The scandal of Pete Hegseth is that HE THINKS the encounter with Jane Doe was bad enough to threaten his job at FOX NEWS but not at the Department of Defense

Trump’s Pentagon pick paid woman after sex assault allegation but denies wrongdoing, his lawyer says

  Hegseth was concerned that she was prepared to file a lawsuit that he feared could have resulted in him being fired from Fox News. ...

The person who reported the assault — whose name, age and sex were not released — had bruises on the right thigh, according to the city’s statement. ...

At the time of the 2017 accusations, Hegseth, now 44, was going through a divorce with his second wife, with whom he has three children. She filed for divorce after he had a child with a Fox News producer who is now his wife, according to court records and social media posts by Hegseth. His first marriage ended in 2009, also after infidelity by Hegseth, according to court records.

 

Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick for defense secretary, paid accuser to save job at Fox News, his lawyer says

 Fox News host Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to serve as defense secretary, paid a confidential financial settlement to a woman who accused him of sexual assault out of concern that the allegation would lead to his firing from the cable news giant, his lawyer told CBS News. ...

The city of Monterey confirmed the 2017 investigation into Hegseth and said in a statement that investigators found the woman had "contusions" on her right thigh. No charges were filed, Parlatore said. 

The Washington Post, which first reported the financial payment, obtained what it referred to as a memo that was sent to the Trump transition team by a friend of the accuser alleging Hegseth raped a conservative group staffer in his room after drinking at the hotel bar. According to the Post, the memo states that the day after the incident, the accuser "had a moment of hazy memory of being raped the night before, and had a panic attack."

Senator John Barrasso: Trump's new energy secretary fracking pioneer Chris Wright will make America an all-of-the-above energy country that puts American families first

 

 Republican Sen. John Barrasso, who is expected to become chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said Trump promised bold choices for his Cabinet, and Wright's nomination delivers.

"He's s an energy innovator who laid the foundation for America's fracking boom. After four years of America last energy policy, our country is desperate for a secretary (of energy) who understands how important American energy is to our economy and our national security,″ Barrasso said of Wright, adding: "Wright will help ensure America remains committed to an all-of-the-above energy policy that puts American families first."

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Ford Motor F-150 Lightning EV pick-em-up-truck sales are a JOKE, and the mainstream media propaganda stories don't tell you that, if they cover the story at all

  Ford sold 7,162 units of the Lightning in Q3 2024, up from the 3,503 units in Q3 of last year. ... Year-to-date, Ford sold 22,807 F-150 Lightning EVs. ... 

[22,807 units lol. Ford sold nearly 751,000 F-series pick up trucks in 2023, so that's like 3% of the 2023 total]

Overall, Ford’s all-electric vehicle sales in the third quarter of this year amounted to 23,509 units, up 12.2% from last year’s 20,962 vehicles. Year-to-date, Ford sold 67,689 EVs, up 45% compared to last year’s 46,671 units. ...

Ford sold 432,429 combustion-powered vehicles in the third quarter, down 2.8% year-over-year, and 1,340,139 units year-to-date, down 1.8% year-over-year.

Reported here. 

That means year-to-date total EV sales are just 5.05% of total combustion-powered vehicle sales year to date.

People aren't buying these dogs.

None of these stories mention these facts.

CBS: Ford to pause production of F-150 Lightning electric pickup trucks

CNBC: Ford to halt production of electric F-150 Lightning next month until January

MarketWatch: Ford to Pause Production of F-150 Lightning EV Pickup Trucks

Reuters, to it's credit actually reported some actual numbers: Ford to halt production of F-150 Lightning EV pickup trucks for six weeks :

Ford said this month its Ford-brand U.S. EV sales are up 45% this year and sales of F-150 Lightning more than doubled to 7,100 in the three months ending Sept. 30 - thought [sic] they still represent just 3.6% of all F-Series pickup sales.     

If Ford is smart it will abandon this boondoggle which is going to cost it $5 billion plus in 2024 and even more going forward and just stick with hybrids and hope Donald Trump fixes this mess.

J. D. Vance v Tim Walz and CBS debate moderators: Harris-Biden facilitate illegal immigration through CBP One application

 CBS News Cuts Mic When JD Vance Tries To Explain Mobile App For Asylum Seekers :

SEN. JD VANCE: The rules were you weren't going to fact check, and since you are going to fact-check me, it's important to say what's actually going on. There is an application called the "CBP One" app where you can go as an illegal migrant, apply for asylum or apply for parole, and be granted legal status at the wave of a Kamala Harris open border wand. That is not a person coming in and applying for a green card and waiting for ten years, that is the facilitation of illegal immigration by our own leadership. ... The CBP One app has not been on the books since 1990. It is something that Kamala Harris created.

Nothing illustrates better the threat to free speech from Democrats and the media than what CBS did to help Walz by breaking the rules in his favor and cutting the mic:

 BRENNAN: Gentlemen, the audience can't hear you because the mics are cut. We have so much we want to get to.

 

CBS News lies about heat deaths, now AP Obama blatantly lies about what JD Vance said

It's almost like you can't trust the news 😏 .

 

 

CBS News just lies through its teeth about heat deaths

 Extreme heat is the No. 1 cause of weather-related deaths in the U.S., a risk that grows as temperatures rise.

From the story here. 

This isn't even debatable in the slightest degree:

Cold-related deaths outnumber heat deaths in all countries

What’s consistent in these studies is that cold-related deaths vastly outnumber those from heat.

In the Global Burden of Disease study, cold-related deaths were around four times higher than heat-related ones.

The study that estimates that 7.7% of deaths were attributed to temperature found that 7.3% were from cold temperatures; 0.4% were from heat.

In the “5 million death” study, 9.4% of deaths were related to sub-optimal temperatures. 8.5% were cold-related, and 0.9% were heat-related. This skew was true across all regions.

You can see these results in the chart below.

Globally, cold deaths are 9 times higher than heat-related ones. In no region is this ratio less than 3, and in many, it’s over 10 times higher. Cold is more deadly than heat, even in the hottest parts of the world.

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Twenty years of data:

Deportations are 24/7 all of a sudden under Biden without a new law having been passed, which means he could have simply done this at any point in his presidency but chose to let in millions instead

All these people cut in line ahead of legal immigrants who have to wait years for green cards.

One law for them, another for these, brought to you by Democrats.

 

Democrats still excelling at white-identity politics after all these years lol: White Women for Harris raised ~$11 million, White Dudes for Harris . . . not so much

"Only we get to be racist".

 

Imagine the firestorm over "White Dudes for Trump".

 

‘White Dudes for Harris’ raise $4 million for Democrat’s campaign against Trump

 

This story wants you to know lol: 

Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, are both white.

Meanwhile . . .

Grassroots organizers raise millions online for Harris in first week

The back-to-back calls motivated activist and Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts to follow suit. She organized a group, dubbed "White Women: Answer the Call." The impromptu effort, sparked by a 5 a.m. X post last Tuesday, broke a record for the largest Zoom call in history. It crashed the site with nearly 200,000 women and raised more than $11 million. ... 

"I am here tonight embracing myself, in your incredible, profound white women midst, because we got a f***ing job to do y'all," said actress Connie Britton on the call. 

 

 

 

Coup attempt against Joe Biden by democracy worshipers Adam Shifty Schiff, Nancy Big Guns Pelosi, Chucky Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries isn't working lol

 

WH Says Biden 'Unmoved' By Discussions With Schumer & Jeffries

CNN: Pelosi Told Biden He Can't Win

Biden Campaign Sees No Change In Odds of Him Being Nominee

Schiff Calls on Biden To Drop Out

If 72% of registered voters think Biden does not have the mental and cognitive health to serve as president, then he should resign . . . immediately

 

There's an easy way to recognize if the Democrat you are talking to is a "first-bucket" Democrat

 

 First-bucket Democrats believe Joe had a cold on debate night, an excuse trotted out mid-way through the debate by the Biden campaign when everyone realized in the first minute that Joe was cratering.

Magically, Joe recovered overnight and made a relatively robust appearance in North Carolina on Friday in front of a supportive crowd using his trusty teleprompter!

Sources have described three buckets of Democrats: those who will defend Biden under any circumstances, those who are ready to dump him, and those who are waiting to see what he does — and what his poll numbers look like in the coming days and weeks — before passing judgment. It’s the third bucket that Democratic insiders are monitoring closely.

Democrat scare-mongering on democracy and the rule of law has totally flopped: Voters think both will be about the same no matter whom they elect

Most voters think the two are an equal threat to democracy lol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The margin of error is 4.2 points.

CBS News here.

Justin Amash polling at 8%: I'm going to wipe the floor with Mike Rogers lol

 

As he campaigns, Amash said, he encounters few Michigan Republicans who support Rogers outside of his party affiliation or his relationship with Trump.   

“I’m just going to, you know, wipe the floor with him.”  

Quoted here, June 10th.

Peter Meijer wisely dropped out at the end of April.

Trump endorsed Rogers on Monday, March 11th.

 

CBS News is expert at cheap-faking videos

 

Ann Coulter notices that the important thing the NYT and CBS want us to remember is that the Democrat perpetrators are the real victims

 

Biden is insane: He not only paid Iran to attack Israel, he paid again to defend Israel from the attack and sacrificed American lives in the process

A complete farce brought to you by The Democrat Party:

 Israel says Iran's missile and drone attack largely thwarted, with "very little damage" caused

"The Iranian threat met the aerial and technological superiority of the IDF, along with a strong fighting coalition — which together intercepted the overwhelming majority of the threats. 99% of the threats launched towards Israeli territory were intercepted — a very significant strategic achievement," [IDF spokesman Daniel] Hagari said.

Biden continues Iran’s access to $10 billion just weeks after its proxy killed three American soldiers  Published March 14, 2024, 7:07 p.m. ET:

Just six weeks after an Iran-backed drone strike killed three American soldiers in Jordan, President Biden has approved a sanctions waiver giving Tehran continued access to more than $10 billion — money it can use to import goods and repay debts, freeing up $10 billion elsewhere to spend on terrorism, missiles, nuclear weapons and the repression of Iranian women. 

The Senate [controlled by the Jew Chucky Schumer] is sitting on a bill that would lock down the money . . ..

Is four days long enough since Iranians killed American soldiers for them to escape back to Tehran or nah?

 SHOWDOWN: Pentagon plans for strikes on Iranian personnel and facilities approved...

Weather will be a major factor in the timing of the strikes, the U.S. officials told CBS News, as the U.S. has the capability to carry out strikes in bad weather but prefers to have better visibility of selected targets as a safeguard against inadvertently hitting civilians who might stray into the area at the last moment. ... [SECDEF] Austin told reporters the U.S. was trying to "hold the right people accountable" without escalating the conflict in the region.

Ridiculous: It was -18F in Iowa yesterday, you'd stay home too

 SITTING OUT '24? CAUCUS TURNOUT MUCH LOWER THAN EXPECTED...

Old Republicans in Iowa yesterday: Why should I bother to go, Trump's just going to win anyway.

'Lack of enthuasim'... lol

That'h eathy for you to thay:

 

 

 

 

 

Stupid is as stupid does.

smdh

Independent U.S. presidential candidate RFK Jr now has until March 5 to get on the ballot in Utah

 At a recent rally in Kansas City, Missouri, Kennedy asked the crowd of about 300 voters for help. The state requires independent candidates to collect 10,000 signatures by July 29 to appear on the 2024 general election presidential ballot. ...

The requirements for ballot access for candidates who are not the Democratic or Republican nominees vary widely from state to state, and the first deadlines are in early March, for North Carolina and Utah. Utah originally required independent candidates to file by Jan. 8, 2024, but earlier this month — soon after Kennedy filed a lawsuit against the state — it changed the date to March 5. ...

Kennedy's ballot access drive will also be heavily underwritten by the super PAC supporting him, American Values 2024. In December, the super PAC announced it would be investing $10 million to $15 million to put him on the ballot in at least 10 states . . ..

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The story likes to compare RFK Jr. to H. Ross Perot, but there's no way that RFK Jr. has anything close to the same appeal Perot once had and which still won him nothing.

Kennedy admits he's a spoiler, but most Americans still want a serious, positive candidacy, not a nattering nabob of negativism. 

 

Government does this every single day, I don't see what the problem is

 Many Are Spending More Than They Earn, Dimming Financial Outlook