Kyle Shideler: For the Rule of Law to Reign, The FBI Must Be Destroyed

Shideler first establishes that -- like so many of us -- he grew up as a huge fan of the FBI, and remained so into his early adulthood.

And then, unfortunately, came bitter wisdom.

The solution to the abuses we now endure is not just to subject the FBI to another fruitless inspector general investigation but to dismantle it completely. The bureau cannot be the focus of yet another congressional hearing. FBI Director Christopher Wray, like his predecessors, is more than happy to sit smirking while a handful of grandstanding congressmen and senators pound the table and yell on C-SPAN. Then he'll jet off for a holiday vacation on a taxpayer-funded private jet while the same congressmen vote to increase his budget. Again.
No, the FBI must be rendered into component parts and distributed to the four winds.
The bureau has always had its problems and its detractors. Since the days of J. Edgar Hoover keeping his own "private" files on elected politicians and famous persons, the FBI has had a political streak. As an agency it has always been savvy about its reputation, bureaucratically out-dueling federal departments that sought to infringe on the bureau's perceived preeminence in the fields of federal law enforcement and counterintelligence. But most of the FBI's politicization had to do with maintaining its own administrative superiority and independence, not serving as muscle for a particular political party.
That's no longer the case.
The FBI's actions over the past six years make perfectly clear that the FBI is more than willing to serve as the enforcement arm of the Democratic Party. It serves as its patron's shield in matters large and small. It exonerated Hillary Clinton for her illicit server. It raided James O'Keefe and Project Veritas when Joe Biden's daughter lost her diary. It eliminated investigation into Black Lives Matter and other black identity extremists because those pursuits annoyed the Democrats' Congressional Black Caucus. It refuses even to utter the word "Antifa" while churches and pregnancy centers are fire-bombed. It continues to cover up for Hunter Biden's corrupt dealings with enemy nations, along with his indulgence in criminal prostitution and drug abuse.
But the FBI has also served as the Democrats' sword as well. It knowingly laundered the Russian collusion hoax, lying in order to secure FISA warrants. It ambushed the president's sitting national security advisor in a nonsense perjury trap. The FBI hunts down January 6 protesters while dodging congressional inquiries about the role of federal agents in provoking the incident. The FBI ginned up a fake kidnapping plot in Michigan to instill fear of right-wing terrorism, manhandled the former president's lawyer, and shackled one of his former high-level aides.
And it has now raided the former president's home under a mere pretext, while the Democrats openly crow on cable news about using a political prosecution to prevent Trump from ever again being able to serve in office.
Other attempts to rein in the FBI short of its abolition have failed. The FBI shows nothing but contempt for those authorized to oversee it. It routinely ignores inspector general investigations. It fails to prosecute or punish those who overtly violate established policies. It refuses to answer legitimate questions from Republican committee members. It doesn't even respond to congressional letters of inquiry. It punishes FBI whistleblowers and seeks to purge from its midst those agents who aren't in lockstep with its new praetorian guard role.

Hit the link to see his plan. It's a more detailed plan of the quick suggestion I made -- break up the component pieces, like the crime lab, and make them independent.

One critical point that has to be kept in mind is that when you do a massive reorganization, there are no federal guarantees about civil servants' jobs, I'm pretty sure, because the old jobs are being eliminated. They can't just claim the "new jobs" are just the "old jobs" in a new form. If the FBI is broken up into pieces and new agencies are created to contain the broken up parts, all of the new positions in those agencies are new.

The former agents of the FBI may apply for those jobs -- but they have no civil service guarantee of them.

What I'm saying is that any bust-up of the FBI presents a golden opportunity for an enormous purge without having to be concerned about the civil service protection racket.

The leftists that now inhabit the FBI may apply for positions in any successor organizations. And they can be turned away, for "just not fitting in" with the new agencies' missions.

...
Admittedly, a GOP-majority Congress may not have the stomach for even the lightest pushback against the bureau.

This, of course, is where everything falls down. The GOP is an authority-worshipping retarded leathergimp (which also requires transfusions of corporate money every two hours).

Nevertheless, Shideler is firm:

To save the rule of law, the bureau must be destroyed.

This must happen.

If you are allowed to launch coup after coup against the duly elected President that the people of the United States fairly and freely elected, then it's not a coup.

It's now just Part of How the System Works.

Meanwhile: The FBI delivers more subpoenas to more congressmen, demanding their records.

UPDATE: This post has been updated with a statement from U.S. Rep. Scott Perry in which Perry said his lawyers have been told he is not a target of an investigation that resulted in an FBI seizure of his cell phone earlier this week.
Federal investigators delivered subpoenas or paid visits to several House and Senate Republican offices in the Pennsylvania Capitol on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to multiple sources.

At least some of the individuals receiving subpoenas were told they were not targets of an investigation, according to at least six sources reached by PennLive, but that they may have information of interest to the FBI. All of the sources had been briefed on the investigative moves in some way, but demanded anonymity in order to discuss them.

And if you told the FBI to deliver subpoenas on Nancy Pelosi and her husband and son -- more on that later today -- they'd refuse, saying that would be "unprecedented" and "destabilizing."

Today's FBI

Smug Twitter Liberals with Guns.

* Diversity * Conformity * Akshually *

Below, Missouri's AG Eric Schmidtt -- soon to be Missouri's based Senator, no thanks to Trump -- tells the FBI to go search itself.

Posted by: Ace at 12:02 PM

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1 Agreed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 11, 2022 12:02 PM (dNqv+)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 11, 2022 12:03 PM (Zz0t1)

3 Mornin' Ace!

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at August 11, 2022 12:03 PM (aXaSz)

4 FBI: Fucked Beyond Insurrection

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 11, 2022 12:03 PM (Zz0t1)

5 But they're scared... Some people threatened them..

Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2022 12:03 PM (bs+z0)

6 not first, but top 10

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 11, 2022 12:03 PM (WhsXQ)

7 So close, SPONGE!

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at August 11, 2022 12:03 PM (aXaSz)

8 It refuses to answer legitimate questions from Republican committee members

..

Tee hee!

Posted by: Garland and Wray at August 11, 2022 12:03 PM (9FBGz)

9 Admittedly, a GOP-majority Congress may not have the stomach for even the lightest pushback against the bureau.

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A GOP majority Congress could destroy the administrative state without Joe Biden's signature.

Regular budgetary order is a very powerful tool.

They will refuse to use it. Instead we will get Twitchy posts of Ted Cruz pwning some low-level federal lackey that can never get fired ever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:04 PM (LvTSG)

10 "But they're scared..."
Not scared, engaging in a** covering, a long standing DC tradition.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, stocking up at August 11, 2022 12:04 PM (jTmQV)

11 Doess the FBI fill a specific role that would need to be filled if it was dismantled?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at August 11, 2022 12:04 PM (eGTCV)

12 New Narrative Alert

Just like that Melania's drawers are wiped off the front page.

Convenient!

Posted by: ... at August 11, 2022 12:04 PM (ejSoJ)

13 What is stopping red state governors from directing state law enforcement to refuse to cooperate with the FBI?

Posted by: mr tmz at August 11, 2022 12:05 PM (rJ48h)

14 They had to do it in Cincinnati - now they're just being lazy.

Posted by: jhawk90 at August 11, 2022 12:05 PM (9Np+H)

15 11 Doess the FBI fill a specific role that would need to be filled if it was dismantled?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at August 11, 2022 12:04 PM (eGTCV)

The left already has a complaint of Karens filling all the neighborhood Stasi positions.

Posted by: Roy at August 11, 2022 12:05 PM (Phd8w)

16 The Schmitt hits the fan!

Posted by: The_Hoser at August 11, 2022 12:05 PM (7+4Wi)

17 Yes. The FBI must be destroyed.
Then the CIA
Then the NSA.

I could go on.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 11, 2022 12:05 PM (XvPQV)

18 Just put a sign on the door..."Closed Until Further Notice"...padlock the place.

Posted by: BignJames at August 11, 2022 12:06 PM (AwYPR)

19 17 Yes. The FBI must be destroyed.
Then the CIA
Then the NSA.

I could go on.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 11, 2022 12:05 PM (XvPQV)

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"DHS is the only true conservative institution!"
-George W. Bush, "small" government advocate

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:06 PM (LvTSG)

20 Where would neo-Nazis and the KKK find the people to do whatever they do without the FBI?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at August 11, 2022 12:06 PM (eGTCV)

21 The former agents of the FBI may apply for those jobs -- but they have no civil service guarantee of them.
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Unless they were GS-12 or higher. If you were that high up in the chain, you have no place at the replacement agency.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:07 PM (WWh8n)

22 Agreed, as well.

Too bad for AmGreatness that one idiot troll is allowed to derail and dominate the entire comments section.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 11, 2022 12:07 PM (M9XmQ)

23 It won't happen.

Posted by: Do you have a Plan B? at August 11, 2022 12:07 PM (9FBGz)

24 Proud Boys will still need to have someone to organize all of their events.

Posted by: Roy at August 11, 2022 12:07 PM (Phd8w)

25 I’m not gay or nothing, but
I have a hard on for this Missouri AG right now.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 11, 2022 12:07 PM (3vQN0)

26 So the Congress people weren't targets but they may have information on their phones ? What are they expecting to find ? Trump personally telling them to storm the castle, I mean congress... Grasping at straws much ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2022 12:07 PM (bs+z0)

27 >>>25 I’m not gay or nothing, but
I have a hard on for this Missouri AG right now.

i'm not gay, I'm just "schmidtt-gay."

Posted by: ace at August 11, 2022 12:08 PM (B3oWe)

28 "Two weeks" - Ass Craw, probably.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 11, 2022 12:08 PM (IEa8U)

29 What is stopping red state governors from directing state law enforcement to refuse to cooperate with the FBI?

Posted by: mr tmz at August 11, 2022 12:05 PM (rJ48h)

Someone "known to the FIB" (wink) doing a terror attack and the blame falling on the governors head?

Posted by: ... at August 11, 2022 12:08 PM (ejSoJ)

30 FBI got what it wanted in Cincinnati, multiple shots fired at the building and are in pursuit of a suspect

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 11, 2022 12:08 PM (dKiJG)

31 Eric Schmitt, summarized: "Fuck you. No quarter."

Good.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:08 PM (WWh8n)

32 All of those communes aren't just going to burn themselves to the ground.

Posted by: Roy at August 11, 2022 12:08 PM (Phd8w)

33 Didn't want this to get willowed:

Posted by: Nova local at August 11, 2022 11:48 AM (exHjb)

Congrats on your check-up and the excellent news!

***golf clap***

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 11, 2022 12:08 PM (BgMrQ)

34 **The FBI must be destroyed.**

STEINER WILL COME

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty of BAD TRUMPY MANS! at August 11, 2022 12:09 PM (iaILv)

35 31 Eric Schmitt, summarized: "Fuck you. No quarter."

Good.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:08 PM (WWh8n)

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Remember: voting is pointless.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:09 PM (LvTSG)

36 Hope Eric Schmitt wiped that odious smirk off Chris’ face, even if just for a minute.

Posted by: EveR at August 11, 2022 12:09 PM (MUpk6)

37 Carthage must be destroyed.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at August 11, 2022 12:09 PM (eGTCV)

38 So who does the Raid on the FBI? The Marines? Salute The Marines.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 11, 2022 12:09 PM (0chEi)

39 23 It won't happen.
Posted by: Do you have a Plan B? at August 11, 2022 12:07 PM (9FBGz)

Sure, but nobody can credibly claim ignorance that this point.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 11, 2022 12:09 PM (Rl7KJ)

40 30 FBI got what it wanted in Cincinnati, multiple shots fired at the building and are in pursuit of a suspect
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 11, 2022 12:08 PM (dKiJG)

False flag

Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2022 12:10 PM (bs+z0)

41 Eric Schmitt, summarized: "Fuck you. No quarter."

Good.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:08 PM (WWh8n)

This. And it's about fuckin' time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 11, 2022 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

42 missouri will soon have two super-based senators.

Posted by: ace at August 11, 2022 12:10 PM (B3oWe)

43 Too bad for AmGreatness that one idiot troll is allowed to derail and dominate the entire comments section.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 11, 2022 12:07 PM (M9XmQ)

Yeah you need a good 10 to 20 idiots to make a comment section good

Posted by: ... at August 11, 2022 12:10 PM (ejSoJ)

44 Nice added meme, Ace.

Well played.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 11, 2022 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

45 Really, if one wants to break up or dismantle whole federal agencies the only solution is a national divorce. The resulting countries can reconstitute them as they see fit with people they vet according to whatever standards they wish.

It guts the capitol city too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 11, 2022 12:10 PM (BFigT)

46 "DHS is the only true conservative institution!"
-George W. Bush, "small" government advocate
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:06 PM (LvTSG)

I cringed so hard I lost an inch of height when I saw W create a department with 'homeland' in the title. I hated it then, I hate it now.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 11, 2022 12:10 PM (XvPQV)

47 Admittedly, a GOP-majority Congress may not have the stomach for even the lightest pushback against the bureau.

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Boat rockers and pot stirers are not wanted!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I Survived the Mar-A-Lago Raid at August 11, 2022 12:10 PM (FVME7)

48 30 FBI got what it wanted in Cincinnati, multiple shots fired at the building and are in pursuit of a suspect
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 11, 2022 12:08 PM (dKiJG)

Just a rogue stray bullet in the field office.

Posted by: Roy at August 11, 2022 12:10 PM (Phd8w)

49 Sadly, the malfeasance of the FBI has overshadowed the malfeasance of everyone else. The FBI needs to be dismantled and replaced without question, but that is merely a "good start." The entire federal LE and Intelligence complex needs to be dismantled and replaced. Every single cop and spy in the federal government - FBI, Marshal, Secret Service, Department of Agriculture, IRS, HUD, CIA, DIA, NSA, CISA - absolutely every single law enforcement or intelligence agent in every single agency needs to go. It is rotten to the very core and must be destroyed. Replace all of it with new agencies and forbid any other agency from engaging in *any* LE or intelligence function for any reason under any name.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:10 PM (WWh8n)

50 That letter gave me a woody.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 11, 2022 12:10 PM (CqUXU)

51 First order of business of the Republican congress is renaming FBI headquarters after Richard Jewell.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 11, 2022 12:11 PM (rJ48h)

52 All I know about the MO primary was the Trump “Eric” endorsement. Was this Eric the one he meant to endorse?

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 11, 2022 12:11 PM (3vQN0)

53 Napoleon's grand nephew (Charles Bonaparte) was TRs AG when he ordered the formation of the FBI. Can't make this up. A simple EO can disband these criminals.

https://www.fbi.gov/history/brief-history

Posted by: Valiant at August 11, 2022 12:11 PM (cy2xC)

54 Who would do 4 a.m. raids on senior citizens but for the FBI?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at August 11, 2022 12:11 PM (eGTCV)

55 AG Eric Schmidtt - couldn't have said it better myself.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 11, 2022 12:11 PM (g1EEm)

56 >> Nice added meme, Ace.

thanks!

Posted by: ace at August 11, 2022 12:11 PM (B3oWe)

57 If we defenestrate the FBI who will pay QAnon?

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 11, 2022 12:11 PM (0chEi)

58 i'm not gay, I'm just "schmidtt-gay."
Posted by: ace

Great SNL skit

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 11, 2022 12:11 PM (W/9Bb)

59 FBI got what it wanted in Cincinnati, multiple shots fired at the building and are in pursuit of a suspect
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

Story at TGP.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 11, 2022 12:11 PM (M9XmQ)

60 Trump did not hurt Schmitt in MO. His endorsement of "Eric" was claimed by both Greitens and Schmitt and was a good laugh for all of us. Schmitt and Trump are good from where we sit. I think Trump refused to endorse Greitens exclusively because he likes Schmitt too.

Posted by: Catherine at August 11, 2022 12:11 PM (U4KZs)

61 45 Really, if one wants to break up or dismantle whole federal agencies the only solution is a national divorce. The resulting countries can reconstitute them as they see fit with people they vet according to whatever standards they wish.

It guts the capitol city too.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 11, 2022 12:10 PM (BFigT)

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There is another solution. Individual budget and appropriations bills by departments.

DOD gets 90% of 2020 levels.
DOEd gets 5% of 1990 levels.
DOJ gets 1% of 1830 levels.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:11 PM (LvTSG)

62 And I don't want new, smaller agencies.
I want everyone with a federal badge out of a job. Fuck you, learn to code. Hell most of them are lawyers and accounts anyway, do that but without a badge and gun and a sense of divine protection over every action you take.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 11, 2022 12:11 PM (XvPQV)

63 Remember: voting is pointless.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:09 PM (LvTSG)
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He is sort of proving my assessment, as do any number of other people: voting in state and local is likely quite meaningful (depending in part on your locality). It's the federal elections that are pointless in my opinion.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:11 PM (WWh8n)

64 >>> All I know about the MO primary was the Trump “Eric” endorsement. Was this Eric the one he meant to endorse?

he was being cute, "endorsing" both of them or neither

Posted by: ace at August 11, 2022 12:12 PM (B3oWe)

65 That letter was a shining example of how to say go fuck yourself without saying go fuck yourself. Bravo!

Posted by: keena at August 11, 2022 12:12 PM (RiTnx)

66 Eric Schmitt is the real deal. He sued dozens of school districts after they refused to comply w/un-masking their kids. He's going to be a Godsend after having RiNO Blundt in the Senate for far too long.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at August 11, 2022 12:12 PM (lGrs1)

67 Friendly reminder: the GOP refused to defund NPR and PBS. Anyone dreaming of those spineless cuckoo defunding the FBI is, well, dreaming.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 11, 2022 12:12 PM (3vQN0)

68 Could a case be made for burning Christopher Wray at the stake? Probably not.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at August 11, 2022 12:12 PM (eGTCV)

69
Does the FBI fill a specific role that would need to be filled if it was dismantled?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench

Well, they'd have to be retconned out of "Die Hard" if they were abolished, to the detriment of that story line.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 11, 2022 12:13 PM (pNxlR)

70 FIB: "we have a warrant for your phone"
"Am I being investigated"
FIB:"No but give us your phone"

WTF?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:13 PM (ynpvh)

71 FBI got what it wanted in Cincinnati, multiple shots fired at the building and are in pursuit of a suspect
--

FFS who are they kidding.

Posted by: if it looks, acts, smells, sounds, and is timed like an op, its an op at August 11, 2022 12:13 PM (6sNXb)

72 You know what will give the Repubs the stomach to do this? Getting targeted personally by the FIBs. And that's what they seem to be doing.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at August 11, 2022 12:13 PM (5HBd1)

73 Good for Mr. Schmitt.

Very curious to see how this plays out, as they say.

Posted by: RM at August 11, 2022 12:13 PM (0eYOS)

74 63 He is sort of proving my assessment, as do any number of other people: voting in state and local is likely quite meaningful (depending in part on your locality). It's the federal elections that are pointless in my opinion.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:11 PM (WWh8n)

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My assessment has been for a while that the best we can hope from the federal GOP is stasis. It's the states where any positive action in the near to mid-term will appear from the GOP.

The states are our future. The federal government is a husk of graft.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:13 PM (LvTSG)

75 27 >>>25 I’m not gay or nothing, but
I have a hard on for this Missouri AG right now.

i'm not gay, I'm just "schmidtt-gay."
Posted by: ace at August 11, 2022 12:08 PM (B3oWe)

Right behind you boss...

I'll never say that about Kathy Hochul...***spit***

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 11, 2022 12:14 PM (BgMrQ)

76 67 Friendly reminder: the GOP refused to defund NPR and PBS. Anyone dreaming of those spineless cuckoo defunding the FBI is, well, dreaming.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 11, 2022 12:12 PM (3vQN0)

NPR and PBS have files from the National Archives that implicate Biden, Hunter, Obama and Hillary...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:14 PM (ynpvh)

77 And Twatter is rolling out plans to "protect" the mid-term elections by "pre-bunking" misleading claims. I feel safer already.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 11, 2022 12:14 PM (Rl7KJ)

78 He is sort of proving my assessment, as do any number of other people: voting in state and local is likely quite meaningful (depending in part on your locality). It's the federal elections that are pointless in my opinion.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at Aug

That is 100% where I am as well.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 11, 2022 12:14 PM (3vQN0)

79 Friendly reminder: the GOP refused to defund NPR and PBS. Anyone dreaming of those spineless cuckoo defunding the FBI is, well, dreaming.
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This^

One of Joe Mannix' bimbos making a surprise visit to a 'Ron is more likely.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 11, 2022 12:14 PM (NhLwH)

80 The FBI is no longer needed. The States have more than enough resources on hand to deal with whatever criminal activity takes place within or across their borders.

Abolish The FBI hook, line and sinker.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 11, 2022 12:14 PM (2CExO)

81 It guts the capitol city too.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 11, 2022 12:10 PM (BFigT)

Two separate systems with a very real DMZ.

Each state gets to renew their constitution and change laws. All progs will be deported without a hearing.

Posted by: North and South Korea Model at August 11, 2022 12:14 PM (9FBGz)

82 FIB: "we have a warrant for your phone"
"Am I being investigated"
FIB:"No but give us your phone"

WTF?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:13 PM (ynpvh)

I recently had to replace my last ever Blackberry.....my hands are now cold and dead.....but it had a feature that if you typed the password in wrong 10 times, it would wipe the phone.

FIB shows up and asks for it: "Sure. I'll go get it." wiped.....

"Here ya go."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 11, 2022 12:14 PM (Zz0t1)

83 68 Could a case be made for burning Christopher Wray at the stake? Probably not.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at August 11, 2022 12:12 PM (eGTCV)

Let me look at my reference version of "Fox's Book of Christian Martyrs" to see if there's a better way...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:14 PM (ynpvh)

84 Intelligence/Counterintelligence are defense functions and should be moved to DoD. And then the FBI, CIA, and NSA should be completely eliminated. Agent pensions should be zeroed.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at August 11, 2022 12:15 PM (VbI7r)

85 multiple shots fired at the building and are in pursuit of a suspect
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 11, 2022 12:08 PM (dKiJG)

Fuck. I hope it didn't hit anyone.

Posted by: ... at August 11, 2022 12:15 PM (ejSoJ)

86 70 FIB: "we have a warrant for your phone"
"Am I being investigated"
FIB:"No but give us your phone"

WTF?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:13 PM (ynpvh)

As an Illinois resident, I take offense to having "FIB" be associated with that group.

Posted by: Roy at August 11, 2022 12:15 PM (Phd8w)

87 riendly reminder: the GOP refused to defund NPR and PBS. Anyone dreaming of those spineless cuckoo defunding the FBI is, well, dreaming.
Posted by: Joe Xiden
==
Well. As distasteful as you may, on occasion, be, you are not wrong.

Posted by: Womp Womp at August 11, 2022 12:15 PM (n5Z6V)

88
FBI got what it wanted in Cincinnati, multiple shots fired at the building and are in pursuit of a suspect
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

Renegade agents from that office of IRS cutups of whom we've heard so much.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 11, 2022 12:15 PM (pNxlR)

89 J.J. linked a similar rant by Ace-approved scholar Victor Davis Hanson entitled "FBI, R.I.P.?":

"The agency has become dangerous to Americans and an existential threat to their democracy and rule of law."

https://tinyurl.com/yumehknh

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 11, 2022 12:15 PM (PnkSq)

90 Remember, they can force you to open your phone with biometrics (face, fingerprint). They can't force you to reveal a password.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 11, 2022 12:16 PM (g1EEm)

91 Even if the FBI wasn't politically biased they should be disbanded and replaced because of extreme incompetence.

The list of their screw ups is an embarrassment.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 11, 2022 12:16 PM (CqUXU)

92 What is stopping red state governors from directing state law enforcement to refuse to cooperate with the FBI?

Posted by: mr tmz at August 11, 2022 12:05 PM (rJ48h)

Because they have to back the blue, and law and order. And because if they attempt to do so, the Feds will cut them out of money.

I know, I know, the Left does it and they never pay a price. But that is how this works.

Posted by: blaster at August 11, 2022 12:16 PM (6TxNR)

93 89 J.J. linked a similar rant by Ace-approved scholar Victor Davis Hanson entitled "FBI, R.I.P.?":

"The agency has become dangerous to Americans and an existential threat to their democracy and rule of law."

https://tinyurl.com/yumehknh
..

I'll have to read that. I admire his cruelty.

Posted by: ace at August 11, 2022 12:16 PM (B3oWe)

94 In my experience, several people I worked with, went to law school with and served in the military with, all had disciplinary or law enforcement problems all went to work for the FBI. I worked with the FBI after September 11th and found out that most of the the agents I worked with also had UCMJ or NJP problems resulting in being passed over.

In short, they all had something that could be held over them, and yet the FBI hired them. It deserves further inquiry.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 11, 2022 12:16 PM (lf83v)

95 The current head of tge FBI was appointed by Trump with no complaints from Ace

Posted by: Paul at August 11, 2022 12:16 PM (ttS0m)

96 82 FIB: "we have a warrant for your phone"
"Am I being investigated"
FIB:"No but give us your phone"
WTF?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:13 PM (ynpvh)

I recently had to replace my last ever Blackberry.....my hands are now cold and dead.....but it had a feature that if you typed the password in wrong 10 times, it would wipe the phone.
FIB shows up and asks for it: "Sure. I'll go get it." wiped.....
"Here ya go."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 11, 2022 12:14 PM (Zz0t1)

:::Sponge arrested for obstructing an investigation:::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:16 PM (ynpvh)

97 Ops gone op

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 11, 2022 12:17 PM (sJHOI)

98 multiple shots fired at the building and are in pursuit of a suspect
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 11, 2022 12:08 PM (dKiJG)

Fuck. I hope it didn't hit anyone.
Posted by: ...
==
Since it was likely someone in federal "employ", it likely did nothing more than make noise.

Posted by: if it looks, acts, smells, sounds, and is timed like an op, its an op at August 11, 2022 12:17 PM (NhZdC)

99 That letter made my eyes tear up. This is what we need. The people we have sent from our states to DC aren't our best and they have made it very clear they are our enemies.

Screw them all.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at August 11, 2022 12:17 PM (sI15f)

100 89 I believe ace is also a VDH-approved scholar. If just a tad cruel.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 11, 2022 12:17 PM (g1EEm)

101 Posted by: Paul at August 11, 2022 12:16 PM (ttS0m)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at August 11, 2022 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)

102 Posted by: Paul at August 11, 2022 12:16 PM (ttS0m)

***

Bloody Hell...

Posted by: Ringo at August 11, 2022 12:17 PM (flINI)

103 So the shooter at the FIB building.. I assume he had his MAGA hat on

Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2022 12:17 PM (bs+z0)

104 You are never going to reason with people who haven't experienced a recession in 35 years.

Get your state and local governments to push back, as I have been saying.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 11, 2022 12:17 PM (44ww/)

105 I'll have to read that. I admire his cruelty.
Posted by: ace
___

Heh.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 11, 2022 12:17 PM (NhLwH)

106 Let me look at my reference version of "Fox's Book of Christian Martyrs" to see if there's a better way...
Posted by: jim

You may also supplement that with Ibrahim's Sword and Scimitar.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 11, 2022 12:17 PM (M9XmQ)

107 Friendly reminder: the GOP refused to defund NPR and PBS. Anyone dreaming of those spineless cuckoo defunding the FBI is, well, dreaming.

But if you get enough Eric Schmitts in there things become possible. The Dems played that game for decades until they had a solid voting bloc.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 12:18 PM (ZGrMX)

108 I've been arguing for a while now that the part of the FBI that targets federal office holders should be moved to an organization controlled by and answerable
to the states.

It makes no sense that you put a federal organization in charge of...investigating the rest of the federal organizations.

Create a new org with leadership voted on by the 50 governors and with a permanent ban on anyone that has worked for FedGov (outside of the armed forces).

Want to be the "State Investigative Chief"? Better show at least 26 governors that you can find and successively prosecute corrupt FedGov members.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 11, 2022 12:18 PM (ESjRY)

109 I stand by my assessment that the most accurate portrayal of the attitude and operational mode of the FBI in popular culture was on TV, in "X-Files." In that show, they were portrayed as lawless, reckless, power-hungry monsters with no accountability who constantly broke the rules. The heroes broke the rules retail and the villains broke the rules wholesale.

The storylines were not realistic, but the portrayal of the FBI was.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:18 PM (WWh8n)

110 Paul thinks its wrong to expect your FBI Director to not be a partisan hack attacking one political party relentlessly.

Swap shoes, bitch, and see how it feels, then come back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 11, 2022 12:18 PM (Zz0t1)

111 I like the cut of that AG's jib. I hope its not just for show.

Posted by: WisRich at August 11, 2022 12:18 PM (G0vdT)

112 85 multiple shots fired at the building and are in pursuit of a suspect
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 11, 2022 12:08 PM (dKiJG)

Fuck. I hope it didn't hit anyone.
Posted by: ...
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Aw, crap. Is it false flag season already? I still have my "Stand with Ukraine" decorations up. Where does the time go??

Posted by: Linn Ridge at August 11, 2022 12:18 PM (CloRl)

113 The Left GETS power. They understand, power does not explain. Schmitt's letter is nice red meat for the base. But nothing will happen.

Posted by: blaster at August 11, 2022 12:18 PM (6TxNR)

114 My assessment has been for a while that the best we can hope from the federal GOP is stasis. It's the states where any positive action in the near to mid-term will appear from the GOP.

The states are our future. The federal government is a husk of graft.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:13 PM (LvTSG)

I agree and have argued that as well. Federal elections ARE important, but only so we can block the left from carrying out their most insane fantasies, such as they are doing now. It's why I'm not really concerned about McCarthy and McConnell being in charge of a new Congress; they are masters of Doing Nothing, and that's all I hope for on the Federal level anymore.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2022 12:18 PM (trdmm)

115 This post has been updated with a statement from U.S. Rep. Scott Perry in which Perry said his lawyers have been told he is not a target of an investigation...

Ah, the ol' "You're not the target of an investigation" ploy, eh?

Didn't James "Curtains" Comey use that one already?

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 11, 2022 12:18 PM (wUHYj)

116 I tried to warn you what petty thugs these guys are, but all you idiots wanted to do was argue over whether my film was a Christmas movie.

Posted by: John McTiernan at August 11, 2022 12:18 PM (vMWVi)

117 90 Remember, they can force you to open your phone with biometrics (face, fingerprint). They can't force you to reveal a password.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 11, 2022 12:16 PM (g1EEm)

Arrest you for interfering with an investigation. Get your fingerprints. Unlock the phone, find what they want anyway...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:18 PM (ynpvh)

118 J.J. linked a similar rant by Ace-approved scholar Victor Davis Hanson entitled "FBI, R.I.P.?"

That was good, but it lacks the cruelty we enjoy here at Ace's.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 12:19 PM (ZGrMX)

119 VDH:
"The agency has become dangerous to Americans and an existential threat to their democracy and rule of law."
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Dear Lord! Did the man think NOTHING of their feelings before he launched that??!!!

Posted by: shocked face at August 11, 2022 12:19 PM (6sNXb)

120 I cringed so hard I lost an inch of height when I saw W create a department with 'homeland' in the title. I hated it then, I hate it now.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 11, 2022 12:10 PM (XvPQV)

Yeah it bothered me a lot too. Nation of cucks. It should have been called Department of Come Get Us If You Dare, Goatfuckers

But honestly the last thing I wanted was another department. Ffs

Posted by: ... at August 11, 2022 12:19 PM (ejSoJ)

121 Hey Paul- go fucking blow your buddy Boffo.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 11, 2022 12:19 PM (W/9Bb)

122 11 Doess the FBI fill a specific role that would need to be filled if it was dismantled?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at August 11, 2022 12:04 PM (eGTCV)

Lessee....spying on citizens, persecuting patriots and protecting the deep state....none that we'd miss.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at August 11, 2022 12:19 PM (sI15f)

123 The FIB's action here is a particular type of retarded too, considering MO has had permitless CC for about 2 years now.
I'm so glad I never applied for CC.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at August 11, 2022 12:19 PM (lGrs1)

124 The way to fix things is to drop the drinking age back to 18. When 18 year olds drank they went to clubs which caused good music to be performed and sometimes they got laid. Compare that to 18 year olds smoking pot and hanging out in drum circles and shit.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 11, 2022 12:19 PM (0chEi)

125 I like the letter.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 11, 2022 12:19 PM (dNqv+)

126 95 The current head of tge FBI was appointed by Trump with no complaints from Ace
Posted by: Paul at August 11, 2022 12:16 PM (ttS0m)

Trump sucked balls at hiring people. You will find nobody here that will argue the point

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 11, 2022 12:19 PM (3vQN0)

127
Aw, crap. Is it false flag season already? I still have my "Stand with Ukraine" decorations up. Where does the time go??
Posted by: Linn Ridge at August 11, 2022 12:18 PM (CloRl)

If the shooter gets away, then odds are that it was the same person as the "confidential informant" in the Mar a Lago story.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2022 12:20 PM (trdmm)

128 Lyndsey Graham TOLD us this would happen if the Democrats ever got power again then did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to stop it.

May you rot in hell with syphilis and monkeypox, you fag.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 11, 2022 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)

129 I'm happy to hear VDH on that truck. I have said some things in the past about the academic "box" he resides in but I may have to completely reassess.

Posted by: ... at August 11, 2022 12:20 PM (ejSoJ)

130 The FBI has always been portrayed as narcissistic boobs that everyone hated in movies. That is movies not sponsored by the FBI .

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 11, 2022 12:20 PM (CqUXU)

131 110 Paul thinks its wrong to expect your FBI Director to not be a partisan hack attacking one political party relentlessly.

Swap shoes, bitch, and see how it feels, then come back.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 11, 2022 12:18 PM (Zz0t1)

========

Unless a Republican appoints someone who says that the rule of law should be followed no matter what, including the potential investigation of the spying on an American citizen through defrauding the FISA courts. Then it's treason.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:20 PM (LvTSG)

132 Just a rogue stray bullet in the field office.
Posted by: Roy at August 11, 2022 12:10 PM (Phd8w)

Right to speak freely.

Space to destroy.

SQUAWWWWK!!!!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2022 12:20 PM (/EuRN)

133 What is stopping red state governors from directing state law enforcement to refuse to cooperate with the FBI?

Let me go a step farther here. There is nothing stopping Red State governors from following FBI agents in their state with state troopers and arresting them for any violations of state law.

Remember that video of those local cops arresting an ATF agent harassing a gun owner? You could do that with every agent you are aware of in your state.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 11, 2022 12:20 PM (ESjRY)

134 106 Let me look at my reference version of "Fox's Book of Christian Martyrs" to see if there's a better way...
Posted by: jim

You may also supplement that with Ibrahim's Sword and Scimitar.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 11, 2022 12:17 PM (M9XmQ)

The midaeval torture devices tour made it's rounds here in San Diego some years back. Lots of interesting ideas there. They even brought a guillotine!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:20 PM (ynpvh)

135 116 I tried to warn you what petty thugs these guys are, but all you idiots wanted to do was argue over whether my film was a Christmas movie.
Posted by: John McTiernan at August 11, 2022 12:18 PM (vMWVi)

You also understated the level of Federal hamfistedness.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 11, 2022 12:20 PM (dNqv+)

136 I saw Authority-Worshipping Retarded Leathergimp open for Alice in Chains at the Seamonster Lounge in 2002.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 11, 2022 12:20 PM (PnkSq)

137 ..First order of business of the Republican congress is renaming FBI headquarters after Richard Jewell. Posted by: mr tmz at August 11, 2022 12:11 PM (rJ48h)

EVERY Federal Employee, including .mil, needs to be mandated to watch the Eastwood movie about Richard Jewell.

With a workbook exercise to follow, where they'll have to note the various Arrogances, Abuses, Overreaches and flat out CRIMES of the FBI, as depicted in said film.

Call the class: "Don't DO This, or you're FIRED 101".

Ain't the cure, but would be a needed dose.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 11, 2022 12:20 PM (tkOps)

138 But nothing will happen.
==
The FBI will not be "auditing" anything in Missouri without litigating it.

Posted by: so you got that going for ya at August 11, 2022 12:21 PM (NhZdC)

139 Paul says the same thing every thread. Give the poor guy a break. It's his only troll idea.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 11, 2022 12:21 PM (g1EEm)

140 I have never done the biometric thing on my phone. Not because of a fear of fbi just cuz I’m lazy. But fear of fbi is an extra reason now.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 11, 2022 12:21 PM (3vQN0)

141 When does the AG of MO get a raid by Fibbies?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2022 12:21 PM (3Fusu)

142 I ate dogshit with no complaints from Ace.

Posted by: Paul at August 11, 2022 12:21 PM (q3iUt)

143 You will find nobody here that will argue the point
Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 11, 2022 12:19 PM (3vQN0)

We may argue that it wasn't entirely his fault, or that it wouldn't have mattered, or whatever, but... yeah.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2022 12:21 PM (/EuRN)

144 Maybe the guy really hates building in Cincinnati?

Posted by: Navin "They're Shooting the Oil Cans" Johnson at August 11, 2022 12:21 PM (lf83v)

145 Ah, the ol' "You're not the target of an investigation" ploy, eh?

Didn't James "Curtains" Comey use that one already?

We're officially in DC Reruns now, with KJP saying Biden found out about the raid from the newspaper. Like the SCOAMF used to.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 12:21 PM (ZGrMX)

146 Ah, the ol' "You're not the target of an investigation" ploy, eh?

Didn't James "Curtains" Comey use that one already?
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 11, 2022 12:18 PM (wUHYj)

I heard that line in a Clouseau voice.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2022 12:21 PM (trdmm)

147 112 85 multiple shots fired at the building and are in pursuit of a suspect
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 11, 2022 12:08 PM (dKiJG)

Fuck. I hope it didn't hit anyone.
Posted by: ...
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Aw, crap. Is it false flag season already? I still have my "Stand with Ukraine" decorations up. Where does the time go??

Posted by: Linn Ridge at August 11, 2022 12:18 PM (CloRl)

DUUUDE! You were supposed to be changing out our Gay Pride Month flag which REPLACED your Ukraine flag...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:21 PM (ynpvh)

148
Hey Paul- go fucking blow your buddy Boffo.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 11, 2022 12:19 PM (W/9Bb)

Come for the blow, stay for the clap.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 11, 2022 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)

149 If the GOP can finally 'kill' Big Bird, then maybe - just maybe - you can get me to believe that they have what it takes to dismantle the FIB.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 11, 2022 12:21 PM (jpLLS)

150 For the most part, unless you are taking illegal pictures or recording yourself and keeping that only in memory, the Feebs can get virtually all of the information via other means.

My guess is that the Feebs use the whole cellphone ruse in order not to disclose where they actually are getting the data wholesale via NSA intercept capabilities. It is simply laundering the source of the data so it can be used in court.

Look up Stinger technology for example, letter subpoenas to telcom providers, and so on. Essentially, the Federales are literally Hoovering up all information including using data brokers of any digital data spread globally on the net.

They are doing so for fun, power, and profit (insider trading most likely or resale). Same as the KGB did back in its heyday.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2022 12:22 PM (CXr4y)

151 Abandoning the federal level means side issues like borders, rule of law, almost every facet of the economy from monetary policy (inflation) to "environmental" and "occupational safety" protection to IP and trade policy to ..... well, you might have noticed it's not 1890, federal law and policy now infest/affect/degrade/distort about 80% of real life.

So portraying local as key and just giving up on federal makes a tepid bumper sticker slogan but makes little sense in the current situation.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 11, 2022 12:22 PM (OTzUX)

152 145 Ah, the ol' "You're not the target of an investigation" ploy, eh?

Didn't James "Curtains" Comey use that one already?

Tell me about it

Posted by: General Flynn at August 11, 2022 12:22 PM (bs+z0)

153 I'll say it again - they're just going to transition the FBI to the IRS, plan B especially if things were to go south for them. I can't imagine anything uglier, a true bureaucracy from hell. They're probably besides themselves with giddiness.

If only they could roll the DMV and health care into this, but I'm sure they've got a thinktank working on that one 24/7.

Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at August 11, 2022 12:22 PM (zB/T/)

154 149 If the GOP can finally 'kill' Big Bird, then maybe - just maybe - you can get me to believe that they have what it takes to dismantle the FIB.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 11, 2022 12:21 PM (jpLLS)

========

Can't even do that now.

PBS sold Big Bird to HBO.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:22 PM (LvTSG)

155 That letter is dated nearly a month ago and the "audits" (i.e. fishing expeditions) were supposed to be in August. Do we know if they have happened yet?

Posted by: Oddbob at August 11, 2022 12:23 PM (nfrXX)

156 The FBI will not be "auditing" anything in Missouri without litigating it.
Posted by: so you got that going for ya

And good luck with that. How on earth does the FBI have jurisdiction over local CCW registrations?

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 11, 2022 12:23 PM (g1EEm)

157 Arrest you for interfering with an investigation. Get your fingerprints. Unlock the phone, find what they want anyway...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:18 PM (ynpvh)
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Just swipe your finger on it or point the camera at you.

Per my understanding, though a Horde Lawyer will hopefully tell me if this is wrong, the approach is to think of it like a safe. If you have a safe with a key, the state can compel you to produce the keys. If you have a safe with a combination, the state cannot compel you to reveal the combination because the Fifth Amendment is still technically a thing.

Biometrics are like a lock with a key. They can compel you to produce the key. Passwords are like a lock with a combination, and they cannot compel you tell them the combination because that would be self-incriminating. If you refuse to reveal the password or combination, the state can hire a safecracker to force open the safe (or subject your device to cryptoanalysis or other measures).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:23 PM (WWh8n)

158 In the entire history of the FBI, they have never, ever apologized, never been held to account-- not even for those they murdered.

They will not do so now either. There is no "reform" or "correction" possible at this point.

Anyone suggesting such is possible is asking you to die in this valley while they retreat.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 11, 2022 12:23 PM (Zf0+a)

159 If a fed goes 66 in a 65 zone, pull them over. If they park 5 inches too close to a fire hydrant. Ticket. You can harass the shit out of them with local LEOs.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 11, 2022 12:23 PM (3vQN0)

160 116 I tried to warn you what petty thugs these guys are, but all you idiots wanted to do was argue over whether my film was a Christmas movie.
Posted by: John McTiernan at August 11, 2022 12:18 PM (vMWVi)

Just like fuckin' Saigon, eh slick?
I was in junior high, dickhead.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 11, 2022 12:23 PM (OgrpQ)

161 Good letter by Eric Schmitt.

That's the way to deal with these corrupt criminals: tell them to go f*ck themselves.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at August 11, 2022 12:23 PM (MvHI3)

162 Lyndsey Graham TOLD us this would happen if the Democrats ever got power again then did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to stop it.

That dude on the Blaze who said the other day that Graham "eats from the bottoms menu" had it exactly right.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 12:23 PM (ZGrMX)

163 I think the first order of business in the new Congress should be to rename the FBI the Gestapo, and to order a large Swastika to be placed over their front door with GESTAPO HQ in huge letters just above it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2022 12:23 PM (trdmm)

164 The FBI was created because existing law enforcement was corrupt. At least that's what they said in the movie "The FBI Story" with Jimmy Stewart.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 11, 2022 12:23 PM (63Dwl)

165 We're officially in DC Reruns now, with KJP saying Biden found out about the raid from the newspaper. Like the SCOAMF used to.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 12:21 PM (ZGrMX)

Yeah. Presidents get their news from newspapers. Because the best thing is for the supposed chief executive to be roughly 12-24 hours behind the curve on events.

FFS.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2022 12:23 PM (/EuRN)

166 I heard that line in a Clouseau voice.
Posted by: Tom Servo

As soon as I hit "Post" I knew I should have worn that sock.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 11, 2022 12:23 PM (wUHYj)

167 My hairy fat whore of a mother sold her blown-out fuck-sock on the street with no complaints from ace.

Posted by: Paul at August 11, 2022 12:23 PM (B3oWe)

168 Trump sucked balls at hiring people. You will find nobody here that will argue the point
Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 11, 2022 12:19 PM (3vQN0)

He had a couple that were ok. I think he relies on subordinates to vet people for him instead of going off deep person knowledge himself. This can be a weakness, depending on your subordinates. This would be borne out both by people in his admin as well as people he has endorsed himself.

Plus, he has a blind spot when it comes to his family.

This is not necessarily a deal breaker, as if you learn from your mistakes, a leader can still be quite effective (especially once he has people with a better people sense and also share his vision.) On the other hand, we are kind of in the 'no tolerance for missteps' phase, so your mileage may vary.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 11, 2022 12:24 PM (dNqv+)

169 There is another solution. Individual budget and appropriations bills by departments.

DOD gets 90% of 2020 levels.
DOEd gets 5% of 1990 levels.
DOJ gets 1% of 1830 levels.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:11 PM (LvTSG)

DOD gets 90% of 2000 levels. - we're not at war.
DOEd gets 5% of 1980 levels. - because fuck you.
DOJ - AG's salary (since he's a Constitutional officer) and funding for him to buy 1 spiral notebook and 1 pen per annum.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 11, 2022 12:24 PM (uvymP)

170 Its really not an overstatement that the whole agency needs to just be scrapped.

I feel the same about the CIA, just disband it as a civilian agency and instead make it what it once was, a branch of the military.

Conservatives have had a big blind spot for these agencies for way too long.

Sure, back in the Reagan years, these guys were all right-wing Republicans, but that era is LONG gone.

Posted by: Blago at August 11, 2022 12:24 PM (PwNLq)

171 If I had to make a wager on if the FBI will capture the alleged shooter of the FBI office I would bet they will make an arrest.

Of the wrong person.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 11, 2022 12:24 PM (CqUXU)

172 And good luck with that. How on earth does the FBI have jurisdiction over local CCW registrations?
Posted by: quantum mechanic at August

Tee hee!

Posted by: Hawaiian judge at August 11, 2022 12:24 PM (9FBGz)

173 Paul has a very strange case of pica...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:24 PM (ynpvh)

174 Posted by: Paul at August 11, 2022 12:16 PM (ttS0m)

***

Bloody Hell...
Posted by: Ringo

Yeah, he's a dick.

Posted by: Peter and Mary at August 11, 2022 12:24 PM (cY9wR)

175 He is sort of proving my assessment, as do any number of other people: voting in state and local is likely quite meaningful (depending in part on your locality). It's the federal elections that are pointless in my opinion.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:11 PM (WWh8n)

He's gonna be a federal Senator, though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 11, 2022 12:24 PM (uvymP)

176 Fuck You. No Quislings.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2022 12:24 PM (/EuRN)

177 So portraying local as key and just giving up on federal makes a tepid bumper sticker slogan but makes little sense in the current situation.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 11, 2022 12:22 PM (OTzUX)
++++
But in what respect do the national Republicans deliver different outcomes? There is only one that I can think of: pace. They're slower to act and thus the pace of degradation is reduced. They do not fix anything, nor do they prevent anything. Not in Washington.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:25 PM (WWh8n)

178 171 If I had to make a wager on if the FBI will capture the alleged shooter of the FBI office I would bet they will make an arrest.

Or not, but make the description of the perp as a White male with a MAGA hat on

Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2022 12:25 PM (bs+z0)

179 America's hill to die on is destroying the runaway FBI and every IC agency who have obviously lost their intended purpose. And I say that on this very day...when my own sibling ceremoniously graduated this morning from the FBI Academy in Quantico. I wish I had even a smidgeon of hope they will be destroyed. But I look around at the current majority makeup of the Republicans...the most craven group of useless flesh I've ever seen. Their only hill to die on involves maintaining all the perks, power and money they have attained. We're at a precipice. Of that there's no doubt. We all see it, feel it, know it. The whole damned thing must go.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 11, 2022 12:25 PM (sVtYq)

180 Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 11, 2022 12:19 PM (W/9Bb)

Now, now. Its Sid and Boffo who play "Let's hide the clown nose. We don't know Paul's dating status yet.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2022 12:25 PM (33AyX)

181 Destroy the FBI? Never gonna happen. I think a better and more realistic strategy may be for red states to simply refuse to allow FBI agents to operate in their states. And if they do show up and try to gain access to property, they are arrested for trespassing. I'm not sure how legal that would be, but if there are "sanctuary cities" where federal laws are deliberately not obeyed, then why not this?

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 11, 2022 12:25 PM (iFTx/)

182 Posted by: Paul

Tell your mom to stop changing lipstick colors. I'm getting a rainbow on my dick.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 11, 2022 12:25 PM (wUHYj)

183 167 My hairy fat whore of a mother sold her blown-out fuck-sock on the street with no complaints from ace.
Posted by: Paul

Real nice, ace. Real nice. My mother is *dead,* ace.

Before that, though, she was a fat hairy whore selling her blown-out fuck-sock on the street, and I don't remember you ever complaining. So fair do's on that I guess.

Posted by: Paul at August 11, 2022 12:25 PM (B3oWe)

184 He's gonna be a federal Senator, though.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 11, 2022 12:24 PM (uvymP)
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Which is probably a net loss for MO.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:26 PM (WWh8n)

185 Trump sucked balls at hiring people. You will find nobody here that will argue the point
Posted by: Joe Xiden

Not a lot of rock-ribbed conservatives here (on AoS) offered their services....

Posted by: SFGoth at August 11, 2022 12:26 PM (KAi1n)

186 137. EVERY Federal Employee, including .mil, needs to be mandated to watch the Eastwood movie about Richard Jewell.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

J Edgar is another one by Eastwood well worth a watch.

Posted by: Dr Dempsy at August 11, 2022 12:26 PM (PY/t0)

187 EVERY Federal Employee, including .mil, needs to be mandated to watch the Eastwood movie about Richard Jewell.

With a workbook exercise to follow, where they'll have to note the various Arrogances, Abuses, Overreaches and flat out CRIMES of the FBI, as depicted in said film.

Call the class: "Don't DO This, or you're FIRED 101".

Ain't the cure, but would be a needed dose.

Jim
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You want to rein them in, remove any qualified or absolute immunity from lawsuits for any local, state, or federal employee that is not Senate confirmed. The std. should be that if the plaintiff proves more or less likely that the fed employee in particular acted ultra vires (beyond the law) to damage the plaintiff. You also refuse to allow these employees to discharge such debts in bankruptcy or exclude their pensions from being attached because of a willful violation.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2022 12:26 PM (CXr4y)

188 I stand by my assessment that the most accurate portrayal of the attitude and operational mode of the FBI in popular culture was on TV, in "X-Files."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:18 PM

Not Die Hard?

Posted by: Special Agents Johnson (no relation) at August 11, 2022 12:26 PM (xttsV)

189 Could a case be made for burning Christopher Wray at the stake? Probably not.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at August 11, 2022 12:12 PM (eGTCV)

Don't be silly. Wood smoke releases a bunch of carbon into the atmosphere. A proposal for impalement would be more prudent.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 11, 2022 12:26 PM (uvymP)

190 167

That explains a lot. Poor Paul there is the victim of STDs transmitted to him by his mommy.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:26 PM (ynpvh)

191 There is not a conservative / American loving agency or organization created that the Left can't infiltrate and eventually take over.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 11, 2022 12:26 PM (CqUXU)

192 177 But in what respect do the national Republicans deliver different outcomes? There is only one that I can think of: pace. They're slower to act and thus the pace of degradation is reduced. They do not fix anything, nor do they prevent anything. Not in Washington.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:25 PM (WWh8n)

=========

The other side is that the change of the GOP is slow but steady. The more we get people like Eric from MO into Congress, the more the GOP as a whole can potentially change at the federal level.

So, no, next Congress will not see the GOP fight Biden in any meaningful way. However, 2025? With Trump as president again? More likely than 2017, I'd say.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:26 PM (LvTSG)

193 Eric Schmidt has one of the classiest signatures I've ever seen.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 11, 2022 12:27 PM (+nNfY)

194 Now THAT is a strongly worded letter.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 11, 2022 12:27 PM (U3uv2)

195 Not a lot of rock-ribbed conservatives here (on AoS) offered their services....
Posted by: SFGoth at August 11, 2022 12:26 PM (KAi1n)

Because I'm sure the Republic would have been saved if only Trump had hired a solid controls engineer.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2022 12:27 PM (/EuRN)

196 Not Die Hard?
Posted by: Special Agents Johnson (no relation) at August 11, 2022 12:26 PM (xttsV)
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No. "Die Hard" showed them as incompetent, idiotic, self-impressed weasels. This is often true, but the movie failed to also portray their sinister malice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:27 PM (WWh8n)

197 169 There is another solution. Individual budget and appropriations bills by departments.

DOD gets 90% of 2020 levels.
DOEd gets 5% of 1990 levels.
DOJ gets 1% of 1830 levels.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:11 PM (LvTSG)

I believe 100% of 1830 DOJ levels is still $0. Let them have it!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:27 PM (ynpvh)

198 The FBI will not be "auditing" anything in Missouri without litigating it.
Posted by: so you got that going for ya

And good luck with that. How on earth does the FBI have jurisdiction over local CCW registrations?
==
Interstate Commerce Clause - eligibility for government funding for various things tied to gun permits.

Posted by: Justice John Roberts at August 11, 2022 12:27 PM (UxX5y)

199 Congress can't even roll up a single crooked IRS administrator. The FBI has to go, yes, but I don't see how that will happen.

That said, we don't need or want a national police department. State police agencies can coordinate their efforts on a case by case basis as they see fit. And you still have the US Marshal Service- but that might be going bad too. Not sure.

Posted by: DB at August 11, 2022 12:27 PM (geLO8)

200 Not a lot of rock-ribbed conservatives here (on AoS) offered their services....
Posted by: SFGoth at August 11, 2022 12:26 PM (KAi1n)

I wanted to be head of the FBI but no one listened to me.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2022 12:27 PM (trdmm)

201 191 There is not a conservative / American loving agency or organization created that the Left can't infiltrate and eventually take over.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 11, 2022 12:26 PM (CqUXU)

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I don't know...the NRA is pretty busy at grifting to get taken over.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:27 PM (LvTSG)

202 Aw, crap. Is it false flag season already? I still have my "Stand with Ukraine" decorations up. Where does the time go??
Posted by: Linn Ridge at August 11, 2022 12:18 PM (CloRl)

If the shooter gets away, then odds are that it was the same person as the "confidential informant" in the Mar a Lago story.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2022 12:20 PM (trdmm)

------

And the "bomber" who planted the #FakePipeBombs outside the DNC pre-J6.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 11, 2022 12:27 PM (PnkSq)

203 Someone was annoyed that people keep spelling it "Capitol" but I'm just cool with evoking The Hunger Games.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 11, 2022 12:27 PM (44ww/)

204 He prolly wears nipple clips.

Posted by: Braenyard badgering his representative to exert his Oversight Authority on our Democrat oppressor at August 11, 2022 12:27 PM (X2vir)

205 "Assuming the political will existed to do so......"

Ok. Let's say some ride or die MAGA pols get in and lead the charge to dismantle the FBI. The same FBI that the Democrats control to do their bidding. The same Democrats and FBI that have no problem using the law against you and breaking it to use against you backed up by a badge and gun. Would someone please, PLEASE explain to me what the hell is going to keep those MAGA pols from landing in prison right next to J6'ers for an attempted coup and or insurrection which it would surely be labeled as?

Seems pretty risky trying to dismantle a law enforcement agency that is the whatever law they decide to enforce agency of the Democrat Party.

Sorry for that last sentence.

Posted by: JROD at August 11, 2022 12:28 PM (0jZnq)

206 Not a lot of rock-ribbed conservatives here (on AoS) offered their services....
Posted by: SFGoth at August 11, 2022 12:26 PM (KAi1n)

I guess I could have volunteered to handle any Worker Comp claims filed in the White House.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 11, 2022 12:28 PM (CqUXU)

207 John Cardillo
@johncardillo

54m
We are barreling towards an unrecognizable nation run by unelected federal agency heads who will crush dissent and take everything you have via their heavily armed agents.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 11, 2022 12:28 PM (NpAcC)

208 I wanted to be head of the FBI but no one listened to me.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2022 12:27 PM (trdmm)

Your arms are too short.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2022 12:28 PM (/EuRN)

209 179 America's hill to die on is destroying the runaway FBI and every IC agency who have obviously lost their intended purpose. And I say that on this very day...when my own sibling ceremoniously graduated this morning from the FBI Academy in Quantico. I wish I had even a smidgeon of hope they will be destroyed. But I look around at the current majority makeup of the Republicans...the most craven group of useless flesh I've ever seen. Their only hill to die on involves maintaining all the perks, power and money they have attained. We're at a precipice. Of that there's no doubt. We all see it, feel it, know it. The whole damned thing must go.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 11, 2022 12:25 PM (sVtYq)

Well said, ma'am.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 11, 2022 12:28 PM (dNqv+)

210 DISSOLVE THE FBI.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 11, 2022 12:28 PM (eJn7u)

211 Each state gets to renew their constitution and change laws. All progs will be deported without a hearing.
Posted by: North and South Korea Model at August 11, 2022 12:14 PM (9FBGz)

Via trebuchet.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 11, 2022 12:28 PM (uvymP)

212 So, no, next Congress will not see the GOP fight Biden in any meaningful way. However, 2025? With Trump as president again? More likely than 2017, I'd say.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:26 PM (LvTSG)
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That's the theory. I am not in a blue state with thoroughly-corrupted elections, so I'll even vote for the best man I can. I just have no expectation of results and think our best should not be squandered in Washington.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:28 PM (WWh8n)

213 Gateway pundit has the story.. Evidently the idiot tried to go into the FIB armed then ran away when confronted... Described as a white male of course and the police are in pursuit. He also made threats of sticking up for Trump... The media got their dream... Stupid fuck

Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2022 12:28 PM (bs+z0)

214 Once we smoke out the bad apples at the FBI you can be sure they will go back to doing their duties as charged and serving the people who pay for their checks.

The Duly Elected and Respectable President Biden is out of control and this election is the most important or our lives. We know he would never stop to the low of political activities from those under his charge.

Friend, you must know that Impeachment will never be on the table, but rest assured we will force comity and good will from Democrats, or die trying. And if they decide to step out of line, they had better clear their schedule for some crazy serious Hearings, where we will use our mouths to get to the bottom of it all.

-The GOP, Donate Today!

Posted by: ... at August 11, 2022 12:28 PM (ejSoJ)

215 200 Not a lot of rock-ribbed conservatives here (on AoS) offered their services....
Posted by: SFGoth at August 11, 2022 12:26 PM (KAi1n)

I wanted to be head of the FBI but no one listened to me.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2022 12:27 PM (trdmm)

=========

I volunteered to be Secretary of War.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:28 PM (LvTSG)

216 "The GOP is an authority-worshipping retarded leathergimp"

Poise and grammar.

Posted by: Corona at August 11, 2022 12:28 PM (nakGR)

217 If the GOP can finally 'kill' Big Bird, then maybe - just maybe - you can get me to believe that they have what it takes to dismantle the FIB.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 11, 2022 12:21 PM (jpLLS)

Big Bird on a diet, don't try it
I'll jack yo' ass like a looter in a riot
My shit's fat, like a Sumo, slamming dat ass
Leavin' your face in the grass
'Cause you know, I don't take a duro, lightly...

Posted by: Big Bird, O.G. at August 11, 2022 12:29 PM (2CExO)

218 193 Eric Schmidt has one of the classiest signatures I've ever seen.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 11, 2022 12:27 PM (+nNfY)

Agreed. Flourishes while still being legible.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 11, 2022 12:29 PM (dNqv+)

219 179 America's hill to die on is destroying the runaway FBI and every IC agency who have obviously lost their intended purpose. And I say that on this very day...when my own sibling ceremoniously graduated this morning from the FBI Academy in Quantico. I wish I had even a smidgeon of hope they will be destroyed. But I look around at the current majority makeup of the Republicans...the most craven group of useless flesh I've ever seen. Their only hill to die on involves maintaining all the perks, power and money they have attained. We're at a precipice. Of that there's no doubt. We all see it, feel it, know it. The whole damned thing must go.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 11, 2022 12:25 PM (sVtYq)

Starting point is every agency and department involved in going after Trump illegally. So, CIA, FBI, State Department, FISA courts...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:29 PM (ynpvh)

220
DUUUDE! You were supposed to be changing out our Gay Pride Month flag which REPLACED your Ukraine flag...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 1

Hah.

I have a neighbor a couple of blocks away that was flying a Ukistani flag. In June the flag was replaced with the gay flag. For a week or so. And then the Uke flag was back up with the gay flag underneath. For a few days. Then the two flags were reversed.

I can imagine the horror those imbeciles faced as tried to decide which cause was more important, lol. Probably got some blowback from other wokenistas too.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 11, 2022 12:29 PM (3vQN0)

221 207 John Cardillo
@johncardillo

54m
We are barreling towards an unrecognizable nation run by unelected federal agency heads who will crush dissent and take everything you have via their heavily armed agents.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 11, 2022 12:28 PM (NpAcC)

========

He's saying this like it didn't happen decades ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:29 PM (LvTSG)

222 But other posters have it- starve the Bureau on budget matters. Let it wither on the vine.

Posted by: DB at August 11, 2022 12:29 PM (geLO8)

223 >>>Below, Missouri's AG Eric Schmidtt -- soon to be Missouri's based Senator, no thanks to Trump -- tells the FBI to go search itself.

I voted for Schmitt, but this is why I was very ambivalent about it; I'm not convinced that he could do more good in the Senate than he can and is doing in his current job. Oh well, water under the bridge now.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 11, 2022 12:29 PM (bhRsz)

224 @johncardillo
We are barreling towards an unrecognizable nation run by unelected federal agency heads who will crush dissent and take everything you have via their heavily armed agents.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 11, 2022 12:28 PM (NpAcC)
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Wrong tense.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:29 PM (WWh8n)

225 Remember: voting is pointless.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny
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Kari Lake is singing a different tune.

Posted by: Braenyard badgering his representative to exert his Oversight Authority on our Democrat oppressor at August 11, 2022 12:29 PM (X2vir)

226 Not a lot of rock-ribbed conservatives here (on AoS) offered their services....

Before the left completely took over the federal bureaucracy it had a bunch of NGOs it used to produce talent.

That is what the right needs. But that takes money. Lots of money. And organization. And we have no organization and apparently an intense need to fund things like the CoC with the money we do have.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 11, 2022 12:30 PM (ESjRY)

227 183

Wow, now he's talking to himself...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:30 PM (ynpvh)

228 My hairy fat whore of a mother sold her blown-out fuck-sock on the street with no complaints from ace.
Posted by: Paul

Heh

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 11, 2022 12:30 PM (W/9Bb)

229 The media got their dream... Stupid fuck

Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2022 12:28 PM (bs+z0)

Don't forget the 48 hours rule. They have scores of these people lined up. Remember the guy in the Trump Van who decided he wanted to do violence right *before* the election?

Posted by: ... at August 11, 2022 12:30 PM (ejSoJ)

230 Trump can destroy any department on day 1. The entire leadership is politically appointed. Traditionally you let the lower levels stay on into the next administration.

Trump can fire every political appointee and refuse to appoint a successor. The agency will fall apart.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 11, 2022 12:30 PM (+nNfY)

231 222 But other posters have it- starve the Bureau on budget matters. Let it wither on the vine.
Posted by: DB at August 11, 2022 12:29 PM (geLO

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And the GOP can do that with only Congress.

They won't, but they can.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:30 PM (LvTSG)

232 GOP must learn and memorize the fact that any enemy of Trump is an enemy of mine. This is written in stone, and will not change or diminish.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at August 11, 2022 12:30 PM (buTO7)

233 225 Remember: voting is pointless.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny

It's always pointless for me I'm in CA. but I do it anyway

Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2022 12:30 PM (bs+z0)

234 I don't know...the NRA is pretty busy at grifting to get taken over.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:27 PM (LvTSG)

The same NRA that endorsed Harry Reid ?

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 11, 2022 12:30 PM (CqUXU)

235 218 193 Eric Schmidt has one of the classiest signatures I've ever seen.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 11, 2022 12:27 PM (+nNfY)

Agreed. Flourishes while still being legible.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 11, 2022 12:29 PM (dNqv+)
_________________________

Yea . . . which means I don't trust him

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 11, 2022 12:31 PM (iFTx/)

236 "Who has the stomach for the work?"

No one. So wish-casting. Still, good to hear it laid out.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 11, 2022 12:31 PM (H8QX8)

237 I can imagine the horror those imbeciles faced as tried to decide which cause was more important, lol. Probably got some blowback from other wokenistas too.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 11, 2022 12:29 PM (3vQN0)

"Sweet Merciful Fuck, Margaret! There's two Current Things! THERE ARE TWO CURRENT THINGS! What in high holy hell are we gonna do? We can't afford another flagpole! Not in THIS economy! Maybe we could sell off a kid or something..."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2022 12:31 PM (/EuRN)

238 233 It's always pointless for me I'm in CA. but I do it anyway
Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2022 12:30 PM (bs+z0)

========

But your elections are so much more secure now that they're only vote by mail.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:31 PM (LvTSG)

239 FBI got what it wanted in Cincinnati, multiple shots fired at the building and are in pursuit of a suspect
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 11, 2022 12:08 PM (dKiJG)

Just a rogue stray bullet in the field office.
Posted by: Roy at August 11, 2022 12:10 PM (Phd8w)

FBI instructed him to just nick the building.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at August 11, 2022 12:31 PM (Hh3y4)

240 Aw, crap. Is it false flag season already? I still have my "Stand with Ukraine" decorations up. Where does the time go??

Posted by: Linn Ridge at August 11, 2022 12:18 PM (CloRl)

lol

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 11, 2022 12:32 PM (U3uv2)

241 204 He prolly wears nipple clips.

Posted by: Braenyard badgering his representative to exert his Oversight Authority on our Democrat oppressor at August 11, 2022 12:27 PM (X2vir)

The easier to hook up to car batteries, or what every gives him his willies.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:32 PM (ynpvh)

242 Posted by: Paul at August 11, 2022 12:16 PM (ttS0m)

You DICK!!!!
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at August 11, 2022 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)

That's a bit harsh. Frankly, it's amazing that a walrus could even type out a comment. Expecting critical thinking is just over the top.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 11, 2022 12:32 PM (uvymP)

243 This bikini brunette once had an encounter with an FBI agent when husband was getting his security clearance, and she is *still* trying to wash off the taint of their brief interaction:
https://is.gd/NObso2

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:32 PM (WWh8n)

244 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 11, 2022 12:32 PM (T4tVD)

245 231 222 But other posters have it- starve the Bureau on budget matters. Let it wither on the vine.
Posted by: DB at August 11, 2022 12:29 PM (geLO
---------------
We did that to Japan and finally said 'fuck it' and nuked them.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 11, 2022 12:32 PM (0chEi)

246 185 Trump sucked balls at hiring people. You will find nobody here that will argue the point
Posted by: Joe Xiden

=====================
I rarely address other commenters like this but frankly you are boring between your boasts of your personal virtue such as your Tesla and your endless ding donging about Trump's hiring even in threads where it is not pertinent. We get it, you do not like Trump and your figleaf denials are pointless. Don't see you worked up about Bush's disastrous policies, nor the Dems--only Trump. So, you are either a paid influencer, a disruptive troll, or someone who shouts louder instead of improving your argument.

Now a question, 'what exactly do you do here?' as a commenter.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2022 12:32 PM (CXr4y)

247 Yeah, Trump had a lot of authority to resolve this issue with the bureaucracy and did not.

He can't directly fire people...but he can assign them to do unpleasant things.

How many bureaucrats could be assigned to shovel snow in ANWR in the winter for example?

Or if you want to get more on point - send them to give each drug zombie in Philly a personal information session on the tax code.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 11, 2022 12:32 PM (ESjRY)

248 Paul has reminded me that I should be OUTRAAAAAAGED that Ace didn't properly vet Trump's lousy hiring decisions. Duly outraged. Now, about Paul's affinity for pederasty....

Posted by: Erik In Texas at August 11, 2022 12:32 PM (z0DEK)

249 You mean people are defaming the FBI.

I demand time for rebuttal....Or a gymnasts' butt. Either one suits.

Posted by: Dr. Larry Nasser at August 11, 2022 12:32 PM (cY9wR)

250 Eric Schmidt has one of the classiest signatures I've ever seen.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

Fancy sigs are a little narcissistic.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 11, 2022 12:32 PM (g1EEm)

251 213 Gateway pundit has the story.. Evidently the idiot tried to go into the FIB armed then ran away when confronted... Described as a white male of course and the police are in pursuit. He also made threats of sticking up for Trump... The media got their dream... Stupid fuck
Posted by: It's me donna
***
MSM said he started the attack off with a *nail gun*, then switched to an AR. WTF?? Are we really supposed to believe this? How stupid do they think we are? The only thing missing is a noose and a subway foot-long.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at August 11, 2022 12:32 PM (CloRl)

252 181
I'll meet you halfway: Local law enforcement withdraws support from the FBI AND our federally elected disband the FBI.
I, as a voter and politically aware person, am not budging on this one.
The FBI chose to act as the democrats' SS?
They can't be tolerated to exist.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 11, 2022 12:32 PM (q3iUt)

253 208 I wanted to be head of the FBI but no one listened to me.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2022 12:27 PM (trdmm)

Your arms are too short.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2022 12:28 PM (/EuRN)

I could do it.

Posted by: Mr. Potatohead at August 11, 2022 12:33 PM (ynpvh)

254 211 Each state gets to renew their constitution and change laws. All progs will be deported without a hearing.
Posted by: North and South Korea Model at August 11, 2022 12:14 PM (9FBGz)

Via trebuchet.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 11, 2022 12:28 PM (uvymP)

Not helicopters?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:33 PM (ynpvh)

255 Admittedly, a GOP-majority Congress may not have the stomach for even the lightest pushback against the bureau.

They can't even manage to defund NPR despite its blatant abuse of its position and lack of purpose.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2022 12:33 PM (Ivdso)

256 Nuke from orbit

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 11, 2022 12:34 PM (2i0wv)

257 This whole scenario is a bunch of mental masturbation and nothing more. But if by some weird chance it results in the ejaculation of thousands of federal officers onto the streets, there just happens to be another agency looking for people willing to use guns on their countrymen and are looking for 87000 of them. No chance some of those agents won't end up there and looking for some payback and the folks that've done them wrong.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 11, 2022 12:34 PM (MFphb)

258
But your elections are so much more secure now that they're only vote by mail.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:31 PM (LvTSG)

Doesn't much matter... None of my candidates win

Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2022 12:34 PM (bs+z0)

259 213 Gateway pundit has the story.. Evidently the idiot tried to go into the FIB armed then ran away when confronted... Described as a white male of course and the police are in pursuit. He also made threats of sticking up for Trump... The media got their dream... Stupid fuck

Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2022 12:28 PM (bs+z0)

It might be a ::acho--false flag--acho::: real maga guy...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:34 PM (ynpvh)

260 Wait, Paul is Ace? I thought he was the Walrus ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 11, 2022 12:34 PM (PnkSq)

261 Not Die Hard?
Posted by: Special Agents Johnson (no relation) at August 11, 2022 12:26 PM (xttsV)
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No. "Die Hard" showed them as incompetent, idiotic, self-impressed weasels. This is often true, but the movie failed to also portray their sinister malice.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:27 PM (WWh8n)

Well it did show them planning to kill hostages rather than save them, which is on-brand for them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 11, 2022 12:35 PM (XvPQV)

262 Federalist article said same thing.

FBI is done as a National organization, it's a Deep State criminal organization

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 11, 2022 12:35 PM (NETOe)

263 59 FBI got what it wanted in Cincinnati, multiple shots fired at the building and are in pursuit of a suspect
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

I see it as, It's about time.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 11, 2022 12:35 PM (Qhnrt)

264 he attacked the building with a Nail Gun???? LOL!

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2022 12:35 PM (trdmm)

265 This bikini brunette once had an encounter with an FBI agent when husband was getting his security clearance, and she is *still* trying to wash off the taint of their brief interaction:
https://is.gd/NObso2

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:32 PM (WWh8n)

Wash off the taint? ISWYDT.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 11, 2022 12:35 PM (U3uv2)

266 This whole scenario is a bunch of mental masturbation and nothing more. But if by some weird chance it results in the ejaculation of thousands of federal officers onto the streets, there just happens to be another agency looking for people willing to use guns on their countrymen and are looking for 87000 of them. No chance some of those agents won't end up there and looking for some payback and the folks that've done them wrong.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 11, 2022 12:34 PM (MFphb)
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Which is why the entire LE and intelligence apparatuses need to be torn down. No more "all agencies have their own cops and shock troops and spies" crap.

And yes, it will never happen.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:35 PM (WWh8n)

267 Helicopters use fuel, got to save the planet.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 11, 2022 12:35 PM (2i0wv)

268 reminder, the fed devils (finally some new Rage lyrics that are applicable) are going to arrest every GOP running for office in early nov 2020. you know, problems with DC parking tickets or something.

Posted by: Doctor sockamster-Doom Speaker-EdD Intersectional Dynamics at August 11, 2022 12:35 PM (OuH7W)

269 Remember that video of those local cops arresting an ATF agent harassing a gun owner? You could do that with every agent you are aware of in your state.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 11, 2022 12:20 PM (ESjRY)

Think bigger. Include their families in the harassment. Make it clear that any retribution will fall on their families as well.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 11, 2022 12:36 PM (ITOsM)

270 260 Wait, Paul is Ace? I thought he was the Walrus ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 11, 2022 12:34 PM (PnkSq)

No, Gene was a bat, Paul was the star guy, Peter was a cat, and I forget what Ace was.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2022 12:36 PM (/EuRN)

271 256 Nuke from orbit
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 11, 2022 12:34 PM (2i0wv)

It is the only way to be sure

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 11, 2022 12:36 PM (XvPQV)

272 FBI got what it wanted in Cincinnati, multiple shots fired at the building and are in pursuit of a suspect
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

Isn't this the same city where the IRS office and Lois Lerner went after conservative groups?

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 11, 2022 12:36 PM (CqUXU)

273 >> This bikini brunette once had an encounter with an FBI agent when husband was getting his security clearance, and she is *still* trying to wash off the taint of their brief interaction:
https://is.gd/NObso2

I can think of a few ways to clean her taint.

Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2022 12:36 PM (9X0eP)

274 DJT accomplished so very much, in spite of every single media entity, every "law enforcement" agency, every "intelligence" agency, a lot of congress, back stabbers and treasonous cretins of every type being arrayed against him.
He even kept Hillary out of the White House.
Not enough for some people, I suppose...

Posted by: gourmand du jour, stocking up at August 11, 2022 12:36 PM (jTmQV)

275 260 Wait, Paul is Ace? I thought he was the Walrus ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 11, 2022 12:34 PM (PnkSq)

Obligatory: Coo-Coo-Ca-Choo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 11, 2022 12:36 PM (dNqv+)

276 243 This bikini brunette once had an encounter with an FBI agent when husband was getting his security clearance, and she is *still* trying to wash off the taint of their brief interaction:
https://is.gd/NObso2
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:32 PM (WWh8n)

Who will volunteer to wash off her taint?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at August 11, 2022 12:37 PM (eGTCV)

277 264 he attacked the building with a Nail Gun???? LOL!
Posted by: Tom Servo

According to FAUX "News"

Posted by: Linn Ridge at August 11, 2022 12:37 PM (CloRl)

278 275 Obligatory: Coo-Coo-Ca-Choo.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 11, 2022 12:36 PM (dNqv+)

=========

"It's poetry."
-Ed Driscoll, for the 20th time in a day

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:37 PM (LvTSG)

279 she is *still* trying to wash off the taint
Posted by: Joe Mannix

in which case she's facing the wrong way

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 11, 2022 12:37 PM (g1EEm)

280 Dismantle the FBI AND the IRS, otherwise all the jerks will go from one to the other, and regardless of the initials will still be thugs.

Posted by: ama at August 11, 2022 12:37 PM (ez10z)

281 233 225 Remember: voting is pointless.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny
It's always pointless for me I'm in CA. but I do it anyway
Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2022 12:30 PM (bs+z0)

Same here. Once my Dad went to the local county branch of the GOP where he lived. It was an old house with a dog leashed outside and nobody home. Sounds like most of the GOP...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:37 PM (ynpvh)

282 Yeah, you gotta salt that bitch.

The GOP will fight to put them in a timeout.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 11, 2022 12:37 PM (mZ3xv)

283 KJP saying Biden found out about the raid from the newspaper.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 12:21 PM (ZGrMX)

Did she add "and you can't prove he didn't, and even if you do we will deny it"?

Posted by: ... at August 11, 2022 12:37 PM (ejSoJ)

284 Either Stasi or KGB, take your pick. And forever, they are either explicitly or implicitly so, depending on the current Management.

Posted by: kraken at August 11, 2022 12:37 PM (pMhaO)

285 I forget what Ace was.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Ewok

Posted by: Linn Ridge at August 11, 2022 12:37 PM (CloRl)

286 They can't even manage to defund NPR despite its blatant abuse of its position and lack of purpose
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Who else would hire Fat Black Chick Reporters with an Attitude?

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 11, 2022 12:37 PM (0chEi)

287 I have a neighbor a couple of blocks away that was flying a Ukistani flag. In June the flag was replaced with the gay flag. For a week or so. And then the Uke flag was back up with the gay flag underneath. For a few days. Then the two flags were reversed.

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 12:37 PM (ZGrMX)

288 Joe M. I wasn't in any way predicting/alleging that federal level GOP would deliver anything. Impossible to say but seems highly improbable.

Just pushing back against yet another self-comforting wishcasting trend, which are so prevalent here, in this case that local/state was some kind of solution to the biggest problems.

The enormous, enormous opportunity cost (damage), economically, to every jurisdiction from federal idiocy will continue - and grow much worse, as the climate cult/grift continues to metastasize. Trade policy. Borders and immigration law. The coercion, via $, to push nutcase racist and nutcase other delusions and propaganda (how many "red" states of any consequence are able to/likely to cut off that $ flow?).

Posted by: rhomboid at August 11, 2022 12:37 PM (OTzUX)

289 238 233 It's always pointless for me I'm in CA. but I do it anyway
Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2022 12:30 PM (bs+z0)

========

But your elections are so much more secure now that they're only vote by mail.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:31 PM (LvTSG)

So secure, they'll even vote for you!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:38 PM (ynpvh)

290 Gateway pundit has the story.. Evidently the idiot tried to go into the FIB armed then ran away when confronted... Described as a white male of course and the police are in pursuit. He also made threats of sticking up for Trump... The media got their dream... Stupid fuck
Posted by: It's me donna
***
MSM said he started the attack off with a *nail gun*, then switched to an AR. WTF?? Are we really supposed to believe this? How stupid do they think we are? The only thing missing is a noose and a subway foot-long.
==
That's how they roll. That was a complete joke. But for a couple of days the news was like the HORROR. Then the leaks from the Chicago cops started coming. Pushed the whole Op into the dumpster and forced a prosecution of Juicy.

See how this plays out. Its Cincy. They have even less control there than they did in Chicago.

Posted by: Hmmmm at August 11, 2022 12:38 PM (nSW4G)

291 he attacked the building with a Nail Gun???? LOL!

--

He couldn't get his can of Silly String in his pocket.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 11, 2022 12:38 PM (sVtYq)

292 https://is.gd/NObso2

This has to be one of my favorites of yours Joe.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 11, 2022 12:38 PM (CqUXU)

293 Fancy sigs are a little narcissistic.

I think for modern politicians narcissism is part of the package.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - On my phone, identifiers may vary at August 11, 2022 12:38 PM (lqifK)

294 he attacked the building with a Nail Gun???? LOL!

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2022 12:35 PM (trdmm)

Loose siding.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at August 11, 2022 12:38 PM (wBpKf)

295 Well, some idiot had to go and take the bait. You had to know it was going to happen.

With ~80 million supporters, if even 1% of those are die hard supporters, and 1% of those are dumb enough to take the bait ... it was going to happen.

Oh well, get ready for re-education camps in the Garland Archipelago!

Posted by: Defenestratus at August 11, 2022 12:38 PM (7b+Fd)

296 Question.

Would you vote for the Gope if you knew they would fully fund them?

Question #2.

Do you think they will fully fund them?

Spoiler: after theater and threatening govt shutdown, they will fully fund them and every other federal agency.

Posted by: I guess I'll ask them at August 11, 2022 12:38 PM (9FBGz)

297 Beto O'Rourke explodes at heckler who laughs over critique of guns after Uvalde: ‘Funny to you motherf---er'

Posted by: DB at August 11, 2022 12:38 PM (geLO8)

298 MSM said he started the attack off with a *nail gun*, then switched to an AR. WTF?? Are we really supposed to believe this? How stupid do they think we are? The only thing missing is a noose and a subway foot-long.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at August 11, 2022 12:32 PM (CloRl)

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"I don't know about that dude, but my semi-auto "assault" nail gun has the chainsaw attachment and thing that goes up!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 11, 2022 12:39 PM (PnkSq)

299 OK.

So we can't limit terms.

But. We CAN limit the duration for which a pension is paid for a Federal Employess.

You get 10 years Max.

After that, your compensation doesn not grow. But your Tax Burden does.

Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2022 12:39 PM (9X0eP)

300 Good stuff. Arrest some of the field agents and throw them into a general population with sharpened shanks. Nothing would focus the mind more clearly than a few dead Gestapo agents. Also put field agents and their families under 24/7 surveillance, both for their protection and primarily for the protection of Missourians.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 11, 2022 12:39 PM (nMx88)

301 296 Spoiler: after theater and threatening govt shutdown, they will fully fund them and every other federal agency.
Posted by: I guess I'll ask them at August 11, 2022 12:38 PM (9FBGz)

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To be completely fair, I'm probably going to be voting 3rd party against Nancy Mace.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:39 PM (LvTSG)

302 Texas judge blocks release of Uvalde elementary school shooting records regarding state police response

A Texas judge ruled Wednesday that the Department of Public Safety can withhold records on its 91 officers' response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.

Posted by: DB at August 11, 2022 12:39 PM (geLO8)

303 And if you told the FBI to deliver subpoenas on Nancy Pelosi and her husband and son -- more on that later today -- they'd refuse, saying that would be "unprecedented" and "destabilizing."

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come 2023, it's going to be vital to our democracy to go through and leak all pelosi records

Posted by: Doctor sockamster-Doom Speaker-EdD Intersectional Dynamics at August 11, 2022 12:39 PM (OuH7W)

304 284 Either Stasi or KGB, take your pick. And forever, they are either explicitly or implicitly so, depending on the current Management.
Posted by: kraken at August 11, 2022 12:37 PM (pMhaO)

Oprichniki.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2022 12:39 PM (/EuRN)

305 243 This bikini brunette once had an encounter with an FBI agent when husband was getting his security clearance, and she is *still* trying to wash off the taint of their brief interaction:
https://is.gd/NObso2

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:32 PM (WWh8n)

I guess "wash off the taint" has more than one meaning when dealing with the FIB...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:39 PM (ynpvh)

306 >>he attacked the building with a Nail Gun???? LOL!

Go Hilti or Go Home!

Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2022 12:39 PM (9X0eP)

307 Every state in the union should react like that AG, without exception. It doesn't matter if they are left or right, whether they agree with the FBI's abuse of power or not. it's abuse of power, it's unconstitutional, and it's running roughshod over their state's rights and sovereignty guaranteed in the constitution.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2022 12:39 PM (Ivdso)

308 In case anyone gives a damn what I think (doubtful): I LIKE the discordant note being here. This is true of Moomoo, Joe or any others you could care to name. There is a difference between this and a troll of course (like Paul.)

1) It allows us to sharpen our knives (and arguments/mind) on someone other than each other.
2) They do not seem to take the slings and arrows personally. This is key.
3) It makes US better, in short.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 11, 2022 12:40 PM (dNqv+)

309 Beto O'Rourke explodes at heckler who laughs over critique of guns after Uvalde: ‘Funny to you motherf---er'

We need more mockery of Eric Adams' threat to send a bus of New Yorkers to Texas to campaign for Beto. I love to see the video if that happened though.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 12:40 PM (ZGrMX)

310 he attacked the building with a Nail Gun???? LOL!
Posted by: Tom Servo

He must have just watched The Equalizer.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 11, 2022 12:40 PM (CqUXU)

311 I'd like to see the sneer wiped off Cray's face.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at August 11, 2022 12:40 PM (eGTCV)

312 This bikini brunette once had an encounter with an FBI agent

And how did her feeling about having an encounter with a bikini? Cloth Fetish?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2022 12:40 PM (wvo9L)

313 "It's poetry."
-Ed Driscoll, for the 20th time in a day
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:37 PM (LvTSG)

No shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 11, 2022 12:40 PM (dNqv+)

314 A Texas judge ruled Wednesday that the Department of Public Safety can withhold records on its 91 officers' response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
_

Out: Hawaiian Judge
In: Texas Judge

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 11, 2022 12:41 PM (NhLwH)

315 Note to self: never use the word "taint" for its traditional meaning of "contamination."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:41 PM (WWh8n)

316 As a point of order, be careful using terms like "rules" or "policies".

It's absolutely black letter law, in the USC title 18 blah blah, with penalties proscribed usually involving huge fines, prison sentences, even the death penalty.

The Democrats are not shy about using the full force of phony baloney "investigations" and star courts to punish their political opponents for something they didn't do, how is it that the Republicans can't be bothered to go after the people who are abusing their positions, violating their oath of office, and derelict in their duty?

This is not complicated. It might not be easy, but that's their job. They wanted the job, and they tell everyone that will listen they are just that sort of indispensable uniquely qualified individual to do it.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 11, 2022 12:41 PM (Hg0ro)

317 Can we really count on local and state law enforcement agencies to keep on eye on angry parents at school board meeting? I think not.

Posted by: Ripley at August 11, 2022 12:41 PM (MxEKc)

318 313 "It's poetry."
-Ed Driscoll, for the 20th time in a day
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:37 PM (LvTSG)

No shit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 11, 2022 12:40 PM (dNqv+)

Keeping the "arse" in Ars Poetica.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2022 12:41 PM (/EuRN)

319 Sorry; "He" rather than "her" Wouldn't want to misgender the bikini's husband.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2022 12:41 PM (wvo9L)

320 @johncardillo

54m
We are barreling towards an unrecognizable nation run by unelected federal agency heads who will crush dissent and take everything you have via their heavily armed agents.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 11, 2022 12:28 PM (NpAcC)

The 2nd A hasn't been more important in quite some time.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 11, 2022 12:41 PM (Zz0t1)

321 177 So portraying local as key and just giving up on federal makes a tepid bumper sticker slogan but makes little sense in the current situation.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 11, 2022 12:22 PM (OTzUX)
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But in what respect do the national Republicans deliver different outcomes? There is only one that I can think of: pace. They're slower to act and thus the pace of degradation is reduced. They do not fix anything, nor do they prevent anything. Not in Washington.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:25 PM (WWh8n)

Democrats: SOCIALISM!
Republicans: S...O...C...I...A...L...I...S...M .

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 11, 2022 12:41 PM (jpLLS)

322 Nail guns can be very deadly, that's no joke. Very short range but dangerous.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2022 12:41 PM (Ivdso)

323 Oprichniki.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

gesundheidt !

Posted by: JT at August 11, 2022 12:42 PM (T4tVD)

324 09 Beto O'Rourke explodes at heckler who laughs over critique of guns after Uvalde: ‘Funny to you motherf---er'

We need more mockery of Eric Adams' threat to send a bus of New Yorkers to Texas to campaign for Beto. I love to see the video if that happened though.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 12:40 PM (ZGrMX)
We already have enough snakes in Texas.

Posted by: Eromero at August 11, 2022 12:42 PM (0OP+5)

325 I have to admit, I'm a fan of Schmidt...Hopefully he can do some good once he's sworn in as a Senator for my state.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 11, 2022 12:42 PM (YIVH2)

326 A GOP majority Congress could destroy the administrative state without Joe Biden's signature.

Regular budgetary order is a very powerful tool.

They will refuse to use it. Instead we will get Twitchy posts of Ted Cruz pwning some low-level federal lackey that can never get fired ever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:04 PM (LvTSG)

Exactly. People like Cruz are scared. Why?

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 11, 2022 12:42 PM (nMx88)

327 > >>he attacked the building with a Nail Gun???? LOL!

now I'm hearing Smoke On The Water

some stupid with a nail gun
nailed the place to the ground

Posted by: DB at August 11, 2022 12:42 PM (geLO8)

328 Texas judge blocks release of Uvalde elementary school shooting records regarding state police response

Meet Catherine

Catherine A. Mauzy is presiding Judge of the 419th District Court. Elected in 2018, Judge Catherine Mauzy is a progressive Democrat with a lifelong commitment to social justice.

Her nominal reason is to not "impede an ongoing investigation"

The tranny shooter is dead, and AFAIK they aren't looking for co-conspirators so this is pure CYA

Posted by: 18-1 at August 11, 2022 12:42 PM (ESjRY)

329 But in what respect do the national Republicans deliver different outcomes? There is only one that I can think of: pace. They're slower to act and thus the pace of degradation is reduced. They do not fix anything, nor do they prevent anything. Not in Washington.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) a
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That's because we let them get away with it. Our federal reps and senators are not that far out of reach. We are not persistant with them.

If we made it our goal to may our individual rep and senator miserable. - Local radio call in, letter writing campaign, facebook and other social media - Treat them the way they treat us - LIE, make gossip rumors that run like grass fire. All focused on them sucking tit and not working. Hearings isn't working it's theater.

Go tie those purse strings around some Dems nut sack.

They have the power they just aren't motivated.

Posted by: Braenyard badgering his representative to exert his Oversight Authority on our Democrat oppressor at August 11, 2022 12:42 PM (X2vir)

330 You misspelled 'Pinko Commie shitweasel.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 11, 2022 12:42 PM (dNqv+)

331 The congressmen should brick their phones like the FBI does.

Posted by: Ann at August 11, 2022 12:42 PM (/mUnG)

332 some stupid with a nail gun
nailed the place to the ground
___

lol

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 11, 2022 12:42 PM (0Z1GH)

333 MSM said he started the attack off with a *nail gun*, then switched to an AR. WTF?? Are we really supposed to believe this? How stupid do they think we are? The only thing missing is a noose and a subway foot-long.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at August 11, 2022 12:32 PM (CloRl)

72 Hour Rule: It was a Swingline stapler.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 11, 2022 12:42 PM (U3uv2)

334 So they get their false flag.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 11, 2022 12:42 PM (mZ3xv)

335 327 > >>he attacked the building with a Nail Gun???? LOL!

now I'm hearing Smoke On The Water

some stupid with a nail gun
nailed the place to the ground

Posted by: DB at August 11, 2022 12:42 PM (geLO

Hope he didn't chip a nail...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:43 PM (ynpvh)

336 Go Hilti or Go Home!

Posted by: garrett
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Assault nail guns with high capacity magazines are no joke. Do you know you can buy them everywhere without a background check? Furthermore, people can purchase large quantities of nails in fast loading hi capacity clips with absolutely no required safe storage laws. I can't even.

Only plain old hammers and single nails should be allowed with a background check. It is for the children.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2022 12:43 PM (CXr4y)

337 Eric Schmitt has been, and will be, a winner. He and Hawley, we are fortunate here.

Posted by: kraken at August 11, 2022 12:43 PM (pMhaO)

338 Texas judge blocks release of Uvalde elementary school shooting records regarding state police response

A Texas judge ruled Wednesday that the Department of Public Safety can withhold records on its 91 officers' response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.

Posted by: DB at August 11, 2022 12:39 PM (geLO

Who doesn't want the state pol records released? Remember, it was just an issue with the local police. Problems didn't go any higher than that. I was assured.

Posted by: ... at August 11, 2022 12:43 PM (ejSoJ)

339 >>He must have just watched The Equalizer.

I was thinking Lethal Weapon 2.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 11, 2022 12:43 PM (ZLI7S)

340 "Reform," is a fairy tale. Doesn't happen.

Posted by: davidt at August 11, 2022 12:43 PM (oTZbj)

341 72 Hour Rule: It was a Swingline stapler.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur
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The red one?? Those bastards!

Posted by: Linn Ridge at August 11, 2022 12:43 PM (CloRl)

342 FBI got what it wanted in Cincinnati, multiple shots fired at the building and are in pursuit of a suspect
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

Good idea, poorly executed.

Posted by: Roland THTG at August 11, 2022 12:43 PM (j40lz)

343 >>Nail guns can be very deadly, that's no joke. Very short range but dangerous.

We had an extremely dumb guy use a max charge Hilti on a first floor and he blew through and nailed an electrician right through the top of his boot.

Lotta screaming and bleeding was involved.

Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2022 12:43 PM (9X0eP)

344 334 So they get their false flag.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 11, 2022 12:42 PM (mZ3xv)

False flag hell, the whole damn ship is styrofoam.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2022 12:43 PM (/EuRN)

345 Note to self: never use the word "taint" for its traditional meaning of "contamination."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

I am reassessing whether I missed the whole meaning of "tainted love".

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 11, 2022 12:44 PM (g1EEm)

346 A lot of Trumps appointees were stellar, some were stinkers, the main bad "picks" were largely foisted on him and or straight up betrayed Trump.

Nobody on earth could have suspected Jeff Sessions was a double-agent, Mattis was a saboteur, Kelly was spy, etc.

Trump faced a panopticon of traitors and saboteurs all stabbing and pricking at him on an hourly basis.

He was able to get things done that no other President could, facing what he faced on sheer will power alone.

The man is a marvel.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 11, 2022 12:44 PM (+JKjx)

347 This bikini brunette once had an encounter with an FBI agent when husband was getting his security clearance, and she is *still* trying to wash off the taint of their brief interaction:
https://is.gd/NObso2

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:32 PM (WWh8n)

Wow wow wow................wow

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 11, 2022 12:44 PM (XvPQV)

348 344 334 So they get their false flag.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 11, 2022 12:42 PM (mZ3xv)

False flag hell, the whole damn ship is styrofoam.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2022 12:43 PM (/EuRN)

It floats! It's a witch!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:44 PM (ynpvh)

349 We already have enough snakes in Texas.

I thought you carried a side arm for snakes and such down there.

Her nominal reason is to not "impede an ongoing investigation"

That baffles me. how does it advance the cause of social justice to protect police officers who refused to do their duty and protect children???

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2022 12:44 PM (Ivdso)

350 No, Gene was a bat, Paul was the star guy, Peter was a cat, and I forget what Ace was.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2022 12:36 PM (/EuRN)

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Heh. Well-played.

/Wifey asks: "Wouldn't that be cool if that's who Ace is for reals?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 11, 2022 12:44 PM (PnkSq)

351 Whoa down now, lets let this play out over the next few years and see where it leads.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at August 11, 2022 12:44 PM (0M6X8)

352 345 Note to self: never use the word "taint" for its traditional meaning of "contamination."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

I am reassessing whether I missed the whole meaning of "tainted love".

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 11, 2022 12:44 PM (g1EEm)

LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:45 PM (ynpvh)

353 Didn't Wray and Garland whine about death threats yesterday?

Convenient

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 11, 2022 12:45 PM (mZ3xv)

354 72 Hour Rule: It was a Swingline stapler.

Posted by: Comrade flounder
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The Feebs took his good personal red swingline in a Jan 6 investigation subpoena. He used it to staple Stop the Steal flyers on telephone poles and public bulletin boards. The seizure by the Feebs drove the poor fellow mad.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2022 12:45 PM (CXr4y)

355 Eric Schmitt has been, and will be, a winner. He and Hawley, we are fortunate here.
Posted by: kraken
___

And the hub and I are fortunate that my g-babies live there and if things get really bad, it's our bugout place.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 11, 2022 12:45 PM (0Z1GH)

356 Assault nail guns with high capacity magazines are no joke. Do you know you can buy them everywhere without a background check? Furthermore, people can purchase large quantities of nails in fast loading hi capacity clips with absolutely no required safe storage laws. I can't even.

Only plain old hammers and single nails should be allowed with a background check. It is for the children.
==
My fellow citizens, it is time for common sense nail gun control!!!

Posted by: Chuck Schumer at August 11, 2022 12:45 PM (7aERQ)

357 Just before the attack, was he heard to shout in an Arnold voice, "It's Hammer Time!". Because that would have been cool.

Posted by: ... at August 11, 2022 12:45 PM (ejSoJ)

358 I am reassessing whether I missed the whole meaning of "tainted love".
Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 11, 2022 12:44 PM (g1EEm)
++++
*snort*

Your way is probably funnier!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:45 PM (WWh8n)

359 326 A GOP majority Congress could destroy the administrative state without Joe Biden's signature.

Regular budgetary order is a very powerful tool.

They will refuse to use it. Instead we will get Twitchy posts of Ted Cruz pwning some low-level federal lackey that can never get fired ever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:04 PM (LvTSG)

Exactly. People like Cruz are scared. Why?
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 11, 2022 12:42 PM (nMx8

Terminal List by Jack Carr is a really good read.

Posted by: Eromero at August 11, 2022 12:45 PM (0OP+5)

360 Whoa down now, lets let this play out over the next few years and see where it leads.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at August 11, 2022 12:44 PM (0M6X

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Lindsey Graham is gonna get to the bottom of this (SWIDT?) and hold hearings in 2032.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 11, 2022 12:45 PM (PnkSq)

361 343 >>Nail guns can be very deadly, that's no joke. Very short range but dangerous.

We had an extremely dumb guy use a max charge Hilti on a first floor and he blew through and nailed an electrician right through the top of his boot.

Lotta screaming and bleeding was involved.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2022 12:43 PM (9X0eP)

Word.

Posted by: The Equalizer, featuring Denzel Washington at August 11, 2022 12:45 PM (jpLLS)

362 Dual wielding a nail gun and an AR is pretty wild.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 12:46 PM (zm+d5)

363 Didn't Wray and Garland whine about death threats yesterday?

Convenient
Posted by: AlaBAMA
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Very.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 11, 2022 12:46 PM (0Z1GH)

364 355 Eric Schmitt has been, and will be, a winner. He and Hawley, we are fortunate here.
Posted by: kraken
___

And the hub and I are fortunate that my g-babies live there and if things get really bad, it's our bugout place.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 11, 2022 12:45 PM (0Z1GH)

Will welcome you with open arms!!!!!

Posted by: kraken at August 11, 2022 12:46 PM (pMhaO)

365 I have said numerous times the FBI has taken down 2 Republicans Presidents, they worked against DJT since efore he took office in conjunction with Hildabeast

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 11, 2022 12:46 PM (NETOe)

366 Dual wielding a nail gun and an AR is pretty wild.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 12:46 PM (zm+d5)
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It sounds like something out of Mad Max, honestly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:46 PM (WWh8n)

367 353 Didn't Wray and Garland whine about death threats yesterday?

Convenient

Posted by: AlaBAMA
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Technique has been used by authorities since antiquity--
for example, Who will rid me of that meddlesome priest? -Plausible deniability was not just invented yesterday.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2022 12:47 PM (CXr4y)

368 At least the ammo is more affordable.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2022 12:47 PM (/EuRN)

369 We had an extremely dumb guy use a max charge Hilti on a first floor and he blew through and nailed an electrician right through the top of his boot.
_

Ouch.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 11, 2022 12:47 PM (0Z1GH)

370 366 Dual wielding a nail gun and an AR is pretty wild.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 12:46 PM (zm+d5)
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It sounds like something out of Mad Max, honestly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2022 12:46 PM (WWh8n)

Was he sportin' a mohawk and lots of leather?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:47 PM (ynpvh)

371 353 Didn't Wray and Garland whine about death threats yesterday?

Convenient
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 11, 2022 12:45 PM (mZ3xv)

Almost like it was planned...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 11, 2022 12:47 PM (XvPQV)

372 336 Assault nail guns with high capacity magazines are no joke. Do you know you can buy them everywhere without a background check? Furthermore, people can purchase large quantities of nails in fast loading hi capacity clips with absolutely no required safe storage laws.

*takes notes*

Posted by: alec baldwin at August 11, 2022 12:47 PM (sGtp+)

373 It floats! It's a witch!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Or a duck. Or a small rock.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at August 11, 2022 12:47 PM (CloRl)

374 353 Didn't Wray and Garland whine about death threats yesterday?

Convenient
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 11, 2022 12:45 PM (mZ3xv)

==========

Random Internet person: "Drop dead."
-Death threat

Identifiable, famous person connected to leftist power center: "I'm going to find you and kill you."
-Vigorous debate

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:47 PM (LvTSG)

375 Dual wielding a nail gun and an AR is pretty wild.
Posted by: Ian S.

Sucks when it comes time to reload. Unless you have a third arm.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 11, 2022 12:48 PM (Am657)

376 Nobody was fired over what happened to Richard Jewell, Those agents tried to trick him into signing his rights away by saying it was a training video.

Randy Weaver, Nothing

Anthrax, they went after some Dr that was innocent and he was fired from his job kept hounding him and any knew employer until he sued to leave him alone and the FBI found a new sucker that they hounded until he killed himself, they have yet to say how and where he made the anthrax they just said yep it was him

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 11, 2022 12:48 PM (dKiJG)

377 I'm not gay, but I'm a little "Schmidt-curious"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 11, 2022 12:48 PM (YIVH2)

378 Trump can destroy any department on day 1.
--
Create a shadow cabinet.
Trump is the head of every agency, the Senate approved head has delegated authority. But nothing stops him from running the agency directly.

Remember the how he refused to spend any of the allocation for the CBFP?

Another trick is to declare the agency is under an emergency and deny all vacation requests.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 11, 2022 12:48 PM (Zf0+a)

379 Welp. My FBI agent great uncle is long, long dead.
So I won't be crying if someone actually does start zippering those Gestapo fucks up body bags.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 11, 2022 12:48 PM (XvPQV)

380 Anyone reading this post or the cited article are obviously domestic terrorist and subject to 2 AM No Knock raids and put in prison without being charged.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 11, 2022 12:48 PM (u4CEu)

381 Sure, back in the Reagan years, these guys were all right-wing Republicans, but that era is LONG gone.
Posted by: Blago at August 11, 2022 12:24 PM (PwNLq)

IINM, Bush the Elder was once head of the CIA. They were never right-wing anything.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 11, 2022 12:48 PM (uvymP)

382 They will refuse to use it. Instead we will get Twitchy posts of Ted Cruz pwning some low-level federal lackey that can never get fired ever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:04 PM (LvTSG)

Exactly. People like Cruz are scared. Why?
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 11, 2022 12:42 PM (nMx8

You may not agree with him on certain things but Cruz is anything but scared. I don't know how many times he has to offer / push unpopular legislation or filibuster or take stand against sacred subsidies or vote against electoral certification before you realize he is going to do what he thinks is right. You and I may disagree with some of those positions but he has his reasoning which he always shares.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 11, 2022 12:49 PM (CqUXU)

383 " soon to be Missouri's based Senator, no thanks to Trump "

screams

wets pants

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 11, 2022 12:49 PM (5Qjf9)

384 314 A Texas judge ruled Wednesday that the Department of Public Safety can withhold records on its 91 officers' response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
_

Out: Hawaiian Judge
In: Texas Judge
Posted by: SMH
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Yeah, in the videos they were doing as good of a job standing around as the rest of the cops.
.
leading from behind

Posted by: Braenyard badgering his representative to exert his Oversight Authority on our Democrat oppressor at August 11, 2022 12:49 PM (X2vir)

385 Will welcome you with open arms!!!!!
Posted by: kraken
___

Oh, I know.

The girls have a neighbor who's a MO State Trooper. He's a former Ranger and he's always asking us when we're getting out of IL.
If only it was that easy...

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 11, 2022 12:49 PM (0Z1GH)

386 Well, some idiot had to go and take the bait. You had to know it was going to happen.

With ~80 million supporters, if even 1% of those are die hard supporters, and 1% of those are dumb enough to take the bait ... it was going to happen.

Oh well, get ready for re-education camps in the Garland Archipelago!
Posted by: Defenestratus at August 11, 2022 12:38 PM (7b+Fd)

Applaud the man. Stop backing away from everyone who 'snaps". Be like the democrats and say there's going to be more and worse because the people can only take so much abuse. Threaten long hot summers, or winters, or whatever. Dancing away is just another "that's not who we are" maneuver, and lets TPTB know we're all still on the plantation.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 11, 2022 12:49 PM (MFphb)

387 A nail out of a nail gun has horrible ballistics

Ask me how I know

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 11, 2022 12:49 PM (NETOe)

388 Yet another AOSHQ wishcast fantasy that reflects lack of familiarity with reality - Trump didn't - and won't if he has a second chance - have a pool from which to pick "good" appointees, in many areas. The "swamp" encompasses about 90% of the people with any background in many areas. And there's just the general degradation of the civic culture, part of which means that even the least unsuitable candidates are *still* not nearly as disruptive and fresh-start in their outlook as a true outsider like Trump.

And there was (and will still be) the GOP chokehold on the pipeline, via Senate confirmation. Which didn't only present a barrier, in some cases, to better choices, but also enabled many of the most damaging attacks and entanglements, like having the ridiculous situation of an AG who had (ridiculously) recused himself from a "matter" that was entirely fictitious and was used as a club to weaken a president for years on end. But firing him would have only given ammo to the GOP/Dem/Beltway adversaries.

The implicit assertion that there is a ready pool of Pompeos, or guys like the trade/econ team, just sitting waiting for nomination is silly. There isn't.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 11, 2022 12:49 PM (OTzUX)

389 381 IINM, Bush the Elder was once head of the CIA. They were never right-wing anything.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 11, 2022 12:48 PM (uvymP)

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Skull and Bones at Yale wasn't all about limited government and open records?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:49 PM (LvTSG)

390 361 343 >>Nail guns can be very deadly, that's no joke. Very short range but dangerous.
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Yeah but so are saws, so are jackhammers, so is dealing with high voltage electrical circuits, and so on.

Like firearms, it is not the tool that is dangerous per se it is the user.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2022 12:49 PM (CXr4y)

391 375 Dual wielding a nail gun and an AR is pretty wild.
Posted by: Ian S.

Sucks when it comes time to reload. Unless you have a third arm.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 11, 2022 12:48 PM (Am657)

Tars Tarkas loadout.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 11, 2022 12:49 PM (dNqv+)

392 Dual wielding a nail gun and an AR is pretty wild.

I think I did that in Quake

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2022 12:49 PM (Ivdso)

393 Dual wielding a nail gun and an AR is pretty wild.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 12:46 PM (zm+d5)

I am here to frame an addition and kick ass, and I'm all out of collated nails.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 11, 2022 12:50 PM (U3uv2)

394 Now a question, 'what exactly do you do here?' as a commenter.
Posted by: whig at August 11, 2022 12:32 PM

Constantly promote Electric Vehicles to this group of commenters who 1) have paid off cars; 2) have trucks that they use as trucks; 3) recognize that the grid simply can't handle the extra usage; 4) understand that the battery fires from EVs are more dangerous than ICE gas fires and that ICE cars don't spontaneously combust like EVs ?

Posted by: Electric Vehicle Guy at August 11, 2022 12:50 PM (xttsV)

395 I just can't tolerate this climate of hatred and violence ushered in by this fake president and his racist policies.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2022 12:50 PM (/EuRN)

396 353 Didn't Wray and Garland whine about death threats yesterday?

Convenient
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 11, 2022 12:45 PM (mZ3xv)

Wait wait wait - aren't they the police? If they get a threat, they can just investigate it themselves. No need to tell anyone about it until they catch the perp.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 11, 2022 12:50 PM (jpLLS)

397 Clearly nail gun strips should be limited to 10 nails. Why would you ever need more than that?

Posted by: Ripley at August 11, 2022 12:51 PM (MxEKc)

398 388 Yet another AOSHQ wishcast fantasy that reflects lack of familiarity with reality - Trump didn't - and won't if he has a second chance - have a pool from which to pick "good" appointees, in many areas. The "swamp" encompasses about 90% of the people with any background in many areas.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 11, 2022 12:49 PM (OTzUX)

A good reason to choose "outside the box".

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:51 PM (ynpvh)

399 Paul is the FBI's pipe bomber IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 11, 2022 12:51 PM (sWM8x)

400 A guy with a nail gun almost shot me in the inseam.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 11, 2022 12:52 PM (eGTCV)

401 Finish (Nail) Him

Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2022 12:52 PM (9X0eP)

402 Clearly nail gun strips should be limited to 10 nails. Why would you ever need more than that?

*Guatemalan working on a roof in 107 degree weather swears in Spanish for twenty straight minutes*

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2022 12:52 PM (Ivdso)

403 397 Clearly nail gun strips should be limited to 10 nails. Why would you ever need more than that?

Posted by: Ripley at August 11, 2022 12:51 PM (MxEKc)

Nailing anything is assault!

Posted by: feminists at August 11, 2022 12:52 PM (ynpvh)

404 >>>We had an extremely dumb guy use a max charge Hilti on a first floor and he blew through and nailed an electrician right through the top of his boot.

I bounced a framing nailer off the concrete form I was trying to nail up and skipped a nail off the corner of the form right through my gloved index finger holding the frame together.

Won't be doing that again.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 11, 2022 12:52 PM (U3uv2)

405 Paul is the FBI's pipe bomber IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 11, 2022 12:51 PM (sWM8x)

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Ah, the old banana-in-the-tailpipe trick, eh?

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 11, 2022 12:52 PM (PnkSq)

406 Nail guns? I'm guessing that's not as fun as it sounds?

Sorry...I know nothing about hardware. Well...woodworking hardware.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at August 11, 2022 12:53 PM (ESjRY)

407 Nailing anything is assault!
Posted by: feminists at August 11, 2022 12:52 PM (ynpvh)

NIB is always rape, OK????

(*nail-in-board)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2022 12:53 PM (/EuRN)

408 4) understand that the battery fires from EVs are more dangerous than ICE gas fires and that ICE cars don't spontaneously combust like EVs ?

Ford, GM, and Hyundai have all had recent-ish recalls for spontaneously combusting ICE cars. Usually due to electrical misdesigns. (Chrysler's well-known electrical problems usually just manifest as things not working).

Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 12:53 PM (zm+d5)

409 OT: this is the coolest looking space suit I have ever seen.

https://tinyurl.com/n482k3c5

It has IT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 11, 2022 12:53 PM (dNqv+)

410 When all you've got is a nail gun then everything is a target.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 11, 2022 12:53 PM (AiZBA)

411 The implicit assertion that there is a ready pool of Pompeos, or guys like the trade/econ team, just sitting waiting for nomination is silly. There isn't.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 11, 2022 12:49 PM (OTzU

I agree but a number his worst picks were personal picks.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 11, 2022 12:53 PM (CqUXU)

412 400 A guy with a nail gun almost shot me in the inseam.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 11, 2022 12:52 PM (eGTCV)

That could be a big problem ...

Posted by: The Paolo at August 11, 2022 12:53 PM (5Qjf9)

413 About time for a spectacular drug bust or kiddy porn fall guy to prove how necessary the effbeeeye is

Posted by: A dude in MI at August 11, 2022 12:54 PM (/6GbT)

414 "
And there was (and will still be) the GOP chokehold on the pipeline, via Senate confirmation. Which didn't only present a barrier, in some cases, to better choices, but also enabled many of the most damaging attacks and entanglements, like having the ridiculous situation of an AG who had (ridiculously) recused himself from a "matter" that was entirely fictitious and was used as a club to weaken a president for years on end. But firing him would have only given ammo to the GOP/Dem/Beltway adversaries"

If the Republicans, primarily but not exclusively in the Senate, were anything other than controlled opposition, civil war would break out.

It is time for an actual opposition/dissolution party because the "United States" like "Biden" is a fantasy now.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 11, 2022 12:54 PM (nMx88)

415 They have even less control there than they did in Chicago.
Posted by: Hmmmm
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It's that 'chili' that they eat.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2022 12:54 PM (nDCOZ)

416 349 We already have enough snakes in Texas.

I thought you carried a side arm for snakes and such down there.

Her nominal reason is to not "impede an ongoing investigation"

That baffles me. how does it advance the cause of social justice to protect police officers who refused to do their duty and protect children???
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2022 12:44 PM (Ivdso)
You can be sure I am 100% in favor of airing out the Uvalde attack and law enforcement response. Personally, I think it could have been stopped right next to the truck in the ditch. But maybe that's just me. By the way, I was actually talking about a busload of New Yorkers.

Posted by: Eromero at August 11, 2022 12:54 PM (0OP+5)

417 Trump didn't - and won't if he has a second chance - have a pool from which to pick "good" appointees, in many areas.

Oh he could do much better in a second term. Don't pick from the pool. Pick from outside it like he did with DeVos and others. For example, need a good DA? Look at someone like this Schmitt guy out of Missouri. You look outside the usual suspects who are listed for promotion.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2022 12:54 PM (Ivdso)

418 Good article

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 11, 2022 12:54 PM (XnLze)

419 404 >>>We had an extremely dumb guy use a max charge Hilti on a first floor and he blew through and nailed an electrician right through the top of his boot.

I bounced a framing nailer off the concrete form I was trying to nail up and skipped a nail off the corner of the form right through my gloved index finger holding the frame together.

Won't be doing that again.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 11, 2022 12:52 PM (U3uv2)

I did the organic version of that...date palm fronds have thorns near the base of the frond. I was wearing heavy welding gloves, still managed to get one stuck into the glove, through my finger, and partly through the other side. Luckingly, once I was able to get it out with a pair of pliers, pulled out clean and never got infected.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:55 PM (ynpvh)

420 If I had a nail gun, I'd nail in the morning, I'd nail in the evening, all over this land!

Posted by: davidt at August 11, 2022 12:55 PM (oTZbj)

421 he attacked the building with a Nail Gun???? LOL!
Posted by: Tom Servo

MacGyver woulda made it work!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 11, 2022 12:55 PM (906pl)

422

This damn job sure gets in the way of my internet surfing...

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at August 11, 2022 12:55 PM (ub2FJ)

423 You may not agree with him on certain things but Cruz is anything but scared. I don't know how many times he has to offer / push unpopular legislation or filibuster or take stand against sacred subsidies or vote against electoral certification before you realize he is going to do what he thinks is right. You and I may disagree with some of those positions but he has his reasoning which he always shares.

Posted by: Kilroy
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Riddle me this Kilroy. Why did Cruz not call for a recess which is a privileged motion at any time during the 4 years of the DJT presidency? Why does he not object to unanimous consent which is required for all these bills passed by the Dems or McConnell's latest abortion of an omnibus bill when the GOP held Congress.

Can you point to a single piece of legislation that Cruz has successfully passed that makes a difference in the the US?

I don't hate the man but he is simply another face in the GOP Senate failure theater where mean words, pointless filibusters, and snappy Tweets are substituted for action. The Senate GOP members make House GOP members action heroes by comparison and that is a sick joke itself.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2022 12:55 PM (CXr4y)

424 You look outside the usual suspects who are listed for promotion.

Yup. There are millions of competent, not-corrupt Americans. Its just they're not in DC.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 12:55 PM (zm+d5)

425 410 When all you've got is a nail gun then everything is a target.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 11, 2022 12:53 PM (AiZBA)
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Everything is a hammer if you use it wrong enough.

Posted by: Weasel at August 11, 2022 12:56 PM (jhPQx)

426 As convenient as they are. I try to only use nail guns to fill in when doing sheathing or siding.
Sure they are fast.

But they are a shitty way of doing construction.

Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2022 12:56 PM (9X0eP)

427 353 Didn't Wray and Garland whine about death threats yesterday?
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And corporate media are now saying people who criticize the FBI are Q-Anon violent extremist types.

Subtlety is completely foreign to these commie dickheads.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 11, 2022 12:56 PM (sWM8x)

428 The implicit assertion that there is a ready pool of Pompeos, or guys like the trade/econ team, just sitting waiting for nomination is silly. There isn't.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 11, 2022 12:49 PM (OTzUX)

And DeathSantis, as wonderful as he has been so far, has shown no indication (oh, and can't possibly show an indication, as he's the current FL Gov) that he can do any better.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 11, 2022 12:56 PM (jpLLS)

429 MacGyver woulda made it work!

The reboot MacGyver would've cried about his feelings and then sang gay love songs to Dr. Fauci. (Yes, that actually happened).

Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 12:57 PM (zm+d5)

430 412 400 A guy with a nail gun almost shot me in the inseam.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 11, 2022 12:52 PM (eGTCV)

That could be a big problem ...

Posted by: The Paolo at August 11, 2022 12:53 PM (5Qjf9)

That's one way to get your first piercing...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:57 PM (ynpvh)

431 I have only two questions for the FBI:
What kind of underwear does Melania wear?
Do I need a FOIA?

Posted by: wth at August 11, 2022 12:57 PM (v0R5T)

432 The break up of the Democrat Stasi will never happen of course. The entire Federal Government is built on interlocking corruption. The FBI/CIA/NSA has incriminating evidence on every high and middle ranking politician in the House and Senate. And the media as well. You are not allowed to operate in DC/Uniparty/Media complex unless They have compromising material on you. That's what Epstein was for. He was a CIA asset. There are many others. It's all Scientology on super steroids. On the off-chance an actual honest person with real integrity gets into office at some point it gets explained to him/her the nature of The Game - submit to corruption and allow yourself to be compromised to be able to stay and your star will be allowed to rise. See Dan Crenshaw. Refuse and you will be starved of funds and support you will be kicked out of DC. See Allen West.

We are ruled by Evil People. Top to bottom. Stem to stern.

Posted by: TheMitch at August 11, 2022 12:57 PM (cDITE)

433 4) understand that the battery fires from EVs are more dangerous than ICE gas fires and that ICE cars don't spontaneously combust like

In the Grand tour, show they wrecked a EV Supercar and it burned for 3 days,

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 11, 2022 12:57 PM (dKiJG)

434 401 Finish (Nail) Him
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2022 12:52 PM (9X0eP)

Brad...is that you?

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 11, 2022 12:57 PM (BgMrQ)

435 When all you have is a nail gun everything looks like a foot.

Posted by: Haywood at August 11, 2022 12:57 PM (d0DDY)

436 I want every Federal agency disarmed. Take the ammo and weapons and give them to local National Guards. If a Fed agency needs protection, they can call in the local police.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at August 11, 2022 12:57 PM (5HBd1)

437 421 he attacked the building with a Nail Gun???? LOL!
Posted by: Tom Servo

MacGyver woulda made it work!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 11, 2022 12:55 PM (906pl)

He forgot the duct tape

Posted by: MacGyver at August 11, 2022 12:58 PM (ynpvh)

438 The FBI trying to get elected officials to say something that could be construed as Lying to the FBI? They like that game.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 11, 2022 12:58 PM (BJKQV)

439 Cruz is the slime that slime leaves behind because it doesn't want you to think too bad of it.

Posted by: ... at August 11, 2022 12:58 PM (ejSoJ)

440 Oh he could do much better in a second term. Don't pick from the pool. Pick from outside it like he did with DeVos and others. For example, need a good DA? Look at someone like this Schmitt guy out of Missouri. You look outside the usual suspects who are listed for promotion.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2022 12:54 PM (Ivdso)

Senate shoots down a lot of those people, like the first pick for Secretary of State was the Carls Jr. guy iirc. DeVos isn't exactly an outsider, she's served in roles within the GOP for a fair bit.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 11, 2022 12:58 PM (b2nrj)

441 Holis in My Bloody Valentine took a nail gun to the head. It wasn't pretty. Lesson: don't get shot in the skull with a nail gun.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 11, 2022 12:58 PM (sVtYq)

442 That's one way to get your first piercing...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2022 12:57 PM (ynpvh)

Fortunately my stance was wide.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 11, 2022 12:58 PM (eGTCV)

443 As convenient as they are. I try to only use nail guns to fill in when doing sheathing or siding.

Any time I hear someone putting on a new roof in the neighborhood, its all hammers.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2022 12:58 PM (Ivdso)

444 Leave me alone, I'm on vacay with Dad.
*snort*snif*

Posted by: Hunter Biden, Artiste at August 11, 2022 12:58 PM (v0R5T)

445 413 About time for a spectacular drug bust or kiddy porn fall guy to prove how necessary the effbeeeye is
Posted by: A dude in MI at August 11, 2022 12:54 PM (/6GbT)

They had a chance with Larry Nassar. They blew that opportunity, bigly.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 11, 2022 12:59 PM (jpLLS)

446 310 he attacked the building with a Nail Gun???? LOL!
Posted by: Tom Servo

He must have just watched The Equalizer.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 11, 2022 12:40 PM (CqUXU)

Lethal Weapon. The first one I think, but who can tell one from another?

Posted by: Gref at August 11, 2022 12:59 PM (AMIL/)

447 61
There is another solution. Individual budget and appropriations bills by departments.

DOD gets 90% of 2020 levels.
DOEd gets 5% of 1990 levels.
DOJ gets 1% of 1830 levels.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:11 PM (LvTSG)
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Oooh I like this plan.
For thee DOD I would deduct all money and goods sent to Ukraine considering a lot of that stuff was sold on the sly.

Posted by: Ciampino - also scrutinize end of budget year porchases at August 11, 2022 12:59 PM (qfLjt)

448 I've noticed a lot of people get sentenced in obvious false flag ops, never to be heard from again. Remember that mad bomber, where they found his van covered in stickers of some sort that held up to FL sun? Never heard anything more. No media checking in for an interview, no nothing. "Why, he's in super max and the only visitor on the list is his attorney". Guy's probably managing a crossroads gas station in Idaho, collecting his DOJ pension.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 11, 2022 12:59 PM (lz5hY)

449 When most GOP officials tall about the FBI they sound like a hostage video.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 11, 2022 12:59 PM (BJKQV)

450 424 You look outside the usual suspects who are listed for promotion.

Yup. There are millions of competent, not-corrupt Americans. Its just they're not in DC.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 12:55 PM (zm+d5)

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Like Rex Tillerson?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:59 PM (LvTSG)

451 They have even less control there than they did in Chicago.
Posted by: Hmmmm
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It's that 'chili' that they eat.
==
Mr. Red is a hardcore a-hole. Its the handlebar moustache.

Posted by: here we go at August 11, 2022 12:59 PM (NhZdC)

452 Yup. There are millions of competent, not-corrupt Americans. Its just they're not in DC.

Posted by: Ian S.
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Remember Andy Pudzer and his abortive nomination? The Senate will use their FBI colleagues to pore a microscope over your butt and previous life. Your divorces with sealed records become opened, past employees from years ago will come out and allege you are a sexual harasser, and so on. Then, there is the intrusive security clearance forms you have to fill out about almost every embarrassing action you may have done over the years (which were conveniently leaked to China btw in the past to give plausible deniability for the Kalorama crowd to keep them.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2022 12:59 PM (CXr4y)

453 Senate shoots down a lot of those people, like the first pick for Secretary of State was the Carls Jr. guy iirc.

Doesn't matter, there are always more to offer if they don't like the first one. Trump faced an incredibly hostile Senate that wanted him out of office or dead at the first opportunity -- both parties -- but I'm not sure they'd be that set or determined if somehow by an act of God Trump won a second term.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2022 12:59 PM (Ivdso)

454 444 Leave me alone, I'm on vacay with Dad.
*snort*snif*

Posted by: Hunter Biden, Artiste at August 11, 2022 12:58 PM (v0R5T)

Hunter: "Snort"
Joe: "Sniff"

Posted by: jim (in California) at August 11, 2022 12:59 PM (ynpvh)

455 Wait until the public learns about ramsets. Soon, they will require registration.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2022 12:59 PM (4akfh)

456 Because I'm sure the Republic would have been saved if only Trump had hired a solid controls engineer.

Oh hell yeah!

Posted by: Bosk at August 11, 2022 12:59 PM (v4L7Y)

457 >>Any time I hear someone putting on a new roof in the neighborhood, its all hammers.

As it should be. A lot harder to make simple mistakes when you aren't blasting away with a pneumatic nailer.

Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2022 12:59 PM (9X0eP)

458 WE MUST DISMANTLE THE FBI!

It's only a model.

Posted by: I Like To Push The Pram Alot at August 11, 2022 01:00 PM (iC0UR)

459 Lethal Weapon. The first one I think, but who can tell one from another?

LW2, and I think that was a staple gun rather than a nail gun.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 01:00 PM (zm+d5)

460 -------

Lindsey Graham is gonna get to the bottom of this (SWIDT?) and hold hearings in 2032.
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard
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One thing about it, Lindsey knows the bottom when he sees it.

Posted by: Braenyard badgering his representative to exert his Oversight Authority on our Democrat oppressor at August 11, 2022 01:00 PM (X2vir)

461 428 And DeathSantis, as wonderful as he has been so far, has shown no indication (oh, and can't possibly show an indication, as he's the current FL Gov) that he can do any better.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 11, 2022 12:56 PM (jpLLS)

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He'll get rock-ribbed conservatives on his cabinet through McConnell because...hand waves.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 01:00 PM (LvTSG)

462 413 About time for a spectacular drug bust or kiddy porn fall guy to prove how necessary the effbeeeye is
Posted by: A dude in MI at August 11, 2022 12:54 PM (/6GbT)
_________________________

FBI would never bust one of their own

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 11, 2022 01:00 PM (iFTx/)

463 460 -------

Lindsey Graham is gonna get to the bottom of this (SWIDT?) and hold hearings in 2032.
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard
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One thing about it, Lindsey knows the bottom when he sees it.

Posted by: Braenyard badgering his representative to exert his Oversight Authority on our Democrat oppressor at August 11, 2022 01:00 PM (X2vir)

He also knows how to take the shaft

Posted by: jim (in California) at August 11, 2022 01:00 PM (ynpvh)

464 I think the only Chili you can get in Chicago is at Wendy's, its Cincinnati that has that ghastly abortion they call chili.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2022 01:00 PM (Ivdso)

465 Brad...is that you?
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 11, 2022 12:57 P

Well played.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 11, 2022 01:00 PM (W/9Bb)

466 Is lying to law enforcement officials a crime in all cases or only if the FBI is involved?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 11, 2022 01:00 PM (eGTCV)

467 You look outside the usual suspects who are listed for promotion.

Yup. There are millions of competent, not-corrupt Americans. Its just they're not in DC.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 12:55 PM (zm+d5)

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These are the guys on Monday morning, that never would have called that play on the goal line yesterday, you know the one that didn't work.

Posted by: here we go at August 11, 2022 01:01 PM (XZ5Zv)

468 447 Oooh I like this plan.
For thee DOD I would deduct all money and goods sent to Ukraine considering a lot of that stuff was sold on the sly.
Posted by: Ciampino - also scrutinize end of budget year porchases at August 11, 2022 12:59 PM (qfLjt)

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And the plan doesn't require owning the presidency or SCOTUS.

Congress alone can make it happen.

They won't, but they have the power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 01:01 PM (LvTSG)

469 I voted for Schmitt, but this is why I was very ambivalent about it; I'm not convinced that he could do more good in the Senate than he can and is doing in his current job. Oh well, water under the bridge now.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 11, 2022 12:29 PM (bhRsz)

To my thinking, every good person in office prevents some bad person from holding that office. If that's the only benefit they provide then we may not be further ahead but neither are we further behind.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 11, 2022 01:01 PM (uvymP)

470 LW2, and I think that was a staple gun rather than a nail gun.

*groans*
"Don't remind me"
--Mickey Roarke in The Wrestler

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2022 01:01 PM (Ivdso)

471 That letter by Eric Schmidt? That is leadership. More of this from more governors. Governor DeSantis,???

Also Ace
The GOP is an authority-worshipping retarded leathergimp (which also requires transfusions of corporate money every two hours).

Pure poetry boss!

Posted by: FIB = KGB at August 11, 2022 01:01 PM (YTBIQ)

472 466 Is lying to law enforcement officials a crime in all cases or only if the FBI is involved?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 11, 2022 01:00 PM (eGTCV)

In court, from my understanding, it isn't perjury if it's not pertinent to the question being asked...

Posted by: jim (in California) at August 11, 2022 01:01 PM (ynpvh)

473 A totaled Tesla in a Sacramento area junkyard ignited after being there for weeks.
It took the FD putting the burning wreck in a hastily dug ditch and covering it in chemicals, where it still burned for 4 days.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, stocking up at August 11, 2022 01:02 PM (jTmQV)

474 In the Grand tour, show they wrecked a EV Supercar and it burned for 3 days,
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 11, 2022 12:57 PM (dKiJG)
........

That's a lot of carbon. The tires were the cleanest burning.

Posted by: wth at August 11, 2022 01:02 PM (v0R5T)

475 >>LW2, and I think that was a staple gun rather than a nail gun.

No, that was a nail gun thus Sgt Murtaugh's line "Nailed him" after he shot him with the nail gun.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 11, 2022 01:02 PM (ZLI7S)

476 365 I have said numerous times the FBI has taken down 2 Republicans Presidents, they worked against DJT since efore he took office in conjunction with Hildabeast
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Please note, both Nixon and Trump won by landslide numbers. This should tell you the FBI was always concieved as a fig leaf for the Bankers.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 11, 2022 01:02 PM (0chEi)

477 One thing about it, Lindsey knows the bottom when he sees it.

Posted by: Braenyard badgering his representative to exert his Oversight Authority on our Democrat oppressor at August 11, 2022 01:00 PM (X2vir)

"Nice elbow."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2022 01:02 PM (HVu7M)

478 The reboot MacGyver would've cried about his feelings and then sang gay love songs to Dr. Fauci. (Yes, that actually happened).

How's that differ from the old MacGyver? Dude was an asshole who always got himself embroiled in situations that called for guns, but decided he'd rather address the situation with chewing gum and a piece of copper wire. Dude had a near-mullet and was always dressed like he just got back from cruising truckstops. Screw him.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 11, 2022 01:02 PM (ppBhU)

479 The implicit assertion that there is a ready pool of Pompeos, or guys like the trade/econ team, just sitting waiting for nomination is silly. There isn't.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 11, 2022 12:49 PM (OTzUX)

There are people like Larry Johnson and Colonel Douglas MacGregor worth appointing to major positions, but what then? The whole point of the attack on Lt. General Flynn is that no one worthwhile can hope to work if the Stasi are constantly attacking them. Remove the threat hanging overhead- permanently- and then we can see some real work.

Don't get me wrong, Eric Schimdtt is a good cat, but he's not going to get anything major done as a Senator. That's why the modern Senate exists, and the Derp State would rather blow up Capitol Hill than lose control of it. If he wanted to show he was serious, use his power of state law to have the FBI agents breaking Missouri law investigated, if not arrested.

He's not going to do it, but that reinforces the point. Loca authorities think Congress can save them. Congress thinks power resides in the local authority. Without co-operation don't expect much. And that's before the Romney/ Murkowski axis.

Posted by: trev006 at August 11, 2022 01:02 PM (yJWaZ)

480 473 A totaled Tesla in a Sacramento area junkyard ignited after being there for weeks.
It took the FD putting the burning wreck in a hastily dug ditch and covering it in chemicals, where it still burned for 4 days.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, stocking up at August 11, 2022 01:02 PM (jTmQV)

See? Clean energy!

Posted by: jim (in California) at August 11, 2022 01:02 PM (ynpvh)

481 >>Any time I hear someone putting on a new roof in the neighborhood, its all hammers.

Don't be too sure about that. Six or more guys using nail guns can sound like two guys using hammers.

Posted by: Gref at August 11, 2022 01:02 PM (AMIL/)

482 384 314 A Texas judge ruled Wednesday that the Department of Public Safety can withhold records on its 91 officers' response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
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Who does the Texas Department of Public Safety report to? Oh yeah, Gov. Abbot. Go ahead guv, release the records.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 11, 2022 01:02 PM (fs1hN)

483 57 If we defenestrate the FBI who will pay QAnon?

Better yet, who will PLAY QAnon!?

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at August 11, 2022 01:02 PM (peWy1)

484 When most GOP officials tall about the FBI they sound like a hostage video.
Posted by: 29Victor
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A good characterization.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2022 01:03 PM (4akfh)

485 Sounds like suicide by feds in that fbi office shooting

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 11, 2022 01:03 PM (Irn0L)

486 Don't tell me the good guys at the FBI were going to cross state lines (STATE LINES!!!) to audit MO CCW permits!?

Posted by: 496 at August 11, 2022 01:03 PM (U1eOr)

487 LOLGF: Spain is mandating you can't have heat higher than 66 degrees or A/C colder than 80. Setting energy policy by Greta Thunberg has been amazing for Europe.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 01:03 PM (zm+d5)

488 Posted by: whig at August 11, 2022 12:55 PM (CXr4y)

You can look up all the legislation Cruz sponsored or co-sponsored. Funny how you guys say Trump's hands are tied when he doesn't do something or signs bad legislation but everyone else sucks because they can't just snap their fingers to get things done. Also the criticism of Cruz's tweets juxtaposed next to the praise for Trump's tweets is sadly hilarious.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 11, 2022 01:03 PM (CqUXU)

489 About time for a spectacular drug bust or kiddy porn fall guy to prove how necessary the effbeeeye is

Posted by: A dude in MI at August 11, 2022 12:54 PM (/6GbT)

They could get one of their own.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 11, 2022 01:03 PM (U3uv2)

490 its Cincinnati that has that ghastly abortion they call chili.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
==
You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity. Farewell.

Posted by: Mr. Red at August 11, 2022 01:03 PM (As1fQ)

491 487 LOLGF: Spain is mandating you can't have heat higher than 66 degrees or A/C colder than 80. Setting energy policy by Greta Thunberg has been amazing for Europe.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 01:03 PM (zm+d5)

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Think the King of Spain will have to live by these limits?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 01:03 PM (LvTSG)

492 484 When most GOP officials tall about the FBI they sound like a hostage video.
Posted by: 29Victor
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A good characterization.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2022 01:03 PM (4akfh)

But no eye blinking in Morse code.

Posted by: jim (in California) at August 11, 2022 01:04 PM (ynpvh)

493 Is the worm turning?

https://tinyurl.com/yckrwuk4

The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at Tavistock [England], the largest pediatric gender clinic in the world, will be sued by about 1,000 families of children who were allegedly rushed onto puberty blockers at the U.K.-based clinic, attorneys told The Times.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2022 01:04 PM (Ivdso)

494 Like Rex Tillerson?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
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.Tough Texan had something to do with gays in the boy scouts.

Posted by: Braenyard badgering his representative to exert his Oversight Authority on our Democrat oppressor at August 11, 2022 01:04 PM (X2vir)

495 *Guatemalan working on a roof in 107 degree weather swears in Spanish for twenty straight minutes*
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Those Latin American framers are impressive. Team two doors down framed an 8,000 sq ft mini-mansion in about 3 days.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 11, 2022 01:04 PM (g1EEm)

496 Nood.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at August 11, 2022 01:04 PM (CloRl)

497 Again...

The people you pick don't *just* have to have good character.

Someone with good character can be threatened and coerced. Almost everybody has a pressure point.

And in the end even those people will look like a "bad pick". Maybe when Your Guy goes through this, you will see it more clearly. For now the grass is greener and that's all. Trump has more fight and spine in him than 99.9% of our elected officials in the past 30 years *combined*.

Posted by: ... at August 11, 2022 01:04 PM (ejSoJ)

498 Hunter: "Snort"
Joe: "Sniff"
Posted by: jim (in California) at August 11, 2022 12:59 PM (ynpvh)
.........

They brought the grandkids?

Posted by: wth at August 11, 2022 01:05 PM (v0R5T)

499 Nude .... come on 'ettes you know you want teh Paolo

Posted by: The Paolo at August 11, 2022 01:05 PM (5Qjf9)

500 leathergimp?

What the fartclam is that?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 11, 2022 01:05 PM (MyP/f)

501 early nood

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 11, 2022 01:05 PM (yikp0)

502 450 424 You look outside the usual suspects who are listed for promotion.

Yup. There are millions of competent, not-corrupt Americans. Its just they're not in DC.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 12:55 PM (zm+d5)

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Like Rex Tillerson?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 11, 2022 12:59 PM (LvTSG)

I thought that Tillerson was an inspired pick, at the time. CEO of Exxon, knows all the Middle East players, managed a huge bureaucracy, etc. etc. I thought he was just the guy to clean out the stables at State.

That pick turned out to be almost a bigger disappointment to me than Sessions.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 11, 2022 01:05 PM (jpLLS)

503 I voted for Schmitt, but this is why I was very ambivalent about it; I'm not convinced that he could do more good in the Senate than he can and is doing in his current job. Oh well, water under the bridge now.

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Its a fair point, and I wish it was just as easy as the next guy coming into the AG's office holding the same opinion. But it is never that easy. But politicians are ambitious creatures. Perhaps Schmitt will create the path to power in Missouri that others will follow - because they have shown it works. That's the theory anyway.

Best of luck. I like our TX AG too.

Posted by: SH (Roe Overturned) at August 11, 2022 01:05 PM (sX1BW)

504 The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at Tavistock [England], the largest pediatric gender clinic in the world, will be sued by about 1,000 families of children who were allegedly rushed onto puberty blockers at the U.K.-based clinic, attorneys told The Times.

It turns out there *is* a use for lawyers!

Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2022 01:05 PM (zm+d5)

505 453 "Senate shoots down a lot of those people, like the first pick for Secretary of State was the Carls Jr. guy iirc."

Doesn't matter, there are always more to offer if they don't like the first one. Trump faced an incredibly hostile Senate that wanted him out of office or dead at the first opportunity -- both parties -- but I'm not sure they'd be that set or determined if somehow by an act of God Trump won a second term.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2022 12:59 PM (Ivdso)

Maybe they'll be laxer but the Senate was perfectly content to let most appointments remain empty and block any recess appointments. The highest ranking member of the permanent bureaucracy just runs the department instead.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 11, 2022 01:05 PM (b2nrj)

506 Kilroy wasn't here

Cruz is super dreamy, and i covered my notebooks with Ted for Prez doodles. His tweets are sooper smartz!

Posted by: Trump got elected President, Cruz Did Not - next question? at August 11, 2022 01:06 PM (C92GN)

507 483 57 If we defenestrate the FBI who will pay QAnon?

Better yet, who will PLAY QAnon!?
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at August 11, 2022 01:02 PM (peWy1)

Don't look at me...

(BgMrQ)

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 11, 2022 01:06 PM (BgMrQ)

508 Late to the party but in the interim, prior to abolishing the FBI can we at least get a law passed that forces all agents to speak with a German accent? For authenticity, of course.

Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at August 11, 2022 01:06 PM (eqk2H)

509 Yeah, old McGyver looked like a queer lot lizard.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 11, 2022 01:06 PM (W/9Bb)

510 > Any time I hear someone putting on a new roof in the neighborhood, its all hammers.

Several houses in my neighborhood got new roofs this summer. All nailguns.

It was annoying trying to work while hearing spu-DAP spu-DAP spu-DAP spu-DAP all day long.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 11, 2022 01:06 PM (kDGvA)

511
I thought that Tillerson was an inspired pick, at the time. CEO of Exxon, knows all the Middle East players, managed a huge bureaucracy, etc. etc. I thought he was just the guy to clean out the stables at State.

That pick turned out to be almost a bigger disappointment to me than Sessions.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 11, 2022 01:05 PM (jpLLS)

He went native and bought into the idea that the State department has any idea what they're doing, then started advocating State's silly ideas. Need more of an ideologue in that role.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 11, 2022 01:07 PM (b2nrj)

512 82

I recently had to replace my last ever Blackberry.....my hands are now cold and dead.....but it had a feature that if you typed the password in wrong 10 times, it would wipe the phone.

FIB shows up and asks for it: "Sure. I'll go get it." wiped.....

"Here ya go."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 11, 2022 12:14 PM (Zz0t1)
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Don't be so cocksure. Do you know how the data was wiped? Is it irrecoverable even by forensic experts? Remember Nixon's deleted tapes? yes, well a memory card or similar is easier to recover.

Posted by: Ciampino - data recovery is a business at August 11, 2022 01:07 PM (qfLjt)

513 Some stupid with a nail gun burned the place to the ground.

Posted by: Deep Purple at August 11, 2022 01:07 PM (63Dwl)

514 Lindsey Graham is gonna get to the bottom of this (SWIDT?) and hold hearings in 2032.
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard
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One thing about it, Lindsey knows the bottom when he sees it. Posted by: Braenyard

Please, the proper form of address is Sen. Miss Lindsey.

Posted by: Lost In Space at August 11, 2022 01:08 PM (FF+On)

515 Never got a CCW because it seemed like a gun registration scheme. If i wanted to carry a gun I did.

Posted by: Ron at August 11, 2022 01:08 PM (gKEN/)

516 Kilroy wasn't here

Cruz is super dreamy, and i covered my notebooks with Ted for Prez doodles. His tweets are sooper smartz!

Posted by: Trump got elected President, Cruz Did Not - next question? at August 11, 2022 01:06 PM (C92GN)

Says the Cultist.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 11, 2022 01:09 PM (CqUXU)

517 >>466 Is lying to law enforcement officials a crime in all cases or only if the FBI is involved?

You can't get caught in a lie if you don't talk to them to begin with.

Shut up; lawyer up.

Posted by: bed head at August 11, 2022 01:09 PM (Y1sOo)

518 Says the Cultist.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here
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Ha. Got cha. You aren't a Cruz guy. You are dem troll.

Posted by: Trump got elected President, Cruz Did Not - next question? at August 11, 2022 01:10 PM (7aERQ)

519 Republican congressmen could always hire Russian mercenaries as security in case the FBI shows up. I mean, if we’re gonna go banana republic do it all the way.

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at August 11, 2022 01:11 PM (nTVl/)

520 Ha. Got cha. You aren't a Cruz guy. You are dem troll.
Posted by: Trump got elected President, Cruz Did Not - next question? at August 11, 2022 01:10 PM (7aERQ)

And you're a Trump cultist.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 11, 2022 01:11 PM (CqUXU)

521 Is lying to law enforcement officials a crime in all cases or only if the FBI is involved?

Who, whom?

{I now have a macro for this Lenin quote, as it is applicable more and more these days}

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 11, 2022 01:12 PM (knzHR)

522 Everyone is a troll for five mins on the HQ.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 11, 2022 01:13 PM (dNqv+)

523 Anybody talking about the FBI False Flag at their Cincinnati field office this morning?

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at August 11, 2022 01:13 PM (EDVRd)

524 Ha. Got cha. You aren't a Cruz guy. You are dem troll.
Posted by: Trump got elected President, Cruz Did Not - next question? at August 11, 2022 01:10 PM (7aERQ)

And you're a Trump cultist.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here
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And not a denial.

So how much do you get paid for this? Or is this just what you do to stave off the boredom while waiting for your unemployment check?

Posted by: Trump got elected President, Cruz Did Not - next question? at August 11, 2022 01:13 PM (QIxeW)

525 You can look up all the legislation Cruz sponsored or co-sponsored. Funny how you guys say Trump's hands are tied when he doesn't do something or signs bad legislation but everyone else sucks because they can't just snap their fingers to get things done. Also the criticism of Cruz's tweets juxtaposed next to the praise for Trump's tweets is sadly hilarious.

Posted by: Kilroy
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As someone who worked on the Hill, do you know what a joke sponsoring pointless bills that never go anyway are?

Read up on Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn for how a real workhorse senator can apply steady pressure until he achieve something because he did the hard work in persuading colleagues to support him. There are similar senators that by single minded focus improved things here or there. By and large though, the Senate is where legislation goes to die that affects the bureaucracy.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2022 01:14 PM (CXr4y)

526 522 Everyone is a troll for five mins on the HQ.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 11, 2022 01:13 PM (dNqv+)

For some of us it's for 10 ins

Posted by: The Paolo at August 11, 2022 01:15 PM (5Qjf9)

527 Posted by: whig at August 11, 2022 01:14 PM (CXr4y)

Did you work on the Hill when Cruz was Senator?

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 11, 2022 01:16 PM (CqUXU)

528 Posted by: Trump got elected President, Cruz Did Not - next question? at August 11, 2022 01:06 PM (C92GN)

Says the Cultist.

Posted by: Kilroy
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Little clue, ad hominem attacks on other posters without evidence is a) a rookie move, or b) a typical bluster by a troll. Best to improve your argument via facts.

Posted by: whig at August 11, 2022 01:16 PM (CXr4y)

529 Little clue, ad hominem attacks on other posters without evidence is a) a rookie move, or b) a typical bluster by a troll. Best to improve your argument via facts.
Posted by: whig at August 11, 2022 01:16 PM (CXr4y)M

The guy called me a Dem troll. I've been here longer than you.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 11, 2022 01:19 PM (CqUXU)

530 It's been "evolving" for years and O&Joe's administration was a huge part of that evolution. For example, When the Bureau of Land Management seized the Bundy family’s cattle following a trespassing dispute and unpaid grazing fees. (The Intercept did a great follow-up, The Bizarre Story behind the FBI's Fake Documentary about the Bundy Family, May 2017)

It 'works' with the broad authority of many Congressional statutes, "serving" not only Federal agencies but also state agencies and the private sector, as may be appropriate.

As per FBI gov: The FBI is a national security organization that works closely with many partners around the country and across the globe to address the most serious security threats facing the nation. We are one of many federal agencies with law enforcement responsibilities.

Congress has enacted the laws, including the scope of operations, for the FBI and funds same. Congress also has auditing resources, hearings, etc. to know what is or isn't working within the executive branch.

The Federal workforce as a whole is quickly evolving. Again, it's Congress working in conjunction with the administration. The deep state just gets deeper.

Posted by: Lola at August 11, 2022 01:21 PM (NIYa7)

531 If someone worked as even so much as a janitor for the FBI then they need to be banned from all future federal employment.

That is the only way to make sure the worst, and most conniving offenders don't infect the new organization.

I have said for a while now that my vote goes to whoever promises to dismantle the FBI. We have seen enough. I don't want any investigations. I don't want any half measures. I want them all fired, and the buildings where their agency once stood turned into social justice homeless shelters so the ruling class can have the joy of the crime they ignored while persecuting their political enemies.

Posted by: Thatch at August 11, 2022 01:22 PM (qWceQ)

532 CLAIM: The federal judge who authorized the raid on Mar-a-Lago was appointed by then-President Donald Trump.

VERDICT: FALSE. Magistrate judges are not appointed by the president; they are appointed by other federal judges.

Posted by: SMOD at August 11, 2022 01:23 PM (RHGPo)

533 505
Maybe they'll be laxer but the Senate was perfectly content to let most appointments remain empty and block any recess appointments. The highest ranking member of the permanent bureaucracy just runs the department instead.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 11, 2022 01:05 PM (b2nrj)
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Could those recess appointments be made by Executive Order? Seems the Dems and Governors get away with those EOs all the time.

Posted by: Ciampino - we also need to abolish Congress and start again at August 11, 2022 01:24 PM (qfLjt)

534 Cincinnati shooter: "Die feds, die!" BANG BANG

Cincinnati FBI guard: "Put your hat on, dumb-ass!"

Cincinnati shooter: "Die feds, die bigly!" BANG BANG

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at August 11, 2022 01:25 PM (peWy1)

535 474 In the Grand tour, show they wrecked a EV Supercar and it burned for 3 days,
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 11, 2022 12:57 PM (dKiJG)
........

That's a lot of carbon. The tires were the cleanest burning.

Posted by: wth at August 11, 2022 01:02 PM (v0R5T)
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Regarding the Tesla in space, did it actually have a battery? Could we see a nice small nearby supernova perchance?

Posted by: Ciampino - that Tesla is being bombarded by meteorites at August 11, 2022 01:29 PM (qfLjt)

536 New hires could be direct hires (currently IRS and Labor).

Federal Jobs dot Net, David Scholl, 1/14/22. In part, "Under a DHA, an agency must demonstrate a severe shortage of candidates or critical hiring need. If one of these conditions applies, the agency is free to hire any qualified applicants into a competitive service position without regard to:

the normal rating and ranking process,
the application of veterans’ preference, or
the “rule of three” selection requirement, under which managers may only select from among the three highest-scoring applicants.

Although OPM may independently authorize a DHA for certain positions/locations, it is more common for individual agencies to submit a request based on their own unique sets of circumstances."

Believe it or not, things can improve or get worse. It tends to be cyclical.

Posted by: Lola at August 11, 2022 01:31 PM (NIYa7)

537 Keilar asked, “How close do you think that person in Trump’s orbit would have had to be to know these details about where the documents were?”

Mulvaney said, “Really close. I didn’t even know there was a safe at Mar-a-Lago, and I was the chief of staff for 15 months. This would be someone who was handling things on day to day, who knew where documents were, so it would be somebody very close to the president. My guess is there is probably six or eight people who had that kind of information. I don’t know the people on the inside circle these days, so I can’t give any names of folks who come to mind, but your instinct, I think, is a good one. If you know where the safe is, and you know the documents are in 10 boxes in the basement, you’re pretty close to the president.”

Posted by: SMOD at August 11, 2022 01:49 PM (RHGPo)

538 Arthur Andersen the prominent accounting firm in Chicago was shut down by the Fed's and all employees lost their jobs regardless of position or pension status. Civil Servant jobs should not get special status or privileges. The Fed's set the precedent. Dismantle the FBI.

Posted by: TitanTom at August 11, 2022 02:06 PM (oQ1G4)

539 Yeah, who and whose Party? There is less chance of the FBI being abolished or reformed by the Marxist Democrats or Useless Republicans than Obamacare repeal.

And even on the off chance it was, guess who the Democrats have teed up to take it's place. Yeah, the IRS, which already has the power to do a lot of things the FBI can't.

I think the timing of the Trump FBI Panty raid was a red herring. If we had an opposition party it would already be running ads to try and stop the IRS from being expanded. But the FBI raid has diverted attention, and the real threat, the IRS, will be doubled in size. An Army of Louis Lerners.

Posted by: Dantes at August 11, 2022 02:10 PM (tpxOj)

540 They are not after Trump
They are after you.
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They are not threatening FBI agents
They are threatening Wray

Posted by: Bang-a-gong at August 11, 2022 02:25 PM (Qc+Wp)

541 Who eas wearing the wire ? Will Ace put uphthe current odds? Some are saying Kushner

Posted by: Paul at August 11, 2022 02:32 PM (ttS0m)

542 Friendly reminder: the GOP refused to defund NPR and PBS. Anyone dreaming of those spineless cuckoo defunding the FBI is, well, dreaming.
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But if you get enough Eric Schmitts in there things become possible. The Dems played that game for decades until they had a solid voting bloc.
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Oh good. As long as conservatives can avoid the coming gulags over the next 60 years maybe the GOP will be in position to defund the FBI.

Posted by: doesky2 at August 11, 2022 02:46 PM (RhFfq)

543
Todays FBI?
Yesterdays FBI were part of the coverup of the JFK Assassination.

Posted by: Speller at August 11, 2022 04:39 PM (pSotA)

544 What ever happened to the Untouchibles?

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 11, 2022 06:46 PM (wGqjj)

545 Eric SCHMITT!

I'm in love.

Posted by: Beverly at August 11, 2022 10:24 PM (C5H+L)

546 IMO this was an overreach by a rogue DOJ/FBI that functions like the former KGB and the Stasi.

The DOJ/FBI have violated the fundamental principles equal justice and application of justice. WTH about Hillary and Hunter Biden? This is a selective application of the law based on political affiliation that ignores the national security implications - China, Russia, Ukraine, and Iran.

FYI in my 35 year law enforcement career I wrote probably in excess of 1000 search warrant affidavits and served the search warrants.

If I had lied or lied by omission in an sw affidavit my ass would have been thrown out the door.

The FBI knowingly lied and lied by omission in the affidavits 4 times re FISA warrants to surveil two people re an espionage investigation. In fact these warrants were retargeted knowing the warrants were tsinted to spy on Trump then a candidate for President. There are other flagrant actions.

So far there has been no accountability. The American People should be very concerned and demand accountability now! Lest we descend further into third-world banana republic.

Posted by: Ron T Cop at August 11, 2022 11:05 PM (aMFJK)

547 Very nice letter - to the point, restrained in its language, and nicely respectful of Trump and his supporters.
Schmidt has a future in politics.

Posted by: Linda S Fox at August 12, 2022 06:18 AM (2Umgd)

548 --- The left already has a complaint of Karens filling all the neighborhood Stasi positions.
Posted by: Roy

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"complaint of Karens".
Ok thats funny.

Posted by: Paul in Texas at August 12, 2022 10:47 AM (RaWcF)

549 116 I tried to warn you what petty thugs these guys are, but all you idiots wanted to do was argue over whether my film was a Christmas movie.
Posted by: John McTiernan

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It's a Christmas movie.

Posted by: Paul in Texas at August 12, 2022 11:36 AM (RaWcF)

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