The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

The National Socialist German Workers' Party ran Germany from 1933 until the end of World War II in May of 1945. In a quirk of their own design, in spite of being the very heart of the effort to destroy the Jewish people, they killed about 70% of Germany's Jews, in large part because they were sticklers for the appearance of the rule of law. Contrast that with the savagery they exhibited in other countries. In Greece and Poland they killed in excess of 90% of those nations' Jews.

Beginning in 1933 the Nazis began constructing a legal framework for their ultimate goal. Everything was done under the guise of German law, and as Hannah Arendt famously described, it was the banality of evil: clerks and accountants and railway engineers and carpenters doing legal work that was nevertheless shocking in its depravity and soullessness.

Fast Forward 90 years, and we have a government that is acting very clearly in a depraved and evil way, yet shields itself from accusations of anti-freedom behavior with arcane legal structures that allow them to act under color of the law, in spite of the obvious moral and ethical wrongs that they perpetrate.

The clearly intended consequence of the 30,000 federal statutes and innumerable regulations buried in millions of pages of the Leviathan is the culmination of Lavrenti Beria's famous maxim:

Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime.

That is what we have today...an out-of-control state that uses the power of its laws to attack its enemies, and it's all perfectly legal! No doubt President Trump ran afoul of a few regulations buried in the thousands that govern the handling of government documents. You know...just like every single president and every single high official since time immemorial.

But Donald Trump is different; he doesn't play the game, and for that he must be destroyed, because the American people did not reject his brand of muscular populism the way they were expected. Instead they embraced him as someone who truly understood them and their desire to be out from under the jackboots of the state. And mostly they loved him for his love of them and their country.

So Donald Trump's love of America must be banished, and Donald Trump must be punished.

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 First?!?

Posted by: Greyman27 at August 09, 2022 11:01 AM (RKLPC)

2 First

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 09, 2022 11:01 AM (Y+l9t)

3 Yeah.

Posted by: Greyman27 at August 09, 2022 11:01 AM (RKLPC)

4 Such a great rant, CBD. You really nailed it; those were exactly my thoughts last night. This is punishment for not playing the game.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 09, 2022 11:01 AM (DRSnL)

5 Present.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 09, 2022 11:01 AM (ViCCR)

6 The sad part is that it is going to get a lot worse before things improve.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 09, 2022 11:02 AM (4olE8)

7 not sponge

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 11:02 AM (LvTSG)

8 Thank you Merrick Garland for your in-kind contribution to the Trump 2024 campaign.

This should clinch the Senate in the '22 mid-terms.

Posted by: Greyman27 at August 09, 2022 11:03 AM (RKLPC)

9 Well said, CBD

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 09, 2022 11:03 AM (xFKgx)

10 The Florida federal magistrate judge who signed off on a search warrant authorizing the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort left the local US Attorney’s office more than a decade ago to rep employees of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein who had received immunity in the long-running sex-trafficking investigation of the financier.

Sources tell The Post that Judge Bruce Reinhart approved the warrant that enabled federal agents to converge on the palatial South Florida estate on Monday in what Trump called an “unannounced raid on my home.”

Reinhart was elevated to magistrate judge in March 2018 after 10 years in private practice. That November, the Miami Herald reported that he had represented several of Epstein’s employees — including, by Reinhart’s own admission to the outlet, Epstein’s pilots; his scheduler, Sarah Kellen; and Nadia Marcinkova, who Epstein once reportedly described as his “Yugoslavian sex slave.”

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 09, 2022 11:04 AM (FHzKS)

11 William Jacobsen has an interesting take, namely that this is a trap (squid head not included). IOW, they're hoping we respond with violence and excessive fervor. He says don't respond in a way that would justify the Dems counter response, but instead work to destroy them electorally and in the *snerk* justice system.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2022 11:05 AM (/NCI4)

12 I keep reading and refreshing pages waiting for some strong condemnation from our side but it is all weak rhetoric. I am totally disgusted.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 09, 2022 11:05 AM (Y+l9t)

13 Nice writeup, CBD.

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2022 11:05 AM (AVI/t)

14 Trump made this guy a judge and he sent the feds into his house?

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at August 09, 2022 11:06 AM (53oGX)

15 William Jacobsen has an interesting take, namely that this is a trap (squid head not included). IOW, they're hoping we respond with violence and excessive fervor. He says don't respond in a way that would justify the Dems counter response, but instead work to destroy them electorally and in the *snerk* justice system.

To be clear, I don't fully agree with this, but I am convinced that the Dems made a HUGE mistake here, and are starting to realize it and regret it. They've turned Trump into a martyr.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2022 11:06 AM (/NCI4)

16 So this has ties to Epstein. Seems like the Clinton’s are involved in this raid.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at August 09, 2022 11:06 AM (s3wLb)

17 I thought it was a rule that sponge was always first.

Anyhoo, CBD is spot on.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 09, 2022 11:06 AM (QSjkU)

18 That is what we have today...an out-of-control state that uses the power of its laws to attack its enemies, and it's all perfectly legal! No doubt President Trump ran afoul of a few regulations buried in the thousands that govern the handling of government documents. You know...just like every single president and every single high official since time immemorial.
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Every single person, period. Compliance is impossible. There are too many laws, too many regulations, too much deliberate nuance and subtlety and too much contradiction to be simultaneously compliant across all of it.

There is no such thing as a "law-abiding citizen" anymore. Such a thing is impossible. You can be a peaceable citizen, but not a law-abiding one. Not anymore.

The entire US Code needs to be thrown out. Start over.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 11:06 AM (WWh8n)

19 I think Mitch McConnell's statement on the sitting President raiding the ex-President was the best statement by any Republican yet.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:06 AM (pd1RM)

20 I think Mitch McConnell's statement on the sitting President raiding the ex-President was the best statement by any Republican yet.

Link?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2022 11:07 AM (/NCI4)

21
I dunno, I don't think they would have done it if Trump hadn't done something wrong.

Time for Keeping Up With the Kardashians!

Posted by: Low-information voter at August 09, 2022 11:07 AM (1Nxff)

22 The fact that it's an Epstein lawyer who gave the final stamp on this is instructive, predictable, weird and physically off-putting all at the same time.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 11:07 AM (/6Rxy)

23 The sad part is that it is going to get a lot worse before things improve.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 09, 2022 11:02 AM (4olE

it's always darkest just before it goes pitch black....

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at August 09, 2022 11:07 AM (WhsXQ)

24 I'll ask again, what do those documents show?

This didn't happen overnight. Trump has been fighting with the National Archives to keep these documents since he left the White House.

There's a reason the Deep State went to this extreme.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2022 11:07 AM (ZLI7S)

25 They know how to cultivate , groom if you will, their sign-off judges....,

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2022 11:08 AM (AVI/t)

26 Punk Monkey!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2022 11:08 AM (svdGq)

27 We have entered a period of constant friction among factions. Governors need to start advancing their own foreign policies and developing state WMD programs AND announce the will to use them. This is war now, hot war, and needs to be treated as such. It is pretty obvious the Regime wants a nuclear exchange with Russia, and the various governors need to meet directly with Putin to discuss neutrality and try to minimize the inevitable horror their states also will suffer. A state-engineered nuclear test in the Texas Panhandle possibly, although not definitely, is the best deterrent toward hot war.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 09, 2022 11:08 AM (nMx88)

28 Every single person, period. Compliance is impossible. There are too many laws, too many regulations, too much deliberate nuance and subtlety and too much contradiction to be simultaneously compliant across all of it.

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What was it determined to be twenty years ago or whatever? Three felonies a day committed by law abiding citizens on average?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:08 AM (pd1RM)

29 Didn't Glenn Reynolds write a book?...."Ham Sammich Nation"...or some such?

Posted by: BignJames at August 09, 2022 11:08 AM (AwYPR)

30 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 11:08 AM (Zz0t1)

31 There's a reason it's so similar as they're attempting to build the Fourth Reich.

Posted by: t-bird at August 09, 2022 11:08 AM (Q14hI)

32 It's good to be the King's master.

Posted by: Melakon at August 09, 2022 11:09 AM (63Dwl)

33 It's bizarre that the WH is claiming that they had no knowledge of this. Also that the DOJ hasn't issued a press release yet.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 09, 2022 11:09 AM (UuD2k)

34 But WE'RE the nazis, you guys.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

35
There is no such thing as a "law-abiding citizen" anymore. Such a thing is impossible. You can be a peaceable citizen, but not a law-abiding one. Not anymore.

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You're guilty, they just haven't gotten around to charging you. Yet.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2022 11:09 AM (1Nxff)

36 Gop Senate needs diversity they told us. Then we get Tim Scott, who sides the the FBI on CBS this morning

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 11:09 AM (WY8d2)

37 Forgot the Jacobsen link:

https://tinyurl.com/46r54p9x

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2022 11:09 AM (/NCI4)

38 I think Mitch McConnell's statement on the sitting President raiding the ex-President was the best statement by any Republican yet.

Link?
Posted by: Archimedes

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Yeah, that's sort of the joke.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:09 AM (pd1RM)

39 An optimistic prognostication about what we will fall into in a few years:

The de facto checks and balances will be governors against the fed with regards to all law enforcement. Lawfare will continue in the blue states but the equilibrium will change drastically.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2022 11:09 AM (44ww/)

40 Willowed from previous. Tim Scott is a trojan horse, a slightly more masculine Lindsey Graham.

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2022 11:09 AM (0OP+5)

41 I love Escher and I hate the State.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 09, 2022 11:09 AM (XvPQV)

42 Cernovich is a traitorous fool these days also

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 11:09 AM (WY8d2)

43 The stench rises.

Politico says the "judge" who issued the search warrant appears to be a West Palm based magistrate judge, formerly best known for fake-prosecuting Epstein and then switching sides to represent Epstein. Someone, in other words, who would like the Epstein information to stay forever buried in FBI files.

https://tinyurl.com/yv847dde

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 09, 2022 11:10 AM (xFKgx)

44 >19 I think Mitch McConnell's statement on the sitting President raiding the ex-President was the best statement by any Republican yet.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:06 AM (pd1RM)

I can't find it. Do you have linkage?

Posted by: Muad'dib at August 09, 2022 11:10 AM (sjdRT)

45 Punk Monkey!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

So glad we don't have Monkeypox Monkey yet.

Posted by: t-bird at August 09, 2022 11:10 AM (Q14hI)

46 Don’t worry, we can vote our way out of this in November. Right? This country is over, done, gone. There’s no way back. I’ve been screaming that from the rooftops for a long time. I’m just riding it out by doing what I want to do. I feel bad for the younger generations. They are fucked.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 09, 2022 11:10 AM (reQRc)

47 It's bizarre that the WH is claiming that they had no knowledge of this.

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Yeah, I'm sort of wondering who the AG and FBI answers to.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:10 AM (pd1RM)

48 And we must be punished too

What a dark day

Posted by: Eli Cash at August 09, 2022 11:10 AM (Q0CH5)

49 "I can't believe that criminal Trump is going to get away with his crimes AGAIN! Is there no more rule of law in post Trump Amerikkka?!?!?!"

- The Reason We Can't Have Nice Things

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2022 11:10 AM (WVOm3)

50 As someone said, the DC area hasn't had a recession in 35 years. And that has taken them out of the headspace where they understand Americans.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2022 11:10 AM (44ww/)

51 Robbie - what did he say?

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 09, 2022 11:10 AM (zvG6c)

52 McConnell speaks?

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 11:10 AM (WY8d2)

53 It's bizarre that the WH is claiming that they had no knowledge of this.
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It's not bizarre. It's outrageous. If someone is going to execute a search warrant against a former president, the White House better damned well be informed. This get worse by the minute.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 09, 2022 11:10 AM (lf83v)

54 I think Mitch McConnell's statement on the sitting President raiding the ex-President was the best statement by any Republican yet.
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I can't find it. Do you have linkage?
Posted by: Muad'dib
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It was a joke. It doesn't exist.

Complete silence.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:11 AM (pd1RM)

55 Yeah, that's sort of the joke.

Ah, consider me sheepish.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2022 11:11 AM (/NCI4)

56 When a portion of the country flours the law with impunity and treats the Constitution scroll like a Charmin roll, it doesn't matter WHAT the law says.

You can have a single law or a trillion. You are pissing in the wind.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 11:11 AM (/6Rxy)

57 So, anyone else """enjoying""" the 'trust the plan', 'don't do anything stupid' posts by the true Conservative voices out there?

Cuz I sure am loving it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 09, 2022 11:11 AM (XvPQV)

58 So Donald Trump's love of America must be banished, and Donald Trump must be punished.

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"There is no greater treasonous act than for an American to love America and other proud Americans."

-- Undoubtedly a federal or regulatory statute somewhere, and the foundation of Public Education

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 09, 2022 11:11 AM (+lwg5)

59 "...and we have a government that is acting very clearly in a depraved and evil way" the Monkey stated, without evidence.
-"Unbiased" "news" "reporter"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 09, 2022 11:11 AM (fs1hN)

60 I think they are looking for Epstein documents.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at August 09, 2022 11:11 AM (s3wLb)

61 12 I keep reading and refreshing pages waiting for some strong condemnation from our side but it is all weak rhetoric. I am totally disgusted.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 09, 2022 11:05 AM (Y+l9t)

A true leader would have been ready for this (and in fact would have even predicted it). Instead we get the post-mortem, reactive "weak rhetoric" tweets and statements. So these putative "leaders" either didn't see it coming or were too afraid to say so, and now issue pro forma denunciations without any vision of the larger crisis. Leadership: we don't have any, not in the classic, necessary, risk-taking, visionary sense.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 09, 2022 11:11 AM (H8QX8)

62 >It was a joke. It doesn't exist.

Complete silence.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:11 AM (pd1RM)

Ah. Thanks.

Posted by: Muad'dib at August 09, 2022 11:11 AM (sjdRT)

63 I'd wager that Trump will be incarcerated or deceased at the time of the 2024 elections. The state is playing for keeps.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 09, 2022 11:11 AM (rJ48h)

64 >>>There is no such thing as a "law-abiding citizen" anymore. Such a thing is impossible. You can be a peaceable citizen, but not a law-abiding one. Not anymore.

You're guilty, they just haven't gotten around to charging you. Yet.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2022 11:09 AM (1Nxff)

Never disarm.

Posted by: flounder at August 09, 2022 11:12 AM (U3uv2)

65
Man, you wouldn't believe what we found in Ernst Röhm's apartment!

Posted by: The Reichkanzler, July 31, 1934 at August 09, 2022 11:12 AM (1Nxff)

66 Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2022 11:09 AM (0OP+5)

Only slightly so. Dude is a grade A bitch.

He endorses Murkowski?! Fuck me running.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 09, 2022 11:12 AM (zvG6c)

67 It's bizarre that the WH is claiming that they had no knowledge of this. Also that the DOJ hasn't issued a press release yet.

It's bullshit so they can have plausible deniability when nothing is found.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 09, 2022 11:12 AM (Bd6X8)

68 It's bizarre that the WH is claiming that they had no knowledge of this.

it was just a couple of agents in the Cincinnati office. Mistakes were made. Time to move on.

Posted by: brak at August 09, 2022 11:12 AM (j5Tg0)

69 Anything from Blake Masters or JD Vance?

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 11:12 AM (WY8d2)

70 It's bizarre that the WH is claiming that they had no knowledge of this.

He's just reading about it in the newspaper, like his boss always did.

Posted by: t-bird at August 09, 2022 11:12 AM (Q14hI)

71 Shapiro:

The statutory penalties for any violation (re: classified material mishandling) do not overcome the Constitutional definitions of qualification of eligibility.

Basically, all those saying that a conviction would bar him from office are wrong.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 09, 2022 11:12 AM (mZ3xv)

72 Robbie - what did he say?
Posted by: thathalfrican

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Nothing. Not a single damn thing.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:12 AM (0Wf7t)

73 **
I can't find it. Do you have linkage?
Posted by: Muad'dib
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It was a joke. It doesn't exist.

Complete silence.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:11 AM (pd1RM)

LOL!

PWNED!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)

74 This raid makes Murkowski a goner

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 11:12 AM (WY8d2)

75 I'm still waiting for one of the so-called GOP up-and-comers who are routinely tongue bathed here to step up and call yesterday's raid for what it is... an act of war.

I think I'll be waiting a loooog time.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2022 11:12 AM (BFigT)

76 It's not bizarre. It's outrageous. If someone is going to execute a search warrant against a former president, the White House better damned well be informed. This get worse by the minute.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 09, 2022 11:10 AM (lf83v)
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I assure you, at least some members of the politburo that is actually running things knew about it. They probably signed off on it. Did the puppet know? Did his aides? It's possible they didn't.

But the people in charge knew, for sure.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 11:13 AM (WWh8n)

77 t's bizarre that the WH is claiming that they had no knowledge of this. Also that the DOJ hasn't issued a press release yet.

What would you say you do here?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2022 11:13 AM (/NCI4)

78 Well, I guess the question of whether or not the Deep State would kill President Trump, if they thought they could get away with it, has been answered.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 09, 2022 11:13 AM (5pTK/)

79 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 09, 2022 11:11 AM (XvPQV)

I generally agree with you but do you think the right move is? Anything we do will be used as a pretext to cancel the midterms.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 09, 2022 11:13 AM (zvG6c)

80 Tim Scott now reminds me of the guy running for mayor of Detroit in Robocop 2.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)

81 I think Mitch McConnell's statement on the sitting President raiding the ex-President was the best statement by any Republican yet.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:06 AM (pd1RM)

I can't find it. Do you have linkage?
Posted by: Muad'dib at August 09, 2022 11:10 AM (sjdRT)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THERE WAS NO STATEMENT !!!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at August 09, 2022 11:13 AM (/tnu7)

82 60 I think they are looking for Epstein documents.
Posted by: Miss Issippi at August 09, 2022 11:11 AM (s3wLb)

I don't think they were looking for anything in particular, that is: it was a fishing expedition based on the warrant-seeking pretext of some violation of the Records Act.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 09, 2022 11:13 AM (H8QX8)

83 I can't find it. Do you have linkage?
Posted by: Muad'dib
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It was a joke. It doesn't exist.
Complete silence.
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LOL!
PWNED!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge

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Not so much that as my joke that Mitch spoke for the Republicans we're supposed to vote for this November.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:14 AM (0Wf7t)

84 So, what are we going to do about it? It’s time to throw away cellphones and computers, follow the path of our ancestors and start meeting in bars and sheds.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at August 09, 2022 11:14 AM (s3wLb)

85
If only Biden knew!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2022 11:14 AM (1Nxff)

86 The Biden administration has no knowledge of the raid. Would they lie to you???

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 09, 2022 11:14 AM (QSjkU)

87 Yeah.... it's weird. Something must have backfired. Everyone "official" is being wayyyy too quiet about this fiasco...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2022 11:14 AM (WVOm3)

88 It took me a bit to realize Moron Robbie was referring to the deafening silence of McConnell.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 09, 2022 11:14 AM (5pTK/)

89 18
The entire US Code needs to be thrown out. Start over.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 11:06 AM (WWh8n)

In an ideal world (Oh hush), this would be what happens:

All laws passed by the federal government have a five year lifespan. Afterward, continuing the law's existence must have a 3/4 majority in the House and the Senate before going to the President.

Any attempt to create a law that does the same as the existing law is immediately null and void as is the person who crafted it.

And this is retroactive to the founding our nation with the exception of the Constitution.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 09, 2022 11:14 AM (4olE8)

90 Joe Bidens sole purpose is to so fully enrage us normals that a non functioning retard is allegedly running this shit show.

They know that we know it was a stolen election and they chose the most annoying and corrupt reminder to rub it in our faces every time this decrepit evil fool opens his stupid mouth.

Posted by: Eli Cash at August 09, 2022 11:14 AM (Q0CH5)

91 I said months ago that the midterms would be cancelled. I was only half joking. I’m now only a quarter joking.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 09, 2022 11:14 AM (reQRc)

92 80 Tim Scott now reminds me of the guy running for mayor of Detroit in Robocop 2.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)

He's a depressing protoplasm of a man.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 09, 2022 11:14 AM (H8QX8)

93 TheLeft really needs to keep in mind that the only reason that folks such as squeegee kids extorting money while you are trapped at a traffic light don't take a round to the chest...

Is laws.

Once the law no longer applies, all bets are off.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2022 11:14 AM (svdGq)

94 Hey guys, did you hear that scathing rebuke of the Trump raid from Mitch McConnell ?

Posted by: Amy Schumer at August 09, 2022 11:15 AM (/tnu7)

95 It's bizarre that the WH is claiming that they had no knowledge of this.
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It's a house, it has no knowledge of anything, kinda like Joe, who also has no knowledge of anything. However, it is certain that administration staff within the WH knew about it.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 09, 2022 11:15 AM (fs1hN)

96 33 It's bizarre that the WH is claiming that they had no knowledge of this. Also that the DOJ hasn't issued a press release yet.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 09, 2022 11:09 AM (UuD2k)

They wanna know if they need to issue an apology and firing of the judge/FBI agent/DOJ person who approved or if they need to immediately charge Trump with something. Polls of their base are being conducted to decide.

Posted by: Nova local at August 09, 2022 11:15 AM (exHjb)

97 A banana, if you can keep it.

Posted by: Stuff Franklin Actually Said, Vol. IX at August 09, 2022 11:15 AM (h5TKJ)

98 Not bad.

@HawleyMO

At a minimum, Garland must resign or be impeached. The search warrant must be published. Christoper Wray must be removed. And the FBI reformed top to bottom.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2022 11:15 AM (ZLI7S)

99 I can't say anything so I just keep refreshing

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 09, 2022 11:15 AM (gbzeC)

100
Well, I guess the question of whether or not the Deep State would kill President Trump, if they thought they could get away with it, has been answered.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 09, 2022 11:13 AM (5pTK/)

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We haven't decided if he committed suicide or died trying to escape.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2022 11:15 AM (1Nxff)

101 McConnell cannot win the Senate without Trump voters and candidates.

GOPe would rather lose the senate than have maga senators

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 11:15 AM (WY8d2)

102 Well, I guess the question of whether or not the Deep State would kill President Trump, if they thought they could get away with it, has been answered.

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Now do Scalia.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:15 AM (0Wf7t)

103 Amen. CBD is totes on target.

Did someone just tell you,"may you live in interesting times?" What do they mean? This post unpacks the meaning and origin of this idiomatic expression.
Meaning

If someone tells you, "may you live in interesting times," it's easy to confuse it with a blessing. However, it's actually the opposite, and they are hoping to curse you.

Essentially, they wish that you encounter nothing but strife and hardship in your life in the future. You can think of it as a nice way of telling someone to "get lost."

Bless their hearts. It's not a blessing, but a warning.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 09, 2022 11:15 AM (JOtiF)

104 I see Nevergiveup already brought the Epstein connection to the horde's attention. Sorry to repeat the news.

But it really does stink to high heaven, and not just because of the DOJ/FBI cabal involvement, or the attack on Muh Norms by the Deep State.

This stinks because of the Epstein connection and until sunlight fully disinfects the Epstein infection those named in his papers will go to the ends of the earth to protect themselves.

For the good of the nation and your own self-preservation, whoever has it, please release all Epstein information. Ghislaine Maxwell, we're looking at you babe.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 09, 2022 11:15 AM (xFKgx)

105 Yeah.... it's weird. Something must have backfired. Everyone "official" is being wayyyy too quiet about this fiasco...

It's too late to take it back. They've tipped their hand. They've let us know exactly what they think of the rule of law and of our rights. This will hurt them BIGLY.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2022 11:16 AM (/NCI4)

106 Mike Gallagher torching McConnell on his show right now. Even Hugh Hewitt is pissed

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 11:16 AM (WY8d2)

107 It's bizarre that the WH is claiming that they had no knowledge of this.

I have listened to Joe and I have listened to Kamala. I can believe this.

Posted by: t-bird at August 09, 2022 11:16 AM (Q14hI)

108 "follow the path of our ancestors and start meeting in bars and sheds."

Said at the beginning of the Covid lockdown that they wanted to keep us out of pubs and taverns.

For exactly this reason.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2022 11:16 AM (svdGq)

109 Cernovich is a traitorous fool these days also
Posted by: Jonah

He's addicted to pulling Crazy Ivan turns every few months. The ego on that guy is monumental, emphasis on 'mental.'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2022 11:16 AM (IEa8U)

110 Mike Gallagher torching McConnell on his show right now. Even Hugh Hewitt is pissed
Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 11:16 AM (WY8d2)

Ooooh. THAT'LL show him......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)

111 At a minimum, Garland must resign or be impeached. The search warrant must be published. Christoper Wray must be removed. And the FBI burned with fire and the charred ground salted.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2022 11:15 AM (ZLI7S)
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Edited for accuracy.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 09, 2022 11:17 AM (5pTK/)

112 101 McConnell cannot win the Senate without Trump voters and candidates.

GOPe would rather lose the senate than have maga senators
Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 11:15 AM (WY8d2)

And MAGA would be better served without McConnell and McCarthy in leadership positions.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 09, 2022 11:17 AM (N39Ws)

113
Mike Gallagher torching McConnell on his show right now. Even Hugh Hewitt is pissed
Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 11:16 AM (WY8d2)

___________

They'll get over it, never fear.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2022 11:17 AM (1Nxff)

114 said months ago that the midterms would be cancelled. I was only half joking. I’m now only a quarter joking.
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 09, 2022 11:14 AM (reQRc)
I've had it at 60/40 no go, probably 80/20 now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 09, 2022 11:17 AM (W/9Bb)

115 We need an entire party willing to ridicule the Democrats for what they are doing at the same time they are calling them out for their treachery.

We'd take a number of vocal AOC style firebrands mixing it up and getting down and dirty, while others issue the usual milquetoast bs statements.

We'll get stony silence and the bare minimum, along with a harrumph, a mildly waggly finger, and a "we'll get em next year boys, donate today".

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 11:17 AM (/6Rxy)

116 I generally agree with you but do you think the right move is? Anything we do will be used as a pretext to cancel the midterms.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 09, 2022 11:13 AM (zvG6c)

I think the starting point is getting vocally angry and having leaders who are vocally angry. Purge anyone who's not burning with rage over this.

Next start ramming lawfare down their throats, have local and state LEO raiding them and their allies.

AND...make plans to oppose any more power grabs, astroturfed riots, or attempts to prevent elections.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 09, 2022 11:17 AM (XvPQV)

117 The raid on his office at Trump Tower in New York should be kicking off any time now. It’s true, he will become a martyr for us Normies but the establishment repubs will do nothing to rein in the feds. A bigger bunch of cowards and spineless pukes never existed.

Posted by: Uncle Slayton at August 09, 2022 11:17 AM (NVtgT)

118 One better:

Reinhart, the judge who signed off on this, quit his job to become the council for most of Epstein's people and before he did, he created an LLC. And where did he give as his business address?

Epstein's residence.

Nothing to see here.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 09, 2022 11:17 AM (mZ3xv)

119 And MAGA would be better served without McConnell and McCarthy in leadership positions.

*

And here's where everything goes sideways.

Trump will endorse McConnell and McCarthy.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:17 AM (0Wf7t)

120 McConnell and Trump hate each other with the heat of 1000 suns. He'll not make any sort of statement that would condemn or approve it because that's how he plays the game. But rest assured he approves it.

Trump would move heaven and earth to have McConnell removed from his leadership position. He'd sell his kids to have him removed from Congress.

One will telegraph his intentions the other won't.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2022 11:18 AM (BFigT)

121 113 101 McConnell cannot win the Senate without Trump voters and candidates.

GOPe would rather lose the senate than have maga senators
Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 11:15 AM (WY8d2)

And MAGA would be better served without McConnell and McCarthy in leadership positions.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 09, 2022 11:17 AM (N39Ws)

I'd rather lose the Senate than having GOPe leadership.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 09, 2022 11:18 AM (XvPQV)

122 If Trump has documents proving the FBI's felonies I'll give you ten to one they weren't in those cardboard boxes.

One would expect the FBI's next stop will be Trump Tower.

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 11:18 AM (cTCuP)

123 And the FBI reformed top to bottom.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2022 11:15 AM (ZLI7S)
================
I'm kind of amazed Senator Hawley doesn't come right out and say the obvious, by quoting AllenG. His is the only real solution.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 09, 2022 11:18 AM (xFKgx)

124 Trump will endorse McConnell and McCarthy

Desantis won’t

Posted by: Miss Issippi at August 09, 2022 11:18 AM (s3wLb)

125 Louder with Crowder did a rundown of things the FBI is not investigating.

The list was pretty impressive, though, Crowder missed a big one: Las Vegas massacre.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 09, 2022 11:18 AM (5pTK/)

126 THIENTH~!

@euronewsgreen 4h

Rainwater almost everywhere on Earth has unsafe levels of 'forever chemicals', according to new research.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2022 11:19 AM (IEa8U)

127 Trump will endorse McConnell and McCarthy.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:17 AM (0Wf7t)

Then he's learned nothing. Which would be sad.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 09, 2022 11:19 AM (H8QX8)

128 And MAGA would be better served without McConnell and McCarthy in leadership positions.

At least McCarthy engaged in a little butch talk about preserving records and keeping a clear calendar. That's not much, but it's something.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2022 11:19 AM (/NCI4)

129 I am in possession of information that will prove Hillary Clinton is a dangerous criminal.

Posted by: Merrick Garland at August 09, 2022 11:19 AM (xFKgx)

130 36. Jonah you are a liar. I just watched the CBS show with Tim Scott in which he is guesting to promote his new book and he Did Not side with the FBI. He said he has no idea why the FBI did this and that they cannot get answers out of the FBI in committee hearings regarding the politicalization of them. If the mods are going to let this troll stay on here then posters should ignore him. Most of his postings are full of shit.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 09, 2022 11:19 AM (+lNEs)

131 99 I can't say anything so I just keep refreshing

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 09, 2022 11:15 AM (gbzeC)

I find you very refreshing.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 11:19 AM (/6Rxy)

132 said months ago that the midterms would be cancelled. I was only half joking. I’m now only a quarter joking.
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 09, 2022 11:14 AM (reQRc)
++++
I doubt it. Elections are useful fiction. Worst case is a "red wave," in which they establishment types in the legislature run interference while the deep state subverts any reform anyway. Losing the congress wouldn't make them happy and it might retard their progress somewhat, but it isn't actually a serious problem and certainly not a problem as big as the problems that would surface as a result of canceling the elections. Elections are a pacifier and a fairly valuable one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 11:20 AM (WWh8n)

133
Louder with Crowder did a rundown of things the FBI is not investigating.

__________

What Mafia?

Posted by: J. Edgar Hoover, 1950 at August 09, 2022 11:20 AM (1Nxff)

134 Crooked judges, crooked cops, crooked and unlawful government.

Anyone wanting to avoid a shooting war needs to Purge all three. Now.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 09, 2022 11:20 AM (XvPQV)

135 Rep. Lauren Boebert:

The GOP majority must defund all forms of tyranny throughout Biden's government. @FBI

of course the uniparty isn't a fan of defunding anything

Posted by: brak at August 09, 2022 11:20 AM (j5Tg0)

136 The eligibility to run in 2024 is of little consequence to someone who "couldn't beat Joe Biden".

Therefore, ergo, vis-à-vis, nobody on twatter will be arguing about eligibility. Nope. No one. Nooooooobody.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2022 11:20 AM (44ww/)

137 I generally agree with you but do you think the right move is? Anything we do will be used as a pretext to cancel the midterms.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 09, 2022 11:13 AM (zvG6c)

We are post law, now into Beria territory. You are on your own. Be creative. Resist any way you can.

Posted by: flounder at August 09, 2022 11:20 AM (U3uv2)

138 Trump will endorse McConnell and McCarthy

Desantis won’t
Posted by: Miss Issippi

*

Yeah, but it's foolish to believe Desantis won't be walking into exactly the same pit of vipers that Trump entered, and part of why Trump made it out alive is because he's Trump.

I'm at the point where I want Trump to win in 2024 with VP Desantis, clean f*cking house (and House), and Desantis take over in '28 to continue the work after Trump takes the arrows.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:20 AM (0Wf7t)

139 An optimistic prognostication about what we will fall into in a few years:

The de facto checks and balances will be governors against the fed with regards to all law enforcement. Lawfare will continue in the blue states but the equilibrium will change drastically.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2022 11:09 AM (44ww/)

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What I was hoping Abbott would do in TX -- keep national & state guards on the border and the feds out -- is likely to happen if they don't steal the general election from Kari Lake here in AZ.

She plans to put the National Guard on the AZ border to stop the invasion, and I'm half-hoping things get sporty with the Feds. Let's get this thing on, and maybe CW II will start right here in my backyard ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 09, 2022 11:20 AM (+lwg5)

140 The question I'm waiting to (hopefully) have answered is, did Trump take classified documents out of the White House *after* noon on January 20th? If he did, the Biden junta can probably get away with this, up to a point, because enough people will accept the argument that Trump, as a private citizen, was breaking the law in doing so. (Most of us, of course, would argue that he was and is still the lawful President and not a private citizen, but we've already seen where that gets us.)

Obviously we can point out the hypocrisy of Sandy Berger, Hunter Biden, and all the other lawbreakers on the Democrat side, but the natural comeback to that will be "That doesn't make Trump innocent."

If, on the other hand, Trump *didn't* take anything out of the WH after he quote-unquote ceased to be President, this has a very real chance of blowing up in the junta's faces. Assuming, of course, that they don't just fabricate some evidence, which they may already have done.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 09, 2022 11:21 AM (bhRsz)

141 And MAGA would be better served without McConnell and McCarthy in leadership positions.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 09, 2022 11:17 AM (N39Ws)

I'd rather lose the Senate than having GOPe leadership.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 09, 2022 11:18 AM (XvPQV)

Totally agreed. If someone in inclined to vote in '22 to put a check on the Regime (yeah, right), they should not participate at all in the senate elections.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 09, 2022 11:21 AM (nMx88)

142 Agree. We need to start acting as if the midterms will be cancelled. These scumbags are flipping the chess board.

Posted by: Eli Cash at August 09, 2022 11:21 AM (Q0CH5)

143 McConnel is supporting lisa Murkowski. That is all you need to know.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 09, 2022 11:21 AM (Y+l9t)

144 It was a joke. It doesn't exist.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:11 AM (pd1RM)

Oh...it exists all right. Just not what we would prefer to hear.

Garland: "Hi Mitch. We are a Go for the Trump warrant. I think we have already informed 30 news orgs, so coverage will be total."

McConnell: "That's great!" Maybe the son-of-a-bitch will finally shut up about the God-Damned Constitution!"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 09, 2022 11:21 AM (XIJ/X)

145 120 And here's where everything goes sideways.

Trump will endorse McConnell and McCarthy.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:17 AM (0Wf7t)

=========

He may endorse McCarthy (he endorsed him in his House race, and I do think he'll do it for the Speakership as well). I seriously doubt he endorses McConnell anywhere anytime, though.

Trump's been pushing Rick Scott as a potential replacement as Senate leader for more than a year now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 11:21 AM (LvTSG)

146 126 Louder with Crowder did a rundown of things the FBI is not investigating.

The list was pretty impressive, though, Crowder missed a big one: Las Vegas massacre.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 09, 2022 11:18 AM (5pTK/)

Oh they investigated. And covered up. And destroyed evidence. They know what happened. They don't intend you ever know, though.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 09, 2022 11:21 AM (XvPQV)

147 @euronewsgreen 4h

Rainwater almost everywhere on Earth has unsafe levels of 'forever chemicals', according to new research.

*

We've discovered persistent hydrogen AND oxygen!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:21 AM (0Wf7t)

148 @HawleyMO
At a minimum, Garland must resign or be impeached. The search warrant must be published. Christoper Wray must be removed. And the FBI reformed top to bottom.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2022 11:15 AM (ZLI7S)
++++
Close, but no cigar. The time for reform is over. Many agencies are unreformable and need to be destroyed. The entire LE and IC complexes need to be dismantled and rebuilt new.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 11:21 AM (WWh8n)

149 94 Hey guys, did you hear that scathing rebuke of the Trump raid from Mitch McConnell ?

Posted by: Amy Schumer at August 09, 2022 11:15 AM (/tnu7)

Should I be holding my breath? Back in college, I could go 3 minutes.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 09, 2022 11:22 AM (JOtiF)

150 69 Anything from Blake Masters or JD Vance?
___________

JD Vance has been completely silent since winning the primary. There are tons of Tim Ryan's adds, with factory workers, saying all JD cares about is outlawing abortion and 'bathrooms', not putting people back to work. A lot of dumb people may be confused about who is really going to vote for policies more likely to bring back manufacturing to the Ohio valley. If one of the candidates is saying nothing, and the other is saying what you want to hear.... Not sure what strategy is being followed here by Vance.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 09, 2022 11:22 AM (fs1hN)

151 11. William Jacobsen has an interesting take, namely that this is a trap (squid head not included). IOW, they're hoping we respond with violence and excessive fervor. He says don't respond in a way that would justify the Dems counter response, but instead work to destroy them electorally and in the *snerk* justice system.
Posted by: Archimedes

Nice, if naive sentiment from Mr. Jacobsen. I'm not advocating anything here, but violence is inevitable at this point. The left will keep pushing until they get the response they want in order to justify their counter-response. Stealing the election didn't do it? Dang! How about show trials for political prisoners who we entrapped into petty "crimes"? No? Raiding their beloved President's private home under the flimsiest of reasons? Indefinitely suspending elections we may lose beyond our ability to cheat? A political assassination or three? They will continue to escalate until there is nowhere else to turn.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 09, 2022 11:22 AM (PpiqM)

152 If I'm assassinated, i have an assassin prepaid to give me insurance.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at August 09, 2022 11:22 AM (rQaAc)

153
15 Boxes of Documents v. U.S.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2022 11:22 AM (1Nxff)

154 of course the uniparty isn't a fan of defunding anything
Posted by: brak at August 09, 2022 11:20 AM (j5Tg0)

They couldn't even defund NPR. "Defunding" is the one unforgivable profanity in Washington.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 09, 2022 11:22 AM (H8QX8)

155 136 Rep. Lauren Boebert:

The GOP majority must defund all forms of tyranny throughout Biden's government. @FBI

of course the uniparty isn't a fan of defunding anything
Posted by: brak at August 09, 2022 11:20 AM (j5Tg0)

========

"Defund" is cheap.

Working to return to regular budgetary order is expensive. Let's see her back that. Let's see her organize for it in the House.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 11:22 AM (LvTSG)

156 "So Donald Trump's love of America must be banished, and Donald Trump must be punished."
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So must everyone who supports him be.

Posted by: Javems at August 09, 2022 11:22 AM (AmoqO)

157 After last night, I believe Trump will never be president again. Put simply, he will not be allowed to win. If I were advising him I'd tell him not to bother running - avoid the embarrassment of "losing" twice.

Not sure where we, as a country, go from this point forward, but it was a pretty good run while it lasted.

Posted by: 496 at August 09, 2022 11:22 AM (VJsqe)

158 Turn your flag upside down.

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 11:23 AM (cTCuP)

159 Obviously we can point out the hypocrisy of Sandy Berger, Hunter Biden, and all the other lawbreakers on the Democrat side, but the natural comeback to that will be "That doesn't make Trump innocent."

One of these things is not like the others.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2022 11:23 AM (/NCI4)

160 Huck Follywood @ 104-
I hope the surveillance cameras are working wherever graybar hotel Ghislane Maxwell's in.

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2022 11:23 AM (0OP+5)

161 Jen

Tim Scott is my Senator.

I don't trust him.
He can set on the bench with Nikki Haley.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2022 11:23 AM (svdGq)

162 Posted by: Sid at August 09, 2022 11:23 AM (n8wau)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at August 09, 2022 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)

163 Should I be holding my breath? Back in college, I could go 3 minutes.
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 09, 2022 11:22 AM (JOtiF)
++++
HA. As if.

Posted by: GnuBreed's college girlfriend at August 09, 2022 11:23 AM (WWh8n)

164 It doesnt matter if Mike effing Pence is the R nominee in 2024.

They will treat whoever it is with the same level of respect they did Trump. They will be destroyed too

Posted by: Eli Cash at August 09, 2022 11:23 AM (Q0CH5)

165 August 9th should be made a national holiday in a few years. "End of Trump Day" or "Day MAGA died. "

*

Or 1% of high school students might recognize a quote about "filled with terrible resolve"

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:23 AM (0Wf7t)

166 Don't worry guys, we have a vaccine in development to combat "forever chemicals"

Posted by: Pfizer at August 09, 2022 11:23 AM (QYPq3)

167 At a minimum, Garland must resign or be impeached. The search warrant must be published. Christoper Wray must be removed. And the FBI reformed top to bottom.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2022 11:15 AM (ZLI7S)

Not bad, but needs more light poles and rope.

Posted by: Roland THTG at August 09, 2022 11:23 AM (j40lz)

168 Government is too big
It's like a runaway malignant tumor on society.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 09, 2022 11:24 AM (gbzeC)

169 It's funny Sid thinks he'll be safe when the tyranny strikes full on.

Dipshit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 11:24 AM (Zz0t1)

170 >>I'm kind of amazed Senator Hawley doesn't come right out and say the obvious, by quoting AllenG. His is the only real solution.

Eh, he's a Senator and not a blog commenter. He has to at least pretend to be an adult.

Hawley is one of the good guys and has already had his house attacked while his wife and newborn were home alone. He's a good one.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2022 11:24 AM (ZLI7S)

171 94 Hey guys, did you hear that scathing rebuke of the Trump raid from Mitch McConnell ?
Posted by: Amy Schumer at August 09, 2022 11:15 AM (/tnu7)

Quit stealing my material

Posted by: Carlos Mencia at August 09, 2022 11:24 AM (bnAdj)

172 The day make America great again died is such a weird thing to want to celebrate, isn't it?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:24 AM (0Wf7t)

173 Next start ramming lawfare down their throats, have local and state LEO raiding them and their allies.

AND...make plans to oppose any more power grabs, astroturfed riots, or attempts to prevent elections.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,

Yep. But possibly too late.
Every Congressturd should have turned their office into lawfare centers in 2020 and started suing every weak/corrupt agency, dept, NGO, and Dem affiliate. Built up war-chests and then concentrated cracking bigger targets.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2022 11:24 AM (IEa8U)

174 If I'm assassinated, i have an assassin prepaid to give me insurance.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at August 09, 2022 11:22 AM (rQaAc)

Ah, the John Wick universe, where assassins comprise about 80% of the global economy.

Posted by: spindrift at August 09, 2022 11:24 AM (h5TKJ)

175 More proof Biden's gone.

Chuck Schumer shakes Biden's hand, then shakes the hands of two other people next to Biden. Biden sees handshakes happening and puts out his hand for a handshake.

Literally two seconds after Chuck Schumer shook Biden's hand, Biden has already forgotten he did it.

https://bit.ly/3AasdMI

Posted by: bonhomme at August 09, 2022 11:24 AM (i0wNm)

176 And the FBI reformed top to bottom.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2022 11:15 AM (ZLI7S)

There can be no reform of the FBI. The National Security State runs the former United States and the FBI/DOJ are integral parts. The options at this point are dissolution, something like the Articles of Confederation or civil war. Most of us are peaceful and want to avoid the last.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 09, 2022 11:25 AM (nMx88)

177 Hey , anyone see this information?

Judge who approved the MAL raid connected to Epstein:
https://tinyurl.com/rtez6seh

Posted by: Flyover at August 09, 2022 11:25 AM (Rbu5d)

178 I doubt it. Elections are useful fiction. Worst case is a "red wave," in which they establishment types in the legislature run interference while the deep state subverts any reform anyway. Losing the congress wouldn't make them happy and it might retard their progress somewhat, but it isn't actually a serious problem and certainly not a problem as big as the problems that would surface as a result of canceling the elections. Elections are a pacifier and a fairly valuable one.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 11:20 AM (WWh8n)

Agreed. It isn't just all the reasons you outlined; it's also that they *need* to continue portraying themselves as the defenders of democracy, not only to the public but to themselves as well. No totalitarian regime survives for long unless there's at least a fig leaf of legitimacy behind it; hell, even the Nazis and Communists held "elections" from time to time. They can't just cancel the elections. They might announce a new round of "fortifying" measures, but outright cancellation is a no-go.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 09, 2022 11:25 AM (bhRsz)

179 Here's the criminal jackass that authorized the rest of the criminal jackasses to raid Trump's home:

https://tinyurl.com/5cmn2bhs

Note the sh!teating grin and the cheap suit.

And the ties to Epstein.....

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at August 09, 2022 11:25 AM (MkuC5)

180 Sid is happy and cheering a weak, mediocre, poor United States.

Think about that. There are millions of Americans that think the same way.

BEAT ME BEAT ME BEAT ME!!!! Seems an odd way to go through life.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

181 This may be how they get rid of Biden.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 09, 2022 11:25 AM (UuD2k)

182 But a judge approved it!!!!!!

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 11:25 AM (3vQN0)

183 Nice, if naive sentiment from Mr. Jacobsen. I'm not advocating anything here, but violence is inevitable at this point. The left will keep pushing until they get the response they want in order to justify their counter-response. Stealing the election didn't do it? Dang! How about show trials for political prisoners who we entrapped into petty "crimes"? No? Raiding their beloved President's private home under the flimsiest of reasons? Indefinitely suspending elections we may lose beyond our ability to cheat? A political assassination or three? They will continue to escalate until there is nowhere else to turn.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 09, 2022 11:22 AM (PpiqM)

Can one of you COBs nail this to the front door?

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 11:25 AM (cTCuP)

184 Rainwater almost everywhere on Earth has unsafe levels of 'forever chemicals', according to new research.

I don't think I believe you.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 09, 2022 11:25 AM (W/9Bb)

185 >>Trump will endorse McConnell and McCarthy.

Trump will not endorse McConnell. He's been running against him publicly for 2 years.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2022 11:25 AM (ZLI7S)

186 24 I'll ask again, what do those documents show?

This didn't happen overnight. Trump has been fighting with the National Archives to keep these documents since he left the White House.

There's a reason the Deep State went to this extreme.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2022 11:07 AM (ZLI7S)

Epstein's list?

Posted by: Ann at August 09, 2022 11:25 AM (rBu2O)

187 Oh good, the moaners and croakers are here.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2022 11:25 AM (/NCI4)

188 Tim Scott was on the 5 last night to push his book. Not interested. He has a very stupid face.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 09, 2022 11:26 AM (flINI)

189 "Good news, sir! They didn't take Hunter's laptop!"

If you want to hide information from the FBI, that's where to put it.

Posted by: t-bird at August 09, 2022 11:26 AM (Q14hI)

190 15. They've turned Trump into a martyr.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2022 11:06 AM (/NCI4)

My thoughts exactly.

Posted by: Anonymous Guy In Kalifornistan at August 09, 2022 11:26 AM (JPfoG)

191 122
I'd rather lose the Senate than having GOPe leadership.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 09, 2022 11:18 AM (XvPQV)

^^^^^^^^^^^
THIS

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 09, 2022 11:26 AM (N39Ws)

192 this has a very real chance of blowing up in the junta's faces.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 09, 2022 11:21 AM (bhRsz

What does that mean anymore? How many things have already blown up in their faces?

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 09, 2022 11:26 AM (H8QX8)

193 I generally agree with you but do you think the right move is? Anything we do will be used as a pretext to cancel the midterms.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One

If it's that bad, the midterms are automatically compromised and a non-issue.

Posted by: Brother Tim, actually a random opossum with a VPN at August 09, 2022 11:26 AM (OUMaO)

194 William Jacobsen has an interesting take, namely that this is a trap (squid head not included). IOW, they're hoping we respond with violence and excessive fervor. He says don't respond in a way that would justify the Dems counter response, but instead work to destroy them electorally and in the *snerk* justice system.

Serious question: if the Dems are brazen enough to conduct this raid (and the Feebs have already announced they are planning to raid every Trump residence and organization), what makes anyone think they would not be brazen enough to steal the coming election or announce a national lockdown?

Second serious question: if the Dems permit this laughable 'red wave' to occur, what makes anyone think a GOP congress staffed with the likes of Ted "you know, Ashli Babbit was the real insurrectionist" Cruz will push back in the slightest?

I'll be honest: I see no way of voting our way out if this, but I also see no straw beyond this breaking the camel's back. If blowback from this raid does not end in a nationwide strike, a literal million-man march or some other yuge, obvious resistance, then maybe it's time to give up.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 09, 2022 11:26 AM (AW0uW)

195 Oops, yes, at #10 above.
😀

Posted by: Flyover at August 09, 2022 11:26 AM (Rbu5d)

196 It's bizarre that the WH is claiming that they had no knowledge of this.

I have listened to Joe and I have listened to Kamala. I can believe this.
Posted by: t-bird at August 09, 2022 11:16 AM (Q14hI)
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Yeah, its obvious BS on the one hand and completely unimportant on the other. Even if Biden had been informed his bobblehead brain wouldn't have processed the information. And Kumala? Please.

Anita Dunn might have known. Susan Rice might have known. Kalorama probably had a hand in orchestrating this.

But ultimately, the DOJ/FBI has to pay. Every agent on the ground goes to prison. Every banal functionary pays. That's the lesson of Nuremburg.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 09, 2022 11:26 AM (xFKgx)

197 Yep. But possibly too late.
Every Congressturd should have turned their office into lawfare centers in 2020 and started suing every weak/corrupt agency, dept, NGO, and Dem affiliate. Built up war-chests and then concentrated cracking bigger targets.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2022 11:24 AM (IEa8U)

The best time was 1992. The second best time is today. Like planting a tree or banging hot hookers.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 09, 2022 11:26 AM (XvPQV)

198 I was up north at the cabin until late last night with no internet or phone service. (which is one of many reasons why I love going there) Busy morning so I really hadn't listened to any news at all. I like to unplug sometimes. I finally open up news sites and WHAT THE FUCK? Unfucking real. Banana republic time. Soon to be followed by (types, deletes) Defund the FIB and IRASS. NOW. Mother fuckers.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 09, 2022 11:26 AM (532WG)

199 I think Mitch McConnell's statement on the sitting President raiding the ex-President was the best statement by any Republican yet.

Link?
Posted by: Archimedes

*

Yeah, that's sort of the joke.
==
Archimedes, you have to look under the sarcasm file, then you will find it. Check the sidebar . . . (noob)

Posted by: these things happen in clown world at August 09, 2022 11:26 AM (+y+/L)

200 If they kill Trump do they think their people will be safe

Not advocating violence but it is the history of the world.

Posted by: Eli Cash at August 09, 2022 11:27 AM (Q0CH5)

201
Literally two seconds after Chuck Schumer shook Biden's hand, Biden has already forgotten he did it.

https://bit.ly/3AasdMI

Posted by: bonhomme at August 09, 2022 11:24 AM (i0wNm)

They ALL KNOW he's puddingbrain. We're sooo fucked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)

202 186 Rainwater almost everywhere on Earth has unsafe levels of 'forever chemicals', according to new research.

I don't think I believe you.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 09, 2022 11:25 AM (W/9Bb)

Hydrogen and Oxygen gasses put together are very, very dangerous! Need to ban them!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2022 11:27 AM (ynpvh)

203 Trump will not endorse McConnell. He's been running against him publicly for 2 years.
Posted by: JackStraw

*

I haven't kept up. If McConnell is in a race against a (D), Trump will stay quiet?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:27 AM (0Wf7t)

204 33 It's bizarre that the WH is claiming that they had no knowledge of this. Also that the DOJ hasn't issued a press release yet.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 09, 2022 11:09 AM (UuD2k)

They are just the help, as was Obama and W. Little trashy decorations on a rotten edifice.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 09, 2022 11:27 AM (nMx88)

205 >>> 61 12 I keep reading and refreshing pages waiting for some strong condemnation from our side but it is all weak rhetoric. I am totally disgusted.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 09, 2022 11:05 AM (Y+l9t)

A true leader would have been ready for this (and in fact would have even predicted it). Instead we get the post-mortem, reactive "weak rhetoric" tweets and statements. So these putative "leaders" either didn't see it coming or were too afraid to say so, and now issue pro forma denunciations without any vision of the larger crisis. Leadership: we don't have any, not in the classic, necessary, risk-taking, visionary sense.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 09, 2022 11:11 AM (H8QX

See if you can find Kari Lake's statement; a couple Morons linked it in threads last night.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 09, 2022 11:27 AM (llON8)

206 >> Rainwater almost everywhere on Earth has unsafe levels of 'forever chemicals', according to new research.

OUT : Acid Rain

IN : Forever Chemical Rain

Posted by: garrett at August 09, 2022 11:27 AM (rDJo+)

207 This may be how they get rid of Biden.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 09, 2022 11:25 AM (UuD2k)
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Not a bad thought. Impeach Biden over this raid, put Kamala in office, find a fresh new face for Kamala's VP, grooming that person to run in 2024.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 09, 2022 11:28 AM (5pTK/)

208 I'm at the point where I want Trump to win in 2024 with VP Desantis, clean f*cking house (and House), and Desantis take over in '28 to continue the work after Trump takes the arrows.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:20 AM (0Wf7t)

A year ago I would have agreed with you, but I’ve come to the conclusion that Trump is actually tripped up by his own ego rather than his enemies. His ego is his and our Achilles heel. He doesn’t know when to stop talking. Desantis does what needs to be done, has a sound bite and moves on. Desantis doesn’t get into his feelings or feels like he has to defend his honor. I understand prolonging patriots in the office is a good idea, but we need someone to start fixing things and not talk a lot about how great they think they are. Just get the business done and then we can celebrate in the streets.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at August 09, 2022 11:28 AM (s3wLb)

209 The left is winning. We have nobody fighting for us.

This is the sad reality. We are Jews in 1934 Germany.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 11:28 AM (3vQN0)

210 Posted by: Sid at August 09, 2022 11:23 AM (n8wau)

***

Mom should have aborted you...

Posted by: Marty Croft at August 09, 2022 11:28 AM (flINI)

211 The thing about Trump is he doesn't quit. He doesn't back down. They've thrown the entire kitchen sink manufacturing apparatus and all the sink patents at him - and yet *still he persists*.

Even now, many will only realize what they had in Trump when he's gone.

I don't believe for a second there is anyone alive with his grit, determination and willingness to front for the things we hold dear in the face of the threat of total destruction.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 11:28 AM (/6Rxy)

212 VIA I do not trust Scott either. My point is that this Jonah poster on here is posting repeated heated rhetoric that is usually untrue in an effort to get, IMO , posters to agree and increase the rhetoric into NSA watch list territory. Usually one sentence accusations.Do not take the bait.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 09, 2022 11:28 AM (+lNEs)

213 204 I haven't kept up. If McConnell is in a race against a (D), Trump will stay quiet?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:27 AM (0Wf7t)

=======

I'd bet that Trump would endorse his primary opponent and then imply heavily that it'd be better if McConnell lost in the general if he won the primary.

Trump actively endorsing the D candidate and campaigning with him would be interesting, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 11:28 AM (LvTSG)

214 So this has ties to Epstein. Seems like the Clinton’s are involved in this raid.

Posted by: Miss Issippi

Yes, the DOJ and FBI are the enforcers for the deep state, and want to eliminate the evidence.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 09, 2022 11:29 AM (lTGtQ)

215 It doesnt matter if Mike effing Pence is the R nominee in 2024.

They will treat whoever it is with the same level of respect they did Trump. They will be destroyed too

Posted by: Eli Cash

If it isn't Trump or DeathSantis, don't bother asking me to vote. I'm no longer voting "Bush, because he isn't Clinton".

Posted by: rickb223 at August 09, 2022 11:29 AM (Am657)

216 If it isn't Trump or DeathSantis, don't bother asking me to vote. I'm no longer voting "Bush, because he isn't Clinton".
Posted by: rickb223 at August 09, 2022 11:29 AM (Am657)
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Same.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 09, 2022 11:29 AM (5pTK/)

217 J.D. Vance has multiple statements on his Twitter feed condeming the raid. He has also gone after his opponent for voting for the crazy bill.
Whoever above is criticizing him above is a shill for his opponent.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 09, 2022 11:29 AM (Y+l9t)

218 The Florida federal magistrate judge who signed off on a search warrant authorizing the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort left the local US Attorney’s office more than a decade ago to rep employees of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein who had received immunity in the long-running sex-trafficking investigation of the financier.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 09, 2022 11:04 AM (FHzKS)

From my perspective, if Trump has any official government documents, they are the Epstein client list.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 09, 2022 11:30 AM (uvymP)

219 So Donald Trump's love of America must be banished, and Donald Trump must be punished.

You punish Trump, you punish me because I love America just as much.
And I will not forget or forgive.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2022 11:30 AM (anj39)

220 But they totally would never steal an election.

Posted by: I Mean at August 09, 2022 11:30 AM (9FBGz)

221 I used to think this type of shit was impossible in America. I was dead wrong. I also used to think people who were really into conspiracies etc. were wrong. I no longer do. I was wrong again. It will not happen again with me. They are my enemy. Noah was a conspiracy theorist, then it rained.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 09, 2022 11:30 AM (532WG)

222 Obviously we can point out the hypocrisy of Sandy Berger, Hunter Biden, and all the other lawbreakers on the Democrat side, but the natural comeback to that will be "That doesn't make Trump innocent."

One of these things is not like the others.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2022 11:23 AM (/NCI4)

Agreed, but it's not what we know, it's what they can sell to the public. If they can come on TV and say with straight faces, "Trump broke the law, and here's how," hard-core Democrats will shout vindication, and LIVs, even those who lean conservative, will be uncertain enough to go along with it, and anything we say will ultimately be lost in the ether. If it turns out they've got nothing, that's a whole different ball game.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 09, 2022 11:30 AM (bhRsz)

223 Serious question: if the Dems are brazen enough to conduct this raid (and the Feebs have already announced they are planning to raid every Trump residence and organization), what makes anyone think they would not be brazen enough to steal the coming election or announce a national lockdown?

They're doing it precisely BECAUSE they're scared of elections. As has been noted by others, even the Nazis and Commies held "elections". They will do whatever they can short of cancelling elections.

Furthermore, I don't assume these are smart people with an intricate plan to overthrow the country. They're idiots, and they are going to pay an enormous price for what they've done. They didn't think it through, and now we have a martyr to the cause.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2022 11:30 AM (/NCI4)

224 So this has ties to Epstein. Seems like the Clinton’s are involved in this raid.

*

Clinton's head lawyer, the man responsible for coordinating the 2020 steal, has been all over the internet pointing out the code that would prevent Trump from running for office if the National Archives decides his presidential classified rank is somehow not high enough to possess presidential classified material.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:30 AM (0Wf7t)

225 183 This may be how they get rid of Biden.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 09, 2022 11:25 AM (UuD2k)

Interesting thought. I don't see how they use this, though, without shooting themselves in the foot.

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 11:30 AM (cTCuP)

226 >> I'll ask again, what do those documents show?

Whatever they want them to show.

Remember the phone call with Zelensky and the subsequent impeachment proceedings.

They will just make up something as they go.

Posted by: garrett at August 09, 2022 11:31 AM (rDJo+)

227 103
'Bless their hearts. It's not a blessing, but a warning.'

I prefer the more direct: You bastards are going to pay.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 09, 2022 11:31 AM (ruYJi)

228 Tell Me Trump Made copies and hid them somewhere. Lie to me if you must.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 11:31 AM (3vQN0)

229 He's a good one.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2022 11:24 AM (ZLI7S)
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I agree. I was (half) joking.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 09, 2022 11:31 AM (xFKgx)

230 If it isn't Trump or DeathSantis, don't bother asking me to vote. I'm no longer voting "Bush, because he isn't Clinton".
Posted by: rickb223 at August 09, 2022 11:29 AM (Am657)
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Same.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 09, 2022 11:29 AM

Seconded.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 09, 2022 11:31 AM (532WG)

231 >>Epstein's list?

It got lost after the election with all of the outrage but Trump declassified thousands of documents related to the Russia hoax and approved them for public release. Ratcliffe was working on it and those documents were eagerly anticipated by many of us.

The Deep State blocked their release and played a waiting game until Trump was out of office and so we never got them despite the fact that they are declassified. I have no idea what the documents Trump took show but if I've learned nothing else about Trump it's that he does things for a reason. While everyone is constantly saying he can't get something done, he does.

There has to be a reason he took and fought to keep those documents.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2022 11:31 AM (ZLI7S)

232 Obama makes a horrible Hitler.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 09, 2022 11:31 AM (HTCOy)

233 @euronewsgreen
Rainwater almost everywhere on Earth has unsafe levels of 'forever chemicals', according to new research.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2022 11:19 AM (IEa8U)
++++
Okay, let's assume this is true. New research and new detection methods and equipment have identified persistent chemical pollution in the global water cycle.

The research is new, but what does that say about the age or duration of the phenomenon itself? At first blush, nothing at all. We now know about the phenomenon, but that doesn't mean the phenomenon is new. And if the phenomenon is not new, then how long has it been going on? Is there any way to know? If it has been going on for some time, then doesn't that throw the current definition of "dangerous levels" into question?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 11:31 AM (WWh8n)

234 188 Oh good, the moaners and croakers are here.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2022 11:25 AM (/NCI4)

Like the poor, they will always be with us.

Or maybe I'm a moaner. I can see myself moaning but I'm too pissed off today.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 09, 2022 11:31 AM (XvPQV)

235 210

Part of this seems like bait by the left to ensure Trump runs. They've already developed the playbook to make sure he doesn't win election, but if he actually wins, they know how to bog him down for another 4 years.

For those reasons, I also still prefer Desantis as a candidate now. Of course if Trump wins the nomination, I would certainly support him.

Posted by: Liberty at August 09, 2022 11:31 AM (zvNIu)

236 I think Mitch McConnell's statement on the sitting President raiding the ex-President was the best statement by any Republican yet.

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In fairness, it's hard to cower and write at the same time.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at August 09, 2022 11:32 AM (FVME7)

237 From my perspective, if Trump has any official government documents, they are the Epstein client list.

I would not be surprised at all. He should've sent it to WikiLeaks or something already, but I imagine he's a bit stuck in old-fashioned thinking where he'll have a TV special or something.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2022 11:32 AM (ZGrMX)

238 POTUS has the ability to declassify any document he wants. So the idea that he took classified documents is beyond retarded.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 11:32 AM (3vQN0)

239 Ef bee eye cannot be reformed. Can be broken up, though.

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2022 11:32 AM (AVI/t)

240 Judge Reinhart was OK in Fast Times at Ridgemont High and The Santa Claus series.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 09, 2022 11:32 AM (w9Wax)

241 Clinton's head lawyer, the man responsible for coordinating the 2020 steal, has been all over the internet pointing out the code that would prevent Trump from running for office if the National Archives decides his presidential classified rank is somehow not high enough to possess presidential classified material.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:30 AM

But it was cool when Sandy Burglar was shoving classified docs down his panties.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 09, 2022 11:32 AM (532WG)

242 HH, I saw Kari Lake's statement and Masters and Vance but it is the current leaders, especially Senators that has me disgusted. There should have been a press conference with every Republican Senator standing up for what is right.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 09, 2022 11:32 AM (Y+l9t)

243 The goose gets plucked. The gander gets a book deal.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2022 11:32 AM (WVOm3)

244 Judge who approved the MAL raid connected to Epstein:
https://tinyurl.com/rtez6seh
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Hmmm

Judge then knows who is on the client list. (He represented Epstein's appoint/schedule secretary and other employees, pilots etc.)

Trump had the list (?) or they were afraid he did. (Was it ntl security? If so how? Would it mean Epstein was operative in a honey trap operation? Trump declassified it and took it before leaving office, but hasn't published it. (?)

Interesting. Trump's a baller. Lets see what happens next.

Posted by: these things happen in clown world at August 09, 2022 11:32 AM (9Bl8d)

245 The entire purpose of this raid is to show us whose boot is on our throats. All it takes to ensure Trump can’t win in 2024 is a few Blue SecState to refuse to put him on the ballot, just as AL Dixiecrats refused sitting President Truman a place on their 1948 ballot. It’s out of the jurisdiction of SCOTUS, per Art 1, and completely constitutional.

This is a coup and they are ensuring all thinking people understand that.

Posted by: Alexander Scipio at August 09, 2022 11:33 AM (+uzCP)

246 127 THIENTH~!

@euronewsgreen 4h

Rainwater almost everywhere on Earth has unsafe levels of 'forever chemicals', according to new research.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2022 11:19 AM (IEa8U)

Wonder where those chemicals came from.

Posted by: Javems at August 09, 2022 11:33 AM (AmoqO)

247 @euronewsgreen
Rainwater almost everywhere on Earth has unsafe levels of 'forever chemicals', according to new research.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2022 11:19 AM (IEa8U)
++++
Okay, let's assume this is true. New research and new detection methods and equipment have identified persistent chemical pollution in the global water cycle.

The research is new, but what does that say about the age or duration of the phenomenon itself? At first blush, nothing at all. We now know about the phenomenon, but that doesn't mean the phenomenon is new. And if the phenomenon is not new, then how long has it been going on? Is there any way to know? If it has been going on for some time, then doesn't that throw the current definition of "dangerous levels" into question?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 11:31 AM (WWh8n)

Sounds like propaganda to support normies hoarding rainwater. WA dept of ecology has the same sort of garbage about rainwater needing to be treated and filtered before human consumption.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 09, 2022 11:33 AM (XvPQV)

248 Trump was reading Ashley Biden's diary, according to the FBI search warrant.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 09, 2022 11:33 AM (w9Wax)

249 The left is winning. We have nobody fighting for us.

Doesn't seem like the move of a winner, Joe. This soon before November, after failing in Arizona? They're desperate and they're not smart.

Posted by: t-bird at August 09, 2022 11:34 AM (Q14hI)

250 POTUS has the ability to declassify any document he wants. So the idea that he took classified documents is beyond retarded.
Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 11:32 AM (3vQN0)

Does that apply once they're out of office? Not that it actually matters....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2022 11:34 AM (WVOm3)

251 >>> 124 And the FBI reformed top to bottom.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2022 11:15 AM (ZLI7S)
================
I'm kind of amazed Senator Hawley doesn't come right out and say the obvious, by quoting AllenG. His is the only real solution.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 09, 2022 11:18 AM (xFKgx)

*ahem*

Posted by: Kari Lake at August 09, 2022 11:34 AM (llON8)

252 When you go to the range, practice your drive by, men.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at August 09, 2022 11:34 AM (rQaAc)

253 Politico says the "judge" who issued the search warrant appears to be a West Palm based magistrate judge, formerly best known for fake-prosecuting Epstein and then switching sides to represent Epstein. Someone, in other words, who would like the Epstein information to stay forever buried in FBI files.

https://tinyurl.com/yv847dde
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 09, 2022 11:10 AM (xFKgx)

Probably a frequent client on Air Pedo.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2022 11:34 AM (dKdSZ)

254 I saw Forever Chemicals open for Counting Crowes circa 1997 in San Jose.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 11:34 AM (3vQN0)

255 If Kari Lake is being sincere when she says this stuff, she is going to go far in politics. Awesome.

https://tinyurl.com/34ss4rpz

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 09, 2022 11:34 AM (xFKgx)

256 This busty bikini blonde is hanging out on the beach because she figures she might as well have fun while she still can and before some tyrannical dickhead decides to arbitrarily give her the "Trump Treatment:"
https://is.gd/Pk73rL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 11:34 AM (WWh8n)

257 Posted by: Miss Issippi at August 09, 2022 11:28 AM (s3wLb)

You're missing the bigger picture, Miss. You have a perfected image of DeSantis that you are using to compare to Trump. One of a man who has been through a few battles for sure, but has not faced down napalm and the nuclear option aimed at his genitals and the skulls of his family and friends.

Let me put it this way - if DeSantis has a *single metatarsal* in a closet he once rented, let alone an entire skeleton in his own, he will be fucked 100 ways from Sunday and that will be the end. No backup option. No one coming in to potentially save the day. Just a long line of Cruzes, Haleys and Bushes.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg - ignoring many many other pitfalls that await any proto-Trump who seems to do it all so much better from what is essentially a sideline.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 11:34 AM (/6Rxy)

258 Trump has no documents if interest. He does not keep diaries or notes. Anything interesting ended up on fucking twitter and FB, for all to see. Garland is smoking something strong to do something as dumb as he did.

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2022 11:35 AM (AVI/t)

259 Relax, everybody. They'll just get Trump and then stop there.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at August 09, 2022 11:35 AM (FVME7)

260 209 This may be how they get rid of Biden.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 09, 2022 11:25 AM (UuD2k)
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Not a bad thought. Impeach Biden over this raid, put Kamala in office, find a fresh new face for Kamala's VP, grooming that person to run in 2024.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 09, 2022 11:28 AM (5pTK/)

Pete BootyPox?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2022 11:35 AM (ynpvh)

261 Clinton's head lawyer, the man responsible for coordinating the 2020 steal, has been all over the internet pointing out the code that would prevent Trump from running for office if the National Archives decides his presidential classified rank is somehow not high enough to possess presidential classified material.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:30 AM

But it was cool when Sandy Burglar was shoving classified docs down his panties.
==
at the behest and to the benefit of the Clintons, one of whom later ran for president. I mean give me a fcukin break already with the double standard bullshit. Just declare everyone who isn't in your pocket 'undesirable' and fire up the ovens. . . you nazi pricks.

Posted by: these things happen in clown world at August 09, 2022 11:35 AM (+y+/L)

262 All I know is I'm going to register as a Democrat this afternoon so I don't get audited.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:35 AM (0Wf7t)

263 I'll ask again, what do those documents show?

This didn't happen overnight. Trump has been fighting with the National Archives to keep these documents since he left the White House.

There's a reason the Deep State went to this extreme.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2022 11:07 AM (ZLI7S)

Experimental spellings of Yuge in the margins.
With authenticating ketchup fingerprints.

Posted by: DaveA at August 09, 2022 11:35 AM (FhXTo)

264 >>Okay, let's assume this is true.

I wouldn't.
Mostly because I have watched a lot of 'Researchers' do their work.
They are working towards a prior conclusion and will not stop until they achieve their goal.

Posted by: garrett at August 09, 2022 11:35 AM (rDJo+)

265 1. Trump has to have a copy of the warrant. Will he post it, if not, why not?
2. With all the warranted distrust of the FBI/DOJ, wouldn't they really do this without proper cause?
3. I'll wait for more information before I get angry. I don't think for one second this was just about classified documents. The feds are corrupt and crooked but they're not stupid.

Posted by: BillBixby at August 09, 2022 11:35 AM (nPGg6)

266 PFAS is looking like another enviro scam. It is persistent, but the health effects are poorly linked and include a lot of dumb things that are likely caused by other things, like obesity and high cholesterol.

It's almost like they want to skip to regulating it without bothering to find any harmful effects.

Of course, like most things they've banned, whatever the chemical companies come up with to replace it will be 10x worse. Oh and look, the patents are running out, so that works out well for the chemical companies.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 09, 2022 11:35 AM (Y5qcH)

267 I'm sure someone has already pointed out that Sandy Berger and the Clintons got away with stealing classified documents that implicated Clinton's incompetence. Yeah all Democrats seem to be above the law.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 09, 2022 11:35 AM (sWbrH)

268 Sounds like propaganda to support normies hoarding rainwater. WA dept of ecology has the same sort of garbage about rainwater needing to be treated and filtered before human consumption.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 09, 2022 11:33 AM (XvPQV)
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I assume you meant "to support *punishing* normies who hoard rainwater." If so, that's a good angle I didn't consider.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 11:35 AM (WWh8n)

269 Probably a frequent client on Air Pedo.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2022 11:34 AM (dKdSZ)
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Probably. He also represented the pilots and fought to keep the flight logs suppressed.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 09, 2022 11:35 AM (xFKgx)

270 McConnell still believes the most pressing issue right now is the war in Ukraine.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 09, 2022 11:35 AM (m7R0k)

271 >>I haven't kept up. If McConnell is in a race against a (D), Trump will stay quiet?

McConnell isn't up for reelection this cycle but Trump has made no bones about the fact that McConnell must go. I suspect that Trump knows far more than we do about McConnell's duplicity and the way he's reacted to Jan 6th was probably the final straw.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2022 11:36 AM (ZLI7S)

272 @euronewsgreen
Rainwater almost everywhere on Earth has unsafe levels of 'forever chemicals', according to new research.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2022 11:19 AM (IEa8U)

"Were you stationed at Camp Lejeune between 1956 and 1987?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 11:36 AM (Zz0t1)

273 I wonder what this raid says about Democrat internal polling.

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 11:36 AM (cTCuP)

274 If Kari Lake is being sincere when she says this stuff, she is going to go far in politics. Awesome.

...

Her primary is over.

Posted by: I Mean at August 09, 2022 11:36 AM (9FBGz)

275 The question I'm waiting to (hopefully) have answered is, did Trump take classified documents out of the White House *after* noon on January 20th? If he did, the Biden junta can probably get away with this, up to a point, because enough people will accept the argument that Trump, as a private citizen, was breaking the law in doing so.

Posted by: Dr. T

Unclear as of yet.

Somethings in order of descending certitude:
1. No document generated at the WH level avoids duplication for archiving. The Feds have copies of everything.
2. Presidents and staff don't physically take documents out of the WH.
3. Some on the interwebs were saying that the archive office sends the exiting presidential staff the documents they request. If true, this means that not only does the archive have all of the docs, they cleared them for release.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2022 11:36 AM (IEa8U)

276 “I’ve seen enough,” House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in a statement late Monday. “The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization.”

“When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts, and leave no stone unturned,” McCarthy added.

“Attorney General Garland: preserve your documents and clear your calendar,” McCarthy said.

Garland: No

McCarthy: Dammit. We tried, guys.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 09, 2022 11:36 AM (R8uWY)

277 130 I am in possession of information that will prove Hillary Clinton is a dangerous criminal.
Posted by: Merrick Garland

You too, huh?

Don't bother running, you'll just die tired.

Posted by: U.S. Constitution at August 09, 2022 11:36 AM (PpiqM)

278 Rainwater almost everywhere on Earth has unsafe levels of 'forever chemicals', according to new research.

Are they talking about PFOS and PFOA?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2022 11:36 AM (/NCI4)

279 I wouldn't.
Mostly because I have watched a lot of 'Researchers' do their work.
They are working towards a prior conclusion and will not stop until they achieve their goal.
Posted by: garrett at August 09, 2022 11:35 AM (rDJo+)
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Of course, but even if it is true it probably doesn't mean what they're implying it means.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 11:36 AM (WWh8n)

280 Mostly because I have watched a lot of 'Researchers' do their work.
They are working towards a prior conclusion and will not stop until they achieve their goal.
**

Ah, a man of Science.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:36 AM (0Wf7t)

281 266 I'll ask again, what do those documents show?

This didn't happen overnight. Trump has been fighting with the National Archives to keep these documents since he left the White House.
There's a reason the Deep State went to this extreme.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2022 11:07 AM (ZLI7S)

Experimental spellings of Yuge in the margins.
With authenticating ketchup fingerprints.
Posted by: DaveA at August 09, 2022 11:35 AM (FhXTo)

Someone mentioned last night That Odumbo had a whole WAREHOUSE full of documents he refused to release to the Nat'l archives without negotiation. I don't recall 100 FIB agents going over to his mansions and that warehouse...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2022 11:36 AM (ynpvh)

282 219 J.D. Vance has multiple statements on his Twitter feed condeming the raid. He has also gone after his opponent for voting for the crazy bill.
Whoever above is criticizing him above is a shill for his opponent.
___________

I'm not a shill for phony Tim Ryan. I'm not on Twitter, neither are most Ohio voters, I assume. All I see is Tim Ryan commercials, and I see nothing from Vance.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 09, 2022 11:37 AM (fs1hN)

283 The Deep State blocked their release

SOP since the 1960s.

Every attempt that was made to institutionally investigate the JFK assassination was blocked, even when Congress was investigating, even by the Committee Chair's own demorat party.

In 1977 the HSCA was convened to investigate JFK and MLK murders. The Committee's subpoenas and requests for info were blocked by Jimmy Carter's DOJ.

We've been residents of a Banana Republic for a very long time.

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2022 11:37 AM (dCxaZ)

284 247

time to disabuse ourselves of the notion that midterms or 2024 will in any way resemble fair.
There is no exit here for conservatives unless the GOP steps up to the plate. Unlikely it will.

Posted by: Ziba at August 09, 2022 11:37 AM (4h9M3)

285 They're doing it precisely BECAUSE they're scared of elections. As has been noted by others, even the Nazis and Commies held "elections". They will do whatever they can short of cancelling elections.

IIRC, at some private fundraiser, Schickelgruber told a bunch of industrialists that after he became chancellor, there would be no more elections in Germany.

I don't believe that, after the final passage of the Enabling Act and Hitler assuming the offices of Reich president and chancellor that there were any elections for any public office in Nazi Germany.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 09, 2022 11:37 AM (AW0uW)

286 I'll wait for more information before I get angry.
Posted by: BillBixby at August 09, 2022 11:35 AM (nPGg6)
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Tell me, how are the benefits at the FBI? Pension good?

Posted by: Enquiring Minds at August 09, 2022 11:37 AM (9vcWq)

287 279 Garland: No
McCarthy: Dammit. We tried, guys.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 09, 2022 11:36 AM (R8uWY)

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Incorrect.

McCarthy: "Bring in some unfireable underlings and yell that them for Twitchy posts."

Committee chairs: "But not too loudly, right?"

McCarthy: "Of course."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 11:37 AM (LvTSG)

288 Pace Legal Insurrection, but the crackdown is coming regardless of our response to the provocation.

Is it permissible to respond before we are loaded on the trains to the camps?

Posted by: butch at August 09, 2022 11:37 AM (KdP1A)

289 273 McConnell still believes the most pressing issue right now is the war in Ukraine.
Posted by: Maj. He

—-

Our donations are working.
- Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 11:37 AM (3vQN0)

290 Rainwater almost everywhere on Earth has unsafe levels of 'forever chemicals',

H2O?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 09, 2022 11:38 AM (R8uWY)

291 Trump was reading Ashley Biden's diary, according to the FBI search warrant.
==
So is everyone else in the entire world, and it was serialized in the british fcuking tabloids you idiots, are they all getting searched?

Posted by: these things happen in clown world at August 09, 2022 11:38 AM (HRfQT)

292 Remember when Obama left office and took thousands of classified documents with him to his Chicago "library" and told the National Archives which ones *HE'D* be returning to them?

Good times.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:38 AM (0Wf7t)

293 Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2022 11:30 AM (/NCI4)

You don't have to be smart to overthrow a country. You just have to have the will. A triumph of the will, if you will.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 11:38 AM (/6Rxy)

294 >>Ah, a man of Science.

I know what Science is. And most 'Research / Studies' are poorly disguised position pieces rather than scientific studies.

Posted by: garrett at August 09, 2022 11:38 AM (rDJo+)

295 The lockdowns that Xi pioneered and Birx so zealously advocated for reportedly led to over 170,000 non-COVID excess deaths among young Americans while failing to meaningfully slow the spread of COVID anywhere they were tried. It would have been impossible for an enemy agent armed with anything less than nuclear weapons to have inflicted so much damage on America’s economy, social fabric, and historical freedoms in such a short period of time.

Notably, though Birx’s memoir has earned relatively few reviews from human readers on Amazon, it’s earned rave reviews from Chinese state media, a feat not shared even by the far more popular pro-lockdown books of professional genuflectors to power like Lawrence Wright.

The glowing response from Chinese state media should come as no surprise. Nearly every sentence of Birx’s book faithfully parrots the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign and domestic propaganda, which helped facilitate Xi’s weaponization of the COVID response to eliminate the independence of the CCP’s private sector rivals.

Posted by: SMOD at August 09, 2022 11:38 AM (RHGPo)

296 Welp, if Trump had any vestige of collegiality with the left I expect that's gone now.

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 11:38 AM (cTCuP)

297 This is a coup and they are ensuring all thinking people understand that.
Posted by: Alexander Scipio at August 09, 2022 11:33 AM (+uzCP)

This is exactly what I think it is. It is a show of force, bearing their teeth, daring us to even think about responding. They are in control and they know it.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at August 09, 2022 11:38 AM (s3wLb)

298 I wrote Kari Lake yesterday evening about the raid. I suspect I was not the only one.

It looks like Kari listens to her constituents along with recognizing and calling out evil.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 09, 2022 11:39 AM (5pTK/)

299 291 Pace Legal Insurrection, but the crackdown is coming regardless of our response to the provocation.

Is it permissible to respond before we are loaded on the trains to the camps?

Posted by: butch at August 09, 2022 11:37 AM (KdP1A)

Yes, but only with a sternly written letter that will be added to your permanent file...at least it's permanent until burned with your body.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2022 11:39 AM (ynpvh)

300 285 I'm not a shill for phony Tim Ryan. I'm not on Twitter, neither are most Ohio voters, I assume. All I see is Tim Ryan commercials, and I see nothing from Vance.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 09, 2022 11:37 AM (fs1hN)

========

Media buys are ineffective wastes of money in bigger races. They primarily exist to graft money to connected cronies who own "media" companies.

I wouldn't read too much into the prevalence of one campaign having a lot of commercials and the other doesn't other than the one campaign is burning a lot of cash ineffectively.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 11:39 AM (LvTSG)

301 The question I'm waiting to (hopefully) have answered is, did Trump take classified documents out of the White House *after* noon on January 20th?

He left on AF1 at 8am, long before Joe was even awake.

Posted by: t-bird at August 09, 2022 11:39 AM (GMLOL)

302 Keep silent, Mitch. Hopefully, that will hasten the end of your despicable career.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at August 09, 2022 11:39 AM (peWy1)

303 February 2024: after a lengthy 14 month investigation we have determined that the Cincinnati FBI office acted inappropriately and better training is needed.
- GOP

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 11:39 AM (3vQN0)

304 Stop arguing with their excuse for the raid. Get off their game board.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 11:39 AM (/6Rxy)

305 Clinton's head lawyer, the man responsible for coordinating the 2020 steal, has been all over the internet pointing out the code that would prevent Trump from running for office if the National Archives decides his presidential classified rank is somehow not high enough to possess presidential classified material.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

There's nothing higher than President.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 09, 2022 11:40 AM (Am657)

306 The President of the United States has complete, unfettered authority over the classification of documents in the Federal system. So any documents he took to Mar-a-Lago were - ipso facto - legally declassified by the very act of shipping them to Mar-a-Lago.

Posted by: 10x25mm at August 09, 2022 11:40 AM (OfSoR)

307 There's a reason the Deep State went to this extreme.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2022 11:07 AM (ZLI7S)

in 2010 the feebs raided my congressman's home, of course local media had advance knowledge and the raid was splashed on the local rag's front page.

To this day Curt Weldon has not been charged with any crime as a result of that raid. But he lost his re-election bid. Curt, a Republican, easily kept winning re-election in a purple-turning red district, because of his office's great constituent service.

But DS got their wish. As a result of the publicity of the raid, Curt lost for the first time in 8 election cycles.

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2022 11:40 AM (dCxaZ)

308 someone's comment at twitchy:

"Keep laughing. There will be a time when republicans are in power again. If democrats want to set this kind of precedent then let’s go."

Don't worry, they'll keep laughing, because when the Repubs are in power again, nothing will change.

Posted by: mallfly the peach of Hoboken at August 09, 2022 11:40 AM (Ynyl9)

309 I'm not a shill for phony Tim Ryan. I'm not on Twitter, neither are most Ohio voters, I assume. All I see is Tim Ryan commercials, and I see nothing from Vance.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Because nobody is paying attention to the senate general election yet. Why burn the cash? I passed through GA last week and it was wall to wall Tank commercials.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 09, 2022 11:40 AM (R8uWY)

310 I know what Science is. And most 'Research / Studies' are poorly disguised position pieces rather than scientific studies.
Posted by: garrett

*

Yep. It's heartbreaking that most 7th graders testing distances that frogs jump against a hypothesis have a better grasp of science than 99.99% of college graduates.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:40 AM (0Wf7t)

311 308 Clinton's head lawyer, the man responsible for coordinating the 2020 steal, has been all over the internet pointing out the code that would prevent Trump from running for office if the National Archives decides his presidential classified rank is somehow not high enough to possess presidential classified material.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

=========

This is the same guy who was convinced that yelling "insurrectionist" loudly and long enough at Marjorie Taylor Green would disqualify her from running for her House race.

The court laughed the suit out of the courtroom.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 11:40 AM (LvTSG)

312 Doing a search, get a hit from Yahoo news: "FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago cathartic"...

Wonder what he would write if the tables were turned...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2022 11:40 AM (ynpvh)

313 The Secretary of State maintained a secret personal server that contained classified information and committed perjury in front of Congress when she testified about it. It was the same FBI that just did the Trump raid that assisted her in the cover up.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 09, 2022 11:41 AM (sWbrH)

314 Nothing is more infuriating than when that asshat, Kevin Luntz-McCarthy, opens his yap and spews out his focus-tested "harrumph!!". What a phony-baloney POS.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 09, 2022 11:41 AM (lFE5c)

315 176
Who wouldn't want to shake Schumer's hand twice?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 09, 2022 11:41 AM (ruYJi)

316 There's nothing higher than President.
Posted by: rickb223

*

Ah, I see you're not a clerk at the National Archives, citizen. An easy mistake to make.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:41 AM (0Wf7t)

317 The left is winning. We have nobody fighting for us.

This is the sad reality. We are Jews in 1934 Germany.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 11:28 AM (3vQN0)
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Back when I first got on the webz in '93, and the Clintons had first darkened the White House, my first foray was searching out Ayn Rand acolytes like myself. Found a great IRC channel with some sharp people, and learned a lot.

Also learned of a group of "anonymous" military veterans (Bob from the NSA likely had them staked out already) who published a newsletter called The Resistor, and they'd made a commitment to continue their Oaths to uphold the U.S. Constitution against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC -- explicitly claiming that they would do what needed to be done if the Left became extra-constitutional and tyrannical (of course, we had no idea of the breadth and depth of the Deep State, even back then, and undoubtedly it's orders of magnitude worse now).

Anyway, I've been waiting for some underground group of veterans or the like since, who had no issue taking care of tyrants in foreign lands ... but this isn't gonna turn out like a fantasy revenge movie, is it?

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 09, 2022 11:41 AM (+lwg5)

318 'm not a shill for phony Tim Ryan. I'm not on Twitter, neither are most Ohio voters, I assume. All I see is Tim Ryan commercials, and I see nothing from Vance.
==
I don't actually watch tv so I have no clue. I did read a couple of stories that leave you with the impression that Tim Ryan isn't even that popular in his own neighborhood. . .

His primary attraction is to Trump haters. Which to be sure there are a fair number in Ohio, but, not enough to win. If Vance doesn't get caught bangin the help . . .

Posted by: these things happen in clown world at August 09, 2022 11:41 AM (KYFg/)

319 also, when the Fed find nothing at Mar-a-Lago, they'll charge Trump with Obstruction of Justice for destroying the documents the Feds were almost 100 percent certain were there.

Posted by: mallfly the peach of Hoboken at August 09, 2022 11:42 AM (Ynyl9)

320 Logging in, almost lunch time

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 09, 2022 11:42 AM (K2p6I)

321 Hillary Clinton was allowed to delete and acid wash 33,000 E-mails AFTER they were subpoenaed by Congress. Absolutely nothing has happened to hold her accountable.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 09, 2022 11:42 AM (532WG)

322 Who wouldn't want to shake Schumer's hand twice?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 09, 2022 11:41 AM (ruYJi)

As much as he's been coughing into it, I'm sure they'll all have covid soon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 11:42 AM (Zz0t1)

323 I'll ask again, what do those documents show?

They're Clinton docs the fbi took from Sandy Berger.

Posted by: BignJames at August 09, 2022 11:42 AM (AwYPR)

324 Don't worry, they'll keep laughing, because when the Repubs are in power again, nothing will change.
Posted by: mallfly the peach of Hoboken at August 09, 2022 11:40 AM (Ynyl9)

—

There will be a lot of angry letters to the editor.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 11:42 AM (3vQN0)

325 _1970 Christopher Pyle - US Army spying on the civilian population
_Operation MKULTRA - drugging & torture of unwitting citizens
_COINTELPRO - surveillance and infiltration of American organizations
_Family Jewels, CIA program to covertly assassinate foreign leaders

_Operation Mockingbird a systematic propaganda campaign with domestic and foreign journalists operating as CIA assets and dozens of US news organizations providing cover for CIA activity
_Project SHAMROCK - major telecommunications companies shared their traffic with the NSA

https://bit.ly/3bD7sA9

Posted by: Braenyard at August 09, 2022 11:42 AM (WzJXd)

326 60 I think they are looking for Epstein documents.
Posted by: Miss Issippi at August 09, 2022 11:11 AM (s3wLb)

Yep

Posted by: Flyover at August 09, 2022 11:42 AM (Rbu5d)

327 The list was pretty impressive, though, Crowder missed a big one: Las Vegas massacre.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 09, 2022 11:18 AM (5pTK/)

What's to investigate? They know it was an op. One of their guys or one of the CIA's.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2022 11:42 AM (dKdSZ)

328 There's nothing higher than President.

You might think so.

Posted by: Lord God Obama, Bringer of Lighter, Sharpener of Creases at August 09, 2022 11:42 AM (/NCI4)

329 Media buys are ineffective wastes of money in bigger races. They primarily exist to graft money to connected cronies who own "media" companies.

I wouldn't read too much into the prevalence of one campaign having a lot of commercials and the other doesn't other than the one campaign is burning a lot of cash ineffectively.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 11:39 AM (LvTSG)

Exactly - get out the vote and boots on the ground (and in the election area to ensure legality of voting) is worth far more than random commercials put on democratic tv/cable/streaming networks...

Posted by: Nova local at August 09, 2022 11:42 AM (exHjb)

330 Richard Grenell is pretty good on this ... says first and second generation Americans are the most upset at the tyranny, because they know it can happen (since they usually have escaped tyranny to come here).

Also says the WH would not "know", not sign off on it, to protect the president.

Grenell on war room with Bannon, Rumble link

https://tinyurl.com/364bj6y5

Posted by: illiniwek at August 09, 2022 11:43 AM (Cus5s)

331 211 The left is winning. We have nobody fighting for us.
This is the sad reality. We are Jews in 1934 Germany.
Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 11:28 AM (3vQN0)

I suggest a mindset more Francophile in, say, 1942.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at August 09, 2022 11:43 AM (MkuC5)

332 Somethings in order of descending certitude:
1. No document generated at the WH level avoids duplication for archiving. The Feds have copies of everything.
2. Presidents and staff don't physically take documents out of the WH.
3. Some on the interwebs were saying that the archive office sends the exiting presidential staff the documents they request. If true, this means that not only does the archive have all of the docs, they cleared them for release.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2022 11:36 AM (IEa8U)

Per the Gateway Pundit, Trump has previously received classified material at his Mar-A-Lago home, but it has always been stored/viewed in an SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility). Which seems to be entirely in keeping with existing regulations on the matter, and which happens all the time with former presidents.

So on the face of it, it wouldn't seem that Trump *could* be in unlawful possession of any materials. But there could be an angle to this I'm overlooking.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 09, 2022 11:43 AM (bhRsz)

333 Man, for a guy who supposedly got CRUSHED in 2020 by a degenerate vegetable, they sure are afraid of Trump.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 09, 2022 11:43 AM (KbCG3)

334 The question I'm waiting to (hopefully) have answered is, did Trump take classified documents out of the White House *after* noon on January 20th?

*

Wait, that was when THE INSURRECTION was happening, right?

He wasn't President then, was he?

Huh. Weird.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:43 AM (0Wf7t)

335 The Secretary of State maintained a secret personal server that contained classified information and committed perjury in front of Congress when she testified about it. It was the same FBI that just did the Trump raid that assisted her in the cover up.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 09, 2022 11:41 AM (sWbrH)

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Not to mention that that server was likely hacked by numerous foreign country intelligence services. Must. Be. Nice.

None dare call it treason ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 09, 2022 11:43 AM (+lwg5)

336 70...He's just reading about it in the newspaper, like his boss always did.
Posted by: t-bird at August 09, 2022 11:12 AM (Q14hI)

I think they said on Twitter, but yes...

Posted by: Flyover at August 09, 2022 11:44 AM (Rbu5d)

337 RINEHART is the battle cry of the Harvard Crimson.

Judge Reinhart has a civil engineering degree from Princeton (suck it STEMmie), and his law degree is from Pennsylvania, where Donald Trump got his business schoolin'. Big club; you ain't in it. Internecine warfare.

Posted by: 100,000 Studebaker Trucks at August 09, 2022 11:44 AM (x61Im)

338 >>But DS got their wish. As a result of the publicity of the raid, Curt lost for the first time in 8 election cycles.

It doesn't appear to be working that way right now. Things have changed, largely due to Trump making it an issue, and people are more aware that there even is a Deep State and the anger is rising.

Things always go along the same way until they don't. If we aren't at that stage now then it doesn't matter how many guns we have, we will never do anything.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2022 11:44 AM (ZLI7S)

339 Look, the people who are loading you onto the trains are just common people doing their jobs. They have families to go home to. Don't hassle them or get rough. They just have a job to do. Keep quiet, get on the boxcar.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 09, 2022 11:44 AM (R8uWY)

340 Wait, that was when THE INSURRECTION was happening, right?

*

Sorry, had my dates confused. Carry on.

(turns to shake hands with Schumer again)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 09, 2022 11:44 AM (0Wf7t)

341 Tv commercials are aimed at the 55+
Crowd. Because nobody under 40 watches TV anymore and 40-55 year olds kinda sometimes do. So the number of TV ads is kinda meaningless as a data point.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 11:44 AM (3vQN0)

342 I am expecting that we are going to hear endlessly over the coming days that Sec. 2071-Title 18 USC justifies the "Raid on Mar-a-lago" (tm, pat. pending) and that it carries as a penalty that a conviction under this bars a person from holding any US office. However, the US Constitution sets eligibility for the presidency and impeachment as the only removal remedy. And the Democrats knows this.

Democratic lawyer Marc Elias stated the real purpose for the FBI raid on President Trump's home, "Yes, I recognize the legal challenge that application of this law [2071] to a president would garner. But the idea that a candidate would have to litigate this is during a campaign is in my view a 'blockbuster in American politics.'"

That a sitting president brought down the entire power of the Federal government on his rival in the 2020 election and most certainly now, 2024 is nothing more or less than political terrorism. It is also a warning to the public in general that you will be next if you get out of line which has already happened to the J6 political prisoners. This raid is on par with Watergate or the Kennedy assassination in how it can reshape political power in the nation.

Posted by: Lost In Space at August 09, 2022 11:44 AM (FF+On)

343 >>Also says the WH would not "know", not sign off on it, to protect the president.

Doesn't matter.
The DOJ is an appendage of the Executive.

The buck stops with the figurehead.

Posted by: garrett at August 09, 2022 11:44 AM (rDJo+)

344 326 I'll ask again, what do those documents show?

They're Clinton docs the fbi took from Sandy Berger.

Posted by: BignJames at August 09, 2022 11:42 AM (AwYPR)

I like the "Epstein's List" theory. Best guess it's material Trump declassified that the deep state refused to release. Of course, the FIB would also take any lawyer-confidential material and review it to make sure it didn't contain any confidential information. Just to be sure...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2022 11:45 AM (ynpvh)

345 They are in control and they know it.
Posted by: Miss Issippi at August 09, 2022 11:38 AM (s3wLb)

While I breathe they are not in control here.

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 11:45 AM (cTCuP)

346 I haven't had Fox for some years now but I ran across a clip on YouTube of Outnumbered (the leg show) and I see they routinely feature Kayleigh's scrumptious legs. Why didn't anyone tell me about this. You're all going on a list and it's not a good one.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 11:45 AM (/6Rxy)

347 Couple of things come to mind:

Dear future President Trump, this time, when you say, "You'd be in jail," you'd better fucking mean it.

Also, how in the world can a future President Trump actually hope for a productive second term? The REAL government has just shown its teeth. They've backed him into a corner where he must now directly confront the FBI as a plank of his campaign. Does he have the stones to do what is now necessary? See point 1.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 09, 2022 11:45 AM (KbCG3)

348 Excellent morning Rant!!! We need to focus on the imperative of taking down the current regime.

Perhaps part of taking down the current soulless evil regime includes regularly sharing the useless pathetic Progressive drivel posted on Salem Media sites such as Hot Air.

I don’t know, I’m just a dummy.

Posted by: Just a dummy at August 09, 2022 11:45 AM (U2W4Y)

349 Don’t worry, we can vote our way out of this in November. Right? This country is over, done, gone. There’s no way back. I’ve been screaming that from the rooftops for a long time. I’m just riding it out by doing what I want to do. I feel bad for the younger generations. They are fucked.
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 09, 2022 11:10 AM (reQRc)
==
You can - but that isn't all you must do.

Posted by: Black JEM at August 09, 2022 11:45 AM (xWZcb)

350 >>> 234 Obama makes a horrible Hitler.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 09, 2022 11:31 AM (HTCOy)

He is not German.

Posted by: Klaus Schwab at August 09, 2022 11:45 AM (llON8)

351 So people are asking a lot of questions because they want to know why this happened. You'll never know what you don't know because we don't want you to know things that you have no need to know. We run the country on a need to know basis, and that is something you do need to know.

Posted by: Kamalala at presser on the "Raid" at August 09, 2022 11:46 AM (4h9M3)

352 in 2010 the feebs raided my congressman's home, of course local media had advance knowledge and the raid was splashed on the local rag's front page.

To this day Curt Weldon has not been charged with any crime as a result of that raid. But he lost his re-election bid. Curt, a Republican, easily kept winning re-election in a purple-turning red district, because of his office's great constituent service.

But DS got their wish. As a result of the publicity of the raid, Curt lost for the first time in 8 election cycles.
==
Ted Stevens - tried right before election, he loses. Conviction later overturned for GROSS prosecutorial Misconduct. Stevens later dies in a plane crash. At the time stevens was the SENIOR GOP senator. He was like Orin Hatch. If they can do that to him. They can get anybody. Deep state enforcers. Sending a message to the politicians. We can do whatever we want to you if you don't play ball.

Posted by: these things happen in clown world at August 09, 2022 11:46 AM (KYFg/)

353 > WA dept of ecology has the same sort of garbage about rainwater needing to be treated and filtered before human consumption.

Most people who collect rainwater are collecting runoff from their roof. Gutters collect leaves and other debris that rots and leaves muck in gutters. Birds poop on roofs. Racoons poop on roofs. Racoon poop can contain roundworm eggs that can hatch and infect your brain.

It's not propaganda that you should filter and treat rainwater before drinking it.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 09, 2022 11:46 AM (i0wNm)

354 HERE COMES YOUR MAN

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

Posted by: PIXIES at August 09, 2022 11:46 AM (rDJo+)

355 Jim Jordan is hopping mad....again.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 09, 2022 11:47 AM (m7R0k)

356 But the people raiding the personal homes of the president would never steal an election in broad daylight and then make it illegal to say they did that.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 11:47 AM (/6Rxy)

357 IIRC, at some private fundraiser, Schickelgruber told a bunch of industrialists that after he became chancellor, there would be no more elections in Germany.

I don't believe that, after the final passage of the Enabling Act and Hitler assuming the offices of Reich president and chancellor that there were any elections for any public office in Nazi Germany.

MP4: you are correct. There were elections in 1933 and 1936, but none after that, presumably because of the war situation. It's always a war situation.

However, Stalin, Saddam Hussein, the Kims, China since Mao, all held "elections".

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2022 11:47 AM (/NCI4)

358 The FBI might not have taken a damn thing out of the house. But the narrative is the same

Trump, whose Mar a Lago home was raided by the FBI in connection to crimes committed while president....

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 09, 2022 11:48 AM (R8uWY)

359 347 >>Also says the WH would not "know", not sign off on it, to protect the president.

Doesn't matter.
The DOJ is an appendage of the Executive.

The buck stops with the figurehead.
Posted by: garrett at August 09, 2022 11:44 AM (rDJo+)

I read that as appendix.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2022 11:48 AM (ynpvh)

360 This reeks of Obastard. He's a great pol as long as things are going his way. But he has a mean streak a mile wide. It's on full display here.

Does Soros play a role? I mean, other than owning the court?

WHOTHEHELL IS RUNNING THIS THING, ANYWAY???

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 11:48 AM (cTCuP)

361 Wait...so the FBI raided Mar a Lago, and the lawn statuettes DIDN'T focus their lasered gun-turrets on them and open fire? Didn't Trump ever watch Scarface? What was he expecting?!

Posted by: Corona at August 09, 2022 11:49 AM (nakGR)

362 >>> 244 HH, I saw Kari Lake's statement and Masters and Vance but it is the current leaders, especially Senators that has me disgusted. There should have been a press conference with every Republican Senator standing up for what is right.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 09, 2022 11:32 AM (Y+l9t)

You're absolutely right they *should* have but it's never going to happen since most of them are GOPe. I'd bet the majority approve since he was a threat to graft.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 09, 2022 11:49 AM (llON8)

363 Posted by: Kamalala at presser on the "Raid" at August 09, 2022 11:46 AM (4h9M3)

Impossible to tell from the real thing.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 11:49 AM (/6Rxy)

364 >>Jim Jordan is hopping mad....again.

He is essentially Yosemite Sam with a haircut.

Posted by: garrett at August 09, 2022 11:49 AM (rDJo+)

365 Tell me, how are the benefits at the FBI? Pension good?
Posted by: Enquiring Minds at August 09, 2022 11:37 AM (9vcWq)

*snort*

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 09, 2022 11:49 AM (DRSnL)

366 What's to investigate? They know it was an op. One of their guys or one of the CIA's.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I thought the current hypothesis is that he was a cut-out for arms sales and they burned him. Being the typical Fed asset, he decided to go amok.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2022 11:49 AM (IEa8U)

367 You're absolutely right they *should* have but it's never going to happen since most of them are GOPe. I'd bet the majority approve since he was a threat to graft.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 09, 2022 11:49 AM (llON8 )

Bingo.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 09, 2022 11:50 AM (DRSnL)

368 354 >>> 234 Obama makes a horrible Hitler.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 09, 2022 11:31 AM (HTCOy)

He is not German.

Posted by: Klaus Schwab at August 09, 2022 11:45 AM (llON

And he has a beard instead of a moustache

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2022 11:50 AM (ynpvh)

369 At some point, I expect to see a shootout between DOJ/FBI agents and Trump's SS detail.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 09, 2022 11:50 AM (lTGtQ)

370 There's nothing higher than President.
Posted by: rickb223

*Giggles*

Posted by: Thousands of unelected, unaccountable and unfireable DC bureaucratic Deep Staters at August 09, 2022 11:51 AM (PpiqM)

371 I wouldn't read too much into the prevalence of one campaign having a lot of commercials and the other doesn't other than the one campaign is burning a lot of cash ineffectively.
________

Could be. I guess I don't trust my fellow Ohioans to not be swayed by b/s. Plus all the polling on 538 shows Ryan with a lead of 3-11 points, the double digit leads being the most recent. All the polls are Survey Monkey or Dem sponsored, except one "republican" poll sponsored by John Bolton Super Pac, LOL. I'll guess I'll go with Glenn Reynolds admonition, "Don't Get Cocky"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 09, 2022 11:51 AM (fs1hN)

372 369 >>Jim Jordan is hopping mad....again.

He is essentially Yosemite Sam with a haircut.
Posted by: garrett
LOL. That he is.

I can't tell if he's hopping mad about the raid or his Google stocks dropped like a rock.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 09, 2022 11:51 AM (m7R0k)

373 Also, your comment was about yesterday's raid. He has made a statement about that which was my reply.
i agree that it is too early to be burning cash. Ryan is not going to be able t o excuse his vote for 87,000 new IRS agents, higher taxes and the crazy climate change agenda.
Vance, Lake, Masters, Kent all beat establishment Republicans in massive turnout. Lake won every single county in AZ.
I keeptelling myself to have hope but it is awfully hard after a day like yesterday.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 09, 2022 11:51 AM (Y+l9t)

374 The FBI might not have taken a damn thing out of the house. But the narrative is the same

Trump, whose Mar a Lago home was raided by the FBI in connection to crimes committed while president....
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 09, 2022 11:48 AM (R8uWY)

I don’t think it will have the kind of impact they think it will. The only people sitting on the fence anymore are democrats.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at August 09, 2022 11:51 AM (s3wLb)

375 He is essentially Yosemite Sam with a haircut.
Posted by: garrett at August 09, 2022 11:49 AM (rDJo+)
================
perfect description

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 09, 2022 11:51 AM (lFE5c)

376 265
'All I know is I'm going to register as a Democrat this afternoon so I don't get audited.'

I hope that is sarcasm too.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 09, 2022 11:51 AM (ruYJi)

377 "There's nothing higher than President."

And Joe is high as a kite.

Posted by: Guy watching a puppet show at August 09, 2022 11:51 AM (XfhKA)

378 >> At some point, I expect to see a shootout between DOJ/FBI agents and Trump's SS detail.

Only if Trump is dumbe enough to get between them.

The Secret Service is the worst of all the agencies.

They basically told the Warren and Federal Comission on Assasinations to go fuck themselves. Under oath.

Posted by: garrett at August 09, 2022 11:52 AM (rDJo+)

379 At some point, I expect to see a shootout between DOJ/FBI agents and Trump's SS detail.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Does Trump's SS detail need ammo bearers?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 09, 2022 11:52 AM (Am657)

380 382 "There's nothing higher than President."

And Joe is high as a kite.

Posted by: Guy watching a puppet show at August 09, 2022 11:51 AM (XfhKA)

I thought that was Hunter

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2022 11:52 AM (ynpvh)

381 381 265
'All I know is I'm going to register as a Democrat this afternoon so I don't get audited.'

I hope that is sarcasm too.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 09, 2022 11:51 AM (ruYJi)

You can laugh but it could come to that.. I'm a registered Independent...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 09, 2022 11:52 AM (bs+z0)

382 >>>"There's nothing higher than President."

Except a career bureaucrat at the National Archives.

Posted by: Roy at August 09, 2022 11:52 AM (Ti+Tv)

383 Trump must be destroyed because it what the Junta do after a coup - kill the legitimate leadership.
Junta does this through "legal" means to give the appearance of legitimacy.

From the outside looking in the kangaroo courts and political prisons are obvious. They are only fooling those who want to believe.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2022 11:53 AM (08lLn)

384 At some point, I ~~expect~~ hope to see a shootout between DOJ/FBI agents and Trump's SS detail.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 09, 2022 11:50 AM (lTGtQ)

Just for the entertainment.

Posted by: BignJames at August 09, 2022 11:53 AM (AwYPR)

385 376 Could be. I guess I don't trust my fellow Ohioans to not be swayed by b/s. Plus all the polling on 538 shows Ryan with a lead of 3-11 points, the double digit leads being the most recent. All the polls are Survey Monkey or Dem sponsored, except one "republican" poll sponsored by John Bolton Super Pac, LOL. I'll guess I'll go with Glenn Reynolds admonition, "Don't Get Cocky"
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 09, 2022 11:51 AM (fs1hN)

==========

Polls in summer are notoriously inaccurate. This is not the year they suddenly got more accurate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 11:53 AM (LvTSG)

386 This shows just how little power an individual Senator has. You have to have an alliance of ten or more before you can effect any change. Otherwise all they can do is bloviate from the soapbox.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 09, 2022 11:53 AM (sWbrH)

387 "I thought that was Hunter
Posted by: jim "

Like father like son.

Posted by: Guy watching a puppet show at August 09, 2022 11:53 AM (XfhKA)

388 "William Jacobsen has an interesting take, namely that this is a trap (squid head not included). IOW, they're hoping we respond with violence and excessive fervor. He says don't respond in a way that would justify the Dems counter response,
Posted by: Archimede"

That is undoubtedly what they are after . Thing is, if they don't get the violent response they want they will step it up a notch until they do. Then the crackdown and open repression will begin. It would be something of a relief in a sense.

Posted by: Ripley at August 09, 2022 11:53 AM (MxEKc)

389 389 At some point, I expect hope to see a shootout between DOJ/FBI agents and Trump's SS detail.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 09, 2022 11:50 AM (lTGtQ)

Just for the entertainment.

Posted by: BignJames at August 09, 2022 11:53 AM (AwYPR)

In some states, the citizenry might just get involved in more than just a selfie or cell video way...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2022 11:54 AM (ynpvh)

390 The safe was empty. The FBI did a Geraldo..

Posted by: SMOD at August 09, 2022 11:54 AM (RHGPo)

391 Who here doesn't think the FBI will "find" some incriminating "evidence"? They indiscriminately took stuff so they could "find" anything.... That they planted

Posted by: It's me donna at August 09, 2022 11:55 AM (bs+z0)

392 They want violence before the election.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 09, 2022 11:55 AM (R8uWY)

393 I have to admit I'm a bit confused over what happened last night;

Not the raid, but everyone's reaction to it. Did you all expect this not to happen? People seem to be surprised by it.

I guess you're going to be real surprised when they drone someone domestically. This isn't going to stop at a bit of prog misbehavior; these people have the full gamut of horrors queued up for us

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at August 09, 2022 11:55 AM (7QclL)

394 What goes around, will come back around.

Posted by: Ron at August 09, 2022 11:55 AM (AtKtr)

395 Reinhart signed a second search warrant. I doubt the Fibbies needed two for MAL, so what else did they search? I wonder if it was a second Trump home in Palm Beach. Like, for example, DJT Jr's house.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 09, 2022 11:55 AM (lFE5c)

396 Elections are a pacifier and a fairly valuable one.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 11:20 AM (WWh8n)
==
Yes they are. But if you look closely, you will see that the walls are closing in. Hence the ratcheting up of political violence from the left. Trump exposed them. Most of the electorate is now where I was 20 years ago. This only goes one way, but the DC Elite are trying to stop them from moving the rest of the way. I'm not sure this helps them do that. There is a critical mass of MAGA styled reps building in the congress.

There are other things we must do. And in states where we are clearly in control, start firing shots at the feds where we can - like DeSantis in Florida, to a lesser degree Abott in Texas, and the AG in West Virginia. If we a rein a purple area - get involved in the mechanics of either the actual vote, or the nominating process.

Posted by: Black JEM at August 09, 2022 11:55 AM (xWZcb)

397 >>That is undoubtedly what they are after . Thing is, if they don't get the violent response they want they will step it up a notch until they do.

Or, you know...just gin up some homebrew violence.

Posted by: Whitmer Kidnap and Assasination Plot at August 09, 2022 11:55 AM (rDJo+)

398 It's bizarre that the WH is claiming that they had no knowledge of this.
___________________________________________

It's not bizarre. It's outrageous. If someone is going to execute a search warrant against a former president, the White House better damned well be informed. This get worse by the minute.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 09, 2022 11:10 AM (lf83v)
***

Not to mention (if t hasn't been said already) the presumptive nominee for the Republicans for the 2024 race.
Pure Junta.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2022 11:56 AM (anj39)

399 374 At some point, I expect to see a shootout between DOJ/FBI agents and Trump's SS detail.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 09, 2022 11:50 AM (lTGtQ)

This is quite possible. In the early days of the Russian Revolution but prior to the horrors that October, factions frequently dynamited buildings and engaged in assassinations.

We are there now.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 09, 2022 11:56 AM (nMx88)

400 I have to admit I'm a bit confused over what happened last night;

Not the raid, but everyone's reaction to it. Did you all expect this not to happen? People seem to be surprised by it.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at August 09, 2022 11:55 AM (7QclL)

I said exactly this to husband last night.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 09, 2022 11:56 AM (DRSnL)

401 Saw David Plouff on CNN last night -- we were curious to see how the Lefty networks were covering it.

Remember Plouff in June of 2016? He's the one who tweeted something like 'it's not enough to beat Trump. He must be so totally destroyed that his kind never rise again.'

Now THAT is what's going on here with the perma-prosecution of Trump, his family and his associates sibce 2016.

Posted by: I, Pencil at August 09, 2022 11:56 AM (I/doM)

402 "398 They want violence before the election.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 09, 2022 11:55 AM (R8uWY)"

In the last couple of weeks I've come to the conclusion that they're seriously thinking about getting the party started prior to 2024.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at August 09, 2022 11:56 AM (7QclL)

403 these people have the full gamut of horrors queued up for us

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at August 09, 2022 11:55 AM (7QclL)

Again I was saying this in 2013. No one listens to me.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 11:57 AM (/6Rxy)

404 It's times like this I really miss Rush.

Posted by: Infidel at August 09, 2022 11:57 AM (mn1Pi)

405 It doesn't appear to be working that way right now. Things have changed, largely due to Trump making it an issue, and people are more aware that there even is a Deep State and the anger is rising.

Things always go along the same way until they don't. If we aren't at that stage now then it doesn't matter how many guns we have, we will never do anything.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2022 11:44 AM (ZLI7S)

Yeah, I'll say this (and more) about Trump....before Trump the Deep State was an XFiles/Alex Jones conspiracy. Turns out, it is real. And it's bipartisan.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 09, 2022 11:57 AM (XvPQV)

406 398 They want violence before the election.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 09, 2022 11:55 AM (R8uWY)

yes, they do. An excuse for what they really want to do. And they will have violence even if they have to make it themselves. Reichstag fires everywhere...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2022 11:57 AM (ynpvh)

407 NYPost:

The Florida federal magistrate judge who signed off on a search warrant authorizing the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort left the local US Attorney’s office more than a decade ago to rep employees of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein who had received immunity in the long-running sex-trafficking investigation of the financier.

Sources tell The Post that Judge Bruce Reinhart approved the warrant that enabled federal agents to converge on the palatial South Florida estate on Monday in what Trump called an “unannounced raid on my home.”

Reinhart was elevated to magistrate judge in March 2018 after 10 years in private practice. That November, the Miami Herald reported that he had represented several of Epstein’s employees — including, by Reinhart’s own admission to the outlet, Epstein’s pilots; his scheduler, Sarah Kellen; and Nadia Marcinkova, who Epstein once reportedly described as his “Yugoslavian sex slave.”

Posted by: SMOD at August 09, 2022 11:57 AM (RHGPo)

408 William Jacobsen has an interesting take, namely that this is a trap (squid head not included). IOW, they're hoping we respond with violence and excessive fervor. He says don't respond in a way that would justify the Dems counter response,
Posted by: Archimede"

That is undoubtedly what they are after . Thing is, if they don't get the violent response they want they will step it up a notch until they do. Then the crackdown and open repression will begin. It would be something of a relief in a sense.
Posted by: Ripley at August 09, 2022 11:53 AM (MxEKc)

The Dems better be careful what they wish for because it might come true,

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 09, 2022 11:57 AM (sWbrH)

409 393 "William Jacobsen has an interesting take, namely that this is a trap (squid head not included). IOW, they're hoping we respond with violence and excessive fervor. He says don't respond in a way that would justify the Dems counter response,
Posted by: Archimede"

That is undoubtedly what they are after . Thing is, if they don't get the violent response they want they will step it up a notch until they do. Then the crackdown and open repression will begin. It would be something of a relief in a sense.
Posted by: Ripley at August 09, 2022 11:53 AM (MxEKc)

They win either way. They either provoke the response they want or just continue to overrun the country at will.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 09, 2022 11:57 AM (KbCG3)

410 I said exactly this to husband last night.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 09, 2022 11:56 AM (DRSnL)
---------

I think I was hoping the FBI wouldn't cross this line while knowing full well it was quite possible.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 09, 2022 11:58 AM (5pTK/)

411 The safe was empty. The FBI did a Geraldo..

I find this hilarious. Picture a big Trump safe, in a big Trump office, on big Trump property.
Do you think The Don is actually going to keep important documents in it?
He punked them.

Posted by: Bosk at August 09, 2022 11:58 AM (v4L7Y)

412 Ah I remember when it was illegal to "interfere in an election" . Those heady days of 30 months ago.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 11:58 AM (/6Rxy)

413 The feds are corrupt and crooked but they're not stupid.
Posted by: BillBixby at August 09, 2022 11:35 AM (nPGg6)

Embrace the power of "And". They are corrupt, crooked AND stupid.

Posted by: Iris at August 09, 2022 11:58 AM (NaH5I)

414 407 I have to admit I'm a bit confused over what happened last night;

Not the raid, but everyone's reaction to it. Did you all expect this not to happen? People seem to be surprised by it.
Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at August 09, 2022 11:55 AM (7QclL)

I said exactly this to husband last night.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 09, 2022 11:56 AM (DRSnL)

It's another Rubicon that's been crossed

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2022 11:58 AM (ynpvh)

415 346 I am expecting that we are going to hear endlessly over the coming days that Sec. 2071-Title 18 USC justifies the "Raid on Mar-a-lago" (tm, pat. pending) and that it carries as a penalty that a conviction under this bars a person from holding any US office. However, the US Constitution sets eligibility for the presidency and impeachment as the only removal remedy. And the Democrats knows this.

Democratic lawyer Marc Elias stated the real purpose for the FBI raid on President Trump's home, "Yes, I recognize the legal challenge that application of this law [2071] to a president would garner. But the idea that a candidate would have to litigate this is during a campaign is in my view a 'blockbuster in American politics.'"

It's not even a close call. We have relatively recent Supreme Court precedent that the Constitution is the only document that sets the qualifications for federal office. (U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton (1995)).

Posted by: Liberty at August 09, 2022 11:58 AM (zvNIu)

416 >>The Dems better be careful what they wish for because it might come true

They are hell bent on going out like Marat.

Posted by: garrett at August 09, 2022 11:58 AM (rDJo+)

417 I should have said. "federal _elective_ office.")

Posted by: Liberty at August 09, 2022 11:59 AM (zvNIu)

418 >>Not the raid, but everyone's reaction to it. Did you all expect this not to happen? People seem to be surprised by it.

It's kinda like the Epstein stuff, both the evidence and his "suicide": it's one thing to suspect it has or will happen, it's another thing to have it happen, have your nose rubbed in it. It was o 'holy sh#t, those m'fers went ther!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 09, 2022 11:59 AM (I/doM)

419 re 321: I get lots of 'send money' emails from the Ryan campaign. Ryan's entire career seems to be working for or being a member of the House of Reps.

Posted by: mallfly the peach of Hoboken at August 09, 2022 11:59 AM (Ynyl9)

420 Do you think The Don is actually going to keep important documents in it?
He punked them.
Posted by: Bosk at August 09, 2022 11:58 AM (v4L7Y)

No.. Nor do I think anything that was actually in those boxes was truly classified.. Of course that doesn't mean the FBI can't "find" something

Posted by: It's me donna at August 09, 2022 11:59 AM (bs+z0)

421 The raid didn't need to find anything. It just needed to happen.

What comes next is the haymaker.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 09, 2022 11:59 AM (mZ3xv)

422 415
Posted by: SMOD at August 09, 2022 11:57 AM (RHGPo)

He's on the list...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2022 11:59 AM (ynpvh)

423 One thing is certain. Trump MUST BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 09, 2022 12:00 PM (QSjkU)

424 Jeffrey Epstein comitted suicide.

And I helped.

Posted by: Bill Barr for Shake and Bake at August 09, 2022 12:00 PM (rDJo+)

425 Posted by: Paul at August 09, 2022 11:56 AM (QRDvF)

ur not even a pimple on the ass of those brave men

not even a herpes blister on their dicks

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2022 12:00 PM (dCxaZ)

426 351
'how in the world can a future President Trump actually hope for a productive second term'

I would find mass arrests and indefinite incarcerations sufficiently productive.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 09, 2022 12:00 PM (ruYJi)

427 that doesn't mean the FBI can't "find" something

This is true.

Posted by: Bosk at August 09, 2022 12:00 PM (v4L7Y)

428 Orange man bad. Perfect excuse for GOPers to vote for the Fuvk You America bill.

Posted by: Ziba at August 09, 2022 12:01 PM (4h9M3)

429 Trump needs to tell people to not go all vigilanty.. It's what they want

Posted by: It's me donna at August 09, 2022 12:01 PM (bs+z0)

430 The Dems better be careful what they wish for because it might come true

They are hell bent on going out like Marat.
Posted by: garrett at August 09, 2022 11:58 AM (rDJo+)

As along as they GO, I'll accept whatever method for self destruction they settle on.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 09, 2022 12:01 PM (XvPQV)

431 433 351
'how in the world can a future President Trump actually hope for a productive second term'

I would find mass arrests and indefinite incarcerations sufficiently productive.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 09, 2022 12:00 PM (ruYJi)

So would I. Now what law enforcement body within this country would you entrust to carry out such things?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 09, 2022 12:01 PM (KbCG3)

432 The feds are corrupt and crooked but they're not stupid.
Posted by: BillBixby

You need to re-read the 9th Circuit Bundy decision again.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2022 12:01 PM (IEa8U)

433 Yes, I recognize the legal challenge that application of this law [2071] to a president would garner. But the idea that a candidate would have to litigate this is during a campaign is in my view a 'blockbuster in American politics.'"

hence my above post re: how they took out Curt Weldon without killing him. All it took was a very public raid on his home.

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2022 12:01 PM (dCxaZ)

434 Wouldn't it be funny if they showed video of the vault/safe being opened and one of those giant, multi-colored snake/springs shot out of it?
I mean funny but not ha-ha funny.

Posted by: Corona at August 09, 2022 12:02 PM (nakGR)

435 'how in the world can a future President Trump actually hope for a productive second term'

Shutting down the FBI, and prosecuting Garland and a few others in the DOJ would be considered productive.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 09, 2022 12:02 PM (lTGtQ)

436 Trump had better hire some food tasters and offer multi-million dollar bonuses to his security staff if he makes it to 2028.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 09, 2022 12:02 PM (zB/T/)

437 https://twitter.com/anogy/status/
1553225233670307840

Let's revisit this one. How to deal with the ATF.

Support your local sheriff.

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 12:02 PM (cTCuP)

438 Breaking:

They found out the mattress tags were removed at Mar a Lago /

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 09, 2022 12:02 PM (S+j2h)

439 nood, boss is up

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at August 09, 2022 12:02 PM (WhsXQ)

440 >>Democratic lawyer Marc Elias stated the real purpose for the FBI raid on President Trump's home, "Yes, I recognize the legal challenge that application of this law [2071] to a president would garner. But the idea that a candidate would have to litigate this is during a campaign is in my view a 'blockbuster in American politics.'"

Ah, yes.
Also, Plouffe was saying. "Well, Trump has been a key endorsement in the primaries, and this will make voters wonder if they should vote for someone associated with him." Message received: You just voted for Hershel Walker -- you might want to rethink that, MAGA scum!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 09, 2022 12:02 PM (I/doM)

441 So if the FBI didn't open the boxes that were taken, how do they account for the chain of custody of the material in them?

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2022 12:02 PM (anj39)

442 In a 4-3 ruling the Ohio Supreme Court has granted Oberlin's last minute motion to stay paying out the $36 million owed the surviving Gibson family members. Still no word if the Supreme Court will even hear Oberlin's appeal.

News over at Legal Insurrection.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2022 12:03 PM (q7Stn)

443 The Junta is hoping for a violent enough reaction from our side so they can invoke the Insurrection Act, suspend elections, and deny seats to R representatives who are deemed to be of insufficient reliability.

Of course, this won't work out quite the way the Junta expects, but, these are not smart people.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 09, 2022 12:03 PM (5pTK/)

444 Why does Merrick Beria have Trump so much.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 09, 2022 12:03 PM (eGTCV)

445 If this won't accomplish what they want, they might just find another obvious piece of shit who got whacked by a cop and then elevate them to sainthood, knowing the right will object (thus fanning the flames).

Or maybe they'll put the screws to everyone over the Dickin' Pox. Could also try a wave of high profile blatant audits of political opponents, that'd be good as well.

Or the perennial favorite, sitting on their hands after a dozen warnings and watching some loon (that they probably encouraged - see the chans' recent work showing the same person seemed to have been in contact with both the Buffalo and Uvalde shooters) - kill a bunch of children, after which they'll make sure we know they knew and did nothing.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at August 09, 2022 12:03 PM (7QclL)

446 Yes they probably would have come up with something else but the Jan 6 rally has to be one of the most short sighted actions in history. You could see the set up coming from a million miles away. Can't change what's been done but it's still aggravating , especially now.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 09, 2022 12:03 PM (sWbrH)

447 this new thing is like no other

Posted by: DB at August 09, 2022 12:03 PM (geLO8)

448 Reports of the death of Myanmar's ambassador to China last Sunday in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming seemed all normal until reporters noted that he is the fourth ambassador to China to die within a year while in office. ... A statement by the Foreign Ministry in Myanmar announced the death of Ambassador U Myo Thant Pe without providing details on the cause of his death, despite media reports in China and Myanmar suggesting it was the result of a heart attack.

Posted by: SMOD at August 09, 2022 12:04 PM (RHGPo)

449 They are hell bent on going out like Marat.
Posted by: garrett at August 09, 2022 11:58 AM (rDJo+)

I wish the last half of the sentence were true.

Posted by: Ziba at August 09, 2022 12:04 PM (4h9M3)

450 Anne Frank was a criminal fugitive.
The people who hid her were committing a crime.
The people who turned her in were following the law.
The judge who signed the warrent and order to arrest her was following the law.
The bureaucrats who signed the papers to send her to the death camp were following the law.
The guard who executed her was following the law.

Only one person committed a crime here: Anne Frank.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 09, 2022 12:04 PM (hqgRM)

451 "446 Yes they probably would have come up with something else but the Jan 6 rally has to be one of the most short sighted actions in history. You could see the set up coming from a million miles away. Can't change what's been done but it's still aggravating , especially now.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 09, 2022 12:03 PM (sWbrH)"

There were so many feds and lefty plants there that they could have staged a whole incident without any help. Networks had entire crews dressed up as Trump supporters.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at August 09, 2022 12:04 PM (7QclL)

452 Calling Trump in for questioning on some minor BS they find will be the next step, Then getting him to contradict himself on some point and "lie" to FBI with repeated, endless interrogations.

Posted by: Ripley at August 09, 2022 12:04 PM (MxEKc)

453 So if the FBI didn't open the boxes that were taken, how do they account for the chain of custody of the material in them?

Trust them? Yeah that ship sailed long ago. Now these boxes are just like boxes full of ballots found in the back of a Pontiac at a polling station.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2022 12:04 PM (q7Stn)

454 Tim Ryan has spent a lot of money on his Trump imitation. His PR has made the most of his (very few) issues with the overweening narrative. Ohio Dems love a maverick, and they've pretty well maverick'd him up.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 09, 2022 12:04 PM (x61Im)

455 What percentage of the American population believes the FBI is honest?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 09, 2022 12:04 PM (eGTCV)

456 Marat if they are lucky

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2022 12:05 PM (q7Stn)

457 >>> 399 I have to admit I'm a bit confused over what happened last night;

Not the raid, but everyone's reaction to it. Did you all expect this not to happen? People seem to be surprised by it.

I guess you're going to be real surprised when they drone someone domestically. This isn't going to stop at a bit of prog misbehavior; these people have the full gamut of horrors queued up for us
Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at August 09, 2022 11:55 AM (7QclL)

I wasn't surprised. You missed my comment where I said the raid is diddly-squat along the path where the WEF psychos and their "fellow travelers" want to wipe out ~98% of the population.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 09, 2022 12:05 PM (llON8)

458 This raid might have worked if they found the body of George Floyd. Yeah, just another pretext for endless 'investigations' by our betters instead of a functioning 1st World Government. Oligarchs must be obeyed in 'Our Democracy!'

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 09, 2022 12:05 PM (sVfvf)

459 nood

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2022 12:06 PM (IEa8U)

460 455 What percentage of the American population believes the FBI is honest?
------------------
Farifax Co Wine Moms believe.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 09, 2022 12:07 PM (sVfvf)

461 It's not propaganda that you should filter and treat rainwater before drinking it.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 09, 2022 11:46 AM (i0wNm)

Yeah, if you're collecting it from gutters. Otherwise, use a coffee filter for the big bits, boil for a few minutes. Or use bleach or another purifying agent or a filter like the Berkey filters to remove such things.

But collecting rain off a tarp in a storm? It would go straight into my drinking water bottle.

Posted by: flounder at August 09, 2022 12:07 PM (U3uv2)

462 Democrats are losers because they can never stop meddling in shit.

Torture your babies. Torture your unborn. Torture your neighbors. Fuck off.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 09, 2022 12:07 PM (WHt4f)

463 Americans are too used to sucking on Uncle Sugar's teats
in exchange for their liberty for anything to change.

From corporations to granny and pawpaw to careers working for the feds to grants to study sodomites in the Middle East, the whole country and even the world are addicted to washington d.c. and the evil people running the place and their fake money.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 09, 2022 12:08 PM (2CExO)

464 THAT

Posted by: vic /s at August 09, 2022 12:08 PM (mZwKe)

465 There were so many feds and lefty plants there that they could have staged a whole incident without any help. Networks had entire crews dressed up as Trump supporters.
Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at August 09, 2022 12:04 PM (7QclL)

Yes that's why Trump should have never set up and promoted this rally.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at August 09, 2022 12:08 PM (sWbrH)

466 Rainwater collected from the roof is purified by the bird shit and bug content.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 09, 2022 12:09 PM (QSjkU)

467 Ronna McRomney must be shitting herself over the Joe Kent win. She spent millions on Herrera Beutler. LOL get phucked Ronna.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 09, 2022 12:09 PM (m7R0k)

468 The total amount of Wyoming voters is slightly more than 284,500. If approximately 6,000 non-Republicans have registered as Republicans to vote for Cheney, that number amounts to about 2 percent of the total electorate–assuming 100 percent turnout among registered voters. Polling shows that Cheney is trailing conservative challenger Harriet Hageman, who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump, by 30 points.

“There aren’t enough Democrats in Wyoming to save her, but this confirms that Liz Cheney has effectively switched parties,” Hageman adviser Tim Murtaugh told Newsweek.

Democrat operatives noticed in June that Cheney had sent out mailers to Democrats asking for them to vote for her. The mailer had direct instructions on how Democrat Wyoming voters can change their party affiliation to cast a vote for Cheney. The mailer also displayed Cheney’s campaign web address for Democrat voters to learn more specifics.

Posted by: SMOD at August 09, 2022 12:11 PM (RHGPo)

469 I'm not a shill for phony Tim Ryan. I'm not on Twitter, neither are most Ohio voters, I assume. All I see is Tim Ryan commercials, and I see nothing from Vance.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 09, 2022 11:37 AM (fs1hN)
==
There has been a huge rethink on how TV ads are used. Early use frequently is just money down the drain, it doesn't move the needle. Plus, fewer and fewer people are watching live TV anymore. Later TV ad blitzes tend to be more effective now.

Posted by: Black JEM at August 09, 2022 12:11 PM (xWZcb)

470 So if the FBI didn't open the boxes that were taken, how do they account for the chain of custody of the material in them?
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2022 12:02 PM (anj39)

You're kidding about the chain of custody, right?

Posted by: Ziba at August 09, 2022 12:13 PM (4h9M3)

471 rainwater has chemicals in it. Well that falls under the water is wet category. If you live in the arid west you've experienced a short rain shower depositing dirt on your windshield. Raindrops will have whatever contaminants are in the air of the troposphere.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at August 09, 2022 12:13 PM (3cGpq)

472 431
Federally deputized law enforcement from reliable states.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 09, 2022 12:16 PM (ruYJi)

473 @Ziba yah the cops can just lie about chain of custody.

Posted by: DocMerlin at August 09, 2022 12:39 PM (jRh4q)

474 If we want to curtail actions of the human smugglers and coyotes bringing illegal immigrants into this country why doesn't the governor of Texas and other Red States put a bounty on them like we did in the old days - bring them in dead or alive to collect. If they are known human smugglers easy - match them to the wanted posters/mugshots, if not catch them on video driving the trucks or herding the immigrants into the country.

Without the smugglers- the flow of immigrants would probably slow way down.

Posted by: Justasheep at August 09, 2022 12:43 PM (8GJtx)

475 All I have to say in respect to this whole sorry mess is that y'all know the solution to it.

In respect to the blog, I won't go into detail.

And that is the last I'll say.

Posted by: irongrampa at August 09, 2022 01:00 PM (KATBx)

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