Congressional Republicans Demand Interview With FBI Agent Who Covered Up For Hunter Biden's Laptop

Only federal employees are obligated to testify and, what a coincidence, he's not an employee any longer.

But he wasn't fired. He didn't lose his pension or anything. He wasn't kept on as an employee in a rubber room so that he could be made to testify.

No, he was quietly allowed to slip away from testifying with his pension intact.

You can subpoena him, but he can fight it. And he can always invoke the Fifth.

Ooops, he got away!

Whoops!

Whoopsie!

Timothy Thibault, the former FBI assistant special agent in charge of the Washington Field Office, closed up a line of inquiry into now-President Joe Biden's son in October 2020 despite some of the evidence being known to be true at the time, according to whistleblower allegations. Now, Republicans in the House and Senate are calling for Thibault to speak with them.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Thibault telling him to contact the committee to schedule a transcribed interview by Oct. 7.
"Whistleblowers have come to Congress alleging that you were part of a scheme to undermine and discredit allegations of criminal wrongdoing by members of the Biden family," Jordan and his colleagues told Thibault. "Accordingly, we believe that you possess information relating to our investigation and we request your assistance with our inquiry."
The Republicans told the former FBI official that "this letter serves as a formal request to preserve all existing and future records and materials in your possession relating to the topics addressed in this letter" and that the preservation request relates to "all electronic messages sent using your official and personal accounts or devices."

Miranda Divine reports that GOP Senators are demanding that the corrupt Gestapo chiefs Wray and Garland end the suspensions of the FBI whistleblower Steve Friend.

In a blistering letter accusing FBI leadership of retaliating against a protected whistleblower, the ranking members of two powerful Senate committees have warned Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray to step in immediately to shield suspended Special Agent Steve Friend from unlawful reprisals after he filed a complaint with the inspector general last week alleging FBI wrongdoing in domestic terrorism cases.
In the letter sent Monday, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) -- ranking members of the Judiciary Committee and the Permanent Subcommittee for Investigations, respectively -- questioned why the FBI suspended Friend without pay last week and demanded that "all other forms of reprisal against him for his protected whistleblowing activity are immediately stopped."
"The FBI should immediately cease the disciplinary actions it is actively taking to punish Special Agent Friend for his protected whistleblowing activity," the senators wrote. "These unwarranted actions only serve to chill other employees from reporting wrongdoing, and demonstrate a complete and utter failure by agency leaders to obey the letter and intent of federal whistleblower protection laws."
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"Under federal whistleblower laws, employees of the Federal Government have not only a right but a responsibility to report evidence of potential wrongdoing. That is precisely what Special Agent Friend has done."
After raising his concerns with his FBI supervisors, Friend made legally protected whistleblower disclosures to the Office of Special Counsel as well as the Office of the Inspector General.
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His supervisors allegedly told him that he was being a "bad teammate" and warned that his objections "could amount to insubordination."
"Ultimately, rather than reassigning Special Agent Friend ... FBI leadership apparently made the choice to retaliate against and make an example of him," the letter said.

Divine also reports that if you're trying to share information about Steve Friend on FaceBook, don't bother -- FaceBook is already working to "silence" any discussion of him.

How they justify this, I have no idea.

Do they bother justifying censorship any longer? Or are we just in The Endgame now, where they drop all masks and just announce that They Are Now In Total Control?

More evidence of how vindictive, obsessive and downright sinister Facebook is: Now it appears to be monitoring private messages and suppressing material related to the whistleblower complaint of heroic FBI special agent Steve Friend.
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On Sunday, Friend's wife's Facebook account was suspended after she responded to an offer of support from a local chapter of Moms for Liberty (M4L), a conservative group that advocates for parental rights.
"What can M4L do for Steve Friend right now?" Moms for Liberty had texted a mutual friend. "We want to offer community support of fundraising (though we feel it would likely be shut down). Can you reach out to him and let him know Moms for Liberty is thinking of him and if we can provide any assistance we are here."
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About 30 minutes later, Mrs. Friend received a notification from Facebook that her account had been suspended because the "account, or activity on it, doesn't follow our Community Standards."
At the Moms for Liberty end, Mrs. Friend's Facebook message disappeared. In its place was a notification saying, "Message unavailable."

Just The News reports that the lawyer for Steve Friend says the Deep State is revoking security clearances as a method of punishing anyone who tells the truth about them.

Without a security clearance, you can't work in most government positions. So it's a default suspension without pay.

Foster said the bureau was able to sideline Friend last week by suspending his security clearance pending a review, essentially leaving the agent in limbo and unable to do his job. Foster was asked whether he knew of any wrongdoing that Friend committed that would warrant suspending his security clearance. "No, absolutely not," he answered.
"This is a common tactic that we have seen with the FBI," Foster told the "Just the News, Not Noise" television show. "They're using it more and more, because they know that there's less oversight and less scrutiny of a security clearance decision because of the nature of it. It's harder to do oversight and have any kind of independent scrutiny.
"So rather than just suspending the person on a claim that they didn't do their job, or that they engaged in some misconduct, they'll simply suspend their clearance, which means that they can't do the work that they would normally do, then they can take them off the payroll, take their badge and gun, sideline them, and then hope that, you know, they can just sort of grind them into compliance or get them to quit rather than continue to fight because they don't have any money."

It's time to MGGA -- Make Gestapos Get Attorneys.

At American Greatness, Deb Heine reports on the revelations of Kyle Seraphin, the FBI whistleblower just interviewed by Dan Bongino.

One major point he makes is that the FBI has shifted from a crime-investigation organization to an intelligence organization.

This is important. Consider: To investigate you criminally, a law enforcement investigation first needs grounds to suspect you have committed a specific crime. There is a necessary predicate to justify digging into you. It's not a high threshold, but it is a threshold.

But to open up an intelligence probe of someone, you don't need any predicate of a crime. All you need is... well, you knew this guy and he knew this guy and you're all conservatives and this other conservative once posted to a "Stop the Steal" FaceBook group. And now they can begin spying on you.

This is a huge shift in mentality.

And it turns the FBI into a general State Security Police, a general Stasi, a general KGB. They can investigate whoever they want. And no longer are they limited to investigating people for at least having some ties to a suspected overseas intelligence organization or handler; no, now it's enough that you have some connection to any rightwing group or person they don't like.

Not leftwing groups, though -- antifa, as you may have heard from Christopher Wray himself, is not a movement so much as it is an "ideology." And you can't investigate someone for having connections to a mere ideology.

But the right? They're a movement. A dangerous movement. A movement of Domestic Violent Extremists, in fact. Semi-Fascists! White Supremacists! The greatest threat to America in history, and that includes from Al Qaeda, the USSR, and the Nazis.

An FBI whistleblower who was recently suspended said in an interview this week that he became a whistleblower last November because of Attorney General Merrick Garland's email ordering the FBI to use Patriot Act counterterrorism tools to target parents at school board meetings.
Special Agent Kyle Seraphin, who was indefinitely suspended on June 1 after nearly six years with the Bureau, said that he was so disturbed by the directive, he went to his congresswoman's office in New Mexico, and made a "protected disclosure."
Garland announced the creation of the tag "EDUOFFICIALS" to track school board meeting related threats in an email sent to Justice Department employees in October of 2021.
Investigations were opened on parents based on anonymous tips, and agents had to surveil and interview ordinary moms and dads who got caught up in the dragnet.
In a two-part interview with conservative radio host Dan Bongino, Seraphin said that most of his colleagues didn't appreciate the political nature of these cases, and just did "cursory investigations" before shutting them down.
Nonetheless, he said, there are many parents out there who have no idea the Bureau has case files on them and that agents have combed through their financial information just because they may have said something deemed inappropriate at a school board meeting.
Seraphin told Bongino that the Bureau was putting resources towards something that should have been a state and local issue, and that he knew it was happening because of political pressure from the left-wing National School Boards Association (NSBA).
"That's when you become part of political hatchet jobs, and I didn't sign up for that, and nobody I know signed up for that either," he said. "That's not what people want to get involved in."
When Bongino said he was "stunned" more FBI employees weren't standing up, the whistleblower said, "it's more than people think."
Seraphin, who has worked in multiple field offices in the counterterrorism division, said there are about 40 whistleblowers who have now spoken to Republican members of Congress.
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Seraphin said the contrast between how the Bureau handled the J6 riot and the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020 "is obvious."
During the BLM riots, the whistleblower said he was in a "surveillance role" rather than an investigative role, and was with the uniformed Secret Service the day after BLM and antifa rioters set fire to St. John's Church.
"I was there when there were stacks of bricks on the ground all lined up, and they were covered with granola bars, which was bizarre," he noted.
"Friends of mine had been getting in fights all night long," he added. "They had put different SWAT teams on the line. But federal SWAT teams are not good at crowd control. They don't have that training. They don't have the equipment." He later told Bongino that he had friends who had gotten hurt by the violent, brick-throwing mob while defending the White House.
"Did we investigate those people? Did we haul them down by the dozens and throw them in the D.C. jail system?" he asked. "Absolutely not."

Read the whole thing.

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1 Howdy!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 27, 2022 05:38 PM (Qy7kP)

2
Ace is very Cheeky, today.

Cheeky monkey, he is.

Posted by: Soothsayer'lc at September 27, 2022 05:38 PM (MlLUG)

3 This is even more relevant in this thread. The left is moving towards this worldwide

https://youtu.be/1BJ7BCV9KrA

Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2022 05:39 PM (yezA1)

4 th

Posted by: Dad of Six at September 27, 2022 05:39 PM (VpZau)

5 >>>Ooops, he got away!

>>>Whoops!

>>>Whoopsie!

Super easy. Barely an inconvenience.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at September 27, 2022 05:39 PM (QYPq3)

6 Next they will promise to repeal Obamacare.

Posted by: wth at September 27, 2022 05:41 PM (v0R5T)

7 Not me, i swear!

Posted by: Tim Tebow at September 27, 2022 05:41 PM (6FeV1)

8 >>>... are we just in The Endgame now, where they drop all masks and just announce that They Are Now In Total Control?

All signs point to yes

Posted by: Magic 8 Ball at September 27, 2022 05:41 PM (QYPq3)

9 I'll just read what was posted here. Anymore and I'll rage-stroke out.

Posted by: Bosk at September 27, 2022 05:41 PM (v4L7Y)

10 Failure Theater, pre election style.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 27, 2022 05:42 PM (+50w1)

11 So if i murder a guy in a bar fight, all i gotta do is quit my job, and I'm golden! I like this new rule.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 27, 2022 05:42 PM (6FeV1)

12 Maybe Trey Gowdy can come out of retirement for a special guest appearance.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 27, 2022 05:42 PM (+50w1)

13 I don't know if Friend really wants to get his job back. They will just take him out while he's working. Accidental shootings happen. He's in more danger than Serpico.

Posted by: Eddie Baby at September 27, 2022 05:43 PM (wpJDK)

14 Chuck wrote a letter. What more could he possibly do?

Posted by: huerfano, stochastic commenter at September 27, 2022 05:43 PM (dTFZY)

15
Congressional Republicans Demand Interview With FBI Agent Who Covered Up For Hunter Biden's Laptop

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Oh, FFS.

If my eyes rolled any further back, they'd snap my optic nerves.

Nobody is fooled by your stupid theatrics, you corrupt bastards. GTFO here with this noise.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2022 05:43 PM (oINRc)

16 Don't worry. I'm sure the red wave in November will fix all of this. lol

Posted by: DFCtomm at September 27, 2022 05:43 PM (OHy0b)

17 So how is it this piece of shit slithers off into the tall grass, but Trump is getting harassed and raised?

What's the rule, here, precisely?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 27, 2022 05:44 PM (6FeV1)

18 At this point, the only way to get to him is to leak to Team Clinton that he has all the evidence needed to see Hillary and Bill convicted of crimes.

Then. Offer him a deal.

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2022 05:44 PM (7pPNd)

19 Hey. You Fucked Up. You Trusted Us.

Posted by: Sens. Eric Otter Stratton and John Bluto Bultarsky at September 27, 2022 05:45 PM (gmo/4)

20
Why does the FIB rob banks?

Because that's where the money is.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2022 05:45 PM (krQz2)

21 12 Maybe Trey Gowdy can come out of retirement for a special guest appearance.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 27, 2022 05:42 PM (+50w1)

++++++

Gowdy made the best theater. He was actually good at the oratory stuff and his hair was always interesting, but ultimately not matter how well he spoke or how interesting his hair, nothing happened, ever.

Posted by: DFCtomm at September 27, 2022 05:45 PM (OHy0b)

22 Whistle blowing so soon after pride Month?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at September 27, 2022 05:46 PM (7oI5w)

23 >>>At this point, the only way to get to him is to leak to Team Clinton that he has all the evidence needed to see Hillary and Bill convicted of crimes.

Then. Offer him a deal.

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2022 05:44 PM (7pPNd)

I mean, he probably does. He's just decided to cover it up.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at September 27, 2022 05:46 PM (QYPq3)

24 If you're receiving a government pension, it should be the same rules as if you're employed.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 27, 2022 05:46 PM (g1EEm)

25 >>>>Do they bother justifying censorship any longer? Or are we just in The ENDGAME now, where they drop all masks and just announce that They Are Now In Total Control

Coming off that last thread, I read that as:

"Or are we in ENGLAND now..."

Either way works, I guess.

Posted by: Prime Sister at September 27, 2022 05:46 PM (tQL7r)

26 The only thing I can think of, is that these GOPers are so far in this DC bubble that they actually have no idea that nobody believes their bullshit anymore. Why else go through these pointless motions?

I think they sit in their clubs and laugh to each other about hiding the ball from the rubes again, and don't know that everyone is just ignoring them.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2022 05:46 PM (oINRc)

27 Gowdy made the best theater. He was actually good at the oratory stuff and his hair was always interesting, but ultimately not matter how well he spoke or how interesting his hair, nothing happened, ever.

Posted by: DFCtomm at September 27, 2022 05:45 PM (OHy0b)

Darrell Issa is the same way, minus the hair factor.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 27, 2022 05:46 PM (xPl2J)

28 Congressional Republicans Demand Interview With FBI Agent Who Covered Up For Hunter Biden's Laptop
........

Breaking News:
Congressional Republicans Raided at 3:00am and Perp Walked While Still in Their Wives Undies

Posted by: wth at September 27, 2022 05:47 PM (v0R5T)

29 I tried that store brand Bricks and Granola cereal once. One.

Posted by: An Antifag at September 27, 2022 05:47 PM (sn5EN)

30 Remember when nobody could say the name of the shampeachment whistleblower lest that be taken as reprisal.

Garland out and fuckin' fired a guy.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2022 05:47 PM (krQz2)

31 "Republicans Demand Interview With FBI Agent"

Well, if they can't interview him, how about the "51 intelligence experts" that authored the HB laptop 'disinformation' letter? Subpoena all of them, grill em for hours under hot lights. Those fuckers fucked the election but good, and their guilt is plain. Who ran them?

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at September 27, 2022 05:47 PM (24fqN)

32 I think there is a non zero chance they openly nix the midterms somehow

Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2022 05:48 PM (yezA1)

33 Whistle blowers?
Where?

Posted by: Whistle Blowee at September 27, 2022 05:48 PM (v4L7Y)

34 These guys. Go after these cocksuckers:
https://tinyurl.com/4c659eus

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at September 27, 2022 05:48 PM (24fqN)

35 In a blistering letter accusing FBI leadership of retaliating against a protected whistleblower,

Next time they will write a scathing letter. And you don't even want to know what comes after scathing!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 27, 2022 05:48 PM (VtqbX)

36 Since they're revoking security clearances as punishment, they should start with Clapper and Comey and Brennan and Hillary, right? Right?

Posted by: 496 at September 27, 2022 05:49 PM (VJsqe)

37 Gowdy made the best theater. He was actually good at the oratory stuff and his hair was always interesting, but ultimately not matter how well he spoke or how interesting his hair, nothing happened, ever.

Posted by: DFCtomm at September 27, 2022 05:45 PM (OHy0b)

Darrell Issa is the same way, minus the hair factor.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 27, 2022 05:46 PM (xPl2J)

Chuck Grassley is old school. He'll send a strongly worded letter!

Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2022 05:49 PM (gmo/4)

38 I've got your whistle right here.

Posted by: A Whistle at September 27, 2022 05:49 PM (krQz2)

39 Nix them or brazenly steal them

Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2022 05:49 PM (yezA1)

40 >>>Well, if they can't interview him, how about the "51 intelligence experts" that authored the HB laptop 'disinformation' letter? Subpoena all of them, grill em for hours under hot lights. Those fuckers fucked the election but good, and their guilt is plain. Who ran them?

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at September 27, 2022 05:47 PM (24fqN)

Oh yoo-hoo.

Posted by: Chairman Xi at September 27, 2022 05:49 PM (QYPq3)

41 They didn't send a strongly-worded letter this time, but a "blistering letter"! That should change things.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 27, 2022 05:50 PM (H8QX8)

42 >>>>Without a security clearance, you can't work in most government positions. So it's a default suspension without pay.

And it might be noted, without a security clearance you can't really get work at too many govt contractors, either.

Posted by: Prime Sister at September 27, 2022 05:50 PM (tQL7r)

43 Maybe an appearance on Hannity - that always seems to get results for us.

Posted by: 496 at September 27, 2022 05:50 PM (VJsqe)

44 Oh noes!

Another Grassley letter to ignore.

Posted by: Wray at September 27, 2022 05:50 PM (JB29E)

45 Again, I'd care a lot more about this type of thing if I knew there would be consequences.

But there won't, and I don't.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at September 27, 2022 05:51 PM (TU8Tj)

46 Miranda Divine, can't tell you the imagery that that name conjures up.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at September 27, 2022 05:51 PM (PAY0n)

47 Not leftwing groups, though -- antifa, as you may have heard from Christopher Wray himself, is not a movement so much as it is an "ideology." And you can't investigate someone for having connections to a mere ideology.

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"Look, fat -- it's a MYTH! Snoopy.com has already debunked that conspiracy theory ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 27, 2022 05:51 PM (kwxAU)

48 43 Maybe an appearance on Hannity - that always seems to get results for us.
Posted by: 496 at September 27, 2022 05:50 PM (VJsqe)

I think Hannity has some sexual fantasy that involved him a federal agent, a woman and a jar of chunky peanut butter.

Posted by: DFCtomm at September 27, 2022 05:52 PM (OHy0b)

49 Pssstttt!!!
Pass it along!

Thibault has evidence that can lead to the arrest and conviction of Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2022 05:52 PM (anj39)

50 Is there any gov't entity that is not corrupt?

Posted by: Infidel at September 27, 2022 05:52 PM (+J0HH)

51 Chuck wrote a letter. What more could he possibly do?
Posted by: huerfano, stochastic commenter at September 27, 2022 05:43 PM (dTFZY)

Strenuously object.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 27, 2022 05:53 PM (yQpMk)

52 Nix them or brazenly steal them
Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2022 05:49 PM (yezA1)

Nah.

Trump's gone; mission accomplished.

They can go back to the shell-game-as-usual now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2022 05:53 PM (oINRc)

53 but ultimately not matter how well he spoke or how interesting his hair, nothing happened, ever.

Posted by: DFCtomm at September

I Mean if you want to call a fat federal pension and a Fox News gig nothing...

Posted by: Gowdy at September 27, 2022 05:53 PM (JB29E)

54 An interview? Like, for a job?

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 27, 2022 05:53 PM (FJYfm)

55 Oh yoo-hoo.
Posted by: Chairman Xi at September 27, 2022 05:49 PM (QYPq3)

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I still can't believe he subjected our envoys to anal swab covid tests.

Posted by: 496 at September 27, 2022 05:53 PM (VJsqe)

56 I think Hannity has some sexual fantasy that involved him a federal agent, a woman and a jar of chunky peanut butter.
Posted by: DFCtomm at September 27, 2022 05:52 PM (OHy0b)

What about me? - The Man with the Melon

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 27, 2022 05:53 PM (yQpMk)

57 50 Is there any gov't entity that is not corrupt?
Posted by: Infidel at September 27, 2022 05:52 PM (+J0HH)

I'm gonna have to get back to ya in that one?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2022 05:54 PM (xDh35)

58 Not leftwing groups, though -- antifa, as you may have heard from Christopher Wray himself, is not a movement so much as it is an "ideology." And you can't investigate someone for having connections to a mere ideology.

Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 27, 2022 05:51 PM (kwxAU)
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Wray should close his mouth, the pile of crap is getting deep here.

"White supremacy" isn't an organization. It is an ideology. They are damn sure trying to prosecute that!

Posted by: A Whistle at September 27, 2022 05:54 PM (krQz2)

59
Is there any gov't entity that is not corrupt?

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No.

There are no large private institutions that are not corrupt, either.

Banana republic.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2022 05:55 PM (oINRc)

60 What about me? - The Man with the Melon
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 27, 2022 05:53 PM (yQpMk)

+++++

If you have some kind of badge you can flash then he might be down for it.

Posted by: DFCtomm at September 27, 2022 05:55 PM (OHy0b)

61 What about me? - The Man with the Melon

I don't know what this reference is about, but I want to.

Posted by: guy with a melon scoop at September 27, 2022 05:55 PM (KFhLj)

62 I remember the olden days when Congressional Hearings made me happy. But unless a result of the Hearing is a slap and arrest of these criminal government employees it is not sufficient distraction. Perhaps a necessary step of documentation still but I ready for some SMOD.

Posted by: Iris at September 27, 2022 05:55 PM (NaH5I)

63 I don't know what this reference is about, but I want to.
Posted by: guy with a melon scoop at September 27, 2022 05:55 PM (KFhLj)

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Fetterman?

Posted by: 496 at September 27, 2022 05:55 PM (VJsqe)

64 Candace took a poll asking who thought the government would intentionally do them harm. Nearly 90% said yes, it would.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 27, 2022 05:56 PM (H8QX8)

65 Republicans are useless.
Maybe better ones will get elected in Nov.

Posted by: Colonel Travis at September 27, 2022 05:56 PM (RG7Wy)

66 Is there any gov't entity that is not corrupt?

Posted by: Infidel at September 27, 2022 05:52 PM (+J0HH)
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If there is, it doesn't have power.

So, maybe somewhere in California.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2022 05:56 PM (krQz2)

67 Is there any gov't entity that is not corrupt?
Posted by: Infidel at September 27, 2022 05:52 PM (+J0HH)

I've got nothing.

-- Diogenes

Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2022 05:56 PM (gmo/4)

68 A former Civil service employee can't be compelled to testify in front of congress, but they can be subpoenaed. And the current doj will say....nah bro, never mind your cool.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 27, 2022 05:57 PM (bVYXr)

69 Quaid! Open your mind to me, Quaid!

Posted by: Fetterman's Neck Lump at September 27, 2022 05:57 PM (yQpMk)

70 I'm surprised he's not dead yet. One thing about Poo Tin, he wouldn't put up with this guy breathing. Brandon is a lazy tyrant.

Posted by: torabora at September 27, 2022 05:58 PM (Y274z)

71 Is there any gov't entity that is not corrupt?
Posted by: Infidel
.........

my garbage got picked up last Thursday, but I have no idea where they took it.

Posted by: wth at September 27, 2022 05:58 PM (v0R5T)

72 Well seeing as the government intentionally harmed them for over 2 1/2 years maybe they are getting wise...

Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2022 05:58 PM (yezA1)

73
Every year, in a tradition dating back to Herbert Hoover, each graduating class leaves Quantico, boards buses bound for NYC, and takes turn despoiling the wife of a prominent Irish-American broadcaster while he watches from a closet. It is the tie that binds our brotherhood.

Posted by: Special Agent at September 27, 2022 05:58 PM (oINRc)

74 my garbage got picked up last Thursday, but I have no idea where they took it.
Posted by: wth at September 27, 2022 05:58 PM (v0R5T)

The last clean body of water in China?

Posted by: DFCtomm at September 27, 2022 05:58 PM (OHy0b)

75 70 He would have fallen out a window weeks ago...

Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2022 05:59 PM (yezA1)

76 all I have is a link to a pretty lady on a boat. She probably cheats on her taxes

https://bit.ly/3UIyAPE

Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2022 05:59 PM (xhaym)

77 Hey neck lump! Where the three tittied martian hookers at?

Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2022 05:59 PM (gmo/4)

78 I see a bunch of folks are reading ahead and buying my book on the Spanish Civil War. Smart play.

Those of you who have already read it (apparently this does not include Ace, because he would understand things a lot more) already recognize where we are on the timeline.

As in Spain, the rule is Antifa gets to cave your head in, and you get arrested for bleeding if you survive.

On the plus side, we have not *yet* reached their level of violence. That's a good thing. Our government is a bit more stable than the young Second Republic.

Still, the Spanish left couldn't take "yes" for an answer and had to push until it went too far. Specifically, a uniformed policeman abducted and killed the center-right floor leader, and then was left alone. No attempt was made to arrest him.

And that was when their cold civil war got hot.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2022 05:59 PM (llXky)

79 73 Ham and eggers

Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2022 06:00 PM (yezA1)

80 blistering letter

Lol.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 27, 2022 06:00 PM (+50w1)

81 Manchin just caved to his fellow Democrats allowing them to continue to crush American energy production and then had the gall to blame Putin for his actions.

Putin is the wonder drug of the ages! It causes & cures everything!

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at September 27, 2022 06:01 PM (MFZ8i)

82 FWIW, I thnk ace has it reversed, movements are these things, you know. anti-fa is just a movement of people who are really obsessed with travelling to 1920's Europe to stop the fascii from rising. American republicans are criminals

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at September 27, 2022 06:01 PM (OuH7W)

83 all I have is a link to a pretty lady on a boat. She probably cheats on her taxes

https://bit.ly/3UIyAPE

Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2022 05:59 PM (xhaym)

That girl gots a plug in her belly button.

Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2022 06:01 PM (gmo/4)

84 A former Civil service employee can't be compelled to testify in front of congress, but they can be subpoenaed. And the current doj will say....nah bro, never mind your cool.
Posted by: Mister Scott

Unlike the J6 protestors and related mooks who got hauled in under threat. The GOP pres needs to put it to every DOJ manager to haul in everyone involved in the Russia, Russia, Russia! affair, pantifa stuff, 2020 voting disaster by pointing to the precedent they set. If they are unwilling to follow suit, they get bounced.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2022 06:01 PM (IyrhE)

85 What the he** is "globoHebrewhomo" some guy at the end of the last thread is complaining about. Just a diss of Israel or Jews in general?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2022 06:01 PM (vH/6k)

86 If you're receiving a government pension, it should be the same rules as if you're employed.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 27, 2022 05:46
*****
So you must be some kind of shit disturbed.

Posted by: torabora at September 27, 2022 06:01 PM (Y274z)

87 Putin is the wonder drug of the ages! It causes & cures everything!

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at September 27, 2022 06:01 PM (MFZ8i)

++++

Well, Bin Laden is dead............. probably. Plot twist!

Posted by: DFCtomm at September 27, 2022 06:01 PM (OHy0b)

88
Congressional Republicans? Blistering letter?

I guess that refers to the fact that the letter is splattered with monkeypox.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2022 06:01 PM (oINRc)

89 You've got a friend, Steve.

Posted by: James Taylor at September 27, 2022 06:02 PM (63Dwl)

90 >> blistering letter

Spoiler Alert, please!

Posted by: MonkeyPox at September 27, 2022 06:03 PM (7pPNd)

91 A few weeks ago, The Hangman and His Wife by Nancy Dougherty was featured on the Book Thread and it looked interesting so I bought it. (Damn Book Thread!) It's about Nazi Reinhard Heydrich based largely on a series of interviews with his wife. This is a Heydrich you haven't seen before. In addition to intimate details about his marriage, there is much about an insecure Heydrich trying to navigate his way through the Nazi labyrinths of power.

I don't know why I thought of this when I read this thread about the FBI.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at September 27, 2022 06:03 PM (FVME7)

92 Just you wait until Durham finds out about this. Oooh boy is there gonna be hell to pay.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 27, 2022 06:03 PM (+50w1)

93 Weaselzippers: Give us money

Also Weaselzippers: Let's cancel Desantis because he might have said something not nice about Trump.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 27, 2022 06:04 PM (VtqbX)

94 I remember the olden days when Congressional Hearings made me happy. But unless a result of the Hearing is a slap and arrest of these criminal government employees it is not sufficient distraction. Perhaps a necessary step of documentation still but I ready for some SMOD.

Posted by: Iris at September 27, 2022 05:55 PM (NaH5I)
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Congress used to actually exercise the power of the purse. People have to be at least 29 to remember this, but if you crossed a committee chair, your appropriation was slashed.

Budgets were done by department, so you didn't have these fake shutdowns because if the DoJ offends you, you fund them last. And then you make them squirm.

The Big Lie is that the GOP had this power and *never used it*. For all their talk of "norms," that WAS THE NORM. This business of creating a giant impenetrable "omnibus" budget was about unilaterally disarming themselves.

They. All. Know. This.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2022 06:04 PM (llXky)

95 Republicans are engaged in failure theater again. Ah, the pre- 2017 good old days. Mouthy but flaccid

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2022 06:05 PM (Zzbjj)

96 When was the FBI ever the good guy? Was it when J Edgar was opening investigations on everyone in D.C. to obtain blackmail material so he could maintain power? Was it when the FBI was keeping tabs on MLK Jr? Was it when the FBI tried to blackmail MLK Jr into committing suicide? Was it when they were ineffectually chasing Bonnie and Clyde?

Was the FBI the good guy when they were directing their crime lab to return whatever results were most likely to result in conviction? Was it when they were touting "criminal profiling," which has never undergone scientific scrutiny and is akin to astrology? Was it when they refused to record their interviews and refused to provide their contemporaneous notes, instead providing form 302s as an official record?

Posted by: bonhomme at September 27, 2022 06:05 PM (eyxn4)

97 Its no coincidence that Republicans demand this now, after they know he cant (wont) testify. More kabuki theatre.

Posted by: TheLastPatriot at September 27, 2022 06:05 PM (CGKhG)

98 And that was when their cold civil war got hot.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

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Just wondering -- are you cheerleading us into a cold civil war going hot?

Posted by: Prime Sister at September 27, 2022 06:05 PM (tQL7r)

99 I am burning a couch in Machin's honor this weekend. Better than trying to recreate the Ned Beatty scene in Deliverance which is more accurate to what happened to him. Judas always ends up,the same, amazing.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at September 27, 2022 06:05 PM (AaLDK)

100 Prime Sister STFU

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at September 27, 2022 06:06 PM (AaLDK)

101 97 indeed, tos the middle school drama club back at work.

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2022 06:06 PM (Zzbjj)

102 Can’t Durham subpoena Thibault in front of his GJ, under penalty?

Posted by: Zombie Ronald Reagan, please save us! at September 27, 2022 06:07 PM (SV0m2)

103 Can’t Durham subpoena Thibault in front of his GJ, under penalty?
Posted by: Zombie Ronald Reagan

Not before the the midterms!!!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 27, 2022 06:07 PM (VtqbX)

104 Fuck manchin that fuck. Fuck

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2022 06:08 PM (xDh35)

105 are we just in The Endgame now, where they drop all masks and just announce that They Are Now In Total Control?

The proper response, as Breitbart put it is:

Fuck you, war.

Posted by: Methos at September 27, 2022 06:08 PM (kOpft)

106 Two more weeks!

Posted by: torabora at September 27, 2022 06:08 PM (Y274z)

107 The GOP does since because most Republicans still believe in the #TwoWeeks bullshit.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 27, 2022 06:08 PM (+50w1)

108 Just wondering -- are you cheerleading us into a cold civil war going hot?

Posted by: Prime Sister at September 27, 2022 06:05 PM (tQL7r)
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Obviously not. I'm pointing out that history moves in familiar cycles. The abduction and killing of Jose Calvo Sotelo was in fact an impulsive act by a rogue officer and much has been written about it.

No one at the time knew that it would be a hinge point of history, but it was.

As I said, the Second Republic was a far shakier entity so there is still reason to hope we avoid Spain's fate.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2022 06:08 PM (llXky)

109 The greatest threat to America in history,

Good God man they've already elected Trump twice. Who knows what they'll do next.

Posted by: DaveA at September 27, 2022 06:08 PM (FhXTo)

110 ... Republicans demand ....

==

Well, now we're getting somewhere!

Posted by: jc at September 27, 2022 06:08 PM (N1WXz)

111 Magic eight ball days definitely probably.

Posted by: torabora at September 27, 2022 06:09 PM (Y274z)

112 Not before the the midterms!!!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 27, 2022 06:07 PM (VtqbX)

And not after either.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 27, 2022 06:09 PM (+50w1)

113 It has been over 2 years since we were fretting about whether Durham would drop indictments before the election.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 27, 2022 06:09 PM (VtqbX)

114 Do they bother justifying censorship any longer? Or are we just in The Endgame now, where they drop all masks and just announce that They Are Now In Total Control?

You've broken the code, ace.

YOUVE BROKEN THE CODE

Posted by: blaster at September 27, 2022 06:10 PM (pwExq)

115 There is a 100% chance that there is a 0% chance anything will happen to the fascists.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 27, 2022 06:10 PM (+50w1)

116 Also Weaselzippers: Let's cancel Desantis because he might have said something not nice about Trump.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant!

It's going to take more than an anonymously sourced Daily Mail article to get me to believe that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at September 27, 2022 06:11 PM (FVME7)

117 113 It has been over 2 years since we were fretting about whether Durham would drop indictments before the election.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 27, 2022 06:09 PM (VtqbX)

++++

Durham's job is to tie everything up with an investigation so that all relevant persons can say "I can't talk about an ongoing investigation" till forever.

Posted by: DFCtomm at September 27, 2022 06:11 PM (OHy0b)

118 since we were fretting about whether Durham would drop indictments before the election.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 27, 2022 06:09 PM (VtqbX)

—-

We? Lol. There was a small group that was guzzling #TwoWeeks shit. Most of us knew better.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 27, 2022 06:11 PM (+50w1)

119 As I said, the Second Republic was a far shakier entity so there is still reason to hope we avoid Spain's fate.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

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Sorry, I didn't catch the meaning of that part of your post at all. My bad

Posted by: Prime Sister at September 27, 2022 06:12 PM (tQL7r)

120 102 Can’t Durham subpoena Thibault in front of his GJ, under penalty?
Posted by: Zombie Ronald Reagan, please save us! at September 27, 2022 06:07 PM (SV0m2)

The grand jury whose term expired? That grand jury?

Posted by: blaster at September 27, 2022 06:12 PM (pwExq)

121 Magic eight ball says Hunter is the smartest guy Brandon knows.

Posted by: torabora at September 27, 2022 06:12 PM (Y274z)

122 A former Civil service employee can't be compelled to testify in front of congress, but they can be subpoenaed. And the current doj will say....nah bro, never mind your cool.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 27, 2022 05:57 PM (bVYXr)

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Steve Bannion didn't seem to get the favored treatment.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 27, 2022 06:13 PM (rDHuw)

123 Only federal employees are obligated to testify and, what a coincidence, he's not an employee any longer.

You say it like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Dr. Anthony Fauci at September 27, 2022 06:13 PM (Sv58p)

124 This can all be cured by wearing three masks and getting multiple boosters.

Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2022 06:13 PM (gmo/4)

125 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 27, 2022 06:13 PM (Zz0t1)

126 ""Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
- Lord Acton

In the current Administration, everyone from Biden on down, talks, behaves, and performs their jobs as if they are not answerable to Congress or the Federal Courts. Or to the voters. IMHO, this is the root cause of the problems in the FBI, IRS, and every other part of the Administration.

The day after the November 8th elections, Biden and his execrable associates will begin yelling that they will not cooperate with the new MAGA Congress on anything. They will say they will not work with anti-democrat insurrectionists who intend to destroy the wonderful America Joe is creating. What they will really mean is they don't give a damn care what a majority of voters want if they don't vote Democrat.

Biden and Company will ignore every Federal Court order to provide materials and testimony to Congressional Committees, for as long as the Courts let them.

The Democrats are lawless. We have only had a taste of it so far.

Posted by: Gref at September 27, 2022 06:13 PM (AMIL/)

127 There are also experiences that remind me I'm in Texas, like a dead snake's skin being tangled in my daughter's scooter wheels, a "beware of alligators" sign at a playground, armadillo sightings, a lack of road shoulders, and guns-and-ammo signs next to a pet store.

armadillo sightings NYC mom now in Texas

The dreaded armadillo. In NYC this is like the sta puff monster I guess!

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 27, 2022 06:14 PM (BRHaw)

128 Charge him with factual crimes in a court of law and discovery will destroy his fifth amendment protection.

Posted by: astonerii at September 27, 2022 06:14 PM (VcZlJ)

129 Congressional Republicans Demand Interview With FBI Agent Who Covered Up For Hunter Biden's Laptop

He'll refuse.

It's the "nanny nanny boo boo" and "neener neener" response.

Quite effective in these situations.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 27, 2022 06:14 PM (Zz0t1)

130 oooh fun there's a massive garbage fire in Philly

it's trash fire season! break out the cheesesteak spice!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 27, 2022 06:14 PM (w0NJk)

131 100 Prime Sister ST*U
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem

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Could you please repeat that in Latin? I did quite catch your drift, my liege.

Posted by: Prime Sister at September 27, 2022 06:14 PM (tQL7r)

132 How they justify this, I have no idea.

"Justification, to g*d-damned hell with justifications! We have no justifications! In fact, we don't need justifications. I don't have to show you any stinking justifications, you g*d-damned cabrón and chinga tu madre!"
-- Gold Hat Zuck

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2022 06:15 PM (a3Q+t)

133 It takes a lot of time to come up with a good idea I guess.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at September 27, 2022 06:15 PM (ytSiK)

134 In the current Administration, everyone from Biden on down, talks, behaves, and performs their jobs as if they are not answerable to Congress or the Federal Courts. Or to the voters. IMHO, this is the root cause of the problems in the FBI, IRS, and every other part of the Administration.

Posted by: Gref at September 27, 2022 06:13 PM (AMIL/)

++++++

SKYNET is self aware.

Posted by: DFCtomm at September 27, 2022 06:15 PM (OHy0b)

135 "Trump supporter who assaulted a D.C. police officer during Capitol riot sentenced to more than 7 years in prison."

I think this was the aluminum flagpole guy.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 27, 2022 06:15 PM (yikp0)

136 If Breitbart can be convicted for not answering a Congressional subpoena this guy can, right?

Posted by: blaster at September 27, 2022 06:16 PM (pwExq)

137
“Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace”
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A: No one.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2022 06:16 PM (krQz2)

138 126 ""Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
- Lord Acton

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Lord of Action, Newton.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 27, 2022 06:16 PM (BRHaw)

139 Sorry, I didn't catch the meaning of that part of your post at all. My bad

Posted by: Prime Sister at September 27, 2022 06:12 PM (tQL7r)
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Spain is probably the closest analogue to where we are because its revolution happened after prolonged peace. Parallels to Russia or Germany or China fail because years of total war predated the Communist takeover.

There are key differences, however. For one thing Spain's political system was not decentralized as ours, and while the US is showing some age, Spain's second republic was not even a decade old when the war came.

I think Long Live Death stands on its own as historical analysis, but part of what impelled me to write it in 2020 was the similarities I saw between then and now.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2022 06:16 PM (llXky)

140 Charge him with factual crimes in a court of law and discovery will destroy his fifth amendment protection.

Posted by: astonerii at September 27, 2022 06:14 PM

Serious question, who is going to charge him? Most certainty the current doj will not do anything, the fib....not happening. So who do you think is going to charge him with a crime?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 27, 2022 06:16 PM (bVYXr)

141 "Trump supporter who assaulted a D.C. police officer during Capitol riot sentenced to more than 7 years in prison."

I think this was the aluminum flagpole guy.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 27, 2022 06:15 PM (yikp0)

That's no jail time in NYC if your black or brown.

Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2022 06:17 PM (gmo/4)

142 102 Durham will do fuck all to the FBI and DOJ. You didn't really believe a Barr apppointee would have integrity, did you?

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2022 06:17 PM (Zzbjj)

143 How about that middle aged woman who assaulted their clubs with her head? If she wasn't dead she'd be looking at some serious jail time....

Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2022 06:17 PM (yezA1)

144 Was it when they were touting "criminal profiling," which has never undergone scientific scrutiny and is akin to astrology?
Posted by: bonhomme

Hey! That stuff is solid. I've watched MindHunter. They said so. And Anna Torv is hot.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 27, 2022 06:17 PM (g1EEm)

145 Bannon I meant.

Posted by: blaster at September 27, 2022 06:18 PM (pwExq)

146 This can all be cured by wearing three masks and getting multiple boosters.

What happens when the willing minions realize they got the same death jabs as the deplorables, that they were never part of the New World Order of 500 million? A popcorn shortage, that's what.

Posted by: t-bird at September 27, 2022 06:18 PM (amJF4)

147 141 or if you're BLM or Antifa on DC. Where is Joe Alcoff?

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2022 06:18 PM (Zzbjj)

148
In the current Administration, everyone from Biden on down, talks, behaves, and performs their jobs as if they are not answerable to Congress or the Federal Courts. Or to the voters. IMHO, this is the root cause of the problems in the FBI, IRS, and every other part of the Administration.

Silly rubes.

It's a system of writing checks and ledger balances.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 27, 2022 06:18 PM (Zz0t1)

149 Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
- Lord Acton

Incorrect. Power attracts sociopaths; absolute power attracts psychopaths.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2022 06:18 PM (IyrhE)

150 Use the Force, Egg McMuffin! Use the Force!

Juan Williams@TheJuanWilliams
What makes #Utah significant is that @EvanMcMullin win potentially opens a new way for politicians to get out of the rut of polarized, do-nothing, two-party politics. Think of Evan as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars trying to blow up the Empire’s starship.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at September 27, 2022 06:18 PM (FVME7)

151 > oooh fun there's a massive garbage fire in Philly

When the entire city is a garbage pile, fires tend to spread.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 27, 2022 06:19 PM (eyxn4)

152 Every MSM story on this is an exercise of deliberately ignoring the forest for the trees, e.g. "agent accused of prematurely closing a branch of the Hunter Biden investigation" as opposed to "massive conspiracy of the intelligence services to obstruct an investigation of the Democratic candidates influence peddling" or "conspiracy to commit fraud on the FISA court to spy on Republicans" etc etc

Posted by: Zek at September 27, 2022 06:19 PM (fsV7e)

153 140. Utterly naive or laughable?

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2022 06:19 PM (Zzbjj)

154
Come on! Come on! Everyone enter the FBI! We have to enter the building! Let's go!

Posted by: Ray Epps at September 27, 2022 06:19 PM (+oR7L)

155 What Grassley, et. al. need to do is set the Hunter laptop aside for a moment and command Steve Friend and Kyle Seraphin to testify about these things, and since they're still nominally employed they (and their bosses) can't refuse or prevaricate.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at September 27, 2022 06:19 PM (peMLN)

156 Serious question, who is going to charge him? Most certainty the current doj will not do anything, the fib....not happening. So who do you think is going to charge him with a crime?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 27, 2022 06:16 PM (bVYXr)
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State courts could step up. That would require them to want to, though.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2022 06:20 PM (llXky)

157 ... and just announce that They Are Now In Total Control?

We're in the Twilight Zone, and changing the channel is not allowed.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2022 06:20 PM (a3Q+t)

158 When the entire city is a garbage pile, fires tend to spread.
Posted by: bonhomme at September 27, 2022 06:19 PM (eyxn4)

++++++

It's a common enough occurrence in third world countries ..............

Posted by: DFCtomm at September 27, 2022 06:20 PM (OHy0b)

159 154. Our nation is on a ventilator.

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2022 06:21 PM (Zzbjj)

160 Nothing will happen. If
The GOPe was truly serious, they would go scorched earth and stop EVERYTHING. But. They are limp wristed, graf guzzling lying Motherfuckinghamsterfuckers who are enjoying becoming billionaires. Fuck
Them

Never another dime.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2022 06:21 PM (/fpim)

161 No two revolutions or civil wars are exactly alike, yet similar situations can come up.

Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2022 06:21 PM (xhxe8)

162 >>>Every year, in a tradition dating back to Herbert Hoover, each graduating class leaves Quantico, boards buses bound for NYC, and takes turn despoiling the wife of a prominent Irish-American broadcaster while he watches from a closet. It is the tie that binds our brotherhood.

>Don't forget the final initiation is to pick a random neighborhood and shoot a dog on a leash.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 27, 2022 06:22 PM (w2Z7l)

163 I think Long Live Death stands on its own as historical analysis, but part of what impelled me to write it in 2020 was the similarities I saw between then and now.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

////

Well, obviously, I need to read it

Posted by: Prime Sister at September 27, 2022 06:22 PM (tQL7r)

164 Make them all resign or face prosecution

Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2022 06:22 PM (xhxe8)

165 161 History never repeats. But it rhymes.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 27, 2022 06:22 PM (g1EEm)

166 156 Blue states will side with Garland, some redstates too.

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2022 06:22 PM (Zzbjj)

167 The sooner the DOJ and the FBI are abolished the sooner we get our freedoms back.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 27, 2022 06:22 PM (R/m4+)

168 When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary...

I wonder if we'll ever see that happen again in this country..

Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2022 06:22 PM (gmo/4)

169 What happens when the willing minions realize they got the same death jabs as the deplorables, that they were never part of the New World Order of 500 million?
Posted by: t-bird at September 27, 2022 06:18 PM

Nothing. According to plan, it's too late.

Posted by: The Elite at September 27, 2022 06:22 PM (a3Q+t)

170 This blurb at Insty tells you what's going on.
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IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Investigation into congressional stock trading reveals massive corruption red flags. “‘From 2019 to 2021, 183 current senators or representatives reported a trade of a stock or another financial asset by themselves or an immediate family member,’ the Times reports . ‘More than half of them sat on congressional committees that potentially gave them insight into the companies whose shares they reported buying or selling.’ The Times investigation also revealed that ‘44 of the 50 members of Congress who were most active in the markets bought or sold securities in companies over which their committee assignments could give them some degree of knowledge or influence.’”
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Suddenly Dan Crenshaw is so clear.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2022 06:23 PM (krQz2)

171 ""Trump supporter who assaulted a D.C. police officer during Capitol riot sentenced to more than 7 years in prison."

I'm still waiting for a good inventory of all those "Capitol police injuries." I would be 99% are made-up, fatass, donut-breathed whiny-bitch complaints like "PTSD" and "contusions."

It just amazes me that although there's been some push back over the bogus "Officer death" outright lies, the "scores of injured officers" crap just seems to be unquestioned and repeated.

Posted by: Zek at September 27, 2022 06:23 PM (fsV7e)

172 What Grassley, et. al. need to do is set the Hunter laptop aside for a moment and command Steve Friend and Kyle Seraphin to testify about these things, and since they're still nominally employed they (and their bosses) can't refuse or prevaricate.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at September 27, 2022 06:19 PM

obama's wingman eric holder refused to cooperate or appear in front of a republican controlled congress after he was subpoenaed and was impeached for that, absolutely nothing happened to him. Nothing is going to happen to anyone even if Trump wins in 2024.

That's a pipe dream.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 27, 2022 06:23 PM (bVYXr)

173 164. And who will prosecute?

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2022 06:23 PM (Zzbjj)

174 164 Make them all resign or face prosecution
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2022 06:22 PM (xhxe

++++++

Funny, but I heard execute them all.

Posted by: DFCtomm at September 27, 2022 06:23 PM (OHy0b)

175 Don't forget the final initiation is to pick a random neighborhood and shoot a dog on a leash.
Posted by: Dr. Bone

To get on the promotion fast-track, shoot the dog's owner in the back as he is fleeing.

If the owner is a minor? FBI Director material.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 27, 2022 06:24 PM (g1EEm)

176
The networks will never cover a J6 type committee run by Republicans. EVER. It will be relegated to CSPAN, if they don't somehow find a way to cut coverage of it. The dirty shennanigans of our intelligence community must be brought to light and shown to the world.

Posted by: portlandon at September 27, 2022 06:24 PM (+oR7L)

177 The USPS is monitoring people's social media, the FBI is doing intelligence operations and the IRS has guns and ammo.

This isn't going to end well.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 27, 2022 06:24 PM (Zz0t1)

178 Suddenly Dan Crenshaw is so clear.
Posted by: Axeman

It's not like he hid it. Couldn't believe it when he came out with that.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 27, 2022 06:25 PM (g1EEm)

179 If The GOPe was truly serious, they would go scorched earth and stop EVERYTHING.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2022 06:21 PM (/fpim)
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They don't even need to do that. They could just use "regular orders" and pass each budget in turn as a separate item. You put the easy ones up first, and there's not much a president can do about it. What, you're going to veto the defense budget in April because you demand the DoJ get funded first? Yeah, that will work in terms of messaging.

Do each department and require them to produce witnesses or you push them to the back of the line. The power of the purse is devastating but the GOP has literally given it away.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2022 06:25 PM (llXky)

180 there's a massive garbage fire in Philly

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 27, 2022 06:14 PM (w0NJk)
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Why wouldn't Philly consist of its essence?

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2022 06:25 PM (krQz2)

181 All of this is depressing, maybe Friday, the entire day can be devoted to cute animals, Dadarrio v Gillan, Gainz, Is this something and Queensryche threads.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 27, 2022 06:26 PM (up/3i)

182 I remember Obama admin people appearing at congressional hearings, they were openly contemptuous

Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2022 06:26 PM (yezA1)

183 Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2022 06:21 PM

nurse, you are far too perspicacious and pulchritudinous to be so cynical.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2022 06:26 PM (a3Q+t)

184 I remember Obama admin people appearing at congressional hearings, they were openly contemptuous
Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2022 06:26 PM (yezA1)

and perjurous.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 27, 2022 06:27 PM (yQpMk)

185 The GOP are democrats and actors. They hate us.

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2022 06:27 PM (Zzbjj)

186 FBI convicted of evidence tapering. Sentenced to 90 minutes of jaw boning from congress.

Posted by: Regular joe at September 27, 2022 06:27 PM (nnp+f)

187 I remember Obama admin people appearing at congressional hearings, they were openly contemptuous

Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2022 06:26 PM (yezA1)
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Because they knew the GOP was just doing it for show.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2022 06:28 PM (llXky)

188 A Republican seat in Congress is still a seat at the table of insider trading and massive portfolio enhancement.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2022 06:28 PM (krQz2)

189 187. Failure theater. Always.

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2022 06:28 PM (Zzbjj)

190 How about that middle aged woman who assaulted their clubs with her head? If she wasn't dead she'd be looking at some serious jail time...
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Dig her up and try her anyway.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 27, 2022 06:29 PM (yikp0)

191 "pulchritudinous" is a candidate for the English word with the largest gap between its true meaning and the meaning you guess when you don't know its definition.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 27, 2022 06:29 PM (g1EEm)

192 Our nation is on a ventilator.
Posted by: CN at September 27, 2022 06:21 PM (Zzbjj)
........

We've been intubated.

Posted by: wth at September 27, 2022 06:29 PM (v0R5T)

193 186. Or until Wray walks out to hop a plane for a ski trip

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2022 06:29 PM (Zzbjj)

194 The GOP are democrats and actors. They hate us.

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2022 06:27 PM (Zzbjj)
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They are terrified of actual conservatives getting elected and holding their feet to the fire. That's why McConnell wants to lose Arizona rather than deal with Blake Masters.

It's also why he killed the stimulus just before the Georgia runoff in 2020 - he preferred iron control of the minority to a majority that might defy him.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2022 06:30 PM (llXky)

195 As soon as the GOP has a majority:
Of course, impeachment is off the table

Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2022 06:30 PM (yezA1)

196 Sentenced to 90 minutes of jaw boning from congress.
Posted by: Regular joe at September 27, 2022 06:27 PM

Sorry, gotta plane to catch and a vacation to take. Ta ta!

Posted by: Chris Wray at September 27, 2022 06:30 PM (a3Q+t)

197 > Hey! That stuff is solid. I've watched MindHunter. They said so. And Anna Torv is hot.

Mindhunter did a pretty good job of showing how criminal profiling isn't scientific. When Torv's character tried to unify their questionnaire and make it more rigorous, they only get partway through reading some of the questions in a single interview before abandoning the script. Of course they do this because the interview subject isn't fully cooperative and won't answer unless they want to. But the point is, that gets tossed.

They also have the tale of the school Principal who is behaving questionably. You remember the "nickels for tickles" guy? Was he a kiddy diddler? Maybe. Maybe not. But on the reluctant and somewhat non-committal say so of the agent, the Principal gets fired.

The agent also has a conversation with his girlfriend in which she laments how "prosaic" it is there's a trend of serial killers who are, to some extent, created by their awful, single-mother parent. Does that trend hold in every case in such a way one could use that information as evidence? No, but it's one of the more useful trends they uncover. But again, it's not enough to be truly useful.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 27, 2022 06:30 PM (eyxn4)

198 I get tired of watching reruns of DC Kabuki, don’t you?

Posted by: epador at September 27, 2022 06:30 PM (BbSpR)

199 Prime Sister -It's a good read

Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2022 06:30 PM (xhxe8)

200 If
The GOPe was truly serious, they would go scorched earth and stop EVERYTHING. But. They are limp wristed, graf guzzling lying Motherfuckinghamsterfuckers who are enjoying becoming billionaires. Fuck
Them

Never another dime.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2022 06:21 PM (/fpim)

I just got an email from Dan Crenshaw begging for money.

LULZ!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 27, 2022 06:30 PM (Zz0t1)

201 Ukraine-simps are now claiming that the real target of the sabotage attacks was the new Baltic gas pipeline (that opened today) that brings gas from Norway to Poland, and runs near Bornholm Island.

Their theory apparently is that the Russians blew up their own pipelines three times by mistake.

Interestingly, just as the Nordstream pipelines avoided Poland, the Baltic pipeline avoids Germany.

Not a lot of trust within the EU.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 27, 2022 06:31 PM (I2/tG)

202 The power of the purse is devastating but the GOP has literally given it away.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2022 06:25 PM (llXky)

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Foreign government, multinational corporate, multi-billionaire, and K Street power of the purse > Congressional power of the purse.

Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 27, 2022 06:31 PM (kwxAU)

203 Weird: Even though Hollywood churned out a contemptible stew of reboots and woke garbage, the September box office was still the worst it's been in 25 years

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It's a pity.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at September 27, 2022 06:31 PM (FVME7)

204 194. They will just investigate such conservatives and refuse to work with them ( See Paul Ryan)

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2022 06:32 PM (Zzbjj)

205 off topic, noticed at zero hedge:

U.S. Blew Up Russian Gas Pipelines Nord Stream 1 & 2, Says Former Polish Defense Minister

[just wanted to note this here]

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 27, 2022 06:32 PM (kFrCu)

206 Mitch McConnell is Chuck Schumer without the charisma.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 27, 2022 06:32 PM (w2Z7l)

207 203 What? I heard that The Woman King is a triumph....

Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2022 06:33 PM (yezA1)

208 206 Schumer has charisma? Cute

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2022 06:33 PM (Zzbjj)

209 Murse > Foreign government, multinational corporate, multi-billionaire, and K Street power of the purse > Congressional power of the purse.

Posted by: wth at September 27, 2022 06:33 PM (v0R5T)

210 Investigation into congressional stock trading reveals massive corruption red flags. “‘From 2019 to 2021, 183 current senators or representatives reported a trade of a stock or another financial asset by themselves or an immediate family member,’ the Times reports . ‘More than half of them sat on congressional committees that potentially gave them insight into the companies whose shares they reported buying or selling.’ The Times investigation also revealed that ‘44 of the 50 members of Congress who were most active in the markets bought or sold securities in companies over which their committee assignments could give them some degree of knowledge or influence.’”
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I read that earlier as well. We're all peasants in their power game that makes them filthy rich on OUR backs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 27, 2022 06:33 PM (Zz0t1)

211 Our nation is on a ventilator.
Posted by: CN at September 27, 2022 06:21 PM (Zzbjj)
........

We've been intubated.
Posted by: wth

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And here comes the Remsdesivir.

Posted by: Prime Sister at September 27, 2022 06:33 PM (tQL7r)

212 While the House bill has a number of similarities with the Senate's version, including ensuring the vice president only has a ministerial role in overseeing a joint session of Congress approving state-certified electoral results, it differs in some of its details. Among the differences: The number of lawmakers who would be required to force the House and Senate to vote to overturn a state's certified electoral results and the procedures for resolving election disputes in federal courts.

But...uh, wasn't that the crux of the Dems screeching? That the VP role was only ceremonial and Pence had no real power. Now the law has to change to state that?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 27, 2022 06:33 PM (VtqbX)

213 They will just investigate such conservatives and refuse to work with them ( See Paul Ryan)

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2022 06:32 PM (Zzbjj)
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We owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to Paul Ryan because his speakership showed that the True Conservatives never believed a damn thing they said.

His "fiscal blueprint" was a baldfaced lie, designed to gull the rubes and more than anything else, he proved that the GOPe hated, really hated, its base.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2022 06:34 PM (llXky)

214 205 Twitter has been saying that for hours.

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2022 06:34 PM (Zzbjj)

215 -------
I still can't believe he subjected our envoys to anal swab covid tests.
Posted by: 496
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You should have heard the giggling.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at September 27, 2022 06:34 PM (PAY0n)

216 We're all peasants in their power game that makes them filthy rich on OUR backs.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 27, 2022 06:33 PM

Welcome to Serfin' U.S.A.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2022 06:35 PM (a3Q+t)

217 And here comes the Remsdesivir.

Posted by: Prime Sister at September 27, 2022 06:33 PM (tQL7r)
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Delivered by suppository.

Wait, if the doctor's hands are on my shoulders, how is he inserting the meds?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2022 06:35 PM (llXky)

218 Ha.

So Pence DID have the ability to point out that the states were not adhering to the constitution and there needed to be time to resolve the issue?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at September 27, 2022 06:35 PM (o1GgP)

219 How many Americans does it take to screw in a light bulb?

One, but they are illegal.

Posted by: wth at September 27, 2022 06:35 PM (v0R5T)

220 re 214: must be true then. Russian bots trying help Biden widen the war. (or not)

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 27, 2022 06:36 PM (kFrCu)

221 Serfin' U.S.A.

*

Holy crap I'm making that bumper sticker right now.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at September 27, 2022 06:36 PM (o1GgP)

222 213. We owe him and his ilk the mess we have now, I feel not one bit of gratitude to that smirking schmuck

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2022 06:36 PM (Zzbjj)

223 Why do Americans bury their dead with the butts in the air?

So they have some place to park their electric bicycles.

Posted by: wth at September 27, 2022 06:36 PM (v0R5T)

224 U.S. Blew Up Russian Gas Pipelines Nord Stream 1 & 2, Says Former Polish Defense Minister

He's not just the former Polish defense minister, he is also married to Anne Applebaum, who is a key figure in the "crush Russia" group of American neoconservatives.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 27, 2022 06:37 PM (I2/tG)

225
Ukraine-simps are now claiming that the real target of the sabotage attacks was the new Baltic gas pipeline (that opened today) that brings gas from Norway to Poland, and runs near Bornholm Island.

Their theory apparently is that the Russians blew up their own pipelines three times by mistake.

Interestingly, just as the Nordstream pipelines avoided Poland, the Baltic pipeline avoids Germany.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 27, 2022 06:31 PM

This is why I'm advising caution about the 'some assembly required' portion of this conspiracy theory. It doesn't make strategic sense for just about everyone who looks at the map and looks at the direction of the flow of natural gas. But 'fvcking up' is always up near the top of options to first consider.

I'm gonna give it another 48 hours.

Posted by: Uncle Leo - I'm an old man. I'm confused. at September 27, 2022 06:37 PM (y3pKJ)

226 from each according to his ability, to each according to his need [the modern religion. Pelosi isn't leaving that gated community for a green friendly apartment]

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 27, 2022 06:37 PM (kFrCu)

227 Ha.

So Pence DID have the ability to point out that the states were not adhering to the constitution and there needed to be time to resolve the issue?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at September 27, 2022 06:35 PM (o1GgP)

Of course he did. He got the coin for is efforts, remember.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 27, 2022 06:38 PM (Zz0t1)

228 Ooooo... they DEMANDED? Well, that is an escalation! Guess it makes a change from hearings where they are blown off for weekend plans and strongly worded letter.
P

Posted by: Lady Lil at September 27, 2022 06:38 PM (0WGkK)

229 Election year posturing. Fuck them.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 27, 2022 06:38 PM (aursc)

230 What we DON'T need is a national police force. Dissolve the FBI and DOJ. Prosecute the directors and fire the underlings, without benefits or retirement, unless retiring to some state prison to act as a penis warmer for thugs.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 27, 2022 06:38 PM (QSjkU)

231 Biden and his cabinet want to destroy the country as fast as possible. I wouldn't put it past them to blow the pipeline to get there.

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2022 06:39 PM (Zzbjj)

232 Just a reminder that larger forces are at work.

Things can be overwhelming, demoralizing, but do not let that separate you from God.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2022 06:39 PM (llXky)

233 Forty whistleblowers have shown up and talked to Congress and all we get is another blistering letter?

GOP, you're on very thin ice with us.

Posted by: Ultra pj at September 27, 2022 06:39 PM (G1dq6)

234 Are UDYs officially known as Frogpeople now?

Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2022 06:39 PM (yezA1)

235 UDTs

Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2022 06:39 PM (yezA1)

236 two roosters are having sex. They both voted for Biden in Philadelphia. And Atlanta. The end

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 27, 2022 06:40 PM (kFrCu)

237 227 did somebody mention a 4M book deal?

Posted by: Two Pence the fraud at September 27, 2022 06:40 PM (Zzbjj)

238 He's not just the former Polish defense minister, he is also married to Anne Applebaum, who is a key figure in the "crush Russia" group of American neoconservatives.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 27, 2022 06:37 PM (I2/tG)
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Also a rabid Never Trumper.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2022 06:40 PM (llXky)

239 S. Blew Up Russian Gas Pipelines Nord Stream 1 & 2, Says Former Polish Defense Minister

[just wanted to note this here]
Posted by: gnat

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Didn't he write that in the form of a thank you note??

Posted by: Prime Sister at September 27, 2022 06:40 PM (tQL7r)

240 Must be challenging to work on the algorithms that find the stuff about Agent Friend. "Friend" is a very common word and a simple matching routine won't work.

It has to search for the context that the word is used in along with a number of other qualifiers to determine the context of the other sentences.

I'm sure they have metrics on anyone posting as to the likelihood of them being concerned about this through pervious postings.

Yes, everyone has been identified as to their politics and how important it is to them.

It's a big list, and we are on it.

Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2022 06:41 PM (wsHtO)

241 When the congressional Repubs made that demand, did they stamp their feet, too?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2022 06:41 PM (Wnv9h)

242 The news is interesting these days for what's missing. Turmoil in a China? Crickets. Pipeline rupture after initial reporting? Nada. It's as if newsflow is being controlled.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at September 27, 2022 06:41 PM (AaLDK)

243 His "fiscal blueprint" was a baldfaced lie, designed to gull the rubes and more than anything else, he proved that the GOPe hated, really hated, its base.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2022 06:34 PM (llXky)

Yup...I still see those stacks and stacks of paper for his so-called "balanced budget" bullshit. Haunts me in my dreams.
First the bugle calls, then the funny budget speak, then ream after ream of paper coming at me from all directions. I could stack all the paper like sandbags until the next wave.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 27, 2022 06:41 PM (R/m4+)

244 Pence was the Fifth column the establishment installed in the Trump admin

Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2022 06:42 PM (yezA1)

245 218 Ha.

So Pence DID have the ability to point out that the states were not adhering to the constitution and there needed to be time to resolve the issue?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask
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Between that and him hand picking assassins to help Trump and his pay grade he should be the first to be tried. His trial should be an example to all others for what is to befall them.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at September 27, 2022 06:42 PM (PAY0n)

246 Maybe someday we can get a law that says the FBI can only investigate things like bank robbery and interstate drug dealing and sex rings.

fat chance.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 27, 2022 06:42 PM (kFrCu)

247 It is all lies. China, Ukraine, US. I believe nothing.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 27, 2022 06:42 PM (VtqbX)

248 The FIB is still covering up the laptop. Haul that person's ass in for grilling.

Posted by: Valiant at September 27, 2022 06:42 PM (cy2xC)

249 Hiya

Posted by: JT at September 27, 2022 06:42 PM (T4tVD)

250 FBI needs to investigate the lower reaches of Hell.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 27, 2022 06:43 PM (QSjkU)

251 https://tinyurl.com/2unkau3d
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2022 06:43 PM (xhxe8)

252 You'll be happy to know the senate will pass another CR in which the American people get nothing and the Ukrainians get another $12 billion.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 27, 2022 06:43 PM (vBMpQ)

253 FBI = KGB

Posted by: runner at September 27, 2022 06:44 PM (V13WU)

254 Nick Rekieta got suspended by Twitter today. He said it's probably permanent.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 27, 2022 06:44 PM (xPl2J)

255 The FIB is still covering up the laptop. Haul that person's ass in for ~~grilling~~ waterboarding.
Posted by: Valiant at September 27, 2022 06:42 PM

FIFY.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2022 06:44 PM (Wnv9h)

256 Gee. I think we should condemn Rep. Jim Jordan, and Senators Grassley and Johnson for ONLY writing letters.

They need to do more!

They should follow our lead and sit on the fat flabby over 29 year old backsides and rant and comment anonymously on a web blog.

Yeah, that’s what we need more of.

*

I know you meant to do something else, but you literally pointed out that they aren't doing anything more than WE are.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at September 27, 2022 06:44 PM (o1GgP)

257 Where's all the weepy eco-warriors in parkas scrubbing down a table full of gassy birds with Dawn dish soap?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 27, 2022 06:44 PM (8/xHD)

258 More Polish jokes about America for your enjoyment.

The American government is planning a manned space mission to the sun. When asked if they were afraid the mission would end in disaster they responded:
"No, we're not worried, we're going at night."

Posted by: wth at September 27, 2022 06:45 PM (v0R5T)

259 anyway, given the Russians recent record on some things, the gas pipe explosions could just be to due corruption and graft. Good pipelines could fetch a lot of money on the black market.

But I won't be so sad if a lot of Germans freeze their kolyecheks off this winter. Shoulda listened to Trump.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 27, 2022 06:45 PM (kFrCu)

260
If you can throw a switch and cut off the supply of natural gas to Germany and Poland IN Russia, why in the hell would you blow up the pipeline in the Baltic Sea AFTER it has passed through Germany and Poland?

Logic people. Slow down and look at a map. I have no clue who did it, but it doesn't make sense. Certainly not enough sense to start hurling nukes around.

Tell me Soros is behind it and I might give it a thought.

Posted by: Uncle Leo - I'm an old man. I'm confused. at September 27, 2022 06:46 PM (y3pKJ)

261 I like the one about the Cessna crash in the cemetery and 700 bodies had been recovered so far.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at September 27, 2022 06:46 PM (o1GgP)

262 Where's all the weepy eco-warriors in parkas scrubbing down a table full of gassy birds with Dawn dish soap?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 27, 2022 06:44 PM (8/xHD)
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Not a single person involved in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill went to prison. Not one.

All the deaths, ecological damage, and yet...nada.

BP paid handsomely for that and the Greenies accepted their blood money.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2022 06:46 PM (llXky)

263 It just amazes me that although there's been some push back over the bogus "Officer death" outright lies, the "scores of injured officers" crap just seems to be unquestioned and repeated.
_____________

My understanding is there were significantly more injuries to law enforcement when BLM had the run of DC a few months earlier than the Jan6 dustup.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 27, 2022 06:46 PM (fs1hN)

264 pipeline...I would look at the party that:

1. has the capability
2. Benefits
3. has means to get away with it on international stage

Posted by: runner at September 27, 2022 06:46 PM (V13WU)

265 U.S. Blew Up Russian Gas Pipelines Nord Stream 1 & 2, Says Former Polish Defense Minister

Surprisingly, he hasn't taken his tweet down thanking the United States for sabotaging the pipelines. He followed that up with a retweet of Biden's February statement promising to shut down Nordstream 2 in the event of an invasion of Ukraine.

He then followed that up with: BTW, there's no shortage of pipeline capacity for taking gas from Russia to Western Europe, including Germany. Nordstream's only logic was for Putin to be able to blackmail or wage war on Eastern Europe with impunity.

How dare you construct a pipeline that avoids Poland! All Ukrainian and Baltic sea states have opposed Nordstream's construction for 20 years.
Now $20 billion of scrap metal lies at the bottom of the sea, another cost to Russia of its criminal decision to invade Ukraine. Someone, @MFA_Russia (Russian Foreign Ministry), did a special maintenance operation.

He's a happy camper.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 27, 2022 06:46 PM (I2/tG)

266 re 258: why did the Warsaw Zoo close? The monkey escaped.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 27, 2022 06:46 PM (kFrCu)

267 Has anyone interviewed the laptop yet?

Posted by: kraken at September 27, 2022 06:46 PM (Vr12I)

268 This is the game where the repubs pretend to care about for the forty days before the election, then they forget all about it again.

We knew every bit of this 2 years ago. So did they.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2022 06:46 PM (r46W7)

269 I know you meant to do something else, but you literally pointed out that they aren't doing anything more than WE are.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at September 27, 2022 06:44 PM (o1GgP)

Oh shit, i just remembered, i actually AM in the U.S. Senate! Crap... i have missed soooooo many votes.... hopefully i can get Mitch to give me a deadline extension.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 27, 2022 06:46 PM (8/xHD)

270 Zerohedge is a known Russian propaganda site. You can bet that whatever they say about Russian culpability is usually the opposite.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 27, 2022 06:47 PM (vBMpQ)

271 Well, when it gets hot, I can roll down the window.

Posted by: Pollock joke punchlines at September 27, 2022 06:47 PM (aursc)

272 Where's all the weepy eco-warriors in parkas scrubbing down a table full of gassy birds with Dawn dish soap?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 27, 2022 06:44 PM

I'd laugh if someone took a pic with birds and a bottle of simethicone.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2022 06:47 PM (Wnv9h)

273 pipeline...I would look at the party that:

1. has the capability
2. Benefits
3. has means to get away with it on international stage
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2022 06:46 PM

I think 3 rules out the Brandon Administration. Is there anything they haven't fucked up?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2022 06:50 PM (Wnv9h)

274 If the repubs go back to regular order i.e. putting spending bills on each department, debating than up or down vote on each one, things might begin to change. They made some noises about this in the Obama years, but when Ryan was handed the levers, he passed. I'm guessing McCarthy didn't mention this in his new contract with America. So I guess we'll never get back to how congress was supposed to work.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 27, 2022 06:50 PM (fs1hN)

275 Team GOP, channeling SouthPark's BP:
"We're sorry"

...Or Henry Jones:
"I'm Sorry, Son...They Got Us"

....Or Galadriel, LOTR:
"But They Were All Of Them Deceived"

Posted by: geewhiz at September 27, 2022 06:50 PM (XjuKB)

276 256 Gee. I think we should condemn Rep. Jim Jordan, and Senators Grassley and Johnson for ONLY writing letters.

Yeah! Just wait until the GOP has the WH, house and senate and has a straight shooter as AG and FBI head!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 27, 2022 06:50 PM (VtqbX)

277 another classic Polish Joke (could also be an Italian joke): Why wasn't Jesus born in Poland? They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 27, 2022 06:50 PM (kFrCu)

278 pipeline...I would look at the party that:

1. has the capability
2. Benefits
3. has means to get away with it on international stage

*

Promised repeatedly at multiple levels to perform this act of war.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at September 27, 2022 06:50 PM (o1GgP)

279 How do you sink an American warship?

Let the women drive.

Posted by: wth at September 27, 2022 06:51 PM (v0R5T)

280 Zerohedge is a known Russian propaganda site.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 27, 2022 06:47 PM (vBMpQ)
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Is that a feature or a bug?

I mean our own government spent years lying about Russian culpability, so I'm not sure that actual Russia is less credible at this point.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2022 06:51 PM (llXky)

281 270 Zerohedge is a known Russian propaganda site.
___________

How is this determined?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 27, 2022 06:51 PM (fs1hN)

282 For those who haven't seen it:

Alana Mastrangelo @ARmastrangelo · 9h
LMAO. Right after Giorgia Meloni won, CNN had on her rival, Matteo Renzi, hoping he'd call her a fascist.

“She is my rival and we will continue to fight each other, but the idea that now there is a risk of fascism in Italy is absolutely fake news.” —Renzi

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 27, 2022 06:51 PM (yikp0)

283 As I (vaguely) recall, State/Commerce/Justice came after Defense anyway.

And as I've noted to TJM when the topic comes up, yet again I think I vastly under-appreciated the degradation in the civic culture and political situation when I (like he and others) was putting priority on the GOP returning to regular order in appropriations under Trump. Because the sort of political discipline that that sort of thing imposed in decades past has just ..... evaporated. Doesn't matter.

The idiotic racist-totalitarians and their reckless enablers/pilot fish simply pay no political price, in the end. Not enough voters have the civic intelligence or info or focus to change things.

Topic of this post is a good example. A mega-scandal to match that of the Ulra Mega Scandal of the mulit-faceted rolling coup against Trump. Go check and see how many people know about/understand any of it.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2022 06:51 PM (OTzUX)

284 Noodlum. Hurricanes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2022 06:52 PM (Wnv9h)

285 One conclusion we can draw from the pipeline story; we've been talking a lot about how Germany is going to have a bad, frozen winter with most of their industry shut down. Someone just pulled a black op with their military to guarantee it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2022 06:52 PM (r46W7)

286 ZH is full of antisemites. But it has some good articles.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 27, 2022 06:53 PM (VtqbX)

287 These jumped up rent boys with their flowbee haircuits can take their precious little "contracts" and shove them up their asses and around the corner. We, The People, already have a contract with you jocksniffers. Honor that one first, and stop making a damned mockery of it, before you go waving new paperwork in our faces.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 27, 2022 06:53 PM (8/xHD)

288 Yeah being the MKVD/MKGB/KGB/Stasi is all fun and games. Until someone remembers that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote (you know the one). Suddenly, that power trip and pension aren't such a great deal. I foresee a Ruby Ridge/Branch Davidian media circus coming soon. Maybe an October surprise

Posted by: Stacy0311 at September 27, 2022 06:54 PM (VfLe7)

289 "Did you hear about Jose? He opened up a jewelry store after just one month in America."

"How did he do that?"

"With a crowbar."

Posted by: wth at September 27, 2022 06:55 PM (v0R5T)

290 3. has means to get away with it on international stage
Posted by: runner
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Howard Hughes built a ship that picked up a Russian Sub off the bottom of the ocean.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at September 27, 2022 06:55 PM (PAY0n)

291 Between Anne Applebaum's husband and National Google Review ecstatically celebrating the sabotage of the pipeline, I think that it's pretty clear who benefits from the sabotage.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 27, 2022 06:55 PM (I2/tG)

292 251 #16 video is hilarious

Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2022 06:55 PM (xhxe8)

293 270 Zerohedge is a known Russian propaganda site. You can bet that whatever they say about Russian culpability is usually the opposite.
Posted by: Marcus T at September 27, 2022 06:47 PM (vBMpQ)

++++

I don't know about that. They are certainly anti-Global American Empire, yes we are ruled by the GAE. Don't worry your pretty little head about it, you've came this far imagine how far you'll be next year.

Posted by: DFCtomm at September 27, 2022 06:58 PM (OHy0b)

294 magic 8 ball got it in the top 10, what more is there to say ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at September 27, 2022 06:59 PM (8oyo2)

295 I think that it's pretty clear who benefits from the sabotage.
Posted by: The ARC of History
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Who?

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at September 27, 2022 06:59 PM (PAY0n)

296 "The FBI should immediately cease the disciplinary actions it is actively taking to punish Special Agent Friend for his protected whistleblowing activity," the senators wrote.

There's the hitch because more than likely, he was not disciplined for "protected whistleblowing activity." Further, whatever was going between Special Agent Friend and management didn't arise in just one week & there are also paths for employee complaints which must generally be fully pursued by the employee before going to Congress.

As long as Friend is a fed, he loses. It's a lonely path and his working relationships will never be the same. If he walks but stays quiet (maybe with an NDA), he may have a chance picking up decent outside employment.

And you're right about Timothy Thibault. He doesn't have to testify as a "civilian" although he's now attached to another Federal agency as a retiree - the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

Lastly, another "whistleblower" in another time (the time of Trump) - alleged to be Eric Carmella - was not a fed at the time of the complaint nor was his name purposefully revealed by Congress.

Posted by: Lola at September 27, 2022 07:09 PM (NIYa7)

297 meh, nordstream is not scrap metal, there are ways of repairing it ... not easy, nor cheap, but totally doable.
... if the will to do it exists, lol.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at September 27, 2022 07:10 PM (8oyo2)

298 297 meh, nordstream is not scrap metal, there are ways of repairing it ..
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Flanges

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at September 27, 2022 07:11 PM (PAY0n)

299 That whistle-blower looks a lot like that rent-a-cop crisis actor who was necking with Don Lemon and Acosta.

Posted by: Aged and confused at September 27, 2022 07:41 PM (Cdl5X)

300 Stock markets crash against the specter of thermonuclear war. All the stars are aligned for the Democrats to take a beating in the mid-terms. A red tide. Republican majorities in the Senate and the House.

Sigh

Posted by: Oglebay at September 27, 2022 09:48 PM (wscPk)

301 The DOJ and FBI have gone full Stasi in support of the Deep State:

American Thinker:

Raid on Mar-a-Lago: Judge Cannon Stands in the Breach Against the Deep State

https://tinyurl.com/3m3nc3uf

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