Media Used to Call Government Surveillance of People -- Even Terrorists! -- "Spying" as a Routine Matter.<br>Now That The Spying is Directed at ORANGEMANBAD, They're Freaking Out Over Semantics.

Media Used to Call Government Surveillance of People -- Even Terrorists! -- "Spying" as a Routine Matter.
Now That The Spying is Directed at ORANGEMANBAD, They're Freaking Out Over Semantics.

Government spying was government spying, until Trump called government spying "spying."

Then the media which, like an obstreperous child, feels obligated to contradict Trump on every single simple point, began shrieking that spying was no longer spying, because they said so.

But a look back at their previous reporting on spying sees them calling spying "spying" in every single instance.

Except now that Trump says that spies did in fact spy on him, they've decided to play the infantile liberal game of redefining basic vocabulary.

How embarrassing that the NYT used to call spying spying and will no longer ever be able to call spying spying, if they wish to remain consistent with their utterly ridiculous new standard that the use of wiretaps, overseas intelligence assets, other surveillance is not spying. pic.twitter.com/O4nwrHzbBM
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) April 12, 2019

Totally not spying you guys. pic.twitter.com/IFed56PDRe
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 12, 2019

When Bush did it, not only was it spying, it was the kind of spying that needed to be banned. pic.twitter.com/AsTo8duvkA
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 12, 2019

Back in 2014, per the New York Times, spying was defined as being "subjected to surveillance by the federal government." Oh how the Times have changed! pic.twitter.com/nmWK5lZ7i1
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 12, 2019

It's striking how consistent the @nytimes was in its use of the term "spying" prior to the Obama administration's efforts to aggressively spy on the Trump campaign. pic.twitter.com/dBuUS62Seg
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 12, 2019

Old and busted: Domestic spying is inconsistent with the values of this country.
New hotness: Spying is very consistent with the values of this country because Orange Man Bad. pic.twitter.com/4N9wCeZaAV
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 12, 2019

It's only warantless domestic spying when Republicans do it. When Obama does it, it's merely the utilization of national security letters to avoid court oversight of surreptitious domestic electronic surveillance of the communications of private U.S. citizens. pic.twitter.com/mFug1blKru
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 12, 2019

CNN's meltdown over Barr's accurate use of the word "spying" is even more curious given that CNN described a previous GOP AG's testimony regarding the exact same DOJ program as "domestic spying." pic.twitter.com/bc96J57r7t
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 12, 2019

'Member that time CNN referred to FBI agents secretly collecting communications of American citizens as spying? And 'member how there was so much spying via video games that the FBI worried it might be accidentally spying on its own agents? I 'member. pic.twitter.com/k3AaILlCaM
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 12, 2019

Really makes you think, @CillizzaCNN. pic.twitter.com/odFQqccbba
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 12, 2019

Totally not spying you guys. pic.twitter.com/IFed56PDRe
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 12, 2019

"When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” Or: https://t.co/WCpxo4C3ik pic.twitter.com/McswETKOGd
— Andy McCarthy (@AndrewCMcCarthy) April 12, 2019

The prosecutor could have said "deliberate and forced cessation of another individual's life without legal justification."

Instead, he said "murder." https://t.co/qFqAJUvnJ9
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 12, 2019

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 02:37 PM

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1 BOOM!

Posted by: Max Power at April 12, 2019 02:38 PM (q177U)

2 Foist?

Posted by: Calm Mentor at April 12, 2019 02:38 PM (6csDQ)

3 OK, time to read the content.

Posted by: Max Power at April 12, 2019 02:38 PM (q177U)

4 Squirrel!

Posted by: New York Times at April 12, 2019 02:38 PM (Z216Q)

5 Sponge

Posted by: FIRST!!!!! at April 12, 2019 02:38 PM (uopCm)

6 Pet my cat Sponge.

Posted by: Rachel Maddow Crying Into Her Cashews at April 12, 2019 02:39 PM (d6NzT)

7 Quick, somebody tattoo "IDIOT" on Schiff's bald head.

Posted by: Hikaru at April 12, 2019 02:39 PM (UnA8+)

8 IT'S NOT SPYING WHEN *THEY* DO IT...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 12, 2019 02:39 PM (8D42x)

9 I'm gettin' pretty sick of hearing "ORANGEMANBAD"! It's clobberin' time!

Posted by: The Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Thing at April 12, 2019 02:39 PM (7HtZB)

10 That's a lot of twits!

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at April 12, 2019 02:39 PM (t6MX/)

11 Did you know that Obama was not spying on Trump?

*in the sense of personally stalking him as though he were James Bond

Posted by: Someguy at April 12, 2019 02:39 PM (oTYTN)

12 I've evolved on spying.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 12, 2019 02:40 PM (1ISKN)

13 You have this awesome troll of Obama courtesy of DJT Jr. twitter:
https://bit.ly/2GiR6tP

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 12, 2019 02:40 PM (jxbfJ)

14 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 12, 2019 02:40 PM (f4nhz)

15 Sean Davis must have reached his final form. He's been Super Saiyan this week.

Posted by: Max Power at April 12, 2019 02:40 PM (q177U)

16 The conservative case for spying on political opponents.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at April 12, 2019 02:40 PM (t6MX/)

17 'Let me be clear...this conversation is being recorded for your protection.'

- Barack Obama

Posted by: garrett at April 12, 2019 02:40 PM (QPKL6)

18 Make those lying a**wipes squirm!

Posted by: navybrat, stays off BART trains at April 12, 2019 02:41 PM (w7KSn)

19 15 Sean Davis must have reached his final form. He's been Super Saiyan this week.
Posted by: Max Power at April 12, 2019 02:40 PM (q177U)

Apotheosized Sean Davis.

Posted by: Hikaru at April 12, 2019 02:41 PM (UnA8+)

20 Damn. If only James Bond told the villain that he was only doing surveillance and wasn't spying, tye books and the movies would whole lot shorter.

Posted by: Delaforce at April 12, 2019 02:41 PM (INCeP)

21 Well it wasn't "spying" spying.........

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 12, 2019 02:41 PM (JUOKG)

22 It's not spying. It's a tax on freedom.

Posted by: Chief Jokist Benedict Roberts at April 12, 2019 02:41 PM (ufGqN)

23 The left's ability to do an instantaneous 180 is always a sight to behold.

Posted by: steevy at April 12, 2019 02:41 PM (BXMxN)

24 This like how they were arguing that Trump wasn't actually "wiretapped" because no real phone wires were involved. All they are doing is emphasizing exactly how right Trump is.

"You're damn right I ordered that Code Red!"

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Pick Up A Copy of The Daily Panic at The Outrage Outlet! at April 12, 2019 02:41 PM (hLRSq)

25
So electronic intelligence gathering of that smokin hot MILF next door is OK?

See you Monday, if I don't die of dehydration.

Posted by: M K Ultra at April 12, 2019 02:42 PM (UFLLM)

26 I spy, with my little eye, something that starts with "T". Treason!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 12, 2019 02:42 PM (+y/Ru)

27 But the rubes can't know it was spying... they might start to pay attention.

Posted by: Inogame at April 12, 2019 02:42 PM (ySZHT)

28 When your gov't and media lie to you regularly and on topics of consequence, I'm pretty sure it's time for a national divorce.

Posted by: HA at April 12, 2019 02:42 PM (MAstk)

29 that's even better. I don't see how anyone can actually take them seriously.

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 12, 2019 02:42 PM (8D42x)

30 Gonna be buku overtime this week!

Posted by: Winston Smith at April 12, 2019 02:42 PM (NF7WJ)

31 It's not spying spying.

Posted by: Whoopie Goldfarb at April 12, 2019 02:42 PM (z+L6U)

32 Language is not a static entity, you reich-wing troglodytes. Words change. That's progress. Why are you against progress?

Posted by: New York Slimes at April 12, 2019 02:43 PM (ufGqN)

33 The Left (aka Democratic Party) is the domestic enemy that I took an oath to defend against. And he is 'inside the wire'.

Act, and vote, accordingly.

Posted by: LGoPs at April 12, 2019 02:43 PM (hzVKs)

34 2 Foist?

Posted by: Calm Mentor at April 12, 2019 02:38 PM (6csDQ)

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tell me a sad story in two words

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at April 12, 2019 02:43 PM (NF7WJ)

35 Obama doesn't spy. He's curious. He pries, probes and inquires.

Posted by: Reggie Love at April 12, 2019 02:43 PM (2LelM)

36 As Rush noted today, haven't we heard from the MFM and Democrats about Nixon spying on the DNC for half a century now?

Posted by: ShainS -- PhD candidate in Angry Orange Male studies at April 12, 2019 02:43 PM (fWCCb)

37 Obama spied, newspeople lied.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at April 12, 2019 02:43 PM (t6MX/)

38 There are a lot of foreign-born non-lefty bloggers and commentators trying very hard to convince people that civil war is awful and to be avoided at all costs, but this 1984 shit is making the idea appeal to a wider audience every day.

And here these asshats are all braying about the meaning of the word "spying".

They have no fucking idea how sick the rest of us are of their shit. It's that dial vs. on-off switch thing again.

Posted by: lurker (the other one. buy radios too) at April 12, 2019 02:43 PM (eAshZ)

39 Like with a monocular?

Posted by: Hillary at April 12, 2019 02:44 PM (z+L6U)

40 I can see a time in the near future when there are two separate languages in the country, one based on reality and the other based on euphemism.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 12, 2019 02:44 PM (YslsA)

41 28
When your gov't and media lie to you regularly and on topics of consequence, I'm pretty sure it's time for a national ~~divorce~~ asskicking.

Posted by: HA at April 12, 2019 02:42 PM (MAstk)

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at April 12, 2019 02:44 PM (t6MX/)

42 C'mon guys, all they were doing was unauthorized and allegedly punishable surveillance on political opponents.

Posted by: Someguy at April 12, 2019 02:44 PM (oTYTN)

43 Literally every single thing is bad unless they do it, and then its good, no matter how heinous it is.

I

Posted by: simplemind at April 12, 2019 02:45 PM (gd3w8)

44 Obama was curious, he didn't spy.

Bi-curious.

You know.

Posted by: Oscazio Consquestidorio at April 12, 2019 02:45 PM (37IEG)

45

Come writers and critics who prophecize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide,
The chance won't come again,
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 12, 2019 02:45 PM (aKsyK)

46 >>>It's clobberin' time!
Posted by: The Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Thing at April 12, 2019 02:39 PM (7HtZB)

FLAME ON!!

Posted by: Johnny Storm at April 12, 2019 02:45 PM (q177U)

47 Pet my cat Sponge.
Posted by: Rachel Maddow Crying Into Her Cashews

Not with your girlfriend's hand, ma'am.

Posted by: mikeski at April 12, 2019 02:45 PM (P1f+c)

48 Spying can only be used by me to accuse thee.

Just like rape, sodomy, infanticide and minstrelsy.

Especially the minstrelsy.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 12, 2019 02:45 PM (Z+IKu)

49 Spied? Like with a cloak?

*cackle, cough, shart*

Posted by: hillary at April 12, 2019 02:45 PM (t6MX/)

50 LOL "approved by FISA court"So legitimate.

Posted by: steevy at April 12, 2019 02:46 PM (BXMxN)

51 tell me a sad story in two words

Hillary sings !

Posted by: JT at April 12, 2019 02:46 PM (f4nhz)

52 These lunatics are literally creating a Bizarro World Safe Space to cope with their self-inflicted dementia.

It's a mass delusion that will go down in American history, and then we'll watch this insane asylum called the MFM contemporaneously rewrite what we've witnessed.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at April 12, 2019 02:46 PM (6eEQ+)

53 38 There are a lot of foreign-born non-lefty bloggers and commentators trying very hard to convince people that civil war is awful and to be avoided at all costs, but this 1984 shit is making the idea appeal to a wider audience every day.

And here these asshats are all braying about the meaning of the word "spying".

They have no fucking idea how sick the rest of us are of their shit. It's that dial vs. on-off switch thing again.

Posted by: lurker (the other one. buy radios too) at April 12, 2019 02:43 PM (eAshZ)

Civil war is awful. It is sometimes necessary though.

Posted by: Someguy at April 12, 2019 02:46 PM (oTYTN)

54 "Helpfully observing."

Posted by: Webster Liberal Dictionary entry for "spying" at April 12, 2019 02:46 PM (5tb4C)

55 It's only spying if you're wearing a trenchcoat.

Well ... spying or flashing.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 12, 2019 02:46 PM (ufGqN)

56 So if a spy falls in the forest and the New York Times sees it, is it legitimate domestic surveillance?

Posted by: joncelli, providing the traditional responses at April 12, 2019 02:46 PM (RD7QR)

57 "Monitoring for your own good."

Posted by: Webster's Liberal Dictionary entry for "spying" at April 12, 2019 02:47 PM (5tb4C)

58 The Ministry of Approved Synonyms

Posted by: garrett at April 12, 2019 02:48 PM (QPKL6)

59 It's not spying when the government gets approval from itself to spy on you .

Posted by: DamnedYankee at April 12, 2019 02:48 PM (37IEG)

60 Bronco is going to be really angry about this when he reads about it in the newspapers.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at April 12, 2019 02:48 PM (t6MX/)

61 In before Seth Mandel and/or David French defend those saying it's wasn't spying-spying?!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 12, 2019 02:48 PM (W+vEI)

62 'Let me be clear...this conversation is being recorded for ~~your protection~~ blackmail purposes.'

- Barack Obama

Posted by: garrett at April 12, 2019 02:40 PM (QPKL6)

FTFY

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 12, 2019 02:48 PM (8D42x)

63 I'm not spying. You're spying.

Posted by: MSM at April 12, 2019 02:48 PM (wW03z)

64 Right, and when Obama put kids in cages it was for their protection.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 12, 2019 02:48 PM (gC2IV)

65 Had a guy on Facebook inform me that it is only "treason" if it happens during war time and at a Federal level. I did ask what he would call an attempt to remove a lawfully elected President by unlawful means. For some reason, he didn't answer that question.

Posted by: notsothoreau at April 12, 2019 02:48 PM (JKNZq)

66 Language is not a static entity, you reich-wing troglodytes. Words change. That's progress. Why are you against progress?
Posted by: New York Slimes

>*types*
*deletes*

Good Lord. I almost posted a threat about torturing them so bad that it about questioned my mental stability.

Posted by: Delaforce at April 12, 2019 02:49 PM (INCeP)

67 It wasn't spying.

It was secret surveillance of all electronic mail.

It was placement of informants in the target's inner circle.

It was gathering intelligence by foreign nationals.

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at April 12, 2019 02:49 PM (AJj50)

68 "Innocuously keeping tabs on fellow citizens to maintain public order."

Posted by: Webster's Liberal Dictionary entry for "spying" at April 12, 2019 02:49 PM (5tb4C)

69 58 The Ministry of Approved Synonyms

Posted by: garrett at April 12, 2019 02:48 PM (QPKL6)

This is a good one. I'm going to steal it if I ever write a satirical novel. Or rather, I will Jonah it.

Posted by: Someguy at April 12, 2019 02:49 PM (oTYTN)

70 59 It's not spying when the government ~~gets approval from itself~~ creates evidence and lies about the underlying reasons to spy on you .
Posted by: DamnedYankee at April 12, 2019 02:48 PM (37IEG)

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

FIFY

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 12, 2019 02:49 PM (ANN96)

71 I mean for fuck's sake, they used Christopher Steele, and former spy for GB, to gather their data.

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at April 12, 2019 02:49 PM (AJj50)

72 It is not spying, if you catch them in the act.

Posted by: NYT at April 12, 2019 02:50 PM (t6MX/)

73 Halper and Mifsud and Downer were not "surveillance approved by a FISA court", they we old-school spying with no court oversight at all.

The Andy McCarthy quote should be chiseled on every Pulitzer awarded for this op.

Posted by: motionview at April 12, 2019 02:50 PM (pYQR/)

74 The fact that this spying is not causing universal outrage is what I find most troubling. To paraphrase that miscreant Obama "this is not who we are, as Americans" and the absence of outrage on the part of everyone tells me that we are close to losing our country.

Posted by: LGoPs at April 12, 2019 02:50 PM (hzVKs)

75 Surveillance - 2 guys sitting in a car watching a house.

Spying - 2 guys sitting in office listening to your phone calls.

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at April 12, 2019 02:50 PM (AJj50)

76 32 Language is not a static entity, you reich-wing troglodytes. Words change. That's progress. Why are you against progress?
Posted by: New York Slimes

They have a living, breathing, vocabulary. Comes in handy for the Constitution

Posted by: pep at April 12, 2019 02:50 PM (wW03z)

77 66 Had a guy on Facebook inform me that it is only "treason" if it happens during war time and at a Federal level. I did ask what he would call an attempt to remove a lawfully elected President by unlawful means. For some reason, he didn't answer that question.
Posted by: notsothoreau at April 12, 2019 02:48 PM (JKNZq)

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So, members of Congress could undermine efforts to declare war on one hand and then work to illegally remove a president from power in the other, and it's totes okay.

Got it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 12, 2019 02:50 PM (ANN96)

78 and oh the mocking of Trump, back when he said Trump Tower may be "wiretapped".

He was correct, and correct to put it in quotes ... since it is even more sophisticated. And some female dem journalist was bragging about how much she knew, cuz she knew of these super covert methods.

Makes me wonder if the top tier FIBs (Strzok/Comey/?) were not selectively leaking this intel on their own Russians ... the Russians they were pushing into contact with Trump people. So they would leak Trump campaign meets with the Russians and dangle it as bait, which the idiot reporters bit on, then ran with, hook, line sedition?

Posted by: illiniwek at April 12, 2019 02:50 PM (Cus5s)

79 It's not spying when the government gets approval from itself to spy on you .
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Any secret policeman worth his salt would tell you that they don't spy on people, they conduct surveillance.

Our secret police force is off the chain. That's a potential country ending problem.

Posted by: simplemind at April 12, 2019 02:50 PM (gd3w8)

80 Had a guy on Facebook inform me that it is only "treason" if it happens during war time and at a Federal level. I did ask what he would call an attempt to remove a lawfully elected President by unlawful means. For some reason, he didn't answer that question.
Posted by: notsothoreau at April 12, 2019 02:48 PM (JKNZq)

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Next time you talk, ask him to define "sedition".

Posted by: Calm Mentor at April 12, 2019 02:51 PM (6csDQ)

81 'NSA trying to have it both ways...'

Kink-y

Posted by: Bruce at April 12, 2019 02:51 PM (LAt9N)

82 All you damn commenters are the reason AOC's stressed out and losing weight.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at April 12, 2019 02:51 PM (hjaPQ)

83 Watching the media unmask themselves as the socialist loving leftists they are makes the Trump presidency an enormous success. Add on tax relief, cuts in regulations and seriousness about securing the border it may end up being on of the all-time greatest presidents ever - MAGA!

Posted by: Kenny The G from AZ at April 12, 2019 02:51 PM (2RvNA)

84 Our secret police force is off the chain. That's a potential country ending problem.
.....

In a BIG way.

Posted by: HA at April 12, 2019 02:51 PM (MAstk)

85 Obama meddles. Spying is hard.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 12, 2019 02:51 PM (2LelM)

86 77 32 Language is not a static entity, you reich-wing troglodytes. Words change. That's progress. Why are you against progress?
Posted by: New York Slimes

They have a living, breathing, vocabulary. Comes in handy for the Constitution
Posted by: pep at April 12, 2019 02:50 PM (wW03z)

===========

"What did RBG fart out this morning?"

"That the constitution guarantees abortions for minor illegal immigrants, and they must be performed by a Republican doctor."

"It's as sacred as the Declaration of Independence!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 12, 2019 02:52 PM (ANN96)

87 This goes to what ATM and the gorilla were saying earlier. They're in such a bubble, they can't handle reality. This is just them trying to remake reality to something that suits them. Everyone else sees it for what it is.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 12, 2019 02:52 PM (gC2IV)

88 Spy spy spy spy...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 12, 2019 02:52 PM (6qErC)

89 From Webster's:

Spy - working for a government or other organization to secretly collect information about enemies or competitors.

To observe someone furtively.

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at April 12, 2019 02:52 PM (AJj50)

90 I spy, with my little eye, something that starts with "T". Treason!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 12, 2019 02:42 PM (+y/Ru)

that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool and that's more trouble...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 12, 2019 02:52 PM (8D42x)

91 "Peeping through the keyhole as I jack off to you wearing curlers, a bathrobe and fuzzy slippers."

Posted by: The No Euphemisms Allowed Dictionary entry for "spying" at April 12, 2019 02:53 PM (5tb4C)

92 >> 'NSA trying to have it both ways...'

Fine.

*Unbuckles Belt*

I really need to get them to change that slogan.

Posted by: The Burger King at April 12, 2019 02:53 PM (QPKL6)

93 It's like, well they did it with good intentions, so it wasn't spying. spying is only done by bad people.

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at April 12, 2019 02:53 PM (AJj50)

94 Makes me wonder if the top tier FIBs (Strzok/Comey/?) were not selectively leaking this intel on their own Russians ... the Russians they were pushing into contact with Trump people. So they would leak Trump campaign meets with the Russians and dangle it as bait, which the idiot reporters bit on, then ran with, hook, line sedition?
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The FBI is a PR firm with guns and badges. Look into the amount of baseball tickets, dinners, etc etc get passed between reporters and Fib's and you'll understand the leaking. Its a symbiotic relationship. The press made the Fib's image and the Fib's make reporters.

Posted by: simplemind at April 12, 2019 02:53 PM (gd3w8)

95
76 Surveillance - 2 guys sitting in a car watching a house.

Spying - 2 guys sitting in office listening to your phone calls.
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Entrapment - 5 guys setting you up in your campaign.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 12, 2019 02:53 PM (2LelM)

96 .......so nobody here at AoS noticed someone drew a weiner in red crayon/pencil with arrows pointing at it on that TV ratings chart in the last thread? You guys are really slipping.

Posted by: JROD at April 12, 2019 02:54 PM (vW8Mk)

97 This is just them trying to remake reality to something that suits them. Everyone else sees it for what it is.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

So, you're saying they live in a self-generated Matrix? Usually you have to farm that out to aliens or robots.

Posted by: pep at April 12, 2019 02:54 PM (wW03z)

98 Any secret policeman worth his salt "

Does he have some other ball?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 12, 2019 02:54 PM (6qErC)

99 Tom not ATM. Really autocucumber?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 12, 2019 02:54 PM (gC2IV)

100 Obama was scrutinizing.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 12, 2019 02:54 PM (2LelM)

101 Spies like us?

Posted by: Chevy Chase-Yeah I know I suck at April 12, 2019 02:55 PM (2nW6u)

102 If it wasn't spying then why was the CIA involved?

Posted by: DaveA at April 12, 2019 02:55 PM (FhXTo)

103 From the party that once argued over the definition of "is".

Posted by: ... at April 12, 2019 02:55 PM (B27Wh)

104 All you damn commenters are the reason AOC's stressed out and losing weight.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis

>Given how fit she is anyways, I'm to assuming that her loss in weight is due to the deterioration of what little brain matter she has.

Posted by: Delaforce at April 12, 2019 02:55 PM (INCeP)

105 Obama has a stickybeak. He likes finding worms.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 12, 2019 02:55 PM (2LelM)

106 The MSM and left are losing their Schiff over this because they know that if the casual viewer hears a simple declarative statement "The Obama admin was spying on Trump" after he and his campaign was cleared by the Mueller report, they may start to ask that wonderful question, "Why?" And that will lead the malinformed to seek out the truth, and the truth is very very bad for the Democratic parting and Obama.

Therefore they cannot let such terminology stand unchallenged.

Posted by: Joseph Dickerson at April 12, 2019 02:55 PM (LDV7V)

107 The mainstream media... what a bunch of short fingered (and minded) vulgarians.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 12, 2019 02:55 PM (a2xio)

108 And Barr simply said it was spying - the question was whether it was justified for some reason.

Now, I don't know about you, but you better have a pretty firm fucking justification for spying on a presidential candidate. So firm in fact that your investigation had better yield some pretty serious prosecutions.

Absent that, yeah, I got some serious questions as to how and why this investigation was launched. Don't you?

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at April 12, 2019 02:55 PM (AJj50)

109 And some female dem journalist was bragging about how much she knew, cuz she knew of these super covert methods.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 12, 2019 02:50 PM (Cus5s)

That was crazy-eyed Farkas. They shut her up real quick. It should be exhibit 1 in obama's treason trial.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at April 12, 2019 02:55 PM (t6MX/)

110 in the last thread?"

There is no last thread after nood.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 12, 2019 02:55 PM (6qErC)

111 I domestically surveil with an approved warrant and my little eye.....

Posted by: ... at April 12, 2019 02:56 PM (B27Wh)

112 I'm not saying its was spying......but it was spying.

Posted by: Aliens at April 12, 2019 02:56 PM (jxhXw)

113 'Spying' especially of a political opponent kicks it up to the exact same thing that they nailed Nixon over. This whole situation even treads further to the sacred cow of 'It is not the crime, but the cover up' which was the canard they used to actually tar Nixon in the whole matter.

In this case you actually have high level (possibly Obama) directly moving the security apparatus (not just a couple goofballs installing wires) to spy on a political opponent.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 12, 2019 02:56 PM (ycWCI)

114 Obama likes undercover work.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 12, 2019 02:56 PM (2LelM)

115 111 And Barr simply said it was spying - the question was whether it was justified for some reason.

Now, I don't know about you, but you better have a pretty firm fucking justification for spying on a presidential candidate. So firm in fact that your investigation had better yield some pretty serious prosecutions.

Absent that, yeah, I got some serious questions as to how and why this investigation was launched. Don't you?
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at April 12, 2019 02:55 PM (AJj50)

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So firm that if the one being spied on ends up winning the presidency that the individual looks at the evidence and says, "Oh shit...you were right."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 12, 2019 02:56 PM (ANN96)

116 Some of the folks tried for "treason" were involved in local issues, like the Whiskey Rebellion. I find it hard to consider that wartime. I did ask about sedition.

Posted by: notsothoreau at April 12, 2019 02:56 PM (JKNZq)

117 Inspector Kemp: "From Webster's..."

Webster's is an ally of the Republican Devil.

Posted by: MFM at April 12, 2019 02:56 PM (6eEQ+)

118 I'm thirsty.

Posted by: The Tree of Liberty at April 12, 2019 02:57 PM (prSvo)

119 yall are just getting your panties in a bunch over semantics.

calm the fuck down

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 12, 2019 02:57 PM (d7Ww2)

120 I think we all can agree that a pampered, fluffy, white cat should be part of these proceedings ...

Posted by: Adriane the Toemaytoe Tamatoe Critic ... at April 12, 2019 02:57 PM (LPnfS)

121 111
And Barr simply said it was spying - the question was whether it was justified for some reason.

Now, I don't know about you, but you better have a pretty firm
fucking justification for spying on a presidential candidate. So firm
in fact that your investigation had better yield some pretty serious
prosecutions.

Absent that, yeah, I got some serious questions as to how and why this investigation was launched. Don't you?

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at April 12, 2019 02:55 PM (AJj50)

ORANGE MAN BAD!

Posted by: NPC 66637173 at April 12, 2019 02:57 PM (t6MX/)

122 Obama was doing reconnaissance. Its not spying.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 12, 2019 02:57 PM (2LelM)

123 They're Freaking Out Over Semantics"

So they're anti-semantic?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 12, 2019 02:57 PM (6qErC)

124 I kinda give the spooks in our guvmint's spy agencies the benefit of the doubt.

Spying, surveillance, whatever. It's not like they dumped a bunch of automatic weapons into the hands of drug traffickers and gang bangers south of the border and then just forgot about them and got people killed.

Oh.

Never mind.

Posted by: Eric Holder at April 12, 2019 02:57 PM (Z+IKu)

125 From time to time some here have lamented how the Left goes "all in" on everything, that it gives them an advantage in enthusiasm and energy over us - yeah, it can look that way at times.

BUT the big danger of going "all in" on every hand is that sooner or later you get caught doing it with absolutely nothing, and then the only choice is just to dive headfirst into all out insanity and idiocy - which the NYT just got caught doing here. and they're finding out that looking LESS reliable than the Weekly World News is not a good look for them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2019 02:57 PM (Kpl3J)

126 Our secret police force is off the chain. That's a potential country ending problem.

++++

With politburo style czars, deep State nomenklatura, and the secret police, the only thing different from the Soviet Union left is internal passports.

Posted by: Real ID for Patriots Only at April 12, 2019 02:57 PM (z+L6U)

127 .......so nobody here at AoS noticed someone drew a weiner in red crayon/pencil with arrows pointing at it on that TV ratings chart in the last thread? You guys are really slipping.
Posted by: JROD at April 12, 2019 02:54 PM (vW8Mk)

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Somebody may be slipping, but it's not the Horde. Mentioned several times last thread.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at April 12, 2019 02:58 PM (6csDQ)

128 119 Some of the folks tried for "treason" were involved in local issues, like the Whiskey Rebellion. I find it hard to consider that wartime. I did ask about sedition.
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Not paying taxes is treasonous. Just ask Lois Lerner.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 12, 2019 02:58 PM (2LelM)

129 "The Surveiller Who Came In From the Cold."
"The Surveiller Who Loved Me."
"I Surveil."

Doesn't quite work...

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Pick Up A Copy of The Daily Panic at The Outrage Outlet! at April 12, 2019 02:58 PM (hLRSq)

130 > Bronco is going to be really angry about this when he reads about it in the newspapers.

Reggie's going to have to saddle him up for some extra-hard bustin' sessions to make up for it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 12, 2019 02:58 PM (0OWcv)

131 and the absence of outrage on the part of everyone tells me that we are close to losing our country.

Posted by: LGoPs at April 12, 2019 02:50 PM (hzVKs)

50% of the naysayers only use state approved media. You have to be dedicated to freedom to risk losing your job over Infowars. And the state is going out of its way to suppress -any- dissent.

50% of them, of course, are not actually Americans. Just paper Americans. If they stand in the way, they have to go back.

Posted by: trev006 at April 12, 2019 02:58 PM (6n54H)

132 Oh my God, that is devastating. So glad people are fighting back. Because that's what it's going to take.

Posted by: Caliban at April 12, 2019 02:58 PM (QE8X6)

133 Obama was scrutinizing."

Centrally?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 12, 2019 02:58 PM (6qErC)

134 The NYT also has trouble with words like "freedom" and "patriot".

And "truth".

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 12, 2019 02:58 PM (sy5kK)

135 Surveillance - 2 guys sitting in a car watching a house.

Spying - 2 guys sitting in office listening to your phone calls.
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Entrapment - 5 guys setting you up in your campaign.

Posted by: Puddin Head
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Excellent! Well played.

I think in addition to 5 guys, there were a couple of countries involved as well . . .

Posted by: simplemind at April 12, 2019 02:58 PM (gd3w8)

136 [Typical American family driving through the idyllic countryside in a '65 Chevy station-wagon...]

"I spy with my little eye...a traitor!"

"I spy with my little eye...a coup d'etat!"

"I spy with my little eye...a Stalinist Deep State!"

Posted by: The No Euphemisms Allowed Dictionary entry for at April 12, 2019 02:58 PM (5tb4C)

137 Ishtar! ?

Posted by: D. Hoffman at April 12, 2019 02:59 PM (2nW6u)

138 Obama likes bugging.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 12, 2019 02:59 PM (2LelM)

139 First one forward gets the best deal.

Will anyone approach Barr for immunity?

Posted by: HA at April 12, 2019 02:59 PM (MAstk)

140 Aliens: "I'm not saying its was spying......but it was spying."

No, it was spying... and then more spying.

Posted by: Other Aliens at April 12, 2019 02:59 PM (6eEQ+)

141 122 yall are just getting your panties in a bunch over semantics.

calm the fuck down

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 12, 2019 02:57 PM (d7Ww2)

You're a semantic!

Posted by: Someguy at April 12, 2019 02:59 PM (oTYTN)

142 Off "The No Euphemisms Allowed Dictionary entry for" sock!

Posted by: zombie at April 12, 2019 02:59 PM (5tb4C)

143 119 Some of the folks tried for "treason" were involved in local issues, like the Whiskey Rebellion. I find it hard to consider that wartime. I did ask about sedition.

Posted by: notsothoreau at April 12, 2019 02:56 PM (JKNZq)

I think the operative word in that situation was "Rebellion". Washington took the position that "hey, I'm the only guy here who can do that!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2019 02:59 PM (Kpl3J)

144 141 Obama likes buggERing.
Posted by: Puddin Head

FTFY

Posted by: zombie at April 12, 2019 02:59 PM (5tb4C)

145 yall are just getting your panties in a bunch over semantics.

calm the fuck down

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 12, 2019 02:57 PM (d7Ww2)

I'm just making dumb jokes off of their desperate attempts to find a euphemism that doesn't sound as bad as "Spy".

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Pick Up A Copy of The Daily Panic at The Outrage Outlet! at April 12, 2019 02:59 PM (hLRSq)

146 Then the media, which ~~like~~ is an obstreperous child

Sorry to nit-pick

Posted by: t-bird at April 12, 2019 03:00 PM (gHCnG)

147 Trump should just declare oxygen awesome and everyone should have it, all the leftists will hold their breath until they keel over.

Posted by: blaster at April 12, 2019 03:00 PM (9VeU0)

148 Obama loves infiltration.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 12, 2019 03:00 PM (2LelM)

149 I think in addition to 5 guys, there were a couple of countries involved as well . . .

Posted by: simplemind at April 12, 2019 02:58 PM (gd3w

And still hillary lost.

Ahhhhh ha ha ha ha!

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at April 12, 2019 03:00 PM (t6MX/)

150
So.

Ace is saying leftwads really arent anti semantic ??

Posted by: fixerupper at April 12, 2019 03:00 PM (8XRCm)

151 And "truth"

Pravda.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 12, 2019 03:00 PM (6qErC)

152 With politburo style czars, deep State nomenklatura, and the secret police, the only thing different from the Soviet Union left is internal passports.
===
I'd reference that scene from Stripes that a referenced last week but its too much work . . . just a snippet

"Is this Russia? This isn't Russia is it?"

Posted by: simplemind at April 12, 2019 03:01 PM (fuF+z)

153 Limbaugh is finally sorta kinda edging towards the recognition that what we're dealing with here, largely, is not very smart people. It's not the dishonesty, or weirdness, or malign intentions, or alien and repugnant values - though those are present in abundance. They're not very smart. Thus, all this mockery and litigation of their idiocy is amusing, but not nearly as amusing or useful as all the twatters personalities probably think.

And ace, Gabe had a beaut of a twat (I think today) that was sort of similar, but also really clanged the "huh? are you and idiot?" bell, pretending to believe that normal C-I work was involved in the ludicrous, hamfisted, outrageous FBI/IC baiting and entrapment attempts against fringe Trump campaign figures.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 12, 2019 03:01 PM (QDnY+)

154 152 I think in addition to 5 guys, there were a couple of countries involved as well . . .

Posted by: simplemind at April 12, 2019 02:58 PM (gd3w

And still hillary lost.

Ahhhhh ha ha ha ha!
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at April 12, 2019 03:00 PM (t6MX/)

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And...the Left won't have these tools at their disposal next time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 12, 2019 03:01 PM (ANN96)

155 Makes me wonder if the top tier FIBs (Strzok/Comey/?) were not selectively leaking this intel on their own Russians ... the Russians they were pushing into contact with Trump people. So they would leak Trump campaign meets with the Russians and dangle it as bait, which the idiot reporters bit on, then ran with, hook, line sedition?
Posted by: illiniwek at April 12, 2019 02:50 PM (Cus5s)

That has been the contention at this blog (esp. JackStraw) and others *cough*CTH*cough* for the past couple of years....

Glad that more and more people are starting to understand the mechanics of the intelligence agencies' "sources and methods" which they don't want the rest of us to know about.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at April 12, 2019 03:01 PM (uDcBt)

156 Let he who has not abused his Federal powers cast the first stone!

Posted by: James Comey at April 12, 2019 03:02 PM (gHCnG)

157 it depends on what the meaning of is spying is.

Posted by: Anachronda at April 12, 2019 03:02 PM (sGtp+)

158 @130 Calm Mentor-ok, good. It's my "fatigue day" after working 7/14's for the last 14 days. Slept in til' 11:30 pacific time so I'm still a little blurry eyed and rummy.

Posted by: JROD at April 12, 2019 03:02 PM (vW8Mk)

159 Weren't spies summarily shot if caught on the battlefield?

Posted by: Insomniac at April 12, 2019 03:02 PM (NWiLs)

160 104 Spies like us?
Posted by: Chevy Chase-Yeah I know I suck at April 12, 2019 02:55 PM (2nW6u)

Vanessa Angel coming out of a tent.

*misty eyed*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 12, 2019 03:02 PM (ycWCI)

161 remember the Spy vs Spy comics in Mad Magazine?

I loved those little guys trying to obliterate each other.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 12, 2019 03:02 PM (d7Ww2)

162 The exchanges between Shaheen and Barr and then Schatz and Barr were some of the best few minutes of Congressional testimony in a long time. It completely flipped the narrative and the left is powerless to stop it.

The less dense among them know that doom is on the way.

Posted by: John Wick at April 12, 2019 03:02 PM (/tuJf)

163 The MSM and left are losing their Schiff over this because they know that if the casual viewer hears a simple declarative statement "The Obama admin was spying on Trump" after he and his campaign was cleared by the Mueller report, they may start to ask that wonderful question, "Why?" And that will lead the malinformed to seek out the truth, and the truth is very very bad for the Democratic parting and Obama.

Therefore they cannot let such terminology stand unchallenged.
Posted by Joseph Dickerson at April 12, 2019 02:55 PM (LDV7V)

Nothing bad must ever be allowed to stick to the transformative, historical-first, "scandal-free", no drama Obama.

BeigeManGood
OrangeMan Bad

As a side dish, the Democrats will lose Watergate and "Richard Nixon Was the Most Dangerous President Because Constitutional Crisis" as a narrative and talking point in order to taint the Repulicans.
Forever.

Posted by: JoeF. at April 12, 2019 03:03 PM (NFEMn)

164 that it won't be abused about fifteen minutes later. "

Huh. What'll they do for the other 14 and a half minutes?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 12, 2019 03:03 PM (6qErC)

165 From Russia With Love!

Posted by: S. Connery at April 12, 2019 03:03 PM (2nW6u)

166 134 and the absence of outrage on the part of everyone tells me that we are close to losing our country.

Posted by: LGoPs at April 12, 2019 02:50 PM (hzVKs)

I'm telling you, outside of Northern Virginia and a few big leftist cities, *nobody* is paying attention to any of this. Everyone I know has tuned it all out, they just don't give a shit about all of the blah blah blah anymore. That's the real price of the News outlets becoming so partisan - *nobody* listens to them anymore, no matter how loud they shriek. Look at the total viewership numbers for all of the news channels posted in the previous thread, add them together. It may seem like a lot, but it's somewhere between 1% and 2% of the people in this country.

98% of the country is saying blah, blah, blah, go bother someone else.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2019 03:03 PM (Kpl3J)

167 I think in addition to 5 guys, there were a couple of countries involved as well . . .

5 Guys was involved in a spy op? How deep does this go?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at April 12, 2019 03:03 PM (D5Ogr)

168 yall are just getting your panties in a bunch over semantics.

calm the fuck down

Posted by: nurse ratched at
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I would have never taken you for an anti-semantic.

Posted by: simplemind at April 12, 2019 03:03 PM (EX2Xh)

169 If there was no spying, then what exactly was it that Susan Rice and Samantha Power was getting an "unmasked" version of on hundreds of occasions?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 12, 2019 03:03 PM (W+vEI)

170 Clapper used the term "spying" twice on The View. Are those shitheads pretending that didn't happen?

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 12, 2019 03:04 PM (y7DUB)

171 > Obama loves infiltration.

He prefers something more like the size of an oil filter to a cigarette filter when he gets infiltrated.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 12, 2019 03:04 PM (0OWcv)

172 "I Was Not a Crook! But this Obama fellow.....that's another story."

Posted by: Richard Nixon. at April 12, 2019 03:04 PM (NFEMn)

173 The Left, particularly the Democrat party et al has always pivoted towards modifying language to cure some problem or other.

Whenever they lose an election the first thing they do after assigning blame is to claim the message failed. Not the aims or goals of the party but how those were messaged to the voters thus the voters were not informed correctly of what they were supposed to be voting for or against.

I've seen it time and time again over 50 years of politics and elections. The GOP tries to change their goals and aims to look more like Democrats and the Democrats change how they say the same old stuff.

It's the reasoning behind Political Correctness. Get people to obey your demands for framing this or that subject in a certain way using approved language and soon you can make them say anything you want and like the fact that your claims can actually affect the outcomes suddenly you're talking like a leftist without realizing it and soon you agree with what they're claiming and voting their way.

Seen it on many a discussion blog. Even here. I've railed against using the left's language many a time cause once you use your enemies language, you've lost the argument.

But slowly we are leaving behind those reactions and the left is being uncovered as to it's actual lack of reason and sanity and more and more people are questioning it's ability to govern. Fairly and positively. They cannot because much of what they aim at and claim as truth are lies and will lead to injury for the citizens and the country overall.

More and more we see the results of Democrat actions more and more clearly because we ignore and/or discount the claims made by the media of the results of those actions.

The Democrats are poison and will destroy this nation and all it means to the world.

Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at April 12, 2019 03:04 PM (2R0TF)

174 And Barr simply said it was spying - the question was whether it was justified for some reason.

Which makes me think he's part of failure theatre. "Because we're frigging nuts!" will be accepted and they'll win the Double Jeopardy.

Posted by: t-bird at April 12, 2019 03:04 PM (Ry8mf)

175 It wasn't spying. It was scouting.

The FBI was camping out in Trump Tower, sitting aroubd a campfire, and singing "Zulu Warrior".

Posted by: Delaforce at April 12, 2019 03:04 PM (INCeP)

176 I spied with my little eye and now I have bees in my eyes.

Posted by: saf at April 12, 2019 03:04 PM (5IHGB)

177 171 Fuck them and their overpriced burgers!

Posted by: steevy at April 12, 2019 03:04 PM (BXMxN)

178 171
I think in addition to 5 guys, there were a couple of countries involved as well . . .

5 Guys was involved in a spy op? How deep does this go?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at April 12, 2019 03:03 PM (D5Ogr)

*side eyes Hamburglar*

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at April 12, 2019 03:05 PM (t6MX/)

179 Weren't spies summarily shot if caught on the battlefield?
Posted by: Insomniac at April 12, 2019 03:02 PM (NWiLs)

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Yup. Even allowed for in the Geneva Convention.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 12, 2019 03:05 PM (8XRCm)

180 call spying spying and will no longer ever be able to call spying spying,
........

QUIT SAYING THAT WORD

Posted by: wth at April 12, 2019 03:05 PM (v0R5T)

181 163 Weren't spies summarily shot if caught on the battlefield?

Posted by: Insomniac at April 12, 2019 03:02 PM (NWiLs)

They don't need ot be caught on that battlefield. They aren't always shot but they can be. No foul for shooting someone out of uniform.

Posted by: Someguy at April 12, 2019 03:05 PM (oTYTN)

182 I'm telling you, outside of Northern Virginia and a few big leftist cities, *nobody* is paying attention to any of this. Everyone I know has tuned it all out, they just don't give a shit about all of the blah blah blah anymore.
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They will be made to care. Watch how the Apprentice works.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 12, 2019 03:05 PM (2LelM)

183 Clapper used the term "spying" twice on The View. Are those shitheads pretending that didn't happen?
Posted by: Captain Hate at April 12, 2019 03:04 PM (y7DUB)

Yes.

Posted by: JoeF. at April 12, 2019 03:05 PM (NFEMn)

184 174 Clapper used the term "spying" twice on The View. Are those shitheads pretending that didn't happen?
Posted by: Captain Hate at April 12, 2019 03:04 PM (y7DUB)

They're betting no one watches "The View"

Posted by: josephistan at April 12, 2019 03:05 PM (7HtZB)

185 5 Guys was involved in a spy op? How deep does this go?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at April 12, 2019 03:03 PM (D5Ogr)

As deep as the puddle of grease when you pick up one of their burgers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 12, 2019 03:05 PM (ycWCI)

186 Emphasis below is mine:

TOM KELLYAPRIL 11, 1971

About the Archive

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.

"Congress had long known that the F.B.I. occasionally
spied on its members. But no one ever rose on the floor to ask what business the F.B.I. had checking on members of Congress. Many potential critics assumed the F.B.I. knew all their secrets and that such secrets might be used against them any time Mr. Hoover felt the urge. They also knew that if they took public issue with the bureau or its chief, they would be in immediate trouble with the folks back home. Mr. Hoover has had a large and loyal national..etc"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 12, 2019 03:05 PM (U7Mh9)

187 Ugh crap pixy needs an edit function so I can fix my spelling and grammar.

Posted by: Someguy at April 12, 2019 03:06 PM (oTYTN)

188
5 Guys was involved in a spy op? How deep does this go?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at April 12, 2019 03:03 PM (D5Ogr)

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All the way to the fryer.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 12, 2019 03:06 PM (8XRCm)

189 They're betting no one watches "The View"

Posted by: josephistan at April 12, 2019 03:05 PM (7HtZB)

That's fair.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at April 12, 2019 03:06 PM (t6MX/)

190 >>The MSM and left are losing their Schiff over this because they know that if the casual viewer hears a simple declarative statement "The Obama admin was spying on Trump" after he and his campaign was cleared by the Mueller report, they may start to ask that wonderful question, "Why?"

But as it turns out (by design?) all this talking about what is and is not "spying" is akin to saying "don't think about pink elephants!"
#Winning

Posted by: Lizzy at April 12, 2019 03:06 PM (W+vEI)

191 184 call spying spying and will no longer ever be able to call spying spying,
........

QUIT SAYING THAT WORD
Posted by: wth at April 12, 2019 03:05 PM (v0R5T)

We are no longer the Knights Who Say "SPY!"

Posted by: Knights Whom Until Recently Said "SPY" at April 12, 2019 03:06 PM (7HtZB)

192 >>And Barr simply said it was spying - the question was whether it was justified for some reason.

He actually said more than that. When asked by Schatz what he meant by spying he said "unauthorized surveillance".

Now maybe words mean something different to the NYT than they do to the rest of the world but "unauthorized" means not authorized aka illegal.

Posted by: John Wick at April 12, 2019 03:06 PM (/tuJf)

193 nd Barr simply said it was spying - the question was whether it was justified for some reason.

Which makes me think he's part of failure theatre. "Because we're frigging nuts!" will be accepted and they'll win the Double Jeopardy.
Posted by: t-bird at April 12, 2019 03:04 PM (Ry8mf)

Maybe.
But he didn't have to bring up spying the other day.

Posted by: JoeF. at April 12, 2019 03:06 PM (NFEMn)

194 Clapper used the term "spying" twice on The View. Are those shitheads pretending that didn't happen?
Posted by: Captain Hate at April 12, 2019 03:04 PM (y7DUB)

They're betting no one watches "The View"
Posted by: josephistan at April 12, 2019 03:05 PM (7HtZB)

I certainly don't but Breitbart reported on it.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 12, 2019 03:07 PM (y7DUB)

195 Hello. My name is Barron Trump. You spied on my father. Prepare to die.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 12, 2019 03:07 PM (ycWCI)

196 Vanessa Angel coming out of a tent"

*sigh *

Still fetching, too!

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 12, 2019 03:07 PM (6qErC)

197 Listen up Comey's Homeys.

I was not spying. I was just hiding behind the drapes for my own protection.

Posted by: Jim Comey at April 12, 2019 03:07 PM (Z+IKu)

198 So electronic intelligence gathering of that smokin hot MILF next door is OK?

See you Monday, if I don't die of dehydration.

Posted by: M K Ultra at April 12, 2019 02:42 PM (UFLLM)
........

Does she sunbathe? Get a drone.

Posted by: wth at April 12, 2019 03:07 PM (v0R5T)

199 I spied with my BIG EYES and I have BEE ASSANGE in my EMBASSY SUITES....

Posted by: saf at April 12, 2019 03:07 PM (5IHGB)

200

Hilarious. Shep brings on Wallace for an opinion on Trump wanting to dump all illegals into sanctuary cities.

Why not talk to an American? Living at the border, Sheppie?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 12, 2019 03:07 PM (vEIlU)

201 173 If there was no spying, then what exactly was it that Susan Rice and Samantha Power was getting an "unmasked" version of on hundreds of occasions?
Posted by: Lizzy at April 12, 2019 03:03 PM (W+vEI)

Wasn't it Susan Rice who sent an email to everyone saying they "did everything by the book"?

Now, exactly, WHAT pray tell was she referring to?

I think we may actually find out!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 12, 2019 03:07 PM (sy5kK)

202 Juda Priest

Electric Eye.

http://tinyurl.com/yac8ozor

Posted by: HA at April 12, 2019 03:07 PM (MAstk)

203 163 Weren't spies summarily shot if caught on the battlefield?
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Under Executive Order Obama decreed, spies are now paid to undergo sex reassignment and then run for the US Senate. New World Order Rules.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 12, 2019 03:08 PM (2LelM)

204 My money is on Clapper taking the plea deal.

Posted by: blaster at April 12, 2019 03:08 PM (9VeU0)

205 > Weren't spies summarily shot if caught on the battlefield?

They can be, yes. Or they could be harshly interrogated, or imprisoned, or used as slave labor, or for target practice, or...

Basically, a combatant with no uniform or distinctive insignia had and has no rights whatsoever.

I remember in the early days of Gulf War II the commies were trying to pretend that was some new rule that Bush made up.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 12, 2019 03:08 PM (0OWcv)

206 Limbaugh is finally sorta kinda edging towards the recognition that what we're dealing with here, largely, is not very smart people. It's not the dishonesty, or weirdness, or malign intentions, or alien and repugnant values - though those are present in abundance. They're not very smart. Thus, all this mockery and litigation of their idiocy is amusing, but not nearly as amusing or useful as all the twatters personalities probably think.
===========
*beep beep beep beep beep*

NEWSFLASH

The meritocracy is dead.

See Felicity Huffman et al;

The Media (F CHUCK didn't even bother to graduate);

Almost everyone in congress;

every democratic presidential candidate;

and the list is pretty long but I'll stop there.

Posted by: simplemind at April 12, 2019 03:08 PM (Xct+I)

207
Some of the folks tried for "treason" were involved in local issues,
like the Whiskey Rebellion. I find it hard to consider that wartime. I
did ask about sedition.
=====

From what I can figure (after all, I am not an important policy wonk), our current declared wars are on Poverty, Drugs, and Terrorism.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 12, 2019 03:08 PM (MIKMs)

208 All the way to the fryer."

5 guys does have awesome fries.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 12, 2019 03:08 PM (6qErC)

209 I'm kind of concerned that they didn't add "without evidence" to this

Posted by: Keto not Beto at April 12, 2019 03:08 PM (9AcAx)

210 I don't spy any more.

Posted by: Seth Rich at April 12, 2019 03:09 PM (sy5kK)

211 Obama was just snooping. Its not spying!

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 12, 2019 03:09 PM (2LelM)

212 "I never considered Electronic Surveillance to be spying" James Comey

When asked for reaction, the NSA spokesman was laughing too hard to say anything and appeared to be having some trouble breathing.

Posted by: JB1000 at April 12, 2019 03:09 PM (16OL0)

213 But isn't using Lexus/Nexus to force consistency upon the media the last refuge of the deplorable?

Posted by: Keto not Beto at April 12, 2019 03:09 PM (9AcAx)

214 180 I spied with my little eye and now I have bees in my eyes.

Posted by: saf at April 12, 2019 03:04 PM (5IHGB)

OH GOD NOT THE BEES! THE BEES!!!

Posted by: Rachel "Nicholas Cage" Maddow at April 12, 2019 03:10 PM (Kpl3J)

215 I spy with a CIA EYE wot ya gonna do aboot it?

Posted by: saf at April 12, 2019 03:10 PM (5IHGB)

216

Crimes are only illegal if you're not a member of Modern Feudalism Club.

Now STFU, serfs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2019 03:10 PM (AzW6q)

217 My money is on Clapper taking the plea deal.

Posted by: blaster at April 12, 2019 03:08 PM (9VeU0)

Serious question. Who is the most likely to off themselves? Clapper, Comey or Brennan?

I pick Brennan.

Posted by: JoeF. at April 12, 2019 03:10 PM (NFEMn)

218 163 Weren't spies summarily shot if caught on the battlefield?

Posted by: Insomniac at April 12, 2019 03:02 PM (NWiLs)

The good old days.

Posted by: zombie George Washington at April 12, 2019 03:10 PM (v0R5T)

219 Photos Surface Revealing 2017 'Closed-Door' Meeting Between Rep. Ilhan Omar and Turkish President Erdogan

Was she registered under FARA ?

Paul Marafort call your office.

"This indictment accuses Mr. Craig of misleading the FARA Unit of the Department of Justice in order to avoid registration."

Posted by: SMOD at April 12, 2019 03:10 PM (QkjLD)

220 Well, now, ya honah.. Mah client wishes throw himself on the mercies of the court. When he undertook to gather infomation for the Eff-Bee-Eye, he was not considering it spying. Nothing of the kind!

Why it was simply gathering infomation as he was duly instructed to do.

There's no need to talk about spies and spying, ya honah..

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at April 12, 2019 03:10 PM (so+oy)

221 Independently Contracted Domestic Surveilence Operators Like Us was Dan Akroyd's best Movie.

Posted by: garrett at April 12, 2019 03:10 PM (QPKL6)

222 North by Northwest?

Posted by: Archibald A. Leach at April 12, 2019 03:10 PM (2nW6u)

223 "Its a symbiotic relationship. The press made the Fib's image and the Fib's make reporters." Posted by: simplemind

sounds right, but on some covert coup issues like this one, it may be these certain FBI wanted the MSM to push the fake narrative (Trump/Russia collusion) and to convince their friendly "reporters", gave them half truths .... he met with this Russian agent ... not telling ...we sent her there to entrap him.

imo the FBI thought they could make it all stick, all the covert part was being actively buried from inside. Then per usual, they get it covered up for years or forever, cuz so many of them are in on it, and they threaten any that tell. Snitches get stitches ... poor Seth, poor tricky Dick.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 12, 2019 03:11 PM (Cus5s)

224 was just hiding behind the drapes.."

Oh. Thought you were out, walking the parapet...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 12, 2019 03:11 PM (6qErC)

225 artisanal 'ette: "Why not talk to an American? Living at the border, Sheppie?"

And let the Truth out? Nuh uh.

Posted by: Shep Smith at April 12, 2019 03:11 PM (6eEQ+)

226 But here's what you may consider the bad news - a ton of them think the GOP was in on it as well. Trump has a core of support among the middle class and working poor that I know. But that support extends no further than Trump."

How could anyone come up with such a dastardly and misguided thought?

Posted by: John McCain's Tumor at April 12, 2019 03:11 PM (Kpl3J)

227 I domestically survey with my little eye....

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 12, 2019 03:11 PM (AB9tT)

228 If Brennan offed himself it would be the first honorable thing he's ever done.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 12, 2019 03:11 PM (+/7JY)

229 Wasn't it Susan Rice who sent an email to everyone saying they "did everything by the book"?
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*sigh*

Oh good and faithful minion.

*Kablam -flash incinerates Susan Rice*

So mercifully free of the ravages of intelligence.

Posted by: Beelezzobama at April 12, 2019 03:11 PM (gd3w8)

230 >>Weren't spies summarily shot if caught on the battlefield?

Yep. And PTSD was treated by tying the ailing soldier to the perimeter fencing.

Posted by: garrett at April 12, 2019 03:11 PM (QPKL6)

231 > The good old days.

As I understand it, a lot fewer unlawful combatants are making it to Gitmo, now that the commies have insisted that they get lawyers and trials and such.

Obvious conclusion: they're just being shot out of hand while still in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 12, 2019 03:12 PM (0OWcv)

232 But here's what you may consider the bad news - a
ton of them think the GOP was in on it as well. Trump has a core of
support among the middle class and working poor that I know. But that
support extends no further than Trump.

Posted by: D R A at April 12, 2019 03:10 PM (Fdq3m)

Ryan knew and was leading the resistance in the house. McCain shopped the dossier and gave it legitimacy, and he an cankles were up to their fat assess in it in the Ukraine.The GOP - or at least a faction - was in on it.

Change my mind.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at April 12, 2019 03:12 PM (t6MX/)

233
"I never considered Electronic Surveillance to be spying" James Comey

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Wut.

Da.

Fuq

.... is wrong with that guy.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 12, 2019 03:12 PM (8XRCm)

234 I don't spy any more.
Posted by: Seth Rich
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Me either.

Posted by: Bill Cosby, former 'I Spy' star at April 12, 2019 03:12 PM (U2TY5)

235
Hello. My name is Barron Trump. You spied on my father. Prepare to die.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 12, 2019 03:07 PM

well played

Posted by: AltonJackson link in nick for the MiMoMe at April 12, 2019 03:12 PM (cuot+)

236 Trump was just at a press conference about 5G communications.. he was inevitably asked about immigration..

He said they are gonna start dumping them in sanctuiary cities..

He said "California says they have open arms.. well let's see how open those arms are.."

lol!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 12, 2019 03:12 PM (so+oy)

237 "a ton of them think the GOP was in on it as well."

A reasonable assertion.

Posted by: navybrat, stays off BART trains at April 12, 2019 03:12 PM (w7KSn)

238 Ok, instead of the word "spy", can we use the word "masturbate"?

Posted by: Tater Seltzer at April 12, 2019 03:13 PM (sy5kK)

239 224 163 Weren't spies summarily shot if caught on the battlefield?

Posted by: Insomniac at April 12, 2019 03:02 PM (NWiLs)

The good old days.

Posted by: zombie George Washington at April 12, 2019 03:10 PM (v0R5T)

Well if she was a comely lass...

Posted by: Belle Starr at April 12, 2019 03:13 PM (Kpl3J)

240 "134
and the absence of outrage on the part of everyone tells me that we are close to losing our country.

Posted by: LGoPs at April 12, 2019 02:50 PM (hzVKs)

...
The biggest problem is the overall count of moonbats and their distribution. It's not even a military problem; these people largely can't fight for shit. If push comes to shove we're going to have a ton of angry, confused, uninformed, and largely ineffective opponents. The hard left is way, way better organized, but they are outnumbered and this is not the EU. 50 million individuals and groups of 2-4 trump a few hundred thousand trust fund kids and adjuncts, and whatever few million thugs they might or might not be able to enlist for a time.

Posted by: lurker (the other one. buy radios too) at April 12, 2019 03:13 PM (eAshZ)

241 >>"I never considered Electronic Surveillance to be spying" James Comey

Did you mention that at your Nomination Hearing?

Posted by: garrett at April 12, 2019 03:13 PM (QPKL6)

242 >>Obvious conclusion: they're just being shot out of hand while still in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Remember that MOAB?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 12, 2019 03:13 PM (W+vEI)

243 they're just being shot out of hand "

Consequences. How do they work again?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 12, 2019 03:13 PM (6qErC)

244 This whole thing is as stupid as their scoffing at Trump's early claims that he was being "wiretapped". The reason? Wires are not tapped any more, it is all done digitally. So, his claims had to be false. Fuck their semantic bullshit.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at April 12, 2019 03:13 PM (6csDQ)

245 Too Scandalous for Words
by Johnny Mercer and Richard Whiting

We're just too scandalous
Too scandalous for words
Like traitorous, criminal and that old standby Stalinist.

Don't call it "spying" now
You're not allowed that word.
It says too much, much much too much
Exposing our attempted putsch!

It's too on point, and just too very, very
To ever be in Webster's dictionary.
And so I'm borrowing a euphemistic phrase
To say we were just "listening"
For all the nights and days.

Posted by: zombie at April 12, 2019 03:14 PM (5tb4C)

246 BEES WAX HONEY B

Posted by: saf at April 12, 2019 03:14 PM (5IHGB)

247
Serious question. Who is the most likely to off themselves? Clapper, Comey or Brennan?

I pick Brennan.
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Brennan will be the last. Clapper covered himself by being the go between between WH, Brennan and Comey. He will walk. Comey is the most likely to eat a bullet. Brennan will swallow cyanide in his cell just before execution. Brennan is a full tilt Herman Goring.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 12, 2019 03:14 PM (2LelM)

248 But here's what you may consider the bad news - a ton of them think the GOP was in on it as well. Trump has a core of support among the middle class and working poor that I know. But that support extends no further than Trump.
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That's a dirty lie! I was never really in the GOP!!
HEH FOOLED YA

Posted by: Zombie John McCain at April 12, 2019 03:14 PM (Xct+I)

249 Goddamn FBI don't respect nothin'.

Posted by: Sonny Corleone at April 12, 2019 03:15 PM (Z+IKu)

250 what do you think, hans, that I'm fucking retarded?

Posted by: Keto not Beto at April 12, 2019 03:15 PM (9AcAx)

251 Wut.

Da.

Fuq

.... is wrong with that guy.
Posted by: fixerupper at April 12, 2019 03:12 PM (8XRCm)

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It's code for "Well, the jig is up, we got caught with our hands in the cookie jar, but as long as I say something like 'we were manually liberating imprisoned cookies' it'll give the government legal cover to let us all off the hook."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2019 03:15 PM (AzW6q)

252 Spying or surveillance? Ask Alexa.

Posted by: Just Asking Questions at April 12, 2019 03:15 PM (d6NzT)

253 Weren't spies summarily shot if caught on the battlefield?

Posted by: Insomniac at April 12, 2019 03:02 PM (NWiLs)

The good old days.

Posted by: zombie George Washington at April 12, 2019 03:10 PM (v0R5T)

Well if she was a comely lass...

Posted by: Belle Starr

Yeah, about that.

Posted by: zombie Mata Hari at April 12, 2019 03:15 PM (AM1GF)

254 239
"I never considered Electronic Surveillance to be spying" James Comey

----

Wut.

Da.

Fuq

.... is wrong with that guy.
Posted by: fixerupper
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Classic narcissist/sociopath. Covering his ass.

Posted by: Bill Cosby, former 'I Spy' star at April 12, 2019 03:16 PM (U2TY5)

255
243 "a ton of them think the GOP was in on it as well."

A reasonable assertion.
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Can you say John McCain - Fighter Ace?

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 12, 2019 03:16 PM (2LelM)

256 This whole thing is as stupid as their scoffing at Trump's early claims that he was being "wiretapped". The reason? Wires are not tapped any more, it is all done digitally. So, his claims had to be false. Fuck their semantic bullshit.
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You shall always and every time take Trump literally but not seriously.

Posted by: AP style manual at April 12, 2019 03:16 PM (EX2Xh)

257 Okay, Tater Stelter and "masturbate" in the same comment? Why do you hate us?

Posted by: joncelli, providing the traditional responses at April 12, 2019 03:17 PM (RD7QR)

258 I'm not saying its was spying......but it was spying.

Posted by: Aliens at April 12, 2019 02:56 PM (jxhXw)

Ancient Alien Surveillance Theorists say yes.

Posted by: wth at April 12, 2019 03:17 PM (v0R5T)

259 "I never considered Electronic Surveillance to be spying" James Comey

===========
This should be considered a confession, with an offer of excuse.

I didn't consider what I did was wrong. Because it was something I did.

Posted by: simplemind at April 12, 2019 03:18 PM (fuF+z)

260 Trump said "wiretapped" because he speaks like a regular person, and regular people don't say, around the water cooler, "Gee, did you hear about Trump Tower being digitally surveiled?"

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 12, 2019 03:18 PM (+/7JY)

261 "Trump Says The Government Spied. Comey Says They Didn't. Here's Why They're Both Wrong. Also, Dogs."

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at April 12, 2019 03:19 PM (AzW6q)

262 Did you know that Obama was not spying on Trump?

*in the sense of personally stalking him as though he were James Bond

Bullshit like this is why I hate arguments with the left. They'll say something like, "Obama's not going to take your guns you idiot ammo-sexual!"

Then later, when a bill passes that makes 90% of guns illegal and only cops can own the remaining 10%, they sneer, "Obama didn't personally come and take your guns, so I was right!"

Then they flounce away.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 12, 2019 03:19 PM (9t0Zz)

263 I'm not sure the Left will ever escape the first stage of grief since Hillary's coronation party was inexplicably cancelled ...

Posted by: ShainS -- PhD candidate in Angry Orange Male studies at April 12, 2019 03:19 PM (fWCCb)

264 Lots of stupid going on in this Country. Sad!

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 12, 2019 03:20 PM (jUVms)

265 So, what happened to all those pussy hats? Anyone know?

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 12, 2019 03:20 PM (2LelM)

266 The old guard dems are scared witless. Pelosi is downright... circumspect considering how she normally behaves. I'd include Feinstein in the same list but she's quite literally entered the third stage of dementia and only sputters to life when wheeled out under klieg lights... and begins reenacting old Hope and Crosby bits from '48.

Posted by: 13times at April 12, 2019 03:20 PM (K3B2k)

267 Ok, instead of the word "spy", can we use the word "masturbate"?

Posted by: Tater Seltzer at April 12, 2019 03:13 PM (sy5kK)
.........

How about "fuck a jelly donut"?

Posted by: wth at April 12, 2019 03:20 PM (v0R5T)

268 LGoPs point pretty much stands, whether people are ignoring this stuff or not (spoiler: they generally are).

Variation on things I used to post here last year, even earlier.

The outrageous actions we're talking about (and not just limited to the spying, though that alone is off the scale) are, easily, the greatest scandals in American history.

And the % of people in the political class, or the "elites", who have seemed even slightly concerned about it is tiny. Shocking, even now.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 12, 2019 03:21 PM (QDnY+)

269 265 Okay, Tater Stelter and "masturbate" in the same comment? Why do you hate us?
Posted by: joncelli, providing the traditional responses at April 12, 2019 03:17 PM (RD7QR)

I repeated myself again, didn't I?

Posted by: Tater Seltzer at April 12, 2019 03:21 PM (sy5kK)

270 Then they flounce away.
Posted by: bonhomme at April 12, 2019 03:19 PM (9t0Zz)

------

It's like playing chess with a pigeon. You move a piece. The pigeon knocks them all over and struts around on the board claiming victory.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2019 03:21 PM (AzW6q)

271 Boston Creams are much sexier than those jelly ho's.

Posted by: Donut Sex Fan at April 12, 2019 03:21 PM (+/7JY)

272 The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Unless you're in a car, or we use electronic surveillance, or if you're to the right of Stalin.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 12, 2019 03:22 PM (9t0Zz)

273 How could a rational person ever respect the FBI after Comey and his weird, incompetent, girly bullshit?

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 12, 2019 03:22 PM (jUVms)

274 > Why it was simply gathering infomation as he was duly instructed to do.

Yeah, that's what Eichmann said. "Just following orders."

It didn't work out well for him.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 12, 2019 03:22 PM (0OWcv)

275 How about "fuck a jelly donut"?

Sure, it sounds like it would be easy.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at April 12, 2019 03:23 PM (D5Ogr)

276 I'm not sure the Left will ever escape the first stage of grief since Hillary's coronation party was inexplicably cancelled ...
Posted by: ShainS -- PhD candidate in Angry Orange Male studies at April 12, 2019 03:19 PM (fWCCb)

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

The Donald's offer to buy her fireworks for $.10 on the dollar that night was some classic stuff. It was the start of his Presidential trolling.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at April 12, 2019 03:23 PM (6csDQ)

277 279 Then they flounce away.
Posted by: bonhomme at April 12, 2019 03:19 PM (9t0Zz)

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It's like playing chess with a pigeon. You move a piece. The pigeon knocks them all over and struts around on the board claiming victory.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2019 03:21 PM (AzW6q)

Shitting all over the board in the process.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 12, 2019 03:23 PM (NWiLs)

278 282 How could a rational person ever respect the FBI after Comey and his weird, incompetent, girly bullshit?
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Cuz they have the magic false statement wand.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 12, 2019 03:23 PM (2LelM)

279 As a side dish, the Democrats will lose Watergate
and "Richard Nixon Was the Most Dangerous President Because
Constitutional Crisis" as a narrative and talking point in order to
taint the Repulicans.

Forever.

Posted by: JoeF. at April 12, 2019 03:03 PM (NFEMn)

Sadly, I think a sizeable, if not decisive, number of people do't even know what Watergate was. We are becoming a country of trained circus animals, led around by the ringmasters in the media.

Posted by: LGoPs at April 12, 2019 03:23 PM (hzVKs)

280 Did you know that Obama was not spying on Trump?

*in the sense of personally stalking him as though he were James Bond

Bullshit like this is why I hate arguments with the left. They'll say something like, "Obama's not going to take your guns you idiot ammo-sexual!"

Then later, when a bill passes that makes 90% of guns illegal and only cops can own the remaining 10%, they sneer, "Obama didn't personally come and take your guns, so I was right!"

Then they flounce away.
Posted by: bonhomme

It's because they never had their asses kicked as a kid. And it shows.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 12, 2019 03:24 PM (dDUXP)

281 Spying or surveillance? Ask Alexa.

Posted by: Just Asking Questions at April 12, 2019 03:15 PM (d6NzT)

Spying does not compute. Did you want to hear about frying?

Posted by: Alexa at April 12, 2019 03:24 PM (v0R5T)

282 I hate to say it, but I think Ancient Aliens has been the defining cultural event of the past 10 years.

Not sure what that says about us.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 12, 2019 03:24 PM (1ISKN)

283
When Obama tapped Angela Merkel's phone...Not spying

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at April 12, 2019 03:24 PM (TAmPV)

284
I did not push that guy. I rapidly leaned against him.

~James Comey

Posted by: fixerupper at April 12, 2019 03:24 PM (8XRCm)

285 274 So, what happened to all those pussy hats? Anyone know?
Posted by: Puddin Head at April 12, 2019 03:20 PM (2LelM)

Cats tore them apart. Moose out front should have told you.

Posted by: joncelli, providing the traditional responses at April 12, 2019 03:24 PM (RD7QR)

286 You don't engage a pigeon in a chess match. You kill the bastard.
======
Wait.

Are you saying democrats shit on the sidewalk and spread disease?

Posted by: simplemind at April 12, 2019 03:24 PM (Xct+I)

287 It's Orwellian.

Newspeak.

Is is time? Can we wear our MAGA hats anywhere we want now?

I wish I lived near a college campus. If I did I would wear the hat proudly but keep the chest-mount GoPro ready to touch and say "record now"

Posted by: Les Kinetic at April 12, 2019 03:24 PM (+fPHo)

288 and whatever few million thugs they might or might not be able to enlist for a time.

Posted by: lurker (the other one. buy radios too) at April 12, 2019 03:13 PM (eAshZ)

South Africa enjoyed moral superiority, foreign funding, the majority population, and organized guerilla training outside the country. And the Afrikaners still effortlessly stomped out their campaigns.

If minorities are stupid enough to try similar tactics here, President Trump will know what to do.

Posted by: trev006 at April 12, 2019 03:24 PM (6n54H)

289 We warned these people they wouldn't like it one bit once we started insisting the rules they applied to us applied to them as well.

Well, Donnie TwoScoops is so insisting.

You made this toxic brew, progtards. Drink deeply. Savor it all the way down.

Posted by: DocJ at April 12, 2019 03:25 PM (fF3XF)

290 Was nice out so tried to work in the garden, then it started to rain.

Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2019 03:25 PM (BbGew)

291 Yeah, that's what Eichmann said. "Just following orders."

It didn't work out well for him.
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Didn't he spend many enjoyable years in Argentina before somebody did something?

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 12, 2019 03:25 PM (2LelM)

292 It's like playing chess with a pigeon. You move a piece. The pigeon knocks them all over and struts around on the board claiming victory.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2019 03:21 PM (AzW6q)

*ahem*

Pigeons should be referred to as 'Flying Shit Boxes'.

Posted by: AOSHQ Majordomo at April 12, 2019 03:25 PM (ycWCI)

293 Puddin Head, I think Goering was a different kind of weird than Brennan.

Goering was venal and pragmatic in the extreme, looking out for himself, much more than a true believer (at least when he rose to the top). Brennan's a lightweight nutcase true believer, spittle-flecked variety. Plus Goering, when younger, was a skilled and valiant combat pilot. Brennan has never been anything.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 12, 2019 03:25 PM (QDnY+)

294 I'm not sure the Left will ever escape the first stage of grief since Hillary's coronation party was inexplicably cancelled ...

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Friendly reminder. First stage of grief IS denial.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 12, 2019 03:26 PM (8XRCm)

295 Then they flounce away.

Posted by: bonhomme

It's because they never had their asses kicked as a kid. And it shows.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 12, 2019 03:24 PM (dDUXP)

They can't flounce with a tomahawk to the Achilles.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at April 12, 2019 03:26 PM (t6MX/)

296 If they pass the NGD, those pigeons will be the only meat we get.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 12, 2019 03:26 PM (1ISKN)

297 Puddin Head - The House on Garibaldi Street. Good book, decent flick.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 12, 2019 03:26 PM (QDnY+)

298

"Why Freedom Depends on Extrajudicial Deprivation of Liberty in the Age of Trump."

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at April 12, 2019 03:26 PM (AzW6q)

299 300 Was nice out so tried to work in the garden, then it started to rain.
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My hydrangea are rearing their angry head and are ready to pounce!

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 12, 2019 03:27 PM (2LelM)

300 How could a rational person ever respect the FBI after Comey and his weird, incompetent, girly bullshit?
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The numbers of rational people have been depleted over the course of decades.

Posted by: simplemind at April 12, 2019 03:27 PM (gd3w8)

301 Major pearl clutching going on with the Dems between spygate and Trump thinking about bussing illegals into their sanctuary cities.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 12, 2019 03:27 PM (RBOtF)

302 We warned these people they wouldn't like it one bit once we started insisting the rules they applied to us applied to them as well.

Well, Donnie TwoScoops is so insisting.

You made this toxic brew, progtards. Drink deeply. Savor it all the way down.
Posted by: DocJ at April 12, 2019 03:25 PM (fF3XF)
+++++++++++
They rue the day that anyone decided to take FARA seriously.

That is hopefully just the tip of a very long and very sharp spear.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2019 03:27 PM (I2dne)

303 You made this toxic brew, progtards. Drink deeply. Savor it all the way down.

Posted by: DocJ at April 12, 2019 03:25 PM (fF3XF)

Ack! This tastes like shit!

Posted by: Progtards at April 12, 2019 03:27 PM (t6MX/)

304 *ahem*

Pigeons should be referred to as 'Flying Shit Boxes'.
Posted by: AOSHQ Majordomo

Feathered rats.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 12, 2019 03:27 PM (dDUXP)

305 Are you saying democrats shit on the sidewalk and spread disease?

Little Bear to Big Bear, the sleeper has awakened. I say again, the sleeper has awakened.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at April 12, 2019 03:27 PM (D5Ogr)

306 knocks them all over and struts around on the board claiming victory."

Huh? That's how I play chess. Works, too.

Beats *why does this guy only move two spaces? F that, I've got hueys*

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 12, 2019 03:27 PM (6qErC)

307 Wrote yesterday Democrats doing illegal investigation is research
Republicans doing any kind of research is spying

Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2019 03:27 PM (BbGew)

308 287 279 Then they flounce away.
Posted by: bonhomme at April 12, 2019 03:19 PM (9t0Zz)

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It's like playing chess with a pigeon. You move a piece. The pigeon knocks them all over and struts around on the board claiming victory.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2019 03:21 PM (AzW6q)

Shitting all over the board in the process.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 12, 2019 03:23 PM (NWiLs)

So the Democrats have become "the Pigeon Party?"

Works for me. It is pretty darned accurate description of the Democrats since November, 2016.

Except instead of chess pieces and a board, they are knocking over laws and pooping all over the Constitution.

Pigeon Party. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 12, 2019 03:28 PM (sy5kK)

309 It's because they never had their asses kicked as a kid. And it shows.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 12, 2019 03:24 PM (dDUXP)

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This.

Ive always postulated that the reason we as a society have become a collective of rude boors is that we, as a society, have removed the consequence of eating a knuckle sammich when behaving like an asshole.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 12, 2019 03:28 PM (8XRCm)

310

sad

child pushed or thrown off of 3rd story in Mall of America

critical injuries

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 12, 2019 03:28 PM (vEIlU)

311 You know what our current "elite" reminds me of?

The society at Versailles in 1789. Same effete behavior. Same gulf of understanding between them and those they consider peasants. Same smug self-assurance that they are the "best people".

Boy, were they surprised when the tumbrils started rolling.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 12, 2019 03:28 PM (0OWcv)

312 Say where can a Tree of Liberty get a drink around here?

Posted by: Regular joe at April 12, 2019 03:29 PM (6/uwW)

313 301 Yeah, that's what Eichmann said. "Just following orders."

It didn't work out well for him.
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Didn't he spend many enjoyable years in Argentina before somebody did something?

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 12, 2019 03:25 PM (2LelM)

What does Eichmann have to do with Islamophobia?

Posted by: Someguy at April 12, 2019 03:29 PM (oTYTN)

314 I hate to say it, but I think Ancient Aliens has been the defining cultural event of the past 10 years.

Not sure what that says about us.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 12, 2019 03:24 PM (1ISKN)
.........

That and Oak Island.

Posted by: wth at April 12, 2019 03:29 PM (v0R5T)

315 sad

child pushed or thrown off of 3rd story in Mall of America

critical injuries
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 12, 2019 03:28 PM (vEIlU)

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Terrible. At least kids are more resilient than adults. Hopefully he/she recovers fully. Did they apprehend the sicko who did this?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2019 03:30 PM (AzW6q)

316 320

sad

child pushed or thrown off of 3rd story in Mall of America

critical injuries

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 12, 2019 03:28 PM (vEIlU)

Large Somali population. Islamists push gays off buildings. How will the facts settle out?

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at April 12, 2019 03:30 PM (t6MX/)

317 >>Large Somali population. Islamists push gays off buildings. How will the facts settle out?

Little kids are usually pretty happy.

Posted by: garrett at April 12, 2019 03:30 PM (tphbc)

318 Are you saying democrats shit on the sidewalk and spread disease?

Their voters? Certainly.

The anointed get shots and the occasional lav privileges.

Posted by: DocJ at April 12, 2019 03:31 PM (fF3XF)

319 319 This.

Ive always postulated that the reason we as a society have become a collective of rude boors is that we, as a society, have removed the consequence of eating a knuckle sammich when behaving like an asshole.
Posted by: fixerupper at April 12, 2019 03:28 PM (8XRCm)

Shattered Limbs are the best teacher.

Posted by: Hikaru at April 12, 2019 03:31 PM (UnA8+)

320 303 Puddin Head, I think Goering was a different kind of weird than Brennan.

Goering was venal and pragmatic in the extreme, looking out for himself, much more than a true believer (at least when he rose to the top). Brennan's a lightweight nutcase true believer, spittle-flecked variety. Plus Goering, when younger, was a skilled and valiant combat pilot. Brennan has never been anything.
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Goring was a buttmunch to Hitler as Brennan was to Obama. He knows his loyalty and obsequiousness to Hitler is what elevated him. He also gave Hitler disastrous advise costing his master the war (Dunkirk and Stalingrad). Hitler should have shelved him after Dunkirk but he, like Obama, was a compulsive narcissist.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 12, 2019 03:32 PM (2LelM)

321 "I am getting a report
that someone threw the child over," one officer on the scene told
dispatch over an emergency audio channel.

A
24-year-old man was arrested and is being questioned about the incident,
Bloomington Police Chief Jeff Potts said. The suspect's name has not
been released.
Ugh. Five year old boy.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at April 12, 2019 03:32 PM (t6MX/)

322 Again, the Left is mentally ill and all of their utterances will be nothing but nonsensical.

It's the professional Right, our purported Betters ( tm ), that are the problem in need of remediation and or medication.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 12, 2019 03:32 PM (uAgHA)

323 303 Puddin Head, I think Goering was a different kind of weird than Brennan.

Goering was venal and pragmatic in the extreme, looking out for himself, much more than a true believer (at least when he rose to the top). Brennan's a lightweight nutcase true believer, spittle-flecked variety. Plus Goering, when younger, was a skilled and valiant combat pilot. Brennan has never been anything.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 12, 2019 03:25 PM (QDnY+)

At least Brennan isn't parading about in a baby blue uniform of his own design. I mean, Hugo Boss was right there, willing to help.

Posted by: josephistan at April 12, 2019 03:32 PM (7HtZB)

324 I would like to form a rock band of Bond villains. I would make a good Le Chiffre.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 12, 2019 03:32 PM (7+kRI)

325 What if Kurt Eichenwald is the sane part of the Democratic Propaganda Press?

Just an idle Friday Fear.

Posted by: New York Times at April 12, 2019 03:33 PM (Z216Q)

326 Shattered Limbs are the best teacher."

Bloody noses work as well...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 12, 2019 03:33 PM (6qErC)

327 Did somebody say 'Flying Shit Boxes'?

Posted by: seagull at April 12, 2019 03:33 PM (v0R5T)

328 There are days when I wish I was still on the Twat Machine so I could stick my Koch in a few of these leftists eyes...

Posted by: Phil Hartmark F/K/A Truck Monkey at April 12, 2019 03:33 PM (flINI)

329 POTUS_Schedule

1m1 minute ago

"Secret Service has closed down the north lawn and park outside of the WH, because an person lit their jacket on fire," per a Secret Service spokeswoman.

Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at April 12, 2019 03:33 PM (BqBId)

330 Say where can a Tree of Liberty get a drink around here?
Posted by: Regular joe at April 12, 2019 03:29 PM (6/uwW)

Apparently nowhere. I doubt enough people in this country have the guts anymore.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at April 12, 2019 03:34 PM (SzCD0)

331 Goering, Like Brennan was incompetent at his job.

Unlike Brennan, he wasn't also a drooling dimwit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2019 03:34 PM (AzW6q)

332 107 All you damn commenters are the reason AOC's stressed out and losing weight.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis
>Given how fit she is anyways, I'm to assuming that her loss in weight is due to the deterioration of what little brain matter she has.
Posted by: Delaforce

Given that she may have taken a big dump....should we no longer refer to her as "shat for brains"?

Posted by: BifBewalski - sofa king we Todd did at April 12, 2019 03:34 PM (td8Ta)

333 I fear der Trumpenfuhrer, having belatedly unsheathed the glorious (and hilarious) illegal-aliens-to-"sanctuary"-jurisdictions gambit, will not follow through. Also still no good indication whether Barr intends to focus on *that* particular bit of lawlessness (among all of those currently raging). The DOJ's pathetic performance under Sessions, which as I noted many times was effectively advertizing their irresolution and inviting (successfully) worse behavior, is a heavy burden for Barr to overcome.

As a little reminder, recall how swiftly DOJ and (typically lawless, revolutionary-committee-like) courts moved to squash AZ when it merely required modest LE cooperation on immigration matters - amidst an illegal migration crime crisis in the state. Compare with actions since January 2017.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 12, 2019 03:34 PM (QDnY+)

334 It's because they never had their asses kicked as a kid. And it shows.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 12, 2019 03:24 PM (dDUXP)

-----

This.

Ive always postulated that the reason we as a society have become a collective of rude boors is that we, as a society, have removed the consequence of eating a knuckle sammich when behaving like an asshole.
Posted by: fixerupper at April 12, 2019 03:28 PM (8XRCm)

An armed society is a polite society.

It's Science.

But yeah, it's amazing how quickly losing a couple of teeth will teach you valuable life-lessons.

Posted by: DocJ at April 12, 2019 03:35 PM (fF3XF)

335 because an person lit their jacket on fire,"

It says "smoking jacket" right here...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 12, 2019 03:35 PM (6qErC)

336 calm the fuck down
Posted by: nurse ratched

Look who's talking!

Posted by: the Woodpecker at April 12, 2019 03:35 PM (e1q4h)

337 *NOOD!*

Posted by: Slapweasel, White Enthusiast, Town Drunk at April 12, 2019 03:35 PM (Ckg4U)

338 >>"Secret Service has closed down the north lawn and park outside of the WH, because an person lit their jacket on fire," per a Secret Service spokeswoman.

He will be Member Only no more, forever.

Posted by: garrett at April 12, 2019 03:35 PM (tphbc)

339 Did somebody say 'Flying Shit Boxes'?

Posted by: seagull

Here, have an Alka-Seltzer.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at April 12, 2019 03:36 PM (D5Ogr)

340 340 POTUS_Schedule

1m1 minute ago

"Secret Service has closed down the north lawn and park outside of the WH, because an person lit their jacket on fire," per a Secret Service spokeswoman.
Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at April 12, 2019 03:33 PM (BqBId)

THAT'LL SHOW DRUMPF!

(Probably just lighting a cigarette and caught his sleeve. But, knowing our leftists, could actually be a protest.)

Posted by: joncelli, providing the traditional responses at April 12, 2019 03:36 PM (RD7QR)

341 Brennan is a Communist coward that has weaseled himself into a federal government paycheck for 40 years, and has abused the words and meaning of the Constitution and federal law the entire time.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 12, 2019 03:36 PM (sy5kK)

342 All you damn commenters are the reason AOC's stressed out and losing weight.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis
>Given how fit she is anyways, I'm to assuming that her loss in weight is due to the deterioration of what little brain matter she has.
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a steady diet of popcorn and white wine will tend to degrade your IQ in a relatively short span of time. God knows how long she's been at that . . .

Posted by: simplemind at April 12, 2019 03:36 PM (Zw96i)

343

U.S. Secret Service

ALERT: Secret Service personnel are responding to a police/medical incident on Pennsylvania Ave. along the @WhiteHouse North Fence Line.

this is a self-immolation plus suspicious packages. White House in lockdown.

Posted by: SMOD at April 12, 2019 03:36 PM (QkjLD)

344 "321
You know what our current "elite" reminds me of?

The society at Versailles in 1789. Same effete behavior. Same gulf
of understanding between them and those they consider peasants. Same
smug self-assurance that they are the "best people".

Boy, were they surprised when the tumbrils started rolling.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 12, 2019 03:28 PM (0OWcv)"
....
My biggest fear is that this crap won't get sorted out peacefully, but that it will get out of hand. Quite a few people I know that might get mistaken for moonbats are quietly moving out of the cities and suburbs - they're thinking the same thing.

Posted by: lurker (the other one. buy radios too) at April 12, 2019 03:36 PM (eAshZ)

345 342 Goering, Like Brennan was incompetent at his job.
Unlike Brennan, he wasn't also a drooling dimwit.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2019 03:34 PM (AzW6q)

Ah, John "Muzzie" Brennan. Thinks he may have gotten some bad intel on the OrangeMan.

You had one fucking job, dipshit. One.

Posted by: DocJ at April 12, 2019 03:37 PM (fF3XF)

346 340 Why stop with the jacket?
Buddhist Monk

Posted by: steevy at April 12, 2019 03:37 PM (BXMxN)

347 Secret Service has closed down the north lawn and park outside of the WH, because an person lit their jacket on fire," per a Secret Service spokeswoman.
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In all seriousness, could have been a suicide vest that failed. In Israel they refer to them as "smokers".

Posted by: simplemind at April 12, 2019 03:38 PM (Zw96i)

348 340
POTUS_Schedule

1m1 minute ago

"Secret Service has closed down the north lawn and park outside of
the WH, because an person lit their jacket on fire," per a Secret
Service spokeswoman.

Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at April 12, 2019 03:33 PM (BqBId)
Clear the immediate area and let them burn. I fail to see any downside to this.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 12, 2019 03:38 PM (jxbfJ)

349 sad

child pushed or thrown off of 3rd story in Mall of America

critical injuries

Five year old kid thrown/pushed by 24 year old with no known connection to the family of the victim.

Under many terrible circumstances, I would wait for the "justice" system to do what it does. This is not one of them. If this were my kid, that 24 year old wouldn't be safe anywhere on Earth.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 12, 2019 03:38 PM (9t0Zz)

350 There will be video in that mall so the facts will be obvious

Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2019 03:38 PM (BbGew)

351 Secret service spokeswoman tells me a man set his jacket on fire in front of the White House. He is being treated for injuries. No threat to the President
====================

He also has been arrested.

Posted by: SMOD at April 12, 2019 03:38 PM (QkjLD)

352 Oh I wasn't saying Goering wasn't a bizarre and loathsome and incompetent character. He was. Though the Stalingrad/6th Army airlift thing was actually not all his, he was more of a pass-through, predictably standing behind a subordinate's unwise assurances made before thorough study. Plus aircraft were diverted west, and loss of the Pitomnik (?) airfield changed the basics considerably, after the decision. And the powder blue custom uniforms were nothing - it's the make-up that really set the Reichsfuhrer apart.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 12, 2019 03:40 PM (QDnY+)

353 They just need to keep working on this until they get it right.

If the proper term for abortion is now Reproductive Health - then based on their track record they should be able to come up with another cute and totally meaningless Orwellian term for spying. Of course this new term should only be used when it's the left's that's doing the spying, otherwise spying is the correct term.

Posted by: ADK46er at April 12, 2019 03:41 PM (Dk6GG)

354 A U.S. judge on Friday sentenced Republican political consultant Samuel Patten to 36 months of probation, 500 hours of community service and a $5,000 fine in a case spun out of U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.

Patten, 47, pleaded guilty in August to communicating with U.S. lawmakers and news media organizations on behalf of a Russia-aligned political party in Ukraine called the Opposition Bloc without disclosing that work to the Justice Department, in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), among other offenses.

Posted by: SMOD at April 12, 2019 03:41 PM (QkjLD)

355 I had to do my annual review, and part of it was reviewing our corporate competencies. My hand to God, one of our "corporate values" is "meritocracy based on diversity and inclusion."

I remember when it was just "meritocracy."

Posted by: sunny-dee at April 12, 2019 03:43 PM (QAOZh)

356 360
sad

child pushed or thrown off of 3rd story in Mall of America

critical injuries

Five year old kid thrown/pushed by 24 year old with no known connection to the family of the victim.

Under many terrible circumstances, I would wait for the "justice"
system to do what it does. This is not one of them. If this were my
kid, that 24 year old wouldn't be safe anywhere on Earth.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 12, 2019 03:38 PM (9t0Zz)

Run and hide, asshole. Run and hide. ...... Because I want my people to find
you, and when they do, rest assured we are not going to hand you over to
the police. So my advice to you again is this: run and hide. That is
all that I ask.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 12, 2019 03:44 PM (jxbfJ)

357 As regards "totes not spying," it's not worthy of argument. I'm perfectly fine telling any shit-for-brains that I don't need xir sorry dumb ass to tell me what "spying" means, so lol, fuck you.

IMO, it's well past the time, too, to quit assigning any truth value to anything any of them say. It's not true, it's not false, it's simply strategic behavior in service to power and wealth and its accumulation. Other than as a reminder of their goals, it has no useful content.
In other words, "lol, fuck you" every time.

Posted by: Hugh Tootooie at April 12, 2019 03:49 PM (hu22E)

358 If the proper term for abortion is now Reproductive Health

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It'd be a lot better country if we reproductive healthed a lot more murderers.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 12, 2019 03:53 PM (+y/Ru)

359 Five year old kid thrown/pushed by 24 year old with no known connection to the family of the victim.

-
Wd need to reproductive health that 24 year old.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 12, 2019 03:56 PM (+y/Ru)

360 270
Bullshit like this is why I hate arguments with the left. They'll say something like, "Obama's not going to take your guns you idiot ammo-sexual!"

Then later, when a bill passes that makes 90% of guns illegal and only cops can own the remaining 10%, they sneer, "Obama didn't personally come and take your guns, so I was right!"

Then they flounce away.
Posted by: bonhomme at April 12, 2019 03:19 PM (9t0Zz)

I remember Obama personally saying, "I'm not going to take your guns." I interpreted it exactly as you describe.

Posted by: rickl at April 12, 2019 04:00 PM (xjiRE)

361 Not to mention the NYT's headline on Inauguration Day that Trump had been wiretapped. When he "pounced", they said it wasn't "wiretapping" wiretapping a la Whoopi.

Why the panic, Democrats? Aren't you all about investigations, oversight and transparency? The Attorney General is just trying to get the facts. It's not as if he's paid for a Dossier and is using it to get phony warrants. He's not going to insert spies or set up phony meetings to entrap anybody. And he certainly won't be using foreign intelligence services to avoid the laws or any other such criminal acts. So there's nothing to worry about.

Right?

Posted by: Harry Mata at April 12, 2019 05:15 PM (g5UVy)

362 "Spying" is passive. This was ESPIONAGE.

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Media Used to Call Government Surveillance of People -- Even Terrorists! -- "Spying" as a Routine Matter.
Now That The Spying is Directed at ORANGEMANBAD, They're Freaking Out Over Semantics.