sales tax. Or cut spending massively, there was a time when there wasn't an income tax.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at October 23, 2023 05:37 PM (eYoxG)

Yeah, and have Congress tinker with it to the point where you pay nothing for some items and 1000% for others. Screw that.

There was a time when we had no income tax but I'm not big on tariffs either. Better to shrink government, restrict government to a flat 10% income tax regardless of income, and force Congress to budget the way the rest of us peons and businesses must do.

Also, pay down the debt and reduce interest payments.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at October 23, 2023 05:52 PM (8sMut)

112 No mean tweets, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at October 23, 2023 05:53 PM (A4UDY)

113 Wouldn’t that hurt people paying bills or am I fucking retarded?
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One

Oh no, you're fucking retarded.

Posted by: LenNeal isn't big on math at October 23, 2023 05:53 PM (/BBNv)

114 NO.
The IRS should stay as staffed and turned around to audit and police Federal Spending of the aforementioned 10%.
Posted by: garrett at October 23, 2023 05:50 PM (zDvF6)

GAO?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at October 23, 2023 05:54 PM (8sMut)

115 Obama: The buck stops over there somewhere.
Biden: Look fat, I have your buck right here.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 23, 2023 05:54 PM (l10hq)

116 You thought your life savings were cut in half over the last two years with $4 gas?

Hahaha

You ain't seen nuthin yet

Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at October 23, 2023 05:54 PM (A4UDY)

117 Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 6h
On October 23, 1983, 2 truck bombs struck the military barracks housing U.S. & French troops in Beirut.

307 ppl were killed of which 241 were U.S. troops & 58 were French soldiers serving in the MNF, a peacekeeping operation during the Lebanese Civil War.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 23, 2023 05:54 PM (krqg6)

118 Ugh, Booze Allen, hate those guys. In my sphere the gov organizations like to outsource their thinking to BAH.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at October 23, 2023 05:49 PM (hrDJ1)

I worked with Accenture, fucking degenerates. I ripped their ass in front of my general manager about stuff they wanted to outsource. After the meeting he said "good job"

After that Accenture offered me a job. I said "nah bro"

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 23, 2023 05:54 PM (NtVYv)

119 >>GAO?

With teeth and deferential treatment for Criminal Enforcement.

Posted by: garrett at October 23, 2023 05:55 PM (zDvF6)

120
Mission Crack Flood

Posted by: naturalfake at October 23, 2023 05:55 PM (QzZeQ)

121 When Brother Joe says he has an emergency, my experience tells me it's best to believe. Believe!

Posted by: Pope Francis at October 23, 2023 05:55 PM (sWM8x)

122 The people that were really targeted all had ties to the GOP. Much of that was just a warning shot that your life will be turned upside down if you don't pledge allegiance to the Democrat Party.

Musk has every government agency on Earth being thrown at him because he dared to make "X/Twitter" a more open platform.

Posted by: Blago at October 23, 2023 05:55 PM (RnV1b)

123 The situation being a Code Brown in his trousers.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at October 23, 2023 05:56 PM (T/Lqj)

124 Operation Mud Drop.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 23, 2023 05:57 PM (l10hq)

125 To liberal/progressive Jews who currently feel isolated I say this: You have a choice. You can chose to step out of your comfort zone, break friendships, be vocally not ok with what you see, or you can keep living with this feeling you have now forever. There is no third option.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 23, 2023 05:49 PM (NpAcC)
---
But then they would have to change religions... away from Marxism.
Posted by: Axeman
___

They always go back to the Democrat plantation.

Posted by: Blago at October 23, 2023 05:57 PM (RnV1b)

126 Note to Paul Sperry: Trump didn't lose.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 23, 2023 05:57 PM (Angsy)

127 The situation being a Code Brown in his trousers.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at October 23, 2023 05:56 PM (T/Lqj)

Brown Trout Down - a Thom Yancy Novel

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 23, 2023 05:57 PM (NtVYv)

128 Posted by: LenNeal isn't big on math at October 23, 2023 05:53 PM (/BBNv)

Thanks. I needed that.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 23, 2023 05:57 PM (5PcUG)

129 Consumption tax. With exceptions to food, not including restaurants, clothes and energy.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 23, 2023 05:42 PM (5PcUG)

At roughly 20%, tax revenues should be roughly the same % of gdp as the income tax. Make a lot of other economic transactions and activity more efficient and practical too.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at October 23, 2023 05:44 PM (eYoxG)

You already see the problem. "Oh, I want a sales tax with exemptions for blah blah blah..." Tinker tinker tinker and you will be back where we started in no time. And don't think that Congress wouldn't impose a punitive tax on ICE vehicles or guns and ammo or...

You do not want these clowns doing a sales tax.

I voted today in TX against some Constitutional amendments that give carve outs in property taxes to certain businesses and industries for that reason. Just keep taxes low period. And simple.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at October 23, 2023 05:57 PM (8sMut)

130 Operation Mud Drop.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 23, 2023 05:57 PM (l10hq)

hah - I laughed

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 23, 2023 05:58 PM (NtVYv)

131 Someone's keeping a list of all these saboteurs, right?

Posted by: LC Sulla at October 23, 2023 05:58 PM (Angsy)

132 Sorry meant an Automated Payment Transaction (APT) tax:

The APT approach would extend the tax base from income, consumption and wealth to all transactions.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 23, 2023 05:58 PM (kK343)

133

What can brown do for you ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 23, 2023 05:59 PM (NtVYv)

134 Did Biden just say "Shituation room?"

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 23, 2023 05:59 PM (sWM8x)

135 I think this is funny but I tell people at my work, and I usually walk, that I do carry, CCW. I do say, You know, if someone comes for me because they know it's me? I get that. I do. I'm not the world's nicest guy so if someone makes a move I totally understand I will have it coming.
But getting some deal randomly, or because, this is my offense, because they think I am someone else? A case of mistaken identity?
Man, if I get shot by MISTAKE I'm going to be a little upset.

Posted by: LenNeal says WTF are you I don't know you at October 23, 2023 05:59 PM (/BBNv)

136 Booz Allen C suite is hardcore Democrat

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at October 23, 2023 05:59 PM (4+3qm)

137 Replace with what?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at October 23, 2023 05:35 PM (8sMut)

Replace? Replace? Are you crazy! Replace? Replace? Replace?

(passes out)

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 23, 2023 06:00 PM (R/m4+)

138 He interrupts speech to go to situation roo.?
Effort to make him look like he's involved.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal

Will Obama be joining by teleconference?

Posted by: Cheri at October 23, 2023 06:00 PM (oiNtH)

139 Disclose.tv @disclosetv 1h
JUST IN - Elon Musk: "We're sleepwalking our way into World War 3."

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 23, 2023 06:00 PM (krqg6)

140 They openly stole power in a coup, this is just another after effect of them getting away with it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 23, 2023 06:01 PM (xcxpd)

141 Looks like it's going to be raining here starting tonight and lasting through Sunday. Then it gets cold.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 23, 2023 06:02 PM (BdMk6)

142 Booz Allen now runs all of the reservations at the National Parks, Forests, Monuments, etc...they skim millions off the top in 'fees.' Congress is perfectly okay with this.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 23, 2023 06:02 PM (l10hq)

143 The Internal Revenue Service recently awarded a lucrative contract to help modernize its computer databases

The IRS databases have been in shsmbles for decades. In 2002 they had roughly 88 separate datebases. Less then 50% of those databases could communicate with each other. Millions of dollars have been thrown at this issue with little, if any success. The IRS is broken and has been for quite some while. WTF is BoozAllen going to do other than take our tax$s? I would wager this is not the first contract they've had with the IRS.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * No quarter, no mercy at October 23, 2023 06:02 PM (VQj/q)

144 Maybe Joe should try paddle boarding.

Posted by: Big Mike at October 23, 2023 06:02 PM (sWM8x)

145 I've been keeping up with the Russia/Uke conflict pretty closely over the last two years, and it makes me ask this question:

Are we sure the US didn't attack its own military bases?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at October 23, 2023 06:02 PM (Dgu0y)

146 Disclose.tv @disclosetv 1h
JUST IN - Elon Musk: "We're sleepwalking our way into World War 3."
Posted by: andycanuck

Dunno about that, seem like Our Betters (tm) are wide awake on that front.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at October 23, 2023 06:02 PM (hrDJ1)

147 Deep State and Marxists get payback for all kinds of actions and standings

Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2023 06:02 PM (fwDg9)

148 Disclose.tv @disclosetv 1h
JUST IN - Elon Musk: "We're sleepwalking our way into World War 3."
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 23, 2023 06:00 PM (krqg6)

Yup.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 23, 2023 06:03 PM (BdMk6)

149 JUST IN - Elon Musk: "We're sleepwalking our way into World War 3."
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at

They're fully awake and aware of what they're doing.

Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at October 23, 2023 06:03 PM (/qa9n)

150 139 Disclose.tv @disclosetv 1h
JUST IN - Elon Musk: "We're sleepwalking our way into World War 3."
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 23, 2023 06:00 PM (krqg6)

EVERYONE is ACHING for WWIII at this point.

As for me, we'll see. Right now, things do suck in the world but I am seeing a lot of sound and fury that ultimately will signify nothing (h/t, The Bard).

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at October 23, 2023 06:03 PM (8sMut)

151 i remember during the clinton impeachment thing c 1998 when the senator (d) from arkansas practically accused people in the house of reps of treason for going after clinton during a time of war. clinton had had a few cruise missiles thrown at tents in the desert that bin laden might have occupied at one time or another.

someone correct me if i am not remembering this correctly

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 23, 2023 06:03 PM (B1FKF)

152 It has nothing to do with Islam.....

https://tinyurl.com/f9ct3sfk

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at October 23, 2023 06:04 PM (MkuC5)

153 Ok, it's been huge fun.

Posted by: LenNeal says Ta at October 23, 2023 06:04 PM (/BBNv)

154 142 Booz Allen now runs all of the reservations at the National Parks, Forests, Monuments, etc...they skim millions off the top in 'fees.' Congress is perfectly okay with this.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 23, 2023 06:02 PM (l10hq)

What's the issue...Booz Allen should work for free? Or the government should be able to do this without outsourcing? I don't get the comment about "skimming off the top in fees." Like a restaurant "skims off the top in fees" when they don't give you your meal at cost?

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at October 23, 2023 06:05 PM (4+3qm)

155
"Sleepwalk" by Ultravox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvEyhUczGKU

Posted by: naturalfake at October 23, 2023 06:05 PM (QzZeQ)

156 Booz Allen now runs all of the reservations at the National Parks, Forests, Monuments, etc...they skim millions off the top in 'fees.' Congress is perfectly okay with this.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

I had to deal with those bastards in 2014 as they had the VA contract to do audits. Some of the auditors that came to audit my program were past executive from the VA that had retired and picked up very lucrative jobs with BAH. They were one and all assholes - rude, dismissive, and none of them experts in the field in which I was being audited. My program passed but not without a lot of grief

Posted by: Cheri at October 23, 2023 06:05 PM (oiNtH)

157 We're sleep-getting-our-asses-dragged into Gulf War 3.

Not that i would have a giant problem with kicking a bunch of asses over there... but not another bullshit halfassed Do Anything But Win fiasco.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 23, 2023 06:05 PM (9UlRk)

158 40 31 In the middle of John McCain funeral proceedings? Then again, it is what he would have wanted.
Posted by: Bete at October 23, 2023 05:31 PM (KuG1T)

Winner.

Posted by: Dr. Faustus- I AM the Science at October 23, 2023 06:06 PM (49uf1)

159 British ITV interviewed a Palestinian woman who stated how unsafe she felt etc etc turns out she’s a Spokeswoman For Hamas and is gigantic POS who called the Hostages Prisoner’s of War.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 23, 2023 06:06 PM (dKiJG)

160 Aspirin factory! Milk factory!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 23, 2023 06:07 PM (krqg6)

161
someone correct me if i am not remembering this correctly
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 23, 2023 06:03 PM (B1FKF)

As Congress prepared to vote on impeachment Mr. Greatthings ordered cruise missiles fired on Baghdad and other Iraqi targets.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at October 23, 2023 06:07 PM (8sMut)

162 It has nothing to do with Islam.....

https://tinyurl.com/f9ct3sfk

I interpret it as meaning "where is Islam denouncing this?"

And the officer is perfectly aware it's all approved in the Koran and hadith.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at October 23, 2023 06:07 PM (KVlfh)

163 Unexpectedly!

Posted by: ShainS -- Overimaginative Scamp and AGAAVE Plant at October 23, 2023 06:07 PM (LPGG8)

164 Norms restored?

Posted by: Archer

Norm!!!

Posted by: Cheers!! at October 23, 2023 06:07 PM (vcOmj)

165 gigantic POS who called the Hostages Prisoner’s of War.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 23, 2023 06:06 PM (dKiJG)

Civilian POWs?

*sips wildly expensive bourbon from a rocks glass*

Not a good strategy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 23, 2023 06:08 PM (9UlRk)

166 157 We're sleep-getting-our-asses-dragged into Gulf War 3.

Not that i would have a giant problem with kicking a bunch of asses over there... but not another bullshit halfassed Do Anything But Win fiasco.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 23, 2023 06:05 PM (9UlRk)

I'd prefer we just drill our way to energy independence and have Iran and others taste Fourth World poverty. That makes too much sense though.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at October 23, 2023 06:08 PM (8sMut)

167 Not that i would have a giant problem with kicking a bunch of asses over there... but not another bullshit halfassed Do Anything But Win fiasco.

Sorry, we still have a State Department. They will be so busy angling for "consulting" gigs after retirement that they'll block every path to victory.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at October 23, 2023 06:08 PM (KVlfh)

168 re 111: "Also, pay down the debt and reduce interest payments."

and that will happen when walt disney is elected president

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 23, 2023 06:09 PM (B1FKF)

169 I guess WW3 is the plan for 2024 elections

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at October 23, 2023 06:09 PM (Eeb9P)

170 But then they would have to change religions... away from Marxism.
Posted by: Axeman
___

They always go back to the Democrat plantation.
Posted by: Blago at October 23, 2023 05:57 PM (RnV1b)
***********
The Biden administration isn't worried. A few may leave, but not enough to matter... just like black Americans.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 23, 2023 06:09 PM (NpAcC)

171 We're sleep-getting-our-asses-dragged into Gulf War 3.

Not that i would have a giant problem with kicking a bunch of asses over there... but not another bullshit halfassed Do Anything But Win fiasco.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 23, 2023 06:05 PM (9UlRk)

Has anyone noticed that the UN has stayed relatively quiet during all of this?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 23, 2023 06:09 PM (BdMk6)

172 The US gov. is thoroughly infiltrated by Iran, it seems.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at October 23, 2023 06:09 PM (MeG8a)

173 What's the issue...Booz Allen should work for free? Or the government should be able to do this without outsourcing? I don't get the comment about "skimming off the top in fees." Like a restaurant "skims off the top in fees" when they don't give you your meal at cost?
Posted by: Mad Max in VA at October 23, 2023 06:05 PM (4+3qm)

Maybe they shouldn't have a conflict of interest?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at October 23, 2023 06:10 PM (8sMut)

174 The UN is going to get rich

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at October 23, 2023 06:10 PM (Eeb9P)

175 168 re 111: "Also, pay down the debt and reduce interest payments."

and that will happen when walt disney is elected president
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 23, 2023 06:09 PM (B1FKF)

A boy can dream...

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at October 23, 2023 06:10 PM (8sMut)

176 re 165: prisoners of war

according to rudolf hoess, commandant of the camps at auschwitz, they had lots of russian prisoners of war there. you can guess what happened to many of them

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 23, 2023 06:10 PM (B1FKF)

177 What's the issue...Booz Allen should work for free? Or the government should be able to do this without outsourcing? I don't get the comment about "skimming off the top in fees." Like a restaurant "skims off the top in fees" when they don't give you your meal at cost?
Posted by: Mad Max in VA at October 23, 2023 06:05 PM (4+3qm)

Crooks, just another arm of the government

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 23, 2023 06:11 PM (NtVYv)

178 Booz Allen is like Accenture or Deloitte. They have their hands in everything, including all sorts of sweet govt contracts. And BAH, like all consulting firms has a ton of contractors working for them at any give time.

I really doubt the two are related. BAH has a lot of ultra wealthy clients, why would they want or encourage one of their contractors to fuck their shit up?

Posted by: Montec at October 23, 2023 06:12 PM (P5BwU)

179 British ITV interviewed a Palestinian woman who stated how unsafe she felt etc etc turns out she’s a Spokeswoman For Hamas and is gigantic POS who called the Hostages Prisoner’s of War.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio
=====
Yes, here's the bitch:
Harry's Place @hurryupharry 12h
BREAKING 🚨
@itvnews platforms Iran propagandist who presents antisemitic programme Palestine Declassified.

Latifa Abouchakra only last week appeared to justify the murder of Israeli civilians who she calls "settlers" and labelled the attacks "the homecoming"

WATCH TO THE END

https://tinyurl.com/yc24kd28
1:51 minutes

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 23, 2023 06:12 PM (krqg6)

180 Disclose.tv @disclosetv 1h
JUST IN - Elon Musk: "We're sleepwalking our way into World War 3."
Posted by: andycanuck

I would not exactly call it sleep walking.

The World did not "sleepwalk" into WWI. Although there was not intelligent thought about stopping the momentum, certain acts and mobilization triggered other acts. Germany was jonesing for another war to take over more of Europe, and France wanted to get back at "Germany" for losing the Franco-Prussian war in the 1870's.

Today, a lot of companies and governments are just excited as hell about fighting Ivan in the Ukraine. We're going to show them!!! And make lots of money doing it.
Chinese warships (5-6 guided missile destroyers) are now in the Mediteranean, to confront the American carrier battle group there.
Fun times are on tap.
Get your Potassium iodine pills ASAP!

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at October 23, 2023 06:13 PM (vcOmj)

181
according to rudolf hoess, commandant of the camps at auschwitz, they had lots of russian prisoners of war there. you can guess what happened to many of them
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 23, 2023 06:10 PM (B1FKF)

"Well, the USSR never signed the Geneva Convention. Too bad, so sad." - the Nazis

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at October 23, 2023 06:13 PM (8sMut)

182 Most Russians or Germans captured in WWII lived to tell about it.

Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2023 06:13 PM (fwDg9)

183 “I have to go to the situation room. There’s an issue I need to deal with.” IN MY PANTS!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 23, 2023 06:13 PM (i9ffA)

184 >Biden Administration Grants a Huge Contract to the Consulting Firm Whose Employee Stole and Leaked Trump's Tax Information

Oh well, whaddya gonna do
the junta is invulnerable

Posted by: DB - Ooby dooby at October 23, 2023 06:13 PM (geLO8)

185 If I am to be taxed on money I haven't earned yet (unrealized gains) can I pay those taxes with imaginary money?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at October 23, 2023 06:13 PM (MeG8a)

186 Abouchakra
Abouchakra
Abou abou abouchakra
Ahhhhh ahhh ahhhh ahhh ahhh....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 23, 2023 06:14 PM (9UlRk)

187 The World did not "sleepwalk" into WWI. Although there was not intelligent thought about stopping the momentum, certain acts and mobilization triggered other acts. Germany was jonesing for another war to take over more of Europe, and France wanted to get back at "Germany" for losing the Franco-Prussian war in the 1870's.

Today, a lot of companies and governments are just excited as hell about fighting Ivan in the Ukraine. We're going to show them!!! And make lots of money doing it.
Chinese warships (5-6 guided missile destroyers) are now in the Mediteranean, to confront the American carrier battle group there.
Fun times are on tap.
Get your Potassium iodine pills ASAP!
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at October 23, 2023 06:13 PM (vcOmj)

(yawn)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at October 23, 2023 06:14 PM (8sMut)

188 185 If I am to be taxed on money I haven't earned yet (unrealized gains) can I pay those taxes with imaginary money?
Posted by: gourmand du jour at October 23, 2023 06:13 PM (MeG8a)

Can i deduct unrealized losses?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 23, 2023 06:14 PM (9UlRk)

189 I guess WW3 is the plan for 2024 elections
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at October 23, 2023 06:09 PM (Eeb9P)

Nobody was buying Covid 24. They needed something.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 23, 2023 06:15 PM (dGCAG)

190 Had this been some boutique consulting firm with like 30 people and one of them leaked IRS data about Trump and then the company got a massive contract from Biden, yeah that's "sus" as the kids say.

But BAH is a massive company with 30K employees. And on top of that thousands of contractors. The leaker, happened to be contracting with BAH. He could have easily been contracting with Acceture and he would have done the same thing.

Posted by: Montec at October 23, 2023 06:15 PM (P5BwU)

191 re the tax leaker at book allen etc: just my take, but if you do work for the gov't and one of your contracters does something like that, no gov't work for at least a year.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 23, 2023 06:16 PM (B1FKF)

192 Nobody was buying Covid 24. They needed something.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 23, 2023 06:15 PM (dGCAG)

"Maybe we could focus on capital gains tax reform?"

"Hmmm... would there be millions of deaths involved?"

"Uh, no, sir."

"Pfffft. Pass."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 23, 2023 06:16 PM (9UlRk)

193 191 re the tax leaker at book allen etc: just my take, but if you do work for the gov't and one of your contracters does something like that, no gov't work for at least a year.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 23, 2023 06:16 PM (B1FKF)

You're too kind. I think everyone at that firm should be stood in front of a ditch and machine gunned. Pour encourager les autres.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 23, 2023 06:17 PM (i9ffA)

194 Say Canada has a consumption tax and everything is great!

You know Trump fixed our economy and taxes without adding a new tax on everything.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at October 23, 2023 06:17 PM (nnp+f)

195 How many Booz Allen upper- and middle-managers on that new IRS contract are former IRS upper- and middle-managers? More than a few, I expect. IRS employees who write a contract RFP, and/or then work on the source selection effort, only have to wait a year or two, at most, after leaving IRS to work for the contract-winning company. Some of them would not have to wait a day after leaving IRS. One hand washes the other, no matter what FedGov procurement and post-agency departure employment rules are in effect.

Posted by: Gref at October 23, 2023 06:17 PM (5fDan)

196 >>If I am to be taxed on money I haven't earned yet (unrealized gains) can I pay those taxes with imaginary money?

"Go ahead and print off whatever it is you think I owe. I'm good for it. Swearsies."

Posted by: garrett at October 23, 2023 06:19 PM (8+ld9)

197 Booz Allen is part of the corporatist govt.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 23, 2023 06:19 PM (bZgS1)

198 195 How many Booz Allen upper- and middle-managers on that new IRS contract are former IRS upper- and middle-managers? More than a few, I expect

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Probably all of them. I've done work in the consulting world and it's all like that. That's how consulting works.

Who leads the Blue Cross 2 year $20M project? Why an ex Blue Cross employee of course, who was just hired by the consulting company, in order to win the contract in the first place.

Posted by: Montec at October 23, 2023 06:19 PM (P5BwU)

199 In the old days, probably Reagan era, contractors would have shut out bids on new contracts for a *single* big mistake. Now, it's corruption head to toe. For the Big Guys at least, who to donate to.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at October 23, 2023 06:20 PM (XizFB)

200 Biden said he was going to get Trump and this is part of it.
There is no law, there is no law to stop him.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 23, 2023 06:20 PM (bZgS1)

201 "Oh no, look what Black Rock is doing over there!"

Posted by: Booz Allen, covering its mouth and doing a funny voice at October 23, 2023 06:20 PM (9UlRk)

202 This is the result of the alliance of die hard Marxists and outright criminals. They use each other and are almost interchangeable.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at October 23, 2023 06:21 PM (33HvQ)

203 Nood. But crossed through. I don't get it.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at October 23, 2023 06:21 PM (gf7Ez)

204 If I could be king for life, I would change the tax code to something different like a national sales tax.

But any "new" ways to tax will only be combined with the old ways to tax. It won't be replaced. It will be a national sales tax EXCEPT....

That's how we got an income tax, it was just for a handful of families and it was 1%.

Posted by: Blago at October 23, 2023 06:21 PM (RnV1b)

205 Quick Hits renamed Quickies
NOOD

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 23, 2023 06:21 PM (krqg6)

206 172 The US gov. is thoroughly infiltrated by Iran, it seems.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at October 23, 2023 06:09 PM (MeG8a)

The Iranians are pikers at infiltrating the US gov.

Posted by: Chinese Communist Party at October 23, 2023 06:21 PM (5fDan)

207 Prior to the income tax the federal government got by with a whiskey tax and tariffs.

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at October 23, 2023 06:22 PM (0Q465)

208 OK, so the cross-through lines are gone now. Never mind.

* backs slowly out of the room *

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at October 23, 2023 06:23 PM (gf7Ez)

209 DENVER (KDVR) — A new study found that California is actually safer than Colorado.

Out of the 50 states, Colorado ranked toward the bottom at No. 43.

Colorado had the worst ranking among all 50 states for personal and residential safety.

Posted by: DB - Ooby dooby at October 23, 2023 06:23 PM (geLO8)

210 The whole Federal Leviathan is one half police state, one half corrupt -- and one half incompetence like the movie Brazil -- thus, three three halves.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at October 23, 2023 06:25 PM (XizFB)

211 Coca-Cola Company quietly removed references to its financial support for Black Lives Matter from its official website
Fortune 500 companies like Amazon, Coca-Cola, Sprite, DoorDash, DropBox, Warner Brothers and Microsoft have donated to BLM (after) ...George Floyd,

_NYP doesn't say they stopped donating says they stopped notating it.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 23, 2023 06:27 PM (bZgS1)

212 Maybe the "Situation Room" is about 12 square feet with a one-holer?

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at October 23, 2023 06:28 PM (XizFB)

213 Not sure why a contractor would have access to so many billionaires private tax returns ... 5 years for each count ... OH, it was to hurt Trump? Never mind (in Roseanne Roseannadanna voice)

Posted by: illiniwek at October 23, 2023 06:30 PM (Cus5s)

214 Perry Johnson has suspended his presidential campaign and is throwing his support to President Trump. Good.

Who is Perry Johnson?

Posted by: Braenyard at October 23, 2023 06:31 PM (bZgS1)

215 Always thought Booz Allen Hamilton is/was a hybrid op, feds and NGO. (Interchangeable as may be needed.)

Years ago, reps were always accompanying FAA management, an already dour group at that time. One relatively simple meeting and topic, 12+ people appeared and did their best men in black act.

Assumed BAH was an engineering group and had (or pretended better than the feds) a grasp - knew the rules/laws - of whatever issue was to be discussed.

Again, the FAA was miserable & asked a few rehearsed Qs so BAH folks had enough information to respond, either agreeing or disagreeing as may be necessary. Few were 'rocket scientists' and the whole kit & caboodle were dismissive.

Posted by: L - Can't make 'em love you more or hate you less at October 23, 2023 06:31 PM (GshMh)

216 Lot of that going on the last few years. I figure we'll see explosions from Christopher Nolan films spread around as war footage eventually.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at October 23, 2023 05:31 PM (/QIWP)
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I'm surprised we haven't seen "footage" of a hospital being destroyed that comes from The Dark Knight...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 23, 2023 06:32 PM (BpYfr)

217 RINO - Republic In Name Only

>>> I've done work in the consulting world and it's all like that. That's how consulting works.

Who leads the Blue Cross 2 year $20M project? Why an ex Blue Cross employee of course, who was just hired by the consulting company, in order to win the contract in the first place.

Posted by: Montec
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Corporatist Govt.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 23, 2023 06:36 PM (bZgS1)

218 Charles Edward Littlejohn. Strange, but it's almost impossible to find a picture of this guy. The search engines are doing their job.

Posted by: Kitchener Lesley at October 23, 2023 06:40 PM (CgQvH)

219 They can't figure out Trump's returns either. (None have enough years of life left, coupled with skill. They'll need subcontractors for contractors.)

The game is to have bound books of stuff that may or not be relevant and wave some of the more attractive - with basic language, of course - around while quoting from a guide sheet. Some power point presentations, a book of venn diagrams, pictures of Trump looking crabby and tie it up with some quotes often made in jest.

The judge's clerk writes the (brief) his or her findings.

See, your honor? This page requires initials. There are no initials so that's not in keep with XX CFR Part XXXX, paragraph 1.a(B)(1)(c)(2). It's a federal violation!

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BTW a federal agency (not conducting the investigation of an explosion) ran in and cited an employer for recordkeeping violations & assigned a substantial penalty. In that, fatalities were not recorded as quickly as required and the recordkeeping log signed by the highest ranking administrator.

That crap happens all the time anymore.

Unfortunately, the highest ranking personnel were among the ones killed.

Posted by: L - Can't make 'em love you more or hate you less at October 23, 2023 06:54 PM (GshMh)

220 191 re the tax leaker at book allen etc: just my take, but if you do work for the gov't and one of your contracters does something like that, no gov't work for at least a year.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 23, 2023 06:16 PM (B1FKF)

Not a bad idea, but it would kill off the entire federal contracting industry. Which sounds appealing at first, but then realize it would result in about 100X more federal employees. So...no thanks.

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at October 23, 2023 07:09 PM (4+3qm)

221 PJ Media- seems proof Barky was at the seen of the crime ( well,might be) of the Chef's demise in shallow water and SS might have video of it.

Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2023 07:15 PM (fwDg9)

222 Increase your SA in public places. Take the warnings seriously. Carry an extra mag if you can. Be vigilant, especially when the IDF goes into Gaza.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 23, 2023 07:37 PM (M5z+9)

223 Time for a star chamber for the Marxists. And then drop them from 10,000 feet over the Atlantic.

Posted by: Fred at October 23, 2023 10:15 PM (EcD5Y)

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