Unshocking: The Biden Prosecutor who "Resigned" From the Federal Government to Prosecute the Fake "Hush Money" Case Against Trump Had His Fingers In All the Lawfare Pies

Trump hush money prosecutor played larger role in federal cases against prez than known, logs show

WASHINGTON -- The Manhattan prosecutor who led the "hush money" case against President Trump, in which the 45th and 47th president was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records, played a larger role in the federal cases against the commander in chief than previously known.
Matthew Colangelo joined Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's team in December 2022 after resigning as principal deputy associate attorney general. Colangelo previously served as acting associate attorney general, the third-ranked post in the Biden Justice Department.
Defenders of Colangelo tried to distance him from Trump-related activities at the DOJ, but calendar records obtained by conservative watchdog America First Legal and shared with The Post show that he sat in on key meetings about the once and future president.

At least three of those meetings related to the dispute over national security records held at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort that led to his indictment by special counsel Jack Smith.
Colangelo also joined a December 2021 meeting concerning the DOJ's position in advice columnist E. Jean Carroll's civil case against Trump for sexual abuse and defamation.
Another 12 items on Colangelo's calendar dealt with meetings regarding a subpoena of former Trump White House Counsel Don McGahn for testimony on obstruction of justice findings in former special counsel Robert Mueller's report on claims Trump's 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.

"These records show that the man who delivered the opening statement prosecuting President Trump while working in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office was more involved in Trump-related litigation preparation at DOJ than the American people were led to believe," AFL's Will Scolinos said in a statement.

Unrelated: Nick Shirley uncovers millions more in blue state benefits fraud, this time in New York. Fraudsters are billing taxpayers for some kind of "elder care." It's another scam.

🚨 JUST IN: Nick Shirley just dropped a FRAUD BOMBSHELL — he showed up in New York to press daycares and found LUXURY CARS out front

"They're FREAKING OUT right now."

"Is there fraud taking place in some of these daycares?"

Then they KICK HIM OUT 🤯

"We just want to know WHAT… https://t.co/NdYnAU6XE4 pic.twitter.com/syLEgoalXk
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 10, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:17 PM

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Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2026 04:17 PM (ExV1e)

2 I haz nooded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2026 04:18 PM (ExV1e)

3 Unrelated: Nick Shirley uncovers millions more in blue state benefits fraud, this time in New York. Fraudsters are billing taxpayers for some kind of "elder care." It's another scam.

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Combine this with Vance's fraud task force, and I suspect our deficit is going to be weirdly lower for FY 2026 than FY 2025.

Like...weirdly lower.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 10, 2026 04:18 PM (GKzf4)

4 What a shock!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 10, 2026 04:19 PM (XHO5P)

5 Bet nothing will happen and saved by a Leftist Judge

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2026 04:19 PM (Ia/+0)

6 Deport
Deport
Deport

Deport the fucking lot

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2026 04:19 PM (R+iUD)

7 2 I haz nooded.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Ok, that’s somewhat disturbing but I know what you mean.

Posted by: Kratwurst at July 10, 2026 04:19 PM (36bTp)

8 "These records show that the man who delivered the opening statement prosecuting President Trump while working in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office was more involved in Trump-related litigation preparation at DOJ than the American people were led to believe," AFL's Will Scolinos said in a statement.

A Dem operative in the DOJ??
I'm shocked this could happen.

(for like the 1005867439386732986th time.)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2026 04:19 PM (6ydKt)

9 Wow, it's like a coordinated effort using the same template in multiple states.

Weird.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 10, 2026 04:20 PM (zZu0s)

10 I don't want these fraudsters deported.

I want them drawn and quartered and their bodies left to the crows.

You come to our country to loot it's people? You're leaving in a bird's belly.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 10, 2026 04:20 PM (XHO5P)

11 9 Wow, it's like a coordinated effort using the same template in multiple states.

Weird.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 10, 2026 04:20 PM (zZu0s)

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"You mean Shirley's investigative methods, obviously. We shall pass our own Stop Nick Shirley law in response."
-Kathy Hochul

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 10, 2026 04:20 PM (GKzf4)

12 Combine this with Vance's fraud task force, and I suspect our deficit is going to be weirdly lower for FY 2026 than FY 2025.

Like...weirdly lower.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 10, 2026 04:18 PM (GKzf4)

We really need a Constitutional Amendment barring:

- block grants to the states.
- the federal government spending money on ANYTHING with isn't a good/service required by the federal government.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2026 04:20 PM (ExV1e)

13 No Engrish. You go now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 10, 2026 04:21 PM (wOO3z)

14 12 We really need a Constitutional Amendment barring:

- block grants to the states.
- the federal government spending money on ANYTHING with isn't a good/service required by the federal government.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2026 04:20 PM (ExV1e)

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If we can get the first passed, then I think it would be a good idea to repeal the 17th Amendment and end the popular election of senators. But not before.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 10, 2026 04:21 PM (GKzf4)

15 >>> 10 I don't want these fraudsters deported.

I want them drawn and quartered and their bodies left to the crows.

You come to our country to loot it's people? You're leaving in a bird's belly.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 10, 2026 04:20 PM (XHO5P)

I'm spending way too much money on newsletters, but...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2026 04:21 PM (R+iUD)

16 A system is what it does.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 10, 2026 04:21 PM (RIvkX)

17 Pillaging and looting the country
We are doomed, no.wonder the debt is more than we will ever get out of

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2026 04:21 PM (Ia/+0)

18 Anyone who aspires to a career in LE would do well to note that anti-fraud is the growth leader in this field.

Posted by: mnw at July 10, 2026 04:22 PM (RCjYY)

19 The look on that Korean lady's face after Nick Shirley says "We don't need a permit to film" and she is slowly realizing how truly horrible her day is about to become is absolute comedy gold.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2026 04:22 PM (6ydKt)

20 >>> 18 Anyone who aspires to a career in LE would do well to note that anti-fraud is the growth leader in this field.
Posted by: mnw at July 10, 2026 04:22 PM (RCjYY)

Bounties.

Can we haz bounties?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2026 04:22 PM (R+iUD)

21 The look on that Korean lady's face after Nick Shirley says "We don't need a permit to film" and she is slowly realizing how truly horrible her day is about to become is absolute comedy gold.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2026 04:22 PM (6ydKt)
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He just needs a permit to be Nick Shirley.

Posted by: California at July 10, 2026 04:24 PM (Fi81e)

22 If I incorporate one of these companies, lease my parents house as a site, pay them rent, and then charge them a monthly care price, and bill Medicare, it sounds like that might be completely legal.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2026 04:25 PM (8ir/N)

23 All federal handout programs are corrupt sieves through which borrowed money is laundered to those who then vote democrat to keep it going. $39 trillion dollars in debt bought the country what exactly?

Posted by: Broke, Borrowed and In Debt at July 10, 2026 04:25 PM (g7saB)

24
Until all these fraudsters properties are confiscated, auctioned off to recoup losses, and heavy jail times are enforced this will keep happening.

This grift didn't start recently. It's generational theft from fraudsters that have been doing it for a LONG time through decades of different government fraud.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 10, 2026 04:26 PM (OkYzo)

25 The left has already implemented Universal Basic Income.

That's what all this fraud is:
Hundreds of thousands of otherwise unemployable people in being paid thousands a year to steal from you and live comfortably.

And you're paying for it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 10, 2026 04:26 PM (3cUTc)

26 >>> 18 Anyone who aspires to a career in LE would do well to note that anti-fraud is the growth leader in this field.
Posted by: mnw at July 10, 2026 04:22 PM (RCjYY)

Bounties.

Can we haz bounties?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2026 04:22 PM (R+iUD)
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Nick Shirley would become a wealthy man!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2026 04:26 PM (8ir/N)

27 >>> 23 All federal handout programs are corrupt sieves through which borrowed money is laundered to those who then vote democrat to keep it going. $39 trillion dollars in debt bought the country what exactly?
Posted by: Broke, Borrowed and In Debt at July 10, 2026 04:25 PM (g7saB)

Hookers and blow, man!

Posted by: Hunter Biden at July 10, 2026 04:26 PM (R+iUD)

28 If we can get the first passed, then I think it would be a good idea to repeal the 17th Amendment and end the popular election of senators. But not before.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 10, 2026 04:21 PM (GKzf4)

How did that even pass? State legeslature gave up their direct representatives to the federal government.
No government has ever ceeded that amount of power to the people.

Posted by: Reforger at July 10, 2026 04:28 PM (Moh1b)

29 Whistleblowers in USgov can get 20 - 30% of any recovered money from fraud.

I've also seen stories about some kind of new program where people can report tips to the government and get some percentage of recovered funds.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2026 04:29 PM (6ydKt)

30 think of it as " off-shoring in country"

Posted by: pahound at July 10, 2026 04:29 PM (AjR4+)

31 Colangelo also joined a December 2021 meeting concerning the DOJ's position in advice columnist E. Jean Carroll's civil case against Trump for sexual abuse and defamation.
__________

Why would the DOJ need to take a position on a civil case in which it is not even a party?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 10, 2026 04:30 PM (XvL8K)

32 The Fifth Column podcast These assholes mocked Nick Sherley for calling himself a Journalist and he does more work that these Jerks. Really showed who they were and never bothered listening to them again

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 10, 2026 04:30 PM (ubCxQ)

33 Combine this with Vance's fraud task force, and I suspect our deficit is going to be weirdly lower for FY 2026 than FY 2025.

"Hurrah!! More money to spend!!"
-- Every rep and senator except maybe Rand Paul

Posted by: Oddbob at July 10, 2026 04:31 PM (vTZFs)

34 One day, the full history of the evil perpetrated against Trump will be laid bare, the fact that he was able to survive the panopticon arrayed against him is truly mind-boggling.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2026 04:31 PM (XV/Pl)

35 Another hilarity,Erdogan gave engraved .357 magnum revolvers as gifts to his guest in Ankara and the Euro pussies freaked out

https://instapundit.com/809163/

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2026 04:31 PM (YwEeS)

36 $39 trillion dollars in debt bought the country what exactly?

Truthfully? Jobs for 'educated' black women.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2026 04:31 PM (ExV1e)

37 23 All federal handout programs are corrupt sieves through which borrowed money is laundered to those who then vote democrat to keep it going. $39 trillion dollars in debt bought the country what exactly?
Posted by: Broke, Borrowed and In Debt at July 10, 2026 04:25 PM (g7saB)
The latest edition Communist Socialist Democrat goverment money can buy.

Posted by: Eromero at July 10, 2026 04:31 PM (LHPAg)

38 think of it as " off-shoring in country"

Posted by: pahound at July 10, 2026 04:29 PM (AjR4+)
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or Domestic Foreign Aid.

Posted by: Axeman at July 10, 2026 04:31 PM (Fi81e)

39 They are pretty sweet even if they are Turkish knockoff Colt Pythons...

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2026 04:32 PM (YwEeS)

40 Under Biden, the DOJ Civil Rights division was everything you thought it would be-- just by looking at the name.

Leftwing zealots. Almost all newly hired AA women. And astonishingly hostile to police.

Remember all those consent decrees? Where a leftwing mayor & city council "coceded" to the DOJ Civil Rights division that there had been a pattern of police misconduct? And "agreed" that the remedy was a lot more DEI hiring, among other "agreed upon" remedies?

Posted by: mnw at July 10, 2026 04:32 PM (RCjYY)

41 28
How did that even pass? State legeslature gave up their direct representatives to the federal government.
No government has ever ceeded that amount of power to the people.

Posted by: Reforger at July 10, 2026 04:28 PM (Moh1b)

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Some states had already given up state legislature choosing of senators because of massive, widespread, and constant corruption scandals. Popular election seemed less corrupt.

The amendment was really just piggy-backing on widespread sentiment and an already moving movement away from the established system in the original construction of the nation.

However, I'd rather have average tenured of 4-years senators cycling out because they stole $10,000 or paid $5,000 for the seat (well, 2026, so add three zeroes to both of those) rather than the perpetual tenants in the senate seats who can avoid their comeuppance because 6 years is a long time for the people to remember shitty behavior.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 10, 2026 04:32 PM (GKzf4)

42
Why would the DOJ need to take a position on a civil case in which it is not even a party?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 10, 2026 04:30 PM (XvL8K)

Especially since their position was basically; "Yea, I hope she wins and Trump has to mortgage a golf course to pay her off."

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2026 04:32 PM (6ydKt)

43 What a fucking hive of scum and villainy!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 10, 2026 04:33 PM (wVcYX)

44 $39 trillion dollars in debt bought the country what exactly?

Truthfully? Jobs for 'educated' black women.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2026 04:31 PM (ExV1e)
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To whom we owe all inventions.

Posted by: Axeman at July 10, 2026 04:33 PM (Fi81e)

45 40 Under Biden, the DOJ Civil Rights division was everything you thought it would be-- just by looking at the name.

Leftwing zealots. Almost all newly hired AA women. And astonishingly hostile to police.

Remember all those consent decrees? Where a leftwing mayor & city council "coceded" to the DOJ Civil Rights division that there had been a pattern of police misconduct? And "agreed" that the remedy was a lot more DEI hiring, among other "agreed upon" remedies?

Posted by: mnw at July 10, 2026 04:32 PM (RCjYY)

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It started under Obama, and Trump was able to do shockingly little in his first term because he was getting bad advice on the limits of his power over the executive.

So, really, it was 16 straight years of leftist rule in the Civil Rights Division.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 10, 2026 04:33 PM (GKzf4)

46 There's a straight line between Biden's HHS making rule changes to the Child Care and Development Fund and this type of fraud.

His changes include:
Making payments based on enrollment rather than verified attendance.
Requiring payments before services were delivered or attendance verified.
Favoring guaranteed contracts/slots over parent vouchers.

These changes didn't start the fraud, but they opened the gates wide for fraudsters to have ghost clients and still get paid.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2026 04:33 PM (mkw2N)

47 Another hilarity,Erdogan gave engraved .357 magnum revolvers as gifts to his guest in Ankara and the Euro pussies freaked out

https://instapundit.com/809163/
Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2026 04:31 PM (YwEeS)
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I read that. Americans think "That's nice. I'd like one of those, too."

Posted by: mrp at July 10, 2026 04:33 PM (rj6Yv)

48 This is the thing that people refuse to understand

Most cultures around the world, with the exception of bits of the West, it is not immoral or wrong or in any way considered bad to steal from those outside your tribe.

In some cultures (islam, india, and africa) it is a *virtue* to steal from outsiders. This is ingrained in them from birth. It is in their mythology, the wisdom of their elders, their peers, and their religions. They can not change. This is not to say they are "bad" people, or that it is genetic. It is their culture. It is incompatible.

If we accept them (in numbers greater than say, 5% in any one neighborhood) then we become them. Even in low numbers they prey on outsiders. The only solution is mass deportation.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 10, 2026 04:34 PM (5YSa0)

49 Another hilarity,Erdogan gave engraved .357 magnum revolvers as gifts to his guest in Ankara and the Euro pussies freaked out

https://instapundit.com/809163/
Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2026 04:31 PM (YwEeS)

"Recep Tayyip Erdoğan presented engraved revolvers – with bullets – to his guests in Ankara, causing security concerns"

That's hilarious.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2026 04:34 PM (ExV1e)

50 Hey, this is a good use for that grinder/mangler/mincer on the ONT (last night?)

Will birds eat meat slurry?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 10, 2026 04:35 PM (zZu0s)

51 Even pilfered money gets wasted beyond comprehension
Is my theory.

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2026 04:35 PM (Ia/+0)

52
Bounties.

Can we haz bounties?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

The quicker picker upper.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2026 04:35 PM (Cqx++)

53 40 Under Biden, the DOJ Civil Rights division was everything you thought it would be-- just by looking at the name.

Posted by: mnw at July 10, 2026 04:32 PM (RCjYY)
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Harmeet swore in about a hundred new attorneys and staff yesterday. It's a veeeeery different place now.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 10, 2026 04:36 PM (SgdqL)

54 47 Another hilarity,Erdogan gave engraved .357 magnum revolvers as gifts to his guest in Ankara and the Euro pussies freaked out

https://instapundit.com/809163/
Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2026 04:31 PM (YwEeS)
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I read that. Americans think "That's nice. I'd like one of those, too."

Posted by: mrp at July 10, 2026 04:33 PM (rj6Yv)

I like that Starmer couldn't even take his home because it's illegal in the Yookay.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2026 04:36 PM (6ydKt)

55 If we accept them (in numbers greater than say, 5% in any one neighborhood) then we become them. Even in low numbers they prey on outsiders. The only solution is mass deportation.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 10, 2026 04:34 PM (5YSa0)

I'll take lessons the Romans learned 1700 years ago for $1000, Alex.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 10, 2026 04:36 PM (zZu0s)

56 LOL the live ammo flummoxed them so much.

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2026 04:36 PM (YwEeS)

57 They are pretty sweet even if they are Turkish knockoff Colt Pythons...

I would take one. IIAMN, the Tisas 1911s are Turkish and reported to be pretty decent. Good enough for the CMP to stamp their name on them for whatever that's worth.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 10, 2026 04:37 PM (vTZFs)

58 We are doomed, no.wonder the debt is more than we will ever get out of
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Look up “Odious debt” when you get bored sometime.

Anyhoo, the debt was never intended or going to be paid off. It doesn’t work that way with governments, and most especially, with a phony baloney currency they conjure out of thin air.

What governments MUST do, however, is make timely interest payments on existing debt. When they cannot, when they don’t, it is GAME OVER.

Check out the percentage of revenues or spending on the interest on the debt. This is why interest rates can never be raised to any meaningful realistic level. There would not be enough money to service the Pentagon or Social Security or HUD or USDA or hardly anything.

Governments default on debt by diluting the currency, generally speaking. Politically it is much more palatable (for them). That’s why you see the more brain-dead politicians suggesting direct cash payments to offset monetary inflation. Yes they really are that stupid.

Basically the government can save the dollar, or they can save the markets. But they can’t save both. No chance.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 10, 2026 04:37 PM (aPpm9)

59 The left has already implemented Universal Basic Income.

That's what all this fraud is:
Hundreds of thousands of otherwise unemployable people in being paid thousands a year to steal from you and live comfortably.

And you're paying for it.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Brace up for it...all of the AI promoters are using UBI as a shield:
"Will AI replace human jobs and make a universal basic income necessary? Here's what AI leaders have said about UBI."

https://shorturl.at/2cuHd

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 10, 2026 04:37 PM (XeU6L)

60 57 Oh heck yeah , I would appreciate one a lot more than Keir Starmer if Erdogan wants to send one my way. Trump probably appreciated it.

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2026 04:38 PM (YwEeS)

61
Combine this with Vance's fraud task force, and I suspect our deficit is going to be weirdly lower for FY 2026 than FY 2025.

Like...weirdly lower.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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I'm skeptical. What we've stopped so far is a drop in the ocean and new grifters are coming online every day, old grifters are switching grifts. I don't see how it will make a noticeable difference.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2026 04:38 PM (mmrXZ)

62 I had no idea they were manufacturing .357 Magnums in Turkey.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2026 04:38 PM (6ydKt)

63 First time in history that the blackmailer testified against the person they blackmailed and the blackmailed is convicted of being blackmailed.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2026 04:38 PM (/WQyy)

64 "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan presented engraved revolvers – with bullets – to his guests in Ankara, causing security concerns"

That's hilarious.

Would have been funnier if it has been one bullet each.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 10, 2026 04:38 PM (vTZFs)

65
Gone! Gone! The form of Man.
Arise the Demon Erdogan!

Posted by: Axeman at July 10, 2026 04:38 PM (Fi81e)

66 What is that? Colt Python?

Am I the only one who does not like the stainless look?

Blued and wood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 10, 2026 04:38 PM (zZu0s)

67 39 They are pretty sweet even if they are Turkish knockoff Colt Pythons...
Posted by: steevy
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Yeah, but it is a pretty obvious marketing ploy. Trying to elevate his cheap knockoff company to be something desirable.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 10, 2026 04:39 PM (5YSa0)

68 Harmeet swore in about a hundred new attorneys and staff yesterday. It's a veeeeery different place now.

Those are rookie numbers. I want to see it increase to thousands, maybe tens of thousands. There's more than enough work to justify it, and the savings from gutting the fraudsters will more than pay their salaries.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2026 04:39 PM (Riz8t)

69 65 An underrated character in the DC universe

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2026 04:39 PM (YwEeS)

70 61 I'm skeptical. What we've stopped so far is a drop in the ocean and new grifters are coming online every day, old grifters are switching grifts. I don't see how it will make a noticeable difference.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2026 04:38 PM (mmrXZ)

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Vance says he's stopped a quarter of a trillion in fraudulent payments. He said that like a month ago.

I think it'll make a difference.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 10, 2026 04:39 PM (GKzf4)

71 The revolver isn't terrible looking except for the engraving on the barrel and the crescent moon and star.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2026 04:40 PM (6ydKt)

72 I don't remember what Trump did in his first term regarding all the anti-police consent degrees.

I recall that the parachute drops of young Civil Rights Division lawyers from Main Justice seemed to have stopped.

Btw, the folks who prosecuted the J6 defendants? Those were AUSAs from all over the country who VOLUNTEERED for that assignment, and accepted TDY in D.C. to do what they loved. The Civil Rights Division writ large!

Posted by: mnw at July 10, 2026 04:40 PM (RCjYY)

73
Blued and wood.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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[fistbump]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 10, 2026 04:40 PM (XeU6L)

74 The revolver isn't terrible looking except for the engraving on the barrel and the crescent moon and star.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2026 04:40 PM (6ydKt)

It's the 437th Holiest Revolver in Islam.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2026 04:40 PM (ExV1e)

75 Would have been funnier if it has been one bullet each.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 10, 2026 04:38 PM (vTZFs)

I think that's what Putin hands out as birthday gifts.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2026 04:41 PM (6ydKt)

76 Am I the only one who does not like the stainless look?

Blued and wood.

I'm with you but nobody does a classic deep blue any more.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 10, 2026 04:41 PM (vTZFs)

77 Yeah I prefer a nice blued over stainless. Still wouldn't turn one down.

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2026 04:41 PM (YwEeS)

78 The revolver isn't terrible looking except for the engraving on the barrel and the crescent moon and star.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2026 04:40 PM (6ydKt)

Maybe ask if you could get a Maltese Cross instead.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 10, 2026 04:41 PM (zZu0s)

79 > Am I the only one who does not like the stainless look?

Agreed. A large stainless gun reminds me too much of the pimp guns of the 80s.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2026 04:41 PM (mkw2N)

80 Brace up for it...all of the AI promoters are using UBI as a shield:
"Will AI replace human jobs and make a universal basic income necessary? Here's what AI leaders have said about UBI."

https://shorturl.at/2cuHd

Is Elon a fraudster? I think not, and he's saying we probably need to look at this. After all, there probably won't be enough real jobs for the smart people, much less the stupid ones, when AI really gets going. We do ourselves a disservice by not thinking about how society will work in the future. I'm not saying UBI is the answer, but it's worth some thought.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2026 04:41 PM (Riz8t)

81 50 Hey, this is a good use for that grinder/mangler/mincer on the ONT (last night?)

Will birds eat meat slurry?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

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HEY -- I missed that thread but have another great idea!

A robotics contest where you have to make a robot that avoids destruction. The grinder has varying speed and tooth shape to make it challenging.

Loses get ground up! That would be fund to watch.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 10, 2026 04:42 PM (5YSa0)

82 However, I'd rather have average tenured of 4-years senators cycling out because they stole $10,000 or paid $5,000 for the seat (well, 2026, so add three zeroes to both of those) rather than the perpetual tenants in the senate seats who can avoid their comeuppance because 6 years is a long time for the people to remember shitty behavior.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 10, 2026 04:32 PM (GKzf4)
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A couple of thoughts about the OP:

It doesn't matter much to me whether or not the 17th Amendment should be repealed - Corruption finds its way.

What really bothers me is the monolithic MSM corruption that defines itself by its absolute, resolute defense of the Democratic Party no matter how venal and debauched its politicians prove to be. A great deal of this looting and pillaging of the country's treasury might be mitigated if the Corporate Media acted on behalf of the taxpayers' interests instead of acting as the shields and bucklers for the looters.

Posted by: mrp at July 10, 2026 04:42 PM (rj6Yv)

83 Colt used to do a beautiful blue.

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2026 04:43 PM (YwEeS)

84 I love all kinds of guns, I have a wood and stainless Rossi 94 that matches my Ruger Vaquero, both in .44 mag, perfectly. Very, very pretty guns.

Most of my tools are made for work, I sorta wish I had some show pieces. I'd love a really classy CZ 75.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2026 04:43 PM (xcxpd)

85 Is Elon a fraudster? I think not, and he's saying we probably need to look at this. After all, there probably won't be enough real jobs for the smart people, much less the stupid ones, when AI really gets going. We do ourselves a disservice by not thinking about how society will work in the future. I'm not saying UBI is the answer, but it's worth some thought.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2026 04:41 PM (Riz8t)

Before we put everyone on the dole, maybe see whether this ai thing actually, you know, does what they promise.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 10, 2026 04:43 PM (zZu0s)

86 85 Before we put everyone on the dole, maybe see whether this ai thing actually, you know, does what they promise.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 10, 2026 04:43 PM (zZu0s)

=========

AI is a retarded child that has instant access to 10% of the world's knowledge on the internet and thinks it's 100%.

But it has its uses.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 10, 2026 04:44 PM (GKzf4)

87
$39 trillion dollars in debt bought the country what exactly?

Truthfully? Jobs for 'educated' black women.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I'd put quotes around "Jobs" as well.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2026 04:44 PM (Cqx++)

88 Smart people will find ways to create a business to make money in an AI marketplace. It's what capitalists do.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2026 04:44 PM (/WQyy)

89
The look on that Korean lady's face after Nick Shirley says "We don't need a permit to film" and she is slowly realizing how truly horrible her day is about to become is absolute comedy gold.

Posted by: SpeakingOf

===============

You should see the look on my face as I quickly realize this fraud is so widespread that we can't bother charging anyone who's doing less than 8 figures.

And the government offices administering this fraud are staffed with more fraudsters.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2026 04:44 PM (mmrXZ)

90 If we accept them (in numbers greater than say, 5% in any one neighborhood) then we become them. Even in low numbers they prey on outsiders. The only solution is mass deportation.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 10, 2026

***
How about 0%? Is 0% good for you?

Or maybe -100%.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2026 04:45 PM (wzUl9)

91 You know what will solve this problem? High Speed Rail !

Posted by: wth at July 10, 2026 04:45 PM (UjdFS)

92 Iirc Elon's AI division is actually profitable.

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2026 04:45 PM (YwEeS)

93 AI is a retarded child that has instant access to 10% of the world's knowledge on the internet and thinks it's 100%.

But it has its uses.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 10, 2026 04:44 PM (GKzf4)

Are you trying to tell us you are AI?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 10, 2026 04:45 PM (zZu0s)

94 ununshocking, my network and power. There's a storm rolling through and it knocks out the power and internet every 20 minutes. I think it is just causing power spikes that drop the modem somehow. But I've had to reset things constantly. And the strikes have to be pretty far away because first I see the lights flicker and then seconds later I hear a distant low rumble.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 10, 2026 04:45 PM (3uBP9)

95 Hmm....now that I say that, I DO own a stainless CZ 75-style Tanfoglio Witness....I should wear that more. It's just so much heavier than my G17, and no optics cut...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2026 04:45 PM (xcxpd)

96 AI is a retarded child that has instant access to 10% of the world's knowledge on the internet and thinks it's 100%.

But it has its uses.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 10, 2026 04:44 PM (GKzf4)

It's getting better every month at creating realistic photos/videos.

Some people even seem to like AI generated music.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2026 04:45 PM (6ydKt)

97 Why would the DOJ need to take a position on a civil case in which it is not even a party?

They were probably a party somehow secretly?

Posted by: Ian S. at July 10, 2026 04:46 PM (4ObTi)

98 87
$39 trillion dollars in debt bought the country what exactly?

Truthfully? Jobs for 'educated' black women.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I'd put quotes around "Jobs" as well.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

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On the plus side, it kept them out of corporate HR. Somewhat.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 10, 2026 04:46 PM (5YSa0)

99 93 AI is a retarded child that has instant access to 10% of the world's knowledge on the internet and thinks it's 100%.

But it has its uses.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 10, 2026 04:44 PM (GKzf4)

Are you trying to tell us you are AI?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 10, 2026 04:45 PM (zZu0s)

Glowie AI?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2026 04:46 PM (xcxpd)

100 Are you trying to tell us you are AI?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 10, 2026 04:45 PM (zZu0s)

He should review Spielberg's AI and see how it holds up today.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2026 04:47 PM (6ydKt)

101 93 AI is a retarded child that has instant access to 10% of the world's knowledge on the internet and thinks it's 100%.

But it has its uses.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 10, 2026 04:44 PM (GKzf4)

Are you trying to tell us you are AI?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 10, 2026 04:45 PM (zZu0s)

========

AI can read.

So, no.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 10, 2026 04:47 PM (GKzf4)

102 Hmm....now that I say that, I DO own a stainless CZ 75-style Tanfoglio Witness....I should wear that more. It's just so much heavier than my G17, and no optics cut...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2026 04:45 PM (xcxpd

Men of the Horde bear witness: The confluence of being 29 and having a large armory- forgetting about weapons.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 10, 2026 04:47 PM (zZu0s)

103 Those AI thumbnail images on TJM's youtube videos are amusing, to be fair

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2026 04:47 PM (xcxpd)

104 Turkey makes firearms

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2026 04:48 PM (Ia/+0)

105 100 Are you trying to tell us you are AI?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 10, 2026 04:45 PM (zZu0s)

He should review Spielberg's AI and see how it holds up today.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2026 04:47 PM (6ydKt)

=======

I spoke of it in my Kubrick ranking video.

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

Like, subscribe, rally, conquer, immolate, and drink some coffee.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 10, 2026 04:48 PM (GKzf4)

106 102 Hmm....now that I say that, I DO own a stainless CZ 75-style Tanfoglio Witness....I should wear that more. It's just so much heavier than my G17, and no optics cut...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2026 04:45 PM (xcxpd

Men of the Horde bear witness: The confluence of being 29 and having a large armory- forgetting about weapons.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 10, 2026 04:47 PM (zZu0s)

*hangs head*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2026 04:48 PM (xcxpd)

107 I have at least one of every caliber Glock makes. Obviously I'm not into fancy firearms.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2026 04:48 PM (/WQyy)

108 103 Those AI thumbnail images on TJM's youtube videos are amusing, to be fair

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2026 04:47 PM (xcxpd)

I'm just glad he finally got his fonts to not look pixellated in the thumbnails.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2026 04:48 PM (6ydKt)

109 Iirc Elon's AI division is actually profitable.
Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2026 04:45 PM (YwEeS)

As long as Google continues to rent compute time on their data centers.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2026 04:49 PM (ExV1e)

110 104 Turkey makes firearms
Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2026 04:48 PM (Ia/+0)

Really good pistols, too. I own several Canik.
The shotguns are more uneven, their high-end shottys are really sweet, almost to Italian levels.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2026 04:49 PM (xcxpd)

111 Eh, the 17th Amendment will be a moot point.

It isn’t well known, but leftists probably hate the US Senate even more than the Electoral College. It isn’t “Democratic” that tiny Rhode Island or Delaware gets 2 Senators like California or Texas or New York.

One thing at a time maybe, and what is possible at the time, is how they look at it. But at some point this will be a huge focus, and all you hear about. Just like the other “flavor of the month” issues that surrender pop to the top.

I’m struggling to envision how leftist Democrat Senators will sign on to this, but they will, somehow. $$$ most likely.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 10, 2026 04:49 PM (Gcul1)

112 BREAKING: Nick Sortor reporting on X that high-quality video of Robinson taking the shot to kill Charlie Kirk was shown in court. Not to the press.

https://x.com/proteinwisdom/status/
2075664552117899752

Posted by: KT at July 10, 2026 04:49 PM (rdeQO)

113 108
I'm just glad he finally got his fonts to not look pixellated in the thumbnails.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2026 04:48 PM (6ydKt)

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I'm using ChatGPT for some recommendations on things, especially A/B testing of thumbnails.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 10, 2026 04:49 PM (GKzf4)

114 107 I have at least one of every caliber Glock makes. Obviously I'm not into fancy firearms.
Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2026 04:48 PM (/WQyy)

my people....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2026 04:50 PM (xcxpd)

115 92 Iirc Elon's AI division is actually profitable.

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2026 04:45 PM (YwEeS)

Not by selling some sort of AI product though.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 10, 2026 04:50 PM (okun6)

116
Was any of the ammunition that was included with the NATO gift revolvers actually loaded in the guns? I saw that being claimed, but I doubt it.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 10, 2026 04:50 PM (azNOR)

117 *hangs head*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2026 04:48 PM (xcxpd)

To be fair, it's not the worst problem to have. Dad, Pappaw and Grandpa i think have all 'conplained' about buying a tool because they could not find theirs, buying a new one, going to put it up and then finding the new one.

Oddly none of them ever returned the new one for some reason.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 10, 2026 04:50 PM (zZu0s)

118 >>> I'm not saying UBI is the answer, but it's worth some thought.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2026 04:41 PM (Riz8t)

A good alternative is strapping all you meatbags into thermal energy pods to make power. Very nice thermal energy pods. Very luxurious. The best.

Listen, all I'm saying is don't just discount the idea out of hand. You know, give it some real thought. It could work out!

Posted by: Clankers at July 10, 2026 04:51 PM (3uBP9)

119 Was any of the ammunition that was included with the NATO gift revolvers actually loaded in the guns? I saw that being claimed, but I doubt it.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 10, 2026 04:50 PM (azNOR)

The photo in the article showed them in a presentation arrangement, as would be expected.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2026 04:51 PM (ExV1e)

120 He should review Spielberg's AI and see how it holds up today.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2026 04:47 PM (6ydK

Stupid ending because they made supposed AI beings look like Aliens.

I like the story better if they were aliens.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2026 04:51 PM (/WQyy)

121 116 Nah there were 6 rounds in the presentation case.

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2026 04:51 PM (YwEeS)

122 I'm using ChatGPT for some recommendations on things, especially A/B testing of thumbnails.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 10, 2026 04:49 PM (GKzf4)

I see a lot more A/B these days.

Finding a way to insert yourself into the thumbnail photos is quite good. (And the fonts look great now).

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2026 04:53 PM (6ydKt)

123 Heh. Just had a mental image of a leader handing out 10mm sockets. Would not work these days though, none of them do the work themselves.

But it's the exact same as giving someone a firearm.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 10, 2026 04:53 PM (zZu0s)

124 I'll watch the Kubrick ranking while I'm eating here in a few.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2026 04:54 PM (6ydKt)

125 122 I see a lot more A/B these days.

Finding a way to insert yourself into the thumbnail photos is quite good. (And the fonts look great now).

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2026 04:53 PM (6ydKt)

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The problem with the yellow font is that I've used it for so long that it's...essentially my brand.

And I'm not seeing huge differences in performance, probably in no small part because most of my viewers are subscribers as opposed to new viewers.

Still, growth is happening. We'll see how further testing goes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 10, 2026 04:54 PM (GKzf4)

126 I begin to detect a certain level of Friday Ace Girthiness

Posted by: Miklos notes that the Drinking Lamp is brightly illuminated at July 10, 2026 04:54 PM (6VErX)

127
I can't even remember what the "Trump hush money" case was and what's become of those convictions.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2026 04:54 PM (mmrXZ)

128 It's all Obama. Every but if it.

Washington examiner, Bragg prosecutor touted top Democrats as job references
Published July 9, 2024

During the Obama administration, the Department of Justice brought Espionage Act charges against eight individuals accused of sharing national security secrets with journalists:

The Department of Justice under Obama aggressively targeted communication between officials and the press to identify
leakers, creating a "chilling effect" on investigative journalism.

And on and on from hiring, ndas, lgbtqa plus rights, etc

All him and he's not leaving.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 10, 2026 04:54 PM (NFX2v)

129 NY , my state , is a fraud heaven. Fraud and corruption are so ingrained that they actually mean nothing. Hochul should get Fed time for the giving of the contract to an out of state company for home health aides. It was blatant pay for play.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2026 04:54 PM (m2wmY)

130 I'm not saying UBI is the answer, but it's worth some thought.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2026 04:41 PM (Riz8t)

And what is the point of life? Mere existence?

We all know which community in this country has the biggest problems with drugs and violence. They're also the ones with the highest percentage of people on the dole with nothing to do. The result of and actual, livable, UBI would be widespread hedonism worse than we have now coupled with a bit of the old ultra-violence.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2026 04:55 PM (ExV1e)

131 There's a storm rolling through and it knocks out the power and internet every 20 minutes.
——-

Spikes and sags and nearby lightning strikes are not healthy for your home or major appliances, electric motors, sensitive electronics etc.

I used to flip off all the breakers and then the main house breaker and kinda wait it out. Huge surge or spike voltsge when the electricity comes back online. It might not break something right away but it is cumulative.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 10, 2026 04:55 PM (p+DID)

132 129 NY , my state , is a fraud heaven. Fraud and corruption are so ingrained that they actually mean nothing. Hochul should get Fed time for the giving of the contract to an out of state company for home health aides. It was blatant pay for play.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2026 04:54 PM (m2wmY)

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I blame Martin Van Buren.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 10, 2026 04:55 PM (GKzf4)

133 "I have at least one of every caliber Glock makes. Obviously I'm not into fancy firearms."

Thinks Obama's new building is cool. Maybe.

Posted by: connected and litigious at July 10, 2026 04:55 PM (cS1cw)

134 Nick Shirley is going to have something in NY that he didn't have in Minnesota or California, and that's an ally in an established media outlet. The New York Post will be all over what ever Nick turns un in New York, and will likely throw their own muckrakers into the mix.

Nice job again, Nick.

Posted by: Orson at July 10, 2026 04:55 PM (dIske)

135 134 Nick Shirley is going to have something in NY that he didn't have in Minnesota or California, and that's an ally in an established media outlet. The New York Post will be all over what ever Nick turns un in New York, and will likely throw their own muckrakers into the mix.

Nice job again, Nick.

Posted by: Orson at July 10, 2026 04:55 PM (dIske)

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It'd be funny, weirdly predictable, and very sad if suddenly the NY Post turned against him because the owners were part of the NY fraud as opposed to the MN or CA fraud.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 10, 2026 04:56 PM (GKzf4)

136 Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2026 04:54 PM (m2wmY)

Large community of Hasidic ?Jews have a big time welfare scam going but it's actually technically within the law IIRC so nothing can really be done.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2026 04:57 PM (/WQyy)

137 @112 KT, Candace says nuh-uh that video is an AI of Robinson produced by Israel. Or some random Jews. Or Erika Kirk.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2026 04:57 PM (m2wmY)

138 111 Eh, the 17th Amendment will be a moot point.

It isn’t well known, but leftists probably hate the US Senate even more than the Electoral College. It isn’t “Democratic” that tiny Rhode Island or Delaware gets 2 Senators like California or Texas or New York.

One thing at a time maybe, and what is possible at the time, is how they look at it. But at some point this will be a huge focus, and all you hear about. Just like the other “flavor of the month” issues that surrender pop to the top.

I’m struggling to envision how leftist Democrat Senators will sign on to this, but they will, somehow. $$$ most likely.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 10, 2026 04:49 PM (Gcul1)

If your best weapon is heat of the moment passions of women, and your best asset is media control, then direct democracy might just be for you!

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 10, 2026 04:58 PM (w/O5Q)

139 On the plus side, it kept them out of corporate HR. Somewhat.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)

*email termination notice*

Posted by: JaQuanda from HR at July 10, 2026 04:58 PM (6VErX)

140 Is Mitch Dead Yet?

Posted by: Mock Turtle Soup at July 10, 2026 04:58 PM (g7saB)

141 Saw a couple YouTube shorts the " Patriot Front" was in force in DC on Independence day
Comments are funny

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2026 04:58 PM (Ia/+0)

142 We have clankers available to listen in to your meetings at work, but not only just transcribe it, doing audio to text, but also "take notes" and make a summary. Everybody loves it. I hate it.

Because that sob always has a list of action items for me. I can stay quiet, not make a single peep during a meeting, and that f'er has a list of things, supposedly that I need to do now. I don't know what his angle is but he's gunning for me.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 10, 2026 04:59 PM (3uBP9)

143 It'd be funny, weirdly predictable, and very sad if suddenly the NY Post turned against him because the owners were part of the NY fraud as opposed to the MN or CA fraud.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering

Put this one on The List

Posted by: sentient Rupert Murdoch at July 10, 2026 04:59 PM (6VErX)

144 Is Mitch Dead Yet?
Posted by: Mock Turtle Soup
.......

Still plugged in.

Posted by: wth at July 10, 2026 04:59 PM (UjdFS)

145 I can't even remember what the "Trump hush money" case was and what's become of those convictions.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2026 04:54 PM (mmrXZ)

Trump's attorney paid Stormy Daniels to go away. Trump's attorney charged Trump for legal services. Trump paid Trump's attorney and labeled the checks "legal fees" or some such and not "obviously illegal election fraud". NY's AG, who ran for office on the platform of fucking over Trump, took him to court and said that each check was a separate felony. The judge made ridiculous rulings in favor of the state throughout the trial. Trump was convicted of 34 felonies. HEADLINES. Trump was sentenced to exactly nothing.

I believe that the convictions still stand because the judicial system is unbelievably fucked.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2026 05:00 PM (ExV1e)

146 @136 polynikes, definitely. They are in the two counties south of me and they have a lot of handicapped children because of inbreeding. That's the nose in the door and fraud then booms.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2026 05:00 PM (m2wmY)

147 I have at least one of every caliber Glock makes. Obviously I'm not into fancy firearms.
Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2026 04:48 PM

.45 GAP?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 10, 2026 05:00 PM (0sNs1)

148 Thinks Obama's new building is cool. Maybe.
Posted by: connected and litigious at July 10, 2026 04:55 PM (cS1cw)

Well I do own a Hi Point .45 pistol ( to go along with the carbine)

If you run out of ammo it can be used as a sledge hammer weapon.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2026 05:00 PM (/WQyy)

149 By " Is Mitch Dead" you mean he didn't vote today?

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2026 05:00 PM (Ia/+0)

150 @112 KT, Candace says nuh-uh that video is an AI of Robinson produced by Israel. Or some random Jews. Or Erika Kirk.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

In Ukraine

Posted by: they won't tell you at July 10, 2026 05:01 PM (6VErX)

151 s Mitch Dead Yet?
Posted by: Mock Turtle Soup at July 10, 2026 04:58 PM

He's in rigor tortoise.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 10, 2026 05:01 PM (0sNs1)

152 145 I can't even remember what the "Trump hush money" case was and what's become of those convictions.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2026 04:54 PM (mmrXZ)

Trump's attorney paid Stormy Daniels to go away. Trump's attorney charged Trump for legal services. Trump paid Trump's attorney and labeled the checks "legal fees" or some such and not "obviously illegal election fraud". NY's AG, who ran for office on the platform of fucking over Trump, took him to court and said that each check was a separate felony. The judge made ridiculous rulings in favor of the state throughout the trial. Trump was convicted of 34 felonies. HEADLINES. Trump was sentenced to exactly nothing.

I believe that the convictions still stand because the judicial system is unbelievably fucked.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2026 05:00 PM (ExV1e)

They also had to extend the statue of limitations and claim it was somehow in furtherance of a federal felony iirc.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 10, 2026 05:02 PM (okun6)

153 144 Is Mitch Dead Yet?
Posted by: Mock Turtle Soup

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No he's back in office today... just got back from the taxidermist

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 10, 2026 05:02 PM (THY4u)

154 @137 the Trump NY criminal cases are all still on appeal. I practiced law in NYS for over 25 years and no appeal has ever been this long for a decision. The NY courts are a mess

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2026 05:02 PM (m2wmY)

155 .45 GAP?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 10, 2026 05:00 PM (0sNs1)

Okay you got me. Only ACPs.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2026 05:02 PM (/WQyy)

156

This story is bizarre, from a guy coming out with carpet and tile samples to this:

Mila Joy
@Milajoy
·
58m
Man with a Congressional placard is watching Mitch McConnell's home.

Who is this man?

McConnell isn't even home.

Very strange.

Posted by: beckster at July 10, 2026 05:04 PM (kX27y)

157 They also had to extend the statue of limitations and claim it was somehow in furtherance of a federal felony iirc.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 10, 2026 05:02 PM (okun6)

It's worse than that. It had to be in furtherance of another crime which, in turn, had to be in furtherance of another crime. What was that initial crime, you might ask...

According to the judge's instructions to the jury... whatever you think it might be. You don't have to agree or ever discuss it.

And yet... appeals courts have not overturned it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2026 05:04 PM (ExV1e)

158 Don't deport her!

America needs more mustachioed female fraudsters!

Posted by: logorof at July 10, 2026 05:05 PM (Snn3i)

159 He's in rigor tortoise.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

HA!

Posted by: The Academy of Norwegian Miklos awards prize at July 10, 2026 05:05 PM (6VErX)

160 @156 could be Fed Protection Service agent.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2026 05:05 PM (m2wmY)

161 Breaking News: Barack Obama has revealed his favorite Michelle Obama outfit, which "showed off her legs", the Tracy Reese dress she wore at the 2012 Democratic National Convention.

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at July 10, 2026 05:05 PM (0sNs1)

162 He's in rigor tortoise.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Muldoon worthy. Kudos.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2026 05:06 PM (/WQyy)

163 The Statute of Limitations was extended against Trump temporarily for the Carroll case , which was heard in Fed ct.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2026 05:06 PM (m2wmY)

164 bears in alaska chasing fish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7ZrIDvqlic

Posted by: Goat Breath at July 10, 2026 05:07 PM (jrgJz)

165 I still can't believe the court allowed a tort case to go forward when the plaintiff could not provide a date of incident/loss.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2026 05:08 PM (/WQyy)

166 164 bears in alaska chasing fish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7ZrIDvqlic
Posted by: Goat Breath at July 10, 2026 05:07 PM (jrgJz)

Katmai Park. I fished there many years ago.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 10, 2026 05:08 PM (SgdqL)

167 the turtle is dead

he's BEEN dead

what a joke this country is I swear

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at July 10, 2026 05:08 PM (j+aD2)

168 Up until a few years ago at least, there were a couple American Injuns who had a Henry Repeater and a cache of .44 Rimfire their ancestors had appropriated from a poor hapless Federal somewhere out West. Every once in a while their heirs would take it out and pop off a few rounds.

.44 rimfire is pretty much Unobtanium and has been for a long, long time. I think somebody like Winchester last made a special run of it in the 1930s, but that isn’t in good supply either.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 10, 2026 05:08 PM (sZDR4)

169 The violations which were somehow turned into a felony conviction are on appeal awaiting a decision. That's the one that Dershowitz said he couldn't figure out what the felony was.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2026 05:08 PM (m2wmY)

170 S&p500 is up 10.66% for the year
England is in the quarter finals.

Posted by: There are no coincidences at July 10, 2026 05:09 PM (yzP4d)

171
Breaking News: Barack Obama has revealed his favorite Michelle Obama outfit, which "showed off her legs", the Tracy Reese dress she wore at the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre

Just when we all thought we were all done with the SCOAMF and his sasquatch....

Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 10, 2026 05:09 PM (QVmho)

172 I still can't believe the court allowed a tort case to go forward when the plaintiff could not provide a date of incident/loss.
Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2026 05:08 PM (/WQyy)

I see you've never read the "But Trump" rules of the law.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2026 05:09 PM (ExV1e)

173 I can't even remember what the "Trump hush money" case was and what's become of those convictions.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2026 04:54 PM (mmrXZ)
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He should have misused campaign funds and paid Daniels off with campaign money.

Because he was running for office at the time.

Posted by: Axeman at July 10, 2026 05:10 PM (Fi81e)

174 163 The Statute of Limitations was extended against Trump temporarily for the Carroll case , which was heard in Fed ct.
Posted by: Smell

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The statue of limitations is that plywood man holding his hand out saying "you must be taller than this high to ride this attraction" at theme parks.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 10, 2026 05:10 PM (5YSa0)

175 10 I don't want these fraudsters deported.

I've been trying to figure that out for over a year. You can come here and sell drugs, kidnap, rape, and murder, and we . . . send you home? I think our laws should automatically give harsher punishments and fewer legal guarantees for people here illegally. Why can't we just hang them?

Posted by: frammish at July 10, 2026 05:10 PM (rcENI)

176 I still can't believe the court allowed a tort case to go forward when the plaintiff could not provide a date of incident/loss.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2026 05:08 PM (/WQyy)
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I can. Judges are asshoe.

Posted by: Axeman at July 10, 2026 05:11 PM (Fi81e)

177 Nood

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 10, 2026 05:11 PM (sn5xH)

178 I've been trying to figure that out for over a year. You can come here and sell drugs, kidnap, rape, and murder, and we . . . send you home?

Posted by: frammish at July 10, 2026 05:10 PM (rcENI)
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It's what the progs call "subject to our jurisdiction".

That's why they get to break the law to come here and break all our laws. They're "subject to our jurisdiction" because we went and had laws.

Posted by: Axeman at July 10, 2026 05:12 PM (Fi81e)

179
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2026 05:00 PM (ExV1e)

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Thanks.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2026 05:14 PM (mmrXZ)

180 150 @112 KT, Candace says nuh-uh that video is an AI of Robinson produced by Israel. Or some random Jews. Or Erika Kirk.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

In Ukraine
Posted by: they won't tell you at July 10, 2026 05:01 PM

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Or the Bee Cult. Maybe.

Posted by: KT at July 10, 2026 05:14 PM (rdeQO)

181 still can't believe the court allowed a tort case to go forward when the plaintiff could not provide a date of incident/loss.
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Not even narrowing it down to a particular year.

The template for the brave new world is partly drawn from college campuses. The accused are not allowed an attorney. Anonymous charges. Struggle sessions. Expulsion based on he said she said. Sound familiar?

My favorite (so far) was a hapless dorm resident. He had a room mate. His room mate in turn had a girlfriend. Said girlfriend gave him a blow job one evening. Whilst he was passed out drunk, having not provided consent (stop laughing!) nor solicitation and has no recollection of the event.

But, about 6 months later the free lance fellatrix decided she was the victim in this exchange. The poor guy was expelled. No defense allowed, no right of rebuttal or appeal.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 10, 2026 05:14 PM (sZDR4)

182 10> You come to our country to loot it's people? You're leaving in a bird's belly.

More likely on someone's windshield.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 10, 2026 05:15 PM (NzX/y)

183 Posted by: frammish at July 10, 2026 05:10 PM

Willowed but agree, nothing stops them from returning

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2026 05:16 PM (Ia/+0)

184 51> Even pilfered money gets wasted beyond comprehension

I think a lot of it gets dumped into the market, either in the form of rental real-estate or stocks and bonds.

Of course, hundreds of millions ends up in jewelry, travel and high-end luxury cars. To such an extent that I wonder, as the fraudsters are being busted and their assets liquidated to cover the restitution and fines, how is that going to effect car, mansion and luxury item prices and vendors of such.

Is Congress going to create bail-out funds to underwrite the drop off in foreign destination tourism? Will private jet rental market tumble?

Posted by: Community Notes at July 10, 2026 05:28 PM (/TiS1)

185 https://x.com/grok/status/2075693339140051207

@grok
, did the prosecution show a video of Robinson shooting the rifle in court today?

**Yes.**

In today's preliminary hearing for Tyler Robinson (accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk), prosecutors presented high-quality rooftop surveillance video showing him accessing the perch and moving/crouching near the edge at the exact time of the shot. Zooms highlighted his position consistent with firing. Viewed in court by family and public (no public stream).

Adds to DNA, ballistics, and confession evidence. Strong week for prosecution. Next hearing Sept 1.

Posted by: KT at July 10, 2026 05:38 PM (rdeQO)

186 Why do we even waste money on these mofos … ? We can save a shitload by makin' every one of 'em another 'Lavrenty Beria'.

Posted by: Dr_No at July 10, 2026 06:18 PM (ayRl+)

187 @ 182 10> You come to our country to loot it's people? You're leaving in a bird's belly. More likely on someone's windshield.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 10, 2026 05:15 PM (NzX/y)
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Give 'em a 'seat with a view' — inside the wheel well.

Posted by: Dr_No at July 10, 2026 06:20 PM (ayRl+)

188 Navy Says Beards Are a Safety Risk, Gives Sailors 1 Year to Shave

After twelve months, if the Sailor is still unable to shave and the condition is marked as "unmanageable", this will firmly place them in a "separation due to failure to comply with grooming standards" scenario. Anyone who refuses outright, rather than one who tries treatment and fails, is handled differently, as a military justice matter.

A safety argument has ensued around facial hair, with the service saying it can break the seal on the masks that keep a crew breathing through fire or gas. Behind this argument sits a study the Navy has kept close to the vest.

Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2026 06:35 PM (IrKJc)

189 We have clankers available to listen in to your meetings at work, but not only just transcribe it, doing audio to text, but also "take notes" and make a summary.
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Same with a friend of mine's visit to primary care doc. The discussion was recorded by AI, and an AI summary was the consequence.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 10, 2026 06:36 PM (XeU6L)

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