Joe Scarborough Brings On the Perfect Pitchman to Vouch for the Integrity of the FBI

Next up: Joe Scarborough explains his five-step plan for keeping lockers free of the unwanted bodies of inconvenient interns.

MSNBC's Morning Joe brings on @PeterStrzok to argue on behalf of the FBI's integrity: "It's not that the FBI is targeting any one side or the other. What you see is the FBI going out on a day-in and day-out basis objectively investigating allegations of law." pic.twitter.com/bIyBladBMg
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 15, 2022

Who was it who was just saying that they're not even hiding that they're corrupt any more, that they want you to know that they're corrupt, because flaunting their corruption is a Statement about how powerful they are and how utterly powerless you are to do anything about it?

Posted by: Ace at 12:10 PM

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Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 15, 2022 12:11 PM (BFigT)

2 Joe is not a good name for these assholes. Joseph was a good man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2022 12:11 PM (dNqv+)

3 Next, zombie Ted Kennedy on the importance of flotation devices.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 15, 2022 12:11 PM (/NCI4)

4 Hi kids! I'm here to talk about abstinence.

Posted by: Ron Jeremy at August 15, 2022 12:12 PM (cupoy)

5 #2 Concur.

Posted by: Regular joe at August 15, 2022 12:12 PM (nnp+f)

6 Works!

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 15, 2022 12:13 PM (vjlSw)

7 I called the otters

Posted by: Max Power at August 15, 2022 12:13 PM (QCc6B)

8 Are you falling for Scarborough fare?

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 15, 2022 12:13 PM (JN3C9)

9 Next up- Nero on fiddles while Rome burns. Film at 11.

Posted by: River Commander at August 15, 2022 12:13 PM (8Sqzu)

10 This is akin to rubbing the dog's nose in it. And we're the dog.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 15, 2022 12:13 PM (BxYWi)

11 The FBI has got to go before they turn into the Gestapo

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 15, 2022 12:13 PM (56kXZ)

12 "It’s not that the FBI is targeting any one side or the other. What you see is the FBI going out on a day-in and day-out basis objectively investigating allegations of law.”

FBI Agent Lisa Page: He's [Trump] not going to win!!! Right??

FBI Agent Peter Strzok: No, we'll stop it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 15, 2022 12:14 PM (UsR0+)

13

Josef Goebbels brings on Reinhard Heydrich to vouch for the SS' deep sense of Yiddishkeit . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2022 12:14 PM (x0n13)

14 Scarborough looks teh ghey

Posted by: steevy at August 15, 2022 12:14 PM (NMHe5)

15 OMG lol.

You can't make this stuff up.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 15, 2022 12:14 PM (yHsuS)

16 Ace must be in Nova Scotia.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2022 12:14 PM (EYMuX)

17 11 The FBI has got to go before they turn into the Gestapo
Posted by: Skip's phone at August 15, 2022 12:13 PM (56kXZ)

This. They are not missing the imagery involved in the choice of pitchman.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2022 12:14 PM (dNqv+)

18 There's tone-deaf, and there's MSNBC tone-deaf.

Good Lord.

I guess in a place where you run to Ana Navarro and Michael Steele for the "conservative" counter-narrative, Strzok is a patriotic truth-teller.

Posted by: red speck at August 15, 2022 12:14 PM (gS3OW)

19 They are rubbing OUR noses in THEIR crap.

Posted by: Joe aka Josephine aka Shell Oil Junior at August 15, 2022 12:15 PM (fs1hN)

20

I saw Gumsy and Gumshoe open for the Police at Wembley Stadium in '85

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2022 12:15 PM (x0n13)

21 The guy who admitted under oath to lying and fabricating evidence is clearly the guy to vouch for the integrity of the FBI.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 15, 2022 12:15 PM (lTGtQ)

22

Friday, Ace referring to Mika as Mitzi Baryshnikov was hilarious.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2022 12:15 PM (x0n13)

23 Joe's intern unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 15, 2022 12:15 PM (ptqGC)

24 The painful part is that they think they are not obvious. At least when toddlers try to be sneaky, it's cute.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 15, 2022 12:15 PM (4olE8)

25 The FBI has got to go before they turn into the Gestapo

Posted by: Skip's phone

You have the keys to the time machine?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 15, 2022 12:15 PM (lTGtQ)

26 Dick Cheney runs a gun safety course.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2022 12:15 PM (EYMuX)

27 /off sock

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 15, 2022 12:16 PM (fs1hN)

28 Did they show that clip of him squirming in his chair and grinning like Damien?

Posted by: Oddbob at August 15, 2022 12:16 PM (nfrXX)

29 Found in the Anti-Inflation Act:
$25 million for the FBI to purchase knee length leather overcoats in keeping with the Gestapo image.

Posted by: River Commander at August 15, 2022 12:16 PM (8Sqzu)

30 Why is there a pic of an extremely gay joe scarborough holding an extremely gay guitar in the side bar. Wait, that looks like a fender jazzmaster. Nice job dickhead, even semi iconic guitars look gay in your hands.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 14, 2022 10:08 PM (VwHCD)

This burn brought to you by the letters ONT.

Seemed like a good time to bring it forward

Posted by: Buddy at August 15, 2022 12:16 PM (MFphb)

31 I'm booked on this show Wednesday! Hit the 'like' button!

Posted by: zombie Lavrenty Beria at August 15, 2022 12:16 PM (cY9wR)

32 Ace is right, they show their absolute contempt because they are untouchable

Posted by: steevy at August 15, 2022 12:16 PM (NMHe5)

33 Strzok needs to be throat punched for the hypocrisy he vomits up in that clip.

About 100 times.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 15, 2022 12:16 PM (BFigT)

34 21 The guy who admitted under oath to lying and fabricating evidence is clearly the guy to vouch for the integrity of the FBI.

Posted by: Thomas Paine
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Well the Feeb agent is not suspected of foul play in the death of an intern either.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:16 PM (CXr4y)

35 Are you falling for Scarborough fare?

Horses***, lies, invective, and fraud

Posted by: Archimedes at August 15, 2022 12:16 PM (/NCI4)

36 I want someone to ask Joe if he still has that portrait of Mueller on his wall. 🤡🤡

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 15, 2022 12:16 PM (ptqGC)

37 The FBI has got to go before they turn into the Gestapo

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 15, 2022 12:13 PM (56kXZ)

So, like 1992?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 15, 2022 12:16 PM (yHsuS)

38 Josef Goebbels brings on Reinhard Heydrich to vouch for the SS' deep sense of Yiddishkeit . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2022 12:14 PM (x0n13)

I object!

Posted by: Ernst Rohm's corpse at August 15, 2022 12:16 PM (dNqv+)

39 29 Found in the Anti-Inflation Act:
$25 million for the FBI to purchase knee length leather overcoats in keeping with the Gestapo image.
Posted by: River Commander at August 15, 2022 12:16 PM (8Sqzu)

Also, the nunchucks that become collapsible coat hangers, a la Toht in "Raiders."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2022 12:16 PM (x0n13)

40 I got an idea... Let's bring out Lois Lerner to talk about the wonderful new irs agents.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 15, 2022 12:16 PM (flINI)

41 Who is the audience for this?

Posted by: Max Power at August 15, 2022 12:17 PM (QCc6B)

42 Slimy little prick...gonna' add it to his wiki page.

Posted by: BignJames at August 15, 2022 12:17 PM (AwYPR)

43 The FBI has got to go before they turn into the Gestapo

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 15, 2022 12:13 PM (56kXZ)

Now get Al Sharpton to lead that as a chant on his megaphone.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2022 12:17 PM (x0n13)

44 Only in a nation zombies and passive propaganda receptors is this possible.

Posted by: FIB = KGB at August 15, 2022 12:17 PM (YTBIQ)

45 The guy who admitted under oath to lying and fabricating evidence is clearly the guy to vouch for the integrity of the FBI.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 15, 2022 12:15 PM (lTGtQ)

Who better?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 15, 2022 12:17 PM (yHsuS)

46 Have you donated one penny to the family of Lori Klausutis Joe? Scumbag.

Posted by: Maj. Healey - Rosary Extremist at August 15, 2022 12:17 PM (m7R0k)

47 $25 million for the FBI to purchase knee length leather overcoats in keeping with the Gestapo image.
Posted by: River Commander at

No funding for the cool little arm bands?

Posted by: I Mean at August 15, 2022 12:17 PM (9FBGz)

48 21 The guy who admitted under oath to lying and fabricating evidence is clearly the guy to vouch for the integrity of the FBI.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 15, 2022 12:15 PM (lTGtQ)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2022 12:17 PM (dNqv+)

49 When I, a man of unimpeachable integrity, assured the married woman who was not my own wife that I was fucking, that there was an " insurance policy" (Russian Collision), in place to prevent Trump's election, well, that's just pillow talk and I'd never let it effect my investigation of said insurance policy.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 15, 2022 12:17 PM (BxYWi)

50 30 Why is there a pic of an extremely gay joe scarborough holding an extremely gay guitar in the side bar. Wait, that looks like a fender jazzmaster. Nice job dickhead, even semi iconic guitars look gay in your hands.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 14, 2022 10:08 PM (VwHCD)

This burn brought to you by the letters ONT.

Seemed like a good time to bring it forward

Posted by: Buddy
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It is not the tool but the user that brings contempt.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:18 PM (CXr4y)

51 Man who faithfully cheated on his wife now faithfully defends the honor of the department

Posted by: Corona exile-back_in_exile at August 15, 2022 12:18 PM (3wNhr)

52 norman bates, before his first kill,

scarborough was only exonerated sarc, because the medical examiner was a wannabe dr frankenstein,

Posted by: no 6 at August 15, 2022 12:18 PM (i0Lci)

53 >>>35 Are you falling for Scarborough fare?

Horses***, lies, invective, and fraud

Remember me to the one who lies there
She once was an intern of mine.

Posted by: red speck at August 15, 2022 12:18 PM (gS3OW)

54 The FBI has got to go before they turn into the Gestapo
Posted by: Skip's phone

Zu spat....

Posted by: zombie Heinrich Himmler at August 15, 2022 12:18 PM (cY9wR)

55 Also, the nunchucks that become collapsible coat hangers, a la Toht in "Raiders."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2022 12:16 PM (x0n13)

See, I always thought more 'garrote' in that scene.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2022 12:18 PM (dNqv+)

56 Welp, off to my first torture session with my trainer. Ugh.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 15, 2022 12:18 PM (ptqGC)

57 "This Strzok-up guy gets it."

-- Chief Just-Us Benedict Roberts

/BTW, Benny, how are those investigations of the FISA Court traitors & the Roe v Wade-decision leaker going?

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 15, 2022 12:18 PM (4F3ju)

58 53 >>>35 Are you falling for Scarborough fare?

Horses***, lies, invective, and fraud

Remember me to the one who lies there
She once was an intern of mine.
Posted by: red speck at August 15, 2022 12:18 PM (gS3OW)

Combined thread winner candidate.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2022 12:18 PM (x0n13)

59
Lisa Page...8/10 would smash

Posted by: MJ at August 15, 2022 12:18 PM (zwDuR)

60 The FBI has got to go before they turn into the Gestapo
Posted by: Skip's phone

Too late, skip.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2022 12:19 PM (dNqv+)

61 can we bring back zombie imus, it's not like brains will be a problem at msnbc,

Posted by: no 6 at August 15, 2022 12:19 PM (i0Lci)

62 >>Who is the audience for this?

The ever dwindling number of hardcore lunatics who don't care about anything other than getting OrangeManBad.

Who else watches MSNBC?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2022 12:19 PM (ZLI7S)

63 Just a reminder that Joe and Mika are married. To each other.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 15, 2022 12:19 PM (a3Q+t)

64 39 29 Found in the Anti-Inflation Act:
$25 million for the FBI to purchase knee length leather overcoats in keeping with the Gestapo image.
Posted by: River Commander at August 15, 2022 12:16 PM (8Sqzu)

Also, the nunchucks that become collapsible coat hangers, a la Toht in "Raiders."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Also dental pliers.

Posted by: Maj. Healey - Rosary Extremist at August 15, 2022 12:19 PM (m7R0k)

65 56 Welp, off to my first torture session with my trainer. Ugh.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 15, 2022 12:18 PM (ptqGC)

Good luck, Jane.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2022 12:19 PM (dNqv+)

66 49 When I, a man of unimpeachable integrity, assured the married woman who was not my own wife that I was fucking, that there was an " insurance policy" (Russian Collision), in place to prevent Trump's election, well, that's just pillow talk and I'd never let it effect my investigation of said insurance policy.

Posted by: Farmer Bob
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Apparently between those on the take like James Baker and those screwing each other, the Feebs did not have time to address matters like Chinese infiltration and espionage of key industries/secrets.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:19 PM (CXr4y)

67 I like that the FBI is now lying about threats by conservatives to detonate a dirty bomb.

What a transparent lie.

Not even the jihadists ever pulled that off. Anywhere.

But Joe Confederate has a stash of depleted uranium out back behind that old vine-covered '65 Chevy he's gonna fix as soon as the parts come in?

But: The point is, to tell Americans we're domestic terrorists if we oppose them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 15, 2022 12:19 PM (6YT2l)

68 Yeah but just you wait until 202never when the gop defunds the fbi. Gonna be lit bro.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 15, 2022 12:19 PM (3vQN0)

69 quid = vouch for integrity of the feebs

quo = feebs discover no leads re: the dead intern

Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2022 12:19 PM (dCxaZ)

70 MSNBC's Morning Joe brings on @PeterStrzok to argue on behalf of the FBI's integrity ...
++++
They're doing this on purpose. This is similar to Wray's "nah, bro, I'm too important and busy for your little hearings or whatever, so see ya" move. The object is to offend. They're in the positions of authority and power and they know the score. They also know that you know the score. Moves like this are to reinforce the point, not to try to counter it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 12:20 PM (WWh8n)

71 "Joe, dammit, I got you that jar of Smuckers for a reason. Now put some on there and I might do it again".

Mika

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 15, 2022 12:20 PM (lz5hY)

72 David French will most certainly be next to write how honestly opining about the lack of integrity and accountability from demonstrably corrupt government officials is unchristian.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 15, 2022 12:20 PM (TbpGr)

73 64 Also dental pliers.
Posted by: Maj. Healey - Rosary Extremist at August 15, 2022 12:19 PM (m7R0k)

"Unsafe > Safe"

- - Christian Zell, DDS

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2022 12:20 PM (x0n13)

74 Its clear this is blowing back on Dems in a big way.

One thing I do worry about is they charge Trump and put him in cuffs and a mugshot.

That will make Jan 6 look like a Sunday picnic (which it was) and my guess is that's what Dems are aiming for.

They want a Civil War in this country where every non-leftist is portrayed as Timothy McVeigh. They are willing to go there to stay in power.

Posted by: Blago at August 15, 2022 12:20 PM (PwNLq)

75 Posted by: Maj. Healey - Rosary Extremist at August 15, 2022 12:19 PM (m7R0k)

Re: nic

You saw that story too. Made me want to go say a novena.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2022 12:20 PM (dNqv+)

76 I hate Strokz with the heat of a thousand suns

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 15, 2022 12:20 PM (56kXZ)

77 Combined thread winner candidate.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2022 12:18 PM (x0n13)
+1 from me.

Posted by: Buddy at August 15, 2022 12:20 PM (MFphb)

78 >>Why is there a pic of an extremely gay joe scarborough holding an extremely gay guitar in the side bar. Wait, that looks like a fender jazzmaster.

There is no better Fender than a Slab-Board Jazzmaster.

Save, perhaps the Robben Ford Signature Model Elites.

Posted by: garrett at August 15, 2022 12:20 PM (i1Cr7)

79 Smarmy bastard should be receiving end of a tire iron.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 15, 2022 12:20 PM (gryET)

80 The FBI did a very invasive investigation into Hillary's server without ever actually examining the server until it had been erased.

Posted by: huerfano at August 15, 2022 12:20 PM (dTFZY)

81 Did they show that clip of him squirming in his chair and grinning like Damien?

Posted by: Oddbob at August 15, 2022 12:16 PM (nfrXX)

Seared...seared! in my memory.

Posted by: BignJames at August 15, 2022 12:20 PM (AwYPR)

82 I went looking for this video earlier today I found a different one that made me want to puke. Joe S. also had the tag team of Matt Lewis and David French on to rant about Trump's whining about the good and honorable FBI. If he didn't steal classified documents and take them home none of this would have happened.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 15, 2022 12:21 PM (qH6FZ)

83 They're just rubbing it in our faces now. Because they can. There are few people hated more by conservatives and Trump supporters that this creepy corrupt incompetent fuck Strzok. So of course let's drag out Strzok to vouch for the FBI's credibilityy.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 15, 2022 12:21 PM (iFTx/)

84
What are those knee high leather boots the German used to wear

Any one know?

Posted by: Yo! Ultra MAGA at August 15, 2022 12:21 PM (iKbSe)

85 63 Just a reminder that Joe and Mika are married. To each other.

Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Like the ancien' regime, marriage to them is a legal convenience but hardly a sacred vow.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:21 PM (CXr4y)

86 Is anyone gonna do anything about this? Where the fuck are Trump's lawyers? Why haven't there been a dozen motions to dismiss, referrals to the bar association, and affirmative lawsuits against everyone connected to this farce. If this were Hillary who was raided, you know she would have already done this. Why do we always take this up the ass and do nothing about it? We are easy targets, easy prey, because we don't do anything to defend ourselves, let alone fight back.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 15, 2022 12:21 PM (iFTx/)

87 40 I got an idea... Let's bring out Lois Lerner to talk about the wonderful new irs agents.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 15, 2022 12:16 PM (flINI)

No need. We'll meet you all in person soon enough!

Posted by: 87,000 New IRS agents, willing to use deadly force at August 15, 2022 12:21 PM (cupoy)

88 Dude

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 15, 2022 12:21 PM (cMXNt)

89 Who else watches MSNBC?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2022 12:19 PM (ZLI7S)

I dunno. But at my workplace, which is in a purple-to blue leaning precinct, even some diehard demorats figured out this is all to keep Trump from running in 2024.

Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2022 12:21 PM (dCxaZ)

90 Coming up after the break, renowned expert on genocide, Heinrich Himmler, will give us his perspective and insight on how 21st Century white supremacy in America has eclipsed everything that came before it.

/s

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 15, 2022 12:21 PM (TNyrE)

91 Unprecedented times in America.

Posted by: Braenyard. - want numremberg trials? badger your congressman he can do it at August 15, 2022 12:21 PM (SKXSf)

92 Apparently between those on the take like James Baker and those screwing each other, the Feebs did not have time to address matters like Chinese infiltration and espionage of key industries/secrets.
Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:19 PM (CXr4y)
++++
They absolutely "addressed" it. The FBI - like most of the government - has an active partner in Chinese ambitions.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 12:22 PM (WWh8n)

93 It's cute you think they will let Trump legally defend himself....

Posted by: steevy at August 15, 2022 12:22 PM (NMHe5)

94 They want a Civil War in this country where every non-leftist is portrayed as Timothy McVeigh. They are willing to go there to stay in power.
Posted by: Blago at August 15, 2022 12:20 PM (PwNLq)

Their worst nightmare would be if instead of deranged angry crowds swarming public building they got 1000s of quietly determined one-shot answers all over the country

Posted by: Buddy at August 15, 2022 12:22 PM (MFphb)

95 Next, zombie Ted Kennedy on the importance of flotation devices.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Alec Baldwin on safely handling firearms

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2022 12:22 PM (okiAz)

96 Lisa Page...8/10 would smash

Rule #1b: Never put it in evil.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 15, 2022 12:23 PM (nfrXX)

97 >>Next, zombie Ted Kennedy on the importance of flotation devices.

The Sea Lion of the Senate.

Posted by: garrett at August 15, 2022 12:23 PM (i1Cr7)

98 Why is there a pic of an extremely gay joe scarborough holding an extremely gay guitar in the side bar. Wait, that looks like a fender jazzmaster.

This week is Cringe Sweeps Week and Banjo Boy is running for the crown?

Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2022 12:23 PM (dCxaZ)

99 Seen a few blog articles thinking they might really put charges and arrest DJT, they hold the trial in DC they will get jury of Communists

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 15, 2022 12:23 PM (56kXZ)

100 Doesn't bs about the integrity of the FBI and Dark Brandon's super competence have anyone to the right of Mao rolling their eyes?

Posted by: NLurker at August 15, 2022 12:24 PM (eGTCV)

101 84 German high leather boots? Those would be schnitzelgrubbenschuen.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 15, 2022 12:24 PM (lz5hY)

102 They want a Civil War in this country where every non-leftist is portrayed as Timothy McVeigh. They are willing to go there to stay in power.
Posted by: Blago at August 15, 2022 12:20 PM (PwNLq)

_______________________

Speaking of Timothy McVeigh, raise your hand if you now think the official story is a load of bullshit made up by the FBI and other deep state agencies. [Raises hand]

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 15, 2022 12:24 PM (iFTx/)

103 Out: SIG P226
In: Luger

Posted by: Maj. Healey - Rosary Extremist at August 15, 2022 12:24 PM (m7R0k)

104 82 I went looking for this video earlier today I found a different one that made me want to puke. Joe S. also had the tag team of Matt Lewis and David French on to rant about Trump's whining about the good and honorable FBI. If he didn't steal classified documents and take them home none of this would have happened.

Posted by: lowandslow
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Why would you want to seek out such material. From the mere names, I could tell you that it was Orangeman bad whatever the topic was. Avalanche--orangeman bad, inflation today--orangeman bad, people pissed off about the economy--orangeman bad.

He is literally in their heads, their dreams and their nightmares. They are possessed with Orangeman bad and that trauma keeps them from moving on.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:24 PM (CXr4y)

105 They aren't scared of the citizenry, like some say. They are reveling in their power. Imprisoning Trump is just the beginning. They own every institution, the propaganda, the police and justice systems, the economy, the military. It's all theirs, and once election stealing is repeatable and dependable, they is nothing that can beat them.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 15, 2022 12:25 PM (e+nc/)

106 >>Lisa Page...8/10 would smash

The 8 is just the number card they gave her for the Pimlico Stakes...right?

Because, Horse Face.

Posted by: garrett at August 15, 2022 12:25 PM (i1Cr7)

107 74 Its clear this is blowing back on Dems in a big way.

—-

How? Where? Who?
Since the raid Biden’s approval has gone up and Dems are very much favored to hold the senate.

If this is blowback I’d hate to see what success looks like.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 15, 2022 12:25 PM (3vQN0)

108 I hate Strokz with the heat of a thousand suns
Posted by: Skip's phone

He may have the most punchable face in human history.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I Survived the Mar-A-Lago Raid at August 15, 2022 12:25 PM (FVME7)

109 92 Apparently between those on the take like James Baker and those screwing each other, the Feebs did not have time to address matters like Chinese infiltration and espionage of key industries/secrets.
Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:19 PM (CXr4y)
++++
They absolutely "addressed" it. The FBI - like most of the government - has an active partner in Chinese ambitions.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 12:22 PM (WWh8n)
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The Chinese are in bed with them, literally.
They've never had such a lover.

Posted by: Braenyard. - want numremberg trials? badger your congressman he can do it at August 15, 2022 12:25 PM (SKXSf)

110 Nice job dickhead, even semi iconic guitars look gay in your hands.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 14, 2022 10:08 PM (VwHCD)

I think his pronouns are she/hers/AWFLs

Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2022 12:25 PM (dCxaZ)

111 Counter-point

The most credible person they could find to vouch for the FBI is Strzok.

Everyone else was "Naw Bruh"

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 15, 2022 12:25 PM (C+Jh2)

112 Next on MSNBC, Ted Bundy adgues for respect for women.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I Survived the Mar-A-Lago Raid at August 15, 2022 12:26 PM (FVME7)

113 “In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better."

― Theodore Dalrymple

Posted by: The Fool at August 15, 2022 12:26 PM (1dzqn)

114 The Chinese are in bed with them, literally.
They've never had such a lover.

They love us despite our tiny penis
China

Posted by: steevy at August 15, 2022 12:26 PM (NMHe5)

115 >>They aren't scared of the citizenry

They surrounded themselves in Razor Wire and Weekend Warriors for 4 months after their little Reichstag Event.

They are scared shitless of the citizenry.
Which is why they don't do Townhalls anymore.

Posted by: garrett at August 15, 2022 12:26 PM (i1Cr7)

116 Seen a few blog articles thinking they might really put charges and arrest DJT, they hold the trial in DC they will get jury of Communists
Posted by: Skip's phone at August 15, 2022 12:23 PM (56kXZ)
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I don't know the nuances of venue identification/selection, but I suspect charges are coming. They convened a grand jury before releasing the warrant (though not the affidavit, last I knew). That isn't a nothing move. They may not have decided whether to instruct the grand jury to indict or not, but it would be an obvious move.

A more subtle move would be to instruct the grand jury to *not* indict. Then they can take no blame, point to "even the rotten borough of DC chose not indict the former president" (some positive happy-fun-time spin on that), and bow out gracefully while using it as future ammunition to respond to any "DC is corrupt and no justice is possible there" accusations when they surely come.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 12:27 PM (WWh8n)

117 Allegations of law?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 15, 2022 12:27 PM (63Dwl)

118 117 Allegations of law?

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We are governed by laws in this country, allegedly.

Posted by: The Fool at August 15, 2022 12:27 PM (1dzqn)

119 Next, zombie Ted Kennedy on the importance of flotation devices.
Posted by: Archimedes

Alec Baldwin on safely handling firearms
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2022 12:22 PM (okiAz)

And later, Captain Francesco Schettino on cruise ship navigation, handling, crew training, and the importance of looking stylish while abandoning a sinking ship.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 15, 2022 12:27 PM (4I/2K)

120 Think back to 2016 and then forward. Most people weren't all that excited about Trump, and many thought he would be a liberal.

The more the deep state attacked him, the more conservative he became and the more people liked him.

Everything they do makes Trump more beneficial to America and more popular. And they cannot help themselves.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 15, 2022 12:28 PM (lTGtQ)

121 FBI report says Alec Baldwin had his finger on the trigger-

so now I'm not sure what happened, only because the FBI's word means nothing to me now

Posted by: DB at August 15, 2022 12:28 PM (geLO8)

122 It's the natural progression. Was thinking about this while vaping on the balcony.

Why does the same thing occur over and over again with regards to a commie revolution: French Rev, Nazis, Stalin, Khmer Rouge, Cultural rev? Because in their minds they HAVE to because of 'circumstance' (I.E. communism does not work, makes things directly and they have to deflect from that or say it is because of wreckers/counter revolutionaries.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2022 12:28 PM (dNqv+)

123 111 They were looking for Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. but he's unavailable.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 15, 2022 12:28 PM (lz5hY)

124 The 8 is just the number card they gave her for the Pimlico Stakes...right?

Because, Horse Face.
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Granted. But you know she does really, really dirty things.

Posted by: MJ at August 15, 2022 12:28 PM (zwDuR)

125 121 FBI report says Alec Baldwin had his finger on the trigger-

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Rhymes with "racist."

Posted by: The Fool at August 15, 2022 12:29 PM (1dzqn)

126 53 >>>35 Are you falling for Scarborough fare?

Horses***, lies, invective, and fraud

Remember me to the one who lies there
She once was an intern of mine.

Posted by: red speck at August 15, 2022 12:18 PM (gS3OW)
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Well played!

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 15, 2022 12:29 PM (Su3HO)

127 I like that the FBI is now lying about threats by conservatives to detonate a dirty bomb.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 15, 2022 12:19 PM (6YT2l)

I am willing to bet that over 90% of the people who believe such garbage couldn't even tell you what a dirty bomb consists of and why it is supposed to be any more disturbing than a regular bomb. The domestic terror group formerly known as the FBI knows these people are ignorant and will eat it all up.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 15, 2022 12:29 PM (yHsuS)

128 113 “In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better."

― Theodore Dalrymple
Posted by: The Fool at August 15, 2022 12:26 PM (1dzqn)

Make others participate in saying 'the sky is red' and you break them psychologically in a way.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2022 12:29 PM (dNqv+)

129 That pic truly is Beavis and Butthead.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 15, 2022 12:30 PM (63Dwl)

130 Where were all these "don't you dare malign law enforcement" people when Derek Chauvin was being called a murderer before any trial?

Posted by: NLurker at August 15, 2022 12:30 PM (eGTCV)

131 >>> He is literally in their heads, their dreams and their nightmares. They are possessed with Orangeman bad and that trauma keeps them from moving on.
Posted by: whig
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He got in their heads because they hate him, he stays in their heads because he now has the goods on them.

That's the problem fighting an adversary who is smarter than you. The more they fight him, the more he learns, the more he learns, the more they fight him.

He plays the long game.

Posted by: Braenyard. - want numremberg trials? badger your congressman he can do it at August 15, 2022 12:30 PM (SKXSf)

132 86 Is anyone gonna do anything about this? Where the fuck are Trump's lawyers? Why haven't there been a dozen motions to dismiss, referrals to the bar association, and affirmative lawsuits against everyone connected to this farce. If this were Hillary who was raided, you know she would have already done this. Why do we always take this up the ass and do nothing about it? We are easy targets, easy prey, because we don't do anything to defend ourselves, let alone fight back.

Posted by: Elric Blade
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Because Trump, for all the slander, apparently still believes in the institutions if reports of what he said/messaged Garland is true.

There is also the problem that any decent legal counsel has been chased away from anything to do with Trump. It is literally, as some found it, a career ending move. Witness the difficulty in finding a few lawyers for a golden historical opportunity in Trump's Second Impeachment Trial.

So, you need someone that is a) old and doesn't give a shit (Dershowitz), b) borderline suicidal and independently wealthy, and c) not connected to the GOP nor Dem party regulars. The subset of those is close to nil.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:30 PM (CXr4y)

133 The people most ignoring the minor problem of the emperor having no clothes are the very same ones who probably shouldn't remind the public they're still alive, once things go "Mad Max."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 15, 2022 12:30 PM (5pTK/)

134 Alec Baldwin on safely handling firearms
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2022 12:22 PM (okiAz)

Next up, Michael Moore with nutrition tips.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 15, 2022 12:30 PM (yHsuS)

135 They surrounded themselves in Razor Wire and Weekend Warriors for 4 months after their little Reichstag Event.

They are scared shitless of the citizenry.
Which is why they don't do Townhalls anymore.
Posted by: garrett at August 15, 2022 12:26 PM (i1Cr7)
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haha- that was in January, garrett. try to keep up.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 15, 2022 12:31 PM (e+nc/)

136 128 Make others participate in saying 'the sky is red' and you break them psychologically in a way.

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He makes that exact point in the rest of that quote, but the comment system thought it was spam so .

Posted by: The Fool at August 15, 2022 12:31 PM (1dzqn)

137 Whats the expansion/contraction ratio of Scarborough's forehead/face?

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 15, 2022 12:31 PM (OgrpQ)

138 >>He plays the schlong game.

Posted by: garrett at August 15, 2022 12:31 PM (i1Cr7)

139 A dirty bomb filled with luminous watch hands.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 15, 2022 12:31 PM (63Dwl)

140 haha- that was in January, garrett. try to keep up.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 15, 2022 12:31 PM (e+nc/)
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of 2021

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 15, 2022 12:31 PM (e+nc/)

141 I'm pretty sure a "dirty bomb" is when you combine Hillary and Nadlers underwear, then light them on fire. Pretty sure.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 15, 2022 12:31 PM (TbpGr)

142 Anyone ask the upstanding persyns at the FBI why they've yet to arrest even one of Epstein's clients?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 15, 2022 12:31 PM (ESjRY)

143 They THINK they'll hold on to power after a real insurrection but the thing is, there won't be many democrats left to wield power. They fear us alright. ..

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 15, 2022 12:31 PM (flINI)

144 If they charge Trump and demand he turn himself in, should he comply?

Or tell them FOAD, come get me?

Cause that could be the beginning of the thing.

Posted by: I guess I'll ask them at August 15, 2022 12:31 PM (9FBGz)

145 He is literally in their heads, their dreams and their nightmares. They are possessed with Orangeman bad and that trauma keeps them from moving on.
Posted by: whig
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It's funny, because while I hated Obama, he doesn't "haunt" me like Trump haunts them. I've moved on a long time ago.

Posted by: Blago at August 15, 2022 12:32 PM (PwNLq)

146 Joe and gee-tar ln the sidebar look like they're trying to mimic a well-coiffed version of Elvis Costello.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 15, 2022 12:32 PM (es0Dj)

147 He makes that exact point in the rest of that quote, but the comment system thought it was spam so .
Posted by: The Fool at August 15, 2022 12:31 PM (1dzqn)

All hail our spam protections!
(breaking psychologically)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2022 12:32 PM (dNqv+)

148 The Fender Jazzmaster was never described as gay until Joe Scarborough held one.

Posted by: huerfano at August 15, 2022 12:32 PM (dTFZY)

149 A more subtle move would be to instruct the grand jury to *not* indict.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 12:27 PM (WWh8n)

I doubt they have the self control.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 15, 2022 12:32 PM (XIJ/X)

150 Make others participate in saying 'the sky is red' and you break them psychologically in a way.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2022 12:29 PM (dNqv+)

It's the pronouns, man.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 15, 2022 12:32 PM (yHsuS)

151 >>Joe and gee-tar ln the sidebar look like they're trying to mimic a well-coiffed version of Elvis Costello.

Butt-Buddy Holly

Posted by: garrett at August 15, 2022 12:32 PM (i1Cr7)

152 Next up, Michael Moore with nutrition tips.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 15, 2022 12:30 PM (yHsuS)

Jack Kevorkian on healthy living.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 15, 2022 12:33 PM (PiwSw)

153 One other thing many seem to think if they indict DJT they will time it so no response will come before November

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 15, 2022 12:33 PM (56kXZ)

154 Obama is probably recovering from Monkey Pox at his Martha's Vineyard estate...

Posted by: steevy at August 15, 2022 12:33 PM (NMHe5)

155 Because Trump, for all the slander, apparently still believes in the institutions if reports of what he said/messaged Garland is true. ...
Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:30 PM (CXr4y)
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It is a point I have made repeatedly. For all the prog invective, Trump is not a radical. He's a moderate, center-right type (as opposed to his old position of being a moderate, center-left type). He is not a revolutionary, he is a reformer. Revolutionary acts aren't in his character.

If you're looking for reform, he's the man you want. If you're looking for revolutionary change, he is not.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 12:33 PM (WWh8n)

156 @29 Found in the Anti-Inflation Act:
$25 million for the FBI to purchase knee length leather overcoats in keeping with the Gestapo image.

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Will they be made by Hugo Boss?

Posted by: junior at August 15, 2022 12:33 PM (aqgsz)

157 Part of their feeling of invincibility is knowing that the jury pool in DC will acquit them. No matter how guilty they are.

Posted by: KillGoogleandFacebook at August 15, 2022 12:33 PM (U9oYo)

158 How? Where? Who?
Since the raid Biden’s approval has gone up and Dems are very much favored to hold the senate.

If this is blowback I’d hate to see what success looks like.
Posted by: Joe Xiden
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The Senate was doomed because Trump decided he would anoint those who flattered his ego the most. I just dont see people like Dr Oz winning.

But I dont need polls to tell me this FBI raid looks illegitimate to most people. Every fence sitter sees the game now.

Posted by: Blago at August 15, 2022 12:33 PM (PwNLq)

159 maybe I'm wrong, and garrett is right, and the ruling elite is scared shitless of the unwashed citizenry. If so, what scares them? Election losses? Uprisings? What is the hot button that they are watching in fear?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 15, 2022 12:33 PM (e+nc/)

160 Jill Bidet dresses like one would expect a filthy, dried up, wrinkled up old prune, hag of a home wrecking, whore would.

Posted by: Archer at August 15, 2022 12:33 PM (gmo/4)

161 Peter Stroke is the face of the FBI.

Smarmy, vacant and looking for who's in charge so he can suck their ass dry.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2022 12:33 PM (X/UGK)

162 Why would you want to seek out such material. From the mere names, I could tell you that it was Orangeman bad whatever the topic was.
Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:24 PM (CXr4y)

Morbid curiosity. Want to watch it?
https://tinyurl.com/yxe6wx4s

Posted by: lowandslow at August 15, 2022 12:34 PM (qH6FZ)

163 >>haha- that was in January, garrett. try to keep up.

Do you think they FBI raid of Trump was a sign of strength or fear?

Yes, they've spent decades accumulating and corrupting power but if they are so scared of what one man might expose that they do something as raid the home of a former president to take documents he was legally entitled to that doesn't sound like they are fearless to me.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2022 12:34 PM (ZLI7S)

164 Jim Jordan claims to Trey Gowdy 14 FIB whistleblowers have come forward to him.

So what Jim?

Posted by: Maj. Healey - Rosary Extremist at August 15, 2022 12:34 PM (m7R0k)

165 Jack Kevorkian on healthy living.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 15, 2022 12:33 PM (PiwSw)

Don't miss the fashion rundown with Dr.! Jill Biden.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 15, 2022 12:34 PM (yHsuS)

166 Old and busted: Just the facts, ma'am.

New and cool: Just the spin, Mx.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I Survived the Mar-A-Lago Raid at August 15, 2022 12:34 PM (FVME7)

167 146 Joe and gee-tar ln the sidebar look like they're trying to mimic a well-coiffed version of Elvis Costello.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 15, 2022 12:32 PM (es0Dj)

What a tosser.

Posted by: Declan MacManus at August 15, 2022 12:34 PM (PiwSw)

168 Lame-ass 'Scarborough Fair'>Joe Scarborough

Posted by: mr tmz at August 15, 2022 12:34 PM (rJ48h)

169 >>Obama is probably recovering from Monkey Pox at his Martha's Vineyard estate...

Gorilla Pox.

Posted by: Michele Obama's Landing Strip at August 15, 2022 12:34 PM (i1Cr7)

170 Katie Hopkins is pretty good ... she mentions that the Great Reset requires a Great Crushing of life as we had been accustomed to ... and she notes how the people basically accepted the massive invasion into their lives.

https://tinyurl.com/bsxa23a6

and this is one of her short comedy bits, mocking the waits for medical care.
https://tinyurl.com/5nzh8ev8

Posted by: illiniwek at August 15, 2022 12:34 PM (Cus5s)

171 If you're looking for reform, he's the man you want. If you're looking for revolutionary change, he is not.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 12:33 PM (WWh8n)
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These days, in the eyes of our government, reformation is the equivalent of revolution.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 15, 2022 12:35 PM (5pTK/)

172 145 He is literally in their heads, their dreams and their nightmares. They are possessed with Orangeman bad and that trauma keeps them from moving on.
Posted by: whig
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It's funny, because while I hated Obama, he doesn't "haunt" me like Trump haunts them. I've moved on a long time ago.
Posted by: Blago at August 15, 2022 12:32 PM (PwNLq)

He disrupted decades of plans near the finish line.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 15, 2022 12:35 PM (b2nrj)

173 There is also the problem that any decent legal counsel has been chased away from anything to do with Trump. It is literally, as some found it, a career ending move.
Posted by: whig
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This is a very big issue for Trump, which is why they employ lawfare against him.

Hoping his lawyers do something stupid that puts him in jeopardy.

Posted by: Blago at August 15, 2022 12:35 PM (PwNLq)

174 Intern murderer interviews FIB integrity and honesty murderer.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 15, 2022 12:35 PM (u4CEu)

175 When asked about entertaining politicians and celebrities, Jeffrey Epstein said it was all just clean fun nothing worse than a few wine spritzers and midnight basketball.

Posted by: Darth Randall at August 15, 2022 12:36 PM (/LoCq)

176 I'm sure it wasn't me to come up with the thought that they're rubbing our noses in it, but I firmly believe this is all to show their power over us. El gato malo wrote a good post about this.

And of course responding to the provocation will invite further authoritarianism. So all of society will have to undergo a complete and total upheaval to fix this. To put it in diplomatic terms.

Posted by: InZona (formerly InCali) at August 15, 2022 12:36 PM (ep37o)

177 Do you think they FBI raid of Trump was a sign of strength or fear?

Yes, they've spent decades accumulating and corrupting power but if they are so scared of what one man might expose that they do something as raid the home of a former president to take documents he was legally entitled to that doesn't sound like they are fearless to me.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2022 12:34 PM (ZLI7S)
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a muscle flex, testing strength for the coming show trial and imprisonment

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 15, 2022 12:36 PM (e+nc/)

178 Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:30 PM (CXr4y)

Just when you least expect it, a Patriot shows up, and nothing will go as planned by the Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight.

Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2022 12:36 PM (dCxaZ)

179 Alec Baldwin shot two people. One died.

Don't believe the FBI, believe your lying eyes.

Now try to figure out why the New Mexico District Attorney hasn't indicted Baldwin.

Posted by: torabora at August 15, 2022 12:36 PM (Y274z)

180 Part of their feeling of invincibility is knowing that the jury pool in DC will acquit them. No matter how guilty they are.
Posted by: KillGoogleandFacebook at August 15, 2022 12:33 PM (U9oYo)

This^^^

AND why the FIB should be relocated to Omaha.

Posted by: golfman at August 15, 2022 12:37 PM (aX0CW)

181 maybe I'm wrong, and garrett is right, and the ruling elite is scared shitless of the unwashed citizenry. If so, what scares them? Election losses? Uprisings? What is the hot button that they are watching in fear?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 15, 2022 12:33 PM (e+nc/)

Years ago, Nick Hanauer penned a warning to his fellow "elites" that the unwashed masses would come for them. Subsequently, he put a lot of money into successful* gun control efforts in WA.

*Successful by their definition.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 15, 2022 12:37 PM (yHsuS)

182 >Jim Jordan claims to Trey Gowdy 14 FIB whistleblowers have come forward to him.

BFD

Posted by: DB at August 15, 2022 12:37 PM (geLO8)

183 Scarborough is a coward. I would have asked Strzok if Lisa Paige did butt stuff, and follow up with how his wife felt about him slipping the salami to another woman

Posted by: Marcus T at August 15, 2022 12:37 PM (TbpGr)

184 It's that damn Corruption! It's so hot right now!

Posted by: Mugatu at August 15, 2022 12:37 PM (ftFVW)

185 Peter Stroke is the face of the FBI.

Smarmy, vacant and looking for who's in charge so he can suck their ass dry.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2022 12:33 PM (X/UGK)

He's Smithers to Wray's/Comey's Burns.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 15, 2022 12:37 PM (4I/2K)

186
Whatever kind of guitar it is, someone will find it in the recording studio with a broken neck soon.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2022 12:37 PM (IXpV7)

187 So the FBI goes on panty raids.

What a country.

Posted by: torabora at August 15, 2022 12:37 PM (Y274z)

188 and she notes how the people basically accepted the massive invasion into their lives.

that was a test brought to you by the PTB, of how easily gen pop could be controlled. And they got their answer.

Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2022 12:38 PM (dCxaZ)

189 Mollie
@MZHemingway

Politico claims Democrats are starting to more publicly embrace and celebrate the weaponization of federal law enforcement agencies to attack Democrats' political opponents.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 15, 2022 12:38 PM (NpAcC)

190 Democrats do love the Big Lie.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 15, 2022 12:38 PM (XvPQV)

191 Lisa, I hope you brought enough gum for everyone.

Posted by: Lisa Page's Third Grade Teacher at August 15, 2022 12:39 PM (CkFy6)

192 Lisa Page...8/10 would smash
==

With a brick to knock those horse chompers out... give her a prison smile.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 15, 2022 12:39 PM (u4CEu)

193 Now try to figure out why the New Mexico District Attorney hasn't indicted Baldwin.
Posted by: torabora at August 15, 2022 12:36 PM (Y274z)

Could her Crazylegs Hirsch flattop be an indication?

Posted by: lowandslow at August 15, 2022 12:39 PM (qH6FZ)

194 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2022 12:37 PM (IXpV7)

The ham and eggers are on it!

Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2022 12:39 PM (dCxaZ)

195 Everything they do makes Trump more beneficial to America and more popular. And they cannot help themselves.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 15, 2022 12:28 PM (lTGtQ)

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I'm old enough to remember Star Trek depicting entities that fed on fear ("Wolf in the Fold") and hatred ("Day of the Dove").

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 15, 2022 12:39 PM (iZuHq)

196 Obama is probably recovering from Monkey Pox at his Martha's Vineyard estate...
Posted by: steevy at August 15, 2022 12:33 PM (NMHe5)

Barky gots the butt bumps?

Posted by: Roland THTG at August 15, 2022 12:39 PM (j40lz)

197 BREAKING: FBI Erects Barricades Around Headquarters Building in DC

Posted by: Maj. Healey - Rosary Extremist at August 15, 2022 12:39 PM (m7R0k)

198 184 It's that damn Corruption! It's so hot right now!
Posted by: Mugatu at August 15, 2022 12:37 PM (ftFVW)

I lol-ed

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 15, 2022 12:39 PM (XvPQV)

199 181 maybe I'm wrong, and garrett is right, and the ruling elite is scared shitless of the unwashed citizenry. If so, what scares them? Election losses? Uprisings? What is the hot button that they are watching in fear?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 15, 2022 12:33 PM (e+nc/)

Years ago, Nick Hanauer penned a warning to his fellow "elites" that the unwashed masses would come for them. Subsequently, he put a lot of money into successful* gun control efforts in WA.

*Successful by their definition.

Posted by: Comrade flounder
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The Good Book tells us the guilty fleeth when no man pursueth. Confucius tells us that if you commit injustice by putting a guy into a ditch; you best had keep him there.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:39 PM (CXr4y)

200 If this is blowback I’d hate to see what success looks like.
Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 15, 2022 12:25 PM (3vQN0)

Some of that is LIV seeing inflation in July at 8.5. Down from 9.1.

Some of that is disgruntled Ds seeing Inflation Act pass.

There's no really good polling on the raid since it was Monday. Takes 3-5 days to get enough responses and the patse.

The point you make is unrelated.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 15, 2022 12:39 PM (rFLpo)

201 Speaking of Timothy McVeigh, raise your hand if you now think the official story is a load of bullshit made up by the FBI and other deep state agencies. [Raises hand]
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 15, 2022 12:24 PM (iFTx/)

Read "The Third Terrorist" by Jayna Davis.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 15, 2022 12:39 PM (anj39)

202 Stroke is the Hillary Clinton of Creepy Pron Lawyers of FBI agents.

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at August 15, 2022 12:40 PM (I+ZWa)

203 Trump declassified those documents taken in the raid thst the FBI planted?? That is what we are expected to swallow?

Posted by: Paul at August 15, 2022 12:40 PM (qY/59)

204 My God. She looked like Mr. Ed's sister.

Posted by: torabora at August 15, 2022 12:40 PM (Y274z)

205 The great gaslighting continues.

Posted by: SMFH at August 15, 2022 12:40 PM (CEh/e)

206 144 If they charge Trump and demand he turn himself in, should he comply?

Or tell them FOAD, come get me?

Cause that could be the beginning of the thing.
Posted by: I guess I'll ask them at August 15, 2022 12:31 PM (9FBGz)

Independent of whether he should, I'm fairly confident that he would comply.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 15, 2022 12:40 PM (b2nrj)

207 If Liawatha had had a Peter should would be President!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 15, 2022 12:40 PM (BRHaw)

208 Mollie
@MZHemingway

Politico claims Democrats are starting to more publicly embrace and celebrate the weaponization of federal law enforcement agencies to attack Democrats' political opponents.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 15, 2022 12:38 PM (NpAcC)
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reveling in power, like Maoists. Expect to see more such.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 15, 2022 12:40 PM (e+nc/)

209
Of course they do these things because to show everyone who's boss. This is their way of saying "get it through your heads proles... #NobodyIsComing #TwoWeeksFromNever."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2022 12:40 PM (IXpV7)

210 Jim Jordan claims to Trey Gowdy 14 FIB whistleblowers have come forward to him.

Maybe they can start a kazoo band.

Posted by: Roland THTG at August 15, 2022 12:41 PM (j40lz)

211 BREAKING: FBI Erects Barricades Around Headquarters Building in DC
Posted by: Maj. Healey - Rosary Extremist at August 15, 2022 12:39 PM (m7R0k)

It's all on op.

There are probably 100's more Ray Epps floating around out there among us.

Posted by: golfman at August 15, 2022 12:41 PM (aX0CW)

212 @197

>>BREAKING: FBI Erects Barricades Around Headquarters Building in DC.

That can only mean one thing and it's not a good thing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 15, 2022 12:41 PM (UsR0+)

213 208 Mollie
@MZHemingway

Politico claims Democrats are starting to more publicly embrace and celebrate the weaponization of federal law enforcement agencies to attack Democrats' political opponents.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 15, 2022 12:38 PM (NpAcC)
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reveling in power, like Maoists. Expect to see more such.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 15, 2022 12:40 PM (e+nc/)

Until there are consequences for it, it is a win-win for them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2022 12:41 PM (dNqv+)

214 That is what we are expected to swallow?
Posted by: Paul at August 15, 2022 12:40 PM (

That and so much more!

Posted by: It's me, Pete at August 15, 2022 12:42 PM (9FBGz)

215 They are just rubbing our noses in it.

Posted by: blaster at August 15, 2022 12:42 PM (6TxNR)

216 Well, now I feel comfortable placing the same level of confidence in the FBI that I have placed in the FBI.

Posted by: Simple Stevo at August 15, 2022 12:42 PM (SOV+T)

217 Some of that is LIV seeing inflation in July at 8.5. >>Down from 9.1.

>>Some of that is disgruntled Ds seeing Inflation Act pass.

>>There's no really good polling on the raid since it was Monday. Takes 3-5 days to get enough responses and the patse.

>>The point you make is unrelated.

Some of it is it's freaking August and the polls are always off in August while the country is on vacation.

There are as many polls showing Republicans taking the Senate and the House as their the opposite. Things don't get serious until after Labor Day.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2022 12:42 PM (ZLI7S)

218 BFD

Posted by: DB at August 15, 2022 12:37 PM (geLO

That was my first reaction, but on reflection I decided I will pray for those courageous men. It must be so difficult for honest agents to watch all this and know that coming forward makes them a target in their own workplace.

Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2022 12:42 PM (dCxaZ)

219 189 Mollie
@MZHemingway

Politico claims Democrats are starting to more publicly embrace and celebrate the weaponization of federal law enforcement agencies to attack Democrats' political opponents.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 15, 2022 12:38 PM (NpAcC)

I also see apathy. People with an attitude of "It has always been that way", or "Well, it doesn't affect me".

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 15, 2022 12:42 PM (N39Ws)

220 If they get Trump into a prison for any amount of time they can kill him

Posted by: steevy at August 15, 2022 12:42 PM (NMHe5)

221 Gilligan, the Skipper, and the Professor on how to patch a hole in a sightseeing boat.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 15, 2022 12:42 PM (S4UcI)

222 210 Jim Jordan claims to Trey Gowdy 14 FIB whistleblowers have come forward to him.

Maybe they can start a kazoo band.
Posted by: Roland THTG at August 15, 2022 12:41 PM (j40lz)

Three and a half barbershop quartets.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2022 12:42 PM (dNqv+)

223 Is anyone gonna do anything about this? Where the fuck are Trump's lawyers? Why haven't there been a dozen motions to dismiss, referrals to the bar association, and affirmative lawsuits against everyone connected to this farce. If this were Hillary who was raided, you know she would have already done this. Why do we always take this up the ass and do nothing about it? We are easy targets, easy prey, because we don't do anything to defend ourselves, let alone fight back.
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I agree.
However:
What laws, customs, or procedures are you relying upon in support of "doing something" that they have not corrupted completely?
What news outlet is going to let Trump associates smear unchallenged, "drag a $100 bill through a trailer park?"

This is Trump's fight now, they made it personal. If the Nickle and Dime Billionaire wants to fight polite and on the cheap--as he has all to now-- he loses. And the fight is on to us.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 15, 2022 12:42 PM (6YT2l)

224 @86 Why haven't there been a dozen motions to dismiss

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Dismiss what? No charges have been filed, so there's nothing to dismiss. There was a request for a neutral third party to look through the attorney client, and executive privilege stuff. That's about all a lawyer can do right now.

Posted by: junior at August 15, 2022 12:42 PM (aqgsz)

225 >>>Now try to figure out why the New Mexico District Attorney hasn't indicted Baldwin.

Posted by: torabora at August 15, 2022 12:36 PM

Movie money, of course.

Posted by: huerfano at August 15, 2022 12:43 PM (dTFZY)

226 >>>BREAKING: FBI Erects Barricades Around Headquarters Building in DC

Government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 15, 2022 12:43 PM (yHsuS)

227
The government media version of OJ Simpson's "If I Did It."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2022 12:43 PM (IXpV7)

228 I'm so agitated I've got my dirty bomb at the ready

Posted by: It's me donna at August 15, 2022 12:43 PM (bs+z0)

229 226 >>>BREAKING: FBI Erects Barricades Around Headquarters Building in DC

Government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 15, 2022 12:43 PM (yHsuS)

Support for the dirty bomb in front of the building thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2022 12:44 PM (dNqv+)

230 Re: Ari Fleischer sidebar item

For all the good that Ari does by pointing out what happened that Saturday, he completely negates it in a question he answers later in the same interview -

Is there a Fox News problem?

AF: If you look at their nighttime shows, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Tucker, to a lesser degree but, Tucker. And they make no excuses, they state that they're partisan and in their opinion shows at night. But I'll take Fox's daytime shows, and daytime reporters, and daytime anchors over CNNs and MSNBC's any day for fairness and neutrality. I think the best show on news is Brett Baier show at 6:00 at night, is the most fair objective, interesting hour long show...

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 15, 2022 12:44 PM (0IXqE)

231 Morbid curiosity. Want to watch it?
https://tinyurl.com/yxe6wx4s

Posted by: lowandslow
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I don't have to experience things I know are bad for myself. Kind of like not eating the poisonous mushroom. I find tv and video horrible for relying content anyway.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:44 PM (CXr4y)

232 I read "fleeth" as one syllable and got confused.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2022 12:44 PM (bRD+8)

233 Are the FBI barracades going to keep out a Kaliber missile?

Posted by: Poo Tin at August 15, 2022 12:44 PM (Y274z)

234 when Cheney loses, will she be the next Junta Homeland Security director?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 15, 2022 12:44 PM (e+nc/)

235 Agreed Jack. Traditional school starts I. 3 weeks. Good nu.ber of wine moms will be surprised at the Traditional back to school expense.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 15, 2022 12:44 PM (rFLpo)

236 Despite how accurate and fitting it is for the man involved, this blonde in a white dress wishes she'd never heard the name "Peter Strozk:"
https://is.gd/V5bWzX

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 12:44 PM (WWh8n)

237 203 Trump declassified those documents taken in the raid thst the FBI planted?? That is what we are expected to swallow?

Posted by: Paul at August 15, 2022 12:40 PM (qY/59)

Well Paul, we all know what *you* are expected to swallow, but the rest of us...not so much.

Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2022 12:45 PM (dCxaZ)

238 BREAKING: FBI Erects Barricades Around Headquarters Building in DC

Government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 15, 2022 12:43 PM (yHsuS)

Support for the dirty bomb in front of the building thing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2022 12:44 PM (dNqv+)

Arlington Road had a happy ending.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 15, 2022 12:45 PM (XvPQV)

239 they will actually blow little plastic whistles, and that'll be it

Posted by: DB at August 15, 2022 12:45 PM (geLO8)

240 AF: If you look at their nighttime shows, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Tucker, to a lesser degree but, Tucker. And they make no excuses, they state that they're partisan and in their opinion shows at night. But I'll take Fox's daytime shows, and daytime reporters, and daytime anchors over CNNs and MSNBC's any day for fairness and neutrality. I think the best show on news is Brett Baier show at 6:00 at night, is the most fair objective, interesting hour long show...

Posted by: Darrell Harris
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That is AF's problem. I caught onto Fox during the Bush years and haven't watched them at all since then. The web is a faster and more reliable source than listening to commentators bloviate over things I already know.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:45 PM (CXr4y)

241 Good job sailing that one right over the plate, Paul.

Waist-high

Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2022 12:45 PM (dCxaZ)

242 Mitch McConnell's staff people observed stringing razor wire on top of latest barricades.

Posted by: Maj. Healey - Rosary Extremist at August 15, 2022 12:46 PM (m7R0k)

243 So it looks like the FBI has to attack itself if they can't get some nut case to do it.

Posted by: It's me donna at August 15, 2022 12:46 PM (bs+z0)

244 What did Trump supposedly say about Garland?

Posted by: ... at August 15, 2022 12:46 PM (dscaa)

245
Paul, you can swallow *anything.*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2022 12:47 PM (IXpV7)

246 A pitchman is only as good as the pitch poured over him.

Posted by: Dr. Evil at August 15, 2022 12:47 PM (VDLxK)

247 Nuclear! Documents!

Posted by: spindrift at August 15, 2022 12:47 PM (h5TKJ)

248 I think the best show on news is Brett Baier show at 6:00 at night, is the most fair objective, interesting hour long show...

Baier is partisan as hell.. Just for the other side

Posted by: It's me donna at August 15, 2022 12:47 PM (bs+z0)

249 Despite how accurate and fitting it is for the man involved, this blonde in a white dress wishes she'd never heard the name "Peter Strozk:"
https://is.gd/V5bWzX
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 12:44 PM (WWh8n)

She's wearing my grandma's lace tablecloth! Must say, it's never looked so good.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 15, 2022 12:47 PM (4I/2K)

250 >>BREAKING: FBI Erects Barricades Around Headquarters Building in DC.

That can only mean one thing and it's not a good thing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 15, 2022 12:41 PM (UsR0+)

They have a false flag planned, and it is underway.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 15, 2022 12:47 PM (yHsuS)

251 >>Agreed Jack. Traditional school starts I. 3 weeks. Good nu.ber of wine moms will be surprised at the Traditional back to school expense.

No poll is going to convince me that what every single person in the country right now is living through is somehow not as important as Dark Brandon spending another trillion we don't have. Buying groceries and filling my car is infuriating and I don't think it's just people on our side of the aisle who feel this way.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2022 12:47 PM (ZLI7S)

252 It's easier to incite left wing kooks than right wing ones for a large number of reasons.....

Posted by: steevy at August 15, 2022 12:47 PM (NMHe5)

253 244 What did Trump supposedly say about Garland?

Posted by: ... at August 15, 2022 12:46 PM (dscaa)

"No need to return Melania's Jimmy Choo's after Agent Littlepeen spent the whole 9 hours sashaying around in them."

Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2022 12:47 PM (dCxaZ)

254 Trump needs to publish everything they took.

WHAT DOES HE HAVE TO LOSE?

Posted by: torabora at August 15, 2022 12:48 PM (Y274z)

255 The FBI building is being barricaded? Seriously?

Does the FBI really think there's a threat, or, do they think they really stepped in it with the raid on Mar A Lago, or, are the brass at the FBI hoping something happens so they can really crack down?

I'm going with the FBI upper brass somehow, coincidentally, is out of the building, and, by another strange coincidence, a major "attack" happens, causing mass casualties among the regular personnel in the building.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 15, 2022 12:48 PM (5pTK/)

256 Who gets to play Horst Wessel this time around?

Posted by: mr tmz at August 15, 2022 12:49 PM (rJ48h)

257 The web is a faster and more reliable source than listening to commentators bloviate over things I already know.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:45 PM (CXr4y)

This is the way, for at least two decades.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 15, 2022 12:49 PM (yHsuS)

258 Remind me, were there barricades around the Supreme court to prevent deranged mob from following through on its very public threats against the justices??

Posted by: runner at August 15, 2022 12:49 PM (eisI8)

259 maybe I'm wrong, and garrett is right, and the ruling elite is scared shitless of the unwashed citizenry. If so, what scares them? Election losses? Uprisings? What is the hot button that they are watching in fear?
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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JJ had a good link on this today. They fear losing their 100% control of the culture. They know they are losing the election, but that doesn't worry them. It didn't worry them in 94, 04, or 12.

This is different, they are losing their cultural control, but the only tool they have to fight with is elections or censorship.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 15, 2022 12:49 PM (44+5H)

260 This is Trump's fight now, they made it personal. If the Nickle and Dime Billionaire wants to fight polite and on the cheap--as he has all to now-- he loses. And the fight is on to us.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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The whole fight has probably cost him tens of millions of dollars as he is the only president in recent time to come out poorer than when he went in.

Offering to spend big money for big law will only get him laughed at. They make far more from corporate grift than they ever will from a one off case. So, he is left with a motley crew for a legal team.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:49 PM (CXr4y)

261 The corruption of the FBI has been long and deep. Probably even before them being in bed with one guy from Southie named Bulger. The distrust started for me then and only has gotten sadder and a greater distaste.

Posted by: Morigu at August 15, 2022 12:50 PM (u7Nsa)

262 scared shitless of the unwashed citizenry.
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Didja see this about why flyover Americans are so hateful?

David Roberts@drvolts
One thing I think about alot: the exurban & rural places in which US conservatives live are utterly bereft of public spaces. Church attendance is declining. There are virtually no civic groups & associations left. These people live in *profoundly* alienating circumstances.
. . . .
This is one explanation of the mania with which they flocked to Trump rallies. These folks just don't get together much; they live their lives in their houses, their trucks, & Walmarts. Increasingly, their only real communities are online (& utterly toxic).
. . . .
It will come as no surprise to anyone that I lay at least a large portion of the blame on car culture.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I Survived the Mar-A-Lago Raid at August 15, 2022 12:50 PM (FVME7)

263 255 You mean they found another Tim McVeigh....

Posted by: steevy at August 15, 2022 12:50 PM (NMHe5)

264 >>>BREAKING: FBI Erects Barricades Around Headquarters Building in DC

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How many stories high are the barricades?

Posted by: Andrew Joseph Stack III at August 15, 2022 12:50 PM (flINI)

265 So the FBI is monitoring Conservative web sites because people are agitated over the Trump raid ? They already were doing that.. They just want to use fake threats to justify it.

Posted by: It's me donna at August 15, 2022 12:51 PM (bs+z0)

266 WTF is Dr. Jill wearing here?

https://tinyurl.com/yj7tek8z

Posted by: Maj. Healey - Rosary Extremist at August 15, 2022 12:51 PM (m7R0k)

267 The web is a faster and more reliable source than listening to commentators bloviate over things I already know.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:45 PM (CXr4y)

Hey! That hurts, man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2022 12:51 PM (dNqv+)

268 >The FBI building is being barricaded? Seriously?

Does the FBI really think there's a threat

No- it's all theater

Posted by: DB at August 15, 2022 12:51 PM (geLO8)

269 260 He should hire Motley Crue....

Posted by: steevy at August 15, 2022 12:51 PM (NMHe5)

270 Its clear this is blowing back on Dems in a big way.

One thing I do worry about is they charge Trump and put him in cuffs and a mugshot.

That will make Jan 6 look like a Sunday picnic (which it was) and my guess is that's what Dems are aiming for.

They want a Civil War in this country where every non-leftist is portrayed as Timothy McVeigh. They are willing to go there to stay in power.
Posted by: Blago at August 15, 2022 12:20 PM (PwNLq)

I have to respectfully disagree. Too many people on 'our side' are constrained by work, families, bills, social connections and so on for an arrest of Trump to make them take to the streets. At most, a small band of easily overcome hotheads will spark off the provocation which gives the government the excuse for door-to-door confiscation or proscribing of voting rights.

Trump will be arrested and there will be no response by 'our side' beyond social media bloviating. Sorry to be a downer, but that's how I see it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 15, 2022 12:51 PM (AW0uW)

271 BREAKING: FBI Erects Barricades Around Headquarters Building in DC

Posted by: Maj. Healey - Rosary Extremist at August 15, 2022 12:39 PM (m7R0k)

Yeah, they're not at all scared of the rubes...

Posted by: Archer at August 15, 2022 12:51 PM (gmo/4)

272 So, is the FBI a branch of the military yet?

Posted by: Liz Warren's Absent Penis at August 15, 2022 12:51 PM (sI15f)

273 There is also the problem that any decent legal counsel has been chased away from anything to do with Trump. It is literally, as some found it, a career ending move.
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And the Nickle and Dime Billionaire chisels them down for an hourly rate under $350 instead of, "you'll never have to look for work again" lifetime retainer.

There is no possible way Trump can't find good help-- he just doesn't want to pay the "Trump Surcharge" for good help.

And that's not getting into the literal millions in donations to the legal fund "stop the steal" he's sitting on. That could fund lifetime attorney jobs.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 15, 2022 12:51 PM (6YT2l)

274 The FBI, like the two political parties, are afraid of the American people, those they pretend to represent and serve.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 15, 2022 12:52 PM (lTGtQ)

275 257 The web is a faster and more reliable source than listening to commentators bloviate over things I already know.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:45 PM (CXr4y)

This is the way, for at least two decades.

Posted by: Comrade flounder
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Yep. It took about 6-8 years for me in the 00's to reject any mass media as poisonous propaganda. A couple more to realize that Conservative Media, TM and GOPe were the rented ho of the left.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:52 PM (CXr4y)

276 260 This is Trump's fight now, they made it personal. If the Nickle and Dime Billionaire wants to fight polite and on the cheap--as he has all to now-- he loses. And the fight is on to us.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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The whole fight has probably cost him tens of millions of dollars as he is the only president in recent time to come out poorer than when he went in.

Offering to spend big money for big law will only get him laughed at. They make far more from corporate grift than they ever will from a one off case. So, he is left with a motley crew for a legal team.
Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:49 PM (CXr4y)

Agreed, whig. The lawyer that *won* the Bruen case in front of SCOTUS was forced to leave Kirkland & Ellis because it was damaging the firm's image to their other clients. No major law firm is going to take Trump on as a client.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 15, 2022 12:52 PM (0IXqE)

277 > WTF is Dr. Jill wearing here?

https://tinyurl.com/yj7tek8z

you know those potholders you make at summer camp, for arts and crafts? when you're 10?

Posted by: DB at August 15, 2022 12:52 PM (geLO8)

278 Just a reminder that Joe and Mika are married. To each other.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 15, 2022 12:19 PM (a3Q+t)

Maybe Joe is just trying to work on Strzok to get the that horsetooth slut's number, because she like married men.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 15, 2022 12:52 PM (yHsuS)

279 David Roberts@drvolts
One thing I think about alot: the exurban & rural places in which US conservatives live are utterly bereft of public spaces. Church attendance is declining. There are virtually no civic groups & associations left. These people live in *profoundly* alienating circumstances.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I Survived the Mar-A-Lago Raid at August 15, 2022 12:50 PM (FVME7)

That's a rather ironic perspective for an urbanite to take.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 15, 2022 12:52 PM (b2nrj)

280 Barricades and fences make good photo ops, and act as "proof" that the right-wing nutjobs are out of control when shown on the nightly news to Lofo Mofos.

It may be nothing more than optics.

Posted by: Buddy at August 15, 2022 12:52 PM (MFphb)

281 BREAKING: FBI Erects Barricades Around Headquarters Building in DC
======================

Part of Joe Biden's promise to unify the country.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 15, 2022 12:52 PM (lf83v)

282 JJ had a good link on this today. They fear losing their 100% control of the culture. They know they are losing the election, but that doesn't worry them. It didn't worry them in 94, 04, or 12.

This is different, they are losing their cultural control, but the only tool they have to fight with is elections or censorship.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 15, 2022 12:49 PM (44+5H)

One might argue that that is what is behind the stories I am seeing about 'LGB, drop the T'. Gay was a winner for them culturally, Trans imperils that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2022 12:52 PM (dNqv+)

283 29 Found in the Anti-Inflation Act:
$25 million for the FBI to purchase knee length leather overcoats in keeping with the Gestapo image.

Posted by: River Commander at August 15, 2022 12:16 PM (8Sqzu)

Plus another $25m for khaki shorts and navy polos...for "field work".

Posted by: Simple Stevo at August 15, 2022 12:52 PM (SOV+T)

284 The third time was a charm for marriages for that guy as he finally got to hide behind a very political & influential family.

But if he didn't, mourning Joe could very well be picking shit with the chickens.

Posted by: Lola at August 15, 2022 12:53 PM (NIYa7)

285
I'm guessing the FBI has been corrupt to the very core since it's inception. Think about the kind of scumbag who seek employment in centralized State secret police agencies.

The difference now is that the corruption is so widespread and intense outside the FBI, that the agency feels confident to flaunt its corruption in public, and use brute force intimidation tactics in the light of day.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2022 12:53 PM (IXpV7)

286 Everytime I think we've hit peak absurdity. Something like this happens.

Posted by: It's really not funny anymore is it? at August 15, 2022 12:53 PM (iGMEc)

287 Nancy Pelosi: Fences are immoral.

FBI: Blow me.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 15, 2022 12:53 PM (lf83v)

288 We should all know by now whenever they barricade something in DC, it's about pushing the narrative us rubes are a very real "threat to democracy".

Posted by: lowandslow at August 15, 2022 12:53 PM (qH6FZ)

289 I feel something big is going to happen this week.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at August 15, 2022 12:53 PM (sI15f)

290 Wasn't the NG and the fences in DC because they said there was a " credible threat" ?

Posted by: steevy at August 15, 2022 12:53 PM (NMHe5)

291 >>BREAKING: FBI Erects Barricades Around Headquarters Building in DC.

That can only mean one thing and it's not a good thing.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 15, 2022 12:41 PM (UsR0+)
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Remember this weekend they were reporting an uptick in threats and a "Dirty Bomb!"
oooooooo!!!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 15, 2022 12:54 PM (anj39)

292 Barricades are up for the same reason the fence was around the Capitol for months. To make people think there is a threat that justifies them. See, the ham and eggers who are totally non partisan and just doing straight law enforcement, believe Peter Strozk and Merrick Garland, are now under threat because they were justly serving a legal search warrant to an insurrectionist former President are now under threat of the violence that he stirred up by pointing out that they were raiding his house.

Posted by: blaster at August 15, 2022 12:54 PM (6TxNR)

293 No major law firm will represent Trump

Nor should he use them as they are all part of the swamp

Having Strozk on tv is just another example of this admin rubbing our faces in the National gaslight experiment

Posted by: Eli Cash at August 15, 2022 12:54 PM (jdIAf)

294 @drvolts
One thing I think about alot: the exurban & rural places in which US conservatives live are utterly bereft of public spaces. Church attendance is declining. There are virtually no civic groups & associations left. These people live in *profoundly* alienating circumstances.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I Survived the Mar-A-Lago Raid at August 15, 2022 12:50 PM (FVME7)
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This is the theme of the "Bowling Alone."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 12:54 PM (WWh8n)

295 WTF is Dr. Jill wearing here?

https://tinyurl.com/yj7tek8z

Posted by: Maj. Healey - Rosary Extremist at August 15, 2022 12:51 PM (m7R0k)

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Looks like a Carol Burnett skit with a washed-up old Scarlett O'Hara & her makeshift curtain-rod dress.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 15, 2022 12:54 PM (Su3HO)

296 Some of it is it's freaking August and the polls are always off in August while the country is on vacation.

There are as many polls showing Republicans taking the Senate and the House as their the opposite. Things don't get serious until after Labor Day.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Thank you for saying what I was going to say. It is the summer response bias which occurs every summer.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 15, 2022 12:54 PM (44+5H)

297 >>David Roberts@drvolts
One thing I think about alot

Something else to think about, Dave. A lot. 2 words.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2022 12:55 PM (ZLI7S)

298 Scarborough probably thinks Strzok is going to be FBI director someday.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 15, 2022 12:55 PM (lf83v)

299 This is akin to rubbing the dog's nose in it. And we're the dog.

Yea, but it's the cat's poop!

Posted by: Paladin at August 15, 2022 12:55 PM (3IOdT)

300 Yep. It took about 6-8 years for me in the 00's to reject any mass media as poisonous propaganda. A couple more to realize that Conservative Media, TM and GOPe were the rented ho of the left.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:52 PM (CXr4y)

There was a time about six years when I would listen to a lot of the web commentators (when the right was ascendant in that space) on issues, but even now (even with Big Tech royally effing up search) I can search and get the essential facts and make up my own mind in a fraction of the time by searching and scanning the info.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 15, 2022 12:56 PM (yHsuS)

301 I'm pretty sure Dirty Bomb is a Wet Leg song.

Posted by: spindrift at August 15, 2022 12:56 PM (h5TKJ)

302
The FBI, like the two political parties, are afraid of the American people, those they pretend to represent and serve.

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They're not afraid of a damned thing, and they shouldn't be. They won. It's a long, long road out of this, and there won't be any consequences for any employee of the Bureau working there today. These Party men are in the catbird seat.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2022 12:56 PM (IXpV7)

303 Eat some Taco Bell and you will produce a " dirty bomb" in about 6 hours...

Posted by: steevy at August 15, 2022 12:56 PM (NMHe5)

304 Who was it who was just saying that they're not even hiding that they're corrupt any more, that they want you to know that they're corrupt, because flaunting their corruption is a Statement about how powerful they are and how utterly powerless you are to do anything about it?

I alluded to that this morning noting that Pelosi took her son to Taiwan on her government jet so he could meet with his Taiwanese business partners. Despite knowing how much of a deal was made of Hunter. Because fuck you, that is why.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 15, 2022 12:56 PM (hwoGt)

305 279 David Roberts@drvolts
One thing I think about alot: the exurban & rural places in which US conservatives live are utterly bereft of public spaces. Church attendance is declining. There are virtually no civic groups & associations left. These people live in *profoundly* alienating circumstances.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I Survived the Mar-A-Lago Raid at August 15, 2022 12:50 PM (FVME7)

That's a rather ironic perspective for an urbanite to take.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 15, 2022 12:52 PM (b2nrj)
______________________

"One thing I think about alot" -- tells you all you need to know. He thinks about this "alot." He has no life so he thinks about other people's lives.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 15, 2022 12:56 PM (iFTx/)

306 WTF is Dr. Jill wearing here?

https://tinyurl.com/yj7tek8z

you know those potholders you make at summer camp, for arts and crafts? when you're 10?
Posted by: DB at August 15, 2022 12:52 PM (geLO

***

Her 2009 winning attire as the Queen of the Sunnybrooke Trailer Park.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 15, 2022 12:56 PM (anj39)

307 >>>Brett Baier show at 6:00 at night, is the most fair objective, interesting hour long show...
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Taking the whole statement into consideration Ari is correct. Baier is better than his CNN or MSNBC competitors.

It's not that Baier is good, Ari didn't say that he said he was better than the other crap.

Posted by: Braenyard. - want numremberg trials? badger your congressman he can do it at August 15, 2022 12:56 PM (SKXSf)

308 Thank you for saying what I was going to say. It is the summer response bias which occurs every summer.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 15, 2022 12:54 PM (44+5H)
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Well, when people forgo their last summer outing across Labor Day, because they can't afford it, it might just affect the polls a teensy bit.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 15, 2022 12:56 PM (5pTK/)

309 Jill Biden thinks she's still 22.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 15, 2022 12:56 PM (lf83v)

310 ah ol' Peter Struck/Stroke....I think of Rush every time I see his name. Can't even imagine what Rush would be saying these days....he said it never was time to panic, but....

Posted by: ziggggeeee at August 15, 2022 12:57 PM (+s4x8)

311 Trump will be arrested and there will be no response by 'our side' beyond social media bloviating. Sorry to be a downer, but that's how I see it.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Nah. I bet some of "our side" will volunteer to testify against him. Not nothing, but...

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 15, 2022 12:57 PM (ftFVW)

312 WTF is Dr. Jill wearing here?

https://tinyurl.com/yj7tek8z

Posted by: Maj. Heale
________________

One of those semi-elastic plant barriers, like for protecting tomatoes?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 15, 2022 12:57 PM (es0Dj)

313 Reminds me of when Tater had on a guest to discuss "fake news": Dan Rather.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 15, 2022 12:57 PM (TgBWG)

314 159 maybe I'm wrong, and garrett is right, and the ruling elite is scared shitless of the unwashed citizenry. If so, what scares them? Election losses? Uprisings? What is the hot button that they are watching in fear?
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Uprisings. The peasants are revolting. They all know their wealth means nothing if someone puts a bullet in their skull.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 15, 2022 12:57 PM (e+yf1)

315 The peasants are revolting . Yeah they stink on ice

Posted by: It's good to be the King at August 15, 2022 12:57 PM (bs+z0)

316 Trump will be arrested and there will be no response by 'our side' beyond social media bloviating. Sorry to be a downer, but that's how I see it.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 15, 2022 12:51 PM (AW0uW)
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the ball is rolling, now that the raid happened. I wonder if we are only days away from Trump's arrest, or still weeks.

Either way, I agree with MPPP here; Trump's supporters have families, jobs, mortgages, businesses. They can't be seen as threats to the regime, in fear of losing it all. The January 6 show trials have had that impact.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 15, 2022 12:57 PM (e+nc/)

317 292 Barricades are up for the same reason the fence was around the Capitol for months. To make people think there is a threat that justifies them. See, the ham and eggers who are totally non partisan and just doing straight law enforcement, believe Peter Strozk and Merrick Garland, are now under threat because they were justly serving a legal search warrant to an insurrectionist former President are now under threat of the violence that he stirred up by pointing out that they were raiding his house.
Posted by: blaster at August 15, 2022 12:54 PM (6TxNR)

This. The response to any backlash merely reinforces the fact that the FBI is completely corrupted and partisan.

That is the problem with Communism, it HAS to do the complete repression and the purges- it is not a bug in an otherwise laudable system- they are a feature. It cannot do anything else.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2022 12:57 PM (dNqv+)

318 >>>utterly bereft of public spaces.

I don't suppose that this person has visited such places.

These people live in *profoundly* alienating circumstances.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I Survived the Mar-A-Lago Raid at August 15, 2022 12:50 PM (FVME7)

For a lefty, I would imagine so.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 15, 2022 12:57 PM (yHsuS)

319 There is no possible way Trump can't find good help-- he just doesn't want to pay the "Trump Surcharge" for good help.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Yes there is. First, the law schools have been churning out lawfare types for about twenty years. Second, the remaining experienced lawyers on the right were GOPe types. Third, trial lawyers have bent overwhelmingly to the left for decades. So, who does that leave?

Lawyers, like doctors, are not fungible and an lawyer specializing in election law is different than who you need in a criminal case. A criminal case lawyer can be at sea with administrative law and so on.

I can name a few lawyers specializing in national security law but I am sure that none of them from previous statements would be willing to represent Trump no matter what he paid.

Anyway, this case is more political than legal which is what the right has not gotten through its head. There is no appeal to the law anymore as the ones that might side with Trump are frightened out of it by mob and official justice.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:58 PM (CXr4y)

320 Wasn't the NG and the fences in DC because they said there was a " credible threat" ?

Posted by: steevy

There is nothing credible in the entirety of DC.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 15, 2022 12:58 PM (lTGtQ)

321 I doubt the FBI of 30-40 years ago would have allowed an agent like Strzok to go on TV.

Posted by: Mainah at August 15, 2022 12:58 PM (B+qrE)

322 BREAKING: FBI Erects Barricades Around Headquarters Building in DC.

That can only mean one thing and it's not a good thing.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 15, 2022 12:41 PM (UsR0+)

Anne Heche isn't actually dead?

Posted by: Buddy at August 15, 2022 12:58 PM (MFphb)

323 Empty shirt pundit-ese translator:

"One thing I think about [a lot]..." = "Here's a spicy little titbit of jackassery that just popped half-formed into my adderall-riddled brainpan..."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2022 12:58 PM (/EuRN)

324 Gas in Sacramento up about 10% in a week.

Posted by: torabora at August 15, 2022 12:58 PM (Y274z)

325 And remember and "Independent DoJ" (i.e. Cabinet department) means that the police and prosecutors of the nation, that make lying illegal, do not answer to any elected representative.

Oddly enough, not the demos of muh Democracy. A "democracy" not ruled by a demos.

Just one more obvious example of how Democrats don't understand words or their concepts.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2022 12:58 PM (OaZlZ)

326 david roberts, is a sky dragon grifter, I forget the garbage publication he writes for, he lives in a metropolis, something out of blade runner with strange days blended in,

Posted by: no 6 at August 15, 2022 12:58 PM (i0Lci)

327 316 Trump will be arrested and there will be no response by 'our side' beyond social media bloviating. Sorry to be a downer, but that's how I see it.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 15, 2022 12:51 PM (AW0uW)
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the ball is rolling, now that the raid happened. I wonder if we are only days away from Trump's arrest, or still weeks.

Either way, I agree with MPPP here; Trump's supporters have families, jobs, mortgages, businesses. They can't be seen as threats to the regime, in fear of losing it all. The January 6 show trials have had that impact.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 15, 2022 12:57 PM (e+nc/)

We're still at the stage where resistance is most likely from state governments. We'll see whether they become more submissive to the central government or more independent minded.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 15, 2022 12:58 PM (b2nrj)

328 Halloween, although months away, is a big holiday in the Obama household. Lately, Barrack has been spraying himself, head to toe, with contact adhesive and then rolling around in Skittles, giving him that magic Monkeypox look.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 15, 2022 12:58 PM (lz5hY)

329 Ray Epps told the FBI he expected a bomb attack near the Capitol on Jan 6: report

https://tinyurl.com/3ffv785p

Posted by: redridinghood at August 15, 2022 12:59 PM (NpAcC)

330 Something else to think about, Dave. A lot. 2 words.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2022 12:55 PM (ZLI7S)

Obligatory blast from the past:

https://tinyurl.com/zxzjv4ar

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 15, 2022 12:59 PM (ppBhU)

331 WTF is Dr. Jill wearing here?

https://tinyurl.com/yj7tek8z
Posted by: Maj. Healey - Rosary Extremist at August 15, 2022 12:51 PM (m7R0k)
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Something profoundly unflattering and unattractive. And probably very expensive.

Ruling class clothes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 12:59 PM (WWh8n)

332 Anne Heche isn't actually dead?
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What?

Posted by: Jeff Goldblum at August 15, 2022 12:59 PM (lf83v)

333 >>Well, when people forgo their last summer outing across Labor Day, because they can't afford it, it might just affect the polls a teensy bit.

So might the individual pollsters. There are only a few pollsters worth following because they actual do modern polls using updated methodology and don't inject bias and yet people are constantly getting upset about garbage polls from places like 538 and Fox.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2022 12:59 PM (ZLI7S)

334 Everytime I think we've hit peak absurdity. Something like this happens.
Posted by: It's really not funny anymore is it?

Andy Ngo@MrAndyNgo
The first known case of human to dog #monkeypox transmission has been documented in medical journal The Lancet. The dog caught it from its owners, a gay couple in Paris who was having sex with other men. The greyhound developed an anal ulceration & lesions.

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I'm sure there's more to this story but I don't want to know it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I Survived the Mar-A-Lago Raid at August 15, 2022 12:59 PM (FVME7)

335 David Roberts@drvolts
One thing I think about alot: the exurban & rural places in which US conservatives live are utterly bereft of public spaces. Church attendance is declining. There are virtually no civic groups & associations left. These people live in *profoundly* alienating circumstances.
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Lol
Tell me you've never been to rural America without telling me you've never been to rural America.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 15, 2022 12:59 PM (6YT2l)

336 Taking the whole statement into consideration Ari is correct. Baier is better than his CNN or MSNBC competitors.

It's not that Baier is good, Ari didn't say that he said he was better than the other crap.

Posted by: Braenyard
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His gratuitous statement about the day time reporters, etc. is what is nauseating as Ari tries to keep his appearance fees on Fox.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 12:59 PM (CXr4y)

337 "Scarborough probably thinks Strzok is going to be FBI director someday."
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 15, 2022 12:55 PM (lf83v)

It's possible, I'm sure the Senate GOPe wouldn't put up much of a confirmation fight.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 15, 2022 01:00 PM (qH6FZ)

338 142 Anyone ask the upstanding persyns at the FBI why they've yet to arrest even one of Epstein's clients?
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Same reason we haven't arrested Hunter Biden!

Posted by: The FBI at August 15, 2022 01:00 PM (MvHI3)

339 15 years ago I read ATLAS SHRUGGED and thought come on...I owe Ayn Rand an apology.

Posted by: Lex at August 15, 2022 01:00 PM (ojer1)

340
Three and a half barbershop quartets.
Posted by: Aetius
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No math.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2022 01:00 PM (jZBWN)

341 Is Strzok still banging that DOJ attorney?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 15, 2022 01:00 PM (lf83v)

342 Nood democrat stroke politician. No not Biden.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 15, 2022 01:00 PM (b2nrj)

343 I'm sure there's more to this story but I don't want to know it.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I Survived the Mar-A-Lago Raid at August 15, 2022 12:59 PM (FVME7)
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It looks like it was implied and I didn't even care to know that much!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 15, 2022 01:00 PM (5pTK/)

344 where is this 'FBI barricade' story breaking? cuz I'm not seeing it

Posted by: DB at August 15, 2022 01:01 PM (geLO8)

345 >It will come as no surprise to anyone that I lay at least a large portion of the blame on car culture.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I Survived the Mar-A-Lago Raid at August 15, 2022 12:50 PM (FVME7)

Imma guess without looking that this soyjack is an EV nut.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 15, 2022 01:01 PM (q5ky+)

346 I've been out for the weekend so maybe this was covered, but Roy Moore won $8 million or so in his defamation lawsuit against 2 newspapers over the "child sex/ pedophile " type stories they pushed and pushed.

Posted by: LASue at August 15, 2022 01:01 PM (Ed8Zd)

347 324 Gas in Sacramento up about 10% in a week.
Posted by: torabora at August 15, 2022 12:58 PM (Y274z)

Makes sense. This whole thing is interesting to watch. If they try to do the whole 'Everything is great, the economy is roaring, Inflation is down!' thing, then people start thinking maybe things are not so bad, which drives demand up. This then gets money moving and the underlying inflation is revealed again.

I am waiting for the old 'Inflation is a sign of a roaring economy!' thing to be trotted out next.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2022 01:01 PM (dNqv+)

348 When is the FBI going to ground Trump's jet in case he tries to use it as a weapon?

Posted by: torabora at August 15, 2022 01:01 PM (Y274z)

349 They're just flipping us the double-bird at this point. I'm surprised "Eat It, Serfs" was not flashing on the chyron.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 15, 2022 01:01 PM (HmZuC)

350 WTF is Dr. Jill wearing here?

https://tinyurl.com/yj7tek8z

Posted by: Maj. Heale

Say, that reminds me. My Dad's old catchers mitt needs re-oiling.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 15, 2022 01:02 PM (4I/2K)

351 WTF is Dr. Jill wearing here?

https://tinyurl.com/yj7tek8z
Posted by: DB at August 15, 2022 12:52 PM (geLO

Her 2009 winning attire as the Queen of the Sunnybrooke Trailer Park.
Posted by: Diogenes

Let me show you Derelicte. It is a fashion, a way of life inspired by the very homeless, the vagrants, the crack whores that make this wonderful city so unique.

Posted by: Mugatu at August 15, 2022 01:02 PM (ftFVW)

352 That is the problem with Communism, it HAS to do the complete repression and the purges- it is not a bug in an otherwise laudable system- they are a feature. It cannot do anything else.

Posted by: Aetius451AD

Marx himself made it clear that a significant portion of the population would not accept the self degradation and loss of freedom required for the new state, and would need to be liquidated.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 15, 2022 01:02 PM (lTGtQ)

353 The greyhound developed an anal ulceration & lesions.

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I'm sure there's more to this story but I don't want to know it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I Survived the Mar-A-Lago Raid at August 15, 2022 12:59 PM (FVME7)

Gives same old meaning to "dicking the dog" or "screwing the pooch."

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 15, 2022 01:02 PM (yHsuS)

354 I grew up reading the National Inquirer that my mom would buy so I learned early how to separate the the wheat from the chaff and question all reporting. I also was taught about yellow journalism in history class so another reason to question everything.

Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2022 01:02 PM (RH1Zb)

355 >>BREAKING: FBI Erects Barricades Around Headquarters Building in DC.

That can only mean one thing and it's not a good thing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 15, 2022 12:41 PM (UsR0+)
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Does Greenland have an extradition agreement with the US?

/Asking for a defrauded & soon-to-be-indicted-and-convicted-DC-for-Breathing POTUS

Can you imagine Trump running in 2024 from a jail cell and crushing the margin of fraud? Kind of our own Mandela ...

#OrangMandelaBad!

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 15, 2022 01:02 PM (Su3HO)

356 I only listen to the wisdom of Ian on Tim Pool's podcasts.

Posted by: Rhea Tahrd at August 15, 2022 01:03 PM (VDLxK)

357 Something profoundly unflattering and unattractive. And probably very expensive.

Ruling class clothes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2022 12:59 PM (WWh8n)
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Hunger Games ruling class style. They are such absurd people.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 15, 2022 01:03 PM (fs1hN)

358 @251 Jackstraw-You assume way too much about their side of the aisle. Step outside your bubble and go to left-wing comment sections. All the pain any lefties are feeling is because people like you, me and Trump exist. You assume these fucking idiots are going to have some sort of epiphany, "hey, these wingers are right about stuff so is Trump!!!". There might be a few here and there but we are dealing with a religion and its zealots. Nothing is going to convince these people on the left that their God does not exist. If their God says we are the problem, then it is. It is never their fault, they and their policies/philosophies are infallible. True Believers. Unfortunately you and a few others here haven't quite grasped exactly what we are dealing with.

Posted by: JROD at August 15, 2022 01:03 PM (0jZnq)

359 One thing to keep in mind, Strzok is a hero to the left. Yeah, could be flipping the bird but don't discount the fact that people like Scarborough don't see Strzok as laughably corrupt and the worst person alive to comment on integrity.

They believe Strzok is integrity personified.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 15, 2022 01:03 PM (KbCG3)

360 I'm sure there's more to this story but I don't want to know it.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I Survived the Mar-A-Lago Raid at August 15, 2022 12:59 PM (FVME7)

***

Pretty sure Fidos homo owners were sticking their penis' in their dogs emissions port.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 15, 2022 01:03 PM (flINI)

361 Someone said it this morning, the raid makes it so they cannot not arrest Trump.

Posted by: davidt at August 15, 2022 01:04 PM (oTZbj)

362 #346

Senator Roy Moore will drive them batshit.

I hope he can do it.

Posted by: torabora at August 15, 2022 01:04 PM (Y274z)

363 277 > WTF is Dr. Jill wearing here?

https://tinyurl.com/yj7tek8z

you know those potholders you make at summer camp, for arts and crafts? when you're 10?
Posted by: DB at August 15, 2022 12:52 PM (geLO

What I saw was a 71yr old woman with a push up bra trying to look as appealing as Melania. All the while looking ridiculous for her efforts. Maybe Hunter is impressed, but the rest of us ??

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 15, 2022 01:04 PM (N39Ws)

364 "Barricades are up for the same reason the fence was around the Capitol for months. To make people think there is a threat that justifies them. "

It's also for the government to SPEND MONEY. They either bought or rented all of those barricades, fencing, etc. Either to get manufactured and delivered and installed, or get from a rental construction company (it's probably all on rent because of biggest opportunity for graft).

Those companies gladly pocket the costs of renting their gear to the government and then float 10+% back to the DNC election groups for the mid-terms.

Posted by: Scott_T at August 15, 2022 01:04 PM (2waQ7)

365 312 WTF is Dr. Jill wearing here?

https://tinyurl.com/yj7tek8z

A worn out catcher's mitt that's been left out in the rain? Oh, you meant the dress.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 15, 2022 01:05 PM (4useT)

366 On tonight's episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents - "The Portrait of Dr. Jill"

A hateful wizened ugly crone confronts the crafty artist who sold her a strange occult artwork.

"You bastard! You said the painting was supposed to absorb my evils and abhorrent crimes!?"

The artist whips off his disguise!

"Haha, fuck you "Mom"!. My mystical painting made your appearance absorb our entire family's deceit, corruption, crimes and abhorrent behaviour!"

Posted by: spindrift at August 15, 2022 01:05 PM (h5TKJ)

367 And, once again, Washington proves they believe fences work, for them, but, not for the border.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 15, 2022 01:05 PM (5pTK/)

368 317 292 Barricades are up for the same reason the fence was around the Capitol for months.
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Sends the opposite message--of fear and impotence. A confident government secure in its populace does not resort to an ersatz castle wall to protect itself.

First, it won't work if the populace decides to raid Stasi hq, and second, it conveys to the people inside to be afraid of those outside. That is not a winning message regardless of whatever a psyop person said. What you do not think about is that well over 50-60 percent of those studies are fraudulent in psychology and the psyop guys are literally relying on crap studies and data--the joke is that unless they replicate the studies--they have no way of knowing which studies are crap and which are correct.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 01:06 PM (CXr4y)

369 Yes, they've spent decades accumulating and corrupting power but if they are so scared of what one man might expose that they do something as raid the home of a former president to take documents he was legally entitled to that doesn't sound like they are fearless to me.
Posted by: JackStraw
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In the immortal words of DistHillary: If that sonuvabitch wins, we'll all hang.

Only continuous impeachments/disinfo operations kept them out of the shit house.

They are terrified.

Posted by: It's really not funny anymore is it? at August 15, 2022 01:07 PM (Pq+AB)

370

STROKZ!-STROKZ!-STROKZ!

Posted by: Billy Squire at August 15, 2022 01:07 PM (SWi3y)

371 Posted by: JROD at August 15, 2022 01:03 PM (0jZnq)

I think you're reading the 25% true believers. I think there are another 25% that are on the edge of being red pilled. The other 50% don't know what's going on and can go either way.

Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2022 01:07 PM (RH1Zb)

372 #361

That NYC DA wants Trump's scalp on her teepee. I can't believe she hasn't moved yet.

It's a tax case. It's not understandable to math dunce jurys.

Posted by: torabora at August 15, 2022 01:07 PM (Y274z)

373
Nothing - and I mean NOTHING - can do "profoundly alienating" like the atomized, disconnected, fully digitized existence of the stone-and-steel 21st Century urban American Communist antpile.

Small town and rural America is a place where people still have social connections without a little glass screen being involved. Not like they used to, certainly, but every day.

Our cities are where millions of people go to be absorbed into a soulless, mechanized facsimile of human existence in a sterilized, artificial environment.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2022 01:07 PM (IXpV7)

374 Say, that reminds me. My Dad's old catchers mitt needs re-oiling.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 15, 2022 01:02 PM (4I/2K)

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LOL

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 15, 2022 01:08 PM (Su3HO)

375 Marx himself made it clear that a significant portion of the population would not accept the self degradation and loss of freedom required for the new state, and would need to be liquidated.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 15, 2022 01:02 PM (lTGtQ)
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The education system that is churning out a bunch of unthinking automatons, capable of accepting self-degradation and loss of freedom. Doing them a favor, I guess?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 15, 2022 01:08 PM (fs1hN)

376 WTF is Dr. Jill wearing here?

https://tinyurl.com/yj7tek8z

Posted by: Maj. Healey - Rosary Extremist at August 15, 2022

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Kallisto posted that on the last thread. My comment was it looks like someone is holding the dress up in front of Jill, like a curtain or (God help us) a towel.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 15, 2022 01:08 PM (J2vNu)

377 358 @251 Jackstraw-You assume way too much about their side of the aisle. Step outside your bubble and go to left-wing comment sections. All the pain any lefties are feeling is because people like you, me and Trump exist. You assume these fucking idiots are going to have some sort of epiphany, "hey, these wingers are right about stuff so is Trump!!!". There might be a few here and there but we are dealing with a religion and its zealots. Nothing is going to convince these people on the left that their God does not exist. If their God says we are the problem, then it is. It is never their fault, they and their policies/philosophies are infallible. True Believers. Unfortunately you and a few others here haven't quite grasped exactly what we are dealing with.

Posted by: JROD
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In Voltaire's novel, Candide, there is a Dr. Pangloss who keeps insisting that we live in the best of all possible worlds while Candide and Pangloss encounter misery after misery on their quest. There is a term Panglossian to commemorate people that say things like, "If only Stalin knew".

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 01:09 PM (CXr4y)

378 Dr. Jill! Come quick, I've just detonated another dirty bomb!

Posted by: So-called 46 at August 15, 2022 01:10 PM (PIlQh)

379 Buying groceries and filling my car is infuriating and I don't think it's just people on our side of the aisle who feel this way.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2022 12:47 PM (ZLI7S)

Agree 100% with one exception.

If inflation even goes to 7.5 and gas gets to some miracle number - let's say below $5 here in Cali- the MSM are going to be singing Happy Days Are Here Again.

Sure. It's B.S. but the mental framing will be pushed nonetheless.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 15, 2022 01:10 PM (rFLpo)

380 >BREAKING: FBI Erects Barricades Around Headquarters Building in DC.

That can only mean one thing and it's not a good thing.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 15, 2022 12:41 PM (UsR0+)

narrative as always

Posted by: ... at August 15, 2022 01:10 PM (dscaa)

381 The education system that is churning out a bunch of unthinking automatons, capable of accepting self-degradation and loss of freedom. Doing them a favor, I guess?

Posted by: Chuck Martel
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Actually saw an Atlantic article that the yutes of Gen Z are quite pissed as the promised world keeps getting worse for them. They dislike the Dems as much as Republicans because they yearn for a socialism that will never work.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 01:11 PM (CXr4y)

382 I know its just for show, but I am glad they are barricading around the FBI building. Hope it causes them mucho inconvenience. They should triple their id checks at the doors, cut off A/C, and not allow any food in the building. If you're gonna put on a show, go vegas style!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 15, 2022 01:11 PM (8GBH4)

383 Stayed tuned for dieting tips!

Posted by: Ana Navarro at August 15, 2022 01:13 PM (kl8AK)

384 That NYC DA wants Trump's scalp on her teepee. I can't believe she hasn't moved yet.

It's a tax case. It's not understandable to math dunce jurys.

Posted by: torabora
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Bragg is the new NYC DA but at last count abandoned a criminal probe into Trump as unlikely to lead to success. Leticia is the NY AG that is pursuing a civil case against the Trump organization for overstating the value of its assets. Problem for Leticia is that the Trump Organization is privately owned and thus asset valuation is almost purely internal. Banks, etc. rely on their own evaluations for any lending which makes it difficult to describe who the victim is.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 01:15 PM (CXr4y)

385 They are like the Japanese and Germans in WW2. They believe Americans too soft and cowardly to oppose them in any meaningful way. Like the Japs and Krauts, they choose poorly.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 15, 2022 01:16 PM (eJn7u)

386 Marx himself made it clear that a significant portion of the population would not accept the self degradation and loss of freedom required for the new state, and would need to be liquidated.

Posted by: Thomas Paine
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That was those coming after Marx. Marx himself believed that by the time of the Revolution, the wealthy capitalists would be so small a group as to be indefensible. That was key to his belief in a revolution's success--capitalism inevitably led to only a few oligarchs owning all. The later ones such as Lenin were trying to explain the failure of Marxian revolutions in the most advanced capitalistic states such as Germany and the UK. They came up with a lame false consciousness argument which derived from Marx's comment that the opiate of masses is religion. In Das Kapital, Marx himself spends relatively little time describing the state after the revolution except it is all happy times for everyone with only a brief dictatorship of the proletariat to lead the unenlightened to true communism.

Sheer balderdash.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 01:21 PM (CXr4y)

387 Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 15, 2022 01:16 PM (eJn7u

We are not the 1941 America. We aren’t even the 2001 America.

Posted by: Ana Navarro at August 15, 2022 01:21 PM (kl8AK)

388 Eat some Taco Bell and you will produce a " dirty bomb" in about 6 hours...
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White Castle - 45 minutes.

Posted by: Upgraded lethality at August 15, 2022 01:22 PM (xKvBb)

389 White Castle - 45 minutes.

Posted by: Upgraded lethality at August 15, 2022 01:22 PM (xKvBb)

Chipotle - premature detonation

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 15, 2022 01:29 PM (OgrpQ)

390
In Voltaire's novel, Candide, there is a Dr. Pangloss who keeps insisting that we live in the best of all possible worlds while Candide and Pangloss encounter misery after misery on their quest. There is a term Panglossian to commemorate people that say things like, "If only Stalin knew".
Posted by: whig at August 15, 2022 01:09 PM (CXr4y)

I see that sort of thing as deep denial, more than Panglossian. Pangloss was an unfair parody of Liebniz & Theodicy. But I think it was more meant to highlight the acceptance of the existence of evil of G-d's will, and the (in Voltaire's view) ridiculous optimism associated with it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2022 01:31 PM (IXpV7)

391 Agreed

We do seem powerless

Posted by: Gonzotx at August 15, 2022 01:51 PM (t4poC)

392 Bringing Peter "mother-Strzoker" to talk about FBI integrity is like bringing in Hunter Biden to talk about ethics in in business dealings...or drug use avoidance...or proper handling of firearms...or the illegality of child pron and hookers...or...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2022 01:52 PM (ynpvh)

393 385 They are like the Japanese and Germans in WW2. They believe Americans too soft and cowardly to oppose them in any meaningful way. Like the Japs and Krauts, they choose poorly.

However, they would not be wrong today

Posted by: Gonzotx at August 15, 2022 01:52 PM (t4poC)

394 Joe never misses an opportunity to let the world know what an idiot he is.

Posted by: aelfheld at August 15, 2022 01:54 PM (Zy9Yy)

395 i'd like the Pitch Meeting guy to do this one. are you fucking kidding me?

Posted by: joe fingerblaster at August 15, 2022 02:54 PM (W+TLY)

396 Jim Jordan claims to Trey Gowdy 14 FIB whistleblowers have come forward to him.

BFD
Posted by: DB at August 15, 2022 12:37 PM (geLO

Jim Jordan is a nice guy who does not inspire confidence mainly because all he does is talk. Jim talks a lot. With no results. The best that can be said is that Jordan has not intentionally stiffed Trump.

Posted by: Voter theater. at August 15, 2022 03:13 PM (DJYaQ)

397 Those new barricades will not stop wRay Epps.

Posted by: Bang-a-gong at August 15, 2022 04:11 PM (Qc+Wp)

398 271

polynikes

Is that the real polynikes, the one who used to tell walk into a bar jokez?

Posted by: Stonefree2rant at August 16, 2022 03:44 AM (P+1VX)

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