Anonymous ID: 11842f April 26, 2024, 6:34 p.m. No.20783360   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3366 >>3888 >>3924 >>4026

Dr. Kevin Roberts: "The Administrative State And All It's Abuses Is A Creation Of Congress". Cold open with CNN is seriously stupid of course, they really are freakin about Trump enacting his “2025 Project”. The news says the DS, Trump is saying he will get rid of all Federal Workers—which is not true

Imagine being un-fireable in any job? Thats our federal government. Of course it’s Democracy in the federal workforce

 

This really good to listen to and how Trump and Heritage came up with a plan to fix the biased work force of the Federal Gov. there are currently 10 million employees and contractors that work for the Gov, with 330 million citizens

 

21:27

 

https://rumble.com/embed/v4p8yhl/?pub=4

Anonymous ID: 11842f April 26, 2024, 7:12 p.m. No.20783488   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3507 >>3888 >>3924 >>4026

>>20783414

Tuckers Interview with Jeremy Carl

@TuckerCarlson

 

Anti-white Racism

Ep. 98 There is systemic racism in the United States, against whites. Everyone knows it. Nobody says it. How come?

 

https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1783254594480730380

Anonymous ID: 11842f April 26, 2024, 7:40 p.m. No.20783593   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>20783422

You didn’t listen did you? Why are you even here? Is you cable out, or did your supervisor assign you to the board tonight.

 

Grow up and scroll by

Anonymous ID: 11842f April 26, 2024, 7:47 p.m. No.20783613   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3888 >>3924 >>4026

E.J. Antoni: "The Economy Isn't Nearly As Strong As We've Been Led To Believe". And all the chaos effects our economy, jobs and birth rates

 

8:58

 

https://rumble.com/embed/v4pake6/?pub=4

Anonymous ID: 11842f April 26, 2024, 7:58 p.m. No.20783664   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3741 >>3888 >>3924 >>4026

(Zelensky getting the boot soon)

26 Apr, 2024 23:50

US has no Patriots to spare for Ukraine – White House

American air defense capabilities are stretched around the globe, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has claimed

 

Washington is not willing to risk undermining its own security, but the US government is working around the clock to pressure the EU, NATO and other partners to share their air defense capabilities with Kiev instead, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has said.

 

Addressing the virtual meeting of the so-called Ukraine Defense Contact Group on Friday, President VladimirZelensky demanded “at least seven” Patriot batteriesfrom his sponsors, but Kiev’s main backer allegedly has none to spare.

 

“The US Patriot systems right now are being deployed around the world, including in the Middle East, to protect US troops,” Sullivan told MSNBC later in the day.

 

“If we can unlock further American Patriot batteries we would send them. But we are doing a lot of the supplying of the actual missiles that go into those batteries that get fired,” the US official insisted.

 

The Pentagon has indeed pledged additional Patriot munitions as part of a “historic” $6bn assistance package announced on Friday. However, the interceptors could take months or even years to arrive, as the batch will not come from the existing Pentagon stockpiles and the announcement “represents the beginning of a contracting process” with the US defense industry.

 

A single MIM-104 Patriot battery, which is manufactured by US arms giant Raytheon, costs over $1 billion, and consists of multiple truck-mounted units, including power, radar, antenna, engagement control and other support vehicles – as well as up to eight launchers with interceptor missiles.

 

The US produced over 1,100 Patriot launchers over the years and is estimated to have hundreds of them in active service and in storage – but only sent a single battery to Ukraine. Two more full batteries were donated by Germany, while the Netherlands shared two individual launchers.

 

“In the meantime what we’re gonna do is work with European partners and partners in other parts of the world to get them to provide additional air defense capability to Ukraine,”Sullivan added.

 

Besides Germany and the Netherlands – Poland, Spain, Greece and Romania are also among European nations that operate the Patriot systems. While Berlin recently promised to supply yet another Patriot battery to Ukraine, Warsaw said earlier this week that it has no air defense systems to spare.

 

Spain said it will only provide air defense missiles to Kiev, but not the actual systems. Greece also rejected the pressure, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis saying that no action would be taken “that could even remotely endanger our nation’s deterrent capabilities or air defense.”

 

(Not only did the US Gov admit we are unprotected and too spread out over the world, he told the Blackmail Mafia of Ukraine, they need to do more to make the US to meet their demands)

 

https://www.rt.com/news/596649-us-patriot-batteries-ukraine/

Anonymous ID: 11842f April 26, 2024, 8:12 p.m. No.20783723   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3726 >>3888 >>3924 >>4026

Inside the failed White House coup to oust Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

Steven Nelson1/3kek

WASHINGTON — Top aides to President Biden secretly hatched a plan this past fall to replace White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre by recruiting outside allies to nudge her out the door, The Post has learned.

 

Jean-Pierre, who made history in May 2022 by becoming the first black and first openly gay person to hold the position, had developed the exasperating habit of reading canned answers directly from a binder to reporters at her regular briefings — offering what her superiors viewed as a less-than-compelling pitch for the 81-year-old Biden as he readied his re-election campaign.

 

De facto White House communications chief Anita Dunn, 66, the wife of Biden personal attorney Bob Bauer, told colleagues she had decided to call in prominent Democrats to explain to Jean-Pierre, 49, that the time was ripe to move on, sources told The Post.

 

“There were a number of people she asked to engage Karine,” said one source who heard of the strategy directly from Dunn, whose role as senior adviser has been filled during the past three presidencies by Jared Kushner (Donald Trump), Valerie Jarrett (Barack Obama) and Karl Rove (George W. Bush).

 

The source also told The Post that Dunn had claimed White House chief of staff Jeff Zients knew about and supported the cloak-and-dagger scheme to push Jean-Pierre out of the West Wing.

 

“There was an effort to have some outside folks who Karine knows and trusts talk to her about why leaving last fall would have made a lot of sense for her and her career,” the source said, calling it an “effort to encourage her to move along.”

 

Jean-Pierre, the person added, “had been in the job for a year and a half at that point, which is a pretty standard tenure for a press secretary in what is admittedly a very demanding job [and] Jeff and Anita [tried] to have folks that she would listen to and trust talk to her about why it might be wise to do that.”

 

Jean-Pierre’s predecessor, Jen Psaki, was press secretary for one week shy of 16 months before leaving to take a job as a host and analyst at MSNBC.

 

A second source told The Post that “Jeff and Anita were trying to find Karine a graceful exit” because of the ugly optics of removing her against her will.

 

“There’s a huge diversity issue and they’re afraid of what folks are going to say,” added this source, who said they learned of the effort from multiple people briefed by Dunn and confirmed at least one person from outside the administration did speak with Jean-Pierre.

 

The revelation of Dunn’s plan is likely to make for awkward workplace dynamics, the first source said, but is unlikely to result in Jean-Pierre’s departure.

 

“She has been pretty consistent in telling people from the minute she got the job that she was going to stay through the election,” they said.

 

“I think Karine has decided to stay come hell or high water and that’s that.”

 

While Jean-Pierre isn’t going anywhere, the issues that brought about Dunn’s failed machinations remain — with both sources saying the press secretary is too reliant on notes to provide the pushback and quick-thinking repartee needed to effectively champion Biden’s cause.

 

“Karine doesn’t have an understanding of the issues and she reads the book [binder] word-for-word,” said the second source, adding that the situation is made worse by the fact that “she thinks she’s doing an amazing job.”

 

“She doesn’t have a grasp of the issues and doesn’t spend the time to learn,” this person said.

 

“These issues are not second nature to people. Israel and Gaza is a perfect example. It’s very nuanced. Jen would have calls with people to feel well-versed enough to go to the briefing.”

 

“There’s an enormous amount of work that goes into getting ready,” the first source said, “and consistently she does not put in that level of work.”

 

https://nypost.com/2024/04/26/us-news/inside-the-failed-white-house-coup-against-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre/

Anonymous ID: 11842f April 26, 2024, 8:13 p.m. No.20783726   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3732 >>3888 >>3924 >>4026

>>20783723

2/3

In response, White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates told The Post: “Not only are these claims wildly false, but the reality is the polar opposite. Karine was never approached by anyone with such a message. She spends four hours preparing every day. And neither Jeff nor Anita did any such thing; both have been unflinchingly supportive of her.”

 

Bates added Friday morning: “Every press secretary uses the binder. Why is she being singled out?”

 

In December, not long after word of Dunn’s plan circulated in the White House, Jean-Pierre received and rejected an unsolicited offer to become president of EMILYs List, a major Democratic group that raises money for female candidates who support expanded abortion rights.

 

When NBC News reported on the offer in February, the outlet said Jean-Pierre had emphatically told the group that she was “committed to the president” and “I’m not going anywhere.”

 

Both the initial offer to Jean-Pierre from EMILYs List and its disclosure to NBC are topics of intrigue within the White House — with unsubstantiated theories suggesting the hand of Dunn behind the approach and Jean-Pierre behind its leak.

 

EMILYs List did not respond to a request for comment.

 

By December, Dunn appeared to have accepted that Jean-Pierre was secure in her post.

 

A West Wing official supportive of the press secretary provided The Post with text from an email written by Dunn ahead of Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi’s Dec. 11 article that noted National Security Council spokesman John Kirby’s increased profile as co-briefer alongside Jean-Pierre.

 

“I am happy to talk to [Farhi]. And tell him KJP isn’t going anywhere so this is a ridiculous piece,” Dunn wrote in the message.

 

The pro-Jean-Pierre official also told The Post that Dunn was among those who had backed the press secretary’s promotion from being Psaki’s deputy — with the comms chief even calling in a former White House official to request their help communicating to reporters that “Karine is very strong and doing a very good job in the briefing room.”

 

“She is an incredibly quick study on a variety of policy issues that she has to be appraised of every single day,” that ex-official said.

 

Those with less glowing reviews acknowledge Jean-Pierre is not short of confidence.

 

“I think everyone’s resigned to the fact that she’s not going anywhere on her own,” said the second source who described Dunn’s autumn conservations.

 

”She thinks she’s doing a really good job and thinks the president wants her to stay.”

 

What Biden really wants was unclear to The Post’s sources, with a third source familiar with administration dynamics and skeptical of Jean-Pierre’s performance saying the president “trusts his senior advisers to manage the team as needed.

 

‘Serious tension’

 

Kirby, who has two stints as Pentagon press secretary under his belt and also fronted State Department briefings in the final 20 months of the Obama administration, has shared the stage with Jean-Pierre at most White House briefings since Hamas terrorists massacred about 1,200 people in Israel on Oct. 7 — contributing to what one source called “serious tension” within the West Wing.

 

“Sometimes he talks to her and she acts as if he is not talking,” said a fourth source familiar with the situation and critical of Jean-Pierre.

 

“She has been pretty aggressive about marking her territory,” agreed the first source.

 

Kirby, who is widely respected by journalists as a valuable source of both information and soundbites, has requested to pick out who asks him questions at briefings, but Jean-Pierre has not agreed to allow him to do so.

 

https://nypost.com/2024/04/26/us-news/inside-the-failed-white-house-coup-against-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre/

Anonymous ID: 11842f April 26, 2024, 8:14 p.m. No.20783732   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3888 >>3924 >>4026

>>20783726

3/3

Dunn has supported Kirby’s ask, said the fourth source, but still Jean-Pierre has not relented, even after Kirby’s desire was publicly reported in January by Axios.

 

Kirby, 60, and Jean-Pierre have sought to tamp down the perception of a power struggle.

 

In February, they “issued a statement praising the other,” the New York Times wrote in an article focused on the relationship.

 

Kirby told the Times, “It’s a privilege to be in her company, to watch her work and to learn from her.”

 

The Gray Lady did not publish Jean-Pierre’s statement on Kirby, but it was provided to The Post and read: “Admiral Kirby is an excellent colleague and I’m proud to work with him. I’ve enjoyed getting to know him and have great respect for his service to our country. His military experience and the work he has done as part of the national security team have been immensely helpful to the White House, particularly with two ongoing conflicts around the world.”

 

While Kirby is the odds-on favorite to replace Jean-Pierre as press secretary should she depart the position, there are other contenders for the opening — including Brian Fallon, formerly Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign press secretary and currently Vice President Kamala Harris’ re-election campaign communications director, who one source said has undergone an “ego detoxing” in his current post.

 

A number of Democrats both inside and close to the White House said they were unaware of Dunn’s plot to replace Jean-Pierre, or claimed to only know about it through the rumor mill, but several said that the accounts by The Post’s sources rang true.

 

One source close to Dunn and Zients insisted, to the contrary, that “my experience over the last year is Dunn and Zients being supportive of Karine” and added that “I’ve never heard of any such plan.”

 

The Post spoke with almost a dozen prominent Democratic staffers for this article, including current and former White House officials, all of whom requested anonymity to discuss internal personnel matters.

 

The sources agreed that Dunn does not appear to harbor any ill will toward Jean-Pierre, with many suggesting that the encouragement that the press secretary shift to an outside role was meant to be a long-term boost to Jean-Pierre that plays more to her strengths.

 

“I witnessed Jeff and Anita coming pretty hard to Karine’s defense after [the January Axios report on Kirby wanting to call on reporters himself] and asking others to do the same,” said one Democrat who supports the press secretary.

 

“They were like, ‘This is palace intrigue bulls— that was dramatically sensationalized,’” that source said.

 

Thursday evening, Zients told The Post in a statement: “The President and everyone in the White House deeply values Karine — she is an incredibly talented communicator and trusted advisor who keeps a cool head in any crisis and always has your back. We are lucky to have her on the core team advancing the President’s historic agenda every day.”

 

Jean-Pierre does have important allies within the White House, including first lady Jill Biden’s top adviser Anthony Bernal, who is widely considered to rival even Zients in power due to his closeness to the first family.

 

Multiple former colleagues of Bernal accused him to The Post last month of verbal sexual harassment, building on earlier reports of workplace bullying.

 

In a sign of Bernal’s influence, Zients quickly affixed his name to a statement calling those allegations “unfounded” just hours after receiving a request for comment, without investigating them.

 

https://nypost.com/2024/04/26/us-news/inside-the-failed-white-house-coup-against-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre/

Anonymous ID: 11842f April 26, 2024, 8:33 p.m. No.20783807   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3815 >>3849 >>3875 >>3888 >>3924 >>3931 >>3985 >>4007 >>4026

Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book 1/2

South Dakota governor includes bloody tale in campaign volume – and admits ‘a better politician … wouldn’t tell the story here’

 

Martin Pengelly

In 1952, as a Republican candidate for vice-president, Richard Nixon stirred criticism by admitting receiving a dog, Checkers, as a political gift.

 

In 2012, as the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney was pilloried for tying a dog, Seamus, to the roof of the family car for a cross-country trip.

 

But in 2024 Kristi Noem, a strong contender to be named running mate to Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has managed to go one further – by admitting killing a dog of her own.

 

“Cricket was a wirehair pointer, about 14 months old,” the South Dakota governor writes in a new book, adding that the dog, a female, had an “aggressive personality” and needed to be trained to be used for hunting pheasant.

 

What unfolds over the next few pages shows how that effort went very wrong indeed – and, remarkably, how Cricket was not the only domestic animal Noem chose to kill one day in hunting season.

 

Noem’s book – No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward – will be published in the US next month. The Guardian obtained a copy.

 

Like other aspirants to be Trump’s second vice-president who have ventured into print, Noem offers readers a mixture of autobiography, policy prescriptions and political invective aimed at Democrats and other enemies, all of it raw material for speeches on the campaign stump.

 

She includes her story about the ill-fated Cricket, she says, to illustrate her willingness, in politics as well as in South Dakota life, to do anything “difficult, messy and ugly” if it simply needs to be done.

 

By taking Cricket on a pheasant hunt with older dogs, Noem says, she hoped to calm the young dog down and begin to teach her how to behave. Unfortunately, Cricket ruined the hunt, going “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life”.

 

Noem describes calling Cricket, then using an electronic collar to attempt to bring her under control. Nothing worked. Then, on the way home after the hunt, as Noem stopped to talk to a local family, Cricket escaped Noem’s truck and attacked the family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another”.

 

Cricket the untrainable dog, Noem writes, behaved like “a trained assassin”.

 

When Noem finally grabbed Cricket, she says, the dog “whipped around to bite me”. Then, as the chickens’ owner wept, Noem repeatedly apologised, wrote the shocked family a check “for the price they asked, and helped them dispose of the carcasses littering the scene of the crime”.

 

Through it all, Noem says, Cricket was “the picture of pure joy”.

 

“I hated that dog,” Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.

 

“At that moment,” Noem says, “I realised I had to put her down.”

 

Noem, who also represented her state in Congress for eight years, got her gun, then led Cricket to a gravel pit.

 

“It was not a pleasant job,” she writes, “but it had to be done. And after it was over, I realised another unpleasant job needed to be done.”

 

Incredibly, Noem’s tale of slaughter is not finished..

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book

Anonymous ID: 11842f April 26, 2024, 8:36 p.m. No.20783815   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3852 >>3888 >>3924 >>3976 >>4026

>>20783807

2/2

Her family, she writes, also owned a male goat that was “nasty and mean”, because it had not been castrated. Furthermore, the goat smelled “disgusting, musky, rancid” and “loved to chase” Noem’s children, knocking them down and ruining their clothes.

 

Noem decided to kill the unnamed goat the same way she had just killed Cricket the dog. But though she “dragged him to a gravel pit”, the goat jumped as she shot and therefore survived the wound. Noem says she went back to her truck, retrieved another shell, then “hurried back to the gravel pit and put him down”.

 

At that point, Noem writes, she realised a construction crew had watched her kill both animals. The startled workers swiftly got back to work, she writes, only for a school bus to arrive and drop off Noem’s children.

 

“Kennedy looked around confused,” Noem writes of her daughter, who asked: “Hey, where’s Cricket?”

 

On Friday, reaction to news of Noem’s description of killing her dog and her goat included satire, the Barack Obama adviser turned podcaster Tommy Vietor calling the governor “Jeffrey Dahmer with veneers”, a reference to a famous serial killer and a recent scandal over Noem’s cosmetic dentistry treatment.

 

But most responses, particularly from dog lovers and people who hunt with dogs, simply expressed disgust.

 

Rick Wilson, of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, called Noem “deliberately cruel” and “trash”. Ryan Busse, the Democratic candidate for governor of Montana, said: “Anyone who has ever owned a birddog knows how disgusting, lazy and evil this is. Damn.”

 

Noem herself posted a screengrab of the Guardian report – and an admission that she recently “put down three horses”.

 

“We love animals,” she said, “but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down three horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years.”

 

The governor also said her book contained “more real, honest and politically incorrect stories that’ll have the media gasping”.

 

In the book, however, she sums up her story about Cricket the dog and the unnamed, un-castrated goat with what may prove a contender for the greatest understatement of election year:“I guess if I were a better politician I wouldn’t tell the story here.”

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book

 

(I always felt like there was something wrong with her. Not sure this is the reason, but strange admissions)