NPR Tackles the Fake News Scourge, Interviews the Owner of Comet Ping Pong, James Alefantis

Poor James Alefantis, a regular Mario from Comet Ping Pong pizza was interviewed this morning to discuss the conspiracy theory being leveled against him, in regards to Pizzagate and how it pertains to child trafficking.

Thank you NPR for rooting out this fake news.

Here is David Seaman’s rebuke of the NY Times article, which dismissed the conspiracies as ‘fake news.

Paul nails it, as usual. The hypocrisy of the left is palpable.

Blame it on the weather, the elections or God forbid Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com — but retails sales at traditional brick and mortar stores are looking like a complete and total bust for the much anticipated Black Friday. Sales were expected to stabilize this year, with projections ranging from flat to negative 3.5% year over year. However, according to RetailNext, sales plunged by more than 10% on Black Friday. Additionally, the number of transactions were down nearly 8%, year over year.

Sales and traffic at U.S. brick-and-mortar stores on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday declined from last year, as stores offered discounts well beyond the weekend and more customers shopped online.

Internet sales rose in the double digits on both days, surpassing $3 billion for the first time on Black Friday, according to data released on Saturday.

Data from analytics firm RetailNext showed net sales at brick-and-mortar stores fell 5.0 percent over the two days, while the number of transactions fell 7.9 percent.

Preliminary data from retail research firm ShopperTrak showed that shopper visits to such stores fell a combined 1 percent during Thanksgiving and Black Friday when compared with the same days in 2015.

The data highlights the waning importance of Black Friday, which until a few years ago kicked off the holiday shopping season, as more retailers start discounting earlier in the month and opened their doors on Thanksgiving Day.

“We knew it (holiday season) was going to be off to a slow start,” Shelley Kohan, vice president of retail consulting at RetailNext, said.

“The first couple of weeks with the election were a complete distracter from the normal course of business and…a warmer climate in November may have made the sales more stubborn,” she said, adding that she saw sales picking up in December.

Net sales on Black Friday slid 10.4 percent for brick-and-mortar chains, according to RetailNext.

“Stores that opened on Thursday were not very busy on Black Friday,… and while the Thanksgiving Day opt-outs were busier on Black Friday, they didn’t see the crowds they saw in previous years,” NPD group’s Chief Industry analyst Marshal Cohen said.

Conversely, online sales dominated by Amazon.com, spiked doubled digits to more than $3b on Black Friday, a new record. While interesting and also a strong sign of consumer demand, none of this bodes well for the litany of stores domiciled in the endless sea of shopping malls across America.

The Amazonian vortex continues to draw everything into its vortex.

Because the Russians are hacking everything in sight, the Hillary Clinton campaign has decided to join the grass roots efforts of Jill Stein to overthrow the elections and to hopefully get to the bottom of all of this craziness — which perhaps may pave the way to the first female President of the United States of America.

Her campaign counsel, Marc Elias, said the Clinton campaign ‘will participate in order to ensure the process proceeds in a manner that is fair to all sides.’ How benevolent of them, to take time out from their busy schedules to ensure that Donald Trump is getting a fair deal.

Kellyanne Conway wasn’t at all appreciative of this Clinton generosity, saying “what a pack of sore losers. After asking Mr. Trump and his team a million times on the trail, ‘Will HE accept the election results?’ it turns out Team Hillary and their new BFF Jill Stein can’t accept reality.”

Indeud.

The unappreciative Conway furthered her assault:

“Rather than adhere to the tradition of graciously conceding and wishing the winner well, they’ve opted to waste millions of dollars and dismiss the democratic process. The people have spoken. Time to listen up. #YesYourPresident.”

Elias insisted that they hadn’t found “any actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology.” Even still, one can never be too careful with the diabolical Putin still out there, lurking in the shadows, hacking about the internets.

Even though Elias thinks this is all a grand waste of time and money, they’re gonna participate anyway, in order to ensure fairness, justice and the American way.

“We do so fully aware that the number of votes separating Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the closest of these states — Michigan — well exceeds the largest margin ever overcome in a recount,“ Elias said. “But regardless of the potential to change the outcome in any of the states, we feel it is important, on principle, to ensure our campaign is legally represented in any court proceedings and represented on the ground in order to monitor the recount process itself.”

As the interview with Bloomberg wasted on, Elias became emboldened, decrying his duty to the 64 million people who voted for Hillary.

“We believe we have an obligation to the more than 64 million Americans who cast ballots for Hillary Clinton to participate in ongoing proceedings to ensure that an accurate vote count will be reported.”

And then he showed his cards, the fucking Russians.

The 2016 election cycle “was unique in the degree of foreign interference witnessed throughout the campaign,” Elias said, noting that the U.S. government had concluded Russian state actors behind hacks of the Democrat National Committee and the personal e-mails of some Clinton campaign officials.

Data scientists have been on the job, making sure the vote was legit. Bear in mind, these same data scientists, whatever the fuck that term means, were all clown raped on election night — made to look like data idiots — completely and utterly disgraced by the election results.

“We have quietly taken a number of steps in the last two weeks to rule in or out any possibility of outside interference in the vote tally in these critical battleground states,” he said, including having data scientists and lawyers comb over the results, and monitored and staffed post-election canvasses.

Trump called the recount efforts by Stein a scam.

“This is a scam by the Green Party for an election that has already been conceded, and the results of this election should be respected instead of being challenged and abused, which is exactly what (Green Party leader) Jill Stein is doing,” Trump said in a statement about the recount.

“This recount is just a way for Jill Stein, who received less than one percent of the vote overall and wasn’t even on the ballot in many states, to fill her coffers with money, most of which she will never even spend on this ridiculous recount.”

It would be ironic if this meddling by the Clinton’s convinced Trump that Hillary was irredeemable and a motivator to prosecute a case against her for the emails and the Clinton Foundation pay to play schemes.

The Jill Stein campaign prides itself for being anti-corporate — only accepting the donations from the small people — the disenfranchised folks who cannot afford to donate to her losing campaign — but do so nonetheless to help Jill fulfill an otherwise pointless existence in the political landscape.

Thanks to her website and the Wayback machine, we can examine the donations and the rate by which they came in — to see if they have a ‘grass rootish’ demeanor or not.

Here is the timeline on 11/23/16.

Upon launching the new fundraiser to help ensure the Russians didn’t hack the Presidential election, Jill raised an immediate 87k.

20:51:29

The second update occurred at 21:13:23, funds on hand now $131,526. Money was being raised at about $2k per minute.

The third update occurred at 23:40:49, funds on hand now $626,916.47. Money was being raised at $3,370 per minute.

The fourth update occurred at 23:45:01, funds on hand now $646,386.47. Money was being raised at $4,867 per minute.

On November the 24th, 2016, there was 22 updates. I’ve chosen to analyze 3 time periods, every seventh update, in an effort to further analyze Dr. Stein’s grass roots fundraising feats.

Schedule.

The fifth update occurred at 00:14:41, funds on hand now $780,759.00. Money was being raised at $4,633 per minute.

The sixth update occurred at 6:16:36, funds on hand now $2,315,213.66. Money was being raised at $4,250 per minute.

The sixth update occurred at 14:33:33, funds on hand now $2,929,566.10. Money was being raised at $1,236 per minute. Such slackers.

The seventh update occurred at 20:49:17, funds on hand now $4,005,993.85. Money was being raised at $2,862 per minute. Much better.

I’ll summarize for the 25th and the 26th, in an effort to preserve brevity.

Here is the timeline of updates for the 25th.

During Thanksgiving, Jill Stein’s grass roots campaign had $4,591,039.66 on hand at 06:11:44. By 22:52:24, that number swelled to $5,322,206.01. Money was raised at $730 per minute.

At 3:29:47 on 11/26, Jill Stein had $5,483, 727.60 on hand. As of right now, at 23:37, she has $5,532,782.53 on hand. Money is being raised at $40.87 per minute.

In summary, Jill Stein raised an enormous amount of money in the opening hours of her campaign to recount the votes in the all important swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Although she claimed her fund raising efforts were entirely grass roots, the facts suggest otherwise. By what I’m seeing here, big donors stepped in early to put her over the top — then the grass roots plebs stepped in to toss nickels at her — with donations shrinking from $4,800 per minute to just over 40 bucks now. Interestingly, the rate by which she’s raised funds have an inverse correlation to the amount of press she’s been receiving.

In other words, none of this makes any sense. Where did all of the early money come from?

Live shot of Jill Stein's headquarters: pic.twitter.com/kKQb0R558x

— Jason C. (@CounterMoonbat) November 26, 2016

Hillary Clinton already conceded the election and isn’t interested in dividing the country via a ridiculous recount. After all, she was the one holding Trump’s feet to the fire in accepting the outcome of the elections and not challenging its efficacy.

Enter Shill Stein and her money grabbing schemes — playing off the butthurt feelings of the millions of people crying into their dinner jackets over the Clinton loss — raising enormous amounts of funds from them since Wednesday.

Let me rephrase that so it can sink in.

Jill Stein is brazenly taking advantage of people by hanging hope of their heads, saying send me your money and I will ensure Trump isn’t the next President of the United States. Essentially, that’s what this is about, no?

Since Wednesday, Stein’s money raising schemes have topped $5 million. Her original goal was $2.5m, but rose, dramatically, after the money started to roll in. Her new goal is $7 million. Recounts will begin in Wisconsin soon. She’s hoping to do recounts in PA and MI too, for the sake of the people, of course.

Via her own website:

“We cannot guarantee a recount will happen in any of these states we are targeting. We can only pledge we will demand recounts in those states.”

If the recounts don’t happen, what will become of all that money? Stein’s website says any “surplus will also go toward election integrity efforts and to promote voting system reform.”

Interestingly, as her money raising schemes proved successful, the alleged costs associated with the recount rose dramatically — including millions to be paid out to lawyers.

It appears that as more money came in, Jill Stein's estimated recount costs rose dramatically. https://t.co/aoOqH0VVkP pic.twitter.com/kcoYTrSUm3

— Yashar (@yashar) November 24, 2016

READ THE FINE PRINT: There probably won't be a recount and Jill Stein will line her pockets with the money for "integrity efforts" #NoRefund pic.twitter.com/a3fF5JOpGP

— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) November 24, 2016

Nate Silver isn’t a fan.

Not saying this Jill Stein thing is a scam, but if it were a scam, it would probably look a lot like this. https://t.co/pg4eAuFQ4h

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 25, 2016

Jonah sums it up perfectly.

Jill Stein's racket is incredible:

Step 1: Cost the Dem the Election
Step 2: wait for Trump panic
Step 3: Bilk millions for recount.

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) November 25, 2016

Here’s Stein’s conference, discussing her absurd contest.

The neverending election continues.

I took the day off. I’m guilty as sin. It was a wonderful trading session, betwitx with all sorts of fuckery — like stocks hitting new highs and oil crashing by 4% — all at the same time. I love when that happens.

Crude is down on renewed fears over prospective OPEC cuts. The people who run OPEC are professional liars and can never be trusted, so guessing whether or not they’ll cut production is anyone’s guess.

At the end of the abbreviated session, a lovely volume spike from one of our algorithmic based trading bots, smashed into the SPY to make it great again.

The bet here is a simple one: Black Friday sales are going to be fucking awesome — as the animals rampage throughout America’s shopping malls like savages — killing one another for toasters and pairs of rubber sneakers.

Craig Timberg from Washington Post must be bored this Thanksgiving, spending his time concocting a rich and imaginative tale of fake news websites swaying the billion dollar Clinton campaign from no brainer win to a horrible loss. Here we are, once again, with the faux claims out of Washpo — spreading their own ironic fake news of Russian hacking conspiracies and a furious — and all of a sudden — flood of fake news websites that worked in concert to elect Donald Trump. After all, how could anyone vote for a man who’s credo was Americanism over globalism?

Don’t you like cheap prices at Walmart?

To date, hard evidence of Russian interference in our elections has yet to materialize — which was at the vanguard of the democrat response to embarrassing Wikileaks revelations that painted the party as wantonly corrupt and spirit cooking depraved.

Since the election results shocked the establishment elite, there has been an absolute fervor across the media, led by Obama and his shills, to place the blame for Hillary’s cosmically hilarious defeat on websites that challenge falsehoods and media cuckery .

Washpo chimes in on the issue — fueled by a McCarthy era styled list of Russian propaganda websites — provided by shills at some bullshit website called ProporNot.

The flood of “fake news” this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton, helping Republican Donald Trump and undermining faith in American democracy, say independent researchers who tracked the operation.

PropOrNot’s monitoring report, which was provided to The Washington Post in advance of its public release, identifies more than 200 websites as routine peddlers of Russian propaganda during the election season, with combined audiences of at least 15 million Americans. On Facebook, PropOrNot estimates that stories planted or promoted by the disinformation campaign were viewed more than 213 million times.

“The way that this propaganda apparatus supported Trump was equivalent to some massive amount of a media buy,” said the executive director of PropOrNot, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid being targeted by Russia’s legions of skilled hackers. “It was like Russia was running a super PAC for Trump’s campaign. .?.?. It worked.”

On ProporNot’s list of websites to avoid, due to Russian propaganda risk, includes infowars.com, nakedcapitalism.com, wikileaks.org, zerohedge.com — amongst many others.

Propornot even provides their readers with a wonderful chrome browser extension to rout out these evil sites. Instead of reading propaganda, maybe you should read Snopes instead (serious eyeroll action). If you want to continue the discussion, go head on over to their Reddit page — where another 26 people are interested in the complete shit they spew. According to recent Alexa rankings, these butthurt libtards are talking to themselves, literally, except for the moron singular shill from Washpo who wrote this absurd story.

The quintessential picture of failure

I can sit here and claim alt-left sites like MotherJones and DailyKos are merely Chinese shills, working in concert with the Democratic Party, in an effort to elect democrats in order to  continue to pursue a brand of globalism that favors the hollowing out of America’s middle class, transferring vast amounts of wealth from here to there. In spite of the fact that everything I just said, as a matter of policy, is 100% accurate — the cucks from Daily Kos had little to do with it.

The fake news conspiracy theories being promoted by very low and disingenuous news agencies, who’ve proven to be corrupted and co-opted by the Democratic Party, is embarrassing for the 4th estate. Instead of bucking up and dealing with their short comings, the fact that no one believes their shit anymore, they’ve gone apeshit hysterical over the success of Breitbart and other conservative leaning sites — simply branding them as fake and actively working with Appnexus, Facebook and Google to demonetize them.

Welcome to the Chinafication of the American media.

I will get around to this when I can. It’s Thanksgiving and 4:25am, after all. But there are some huge internet wars taking place tonight, after the CEO of Reddit, Steve Huffman, aka SPEZ, admitted to being a cuck and editing the comments of mean users who cursed him out for banning the topic of PIZZAGATE (John Podesta and his alleged pedophile friends as it relates to Comet Pizza and child trafficking). This fuckery gained traction because he banned the topic of Pizzagate from being discussed on Reddit — proclaiming they weren’t interested in having witch hunts on the site.

But that’s fucking bullshit and he knows it. The entire site is a giant fucking witch hunt — with a range of topics too broad to even discuss. It is conspiracy theory central, for retarded autistic types.

Someone important doesn’t want Comet Pizza being discussed or the ongoings of John Podesta, as evidenced by the recent NY Times article — who very kindly corrected the record for all of the fake news readers out there — telling the world that Comet Pizza merely sells pies.

You tell me if your local pizzeria hosts deranged shit like this.

One Reddit user from The_Donald sums it up better than I can.

Here is the part he admitted to being a cuck.

Oh, and he violated his own terms of service, not that it matters for the C level types.

Cernovich tweeted this gem of a leaked slack chat of the Reddit cognoscenti plotting to shut down the hugely popular The_Donald subreddit.

Reddit admin slack chat leaked! Planning to shut down @thedonaldreddit! https://t.co/HOvyK34xAR #RedditLeak

— Mike Cernovich ?? (@Cernovich) November 24, 2016

iBankCoin will have a lot more on this topic, as it develops.

In lieu of Europe’s superior anglo-saxon cousins on holiday today, celebrating National Feast, their indices are rudderless — flat to down, as the eurofags are unable to do anything right without their superior cousins across the pond.

The Eurofags 50 is lower by 0.2% — with pretty much zero highlights to talk about at the given time. Nothing. Zilch. Okay, the greaseball adulterers in Italy are higher by 0.43%. Other than that, nothing.

The price of copper, amazingly, is higher again +1.3%. The idea that China is going to be great again under a hardnosed Trump administration — who would rather detonate atomic weapons in Beijing than cede another one sided trade deal to them, is humorous, to say the least. The rise in copper has nothing to do with America or Europe. I’m not even sure Europe has functional economies that require copper anymore, other than to give all of their new migrants something to do — fitting pipes and building temporary housing units for them. Rest assured, the copper trade is 100% China.

Additionally, gold is lower again, off by 0.3% — as gold bugs get stomped the fuck out and flushed down filthy toilets. I am bemused by the whole ordeal.

The German yield curve is a nightmare to look at, with short duration bonds DEEP into negative turf. The whole country is on the verge of irredeemable cuckery.

Lastly, keep an eye on both CNY and CNH, trading 6.91/6.947 now. Unbelievably, they’re rigging the shit out of their currency since the election and not a god damned person is calling them out on it. The Yen is tanking again, off by 0.6% v the dollar — now at 113.28. I hope they fall on their sword and lose all of their cars in the Pacific.

UPDATE: The eurofags 50 is now higher by 0.2%. Go get ’em girls!