Fugitive Arms Dealer Alleges Hunter Was Paid $100,000 Per Month, and James Biden $65,000 Per Month, To Do Favors for China; He Gave Evidence to the DOJ in 2019, But They, Get This, Covered It Up

'Missing' Biden corruption case witness Dr. Gal Luft details allegations against president's family in extraordinary video
By Miranda Devine
The "missing witness" from the Biden corruption investigation, Israeli professor Dr. Gal Luft, has laid out his bribery allegations against the president's family in an extraordinary video filmed in an undisclosed location while he's on the run.
In the 14-minute recording, obtained exclusively by The Post, the fugitive former Israeli army officer claims he was arrested in Cyprus to stop him from testifying to the House Oversight Committee that the Biden family received payments from individuals with alleged ties to Chinese military intelligence and that they had an FBI mole who shared classified information with their benefactors from the China-controlled energy company CEFC.
The self-proclaimed fall guy says he provided the incriminating evidence to six officials from the FBI and the Department of Justice in a secret meeting in Brussels in March 2019 -- but alleges that it was covered up.
"I, who volunteered to inform the US government about a potential security breach and about compromising information about a man vying to be the next president, am now being hunted by the very same people who I informed -- and may have to live on the run for the rest of my life on the run ..."
"I'm not a Republican. I'm not a Democrat. I have no political motive or agenda ... I did it out of deep concern that if the Bidens were to come to power, the country would be facing the same traumatic Russia collusion scandal -- only this time with China. Sadly, because of the DOJ's cover-up, this is exactly what happened ..."
"I warned the government about potential risk to the integrity of the 2020 elections ... Ask yourself, who is the real criminal in this story?"

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Luft disclosed during the Brussels interview that CEFC was paying $100,000 a month to Hunter and $65,000 to his uncle Jim Biden, in exchange for their FBI connections and use of the Biden name to promote China's Belt and Road Initiative around the world -- and that the money was being funneled through Walker.
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The DOJ sent a delegation of six people to meet Luft in Brussels, he alleges: four FBI agents and two prosecutors from the Southern District of New York, Daniel Richenthal and Catherine Ghosh.
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"Over an intensive two-day meeting, I shared my information about the Biden family's financial transactions with CEFC, including specific dollar figures. I also provided the name of Rob Walker, who later became known as Hunter Biden's bagman."
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He also told the DOJ and the FBI in Brussels that Hunter had an FBI mole named "One Eye" who had tipped off his CEFC associates, Dr. Patrick Ho and Chairman Ye Jianming, that they were under investigation.
Luft is well connected in intelligence circles in Washington, DC, where he ran a think tank, the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, with former CIA Director James Woolsey and former national security adviser Robert McFarlane as advisers.
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When Ho was arrested in 2017 in New York on bribery charges, the first person he tried to call was Hunter Biden, whom he had paid $1 million as a "legal retainer."
But at his trial, Ho was blocked by prosecutors from mentioning the Bidens, according to Luft.
Ho "paid Hunter Biden a million dollars for God-knows-what [but] was not allowed to mention the word Biden before the jury," says Luft.
"Prosecutor Daniel Richenthal told the judge at the time that mentioning the name Biden would 'add a political dimension' to the case, and the judge agreed. Which means if I was brought before a New York court, I would not be allowed to utter the word Brussels or Biden."

Missing’ Biden corruption case witness Dr. Gal Luft details allegations against president’s family in extraordinary video https://t.co/hK1s0Bv5fB pic.twitter.com/a1jvuo2Fps
— Karli Bonne’ (@KarliBonnita) July 6, 2023

Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at 12:10 PM

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1 and so it begins

Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's beginning at July 06, 2023 12:09 PM (aD39U)

2 nice paychecks. did they pay taxes?

Posted by: henry at July 06, 2023 12:10 PM (JMDly)

3 Hi Ace

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2023 12:10 PM (t/2Uw)

4 I thought Hunter said specifically “ No Yellow”?.

Posted by: tubal at July 06, 2023 12:10 PM (PCK5/)

5 Listen, he's obviously not as good a source as Christopher Steele.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:10 PM (LvTSG)

6 They are rubbing our noses in their villainy. Royalty, no difference in practice.

Posted by: tubal at July 06, 2023 12:12 PM (PCK5/)

7 I see an Epsteining in his future.

Posted by: BignJames at July 06, 2023 12:12 PM (AwYPR)

8 we're gonna need a bigger cubbyhole

Posted by: tomb of secrets at July 06, 2023 12:12 PM (us2H3)

9 This is fine. We just need better candidates.

Posted by: Meme dog at July 06, 2023 12:12 PM (sh1GZ)

10 Gal Gadot > Gal Luft

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at July 06, 2023 12:12 PM (gf7Ez)

11 I always hear "the coverup is worse than the crime." In the Bidens' case, that is clearly not true.

Posted by: red speck at July 06, 2023 12:12 PM (0Id0S)

12 How is this high value target in an undisclosed location?

I thought that NSA and CCP knew everything about everybody.

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 12:12 PM (01tFH)

13 That's one huge pile of shit the FIB covered up for the Bidens, not counting the huge piles of shit they covered up for the Clintons.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 06, 2023 12:12 PM (ynpvh)

14 Nah, I'm sure this was looked at and the Bidens were cleared of any wrongdoing.. because they weren't orange and didn't talk about grabbing mish...

Posted by: Inogame at July 06, 2023 12:13 PM (53oGX)

15 Joetato will be fine. Nothing but blue skies.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2023 12:13 PM (Q4IgG)

16 Hi ace! Hi everbody else!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 06, 2023 12:13 PM (Wy1BU)

17 Not sure where Gal Luft is, but if you need someone to handcuff and strip search Gal Gadot, I'm reporting for duty.

Posted by: Wally at July 06, 2023 12:13 PM (TeAWb)

18 gets the wifebeaters cleaned and pressed, stat !!!

Posted by: Jim Jordan at July 06, 2023 12:13 PM (us2H3)

19 They were able to cover it up because of Trump's idiotic personnel choices. Like putting Christopher Wray in charge of the FBI. Trump's campaign totally whiffed on all of this and how many people total did Trump fire as President? 2?

What happened to "drain the swamp"?

I get that Trump is a victim of a rigged election, but I'm not going to let him try this again out of pity. He was in over his head and still is.

Posted by: Kukui at July 06, 2023 12:13 PM (uMFis)

20 If you wanna hang out, you've gotta take her out
Cocaine
If you wanna get down, down on the ground
Cocaine
She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie
Cocaine

If you got that lose, you wanna kick them blues
Cocaine

When your day is done and you wanna run
Cocaine
She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie
Cocaine

If your day is gone and you wanna ride on

Posted by: Hunter! at July 06, 2023 12:13 PM (2tUFv)

21 Is selling out your country a misdemeanor or simply a matter that no prosecutor would bring to trial? Asking for a friend at DOJ.

Posted by: red speck at July 06, 2023 12:13 PM (0Id0S)

22 Gal Gadot > Gal Luft > Luftwaffe

Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2023 12:14 PM (eOEVl)

23 This disinformation is exactly why the federal government needs to censor, to stop lies such as this from causing irrevocable harm.

Posted by: davidt at July 06, 2023 12:14 PM (SYTee)

24 Huh. Sounds big.

There will be consequences, right?

Right?

Posted by: blaster at July 06, 2023 12:14 PM (pwExq)

25 Fire up up the angry letter to the editor machine, boys!
- GOP

Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:14 PM (Cr2ZZ)

26
No wonder Hunters taking a hit of coke on the balcony, while some young mother is shielding her child with both arms.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2023 12:14 PM (enJYY)

27 Sad that, by now, this story is all too believable. What Obama/Biden habe wrought.

Posted by: JM in Florida -- now in Illinois at July 06, 2023 12:14 PM (topdX)

28 We need to work Lorna Luft into the mix…

Posted by: tubal at July 06, 2023 12:14 PM (PCK5/)

29 Who here doesn't believe that Biden was colluding with China on the release of the Wuhan virus in order to take down Trump & end the Hong Kong Rebellion?

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 06, 2023 12:14 PM (MFZ8i)

30 We will never know who brought the cocaine into the White House.

Probably some tourist or something.

(Giggle!)

Posted by: Hunter! at July 06, 2023 12:15 PM (2tUFv)

31 21 Is selling out your country a misdemeanor or simply a matter that no prosecutor would bring to trial? Asking for a friend at DOJ.
Posted by: red speck at July 06, 2023 12:13 PM (0Id0S)

Joey shit brains/pants, didn't KNOWINGLY sell out his country. So it's not a crime, crime.

Posted by: Inogame at July 06, 2023 12:15 PM (53oGX)

32 Nothing will happen.

Not to the traitors, the Biden family and not to the traitors who covered it up.

There's a VERY small chance the Biden family may suffer consequences. The traitors who covered it up though? They will not even be named.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 06, 2023 12:15 PM (N1DT3)

33 Narrator in a hushed whisper tone: and will happen to either of them.

Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:15 PM (Cr2ZZ)

34 I (perhaps naively) think it should be fairly easy to find financial records of those transactions.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2023 12:15 PM (eOEVl)

35 I get that Trump is a victim of a rigged election, but I'm not going to let him try this again out of pity. He was in over his head and still is.
==
See. We just need better candidates. Its all totally fixable. Super easy, barely and inconvenience.

Posted by: Pitch meeting meme dog mash up at July 06, 2023 12:15 PM (sh1GZ)

36 31 21 Is selling out your country a misdemeanor or simply a matter that no prosecutor would bring to trial? Asking for a friend at DOJ.
Posted by: red speck at July 06, 2023 12:13 PM (0Id0S)

Joey shit brains/pants, didn't KNOWINGLY sell out his country. So it's not a crime, crime.

Posted by: Inogame at July 06, 2023 12:15 PM (53oGX)

Leftist with connections: Patriotic actions
Conservative who complains about said Leftist: Traitor

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 06, 2023 12:16 PM (ynpvh)

37 Gal Luft > 99 Luftballoons

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at July 06, 2023 12:16 PM (gf7Ez)

38 As with everything else surrounding this "Administration," I ask how would the Democrat-Communists and the Corrupt Media treat this story if it was about Trump instead of Biden? It is of course a rhetorical question, since we know they would go effing crazy with it 24/7 until literally everyone in the country was talking about it.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at July 06, 2023 12:16 PM (ik/65)

39 OK, so he is naming names of people who could corroborate things... like the Judge or Attorneys in the Ho case.

And the names of the two DOJ lawyers who interviewed him.... seems these could end up being a smoking gun if some actual reporter would look at this.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 06, 2023 12:16 PM (oHd/0)

40 I (perhaps naively) think it should be fairly easy to find financial records of those transactions.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2023 12:15 PM (eOEVl)

One bit of solid corroboration and this is worth a flaming skull.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 06, 2023 12:17 PM (e4fEA)

41 Hunter’s sentence for his crimes are just mocking, or trolling us… Dropping charges would hve been less outgageous… the dissipated princeling of a senile diseased king..

Posted by: tubal at July 06, 2023 12:17 PM (PCK5/)

42 34 I (perhaps naively) think it should be fairly easy to find financial records of those transactions.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2023 12:15 PM (eOEVl)

FIB has their top men on it. I mean, you have enough folks on top of something, you won't be able to see it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 06, 2023 12:17 PM (ynpvh)

43 Just imagine what the next few months are going to be like, now that I'm definitely off the wagon!

Posted by: Hunter! at July 06, 2023 12:17 PM (2tUFv)

44 32 Nothing will happen.

Not to the traitors, the Biden family and not to the traitors who covered it up.

There's a VERY small chance the Biden family may suffer consequences. The traitors who covered it up though? They will not even be named.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 06, 2023 12:15 PM (N1DT3)

Somewhere they s a report on DOD letterhead that details the IG investigation into these allegations of FBI coverup... and we will see only the date and black lines because sources and methods and stuff...

Posted by: Inogame at July 06, 2023 12:17 PM (53oGX)

45 I watched this earlier today. It is just unbelievable that nothing is being done about this. Has to be the most corrupt administration in history and yet crickets.
Think about past major stories like the Watergate break in, the Post Office scandal, Bush's daughers underage drinking, Billy Beer(don;t even remember what that was about). None even come close to bribery and treason of the Biden family and even worse the coverup by the FBI, DOJ, State Dept which are supposed to uphold the law.
It is just sickening that the media is just condoning this. Looking back in history and often wondering why people allowed this kind of fascism to do unblievable crimes against humanity. Now I know.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2023 12:17 PM (t/2Uw)

46 Trump's idiotic personnel choices. Like putting Christopher Wray in charge of the FBI.
===
Trust Wray

*giggles*

Posted by: Q at July 06, 2023 12:17 PM (sh1GZ)

47 Isn't it cute that prosecution of Democratic party constituencies is "political" ?

Posted by: Jay in PA at July 06, 2023 12:17 PM (i7Q7S)

48 So one eye tipped off the ho?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 06, 2023 12:17 PM (63Dwl)

49 He also told the DOJ and the FBI in Brussels that Hunter had an FBI mole named "One Eye" who had tipped off his CEFC associates

There has to be a limited number of one eyed people in the FBI.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 06, 2023 12:18 PM (aD39U)

50 I wish I was an arms dealer. How can I get that gig?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 06, 2023 12:18 PM (xcxpd)

51 39 OK, so he is naming names of people who could corroborate things... like the Judge or Attorneys in the Ho case.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 06, 2023 12:16 PM (oHd/0)

We talking Hunter Biden again?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 06, 2023 12:18 PM (ynpvh)

52 I AM ZOD THE ALL POWERFUL!

KNEEL BEFORE ME!

(snort another line...)

Posted by: Hunter! at July 06, 2023 12:18 PM (2tUFv)

53 Its like a game, watching how much evidence will pile up before something happens. I predict that in a few more months we'll see an investigation that results in a hand slapping of a few people, more training, and everyone declaring the entire episode closed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 06, 2023 12:18 PM (0hOvj)

54 49 "He also told the DOJ and the FBI in Brussels that Hunter had an FBI mole named "One Eye" who had tipped off his CEFC associates"

There has to be a limited number of one eyed people in the FBI.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 06, 2023 12:18 PM (aD39U)

Be funny if it referred to Crenshaw.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:18 PM (eYoxG)

55 He also told the DOJ and the FBI in Brussels that Hunter had an FBI mole named "One Eye" who had tipped off his CEFC associates

Crenshaw's an FBI asset? That would track.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 06, 2023 12:18 PM (FD5dr)

56 Nothing to see here, go home.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 06, 2023 12:19 PM (cMXNt)

57 50 I wish I was an arms dealer. How can I get that gig?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 06, 2023 12:18 PM (xcxpd)

Well, if you work for coroner's office, you might be able to sell them to hospitals...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 06, 2023 12:19 PM (ynpvh)

58
One bit of solid corroboration and this is worth a flaming skull.

I have it on good authority from any number of Hollywood movies that one just walks into the bank, and then enters a password based on some random event in the owner's life. It shouldn't require more than a few guesses.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2023 12:19 PM (eOEVl)

59 Biden Crime Family strikes again
Read this morning their under the table accounts were in the millions

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2023 12:19 PM (b4YBS)

60 When Ho was arrested
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When Ho was arrested?

How? Why?

Posted by: ... at July 06, 2023 12:19 PM (2tTGs)

61 "I get that Trump is a victim of a rigged election, but I'm not going to let him try this again out of pity. He was in over his head and still is.
Posted by: Kukui"

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

I have people in my Facebook feed who still think Trump is coming back and there are 587 SEALED INDICTMENTS ready to drop.

Sad!

Posted by: Jay in PA at July 06, 2023 12:19 PM (i7Q7S)

62 Where’s that supposed tape of Biden talking about bribes? We get stories like these every week. So and so said that they know Biden did this or that. And nothing ever comes of it. Never a follow up no indictments no nothing.

Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:19 PM (Cr2ZZ)

63 Just a victim of life's circumstances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zLf58fAq0g

Posted by: BignJames at July 06, 2023 12:19 PM (AwYPR)

64 I didn't "get" the Grimace shake videos. Was there something more than a motley bunch of THOTs and attention whores desperate for the next stupid thing to try to get famous?

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 06, 2023 12:19 PM (iFTx/)

65 You see this, this is my shocked face

Posted by: Crazy to be sane at July 06, 2023 12:19 PM (kQRXD)

66 And no one in power will care, and nothing will happen. This country needs to be deleted. It is thoroughly corrupt and it's never going back.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 06, 2023 12:19 PM (bkUtD)

67 I (perhaps naively) think it should be fairly easy to find financial records of those transactions.

LOL. They're in the same place as the videos showing who brought the cocaine into the White House.

Posted by: Hunter! at July 06, 2023 12:19 PM (2tUFv)

68 Let's face it, the biden presidency is a dream come true for the deep state. They own him lock stock and crack smoking Hunter. He'll do what they say, how they say for as long as they say.

Posted by: J. Edgar would have been proud of them at July 06, 2023 12:20 PM (sh1GZ)

69 57 50 I wish I was an arms dealer. How can I get that gig?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 06, 2023 12:18 PM (xcxpd)

Well, if you work for coroner's office, you might be able to sell them to hospitals...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 06, 2023 12:19 PM (ynpvh)

lol

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 06, 2023 12:20 PM (xcxpd)

70 I'm not concerned(SNORF)
Hunter Biden

Posted by: steevy at July 06, 2023 12:20 PM (uW/wK)

71 We can laugh at Hunter's idiocy, but the people around him are serious. DOJ and FBI are openly corrupted, covering up for him (and Joe). It wouldn't surprise me at all that the CIA could be involved in pressuring tiny Cyprus to kidnap this guy to keep him from testifying to Congress. There may be worse things probably already happening in Ukraine to potential witnesses.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 06, 2023 12:20 PM (fs1hN)

72 61 I have people in my Facebook feed who still think Trump is coming back and there are 587 SEALED INDICTMENTS ready to drop.

Sad!
Posted by: Jay in PA at July 06, 2023 12:19 PM (i7Q7S)

==========

I scrolled through my Facebook feed for the first time in about 3 years the other day. I was just curious.

It was 75% ads. Facebook has changed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:20 PM (LvTSG)

73 Billy Beer was involved with Qadaffi and oil smuggling. The beer was just straight grift off his name.

Posted by: henry at July 06, 2023 12:20 PM (JMDly)

74 19 They were able to cover it up because of Trump's idiotic personnel choices.

Yes, he made some stinkers. He was a novice who actually trusted those put in positions of trust. I don't know how much you can fault him for that in hindsight. We all *knew* Barr was going to get to the bottom of it. Until he didn't, and turned out to be a self-serving swamp rat like the rest of them. I seriously doubt Trump will be so gullible in a second term. The hard truth is that there are precious few who CAN be trusted at this point.

Posted by: red speck at July 06, 2023 12:20 PM (0Id0S)

75 This almost, almost I say, qualifies as black humor.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 06, 2023 12:20 PM (aCNZ6)

76
Just imagine what the next few months are going to be like, now that I'm definitely off the wagon!

Posted by: Hunter! at July 06, 2023 12:17 PM

Hopefully, you'll exhaust your bodies supply of dopamine and become so depressed you eat a bullet before you kill some innocent person.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2023 12:20 PM (enJYY)

77 Doesn't every law abiding family have 20 shell corporations?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 06, 2023 12:21 PM (aD39U)

78 I wish I was an arms dealer. How can I get that gig?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 06, 2023 12:18 PM (xcxpd)

Join ATF?

Posted by: BignJames at July 06, 2023 12:21 PM (AwYPR)

79 I thought Hunter said specifically “ No Yellow”?.
Posted by: tubal at July 06, 2023 12:10 PM (PCK5/)

I wonder if even Hunter Biden was more savvy than Eric Swallwell as far as Asian honeypots go.

Posted by: Catherine at July 06, 2023 12:21 PM (ZSsrh)

80 Gal Gadot > Gal Luft > Luftwaffe

I heard morons going on and on about Gal Godot so I looked her up. She looks like me in my early 20s

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 12:21 PM (01tFH)

81 66 And no one in power will care, and nothing will happen. This country needs to be deleted. It is thoroughly corrupt and it's never going back.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 06, 2023 12:19 PM (bkUtD)

It’s worse than that, it’s Dead, Jim…

Posted by: tubal at July 06, 2023 12:21 PM (PCK5/)

82 How long before Carl Bernstein and John Dean appear to proclaim this is worse than Watergate! Never mind…. That would redound to the benefit of the GOP so it would never happen in a million years….

Remember when leaking the Pentagon Papers was a noble deed… when whistleblowers were noble? Good times…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 06, 2023 12:21 PM (M23Y7)

83
We need to work Lorna Luft into the mix…
Posted by: tubal

Is she one of Superman's girl friends?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 06, 2023 12:21 PM (63Dwl)

84 75 This almost, almost I say, qualifies as black humor.
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 06, 2023 12:20 PM (aCNZ6)

I do like Kevin Hart.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 06, 2023 12:21 PM (xcxpd)

85 72 61 I have people in my Facebook feed who still think Trump is coming back and there are 587 SEALED INDICTMENTS ready to drop.

Sad!
Posted by: Jay in PA at July 06, 2023 12:19 PM (i7Q7S)

==========

I scrolled through my Facebook feed for the first time in about 3 years the other day. I was just curious.

It was 75% ads. Facebook has changed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:20 PM (LvTSG)

Just yesterday an investment manager was telling me about how Meta (Facebook stock) had really turned their business around and was making money.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:21 PM (eYoxG)

86 sorry, no standing

snort snort

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 06, 2023 12:22 PM (B1FKF)

87 I hate to say it, but people who are ok with "a bat and a pig had sex in a wetmarket" as a covid origin story won't care how much blow or payoffs the bidens get.

Posted by: Tom at July 06, 2023 12:22 PM (iLg1v)

88 I'm starting to think this FBI thing might need to be disbanded. Entirely.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at July 06, 2023 12:22 PM (ZoeSo)

89 I scrolled through my Facebook feed for the first time in about 3 years the other day. I was just curious.

It was 75% ads. Facebook has changed.

I reckon Zuck knows FB is a spent force, so he's cashing out while he still can.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2023 12:22 PM (eOEVl)

90 I remember being at a wedding right after college graduation, and at the reception, an arms dealer asked me if I was looking for a job. "naaaah". Might have been an interesting a career choice.

Posted by: mrp at July 06, 2023 12:22 PM (rj6Yv)

91 -I heard morons going on and on about Gal Godot so I looked her up. She looks like me in my early 20s

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 12:21 PM (01tFH)

You know there are rules, right?

Posted by: blaster at July 06, 2023 12:22 PM (pwExq)

92 Trump's idiotic personnel choices. Like putting Christopher Wray in charge of the FBI at the suggestion of Chris Christe,

Posted by: SMOD at July 06, 2023 12:22 PM (RHGPo)

93 But don't worry, the Grand Old Pussies are on the case. "Durham's Coming!"

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at July 06, 2023 12:22 PM (ik/65)

94 85 Just yesterday an investment manager was telling me about how Meta (Facebook stock) had really turned their business around and was making money.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:21 PM (eYoxG)

=======

By replacing people's feeds with ads? I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:23 PM (LvTSG)

95 Let's face it, the biden presidency is a dream come true for the deep state. They own him lock stock and crack smoking Hunter. He'll do what they say, how they say for as long as they say.

Which ties in to the "conspiracy theory" that Epstein was a blackmail generation operation for the deep state. He targeted corporate America so they could be "convinced" to heel to ESG.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 06, 2023 12:23 PM (FD5dr)

96 Every day something new. And always more damning.

I assume the Demedia is simply staying quiet under the assumption that this will all go away somehow.

Can't help but wonder if they are firing up the counter propaganda machine behind the scenes. Get a few Vanity Fair reporters rolling with the instructions that these revelations must be thoroughly debunked before they penetrate LIV's world.

Posted by: RM at July 06, 2023 12:23 PM (0eYOS)

97 I heard morons going on and on about Gal Godot so I looked her up. She looks like me in my early 20s.

You know the rules. Pics.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at July 06, 2023 12:23 PM (ZoeSo)

98 How can someone as dimwitted as Joe Biden be so successful at corruption?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 06, 2023 12:23 PM (aCNZ6)

99 Its like a game, watching how much evidence will pile up before something happens. I predict that in a few more months we'll see an investigation that results in a hand slapping of a few people, more training, and everyone declaring the entire episode closed.
==
That's what is behind door number one, do you want to trade for what's behind door number two? *Spanish Civil War* or door number three *Bosnia*?

Posted by: Monte Hall of Clownworld at July 06, 2023 12:23 PM (sh1GZ)

100 I heard morons going on and on about Gal Godot so I looked her up. She looks like me in my early 20s

Posted by: kallisto

Look, we WANT to trust you, but the rules are the rules.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2023 12:23 PM (eOEVl)

101 80 Gal Gadot > Gal Luft > Luftwaffe

I heard morons going on and on about Gal Godot so I looked her up. She looks like me in my early 20s

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 12:21 PM (01tFH)

nice

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 06, 2023 12:23 PM (xcxpd)

102 We need to work Lorna Luft into the mix…

Posted by: tubal

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"Lorna Luft-Handsoff."

-- Mr. Luft

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 06, 2023 12:23 PM (ul9wx)

103 That’s totally inappropriate. It’s lewd, lascivious, salacious, outrageous.

Posted by: Jackie Chiles at July 06, 2023 12:24 PM (FVME7)

104 I wonder if Pete LaCock ever played on the same team as Rusty Kuntz...

Posted by: steevy at July 06, 2023 12:24 PM (uW/wK)

105 94 85 Just yesterday an investment manager was telling me about how Meta (Facebook stock) had really turned their business around and was making money.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:21 PM (eYoxG)

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By replacing people's feeds with ads? I guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:23 PM (LvTSG)

That's what it sounds like to me. Can't imagine that it's a very sustainable way of making money though.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:24 PM (eYoxG)

106 Just yesterday an investment manager was telling me about how Meta (Facebook stock) had really turned their business around and was making money.

Probably some of the Ukraine slush fund is going to them in exchange for censoring anything to the right of Hillary.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 06, 2023 12:24 PM (FD5dr)

107 I’m not surprised the Biden’s sold out America, I’m surprised they did it for so little.

Posted by: Tyrone da Bone at July 06, 2023 12:24 PM (ktZc0)

108 This looks like we're going to have to vote harder this next election.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 06, 2023 12:24 PM (BdMk6)

109 Al Gore, "No controlling legal authority."

Hunter Biden, 'Don't you recognize my name?"

A thousand years being slowly digested by the mighty Saarlac is too good for all these vermin.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2023 12:25 PM (hbhtj)

110 Shouldn't we be honoring people that have persevered in spite of losing one eye or perhaps some other vital appendage?

Posted by: Michelle Fields at July 06, 2023 12:25 PM (T0tUU)

111 That's what it sounds like to me. Can't imagine that it's a very sustainable way of making money though.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:24 PM (eYoxG)

Have you been to AOSHQ lately?

Posted by: blaster at July 06, 2023 12:25 PM (pwExq)

112 did they need to pay taxes on all that money? wouldn't it violate their constitutional rights against self incineration if they admitted taking bribes?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 06, 2023 12:25 PM (B1FKF)

113 Lorna Luft, half sister of Liza Minelli… not nearly as much work, and not nearly as crazy…

Posted by: tubal at July 06, 2023 12:25 PM (PCK5/)

114 Obviously this is Russian disinformation.

Posted by: Thrillary Binton at July 06, 2023 12:25 PM (5QCXN)

115 Boys will be boys. That Hunter, what an incorrigible scamp!!!

(thud!)

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at July 06, 2023 12:25 PM (vcOmj)

116 We can get upset and excited over this but...

- Trump wasn't stymied for four years due to Biden corruption.
- Biden corruption didn't cause January 6th.
- Biden corruption hasn't prevented Congress from passing a budget in 20 years.

Biden isn't why the border has never been closed, why crime in the cities has never been dealt with, why collusion in business has never been dealt with, why treason is now a path to promotion.

Biden is a symptom.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 06, 2023 12:25 PM (GYIa4)

117 107 I’m not surprised the Biden’s sold out America, I’m surprised they did it for so little.

Posted by: Tyrone da Bone at July 06, 2023 12:24 PM (ktZc0)

The classier the whore, the more she charges...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 06, 2023 12:25 PM (ynpvh)

118 Look, we WANT to trust you, but the rules are the rules.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2023 12:23 PM (eOEVl)

It would be useless because I'd have to pixelate the face. Anyway that was then and this is now, Ii don't look like that anymore.

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 12:25 PM (01tFH)

119 It is just sickening that the media is just condoning this. Looking back in history and often wondering why people allowed this kind of fascism to do unblievable crimes against humanity. Now I know.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2023 12:17 PM (t/2Uw)

Not that I believe there will ever be a GOP president again save one who is a complete Deep State stooge, but one of the first orders of business for them would be to go absolutely scorched earth on the MFM. Throw them out of the WH, deny them any access and immediately fire any admin person who speaks to them.

They are traitors and need to be treated as such.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 06, 2023 12:26 PM (AW0uW)

120 How many fucking t’s have to be crossed and i’s dotted?

Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2023 12:26 PM (MNhXM)

121 >>>It’s worse than that, it’s Dead, Jim…
Posted by: tubal

I like certain parts of America, but as a whole, I couldn't care less. Just waiting for the internment camps at the moment.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 06, 2023 12:26 PM (bkUtD)

122 I doubled Mitch McConnell's estates in Macau, Biden turned ... for much less.

Posted by: Xi Jinping at July 06, 2023 12:26 PM (aD39U)

123 "The significance of the passage of Biden, right? The significance of the passage of Biden. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of Biden ... there is such great significance to the passage of Biden."

F. Joe Didn't Kill Himself ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 06, 2023 12:26 PM (HRgnk)

124 By replacing people's feeds with ads? I guess.

As Pixy pointed out, nobody's making money on just ads anymore. That's why YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit all are trying to monetize in other ways.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 06, 2023 12:26 PM (FD5dr)

125 Is this guy still alive ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 06, 2023 12:26 PM (bs+z0)

126 106 "Just yesterday an investment manager was telling me about how Meta (Facebook stock) had really turned their business around and was making money."

Probably some of the Ukraine slush fund is going to them in exchange for censoring anything to the right of Hillary.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 06, 2023 12:24 PM (FD5dr)

They also fired a bunch of unnecessary staff last year.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:26 PM (eYoxG)

127 re 106: reports that meta's new twatter competitor is trying to shadow ban people. you know, conservatives.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 06, 2023 12:26 PM (B1FKF)

128 I’m still absolutely convinced that Brandon will be the Dem nominee in 2024 unless he goes room temp. TPTB have found he’s easy to control and who cares if he’s a mush brain…. He can campaign from his basement again

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 06, 2023 12:27 PM (M23Y7)

129 124 As Pixy pointed out, nobody's making money on just ads anymore. That's why YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit all are trying to monetize in other ways.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 06, 2023 12:26 PM (FD5dr)

=====

Psh. Whores, all of 'em.

Hey, buy my book!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:27 PM (LvTSG)

130 53 >>>It's like a game, watching how much evidence will pile up before something happens.

Like those coin-op games with the giant towers of coins teetering on the edge of falling into the "win" slot. But they never fall. And when you momentarily look away to check if the machine is working, the coin tower disappears as if nothing was ever there. You're left with nothing but the expectation of resolution that never comes.

Posted by: red speck at July 06, 2023 12:27 PM (0Id0S)

131 121 >>>It’s worse than that, it’s Dead, Jim…
Posted by: tubal

I like certain parts of America, but as a whole, I couldn't care less. Just waiting for the internment camps at the moment.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 06, 2023 12:26 PM (bkUtD)

I love my part… I hope it remains obscure and undesirable by the elites…

Posted by: tubal at July 06, 2023 12:27 PM (PCK5/)

132 Going out on a limb here and I'll predict that absolutely
nothing will come of this.

Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at July 06, 2023 12:27 PM (PWI4f)

133 The sword fight video from the sidebar is well worthwhile. BONUS: Two pistol shots and snarky lady comments.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 06, 2023 12:28 PM (FVME7)

134 Gore made phone calls soliciting campaign contributions from his White House office. As Charles Krauthammer wrote at the time, “Section 607 of Title 18 of the U.S. Criminal Code states very clearly there is to be no solicitation of campaign funds in federal government offices. Gore broke the law as written, as understood and as practiced.” Violations of Section 607 called for a penalty of up to three years in prison.

Gore had no real defense, so he trotted out a phony one: There was, he infamously claimed, “no controlling legal authority.” What he meant was that there weren’t many court decisions interpreting the meaning of Section 607. It was laughable. The rule of thumb for judges, as for the rest of us, is that laws are construed to mean what they say, the ordinary, everyday understanding of the words.

Posted by: SMOD at July 06, 2023 12:28 PM (RHGPo)

135 Ten bucks someone will come in here and tell us that "the usual people" saying nothing will happen are wrong because something is happening.

You just can't see it.

Posted by: blaster at July 06, 2023 12:28 PM (pwExq)

136 125 He's planning his suicide at this moment...

Posted by: steevy at July 06, 2023 12:28 PM (uW/wK)

137 I looked at the FBI executive team and haven't seen a one eyed one yet. However Alan Kohler, assistant director in counterintelligence has that bald head James Clapper evil look.

He also was at the NYC field office at one point.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 06, 2023 12:28 PM (cMXNt)

138 It would be useless because I'd have to pixelate the face. Anyway that was then and this is now, Ii don't look like that anymore.

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 12:25 PM (01tFH)

Nobody likes a tease. But fine. I'd post pics too, back when I had George Clooney's face and Stan Lane's body. But, you know, times change - now I just look like a stocky Brad Pitt with a Sam Elliot voice.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at July 06, 2023 12:28 PM (ZoeSo)

139 Who setup the whole thing? Does anyone think *biden himself concocted all this? He's a tool. A guilty, corrupt, piece of shit... but still a tool.

The faceless bureaucrats, movers and shakers that put these "deals" on the table... those are the ones that need to feel the heat. Once that happens, the *bidens and all their hangers on will be toast.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2023 12:28 PM (Q4IgG)

140 I didn't "get" the Grimace shake videos. Was there something more than a motley bunch of THOTs and attention whores desperate for the next stupid thing to try to get famous?
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 06, 2023 12:19 PM (iFTx/)

Sounds like you "got" the Grimace shake videos.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 06, 2023 12:28 PM (GYIa4)

141 Louis Freeh is one-eyed.

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 06, 2023 12:28 PM (yqJaP)

142 AM I seeing Kathleen Kennedy is Unemployed? I can never be sure on the interwebz.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 06, 2023 12:29 PM (z+89e)

143 You do have to take "fugitive arms dealer" testimony with a grain of salt, but I'd give him more credence than your average media or political personage.

Posted by: From about that Time at July 06, 2023 12:29 PM (4780s)

144 re 106: reports that meta's new twatter competitor is trying to shadow ban people. you know, conservatives.

Yup. They're hitting the ground censoring. I've already seen a lot of reports of posts about Biden corruption being deleted.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 06, 2023 12:29 PM (FD5dr)

145
Two firefighters killed in overnight fire on cargo ship in Newark, New Jersey
USA Today on MSN.com|5 hours ago
Two Newark Fire Department firefighters were killed in an overnight fire on a cargo ship, according to multiple reports on Thursday.

I can't get to the article, but wondering if an EV is involved.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2023 12:29 PM (enJYY)

146 My wife gets 2/3 of her clients via Facebook ads. It’s a pretty cheap and effective way to advertise. At least for her. Someone’s clicking on the ads somewhere.

Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:29 PM (Cr2ZZ)

147 Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 12:21 PM (01tFH)

I was just about to hit post saying I think Gal Godot is unattractive when I read this. You are an 'ette which means you are breathtakingly beautiful. She is.......um.... Not.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 06, 2023 12:29 PM (Wy1BU)

148 49 He also told the DOJ and the FBI in Brussels that Hunter had an FBI mole named "One Eye" who had tipped off his CEFC associates

There has to be a limited number of one eyed people in the FBI.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 06, 2023 12:18 PM (aD39U)

I've never been to Brussels

Posted by: Hume Cronyn at July 06, 2023 12:29 PM (us2H3)

149 Been seeing Hunter referred to as Fortunate Son. Lyrics fit him perfectly, down to the tax references.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 06, 2023 12:29 PM (9mE3u)

150 There needs to be a lot of 47 Ronin stuff happening to all these traitorous criminals who think they are princes.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2023 12:29 PM (hbhtj)

151 I heard morons going on and on about Gal Godot so I looked her up. She looks like me in my early 20s

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 12:21
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Its like Reagan said, trust but verify. Let's seem em.

Posted by: Its important to keep the peace at July 06, 2023 12:29 PM (sh1GZ)

152 If there was a honest news media Sundowner would be long gone maybe in prison really.

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2023 12:29 PM (b4YBS)

153 I’m not surprised the Biden’s sold out America, I’m surprised they did it for so little.

Posted by: Tyrone da Bone at July 06, 2023 12:24 PM (ktZc0)

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"I gave the Clintons double their lands in Scotland, matching estates in England. The Bidens turned for... for much less."

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 06, 2023 12:29 PM (ul9wx)

154

Kallisto, got any bikini pictures from when you were in your '20s?

Want some?

Posted by: Bob at NSA at July 06, 2023 12:30 PM (L76ku)

155 Biden is a symptom.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

So, Biden is like a runny nose and a sore throat? The Symptoms of America's infection.

Let's face it, most of those guys up there that have been "elected" are pretty much schmucks. I know my Congressman is...really a schmuck. And really, to the people in the "permanent" government, they look on the elected ones as the "summer help". They'll be there for a while, and then leave....letting the permanent government (AKA, the Deep State) get on with running things the way they see fit.

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at July 06, 2023 12:30 PM (vcOmj)

156 You do have to take "fugitive arms dealer" testimony with a grain of salt, but I'd give him more credence than your average media or political personage.

It tells you something that a "fugitive arms dealer" is more believable than the President.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2023 12:30 PM (eOEVl)

157 Why doesn't the general public realize what a shitshow the Biden administration is becoming?

Is it this importatnt to mainain: Orangemanbad?

Posted by: Axeman at July 06, 2023 12:30 PM (krQz2)

158 145 Could have been just the batteries ...

Posted by: steevy at July 06, 2023 12:30 PM (uW/wK)

159 141 Louis Freeh is one-eyed.
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 06, 2023 12:28 PM (yqJaP)

Dan Crenshaw

Posted by: It's me donna at July 06, 2023 12:30 PM (bs+z0)

160 It is important to remember that Trump was given a list of names that the Senate would approve for AG, FBI, etc. McConnell controlled things, and he made it clear that he would only accept a few.

Direct the vein of bile and hatred at the proper recipients: McConnell and the Senate Republicans.

Posted by: Brewingfrog at July 06, 2023 12:30 PM (E0Ivz)

161 Rat fker sold us out to the Chinese

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2023 12:30 PM (b4YBS)

162 Not sure where Gal Luft is, but if you need someone to handcuff and strip search Gal Gadot, I'm reporting for duty.
Posted by: Wally

Well, he is a man so....making no judgements here.

Posted by: Cheri at July 06, 2023 12:30 PM (oiNtH)

163 >>>I love my part… I hope it remains obscure and undesirable by the elites…
Posted by: tubal

North Carolina is kinda meh, but I'd love to live near the Outer Banks. My favorite vacation spot.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 06, 2023 12:31 PM (bkUtD)

164 146 My wife gets 2/3 of her clients via Facebook ads. It’s a pretty cheap and effective way to advertise. At least for her. Someone’s clicking on the ads somewhere.
Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:29 PM (Cr2ZZ)

What's the line of business?

From what I understand there's a certain type of people that tend to click on internet ads, so I'd figure they'd be effective if they're your target demo.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:31 PM (eYoxG)

165 Uncle Sam can't hack a drawer full of polaroids.....

Posted by: steevy at July 06, 2023 12:31 PM (uW/wK)

166 Hunter is a feature for the regime, not a bug. Just as the Clintons and the example they set dissolved what was left of traditional American morality and completed the utter disconnect of the ruling class from the people they allegedly serve, Hunter is a powerful and helpful exemplar. First, he is the most offensive (thus perfect) example imaginable of the class divide that separates them from us. They can do what they want without repercussion and "the people" can go FT. Hunter is a delightful flex for them. Second, and even more importantly, he will have a similar and highly desirable Clinton effect--they hate us and want us to die deaths of despair. Therefore, it's perfect for the president's son to chase hookers and do hard drugs without consequence. That's what they'd love every traditional white American to be doing. They want us broken, miserable, bereft of community and Hunter's escapades will no doubt influence some portion of young, white, middle class males to follow in his degenerate footsteps.
It's all regime propaganda. Everything is. Including Hunter and that's why he hasn't been sequestered. That's he's still around. Rubbing our faces in it.

Posted by: TwimblyFan at July 06, 2023 12:31 PM (Pj04B)

167 The Apocalyptic nature of the last few years has really exposed a lot of deep corruption of US institutions. This is true stuff of revelation. Its going to take serious prayer and serious determination to throw these traitorous fucks out. Let's not kid ourselves though. It isn't just the Bidens. If he as a Senator has been doing this then far more have been. We can see from the interview that the FBI is implicated in this as well.
This is deep destructive treasonous behavior. The rot is everywhere.

Posted by: Spiff The Spaceman at July 06, 2023 12:31 PM (lfSFb)

168 This is really the story of a father's love for his child.

Posted by: Ana Navarro at July 06, 2023 12:31 PM (h4Hwm)

169 And really, to the people in the "permanent" government, they look on the elected ones as the "summer help". They'll be there for a while, and then leave....letting the permanent government (AKA, the Deep State) get on with running things the way they see fit.
Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at July 06, 2023 12:30 PM (vcOmj)
---
Somebody say my name?

Posted by: Senator Charles Grassley at July 06, 2023 12:31 PM (krQz2)

170 >>>Well, he is a man so....making no judgements here.
Posted by: Cheri

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Posted by: Jerry Seinfeld at July 06, 2023 12:31 PM (bkUtD)

171 The Bidet family is Chlamydia

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2023 12:31 PM (hbhtj)

172 Yes, he made some stinkers. He was a novice who actually trusted those put in positions of trust. I don't know how much you can fault him for that in hindsight. We all *knew* Barr was going to get to the bottom of it. Until he didn't, and turned out to be a self-serving swamp rat like the rest of them. I seriously doubt Trump will be so gullible in a second term. The hard truth is that there are precious few who CAN be trusted at this point.
Posted by: red speck at July 06, 2023 12:20 PM (0Id0S)

I find it amusing that any of the other candidates will be able to discern the patriot among the snakes AND get them confirmed by the den of iniquity which is the Senate.

The fact that most of the other candidates are life-long government employees who are supposed to do this makes it even funnier.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 06, 2023 12:32 PM (GYIa4)

173 146 My wife gets 2/3 of her clients via Facebook ads. It’s a pretty cheap and effective way to advertise. At least for her. Someone’s clicking on the ads somewhere.
Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:29 PM (Cr2ZZ)

=========

Yeah, I've read that FB ads are actually pretty solid in terms of my small world of indie publishing.

I already have some product page that I set up forever ago. If I rebuild it to focus on my actual writing and pay for the ads, I might be able to increase sales that way too. I just started thinking about this very recently, but I don't have the cash yet to play like that. I'm starting small with Amazon Ads (after a week, it seems to be working modestly), and I'll be doing some Goodreads Giveaways.

I just want to write and be accoladed, dammit. I don't want to sell.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:32 PM (LvTSG)

174 121 >>>It’s worse than that, it’s Dead, Jim…
Posted by: tubal

I like certain parts of America, but as a whole, I couldn't care less. Just waiting for the internment camps at the moment.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 06, 2023 12:26 PM (bkUtD)

Why bother with camps? People interned themselves over COVID

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 06, 2023 12:32 PM (xcxpd)

175 My recurring thought is that there are a hundred or so people who run the world, and we have never heard of them, nor ever will… everyone else are just fronts, with mass numbers of cutouts…

Posted by: tubal at July 06, 2023 12:32 PM (PCK5/)

176 This country needs to be deleted.

Here's why "anti-social media" have not worked out.
If you heard somebody say that at the bar, you'd push his face in and you damned well know you would.
Moping around here, feeding off each others' insecurities and personal failings, you guys work yourselves down to this level of mutual masturbation.

Get a fucking grip and stop thinking like a mental patient. You are not smartass teenagers any more.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 06, 2023 12:32 PM (4PZHB)

177 This is really the story of a father's love for his child.
Posted by: Ana Navarro at July 06, 2023 12:31 PM (h4Hwm)
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... and cocaine--but mostly cocaine.

Posted by: Axeman at July 06, 2023 12:32 PM (krQz2)

178 137 I looked at the FBI executive team and haven't seen a one eyed one yet.

.. well, if nothing else it shows that the FBI discriminates against one-eyed persons.

Posted by: SMOD at July 06, 2023 12:32 PM (RHGPo)

179 "if the Bidens were to come to power, the country would be facing the same traumatic Russia collusion scandal -- only this time with China."

The nonexistent Russia collusion scandal. Yes, it's true - the Dems always accuse their foes of doing what they themselves are doing.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 06, 2023 12:32 PM (Mzdiz)

180 140 I didn't "get" the Grimace shake videos. Was there something more than a motley bunch of THOTs and attention whores desperate for the next stupid thing to try to get famous?
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 06, 2023 12:19 PM (iFTx/)

Sounds like you "got" the Grimace shake videos.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 06, 2023 12:28 PM (GYIa4)
________________

Ahhh. I thought there was more because Ace or Lamont or whoever made a whole post about it with links.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 06, 2023 12:32 PM (iFTx/)

181 141 Louis Freeh is one-eyed.
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 06, 2023 12:28 PM (yqJaP)

Louie's code name was "bird"

Posted by: I'm here all week at July 06, 2023 12:32 PM (us2H3)

182 Gore had no real defense, so he trotted out a phony one: There was, he infamously claimed, “no controlling legal authority.” What he meant was that there weren’t many court decisions interpreting the meaning of Section 607. It was laughable. The rule of thumb for judges, as for the rest of us, is that laws are construed to mean what they say, the ordinary, everyday understanding of the words.
Posted by: SMOD at July 06, 2023 12:28 PM (RHGPo)

I was a kid whrn this happened and I remember my brain actually breaking. It was total gibberish to me. "Is that even English?". No one my family knew even knew wtf he was saying, lawyers included. Such a different head-space we all lived in.

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 06, 2023 12:33 PM (yqJaP)

183 It is important to remember that Trump was given a list of names that the Senate would approve for AG, FBI, etc. McConnell controlled things, and he made it clear that he would only accept a few. Direct the vein of bile and hatred at the proper recipients: McConnell and the Senate Republicans.

No. That was Mistake Number One of Trump. If you're getting screwed, don't pretend you're all on the same team. You want to Drain the Swamp ? Start by calling out the Swamp, as a bare minimum.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at July 06, 2023 12:33 PM (ZoeSo)

184 "Lorna Luft-Handsoff."

-- Mr. Luft

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 06, 2023 12:23 PM (ul9wx)

Lufthansa is a reference to the Hanseatic League, as in Hansastadt Hamburg (Hanseatic City Hamburg) and Hansastadt Bremen.

The British word Sterling comes from Easterling, meaning if they're from the East, or Hanseatic, you can trust them.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 06, 2023 12:33 PM (GzDfN)

185 So TJM is plugging his books, so please everyone buy a copy of Golden Isis.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2023 12:33 PM (hbhtj)

186 138 You think you have problems. My ex always said I resembled noted aviator John Denver in the face. Coupled with Barney Rubble legs and a Fred Flintstone gut it ain't a pretty picture.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 06, 2023 12:33 PM (rLD7a)

187 Fugitive arms dealer? Says who? The FBI? CIA? Hell, if Satan told me he was an arms dealer it would be as believable as those agencies, who habitually lie about EVERYTHING.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 06, 2023 12:34 PM (pohLc)

188 You're left with nothing but the expectation of resolution that never comes.
Posted by: red speck at July 06, 2023 12:27 PM (0Id0S)

AKA ... Blue balls.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 06, 2023 12:34 PM (Wy1BU)

189 172 I find it amusing that any of the other candidates will be able to discern the patriot among the snakes AND get them confirmed by the den of iniquity which is the Senate.

The fact that most of the other candidates are life-long government employees who are supposed to do this makes it even funnier.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 06, 2023 12:32 PM (GYIa4)

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We need an Oliver Cromwell. You don't often vote for an Oliver Cromwell.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:34 PM (LvTSG)

190 Lorna Luft did indeed have a cute, girl-next-door look back when her mother was alive.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2023 12:34 PM (J2vNu)

191 160 It is important to remember that Trump was given a list of names that the Senate would approve for AG, FBI, etc. McConnell controlled things, and he made it clear that he would only accept a few

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Disagree. Trump trusted the wrong people. There’s no way McConnell would have voted down his picks. At least not early on. But Trumpjust went along with whatever “the experts” told him to do. And that was his Achilles heel the entire 4 years. It’s why Fauci was allowed the power he had, because he was “the expert”.

Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:34 PM (Cr2ZZ)

192
Is this guy still alive ?
Posted by: It's me donna

He hasn't fallen out of a window

yet

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 06, 2023 12:34 PM (63Dwl)

193 I was just about to hit post saying I think Gal Godot is unattractive when I read this. You are an 'ette which means you are breathtakingly beautiful. She is.......um.... Not.

Disagree vehemently. However, I've located a new obsession. I was watching The Malta Story (WWII) yesterday and the love interest is a woman named Muriel Pavlow. She died in 2019, but wow what a looker in 1954, particularly if you like the Audrey Hepburn types, as I do. Also, she's a dead ringer for Dan Aykroyd's hot girlfriend Penelope in Trading Places (real name Kristin Holby).

Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2023 12:34 PM (eOEVl)

194 Fingers crossed - Trump wins 2024 and brings in another stellar lineup to the DOJ similar to 2016. We'll get to the bottom of all this yet. You'll see.

Posted by: Son of Dad at July 06, 2023 12:34 PM (+3JTp)

195 My recurring thought is that there are a hundred or so people who run the world, and we have never heard of them, nor ever will… everyone else are just fronts, with mass numbers of cutouts…
Posted by: tubal at July 06, 2023 12:32 PM (PCK5/)

I think there is something like the Dunbar Number. There's prob only X slots for "shot-callers" in Cabal.

I guess I just assume about 500 but who knows.

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 06, 2023 12:35 PM (yqJaP)

196 168 This is really the story of a father's love for his child.
Posted by: Ana Navarro at July 06, 2023 12:31 PM (h4Hwm)

#AshleyBiden
#Brazzers

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 06, 2023 12:35 PM (xcxpd)

197 152 If there was a honest news media Sundowner would be long gone maybe in prison really.
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2023 12:29 PM

If there was an honest media, there would have been no Obama Administration, Ted Kennedy would not have been Senator due to drowning a women and committing treason trying to get Russia help him become President.
A myriad of other bad things that have happened to this country if we had honest media

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 06, 2023 12:35 PM (Oq/TM)

198 88 I'm starting to think this FBI thing might need to be disbanded. Entirely.
Posted by: Roll Me Away at July 06, 2023 12:22 PM (ZoeSo)

You misspelled, "nuked from orbit." Easy mistake.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at July 06, 2023 12:35 PM (DTX3h)

199 *waves to Bandersnatch*

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2023 12:35 PM (hbhtj)

200 This is really the story of a father's love for his child.
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And to be fair, every other child within sniffing distance.

Posted by: Pedo President, love is love Jack! at July 06, 2023 12:35 PM (sh1GZ)

201 Disagree. Trump trusted the wrong people. There’s no way McConnell would have voted down his picks. At least not early on. But Trumpjust went along with whatever “the experts” told him to do. And that was his Achilles heel the entire 4 years. It’s why Fauci was allowed the power he had, because he was “the expert”.

Yup. Trump still is impressed by credentialism. Between that and being impressed by Jared and Ivanka, who needs enemies?

Posted by: Ian S. at July 06, 2023 12:35 PM (FD5dr)

202 I’m still absolutely convinced that Brandon will be the Dem nominee in 2024 unless he goes room temp. TPTB have found he’s easy to control and who cares if he’s a mush brain…. He can campaign from his basement again
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 06, 2023 12:27 PM (M23Y7)

Plus, all the electronic voting machines are now connected to the Kalorama servers. Vote integrity is saved.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 06, 2023 12:35 PM (BdMk6)

203
North Carolina is kinda meh, but I'd love to live near the Outer Banks. My favorite vacation spot.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 06, 2023 12:31 PM

Ever make it to Ocracoke, NC? You'll never wanna come back. Except when a hurricane blows over and the island goes underwater for a couple of days.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2023 12:35 PM (enJYY)

204 You think you have problems. My ex always said I resembled noted aviator John Denver in the face. Coupled with Barney Rubble legs and a Fred Flintstone gut it ain't a pretty picture.

In all seriousness - I've got a square head and round face. Go ahead, get a pencil and paper and try to draw that shape. You can't. Escher couldn't either. There's a reason I have a mustache and goatee. That reason is I couldn't grow a full beard, to hide even more of this mess.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at July 06, 2023 12:36 PM (ZoeSo)

205 191
Disagree. Trump trusted the wrong people. There’s no way McConnell would have voted down his picks. At least not early on. But Trumpjust went along with whatever “the experts” told him to do. And that was his Achilles heel the entire 4 years. It’s why Fauci was allowed the power he had, because he was “the expert”.
Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:34 PM (Cr2ZZ)

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The entire Congress went along with the Russian collusion narrative even though they knew it was bullshit. Yeah, they were perfectly willing to counter Trump from the beginning.

Trump played the game, and he got played. He shouldn't have played and should have just gone tyrant on the executive branch. I don't think anyone who will come close to sniffing the jockstrap of GOP leadership would ever take the steps necessary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:36 PM (LvTSG)

206

Didn’t hunt once forget a certain Mac computer somewhere while he was under the influence.

Maybe he forgot his blow.

At the White House.

Because he’s panicking.

Posted by: Rev Dr Happy Hands at July 06, 2023 12:36 PM (dsdVY)

207 Have we considered the possibility that this is just a bunch of malarkey?

Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance at July 06, 2023 12:36 PM (geLO8)

208 Caroline Biden aint no slouch when it comes to crime

Posted by: REDACTED at July 06, 2023 12:36 PM (us2H3)

209 Louis Freeh gave $100,000 to Biden grandchildren to stay within the Biden grift. He first gave the money through some mechanism that turned out to be illegal so reimbursed from his own funds.
This is just one example of how they get away with this.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2023 12:36 PM (t/2Uw)

210 >>>Why bother with camps? People interned themselves over COVID
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water

The UK is bringing back lockdowns, so that should be fun.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 06, 2023 12:36 PM (bkUtD)

211 Disagree. Trump trusted the wrong people. There’s no way McConnell would have voted down his picks. At least not early on. But Trumpjust went along with whatever “the experts” told him to do. And that was his Achilles heel the entire 4 years. It’s why Fauci was allowed the power he had, because he was “the expert”.
Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:34 PM (Cr2ZZ)

Uh, are you not aware that some of his first round picks were shot down or run off?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:37 PM (eYoxG)

212 Direct the vein of bile and hatred at the proper recipients: McConnell and the Senate Republicans.
Posted by: Brewingfrog at July 06, 2023 12:30 PM (E0Ivz)

Trump got rolled is not as powerful a defense as you might think.

Posted by: blaster at July 06, 2023 12:37 PM (pwExq)

213 57 50 I wish I was an arms dealer. How can I get that gig?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 06, 2023 12:18 PM (xcxpd)

Well, if you work for coroner's office, you might be able to sell them to hospitals...

not funny

Posted by: michelle fields at July 06, 2023 12:37 PM (v3pYe)

214 Hopefully Ace will have a proper movie thread post about Sound of Freedom becoming the number one film in America.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2023 12:37 PM (up/3i)

215 >>Ever make it to Ocracoke, NC? You'll never wanna come back. Except when a hurricane blows over and the island goes underwater for a couple of days.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Second time there we had a hurricane. My youngest was losing his mind, but it was mostly rain, thankfully.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 06, 2023 12:38 PM (bkUtD)

216 Our republic is gone. It took its last final breaths in November 2018. It was a long run and I mourn the loss. We are now and have been since 2020 in a totalitarian dictatorship.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 06, 2023 12:38 PM (17s+e)

217 My recurring thought is that there are a hundred or so people who run the world, and we have never heard of them, nor ever will… everyone else are just fronts, with mass numbers of cutouts…

How many voices do you hear on a daily basis?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2023 12:38 PM (eOEVl)

218 >>>It's like a game, watching how much evidence will pile up before something happens.

Like those coin-op games with the giant towers of coins teetering on the edge of falling into the "win" slot. But they never fall. And when you momentarily look away to check if the machine is working, the coin tower disappears as if nothing was ever there. You're left with nothing but the expectation of resolution that never comes.

Posted by: red speck at July 06, 2023 12:27 PM (0Id0S)

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Out: Bread and Circuses.
In: Graft and Circle-Jerks.

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 06, 2023 12:38 PM (ul9wx)

219 Ever make it to Ocracoke, NC? You'll never wanna come back.

—

I did one time and loved it. Haven’t thought of it in a long time. Might be time to make a return trip

Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:38 PM (Cr2ZZ)

220 I had a weird dream about Gal Gadot in a Victorian era gown. (Perhaps because I've been on a bit of a Sherlock Holmes kick.) My role was helping her out of the gown.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 06, 2023 12:38 PM (aCNZ6)

221 Uh, are you not aware that some of his first round picks were shot down or run off?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:37 PM

And again, Trump got rolled is not as powerful a defense as you might think.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at July 06, 2023 12:38 PM (ZoeSo)

222 Former FBI Director Louis Freeh gave $100K to Biden grandkid trust as he sought ‘future work’: Hunter emails

Posted by: SMOD at July 06, 2023 12:39 PM (RHGPo)

223 I thought Hunter said specifically “ No Yellow”?.
Posted by: tubal at July 06, 2023 12:10 PM (PCK5/)

I wonder if even Hunter Biden was more savvy than Eric Swallwell as far as Asian honeypots go.
Posted by: Catherine

More likely bored.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 06, 2023 12:39 PM (AcKZd)

224 213 57 50 I wish I was an arms dealer. How can I get that gig?

we're hiring !!

Posted by: Lenscrafters at July 06, 2023 12:39 PM (us2H3)

225 217 My recurring thought is that there are a hundred or so people who run the world, and we have never heard of them, nor ever will… everyone else are just fronts, with mass numbers of cutouts…

How many voices do you hear on a daily basis?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2023 12:38 PM (eOEVl)

Hah!! Okay, two Hahs!!

Posted by: tubal at July 06, 2023 12:39 PM (PCK5/)

226
Uh, are you not aware that some of his first round picks were shot down or run off?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:37 PM (eYoxG)

It’s been 6 years so no I don’t remember. Who were they?

Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:39 PM (Cr2ZZ)

227 So how many funny white bags of powder will now be found in the White House grounds?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2023 12:39 PM (hbhtj)

228 185 So TJM is plugging his books, so please everyone buy a copy of Golden Isis.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2023 12:33 PM (hbhtj)

+1
Anna and TJM both have other books for sale too

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 06, 2023 12:39 PM (xcxpd)

229 Fingers crossed - Trump wins 2024 and brings in another stellar lineup to the DOJ similar to 2016. We'll get to the bottom of all this yet. You'll see.
Posted by: Son of Dad at July 06, 2023 12:34 PM (+3JTp)

Yes. We know. DeSantis will be so much better.

BTW. Who are DeSantis' big donors?

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 06, 2023 12:39 PM (BdMk6)

230 195 My recurring thought is that there are a hundred or so people who run the world, and we have never heard of them, nor ever will… everyone else are just fronts, with mass numbers of cutouts…
Posted by: tubal at July 06, 2023 12:32 PM (PCK5/)

I think there is something like the Dunbar Number. There's prob only X slots for "shot-callers" in Cabal.

I guess I just assume about 500 but who knows.

clearly, the center of the conspiracy is kevin bacon

Posted by: anachronda at July 06, 2023 12:39 PM (v3pYe)

231 I don't think anyone's doing any polling on this, but I would guess at least 60% of people who have heard about the cocaine story (and the networks are covering it) think it's Hunter's, even though there's no evidence of that. The general public has woken up to Hunter Biden and are listening to the corruption stories and they're at least plausible.

In that psyop environment, you can put out stories like Gal Luft's and they will resonate. The cumulative effect of the water drip of all these stories has to be devastating for public opinion. The average Joe is not going to remember the details, and those he knows are going to be mashed together and misplaced, but the general theme that the Biden regime is for sale to the highest bidder, they're doing hookers and blow, and law enforcement is corrupt and won't do anything about it, is getting the kind of historical traction that defines an administration. Nobody remembers anything about Warren Harding except Teapot Dome. Nobody remembers anything about Harry Truman except dropping the bomb. 50 years from now, the only thing people will remember about Biden is corruption and senility.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 06, 2023 12:39 PM (7B5FA)

232 hey Puma! Wie geht's?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 06, 2023 12:39 PM (GzDfN)

233 The nothing, it is happening.

Posted by: ... at July 06, 2023 12:40 PM (2tTGs)

234 221 And again, Trump got rolled is not as powerful a defense as you might think.
Posted by: Roll Me Away at July 06, 2023 12:38 PM (ZoeSo)

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I just don't see evidence that any other candidate will do better. Mitch has made his disdain of the base very clear for more than a decade.

He still holds the power in the Senate and will happily work with Schumer to make sure conservatives don't take leadership positions of the bureaucracy.

Assuming any GOP candidate can win AZ, MI, PA, or GA.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:40 PM (LvTSG)

235
Like those coin-op games with the giant towers of coins teetering on the edge of falling into the "win" slot. But they never fall. And when you momentarily look away to check if the machine is working, the coin tower disappears as if nothing was ever there. You're left with nothing but the expectation of resolution that never comes.

An excellent metaphor for life when you think about it.

Posted by: All that promise - but never delivery at July 06, 2023 12:40 PM (dE+9W)

236 OkraCoke?

"I'll take two things you never add to Gumbo, Alex."

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 06, 2023 12:40 PM (ul9wx)

237 80 Gal Gadot > Gal Luft > Luftwaffe

I heard morons going on and on about Gal Godot so I looked her up. She looks like me in my early 20s

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 12:21 PM (01tFH)

Yah but, can you belt out, "Imagine" as wonderfully cringe-inducing as she can? Huh? Huh? Yeah, I thought not.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at July 06, 2023 12:40 PM (DTX3h)

238 Louis Freeh is one-eyed.
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 06, 2023

***
When's his coronation?

Posted by: Country of the Blind at July 06, 2023 12:40 PM (J2vNu)

239
The 2024 elections are so fortified that they can rub this stuff all over your face for the next 16 months, go "ha ha" and not bother doing anything to cover up.

Joey dying between now and then won't help.

Posted by: Auspex at July 06, 2023 12:40 PM (j4U/Z)

240 228 Anna and TJM both have other books for sale too
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 06, 2023 12:39 PM (xcxpd)

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Someone gave me a 3 star rating but no review. I don't know how I failed this person!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:40 PM (LvTSG)

241 So TJM is plugging his books, so please everyone buy a copy of Golden Isis.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2023 12:33 PM (hbhtj)

And while you're at it, buy a copy of The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of, too.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 06, 2023 12:40 PM (AW0uW)

242 Hunter tried Asian take out one time... an hour later he was looking for more.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2023 12:40 PM (hbhtj)

243 Trump got rolled is not as powerful a defense as you might think.
Posted by: blaster at July 06, 2023 12:37 PM (pwExq)

It's a constitutional republic and +74mil votes means he gets the job. That is the system.

Personally, I think he got a lot of good things done. And will get more good things done.

But even if I didn't: "It is what it is".

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 06, 2023 12:41 PM (yqJaP)

244 Trump got rolled is not as powerful a defense as you might think.
Posted by: blaster

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Trump is a tough guy leader who takes no bullshit.. But he also is subservient to Mitch McConnell.

Pick a lane, but it can’t be both.

Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:41 PM (Cr2ZZ)

245 Sounds like a classic movie corruption story where the cover-up team would meet in secret to "review" the evidence from the witness, confirm this is their only copy, then put a bullet between the witness's eyes and leave. I guess they didn't do the last part because he isn't the only person who knows about it.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 06, 2023 12:41 PM (ssESX)

246 "arrested in Cyprus"

Guess I'll add that to the bucket list. Sounds exotic.

Posted by: gp Extends His Arms, Retracts His Nipples at July 06, 2023 12:41 PM (MvF+J)

247 240

Someone gave me a 3 star rating but no review. I don't know how I failed this person!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:40 PM (LvTSG)

If you get a two??

Posted by: tubal at July 06, 2023 12:41 PM (PCK5/)

248 Hopefully Ace will have a proper movie thread post about Sound of Freedom becoming the number one film in America.

Posted by: Thomas Bender
==

Sound of Freedom beat Destiny of Dysentery on Tuesday's box office.

FUN FACT: Sound of Freedom was made by 20th Century Fox and became a Didley Corpse property when they bought 20th. Then, get this, Didley wanted to shelve it because well they are pedophiles. The producers crowd funded and bought it from Didley.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 06, 2023 12:41 PM (17s+e)

249 The nothing, it is happening.

Posted by: ... at July 06, 2023 12:40 PM (2tTGs)

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* Cue the "IT'S HAPPENING!" Q Anon Memes *

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 06, 2023 12:41 PM (ul9wx)

250 Shit like this just takes the wind out of my sails. Like, why even show up for work anymore? I just feel like a sucker for trying to play the rigged game. Feels like I'm just tax cattle for the welfare class and the elite class. Why work your life away while everyone else enjoys the fruit of your labor?

Posted by: Tom at July 06, 2023 12:42 PM (UjkZy)

251 Bander

It goes. How about you?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2023 12:42 PM (hbhtj)

252 In that psyop environment, you can put out stories like Gal Luft's and they will resonate. The cumulative effect of the water drip of all these stories has to be devastating for public opinion. The average Joe is not going to remember the details, and those he knows are going to be mashed together and misplaced, but the general theme that the Biden regime is for sale to the highest bidder, they're doing hookers and blow, and law enforcement is corrupt and won't do anything about it, is getting the kind of historical traction that defines an administration.

Exactly. This is why I get irritated with the Eeyores who say nothing has happened, so nothing will happen. It is a cumulative process, but eventually there is an inflection point where the average opinion goes from "probably just politics" to "geeze, these people are skeevy".

Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2023 12:42 PM (eOEVl)

253 All of this is and was well- known in DC by everyone.

Especially by all those who vouched for Joe.

Every single person who claimed he " would restore norms."

But, you cry, how could you say they knew when the new is the FBI was covering it up?!

1) The FBI works for the leaders of the Uniparty
2) not one person who vouched for Joe has--or will--recind that endorsement.
Look at the NeverTrump, some openly campaigning for Biden-- all quite as churchmice. If they were "duped" it's an easy matter of honor to condemn him. But, if you were in on the lie-- and you know the Democrats have proof you knew-- your only part is to shut up. And they are all shut up tight, aren't they?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 06, 2023 12:42 PM (29rl5)

254 I just want to write and be accoladed, dammit. I don't want to sell.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:32 PM (LvTSG)

The last I looked, your Amazon page for Lake Erie sez there's one paperback left for sale.

Posted by: mrp at July 06, 2023 12:42 PM (rj6Yv)

255 Beginning it is, hmm.

Posted by: Yoda at July 06, 2023 12:42 PM (aD39U)

256 226
Uh, are you not aware that some of his first round picks were shot down or run off?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:37 PM (eYoxG)

It’s been 6 years so no I don’t remember. Who were they?
Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:39 PM (Cr2ZZ)

Puzder is the most well known one that comes to mind put forth for the initial cabinet, but I think there were others. Trump's strongest ability to push someone through would've been on Jeff Sessions, on account of him being a former Senator. Everything else had to be negotiated and the Senate only became less accommodating over time.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:42 PM (eYoxG)

257 Fun fact: The Sugar Hill Gang's White Lines was 100% ripped off from a New York band Liquid Liquid's song "Caravan." Note for note. It wasn't "sampled" like the idiot media says. Liquid's label fought Sugar Hill Gang in court for years, but just when they won the case, Sugar Hill's label declared Super-Duper Bankruptcy and never paid a cent.

Posted by: Marcus gravey at July 06, 2023 12:43 PM (516e+)

258 Is Cyprus sill kinda of a no-go land between Turkey and Greece?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2023 12:43 PM (hbhtj)

259 I just don't see evidence that any other candidate will do better. Mitch has made his disdain of the base very clear for more than a decade.

Possibly. But that's my point. If Trump couldn't do anything, and nobody different can do any better, who gives a shit ?

Well - those that are moved by some kind of fairness I guess give a shit. Brand Loyalty, and all that. But if the deal really is ... Trump was awesome, but could do nothing, and nobody else can do any better ?

Then fuck it. I'll back DeSantis just to see somebody different accomplish nothing. For variety, if nothing else.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at July 06, 2023 12:43 PM (ZoeSo)

260 Someone gave me a 3 star rating but no review. I don't know how I failed this person!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:40 PM (LvTSG)

You know what you did.

Posted by: That person at July 06, 2023 12:43 PM (dE+9W)

261 254 The last I looked, your Amazon page for Lake Erie sez there's one paperback left for sale.
Posted by: mrp at July 06, 2023 12:42 PM (rj6Yv)

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It's print on demand. They put those notices up to instill false senses of anxiety in the hearts of consumers, making them think they have to ACT NOW or they'll LOSE OUT!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:43 PM (LvTSG)

262 >>> Posted by: Tom at July 06, 2023 12:42 PM (UjkZy)

What is the 'de-motivator' variant called again...?

Posted by: Helena Handbaskket at July 06, 2023 12:43 PM (llON8)

263 Yah but, can you belt out, "Imagine" as wonderfully cringe-inducing as she can? Huh? Huh? Yeah, I thought not.

I know when I'm looking at Gal Gadot, the main thought I have is "can she carry a tune".

Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2023 12:43 PM (eOEVl)

264 Uh, are you not aware that some of his first round picks were shot down or run off?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:37 PM (eYoxG)

It’s been 6 years so no I don’t remember. Who were they?
Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:39 PM (Cr2ZZ)

Michael Flynn? Deep State was so afraid of him being Nat Sec Advisor they framed him... and it worked.

IMO that case was the end of Trump getting effective staff.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 06, 2023 12:44 PM (oHd/0)

265 Disagree. Trump trusted the wrong people. There’s no way McConnell would have voted down his picks. At least not early on. But Trumpjust went along with whatever “the experts” told him to do. And that was his Achilles heel the entire 4 years. It’s why Fauci was allowed the power he had, because he was “the expert”.
Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:34 PM (Cr2ZZ)

Are we talking about the same McConnell who kept a number of nominees bottled up in the Senate and refused to adjourn which would have allowed Trump to do a temporary appointment? That McConnell?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 06, 2023 12:44 PM (GYIa4)

266 Trump's strongest ability to push someone through would've been on Jeff Sessions, on account of him being a former Senator.

a sitting Senator.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 06, 2023 12:44 PM (aD39U)

267 They peddle despair and demoralization, that’s the game… they offer antidote, which is decadence and decay in may forms…

Posted by: tubal at July 06, 2023 12:44 PM (PCK5/)

268 One of the first things that Biden did was to cancel Trump's China initiative, which sought to get Chinese agents out of US and target sanctions at specific Chinese industries which were stealing us blind. The Chinese investment in the Biden family produced results immediately

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 06, 2023 12:44 PM (PVx3i)

269 259 Then fuck it. I'll back DeSantis just to see somebody different accomplish nothing. For variety, if nothing else.
Posted by: Roll Me Away at July 06, 2023 12:43 PM (ZoeSo)

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I'll be voting for DeSantis in the SC primary, but I fully expect Trump to roll easily to the nomination and get last minute cheated out in 2024.

I don't get emotional about the primary because I'm one side and yet don't think it matters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:44 PM (LvTSG)

270 Joe belongs in the vile human being hall of fame along with LBJ.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 06, 2023 12:45 PM (aCNZ6)

271
OT: Just saw a live concert video of Udo Dirkschneider performing "Balls To The Wall" at some German metal festival on yootoob. Dood looks like a rural Bavarian sausage vendor wearing black leather.

Geez, I'm getting old.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 06, 2023 12:45 PM (n+4am)

272 Ahhh. I thought there was more because Ace or Lamont or whoever made a whole post about it with links.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 06, 2023 12:32 PM (iFTx/)

Ace wants us to be in the loop, at least peripherally aware of the latest "thing."

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 06, 2023 12:45 PM (Mzdiz)

273 Bander

It goes. How about you?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2023 12:42 PM (hbhtj)

As well, thank you. Es geht.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 06, 2023 12:45 PM (GzDfN)

274 Kallisto, got any bikini pictures from when you were in your '20s?

Want some?

Posted by: Bob at NSA at July 06, 2023 12:30 PM (L76ku)

Sure! Send them over to kallisto@FOAD.org

tyvm

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 12:45 PM (01tFH)

275 244 Trump got rolled is not as powerful a defense as you might think.
Posted by: blaster

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Trump is a tough guy leader who takes no bullshit.. But he also is subservient to Mitch McConnell.

Pick a lane, but it can’t be both.
Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:41 PM (Cr2ZZ)

Senate approves appointees(or refuses to do so). Not complicated, it'd be a problem for any candidate.

McConnell also blocked recess appointments, which he has the power to do. There is little reason to presume a good alternative candidate would not likewise be blocked.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:45 PM (eYoxG)

276 If Trump does become President again (which I hope he does), I would love to see him go scorch earth with these traitors.

He would have to get someone not connected to the Deep State to head the DOJ, any contenders? Harmeet Dhillon?

And he and his team should look and see how many people he can lawfully fire from their positions at the DOJ, FBI, IRS etc. I think it would be a good start if he can remove the first 3 layers of those departments.

Also, what are the odds of reversing the unionization of federal employees? A whole lot of deadwood needs to be removed.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 06, 2023 12:45 PM (4q/mG)

277 Puzder.. quick recap I read says his nomination was stalled by Dems in late 2016 and by Feb 2017 accusations flew that he abused workers and whatnot. Then he withdrew. That’s a pretty weak argument that McConnell didn’t allow him to be nominated.

Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:46 PM (Cr2ZZ)

278 Someone gave me a 3 star rating but no review. I don't know how I failed this person!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:40 PM (LvTSG)

I give TheJamesMadison five stars, because I can't give six. Prometheus was - well, it was a movie. Five stars, damnit.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at July 06, 2023 12:46 PM (ZoeSo)

279 Also, what are the odds of reversing the unionization of federal employees? A whole lot of deadwood needs to be removed.

My guess is zero.zero. It's the lowest in Faber history.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2023 12:46 PM (eOEVl)

280 I'll be voting for DeSantis in the SC primary, but I fully expect Trump to roll easily to the nomination and get last minute cheated out in 2024.

I am settling on this as well. Trump will win easily here in Alabama but a good showing for Desantis will help him in 2028.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 06, 2023 12:46 PM (aD39U)

281 Ill Tempered Cur

How about some Nena instead?
https://youtu.be/3mxmKE5ixuw

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2023 12:47 PM (hbhtj)

282 Don't worry! Be happy! Is that better?

Posted by: The Eeyores at July 06, 2023 12:47 PM (Xrfse)

283 It's print on demand. They put those notices up to instill false senses of anxiety in the hearts of consumers, making them think they have to ACT NOW or they'll LOSE OUT!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:43 PM (LvTSG)

it's called "creating a sense of urgency"

in the top ten marketing ploys, I use it often when I send out email blasts

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 12:48 PM (01tFH)

284 50 years from now, the only thing people will remember about Biden is corruption and senility.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 06, 2023 12:39 PM (7B5FA)

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And that Beau died in combat in Iraq.

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Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 06, 2023 12:48 PM (ul9wx)

285 McConnell also blocked recess appointments, which he has the power to do. There is little reason to presume a good alternative candidate would not likewise be blocked.

So let's all line up and vote for the guy that couldn't out-move the Senator from Kentucky ?

Posted by: Roll Me Away at July 06, 2023 12:48 PM (ZoeSo)

286 That's what I call gun control.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at July 06, 2023 12:48 PM (ytSiK)

287 277 Puzder.. quick recap I read says his nomination was stalled by Dems in late 2016 and by Feb 2017 accusations flew that he abused workers and whatnot. Then he withdrew. That’s a pretty weak argument that McConnell didn’t allow him to be nominated.
Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:46 PM (Cr2ZZ)

It's a Republican controlled Senate, Dems can't block shit without McConnell's approval. The process of shooting down candidates usually involves sliming them. Like Bork or Clarence Thomas more famously. Procedural delays only exist when the Senate Majority leader wants them to exist.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:49 PM (eYoxG)

288 283 it's called "creating a sense of urgency"

in the top ten marketing ploys, I use it often when I send out email blasts
Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 12:48 PM (01tFH)

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Everyone uses all the time in every environment, and I don't know how people are completely immune to it by this point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:49 PM (LvTSG)

289 Trump is a tough guy leader who takes no bullshit.. But he also is subservient to Mitch McConnell.

Pick a lane, but it can’t be both.
Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:41 PM (Cr2ZZ)

Either you are unaware how our system works or you are pretending to be unaware how our system works. I haven't decided which is more likely.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 06, 2023 12:49 PM (GYIa4)

290 aren't, I mean

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:49 PM (LvTSG)

291 If (and it’s a yuuuuge if) Trunp does win in 2024 his cabinet will look the same as last time. It will be Ivy League, career deep staters running things. His AG won’t be from South Dakota he will be from a DC law firm. And so on.

Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:49 PM (Cr2ZZ)

292 207 "Have we considered the possibility that this is just a bunch of malarkey?"

Not joking!

Posted by: Pedo Pete at July 06, 2023 12:49 PM (h4Hwm)

293 in the top ten marketing ploys, I use it often when I send out email blasts

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 12:48 PM (01tFH)

You should send something out about burning your older pictures when you looked like Gal Gadot. Might get some cash.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at July 06, 2023 12:50 PM (ZoeSo)

294 257 Fun fact: The Sugar Hill Gang's White Lines was 100% ripped off from a New York band Liquid Liquid's song "Caravan." Note for note. It wasn't "sampled" like the idiot media says. Liquid's label fought Sugar Hill Gang in court for years, but just when they won the case, Sugar Hill's label declared Super-Duper Bankruptcy and never paid a cent.
Posted by: Marcus gravey at July 06, 2023 12:43 PM (516e+)

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It was called "Cavern," not "Caravan" and it was sampled for use a background track, not ripped off. Rap is pretty well known for sampling. Liquid Liquid should have been given something for the lack of attribution, but that's about it.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 06, 2023 12:50 PM (ssESX)

295 266 Trump's strongest ability to push someone through would've been on Jeff Sessions, on account of him being a former Senator.

a sitting Senator.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 06, 2023 12:44 PM (aD39U)

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Nobody commenting here would've said Sessions was a bad pick when he was nominated. Yet he got derailed within weeks of being approved.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 06, 2023 12:51 PM (cMXNt)

296 285 "McConnell also blocked recess appointments, which he has the power to do. There is little reason to presume a good alternative candidate would not likewise be blocked."

So let's all line up and vote for the guy that couldn't out-move the Senator from Kentucky ?
Posted by: Roll Me Away at July 06, 2023 12:48 PM (ZoeSo)

Fixing the problem means getting rid of McConnell. Until then, it's disingenuous or stupid to claim another candidate would be able to get good picks in when we very clearly have McConnel exercising tight control over picks. Candidates aren't magic.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:51 PM (eYoxG)

297 it's called "creating a sense of urgency"
Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 12:48 PM

The sound of running water can elicit that in males as they move further to the other side of 29.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 06, 2023 12:51 PM (a3Q+t)

298 Everyone uses all the time in every environment, and I don't know how people are completely immune to it by this point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:49 PM (LvTSG)

It's just background noise at this point. Like hearing a car alarm go off. Nobody really gives a fuck because it doesn't mean anything.

Posted by: Saturation at July 06, 2023 12:51 PM (dE+9W)

299 You should send something out about burning your older pictures when you looked like Gal Gadot. Might get some cash.

OK! I'll use my employer's mailing list, that should get sporty real quick!

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 12:51 PM (01tFH)

300 Don't worry! Be happy! Is that better?

Posted by: The Eeyores

If only there were some middle ground where people acknowledge the bad, but also the potential for change to the good.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2023 12:51 PM (eOEVl)

301 291 If (and it’s a yuuuuge if) Trunp does win in 2024 his cabinet will look the same as last time. It will be Ivy League, career deep staters running things. His AG won’t be from South Dakota he will be from a DC law firm. And so on.
Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:49 PM (Cr2ZZ)

But this is also true of DeSantis or any other hypothetical candidate.

We're not comparing Trump against Jesus, we're comparing Trump against other human candidates.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:52 PM (eYoxG)

302 Trump's problem regarding government was that he was naive. In business when the big guy says jump everyone says how high. Trump thought government worked that way and those around him wouldn't have their own agendas. He was able to get a lot done on his own and get a tax cut and judges confirmed because other Republicans were good with it. Anything that threatened political or bureaucratic fiefdoms was fought tooth and nail , and in the end so was Trump

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 06, 2023 12:52 PM (PVx3i)

303
Either you are unaware how our system works or you are pretending to be unaware how our system works. I haven't decided which is more likely.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 06, 2023 12:49 PM (GYIa4)

Perfectly aware how it works. But a good leader is supposed to be able to make things happen. Art of the deal and all that, remember?

And I fundamentally don’t buy into the “McConnel wouldn’t confirm anyone he didn’t approve of”
Narrative. It’s an easy cop out to absolve Trump of any responsibility for his series of shitty personnel picks.

Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:52 PM (Cr2ZZ)

304 300 If only there were some middle ground where people acknowledge the bad, but also the potential for change to the good.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2023 12:51 PM (eOEVl)

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Where have voting rules changed for the better in AZ, MI, PA, or GA?

Where are there new people in charge of elections in these states that are going to make them more reliable and accurate to the will of the voters?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:52 PM (LvTSG)

305 291 If (and it’s a yuuuuge if) Trunp does win in 2024 his cabinet will look the same as last time. It will be Ivy League, career deep staters running things. His AG won’t be from South Dakota he will be from a DC law firm. And so on.
Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:49 PM (Cr2ZZ)

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Which even though I'm 100% on the Trump Train, my #1 question of him is how will he pick differently.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 06, 2023 12:52 PM (cMXNt)

306 263 I know when I'm looking at Gal Gadot, the main thought I have is "can she carry a tune".
Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2023 12:43 PM (eOEVl)

Unfortunately, that coof-era video of her and her fellow celebutards singing, "Imagine" *is* the first thing I think of regarding Gal Gadot these days. A pity.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at July 06, 2023 12:52 PM (DTX3h)

307 Everyone uses all the time in every environment, and I don't know how people are completely immune to it by this point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:49 PM (LvTSG)

maybe because Earth creatures are easy?

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 12:53 PM (01tFH)

308

Two New Jersey firefighters were killed in an overnight fire on a cargo ship, according to multiple reports.
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'Killed'? I guess that makes a better headline than 'died'.
'Journalists'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 06, 2023 12:53 PM (bJHK5)

309 A 2023 non fat mid mistress requires 10k a month minimum.
We have a crackhead and p3do family selling out our country killing untold millions for 100k a month along with the abolishing of parental rights, state enforced mutilation and sexualization of kids, and "hate speech" laws in certain states.

But hey, at least we own guns. Everybody will be eaten last.

Posted by: Eagle Lips at July 06, 2023 12:53 PM (exeWe)

310 302

Yep. 100%. He thought being president was like being a CEO. And it is most definitely not.

Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:53 PM (Cr2ZZ)

311 Fixing the problem means getting rid of McConnell. Until then, it's disingenuous or stupid to claim another candidate would be able to get good picks in when we very clearly have McConnel exercising tight control over picks. Candidates aren't magic.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:51 PM (eYoxG)

Fine by me. The President is useless to Republicans, until Mitch McConnell goes to that great Turtle Habitat in the Sky.

Since that's the case, and the spot doesn't matter, I pick DeSantis. Who's with me ? After all, it doesn't matter. Heavy D can't, by definition, do any less than Trump since McConnell holds all the cards.

I'm glad it's settled. We can quit fighting about it.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at July 06, 2023 12:54 PM (ZoeSo)

312 I wonder if Bobby McFerrin is still performing… he produced one helluva earwig…

Posted by: tubal at July 06, 2023 12:54 PM (PCK5/)

313 Trump didn't accomplish anything except waking up 35% of the country, displaying a roadmap for how the Democrat Media complex and Uniparty can be pushed around if one actually tries, and a host of other things that got done in spite of our so-called "representatives".

Him getting obviously cheated out of being reelected after gaining 12 million votes has allowed some loudmouths who never approved of him (or were wrong about him) to open their big fucking yaps incessantly like the stolen election made them right.

Posted by: ... at July 06, 2023 12:54 PM (2tTGs)

314 It's a Republican controlled Senate, Dems can't block shit without McConnell's approval. The process of shooting down candidates usually involves sliming them. Like Bork or Clarence Thomas more famously. Procedural delays only exist when the Senate Majority leader wants them to exist.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:49 PM (eYoxG)

Again, Trump got rolled is not a great defense.

I am a huge Trump guy. But his personnel failures are real and if he's his own man who can't be bought and he will drain the swamp is his pitch, saying that the swamp owned Trump doesn't close the deal.

Posted by: blaster at July 06, 2023 12:54 PM (pwExq)

315 Can Gadot dance like Cyd Charisse?

Posted by: mrp at July 06, 2023 12:54 PM (rj6Yv)

316 But this is also true of DeSantis or any other hypothetical candidate.

We're not comparing Trump against Jesus, we're comparing Trump against other human candidates.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:52 PM (eYoxG

Yeah I’m in agreement.

Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:54 PM (Cr2ZZ)

317 SEC college football states should secede.

Posted by: Eagle Lips at July 06, 2023 12:54 PM (exeWe)

318 If Trump does become President again (which I hope he does), I would love to see him go scorch earth with these traitors.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 06, 2023 12:45 PM (4q/mG)

I am pro-Trump but I have to admit that the thing he needs to do... refuse to sign any budget which doesn't accomplish EVERYTHING he demands and be willing to shut everything down for years if needed... is a thing he is likely to be temperamentally unable to do.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 06, 2023 12:54 PM (GYIa4)

319 And I fundamentally don’t buy into the “McConnel wouldn’t confirm anyone he didn’t approve of”
Narrative. It’s an easy cop out to absolve Trump of any responsibility for his series of shitty personnel picks.
Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:52 PM (Cr2ZZ)

But it literally happened. We watched him block recess appointments of his own party's President while fast tracking stuff he was interested in.

Covering your ears and saying "lalalala" doesn't change the facts.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:54 PM (eYoxG)

320 @296

>>Candidates aren't magic.

And that presupposes the GOP regains control of The Senate in a Trump or DeSantis victory, which would more than likely happen.

The GOPe are, in the main, are collection of corrupt chuckleheads and don't want to stir the pot, lest the trough become to congealed.

The sluices must sluice.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2023 12:54 PM (up/3i)

321 306 263 I know when I'm looking at Gal Gadot, the main thought I have is "can she carry a tune".
Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2023 12:43 PM (eOEVl)

Unfortunately, that coof-era video of her and her fellow celebutards singing, "Imagine" *is* the first thing I think of regarding Gal Gadot these days. A pity.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at July 06, 2023 12:52 PM (DTX3h)

I'm more of a 'leg' and 'ass' man, myself.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 06, 2023 12:55 PM (xcxpd)

322 Each day my conclusion that we are ruled by an evil, corrupt group of people is confirmed.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 06, 2023 12:55 PM (cMXNt)

323 The 2024 elections are so fortified that they can rub this stuff all over your face for the next 16 months, go "ha ha" and not bother doing anything to cover up.
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They are effectively rubbing one out all over your faces. Some of you appear to like it.

Posted by: Alien observer, horrified at the degradation of your world at July 06, 2023 12:55 PM (sh1GZ)

324 Someone gave me a 3 star rating but no review. I don't know how I failed this person!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:40 PM

Did you forget to mention Prometheus?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 06, 2023 12:55 PM (a3Q+t)

325 It is way to early to believe that Trump won't screw things up. Article I read this morning is that Independents are already moving away. The fact that Ramaswaney is moving up in the polls says that people are already open to consider alternatives. I think hte debates will be crucial.
Biden at 70-80% in Dem primary polls. Trump hovering in the 40's to barely 50%. This would not be good if he was running for reelection, let alone convinicing people he deserves a second chance.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2023 12:56 PM (t/2Uw)

326 "I’m not surprised the Biden’s sold out America, I’m surprised they did it for so little."

Some reports claim $40M, or maybe $80M. We don't really know ... as Joe joked ... "where's the money?" haha ... funny guy.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 06, 2023 12:56 PM (Cus5s)

327 I'm 90% confident Zelensky has extorted our "whatever it takes" commitment to "defend Ukraine" by threats to expose Joe with hard evidence.

Why wouldn't Zelensky have mounted an intel operation either before the war or in its earlier stages to gather as much Kompromat on the Bidens as he could? And given how much and frequently Joe and Hunter used Ukraine like their private ATM, how much Kompromat must there have been to gather up? Given the scale of the war, why wouldn't Zelensky have used it?

JFB has, apparently, brought us to the brink of thermonuclear war with Ivan, because he's been on the take.

Posted by: Zek at July 06, 2023 12:56 PM (5FPX4)

328
Again, Trump got rolled is not a great defense.

I am a huge Trump guy. But his personnel failures are real and if he's his own man who can't be bought and he will drain the swamp is his pitch, saying that the swamp owned Trump doesn't close the deal.
Posted by: blaster at July 06, 2023 12:54 PM (pwExq)

I'm not making the claim that Trump would be able to roll the swamp. I have previously made clear I don't think Trump would be able to fix things if re-elected.

I'm pointing out why he (or currently anyone else) wouldn't be able to fix things. That Trump can't get good appointees due to McConnell is applicable to other candidates. That's it.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:56 PM (eYoxG)

329 The Republicans have a chance to pick up as many as 11 Senate seats next year, if they don't fuck it up, which they will.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 06, 2023 12:56 PM (aD39U)

330 Hunter could confess everything and the media would still cover it up.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 06, 2023 12:57 PM (aCNZ6)

331 315 Can Gadot dance like Cyd Charisse?
Posted by: mrp at July 06, 2023 12:54 PM (rj6Yv)

#IWantToBelieve

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 06, 2023 12:57 PM (xcxpd)

332 If Trump does become President again (which I hope he does), I would love to see him go scorch earth with these traitors.

He would have to get someone not connected to the Deep State to head the DOJ, any contenders? Harmeet Dhillon?

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It would have to be a badass whom the Senate would not confirm; so he would need to appoint a #2 Deputy to go scorched earth, while sending up one after another Attorney General nominee badass to publicly insult every Senate scumbag (we're gonna need longer confirmation hearings) before being rejected.

Ideally, the #2 Deputy would be someone who's been personally targeted, harassed, & abused by the Deep State -- like a Steve Bannon or Joe diGenova or Mike Flynn. But I'd settle for someone like a Dan Bongino, Kurt Schlichter, Kash Patel, or Vivek Ramaswamy.

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 06, 2023 12:57 PM (ul9wx)

333 There isn't enough rope or lamp-posts to fix the rot in our government.

Posted by: General Augusto Pinochet at July 06, 2023 12:57 PM (tA56B)

334 * Cue the "IT'S HAPPENING!" Q Anon Memes *

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 06, 2023 12:41 PM (ul9wx)

To be completely accurate: "Habbening"

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 06, 2023 12:57 PM (Mzdiz)

335 329 The Republicans have a chance to pick up as many as 11 Senate seats next year, if they don't fuck it up, which they will.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 06, 2023 12:56 PM (aD39U)

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Mitch will direct another $20 million to the Lisa Murkowski, 2022 election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:57 PM (LvTSG)

336 But it literally happened. We watched him block recess appointments of his own party's President while fast tracking stuff he was interested in.

Covering your ears and saying "lalalala" doesn't change the facts.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 12:54 PM (eYoxG)

You gve me on example Puzder who had some baggage. Who else? Was there one high profile nominee that Trump fought for against McConnell? I don’t remember any.

Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:57 PM (Cr2ZZ)

337 Neither Trump nor DeSantis can win with their current campaign strategy.

Trump is stuck in 2016; DeSantis in 1998.

The only way either can win is with a completely unorthodox, anti-digital, populist, working man campaign.

Both right now are attacking the toward the strongest positions of the enemy, with a singular, central force--a traditional centrally-directed, top-down, usual conservative issues, normal campaign tactics.
Which the Democrats have perfected beating with ease.

Boring, dull, predictable. And doomed to fail.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 06, 2023 12:57 PM (29rl5)

338 Where have voting rules changed for the better in AZ, MI, PA, or GA?

Where are there new people in charge of elections in these states that are going to make them more reliable and accurate to the will of the voters?

There can be other very important changes. For example, Twitter is no longer a propaganda outlet for the state, and the recent ruling by a federal judge makes collusion and censorship much more problematic. That means that what was easily accomplished in '20 will be substantially more complicated and perilous in '24. Furthermore, once was bad enough, but a second bite at the corruption apple in '24 will be hard for voters to ignore. Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

As to the voting specifics of the states you mention, I don't know. IIRC, Jackstraw has a much more complete understanding so perhaps you should ask him.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2023 12:58 PM (eOEVl)

339 Not only would McConnell only put forth from a preapproved list, he would not recess at any point during Trump’s four year term (the Senate never formerly adjourned). No recess appointments allowed.

But sure, Trump should have had better appointments.

Posted by: Ann at July 06, 2023 12:58 PM (ilNea)

340 329 The Republicans have a chance to pick up as many as 11 Senate seats next year, if they don't fuck it up, which they will.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 06, 2023 12:56 PM (aD39U)

If they hypothetically got that many seats, they would have to… produce. That therfore cannot and will not happen.

Posted by: tubal at July 06, 2023 12:58 PM (PCK5/)

341 "I’m not surprised the Biden’s sold out America, I’m surprised they did it for so little."

Some reports claim $40M, or maybe $80M. We don't really know ... as Joe joked ... "where's the money?" haha ... funny guy.
Posted by: illiniwek at July 06, 2023 12:56 PM (Cus5s)

Yeah, Joe, Co. was raking in millions, and all we g got were Cornpop stories.

Posted by: mrp at July 06, 2023 12:58 PM (rj6Yv)

342 PARTY AT THE WHITE HOUSE!
*snort, sniff, snort*

-Hunter Biden, Artiste

Posted by: wth at July 06, 2023 12:58 PM (v0R5T)

343 Since that's the case, and the spot doesn't matter, I pick DeSantis. Who's with me ? After all, it doesn't matter. Heavy D can't, by definition, do any less than Trump since McConnell holds all the cards.

I'm glad it's settled. We can quit fighting about it.
Posted by: Roll Me Away at July 06, 2023 12:54 PM (ZoeSo)

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Appointments are only part of it of course. So there is ample opportunity for Meatball Ron to "do less" than Trump.

People putting their faith in a lifelong government employee like Meatball is amusing.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 06, 2023 12:58 PM (cMXNt)

344 Cat torturer and murderer haz thoughtz...
https://tinyurl.com/4vw8rbt5

...Republicans, such as former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (Tenn.), say the political dynamic is beginning to shift among GOP voters.
"It's clear from today's data — especially the growing incidence of mass shooting events involving high-capacity magazines and assault weapons — that it's time to consider policy changes," Frist wrote in a recent Forbes op-ed where he called for a federal assault weapons ban and expanding background checks to all firearms purchases.
Frist told The Hill in an interview that Republican voters' views of gun control are changing.
"Something is changing over the last three years compared to 20 years ago when I was here. There is a willingness to have civil discussions on what have been highly contentious issues that I didn't see 15 years ago,"
"More needs to be done on gun safety today," he said. "Something more needs to be done because the overall governance of gun safety is outdated and it's incomplete."
"A majority of Republicans support improved gun safety. It really is having people own guns if they want them and be able to do it in a way that is safe and secure”

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 06, 2023 12:59 PM (MFZ8i)

345 We're not comparing Trump against Jesus, we're comparing Trump against other human candidates.

You want: "And He shall rule over them with a scepter of iron until all of His enemies are under His Feet"

You'll accept: A few token arrests of high level Deep State

You'll get: Mean tweets and endless impeachment

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 06, 2023 12:59 PM (p8A+W)

346 Each day my conclusion that we are ruled by an evil, corrupt group of people is confirmed.
==
Watch Fargo. Every season is essentially how crime, became corporate, then ultimately political, and the effect of such a society on regular people.

Posted by: or maybe don't at July 06, 2023 12:59 PM (sh1GZ)

347 329 The Republicans have a chance to pick up as many as 11 Senate seats next year, if they don't fuck it up, which they will.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 06, 2023 12:56 PM (aD39U)

They lost a seat in 2022. In what should have been a monster red wave. Let’s not get carried away with what can happen in 2024 just yet.

Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:59 PM (Cr2ZZ)

348 I'm not making the claim that Trump would be able to roll the swamp. I have previously made clear I don't think Trump would be able to fix things if re-elected.

I'm pointing out why he (or currently anyone else) wouldn't be able to fix things. That Trump can't get good appointees due to McConnell is applicable to other candidates. That's it.

Again, fine. Since it doesn't matter, lets take DeSantis. Just as powerless as Trump, with a younger wife. And an easier to listen to accent. Makes a better speech. Tweets less.

I'm glad this is settled. Neither candidate can do a damn thing, so why argue ? Let's just take mine and be done with it.

I'm ready for lunch.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at July 06, 2023 12:59 PM (ZoeSo)

349 318 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 06, 2023 12:54 PM

I like that idea. The only thing functioning should be the military and border patrol. Everything else is non-essential.
But as you alluded to, would Trump be able to stand firm and not sign? Unknown.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 06, 2023 12:59 PM (4q/mG)

350 The Democrats never shut up, stopped fighting, cajoling, complaining, subverting and plotting and conniving for a solitary second while Bush and Trump were president. From the moment each was elected actually.

Under Obama I was lectured that the Republicans are quiet because they're "afraid" of being called racist. What's the excuse now?

Posted by: ... at July 06, 2023 12:59 PM (2tTGs)

351 If only there were some middle ground where people acknowledge the bad, but also the potential for change to the good.

Just being an annoying sock. Will remain an Eeyore until things improve but well said.

Posted by: The Eeyore at July 06, 2023 12:59 PM (Xrfse)

352 338 That means that what was easily accomplished in '20 will be substantially more complicated and perilous in '24. Furthermore, once was bad enough, but a second bite at the corruption apple in '24 will be hard for voters to ignore. Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

As to the voting specifics of the states you mention, I don't know. IIRC, Jackstraw has a much more complete understanding so perhaps you should ask him.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 06, 2023 12:58 PM (eOEVl)

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Twitter changed hands in 2022, and the Democrats cheated just as much in key states.

The guy who entrenched corruption further in Philly's elections, who is now in charge of PA's elections, is not going to make that state any better. Same with Hobbs in AZ or Whitmer in MI or Kemp in GA.

What's the path for any GOP president without AZ, MI, PA, or GA?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 01:00 PM (LvTSG)

353 49 He also told the DOJ and the FBI in Brussels that Hunter had an FBI mole named "One Eye" who had tipped off his CEFC associates

There has to be a limited number of one eyed people in the FBI.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 06, 2023 12:18 PM (aD39U)
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I bet I could get a list of every FBI agent with a monocular vision problem by pulling the court case through West Law on Jeremy Nathan. He applied to the FBI and was turned down due to 20/800 vision in his right eye. It was a drawn out case, so you know the plaintiff identified all active agents with a similar issue to make their case. Of course, "One eye" might refer to a name spelling of only "one i" when you would expect two.

Posted by: Orson at July 06, 2023 01:00 PM (+mki2)

354 We're not comparing Trump against Jesus, we're comparing Trump against other human candidates.
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TBF, I'm not thinking Jesus is going into politics on his return.

Posted by: snort *not in a hunter biden way* at July 06, 2023 01:01 PM (sh1GZ)

355 Trump ran his campaign on a shoestring. Maybe 20 people in the inner circle and not a lot more than that. Lots and lots of free media. Made all his own decisions. 3 different campaign managers, depending on what needed to be done.

As a result, he was completely unprepared for the transition.

There are about 3000 Presidentially appointed jobs, of which about 1000 require Senate confirmation. All require background checks. Having had a background check before in a prior administration makes it a lot easier to update, rather than starting from scratch.

You know Hillary had 2000 names already placed and left the other 1000 so some of her people could put in their own people who weren't already on Hillary's list. My guess is that Trump had about a dozen. He was destined to play catch-up on the people front for at least the first couple of years, just by the sheer numbers. And then he kept firing his own people, which added to the chaos.

I hope he learned his lesson and is already compiling his list. Hope isn't a plan, but it's all we've got.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 06, 2023 01:01 PM (7B5FA)

356 Can Gadot dance like Cyd Charisse?

Cyd Charisse!
Up there on the mantlepiece;
You're quite a shock there -
We need a clock there.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 06, 2023 01:01 PM (AW0uW)

357 Again, fine. Since it doesn't matter, lets take DeSantis. Just as powerless as Trump, with a younger wife. And an easier to listen to accent. Makes a better speech. Tweets less.

So you are cool with Florida being lost to whatever thing replaces DeSantis.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 06, 2023 01:01 PM (p8A+W)

358 Luft claims he has never been an arms dealer and the charge was just to shut him up. At this point there is no reason to believe he is lying.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2023 01:01 PM (ZLI7S)

359 271
OT: Just saw a live concert video of Udo Dirkschneider performing "Balls To The Wall" at some German metal festival on yootoob. Dood looks like a rural Bavarian sausage vendor wearing black leather.

Geez, I'm getting old.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 06, 2023 12:45 PM (n+4am)
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Dude was an odd-looking dude even in his prime. Watch the original B2tW video from early 1980s. Small and gnomish. Def doesn't look like a rock star even then.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 06, 2023 01:01 PM (iFTx/)

360 Hunter could confess everything and the media would still cover it up.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 06, 2023 12:57 PM (aCNZ6)

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Since the Clintons first darkened the White House, I've been saying about every Democrat scumbag: they could be caught on live nationwide video in bed with a live boy and dead girl, and not only would nothing happen: their "approval ratings" would go up -- thanks exclusively to (1) them being part of a Nihilistic Cultural Marxist Cult and (2) the MDM-MSM propaganda (BIRM) "are you gonna believe us or your lying eyes?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 06, 2023 01:01 PM (ul9wx)

361 Biden at 70-80% in Dem primary polls. Trump hovering in the 40's to barely 50%. This would not be good if he was running for reelection, let alone convinicing people he deserves a second chance.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2023 12:56 PM (t/2Uw)

Trump's going to win the primaries because the same blue-collar disaffected dems and first time voters who drug him over the line in 2016 will vote for him above all others. Those guys are Ride or Die wrt Trump.

They're really not concerned with the intricacies of DC politics or Senate maneuvering or *horrible staffing decisions*. They know they all had jobs, their 401ks were roaring, their kids weren't being sent to fight empire-building wars and gas prices were chheeeepppp. In short, they trust him.

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 01:02 PM (01tFH)

362 It's strange that I believe a fugitive arms dealer and not my country's government.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 06, 2023 01:02 PM (BdMk6)

363 Ho "paid Hunter Biden a million dollars for God-knows-what [but] was not allowed to mention the word Biden before the jury," says Luft.

It buys mucho cocaine for Hunter in the White House Library

Posted by: White Trash Corruptocrat Clue at July 06, 2023 01:02 PM (OZjDX)

364 James, Hunter, Joe and Jill went up the hill
to fetch a pail of cash
Joe fell down and broke his crown
and Jill said "fuck him guys let's go party!"

Posted by: wth at July 06, 2023 01:02 PM (v0R5T)

365 Of course, "One eye" might refer to a name spelling of only "one i" when you would expect two.
==
One eye = Odin.

Posted by: look it up at July 06, 2023 01:02 PM (sh1GZ)

366 You gve me on example Puzder who had some baggage. Who else? Was there one high profile nominee that Trump fought for against McConnell? I don’t remember any.
Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:57 PM (Cr2ZZ)

What defines fought for?

Anyone who loses will be said to have baggage, though the ones who get through aren't really any different.

Trump's other withdrawn Cabinet nominees are Ronny Jackson, Patrick Shanahan, and John Ratcliffe.

Lower positions in the government were mostly being slow-walked or frozen, which is why a lot of positions were unstaffed even after Trump had been in for 4 years. McConnell is perfectly happy to let the bureaucracy run itself.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 01:02 PM (eYoxG)

367 There are about 3000 Presidentially appointed jobs, of which about 1000 require Senate confirmation. All require background checks.

Yet Obama's Regime had "czars" who each wielded more power than a Department Secretary, and none of them had any vetting.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 06, 2023 01:02 PM (p8A+W)

368 329 The Republicans have a chance to pick up as many as 11 Senate seats next year, if they don't fuck it up, which they will.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 06, 2023 12:56 PM (aD39U)
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Spoiler alert: GOP will fuck the pig monumentally

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 06, 2023 01:03 PM (iFTx/)

369 One thing the gop candidate has to do - no matter who it is - is stop going after he black vote. It’s not
Happening. The GOP candidate gets 10% every election. All the “reaching out” to the community in the world is not getting that number higher. Just accept it and use your resources elsewhere.

Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 01:03 PM (Cr2ZZ)

370 362 It's strange that I believe a fugitive arms dealer and not my country's government.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 06, 2023 01:02 PM (BdMk6)

It's the track record of the government that makes his miracle possible

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 06, 2023 01:03 PM (xcxpd)

371 "362 It's strange that I believe a fugitive arms dealer and not my country's government.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 06, 2023 01:02 PM (BdMk6)"

I would believe the Assistant Crack Whore who serviced the arms dealer before my own country's government.

Posted by: Zek at July 06, 2023 01:04 PM (5FPX4)

372 James, Hunter, Joe and Jill went up the hill
to fetch a pail of cash
Joe fell down and broke his crown
and Jill said "fuck him guys let's go party!"

Posted by: wth at July 06, 2023 01:02 PM (v0R5T)

Catchy little ditty you have there...

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at July 06, 2023 01:04 PM (Y2wSa)

373 It's not like the FBI just had one of their top foreign espionage and Hunter Biden associate indicted for taking bribes in a number of places including Albania where both the Bidens and he were working for agents who were employed by the CEFC.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2023 01:04 PM (ZLI7S)

374 Tschuss

Models to build and sanity to save.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2023 01:05 PM (hbhtj)

375 Under Obama I was lectured that the Republicans are quiet because they're "afraid" of being called racist. What's the excuse now?

Posted by: ... at July 06, 2023 12:59 PM (2tTGs)

sometimes I have the thought, might sound crazy, I know...that it's not just the Bidets who are beholden to the CCP

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 01:05 PM (01tFH)

376 Hunter could confess everything and the media would still cover it up.
==
HE ALREADY DID. By abandoning a laptop with gigabytes of evidence on it. AND THEY ALREADY DID.

Posted by: you might want to sit down at July 06, 2023 01:05 PM (sh1GZ)

377 So you are cool with Florida being lost to whatever thing replaces DeSantis.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 06, 2023 01:01 PM (p8A+W)

Sure. Once DeSantis hits the primaries, he's not going back to being Gov of Florida anyway. He can't.

So be it. The big argument for Trump is "he couldn't do anything". OK. Then I pick a different guy that can't do anything, but seems Hell bent on sitting in the chair. It doesn't matter, as I've been schooled here, because The Turtle. Great. Got it.

I pick Heavy D for the useless figurehead that will not win and can't do jack shit even if he does, rather than the Orange Haired Vulgarian. I don't even know why we're arguing - neither one can accomplish anything. Then why give a shit ? Other than loyalty to Trump.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at July 06, 2023 01:05 PM (ZoeSo)

378 369 The GOP candidate gets 10% every election. All the “reaching out” to the community in the world is not getting that number higher. Just accept it and use your resources elsewhere.
Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 01:03 PM (Cr2ZZ)

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Detroit says there are 1000 ballots in a box with 10. They were found out in 2016. They'd been doing it for decades. Nothing's been done to stop them.

Do you believe that the black population actually votes 90% for Democrats?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 01:05 PM (LvTSG)

379 The nightclub scene in "Singing in the Rain", when Cyd Charisse expels the cigarette smoke through her nose. Target ... acquired.

Posted by: mrp at July 06, 2023 01:05 PM (rj6Yv)

380 Again, fine. Since it doesn't matter, lets take DeSantis. Just as powerless as Trump, with a younger wife.
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Trump is more persuasive. The zeitgeist matters and Trump knows how to influence it.

Lots of people seem to think Trump getting elected was just a thing that happened or he got lucky.

Which btw I predicted would happen in 2016 when the same people were telling me it was IMPOSSIBLE for him to beat Hillary. I said he would in fact beat her and those very dumbshits that were calling me stupid for saying so would act like it was obvious all along.

Posted by: ... at July 06, 2023 01:05 PM (2tTGs)

381 I bang bang Fang Fang.

Posted by: Farty McFarterson, congressworm at July 06, 2023 01:06 PM (sh1GZ)

382 It's strange that I believe a fugitive arms dealer and not my country's government.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 06, 2023 01:02 PM (BdMk6)
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It's called inductive reasoning.

Posted by: Axeman at July 06, 2023 01:06 PM (krQz2)

383 So you are cool with Florida being lost to whatever thing replaces DeSantis.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 06, 2023 01:01 PM (p8A+W)

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Andrew Gillum is tanned, rested, wacked out on meth, and ready to assume the position (preferably in a killer three-way)!

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 06, 2023 01:06 PM (ul9wx)

384 @367 and we have Shrub to thank for making white house "czars" a thing.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 06, 2023 01:06 PM (ssESX)

385 Luft claims he has never been an arms dealer and the charge was just to shut him up. At this point there is no reason to believe he is lying.

Used to be to slime someone they had to be a human trafficker or pedophile, now those are résumé embellishments.

Seems the only vice is to support Trump or be an arms trafficker.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 06, 2023 01:06 PM (p8A+W)

386 332 Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 06, 2023 12:57 PM

Interesting list there for #2. Not sure about Bannon though.
For #1 I was thinking also of Giuliani. Former US prosecutor, one of the best Mayor's NYC ever had and also someone targeted by the Deep State.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 06, 2023 01:07 PM (WsJuq)

387 sometimes I have the thought, might sound crazy, I know...that it's not just the Bidets who are beholden to the CCP

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 01:05 PM (01tFH)

And that's a bingo

Posted by: ... at July 06, 2023 01:07 PM (2tTGs)

388 I made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast

Posted by: Hunter Buffet Biden at July 06, 2023 01:07 PM (NtVYv)

389 They're really not concerned with the intricacies of DC politics or Senate maneuvering or *horrible staffing decisions*. They know they all had jobs, their 401ks were roaring, their kids weren't being sent to fight empire-building wars and gas prices were chheeeepppp. In short, they trust him.

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 01:02 PM (01tFH)

Can't trust anyone that looked like Gal Gadot and didn't take pics. Let alone refuse to post them. Sorry. No sale.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at July 06, 2023 01:07 PM (ZoeSo)

390 Does Desantis have a groomed successor? He's term limited in 2026 regardless. As effective as he has been, I assume he has a machine set up.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 06, 2023 01:07 PM (aD39U)

391 Detroit says there are 1000 ballots in a box with 10. They were found out in 2016. They'd been doing it for decades. Nothing's been done to stop them.

Do you believe that the black population actually votes 90% for Democrats?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 01:05 PM (LvTSG)

Yes. Okay maybe 89.5%, they all want the gibs.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at July 06, 2023 01:07 PM (Y2wSa)

392 The big argument for Trump is "he couldn't do anything". OK.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at July 06, 2023 01:05 PM (ZoeSo)
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That sounds pretty straw, there.

Posted by: Axeman at July 06, 2023 01:08 PM (krQz2)

393 Can't trust anyone that looked like Gal Gadot and didn't take pics. Let alone refuse to post them. Sorry. No sale.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at July 06, 2023 01:07 PM (ZoeSo)

why you little ol' heartbreaker you.

I.Am. Crushed.

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 01:08 PM (01tFH)

394 Spoiler alert: GOP will fuck the pig monumentally

I'm right here, you know.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at July 06, 2023 01:08 PM (AW0uW)

395
Do you believe that the black population actually votes 90% for Democrats?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 01:05

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If the answer is always yeah but fraud, then what’s the point of any of it?

Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 01:08 PM (Cr2ZZ)

396 They lost a seat in 2022. In what should have been a monster red wave. Let’s not get carried away with what can happen in 2024 just yet. Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 12:59 PM (Cr2ZZ)

I don't recall the numbers, but the Senate was always going to be tough. I think the R's were defending about 10 more than the D's, so picking up seats was not impossible, but a challenge. Fetterman, Kelly, Warnock, and maybe Cortez-Masto could have been beat with the right candidates. OTOH, we could have lost Johnson, Vance, and Budd.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 06, 2023 01:08 PM (7B5FA)

397 104 I wonder if Pete LaCock ever played on the same team as Rusty Kuntz...
Posted by: steevy
__________

LaCock played for the Royals, and Kuntz coaches for them.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at July 06, 2023 01:08 PM (gf7Ez)

398 Biden Crime Family strikes again
Read this morning their under the table accounts were in the millions
Posted by: Skip

Musta been a BIG table !

Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023 01:09 PM (T4tVD)

399 312 I wonder if Bobby McFerrin is still performing… he produced one helluva earwig…
Posted by: tubal at Jully 06, 2023 12:54 PM (PCK5/

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Earwig? I heard it was an ear worm. No matter -- gets annoying

Posted by: JM in Florida -- now in Illinois at July 06, 2023 01:09 PM (EoDGC)

400 Does Desantis have a groomed successor? He's term limited in 2026 regardless. As effective as he has been, I assume he has a machine set up.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 06, 2023 01:07 PM (aD39U)
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Grooming is illegal in Florida.

Posted by: Axeman at July 06, 2023 01:09 PM (krQz2)

401 It's ironic that people who have benefited the most from a bailed out economy since 2008 and really since 1971 want to remove all the safety nets at once like they would survive a week.

It's like reading the thoughts of a teenage girl writing in her dream diary.

Nope, hate to tell y'all but you and your kids and grandchildren and their grandchildren will pay the price.

We have no rights but have the numbers while never voting our way out of this... fugue it out.

Posted by: Eagle Lips at July 06, 2023 01:09 PM (exeWe)

402 390 Does Desantis have a groomed successor? He's term limited in 2026 regardless. As effective as he has been, I assume he has a machine set up.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 06, 2023 01:07 PM (aD39U)

Effective machine politics is more of a crooked politician thing. I'd think it unlikely.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 06, 2023 01:09 PM (eYoxG)

403 Take a look at one of the first things the Biden administration did in foreign policy after taking office. They sanctioned an Albanian politician who has been fighting corruption and communism in that country and who was aligned with numerous US administrations before Biden.

No actual evidence was ever reported against him but it knocked him out of contention and opened the path for the socialist CEFC associated pol to take charge.

Odd, that one.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 06, 2023 01:09 PM (ZLI7S)

404 and we have Shrub to thank for making white house "czars" a thing.

I thought that was Nixon. He had an 'energy czar,' IIRC.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at July 06, 2023 01:10 PM (AW0uW)

405 dragged not drug.

Otherwise I get your point. My only hope is that they will see DeSantis as more serious and more in line with their values. Florida has become a huge fiscal success as well as dealing with the moral issues so abhorent to the conservative base.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2023 01:10 PM (t/2Uw)

406 Hiya

Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023 01:10 PM (T4tVD)

407 Trump's going to win the primaries because the same blue-collar disaffected dems and first time voters who drug him over the line in 2016 will vote for him above all others. Those guys are Ride or Die wrt Trump.

We're counting on it.

Posted by: The Democrats at July 06, 2023 01:10 PM (eOEVl)

408 And that's a bingo

Posted by: ... at July 06, 2023 01:07 PM (2tTGs) ? i]

remember who opened the door to the Red Menace? Nixon and his *horrible staffing decision* Henry Kissinger.

Also the EPA formed on his watch. He did everything the donkeys wanted and what did he get for his trouble?
Hounded out of office.

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 01:10 PM (01tFH)

409 Damn.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 06, 2023 01:10 PM (AW0uW)

410

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 01:11 PM (01tFH)

411 Hi ace! Hi everbody else!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)

Hiya !

Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023 01:11 PM (T4tVD)

412 This guy, this "missing witness".... this guy needs to name names and provide dates. Something that can be verified. Seriously, fuck this innuendo and gossip game.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 06, 2023 01:11 PM (YRsIm)

413 Spoiler alert: GOP will fuck the pig monumentally
===
Double Spoiler alert: Because they LIKE fucking the pig.

Triple Spoiler alert: Their ability to continue fucking the pig depends on it.

Posted by: Pig is like, are we done here? at July 06, 2023 01:11 PM (sh1GZ)

414 I.Am. Crushed.

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 01:08 PM (01tFH)

Sam Elliot voice. With a Tom T Hall way of telling stories. Stocky Brad Pitt - if Brad Pitt had brown hair, a square head, and round face.

No pics, though. If you ain't, I ain't.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at July 06, 2023 01:11 PM (ZoeSo)

415 Does Desantis have a groomed successor? He's term limited in 2026 regardless. As effective as he has been, I assume he has a machine set up.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 06, 2023 01:07 PM (aD39U)

I'm tanned, rested and ready. Very, very tan.

Posted by: Charlie Crist at July 06, 2023 01:11 PM (JXens)

416 324 Someone gave me a 3 star rating but no review. I don't know how I failed this person!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:40 PM

I'm speechless

Posted by: REDACTED at July 06, 2023 01:12 PM (us2H3)

417 Florida has definitely moved from Purple to solid red. I don;t think people want to go back to the way the Dems ran Florida so wouldn't worry too much about that as an excuse to overlook DeSantis.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2023 01:12 PM (t/2Uw)

418 dragged not drug.

I used that form on purpose.

I like drug.

I had quite a lot of umm...inside information when the Hunter cocaine thread was up, but I didn't really share.

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 01:12 PM (01tFH)

419 Trump is more persuasive.

To you, yes. To a majority of Americans, no.

Posted by: The Democrats at July 06, 2023 01:12 PM (eOEVl)

420 For #1 I was thinking also of Giuliani. Former US prosecutor, one of the best Mayor's NYC ever had and also someone targeted by the Deep State.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 06, 2023 01:07 PM (WsJuq)

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That's a good one I'd forgotten. I suspect he too would be rejected by "our good UniParty friends" in The Senate -- but would be entertaining in his insulting responses to the idiotic questioners during the "confirmation" process.

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 06, 2023 01:12 PM (ul9wx)

421 Hot out thar.

and humid.

Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023 01:14 PM (T4tVD)

422 Also the EPA formed on his watch. He did everything the donkeys wanted and what did he get for his trouble?
Hounded out of office.

Posted by: kallisto at July 06, 2023 01:10 PM (01tFH)

Amazing innit.

Posted by: ... at July 06, 2023 01:14 PM (2tTGs)

423 Well if this candidate reforms X, that will solve things.
Dawg, this is the problem in the thinking. Numbers solve things.

Posted by: Eagle Lips at July 06, 2023 01:14 PM (exeWe)

424 Odd, that one.
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Albania, Albania, you border on the Adriatic
Your terrain is mostly mountainous
and your chief export is chrome.

Posted by: Coach at July 06, 2023 01:14 PM (sh1GZ)

425 Nood

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at July 06, 2023 01:14 PM (gf7Ez)

426 The Florida state house is 84/35 R/D. So it’s more than just DeSantis, the state is deep red right now.

Posted by: Montec at July 06, 2023 01:14 PM (Cr2ZZ)

427 @393 Here's Gal Gadot in the prone position: https://tinyurl.com/5n8atwu2

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 06, 2023 01:14 PM (ssESX)

428 In the 14-minute recording, obtained exclusively by The Post, the fugitive former Israeli army officer claims he was arrested in Cyprus to stop him from testifying to the House Oversight Committee that the Biden family received payments from individuals with alleged ties to Chinese military intelligence and that they had an FBI mole who shared classified information with their benefactors from the China-controlled energy company CEFC.
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Huh. So just being a fugitive arms dealer is no problem - but cross a top-level Party Man and they'll sweep you up toot sweet.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 06, 2023 01:15 PM (t0OGg)

429 New thread up

Posted by: Ann at July 06, 2023 01:15 PM (ilNea)

430 "Prosecutor Daniel Richenthal told the judge at the time that mentioning the name Biden would 'add a political dimension' to the case, and the judge agreed. Which means if I was brought before a New York court, I would not be allowed to utter the word Brussels or Biden."
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#AmericanJustice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 06, 2023 01:16 PM (t0OGg)

431 To you, yes. To a majority of Americans, no.

Posted by: The Democrats at July 06, 2023 01:12 PM (eOEVl)

He gained at least 12 million votes between elections. During a pandemic that was blamed squarely on him and in the midst of every possible slander imaginable.

Who is this magic person that persuades "a majority of Americans"? What kind of shit is this?

Posted by: ... at July 06, 2023 01:16 PM (2tTGs)

432 417 Florida has definitely moved from Purple to solid red. I don;t think people want to go back to the way the Dems ran Florida so wouldn't worry too much about that as an excuse to overlook DeSantis.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 06, 2023 01:12 PM (t/2Uw)
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FL has pretty much the same political demographics as it always was. What changed is the state GOP party actually managed to clean up the election rolls and election voting. The Dumocrap cheating was massively reduced. Same in OH. That is the only way forward. The ONLY way. So long as GA, PA, AZ, and the rest keep allowing blatantly stolen elections, the GOP has no chance in 2024 no matter who they nominate.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 06, 2023 01:17 PM (iFTx/)

433 He gained at least 12 million votes between elections. During a pandemic that was blamed squarely on him and in the midst of every possible slander imaginable.

Who is this magic person that persuades "a majority of Americans"? What kind of shit is this?
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This is fine. We just need better candidates.

Posted by: Meme dog at July 06, 2023 01:21 PM (sh1GZ)

434
Where have voting rules changed for the better in AZ, MI, PA, or GA?

Where are there new people in charge of elections in these states that are going to make them more reliable and accurate to the will of the voters?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 06, 2023 12:52 PM

In Pennsylvania we have a new Secretary of State hand picked by the (D) Governor. We'll probably still have mail ballots. The only good news is that Judicial Watch brought suit against a number of counties to purge their voting rolls of dead or moved. I think the number was 80,000 or so. That's pretty big.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2023 01:21 PM (enJYY)

435 The only good news is that Judicial Watch brought suit against a number of counties to purge their voting rolls of dead or moved. I think the number was 80,000 or so. That's pretty big.
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It would have been, except for the mail in voting.

Posted by: always one step ahead - funny how that happens at July 06, 2023 01:23 PM (sh1GZ)

436 See there's this machine the goverment invented that magically creates multimillionaires, and its only available to select people in power and banks.

No wonder our leadership is riddled with psychopaths.

Posted by: this whole thing will get out of control, it will get out of control and . . . at July 06, 2023 01:27 PM (sh1GZ)

437 71 We can laugh at Hunter's idiocy, but the people around him are serious. DOJ and FBI are openly corrupted, covering up for him (and Joe). It wouldn't surprise me at all that the CIA could be involved in pressuring tiny Cyprus to kidnap this guy to keep him from testifying to Congress. There may be worse things probably already happening in Ukraine to potential witnesses.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 06, 2023 12:20 PM (fs1hN)

I never considered that our current "involvement" in Ukraine is based on a need to eliminate witnesses either by paying off Ukrainian hitmen or letting Russia do it or do it ourselves and call it collateral damage or casualty of war. And I had thought I had already hit the bottom threshold of cynicism. Guessing I have even further to go.

Posted by: Mr. Barky at July 06, 2023 02:18 PM (2Hizd)

438 Isn't it curious that two people with evidence against Bidens are arrested overseas on their way to America.

The Ukrainian guy with Poroshenko Biden tapes was arrested in Germany, and this new guy was arrested in Cyprus.

Posted by: Harun at July 06, 2023 02:20 PM (Cg63x)

439 Dan Bongino
@dbongino
There’s absolutely ZERO chance anyone other than a family member brought that cocaine inside the White House complex. No chance that would make it past the mag/security checkpoints. Family bypasses those.

Posted by: SMOD at July 06, 2023 05:19 PM (bP3W+)

440 Even as Biden plans to have us all disarmed and the Bordered Opened. Biden is going to Crash & Burn next year

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 06, 2023 06:06 PM (wGqjj)

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