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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. It Was Susan Rice!

 

In a revelation that surprised nobody thinking logically (who else could it have been?) Bloomberg has been the first (second if you choose to include Mike Cernovich) to admit that they know it was Susan Rice who signed the logs getting her the information that eventually led to the Obama Administration “unmasking” the civilians on the Trump Team who were “unintentionally suveilled” by various security agencies.

In my opinion, this is the biggest story since Watergate about political intrigue, and it is the biggest story not covered by the MSM since Matt Drudge revealed the Bill Clinton – Monica Lewinsky story after it was buried. Like him or not, we owe Cernovich a big “thank you”. From Zero Hedge:

Once again it appears that Trump was right: the conspiracy theory that a close Obama associate worked to “unmask” the Trump team, resulting in the ongoing media spectacle over “collusion” between Trump and the Kremlin, has been confirmed, first by Mike Cernovich, and now by Bloomberg itself.

As noted last night, Journalist and author Mike Cernovich dropped an exclusive bombshell – naming Obama’s National Security Advisor Susan Rice as the official responsible for the ‘unmasking’ of the incoming Trump team during ‘incidental’ surveillance. This was apparently discovered after the White House Counsel’s office reviewed Rice’s document log requests:

The reports Rice requested to see are kept under tightly-controlled conditions. Each person must log her name before being granted access to them.

Upon learning of Rice’s actions, [National Security Advisor] H. R. McMaster dispatched his close aide Derek Harvey to Capitol Hill to brief Chairman Nunes.

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. We Need To Help Make UK Great Again After Brexit

 

Let me start by saying that I am not a fan of giving huge amounts of government welfare to other countries. I want to be clear on that. So now I begin:

What the UK did by exiting the EU was the single bravest move against the Socialists in world history, so far. Our own electoral decision to choose Trump against the combined might of the Socialists in the USA is a close second.

Ok, so now what? If you want to learn what’s next for the UK, there are many places to learn that. This article is the best I have seen for brevity, so far. I recommend it.

But I mean, what happens next for the USA? I think we need to brainstorm ways to Make UK Great Again and show them we appreciate the tough stand they just made. I have already tweeted POTUS and VP to get moving on this, but maybe we can kick around some ideas here with the great minds of Ricochet!

My first idea is to give them some of the Trade Deficit that is so desired around the world. Let’s buy a whole bunch more of their stuff than they buy of ours. I’m not saying we have to start eating kippers for breakfast, of course, but there are probably a lot of things they produce that we can consume.

I’d like to see the UK savagely stick their thumbs into the eyes of the (so they think) high-and-mighty Leftists of the EU, and we should do all we can to help. With luck, perhaps Marine and Geert and a host of others will follow suit. I think several EU countries are one or two terrorist attacks away from dumping the EU anyway. Let them point to the success of the UK to help guide their people out of the darkness!

Calling on @claire and @annefy to help me out here – they know so much more about UK than I do, as I have only been there once, in 1981.

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Why I Boycott Target Corporation

 

A friend asked me a couple months ago if I thought Target carried some certain brand of phone. I told him “I don’t know. I don’t go to Target anymore, and I never will again.” He had vaguely heard of the American Family Association boycott, and knew it was about so-called “trans-genders,” but that was it. He asked me why, and this is roughly what I said to him.

When I was shopping with my daughter as a toddler, and she needed to go the bathroom, I checked the Men’s room to make sure nobody was there, walked her in, and stood guard at the door until she came out.

When my wife was shopping with my son as a toddler, she took him into the ladies room with her.

Any man who has been to a major sporting event or especially a concert, has seen the occasional brave lady use the men’s room because OMG the lines in the ladies room are insane!

These things have been going on all my life. It’s not a big deal, really.

So what, exactly, was Target saying with their “bathroom announcement” of April 19, 2016?

Reading between the lines of the announcement, what Target said was that it is perfectly fine with them if grown men use the ladies restroom if they want to do so. They have zero concern for the safety of their customers, especially young girls, in Target bathrooms. As Target stated in the Announcement, everyone “deserves to be protected from discrimination” and the safety of our children be damned.

I imagine this scene: My daughter comes running from the Target restroom screaming that there is a man in there. I catch the pervert and gently put him on the ground and call the cops. The cops get there and the grown man says, “no you misunderstood, I just felt a little feminine today!”

The cops let this monster go, and arrest me for assault.

That is why I will boycott Target forever. If they had announced that they were going to add additional “gender neutral” restrooms (with locking doors) to their stores, I doubt anyone, myself included, would have said a word. This was never about trans-whatever people. It was about the safety of our daughters, wives, nieces, mothers, and grandmothers.

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Telling the Truth to a Celebrity

 

The Member Feed is quite busy today – we just had an exciting weekend – but I still feel the need to share this with everyone.

This is the best celebrity truth-telling I have seen in a long time.

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Finding Hidden Gems in the Executive Orders

 

I was reading the Executive Order on Sanctuary Cities — actually called “Enhancing Public Safety In The Interior Of The United States.” I noticed a couple gems in there that I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere else. The first one is pure magic, because it will crush the Left’s argument that all illegals are here in America solely to provide for their families and live a peaceful life.

Sec. 9. Sanctuary Jurisdictions.

(b) To better inform the public regarding the public safety threats associated with sanctuary jurisdictions, the Secretary shall utilize the Declined Detainer Outcome Report or its equivalent and, on a weekly basis, make public a comprehensive list of criminal actions committed by aliens and any jurisdiction that ignored or otherwise failed to honor any detainers with respect to such aliens.

This second one, I actually tweeted to the President months ago as a suggestion. For eight years, the Obama administration has been refusing to make public the amount of illegals populating our jails and prisons across the country. I suspect the actual number, when released, is going to really upset America.

Sec. 16. Transparency.

To promote the transparency and situational awareness of criminal aliens in the United States, the Secretary and the Attorney General are hereby directed to collect relevant data and provide quarterly reports on the following:

(a) the immigration status of all aliens incarcerated under the supervision of the Federal Bureau of Prisons;

(b) the immigration status of all aliens incarcerated as Federal pretrial detainees under the supervision of the United States Marshals Service; and

(c) the immigration status of all convicted aliens incarcerated in State prisons and local detention centers throughout the United States.

I encourage my fellow Members to post any gems they find in the Executive Orders that they may read in the coming days and weeks.

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. You Call That a Glitch?

 

As the older daughter Dana (Dominique Dunne, not the younger daughter played by Heather O’Rourke) in “Poltergeist” screamed out, “This isn’t a dream! This is really happening!”

Voting machines in my state of Texas, when you pull the ‘R’ for straight Republican ticket, are changing ONLY the President/Vice President choice – from Trump/Pence to Clinton/Kaine. This means that, after voting, if you happen to glance up at the bottom of the ballot, nothing has changed. It is only if you scroll up to the top and look again at President will you notice that your vote has been stolen.

“Texas County Enacts ‘Emergency Paper Ballots’ After ‘Software Glitch’ In Voting Machines”

Chambers County in Texas has decided to go with paper ballots because of the machine “malfunctions”.

If this is really a “glitch”, why is it that whenever we hear of these “glitches” that they always change the ‘R’ to a ‘D’ and never the other way around?

I recommend these courses of action, and I don’t care where you live. If they’ll do it in Texas, they’re doing it everywhere:

1) Write to your Governor, Attorney General, and Secretary Of State. I already have.

2) Do not vote early.

3) Do not vote straight Republican. Choose every vote carefully, and double-check when you are done.

4) Tell everyone to follow the above instructions.

I would rather stand in line on November 8th than have my vote stolen and given to Hillary Clinton!

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