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The DUmpster / Re: Mike Fanone is a national treasure
« Last post by SVPete on January 23, 2026, 12:13:39 PM »
Michael Fanone Is A Fake Tough Guy

https://danaloesch.substack.com/p/michael-fanone-is-a-fake-tough-guy

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Michael Fanone was a DC police officer during J6 and has being dining out on it ever since. Today the leftist-funded crisis actor tried performing as a tough guy by disrupting today’s hearing with Jack Smith.

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Caleb Howe
@CalebHowe
Resistance darling and MSNOW regular Michael Fanone loudly says "go **** yourself" to Congressman at House hearing, using the exaggerated *cough* format, popular circa 1990s.
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He was met during a recess by Ivan Raiklin, a retired Green Beret, Lt. Col in the Army Reserve, and political activist. [Editor’s note: click on the link to view. X now allows Substack embeds once again but the videos are not formatting properly.]
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Fanone, who has zero self discipline or control, became utterly unhinged, hysterically accusing Raiklin of wanting to “rape his children.” I have no idea how such a horrific thought would ever enter a father’s head for use as a rhetorical weapon against another.
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Raiklin maintained perfect composure as Fanone made a fool of himself. Here’s another angle of the exchange:
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Fanone was previously busted for lying about his experiences during January 6th. Nobody liked the violence or vandalism from a small group of questionable people who started problems for the vast majority of peaceful bystanders ... — but to exaggerate and lie about your own actions when your body cam betrays you (which is why he was caught turning it off by reporters in later footage) for the sake of fomenting further discord is no better. Fanone lashed out at a reporter who asked him about this as he left the House hearing:

Looks like the proper spelling of "national treasure" may be P-A-R-T-I-S-A-N  P-O-S-E-R.
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So, Trump backed off the tariff threats after talks seem to have progressed. That de-escalated quickly.
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The DUmpster / Re: Mike Fanone is a national treasure
« Last post by ADsOutburst on January 23, 2026, 12:02:21 PM »
Have our standards for being regarded as a national treasure fallen that much?
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 1/23
« Last post by SVPete on January 23, 2026, 11:39:44 AM »
ICE and Urban Legends

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/01/ice-and-urban-legends.php

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I gave an interview to a reporter from the New York Times today on–what else?–immigration enforcement in Minnesota. I told him, among other things, that there has been a series of myths or lies about alleged outrages committed by ICE locally. In each case, the story has been debunked, but only after it has been spread far and wide. The truth never catches up.

The latest instance is the tale of the five year old boy who was “arrested” by ICE. This story has not just gone national, it has become international news. Thus, the front page of the London Times carried this headline:



This is the first paragraph of the Times story:



The story is a lie. What actually happened is that ICE agents were in the process of apprehending an illegal alien; when the illegal immigrant saw the agents coming, he fled and abandoned his five year old son. What were the agents supposed to do, leave the poor kid to freeze to death on the sidewalk? (A very real possibility.) No: they briefly took him into protective custody.

After the initial lie that the boy was “arrested” or “seized,” there were follow-up claims, all of which proved to be false. You can read the actual facts here.(link)
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One of the Left’s most absurd urban legends about ICE in Minneapolis was the claim, widely asserted and believed by many despite its facial improbability, that ICE was raiding schools. The genesis of the claim was an incident where ICE agents were pursuing an illegal who fled to an area near a school, where he was apprehended. That was it. No kids present, let alone an ICE raid on school children. But the rumor was enough to cause the Minneapolis School District to cancel all classes.
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 1/22
« Last post by SVPete on January 23, 2026, 11:30:35 AM »
The WHO Lost America, Long Before America Left

https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/01/22/the-who-lost-america-long-before-america-left-n4948623


This thread post gives a chronology, with links, of running-dog WHO's participation in China's weeks of denying that they had evidence of human-human transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=412910.0 . It was "only" 3 weeks of denial, but that was 3 weeks of concealing the urgent need to learn how to treat Covid effectively.

This cessation is one of numerous reasons to keep Dems out of the WH (by elections). A Dem would re-fund WHO, with "back payments".

Joint Statement by  Secretary of State Rubio and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kennedy on the Termination of U.S. Membership in the World Health Organization (WHO)

https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/joint-statement-by-secretary-of-state-rubio-and-secretary-of-health-and-human-services-kennedy-on-the-termination-of-us-membership-in-the-world-health-organization-who.html

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Today, the United States withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO), freeing itself from its constraints, as President Trump promised on his first day in office by signing E.O. 14155.  This action responds to the WHO’s failures during the COVID-19 pandemic and seeks to rectify the harm from those failures inflicted on the American people.  Promises made, promises kept.

Like many international organizations, the WHO abandoned its core mission and acted repeatedly against the interests of the United States.  Although the United States was a founding member and the WHO’s largest financial contributor, the organization pursued a politicized, bureaucratic agenda driven by nations hostile to American interests.  In doing so, the WHO obstructed the timely and accurate sharing of critical information that could have saved American lives and then concealed those failures under the pretext of acting “in the interest of public health.”

Even on our way out of the organization, the WHO tarnished and trashed everything that America has done for it.  The WHO refuses to hand over the American flag that hung in front of it, arguing it has not approved our withdrawal and, in fact, claims that we owe it compensation. From our days as its primary founder, primary financial backer, and primary champion until now, our final day, the insults to America continue.

Going forward, U.S. engagement with the WHO will be limited strictly to effectuate our withdrawal and to safeguard the health and safety of the American people.  All U.S. funding for, and staffing of, WHO initiatives has ceased.  The United States will continue to lead the world in public health, saving millions of lives and protecting Americans at home by preventing infectious disease threats from reaching our shores while advancing global health security through direct, bilateral, and results-driven partnerships.  We will continue to work with countries and trusted health institutions to share best practices, strengthen preparedness, and protect our communities through a more focused, transparent, and effective model which delivers real outcomes rather than the bloated and inefficient bureaucracy of the WHO.

Today, we right these injustices and bring an end to the bureaucratic inertia, entrenched paradigms, conflicts of interest, and international politics that have rendered the organization beyond repair.  We will get our flag back for the Americans who died alone in nursing homes, the small businesses devastated by WHO-driven restrictions, and the American lives shattered by this organization’s inactivity.  Our withdrawal is for them.
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Breaking News / Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 1/23
« Last post by SVPete on January 23, 2026, 11:18:41 AM »
Real Mann of Science™ Ordered to Settle His Markers With Mark and Rand

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/01/22/real-mann-of-science-ordered-to-settle-his-markers-with-mark-and-rand-n3811135

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I have been following the Mark Steyn v Real Mann of Science™ abomination of a defamation trial for two years here, and the twists and turns have been astonishing. A trial, mind you, that disgracefully had been twelve years in the making.

For one, it reinforced what a craven lot of cowards the National Review Online is, that they jettisoned Steyn from their own defense. That left him and Rand Simberg to tough it out against the most litigious, thin-skinned, egotistical pissant in all of Climate Cult Science™.

But that's ancient history. The NRO eventually prevailed against Mann, who has finally given up the ghost in that quarter.

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We told him to get lost. We let him know we would never take down the post, since it was First Amendment–protected speech, and a lawsuit against us would inevitably fail.

Sure enough, Mann has finally dropped any claims against us after wasting God knows how much money from his (presumed) financial backers, and Mark Steyn’s post on how Mann’s famous hockey stick graph is intellectually bogus and wrong is still right here for your reading pleasure.

Mann boasted that he would destroy us, and we are still here, alive and thriving, while he is slinking away in humiliation.
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General Discussion / Re: Lefty civil war watch
« Last post by SVPete on January 23, 2026, 11:09:44 AM »
But remember, it's paranoid to call them commies https://www.reddit.com/r/TwinCities/s/MODbdFKEH0

Just because you're paranoid does not mean no one is out to get you.
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This MAGAt has been married to a Filipina for 30 years and our daughter married a Mexican man who is head of the I.T. department at a medical surgical instrument company.  We joke that our grandchildren are Mexi-Pinos, so this nonsense that we MAGAts hate brown people is just more of the far out fairy tales the left believes about us.

 :hi5: Your family picnics must be pretty amazing!

DU-faithful would, of course, label your joke racist, because it exposes Prog racism and a sense of humor is a rare commodity among Progs.
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The DUmpster / Re: At the hair salon
« Last post by SVPete on January 23, 2026, 10:57:59 AM »


 :hi5: Good catch, BFDU! The :bouncy: is plausible, in general, but the contradiction probably evidences that it is :bouncy:-fiction.
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General Discussion / Re: Lefty civil war watch
« Last post by SSG Snuggle Bunny on January 23, 2026, 10:56:34 AM »
But remember, it's paranoid to call them commies https://www.reddit.com/r/TwinCities/s/MODbdFKEH0
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