Many of the Same Enemy Agents Who Ran the Hunter Biden Laptop Disinformation Operation Against the US Are Now Demanding Expanded Power to Spy on US Citizens

Of course. Let's give hostile enemy intelligence agents all the powers.

Several of the 51 former intelligence officials who signed a letter casting doubt on the authenticity of Hunter Biden's laptop before the 2020 presidential election are now pushing Congress to enhance the surveillance of Americans, according to a Tuesday letter.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Deputy Director for the National Security Agency (NSA) Richard Ledgett, former Deputy CIA Director Michael Morell, former CIA Chief of Staff Jeremy Bash and former NSA General Counsel Glenn Gerstell signed a letter in 2020 arguing that the leak of documents from Biden's laptop had the "earmarks of a Russian information operation." The former officials railed against a bill that would limit intelligence agencies' ability to surveil Americans without a warrant, while praising a bill that would enable surveillance of any location that provides internet access, according to the recent letter to House lawmakers.
"We cannot hamstring the U.S. Intelligence Community either by failing to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or by limiting it in ways that would make it difficult for the government to protect Americans," the letter states. "To be clear, Section 702 saves American lives and helps keep Americans safe from international terrorist attacks, foreign cyberattacks, overseas fentanyl suppliers, and other threats to our national security. There's no substitute for it."
The House Judiciary Committee's reform to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act would broadly prohibit warrantless searches of Americans, according to its text. However, it is "seriously flawed and would hurt our government's ability to protect Americans in the current heightened threat environment," the intelligence officials assert in the letter.
Alternatively, the House Intelligence Committee has a bill that would massively expand domestic surveillance by altering the definition of "electronic service communications provider" to cover "equipment that is being or may be used to transmit or store such communications,'' which would lead to any entity or business that offers an internet connection being required to help with surveillance, according to experts. The former intelligence officials say it "represents a thoughtful alternative approach to Section 702 reforms."

Instapundit linked this article at RealClearPolitics by Gene Sheer about this "alternative" bill proposed by the House Intelligence Committee goons.

These fascists are really in tune with the GOP voters who elected them when they propose massively expanding the Deep State's ability to spy on Americans.

First of all, this "reform" is no reform at all. It is barely even disguised as reform.

That culture of deception even seems to infect the so-called FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act, proposed this week by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, a bill that represents the wish-list of the intelligence community.
First, the bill's marquee "reform" is the prohibition of only a handful of searches or "queries" of information about Americans under Section 702, the authority enacted by Congress to enable foreign surveillance but often used by the government for domestic spying. The type of search the bill would prohibit is "evidence-of-a-crime only" queries. But in 2022, out of over 200,000 queries of Americans' data, there were only two instances of the FBI accessing Section 702 data under this rubric. And even if that prohibition were in place, the FBI could easily evade it simply by claiming in every instance that agents were looking for some (hypothetical) terror threat in addition to possible crimes.

Wow, what a reform! Out of 200,000 Deep State intrusions into Americans' personal information, this "reform" would stop two. Except it wouldn't, because Deep Staters could just categorize these inquires as something else.

If you remember, last week I linked Mike Lee grilling Christopher Wray about this non-reform. I didn't understand the context of his questions of "evidence of a crime" queries but I do now. Here's that video again, with Mike Lee asking if these "reforms" would have stopped any of a list of prior abuses Lee rattles off, and Wray either admitting "no" or claiming he's not sure.

The bill's non-reform "reform" would thus do nothing to stop the routine snooping on Americans, from 19,000 donors to a congressional campaign, to a House member and a senator, a judge, and numerous protesters of the left and right. Nor would this "reform" prevent known abuses, such as the NSA agents who used this powerful search program to check out online dating prospects and potential tenants.

That's the so-called "LOVEINT" -- "intelligence" searches to find out information about a man or woman you're interested in, or about the guy who's banging your ex-girlfriend.

What could actually cut down on that kind of abuse is firing these people and sending them to jail, as the law actually demands, for invading people's privacy on a false pretense of investigating matters of national security... but of course the Deep State looks out for its own, and these people literally never go to jail and are rarely even fired.

Note that in the Mike Lee interrogation of Wray I linked above, Wray cannot say that any of the FBI agents, or any other Deep State agents at the "intelligence" agents who committed section 702 abuses, have been fired. Because none of them have. (Or so few of them have that he can't think of any who have been. Mike Lee sure doesn't seem to think there's been a single firing.)

And jail? Forget about it!

Here's the part about massively expanding the Deep State's ability to spy on Americans:

Even more outrageous is a problematic provision tucked away in this "reform" bill but not so much as mentioned in the committee's report. Section 504 of the House Intelligence bill requires that those who have access to the "equipment that is being or may be used to transmit or store such communications" shall be treated as "electronic communication service providers" and thus subject to Section 702's general requirement to (secretly) disclose our data to the government....
[T]he House Intelligence bill's expansion to include "equipment" would cover, for example, any small or medium-sized business that simply provides Wi-Fi or stores data. This means that your business landlord, Airbnb host, hotel manager, or coffee shop barista will have a legal obligation to give the government any of your emails, texts, or phone metadata that ran through their equipment. Larger entities, such as data centers, would also be enlisted in spying on Americans.
To call the expansion of government-mandated spying to baristas and landlords "reform" shows the contempt the intelligence community has for Congress and the very idea of oversight. It is nothing less than a Trojan horse buried in the House Intelligence bill.

And Jim Jordan recently suggested that those "51 Former Intelligence Officials" who ran a disinformation campaign against the citizens of the US, and who are now demanding expanded powers to spy on the citizens of the US, may not have been former intelligence officials after all - -he's demanding to know which of these enemy agents and traitors were actually on the government's payroll when they practiced their treason against the country.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is investigating whether the 51 former intelligence officials who signed the infamous Hunter Biden laptop letter were paid by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
After Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop surfaced during the 2020 election, more than 50 former intelligence officials signed a letter in Politico saying the computer "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation." In a letter to CIA Director William Burns on Monday, Jordan, who leads the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, demanded the CIA chief come clean about the agency's alleged involvement in branding the laptop as Russian disinformation, which plainly amounted to election interference.
"We understand that former intelligence officials often return to the intelligence community under private contract for their previous agencies," Jordan wrote. "It is vital to the Committees' oversight to understand whether any of the signatories of the public statement were actively employed by CIA as contractors or consultants at the time they signed the public statement."
"If so," Jordan added, "this information would raise fundamental concerns about the role of the CIA as it pertains to the October 19, 2020, 'Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails' signed and published by 51 former intelligence community officials in the weeks preceding the 2020 presidential election."
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In his Monday letter to the CIA chief, Jordan demanded a list of all signatories to the letter "who were on active contract or consulting for the CIA at any time from January 1, 2020, to the present," as well as whether any of those potential contracts "pertained to Hunter Biden's business dealings, Biden family influence-peddling, Ukraine, or the Hunter Biden laptop scandal."
Several of the intelligence letters' signatories have since doubled down on the debunked claims of Russian interference despite the laptop having been verified even by news outlets that first dismissed the computer's legitimacy.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:17 PM

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1 First!

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 13, 2023 12:16 PM (CIS44)

2 nooded

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 13, 2023 12:17 PM (CIS44)

3 st!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2023 12:17 PM (zxP/x)

4 triple?

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 13, 2023 12:17 PM (CIS44)

5 home run?!

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 13, 2023 12:17 PM (CIS44)

6 BY GOD!

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 13, 2023 12:17 PM (CIS44)

7 Investigations are nice and all, but I wish they would come to a conclusion just once.

Ah, well, as my grandmother used to say, "Wish in one hand..."

Posted by: huerfano at December 13, 2023 12:18 PM (Q4KYm)

8 nooooooooooo

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 13, 2023 12:18 PM (CIS44)

9 Why trust a government that doesn't trust its citizens?

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 13, 2023 12:18 PM (wtvvX)

10 The House Judiciary Committee's reform to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act would broadly prohibit warrantless searches of Americans, according to its text. However, it is "seriously flawed and would hurt our government's ability to protect Americans in the current heightened threat environment," the intelligence officials assert in the letter.

Alternatively, the House Intelligence Committee has a bill that would massively expand domestic surveillance by altering the definition of "electronic service communications provider" to cover "equipment that is being or may be used to transmit or store such communications,'' which would lead to any entity or business that offers an internet connection being required to help with surveillance, according to experts. The former intelligence officials say it "represents a thoughtful alternative approach to Section 702 reforms."
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"Instead of forbidding warantless searches, make them the default SOP and mandate full cooperation."

Nice "compromise" there.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2023 12:18 PM (zxP/x)

11 The slavers demand better steel to make chains for us to wear.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 13, 2023 12:19 PM (xcxpd)

12 They hate us. They know who their enemies are, and they aren't the people trying to kill American citizens.

They are the citizens who want to put a stop to their unchecked power.

Posted by: Totally not on the South's side at December 13, 2023 12:19 PM (JMAcK)

13 First of all, this "reform" is no reform at all. It is barely even disguised as reform.
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Oh, it's reform. It's actually a pretty big reform. It's just being reformed into something far, far worse.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2023 12:19 PM (zxP/x)

14 >>>What could actually cut down on that kind of abuse is firing these people and sending them to jail, as the law actually demands, for invading people's privacy on a false pretense of investigating matters of national security...

Or a Hellmouth opening underneath DC.

To the extent there isn't one already.

Posted by: Dr. T at December 13, 2023 12:19 PM (g0Y4p)

15 Uggg... off, yesterday's sock.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 13, 2023 12:19 PM (JMAcK)

16 Spying on us but never knowing what the hell is going on. Sounds efficient.

Posted by: nckate at December 13, 2023 12:20 PM (SnxUt)

17 ***redacted***

Posted by: Joe Mama at December 13, 2023 12:20 PM (lZVy/)

18 The type of search the bill would prohibit is "evidence-of-a-crime only" queries.
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Why? Isn't that ostensibly the purpose of it? You can use the massive databases of information obtained by spying on Americans so long as you do *not* use it to investigate crimes?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2023 12:21 PM (zxP/x)

19 Meet the new boss.

Same as the old boss.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2023 12:21 PM (QBaJw)

20 I thought Santa was already spying on all of us, anyway.

Is he in on this, too?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 12:21 PM (JrojV)

21 It's unfortunate that the new Speaker is a Deep State adjacent milquetoast.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 13, 2023 12:21 PM (eYF7X)

22 Here's one I like.
The government that is $34trillion in debt wants US to have social credit scores.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 13, 2023 12:21 PM (MeG8a)

23
FISA needs to be completely abolished. And the stooges who complain that it compromises our national security are the greatest threat to that all by themselves.

Dismantle the intel state.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 13, 2023 12:22 PM (x0n13)

24 What could actually cut down on that kind of abuse is firing these people and sending them to jail, as the law actually demands, for invading people's privacy on a false pretense of investigating matters of national security... but of course the Deep State looks out for its own, and these people literally never go to jail and are rarely even fired.

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State governments need to start breaking with the federal government in as many ways as possible. Refusing federal money and aid in as many forms as they can do.

One day, a hurricane will hit the Southeast and a governor will refuse federal funds, and that will be the marker that the post-New Deal arrangement between states and the feds is finally breaking.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 13, 2023 12:22 PM (GBKbO)

25 What could actually cut down on that kind of abuse is firing these people and sending them to jail, as the law actually demands, for invading people's privacy on a false pretense of investigating matters of national security... but of course the Deep State looks out for its own, and these people literally never go to jail and are rarely even fired.
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Whack-a-mole.

What can make a really big difference is to prohibit these kinds of collections. They're unconstitutional and violate the Fourth Amendment and should never have been permitted. Take it away. Eliminate the capability and punish anyone caught building or operating such a system with a minimum sentence of 25 to life.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2023 12:22 PM (zxP/x)

26 The House Intelligence Committee is run by Republicans, no? I guess then that the Republicans are fascists (along with the Democrats).

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 13, 2023 12:22 PM (I/xUI)

27 Did the mafia ever demand increased power and freedom to do nefarious stuff?

Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 13, 2023 12:23 PM (hCt6Y)

28 I thought Santa was already spying on all of us, anyway.

Is he in on this, too?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Santa is an anagram for the real perp(s).

Posted by: Joe Mama at December 13, 2023 12:23 PM (lZVy/)

29 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 13, 2023 12:23 PM (vf0Uk)

30
The gotta get the goods on us so that no one can stop them from doing whatever the hell they want to do.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 13, 2023 12:23 PM (enJYY)

31 The "intelligence stasi" need a namshub up their fourth point vigorously applied.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 13, 2023 12:23 PM (ZsBko)

32 Or a Hellmouth opening underneath DC.

To the extent there isn't one already.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 13, 2023 12:19 PM (g0Y4p)

There is, but it goes from the Capitol to Comet Pizza.

Seriously. There are tunnels. Nobody seems to want to talk about them, but they're there.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2023 12:23 PM (QBaJw)

33 Spying on us but never knowing what the hell is going on. Sounds efficient.
Posted by: nckate at December 13, 2023 12:20 PM (SnxUt)

This can be easily explained.

Any intelligence which turns up information which compromises a foreign government or indicates that a person, or group, are planning a mass casualty attack is immediately deleted and that source is banned from further monitoring.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 13, 2023 12:23 PM (1Z8zZ)

34 Hunter Biden will get away with EVERYTHING under the "A father's love" clause of the Constitution.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 13, 2023 12:23 PM (vf0Uk)

35 he House Intelligence bill's expansion to include "equipment" would cover, for example, any small or medium-sized business that simply provides Wi-Fi or stores data. This means that your business landlord, Airbnb host, hotel manager, or coffee shop barista will have a legal obligation to give the government any of your emails, texts, or phone metadata that ran through their equipment. Larger entities, such as data centers, would also be enlisted in spying on Americans.
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It is, essentially, everything. They have their taps in the backbone networks, but they want the stored data now.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2023 12:23 PM (zxP/x)

36
Remember that all of this, and even what used to be thought of as legal/Constitutional are a one way street because our entire bureaucracy is 99.99% Leftist. They use their power to go after us. If it were ever tried in reverse, and it never will, the screaming would be off the charts.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 13, 2023 12:24 PM (x0n13)

37 Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 13, 2023 12:19 PM (JMAcK)

Cool hash, there.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 13, 2023 12:24 PM (jA9ul)

38 Dismantle the intel state.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

"But, but, but - if we do that we may miss planned terrorist acts."

Like 9/11, or the Las Vegas shootings, or all the 'known to LE' perps that go on to kill.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 13, 2023 12:24 PM (x7plP)

39 "We understand that former intelligence officials often return to the intelligence community under private contract for their previous agencies," Jordan wrote. "It is vital to the Committees' oversight to understand whether any of the signatories of the public statement were actively employed by CIA as contractors or consultants at the time they signed the public statement."

"If so," Jordan added, "this information would raise fundamental concerns about the role of the CIA as it pertains to the October 19, 2020, 'Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails' signed and published by 51 former intelligence community officials in the weeks preceding the 2020 presidential election."
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LOL. Sure. I guess.

Their employment status isn't actually relevant. This is the CIA. It's what they do. Fund it or don't. Ball's in your court.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2023 12:24 PM (zxP/x)

40 36
Remember that all of this, and even what used to be thought of as legal/Constitutional are a one way street because our entire bureaucracy is 99.99% Leftist. They use their power to go after us. If it were ever tried in reverse, and it never will, the screaming would be off the charts.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 13, 2023 12:24 PM (x0n13)

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Bring back the spoils system.

It sucked, but it was better than this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 13, 2023 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

41 The gotta get the goods on us so that no one can stop them from doing whatever the hell they want to do.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 13, 2023 12:23 PM (enJYY)

Imagine there's a repository of "dirt" on just about everyone. And they don't have to proactively go after anyone. They just have to wait for you to annoy them, and once you're on their radar, they just go get your file.

I'm looking at you, Joni Ernst.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2023 12:25 PM (QBaJw)

42 Short of disbanding the CIA and the FBI, no citizen's liberty is safe.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 13, 2023 12:25 PM (aD39U)

43 Seriously. There are tunnels. Nobody seems to want to talk about them, but they're there.
Posted by: BurtTC

Call us for a rapid, low-cost solution!

Posted by: IDF at December 13, 2023 12:25 PM (lZVy/)

44 All of this data will be fed into a might supercomputer, known as "Samaritan," that will decide what to do with all of the data...

For our own good, of course.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2023 12:25 PM (7fElN)

45 I knew the Patriot Act was a rotten overreach from the get.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 13, 2023 12:25 PM (CIS44)

46 Let's get this party started and cut off EBT cards.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 13, 2023 12:25 PM (ufFY8)

47 Deep State to Iran: "We need to turn up the pressure. Activate one of your cells here. We'll send the money to the usual place."

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at December 13, 2023 12:25 PM (qUkBO)

48 Out: If you haven't done anything wrong, what're you afraid of?

In: If you just keep your mouth shut, and don't try to run for public office, what have you to fear?

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 13, 2023 12:26 PM (Dv8JS)

49 Repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments,

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 13, 2023 12:26 PM (ZsBko)

50 Not so easy to survive

Posted by: Indigenous Agent Co Bao at December 13, 2023 12:26 PM (n9tu9)

51 34 Hunter Biden will get away with EVERYTHING under the "A father's love" clause of the Constitution.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 13, 2023 12:23 PM (vf0Uk)

Hunter is either the shot across the bow by the Dems to force Joey out, or the distraction to shield Joey as well as try to debunk the fact of a two-tiered, corrupt justice system.

Either way, he walks or gets the most delicate o wrist-slaps and an apology for the inconvenience.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 13, 2023 12:26 PM (x0n13)

52 "But, but, but - if we do that we may miss planned terrorist acts."

Like 9/11, or the Las Vegas shootings, or all the 'known to LE' perps that go on to kill.

Posted by: Tonypete at

It's ok Tonypete. We can still catch the ones we plan.
-The FBI

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 13, 2023 12:26 PM (CIS44)

53 Wow, so a real bad movie?

Posted by: Paladin at December 13, 2023 12:26 PM (3YWub)

54 FISA needs to be completely abolished. And the stooges who complain that it compromises our national security are the greatest threat to that all by themselves.

Dismantle the intel state.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 13, 2023 12:22 PM (x0n13)
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FISA was a terrible thing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2023 12:27 PM (zxP/x)

55 Bring back the spoils system.

It sucked, but it was better than this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 13, 2023 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

Yup. An entrenched bureaucracy is worse than instability in government.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 13, 2023 12:27 PM (xcxpd)

56 >>45 I knew the Patriot Act was a rotten overreach from the get.
Posted by: BruceWayne

We can thank that coked up and drunk cocksucker Dubya. I truly hate that family. All of them.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 13, 2023 12:27 PM (eYF7X)

57 Samaritan?

Colossus snickers

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 13, 2023 12:27 PM (ZsBko)

58 One cannot go Full Stasi unless one has Full Stasi Power.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 13, 2023 12:27 PM (GhIcv)

59 When it comes down to it tha "Bastages" will do as they damm well please.

Posted by: Paladin at December 13, 2023 12:27 PM (3YWub)

60 55 Yup. An entrenched bureaucracy is worse than instability in government.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 13, 2023 12:27 PM (xcxpd)

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Also corruption. I think that was the biggest complaint that everyone appointed wasn't qualified and was just using their positions for graft.

Which is so different now. So different. Completely different.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 13, 2023 12:28 PM (GBKbO)

61 Why? Isn't that ostensibly the purpose of it? You can use the massive databases of information obtained by spying on Americans so long as you do *not* use it to investigate crimes?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2023 12:21 PM (zxP/x)

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I supposed that information is only used for stopping terrorists.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 13, 2023 12:28 PM (++4z6)

62 I thought Santa was already spying on all of us, anyway.

Is he in on this, too?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 12:21 PM

Ho, ho, no....the very idea.

*adjusts beard*

Posted by: ~~Bob from the NSA~~ Santa at December 13, 2023 12:28 PM (jA9ul)

63 Yup. An entrenched bureaucracy is worse than instability in government.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 13, 2023 12:27 PM (xcxpd)
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Yes, but I think even that is secondary. The spoils system had accountability, after a fashion.

Throw out the president and his party, throw out most of the bureaucracy with it. It's a big hammer, but it's there. Don't like the bureaucrats? Fire their boss.

Another plus is that it can't get as big as it is today when the bosses turn over so often.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2023 12:29 PM (zxP/x)

64 I thought Santa was already spying on all of us, anyway.

Is he in on this, too?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
*******
No, Elf On The Shelf reports back to Santa.
Get with the program.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 13, 2023 12:29 PM (NpAcC)

65 55 Yup. An entrenched bureaucracy is worse than instability in government.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 13, 2023 12:27 PM (xcxpd)

The entrenched bureaucracy IS the government. Congress and the executive are sideshows.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 13, 2023 12:29 PM (x0n13)

66 I supposed that information is only used for stopping terrorists.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 13, 2023 12:28 PM (++4z6)
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Ah, perhaps. Probably. Whatever.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2023 12:29 PM (zxP/x)

67 How dare you?!

Posted by: Greta on the Shelf at December 13, 2023 12:29 PM (aD39U)

68 32 Or a Hellmouth opening underneath DC.

To the extent there isn't one already.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 13, 2023 12:19 PM (g0Y4p)

There is, but it goes from the Capitol to Comet Pizza.

Seriously. There are tunnels. Nobody seems to want to talk about them, but they're there.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2023 12:23 PM (QBaJw)

Maybe it's time to re-route the Potomac through them.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 13, 2023 12:29 PM (wtvvX)

69 Anyone catch Tucker interview Alex Jones?

Hold onto your bootstraps

Posted by: Yo! Ultra MAGA at December 13, 2023 12:29 PM (qbISd)

70 Abolish the FBI.

Then there is no need to expand anything.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 13, 2023 12:29 PM (mQ8ar)

71 60 55 Yup. An entrenched bureaucracy is worse than instability in government.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 13, 2023 12:27 PM (xcxpd)

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Also corruption. I think that was the biggest complaint that everyone appointed wasn't qualified and was just using their positions for graft.

Which is so different now. So different. Completely different.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 13, 2023 12:28 PM (GBKbO)

You just pick your flavor of corruption. I'd prefer one based on greed to one based on the desire to run my life for me.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 13, 2023 12:30 PM (xcxpd)

72
There is, but it goes from the Capitol to Comet Pizza.

Seriously. There are tunnels. Nobody seems to want to talk about them, but they're there.
Posted by: BurtTC

Let's call, "Dibs!", on getting to use next the pumps and piping that the IDF is putting to use to flood the Hamas tunnels with seawater.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 13, 2023 12:30 PM (xG4kz)

73 Wow, so a real bad movie?
Posted by: Paladin

Life imitates Prometheus.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 12:30 PM (JrojV)

74 Did the mafia ever demand increased power and freedom to do nefarious stuff?
Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 13, 2023 12:23 PM (hCt6Y)

Monty Python, a brief documentary of how government works:

http://tinyurl.com/532uvk2r

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2023 12:30 PM (QBaJw)

75 Hunter Biden today defied lawful subpoenas and we will now initiate contempt of Congress proceedings. - James Comer

Biden concern level

_|_____________________

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 13, 2023 12:30 PM (eYF7X)

76 Staatssicherheit season!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at December 13, 2023 12:30 PM (Q2P04)

77 No, Elf On The Shelf reports back to Santa.
Get with the program.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 13, 2023 12:29 PM

Won't be seein' him no more.

Posted by: The Cat at December 13, 2023 12:31 PM (jA9ul)

78 No, Elf On The Shelf reports back to Santa.
Get with the program.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 13, 2023 12:29 PM (NpAcC)
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Which is why I will *never* allow that spying bastard into my house!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2023 12:31 PM (7fElN)

79 78 No, Elf On The Shelf reports back to Santa.
Get with the program.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 13, 2023 12:29 PM (NpAcC)
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Which is why I will *never* allow that spying bastard into my house!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2023 12:31 PM (7fElN)

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Good decision.

He shit chocolate chips all over the guest bathroom sometime last night.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 13, 2023 12:32 PM (GBKbO)

80 Staatssicherheit season!
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at December 13, 2023 12:30 PM (Q2P04)
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Gesundheit!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2023 12:32 PM (7fElN)

81 TLDR!

Posted by: m at December 13, 2023 12:33 PM (ANXUW)

82 Good decision.

He shit chocolate chips all over the guest bathroom sometime last night.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 13, 2023 12:32 PM

Sorry - that was me.

Posted by: The Trooper on the Pooper at December 13, 2023 12:33 PM (jA9ul)

83 Alternatively, the House Intelligence Committee has a bill that would massively expand domestic surveillance

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Probably all massively bribed and/or blackmailed

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 13, 2023 12:33 PM (9YbFY)

84 Have they actually saved any American lives with this snooping? Because I haven’t seen much evidence that violating American’s privacy has any tangible benefits.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 13, 2023 12:33 PM (uKeRS)

85 We all know nothing is gonna happen to Hunter... Or Joe... Unless the Dems want it to...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 13, 2023 12:34 PM (n2vyf)

86 78 No, Elf On The Shelf reports back to Santa.
Get with the program.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 13, 2023 12:29 PM (NpAcC)
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Which is why I will *never* allow that spying bastard into my house!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2023 12:31 PM (7fElN)

Frosty is the real operative here.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 13, 2023 12:34 PM (wtvvX)

87 I thought Santa was already spying on all of us, anyway.

Is he in on this, too?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 12:21 PM

No wonder I didn't get that 10 speed bike I wanted. I knew there was something off about him.

Posted by: dantesed at December 13, 2023 12:34 PM (88xKn)

88 Another plus is that it can't get as big as it is today when the bosses turn over so often.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2023 12:29 PM (zxP/x)

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It's why there should be a ten year limit on Federal employment except for perhaps military service.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 13, 2023 12:34 PM (++4z6)

89 Have they actually saved any American lives with this snooping? Because I haven’t seen much evidence that violating American’s privacy has any tangible benefits.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

It lets them know whom they can cultivate as "lone wolves" for their ops.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 12:35 PM (JrojV)

90 What good will legislative "reform" do -- whether for the border, FISA 702, etc., etc. -- when existing laws are ignored and broken with impunity & celebration by the Treasonous Fifth-Column Fucks in the Deep State, the Junta, the Bureaucracy, the Courts, the MDM-MSM, etc., etc. (BIRM cinque)?

Failure Theater ... it never ends until they bring it all to an end.

* spit *

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 13, 2023 12:35 PM (heuPC)

91 The entrenched bureaucracy IS the government. Congress and the executive are sideshows.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 13, 2023 12:29 PM (x0n13)

#Truth

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 13, 2023 12:35 PM (xcxpd)

92 Seriously. There are tunnels. Nobody seems to want to talk about them, but they're there.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2023 12:23 PM (QBaJw)

I missed that - link?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 13, 2023 12:35 PM (9YbFY)

93 Have they actually saved any American lives with this snooping? Because I haven’t seen much evidence that violating American’s privacy has any tangible benefits.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 13, 2023 12:33 PM (uKeRS)
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Well, it's not meant to have any tangible benefits for US. It's for THEM.

They can snoop on us with impunity--lying, stealing, blackmailing as they see fit. For THEM, there are some juicy tangible benefits, I'm sure.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2023 12:35 PM (7fElN)

94 Frosty is the real operative here.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 13, 2023 12:34 PM (wtvvX)

Talk about a guy with nothing to lose..

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 13, 2023 12:35 PM (aD39U)

95 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2023 12:31 PM (7fElN)

lol I don't know when Elf On The Shelf came out but I thought the idea was creepy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2023 12:36 PM (olVGl)

96 Which is why I will *never* allow that spying bastard into my house!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2023 12:31 PM (7fElN)

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Good decision.

He shit chocolate chips all over the guest bathroom sometime last night.
******
Yep, he did that at my friends house and she posted a video of it on TikTok.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 13, 2023 12:36 PM (NpAcC)

97 It's why there should be a ten year limit on Federal employment except for perhaps military service.

Just eliminating retirement would have a salubrious effect.

Posted by: CtHillary, dead but dreaming at December 13, 2023 12:36 PM (zSyrn)

98 Frosty is the real operative here.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 13, 2023 12:34 PM (wtvvX)
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We don't usually get much snow before Christmas here, so I seldom see him peeking in my windows before January.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2023 12:37 PM (7fElN)

99 Leave Hunter alone, he's a VICTIM OF ADDICTION.

Posted by: wth at December 13, 2023 12:37 PM (v0R5T)

100 96 Yep, he did that at my friends house and she posted a video of it on TikTok.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 13, 2023 12:36 PM (NpAcC)

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TikTok? I guess your friend is just this side of praising Osama Bin Laden and saying that we have to give America back to the original owners: the Chinese.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 13, 2023 12:37 PM (GBKbO)

101 Which is why I will *never* allow that spying bastard into my house!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel a

Good lesson to teach the children. We do not actively invite big brother into our lives.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 13, 2023 12:37 PM (CIS44)

102 Bring back the spoils system.

It sucked, but it was better than this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 13, 2023 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

But somebody might shoot a president, if he doesn't give him a job!

Can't have that. We'll spend ourselves tens of trillions of dollars into debt, but at least nobody will put a bullet into one of these guys ever again.

Unless it's us doing the shooting, I mean.

Posted by: CIA and FBI at December 13, 2023 12:37 PM (QBaJw)

103 Damn, Hunter. You are making all of us look bad!

Posted by: Piece of Shit at December 13, 2023 12:37 PM (NYzgN)

104 Granddaughter928, The Heiress, asked for an Elf carrier for Christmas.

It's not enough to be spied on in her house apparently.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 13, 2023 12:37 PM (aD39U)

105 Wouldn't doubt keeping tabs on us

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2023 12:38 PM (Jgixc)

106 Hunter Biden today defied lawful subpoenas and we will now initiate contempt of Congress proceedings. - James Comer
.......

"Ooh, I'm askeered." - Hunter Biden, Artiste

Posted by: wth at December 13, 2023 12:39 PM (v0R5T)

107 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2023 12:31 PM (7fElN)

lol I don't know when Elf On The Shelf came out but I thought the idea was creepy.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2023 12:36 PM (olVGl)
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Yeah, when I first saw those, I thought they were incredibly manipulative on the impressionable young minds of children. It's one thing to think a remote, intangible being is watching your every move. God does it, why not Santa?

It's a little disconcerting to associate that with a real, physical object with its uncanny gaze....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2023 12:39 PM (7fElN)

108 Seriously. There are tunnels. Nobody seems to want to talk about them, but they're there.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2023 12:23 PM (QBaJw)

I missed that - link?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 13, 2023 12:35 PM (9YbFY)

I'd have to hunt it down. There used to be a guy who had a Yootoob channel, had all sorts of docs he got from various sources, and I'm sure some of it wasn't real. But a lot of it was. Covering not just DC corruption, but Hollywood and other stuff.

Needless to say, he's long been shut down.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2023 12:39 PM (QBaJw)

109 This is big-time scary stuff.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 13, 2023 12:40 PM (V8he0)

110 107 Yeah, when I first saw those, I thought they were incredibly manipulative on the impressionable young minds of children. It's one thing to think a remote, intangible being is watching your every move. God does it, why not Santa?

It's a little disconcerting to associate that with a real, physical object with its uncanny gaze....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2023 12:39 PM (7fElN)

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Eh. We just use it as a bit of fun. The older kid doesn't believe in Santa and helps set the elf up. The young one looks around the house for the elf and laughs at the silliness of the situations.

We go to church for our lessons on omnipresence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 13, 2023 12:40 PM (GBKbO)

111
Leave Hunter alone, he's a VICTIM OF ADDICTION.

Posted by: wth at December 13, 2023 12:37 PM

Yup every morning before Hunter got out of bed the cocaine climbed out of the bag, rolled up a hundred dollar bill, then arrayed themselves in a neat line on his coffee table.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 13, 2023 12:40 PM (enJYY)

112 Eh. We just use it as a bit of fun. The older kid doesn't believe in Santa and helps set the elf up. The young one looks around the house for the elf and laughs at the silliness of the situations.

We go to church for our lessons on omnipresence.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 13, 2023 12:40 PM (GBKbO)
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I'd have been tempted to blindfold the little bugger or twist his head around...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2023 12:41 PM (7fElN)

113 @84

>>Have they actually saved any American lives with this snooping? Because I haven’t seen much evidence that violating American’s privacy has any tangible benefits.

Remember that old bromide The Shrub used to haul out when people started to get sour on the WOT??

"secret in their success"

See, we can't tell you about all of the plots we've foiled but there were a lot of them, A LOTTTTT!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 13, 2023 12:41 PM (rc3Z7)

114 Frosty will be gone by May. Fuck him

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2023 12:41 PM (ZV+pB)

115 99 Leave Hunter alone, he's a VICTIM OF ADDICTION.
Posted by: wth at December 13, 2023 12:37 PM (v0R5T)

He is a victim of his father's love.

Posted by: m at December 13, 2023 12:41 PM (ANXUW)

116 Kind of "fruit loops" land; can't (won't) protect the U.S. border- yet need billions to protect Ukraine's. Couldn't (or didn't) protect Israel's border, and now we need to save Gaza. Fun times...

Posted by: poconohound at December 13, 2023 12:41 PM (h0NHM)

117
After they real in the IC and fix it
They gonna repeal Obamacare
Seriously

Posted by: Yo! Ultra MAGA at December 13, 2023 12:41 PM (qbISd)

118 Who does Jeff on a Clef report to?

Posted by: XTC at December 13, 2023 12:42 PM (sm6Pk)

119 He is a victim of his father's love.
Posted by: m at Decem

aint that actual truth.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 13, 2023 12:42 PM (CIS44)

120 TikTok? I guess your friend is just this side of praising Osama Bin Laden and saying that we have to give America back to the original owners: the Chinese.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 13, 2023 12:37 PM (GBKbO)
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Nah, she's Hispanic, conservative and loves posting TikTok videos.
She sends me all the antics that the spying little elf does at other people's homes too.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 13, 2023 12:43 PM (NpAcC)

121 The more these people fail to protect Americans, the more power they demand.

Just wait until one of the groups flooding across our border commits a heinous act. That will justify granting additional police state powers to the fed.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at December 13, 2023 12:43 PM (tT6L1)

122 And Jim Jordan recently suggested that those "51 Former Intelligence Officials" who ran a disinformation campaign against the citizens of the US ...

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... by colluding to interfere with and help fraudulently steal a presidential election.

None dare call it treason.

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 13, 2023 12:43 PM (heuPC)

123 Saw Hunter's escort to the microphone - Eric Swallwell.
Honest Eric.

Posted by: wth at December 13, 2023 12:43 PM (v0R5T)

124 "My father has dedicated his entire adult life to service"

Fuck all the way off. Senators aren't servants.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 13, 2023 12:44 PM (NYzgN)

125 123 Saw Hunter's escort to the microphone - Eric Swallwell.
Honest Eric.
Posted by: wth at December 13, 2023 12:43 PM (v0R5T)

Well the both have one thing in common.... China

Posted by: It's me donna at December 13, 2023 12:44 PM (n2vyf)

126 123 Saw Hunter's escort to the microphone - Eric Swallwell.
Honest Eric.
Posted by: wth at December 13, 2023 12:43 PM (v0R5T)

Never stick your dick in China.

Posted by: XTC at December 13, 2023 12:44 PM (sm6Pk)

127 124 "My father has dedicated his entire adult life to service"

Fuck all the way off. Senators aren't servants.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 13, 2023 12:44 PM (NYzgN)

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We should pay them like servants and then ruthlessly fire them when they look askance at the silverware.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 13, 2023 12:44 PM (GBKbO)

128 Jeepers folks, lighten up.

Elf on the Shelf is a game! It's funny and silly. Do
some of you need a hug?

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2023 12:44 PM (2Jo7a)

129 Elf on the Shelf-I think it's from an earlier book by that name came out in 2007. My son still believed in Santa then, but I didn't like elf on the shelf, although if I were going to use it, I'd probably put in in weird places and upside down or hanging by his arm or something with silly placards, just as a joke.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2023 12:44 PM (RSbhh)

130 My father has dedicated his entire adult life to service"

Yes he has.....service to himself.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2023 12:45 PM (RSbhh)

131 The CIA/FBI have successfully thwarted 100% of the terrorist attacks they set up themselves.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 13, 2023 12:46 PM (pohLc)

132 The more these people fail to protect Americans, the more power they demand.

Just wait until one of the groups flooding across our border commits a heinous act. That will justify granting additional police state powers to the fed.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at December 13, 2023 12:43 PM (tT6L1)

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And will be blamed on Trump by the Borg Collective.

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 13, 2023 12:46 PM (heuPC)

133 131 The CIA/FBI have successfully thwarted 100% of the terrorist attacks they set up themselves.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 13, 2023 12:46 PM (pohLc)

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Well, with some exceptions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 13, 2023 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

134 Jeepers folks, lighten up.

Elf on the Shelf is a game! It's funny and silly. Do
some of you need a hug?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2023 12:44 PM (2Jo7a)
........

I got my granddaughter the Ladybug Garden Memory Game.

Posted by: wth at December 13, 2023 12:46 PM (v0R5T)

135 128 Jeepers folks, lighten up.

Elf on the Shelf is a game! It's funny and silly. Do
some of you need a hug?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2023 12:44 PM (2Jo7a)

Two things my family would never approve of.

Posted by: XTC at December 13, 2023 12:47 PM (sm6Pk)

136 My real worry is Herbie the Elf and ALL of those sneaky figures on the Isle of Misfit Toys...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2023 12:47 PM (ZV+pB)

137 The life of others.

Posted by: runner at December 13, 2023 12:47 PM (V13WU)

138 125 123 Saw Hunter's escort to the microphone - Eric Swallwell.
Honest Eric.
Posted by: wth at December 13, 2023 12:43 PM (v0R5T)

Well the both have one thing in common.... China
Posted by: It's me donna at December 13, 2023 12:44 PM (n2vyf)

"No Yellow!"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 13, 2023 12:47 PM (xcxpd)

139 Do
some of you need a hug?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2023 12:44 PM (2Jo7a)
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Got mine in TX. I'm good til next October.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at December 13, 2023 12:47 PM (tT6L1)

140 I'd have to hunt it down. There used to be a guy who had a Yootoob channel, had all sorts of docs he got from various sources, and I'm sure some of it wasn't real. But a lot of it was. Covering not just DC corruption, but Hollywood and other stuff.

Needless to say, he's long been shut down.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2023 12:39 PM (QBaJw)

I just did a quick search, the "official" story of the tunnels is fairly benign, but needless to say there are darker stories.

That absolutely involve places like Comet Pizza and other supposedly nefarious locales throughout the city.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2023 12:47 PM (QBaJw)

141 The Lives of Others !

Posted by: runner at December 13, 2023 12:47 PM (V13WU)

142 Our current Federal law enforcement apparatus does not fill me with confidence.

Posted by: Inflated Scrotum Man at December 13, 2023 12:47 PM (DZrNt)

143
Ho, ho, no....the very idea.

*adjusts beard*
Posted by: ~~Bob from the NSA~~ Santa
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LOL

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 13, 2023 12:47 PM (XeU6L)

144 I'm a victim of Rooskie disinformation.

Posted by: Elf on the Shelf at December 13, 2023 12:47 PM (V8he0)

145 My real worry is Herbie the Elf and ALL of those sneaky figures on the Isle of Misfit Toys...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2023 12:47 PM (ZV+pB)

thought Herbie was a love bug.

Posted by: BignJames at December 13, 2023 12:48 PM (AwYPR)

146 140 I just did a quick search, the "official" story of the tunnels is fairly benign, but needless to say there are darker stories.

That absolutely involve places like Comet Pizza and other supposedly nefarious locales throughout the city.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2023 12:47 PM (QBaJw)

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Rick and Morty play with the idea from time to time.

FDR is down there still. The earliest polio vaccine had a side effect: turning him into a giant spider monster. They thought, "What has more legs?"

There's also the Lincoln Slave Coliseum. He didn't free them all...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 13, 2023 12:48 PM (GBKbO)

147 Saw Hunter's escort to the microphone - Eric Swallwell.

Would have been better if you used one of the prostitutes he was repeatedly paying for.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2023 12:48 PM (RSbhh)

148 Attorney General Garland doesn't realize that some of the 51 IC officials that were on the government payroll were all in violation of the Hatch Act because the letter was a totally fabricated political hatchet 🪓 job. If he knew he would have to prosecute them.

I crack myself up.

Winner? Well it's Vladimir 💩 Tin and the USMIC who got their war.

Posted by: torabora at December 13, 2023 12:49 PM (XnE7l)

149 It's ok Tonypete. We can still catch the ones we plan.
-The FBI

THe Ones We Plan to Catch, that is. We gota get our funding passed. Every now and then. **wink-wink** **nudge-nudge**

Posted by: Paladin at December 13, 2023 12:49 PM (3YWub)

150 And all of the evidence against him was stolen, edited, manipulated, or cherry-picked.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 13, 2023 12:49 PM (NYzgN)

151 Do
some of you need a hug?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Give me some love!

Posted by: David Bromstad at December 13, 2023 12:49 PM (v0R5T)

152
It's a little known fact but 64.9% of domestic abuses cases occur over the placement of Elf on the Shelf during the holiday season. The other 35.10% are sandwich related.

Posted by: Cliff Clavin at December 13, 2023 12:49 PM (enJYY)

153 Wasn't it "Hermy"? "Nobody wants a Charlie-in-the box!"

Posted by: poconohound at December 13, 2023 12:50 PM (h0NHM)

154 Rick and Morty play with the idea from time to time.

FDR is down there still. The earliest polio vaccine had a side effect: turning him into a giant spider monster. They thought, "What has more legs?"

There's also the Lincoln Slave Coliseum. He didn't free them all...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 13, 2023 12:48 PM (GBKbO)

I might hate Rick and Morty more than Joe and Hunter Biden combined.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 13, 2023 12:50 PM (xcxpd)

155 ...or about the guy who's banging your ex-girlfriend.
____________

Fucker. At least it's not Garrett. Or I'm pretty sure anyway.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 13, 2023 12:50 PM (Dm8we)

156 "earmarks of a Russian information operation."

Get those speakers we used on Noriega, put them on a truck and drive around Langley blasting balaliaka tunes.

Posted by: DaveA at December 13, 2023 12:50 PM (FhXTo)

157 154 I might hate Rick and Morty more than Joe and Hunter Biden combined.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 13, 2023 12:50 PM (xcxpd)

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Roiland's not even part of the show anymore.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 13, 2023 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

158 Elf on the Shelf is a game! It's funny and silly. Do
some of you need a hug?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2023 12:44 PM (2Jo7a)

Two things my family would never approve of.
Posted by: XTC at December 13, 2023 12:47 PM (sm6Pk)
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I tell my cats every morning when I walk out the door, I do not tolerate silliness in my household. Period.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2023 12:51 PM (7fElN)

159 Wasn't it "Hermy"? "Nobody wants a Charlie-in-the box!"
Posted by: poconohound

I've often wondered about whether it's "Herbie" or "Hermy." I think they actually use both.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 12:51 PM (JrojV)

160 158 I tell my cats every morning when I walk out the door, I do not tolerate silliness in my household. Period.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2023 12:51 PM (7fElN)

It's actually three things my family don't approve of.

I forgot about the hug.

Posted by: XTC at December 13, 2023 12:52 PM (sm6Pk)

161 It is Hermey. I sit corrected. I feel so ashamed

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2023 12:52 PM (ZV+pB)

162 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 13, 2023 12:52 PM (T4tVD)

163 Elf on the Shelf is a game!

That's what we want you to think, at least.

Posted by: Bob from the NSA at December 13, 2023 12:52 PM (FD5dr)

164 Elf on the Shelf is a game! It's funny and silly. Do
some of you need a hug?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2023 12:44 PM (2Jo7a)

Two things my family would never approve of.
Posted by: XTC at December 13, 2023 12:47 PM (sm6Pk)

Did they have no sense of humor at all?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 12:52 PM (JrojV)

165 Rick and Morty play with the idea from time to time.

FDR is down there still. The earliest polio vaccine had a side effect: turning him into a giant spider monster. They thought, "What has more legs?"

There's also the Lincoln Slave Coliseum. He didn't free them all...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 13, 2023 12:48 PM (GBKbO)

Heh, why doesn't that surprise me.

But I'm sure there has never been a situation where a dead hooker or two had to be shuttled out of the White House or Capitol through those tunnels.

Nor any underaged sex slaves. No. Of course not.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2023 12:53 PM (QBaJw)

166 The "51" signatories of "the letter" is close enough to a deck of cards, I'd think they'd be a good fit for the Most Wanted deck that featured 'em from Saddam Hussein, his sons, Tariq Hadid and all the others, from the 2nd Gulf War.

Every one of 'em has people who know who they are, where they live, where the go and what they do. People like plumbers, electricians, contractors, and others who do work or other services for those 51, whether they live in an Urban Townhome, Suburb or Country Estate.

Just get enough of that information to the General Public, widely disseminated, and let the wild-cards get played as they will.

No conspiracies, no exhortations to violence or harm. Just information. But, I'd imagine that even this minimal bit would remove a lot of their feeling of invulnerability.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 13, 2023 12:53 PM (e6UQI)

167 Do some of you need a hug?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2023 12:44 PM (2Jo7a)
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Got mine in TX. I'm good til next October.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at December 13, 2023 12:47 PM

What Blake said.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 13, 2023 12:53 PM (jA9ul)

168 But I'm sure there has never been a situation where a dead hooker or two had to be shuttled out of the White House or Capitol through those tunnels.

Nor any underaged sex slaves. No. Of course not.
Posted by: BurtTC

*Marilyn Monroe has entered the chat*

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 13, 2023 12:54 PM (CIS44)

169 System is failing. Foreign demand for Treasuries is declining and prime dealers are buying an increasing share of them. Increases in interest rates and the refinancing roll over of covid era debt at low interest rates at much higher rates is now in the driver's seat budget wise and is approaching one trillion per year out of a 6 trillion dollar budget.

Immigration costs are now about half a trillion in benefits, etc.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2023 12:54 PM (bk5GW)

170 That's the so-called "LOVEINT" -- "intelligence" searches to find out information about a man or woman you're interested in, or about the guy who's banging your ex-girlfriend. - Ace

It's a thing, trust me.

Posted by: pookysgirl, despairing for the 4th Amendment at December 13, 2023 12:54 PM (dtlDP)

171 "There are tunnels. Nobody seems to want to talk about them, but they're there.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2023"

You can get tours of the ones with the tram that goes from the Congressional office buildings to the Capitol building if you're in the city and ask your Congresscritter real nice.

The flags lining the walkway are courtesy of one of my former congresscritters, who thought that the tram was silly and a waste of taxpayer money, so he wasted taxpayer money on hanging state flags from the ceiling so he'd have something to look at while he walked the tunnel instead of riding.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 13, 2023 12:54 PM (ou9hh)

172 Mars Attacks, the secret 'Kennedy Room'.

Posted by: davidt at December 13, 2023 12:54 PM (SYTee)

173 >>I forgot about the hug.

Ace loves hugging.

He's a big fan.

You shouldn't forget that, should you ever meet him.

He might demure, but his eyes will be saying 'Yes, Yes, YES!'.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2023 12:54 PM (jGiYr)

174 From an early age, I could do a perfect rendition of the line "Noooobody wants to play with a Charlie-in-the-box". To this very day, I can still make my sister crack up with it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2023 12:55 PM (9UlRk)

175 What's this I hear about folks needing hugs?

Come to Mama!

Posted by: Lizzo at December 13, 2023 12:55 PM (JrojV)

176 164 Did they have no sense of humor at all?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 12:52 PM (JrojV)

Not really, no. Very serious, very argumentative.

They found any humor to be childish and irresponsible.

Posted by: XTC at December 13, 2023 12:55 PM (sm6Pk)

177 Elf on a Shelf is witchcraft.

Posted by: guy with a buckle on his hat at December 13, 2023 12:55 PM (pjs7m)

178 I tolerate hugs, but only from overdeveloped women.

Posted by: wth at December 13, 2023 12:55 PM (v0R5T)

179 ace likes hugs his from behind

Posted by: nckate at December 13, 2023 12:55 PM (SnxUt)

180 I've often wondered about whether it's "Herbie" or "Hermy." I think they actually use both.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 12:51 PM (JrojV)

Hermie. Crowder does a skit about that, it was the opening of his episode from yesterday.

http://tinyurl.com/4ze8ujua

No need to watch the whole episode if you don't want to, but the open at least is worth clicking the link.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2023 12:56 PM (QBaJw)

181 Did they have no sense of humor at all?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 12:52 PM (JrojV)

Mostly phlegm and ichor, i'm guessing. Maybe some bile, if the news was on.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2023 12:56 PM (9UlRk)

182 tolerate hugs, but only from overdeveloped women.
Posted by: wth at December 13, 2023 12:55 PM (v0R5T)
----

Come on over here, big boy!

Posted by: Lizzo at December 13, 2023 12:56 PM (tT6L1)

183 tolerate hugs, but only from overdeveloped women.
Posted by: wth at December 13, 2023 12:55 PM (v0R5T)
----

Come on over here, big boy!
Posted by: Lizzo a

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Posted by: BruceWayne at December 13, 2023 12:57 PM (CIS44)

184 >>There's also the Lincoln Slave Coliseum. He didn't free them all...

Always a good laugh at that one.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2023 12:57 PM (jGiYr)

185 Oh, goody! Segregated holiday parties. Coloreds only!

Denise DosSantos, the mayor’s director of City Council relations, told the body’s “honorable members” that, “on behalf of Mayor Michelle Wu,” she was cordially inviting each of them “and a guest to the Electeds of Color Holiday Party on Wednesday, Dec. 13 at 5:30 p.m. at the Parkman House, 33 Beacon St.”

Approximately 15 minutes later, however, DosSantos sent out a follow-up email to city councilors, apologizing for the prior email, which was apparently only meant for those who were invited. The body includes seven white councilors and six of color.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 13, 2023 12:57 PM (NYzgN)

186 Yikes!

Posted by: wth at December 13, 2023 12:57 PM (v0R5T)

187 Elf on a Shelf? I prefer Dolly (Parton) on a tamale.
And Dale (Gribble) on a quail.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 13, 2023 12:57 PM (9/MK9)

188 Saw Hunter's escort to the microphone - Eric Swallwell.

Would have been better if you used one of the prostitutes he was repeatedly paying for.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2023 12:48 PM (RSbhh)

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

Especially one of his cousins.

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 13, 2023 12:58 PM (heuPC)

189 I don't need a hug, but I sure as hell could use a BJ.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 13, 2023 12:58 PM (pohLc)

190 One does not simply put an Elf on a Shelf.

Posted by: Boromir at December 13, 2023 12:58 PM (SYTee)

191 >>Denise DosSantos, the mayor’s director of City Council relations, told the body’s “honorable members” that, “on behalf of Mayor Michelle Wu,” she was cordially inviting each of them “and a guest to the Electeds of Color Holiday Party on Wednesday, Dec. 13 at 5:30 p.m. at the Parkman House, 33 Beacon St.”

She's not Dreaming of a White Christmas.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2023 12:59 PM (jGiYr)

192 ace likes hugs his from behind
Posted by: nckate at December 13, 2023 12:55 PM (SnxUt)

So a rusty trombone?

Posted by: Ian S. at December 13, 2023 12:59 PM (FD5dr)

193 Hermie doesn't want to be a boy!

F you, Hermie!

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2023 12:59 PM (QBaJw)

194 175, 182

Wow, two different Lizzo socks (I was one). Methinks she lives rent-free in the Horde's head.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 12:59 PM (JrojV)

195 I've often wondered about whether it's "Herbie" or "Hermy." I think they actually use both.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Paul Soles as Hermey.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 13, 2023 12:59 PM (9/MK9)

196 @185-if only Princeton could figure that out....

Posted by: poconohound at December 13, 2023 12:59 PM (h0NHM)

197 @173

>>Ace loves hugging. He's a big fan.

Is it a straight, chest/balls touching type of hug or the lean in type where as little as body as possible touches?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 13, 2023 01:00 PM (rc3Z7)

198 what surprised me is that we have heard nothing of people suing the shit out of these people.

Posted by: vic at December 13, 2023 01:00 PM (A5THL)

199 >>Wow, two different Lizzo socks (I was one). Methinks she lives rent-free in the Horde's head.

TBF: The only way to get her our requires removing a Bay Window.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2023 01:00 PM (jGiYr)

200 "electeds of color"....

Sometimes, in the course of human events, a turn of phrase is so ghastly and hilarious, that one is required to do nothing but repeat it, in order to lampoon it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2023 01:00 PM (9UlRk)

201 76 Staatssicherheit season!
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at December 13, 2023 12:30 PM (Q2P04)

141 The Lives of Others !
Posted by: runner at December 13, 2023 12:47 PM (V13WU

Best follow-up evah!

Posted by: Bob Dylan at December 13, 2023 01:00 PM (CnLzB)

202 Son was already 13 when the Elf on a Shelf book came out, so I've never had one.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 13, 2023 01:00 PM (DRSnL)

203 Did they have no sense of humor at all?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 12:52 PM (JrojV)

Not really, no. Very serious, very argumentative.

They found any humor to be childish and irresponsible.
Posted by: XTC

That's tragic. I'm sorry. I hope you have learned how to laugh at life at least somewhat.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 01:01 PM (JrojV)

204 Elf on a Shelf is witchcraft.
Posted by: guy with a buckle on his hat at December 13, 2023 12:55 PM (pjs7m)

I have a sister who over decorates for the holidays. For Halloween it's witches. Christmas, it's the elf.

And cookies. Lots and lots of demon cookies.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2023 01:01 PM (QBaJw)

205 Remember:
One of the current prosecutions against Trump is the so-called pidly $100k hush money.
Because, by hiding that information from the public, that was election interference.

How many millions in campaign contributions was the letter worth?
$100 milliin on the low end-- for all the media that used it-- as intented-- to dismiss the laptop until safety after the election.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at December 13, 2023 01:01 PM (TzW+Y)

206 Clapper?
Hell. I can vacate my bowels and in looking at the result, see more interesting things than in anything he has to say.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 13, 2023 01:01 PM (W/lyH)

207 "To be clear, Section 702 saves American lives and helps keep Americans safe from international terrorist attacks, foreign cyberattacks, overseas fentanyl suppliers, and other threats to our national security. There's no substitute for it."

No substitute? How about a secure border that currently allows terrorists, fentanyl and other threats along with millions of illegals here to mooch off Americans.

Do that first, deport the invaders and we can talk. Maybe. But first TSA has to be eliminated or massively scaled back as well.

Posted by: Ripley at December 13, 2023 01:01 PM (JojsZ)

208 >>Is it a straight, chest/balls touching type of hug or the lean in type where as little as body as possible touches?

Ace's hugging style depends on many things....

But, mostly on the size of the Gloryhole.

Mostly.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2023 01:01 PM (jGiYr)

209 Sometimes, in the course of human events, a turn of phrase is so ghastly and hilarious, that one is required to do nothing but repeat it, in order to lampoon it.

Yup.

Also, Hunter's lawyers are pretty much saying you can't have background checks on guns because of 2A. It would be fucking hilarious if courts agreed.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 13, 2023 01:02 PM (FD5dr)

210 Electeds of Color Holiday

Is that even a word that can be used as a noun? I'm sure that we".nt over like a lead balloon with the white "electeds

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2023 01:02 PM (RSbhh)

211 the Electeds of Color Holiday Party

Oh, boy.

Posted by: Elf on the Shelf at December 13, 2023 01:02 PM (V8he0)

212 203 That's tragic. I'm sorry. I hope you have learned how to laugh at life at least somewhat.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 01:01 PM (JrojV)

Maybe when the Reaper comes for them.

Posted by: XTC at December 13, 2023 01:02 PM (sm6Pk)

213 Son was already 13 when the Elf on a Shelf book came out, so I've never had one.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 13, 2023 01:00 PM (DRSnL)

Yeah, I'm just generally not interested in "new traditions."

Old ways are the best. Santa comes down your chimney, gives you toys if you've been good. If you haven't, a lump of coal. And he kidnaps you and sells you into slavery.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2023 01:03 PM (QBaJw)

214 I want to be an Elected of Color.

Posted by: Alice Cooper at December 13, 2023 01:03 PM (SYTee)

215 the Electeds of Color Holiday Party

There's a lawn jockey out front.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 13, 2023 01:04 PM (R4t5M)

216 They found any humor to be childish and irresponsible.
Posted by: XTC

***

Bergermeister Meisterburger?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2023 01:04 PM (ZV+pB)

217 @214

>>I want to be an Elected of Color.

In the most technical of senses, everyone is colored.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 13, 2023 01:04 PM (rc3Z7)

218 To be clear, Section 702 saves American lives and helps keep Americans safe from international terrorist attacks, foreign cyberattacks, overseas fentanyl suppliers, and other threats to our national security.

So.tell us again about the big fentanyl bust in Oregon and the perp gets released.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 13, 2023 01:04 PM (W/lyH)

219 Bergermeister Meisterburger?
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2023 01:04 PM (ZV+pB)

It's. A. Difficult responsabilatahhh!

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2023 01:05 PM (QBaJw)

220 Bergermeister Meisterburger?

He did have a difficult responsibility.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 01:06 PM (JrojV)

221 Damn. That shit was on last night.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 13, 2023 01:06 PM (R4t5M)

222 the Electeds of Color Holiday Party

Easily one of the most racist things I've seen in years. So, did they have dogs out front to keep whitey away?

Do the electeds of color know they aren't good enough to party with the whites?

Who paid for this exclusionary party?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 13, 2023 01:07 PM (W/lyH)

223 Tell them they can renew the FISA authorization after they prosecute and imprison everyone involved in the FBI scandal beginning with James Comey and continuing right up to Merrick Garland. SCOTUS judges and congress folks responsible for over sight as well.

Then we can think about talking.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 13, 2023 01:07 PM (YRsIm)

224
Old ways are the best. Santa comes down your chimney, gives you toys if you've been good. If you haven't, a lump of coal. And he kidnaps you and sells you into slavery.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2023 01:03 PM

We are sorry to reject your submission but if you wish to add more details and re-submit it will be considered for publication.

Posted by: Penthouse Letters at December 13, 2023 01:07 PM (enJYY)

225 Last time Hunter had a fentanyl bust he took a nipple to the eye.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2023 01:08 PM (9UlRk)

226 To be clear, Section 702 saves American lives and helps keep Americans safe from international terrorist attacks, foreign cyberattacks, overseas fentanyl suppliers, and other threats to our national security.

So.tell us again about the big fentanyl bust in Oregon and the perp gets released.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 13, 2023 01:04 PM (W/lyH)

I'm so tired of the government claiming it's job is to keep us safe.

F you! That's my job. Yours is to sit on the border, and kill anything that tries to come in uninvited.

Including the billions and billions of dollars worth of Chinese fentanyl you let in. Thanks, guys. Bang up job there.

Remember when black people claimed crack was created by the CIA?

Yeah.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2023 01:08 PM (QBaJw)

227 Do that first, deport the invaders and we can talk. Maybe. But first TSA has to be eliminated or massively scaled back as well.
Posted by: Ripley at December 13, 2023 01:01 PM (JojsZ)

Then? Dual Citizens do not get to vote. If you are not an American, and ONLY an American, you don't get to decide on our Leaders.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 13, 2023 01:08 PM (xaFKb)

228 Burl Ives woulda whooped the shit out of Fred Astaire in the octagon.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 13, 2023 01:09 PM (R4t5M)

229 Current firm is a Lexis firm and I do people searches through the various dbases that Lexis has, which is like All The Data. I have to click through three separate set of warnings and affirmations that I am using the information for designated business purposes only. These searches are audited by Lexis on more or less a real time basis. If I did an unauthorized search, Lexis would know it and notification sent out by next day at the latest to the firm administrator. I would be fired on the spot for that misuse.

But the Feds? You know, the ones who have hahahaha Fourth Amendment restrictions hahahaha? They can do what they want and all that happens is they get raises.

Once again, I would love laws to be repealed de jure, not just de facto. It is very clear that the penalty provisions have been repealed, what with not being enforced. Just do it honestly, for once.

Posted by: alexthechick at December 13, 2023 01:09 PM (GbPPJ)

230 Don't "electeds-of-color" celebrate kwaanza?

Posted by: poconohound at December 13, 2023 01:09 PM (h0NHM)

231 I could never figure out why the Mrs. Claus in Rudolph had a European accent, but spoke like a normal American in Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 01:09 PM (JrojV)

232 /robert zimmerman sock

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 13, 2023 01:09 PM (CnLzB)

233 We are sorry to reject your submission but if you wish to add more details and re-submit it will be considered for publication.
Posted by: Penthouse Letters at December 13, 2023 01:07 PM (enJYY)

Dear Penthouse,

Less vaseline on the lens. Thanks, and bye.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2023 01:10 PM (QBaJw)

234 To be clear, Section 702 saves American lives and helps keep Americans safe from international terrorist attacks, foreign cyberattacks, overseas fentanyl suppliers, and other threats to our national security.

And from people invited into the Capitol by Capitol polce and these turrible, turrible people who attend Latin Mass.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2023 01:10 PM (RSbhh)

235 Burl Ives woulda whooped the shit out of Fred Astaire in the octagon.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Shirley Booth could've taken 'em both.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 01:10 PM (JrojV)

236 231 I could never figure out why the Mrs. Claus in Rudolph had a European accent, but spoke like a normal American in Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 01:09 PM (JrojV)

Didn't really look the same either... Damn, Santa got Divorced and remarried?

and second go round went for the Hawt Euro Chick?

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 13, 2023 01:11 PM (xaFKb)

237 I could never figure out why the Mrs. Claus in Rudolph had a European accent, but spoke like a normal American in Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 01:09 PM (JrojV)

Santa's a mormon.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 13, 2023 01:11 PM (QBaJw)

238 And from people invited into the Capitol by Capitol polce and these turrible, turrible people who attend Latin Mass.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2023 01:10 PM (RSbhh)

And parents who object to their children being sexually assaulted in the bathrooms at school.

Posted by: alexthechick at December 13, 2023 01:11 PM (GbPPJ)

239 spoke like a normal American in Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

But the Burgermeister had a german accent.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 13, 2023 01:11 PM (NYzgN)

240 I saw Electeds of Color open for Calypso Louie at the MECCA OTR Downtown Cincinnati Bar in 2016.

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 13, 2023 01:12 PM (Jr9jA)

241 Melania

Posted by: poconohound at December 13, 2023 01:12 PM (h0NHM)

242 Didn't really look the same either... Damn, Santa got Divorced and remarried?

True. The one from SCICTT was a hot ginger.

That psychedelic song she sang was really gay, though.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 01:12 PM (JrojV)

243 Even if Section 702 isn't renewed the feds will continue spying on us. The only way it stops is summary execution of the people involved in this surveillance crap.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at December 13, 2023 01:12 PM (tT6L1)

244 Section 702 is an abomination to a free people, obviously, but I also think out government has shown it cannot be trusted with thee entire Foreign Intelligence Act.

Get rid of it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 13, 2023 01:12 PM (4sUNT)

245 Burl Ives woulda whooped the shit out of Fred Astaire in the octagon.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Shirley Booth could've taken 'em both.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 01:10 PM (JrojV)

Pikers.

Posted by: Zombie Kate Smith at December 13, 2023 01:13 PM (W/lyH)

246 Posted by: alexthechick at December 13, 2023 01:11 PM (GbPPJ)

Yep; They're always on their toes for people who threaten the safety of America.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2023 01:13 PM (RSbhh)

247 244 Section 702 is an abomination to a free people, obviously, but I also think out government has shown it cannot be trusted with thee entire Foreign Intelligence Act.

Get rid of it.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 13, 2023 01:12 PM (4sUNT)

=======

"Nah, bruh."
-Congress, definitely

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 13, 2023 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

248 Posted by: alexthechick at December 13, 2023 01:09 PM (GbPPJ)

Good to see you back here. Missed ya.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 13, 2023 01:14 PM (YRsIm)

249 To be clear, Section 702 saves American lives and helps keep Americans safe from international terrorist attacks, foreign cyberattacks, overseas fentanyl suppliers, and other threats to our national security.

Yeah, about that... Cyberattacks are up. Fentanyl is way up... and the biggest threat I see to National Security, is coming from DC...

But the only solution the Government sees, to a Government policy failing, is to double down and give the Government more power and money.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 13, 2023 01:14 PM (xaFKb)

250 If Garland and Wray agree to commit seppuku on the mall, maybe we renew 703 for another week.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 13, 2023 01:14 PM (4sUNT)

251 So when is the party for elected whiteys?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 13, 2023 01:14 PM (W/lyH)

252 244 Section 702 is an abomination to a free people, obviously, but I also think out government has shown it cannot be trusted with thee entire Foreign Intelligence Act.

Get rid of it.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 13, 2023 01:12 PM (4sUNT)

Vat eez eet you haffing to hide, herr Follywooood?

Posted by: XTC at December 13, 2023 01:15 PM (sm6Pk)

253 Broad Street bullies checkin' in...

Posted by: poconohound at December 13, 2023 01:15 PM (h0NHM)

254 Good to see you back here. Missed ya.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 13, 2023 01:14 PM (YRsIm)

*waves*

I'm currently stoned on cold meds and I decided this morning that since I have 9.5 days of PTO left this year and there are only 13 work days left this year, I could take the day off.

Posted by: alexthechick at December 13, 2023 01:15 PM (GbPPJ)

255 So it's a Rankin-Bass thread now?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 01:15 PM (JrojV)

256
Current firm is a Lexis firm and I do people searches through the various dbases that Lexis has, which is like All The Data. I have to click through three separate set of warnings and affirmations that I am using the information for designated business purposes only.

It would be interesting to compare the data you are able to retrieve compared to what a lowly citizen with a credit card and thirty dollars can find out.
☑ Friends and associates
☑ Criminal actions
☑ Residences lived
☑ Social media
☑ Telephone, email
☑ Etc etc etc

Posted by: Penthouse Letters at December 13, 2023 01:15 PM (enJYY)

257 243 Even if Section 702 isn't renewed the feds will continue spying on us. The only way it stops is summary execution of the people involved in this surveillance crap.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at December 13, 2023 01:12 PM (tT6L1)

I love how the media and Gov are all in a feeding frenzy over the Airman who released TRUE information about Ukraine... info we should have already had.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 13, 2023 01:16 PM (xaFKb)

258 See, we can't tell you about all of the plots we've foiled but there were a lot of them, A LOTTTTT!!
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 13, 2023 12:41 PM (rc3Z7)

I'm as cynical about the govt as most of the people here. BUT I did have my eyes opened about the amount of everyday terrorism that does not make it into the news.

Friend of a close friend was attacked in 2019 and the FBI put the clamps on the news immediately. They provided him full medical care afterward but the damage was too severe and he passed this year directly because of the attack.

Was never reported, not even in local news. If they'd said the nature of the attack and where/how it happened out loud you'd have had a serious panic. I'm even nervous AF to give any more detail because of how effectively they buttoned this up and I don't want me or my friend or this guys family to get in trouble.

Posted by: Bayesian Prior at December 13, 2023 01:16 PM (yAaYs)

259 253 Broad Street bullies checkin' in...
Posted by: poconohound at December 13, 2023 01:15 PM (h0NHM)

...and still losing since '76

Posted by: XTC at December 13, 2023 01:16 PM (sm6Pk)

260 You know WHO ELSE had a German accent?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2023 01:16 PM (JrojV)

261 Heh! Maybe I should make the Empress some Nyquil infused lemon bars.....

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 13, 2023 01:17 PM (YRsIm)

262 Posted by: alexthechick at December 13, 2023 01:09 PM (GbPPJ)

Good to see you back here. Missed ya.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 13, 2023 01:14 PM (YRsIm)

Ask her nicely for an Airing of Grievances.

*ducks*

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 13, 2023 01:17 PM (CnLzB)

263 It would be interesting to compare the data you are able to retrieve compared to what a lowly citizen with a credit card and thirty dollars can find out.
☑ Friends and associates
☑ Criminal actions
☑ Residences lived
☑ Social media
☑ Telephone, email
☑ Etc etc etc
Posted by: Penthouse Letters at December 13, 2023 01:15 PM (enJYY)

Oh yes. I was asked at work about using the Lexis search function vs one of the various and sundry online people search services and I said well, the later will get us more and, technically, the LLC running the search is the one violating every single one of the privacy restrictions sooooooooo.

Posted by: alexthechick at December 13, 2023 01:17 PM (GbPPJ)

264 Yay! Let's go Rangers!

Posted by: poconohound at December 13, 2023 01:17 PM (h0NHM)

265 If AtC is commenting again we should probably have a special "Welcome Home!" thread, and send out special invitations to many other former commenters to participate!

There will be cookies. And tequila cosmopolitans.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 13, 2023 01:17 PM (4sUNT)

266 254 I'm currently stoned on cold meds and I decided this morning that since I have 9.5 days of PTO left this year and there are only 13 work days left this year, I could take the day off.
Posted by: alexthechick at December 13, 2023 01:15 PM (GbPPJ)

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How are you going to bill 100 hours this week, then?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 13, 2023 01:18 PM (GBKbO)

267 243 Even if Section 702 isn't renewed the feds will continue spying on us. The only way it stops is summary execution of the people involved in this surveillance crap.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at December 13, 2023 01:12 PM (tT6L1)

AT&T is in bed with the feds sharing their customers' cellular data. Google and Meta are in bed with them too. Have a cell phone? The feds can locate you. If your car has access to mobile data (OnStar, WiFi hotspot capability, etc.) - you can be tracked. There are cameras set up along most highways.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 13, 2023 01:18 PM (N39Ws)

268 Nood Father's Love

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2023 01:19 PM (jGiYr)

269 264 Yay! Let's go Rangers!
Posted by: poconohound at December 13, 2023 01:17 PM (h0NHM)

Try winning without elbowing people in the head.

Posted by: XTC at December 13, 2023 01:19 PM (sm6Pk)

270 Posted by: alexthechick at December 13, 2023 01:15 PM (GbPPJ)

Good to see you. Sorry you're not feeling well, Being stoned on cold medsis probably better than suffeing with whatever lousy cold/flu whatever is going around. Hope you feel better soon.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2023 01:20 PM (RSbhh)

271 So when is the party for elected whiteys?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 13, 2023 01:14 PM (W/lyH)

***

Dats e-erday Crakka

Posted by: Aggrieved Black Stupies Female what Weighs 326 Pounds at December 13, 2023 01:20 PM (ZV+pB)

272
Broad Street bullies checkin' in...
Posted by: poconohound at December 13, 2023 01:15 PM

The best seat in the house during those years was behind the Flyers bench. Every shift change they'd hop over the decking and yank their teeth guards out. Not many front row teeth in a one of those dudes. Ever see a toothless smile? It ain't pretty.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 13, 2023 01:21 PM (enJYY)

273 Thank you, Fenelon.

My one boss has the flu, another coworker has pneoumia for like the third time, someone else has COVID, three people have bad colds, and I decided you know what, I'm staying home.

Posted by: alexthechick at December 13, 2023 01:21 PM (GbPPJ)

274 Was never reported, not even in local news. If they'd said the nature of the attack and where/how it happened out loud you'd have had a serious panic. I'm even nervous AF to give any more detail because of how effectively they buttoned this up and I don't want me or my friend or this guys family to get in trouble.
Posted by: Bayesian Prior at December 13, 2023 01:16 PM (yAaYs)

So it was one of their buddies that did it again?

Sorry, I can't think of any reason to fear panic if the security services succeed in doing their job. They are covering up something.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 13, 2023 01:23 PM (eoQWY)

275 Not particularly on topic, but I watched a you tube documentary of some guy and his friend who made the trek north from Columbia through the Darien Gap and up through Mexico to the border. What those people are exposed to is just incredible, and the fact that most of them actually make it is even more so. The environmental wreckage is staggering.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 13, 2023 01:23 PM (YRsIm)

276
How are you going to bill 100 hours this week, then?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 13, 2023 01:18 PM

Lawyer dies and appears before St Peter who pulls a thick ledger down from the shelf. Yes, AtC we've examined your case carefully and according to your billing records you should have been here a decade and a half ago.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 13, 2023 01:23 PM (enJYY)

277 Seriously, who wrote this racist stupidity? :"Electeds of color". If the person wanted people of color elected to office to come to a party, why didn't she/he write by name to the people who were elected instead of basically coming out with a "Elected"Honkies not invited" letter .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2023 01:24 PM (RSbhh)

278 The lies are for our own good ya see. We might panic.

FYNQ

Posted by: DOYLE at December 13, 2023 01:24 PM (Z8Yh2)

279 Thank you, Fenelon.

My one boss has the flu, another coworker has pneoumia for like the third time, someone else has COVID, three people have bad colds, and I decided you know what, I'm staying home.
Posted by: alexthechick at December 13, 2023 01:21 PM (GbPPJ)

Nice to see you here, sorry you aren't feeling well.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 13, 2023 01:24 PM (eoQWY)

280 Posted by: alexthechick at December 13, 2023 01:21 PM (GbPPJ)

I think that was a wise choice.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2023 01:25 PM (RSbhh)

281 Seriously, who wrote this racist stupidity? :"Electeds of color". If the person wanted people of color elected to office to come to a party, why didn't she/he write by name to the people who were elected instead of basically coming out with a "Elected"Honkies not invited" letter .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2023 01:24 PM (RSbhh)

What is amusing is that 'colored' was the bad old term, which morphed to black, then African-American, then I don't know what and now we are back to colored again?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 13, 2023 01:26 PM (eoQWY)

282 Stupid question maybe, but is there a reason that clip repeated over and over to take up 7 hours on the Youtube page?

Posted by: bearski at December 13, 2023 01:26 PM (Bhsk7)

283 Seriously, who wrote this racist stupidity? :"Electeds of color". If the person wanted people of color elected to office to come to a party, why didn't she/he write by name to the people who were elected instead of basically coming out with a "Elected"Honkies not invited" letter .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2023 01:24 PM (RSbhh)

Is there even a party scheduled for the whites?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 13, 2023 01:29 PM (eoQWY)

284 Stupid question maybe, but is there a reason that clip repeated over and over to take up 7 hours on the Youtube page?
Posted by: bearski at December 13, 2023 01:26 PM (Bhsk7)

If you fall asleep watching it they get huge credit for 'engagement'. I sometimes use fireplace crackles with cat purrs, rain sounds, that sort of thing.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 13, 2023 01:31 PM (eoQWY)

285 Is there even a party scheduled for the whites?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 13, 2023 01:29 PM (eoQWY

Well, the person who wrote it sure didn't arrange one.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2023 01:39 PM (RSbhh)

286 Burl Ives woulda whooped the shit out of Fred Astaire in the octagon.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 13, 2023 01:09 PM (R4t5M)

Pfffft. Fred would have done the Mexican Hat Dance on Burl's head, with Rita Hayworth as a partner. **sigh** Rita**

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at December 13, 2023 01:49 PM (iODuv)

287 There are WH tunnels. I've seen them in movies. Can't argue with that kind of evidence.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 13, 2023 01:52 PM (BdMk6)

288 Hello, I read your blogs on a regular basis. Your humoristic style is witty,
keep up the good work!

Posted by: dating at December 13, 2023 02:11 PM (NG1xo)

289 That's why he was demanding this 'public hearing' nonsense.

He wanted to take advantage of it, make a speech for the cameras and then publicly take the 5th.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at December 13, 2023 02:23 PM (setIA)

290 287 There are WH tunnels. I've seen them in movies. Can't argue with that kind of evidence

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Of course there are tunnels under the WH. I saw they were built by the ancient aliens on one of the episodes

Posted by: diceydeuce at December 13, 2023 03:31 PM (nG0bm)

291 Republitards support USINT, bigly.

The only good federal agents are face down in a ditch.

Every human cockroach who takes a check from the federal government will snitch you out to keep the gravy flowing.

Don't trust them.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at December 13, 2023 08:10 PM (3l+9v)

292 Does anyone trust any government employee? Does anyone respect any politician? If you do you best be either a politician or a government employee or a drug addict dependent on them.

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