It’s one of those roundup days again
(1) As Comey and Bolton go, so goes Brennan, if the DOJ chooses to act:
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee on Oct. 21 referred former CIA Director John Brennan to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution, alleging Brennan made false statements in his 2023 testimony before Congress about the Trump-Russia investigation.
“John Brennan lied to Congress,” Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said in a post on X in reference to the President Barack Obama appointee. “Today, we referred him to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution.”
Specifically, Jordan said in his letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi that evidence newly declassified by appointees of Trump at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence confirms Brennan falsely testified on May 11, 2023, when he said “the CIA was not involved at all with the (Steele) dossier.” …
“As the newly declassified documents demonstrate, Brennan eagerly wanted to include information from the Steele dossier in the (Intelligence Community Assessment), a fact Brennan himself documented in writing,” Jordan wrote, in reference to a classified CIA intelligence assessment about Russian interference in the election.
No one is above the law – except when their friends are in power.
(2) Graham Platner, a Democrat of Maine trying to defeat Susan Collins, has a Nazi tattoo (SS death’s head) that he claims he got twenty years ago in Croatia when he was in the US military on leave – and drunk. Mary Chastain, author of the post I just linked, writes:
I call absolute BS, and if it is true, then you’d better get tested for diseases because no legitimate tattoo artist in the world would ever tattoo a “very inebriated” person.
She seems to know a lot about tattoos, having seven of them. I’ll defer to her greater knowledge, since I have none. But one thing I do know is that you can get tattoos removed, and twenty years is a long time.
(3) Japan’s new prime minister is female, conservative, and an admirer of Thatcher:
The country’s parliament elected veteran ultraconservative lawmaker Sanae Takaichi to serve as the next prime minister on Tuesday, making her the first woman to take Japan’s highest public office.
Takaichi is an admirer of Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first female prime minister who was nicknamed the “Iron Lady.”
She favors a strong economy and a strong military, and, according to interviews with Japanese media, a strong drum riff.
… Speaking on Japanese radio station Tokyo FM’s “BABYMETAL” podcast in August, Takaichi confirmed a longtime affinity for the iconic British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, but said her favorite artist was Japanese drummer Yoshiki, of the X JAPAN rock band from Chiba.
… She used to play the drums in a heavy metal band that did Black Sabbath and Deep Purple covers, and CBS News’ Japanese partner network TBS says there’s still an electronic drum kit in her parliamentary residence — though she plays with headphones to avoid interrupting her colleagues.
She’s pro-US:
Takaichi cited the Japan-U.S. alliance as a “cornerstone” of Japanese diplomacy and stressed that Japan is an indispensable partner for America in its strategy to provide counterweights to China in the Indo-Pacific region. Trump is scheduled to visit Japan next Monday to Wednesday.
While Takaichi made history by becoming the first female leader of a country where men still largely hold sway, she has not promoted gender equality or diversity.
(4) Republican John Sununu of New Hampshire says he’s running for the Senate:
Sununu announced his decision in a video in which he said that even he was surprised by his decision to seek the Republican nomination for the seat.
“Washington, as anyone who observes can see, is a little dysfunctional right now,” Sununu said in an exclusive interview with News 9. “There’s yelling, there’s inactivity. We’ve got a government shutdown. Friends, family, they always say, ‘Why would anyone want to work there?’ And the short answer is it’s important to New Hampshire. It’s important that we have someone who knows how to get things done.”
Sununu’s entry into the race sets up a Republican primary with another former U.S. senator, Scott Brown, and a competition for the support of President Donald Trump. Sununu’s past opposition to Trump is well-documented, and he said he’s not focused on seeking the president’s endorsement.
This may sound confusing, because there have been a lot of politicians named Sununu in NH. One is the father, John, who was governor of New Hampshire and quite conservative. His two sons, Chris and John, are more RINO-ish. John was a House member and then US senator, but hasn’t been since 2008. Chris was recently governor. And you may remember Scott Brown, Sununu’s Republican rival, as having been a senator from Massachusetts elected to stop Obamacare. He actually has NH roots and has lived primarily there for quite some time.
New Hampshire is now a purple state, but only because Republicans often win the governorship, as well as controlling the state legislature. They do not do well at the House or Senate level, and the Democrat frontrunner for 2026 is the popular Chris Pappas.
(5) There’s a drive in California to put an initiative about voter ID on the ballot:
DeMaio’s Reform California, the organization behind the initiative, points out recent polling indicating that 68 percent of Californians support requiring an ID to vote, while 73 percent support requiring verification of citizenship. These measures are broadly seen as essential to election security, meaning that elected Democrats won’t like the idea.
Should be interesting.
“(5) There’s a drive in California to put an initiative about voter ID on the ballot:”
Just a reminder, we in California voted overwhelmingly against gay marriage.
Struck down on technicality by judge who shortly after came out of the closet, and then retired.
If this initiative were to succeed, guarantee it will be overturned somehow.
Meanwhile prop 50 is an attempt to take control of redistricting from a panel of citizens and give it to politicians. Ads are misleading, basically using hate of Trump as a reason to vote for the prop. And, 3 times as many misleading ads for proposition as truthful ads against.
(5) I’ve heard that fake ID’s are very common in the illegal immigrant crowd in California. The passage of such a proposition might make a small dent, but I doubt it would have a substantial impact.
I predict (5) won’t pass despite current polls. The sales pitch against it is just too simple and powerful. It will help Republicans – vote No!
California voter ID:
This will be a total joke.
They will issue voter ID to anyone who needs one – illegally or not – or simply mass mail ID’s to every address within a voting district (along with mail-in ballots.)
The feds can require voters to have ID, but they can’t make California officials actually enforce it. Not saying that wouldn’t be a crime, just that it would be routinely ignored, finessed, side-stepped, whatever. Blue butts in prison is the only thing that would stop that and the Left knows how many years of legal effort that would require and how unlikely the GOP would be in charge in DC for the extent of that slog.
Full moon, Proposition 8 that would have banned gay marriage in CA didn’t pass “overwhelmingly”, about 52 or 53 percent but it did pass in November 2008 in the same election where Obama was winning by over 20 percent.
I saw a pro-Prop 8 demonstration on a street corner in Silicon Valley where I live. None of the demonstrators were white.
I think it is illegal to show ID when you are voting in California. I have taken out my drivers license when I go to the table to get my ballot and the attendants seem upset and tell me I don’t need to show it. I have given up trying to fight it and vote by mail on the first day I receive the ballot. The state provides an automated system that tracks my ballot and sends me an email when they receive and count it. I’m glad I did because the local government snuck a sales tax increase on the ballot when everyone just expected the gerrymander proposition 50. I was happy to vote against it too.
“…local government snuck a sales tax increase on the ballot when everyone just expected the gerrymander proposition 50.” yep.
One of those temporary tax increases. Then, when it expires, another prop to vote on it, claiming, “it won’t raise any new taxes”.
So, those temp taxes here in Ca never go away.
Wow, fullmoon. What you wrote
One of those temporary tax increases. Then, when it expires, another prop to vote on it, claiming, “it won’t raise any new taxes”.
That is exactly what is being said here in Larimer Cty, CO. I and my immediate neighbors voted no, but it will pass because of braindead Dems.
I think it is illegal to show ID when you are voting in California. I have taken out my drivers license when I go to the table to get my ballot and the attendants seem upset and tell me I don’t need to show it.
Bob Wilson:
When I lived in San Francisco, likewise.
Republicans have had George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, John H. Sununu, and John E. Sununu. Democrats have had Richard J. Daley and Richard M. Daley. I bet there are many similar instances.
God save the Kings!
Pretty much NH is an example of that old saw of libs voting for the same policies that caused them to leave the place they’re original from. (IE People leaving Mass and then voting for the same stuff that caused them to leave Mass in the first place.)
BigD:
I’ve read a number of studies on the net effect of the moves to NH from Massachusetts, and it’s not clear that’s what has turned the state more liberal. Many of the newcomers are fleeing Massachusetts because they are more conservative.
MA is so far to the left that the “conservatives” leaving it may still be more liberal than the average resident of NH.
Bob Wilson – “I think it is illegal to show ID when you are voting in California. I have taken out my drivers license when I go to the table to get my ballot and the attendants seem upset and tell me I don’t need to show it.”
Why bother when CA gives drivers’ licenses to illegal aliens anyway?
“Why bother when CA gives drivers’ licenses to illegal aliens anyway?”
Well, that’s an upside to Real ID. CA can give out DLs to anyone they want, but if it has the star, the possessor has provided “a U.S. birth certificate, U.S. passport, or Permanent Resident Card (Green Card) if you are a non-U.S. citizen.” Any DMV clerk (or higher) who hands out Real ID falsely can be prosecuted in federal court.