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Global War on Terror 9: Winter Is Here.

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Fire. Every. Nazi.

The heads of three federally funded international broadcasters were abruptly fired late Friday as the Biden administration completed a house-cleaning of Donald Trump-appointees at the U.S. Agency for Global Media.

Two officials familiar with the changes said the acting chief of the USAGM summarily dismissed the directors of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks just a month after they had been named to the posts.

The changes came a day after the director of the Voice of America and his deputy were removed and the chief of the Office of Cuba Broadcasting stepped down. The firings follow the forced resignation of former President Donald Trump’s handpicked choice to lead USAGM only two hours after Joe Biden took office on Wednesday.

Trump’s USAGM chief Michael Pack had been accused by Democrats and others of trying to turn VOA and its sister networks into pro-Trump propaganda machines. Pack had appointed all of those who were fired on Thursday and Friday to their posts only in December.

The two officials said the acting CEO of USAGM, Kelu Chao, had fired Middle East Broadcasting Network director Victoria Coates, Radio Free Asia chief Stephen Yates and Radio Free Europe head Ted Lipien in a swift series of moves late Friday. It was not immediately clear if any of those removed would try to contest their dismissals.

The White House appointed Chao, a three-decade VOA veteran journalist, to be the agency’s interim chief executive on Wednesday shortly after demanding Pack’s resignation. Chao did not respond to phone calls seeking comment about her actions. The two officials familiar with the dismissals were not authorized to publicly discuss personnel matters and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Coates, Yates and Lipien, along with former VOA director Robert Reilly and former Cuba broadcasting chief Jeffrey Shapiro were all prominent conservatives chosen by Pack to shake up what Trump and other Republicans believed was biased leadership in taxpayer-funded media outlets.

Reilly and his deputy Elizabeth Robbins were removed just a week after coming under harsh criticism for demoting a VOA White House correspondent who had tried to ask former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a question after a town hall event.

Pack had created a furor when he took over USAGM last year and fired the boards of all the outlets under his control along with the leadership of the individual broadcast networks. The actions were criticized as threatening the broadcasters’ prized editorial independence and raised fears that Pack, a conservative filmmaker and former associate of Trump’s onetime political strategist Steve Bannon, intended to turn venerable U.S. media outlets into pro-Trump propaganda machines.
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Bankrupt. Every. Nazi.

The son of a couple killed in a Pittsburgh synagogue attack that killed 11 worshippers is suing the National Rifle Association, arguing the group’s inflammatory rhetoric led to the violence.

Marc Simon, the son of Sylvan and Bernice Simon, filed the wrongful death lawsuit Thursday in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court against the NRA, the gun maker Colt’s Manufacturing Co., and accused shooter, Robert Bowers, news outlets reported. Colt manufactured the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle allegedly used by Bowers.

A fourth defendant is the unknown business that sold Bowers the gun.

Bowers is charged with killing 11 congregants at the Tree of Life synagogue in the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history. Police said the former truck driver expressed hatred of Jews during and after the October 2018 rampage.

“Bowers was not born fearing and hating Jews,” the suit claims. “The gun lobby taught him to do that.”

Bowers has pleaded not guilty. No trial date has been set, and prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

The plaintiff argues gun lobbyists like the NRA radicalized people with “mendacious white supremacist conspiracy theories.” The lawsuit also says Colt could have prevented the AR-15 from “bump firing,” or using a modification that allows the rifle to fire more rapidly.

An NRA spokesperson declined comment on the lawsuit. The group filed for bankruptcy last week, and the claims against them in Simon’s lawsuit will be stayed as a result of the group’s reorganizing.
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Arrest. Every. Nazi.

A Federal Aviation Administration employee and QAnon follower from California who had been on the FBI’s radar is facing federal charges after he confessed to taking part in the siege of the U.S. Capitol, according to court documents released Friday.

Kevin Strong, 44, of Beaumont, surrendered to authorities on Friday and appeared in a federal court in Riverside, where a judge ordered him held on $50,000 bond, said Laura Eimiller, spokeswoman for the FBI in Los Angeles.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether Strong had raised the bond. Messages left for his public defender weren’t immediately returned.

Strong, who is about 6-foot-7-inches tall, was photographed and seen on news broadcasts inside the Capitol, according to an FBI agent’s affidavit that accompanied a request for criminal charges and a search warrant.

A member of the FAA’s internal investigations department notified the FBI a day after the siege that Strong had been at the Capitol, the affidavit said.

Strong faces three charges: violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, entering or remaining in a restricted area, and being disorderly or disruptive in a restricted area.

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The investigation began after someone told the agency that Strong “had been showing signs of behavioral changes over the last few months including stockpiling items and telling others to get ready for marshal law, rioting, and protesting,” the FBI affidavit said.

The FBI was told that Strong had claimed World War III was going to occur on Jan. 6 and that the extremist group QAnon would cover the debt for a new truck he recently had purchased.
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40 years of terrorism is enough.

End the Right.
 
Kepler said:
Bankrupt. Every. Nazi.
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I saw a brief that the NRA has moved to Texas, to face friendlier judges. But if the corruption accusations I've seen are true, that's not going to help much- corruption isn't the same as gun rights.

Although, the alternate problem with Texas is that they will show deference to companies who make a ton of money off of their support of non-profits. Gun companies have been fleecing people who are easy to put fear in. I had an office mate that never did guns until recent years....
 
MichVandal said:
I saw a brief that the NRA has moved to Texas, to face friendlier judges. But if the corruption accusations I've seen are true, that's not going to help much- corruption isn't the same as gun rights.

Although, the alternate problem with Texas is that they will show deference to companies who make a ton of money off of their support of non-profits. Gun companies have been fleecing people who are easy to put fear in. I had an office mate that never did guns until recent years....
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What I've learned from my experience with my co-workers is guns are purely emotional thumb-sucking. You're not taking away their Weapon of Revolution, and not even their penile enhancer, really. It's not aggressive even when they are at their most lunatic. You're taking away their security blanket -- their connection to their (probably abusive but still THEIR) Mommy and Daddy. See also: prayer in school, corporal punishment, hating the gays, don't eat healthy to spite Michelle Obama.

These people are sad sacks with no ideas or skills or prospects, they only have their family and their god which is a pointer right back to their family. So everything is personal. These people feel personally attacked when you say "don't be a racist," because Mommy and Daddy were racists and how dare you attack Mommy and Daddy?!

F-ck em. Plow 'em under, we have plenty of valuable, interesting, young, energetic people pounding on the door to get in every day. The hayseeds lost in the marketplace of value. Let them go bankrupt.
 
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Kepler said:
What I've learned from my experience with my co-workers is guns are purely emotional thumb-sucking. You're not taking away their Weapon of Revolution, and not even their penile enhancer, really. It's not aggressive even when they are at their most lunatic. You're taking away their security blanket -- their connection to their (probably abusive but still THEIR) Mommy and Daddy. See also: prayer in school, corporal punishment, hating the gays, don't eat healthy to spite Michelle Obama.

These people are sad sacks with no ideas or skills or prospects, they only have their family and their god which is a pointer right back to their family. So everything is personal. These people feel personally attacked when you say "don't be a racist," because Mommy and Daddy were racists and how dare you attack Mommy and Daddy?!

F-ck em. Plow 'em under, we have plenty of valuable, interesting, young, energetic people pounding on the door to get in every day. These people lost in the marketplace of value. Let them go bankrupt.
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Very true. They have been scared by the gun lobby's BS for decades now. The only way that the truth will be clearly demonstrated to them is when some millitia decides to have an open shooting attack on a military thing. Which will clearly show the fallacy of "weapon of revolution" anymore. That was "accurate" during the time there was no standing army. Which lasted less than 20 years in this country's history.

The problem with my hope is that these morons have only seen the police bring out their big guns against peaceful protests like BLM- instantly making them not peaceful. Followed up by the total lack of response on 1/6.
 
While I love the idea of suing the NRA there is little chance they will win. The NRA wont even blink at that even with their money troubles right now. Plus the NRA isnt at fault for why the dude shot up the synagogue...that would be Q and a certain part of a certain political party.
 
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Nazis wanted to kidnap and murder my governor, and now they want "unity."

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Will this do?


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MissThundercat said:
Nazis wanted to kidnap and murder my governor, and now they want "unity."

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Well "unity" is defined by them as "you get only what I allow you to have". Conservatives treat compromise like my GF does. "I get what I want and then you get what you want only if it doesnt interfere with what I want."
 
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1353056167774351362

Dances With Karens is now saying he was duped by Trump. What is interesting is this quote by his lawyer:

"Let's roll the tape. Let's roll the months of lies and misrepresentations and horrific innuendo and hyperbolic speech by our president designed to inflame, enrage, motivate," Watkins told KSDK. "What's really curious is the reality that our president, as a matter of public record, invited these individuals, as president, to walk down to the Capitol with him."
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I feel like that may be relevant in a couple weeks...
 
Handyman said:
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1353056167774351362

Dances With Karens is now saying he was duped by Trump. What is interesting is this quote by his lawyer:

"Let's roll the tape. Let's roll the months of lies and misrepresentations and horrific innuendo and hyperbolic speech by our president designed to inflame, enrage, motivate," Watkins told KSDK. "What's really curious is the reality that our president, as a matter of public record, invited these individuals, as president, to walk down to the Capitol with him."
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I feel like that may be relevant in a couple weeks...
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Yes, let's do that.
 
Lots of mask-wearing and social distancing at that meeting.

What do they expect? You welcome Nazis in to your party and they won't act like Nazis? Germany tried that, and it didn't end well.
 
rufus said:
Lots of mask-wearing and social distancing at that meeting.

What do they expect? You welcome Nazis in to your party and they won't act like Nazis? Germany tried that, and it didn't end well.
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Its faux outrage anyways...the Arizona GOP is in full on traitor mode these days. They were supporting Ali and his call for fighting over the election. they are currently trying to censure Cindy McCain for not being Right Wing enough. They are full on loonbat.
 
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When Representative Scott Perry joined his colleagues in a monthslong campaign to undermine the results of the presidential election, promoting “Stop the Steal” events and supporting an attempt to overturn millions of legally cast votes, he often took a back seat to higher-profile loyalists in President Donald J. Trump’s orbit.

But Mr. Perry, an outspoken Pennsylvania Republican, played a significant role in the crisis that played out at the top of the Justice Department this month, when Mr. Trump considered firing the acting attorney general and backed down only after top department officials threatened to resign en masse.

It was Mr. Perry, a member of the hard-line Freedom Caucus, who first made Mr. Trump aware that a relatively obscure Justice Department official, Jeffrey Clark, the acting chief of the civil division, was sympathetic to Mr. Trump’s view that the election had been stolen, according to former administration officials who spoke with Mr. Clark and Mr. Trump.

Mr. Perry introduced the president to Mr. Clark, whose openness to conspiracy theories about election fraud presented Mr. Trump with a welcome change from the acting attorney general, Jeffrey A. Rosen, who stood by the results of the election and had repeatedly resisted the president’s efforts to undo them.
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