Libturd Thursday ~ The Afternoon Version

 

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Libturd Thursday ~ Those FBI Burn Bags ~ by Skip

 

So, you've probably heard the latest buzz about those FBI burn bags, right? Well, it turns out that FBI Director Kash Patel has uncovered some seriously juicy stuff about the whole Russian collusion hoax. Thousands of documents were found in these bags, which were supposed to be incinerated, and it looks like someone wanted to keep them out of public view for a good reason.

One of the big finds was the annex to the Durham report, which was all about figuring out where that ridiculous hoax came from. This document is now in the middle of a declassification tug-of-war between the CIA and the FBI, and let me tell you, it's got some bombshells.

According to Fox News, these burn bags were filled with evidence from foreign intel that showed the FBI was planning to spread the hoax before they even started their Crossfire Hurricane investigation. It's like they had a heads-up about their own dirty tricks. And remember, Obama's intel chiefs were the ones who supposedly twisted these reports to go after Trump.

Patel, who used to work on the House Intelligence Committee, found a hidden room packed with documents and hard drives that no one knew about. This month has been like watching a soap opera unfold with all the Russian collusion secrets coming out. And now, with the burn bags in the mix, it seems like the plot has thickened.

The big question is, who's going to face the music for this? It's pretty clear that some folks at the FBI were up to no good, and they were trying to cover their tracks by tossing these documents into the fire. The evidence suggests that there was a coordinated effort to smear Trump's name with fake Russian ties.

Patel's been a real detective in this whole saga, uncovering the FBI's shady tactics like the way they spied on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page without playing fair. They left out information that could've cleared Page's name just to get their wiretap.

So now we're all waiting to see if anyone's going to get in trouble for this mess. The plot twists just keep on coming!

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Skipism Wednesday ~ PM

 

I would have said hangings.

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Skipism Wednesday ~ Some Government Employees Don't believe in America

 

 BREAKING: Jamaican illegal alien was wearing a badge and carrying a department-issued gun on the streets of Maine

A Jamaican man who was in the U.S. illegally was found to be working as a cop in Maine, carrying a gun issued by the police department. It turns out that 29-year-old Orville “Ricky” Johnson, whose tourist visa expired a long time ago, had been hired by the Lewiston Police Department in 2022. He was given a Glock to carry on duty, and no one bothered to check his citizenship status or run the required background checks through E-Verify.

What's even crazier is that this whole situation came to light when Johnson tried to buy another gun for himself. He walked into a gun store in Lewiston, filled out the ATF Form 4473 claiming to be a U.S. citizen, and that's when the NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System) flagged his application. Two days later, on June 27, 2024, federal agents from HSI/ICE (Homeland Security Investigations/Immigration and Customs Enforcement) Boston task-force arrested him in the parking lot of the police station. ICE Boston Field Office Director Todd Lyons had some strong words about the incident, saying, "We have a police department that was knowingly breaking the very law they are charged with enforcing."

Johnson's story is a wild one. He used a photocopy of a fake green card to get the job, listing his status as a "Permanent Resident" with the number "000-000-000." The real kicker is that genuine green cards start with three letters, not numbers. The HR department never requested to see the actual card, and the background check they did was only within the state of Maine, so it didn't catch his expired B-2 visa.

Maine is a state where you can carry a gun without a permit, but the police still need to follow a federal law called LEOSA (Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act). LEOSA says that an officer needs to be legally allowed to be in the country to carry a gun. Since Johnson was an illegal alien, he couldn't lawfully have the authority to do his job.

This whole mess came to light because the HR department ignored warnings. On May 4, 2022, a sergeant from the Records Division emailed them about an NCIC (National Crime Information Center) hit on Johnson that showed he was an overstay from Jamaica. The HR director just told everyone to ignore it. The city attorney even told them to delete the emails, but the sergeant had already copied them to a personal Gmail account, and now they're evidence in the ICE investigation.

When Johnson tried to buy the Glock 43X at a gun store in New Hampshire, NICS denied the sale and alerted the ATF, which led to the joint HSI/ATF operation that caught him. They found his service weapon, two extra-large ammo magazines that weren't issued by the department, a fake driver's license under the name "Richard Jay," and a bunch of cash in his possession.

Governor Janet Mills (D) has had to step in, saying, "Cities do not have authority to nullify federal immigration law." The state's Attorney General is now looking into all the other towns in Maine that might have done the same thing. And the Legislature is working on a new law (LD 2312) that would require police departments to check citizenship for all job applicants.

As for the people who hired him, the HR director has resigned, and the police chief is on paid leave while the city looks into it. The grand jury has started to bring charges against not just Johnson, but also the HR director and the police chief for their roles in this.

And the fallout? There are 47 active cases where Johnson was involved in, from traffic stops to more serious crimes. Those cases are all now up in the air, and there's a good chance that anyone he arrested might be able to get their conviction thrown out because he wasn't legally allowed to be a cop. The first civil suit has already been filed by a woman who was arrested for a DUI based on Johnson's testimony back in 2023. Plus, the city's $750,000 COPS grant from the Department of Justice is now on hold while they figure out if the police department broke the rules.

The city council is set to vote on July 16 whether to bring in an independent monitor from the Attorney General's office to look into the hiring mess. But given their history, who knows if they'll even check that person's citizenship.

The bottom line is that a guy who had no right to be in the country was walking around with a badge and a gun for two years because the people in charge didn't do their job right. Now, all the work he did as a police officer is being questioned, and it's a serious legal mess for the city of Lewiston.

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Libturds for a Tuesday ~ PM

 

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Libturds for a Tuesday ~ Biden’s $19.5 Million EV Chargers: The Great Green Swindle

 

By the numbers the scam is almost comical: 384 individual charging ports, $7.5 billion burned, $19.5 million per plug. That’s enough to buy every Tesla owner in America a home charger—twice—yet all taxpayers got was a handful of glorified parking spots.

WHO POCKETED THE CASH? • EVgo, ChargePoint, and Electrify America—all heavy Democratic donors—walked away with the biggest CFI grants. • The Greenlining Institute, NAACP Climate Initiative, and West Harlem Environmental Action were hired as “equity consultants” at $1,200 an hour to ensure 40 % of funds flowed to “underserved communities” per Biden’s 2021 “Justice40” diktat. • BlueGreen Alliance (a coalition of the Sierra Club and the United Steelworkers) lobbied for set-asides that require every single station to use union-only labor—driving costs up another 30 %. • BlackRock’s Climate Finance Partnership skimmed management fees on green bonds floated to finance the program.

EXAMPLES THAT’LL MAKE YOUR BLOOD BOIL • Tucson, AZ: $13.3 million for six ports—each one guarded by a 24/7 security camera because the station is in a high-crime, “environmental-justice” census tract. • Rural Alabama: $8.7 million for four plugs on a county road with daily traffic under 200 cars. Local DOT official admitted in a FOIA’d email, “This location was chosen to hit our Justice40 quota, not utilization projections.” • Los Angeles Metro: $20 million for a 10-port station that still isn’t operational after 18 months because the “community engagement committee” insists on indigenous land acknowledgments every 15 minutes on the video kiosk.

WHO VOTED FOR THIS HEIST? Senate: 19 Republican “yes” votes including Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, and Mitt Romney. House: 13 GOP turncoats led by Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, who now sit on the board of green-tech lobbying shops.

BOTTOM LINE Democrats didn’t build an EV network; they built a $19.5 million virtue-signal machine—courtesy of your paycheck.

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Awww Monday Woodsterman Style ~ 511 B

 

Awww Monday Woodsterman Style ~ 511 A

 

Happy Funday ~ Life Goals

 

Branson Couple Arrested After Allegedly Living in Walmart Attic for Two Years 

A couple has been arrested after authorities say they secretly lived in the attic space of a local Walmart Supercenter for more than two years, completely unnoticed by staff.

According to police, Todd MacAllister, 47, and Jessica Reems, 45, had been residing in a makeshift living area tucked inside the store’s attic—above the garden center and automotive section. The discovery came after an HVAC contractor, responding to a routine maintenance issue, stumbled upon what he described as a “fully lived-in campsite” complete with a mattress, battery-powered lanterns, storage bins full of clothes, and even a working hot plate.

“It looked like they’d been there a long time,” said Sgt. Lane Holloway of the Branson Police Department. “They had shelves organized with food from the store, books, clothes, even a small area where they were growing herbs under LED lights.”

The couple allegedly accessed the attic through an old maintenance hatch in the stockroom that had long been sealed off from regular use. Investigators believe they would sneak down late at night to take food, hygiene products, and supplies, blending in with late-shift employees.

“They were careful,” Holloway added. “They didn’t take much at once. We believe they used fake employee vests and timed their movements around security camera blind spots.”

The couple reportedly kept a journal documenting their experience, with entries referencing “store noise patterns,” restocking schedules, and strategies for avoiding detection. One entry read: “Day 614 – We made it through Black Friday again. The noise was unbearable, but the snacks were worth it.”

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Happy Funday ~ Stubbs For Mayor ~ by Skip

 What's the Deal with the Town That Picked a Cat for Mayor?

So, picture this: a Boeing 737-400 is gliding down through a bruise-colored sky and lands on a gravel runway in Talkeetna, Alaska. This place is tiny, with about 1,197 folks living there (well, that's the estimate for 2025). The average Joe here is about 48.3 years old, mostly white, with a good chunk being Native Athabaskan and some mixed folks too. You've got two roads that just stop at the Susitna River, and after that, it's all boardwalks, spruce trees, and trails for the snowmobiles. They've got a cute motto painted on a piece of driftwood that says, "Talkeetna: Not on the Way to Anywhere." It's like they're telling you, if you're not lost, you've got no business being here.

I hoist a pack filled with smoked salmon and a bottle of 100-proof Yukon Shine, and start following a trail of cat prints in the dirt. The locals all spin the yarn about how this whole feline-mayor thing started the same way: Back in '81, the town's charter clerk, Lauri Stec, waltzes into Nagley's General Store with this orange tabby kitten she calls Stubbs. It's got no tail, so the name fits. During that summer's election, the townsfolk decide to have a little fun and write in Stubbs' name, 'cause, you know, "Better a cat than the other options." The joke's on them, though, 'cause Stubbs ends up winning with 87 votes. No one has the guts to do a redo. So, they swear him in using Robert's Rules of Order and a dish of evaporated milk.

Fast forward to '97, and Stubbs is like the Beyoncé of Alaskan politics, holding the title for the longest-serving elected official. Tourists flood the town, up to 9,000 in the summer, all wanting a snap with the furry mayor. He's living the high life, sipping on catnip-laced margarita water and napping in the sun at the bar. He's even got veto power, just a single hiss to keep the town in check with good zoning laws.

But, alas, the real Stubbs left us on July 21, 2017, at the ripe old age of 20 and a handful of days. They buried him behind the airfield with a cross that says "Honest, Tolerant, Stubborn." Tourists still swarm in, clutching old postcards of him like he's Elvis.

Enter Denali, the new furry ruler. This cat is Stubbs' great-grandkid, with a lineage as complicated as the royal family tree. He's got a black coat, a white patch on his chest, and eyes that look like chunks of glacial ice. Genetics here are like a soap opera.

I tracked down Denali at the West Rib Pub & Café, right around 3:14 in the afternoon. It's chilly, about 42 degrees, and the smoke from the chimney is thick as my grandpa's pipe. He's lounging on some beer cases, tail coiled up like a fancy scarf. His human helper, Darlene "Mama D" Koenig, keeps an eye on the clock. She's a 67-year-old widow who's seen it all, and she makes sure Denali sticks to his schedule.

"Two hours of public appearances, then he's out," she says. "Otherwise, he'll pee in the cash register."

This couple from Kansas tries to get his attention with a plushie, but the cat couldn't care less. Someone tosses a twenty into a jar labeled "Catnip & Infrastructure." Classic small-town stuff.

Quick facts about Talkeetna:

• It sits at 358 feet above sea level.

• They made it official in 1916 as a camp for the railroad builders.

• The whole place is 42.9 square miles, but only 0.9 of that is dry land you can actually walk on without sinking.

• The economy's all about flying tourists over to see Denali (the mountain, not the cat) and sled-dog kennels. Oh, and there's a bunch of espresso joints that look like they were chopped out of a log.

• The main claim to fame, aside from the cat mayor, is that this is the starting point for almost 70% of all the people trying to climb that big ol' mountain.

• They've got a theme song of sorts: "If You're Not a Little Weird, You're Not from Here."

Before the cats took over, the town had human mayors—railroad honchos, fur trappers, even an ex-Playboy bunny who promised everyone free firewood. But none of them lasted longer than two terms. The cold winters had them running for the hills. Then along comes Stubbs, who doesn't make promises he can't keep.

One night, I'm outside the Fairview Inn with Rohn Buser, a musher with a beard that could give Santa a run for his money. His dogs are snoring under the picnic table as we share some Yukon Shine. He tells me, "They picked a cat 'cause humans kept messing up. Cats don't hike taxes, don't steal money, don't chase after secretaries. Plus, tourists throw more cash around when the mayor purrs."

Inside, Denali's up on the bar like he owns the place, looking down at everyone. For a second, the jukebox goes quiet, and everyone holds their breath. Then he blinks, slow and majestic, like he's saying, "Cheers, peasants." Everyone clinks their glasses together.

The night goes on, the music gets louder, and the door slams shut against the cold. The cat's paw prints vanish into the spruce forest, like autographs in the snow. And just like that, the town goes back to being a peculiar slice of Alaskan life, where a cat is king and the humans are just along for the ride.

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