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Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #750

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #748

Rick Wilson: They…Have to “Put a Bullet” in Donald Trump

About that hate speech and “talk” Joe Biden wants “to stop,” would Rick Wilson’s comments count? He just said they’ll have to “put a bullet” in President Trump, and “that’s a fact.”
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Rick Wilson is one of the pedo-enabling Lincoln Project founders who still pretends he’s a conservative.
However, someone who supports far-left causes and values or takes money from the far-left cannot call himself a conservative or Republican. He’s a tawdry opportunist who serves a purpose for Marxist Democrats during elections.

Wilson makes a lot of money spewing hate on cable and social media. Now he wants to put a bullet in Donald Trump.

David Limbaugh, Rush’s brother, wrote recently, “Isn’t it interesting that these former Republican Never Trumpers, whose alleged beef with us is that we abandoned true conservatism, are now full-throated fellow travelers with cultural and economic Marxist Democrats who are on a monomaniacal mission to destroy this country?”

How can people abandon conservatism for Marxism while complaining that Donald Trump is not a conservative? It’s far beyond hating Trump. They are people with no core values and...

The San Francisco police department at some point decided it would be a brilliant idea to employ robots with deadly force in their department, causing quite a stir.

However, since the news broke, the SFPD has clarified that the robots would not carry guns.

Just bombs.

From SFGate:

"The SFPD does not own or operate robots outfitted with lethal force options and the Department has no plans to outfit robots with any type of firearm," spokesperson Allison Maxie said in a statement. "As an intermediate force option, robots could potentially be equipped with explosive charges to breach fortified structures containing violent, armed, or dangerous subjects or used to contact, incapacitate, or disorient violent, armed, or dangerous suspect who pose a risk of loss of life to law enforcement or other first responders by use of any other method, approach, or contact."

Maxie added, "While an explosive charge may be considered an intermediate force option, it could potentially cause injury or be lethal. Robots equipped in this manner would only be used in extreme circumstances to save or prevent further loss of innocent lives."

They aren't going to shoot people with robots. They're just going to use the robots as suicide bombers to take out bad guys.

That's what the police are saying, but there are, of course, opponents to this plan.

The policy has faced strong criticism ahead of the Tuesday vote.

"We are living in a dystopian future, where we debate whether the police may use robots to execute citizens without a trial, jury, or judge," Tifanei Moyer of Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area told Mission Local.

"We have to ask ourselves do we want to be in a society where police kill people with robots? It feels so deeply dehumanizing and militaristic," Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law and information science professor, told NPR.

These robots, like any use of deadly force, should...

A U.S. soldier demonstrates how to use the Javelin anti-tank missile system to Ukrainian military officials.

U.S. military personnel are now on the ground in Ukraine, keeping track of and inspecting weapons the U.S. has shipped to Ukrainian forces, a senior defense official announced during a Pentagon background briefing on Monday. These U.S. personnel are some of the first the Pentagon has acknowledged have entered Ukraine since Russia launched its large scale invasion of the country in February.

The senior defense official who spoke on background during an official Pentagon event, said, “U.S. personnel have recently resumed on-site inspections to assess weapon stocks in country whenever and wherever the security conditions allow.” The official said “the return of our defense attaché and Office of Defense Cooperation personnel in country has allowed us to resume this critical function.”

The U.S. Defense attaché for Ukraine is U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Garrick Harmon.

The Biden administration ordered U.S. troops out of Ukraine in February just days before Russia launched its invasion. The Associated Press reported the administration did return some troops to provide security at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv earlier this year.

This official acknowledgement that U.S. military personnel are back in Ukraine comes as the latest sign of U.S. support for Ukraine’s military. The U.S. has sent several shipments of arms to Ukraine and, some outlets have reported U.S. intel has helped Ukrainian forces target and attack specific high-value Russian targets, including...

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Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #746

EXCLUSIVE: 'If a glass smashed, an alarm went off!' Nancy Pelosi's former neighbor questions why invasion triggered no warning as she recalls fleets of SUVs at the mansion 24/7, window alarms and even her computers scrambled by Speaker's monitoring devices

Marjorie Campbell, 66, was Nancy Pelosi's neighbor for 10 years on Broadway Street in San Francisco, California
Campbell tells DailyMail.com she remembers fleets of black SUVS surrounding the Speaker's mansion 24/7
She also recalls her computers getting scrambled by alleged security measures to protect the nation's Number Three
'Everybody in the neighborhood had alarms on our windows,' the former neighbor said. 'So if glass smashed, an alarm went off'
On Monday, authorities announced formal charges against David DePape, the man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer

Nancy Pelosi's former neighbor is questioning why a violent home invasion triggered no alarms – as security experts condemn the apparent ease with which David DePape broke in, and predict federal protections will be extended to her family.

Residents of tony Broadway Street in San Francisco are used to fleets of black SUVs surrounding the Speaker's red brick mansion 24/7, a heavy police response to any disturbances, and even their computers getting scrambled by alleged security measures to protect the nation's Number Three.

So when Marjorie Campbell read that her old neighbor had to call 911 himself while negotiating with a hammer-wielding madman, she was deeply perplexed.

'There were black cars outside that house, particularly up on Normandie Terrace, all of the time,' the 66-year-old, who lived opposite the Pelosis for a decade, told DailyMail.com.

'I don't distinguish between her being there and not being there. There were always multiple cars.'

Police statements and the criminal complaint against David DePape, 42, released Monday suggest that he broke in by smashing a back patio door. He confronted Paul Pelosi Sr., who phoned police and tried to talk down the crazed man. When cops burst in, DePape slugged Pelosi Sr. with a hammer.

'Everybody in the neighborhood had alarms on our windows,' the former neighbor said. 'So if glass smashed, an alarm went off. We all had alarms that had chimed if the door opened or closed....

Jennifer Wexton repeatedly dropped rape charges as Loudoun County prosecutor.

Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D., Va.) says she’s worked tirelessly in Congress as a defender of abused women. But as a county prosecutor, Wexton went easy on convicted rapists.

While serving as a Loudoun County prosecutor in 2001, Wexton had two rapists plead to misdemeanors, letting them walk after just months in prison, according to court records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. One man was charged with raping a woman four times in the same day. The other, an illegal immigrant, abducted his female victim and forced her into the woods before raping her. Under Virginia law, the men were eligible to serve at minimum five years in prison for each rape. According to Andrew Kersey, a former prosecutor who served in Fairfax County around the same time as Wexton, these plea agreements were unusually lenient.

"There were times I resolved a rape charge as a misdemeanor sexual battery charge with time served. But it was rare," Kersey told the Free Beacon. "That suggests a prosecutor who was reluctant to fight tough but serious cases before a jury."

The records undercut a central part of Wexton's claim that she's "fighting for survivors of domestic violence" and "holding abusers accountable," a central part of her campaign message. Her sentencing record could also hurt her chances against Republican candidate Hung Cao as Americans are souring on lenient criminal justice policies. Sixty-eight percent of voters list crime as a "very important" issue heading into the 2022 midterms, according to an October Harvard CAPS-Harris poll. Wexton leads Cao by just two points, according to an October poll by OnMessage.

Wexton's office did not respond to a request for comment.

Samuel Flores was charged with four counts of rape and one count of abduction with intent to defile in February 2001, court records show. He forcibly abducted a woman from her workplace, raped her in his car, then took her to his home and raped her three more times after locking her in a bedroom, according to a copy of his criminal complaint. "Each time she pleaded to be taken home, he slapped her," causing contusions, the complaint states. A magistrate held Flores without bond before trial, noting that the weight of the evidence was "good." But Wexton allowed Flores to plead to one count of sexual battery in April 2001, and he served less than two months before he was released.

Months later, Walter Hernandez, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, abducted a 19-year-old woman, forced her into the woods, and raped her, according to his criminal complaint. A magistrate said the weight of the evidence against Hernandez was "strong," and he was not granted bail. But in August 2001, Wexton had his charges reduced to sexual battery. He served four months in prison before his...