President of Human Rights Foundation: Fusion GPS is a Professional Smear Organization Hired By Big-Money Players to Destroy Anyone Who Opposes Their Clients

Thor Halvorsen claims that he was exposing a corrupt company called Derwick which had sold a bunch of faulty electric plants in Venezeula, with the contract awarded by corrupt officials who got kickbacks from the company.

In Venezeula -- who'd imagine such a thing.

He says that Derwick then hired Fusion GPS to begin planting stories in "fringe websites" that he was a pedophile and drug addict.

He says their tactic is to accuse any enemy of their clients of acts so heinous that mere innocence isn't enough to remove the stain.

Sounds like he's saying they're a company behind #FakeNews.

Watch his interview on Tucker Carlson.

I feel like a naif and I'm embarrassed to say this but I never knew the full dimensions of what was going on. I knew about oppo research and all that, but I didn't know there existed smear organizations with spies and ex-"journalists" on the payrolls, or that such disreputable smear-shops could so easily plant stories with their "journalist" buddies.

I like to think of myself as a cynic, but man, I'm really just a babe in the woods.

Posted by: Ace at 02:34 PM

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1 At this point, the swamp needs to be covered in concrete and fire. But mostly fire.

Posted by: Flyguy at July 27, 2017 02:25 PM (LERwz)

2 I like to think of myself as a cynic, but man, I'm really just a babe in the woods.

Join the club. I'll fetch the horde.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 02:25 PM (PY9jH)

3 I won't say first because I hogged it yesterday.

Posted by: LGoPs at July 27, 2017 02:25 PM (mhIjm)

4 Sweet, a first and I read the "content".

Posted by: Flyguy at July 27, 2017 02:25 PM (LERwz)

5 Top 10?

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at July 27, 2017 02:26 PM (d4Jry)

6 1 At this point, the swamp needs to be covered in concrete and fire. But mostly fire.
Posted by: Flyguy at July 27, 2017 02:25 PM (LERwz)

I'm beginning to think fire would be kind.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at July 27, 2017 02:26 PM (72PAC)

7 What I wonder is why nobody has sued them into bankruptcy. Or sued their paymasters, in the latest case the DNC and Scankles.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 27, 2017 02:26 PM (mpXpK)

8 We need a deadly epidemic to do any meaningful cleaning of the swamp in DC

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 27, 2017 02:27 PM (5y11N)

9 Watched this last night... Wish he had a longer segment...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2017 02:27 PM (O2RFr)

10 Forget draining the swamp. Use a MOAB.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 02:27 PM (PY9jH)

11 I'm still first, peons!

Posted by: hillary (')(,) at July 27, 2017 02:27 PM (nlbfN)

12
So, hate to say this but where are OUR smear shops?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 02:27 PM (mbhDw)

13 And this is what they do to people they like!

Posted by: Penfold at July 27, 2017 02:27 PM (Fbt5B)

14 I posted this last night but I will post it again because I think people really need to read this. Here is a link to Halvorssen's written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

http://tinyurl.com/ybzut5jf

I think it will shock people when they see the extent of Fusion GPS' activities and the unbelievable tactics they use to slime people. It really is worth the 10 minutes or so to read it.

Mind you, Fusion GPS is extremely tight with the Clinton's and the DNC. This needs a real investigation.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2017 02:27 PM (/tuJf)

15 They are a freelance nationless espionage organization. They destroy people and gather information for pay. Mercenary spies. Of course, they do have allegiances. If someone tried to hire them to destroy Obama, they'd have declined.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 02:27 PM (39g3+)

16 I guess I'm more surprised by the fact that there's a Venezuelan dude named "Thor."

Posted by: JoeF. at July 27, 2017 02:27 PM (7uYFy)

17 Seems like a lot of us have the same sentiment. Sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 27, 2017 02:28 PM (5y11N)

18 This is the "collusion" that a special counsel should be investigating. The collusion between the Media, the Democrat Party and organizations like this propaganda mill.

Posted by: LGoPs at July 27, 2017 02:28 PM (mhIjm)

19 7 What I wonder is why nobody has sued them into bankruptcy. Or sued their paymasters, in the latest case the DNC and Scankles.

He sort of hit on that that they have slews of Lawyers and big money behind them somehow...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2017 02:28 PM (O2RFr)

20 My craziest tin foil hat theories of what's been going on pale compared to unfolding revelations.

And the beat goes on ....

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 27, 2017 02:28 PM (+7/1f)

21 He says their tactic is to accuse any enemy of their clients of acts so
heinous that mere innocence isn't enough to remove the stain.

So basically Fusion GPS is Jackie Coakley screaming "HAVEN MONAHAN RAPED ME!" and getting paid for it.

Posted by: MWR, Public Intellectual, aka Beth at July 27, 2017 02:29 PM (4df7R)

22 What's key is that the press outsources their work to these groups like Fusion, and just uses their social media feed for everything else. They aren't even reporters any longer. They're twitter feed bloggers who hire reporters.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 02:29 PM (39g3+)

23 Don't feel bad, ace; when none of those asshole journolisters were fired with cause it pretty much guaranteed everything would turn to shit.

Posted by: Captain Hate at July 27, 2017 02:29 PM (y7DUB)

24 How does a neutered DOJ proceed? Can there even be a Special Counsel that's not Mueller to investigate Fusion? If Jeb and Mukasey started the dirt campaign against Trump, will any r support an investigation?

Posted by: Ever at July 27, 2017 02:29 PM (lC04h)

25 Around here we call people who engage in this type of behavior "co-workers."

Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2017 02:29 PM (jAZR9)

26

I like to think of myself as a cynic, but man, I'm really just a babe in the woods.

Posted by: Ace at 02:34 PM
Yeah...this is pretty dismal stuff.
How about another cute puppy thread?
It's too early to start drinking.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 27, 2017 02:29 PM (wYseH)

27 The country that makes our voting machines.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 27, 2017 02:29 PM (LjR2k)

28 These people need to be destroyed with their friends in the media. They are the biggest subversive stain on our republic and are responsible for our decline as a country.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 27, 2017 02:29 PM (zJ3L1)

29 War.

By another means.

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 27, 2017 02:29 PM (ifORZ)

30 10 Forget draining the swamp. Use a MOAB.

Fuel air bombs were proposed yesterday.

Posted by: USNtakim at July 27, 2017 02:30 PM (zZWkn)

31 This is the kind of open borders work that guys like Soros have been working on behind the scenes while we argue about tax cuts and confederate flags.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 02:30 PM (39g3+)

32 @12 So, hate to say this but where are OUR smear shops?
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In order for a smear shop to be effective, you need someone to publish your results. Do you *really* think that the media would publish a smear directed against one of its darlings? They'd actually require a certain level of proof, which the smear shop would probably be unable to provide.

Posted by: junior at July 27, 2017 02:30 PM (Q6qiA)

33 And of course they are "tight" with the Clintons... surprise, surprise...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2017 02:30 PM (O2RFr)

34 12. Macedonia. Didn't you pay any attention to madame maomu when she explained what happened?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at July 27, 2017 02:30 PM (fA1SL)

35 Panda Bubbles are tough.

Posted by: J. Sessions at July 27, 2017 02:30 PM (mcI77)

36 "They're twitter feed bloggers who hire reporters."

Reporters often paid by someone else with an agenda.

Then there's the Ben Rhodes Echo Chamber, that feeds real and fake official leaks to spin Overarching Narrative.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 27, 2017 02:30 PM (+7/1f)

37 I have posted links in the comments before but I became aware that "narrative management" was thing from job postings. Apparently in the DC area that is a thing and there are more than one company doing it. The ones I am more
Familiar with are apparently above board. Seems like negative narrative management would be just as, if not more, lucrative.

Posted by: blaster at July 27, 2017 02:31 PM (r9gUQ)

38 He says that Derwick then hired Fusion GPS to begin planting stories in "fringe websites" that he was a pedophile and drug addict.

That's the "Big Lie" tactic. Get it out there often enough, it starts becoming accepted.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2017 02:31 PM (na0uG)

39 In the 2006 midterms, I worked for the RNCC, and I was asked to do research and pass around to "friendlys." Mind you that this was targeting ACORN's vote registration/fraud efforts, before the days of Veritas.

But I had no idea either the scale or depths of depravity.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at July 27, 2017 02:31 PM (tbOMB)

40 At this point, the swamp needs to be covered in concrete and fire. But mostly fire.

I volunteer as tribute!

Posted by: Napalm at July 27, 2017 02:31 PM (BrQrN)

41 So, hate to say this but where are OUR smear shops?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 02:27 PM (mbhDw)

They are very busy spewing out hate for PDT. You might have missed that vacationing in Italy. LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 27, 2017 02:32 PM (5y11N)

42 Politics is the Sport of Kings... a Contact Sport..

What? Did you think they would not cheat?

This used to done by wives on the cocktail circuit.. now it is just more hi tech.. Bah..

Posted by: catman at July 27, 2017 02:32 PM (5jdSv)

43 They are fortunate that I would never be a target of their smears because I would go Star Chamber on their ass. I'm not so sure they don't have a hand in that type of action also.

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 27, 2017 02:32 PM (KtcMg)

44 Fusion GPS is a modern reincarnation of that POS Terry Lenzner. The Clintons had Lenzner on retainer to smear anyone that crossed them in the 90's.

Posted by: Benji Carver at July 27, 2017 02:32 PM (OD2ni)

45 It's too early to start drinking.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 27, 2017 02:29 PM (wYseH)

Have you lost your damn mind ?

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 27, 2017 02:32 PM (Niu5G)

46
One day, the smear merchants are going to smear the wrong individual and will wake up with their houses burned to the ground.

Not that I advocate that at all. As I do not.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 02:32 PM (mbhDw)

47 Color me depressed. It's that crayon over there, that special shade of blue. That's it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 27, 2017 02:32 PM (zpYxD)

48 Hey, J.D. Power says we have the highest satisfaction ratings of any smear organization!

Posted by: Fusion GPS at July 27, 2017 02:32 PM (qJhUV)

49 "He says their tactic is to accuse any enemy of their clients of acts so
heinous that mere innocence isn't enough to remove the stain."

::: 1948 :::

Campaign aide to Lyndon Johnson: "What? Are you serious? Have someone accuse your opponent, the one-time pig farmer, of having had carnal knowlege of his own pigs? Lyndon, we can't say that. No one's going to believe such an outlandish thing."

LBJ : "Oh, Ah know that. But make the sumbitch _deny_ it."

Posted by: torquewrench at July 27, 2017 02:32 PM (ujwCG)

50 OT: DWS's brother, Steve Wasserman, who is an assistant attorney general, is supposedly trying both the Awan and Seth Rich case.

/bet he doesn't recuse himself.

Posted by: shibumi at July 27, 2017 02:32 PM (aT+Bx)

51 Mind you, Fusion GPS is extremely tight with the Clinton's and the DNC. This needs a real investigation.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2017 02:27 PM (/tuJf)

Like the DC insider told Hannity, "People in DC are afraid of the Clintons." There's one of your reasons.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 02:33 PM (PY9jH)

52 A blind date with Madame Guillotine would solve a great many of our country's problems.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 27, 2017 02:33 PM (X6fMO)

53 I think that if the truth comes out about all of this, it goes beyond tar and feathers.

There are people, including elected officials, who need to be put behind bars, if only for their own protection.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at July 27, 2017 02:33 PM (7ZVPa)

54 I was walking down the street in DC as some people took pictures in front of an ad on a cab that said "Blood on Your Hands DLA Piper". They were all laughing it up and thought it was hilarious, I assume they were DLA Piper. It turns out that DLA Piper was working for an Ehtiopian dictator to cover up his torture and other bad stuff. Yuk yuk.

Posted by: bjstuggs at July 27, 2017 02:33 PM (NUlzw)

55 @46 One day, the smear merchants are going to smear the wrong individual and will wake up with their houses burned to the ground.
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Gawker could not be reached for comment.

Posted by: junior at July 27, 2017 02:34 PM (Q6qiA)

56 Didn't that Thor dude create a rum cocktail called the Kon-Tiki, or is he the guy with the big hammer?

Posted by: Roy at July 27, 2017 02:34 PM (7n4KQ)

57 52 A blind date with Madame Guillotine would solve a great many of our country's problems.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 27, 2017 02:33 PM (X6fMO)

Much more advanced these days, old boy. One way excursion on an Argentinian Huey.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 02:34 PM (mbhDw)

58 There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission.

We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical.

Sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear.

We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 27, 2017 02:34 PM (+7/1f)

59 Yeah...this is pretty dismal stuff.
How about another cute puppy thread?
It's too early to start drinking.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 27, 2017 02:29 PM (wYseH)

Not for me.

**checks clock**

15 more minutes, and oblivion, here I come!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 27, 2017 02:34 PM (X6fMO)

60 Why hasn't Jeff "Mr. Peepers" Sessions relieved Wasserman of his responsibilities?

Posted by: Captain Hate at July 27, 2017 02:34 PM (y7DUB)

61 Notice, tho - the swamp needs a yuuuuge infrastructure and still it can only occasionally deliver results. By contrast, a few spergs can meme TGE into the White House. Decentralized and distributed is the way.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at July 27, 2017 02:35 PM (fA1SL)

62 My husband and I watched the interview last night. It reminded me to take my BP med.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 02:35 PM (PY9jH)

63 My craziest tin foil hat theories of what's been going on ~~pale~~ pail compared to unfolding revelations.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 27, 2017 02:28 PM

FIFY.

Posted by: Honey Bucket at July 27, 2017 02:35 PM (ctuyM)

64 So, hate to say this but where are OUR smear shops?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 02:27 PM (mbhDw)

The Left considers our revealing the truth to be smearing.

We don't need to make shit up. We just don't have the distribution rights.

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 27, 2017 02:35 PM (KtcMg)

65 This corruption is never ending and will not be solved through the normal electoral process. Case in point: when the victors of that electoral process - the Republicans - are sitting around like wounded sparrows, too afraid to make a peep about what the Democrat/Media Complex is doing to them, THERE IS NO ELECTORAL PROCESS!

Posted by: LGoPs at July 27, 2017 02:35 PM (mhIjm)

66 53 I think that if the truth comes out about all of this, it goes beyond tar and feathers.

There are people, including elected officials, who need to be put behind bars, if only for their own protection.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at July 27, 2017 02:33 PM (7ZVPa)

D Bock at San Quentin. And let it be known they're child molesters.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 02:35 PM (mbhDw)

67 This is one of those reasons why I don't care that Trump goes on Twitter. If you don't control the narrative, then they will. Trump knows this.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 27, 2017 02:35 PM (KUaJL)

68 Willowed reading the content. Ha. So:

"What happened" is easy. Election night, when you lost to the worst candidate in the history of our nation, you wouldn't even drag your drunk-ass, colostomy-bagged, anti-seizure-wearing carcass onto the stage to say thank you to the effeminate men and masculine women who had busted their asses trying to get you elected because they weren't old enough (or bright enough) to know who you were.

You lost because the majority of the country already knew that trifling b*tch was you.

Posted by: Hate Has No Afro at July 27, 2017 02:35 PM (JTMqu)

69 When the history of the Trump election is written, I think two major themes will be

1) The old model that conservatives think liberals are wrong and liberals think conservatives are evil is replaced by conservatives know liberals are evil and

2) If s/he is not your president, you don't have to respect the office of obey the law.

Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 27, 2017 02:35 PM (Nwg0u)

70 One day, the smear merchants are going to smear the wrong individual and will wake up with their houses burned to the ground.

Ahhhh. A variation of the "Terminal List".

Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2017 02:35 PM (na0uG)

71 Dang! Veronica just left Archie in the dust at the malt shop. hahahaha

Posted by: J. Sessions at July 27, 2017 02:35 PM (mcI77)

72 I saw Madame Guillotine in a triple-feature with Machete and Machete 2 at the Barstow drive-in a few years back.

Posted by: Anachronda at July 27, 2017 02:36 PM (v3pYe)

73 Why hasn't Jeff "Mr. Peepers" Sessions relieved Wasserman of his responsibilities?
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Did you know that when you buy a new pair of scissors, that they're in plastic packaging that you just cannot open without scissors?

That's a problem, since I don't have scissors.

Posted by: Jeff Sessions at July 27, 2017 02:36 PM (aT+Bx)

74 Dear Thor,

Seath Rich says "Hi!"

Love,

Hillary Clinton - Best selling Author of "What Happened?"

Posted by: catman at July 27, 2017 02:37 PM (5H2BV)

75 Is Thor Halverssen related to Thor Heyerdahl? Or, perhaps the Might Thor?

Posted by: Publius Redux at July 27, 2017 02:37 PM (FjOVH)

76 What was the term out of Watergate? Ratf**king?

Well that's apparently what FusionGPS is. Ratf**king for Hire.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 27, 2017 02:37 PM (H8S+R)

77 That "Human Rights" guy has like a Nine-head.

Posted by: Hikaru at July 27, 2017 02:37 PM (WDCYi)

78 Tucker is interviewing Jeff Sessions live tonight from El Salvador.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 02:37 PM (PY9jH)

79 78 Tucker is interviewing Jeff Sessions live tonight from El Salvador.

Which one's in El Salvador?

Posted by: Anachronda at July 27, 2017 02:38 PM (v3pYe)

80 75 Is Thor Halverssen related to Thor Heyerdahl? Or, perhaps the Might Thor?
Posted by: Publius Redux at July 27, 2017 02:37 PM (FjOVH)

Barbie Dahl.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 02:38 PM (mbhDw)

81 Thor was one of the founders and first executive director of FIRE - the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Did a lot of good then, and FIRE is still doing a lot of good today. Spanking the leftists on campuses everywhere.

Posted by: J. Moses Browning at July 27, 2017 02:38 PM (nBwez)

82 The 'Trump dossier' supposedly has an initial Republican fingerprint on it, and even more supposedly it belonga Jeb.

It sure would be nice to know that little factoid. Who exactly first hired Fusion?

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 27, 2017 02:38 PM (6jaju)

83 57. And in honor of that wonderful, albeit geographically imprecise, sentiment, I give you based Polish metal tributes to Pinochet:
https://youtu.be/CFrBYI3Ntro
https://youtu.be/NrSJk58Erfk

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at July 27, 2017 02:38 PM (fA1SL)

84 Not enough rope and lamp posts/tar and feathers/.22 ventilation techs.

Posted by: USNtakim at July 27, 2017 02:38 PM (zZWkn)

85 I guess I'm just really old, as I recall a time when news showed its bias on its sleeve. All publishers get their content from a number of sources, and very, very few had the resources to operate a news gathering service. You simply repeated what came in from whatever source, nothing more. The idea of unbiased sources always has been a farce.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 27, 2017 02:38 PM (MINbv)

86 Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

Posted by: simplemind at July 27, 2017 02:38 PM (oqcSx)

87 This was literally the plot of the first X-Files movie. When Mulder was all upset and accusing one of his sources of being a fraud, the guy asked him what he was being accused of -- drugs or kiddie porn. He said the idea was to make what he said untouchable, even if it could be proved.

Posted by: sunny-dee at July 27, 2017 02:38 PM (QAOZh)

88 You don't really need to find out what's going on

You don't really want to know just how far it's gone

Just leave well enough alone

Eat your dirty laundry

Posted by: Don Henley at July 27, 2017 02:38 PM (yqvys)

89 Anyone else feel like we've been subjected to the stupidest Tom Clancy novel ever?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 27, 2017 02:38 PM (F0ZHr)

90 >>>DWS's brother, Steve Wasserman, who is an assistant attorney general, is supposedly trying both the Awan and Seth Rich case

Key word: supposedly.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at July 27, 2017 02:39 PM (4ayRW)

91 the guy on Tucker last night could have made it clearer that "GPS" exists primarily to get their sh*t-piles into the media by using "journalists" pushing "news"

they are a crystalization of what the media have become since the Dems lost in 1988. The Clintons are the Prime Product of the Dem rage which following Bush defeating the Dukak

Posted by: Savonarola at July 27, 2017 02:39 PM (ihtYN)

92 It's like I was telling my dad last night when he was watching this - real life is more like a Tom Clancy novel than any of us knew... except sillier, more stupid.

Posted by: Sporkatus at July 27, 2017 02:39 PM (eXSOZ)

93 "54 I was walking down the street in DC as some people took pictures in front of an ad on a cab that said "Blood on Your Hands DLA Piper". They were all laughing it up and thought it was hilarious, I assume they were DLA Piper. It turns out that DLA Piper was working for an Ehtiopian dictator to cover up his torture and other bad stuff. Yuk yuk."

In fairness, DLA Piper is a global firm with over 4,000 lawyers and is managed out of the UK. I doubt some dudes in their DC office have a clue what lawyers in African offices are doing. I used to be at a firm that had offices in the Middle East. I presume some of my partners represented scumbags.

Posted by: Benji Carver at July 27, 2017 02:40 PM (OD2ni)

94 I think that if the truth comes out about all of this, it goes beyond tar and feathers.

I think we're getting closer and closer to it all coming out. You ever notice how President Trump doesn't seem to be bothered at all by the "Russian collusion" story? I suspect there's a reason for that involving enough rope.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 02:40 PM (39g3+)

95 BTW -

RICO.

Just sayin'

There is money to be made

Posted by: simplemind at July 27, 2017 02:40 PM (Fm/7O)

96 Tucker is interviewing Jeff Sessions live tonight from El Salvador.

They better not bring that big lizard back.

Posted by: The Dead Milkmen at July 27, 2017 02:40 PM (IZPn8)

97 Barbie Dahl.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 02:38 PM

I thought you were more of a what's-her-name man?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2017 02:41 PM (ctuyM)

98 My craziest tin foil hat theories of what's been going on pale compared to unfolding revelations.

I think we all need to upgrade to titanium foil.

Posted by: rickl at July 27, 2017 02:41 PM (xjiRE)

99 OT: DWS's brother, Steve Wasserman, who is an assistant attorney general, is supposedly trying both the Awan and Seth Rich case.

/bet he doesn't recuse himself.

-
Debbie Wasserman Schultz's brother is running the Swan I mean case.

https://tinyurl.com/yak385rm

TRIGGER WARNING! Extremely unattractive portrait of Debbie Downer at the link.

And aforesaid brother is suspected of burying the Seth Rich murder.

https://tinyurl.com/yatevf8k

Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 27, 2017 02:41 PM (Nwg0u)

100 And it's quitting time.

I hear booze calling me.

See you all tomorrow.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 27, 2017 02:41 PM (X6fMO)

101 I'm trying to catch this fly with a set of chopsticks. Dang things are fast.

Posted by: J. Sessions at July 27, 2017 02:41 PM (mcI77)

102 Fusion GPS is a modern reincarnation of that POS Terry Lenzner. The Clintons had Lenzner on retainer to smear anyone that crossed them in the 90's.
Posted by: Benji Carver at July 27, 2017 02:32 PM (OD2ni)

Bingo! Behind every democrat/left wing hatchet group you will find either the Clintons or George Soros.

Those Paki IT guys days on the earth are going to be short if they don't get back to happy allah land.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 27, 2017 02:41 PM (5VlCp)

103 What the hell does the "DLA" stand for in "DLA Piper?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 27, 2017 02:42 PM (SRKgf)

104 Mueller (speaking to FBI investigator about his integrity): You know the score, pal. If you're not Deep State, you're little people!

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at July 27, 2017 02:42 PM (e1mEI)

105 He says that Derwick then hired Fusion GPS to begin planting stories in "fringe websites" that he was a pedophile and drug addict.

They accused him of ... being a Democrat?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 27, 2017 02:42 PM (SRKgf)

106 There's a reason the left freaked out about Trump winning that goes even deeper than a lust for power or surprise that they were defeated. There's stark terror in the eyes of some of these people. When you're in charge you can sweep incompetence, corruption, and downright lawbreaking under the rug. When you're not, and you suck at your job, its all just lying there on top of the desk when the new boss walks in.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 02:43 PM (39g3+)

107 What the hell does the "DLA" stand for in "DLA Piper?"

Dear Leader's Atrocities?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 27, 2017 02:43 PM (IZPn8)

108 "Just when I get to thinking I'm too cynical, something happens to prove to me I'm not cynical enough."

Posted by: itsacookbook at July 27, 2017 02:43 PM (yPxXc)

109 "I think that if the truth comes out about all of this, it goes beyond tar and feathers."

Boy howdy, yeah. This.

The guilty will be praying for fire and concrete to end it all.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/7 at July 27, 2017 02:44 PM (Mcvvl)

110 Key word: supposedly.
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https://twitter.com/GeorgWebb/status/890439783914319872

True? Who knows.

My guess is something like "it's under the geographic area that wasserman handles, and he could be assigned."

Posted by: shibumi at July 27, 2017 02:44 PM (aT+Bx)

111 The only question is whether it will be possible for the justice department to actually weed all this out and hold the people responsible without utterly destroying the federal government. I suspect the bribes, payoffs, blackmail, collusion, corruption, and hands in the till go so deep into every branch we'd have half the government in orange jumpsuits when it is all said and done. Can the nation survive that?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 02:44 PM (39g3+)

112 "They aren't even reporters any longer. They're twitter feed bloggers who hire reporters."

I laughed myself hoarse over the firm which outsourced some of their coding work to a freelance programmer. An expensive contract, worth a lot of money. But the coder had a great resume and top credentials, so they assigned it to him, working remotely.

They then found out later on that the guy had further outsourced all the actual technical work to someone in China, paying them a comparative pittance. While he himself sat there with his feet up, playing games all day, cashing the big fat checks coming in from corporate.

Posted by: torquewrench at July 27, 2017 02:45 PM (ujwCG)

113 strangest thing # 97-and 98 are totally missing from my screen just a big white spot.
Fusion ? i'm sure the dems are srsly angry at this.
They are over looking at Russia influencing our elections when fusion was right under their noses, and emails. (pretty sure)

Posted by: willow at July 27, 2017 02:45 PM (FKrah)

114 84 Not enough ... feathers ...
Posted by: USNtakim at July 27, 2017 02:38 PM

And How! USNtakim speaks with good heart.

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at July 27, 2017 02:45 PM (ctuyM)

115 106 There's a reason the left freaked out about Trump winning that goes even deeper than a lust for power or surprise that they were defeated. There's stark terror in the eyes of some of these people. When you're in charge you can sweep incompetence, corruption, and downright lawbreaking under the rug. When you're not, and you suck at your job, its all just lying there on top of the desk when the new boss walks in.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 02:43 PM (39g3+)

And an awful lot of Republicans are exhibiting symptoms of stark terror as well.

Posted by: rickl at July 27, 2017 02:45 PM (xjiRE)

116 Just when I get to thinking I'm too cynical, something happens to prove to me I'm not cynical enough."

Yep.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 27, 2017 02:45 PM (MINbv)

117 Come on Shibumi ... don't tease us.

Posted by: The Margins at July 27, 2017 02:45 PM (Niu5G)

118 they always project. if they accuse you of being a pedobear and a junkie, that is the shit they are into.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at July 27, 2017 02:46 PM (K7Pxq)

119
Can the nation survive that?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 02:44 PM (39g3+)

It survived a civil war

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July 27, 2017 02:46 PM (lKyWE)

120 So does Fusion also Hunt down information or just do a a lot of planting informations and smear?

Posted by: willow at July 27, 2017 02:46 PM (FKrah)

121 strangest thing # 97-and 98 are totally missing from my screen just a big white spot"

Don't use whiteout on the screen

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 27, 2017 02:46 PM (MINbv)

122 This FusionGPS story runs a thrill up my leg. If this story were part of a movie, we'd know a big reveal was just moments away. Cue the intro to LA Confidential. Tucker Carlson is Ed Exley.

FusionGPS = Nite Owl Diner.

Posted by: 13times at July 27, 2017 02:46 PM (WHVu+)

123 My craziest tin foil hat theories of what's been going on pale compared to unfolding revelations.

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My sociological theory which is based on pure bullshit like all sociological theories is that zombie movies are so popular now because we are witnessing people whom we thought were civilized do unspeakable things just as your brother might turn into a zombie and try to eat you.

Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 27, 2017 02:47 PM (Nwg0u)

124 >>>My guess is something like "it's under the geographic area that wasserman handles, and he could be assigned."

What Division is he in? What kinds of cases does he handle? How many other Assistant Attorneys are there?

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at July 27, 2017 02:47 PM (4ayRW)

125 Nuke the swamp from orbit, its the only way to be sure.

Posted by: Ripley at July 27, 2017 02:47 PM (CHPoA)

126 And an awful lot of Republicans are exhibiting symptoms of stark terror as well.

Exactly. Not all that "nevertrumpism" comes from ideology or troubles with Trump's antics. For some at least, that's a cover for what they fear may come out.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 02:47 PM (39g3+)

127 The movie "Enemy of the State" has been on TV recently, with Gene Hackman as the former NSA guy that knows all about their tracking and villainy. Will Smith (plays a lawyer) ends up with some evidence on a senator, and they aim to destroy him and any others involved.

To destroy him they murder his friend, and plant evidence that Smith's character did it. Hackman says they did it because that would make him easier to find, and also discredit him if he went public with the intel.

That was made in like 1998, and he said then they were tracking all phone calls for key words, doing all sorts of spying they are doing now we know. But it must have seemed pretty crazy in 1998.

Of course Hillary has collected smear files for decades, and pedophile island has many visitors. They held that "grab her kitty" tape on Trump for 12 years or so. They are not new at the game of treachery and treason, and can insert elements of truth into their bizarre "fake news" soap operas to cover their tracks.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 27, 2017 02:47 PM (HQuBO)

128 When you're not, and you suck at your job, its all just lying there on top of the desk when the new boss walks in.

Only matters if the boss is interested in it. If not...

Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2017 02:47 PM (na0uG)

129 I need Shep's take on this news.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 02:48 PM (PY9jH)

130 On my second beer. Not too early. Highly reccomended

Posted by: Big swingin Al at July 27, 2017 02:48 PM (xLj5D)

131 Ace has to be jesting with us. Dirt has been part of politics, domestic and international, forever.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 27, 2017 02:48 PM (3OIiX)

132 Can the nation survive that?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 02:44 PM (39g3+)

It survived a civil war

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With only a half million dead.

Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 27, 2017 02:48 PM (Nwg0u)

133 Cue the intro to LA Confidential. Tucker Carlson is Ed Exley.

Exactly. When Ace posted that story last night it was exactly like the moment in the movie when the hero suddenly stops talking and gets this look on their face like a cross between "I understand it all now" and "there are things mankind is not meant to know."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 02:48 PM (39g3+)

134 shit.

competition

Posted by: SPECTRE at July 27, 2017 02:48 PM (PNcou)

135
strangest thing # 97-and 98 are totally missing from my screen just a big white spot"

97 Barbie Dahl.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 02:38 PM

I thought you were more of a what's-her-name man?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2017 02:41 PM (ctuyM)

98 My craziest tin foil hat theories of what's been going on pale compared to unfolding revelations.

I think we all need to upgrade to titanium foil.
Posted by: rickl

Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2017 02:49 PM (na0uG)

136 Sunlight as the first cure for Fusion GPS.
Second cure involves .45 ACP

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 27, 2017 02:49 PM (3OIiX)

137 Ahhhh. I think it's lunch time.

Posted by: J. Sessions at July 27, 2017 02:49 PM (mcI77)

138 When you're in charge you can sweep incompetence, corruption, and downright lawbreaking under the rug. When you're not, and you suck at your job, its all just lying there on top of the desk when the new boss walks in.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 02:43 PM (39g3+)

Certainly. and I am pretty sure They were certain they had this election and future elections in the bag , otherwise their sneering asinine threatening behavior over the last decade wouldn't make sense.

They had everything in place or so they thought.
tilts my tinroil floral hat.

Posted by: willow at July 27, 2017 02:49 PM (FKrah)

139 "103 What the hell does the "DLA" stand for in "DLA Piper?"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara"

I believe DLA was a British law firm. DLA Piper was the the end result of a bunch of mergers that occurred in the early 200o's. My old firm was in merger discussions with one of the former firms but backed out over a threatened partner revolt. Firm mergers were a big thing for a few years.

Posted by: Benji Carver at July 27, 2017 02:50 PM (OD2ni)

140
119
Can the nation survive that?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 02:44 PM (39g3+)

It survived a civil war
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July 27, 2017 02:46 PM (lKyWE)

It was transmogrified, badly, by a civil war.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at July 27, 2017 02:50 PM (e1mEI)

141 I have a litmus test for conspiracy theories or allegations of conspiracy. Does the event require there to have been consistent above-average competence and consistent commitment to ideology, or: mindboggling stupidity/incompetence and general selfishness, laziness, amorality, and willful blindness? Which then required a CYA when things went squirrely?

Option one, the odds of the conspiracy go down a bit. Option two, WAY up.

Even if we didn't have some fairly obvious evidence here, "nobody in the news media ever bothers to do their fucking job and instead they all lean on fucktarded misinformation composed of a guy's discarded nose boogers" puts this into category 2, bigly.

Posted by: Sporkatus at July 27, 2017 02:50 PM (eXSOZ)

142 1 At this point, the swamp needs to be covered in concrete and fire. But mostly fire.

Nuke it from space .... that's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: I'm the Honey Badger, BITCH! at July 27, 2017 02:50 PM (9HAZl)

143 oh I like this hash.

Posted by: willow at July 27, 2017 02:50 PM (FKrah)

144 I'll be damned. An actual reporter just asked Sarah Sanders if PDT is aware of the IT staffer's arrest and his connection to Debbie W-S.

She said something like she'd get back to him.

Now, another female reporter is expressing her displeasure over PDT's speech to the Boy Scouts.

I can't even.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 02:50 PM (PY9jH)

145 This video thumbnail is garbage. The dude on the right looks like he's getting his dck sckd. Tucker looks confused, although that might be correct for the random crap spewed by leftist guests.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 27, 2017 02:51 PM (rnAwa)

146 I need Shep's take on this news.
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"What are 'Things No Moron Said Ever' Alex."

Posted by: shibumi at July 27, 2017 02:51 PM (aT+Bx)

147 99
TRIGGER WARNING! Extremely unattractive portrait of Debbie Downer at the link.

By that do you mean that there actually might be attractive photos of her somewhere?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 27, 2017 02:51 PM (jxbfJ)

148 >>So does Fusion also Hunt down information or just do a a lot of planting informations and smear?

The latter. Did anyone watch the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today with Browder and his experience with Fusion GPS?

This is a real, live criminal enterprise working on behalf of both foreign criminal governments AND the Democrat Party. This is the key to understanding what is going on with the entire Russia bullshit investigation.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2017 02:51 PM (/tuJf)

149 Come on Shibumi ... don't tease us.
Posted by: The Margins at July 27, 2017 02:45 PM

Actually, you're good, kid. Have your people call my people, and we can do a Meeting.

Posted by: Detroit Marketing Copy and Dance Club at July 27, 2017 02:51 PM (ctuyM)

150 I need Shep's take on this news.
--

"What are 'Things No Moron Said Ever' Alex."

Posted by: shibumi at July 27, 2017 02:51 PM (aT+Bx)
Please tell me I didn't need a sarc tag.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 02:52 PM (PY9jH)

151 "They aren't even reporters any longer. They're twitter feed bloggers who hire reporters."

I laughed myself hoarse over the firm which outsourced some of their coding work to a freelance programmer. An expensive contract, worth a lot of money. But the coder had a great resume and top credentials, so they assigned it to him, working remotely.

They then found out later on that the guy had further outsourced all the actual technical work to someone in China, paying them a comparative pittance. While he himself sat there with his feet up, playing games all day, cashing the big fat checks coming in from corporate.
Posted by: torquewrench at July 27, 2017 02:45 PM (ujwCG)

Working smart, not hard.

I have the same problem hiring landscapers and building contractors. They all, all, subcontract out the work to less-skilled folks who work for less.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 27, 2017 02:52 PM (3OIiX)

152 At this point, the swamp needs to be covered in concrete and fire. But mostly fire.

Nuke it from space .... that's the only way to be sure.
Posted by: I'm the Honey Badger, BITCH!

ODIN it with kinetic weapons.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2017 02:52 PM (na0uG)

153 Ace should give us comforting kitten pictures in the sidebar for days like this.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 02:53 PM (PY9jH)

154 Boom! And now Sarah Sanders is talking about it.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2017 02:53 PM (/tuJf)

155 Headless Body of Agnew: "It was transmogrified, badly, by a civil war."

This. "Survived" is a relative, not binary, term.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 27, 2017 02:54 PM (H8S+R)

156 Oh, shut the fuck up Shep. Gah. Off goes the TV.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 02:54 PM (PY9jH)

157 my friends you have nothing to fear from my friendsh at Fusion GPS.

Posted by: juano mc cain at July 27, 2017 02:54 PM (eO2Z0)

158 Jactstraw I hadn't watched was taking care of kids this a.m So they are letting the Dems slime slip out inadvertently
Have any of the media covered this?

Posted by: willow at July 27, 2017 02:55 PM (FKrah)

159 148 >>So does Fusion also Hunt down information or just do a a lot of planting informations and smear?

The latter. Did anyone watch the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today with Browder and his experience with Fusion GPS?

This is a real, live criminal enterprise working on behalf of both foreign criminal governments AND the Democrat Party. This is the key to understanding what is going on with the entire Russia bullshit investigation.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2017 02:51 PM (/tuJf)

I firmly believe the Dems are balls deep in with Fusion GPS, and this "Russia Russia Russia" business.

I also firmly believe that absolutely nothing will ever come of it except for a couple of soundbites.

It's dead Jim.
Sorry Ben, we fucked up.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 27, 2017 02:55 PM (jxbfJ)

160 o/t -

A company in Japan is preparing to conduct the country's first private space launch.

http://tinyurl.com/yarwzydq

h/t - Instapundit

Posted by: junior at July 27, 2017 02:55 PM (Q6qiA)

161 Do we know what the "GPS" stands for in the name yet?

Posted by: rickl at July 27, 2017 02:55 PM (xjiRE)

162 OT but I wanted to give y'all a link to a recent Baldilocks post at Da Tech Guy blog; she has some additional facts about the Richard Dawkins cancellation in Berkeley:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yawdjr9h

(hint -- taxpayer and Soros money is involved)

*waves at Baldilocks*

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 27, 2017 02:55 PM (6jaju)

163 I keep hearing about all of these shoes about to drop today, WTF are they?

Posted by: Under Fire at July 27, 2017 02:56 PM (mcI77)

164 What is so infuriating is that one would think this story could make a REAL journalist a superstar if they truly dug into this type of operation. And not saying it would be incredibly easy, but back in the day it seems journalists would LOVE to take this kind of bit in their mouths and run with it.

Posted by: Brunnhilde at July 27, 2017 02:56 PM (aW5/6)

165 is Sarah Sanders Bernie's wife?

Posted by: willow at July 27, 2017 02:56 PM (FKrah)

166 That's the "Big Lie" tactic. Get it out there often enough, it starts becoming accepted.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2017 02:31 PM (na0uG)

You don't say?

Posted by: Harry Reid, truth teller extraordinaire at July 27, 2017 02:56 PM (hZ+us)

167 Ace has to be jesting with us. Dirt has been part of politics, domestic and international, forever.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Yeah, but it's gone from the usual informal networks and shady characters to a fully industrialized, organized, and incorporated endeavor. This is literally Dirty Tricks, Inc.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at July 27, 2017 02:56 PM (AM1GF)

168
It was transmogrified, badly, by a civil war.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at July 27, 2017 02:50 PM (e1mEI)

Badly?

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July 27, 2017 02:57 PM (lKyWE)

169 161
Do we know what the "GPS" stands for in the name yet?

Posted by: rickl at July 27, 2017 02:55 PM (xjiRE)

Gettin' Paid, Suckers!Could be Global Political Strategeries, I suppose.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at July 27, 2017 02:57 PM (tbOMB)

170 is Sarah Sanders Bernie's wife?

No. Daughter of Mike Huckabee.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2017 02:57 PM (na0uG)

171 Global paryt senecure?

Posted by: willow at July 27, 2017 02:57 PM (FKrah)

172 155 Headless Body of Agnew: "It was transmogrified, badly, by a civil war."

This. "Survived" is a relative, not binary, term.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 27, 2017 02:54 PM (H8S+R)

Don't care. If that's the price of cleaning this shit up - pay it.

But you can bet your ass ... "The Country Won't Survive It" will be an early and often GOP excuse to do nothing.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 27, 2017 02:58 PM (Niu5G)

173 This is a real, live criminal enterprise working on behalf of both foreign criminal governments AND the Democrat Party. This is the key to understanding what is going on with the entire Russia bullshit investigation.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2017 02:51 PM (/tuJf)

You left out a few folks who they worked for...

Never Trumpers.... including John McCain, who sent someone to GET the report that started this crap fest.

Posted by: Don Q. at July 27, 2017 02:58 PM (NgKpN)

174 We are all enemies of the deep state. Trust no one.

Posted by: Ripley at July 27, 2017 02:58 PM (CHPoA)

175 "165 is Sarah Sanders Bernie's wife?
Posted by: willow"

LMAO. Sarah's a little chubby (three very young children), but much cuter than Bernie's wife. Bernie's wife looks like the Seahag from Popeye.

Posted by: Benji Carver at July 27, 2017 02:58 PM (OD2ni)

176 ugk
Global Party Senecure?

Posted by: willow at July 27, 2017 02:58 PM (FKrah)

177 Buy my new book, "Screw You, FKrahs: I Should Be Queen!"

Posted by: hillary (')(,) at July 27, 2017 02:58 PM (nlbfN)

178 So, hate to say this but where are OUR smear shops?

Working 24-7 on smearing Trump and the entire conservative movement for as long as Reince's checks continue to cash?

Posted by: Ian S. at July 27, 2017 02:58 PM (3J/LN)

179 Posted by: Benji Carver at July 27, 2017 02:50 PM (OD2ni)

Thanks. I'd seen the name before, and always wondered about it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 27, 2017 02:58 PM (SRKgf)

180 I believe DLA was a British law firm. DLA Piper was the the end result of a bunch of mergers that occurred in the early 200o's.
Posted by: Benji Carver at July 27, 2017 02:50 PM

The are known colloquially as 'DOA' Piper. They insist on their remuneration, and will pursue it beyond a client's demise.

Origin of the phrase "You have to pay the Piper."

Posted by: The Rest of the Story at July 27, 2017 02:59 PM (ctuyM)

181 ty Benji, so one of the white hates?

Posted by: willow at July 27, 2017 02:59 PM (FKrah)

182 174
You left out a few folks who they worked for...

Never Trumpers.... including John McCain, who sent someone to GET the report that started this crap fest.
Posted by: Don Q. at July 27, 2017 02:58 PM (NgKpN)

And that detestable onion-faced Egg McMuffin.

Posted by: Hikaru at July 27, 2017 02:59 PM (XMDuf)

183 minus fkn e

Posted by: willow at July 27, 2017 02:59 PM (FKrah)

184 "Survived" is a relative, not binary, term.

Exactly. Let's say 50 congressmen and two supreme court justices go to the pen, plus hundreds of staffers, agency heads, governors, lower court justices, etc. I mean a major sweep like taking out mob bosses. What happens to the country? Most of what makes a nation work is an innate, unquestioned trust in the system and how things function. Kick the legs out from under it, then what?

I suspect there will always be some form of the USA around like there's been a Spain since Roman times. But what form will it be?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 02:59 PM (39g3+)

185 Google memetic engineering.

Yeah.

Sweet dreams.

Posted by: blaster at July 27, 2017 02:59 PM (r9gUQ)

186 McCain was involved in this shit fest as well, right?

Types

Deletes

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 02:59 PM (PY9jH)

187
Yeah, but it's gone from the usual informal networks and shady characters to a fully industrialized, organized, and incorporated endeavor. This is literally Dirty Tricks, Inc.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at July 27, 2017 02:56 PM (AM1GF)

OH, you mean like the Dem during the election, who was caught on tape saying he paid people to disrupt Trump rallies with Violence?

Posted by: Don Q. at July 27, 2017 02:59 PM (NgKpN)

188 "Of course Hillary has collected smear files for decades"

Worth remembering: during the Clinton presidency, in the residential wing of 1600 Pennsylvania, there were stacks and stacks of file boxes filled with FBI dossiers.

They were doing oppo. On the public's dime and the public's time. Using officially sourced intel from agencies of the federal government, material that's not supposed to be casually available for partisan political purposes.

Except they only focused on known threats (both Republican and Democratic). People who had already risen to such a level of political prominence that they would be plausible future Presidential challengers.

That's why Obama blindsided Hillary in the 2008 primaries.

At the time in the 1990s that Clintonworld was busily doing all of this covert advance work on people's dirty laundry, Obama was an obscure backbencher in a state legislature. Not on the radar at all. So when he suddenly came out of nowhere later on, they had nothing on the guy. She panicked and floundered.

Posted by: torquewrench at July 27, 2017 02:59 PM (ujwCG)

189 I suspect the bribes, payoffs, blackmail, collusion, corruption, and hands in the till go so deep into every branch we'd have half the government in orange jumpsuits when it is all said and done. Can the nation survive that?
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I say: LETS FIND OUT!!!

Posted by: simplemind at July 27, 2017 02:59 PM (p6kjs)

190 144 I'll be damned. An actual reporter just asked Sarah Sanders if PDT is aware of the IT staffer's arrest and his connection to Debbie W-S.

She said something like she'd get back to him.

Now, another female reporter is expressing her displeasure over PDT's speech to the Boy Scouts.

I can't even.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 02:50 PM (PY9jH)

Would it be acceptable if DJT told that female reporter to talk to somebody who cares?
Maybe that would be unpresidential.

Posted by: Northernlurker, Phillips screwdriver of the gods at July 27, 2017 02:59 PM (hJrjt)

191 >>Jactstraw I hadn't watched was taking care of kids this a.m So they are letting the Dems slime slip out inadvertently
Have any of the media covered this?

No, the media is hardly covering it so far which is not surprising. The first you have to remember about Fusion GPS is that they are essentially part of the media. It is a firm started by ex-jounalists and what they do is "dig up" (read make up) dirt and salacious information to discredit anyone who goes up against their clients so that the media won't believe anything they say.

Then they present unbelievable information which is so awful that as Halvorssen said there really is no defense. This is what they did with Trump and the Russia Dossier and things like him peeing on a bed covered with Russian hookers. It's so outrageous you almost can't fight back.

They aren't a research company, they are a professional hit team designed to crush the enemies of their clients. And again, they are very tight with both the Clintons and the DNC. You guys see where this is headed?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2017 02:59 PM (/tuJf)

192
Do we know what the "GPS" stands for in the name yet?
Posted by: rickl at July 27, 2017 02:55 PM (xjiRE)

Global Policy Strategies

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July 27, 2017 03:00 PM (lKyWE)

193 I keep hearing about all of these shoes about to drop today, "

Sale at DSW?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 27, 2017 03:00 PM (MINbv)

194 So will DC really investigate itself? Don't think so

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 27, 2017 03:00 PM (6Ll1u)

195 Gosudarstvenii Politikalnii Sovietskii.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at July 27, 2017 03:00 PM (fA1SL)

196 So does Fusion also Hunt down information or just do a a lot of planting informations and smear?

Both, they do research for people as well as plant misinformation and create smear campaigns.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 03:01 PM (39g3+)

197 Brunnhilde: "What is so infuriating is that one would think this story could make a REAL journalist a superstar if they truly dug into this type of operation."

And earn them a death warrant. Think about what is at stake and who are making the stakes? I don't think you can envision a more dangerous undertaking short of damning Allah in an ISIS camp in Mosul.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 27, 2017 03:01 PM (H8S+R)

198 Exactly. Let's say 50 congressmen and two supreme court justices go to the pen, plus hundreds of staffers, agency heads, governors, lower court justices, etc. I mean a major sweep like taking out mob bosses. What happens to the country? Most of what makes a nation work is an innate, unquestioned trust in the system and how things function. Kick the legs out from under it, then what?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 02:59 PM (39g3+)

Can't wait to find out.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 27, 2017 03:02 PM (Niu5G)

199 Ace has to be jesting with us. Dirt has been part of politics, domestic and international, forever.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Yeah, but it's gone from the usual informal networks and shady characters to a fully industrialized, organized, and incorporated endeavor. This is literally Dirty Tricks, Inc.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at July 27, 2017 02:56 PM (AM1GF)

Sure, the only difference is that it's private sector....ish.

The CIA and FBI pulled ops on people in and out of the country for years.

Frankly Fusion GPS did a lousy job covering their tracks. Whoever Clinton has killing people is much better at their job.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 27, 2017 03:02 PM (3OIiX)

200 we'd have half the government in orange jumpsuits when it is all said and done. Can the nation survive that?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 02:44 PM (39g3+)

Your just teasing me right?

Posted by: MAC SOG at July 27, 2017 03:02 PM (QPdNE)

201 woah Jack, so journOlisters on steroids.

so that's where they go when they leave plain sight.

Posted by: willow at July 27, 2017 03:03 PM (FKrah)

202 14 I posted this last night but I will post it again because I think people really need to read this. Here is a link to Halvorssen's written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

http://tinyurl.com/ybzut5jf

I think it will shock people when they see the extent of Fusion GPS' activities and the unbelievable tactics they use to slime people. It really is worth the 10 minutes or so to read it.

Mind you, Fusion GPS is extremely tight with the Clinton's and the DNC. This needs a real investigation.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2017 02:27 PM (/tuJf)

Whoa. Sick. Broke into his colleagues house, stole computer, put photos of his daughters in his coat pocket and threatened that they would be raped. Postilion research my ass.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 27, 2017 03:03 PM (Rndb7)

203 Who was it this morning who told me the Clinton's have no real power anymore? It was in response to my repeating what a DC insider told Hannity, when he asked why no one goes after the swamp scum. The guy told him people are seriously afraid of the Clintons.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 03:03 PM (PY9jH)

204 Oh, and the female Russian lawyer who Don Trump Jr met with during the campaign, she is also connected to Fusion GPS.

At the end of Sarah Sanders presser today she alluded to the Browder's testimony today before the Senate about Russia and Fusion GPS. The pieces are all starting to fall into place.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2017 03:03 PM (/tuJf)

205 they are very tight with both the Clintons and the DNC. You guys see where this is headed?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2017 02:59 PM (/tuJf)
================================

The mortuary?

Posted by: grammie winger - 8 pounds heavier but with a great tan at July 27, 2017 03:04 PM (lwiT4)

206 OH, you mean like the Dem during the election, who was caught on tape saying he paid people to disrupt Trump rallies with Violence?

Posted by: Don Q.

Yep. Except instead of a deniable cut-out acting as a (supposed) individual approaching a sympathetic group, this is the whole thing in-house. The equivalent would be if Black Bloc was listed on the NYSE and its masked miscreants were employees, complete with tax docs and benefits packages.

And I can't rule out that as being down the road.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at July 27, 2017 03:04 PM (AM1GF)

207 Someone should start mentioning to Hellary that FusionGPS must have *meant* to have their "charge" against Trump backfire. After all, it was so wildly idiotic on its face that no rational, although those are in depressingly short supply, person would ever give it credence. If she decides they sold her out our problems are likely to disappear very quickly.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 27, 2017 03:04 PM (rp9xB)

208 Remember those movies where they go after a criminal organization and they have this huge wall with pictures and names, and strings connecting each other and its like spaghetti on a college yearbook that exploded on the wall, ten feet high?

That doesn't get set up overnight. It takes months to just set up the board. This is huge. Its going to take time and meanwhile people within the precinct are working hard to stop the investgaition, are stealing tacks from the board and replacing pics with other people they hate.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 03:04 PM (39g3+)

209 What happens to the country? Most of what makes a nation work is an innate, unquestioned trust in the system and how things function. Kick the legs out from under it, then what?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 02:59 PM (39g3+)

Can't wait to find out.
Posted by: ScoggDog at July 27, 2017 03:02 PM (Niu5G)

Only speaking for myself, but my faith in the system is already gone...

Posted by: Don Q. at July 27, 2017 03:04 PM (NgKpN)

210 Great Paki Servers. Don't you hicks know anything?

Posted by: hillary (,)(') at July 27, 2017 03:04 PM (nlbfN)

211 DLA Piper LA office is run by none other than Kamala Harris' husband, who had the office 2 doors down from mine back when we were lowly associates.

Posted by: LASue at July 27, 2017 03:05 PM (hZ+us)

212 "196 So does Fusion also Hunt down information or just do a a lot of planting informations and smear?

Both, they do research for people as well as plant misinformation and create smear campaigns.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor"

Yup. They are whores and will do whatever they are paid to do. If real information will help their client, they will gather and push that. If the client needs BS to be spun and fed to guillible reports, they will do that. I believe their specialty is the latter.

Posted by: Benji Carver at July 27, 2017 03:05 PM (OD2ni)

213 one of these rats is bound to flip

Posted by: kallisto at July 27, 2017 03:05 PM (qV5PD)

214
Exactly. Let's say 50 congressmen and two supreme court justices go to the pen, plus hundreds of staffers, agency heads, governors, lower court justices, etc. I mean a major sweep like taking out mob bosses. What happens to the country? Most of what makes a nation work is an innate, unquestioned trust in the system and how things function. Kick the legs out from under it, then what? Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 02:59 PM (39g3+)

That won't happen.A sufficent number of scalps will be taken for appearence purposesand the government will be damaged but left standing.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July 27, 2017 03:05 PM (lKyWE)

215 woah Jack, so journOlisters on steroids.

so that's where they go when they leave plain sight.

Posted by: willow

This is much worse. This is like a sort of KGB-for-hire.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at July 27, 2017 03:06 PM (AM1GF)

216 Concrete shoes, cyanide, TNT - done dirt cheap!
Neckties, contracts, high voltage! -done dirt cheap!

Posted by: Fusion GPS Marketing Department at July 27, 2017 03:06 PM (eXSOZ)

217 I keep hearing about all of these shoes about to drop today.

No, I'm good.

Posted by: Hillary at July 27, 2017 03:06 PM (rnAwa)

218 Having been involved in Arkansas politics on the periphery (not with the Clintons however) during the era of the Clintons--their m.o. has always been cash and dirt. Any politician that crossed them ended up in trouble, usually legal. Bill Clinton's women friends ended up being either paid off or threatened--many were married to others. Walking around money was distributed throughout to ensure voting turnout and some large Arkie corporations bought influence.

Hilary and Bill resemble Tom and Daisy from the Great Gatsby--leaving human and political wreckage behind without so far paying the price. If you combine the Great Gatsby with All the Kings Men, you have some idea about Arkansas politics from 76-92.

There were also other oddities such as prosecutors, a castration of a rape suspect by masked men, an infamously incompetent state medical examiner who decreed that two teenage boys were killed because they smoked too much marijuana and fell asleep on the RR tracks among other issues.

There is a reason that Hillary received one of her lowest vote percentages in Arkansas in 2016.

Posted by: just saying at July 27, 2017 03:06 PM (W9rTq)

219 5 bucks says it was the Jeb! campaign that contracted Fusion to make up shit on Trump.

Posted by: sgr at July 27, 2017 03:06 PM (n7Wsr)

220 Kathleen Wiley can fill people in on how ruthless the Clintons are when it comes to trying to shut people up.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 03:06 PM (PY9jH)

221 None of this bullshit fake news would be an issue if the proggies hadn't destroyed public education. Honestly, who is going to believe that Trump had hookers pee on him for fun, if they have any critical thinking skills at all. But critical thinking is apparently a thing of the past, much like common sense, which is no longer common.

We have a nation of idiots who will believe any damned thing so long as it fits their general bias and animosity. Nobody but me and mine are any good at all, and everyone else is just evil.

Which is horseshit on the face of it, but folks swallow this hook line and sinker.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 27, 2017 03:07 PM (NXsWM)

222 These people are evil. The truth will win out hopefully sooner than later.

Sent a note of encouragement to the Trumpster this mornin.

Felt good.

Thanks to Mo-Ron that supplied the link in a previous thread.

Posted by: dananjcon at July 27, 2017 03:07 PM (WLK0w)

223
5 bucks says it was the Jeb! campaign that contracted Fusion to make up shit on Trump.

Posted by: sgr at July 27, 2017 03:06 PM (n7Wsr)

With a little help from "war hero" John McCain.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 03:08 PM (PY9jH)

224 Its fun to fantasize about seeing the entire Obama administration in linked chains being marched into a bus headed to leavenworth, but thats the kind of thing the Attorney General and president have to consider. The impact it would have on the country, its future, and its cohesion. Is it worth it to have a couple of SCOTUS justices frog marched off by marshals? What happens to every case they've heard at that point? There's no higher court to make a ruling.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 03:08 PM (39g3+)

225 Bing Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

First story is from PuffHo:

Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the first mother to hold down the job of White House Press Secretary. She's the third woman ever in the role. That's a notable achievement, but that's all it is.

Emphasis mine.
I DARE them to write that way about a a dem.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2017 03:08 PM (na0uG)

226 "220 Kathleen Wiley can fill people in on how ruthless the Clintons are when it comes to trying to shut people up.
Posted by: Jane D'oh"

Yup. Terry Lenzner had a file and pre-planted dirt on her ready to go.

Posted by: Benji Carver at July 27, 2017 03:08 PM (OD2ni)

227 217 I keep hearing about all of these shoes about to drop today.

No, I'm good.
Posted by: Hillary at July 27, 2017 03:06 PM (rnAwa)

Hey there! Shoes?!! Do tell!!

Posted by: Immelda Marcos at July 27, 2017 03:08 PM (jxbfJ)

228 ... and replacing pics with other people they hate.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 03:04 PM

We nominate Ginger and Mary Anne.

Posted by: Lena and Yoko at July 27, 2017 03:08 PM (ctuyM)

229 "Most of what makes a nation work is an innate, unquestioned trust in the system and how things function."

There's not much fruit still on that particular tree.

Posted by: torquewrench at July 27, 2017 03:09 PM (ujwCG)

230 It's already confirmed that it was Jeb who first went to Fusion for oppo on Trump.

Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2017 03:09 PM (rmVvL)

231 one of these rats is bound to flip

I keep thinking that and it keeps not happening. So either its all BS and we're fooling ourselves, these guys are insanely loyal, or they're just too terrified to talk.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 03:09 PM (39g3+)

232 Okay,not confirmed but widely suspected.

Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2017 03:09 PM (rmVvL)

233 miss me yet?

Posted by: Truth at July 27, 2017 03:09 PM (PNcou)

234 "5 bucks says it was the Jeb! campaign that contracted Fusion to make up shit on Trump.

Posted by: sgr at July 27, 2017 03:06 PM (n7Wsr)"

Rick Wilson and Liz Mair, I believe.

Posted by: Benji Carver at July 27, 2017 03:09 PM (OD2ni)

235 >>woah Jack, so journOlisters on steroids.

Willow, go read the link I posted at 14. You won't believe some of the tactics these guys use and they are very well connected.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2017 03:10 PM (/tuJf)

236 Yup. They are whores and will do whatever they are paid to do. If real information will help their client, they will gather and push that. If the client needs BS to be spun and fed to guillible reports, they will do that. I believe their specialty is the latter.
Posted by: Benji Carver at July 27, 2017 03:05 PM (OD2ni)

So how did we end up with people so devoid of human decency and completely lacking in conscience? Are these folks even one tick above Ted Bundy or any other psychopath?

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 27, 2017 03:10 PM (NXsWM)

237 By that do you mean that there actually might be attractive photos of her somewhere?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 27, 2017 02:51 PM (jxbfJ)

She can look nice after she takes a bath. I have unnamed sources that claims that happens once every seven weeks. It takes that long for all the moisture to evaporate. After that you have to cut the hair off and you'll get fleas if you leave the mayo on.

Posted by: the guy across the street at July 27, 2017 03:10 PM (sf2BM)

238 224 Its fun to fantasize about seeing the entire Obama administration in linked chains being marched into a bus headed to leavenworth, but thats the kind of thing the Attorney General and president have to consider. The impact it would have on the country, its future, and its cohesion. Is it worth it to have a couple of SCOTUS justices frog marched off by marshals? What happens to every case they've heard at that point? There's no higher court to make a ruling.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 03:08 PM (39g3+)

You say all that like it would be a bad thing.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 27, 2017 03:10 PM (jxbfJ)

239 ScoggDog: "Don't care. If that's the price of cleaning this shit up - pay it."

Oh I agree. I'm just reiterating that much of what we experience today remains the consequence of that civil war. Why do we have such a powerful, centralized, and irredeemably corrupt center like DC? The usurpation of States Rights.

The New War must be waged (or go hot as the cold one has been bubbling unacknowledged) regardless of consequences. Liberty and Freedom is at stake. Maybe Justice too.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 27, 2017 03:10 PM (H8S+R)

240 These people are evil. The truth will win out hopefully sooner than later.
=============================

They are. Never be surprised when sinners sin.

The truth will win out. That's a promise you can take to the bank. I try never to get distracted from that promise. Some days its harder than others.

Posted by: grammie winger - 8 pounds heavier but with a great tan at July 27, 2017 03:10 PM (lwiT4)

241 This sounds like a RICO case to me.

Posted by: simplemind at July 27, 2017 03:10 PM (3ZsWq)

242 Who was it this morning who told me the Clinton's have no real power anymore? It was in response to my repeating what a DC insider told Hannity, when he asked why no one goes after the swamp scum. The guy told him people are seriously afraid of the Clintons.

It's weird, though-- I, like many others, assumed that most of the Clinton power base during and before the election was the potential of her becoming POTUS, and as soon as she had no real political future, their empire would collapse, or at least erode inexorably.

Bit it seems to be self-perpetuating, not even requiring holding office or the possibility of such. It's troubling.

(Yes, I know Soros and others are bankrolling, but-- why continue? Why not diversify and prop someone else-- preferably many someone elses-- up?)

Posted by: Lance McCormick at July 27, 2017 03:10 PM (u0s1P)

243 "I feel like a naif and I'm embarrassed to say this but I never knew the
full dimensions of what was going on. I knew about oppo research and all
that, but I didn't know there existed smear organizations with spies
and ex-"journalists" on the payrolls, or that such disreputable
smear-shops could so easily plant stories with their "journalist"
buddies."

Then think about how these lies are spread via Google and other corrupt search engines and twitter and all the twitter bots.

Then tie this into one fake dossier on Russia on we get our present.

Posted by: Locke Common at July 27, 2017 03:10 PM (/xo1a)

244 Me: "What is so infuriating is that one would think this story could make a REAL journalist a superstar if they truly dug into this type of operation."

AnonymousDrivel: And earn them a death warrant.

You are correct. As soon as I hit post, I thought that too.

Posted by: Brunnhilde at July 27, 2017 03:10 PM (aW5/6)

245 Most of what makes a nation work is an innate, unquestioned trust in the system and how things function. Kick the legs out from under it, then what? Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Assuming an actual push to clean house:

Immediately the gears turn. Those the arrested answered to fire up the protests and thugs. Pretty soon every state with an incarcerated Senator and every district whose Rep got pinched is the site of insurrection.

Now I have to assume this has been gamed out by our Adversaries. One thing they know: A properly unleashed military would quash this unrest, given time and freedom to act. This helps explain why the military has been subject to the things it has--keeping it weakened, destroying its morale and effectiveness--so that the media/culture machines have enough time to kill the will of the otherwise supportive parts of the population to fight.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at July 27, 2017 03:10 PM (AM1GF)

246 Can I bring a jar of Hellman's with me to prison?

Posted by: Debbie Wasserman Schulz at July 27, 2017 03:10 PM (OD2ni)

247 I dropped a Hsu once too but nobody remembers now.

Posted by: hillary (,)(') at July 27, 2017 03:11 PM (nlbfN)

248 How friggin' ironic would it be ... if the Dems were really were right all along. Maybe they really were on the cusp of a Watergate moment.

Except this time ... Liddy made it out of DNC HQ and found the hooker list.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 27, 2017 03:11 PM (Niu5G)

249 237 By that do you mean that there actually might be attractive photos of her somewhere?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 27, 2017 02:51 PM (jxbfJ)

She can look nice after she takes a bath. I have unnamed sources that claims that happens once every seven weeks. It takes that long for all the moisture to evaporate. After that you have to cut the hair off and you'll get fleas if you leave the mayo on.
Posted by: the guy across the street at July 27, 2017 03:10 PM (sf2BM)

When you leash it and make it walk backwards - it just HAS to be an improvement

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 27, 2017 03:11 PM (jxbfJ)

250 " Obama ... Not on the radar at all. So when he suddenly came
out of nowhere later on, they had nothing on the guy. She panicked and
floundered. Posted by: torquewrench

makes sense ... though someone big (Soros?) was backing Obama. Hillary is so self absorbed, maybe Soros figured Obama would be a better "tool". But they supposedly later had a little falling out, and Hillary was still useful for Soros. Or maybe Soros just jumped on with Obama as his momentum rose.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 27, 2017 03:11 PM (HQuBO)

251 Bit it seems to be self-perpetuating, not even requiring holding office or the possibility of such. It's troubling.

(Yes, I know Soros and others are bankrolling, but-- why continue? Why not diversify and prop someone else-- preferably many someone elses-- up?)

Posted by: Lance McCormick

Much of the machinery was assembled by and routed through House Clinton. Anyone who thinks their power is broken is very, VERY sadly mistaken.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at July 27, 2017 03:12 PM (AM1GF)

252 So how did we end up with people so devoid of human decency and completely lacking in conscience"

Money, money, money, money. ...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 27, 2017 03:12 PM (MINbv)

253 "I like to think of myself as a cynic, but man, I'm really just a babe in the woods."

Sorta like my girlfriend.

Posted by: Huma at July 27, 2017 03:12 PM (0ecq3)

254 Kathleen Wiley can fill people in on how ruthless the Clintons are when it comes to trying to shut people up.
Posted by: Jane D'oh"

Yup. Terry Lenzner had a file and pre-planted dirt on her ready to go
===========
So that's how they handled the "bimbo eruptions".

Posted by: simplemind at July 27, 2017 03:12 PM (Fm/7O)

255 Halvorssen's testimony about Fusion GPS is chilling.

Is this the same company that wrote the pee-pee dossier?

Posted by: LASue at July 27, 2017 03:12 PM (hZ+us)

256 I've been saying all along that the Dems were going to pay for this because it was going to boomerang on them.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2017 03:13 PM (/tuJf)

257
. Honestly, who is going to believe that Trump had hookers pee on him for fun, if they have any critical thinking skills at all.

As I said yesterday the original storyline to the pee party was an effort to rile up Obama supporters.The story being pushed was that Trump went to Moscow and requested the same room that the Obama's had stayed in during their visit and the object of the pee party was to defile the bed they had slept on.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July 27, 2017 03:13 PM (lKyWE)

258 There's not much fruit still on that particular tree.

Posted by: torquewrench at July 27, 2017 03:09 PM (ujwCG)
That is true and this nation will survive but will probably look a lot different.

Posted by: MAC SOG at July 27, 2017 03:13 PM (QPdNE)

259 makes sense ... though someone big (Soros?) was backing Obama. Hillary is so self absorbed, maybe Soros figured Obama would be a better "tool". But they supposedly later had a little falling out, and Hillary was still useful for Soros. Or maybe Soros just jumped on with Obama as his momentum rose.

Posted by: illiniwek

Obama was an opportunity. The Clinton machinery matched to the ultimate figurehead was just too perfect a combination to pass by.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at July 27, 2017 03:13 PM (AM1GF)

260 So how did we end up with people so devoid of human decency and completely lacking in conscience

Read my book

Posted by: Friedrich Hayek at July 27, 2017 03:13 PM (Mouru)

261 Assuming an actual push to clean house:

Immediately the gears turn. Those the arrested answered to fire up the protests and thugs. Pretty soon every state with an incarcerated Senator and every district whose Rep got pinched is the site of insurrection.

Now I have to assume this has been gamed out by our Adversaries. One thing they know: A properly unleashed military would quash this unrest, given time and freedom to act. This helps explain why the military has been subject to the things it has--keeping it weakened, destroying its morale and effectiveness--so that the media/culture machines have enough time to kill the will of the otherwise supportive parts of the population to fight.

Texas has a state guard. Beholden to the governor only. Not subject to national call up.

Cry redneck! And let slip the dogs of war!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2017 03:13 PM (na0uG)

262
7 What I wonder is why nobody has sued them into bankruptcy. Or sued their paymasters, in the latest case the DNC and Scankles.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party

You see what they do to enemies of their clients. Imagine what treatment their own enemies would get.

Posted by: Huma at July 27, 2017 03:13 PM (0ecq3)

263 252 So how did we end up with people so devoid of human decency and completely lacking in conscience"

Money, money, money, money. ...
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 27, 2017 03:12 PM (MINbv)

That is exactly my point. Who chooses money over people? What a lonely damned existence, not to mention a toasty afterlife.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 27, 2017 03:14 PM (NXsWM)

264 "She can look nice after she takes a bath. I have unnamed sources that claims that happens once every seven weeks."

Paintings or it didn't happen.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2017 03:14 PM (ctuyM)

265 This sounds like a RICO case to me.

It IS a RICO case. If there ever was anything that the statutes were designed to deal with, it is exactly this. It is a corrupt political machine the likes of which we've not seen since Tammany Hall.

Now I have to assume this has been gamed out by our Adversaries.

I don't think it has. I don't think they entertained the notion that they might get busted, because they bought everyone and got everyone in on the game so they won't turn on the big wheels. They literally murder people who try to testify and get away with it. Why work out a response to it not working any longer?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 03:14 PM (39g3+)

266 makes sense ... though someone big (Soros?) was backing Obama. Hillary is so self absorbed, maybe Soros figured Obama would be a better "tool". But they supposedly later had a little falling out, and Hillary was still useful for Soros. Or maybe Soros just jumped on with Obama as his momentum rose.
=========
that lady out of Chicago Penny Pritzker bankrolled him and got him started I think.

Maybe realized that she would have a better shot with an unknown because she knew about the machine.

Posted by: simplemind at July 27, 2017 03:14 PM (QBwUw)

267 I feel like a naif and I'm embarrassed to say this but I never knew the full dimensions of what was going on. I knew about oppo research and all that, but I didn't know there existed smear organizations with spies and ex-"journalists" on the payrolls, or that such disreputable smear-shops could so easily plant stories with their "journalist" buddies.

I like to think of myself as a cynic, but man, I'm really just a babe in the woods.

What kind of miserable waste of DNA thinks it's okay to plant fake stories about pedophilia? Who the fuck thinks that is an acceptable thing to do?

Before anyone throws around the Searchlight Strangler, that started because Harry Reid himself went to the floor of the Senate and made false accusations and then did the smarmy well it worked didn't it? If a person says hey you can make any accusation you want, then that person deserves having that standard applied to him. But this? This is vile.

If this guy can prove a link to Fusion GPS, I hope he sues them until the seventh generation lives in utter penury.

Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 27, 2017 03:14 PM (dEQP3)

268 That is true and this nation will survive but will probably look a lot different.

We keep on the path we are on and it's gonna look a lot different.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2017 03:14 PM (na0uG)

269 Read my book
Posted by: Friedrich Hayek

No, read mine.

Posted by: God at July 27, 2017 03:15 PM (39g3+)

270 >>Is this the same company that wrote the pee-pee dossier?

Yes.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2017 03:15 PM (/tuJf)

271 Barry had all the organs of government at his disposal to use against his enemies.

Trump is hamstrung by Barry leave-behinds. I know this sounds very...fictional. But I hope Trump uses this as an excuse to cut staffing, put criminals in jail AND replaces them with his partisans.

It's starting to look like nice guy politics and democracy isn't going to work.

When one side cheats and the other side doesn't, the other side is going to lose in the long run.

Or maybe I'm just feeling dark. I did wear black to work today.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 27, 2017 03:15 PM (3OIiX)

272 Bit it seems to be self-perpetuating, not even requiring holding office or the possibility of such"

Do not discount the influence of retired presidents or recently retired cabinet officials.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 27, 2017 03:15 PM (MINbv)

273 "252 So how did we end up with people so devoid of human decency and completely lacking in conscience"

Money, money, money, money. ...
Posted by: Anon a mouse.."

Yup. Tery Lenzner is an amoral sociopath that got paid to ruin people's lives. He still gets glowing profiles in the WaPo as a "DC Institution."

Posted by: Benji Carver at July 27, 2017 03:15 PM (OD2ni)

274 241
This sounds like a RICO case to me.

Posted by: simplemind at July 27, 2017 03:10 PM (3ZsWq)

Remember the pedo sweeps that the Trump DOJ ran in less than 6 months in office? I suspect that it is probably a race between impeachment and RICO sweeps.
Love him or hate him, Trump seems to want to keep his promises.

And nothing that everyone has done to him and his family over the last year and a half makes me think he wants nothing less than perp walks for the people behind that.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at July 27, 2017 03:15 PM (tbOMB)

275 Texas has a state guard. Beholden to the governor only. Not subject to national call up.

Cry redneck! And let slip the dogs of war!

Posted by: rickb223

Assuming it doesn't get tied up by certain offices in Travis County. Plus you can't be guaranteed some regular Army units won't side with the Machine.

It's a crapshoot. Which isn't saying the time won't come to roll the dice. Just do it with eyes open.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at July 27, 2017 03:16 PM (AM1GF)

276 Nood, hicks. (hic)

Posted by: hillary (,)(') at July 27, 2017 03:16 PM (nlbfN)

277 No, read mine.
Posted by: God at July 27, 2017 03:15 PM (39g3+)

That one has a happier ending.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 27, 2017 03:16 PM (NXsWM)

278 /socknonymous source

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 27, 2017 03:16 PM (rnAwa)

279 >>>So either its all BS and we're fooling ourselves

***coughs loudly twice***

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at July 27, 2017 03:16 PM (4ayRW)

280 So how did we end up with people so devoid of human decency and completely lacking in conscience"

Money, money, money, money. ...
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 27, 2017 03:12 PM (MINbv)

That is exactly my point. Who chooses money over people? What a lonely damned existence, not to mention a toasty afterlife.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 27, 2017 03:14 PM (NXsWM)

It's not just money. It's power. Power to do what you want, to punish those who cross you and reward those who do your will.

Money is a tool and to be desired. But it's what money can buy that matters.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 27, 2017 03:17 PM (3OIiX)

281 the object of the pee party was to defile the bed they had slept on.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July 27, 2017 03:13 PM (lKyWE)

Which is just amazingly lame. Unless, of course, the Cult of Obama really *is* that cult like. I realize I wasn't the target market, but I just can't get how their story was supposed to achieve its stated purpose. Were they trying to get someone to actually physically hurt Trump?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 27, 2017 03:17 PM (rp9xB)

282 38 He says that Derwick then hired Fusion GPS to begin planting stories in "fringe websites" that he was a pedophile and drug addict.

That's the "Big Lie" tactic. Get it out there often enough, it starts becoming accepted.

Posted by: rickb223

You get a couple of scumbag friends to say shit and then we can honestly report that Thor's critics say he's a child-molesting drug dealer.

Posted by: This is CNN at July 27, 2017 03:18 PM (0ecq3)

283 Now I have to assume this has been gamed out by our Adversaries.

I don't think it has. I don't think they entertained the notion that they might get busted, because they bought everyone and got everyone in on the game so they won't turn on the big wheels. They literally murder people who try to testify and get away with it. Why work out a response to it not working any longer?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Assume it anyway, because (a) they aren't ALL idiots, and (b) that way you don't get caught out.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at July 27, 2017 03:18 PM (AM1GF)

284 I did wear black to work today.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 27, 2017 03:15 PM

Me, too.

Posted by: zombie Johnny Cash at July 27, 2017 03:18 PM (ctuyM)

285 What is so infuriating is that one would think this story could make a
REAL journalist a superstar if they truly dug into this type of
operation
***
Remember how the government went after Rosen, Atkinson, and others with impunity for looking into relatively minor issues in comparison?

So this real potential superstar has to:

1) Have sufficient connections in the government to run down the story
2) Not care that some of the most powerful people in the country, with access to the FBI and CIA will attempt to destroy their career.
3) Not care that there are credible accusations that the same people will engage in violence and even murder
4) Not have any potential skeletons of their own in their closet, or even anything easy to make up
5) Be willing to take down the uniparty, whose ideology meshes with almost all professional journalists, and hand a 1974+ landslide to the current opposition aka the "alt-right"

There is only one person with those characteristics right now and the FNM and the government have tried very hard to make sure there won't be more. Why do you think that when a budding independent journalist like Mike Cerno....whatever his name is...pop up the attack on them is incessant?

That one person would be...Steve Bannon and he seems to be busy.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 27, 2017 03:18 PM (eSx+E)

286 111 The only question is whether it will be possible for the justice department to actually weed all this out and hold the people responsible without utterly destroying the federal government. I suspect the bribes, payoffs, blackmail, collusion, corruption, and hands in the till go so deep into every branch we'd have half the government in orange jumpsuits when it is all said and done. Can the nation survive that?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 02:44 PM (39g3+)

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It certainly can't survive the way it is now. I'll take my chances with burning it down.

Posted by: Soona at July 27, 2017 03:18 PM (Fmupd)

287 "Texas has a state guard. Beholden to the governor only. Not subject to national call up."

TX also has a power grid that's (by design) largely autonomous of the other surrounding states.

Compare this to, say, Commiefornia. Which has waged green jihad against its own electric power generating plants, and which is now perforce *enormously* dependent upon imported electricity from other states, most of it coming through a handful of fragile and vulnerable grid interconnects.

Posted by: torquewrench at July 27, 2017 03:18 PM (ujwCG)

288 >>Which is just amazingly lame. Unless, of course, the Cult of Obama really *is* that cult like. I realize I wasn't the target market, but I just can't get how their story was supposed to achieve its stated purpose. Were they trying to get someone to actually physically hurt Trump?

The stated purpose was to link Trump to collusion with the Russian government. It worked pretty damn well but not it is falling apart.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2017 03:18 PM (/tuJf)

289 261
Texas has a state guard. Beholden to the governor only. Not subject to national call up.

Cry redneck! And let slip the dogs of war!
Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2017 03:13 PM (na0uG)

My daughter recently returned from visiting TX for the first time. Hasn't stopped saying we need to move there.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 27, 2017 03:18 PM (jxbfJ)

290 So how did we end up with people so devoid of human decency and completely lacking in conscience
===========================

Well, back in the early 60's there was a movement to remove all mention of God from the public schools, and teach children to obey teachers rather than parents. Not being satisfied with that, these enlightened people decided that God needed to be removed from all public life in every possible way, somewhat like the Kennedys removed their retarded daughter by surgically mangling her. Encouraged by that, JKF decided to screw everything on two legs while in the WH, and Ted decided it was a good idea to drown random women. These became our role models.

And here we are.

Posted by: grammie winger - 8 pounds heavier but with a great tan at July 27, 2017 03:19 PM (lwiT4)

291 And nothing that everyone has done to him and his family over the last year and a half makes me think he wants nothing less than perp walks for the people behind that.
==========
Man I hope he gets them.

I hope gets every last one of them.

Not for his sake

or his family sake

But for the sake of all those who suffered and died to make it great, and

for the sake of all those kids yet to be born who haven't seen it great, and won't see it great if he doesn't get them.

TRUMP MAGA

Posted by: simplemind at July 27, 2017 03:20 PM (QBwUw)

292 287
Compare this to, say, Commiefornia. Which has waged green jihad against its own electric power generating plants, and which is now perforce *enormously* dependent upon imported electricity from other states, most of it coming through a handful of fragile and vulnerable grid interconnects.
Posted by: torquewrench at July 27, 2017 03:18 PM (ujwCG)

Seeing a solution to a big problem, right there. Those sure are nice power lines you have there. Shame if something happened to them.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 27, 2017 03:20 PM (jxbfJ)

293 Don't you wish Sanders would answer the "reporter's" Boy Scout diatribe/question with:

"Your concern is noted."

Posted by: Meremortal at July 27, 2017 03:20 PM (3myMJ)

294 219 5 bucks says it was the Jeb! campaign that contracted Fusion to make up shit on Trump.

Posted by: sgr at July 27, 2017 03:06 PM (n7Wsr)

You shut your whore mouth.

Posted by: American Crossroads at July 27, 2017 03:21 PM (mcI77)

295 LMAO. Sarah's a little chubby (three very young children), but much cuter than Bernie's wife. Bernie's wife looks like the Seahag from Popeye.
Posted by: Benji Carver at July 27, 2017 02:58 PM (OD2ni)

More like Bluto with just slightly less beard.

A-yuckyuckyuckyuck.....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 27, 2017 03:21 PM (5VlCp)

296 82 The 'Trump dossier' supposedly has an initial Republican fingerprint on it, and even more supposedly it belonga Jeb.

It sure would be nice to know that little factoid. Who exactly first hired Fusion?

Posted by: GnuBreed

We weren't working for a republican, we were working against Trump, and getting paid some sweet republican donation dollaz to do it.

Posted by: This is Fusion GPS at July 27, 2017 03:21 PM (0ecq3)

297 290
290 So how did we end up with people so devoid of human decency and completely lacking in conscience
===========================

Well, back in the early 60's there was a movement to remove all mention of God from the public schools, and teach children to obey teachers rather than parents. Not being satisfied with that, these enlightened people decided that God needed to be removed from all public life in every possible way, somewhat like the Kennedys removed their retarded daughter by surgically mangling her. Encouraged by that, JKF decided to screw everything on two legs while in the WH, and Ted decided it was a good idea to drown random women. These became our role models.

And here we are.
Posted by: grammie winger - 8 pounds heavier but with a great tan at July 27, 2017 03:19 PM (lwiT4)

Amen grammie.

Started worshiping money and power making them their god instead.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 27, 2017 03:21 PM (jxbfJ)

298 I caught on to the swamp about the mid 1990s when I started working around legislation and regulation and saw how the sausage was made. Every year since I've become more cynical, learned more, became more assured in my viewpoint.

But man, what has came out in this establishment fight against PDT from all the diseased parties involved--media, federal agencies, K Street, formal party organizations--it's far worse than I imagined and I was not shy about imagining the worst.

Posted by: Keith at July 27, 2017 03:21 PM (USf3s)

299 Money, money, money, money. ...
***
Federal Budget in 1988: $1.7T
Federal Budget in 2016: $3.5T

We've basically doubled the budget for no increase in measurable output. But that almost $2T is making some people very wealthy and very powerful...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 27, 2017 03:21 PM (eSx+E)

300 294 219 5 bucks says it was the Jeb! campaign that contracted Fusion to make up shit on Trump.

Posted by: sgr at July 27, 2017 03:06 PM (n7Wsr)

You shut your whore mouth.
Posted by: American Crossroads at July 27, 2017 03:21 PM (mcI77)

And clap! Come on, clap!

Posted by: Jeb 2016!! at July 27, 2017 03:22 PM (jxbfJ)

301 I forgot to add the part where women decided they hated being women, and decided to enshrine infanticide. These also contributed to our moral rot.

When you decide killing people to make your life easier is a good thing, how far is it really to lying about people to gain political power? I mean, seriously.

Posted by: grammie winger - 8 pounds heavier but with a great tan at July 27, 2017 03:23 PM (lwiT4)

302 They j'accuse! us of what they are guilty of.

Posted by: Standard DemocRat M.O. at July 27, 2017 03:23 PM (EATOD)

303 Re 'What Happened'

It could contain a single statement by Hillary:

"How the hell would I know?"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2017 03:24 PM (sQ1li)

304 Reagan tore down that wall, but the KGB maybe became a central Europe crime syndicate (according to on old TED Talk). A friend of mine's son spent a year at a home/school for abused girls from the eastern bloc, and they told me the human trafficking is worse than we could imagine.

In movies they like to portray the Russian gangs as the worst, most vicious. So it seems significant that Hillary/Podesta were taking so much money from them, and granting big favors like uranium and our tech (via Skolkovo deals, and light sanctions). And pedophile island and Podesta's creepy child spanking "art" is still sick, regardless of whether the pizza stuff is real or diversion.

Trump and the Mooch ... seems like they had to stay clean (for the most part) since they do real business where such things can matter. But we know Democrats are basically the commies' pals, complete with all sorts of corruption of character, going back to the 60's and Weather Underground style riot and bombing.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 27, 2017 03:25 PM (HQuBO)

305 The fugitive in western NC has been nabbed. What is worrisome is that he was in a truck that belongs to a 68 year-old guy, who is now missing.

http://tinyurl.com/ybtz9bsl

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2017 03:27 PM (sQ1li)

306 The pieces are all starting to fall into place.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2017 03:03 PM (/tuJf)

For you, maybe. I need a few hundred flow charts and a giant Venn Diagram to make sense of all this shit. Too many players, too many moving parts.

Posted by: troyriser at July 27, 2017 03:28 PM (Fw5cQ)

307 I feel like a naif and I'm embarrassed to say this but I never knew the full dimensions of what was going on. I knew about oppo research and all that, but I didn't know there existed smear organizations with spies and ex-"journalists" on the payrolls, or that such disreputable smear-shops could so easily plant stories with their "journalist" buddies.

I have never been so naif.

Twice in my "career" as a citizen-journalist blogger I have drawn the attention of the professional attack-dogs -- and in neither case was it for reasons you'd expect.

One time it was because of this post:

Obama's $3 million S.F. dinner -- the complete guest list

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2011/04/21/obamas-3-million-s-f-dinner-the-complete-guest-list/

The Obama Administration apparently flipped out that I had somehow managed to photograph the entire super-secret private guest list of an Obama fundraiser, and published all the names online.

Starting about three days after this report came out, the following things happened:

-- DDOS attacks knocked my site offline
-- Bomb threats sent directly to the server-farm building in Texas where the physical server-computer housing my Web site was located, specifically blaming zomblog for the threat, forcing the evacuation of the building; the threateners said there would be more bombs unless zomblog was taken offline.
-- A barrage of creepy phishing emails sent to every single email address on my domain.
-- Professional trolls stalking me everywhere I went online, slandering me with insane smears in the comments section.
-- etc.

I am quite sure that it was a smear-campaign company hired by the Obama team.

Prior to that, my first Up Your Alley Fair report (http://www.zombietime.com/up_your_alley_2008/) sent SF gay activists into apoplexies of rage, and in the aftermath so much evil shit happened that I'm actually too freaked out to discuss it, even now, 9 years later. That was the ONLY time hacker-stalkers really went after me personally, with an alarming level of success; and the only time they (unknowingly, I think) breached my primary anonymity wall. Luckily, I didn't react, and they didn't realize how close they came. And once again, it was so professional that I was convinced (and remain convinced) that it was a pro public-relations firm behind the assault -- a firm similar to Fusion GPS.

Posted by: zombie at July 27, 2017 03:29 PM (DQ4Fv)

308 Asked specifically whether she agrees with Scaramucci that Priebus leaked the financial forms, Conway passed on the opportunity to defend Priebus.

Gee! The former leader of the RNC is a traitorous c*cksucker? Next thing some will tell me is that Karl Rove is not fat.

Posted by: Under Fire at July 27, 2017 03:30 PM (mcI77)

309 In 2014 Fusion GPS began working on behalf of Derwick to ensure that the evidence of
their crimes and the narrative of their spectacular thievery would never appear in the media.
The media was a significant threat to Derwick because, even though law enforcement already
had Derwick on its radar, prominent media exposure would surely accelerate a prosecution.
Fusion GPS cofounders Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch knew as much, having worked at
the
Wall Street Journal�
�for a combined tenure of over two decades. During their time there,
they published articles that preceded criminal investigations, indictments, and arrests

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and so now we wonder how much our MSFM is also getting their slush money in this way or just fellow travelers doing their part
Jack, thank you for the link, Yes this goes beyond smear. threats etc

Posted by: willow at July 27, 2017 03:30 PM (FKrah)

310 Banana Splits Guy:

I know you have a spastic reaction to anything with a whiff of conspiracy theory about it...

But disregarding some world-wide completely intertwined conspiracy, do you really think that some people with unlimited amounts of money may truly desire unlimited power and use their resources to murder, manipulate, &c and get that power? And I mean just as an individual sociopath/psychopath who has those kinds of resources.

Posted by: Brunnhilde at July 27, 2017 03:30 PM (aW5/6)

311 >>>Posted by: Brunnhilde at July 27, 2017 03:30 PM (aW5/6)

Most of the conspiracy theories presented have fundamental flaws or factual inaccuracies that fall apart under any sort of scrutiny. Yet people cling to them with religious faith. I don't claim that conspiracies cannot exist, I am pointing out that most of what is claimed as conspiracies are non-falsifiable speculations that consist of half-truths and begging the question.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at July 27, 2017 03:35 PM (4ayRW)

312 Posted by: zombie at July 27, 2017 03:29 PM (DQ4Fv)

Sorry for the grief and worry you endured. Glad they didn't find you--the real you, I mean.

Given time and resources, anyone's anonymity can be compromised. The reason they stopped hunting you was because the money ran out, not because your defenses are impenetrable. No ordinary private citizen's defenses are impenetrable.

Posted by: troyriser at July 27, 2017 03:39 PM (Fw5cQ)

313 Mark Andrew Edwards: "Trump is hamstrung by Barry leave-behinds. I know this sounds very...fictional. But I hope Trump uses this as an excuse to cut staffing, put criminals in jail AND replaces them with his partisans."

It's even worse than that. There are actors of The Borg and NeverTrumpers and infinite numbers of K Street visitors and who knows what all else with hands in the cookie jar otherwise known as "taxing authority" and "legislation". This mass simply will not let Trump's people into the game. They actively block appointments to office. They can harass them when they get there. The partisans against Trump are on both sides of the aisle with the Progressive persuasion composing the highest percentage.

What we are seeing, yet again, is that it's The State against The Citizen. Government run amok and there's damn little recourse the Subjects can take. We only know recognize the folly of following the rules those in power have established for us, the rules they themselves routinely ignore and circumvent.

Trump is just the guy who we picked to beat the weeds to scare out the rats. We just didn't fully grasp the populations.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 27, 2017 03:43 PM (H8S+R)

314 Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 27, 2017 03:14 PM (dEQP3)

++++

That's not the work hash. Playing hookey today? Commenting on your own time?!?!?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 27, 2017 03:58 PM (pvjTE)

315 230 It's already confirmed that it was Jeb who first went to Fusion for oppo on Trump.
Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2017 03:09 PM (rmVvL)

Useless dick.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 27, 2017 04:54 PM (SRKgf)

316 Not a babe, surely, Ace -- more like a two-year-old.

Posted by: bj54 at July 27, 2017 05:34 PM (Bed/U)

317 these are the lowlifes what wrote the pee pee dossier that sleazy John McCain was so very very proud to present to James Comey

all these people, they is nasty

Posted by: happyfeet at July 27, 2017 05:49 PM (mLfQi)

318 PALUS DELENDA EST!

Posted by: Odysseus at July 27, 2017 07:21 PM (wkHAL)

319 This thing is isn't going away with ballots (f**king obvious by now, isn't it?). The Director of the FBI is a leaker, the General Counsel of the FBI is likely a leaker, and Fusion GPS has more power than NYT, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS combined. A few well-placed Barrett .50 caliber head shots at the top guys at Fusion might make the rest think twice.

Jesus H. Christ, this stuff is all crazy-making. Time to take off the gloves.

Posted by: Lawrence Larson at July 27, 2017 08:36 PM (8bt9o)

320 "6 1 At this point, the swamp needs to be covered in concrete and fire. But mostly fire.
Posted by: Flyguy at July 27, 2017 02:25 PM (LERwz)

I'm beginning to think fire would be kind."

I think calling it a swamp is kind. Since when do swamps have turds and used condoms floating in them? Along with slimy toilet paper and kernels of corn?

Posted by: So sue me at July 28, 2017 10:48 AM (ZhwLl)

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