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General Discussion / Re: A Women's League That Can't Define a Woman?
« Last post by Ptarmigan on August 17, 2026, 09:18:33 PM »Caitlin Clark is the reason WNBA got popular. Wokeness ruined it.
One of President Trump’s campaign promises was eliminating climate scams. As net-zero climate policies fade into the shadows, another climate scam is biting the dust.
Bill Gates’s daughter, Phoebe Gates, may not have her father’s entrepreneurial talent, but she, too, frequently peddles climate alarmism. Mr. Gates, however, renounced climate doomerism last year in a widely-shared memo.
A recent media investigation determined the younger Gates and her cofounder, climate influencer Sophia Kianni’s self-described sustainable e-commerce startup, Phia, was fraudulently collecting sales commissions. Phia was marketed as a climate-friendly platform that directed shoppers to secondhand products. Unsurprisingly, the startup created its own climate of lies.
Recently confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche refused Sunday to take a pledge to lead the Department of Justice independently of political pressures by President Donald Trump and his administration.
In one of his first media interviews since his Aug. 8 confirmation by the Senate, Blanche told “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker he doesn’t need to worry about Trump pushing him to cross an ethical or legal line.
“As we just heard in your address to the Justice Department staff this week, you said you and the DOJ will, ‘uphold the law without fear or favor.’ You, of course, used to be President Trump’s former personal defense attorney. Can you pledge that the Justice Department will always act independently of the White House?” Welker asked the attorney general.
“Well, there’s a big difference between saying, ‘We will always do our job and investigate any case’ and ‘act independently of the White House.’ No, I’m not going to pledge that. And no attorney general should ever pledge that,” Blanche said. He then argued that, if he were to pledge that, then it would mean “if President Trump says, ‘I want the Department of Justice to go after every violent criminal in this country,’ which is what he has said, what you’re saying to me is I should say, ‘No, sir, I’m not going to do it.’”
The files reveal detailed evidence that the California Democrat — a one-time presidential candidate and recent gubernatorial hopeful — received illegal campaign donations from Christine Fang. She is the infamous Chinese national long suspected of working for Beijing’s intelligence services.
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For a politician who spent every waking moment of the Trump years loudly warning about foreign interference, the picture that emerges is far more compromising than anything previously made public.
The newly released memos lay out a series of troubling findings that go well beyond anything the American people previously were made aware of.
FBI investigators appear to have developed clear evidence that Fang funneled illegal campaign donations to Swalwell by routing the money through U.S. citizen conduits. Agents tracked multiple instances in which she reimbursed donors or used straw contributors to conceal the foreign source of the funds.
Fang also repeatedly referred interns to both Swalwell’s campaign and his congressional office. The bureau initially viewed those placements as a potential quid pro quo arrangement in which access and positions were exchanged for the illegal donations she was facilitating.
Oh, and as for the most nauseating revelations, Swalwell himself admitted to FBI agents during interviews that he had engaged in a sexual relationship with Fang on multiple occasions, including one incident in which she showed up at his door and the two “hooked up.”
A man who wanted to be President of the United States and very likely could have been the next governor of California basically whored himself out to China. No wonder he was so beloved by his Democrat colleagues.
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Early oversight of the matter involved disgraced prosecutor Jack Smith, who would later gain national prominence for using flimsy evidence to attempt to prosecute President Trump on two separate occasions (one for the classified documents case, another for the 2020 election interference-January 6 case).
Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat who became an Independent during her Senate term, is accused of breaking up a bodyguard’s marriage by having an affair with him, prompting his ex-wife to seek monetary damages.
The New York Post reported August 16 that Sinema, who served as a senator representing Arizona until last year, finally admitted to details of the affair that gave rise to a “homewrecker” suit. Matthew Ammel, the bodyguard, traveled with Sinema across America, and court records reviewed by the New York Post detail their affair. Like many a woke leftist who identifies as bisexual and feminist, Sinema appears to be very heterosexual, but apparently not too worried about stealing another woman’s husband.
The affair started around Memorial Day in 2024, based on the court records, at which point Ammel had already been working for the senator for around two years. “We were staying at an Airbnb in Napa, California. We were outside. Matt kissed me. We went inside and had sex,” Sinema admitted. They continued their adulterous romance in Washington, D.C., at CNN anchor Jessica Dean’s wedding in New York City, in Phoenix, and during a Colorado fundraising trip. Ammel said the affair continued into 2025, but apparently Sinema did not directly confirm that.
And Ammel’s sordid affair destroyed his marriage with Heather and also hurt their three children. The wife and children were innocent victims of yet another political corruption scandal.
Heather Ammel is requesting that the court award her $75,000 in a suit under a North Carolina law that permits wives to sue the mistresses of their ex-husbands. But Sinema isn’t willing to give in, as the Post noted.
So like most others you lost more than you won.![]()
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