FBI's Response to the Twitter Files Does Not Dispute Any Factual Allegation, But Slanders Any American Discussing These Facts and Faulting Their Eager Involvement in Censorship As "Conspiracy Theorists"

And as we know, "conspiracy theorists" are eligible to be deplatformed, so Christopher Wray is gearing up for his next round of bannings.

Michael Shellenberger:

The FBI yesterday responded to the evidence I unearthed in Twitter Files Part 7 suggesting that the FBI may have covered up the Hunter Biden laptop and waged a disinformation campaign aimed at persuading news organizations, social media platforms Twitter and Facebook, and voters that the Hunter Biden laptop was a product of a Russian "hack and leak" operation.
"The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries," said the FBI. "It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency."

The FBI has "traditionally" engaged in censorship operations with Big Tech?

Could it be that the FBI is eager to debate "theories" because it wants to avoid the facts? Consider three key ones:
* The FBI took Hunter Biden's laptop in December 2019 and always knew it was real and didn't come from hacking.
* The FBI spent most of 2020 telling Twitter's senior executives that a "hack-and-leak" involving Hunter Biden would occur in October 2020.
* The FBI was spying on Rudy Giuliani when he gave a copy of Hunter Biden's laptop hard drive to The New York Post.

It's true that we don't know if the FBI agents who warned Twitter of a "hack-and-leak" operation involving Hunter Biden also knew that a) the FBI had Biden's laptop and b) Giuliani was giving it to The New York Post. But they didn't need to know that. They could have simply been following orders from higher-level executives.
Moreover, it was precisely the job of those higher-level executives at FBI to know of all FBI operations, including the investigation of the Hunter Biden laptop, the surveillance of Giuliani, and the warnings to Twitter and Facebook executives of a hack-and-leak operation. And that fact alone is enough for Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel, and for Congress to investigate.

I'm going to demand to know who wrote this defamatory statement -- and who approved it.

Shellenberger further wrote:

Michael Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
At this point, members of Congress should be extremely concerned that FBI is engaged in a cover-up. There needs to be an aggressive investigation of the apparent politicization of the FBI by Congress, and perhaps even a Special Counsel in the DoJ to investigate what happened.
"One way we could get the FBI in front of the committee is to say, 'We're not giving you a penny until you all explain to us what this task force was and why you told Twitter to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story when you knew darn well it was true'" @RepJamesComer
"Congress never authorized FBI to do this. Gov't has no business censoring speech whether it's liberal speech or conservative speech. They have no business doing it. This is another act by the deep state out of control." @JamesComer
The Twitter Files have confirmed the widespread suspicion that the FBI has behaved inappropriately in its relationship to social media companies. Now, Congress needs to find out if it also behaved illegally.

Via streiff, this from J. Michael Waller:

It’s apparent that FBI was going after protected First Amendment free speech & not criminal or hostile intelligence activity. FBI uses the word ‘misinformation’ - signifying no malicious or criminal intent - instead of ‘disinformation,’ which is an intelligence tradecraft term.
— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) December 17, 2022

That is a critical, critical point: It is not using the tools it has available for going after criminal activity, because it has none. It is using instead a suite of tools it has for harassing people for legal activity it merely disapproves of and wants to frighten them into stopping.

People are going to have to go to jail.

No, not under Biden. But under the next President.

I'm afraid Christopher Wray is going to have to make due without that government pension he has been counting on.

🚨BREAKING: The FBI responds to @elonmusk releasing the Twitter files:

"It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency." pic.twitter.com/U18JYkNptV
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 21, 2022

Shockingly -- or, I suppose, not shockingly at all -- David French claims the FBI didn't "coerce" Twitter at all, but merely "convinced" them to censor. So this isn't state censorship.

He ignores completely the "joint action" route to corporate behavior becoming state action.

If a 1A attorney cannot see coercion in FBI requiring written responses fr Twitter execs explaining why they are not carrying out actions FBI desired, that is shocking. Watch this clip of GWU law prof @JonathanTurley explaining FBI censorship by proxy.pic.twitter.com/8NyLTDagFY https://t.co/HE3RofSUQh
— Megan Basham (@megbasham) December 21, 2022

You need to remember three things: 1, David French is and always has been a trash lawyer, 2, David French is a hopeless partisan always making claims about what he wants the law to be based on who he wants to win the current Twitter argument he's in, and 3, all the companies David French works for are being paid by Big Tech to shill for them. They don't want to be found to be in a joint action conspiracy with the government any more than the FBI does.

This Krebs guy has a reason to pretend to be convinced by David French: He was part of the "wargame" that instructed Big Tech executives to shut down any October Hunter Biden story.

Also note Krebs is affiliated w/ Aspen Institute. As Twitter files showed, org ran exercises in Oct 2020 w/ Twitter execs on how/why to suppress foreign "propaganda" about Hunter's foreign business deals. He has reason to downplay seriousness of story.https://t.co/Anzhz5Zk6l
— Megan Basham (@megbasham) December 21, 2022

Posted by: Ace at 12:00 PM

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1
Primus

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2022 12:00 PM (MoZTd)

2 Horrible

Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 12:01 PM (Zzbjj)

3 Morning Ace.
Been waiting for you.❤️

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2022 12:01 PM (Y+l9t)

4
Now to take a leisurely read of the contents.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2022 12:01 PM (MoZTd)

5 The FIB is hopefully getting more people to question their purpose.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at December 23, 2022 12:01 PM (Hh3y4)

6 The best they can do is "conspiracy theorists".

Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 12:01 PM (Zzbjj)

7 FBI emails, when revealed, serve to discredit them with the public.

FBI, I have to agree with you.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2022 12:02 PM (CaJIi)

8 Rapists convince you to cooperate, too.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at December 23, 2022 12:03 PM (4Bx0d)

9 FBI issues lotsa words to say nothing.

Posted by: BignJames at December 23, 2022 12:03 PM (AwYPR)

10 "Shut up" they explained.

Power does not like to hide.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 23, 2022 12:03 PM (ybIRR)

11 The FBI is going to brazen this out and consolidate power in DC.

Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 12:04 PM (Zzbjj)

12 FBI emails, when revealed, serve to discredit them with the public.
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FBI, I have to agree with you."
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My bad, FBI. That's on me.

Posted by: squid at December 23, 2022 12:04 PM (S/NWs)

13 The fib has defacto control over then entire government.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 23, 2022 12:04 PM (uNylN)

14 "The fib has defacto control over then entire government. "

I'm guessing it has nothing to do with all their surveillance on congress critters in the last couple decades, huh?

Posted by: squid at December 23, 2022 12:05 PM (S/NWs)

15 It's unfortunate. It is not false.

Posted by: huerfano at December 23, 2022 12:05 PM (dTFZY)

16 There would be scheduled Congressional hearings on the Twitter files and FBI but Director Wray has other business/vacation already scheduled for those days .

What days? Those days.

Posted by: polynikes at December 23, 2022 12:05 PM (KLWiP)

17 This is easily rectified with a PowerPoint presentation and a little online ethics training.

*Done

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2022 12:05 PM (Q4IgG)

18 The FBI is funded through 2024 (next year, in the current pork bill, then it's "fold due to upcoming election" time).

Nothing will happen.

We won't even get a strongly worded letter in this

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 23, 2022 12:05 PM (8ZPJI)

19 So the election WAS hacked. Not the 2016 election, by Russia, but the 2020 election, in favor of the democrats, by the FBI, using our tax dollars.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 23, 2022 12:06 PM (lTGtQ)

20 A conspiracy theory is now just a spoiler warning.

Too many conspiracies are turning out to be true.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at December 23, 2022 12:06 PM (xcxpd)

21 At this rate J. Edgars corpse schadenboner will serve as our space elevator.

Posted by: DaveA at December 23, 2022 12:06 PM (FhXTo)

22 The fib has defacto control over then entire government.

We didn't have to coerce them, either.

Posted by: FBI at December 23, 2022 12:06 PM (CaJIi)

23 Took a while to read all that content.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2022 12:06 PM (Y+l9t)

24 Now, Congress needs to find out if it also behaved illegally.

LOL!

Someone has been watching too much TV

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 23, 2022 12:07 PM (3hSHB)

25 Merry Christmsd, Ace!

y

¡Feliz Navidad, Chuy!

Posted by: Muldoon at December 23, 2022 12:07 PM (ykeLU)

26 "Too many conspiracies are turning out to be true."

I keep wondering who is propagating them.

Posted by: squid at December 23, 2022 12:07 PM (S/NWs)

27 19 So the election WAS hacked. Not the 2016 election, by Russia, but the 2020 election, in favor of the democrats, by the FBI, using our tax dollars.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 23, 2022 12:06 PM (lTGtQ

You have not one iota of proof!!

Posted by: Sean "ham and egger" Hanitty at December 23, 2022 12:07 PM (Zzbjj)

28 FBI's Response to the Twitter Files Does Not Dispute Any Factual Allegation, But Slanders Any American Discussing These Facts and Faulting Their Eager Involvement in Censorship As "Conspiracy Theorists"

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Uppity damn peasants don't know their place!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2022 12:08 PM (FVME7)

29 When the conspiracy is revealed, the people talking about it are no longer theorists.

Posted by: She Hobbit at December 23, 2022 12:08 PM (ftFVW)

30 Merry Christmsd, Ace!

curse these fumble fingers!

You know what I meant. I hope.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 23, 2022 12:08 PM (ykeLU)

31 Traditional and longstanding, huh? So Hoover did lean on the newspapers of the day to not suggest he was queer?

Posted by: BignJames at December 23, 2022 12:08 PM (AwYPR)

32 The FBI was apparently never on our side. And that's pretty damned sad.

Posted by: setnaffa at December 23, 2022 12:09 PM (WgEgc)

33 the fucking "agency" has done enough to discredit itself.

again, the only remedy at this point:

burn
scatter
salt
nuke
lather
rinse
repeat

Posted by: SturmToddler at December 23, 2022 12:09 PM (Vt3mF)

34 Wait, David French is a lawyer?

*Covers Insomniac's ears*

That explains so much.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at December 23, 2022 12:09 PM (xcxpd)

35 F the FBI

Posted by: Zeera. 'We want fun and we wanna get wasted!' at December 23, 2022 12:09 PM (sYMRC)

36
At least by staying off Twitter I didn't make 'the list'.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 23, 2022 12:09 PM (enJYY)

37 How many times do we have to tell you people?

We're Top Pyrsyns. Top. Pyrsyns.

Posted by: Your Federal Bureau of Investigation at December 23, 2022 12:09 PM (a3Q+t)

38 Kill 'em All.

Is a great album by Metallica.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 23, 2022 12:10 PM (oWhW9)

39 "One way we could get the FBI in front of the committee is to say, 'We're not giving you a penny until you all explain to us what this task force was and why you told Twitter to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story when you knew darn well it was true'" @RepJamesComer

Except funding for next year has already been approved as part of the ominous bill, right?
Darn the luck.

Posted by: Ripley at December 23, 2022 12:10 PM (cUYo/)

40 Happy Festivus Day, ace!

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2022 12:10 PM (NpAcC)

41 Posted by: Darth Randall at December 23, 2022 12:10 PM (oWhW9)

Please don't mention Queensryche albums next.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at December 23, 2022 12:10 PM (xcxpd)

42 also, the fbi looked the other way when the state sponsored terrorist groups they support rioted and committed insurrections throughout 2020

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 23, 2022 12:11 PM (MLrvz)

43 De-platformed.
With Extreme Prejudice.

Posted by: Gunslinger at December 23, 2022 12:11 PM (R2gO3)

44 "FBI's Response to the Twitter Files Does Not Dispute Any Factual Allegation, But Slanders Any American Discussing These Facts and Faulting Their Eager Involvement in Censorship As "Conspiracy Theorists"

I fail to see the problem here. In fact we should increase their funding and decrease House oversight by those peasant congressmen.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell and the Vichy Caucus at December 23, 2022 12:12 PM (wgAtL)

45 Why can't white people, and anyone else, dismiss racism as a conspiracy theory?

Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 23, 2022 12:12 PM (eGTCV)

46 I read this and think of my lunatic liberal friends relatives etc tell me they didn't like the GOP because of our censorship...you know stopping pr0n for kids in schools

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 23, 2022 12:12 PM (MLrvz)

47 Who's the hefty black woman who plays an FBI rookie on TV? She seems nice.

Maybe she could be the public face of the Bureau.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 23, 2022 12:12 PM (ykeLU)

48 FBI is now on trial before the American people. We were presented with certain facts, with data. So the defendant is now calling the jury "conspiracy theorists" ?? How would that work in the courtroom ?

Judge: "Sir , this bloody knife has your fingerprints, 20 people saw you stabbing the victim, what say you ?"
ef🐝👁️: "YOU ALL ARE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS !!1"

Posted by: runner at December 23, 2022 12:12 PM (V13WU)

49 The interesting times are upon us.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 23, 2022 12:12 PM (rJ48h)

50 but it worked, right?

in 2024, the GOP are going to arguing:

the democrats are the real transphobes
and
the democrats are the real FBI critics

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 23, 2022 12:13 PM (MLrvz)

51 I don’t have a good feeling about the FBI when they grope around looking for a “conspiracy theory” that has the general public as “conspiracy theorists”

If there is a multiverse, how did we end up in one that sucks so bad?

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2022 12:13 PM (X5CsJ)

52 42 also, the fbi looked the other way when the state sponsored terrorist groups they support rioted and committed insurrections throughout 2020
Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 23, 2022 12:11 PM (MLrvz)

I think it's pretty clear that they are in on antifa.

Posted by: Sean at December 23, 2022 12:13 PM (Zzbjj)

53
So the election WAS hacked. Not the 2016 election, by Russia, but the 2020 election, in favor of the democrats, by the FBI, using our tax dollars.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 23, 2022 12:06

It still took them all night and an overflowing toilet to get the numbers to work for Joe, though.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 23, 2022 12:13 PM (enJYY)

54 We have no higher priority than Ukraine and the FBI political persecution of American citizens. We don't work for those peasants.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell and the Vichy Caucus at December 23, 2022 12:13 PM (wgAtL)

55 "in 2024, the GOP are going to arguing:the democrats are the real transphobes and the democrats are the real FBI critics"

I do think the GOP is at a loss for how to do outreach. The old tropes aren't working.

Posted by: squid at December 23, 2022 12:13 PM (S/NWs)

56 Imagine if Sandy Berger had not been caught red-handed but rather only a single employee suspected it but had no proof.

That's the kind of thing I probably would have dismissed as a nutter conspiracy theory. I've learned never to say never. Of course I still dismiss a number of conspiracy theories based on contrary facts that would make it basically impossible. But those that contrary evidence does not exist I have not dismissed no matter how crazy. Never say never.

Posted by: polynikes at December 23, 2022 12:14 PM (KLWiP)

57 you gotta wonder how close this is to 1930's Germany, eh? Maybe what's lost to history is that their leader was actually a fumble fucked halfwit dying of gonohereheha like joe and friends are

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 23, 2022 12:14 PM (MLrvz)

58 McConnell knew this and rewarded the fibs w an Omnibus Christmas present. There needs to be a day/week, during which every conscientious R changes party. No Party, Libertarian, doesn’t matter. Just an enormous, nation-wide FU back at them.

Posted by: EveR at December 23, 2022 12:14 PM (MUpk6)

59 "If there is a multiverse, how did we end up in one that sucks so bad?"

There's not. This is all there is. Not sure if that's better.

Posted by: squid at December 23, 2022 12:14 PM (S/NWs)

60 In before the silly ZOD.

ZOD has now met his match.

The puny and silly ZOD will now bow before DOZ and administer oral favors.

Then ZOD is forever dismissed.

Posted by: DOZ at December 23, 2022 12:15 PM (LaNzR)

61 54 We have no higher priority than Ukraine and the FBI political persecution of American citizens. We don't work for those peasants.
Posted by: Mitch McConnell and the Vichy Caucus at December 23, 2022 12:13 PM (wgAtL)

Who DO you work for?

Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 12:15 PM (Zzbjj)

62 I do think the GOP is at a loss for how to do outreach. The old tropes aren't working.

//

I think the GOP outreach is selling out the base to try to get the most batshit insane liberal to vote GOP

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 23, 2022 12:15 PM (MLrvz)

63 Fuck the fbi

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 23, 2022 12:15 PM (dO/0d)

64 "Just an enormous, nation-wide FU back at them. "

They want a second Biden term. Just like with Romney in 2012. They need to lose to continue their agenda. Where that leaves us, I don't know.

Posted by: squid at December 23, 2022 12:16 PM (S/NWs)

65 It's standard operating procedure, so it's all good, because it's standard operating procedure.

Posted by: davidt at December 23, 2022 12:16 PM (SYTee)

66 The Fart Barf Itch and their NPC army of lefty fuckwits canceling everyone hither and yon is why this place is the only social and news media i get anymore.

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 23, 2022 12:16 PM (3CCua)

67 No DOZ! Is for Truckers.

ZOD Imperial forever.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at December 23, 2022 12:16 PM (xcxpd)

68 The FBI is the Gestapo.

They do not need a budget cut.

They need to be abolished and every last man jack of them, from director down to newest hire in the field, hauled up in front of an American Nuremburg Trial Court and de-FIBbed. Followed by executions as warranted and revocation of all pensions, properties and civic participations for others, as warranted.

But as they serve their Democrat masters and the GOP are collaborationist whores, it will never happen.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 23, 2022 12:16 PM (AW0uW)

69 You have not one iota of proof!!
Posted by: Sean "ham and egger" Hanitty

Another cowardly fraud. When under oath Hannity declared that he didn't believe one bit of Trump's claims that the 2020 elections were rigged.

IOW, Hannity is claiming that the 2020 Presidential Sweepstakes was the most honest election ever. No fraud anywhere!

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 23, 2022 12:16 PM (3hSHB)

70 We are glad Americas communities are being devastated by illegal immigrants and their children being killed by fentanyl in record numbers. In fact we're thrilled their miscreant offspring is being broken by the COVID tyranny we voted for and still support. Serfs.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell and the Vichy Caucus at December 23, 2022 12:17 PM (wgAtL)

71 Except funding for next year has already been approved as part of the ominous bill, right?
Darn the luck.
Posted by: Ripley
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Actually, a new Congress is not bound by an old Congress and can actually pass a new budget/omnibus itself that revises a previously passed appropriations bill.

Chances of that happening are zero though.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2022 12:17 PM (bDjBG)

72
This President, the last President, the next President... no member of the Organs of State Security will be prosecuted for anything until the last generation of them are hauled before troikas as criminals of the ancien régime.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2022 12:17 PM (oINRc)

73 Anyone who works with/for the Feds is sus at best.

As for the FBI?
I hope they all choke on their Hams and Eggs and die in a fire.

Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2022 12:17 PM (5f91x)

74 I still believe the moon landing was real but I'm willing to ponder pretty much any other conspiracy theory. In fact I delayed getting out from bed this morning by watching a video claiming Oswald was innocent.

Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 23, 2022 12:17 PM (eGTCV)

75 If there is a multiverse, how did we end up in one that sucks so bad?

If there is a multiverse, someone had to.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 23, 2022 12:17 PM (nfrXX)

76 NOTHING WILL HAPPEN

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 23, 2022 12:17 PM (iFTx/)

77
"It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency."

Conspiracy Theory Definition circa 1990: Hypothetical speculation that is untrue or outlandish.

Conspiracy Theory Definition circa 2022: Something that is completely true but unpolitically correct to say

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2022 12:17 PM (lc5cP)

78 Who DO you work for?

===

Spectre.

Posted by: runner at December 23, 2022 12:18 PM (V13WU)

79 In their bubble, they are the good guys.
Steal on blood we loose. Blood on blood, we win.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 23, 2022 12:18 PM (AlSVe)

80 49 The interesting times are upon us.
Posted by: mr tmz at December 23, 2022 12:12 PM (rJ48h)

And what rough beast, it's hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at December 23, 2022 12:18 PM (xcxpd)

81 Maynard G. Krebs > Chris Krebs

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2022 12:18 PM (63Dwl)

82 I win, you fucking bumpkins. Don't mess with the gimp.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell and the Vichy Caucus at December 23, 2022 12:18 PM (wgAtL)

83 I bet Mitchell Miller will pay a more severe price for bullying someone as a kid then ANYONE will pay for stealing two elections, creating a new virus, using the virus to destroy American society or using the tech giants to take away American's rights.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2022 12:19 PM (lc5cP)

84 As has been noted here before, I think we've been living in a simulation since 11/22/63.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 23, 2022 12:19 PM (rJ48h)

85 I spoke with a FBI agent when I contacted the local office regard to a bank fraud over 20k matter. What a condescending , unhelpful prick.

Posted by: polynikes at December 23, 2022 12:19 PM (KLWiP)

86 69 You have not one iota of proof!!
Posted by: Sean "ham and egger" Hanitty

Another cowardly fraud. When under oath Hannity declared that he didn't believe one bit of Trump's claims that the 2020 elections were rigged.

IOW, Hannity is claiming that the 2020 Presidential Sweepstakes was the most honest election ever. No fraud anywhere!
Posted by: Reuben Hick
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Why anyone watches Fox at all is beyond my comprehension. They, far more than the NFL or woke sports, are the shield for the uniparty GOPe to play conservatives on TV.

BTW, anything Tucker puts out is about two to three weeks behind Ace and others like Mollie H. etc.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2022 12:20 PM (bDjBG)

87 Why did Jack Ruby shoot Oswald in the stomach when he was close enough to shoot him in the head.

Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 23, 2022 12:20 PM (eGTCV)

88 Krebs got that poison knife blade in the toe of her orthopedic shoe. Gotta watch for that.

Posted by: Eromero at December 23, 2022 12:20 PM (TkO4P)

89 >>you gotta wonder how close this is to 1930's Germany

Let's just say the boys at the FBI already have their Goosestep Down.

Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2022 12:20 PM (5f91x)

90 Other than retweets of Schellenberger and a few others I’m really curious what Matt Taibbi’s response will be. He’s on the wrong side of his lefty brethren right now..

Posted by: JROD at December 23, 2022 12:20 PM (0ET/O)

91 Lol. We even INCREASED funding for the January 6th political prosecutions, peons. It ain't your country, it's ours.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell and the Vichy Caucus at December 23, 2022 12:21 PM (wgAtL)

92 I wonder if Sean Hannity's contract is up for renewal, and he's, you know, saying he's on the Team.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Deputy Assistant Russian Disinformation Spreading Consultant at December 23, 2022 12:21 PM (PiwSw)

93 SBF released on bail to his parents house(like a misbehaving child) while J6ers who have yet to be charged have spent 2 years in jail pretrialunder the most horrid conditions.
This is just wrong on so many levels. It makes me sick.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2022 12:21 PM (Y+l9t)

94 "Let's just say the boys at the FBI already have their Goosestep Down."

It's a conspiracy theory to suggest we're the FBI.

Posted by: Patriot Front at December 23, 2022 12:21 PM (S/NWs)

95 I bet Mitchell Miller will pay a more severe price for bullying someone as a kid then ANYONE will pay for stealing two elections, creating a new virus, using the virus to destroy American society or using the tech giants to take away American's rights.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2022 12:19 PM (lc5cP)
I think you're right.

Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 23, 2022 12:21 PM (eGTCV)

96
I spoke with a FBI agent when I contacted the local office regard to a bank fraud over 20k matter. What a condescending , unhelpful prick.
Posted by: polynikes at December 23, 2022 12:19 PM (KLWiP)

He just needed to get you off the phone and track down the fraudster to make sure the Bureau got its cut before 1700 so he could return safely to his family for his ham and eggs, which is the most important thing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2022 12:21 PM (oINRc)

97
BTW, anything Tucker puts out is about two to three weeks behind Ace and others like Mollie H. etc.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2022 12:20 PM (bDjBG)

And Miss Mollie is only getting around to the idea that the GOP is betraying us. I can't take her theatrical outrage seriously.

Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 12:21 PM (Zzbjj)

98 If it is illegal for the government to censor your speech, it is also illegal for them to convince someone else to do it for them.

Is that right? Does that apply here?

Posted by: richard at December 23, 2022 12:21 PM (xGLnO)

99 "The next president"? Ace, the presidency will be held by Democrats from now on. They have the means and they will employ them.

The 2024 presidential election has already been won. Spoiler alert: the Democrats hold the office.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2022 12:22 PM (cq4C8)

100 And still, even as much has been revealed, I think we're just observing the part of the iceberg that's above the water

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 23, 2022 12:22 PM (BdMk6)

101 They have the ubiquitous surveillance state. We are fucked.

Posted by: davidt at December 23, 2022 12:22 PM (SYTee)

102 Who DO you work for?

===

Spectre.
Posted by: runner at December 23, 2022 12:18 PM

Good answer.

Posted by: Big Penguin at December 23, 2022 12:22 PM (a3Q+t)

103
If it is illegal for the government to censor your speech, it is also illegal for them to convince someone else to do it for them.

Is that right? Does that apply here?
Posted by: richard at December 23, 2022 12:21 PM (xGLnO)

Are you asking if the law applies here?

No, of course it doesn't. It only applies where the FBI says it applies, upon conditions.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2022 12:23 PM (oINRc)

104 "And Miss Mollie is only getting around to the idea that the GOP is betraying us. I can't take her theatrical outrage seriously."

Federalist has been pretty good at ringing the conservative anti-establishment bell forever. Although Mr. Meghan McCain was pushing Rubio and Ryan for a while.

Posted by: squid at December 23, 2022 12:23 PM (S/NWs)

105 My prediction: nothing will happen.

Not even new mandatory training modules.

No. Nothing nothing.

Posted by: blaster at December 23, 2022 12:23 PM (pwExq)

106 Actually, a new Congress is not bound by an old Congress and can actually pass a new budget/omnibus itself that revises a previously passed appropriations bill.

Chances of that happening are zero though.

They already have us conditioned to think that most of the budget can't be touched and is "locked-in" they are totally helpless to touch anything that hasn't been arbitrarily labeled "discretionary".

And people believe that lie, even when the same Congress totally contradicts itself when it speaks of "government shutdowns" if a CR or Omnibus isn't passed by a certain date.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 23, 2022 12:24 PM (3hSHB)

107 Why did the FBI take over the JFK investigation when it was outside their jurisdiction in 1963?

Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 23, 2022 12:24 PM (eGTCV)

108 There are those that believe that the FBI murdered JFK, RFK, and MLK. I don't necessarily subscribe to this belief myself, but I understand why many can.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 23, 2022 12:24 PM (yQpMk)

109 now watch: the repub congress will set up a committee to investigate hunter's laptop and 5 of 11 seats will go to partisan democrats because we want to be fair about it.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 23, 2022 12:24 PM (kFrCu)

110 I'll say it again: The DOJ is the gatekeeper. None of this gets remedied until someone takes a broom into the DOJ and clears out the ideologues.

So, even if a new president is installed, he/she would first have to place a leader in the Attorney General position that goes salted earth and clears out the gatekeepers. Unfortunately, the Senate (controlled by the Dems) has to approve the new president's nomination for that role. AND THEY WON'T...if that person poses a threat to their clasp of the DOJ and it's operation.

And, on a side note, I don't think it's possible for a conservative President to ever be elected again. The DOJ owns the application of the law. They are perfectly content to act in support of outright fraud and illegalities on elections....both presidential and senatorial and house.

Posted by: Orson at December 23, 2022 12:25 PM (OWF2N)

111 >> Spectre.

THRUSH, the evil organization in the Man from UNCLE is even better. THRUSH = Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity.

That describes the WEF to a 'T'.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 23, 2022 12:25 PM (Mzdiz)

112 >> And still, even as much has been revealed, I think we're just observing the part of the iceberg that's above the water

EVERY Industry.

EVERY Company with ANY Network Capacity.

The FBI / FEDS are there. And they are constantly trying illegal shit.

Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2022 12:25 PM (5f91x)

113 I believe some time ago they referred to Elise Stefanik as a "conspiracy theorist". Imagine only being in 999% agreement with the commie left. It's basically treason.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2022 12:25 PM (TauWN)

114 "None of this gets remedied until someone takes a broom into the DOJ and clears out the ideologues. "

Trump and Bill Barr will get it done in 2025.

Posted by: squid at December 23, 2022 12:26 PM (S/NWs)

115 The next president"? Ace, the presidency will be held by Democrats from now on. They have the means and they will employ them.

The 2024 presidential election has already been won. Spoiler alert: the Democrats hold the office.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2022 12:22 PM (cq4C

Unless it's someone like Pierre or !Jeb!. They might let us elect those. Otherwise you're right. The election process has been completely corrupted.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 23, 2022 12:26 PM (BdMk6)

116
I'm sure the number of American citizens murdered by the Bureau for political reasons numbers in the thousands, by now. But that's the light touch. The real show will begin pretty soon.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2022 12:26 PM (oINRc)

117 >> I'll say it again: The DOJ is the gatekeeper. None of this gets remedied until someone takes a broom into the DOJ and

Someone get me Dahmer's Cellmate's contact info.

Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2022 12:26 PM (5f91x)

118 Would Oswald have been convicted of murder if he had faced trial?

Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 23, 2022 12:26 PM (eGTCV)

119 I would give David French a free handjob for his comments, but unfortunately he's flaccid. So he'll just have to settle for being the bottom guy.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell and the Vichy Caucus at December 23, 2022 12:26 PM (wgAtL)

120 Durham Will Come.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2022 12:27 PM (TauWN)

121 2024 the dems could run fetterman as is and they'll still make him win.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 23, 2022 12:27 PM (kFrCu)

122 Who DO you work for?
===
Spectre.
Posted by: runner

I didn't know you worked for a cable/internet company.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 23, 2022 12:27 PM (3hSHB)

123 Please don't mention Queensryche albums next.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at December 23, 2022 12:10 PM (xcxpd)
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Sounds like you are giving me The Warning. Don't the FBI's actions make you Rage for Order here in our Promised Land? Or are you simply worried about the Empire they have built using black ops such as Operation Mindcrime? So you better Take Cover while the Digital Noise Alliance brings the FBI's musdeeds to light.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 23, 2022 12:28 PM (oWhW9)

124
Federalist has been pretty good at ringing the conservative anti-establishment bell forever. Although Mr. Meghan McCain was pushing Rubio and Ryan for a while.
Posted by: squid at December 23, 2022 12:23 PM (S/NWs)

They only get chatty when everyone already knows about the duplicity. If they didn't figure out how worthless the GOP was before 2019, they're clueless. So they're clueless.

Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 12:28 PM (Zzbjj)

125
Would Oswald have been convicted of murder if he had faced trial?
Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 23, 2022 12:26 PM (eGTCV)

_________

It would have been a trial held under the auspices of Texas or the city of Dallas.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2022 12:28 PM (MoZTd)

126 116
I'm sure the number of American citizens murdered by the Bureau for political reasons numbers in the thousands, by now. But that's the light touch. The real show will begin pretty soon.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2022 12:26 PM (oINRc)

Here, have some more cricket tacos, comrade, whilst you freeze this winter for the good of Gaia and our betters.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2022 12:28 PM (ynpvh)

127 101 They have the ubiquitous surveillance state. We are fucked.
Posted by: davidt at December 23, 2022 1

on one hand, we're lucky, the left are dumb as rocks.

on the other hand, we're fucked because the GOP is dumber and dickless

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 23, 2022 12:28 PM (MLrvz)

128 62 I do think the GOP is at a loss for how to do outreach. The old tropes aren't working.

//

I think the GOP outreach is selling out the base to try to get the most batshit insane liberal to vote GOP
Posted by: sockamster
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I see them more as simply trying to loot the peasant's investment funds while the full faith and credit of the US still means something. Some of the GOP snakes that voted yea on the omnibus are part of the war forever caucus and the other part are dipping their beaks in Ukraine and other honeypots scattered in the omnibus.

Federal Spending is now close to 30 percent of GDP which has not happened since WWII in 1943-45. Federal interest payments for 2022 are now the sixth biggest spending item (about 400-450 billion depending on the final stats).

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2022 12:29 PM (bDjBG)

129 Kleb. Colonel Rosa Klebb

it is a joke on the Russian word for "Bread"

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2022 12:29 PM (xhaym)

130 I bet Mitchell Miller will pay a more severe price for bullying someone as a kid then ANYONE will pay for stealing two elections, creating a new virus, using the virus to destroy American society or using the tech giants to take away American's rights.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2022 12:19 PM (lc5cP)
I think you're right.
Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 23, 2022 12:21 PM (eGTCV)

Whatever you think of this Miller kid and what he did, look at the position they've left him in:
1. They grabbed their pitchforks and torches and got him kicked out of college
2. They grabbed their pitchforks and torches and got him kicked out of professional hockey
3. They've deemed every apology from him insufficient.

What lesson do they expect him to take from all of this?

Posted by: Wally at December 23, 2022 12:29 PM (e8LQ4)

131 120 Durham Will Come.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2022 12:27 PM (TauWN)

Another empty vessel like Huber, Rosenstein and Horowitz.

Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 12:29 PM (Zzbjj)

132 125
Would Oswald have been convicted of murder if he had faced trial?
Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 23, 2022 12:26 PM (eGTCV)
_________
It would have been a trial held under the auspices of Texas or the city of Dallas.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2022 12:28 PM (MoZTd)

Much more public silencing than Epstein got.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2022 12:29 PM (ynpvh)

133 Don't fear the reaper.

Posted by: Eromero at December 23, 2022 12:29 PM (TkO4P)

134 It all feels pretty useless to me.
I had hope before the election.
Now, nothing.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2022 12:29 PM (Y+l9t)

135 "If they didn't figure out how worthless the GOP was before 2019, they're clueless. So they're clueless."

I don't agree with that assessment. They were initially opposed to Trump for a long while in 2016, but they eventually caught on.

Posted by: squid at December 23, 2022 12:30 PM (S/NWs)

136 I can't even spell it right

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2022 12:30 PM (xhaym)

137 131 120 Durham Will Come.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2022 12:27 PM (TauWN)

Another empty vessel like Huber, Rosenstein and Horowitz.

Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 12:29 PM (Zzbjj)

Kabuki theatre; he'll come in our faces.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2022 12:30 PM (ynpvh)

138 133 Don't fear the reaper.

Posted by: Eromero at December 23, 2022 12:29 PM (TkO4P)

very useful during harvest time.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2022 12:30 PM (ynpvh)

139
Here, have some more cricket tacos, comrade, whilst you freeze this winter for the good of Gaia and our betters.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2022 12:28 PM (ynpvh)

Crickets are for the lumpen proleteriat Party faithful...

We get shot in the back of the neck for gleaning molted cricket husks after the FBI requisitions all the crickets for the urban hives.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2022 12:31 PM (oINRc)

140 The non-denial "denial." Very Nixonian.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at December 23, 2022 12:31 PM (I9VC/)

141 I had hope before the election.
Now, nothing.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2022 12:29 PM (Y+l9t)

Me too....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2022 12:31 PM (bs+z0)

142 If there is a multiverse, how did we end up in one that sucks so bad?

You wound up in all of them.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2022 12:31 PM (xhaym)

143 Mollie is on Outnumbered right now. She is always ahead of the curve. Julie Banderas is also on.
Love both of them.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2022 12:32 PM (NpAcC)

144 If there is a multiverse, how did we end up in one that sucks so bad?

If Hollywood has taught me anything you just need to stick something in your ass and you can move to another one.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2022 12:32 PM (lc5cP)

145 Currently 7 deg. in W. NC

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at December 23, 2022 12:32 PM (Zk6oW)

146 Don't forget... the GOP knows *all* the exact sweet nothings that get our no-no parts all tingly. They know the words. They even know the deeds. They would *be* that party if they didn't only need us every couple years.

Recall there was a not-small contingent cheering for Lindsay Graham and claiming his blackmail must have "died with McCain" . Because he said some things that actually made sense.

Young up and coming starters have the script too - and know how to read from it for maximum conservative groin jelly. And as Marco Rubio the Tea Partier taught us, it's even easier to believe in someone who is new and therefore has yet to screw us...

Remember that.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2022 12:32 PM (TauWN)

147 LOL. Cute statement Shellenberger. As if the DOJ is not even more corrupted than the FBI, and especially Garland is in place precisely to shut down any investigations that the peasants might stir up. We cant have Biden and his GOPe cronies embarrassed by inconvenient facts coming to light.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 23, 2022 12:32 PM (3cGpq)

148 @110 Orson- what do you think would happen to a president and his ag if they did try to clean house in the DOJ or any other deep state controlled agency? People criticize Trump for not cleaning house which is fine but it was probably his dumb luck that he didn’t otherwise he’d already be in jail. The deep state is not going to allow itself to be dismantled. It’d be labeled insurrection, threat to democracy, overthrowing of the government.

Posted by: JROD at December 23, 2022 12:32 PM (0ET/O)

149 They only get chatty when everyone already knows about the duplicity. If they didn't figure out how worthless the GOP was before 2019, they're clueless. So they're clueless.
Posted by: CN
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Normalcy bias. Same thing happens in democracies time and time again before a disaster strikes. In our present time within a decade, we will get a sure fire financial crisis. Messing around with Ukraine could get us a nuclear war crisis. And we still are paying places like Wuhan to gin up horrendous mutations to deadly viruses to kill us all. All while the public fixates on a false crisis of global warming that should have killed us all last decade if people like Al Gore or James Hansen were to be believed.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2022 12:32 PM (bDjBG)

150
I don't agree with that assessment. They were initially opposed to Trump for a long while in 2016, but they eventually caught on.
Posted by: squid at December 23, 2022 12:30 PM (S/NWs)

From 2017- Jan 2019 the GOP had the House, The Senate, the WH. What did they do with it? Secure the border? NO. Fix the IRS, NO. Repair the budgetary process Oh hell NO. They went withe the Mueller investigation. If Mollie girl didn't get it then, I'm sorry, she just spits out the obvious when everyone else knows.

Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 12:33 PM (Zzbjj)

151 144 If there is a multiverse, how did we end up in one that sucks so bad?

If Hollywood has taught me anything you just need to stick something in your ass and you can move to another one.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2022 12:32 PM (lc5cP)

Also helps at winning chess games, so I hear.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2022 12:33 PM (ynpvh)

152 "Federal Spending is now close to 30 percent of GDP which has not happened since WWII in 1943-45. Federal interest payments for 2022 are now the sixth biggest spending item (about 400-450 billion depending on the final stats). "

Our job is to destroy the country as you know it. We will all have dachas in the Ukraine for our efforts.

Our loyalty isn't to the country. It's to our big donors.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell and the Vichy Caucus at December 23, 2022 12:33 PM (wgAtL)

153 Was Obama lying about being born in Kenya Russian disinformation?

Posted by: torabora at December 23, 2022 12:33 PM (OUiUM)

154 Nathan Hale.

Posted by: Eromero at December 23, 2022 12:33 PM (TkO4P)

155 FBI not only attempted to Frame a sitting President for colluding with a foreign government but also fabricated the so-called collusion.

Most of the time a frame-up actually involves a real verifiable crime that actually occurred.

Since then I have to assume literally everything the FBI says or does is a complete police state fabrication.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2022 12:33 PM (isCJG)

156 I haven't clicked on it, but the bing crawl has a story of the FBI arresting a J6 participant after an hours long standoff, in California.

Posted by: davidt at December 23, 2022 12:33 PM (SYTee)

157
Had low water pressure for a while. Something got partially frozen in the well head. We tossed some blankets over the tank itself and now things seem to be back to normal.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2022 12:33 PM (MoZTd)

158 Isn't it really Republicans pointing out FBI malfeasance that is causing these problems? You don't hear Dems encouraging it. They are blameless.

Posted by: Ripley at December 23, 2022 12:34 PM (cUYo/)

159 147 LOL. Cute statement Shellenberger. As if the DOJ is not even more corrupted than the FBI, and especially Garland is in place precisely to shut down any investigations that the peasants might stir up. We cant have Biden and his GOPe cronies embarrassed by inconvenient facts coming to light.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 23, 2022 12:32 PM (3cGpq)

They can be impeached, but will never be convicted by the Senate. Mitch is more than happy to help the Dems on this.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2022 12:34 PM (ynpvh)

160 Posted by: whig at December 23, 2022 12:32 PM (bDjBG)

I think our "punditry" is as fake as our representation.

Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 12:34 PM (Zzbjj)

161 The FBI's shit is clear for anyone to see, but sadly nothing will be done about it. They can just rename it the NKVD and let then continue their work.

Posted by: Roy at December 23, 2022 12:34 PM (rqgpJ)

162 Ignore the Man behind the curtain!

Posted by: FBIOZio the Great! at December 23, 2022 12:34 PM (oHd/0)

163 Had low water pressure for a while. Something got partially frozen in the well head. We tossed some blankets over the tank itself and now things seem to be back to normal.

Old and busted: "My birdbath is frozen over"
New hotness: "My water well is partially frozen"

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 23, 2022 12:35 PM (3hSHB)

164 155 FBI not only attempted to Frame a sitting President for colluding with a foreign government but also fabricated the so-called collusion.

Most of the time a frame-up actually involves a real verifiable crime that actually occurred.

Since then I have to assume literally everything the FBI says or does is a complete police state fabrication.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2022 12:33 PM (isCJG)

And salted the more-than-compliant media with it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2022 12:35 PM (ynpvh)

165 Young up and coming starters have the script too - and know how to read from it for maximum conservative groin jelly. And as Marco Rubio the Tea Partier taught us, it's even easier to believe in someone who is new and therefore has yet to screw us...

Remember that.
Posted by: ...
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Very true. "Won't Get Fooled Again" should be required listening.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2022 12:35 PM (bDjBG)

166 "If Mollie girl didn't get it then, I'm sorry, she just spits out the obvious when everyone else knows. "

Mollie was ripping her hair out and yelling it as were the rest of the federalist writers at that time.

Posted by: squid at December 23, 2022 12:35 PM (S/NWs)

167 Kamala Harris complains media doesn't adequately cover 'strength of my leadership'

Harris reportedly told confidantes last year that media would cover her differently if she was a White man

Posted by: DB at December 23, 2022 12:35 PM (geLO8)

168 had hope before the election.
Now, nothing.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2022 12:29 PM (Y+l9t)

Me too....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2022 12:31 PM (bs+z0)

Put not your faith in mortals, gals. There is Good News and it's not being delivered by any politician I know.

Also remember you are inside an op that is specifically designed to demoralize you.

It's been in full force since Spring of 2009 and didn't even break for Trump. Difficult as it is to see our country as we thought of it wrested away from us by demonic forces, do not let the bastards get you down.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2022 12:36 PM (TauWN)

169 Kleb. Colonel Rosa Klebb

it is a joke on the Russian word for "Bread"
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2022 12:29 PM (xhaym)
______________

As was "Nash" ("our") for the Russian spy.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 23, 2022 12:36 PM (rNyNM)

170 167 Kamala Harris complains media doesn't adequately cover 'strength of my leadership'

Posted by: DB at December 23, 2022 12:35 PM (geLO

I think they have it on PornHub

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2022 12:36 PM (ynpvh)

171 I know it's hard to be optimistic these days, but God did answer some of my prayers. I prayed that Roe v Wade would be overturned and that Someone would buy one of the Tech companies and expose the truth. Still working on someone on our side buying CBS, ABC or NBC. That will be the game changer.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2022 12:37 PM (NpAcC)

172 It's already probably been said: People do need to go to jail, but nobody will.

Posted by: butch at December 23, 2022 12:37 PM (cHvOo)

173 >> We tossed some blankets over the tank itself and now things seem to be back to normal.

Get a work light with a 100W incandescent and put it in the well house.

Barring that, just drip the faucets, and then every so often, make sure the pump cycles on off, maybe once every hour to be sure.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 23, 2022 12:37 PM (Mzdiz)

174 As bad as all this is, it ignores the worst part: The FBI (and DoJ) has sat and continues to sit on rock solid evidence of the Biden crime family's public corruption, pay for play deals, tax evasion, foreign influence racketing, drug use, gun law violations and probably pedophilia and rape too.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 23, 2022 12:37 PM (cMXNt)

175 Kamala Harris complains media doesn't adequately cover 'strength of my leadership'

Harris reportedly told confidantes last year that media would cover her differently if she was a White man
Posted by: DB at December 23, 2022 12:35 PM (geLO

______________

Donald Trump would like a word.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 23, 2022 12:37 PM (rNyNM)

176 At some 4 billion dollars, fixing the wall was just too expensive for these spendthrifts.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2022 12:38 PM (TauWN)

177 Don't forget... the GOP knows *all* the exact sweet nothings that get our no-no parts all tingly. They know the words. They even know the deeds. They would *be* that party if they didn't only need us every couple years.

This.

And despite so many people saying they've sworn off the GOP forever, I'm going to predict that, come 2024, we'll be hearing about yet another phantasmic "red wave" and how the election is "the most important of our lifetime" and countless numbers of people who want the GOP to die will be saying, "I don't want to vote for the fuckers, but what choice do I have? I can't let the Dems win."

As I said the other day, anyone voting GOP at any level by now is simply resoling the boot stamping you in the face.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 23, 2022 12:39 PM (AW0uW)

178 Tolkien invented a new word euchatastrophe. At least I believe he invented it.
It's defined as a catastrophe for evil-the sudden collapse of evil and arrival of good.
The western world needs one of those.

Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 23, 2022 12:39 PM (eGTCV)

179 "Mollie was ripping her hair out and yelling it as were the rest of the federalist writers at that time."

Truth. And if people haven't figured out the game, deliberately misleading posts, obfuscation or the perhaps the absolute ignorance of that poster, then they're missing something.

Posted by: Bullshit Sniffer at December 23, 2022 12:40 PM (TLT5R)

180 🎼🎹"Frozen wells , Frozen wells
It's Christmas time in the city
Ring a ling, hear them ring
Soon it'll be Christmas day.."

Posted by: runner at December 23, 2022 12:40 PM (V13WU)

181 And McConnel just neutered the new House we voted in, by giving away the power of the purse for a year.

Traitor.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2022 12:40 PM (oHd/0)

182 I think our "punditry" is as fake as our representation.
Posted by: CN

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I would say TV is the most fake, followed by 'conservative' websites owned by Salem Communications or vanity presses like the current Breitbart (owned by mega GOP donors the Mercers), Washington Beacon (mega donor Singer), and NRO (owned by techlords), and so on.

There is a severe shortage of actual jobs for writers that pay well so you get grifters like David Brooks, Rich Lowry, and so on that sell out their own side to fill their pockets as 'influencers'.

Writers who are poor ink stained wretches are more likely to be honest and also the first to be deplatformed because no one much wants to hear objective 'truth' anymore.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2022 12:41 PM (bDjBG)

183 The demoralization stems not from what the leftists are doing, I had them figured out 30 years ago.

The "frustration" comes from realizing none of the motherfuckers are lifting a finger to stop them, with a few notable exceptions. Some from unexpected allies, but overall the acquiescence is jaw dropping. I didn't fathom how deep and wide the rot was.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2022 12:42 PM (crFGa)

184 Wouldn't a lot of people, people specifically named in these releases have ground to sue the crap out of other people now? There's clear documentation of federal government action to deprive people of their 1st amendment rights. Clearer than anything I've ever seen in my life. All the shit leftist free speech, noble libertarians, "banned books" screaming harridans have nothing on all this.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2022 12:42 PM (0fVbu)

185 I don't know how you rein in the FBI at this point. I'm sure the Bureau has plenty of dirt on/leverage with the Right People to keep itself beyond the reach of law.

Posted by: DB at December 23, 2022 12:42 PM (geLO8)

186 Still working on someone on our side buying CBS, ABC or NBC. That will be the game changer.

Instapundit has been arguing one of the best things a rich MAGA type could do is buy a women's magazine which is a similiar idea I suppose.

Imagine "The View" but instead of 4 hags you have 4 normal women...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2022 12:42 PM (lc5cP)

187 174 As bad as all this is, it ignores the worst part: The FBI (and DoJ) has sat and continues to sit on rock solid evidence of the Biden crime family's public corruption, pay for play deals, tax evasion, foreign influence racketing, drug use, gun law violations and probably pedophilia and rape too.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 23, 2022 12:37 PM (cMXNt)

Of course. You don't publish your Kompromat when your blackmail subjects are doing exactly what you are telling them to do.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2022 12:43 PM (oHd/0)

188 As bad as all this is, it ignores the worst part: The FBI (and DoJ) has sat and continues to sit on rock solid evidence of the Biden crime family's public corruption, pay for play deals, tax evasion, foreign influence racketing, drug use, gun law violations and probably pedophilia and rape too.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 23, 2022 12:37 PM (cMXNt)

This.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 23, 2022 12:44 PM (BdMk6)

189 Instapundit has been arguing one of the best things a rich MAGA type could do is buy a women's magazine which is a similiar idea I suppose.

Imagine "The View" but instead of 4 hags you have 4 normal women...
Posted by: 18-1

AtC, Jane D'oh, Anna Puma & SMH.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 23, 2022 12:44 PM (9uCBG)

190 I will never support any GOP candidate until they get rid of Mitch

never

even Trump

Posted by: REDACTED at December 23, 2022 12:45 PM (us2H3)

191 AtC, Jane D'oh, Anna Puma & SMH.

Well, normal-ish...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2022 12:45 PM (lc5cP)

192 Thousands would show up after dark and loot burn and murder until dawn. Like it was a job they were being paid to do.

Posted by: torabora at December 23, 2022 12:45 PM (OUiUM)

193 174 As bad as all this is, it ignores the worst part: The FBI (and DoJ) has sat and continues to sit on rock solid evidence of the Biden crime family's public corruption, pay for play deals, tax evasion, foreign influence racketing, drug use, gun law violations and probably pedophilia and rape too.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken
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What do you think that the FBI and DOJ are sitting on regarding members of Congress and senators? Heads of big corporations? Chiefs of Federal agencies?

Most likely the same sort of behavior that the Biden Crime family has done. Essentially, the FBI is acting like a domestic spy agency using kompromat for power and goodies.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2022 12:45 PM (bDjBG)

194 Conspiracy theorists don't discredit the FBI. The FBI discredits the FBI, by virtue of being forewarned of, having incited or facilitated, or even going so far to have participated in almost every American mass shooting and terror attack in the last 30 fucking years.

And thats without even bringing up Waco, Ruby Ridge, Malheur, the Roger Stone raid, the Epstein shit, or any of their obvious political whoring since 2015.

Fuck be upon them. All of them. There is no more space for "but, but, I'm an honest agent, those others guys are crooked". They chose a side and that side is not ours.

Posted by: somedood at December 23, 2022 12:45 PM (BbSpR)

195 The FBI yesterday responded to the evidence I unearthed in Twitter Files Part 7 suggesting that the FBI may have covered up the Hunter Biden laptop and waged a disinformation campaign ...

-------

May have? May have?

Come on, Shellenberger, grow a pair!

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 23, 2022 12:45 PM (NdPEm)

196 189 Instapundit has been arguing one of the best things a rich MAGA type could do is buy a women's magazine which is a similiar idea I suppose.

Imagine "The View" but instead of 4 hags you have 4 normal women...
Posted by: 18-1

AtC, Jane D'oh, Anna Puma & SMH.
Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 23, 2022 12:44 PM (9uCBG)

Nurse as a stand in if one can't make it that day...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2022 12:46 PM (oHd/0)

197 Of course. You don't publish your Kompromat when your blackmail subjects are doing exactly what you are telling them to do.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2022 12:43 PM (oHd/0)

That's right. And I suspect the punditry will bring it up in a couple of years, and call it "breaking news".

Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 12:46 PM (Zzbjj)

198 Imagine "The View" but instead of 4 hags you have 4 normal women...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2022 12:42 PM (lc5cP)

Who would those normal women be? Cake Girl would have to be one of them.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 23, 2022 12:46 PM (BdMk6)

199 There is a lot of power the House could wield against the senate. The problem is McCarthy has to get the entire caucus moving in the same direction. On Ukraine, he could simply say, "make that money lasts, because we will make sure there isn't another dime in the next budget and we will pass an NDAA that states the same." He could also tell the senate that any legislation they want passed will never see a vote in the House.

But he doesn't have the balls.

Posted by: Bullshit Sniffer at December 23, 2022 12:46 PM (TLT5R)

200 I don't know how you rein in the FBI at this point. I'm sure the Bureau has plenty of dirt on/leverage with the Right People to keep itself beyond the reach of law.

==

That's been the case since even before J.Edgar.

Posted by: runner at December 23, 2022 12:47 PM (V13WU)

201 Question: has the memorial for Christopher Taylor's brother been held yet? I have this vague notion it was scheduled for today. Even if that's incorrect I am praying for you Christopher.

Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 23, 2022 12:47 PM (eGTCV)

202 Of course. You don't publish your Kompromat when your blackmail subjects are doing exactly what you are telling them to do.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2022 12:43 PM (oHd/0)

------------

How's it Kompromat when it's all publicly known and much verified?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 23, 2022 12:47 PM (cMXNt)

203 Used to be that this time of year was a time to be charitable and forgiving. To wish for peace and understanding and goodness. I always loved the spirituality of the season.
I see no indication of that. Where are the Christmas pardons? Where is the charitable giving? Where are the jolly Santas ringing bells? Carolers singing joyous Christmas songs?
The world has become a cold and unforgiving place and it makes me sad.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2022 12:48 PM (Y+l9t)

204 184 Wouldn't a lot of people, people specifically named in these releases have ground to sue the crap out of other people now? There's clear documentation of federal government action to deprive people of their 1st amendment rights. Clearer than anything I've ever seen in my life. All the shit leftist free speech, noble libertarians, "banned books" screaming harridans have nothing on all this.
Posted by: banana Dream
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Yes they do. Theoretically, given some court decisions, they could avoid qualified immunity and sue the specific agents involved for constitutional violations under Bivins (regardless of civil rights laws). At least the 8th Circuit has held that purposeful actions to eliminate free speech rights cannot ever get qualified immunity because the caselaw is clear here that such actions are unlawful. Bivins was an illegal search case so not directly on point but once again there is the old common law adage-for every legal wrong, there must be a way for redress in the court system.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2022 12:49 PM (bDjBG)

205 Going WAAAAAYYYYYY out on a limb here and predict nothing will come of any of this. Yes, yes "House" repubelickers will do "investigations". No doubt many "hearings" and "commissions" too. Many, many "meetings" will ensue certainly. Hell, probably even "subpoenas" will be issued which will be mostly ignored. I also boldly predict that much chest-pounding and soundbiting in front of cameras. Many thousands of pages will be sacrificed for this Great Project as well. Many Strongly Worded Letters will be issued! In 3-4 years some minor schlub 3 months away from retirement will be fingered for the requisite "punishment" of...retiring slightly earlier than planned. And that will be the end of it. Then Sean Hannity will tell us that the FBI are mostly good ham 'n eggers.

Lather.
Rinse.
Repeat.

Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at December 23, 2022 12:50 PM (PWI4f)

206 13 balmy degrees here in Upper Alabama. Up from 5 this morning.

Posted by: Fox2! at December 23, 2022 12:50 PM (qyH+l)

207 Lizzy, MWR, it's me donna, SMH

No sleight meant to any ette I left off but that's my lineup.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2022 12:50 PM (TauWN)

208 Used to be that this time of year was a time to be charitable and forgiving. To wish for peace and understanding and goodness. I always loved the spirituality of the season.
I see no indication of that. Where are the Christmas pardons? Where is the charitable giving? Where are the jolly Santas ringing bells? Carolers singing joyous Christmas songs?
The world has become a cold and unforgiving place and it makes me sad.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2022 12:48 PM (Y+l9t)

Me too.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 23, 2022 12:50 PM (BdMk6)

209 There are a number of extremely powerful; agencies that the lawmakers are afraid to touch. They were afraid to touch FreddieMac back during the 2008 crash. Had to keep conservatorship among select few, and raid it at night.

Posted by: runner at December 23, 2022 12:51 PM (V13WU)

210 How's it Kompromat when it's all publicly known and much verified?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 23, 2022 12:47 PM (cMXNt)

There it is

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2022 12:51 PM (TauWN)

211 it's even easier to believe in someone who is new and therefore has yet to screw us...

Remember that.
Posted by: ...

I've been in the Army. I know they are going to screw me.

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 23, 2022 12:52 PM (3CCua)

212 They need to put ef🐝👁️ under conservatorship when the time is right. Do some cleaning.

Posted by: runner at December 23, 2022 12:52 PM (V13WU)

213 >>> Used to be that this time of year was a time to be charitable and forgiving. To wish for peace and understanding and goodness. I always loved the spirituality of the season.
I see no indication of that. Where are the Christmas pardons? Where is the charitable giving? Where are the jolly Santas ringing bells? Carolers singing joyous Christmas songs?
The world has become a cold and unforgiving place and it makes me sad.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2022 12:48 PM (Y+l9t)

Always winter, never Christmas.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2022 12:52 PM (0fVbu)

214 "184 Wouldn't a lot of people, people specifically named in these releases have ground to sue the crap out of other people now? There's clear documentation of federal government action to deprive people of their 1st amendment rights. Clearer than anything I've ever seen in my life. All the shit leftist free speech, noble libertarians, "banned books" screaming harridans have nothing on all this.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2022 12:42 PM (0fVbu)"

This is mostly delusional. Nobody is fixing anything with the courts - delaying actions at most. I have insisted since 2016 that war is inevitable because there is no coming back from what the progs have already done.

Posted by: somedood at December 23, 2022 12:52 PM (BbSpR)

215 So is the FBI more Stasi or more KGB?

Posted by: Trying to find the right flavor of authoritarianism at December 23, 2022 12:53 PM (s2na+)

216 The world has become a cold and unforgiving place and it makes me sad.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2022 12:48 PM (Y+l9t)

Has it? Or the FNM simply slanting coverage to discourage you?

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 23, 2022 12:53 PM (3cGpq)

217 The world has become a cold and unforgiving place and it makes me sad.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2022 12:48 PM (Y+l9t)

Well people have been shitting on Christianity for long enough that it's gone a bit underground. As for the SA bell ringing Santas, SA is woke. The only bellringer I saw this year was wearing jeans and a blue puffer jacket.

In many places in the US, people would be askance to see people caroling in public. Especially on public property. The horror

Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 12:53 PM (Zzbjj)

218 Used to be that this time of year was a time to be charitable and forgiving. To wish for peace and understanding and goodness. I always loved the spirituality of the season.
I see no indication of that. Where are the Christmas pardons? Where is the charitable giving? Where are the jolly Santas ringing bells? Carolers singing joyous Christmas songs?
The world has become a cold and unforgiving place and it makes me sad.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2022 12:48 PM (Y+l9t)

Me too.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 23, 2022 12:50 PM (BdMk6)

Kinda like we're living in a Charles Dickens world, huh?

Posted by: Archer at December 23, 2022 12:53 PM (gmo/4)

219 Who would those normal women be? Cake Girl would have to be one of them.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 23, 2022 12:46 PM (BdMk6)

"She Equips Herself" and the Cigar Vixen?

Posted by: Fox2! at December 23, 2022 12:53 PM (qyH+l)

220 When I was a little kid, a gang of us were playing whiffle ball baseball. One of the first bank branch offices had just opened a few blocks away ( all you had before that was main branches with the marble and brass cages for the tellers). Anyway, some aspiring MOTOWN singers (pre aspiring rappers) decided to knock over the branch. My buds and I witnessed them heading for the state highway. The FBI interviewed us, dark suits, all wearing hats, and packing .38s. We sure thought they were Top. Men., Ham and eggers and we wanted to be FBI agents. They probably left and picked up their 10% from the Youngstown mob.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 23, 2022 12:53 PM (lz5hY)

221 208 Used to be that this time of year was a time to be charitable and forgiving. To wish for peace and understanding and goodness. I always loved the spirituality of the season.
I see no indication of that. Where are the Christmas pardons? Where is the charitable giving? Where are the jolly Santas ringing bells? Carolers singing joyous Christmas songs?
The world has become a cold and unforgiving place and it makes me sad.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2022 12:48 PM (Y+l9t)

Me too.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons
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That is the whole part of teh WEF program, they want you isolated, they want all sorts of of misery rubbed in your face while they party and laugh.

Scrooge was a saint compared with them as he did not pretend in the least that he was good.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2022 12:54 PM (bDjBG)

222 215 So is the FBI more Stasi or more KGB?
Posted by: Trying to find the right flavor of authoritarianism at December 23, 2022 12:53 PM (s2na+)

They're a twofer

Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 12:55 PM (Zzbjj)

223 I am interested who is paying for Hunter's lawyer. Name escapes me now.

But if Hollywood bro paid his tax bill, someone is paying for the lawyer.

It's always follow the money.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 23, 2022 12:55 PM (NW9xb)

224 "A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him. Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill made low. The crooked roads shall become straight, the rough ways smooth. And all people will see God’s salvation."

Isaiah 40:3-5

Posted by: Marcus T at December 23, 2022 12:55 PM (82U+n)

225 As I said the other day, anyone voting GOP at any level by now is simply resoling the boot stamping you in the face.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 23, 2022 12:39 PM

Totally stealing that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2022 12:55 PM (Wnv9h)

226 215 So is the FBI more Stasi or more KGB?
Posted by: Trying to find the right flavor of authoritarianism

Stasi. The KGB is more like the CIA.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2022 12:55 PM (bDjBG)

227 215 So is the FBI more Stasi or more KGB?

Posted by: Trying to find the right flavor of authoritarianism at December 23, 2022 12:53 PM (s2na+)

Yes

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2022 12:56 PM (ynpvh)

228 13 balmy degrees here in Upper Alabama. Up from 5 this morning.
Posted by: Fox2!

still 9° here on the west slope of Jones Valley in Huntsville. who'd you bribe for 13°? maybe i can get some of that globull enwarmwning. TVA has announced 30 minute rolling blackouts in three counties already. hope this pisses off the and wakes up some people that can help locally fight against unicorn farts for power.

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 23, 2022 12:56 PM (3CCua)

229 @TheInsiderPaper
BREAKING: Clashes erupt in central Paris after shooting at a Kurdish cultural center

https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/
1606320062125658112
https://tinyurl.com/379br52a
Cops using teargas.

BTW, three killed in the shootings that "were targeting foreigners."

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 23, 2022 12:56 PM (Vwz3I)

230 4th Amendment violation. Coercion is meaningless. To fish around is a violation BECAUSE it guarantees the people to be SECURE in their papers.

If government gets probable cause they can go get a warrant to fish around. A broad reading means government can't even look at my FaceBook without a warrant. Unless I let them.

Posted by: torabora at December 23, 2022 12:56 PM (OUiUM)

231 This is mostly delusional. Nobody is fixing anything with the courts - delaying actions at most. I have insisted since 2016 that war is inevitable because there is no coming back from what the progs have already done.
Posted by: somedood
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Not really. There is no such thing as determinism nor the progress of history. What is more true is that there are tides in human history but you always get some people that can surf on the tides.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2022 12:57 PM (bDjBG)

232 So is the FBI more Stasi or more KGB?
Posted by: Trying to find the right flavor of authoritarianism at December 23, 2022 12:53 PM

Yes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2022 12:57 PM (Wnv9h)

233 230 4th Amendment violation. Coercion is meaningless. To fish around is a violation BECAUSE it guarantees the people to be SECURE in their papers.

If government gets probable cause they can go get a warrant to fish around. A broad reading means government can't even look at my FaceBook without a warrant. Unless I let them.

Posted by: torabora at December 23, 2022 12:56 PM (OUiUM)

Unless it's publicly available. You have a right to privacy in your home, but not in public, thus what you say outside the home in earshot of others is not protected. Except in Kali, where if you want to record it you need either a warrant or permission, unless you're an undercover journalist NOT investigating leftist sacred cows.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2022 12:58 PM (ynpvh)

234 The world has become a cold and unforgiving place and it makes me sad.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2022 12:48 PM (Y+l9t)

It's always been a cold and unforgiving place. We just didn't want to believe it and turned to religion, faith in institutions, faith in family, faith in politics, faith in the goodness of our fellow man (which is generally not the default state), self-soothing fairy tales, or various hedonistic pursuits in some cases. It can be a shock when all the bullshit has been peeled away and we realize that everything we drew comfort from and allowed us to keep our glasses a nice shade of rose is ultimately hollow and false.

Posted by: Truth is painful but denial is worse at December 23, 2022 12:58 PM (s2na+)

235 Sunny and 6F with a windchill of -9F in the Black Hills right now. Compared to the last 7 days, practically tropical.

Posted by: Archer at December 23, 2022 12:59 PM (gmo/4)

236 I really wish the FBI had just kept surfing porn all day at work. What the Hell were they thinking?

Posted by: torabora at December 23, 2022 12:59 PM (OUiUM)

237 "Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2022 12:48 PM (Y+l9t) "

Make your own happiness by keeping the Lord in your heart. Don't be persuaded by the prince of this world or its trappings. Expect nothing in return except the fullness of your heart. Do good deeds, take care of others, care for your family and always above all else come back to God. This world will always disappoint. He will not.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 23, 2022 12:59 PM (82U+n)

238 236 I really wish the FBI had just kept surfing porn all day at work. What the Hell were they thinking?

Posted by: torabora at December 23, 2022 12:59 PM (OUiUM)

Keeping tabs on Hunter IS watching child porn all day for them.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2022 12:59 PM (ynpvh)

239 And as Marco Rubio the Tea Partier taught us, it's even easier to believe in someone who is new and therefore has yet to screw us...

Remember that.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2022 12:32 PM

At least when they're new, our hopes of a reacharound haven't been shattered yet.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2022 01:00 PM (a3Q+t)

240 This is mostly delusional. Nobody is fixing anything with the courts - delaying actions at most. I have insisted since 2016 that war is inevitable because there is no coming back from what the progs have already done.
Posted by: somedood at December 23, 2022 12:52 PM (BbSpR)

It isn't delusional. It is correct. The fact that the level of corruption precludes anything being done does not serve as proof that justice should not be expected. I hate the phrase, "the new normal". I'm not going to look out at the hellscape and mutter this is fine. I consider that delusional and I'll have no part in it.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2022 01:00 PM (0fVbu)

241 Who would those normal women be? Cake Girl would have to be one of them.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 23, 2022 12:46 PM

Cake Girl is from MA. Warning!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2022 01:00 PM (Wnv9h)

242 As I said the other day, anyone voting GOP at any level by now is simply resoling the boot stamping you in the face.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 23, 2022 12:39 PM

Totally stealing that.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2022 12:55 PM (Wnv9h)
******
I love my Rep. Troy Nehls. He is awesome. George Soros put money into to his race. So glad he won.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2022 01:00 PM (NpAcC)

243 239 And as Marco Rubio the Tea Partier taught us, it's even easier to believe in someone who is new and therefore has yet to screw us...

Remember that.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2022 12:32 PM

At least when they're new, our hopes of a reacharound haven't been shattered yet.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2022 01:00 PM (a3Q+t)

The reach-around is for your wallet

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2022 01:00 PM (ynpvh)

244 Based on Ace's post last night stating he's done with the GOP, either this blog goes defunct or a whole new base of action-minded readers is required. I for one am looking forward to seeing the current crop of Instapanzy keyboard warriors and purpled-pilled GOPer handwringers forced out. Alas, I'm betting the "I'm done with the GOP" is a hollow threat and the smart military COBs with their milquetoast ELCA potluck politics and sensibilities remain king. It's becoming conceivable that Instapanzy, AOS, Althouse etc... are shadow-funded operations to not only keep tabs on conservatives but more importantly offer a cathartic outlet that provides a sports-like fan following for conservatives to blow off steam and reduce the possibility of mass uprising. If you keyboard warrior COBs took just 10% of the time you waste cruising the "conservative" political internet venting and bloviating in your echo chamber clubs and instead walked out to the street with a sign and protested we'd be living in an entirely different America.

Posted by: MikeNew at December 23, 2022 01:01 PM (HSlW8)

245 because there is no coming back from what the progs have already done.

We've gone through about 30 years of not only the GOPe but even the FNM saying "well the Democrats can't do X that's too extreme" and the Democrats doing X and no one stopping them...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2022 01:01 PM (lc5cP)

246 240 This is mostly delusional. Nobody is fixing anything with the courts - delaying actions at most. I have insisted since 2016 that war is inevitable because there is no coming back from what the progs have already done.
Posted by: somedood at December 23, 2022 12:52 PM (BbSpR)

It isn't delusional. It is correct. The fact that the level of corruption precludes anything being done does not serve as proof that justice should not be expected. I hate the phrase, "the new normal". I'm not going to look out at the hellscape and mutter this is fine. I consider that delusional and I'll have no part in it.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2022 01:00 PM (0fVbu)

New Normal = Overton Window

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2022 01:01 PM (ynpvh)

247 Come on, people! Who's with me!!!! Contact me for further details and we can right this ship together!!!

Posted by: Totally Not Aglow at December 23, 2022 01:02 PM (TauWN)

248 236 I really wish the FBI had just kept surfing porn all day at work. What the Hell were they thinking?
Posted by: torabora at December 23, 2022 12:59 PM (OUiUM)

There's a sex wax joke to be made here.

Posted by: Mr. Zog to the white courtesy phone at December 23, 2022 01:02 PM (s2na+)

249
Rise up, fellow Patriots. Be action-minded.

Posted by: MikeGlow at December 23, 2022 01:03 PM (oINRc)

250 still 9° here on the west slope of Jones Valley in Huntsville. who'd you bribe for 13°? maybe i can get some of that globull enwarmwning. TVA has announced 30 minute rolling blackouts in three counties already. hope this pisses off the and wakes up some people that can help locally fight against unicorn farts for power.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 23, 2022 12:56 PM (3CCua)

Other side of Monte Sano/Green Mountain complex. And the sun is starting to come around to our side.

Posted by: Fox2! at December 23, 2022 01:03 PM (qyH+l)

251 It's always been a cold and unforgiving place. We just didn't want to believe it and turned to religion, faith in institutions, faith in family, faith in politics, faith in the goodness of our fellow man (which is generally not the default state), self-soothing fairy tales, or various hedonistic pursuits in some cases. It can be a shock when all the bullshit has been peeled away and we realize that everything we drew comfort from and allowed us to keep our glasses a nice shade of rose is ultimately hollow and false. Posted by: Truth
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Believing everything is evil is just as wrong as believing everything is good. When you cannot tell the difference, it is not 'truth' but simply despair and desolation of the soul.

The truth exists in the actions that individuals take as by their fruits, ye shall know them. Good people commit good actions; bad people do evil. Sometimes people do both good and evil. That is often the case as both saints and demons are relatively uncommon just like pure metal is.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2022 01:03 PM (bDjBG)

252 Cake Girl is from MA. Warning!

Hey honey, I'm gonna take the cah ovah to the packy to get some beeahs before the Red Sawks game ok? If they win I'll sawk your cawk sweah to God. This is gonna be a wicket pissah!

Posted by: Some Nice Boston Girl at December 23, 2022 01:03 PM (lc5cP)

253 JJ posted a link a few days ago that asked where the Christians are now that we "need them". I think it was by a guy named Conlin.

Why on earth would they come out in the open? To be spat on, canceled, called "haters"? They would probably question calls for them to put in an appearance from a member of the media! And I understand this. Where is Mr Conlin on the hate toward Christians by the likes of Jen Rubin?

Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 01:03 PM (Zzbjj)

254 You want fucktardery fuckers of fuckness who fuck everyones shit up with 8th degree of fascist fuckiness I give you the

F

B

I

Posted by: Hans Gruber at December 23, 2022 01:04 PM (VTu1l)

255 It's almost warm enough in the house to remove a layer of clothing.

Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 23, 2022 01:04 PM (eGTCV)

256 The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements
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Yes.

Yes, exactly.

Posted by: Press Juan for English at December 23, 2022 01:04 PM (x3HuE)

257 Oh, lookie, the cut and paste troll from earlier threads.

We wish you a Merry Christmas anyway, ya filthy animal.

Posted by: whig at December 23, 2022 01:04 PM (bDjBG)

258 Marcus I hope you are well this Season.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2022 01:05 PM (TauWN)

259 Cake Girl is from MA. Warning!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2022 01:00 PM (Wnv9h)

She wouldn't have to say anything. Just sit there.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 23, 2022 01:05 PM (BdMk6)

260 Posted by: MikeNew at December 23, 2022 01:01 PM (HSlW

Nah, MIke, your glowiebros would just arrest them

Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 01:05 PM (Zzbjj)

261 Posted by: MikeNew

you're an asshoe troll, go away

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 23, 2022 01:05 PM (3CCua)

262 The FBI is the new praetorian guard.

Posted by: PG at December 23, 2022 01:05 PM (84jHt)

263 David French is effectively the Charsel Jhonsno that ran us all of LGF all those years ago.

Posted by: JEM at December 23, 2022 01:05 PM (8erNz)

264 Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle.

- Psalm 144

Posted by: Archer at December 23, 2022 01:05 PM (gmo/4)

265 Bongino always says we should defund the FBI, so naturally Bitch pushed for more money to the Gestapo.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 23, 2022 01:05 PM (d2bW3)

266 Hey honey, I'm gonna take the cah ovah to the packy to get some beeahs before the Red Sawks game ok? If they win I'll sawk your cawk sweah to God. This is gonna be a wicket pissah!
Posted by: Some Nice Boston Girl at December 23, 2022 01:03 PM

You asked for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQoTlVgmPK8

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2022 01:05 PM (Wnv9h)

267 253 JJ posted a link a few days ago that asked where the Christians are now that we "need them". I think it was by a guy named Conlin.

Why on earth would they come out in the open? To be spat on, canceled, called "haters"? They would probably question calls for them to put in an appearance from a member of the media! And I understand this. Where is Mr Conlin on the hate toward Christians by the likes of Jen Rubin?
Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 01:03 PM (Zzbjj)
***
That's what Christianity is... my gosh.

Posted by: MikeNew at December 23, 2022 01:06 PM (HSlW8)

268 JJ posted a link a few days ago that asked where the Christians are now that we "need them". I think it was by a guy named Conlin.

************

They're too busy renovating their Starbucks imitation cafes in their megachurches to do fuck all about anything.

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 23, 2022 01:06 PM (VTu1l)

269 hope this pisses off the and wakes up some people that can help locally fight against unicorn farts for power

We keep wondering when most folks will say "enough is enough". Until then, the beatings will continue.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 23, 2022 01:07 PM (Xrfse)

270 Rise up, fellow Patriots. Be action-minded.
Posted by: MikeGlow at December 23, 2022 01:03 PM (oINRc)

Say hi to Jim Comey for me!

Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 01:07 PM (Zzbjj)

271 270 Rise up, fellow Patriots. Be action-minded.
Posted by: MikeGlow at December 23, 2022 01:03 PM (oINRc)

Say hi to Jim Comey for me!

Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 01:07 PM (Zzbjj)

He's got 50 other friends that write letters together.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2022 01:07 PM (ynpvh)

272
Other side of Monte Sano/Green Mountain complex. And the sun is starting to come around to our side.
Posted by: Fox2!

that's a nice area! we just jumped up to 10°. lots of people with power problems according to waaf48.

Merry Christmas, neighbor!

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 23, 2022 01:08 PM (3CCua)

273 Dear MikeNew,

Go fuck yourself

Love,

Go Fuck Yourself

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 23, 2022 01:08 PM (VTu1l)

274 Biff,

I haven't heard about the blackouts. Is Madison included?

Posted by: Fox2! at December 23, 2022 01:08 PM (qyH+l)

275 It's apparent that FBI was going after protected First Amendment free speech & not criminal or hostile intelligence activity. FBI uses the word 'misinformation' - signifying no malicious or criminal intent - instead of 'disinformation,' which is an intelligence tradecraft term.
++++
It's neither. This is why the CISA and DHS invented the new term "malinformation" to describe it. It is absolutely "malinformation" - information that is true, but unpleasant for the rulers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2022 01:08 PM (t0OGg)

276 The time for action is now, Fellow Insurrectionists!

Posted by: MikeStew at December 23, 2022 01:08 PM (TE/QM)

277 256 The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements
----------

Yes.

Yes, exactly.
Posted by: Press Juan for English

We have not one George Creel, but a multiplicity. We have not one Woodrow Wilson, but a whole government of them.

Posted by: JEM at December 23, 2022 01:08 PM (8erNz)

278 Cake Girl is from MA. Warning!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2022 01:00 PM (Wnv9h)

She wouldn't have to say anything. Just sit there.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 23, 2022 01:05 PM

Your point is valid.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2022 01:09 PM (Wnv9h)

279 ...we realize that everything we drew comfort from and allowed us to keep our glasses a nice shade of rose is ultimately hollow and false.

*******

What do you mean "we", paleface?

Posted by: Muldoon at December 23, 2022 01:09 PM (ykeLU)

280 The truth exists in the actions that individuals take as by their fruits, ye shall know them. Good people commit good actions; bad people do evil. Sometimes people do both good and evil. That is often the case as both saints and demons are relatively uncommon just like pure metal is.

Posted by: whig
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One of the most confusing and wonderful things is how humans are humans, and God loves us and uses us still.

Rahab, the whore, saved Israel's spies in Jericho by lying.

Rahab, the prostitute, is mentioned specifically in the lineage leading to the birth of Christ.

Posted by: Press Juan for English at December 23, 2022 01:09 PM (x3HuE)

281 Glow in the dark thread.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 23, 2022 01:09 PM (X/FBY)

282 We already heard you, fibbie.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 23, 2022 01:10 PM (AW0uW)

283 And on top of being Satanist, you have bad behavior.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 23, 2022 01:10 PM (SLU8d)

284 How dare you guys talk to a former FLOTUS like that!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 23, 2022 01:10 PM (Vwz3I)

285 If you keyboard warrior COBs took just 10% of the time you waste cruising the "conservative" political internet venting and bloviating in your echo chamber clubs and instead walked out to the street with a sign and protested we'd be living in an entirely different America.

Posted by: MikeNew
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Thanks for posting!

Posted by: Press Juan for English at December 23, 2022 01:11 PM (x3HuE)

286 We keep wondering when most folks will say "enough is enough". Until then, the beatings will continue.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 23, 2022 01:07 PM (Xrfse)

I gave up on that idea when I saw how easy it was to frighten Americans during the Wuflu.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 23, 2022 01:11 PM (BdMk6)

287 284 How dare you guys talk to a former FLOTUS like that!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 23, 2022 01:10 PM (Vwz3I)

OMG, OMG! Mike is Michelle? Can I have your virtual autograph? Puhleeeeze

Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 01:11 PM (Zzbjj)

288 Biff,

I haven't heard about the blackouts. Is Madison included?
Posted by: Fox2!

so far, no. the three counties surrounding us are though. for hsv, and madison county it's localized power outages. probably tree limbs down on the lines.

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 23, 2022 01:12 PM (3CCua)

289 I just saw my first glowie.

Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 23, 2022 01:12 PM (eGTCV)

290 The obvious thing about glowies
Is glowies are obvious things
They all wear identical khakis
They set up but fail to make stings
They're flouncy bouncy fascist fuckers
Mocking them's fun fun fun
The most obvious thing about glowies
Is there's always more than one

Posted by: With apologies to A.A. Milne at December 23, 2022 01:12 PM (s2na+)

291 It's almost warm enough in the house to remove a layer of clothing.
Posted by: That NLurker

TMI, we do NOT want to know what you have on after you remove that one layer!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 23, 2022 01:12 PM (3m/gK)

292 Unless it's publicly available. You have a right to privacy in your home, but not in public, thus what you say outside the home in earshot of others is not protected. Except in Kali, where if you want to record it you need either a warrant or permission, unless you're an undercover journalist NOT investigating leftist sacred cows.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2022 12:58 PM (ynpvh)
******
I'm not arguing that. They have been reading our email too without a warrant under the Stored Communications Act.

My issue is more broad than that, government is proscribed from going fishing. I shouldn't have to worry that what I say is subject to criminal prosecution because some G Man is reading what I write. I have a presumption that they have to get a warrant first. So they can surf porn all day but they have no right to surf FaceBook because they lack a particularized suspicion. These people... they need to all fuck off.

And besides all that, if the Founders had wanted a Federal police force they would have written that in. They did not. So the FBI existence is unConstitutional. IMHO

No excuse is good enough for the existence of these prick American Stasi.

Posted by: torabora at December 23, 2022 01:13 PM (OUiUM)

293 Posted by: With apologies to A.A. Milne at December 23, 2022 01:12 PM (s2na+)

Tigger is on our side! All is not lost

Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 01:13 PM (Zzbjj)

294 Glowies are as subtle as a fart in a cathedral.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at December 23, 2022 01:13 PM (UQUAY)

295 HSV Utilities is saying the curtailment is "Voluntary", asking people to turn off unneeded lights, and not run washers, dryers, dishwashers, etc.

Hate to be a poultry farmer out in the country. Unless they have propane heat for the hen houses, they're going to lose lets of their flocks. And they would still need electricity for lighting and circulation.

Posted by: Fox2! at December 23, 2022 01:14 PM (qyH+l)

296 I think there is something deeply wrong with someone who gets thrown out of gatherings for being an ass and yet insists on returning where he is not welcomed or appreciated. A sickness of the soul, as it were.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 23, 2022 01:14 PM (yQpMk)

297 I just saw my first glowie.

Posted by: That NLurker
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I'm waiting for him to say "OK folks spread the word. As soon as the president is done speaking, we go to the Capitol, where our problems are!"

Posted by: Press Juan for English at December 23, 2022 01:14 PM (x3HuE)

298 Rahab, the whore, saved Israel's spies in Jericho by lying.

Only cost $20, same as in Canaan.

Posted by: Adjusting the joke for the times at December 23, 2022 01:15 PM (s2na+)

299 Posted by: MikeNew

you're an asshoe troll, go away

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 23, 2022 01:05 PM (3CCua)

Let's all meet at the Capitol!

Posted by: BignJames at December 23, 2022 01:15 PM (AwYPR)

300 Test
test

You buncha keyboard warriors!!!

Posted by: Mike Epps at December 23, 2022 01:16 PM (x3HuE)

301 [HSV Utilities is saying the curtailment is "Voluntary", asking people to turn off unneeded lights, and not run washers, dryers, dishwashers, etc.

Sloths. Why doesn't HSV turn up the wind and sun?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 23, 2022 01:16 PM (3hSHB)

302 Let's all meet at the Capitol!
Posted by: BignJames at December 23, 2022 01:15 PM (AwYPR)

Not FLOTUS? Only Ray Epps. Damn.

Maybe just Sukey Tawdry on 2021.

Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 01:16 PM (Zzbjj)

303 Hey honey, I'm gonna take the cah ovah to the packy to get some beeahs before the Red Sawks game ok? If they win I'll sawk your cawk sweah to God. This is gonna be a wicket pissah!
Posted by: Some Nice Boston Girl

Close, very close.

The first time I experienced an uppercrust Hong Kong twentysomething girl expressing very similar sentiments in a beautifully clipped Oxbridge accent, about Aussie footy but bluntly physical...I've never quite gotten over it.

Posted by: JEM at December 23, 2022 01:17 PM (8erNz)

304 HSV Utilities is saying the curtailment is "Voluntary", asking people to turn off unneeded lights, and not run washers, dryers, dishwashers, etc.
----------

Which means turn EVERYTHING on, because that's the only way this crap ends.

Posted by: Press Juan for English at December 23, 2022 01:17 PM (x3HuE)

305 People are going to have to go to jail.
-
I can agree to that so long as they're only there awaiting execution.

If they only go to jail, they can be pardoned and get their gofundme fortune later.

Posted by: Methos at December 23, 2022 01:17 PM (kOpft)

306 I think there is something deeply wrong with someone who gets thrown out of gatherings for being an ass and yet insists on returning where he is not welcomed or appreciated.

***********

That was pretty much my entire high school experience

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 23, 2022 01:18 PM (VTu1l)

307 Hunter this, Hunter that.

What, my laptop is chopped liver?

Posted by: Zombie Seth Rich at December 23, 2022 01:18 PM (6gIpI)

308 Merry Christmas, neighbor!
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 23, 2022 01:08 PM (3CCua)

And to you, as well.

Are there enough of us here to organize an Upper Alabama (or Tennessee Valley) MOME?

Posted by: Fox2! at December 23, 2022 01:19 PM (qyH+l)

309 Glowies are as subtle as a fart in a cathedral.

Top. Internet. Men.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 23, 2022 01:19 PM (Xrfse)

310 The fun part is how easy it is to spot the trolls.
Have a good afternoon people. Stay inside if you can.
BBL

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2022 01:19 PM (Y+l9t)

311
What, my laptop is chopped liver?
Posted by: Zombie Seth Rich at December 23, 2022 01:18 PM (6gIp

The FBI said they didn't have your laptop, or a file, or any knowledge at all. Mugging gone wrong, they said.

Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 01:20 PM (Zzbjj)

312 Comer brings up the key distinction I've been talking about in connection with the Mega-Scandal/Keystone Coup from the start: there are grossly inappropriate, outrageous actions by state actors involved, only some of which are actually violations of law.

One might cram the entire FBI activity in connection with elections into this first, not illegal but wildly inappropriate, category. Why is the FBI even thinking about being involved in things for which it has no responsibility, and little to zero competence or expertise? WTFF? Election "command post"? Oh - you mean to monitor election process to guard against massive deprivation of civil rights via fraud?

Oh. Right. To "guard against" mostly imaginary "foreign interference", none of which is material to any election, ever?

That this has not been the reaction from Congress and others from outset is redundant confirmation of how collapsed the system is.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 23, 2022 01:20 PM (OTzUX)

313 They have always been doing this stuff. So, tradition is accurate.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at December 23, 2022 01:20 PM (9X60i)

314 HSV Utilities is saying the curtailment is "Voluntary", asking people to turn off unneeded lights, and not run washers, dryers, dishwashers, etc.
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Which means turn EVERYTHING on, because that's the only way this crap ends.
Posted by: Press Juan for English

kinda how I'm taking it. raised my old school thermostats by two degrees, upstairs and downstairs.

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 23, 2022 01:20 PM (3CCua)

315 There is gonna be accountability, by gum! Check their ability to count all of the millions the senate just gave them. Thanks, Cotton.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 23, 2022 01:21 PM (R8uWY)

316 So, the January 6th denounced Trump for "doing nothing" during the brief occupation of the Capitol.

Precisely what was he supposed to do?

He tried mobilizing the National Guard to protect the Capitol - the Pentagon refused.

He didn't control the Capitol Police - Nancy Pelosi did.

He didn't control the DC cops - the mayor of Washington did.

Was he supposed to order the Marines at Marine Barracks to fix bayonets and charge the Capitol?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 23, 2022 01:21 PM (KCOCK)

317 And ace, you missed the "sarc tag" on the bit about people going to jail over any of this. You definitely have to be joking.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 23, 2022 01:21 PM (OTzUX)

318 The Cyclone Bomb is messing up my Christmas plans. The Boy was supposed to arrive today, but his flight is now delayed until Sunday evening. Girl and family was supposed to arrive tomorrow, and now won't be here until Tuesday.

It will just be me, the Mrs, and our one bachelor friend for Christmas dinner, I guess.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 23, 2022 01:22 PM (yQpMk)

319 So, when was the last time the FBI supposedly solved a serial killer case and ended the panic in any community? Makes me wonder a bit more about all of this profiling gibberish now. Something tells me that the.yellow Volkswagen bug driving 32 to 34 year old white guy with a fumanchu who bowls left handed Nostradamus shit was inserted after the fact. And do they not claim that there are probably 33 plus psychopaths operating on US soil at any given moment with who knows how many victims between them?
[ ] In awe of their morality and uncanny skills
[ X ] Certain that they are full of shit

Posted by: Hairpin Corner Concrete Truck Collision Take Me Now at December 23, 2022 01:22 PM (eFxeZ)

320 I'm now hearing a South Boston accent in my brain as I read the comments. Disturbing, frankly.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2022 01:22 PM (fs1hN)

321
Are there enough of us here to organize an Upper Alabama (or Tennessee Valley) MOME?
Posted by: Fox2!

i think there is another in Madison, several in south TN. prolly enough to have a cookout and a keg.

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 23, 2022 01:22 PM (3CCua)

322 309 Glowies are as subtle as a fart in a cathedral.

Top. Internet. Men.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

We can deal with that.

Posted by: Georg Friedrich Handel at December 23, 2022 01:22 PM (8erNz)

323 Thousands of aggregate nights in cities across the fruited plain resulting in billions of defenestrations, lootings, arsons, batterys, and even murders and FBI sat on their ass. Not a one of them went to the riots and busted them up. At least Kyle got three of the bastards. That's more than 9 billion $ worth of FBI budget accomplished.

Posted by: torabora at December 23, 2022 01:22 PM (OUiUM)

324 Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 23, 2022 01:21 PM (KCOCK)

You might need an attitude adjustment.

Posted by: BignJames at December 23, 2022 01:23 PM (AwYPR)

325 I wonder, knowing what we know now, how many feds are actually in Antifa as street activists.
I've examined the pictures and seen some pretty buff looking people in their groups. If you still have a V torso under the baggy black hoodie, you're not the typical soiboi we think of as Antifa. These guys can climb walls like spider monkeys and fight with cops, and yet the pictures of those arrested (thank you Andy Ngo) show derelicts and junkies that should be a pushover.

Yet the feds that infiltrate "right-wing" groups do so only to make a bust and discredit the cause, but on the left they actually help to achieve the goals of the groups.
Weird, that. Well, if it were true, that is

Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 23, 2022 01:23 PM (FCbAQ)

326 Was he supposed to order the Marines at Marine Barracks to fix bayonets and charge the Capitol?

***********

I actually think that's what they wanted him to do, basically leverage the military to kill his own people, 99% of who were protesting peacefully at the capitol

Anything less is a criminal and impeachable offense

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 23, 2022 01:23 PM (VTu1l)

327 um, nood

Posted by: CN at December 23, 2022 01:23 PM (Zzbjj)

328 so far, no. the three counties surrounding us are though. for hsv, and madison county it's localized power outages. probably tree limbs down on the lines.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 23, 2022 01:12 PM (3CCua)

Bradford pears and similar trees. Old pines. The usual assortment of dead limbs. Any time off year in Huntsville.

Posted by: Fox2! at December 23, 2022 01:24 PM (qyH+l)

329
TMI, we do NOT want to know what you have on after you remove that one layer!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

Several other layers.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2022 01:25 PM (63Dwl)

330 Makes me wonder a bit more about all of this profiling gibberish now

****************

I used to work in law enforcement, profiling is absolute fucking bullshit

On top of that, law enforcement on every level from state on down to local jurisdictions absolutely fucking hate the FBI

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 23, 2022 01:25 PM (VTu1l)

331
Christianity means being Action Minded. Contact me at:

Church of Jesus Christ, Warrior & Patriot:
935 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Suite 702
Washington, DC 20530

Provide detailed information about your name & location, and a full-throated defense of YOUR American values, and explanation of your action-minded ideas about how to Save Our Country.

Posted by: MikeGlow at December 23, 2022 01:25 PM (oINRc)

332 What ARC just said - and in this connection one needs do little more than read the long letter from the former Capitol Police chief written just after the incident.

He details many things, sufficient actually for someone reading just his letter to reasonably conclude that the trouble-makers at the Capitol were a different group than rally-goers, that the DC mayor, congressional leadership, and DOD (less so) simply failed to respond to Capitol Police requests for additional resources on Jan. 6. In other words, whatever a fair-minded common sense person would initially conclude looking at events.

Instead, the country is so grotesquely degraded that we have a ridiculous, lawless "commission" spending 2 years trying to find some absurd non-existent connection to Trump. Go read his letter, it's almost all you need to know about Jan. 6. (sorry, don't have link handy, should be easy to find)

Posted by: rhomboid at December 23, 2022 01:25 PM (OTzUX)

333 lol, the glowie thinks althouse is a rightwing blog!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at December 23, 2022 01:29 PM (fxj5q)

334 Provide detailed information about your name & location, and a full-throated defense of YOUR American values, and explanation of your action-minded ideas about how to Save Our Country.
Posted by: MikeGlow at December 23, 2022 01:25 PM (oINRc)

Alternately, you could just suck my dick, Joe.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 23, 2022 01:35 PM (yQpMk)

335 Do you think a true GOPer could do a filibuster to stop this omnibus budget from being passed or is it too late?

Posted by: sidney at December 23, 2022 02:09 PM (itAo5)

336 Hey read these recent arts at the American Thinker. We have trouble in River City (DC) with a capital T.

https://www.americanthinker.com/author/ron_wright/

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Posted by: Tom at December 23, 2022 03:58 PM (RS2NT)

338 Wray, the people of America want to know... what would you say you do here? Who would you say you have a duty to protect?

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 23, 2022 04:27 PM (aV97j)

339 It's way worse than simply being affiliated with the Aspen Institute - Krebs was the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency within DHS itself...

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