Friday 29th of March 2024

amusing...

NYP cov   The Murdoch New York Post has gone hysterically historic. Its opinion pages are full to the rafters with damnation of the Democrats. The one thing the Democrats have not mastered yet, is a sense of humor. Political black humor.

The Democrats are so serious that they'd rather commit suicide than having a laugh at the Donald — a laugh that would actually do far more damage to his ridiculous self-esteem than a stupid impeachment that has no chance of succeeding along party lines in the Senate, unless some Republicans want Pence as a leader, which would kill off their chances of retaining power in 2020...

 

Here is NYP's MICHAEL GOODWIN

It is said there are two things you should never watch being made: sausage and government budgets.

Now we can add impeachment to the list of stomach-turning sights to avoid.

The arcane rules, phony cordiality and debates over the second sentence in paragraph G of Point Six were bad enough, but the nausea meter hit the roof when Nancy Pelosi took the microphone. Wearing a funereal black dress, she stood next to a cardboard American flag and recited the Pledge of Allegiance.

I would have counted her more honest if she had pledged her allegiance to a Democratic donkey.

 

Read more:

https://nypost.com/2019/12/18/nancy-pelosis-stomach-turning-impeachment-...

 

Quite amusing. 

not amusing...

NATO’s leadership is planning for war with Russia


Jens Stoltenberg is doing nothing less than heading up a modern day Operation Barbarossa planning session


(stephenlendman.org) – America controls NATO policymaking. The alliance serves as its global imperial arm – warmaking its mission, not fostering world peace and stability.

Nor does it have anything to do with defense at a time the only threats alliance members face are invented ones. Real ones don’t exist.

World peace and stability notions are contrary to US objectives, wanting unchallenged dominance over world nations, their resources and populations.

America’s diabolical agenda involves endless wars of aggression, wanting all sovereign independent nations replaced by US vassal states, creating ruler/serf societies globally, an open-air prison for ordinary people disposed of if resist – a world unsafe and unfit to live in.

On November 8 and 9, NATO ministers are meeting in Brussels. Like his predecessors, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg was appointed to serve US interests, taking orders from Washington.

Issues to be discussed Wednesday and Thursday include revising NATO’s command structure, including “a new command to help protect sea lines of communication between North America and Europe, and another command to improve the movement of troops and equipment within Europe,” said Stoltenberg – stressing “our ability to move forces,” he added.

Against what, he didn’t explain – preparing for war on Russia the unstated objective, whether or not waged. It’s more likely than not ahead – a modern-day Operation Barbarossa with nukes if launched.

Russia and China represent the final frontier of resistance against US sought global dominance. Eventual conflict against both nations is ominously possible, maybe likely or certain, a grim prospect if happens.

High on the ministerial agenda is improving infrastructure for warmaking, including upgraded roads and bridges, facilitating movement of troops, weapons and equipment.

So-called “deterrence for collective defense” is code language for possible offensive operations. The private sector in NATO countries have an “important role to play,” said Stoltenberg.

In late October, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu explained his nation must deal with serious threats on its western borders.

During a Defense Ministry Board meeting, he said “(t)he military and political situation at our western borders remains tense and shows a tendency to escalation.”

US-led NATO forces are deployed menacingly close to Russia’s borders, their hostile presence a cause for great concern.

If Russian troops were positioned along America’s north and/or southern borders, or offshore near its east, west, or Gulf coasts, Washington would consider their presence an act of war. Conflict could follow.

America’s provocative Eastern European presence has Moscow justifiably concerned, Shoigu explaining:

“The intensity and scale of the operational and combat training of the bloc member-countries’ military forces near our borders are growing.”

“Only in the past three months there have been over 30 drills in East European and Baltic states” – heightening tensions, Shoigu adding:

“We’re implementing a set of measures to neutralize the emerging challenges and threats,” including modernized hardware positioned by yearend and upgraded infrastructure.

Former head of Russian airborne troops/current lower house State Duma Defense Committee chairman Vladimir Shamanov warned about hostile NATO saber-rattling, “bring(ing) nothing positive,” he said.

Given America’s rage for endless wars and global dominance, the threat of catastrophic nuclear war is ominously real.

 

 

Read more:

https://theduran.com/natos-leadership-planning-war-russia/

a year of a yellow laugh a minute...

 

2019 – The Year of Manufactured Hysteria

By CJ Hopkins

 

Well, it looks like we’ve somehow managed to survive another year of diabolical Putin-Nazi attacks on democracy. 

It was touch-and-go there for a while, especially coming down the home stretch, what with Jeremy Corbyn’s desperate attempt to overthrow the UK government, construct a British version of Auschwitz, and start rounding up and mass-murdering the Jews.

That was certainly pretty scary … but then, the whole year was pretty scary.

The horror began promptly in early January, when Rachel Maddow revealed that Putin was projecting words out of Trump’s mouth in real-time, i.e., literally using Trump’s head like a puppet, or one of those Mission Impossible masks. And that was just the tip of the iceberg, as, despite the best efforts of Integrity Initiative, Bellingcat, and other such establishment psyops, Internet-censoring sites like NewsGuard, and an army of mass hysteria generators, Putin’s legion of Russian “influencers” was continuing to maliciously influence Americans, who were probably also still under attack by brain-eating Russian-Cubano crickets!

While Resistance members were still wrapping their heads in anti-cricket aluminum foil, Putin (i.e., Russian Hitler) ordered Trump (i.e., Russian-asset Hitler) to launch a coup in Venezuela (i.e., Russian Hitler’s South American ally), probably to distract us from “Smirkboy Hitler” and his acne-faced gang of MAGA cap-wearing Catholic high-school Hitler Youth, who were trying to invade and Hitlerize the capital. Or maybe the coup was meant to distract us from the un-American activities of Bernie Sanders, who had also been deemed a Russian asset, or a devious “Kremlin-Trump operation,” or was working with Tulsi Gabbard to build an army of blood-drinking Hindu nationalists, genocidal Assadists, and American fascists to help the Iranians (and the Russians, of course, and presumably also Jeremy Corbyn) frontally assault the State of Israel and drive the Jews into the sea.

As if all that wasn’t horrifying enough (and ridiculous and confusing enough), by early Spring there was mounting evidence that Putin had somehow gotten to Mueller, possibly with one of those FSB pee-tapes, and was sabotaging the “Russiagate” coup the Intelligence Community, the Democratic Party, the corporate media, and the rest of the Resistance had been methodically preparing since 2016. Liberals’ anuses began puckering and unpuckering as it gradually became clear that the “Mueller Report” was not going to prove that Donald Trump had colluded with Putin and Julian Assange to steal the presidency from Hillary Clinton and transform the United States of America into a genocidal Putin-Nazi Reich.

Meanwhile, the anti-Semitism pandemic that had mysteriously erupted in 2016 (i.e., right around the time Trump won the nomination) was raging unchecked throughout the West. Jews in Great Britain were on the brink of panic because approximately 0.08 percent of Labour Party members were anti-Semitic, as opposed to the rest of the British public, who have never shown any signs of anti-Semitism (or any other kind of racism or bigotry), and are practically a nation of Shabbos goys. Clearly, Corbyn had turned the party into his personal neo-Nazi death cult and was planning to carry out a second Holocaust just as soon as he renationalized the British railways!

And it wasn’t just the United Kingdom. According to corporate media virologists, idiopathic anti-Semitism was breaking out everywhere. In France, the “Yellow Vests” were also anti-Semites. In the U.S.A., Jews were facing “a perfect storm of anti-Semitism,” some of it stemming from the neo-fascist fringe (which has been a part of the American landscape forever, but which the corporate media has elevated into an international Nazi movement), but much of it whipped up by Ilhan Omar, who had apparently entered into a “Red-Brown” pact with Richard Spencer, or Gavin McInnes, or some other formerly insignificant idiot.

Things got very confusing for a while, as Republicans united with Democrats to denounce Ilhan Omar as an anti-Semite (and possibly a full-fledged Islamic terrorist) and to condemn the existence of “hate,” or whatever. The corporate media, Facebook, and Twitter were suddenly swarming with hordes of angry anti-Semites accusing other anti-Semites of anti-Semitism. Meghan McCain couldn’t take it anymore, and she broke down on the Joy Behar Show and begged to be converted to Judaism, or Zionism, right there on the air. This unseemly display of anti-anti-Semitism was savagely skewered by Eli Valley, an “anti-Semitic” Jewish cartoonist, according to McCain and other morons.

Then it happened … perhaps the loudest popcorn fart in political history. The Mueller Report was finally delivered. And just like that, Russiagate was over. After three long years of manufactured mass hysteria, corporate media propaganda, books, T-shirts, marches, etc., Robert Mueller had come up with squat. Zip. Zero. Nichts. Nada. No collusion. No pee-tape. No secret servers. No Russian contacts. Nothing. Zilch.

Cognitive dissonance gripped the nation. There was beaucoup wailing and gnashing of teeth. Resistance members doubled their anti-depressant dosages and went into mourning. Shell-shocked liberals did their best to pretend they hadn’t been duped, again, by authoritative sources like The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, MSNBC, et al., which had disseminated completely fabricated stories about secret meetings which never took place, power grid hackings that never happened, Russian servers that never existed, imaginary Russian propaganda peddlers, and the list goes on, and on, and on … and hadn’t otherwise behaved like a bunch of mindless, shrieking neo-McCarthyites.

Except that Russiagate wasn’t over. It immediately morphed into “Obstructiongate.” As the corporate media spooks explained, Mueller’s investigation of Trump was never about collusion with Russia. No, it was always about Trump obstructing the investigation of the collusion with Russia that the investigation was not about, and that everyone knew had never happened. In other words, Mueller’s investigation was launched in order to investigate the obstruction of his investigation.

Or whatever. 

It didn’t really matter, because, by this time, Assange had been arrested for treason, or for jumping bail, or for smearing poo all over the walls of the Ecuadorean embassy, and The New York Times was reporting that a veritable “constellation” of social media accounts “linked to Russia and far-right groups” was disseminating extremist “disinformation,” and Putin had unleashed the Russian spywhale, and “Jews were not safe in Germany again,” because the Putin-Nazis had formed an alliance with the Iranian Nazis and the Syrian Nazis, who were backing the Palestinian Nazis that Antifa was fighting on behalf of Israel, and Jews were not safe in the UK either, because of Jeremy Corbyn, who Donald Trump (who, let’s all remember, is literally Hitler) was conspiring with a group of “unnamed Jewish leaders” to prevent from becoming prime minister, and Iran was conspiring with Hezbollah and al Qaeda to amass an arsenal of WMDs to launch at Israel and Saudi Arabia, and other peaceful Middle Eastern democracies, and Trump was finally going to go full-Hitler and declare martial law on the Fourth of July, and he was operating literal “concentration camps” where immigrants were being forced to drink out of toilets, which looked almost exactly the same as the “detention facilities” Obama had operated, except for … well, you know, the “fascism.” 

So who had time to worry about the corporate media colluding with an attempted Intelligence Community coup?

Then, in August, right on cue, some racist whack job murdered a bunch of people, and so now, as if the mass hysteria hadn’t already been jacked up to the max, America had “a white nationalist terrorist problem,” or was in the throes of a “white nationalist terrorism crisis.” Trump was now officially our “Nihilist-in-Chief,” and “a white supremacist who inspires terrorism” and was basically no different than Anwar al-Awlaki. It was time to take some extraordinary measures along the lines of the Patriot Act, except focused on potential white supremacist terrorists, or anyone the Editorial Board of The New York Times might deem a “threat.”

This sudden outbreak of “Trump-inspired terrorism” and the manufactured “fascism” hysteria that followed got the Resistance through end of the Summer and into the Autumn, which was always when the main event was scheduled to begin. See, these last three years have basically been a warm-up for what is about to happen … the impeachment, sure, but that’s only one part of it.

If you thought the global capitalist ruling classes and the corporate media’s methodical crushing of Jeremy Corbyn was depressing to watch … well, prepare yourself for 2020. The Year of Manufactured Mass Hysteria was not just the Intelligence Community and the corporate media getting their kicks by whipping the public up into an endless series of baseless panics over imaginary Russians and Nazis. It was the final phase of cementing the official “Putin-Nazi” narrative in people’s minds.

For the sake of anyone new to my columns, here’s how the Putin-Nazi narrative works …

The Putin-Nazi narrative has two basic parts, or messages, which are constantly repeated: (1) “Russia is attacking our democracy!; and (2) “fascism is spreading like wildfire!,” both of which parts are essentially fictions. This official Putin-Nazi narrative was introduced in the Summer of 2016, and replaced the official “War on Terrorism” narrative, which had run for fifteen years, and which was just as fictional. It has been methodically reinforced and repeated by the neoliberal establishment, the corporate media (and, more recently, the alternative media, and even by extremely intelligent anarchist anthropologists like David Graeber) for the last three years on a daily basis. At this point it has become our “reality,” just as the War on Terror became our “reality” … as the Cold War had previously been our “reality.”

When I say that this narrative has become our “reality,” I mean that it is now virtually impossible to refute it in any mainstream forum without being dismissed as a “conspiracy theorist,” or an “anti-Semite,” or a “Russian asset.” It has become axiomatic and is taken for granted that we are experiencing an explosion of anti-Semitism, and fascism, and that Russia is out to get us (so axiomatic that someone like Graeber falls into the trap of defending Corbyn by relying on, and thus reifying, the very “fascism” hysteria that was used to destroy him).

Never mind that the entire planet continues to be ruled by global capitalism, transnational corporations, and supra-governmental bodies, and that most of it is occupied by the U.S. military, NATO, and other GloboCap allies, and assorted corporate military contractors. Never mind that Russia isn’t “attacking” anyone, and that the “Nazis” haven’t taken over anything, and that no one is rounding up and murdering the Jews, or the Mexicans, or anyone else for that matter … because when have facts had anything to do with maintaining an official narrative?

The answer, in case you were wondering, is “never.” We are, all of us, living in a fiction. A fiction authored by those in power to serve the interests of those in power. That’s what an official narrative is. It makes no difference whether we believe it or not. It functions as “reality” regardless. If you doubt that … well, just ask Jeremy Corbyn. Or watch as the Labour “anti-Semitism crisis” evaporates into thin air, as the War on Terror did in 2016, once it no longer served a useful purpose.

As for 2020, I’m afraid the manufactured mass hysteria is only going to get worse. The global capitalist ruling classes are determined to snuff out this populist rebellion, and to make sure it never happens again, or at the very least not on this scale. Anyone who gets in the way is going to be branded an “anti-Semite,” or a “fascist,” or a “Russian asset.” Politicians who do not toe the line are going to have their political careers and personal reputations destroyed. (Did you notice how it took less than two days after the crushing of Jeremy Corbyn for the smearing of Sanders as an anti-Semite or “soft on anti-Semitism” to begin?)

Mainstream journalists who dare to question the official Putin-Nazi narrative, even in the most respectful way, are going to come under increasing pressure to tone it down or suffer the consequences. Putin-Nazi paranoia will metastasize. Dissident websites will be deplatformed and demonitized. The Internet will be increasingly monitored for any and all forms of non-conformity. Dissent will be increasingly stigmatized. “Reality” will be increasingly policed. It’s all going to get extremely unpleasant, and that’s assuming that civil war doesn’t break out.

And as for me, I’m just a political satirist with a barely respectable cult-sized following, so they’ll probably let me get away with continuing to cover the whole ugly show (as long as no one starts to take me seriously). I’ll try to find the humor in it, but honestly, just between you and me, what’s coming may not be all that funny.

 

 

Read more:

https://off-guardian.org/2019/12/19/2019-the-year-of-manufactured-hysteria/?

divided we stand, united we sux...

By its very nature, Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist 65, impeachment “will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused. In many cases it will connect itself with the pre-existing factions, and will enlist all their animosities, partialities, influence, and interest on one side or on the other.”

And: “In such cases there will always be the greatest danger that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties, than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt.”

Republicans and Democrats can both nod their heads in agreement now — even as each side thinks it’s the other party that’s ignoring the facts out of partisan loyalty.

Yet the fact remains that House Democrats have charged ahead, voting out two articles of impeachment on a purely partisan basis, with all Republicans (and a handful of Democrats) opposed.

And they’ve done so despite the view Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed to The Washington Post just this March: “Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country. And [President Trump’s] just not worth it.”

 

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https://nypost.com/2019/12/18/with-partisan-impeachment-dems-just-ignore...

 

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Rolling out the infantile motivations to hit Trump on the caboose:

5 Most Hyperbolic Impeachment Moments

Comparisons were made to Salem, slavery, suffrage, the civil rights movement, World War II, and the trial of Jesus.

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https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/5-most-hyperbolic-impea...

 

he deserves a bigger smack...

"That’s a very strong and conscientious decision to take, as she says she believed Trump was guilty but she couldn’t in her good conscience vote for impeachment,” Lauria told hosts John Kiriakou and Brian Becker, noting that there were other, far more deplorable crimes for which Trump should have been impeached.

“There are at least four things that Trump has done that he could be impeached for,” Lauria told Sputnik.

One is “stealing the oil in Syria,” which Lauria noted is considered pillaging under international law, including the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Further, it violates the US’ own Lieber Code, which was signed by former US President Abraham Lincoln to dictate how soldiers should behave in wartime.

The second is “Israeli settlements being called ‘legal’ by the Trump administration,” Lauria said, which Trump changed long-standing US policy on last month.

The third impeachable offense Lauria noted was “pardoning the war criminal” Eddie Gallagher last month. Gallagher, a US Navy SEAL, was convicted of unlawfully taking a photo with the corpse of a Daesh fighter during a 2017 deployment in Mosul, Iraq, an act that violates the military code of justice and could be considered a war crime of sorts.

Trump’s fourth offense is “extrajudicial drone killings,” Lauria told Sputnik.

Those are the crimes “we should see this man being impeached for,” Lauria said. “Trump also supports torture, which is clearly against international and US law. Why aren’t we hearing about that?” 

Gabbard has also failed to meet the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) strict requirements to qualify for the sixth Democratic debate, which takes place Thursday night in Los Angeles, California. While she reached the donor threshold for the upcoming event, she still needed to reach 4% or higher in a poll approved by the DNC to qualify. 

However, whether she does or not, Gabbard has previously said she still wouldn’t attend the debate.

 

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https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201912201077659898-gabbards-present-imp...

 

 

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what a silly cold sausage...

Standing outside Congress at 3am, cheeks red, nose dripping, fingers and toes numb, I stare into the camera and think to myself, "what have I got myself into?"

The weather app on my phone tells me it's minus-5 degrees, but "feels like" minus-12.

I'm about to go live into the 7pm News to talk about Donald Trump's impeachment, the second biggest story of his presidency, right behind the election itself.

It's my first story as a new member of ABC's Washington Bureau.

 

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-20/trumps-rejection-by-establishment...

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Hello? can't you do a report from inside a coffee shop somewhere? Or from inside the Congress Building? Is the information (or the shot) crucial to warrant becoming an icecube with nose-icicles? I think not.... It may look as LIVE TV but it's useless reporting as it won't add to the sum-total of knowledge, even if there is movement in the dunny of Congress, as we know what shit is going to come out....

another amusing cover from the NYP...

NYP cove


why should he catch her germs?...

State of the union: Trump does not shake Pelosi's hand

Moments before delivering his State of the Union address, President Trump handed the House Speaker a copy of his speech. He then turned away as she offered her hand.


 

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https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-51335540/state-of-the-union-...

 

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preplanning...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi apparently made tiny tears into her copy of President Trump’s State of the Union address — so that her speech-ripping moment could go off without a hitch.

As Trump introduced cancer-stricken radio host Rush Limbaugh — who received the Medal of Freedom during the speech — Pelosi could be seen grabbing the pages off the table.

Video shows her making what seemed to be a tearing motion and then placing the pages back on the table.

Photos of the sheets of paper show them face down on the table with small slits on the side, near where Pelosi would eventually rip them into pieces.

Vice President Mike Pence, who was seated next to the California Democrat, told “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday that it felt like she’d planned to rip the speech because “it felt like such an immediate moment.”

Pelosi’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment...

 

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https://nypost.com/2020/02/05/nancy-pelosi-pre-ripped-pages-of-trumps-so...

 

 

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NYPee

the view from the SMH:

state



 

of stunts and rips...

rip

Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz filed an ethics complaint against Nancy Pelosi that said the House Speaker possibly violated numerous House rules — and maybe even broke the law — by tearing up a copy of President Trump’s State of the Union speech.

The Florida legislator sent a letter to the House Committee on Ethics requesting they open an investigation and shared the missive on Twitter.

Gaetz wrote that “Speaker Pelosi’s gesture was deeply offensive and appears to violate clauses 1 and 2 of House Rule XXIII,” which dictate the House’s official code of conduct.

“Her behaviour does not ‘reflect creditably on the House,’ nor does it follow “the spirit and the letter of the Rules of the House.”

Gaetz, in his letter, said Pelosi’s “unseemly behaviour certainly warrants censure.”

 

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https://nypost.com/2020/02/06/nancy-pelosis-state-of-the-union-stunt-may...

 

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who's petty?...

President Trump will skip the St. Patrick’s Day lunch on Capitol Hill this Thursday because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s efforts to “drive discord and disunity” have ruined his appetite to attend the annual bipartisan event, the White House said Sunday.

Pelosi, as speaker, hosts Democratic and Republican lawmakers at the luncheon to celebrate relations between the US and Ireland. She invited Trump last month.

“Since the Speaker has chosen to tear this Nation apart with her actions and her rhetoric, the President will not participate in moments where she so often chooses to drive discord and disunity,” White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere said in a statement.

Instead, Trump will welcome Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar to the White House for the annual Shamrock Bowl presentation.

Drew Hammill, a Pelosi spokesman, hit back that the White House should put “petty, partisan politics aside for this historic occasion.”

Trump attended the luncheon when Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) was speaker in 2017 and 2018, and last year when Pelosi became speaker after the Democrats regained the House in the 2018 midterm elections.

But their already strained relationship hit rock bottom when the Democrat-majority House voted to impeach the president and Pelosi publicly ripped up a copy of his State of the Union address.

 

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https://nypost.com/2020/03/08/trump-to-skip-st-patricks-day-lunch-on-cap...

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no set up...

After an explosive video of Nancy Pelosi getting her hair done in a San Francisco salon amid pandemic-induced restrictions started making the rounds on the internet, the congresswoman claimed it was a complete "set up", as she had been formally permitted to make an appointment.

The owner of the San Francisco salon Nancy Pelosi recently visited apparently going around the applying coronavirus restrictions has called out the House Speaker in an emotional address.

Erica Kious struggled to hold back tears as she vehemently denied Pelosi's claim that the incident at E SalonSF was a setup, after a surveillance video surfaced on Tuesday showing the 80-year-old politician roaming the salon in a bathrobe and with no mask on, shortly after city beauty salons were permitted to reopen to the public on 1 September solely to provide outdoor services.

"For the Speaker of the House to go on TV and falsely claim she was set up and publicly defame me, and sent out PR firms ... in support of the Speaker’s own lies is bad enough", Kious said. "But for Speaker Pelosi to frame herself as a victim under a totally false narrative while small businesses and workers all over California – the state she represents in Congress – suffer and struggle just to survive is beyond shameful".

The business owner appeared to be particularly enraged by Pelosi's claim that it was she who was owed an apology for being, as she put it after the video surfaced, "set up".

"I don't owe anyone an apology", Kious said. "Mrs Pelosi owes the entire country an apology. If America goes in front of Congress and lies, they go to jail. But apparently, when the most powerful woman in the world lies to America, we owe her an apology", the frustrated salon owner, who rents out chairs to stylists, charged.

She detailed that one of them had earlier informed her that Pelosi wanted a wash and blow-dry, adding that she personally viewed Pelosi getting her hair done as "a slap in the face" to struggling business owners.

Pelosi has so far refused to shoulder responsibility for getting the illicit VIP treatment.

"I take responsibility for trusting the word of a neighbourhood salon that I've been to over the years many times, and that when they said ... we're able to accommodate people, one person at a time, and that we can set up that time, I trusted that", Pelosi told reporters Wednesday. "As it turns out, it was a set up".

"I take responsibility for falling for a set up", she said.

 

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https://sputniknews.com/us/202009041080363292--nancy-pelosi-owes-america-an-apology-owner-of-salon-illicitly-visited-by-house-speaker-says/

 

More likely that Pelosi won't go to this hair salon again... 

 

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no metal in her hair-brain...

It’s the hair salon blow-out situation all over again. The rules are for all those other saps, but not for her. She’s far too special. One of the rule changes that Pelosi instituted in 2021 is installing metal detectors that elected officials must pass through on their way to the House floor.

This has been the source of real friction between the Democrats and Republicans since it has been instituted.

If we’re going to be really honest about it, it’s mainly there as a prop to help demonize Republicans and to create an obstacle for elected Republicans who have gone through the process of acquiring concealed carry permits.

Drama-addicted Democrats have made a big stink about being afraid for their lives and even go so far as accusing their own counterparts across the aisle of being co-conspirators in some kind of a plot to murder them. (As if most of them are even noteworthy enough to stand out from among the various staffers buzzing around the place, let alone be recognized for what party or politics they represent.)

Pelosi is hard at work laying down the law and literally making people pay for non-compliance with her rules. Her reasons were already being called into question.

“This fine has nothing to do with following the rules and everything to do with furthering the Democrats’ never-ending scheme to demonize and punish their political opponents,” Gohmert added. “Nonetheless, I have been trying to comply, but it gets difficult to do so when Democrats keep changing the rules and their enforcement.”

At least two Republicans have been slapped with the fines so far, Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia and Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas.

In a lengthy statement on the fine, Gohmert said he has complied with the “unconstitutional” metal detector policy “for weeks.” The lawmaker from Texas described the incident, asserting that he had already passed through the metal detectors earlier in the day.

“Yesterday, after complying with the metal detector screening, I was allowed to enter the House session where debate was occurring,” Gohmert said. “Knowing that I would soon be giving a speech, I stepped off the House floor to use the restroom right beside the Speaker’s lobby as I have done many times since the metal detectors have been installed.

“At no time until yesterday did anyone mention the need to be wanded after entering the restroom directly in front of the guards. The three main entrances have metal detectors, but the House floor entrance from the Speakers’ Lobby does not. Originally I had gone around the metal detectors a few times until it was mandated. I have been complying for weeks since. — FoxNews

When it was widely assumed that only Republicans would object to or be inconvenienced by this foolish policy, social media was chock full of this sort of partisan sniping.

Now, just days after the fines took effect, Pelosi got busted breaking her own rules.  Sounds strangely familiar: BLOW-OUT GATE: Pelosi Doubles-Down Says That She Was ‘Set Up’ By Salon Owner

Rules are for the little people, eh, Nancy?

 

So what did she do? In simple terms, the security equivalent of parking in the handicapped spot.

Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Ill., detailed to Fox News his firsthand account of watching the speaker enter the House floor from a forbidden entrance on Thursday.

“She opened the session on the floor, she came through what is known as the Speaker’s lobby,” Davis said. “We are all told, one Republican was fined for doing this just yesterday, that you cannot walk through those entrances unless you are disabled.” –FoxNews

It’s not a question of whether this is a good rule or a bad rule. It’s a question if it’s a rule that Democrats are equally responsible for obeying or if it’s just a political cudgel that Democrats use to thrash Republicans?

Gohmert is planning to fight the Constitutionality of these fines in court. That’s not the point.

If Pelosi can insist that others obey this heavy-handed and intrusive rule against members of Congress who have been elected and sworn in to uphold the Constitution, she can damned well lead by example and obey it herself.

 

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https://lidblog.com/pelosi-avoided-the-metal-detectors/?

 

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