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Kid Rock Teases 2018 Senate Run, Says Democrats ‘Shattin’ In Their Pantaloons’ Right Now

Kid Rock (real name Robert James Ritchie) is seriously considering a run for a Michigan senate seat in 2018, following a Tuesday report that the musician was leading a recent poll. Per SHTFplan.com:

“much to the surprise of the establishment, the musician is surprisingly popular. A recent poll from Delphi Analytica showed that Robert “Kid Rock” Ritchie was preferred by voters, when compared to incumbent Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow.”

To gauge Ritchie’s chances in a hypothetical general election matchup, Delphi Analytica conducted a poll from July 14-18 of 668 Michigan residents.

Of respondents who stated a preference between Debbie Stabenow and Robert Ritchie, 54% stated they would vote for Ritchie while 46% said they would vote for Debbie Stabenow.

These results could indicate that Ritchie is a popular figure in Michigan, Debbie Stabenow is unpopular, or some combination of concurrent trends. The relatively large, 44%, number of undecided respondents may be due to the early stages of the campaign.

And if you don’t think there’s a chance in hell that Kid Rock would win that Senate seat, ask yourself if this sounds familiar:

The star is in a decent position to run. He has very high name recognition in the state of Michigan and has a loyal fan base that enjoys his brash approach to life.

He also has a net worth between $80 and $120 million, according to the Federalist, so he could easily fully fund his own campaign without outside party funds.

And to top it off, Rictchie tweeted this last night:

“When my name was thrown out there for US Senate I decided to launch kidrockforsenate.com. I was beyond overwhelmed with the response I received from community leaders, D.C. pundits, and blue-collar folks that are just simply tired of the extreme left and right bullshit. As part of the excitement surrounding this possible campaign, I decided to take a hard look to see if there was real support for me as a candidate and my message or if it was just because it was a fresh new news story. The one thing I’ve seen over and over is that although people are unhappy with the government, too few are even registered to vote or do anything about it. We have over a year left until an actual election, so my first order of business is to get people engaged and registered to vote while continuing to put out my ideas on ways to help working class people in Michigan and America all while still calling out these jackass lawyers who call themselves politicians.”

Ritchie goes on to say:

“Since the announcement, the media has speculated this was a ploy to sell shirts or promote something. I can tell you, I have no problem selling Kid Rock shirts and yes, I absolutely will use this media circus to sell/promote whatever I damn well please (many other politicians are doing the same thing, they just feed you a bunch of bullshit about it). But either way, money raised at this time through the sale of merchandise associated with this very possible campaign will go towards our ‘register to vote’ efforts.

One thing is for sure though…The democrats are ‘shattin’ in their pantaloons’ right now…and rightfully so!”

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Scaramucci Implicates Priebus In Now-Deleted Tweet Following ‘Felony’ Leak Of $85 Mil Net Worth

White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci set of a firestorm of speculation last night with a now deleted tweet following a Politico article containing information he claimed was leaked – revealing his net worth at $85 million. Scaramucci stated that he “will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept #swamp @Reince45,” oddly tagging White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.

In response, Twitter exploded with rumors that Priebus was a White House leaker – an implication which Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker (and contributor to CNN) somehow confirmed.

30 minutes later, another blue check” Twitter user – Josh Kraushaar from National Journal, tweeted “@RyanLizza reports on CNN that Mooch already contacted the FBI about Reince // not just a threat (as he said in tweet).”

As speculation reached a fevered pitch, Scaramucci – who keeps his phone at 100% charge – poured cold water over the hopes and dreams of everyone who hates Reince, tweeting “Wrong! Tweet was public notice to leakers that all Sr Adm officials are helping to end illegal leaks. @Reince45”

While Scaramucci said the ‘leak’ of his financial disclosure form was a “felony,” The New York Times reported that the document, filed on June 23, could have been released July 23 upon a journalist’s request. When reached for comment as to why he thought there was an illegal leak, Scaramucci told the NYT “They aren’t in process yet.”

Hannity interview – and then dinner? 

Earlier in the evening, Scaramucci appeared on Fox News with Sean Hannity to discuss the leaks, where he said that the leaks were actually orders from senior officials handed down to underlings.

One of the big problems here that I’m discovering in the comms team is that senior people are really the guys doing the leaking, and they ask junior people to leak for them. So, I’m very proud to be reporting directly to the president so that I can hermetically seal off the comms team from this sort of nonsense.

You and I both know that there are political holdovers from the Obama administration that want to put a hurt on the Trump administration, so we have to sort of move quickly there as well. –Anthony Scaramucci

In response to Scaramucci’s appearance on Hannity, the DOJ issued this statement:

And in yet another ‘leaked’ tidbit from earlier yesterday, Ryan Lizza also reported that president Trump, Sean Hannity, Bill Shine, and Anthony Scaramucci had plans to eat dinner together last night.

Don’t read too much into it, but apparently Reince wasn’t there…

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Far Left Militia Training For Guerrilla Warfare Using ‘Sabotage, Kidnapping, Executions, and Terrorism’

Far Left Watch is out with a fascinating read on left-wing militant groups training for violent civil war with conservatives. Reprinted with permission.

Right wing radio personality, Dana Loesch and The National Rifle Association recently came under fire for launching a “controversial” ad. There was an immediate backlash from numerous left leaning publications claiming that the video was a call to violence. Interestingly enough, the recent spike in political violence has come overwhelmingly from the left. Even more concerning is the the growth of far left organizations openly advocating for “armed struggle”, especially considering the recent targeted shooting of Republican House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and three others by a deranged left wing activist.

One of the largest and fasted growing organizations that fits this description is Redneck Revolt, a self described “above ground militant formation” founded in June of 2016 that claims to have 30+ vetted branches nationwide.

Redneck Revolt’s organizing principles mirror much of what you would see on any other far left organizing platform. They begin with their very reasonable, very east to support, opposition to “white supremacy”. They then dive into class theory, anti-capitalist, and anti-wealth rhetoric that could have been copied directly from The Communist Manifesto. And finally, they wrap up with open calls for “militant resistance” and “revolution”.

Since their inception, Redneck Revolt has been very busy recruiting at gun shows and community eventsadvocating for class warcontributing to the far left anarchist website It’s Going Down, and conducting armed anti-Trump demonstrations.

But what’s most alarming are the resources they provide on their website. They promote several PDFs that endorse “armed struggle” and even offer a 36 page “Mini-Manual Of The Urban Guerrilla” (bottom right of resource page) which pictures left-wing militants using RPGs and outlines tactics for guerrilla warfare including sections on “sabotage”, “kidnapping”, “executions”, “armed propaganda”, and “terrorism”.

 

 

 

That’s right. A far left militia claiming to have 30+ vetted branches is providing training materials for violent guerrilla warfare and all of this information is publicly available on their own website. Not surprisingly, the same left-leaning publications that were outraged by the NRA ad I mentioned earlier have not reported on this publicly available information. In fact, some of these publications have even championed the growth of the far left militia movement. In June, Mother Jones published an article praising Redneck Revolt and other left-wing militants. In July, The Guardian published an article with similar sentiments.

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Pence Defends Trump, Praises ‘Candor’ Over Disappointment With AG Jeff Sessions

Vice President Mike Pence sat down with Fox’s Tucker Carlson on Wednesday and defended President Trump for his candor in recent attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions – telling the American public and Cabinet officials alike that they’ll always know where Trump stands.

As iBankCoin reported earlier, Trump’s attacks on AG Sessions have intensified, with the President now asking why Comey crony Andrew McCabe has been allowed to remain acting FBI director:

Earlier in the week, Trump began dissing Sessions over inaction over Hillary Clinton and former FBI Director James Comey.

Trump did take a moment out of bashing Sessions to call out to Washington Post for yet another intelligence leak against AG Sessions…

Speaking of which, WaPo is out with a report today suggesting, via leak, that Trump is privately discussing the idea of a recess to replace the Attorney General.

What do you think? Is Trump really disillusioned with Jeff Sessions, or is this some kind of 16-D inter-solar-system diversionary chess?

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Mooch Hits The Ground Wielding Axe – Fires Reported Leaker From White House Comms Office

Donald Trump’s newly appointed communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, has claimed his first scalp in the quest to plug White House leaks.

Hours after a Politico published an exclusive report in which Scaramucci said he’s prepared to “fire everybody,” starting with assistant press secretary Michael Short – that’s exactly what happened.

Scaramucci confirmed to POLITICO early Tuesday that he planned to start by dismissing assistant press secretary Michael Short at a morning meeting, but that move was apparently delayed.

Short, who initially said Tuesday that he hadn’t yet been informed of any decision, resigned Tuesday afternoon.

LOL! The guy was fired with a leak.

As Tara Palmeri reports in Politico, “Short’s ouster is Scaramucci’s first warning shot to White House aides who have been perceived as disloyal to the president. In an echo of Trump’s not-so-subtle warning to Jeff Sessions about his status as attorney general, Scaramucci’s vow to “fire everybody” is a warning to staffers perceived as leakers.”

“I’m going to fire everybody, that’s how I’m going to do it…  You’re either going to stop leaking or you’re going to be fired.”

“If they don’t stop leaking, I’m going to put them out on Pennsylvania Avenue,” Mr. Scaramucci said, gesturing at the street outside the White House gates with his eyes shielded from the sun by blue-tinted aviator sunglasses. ” Do you want to sell postcards to the tourists outside the gate, or do you want to work in the West Wing. What do you want to do?” -Anthony Scaramucci

Scaramucci said he has full authority from president Trump to clean house – while a source close to the new comms director revealed that his plan is to assemble a team from the world of corporate communications, as well as “conservative broadcast stars.”

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued a brief statement: ““We are grateful for Michael’s service and wish him well in his future endeavors.” (selling postcards to tourists outside the gate).

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DNC IT Staffer Imran Awan Arrested At Dulles Airport Trying To Flee Country – Charged With Bank Fraud [UPDATED]

Jim Lokay of Fox5 News tweeted that one of the Pakistani IT staffers who worked for the DNC has been arrested at Dulles Airport and has been charged with bank fraud. Imran Awan, an employee of Debbie Wasserman Schultz may have been attempting to flee the country when he was picked up Monday night and surrendered his passport.

While no other details have been given, this is possibly linked to the Awan brothers imprisoning and subsequently extorting their stepmother for their father’s inheritance – or possibly over reports that the Awans overcharged congress for IT equipment.

UPDATE: 

The arrest comes days after the Daily Caller reported that the FBI had seized suspicious computer equipment from the garage of a rented house Imran and Abid Awan owned.

FBI agents seized smashed computer hard drives from the home of Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s information technology (IT) administrator, according to an individual who was interviewed by Bureau investigators in the case and a high level congressional source.

Shortly after the criminal probe was revealed in February, Imran abruptly moved out of his longtime home on Hawkshead Drive in Lorton, Va., and listed it for rent on a website that connects landlords with military families. Daily Caller

The new tenants were none other than a retired Marine and his active duty Navy wife. In the garage, they found “wireless routers, hard drives that look like they tried to destroy, laptops, [and] a lot of brand new expensive toner.”

INFILTRATION

The Awans – personal friends of Debbie Wasserman Shultz, have collected over 4 million dollars since 2009 working on the hill. They were “shared employees,” hired by multiple Democrats for IT work whenever it was needed – floating all over the place doing all sorts of work on House members computers. Democrats Juaquin Castro, Cedric Richmond, Andre Carson, Jackie Speier, Tammy Duckworth, and Louis Frankel all employed the Awans.

The Pakistanis also managed computers for members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence – all of whom have top secret clearance and are looking into Russian election influence. Furthermore, it has been rumored that the Awans are blackmailing members of Congerss with secrets gleaned from emails.

Furthermore, per ZeroHedge:

Imran Awan had access to Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s iPad password, meaning that the brothers also had direct access to the notorious DNC emails.

The brothers are accused of removing hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment from congressional offices, including computers and servers, while also running a procurement scheme in which they bought equipment, then overcharged the House administrative office that assigns such contractors to members.

After they caught wind of an investigation, Imran’s wife Abid fled the country to Pakistan, “where her family has significant assets and VIP-level protection.”

And as iBankCoin reported in May:

In February, U.S. Capitol police informed House members that the three Awan brothers from Pakistan, Abid, Jamal, and Imran – may have stolen congressional data. They are under investigation by Capitol Police with the assistance of ‘outside’ help.

THREE DAYS before U.S. Capitol Police told House members about the Awans, their stempmother called Fairfax County, Virginia police report she was imprisoned in their house – kept from her husband’s deathbed. Oh, and they were bugging her with listening devices.

After their father died, the Awans carted their stepmother to Pakistan to collect her inheritance – which they promptly extorted from her.

A relative described the woman’s life as being completely controlled by the brothers for months while they schemed to take their father’s life insurance. –Daily Caller

h/t @Backandfill

Developing…

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Kurt Eichenwald Attempts Twitter Fight With Julian Assange, Gets Wrecked

A Twitter fight has been raging between (possibly former) Newsweek senior writer Kurt Eichenwald and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, and it’s been awesome.

To bring you up to speed – The Gateway Pundit reported Sunday that a lawsuit against Eichenwald and Newsweek was settled out of court last week for an undisclosed sum over Eichenwald accusing Sputnik News editor Bill Moran of colluding with Russia.

After the case was settled, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange tweeted a curious change to Eichenwald’s Twitter profile; the absence of his affiliation with Newsweek

“He broke me”

To say Eichenwald took it poorly would be an understatement. The ardent tentacle and child porn ‘researcher’ who was mercilessly destroyed by Tucker Carlson last December, went on a massive Twitter tirade against Assange – calling the Wikileaks founder a child rapist, spreader of STDs, and an agent of Vladimir Putin among other things.

Eichenwald was also a huge dick – tweeting pictures of nature to assange and taunting him for not being able to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London for almost five years or face arrest on bogus charges.

Assange hit back along with with the WikiLeaks Task Force, an associated Twitter account…

After Julian tweeted about Kurt’s meltdown, the WL Task Force followed up with an article about ol’ Eichenwald’s days ‘researching’ child porn as the administrator of a pedo website.

We’re not done!

Julian then said that Eichenwald is a ‘CIA-linked’ ‘serial fabricator’ before going on to expose Eichenwald’s pen name – Andrew McDonald – which Kurt used to give 5-star reviews to his own books on Amazon.com!

“I emailed Eichenwald with some praise, have swapped messages with him over the years and actually like him.”

“..best thing is the way Eichenwald melds the true lies of the main character with the true truth of reality.”

“Best book I ever read.” –Kurt Eichenwald on Kurt Eichenwald

Another one of Kurt’s self-reviews:

Kurt Eichenwald is truly the gift that keeps on giving.

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China Prepares To Repel Flood Of Refugees If USA Attacks North Korea

In preparation for the United States and it’s allies going to war with North Korea, China has reportedly been beefing up defenses along it’s 880 mile border with the small but powerful Asian country, according to the Wall St. Journal.

Although technically allied to Pyongyang, Beijing wouldn’t necessarily defend its regime, but is determined to prevent a flood of North Koreans from entering northeastern China and to protect the population there, U.S. and Chinese experts say.

Recent measures include establishing a new border defense brigade, 24-hour video surveillance of the mountainous frontier backed by aerial drones, and bunkers to protect against nuclear and chemical blasts, according to the websites.

A review of official military and government websites and interviews with experts who have studied the preparations show that Beijing has implemented many of the changes in recent months after initiating them last year. They coincide with repeated warnings by U.S. President Donald Trump that he is weighing military action to halt North Korea’s nuclear weapons program while exerting pressure on China to do more to rein in Pyongyang. -WSJ

 

China has also been conducting live-fire drills along the border with special forces and other units in the area, including airborne troops which could be sent into North Korea at a moment’s notice. In June, the Chinese military held exercises with helicopter gunships, and in July an armored infantry unit was transferred near the border and equipped with new weapons.

When contacted for comment by the WSJ on whether the military movements were connected to North Korea, the Chinese Defense Ministry didn’t respond directly – instead responding that their forces “maintain a normal state of combat readiness and training” along the border. China also denied previous reports that thousands of Chinese troops were moved, adding that “Military means shouldn’t be an option to solve the Korean Peninsula issue.”

Geared towards defense, border security, and swift action

While Chinese authorities have been preparing for trouble over North Korea – including the establishment of contingency plans for nuclear contamination, economic collapse, or conventional warfare, the country’s recent changes in force structure, training, and equipment are linked to a nationwide effort to replace old Soviet-modeled command structures and out of date hardware.

China’s contingency preparations “go well beyond just seizing a buffer zone in the North and border security” said Mark Cozad, a former senior U.S. defense intelligence official for East Asia, now at the Rand Corp.

“Once you start talking about efforts from outside powers, in particular the United States and South Korea, to stabilize the North, to seize nuclear weapons or WMD, in those cases then I think you’re starting to look at a much more robust Chinese response,” he said. “If you’re going to make me place bets on where I think the U.S. and China would first get into a conflict, it’s not Taiwan, the South China Sea or the East China Sea: I think it’s the Korean Peninsula.” -WSJ

And while China is technically aligned with Pyongyang, the consensus seems to be that Beijing wouldn’t lift a finger if the United States and South Korea initiated military action in North Korea. Indeed, China is worried about a U.S. initiated war resulting in a North Korean refugee crisis.

That, they say, would require a much larger Chinese operation than just sealing border, with special forces and airborne troops likely entering first to secure nuclear sites, followed by armored ground forces with air cover, pushing deep into North Korea.

What remains to be seen is whether or not these moves by China are telegraphing an imminent strike, or if they’re simply trying to help Trump punk Kim Jong Un into compliance.

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Democrats Introduce Absurd Bill To Muzzle Trump’s Tweets, Release Taxes, And Stop Saying ‘Fake News’

The rolling tantrum from the left against President Trump has stumbled into absurd territory. In a bill unveiled last week and co-sponsored by 28 House Democrats – led by Rep. Steve Cohen, who looks dead on the inside, entitled “Objecting to the conduct of the President of the United States,” the left details how mean and unpresidential Donald Trump has been.

H. Res 456 is packed with laundry list of grievances and remedies – including a demand that Trump “refrain from posting video of himself wrestling with a press logo.”

And people wonder why the DNC has become a laughing stock…

Here’s a sample of Trump’s crimes, misdemeanors and meanie comments – according to H.Res 456:

Muh Taxes

  • Whereas President Trump has refused to release his tax returns, in a break from the practice of United States Presidents for more than 40 years;

(We haven’t had a billionaire as president in 241 years)

Emoluments 

  • Whereas the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, has actively courted foreign diplomats for their business and, whereas, some diplomats have said spending money at Trump’s hotel is an easy, friendly gesture to the new President;
  • Whereas, on February 22, 2017, the Embassy of Kuwait held its National Day Celebration at Trump International Hotel Washington, DC;
  • Whereas President Trump is an executive producer of “The Apprentice” and the state-owned television station BBC One in the United Kingdom pays licensing fees to broadcast the show;

Comey

  • Whereas, on January 27, 2017, President Trump invited FBI Director James Comey to a one-on-one dinner at the White House, during which he told Director Comey he needed loyalty;
  • Whereas, on February 14, 2017, President Trump told Director James Comey, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” and, “He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”;
  • Whereas, on May 12, 2017, President Trump tweeted, “James Comey better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!”;

Muh Russia

  • Whereas, according to a published report, President Trump told Russian officials, “I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job … I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”;
  • Whereas President Trump prohibited American press from witnessing his May 10, 2017, meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak at the White House, but allowed a Russian photographer to have access;
  • Whereas President Trump has refused to acknowledge, unequivocally, that Russia meddled in the 2016 Presidential election;

Muh Foreign Policy

  • Whereas, on April 29, 2017, President Trump invited Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte to visit him at the White House, despite the fact that Duterte has been accused of extrajudicial killings of drug suspects;
  • Whereas, on March 17, 2017, President Trump refused to shake German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s hand in an Oval Office meeting;
  • Whereas, on May 25, 2017, President Trump pushed aside Montenegro Prime Minister Dusko Markovic in order to move to the front of a group of NATO leaders;

Muh Muslim Ban

  • Whereas, on June 5, 2017, President Trump tweeted, “People, the lawyers and courts can call it whatever they want, but I am calling it what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN!”;
  • Whereas, on May 25, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction blocking President Trump’s revised Executive order, saying it “drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination.”;

Trump is a Meanie

  • Whereas President Trump used Twitter to circulate a video of him violently wrestling a man covered by a CNN logo, which, according to the Reporters Committee on Freedom of the Press, was a “threat of physical violence against journalists;
  • Whereas, in a February 4, 2017, tweet, President Trump referred to a Federal judge with whom he disagreed as a “so-called judge”;
  • Whereas, on June 29, 2017, President Trump tweeted, “I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don’t watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came … to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year’s Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!”;
  • Whereas, on April 28, 2017, President Trump referred to United States Senator Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas” in a speech to the National Rifle Association;
  • Whereas President Trump has called press reports, “fake news” and in some instances his administration has prohibited video recordings of White House press briefings;

WHAT TO DO ABOUT DANGEROUS MEAN TRUMP? 

H. Res 456 demands the following of President Trump:

  • Release his tax returns;
  • Place his private business assets in a blind trust or to divest from them;
  • Refrain from using Twitter inappropriately
  • Refrain from calling reporting “fake news”
  • Refrain from posting video of himself wrestling with a press logo
  • Stop limiting full electronic press access to White House press briefings;
  • Unequivocally acknowledge that Russia interfered in the 2016 United States Presidential election, and work to protect our electoral process from any future foreign interference;
  • Conduct United States foreign policy in a manner that reflects the United States traditional role as leader of the free world.

Sorry bitches – the United States elected a big-mouthed billionaire with a vast business empire, who has been tweeting all sorts of crazy shit for nearly a decade, and who can shake whomever the fuck’s hand he wants. The madman can order his press secretary to conduct briefings by candlelight if he wants to – or to play the clip of himself beating up the CNN logo before every single meeting.

Trump has also negotiated for a ceasefire in Syria, billions of investment dollars in US jobs, given ICE and DHS the freedom to perform a record number of human trafficking arrests, pulled out of the hugely unfair Paris climate accord, and made French President Emmanuel Macron his bitch – all within his first 6 months as President.

I have an idea: 

H. Res 457 – “Figuring out why the fuck Democrats lost the House, Senate, Oval Office, and Supreme Court Act”

  • Whereas, in the 2016 election the Democrats ran a criminal establishment candidate;
  • Whereas, in the 2016 election the DNC conspired to chat against candidate Bernie Sanders;
  • Whereas, after the 2016 election Maxine Waters and a bunch of other nutbag Democrats ranted on national TV about conspiracy theories involving the President – turning the DNC into an international laughing stock of temper-tantruming children;
  • Whereas the MSM has colluded with members of congress to smear President Trump on a daily basis;

Resolved, that congressional Democrats and members of the MSM who have colluded to denigrate a sitting President should

  • Grow the fuck up;
  • Get back to work;
  • Don’t hate the player, hate the game;

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Idiots At Snopes Sign Horrible Contract For Ad Revs, Now Literally Begging For Money With Gofundme

A key member of Facebook’s ministry of truth, Snopes, has hit a major snag which may force them out of business. Apparently too cheap or stupid to run a contract for their primary source of income past an attorney, the ‘arbiters of truth’ appear to be in major financial trouble after claiming a vendor is holding ad revenues hostage, and have set up a gofundme page which has raised $130,000 of it’s $500,000 goal within hours.

We had previously contracted with an outside vendor to provide certain services for Snopes.com. That contractual relationship ended earlier this year, but the vendor will not acknowledge the change in contractual status and continues to essentially hold the Snopes.com web site hostage.

Unfortunately, we have been cut off from our historic source of advertising income. –savesnopes.com

That outside vendor was none other than San Diego based Proper Media, which bought out Snopes co-founder Barbara Mikkelson’s share in the company for $3.6 million following a nasty divorce.

According to the San Diego Union Tribune:

Established in 2003, Bardav, Inc. was the joint venture of Snopes creator David Mikkelson and his then-wife Barbara Mikkelson, who each owned one share and 50 percent of the company. The couple divorced in 2015. In July of 2016, Barbara sold her stake to Proper Media’s five equity holders for $3.6 million.

Prior to the sale, Bardav had contracted Proper Media for web development and advertising services on Snopes.com, with the companies agreeing to split revenue earned from advertisements.

In May, Proper Media filed suit against Bardav and Mikkelson with the San Diego Superior Court of California over ownership of the site, alleging that Mikkelson attempted to gain control over the business and block Proper Media from its share of profits. Snopes counter sued, arguing that Proper Media has not paid Snopes its share of advertising revenue since March. Motions by both the plaintiffs and defendants are scheduled to be heard on Aug. 4.

Who could have imagined that the biased ‘fact-checking’ website run by militantly liberal rabid anti-Trumpers and co-founded by a cheating, whore mongering, cat-abandoning, embezzling degenerate would sign a sloppy contract?

The arrangement with Proper Media follows revelations that David Mikkelson secret PayPal account to allegedly funnel advertising revenue from Snopes into his personal accounts so that he could travel around the world banging whores behind his wife’s back – according to court documents obtained by Wesearcher / Gotnews.

As iBankCoin reported in December, while engaging in debauchery behind his wife’s back, Mikkelson wrote off just about everything as a business expense, embezzling a reported $98,000. The Snopes co-founder has since settled down and married a [NSFW] part time porn actress, Snopes.com administrator (spicy!), and sex worker. As in, she has a website devoted to being a whore.  Apparently she’s a pretty good one despite being “past her time as an adult model.”

In the same divorce papers, David Mikkelson fired back, claiming his ex-wife Barbara took millions from their joint account and bought property in Las Vegas.

No word on whatever happened to the cat…

 

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