The DOJ Official Who Interfered in the Hunter Biden Investigation Has Quietly Left the DOJ

The DOJ lawyer who interfered in the Hunter Biden investigation, forbidding any questioning or avenue of inquiry that could implicate Joe Biden, has "quietly departed" the DOJ.

Of course she wasn't fired. She was doing the will of The Regime. But she's become a bit of an embarrassment, so she's been asked to work in the private sector for a while, where she'll be paid off hugely for her past service.

Later on, she'll be rehired by the Deep State when they have a big political case that needs fixing.

But for now, she's left the DOJ just as she's called for questioning in the impeachment investigation.

A federal prosecutor who allegedly interfered in the criminal investigation of Hunter Biden to protect both President Biden and his son recently left the Justice Department, The Post has learned.
Former Delaware assistant US attorney Lesley Wolf's quiet departure emerged as she appeared for a deposition with the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday morning -- following the Wednesday night House vote to formally authorize the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden over his role in his son and brother's foreign business dealings.
Wolf's starring role in the alleged coverup in the criminal tax fraud and foreign lobbying investigation is a significant part of the impeachment inquiry -- with whistleblowers saying that she discouraged asking witnesses questions about "the big guy" or "dad," referring to Joe Biden, claiming there was "no specific criminality to that line of questioning."
Two IRS agents who worked on the criminal investigation, Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, alleged in prior testimony to House committees that Wolf tipped off Hunter Biden's lawyers to investigative steps and forbade inquiries into Joe Biden even when communications mentioned him.
Wolf allegedly instructed FBI agents in August 2020 to remove references to Joe Biden from a search warrant affidavit, writing, "someone needs to redraft [the affidavit]... There should be nothing about Political Figure 1 in here," according to an email released by the Ways & Means Committee.
A federal prosecutor who allegedly interfered in a five-year probe into first son Hunter Biden has left the Justice Department, a source familiar with the move told The Post.
"That email, I think, is super important because it's a one-off example in writing of the constant concern of following investigative leads that might lead to Joe Biden," Ziegler said Thursday in a Fox News interview.
"The FBI agents who drafted that affidavit, they believed that they had sufficient evidence -- probable cause -- to support including Political Figure 1 in that affidavit," said the self-identified Democrat and veteran IRS agent, who worked on the case for five years.
"That related to [Ukrainian energy company] Burisma, access to Joe Biden and access to the administration and there was ample evidence that was included in that affidavit that's supported including Political Figure 1. That has a waterfall effect on the investigation because those emails that we're searching for might not come through to the team."

From Matt Vespa, who points out that Hunter Biden's corrupt plea deal blew up when the judge caught wind that this DOJ official had interfered in the investigation.

The FBI official who investigated Trump for colluding with Russia while he himself was literally colluding with Russia was just sentenced to 50 months in prison, which is a light sentence considering that he confessed to what is, essentially, working as a covert agent of Russia.

A former FBI counterintelligence official who played a role in the Trump-Russia collusion probe was sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday for accepting payments from a billionaire Russian oligarch who is under U.S. sanctions.
Charles McGonigal was sentenced after pleading guilty to felonies in two different cases, one of which involved his work for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, The Wall Street Journal reported. McGonigal, who worked on some of America's most important national security cases over a two-decade period with the bureau, was arrested in January and charged with accepting payments from Deripaska in exchange for digging up dirt on one of the sanctioned oligarch's Russian rivals.
Just before he retired from the FBI, McGonigal was involved in the investigation into former President Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russia, allegations a special counsel report suggested were never "technically plausible." The former FBI official played a role in the bureau's probe of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page when in 2017, McGonigal texted a colleague, saying, "Our Team is currently talking to [Carter Page] re Russia," The Washington Free Beacon reported.

Trust your Expert Class and Professional Managerial Class, everyone. They only want What's Best For You (TM).

Meanwhile, more FBI agents are talking about the bureau's corruption and its transformation into a weapon of the left's id. James Gagliano is a retired supervisory special agent. He writes about another retired FBI agent, Assistant Director of the Criminal Division, explaining how the one-time communist party member James Comey redirected agency recruitment efforts towards filling the agency with his fellow travelers, as well as his own observations of the bureau's shift from law enforcement to political enforcement.

Dating back to the 2016 Trump-Russia sham investigation, heavy-handed over-charging of Trump campaign surrogates, blatantly uneven treatment of right-wing and left-wing protesters and rioters, labeling angry parents speaking out at school board meetings as "domestic terror" concerns, aiding Big Tech's 2020 election suppression of information, seeming disinterest in Hunter Biden laptop revelations and Biden family's obvious influence-peddling schemes, and a laughably absurd Richmond division intelligence product warning of "radical-traditionalist Catholics," the FBI has raised eyebrows.
Many retired FBI agents -- to include this author -- have long caveated criticisms of the FBI by maintaining the bias and partiality concerns are related to certain FBI senior executives. We then justifiably laud the hard work and faithful service of the vast majority of the men and women who comprise the street-level, case-working special agents. Yet, it is becoming exceedingly more difficult to separate large swaths of FBI rank and file from its questionable leadership.
Retired FBI Criminal Division Assistant Director Chris Swecker recently outlined why it is no longer just FBI headquarters executives who are radically transforming the bureau and skewing it leftward. Swecker acknowledges the culpability of the FBI's current recruitment processes:

"There has been a seismic shift in the [FBI] culture...[I]n comes [FBI director] Jim Comey and he basically parachutes all these DOJ political appointees into the FBI and slowly the culture shifts over Comey's tenure and then under [FBI director] Chris Wray it's accelerated because I think the type of recruit they're bringing in is more opinionated, more idealistic, more liberal, highly educated, more Ivy League, and they tend to not just follow the facts, they tend to insert their own ideologies, their own opinions because the indoctrination that's taking place in the schools these days -- if you're virtuous and you're highly educated, you do everyone else's thinking for them. You can decide that President Trump is not fit to be president, therefore we need to go after him. You can decide that domestic terrorists only exist on the right side of the political aisle, not on the left side of the political aisle. You can pick winners and losers...It's no longer 'Let's just follow the facts.' I'm going to say that's at the highest levels of the FBI...but I think it's beginning to percolate down to the street level [rank and file agents] as well."
The FBI proclaims that diversity remains "at the core of [its] mission." Same preferred diversity of which American universities clamor -- race, gender, sexual orientation -- all while seemingly avoiding diversity in thought.
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I also witnessed firsthand the FBI's shift away from objective resource allocation and "calling things what they were" when Barack Obama's "wing man," Attorney General Eric Holder, compelled Comey's FBI to resist accurate description of terror attacks by "radical Islamists" in exchange for more nebulous depictions of our efforts in "combating violent extremism." Contrast that muted downplaying of the Muslim perpetrators of the vast majority of worldwide terror attacks with how DOJ treated the January 6th "insurrectionists" and angry parents at school board meetings -- compared again to 2020 ANTIFA and BLM anarchists and rioters. The FBI has also been accused by a whistleblower of artificially-inflated domestic terrorism data as pertains to rightwing groups. Certainly, appears one-sided and partisan, no?

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Even the FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) -- which purports to represent active and retired agents -- has taken a perceptible leftward lurch in its advocacy. The FBIAA saluted controversial and embattled immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci by presenting him its 2020 "Distinguished Service Award," and its then-president tweeted that U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick's death was a "killing" based upon deployment to Capitol on January 6, 2021. According to the medical examiner, Sicknick died of "natural causes." Most egregiously, the FBIAA awarded $100 gift cards to FBI agents who shamefully knelt in solidarity with -- or fear of -- the mob of BLM protestors (and rioters) who descended upon Washington, D.C. in the wake of George Floyd's death in the Summer of 2020. These examples prove that bias hasn't only permeated the top of the FBI. It has also infected segments of the special agent population.

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We need the FBI. But it can't continue to whistle past the graveyard, refusing to embrace necessary reforms. To do otherwise will serve as the agency's Waterloo.

Speaking of two tiers of justice:

Ignoring a Dem subpoena // Ignoring a GOP subpoena

Not very subtle, CNN. pic.twitter.com/qQEztH4NID
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) December 13, 2023

Bonus:

MSNBC is suggesting the House vote to open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden is an orchestrated distraction from a booming economy. pic.twitter.com/0m80fUHzEj
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 14, 2023

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:10 PM

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Posted by: Gref at December 15, 2023 01:10 PM (5fDan)

2 First?

Posted by: Bert G at December 15, 2023 01:10 PM (VARTN)

3 "See?! The FBI is in Trump's pocket!"
-DU, 98% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 15, 2023 01:11 PM (GBKbO)

4 She Boldly left quietly?

Posted by: SturmToddler at December 15, 2023 01:11 PM (bving)

5 corgis called

Posted by: SturmToddler at December 15, 2023 01:12 PM (bving)

6 MSNBC is suggesting the House vote to open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden is an orchestrated distraction from a booming economy.

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"This is the best economy ever! My chocolate rations went up to 20g from 25g!"
-DU, 99.99999% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 15, 2023 01:12 PM (GBKbO)

7 Almost quitting time

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2023 01:12 PM (pvKxo)

8 I just love the "quiet departure" messaging

The knife "slipped in"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 15, 2023 01:13 PM (RIvkX)

9 SPONGE

Posted by: Inogame at December 15, 2023 01:13 PM (53oGX)

10 Of course she wasn't fired. She was doing the will of The Regime. But she's become a bit of an embarrassment, so she's been asked to work in the private sector for a while, where she'll be paid off hugely for her past service.

Later on, she'll be rehired by the Deep State when they have a big political case that needs fixing.
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Or she stays put. No matter what, she's all set.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2023 01:13 PM (zxP/x)

11 Should have left in the back of a hearse.

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

12 "quietly departed" like a church fart.

Posted by: davidt at December 15, 2023 01:14 PM (SYTee)

13 The FBI official who investigated Trump for colluding with Russia while he himself was literally colluding with Russia was just sentenced to 50 months in prison, which is a light sentence considering that he confessed to what is, essentially, working as a covert agent of Russia.
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So he'll walk in what? Six months? 12? And is he at Club Fed or a real prison?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2023 01:14 PM (zxP/x)

14 Fetterman's body double is getting frisky

NEW: John Fetterman breaks with the left — fiercely supporting Israel and endorsing talks for tougher immigration laws.

“I’m not a progressive,” Fetterman tells @NBCNews, brushing back critics.

He’s hitting Dems for a double standard on Santos/Menendez.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 15, 2023 01:14 PM (NYzgN)

15 Countdown to the comments turning into a dance thread . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 15, 2023 01:15 PM (iFTx/)

16 14 NEW: John Fetterman breaks with the left — fiercely supporting Israel and endorsing talks for tougher immigration laws.

“I’m not a progressive,” Fetterman tells @NBCNews, brushing back critics.

He’s hitting Dems for a double standard on Santos/Menendez.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 15, 2023 01:14 PM (NYzgN)

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Call me when he actually votes against Schumer on something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 15, 2023 01:15 PM (GBKbO)

17 13 The FBI official who investigated Trump for colluding with Russia while he himself was literally colluding with Russia was just sentenced to 50 months in prison, which is a light sentence considering that he confessed to what is, essentially, working as a covert agent of Russia.
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So he'll walk in what? Six months? 12? And is he at Club Fed or a real prison?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2023 01:14 PM (zxP/x)
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I'm shocked he got any time at all

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 15, 2023 01:15 PM (iFTx/)

18 ZOD IMPERIAL.

Posted by: ZOD at December 15, 2023 01:15 PM (5HQE5)

19 8 I just love the "quiet departure" messaging

The knife "slipped in"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 15, 2023 01:13 PM (RIvkX)

"Coulda happened to anybody. It was an accident, right? You tripped, slipped on the floor and accidentally stuck your dick in my wife. Whoops!"

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 15, 2023 01:16 PM (N39Ws)

20 Yeah, she left for a lucrative career in the private sector doing fuck all after she served her purpose.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 15, 2023 01:16 PM (uKeRS)

21 13 So he'll walk in what? Six months? 12? And is he at Club Fed or a real prison?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2023 01:14 PM (zxP/x)

They'll never put a Fed in a Rape Cell.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2023 01:17 PM (sm6Pk)

22 >>The knife "slipped in" Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 15, 2023 01:13 PM (RIvkX)

The Passive-Voice State.

Posted by: ZOD at December 15, 2023 01:17 PM (5HQE5)

23 19 8 I just love the "quiet departure" messaging

The knife "slipped in"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 15, 2023 01:13 PM (RIvkX)

"Coulda happened to anybody. It was an accident, right? You tripped, slipped on the floor and accidentally stuck your dick in my wife. Whoops!"
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 15, 2023 01:16 PM (N39Ws)
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Beat me to it . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 15, 2023 01:17 PM (iFTx/)

24 MSNBC is suggesting the House vote to open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden is an orchestrated distraction from a booming economy.

That's a real whopper. In fact, Biden and MSNBC are touting a booming macro-economy to distract from inflation and higher than Trump interest rates for all loans. Micro-economics that is hurting everyone, especially the middle class.

Posted by: Gref at December 15, 2023 01:17 PM (5fDan)

25 Which DC gang is Charles McGonigal a made man in?

Posted by: davidt at December 15, 2023 01:17 PM (SYTee)

26 I disagree with his last sentence. wo do NOT need an fbi. they have proven that we don't need it.

it should be dismantled and any operations that ARE required out of them should be moved to a remote unincorporated area of north dakota.

Posted by: SturmToddler at December 15, 2023 01:18 PM (bving)

27 Jebus. It' Liz Cheney with 50% less butch.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 15, 2023 01:18 PM (9v1kn)

28 And yeah, I'm kind of at the point where yes, I do want these people to be tortured.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2023 01:18 PM (sm6Pk)

29 You know.
I have a dream:

A very long line of folks in orange jumpsuits, shackled by the wrists and feet, heads shorn, lead by Hillary Clinton to the now deserted pedo island. They can "Lord of the Flies" it to the end of day.

Anyone attempting to leave will be shot in the water for the sharks to feast upon.

Anyone attempting to help them, in any way, will join them.

Life sentences. No possibility of parole.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2023 01:18 PM (CDGpN)

30 My brother gets his "news" from MSNBC.
Makes family get-togethers sad.

Posted by: wth at December 15, 2023 01:18 PM (v0R5T)

31 How soon until Wolf gets a multi-million dollar book and television deal as a "commentator?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2023 01:19 PM (7fElN)

32 think the type of recruit they're bringing in is more opinionated, more idealistic, more liberal, highly educated, more Ivy League, and they tend to not just follow the facts, they tend to insert their own ideologies, their own opinions because the indoctrination that's taking place in the schools these days
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Why the pussyfooting around on this? Because it's bullshit.

Oh, it's true, of course, but it's not the *whole* truth. This isn't happening because that's what these "parachutes" learned in school. It's happening because that's what people are expected to do in today's FBI.

You can't blame this on Comey and Wray eagerly hiring Ivy Leaguers and they just brought along the bullshit academic culture. If they did and that culture did not match the expectations of the employer, the employer would fire them. This is precisely what the DoJ and FBI want, and they hire to get it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2023 01:19 PM (zxP/x)

33 29 Life sentences. No possibility of parole.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2023 01:18 PM (CDGpN)

The first day of every month, they get to choose which limb will be smashed by a sledgehammer.

And there is no getting out of Physical Punishment.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2023 01:20 PM (sm6Pk)

34 Left to his own devices, Hunter Biden will be his own just reward. Every minute he's forced to remain alert and sober due to GOP investigation of him is a minute he could be rolling the dice with a head full of dope, near to passing out, soaking in a hot tub.

Posted by: ZOD at December 15, 2023 01:20 PM (5HQE5)

35 "Coulda happened to anybody. It was an accident, right? You tripped, slipped on the floor and accidentally stuck your dick in my wife. Whoops!"
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 15, 2023 01:16 PM (N39Ws)
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This guy gets it!

Posted by: Hunter B. at December 15, 2023 01:20 PM (7fElN)

36 Meh the junta takes care of their own

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 15, 2023 01:20 PM (RIvkX)

37 MSNBC is suggesting the House vote to open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden is an orchestrated distraction from a booming economy.
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I mean, an implosion creates a boom, right? So, MSNBC could *technically* be right.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 15, 2023 01:20 PM (a/dOO)

38 Frankly, i don't want to hear a peep out of these crooked fucks. Go, investigate, gather evidence, whatever, but for the love of fuck stop acting like I'm supposed to think you're a hero for doing the bare damn minimum. "Oooooh, we're having a vote to start to consider voting on having an investigation into shit we already have all the damned receipts for". Go pack a brown paper bag full of dicks for lunch, you ninnies, and quit patting yourselves on the back for sucking at life.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 15, 2023 01:21 PM (9UlRk)

39 The knife "slipped in"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 15, 2023 01:13 PM (RIvkX)
____________

"So did the dick . . . ."

-- Kamala "Kneepads" Harris

"Indeed!"

-- Barack "Hot Hole" Obama

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 15, 2023 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

40 ZOD IMPERIAL.
Posted by: ZOD
......

I Can't Believe It's Not Butter

Posted by: wth at December 15, 2023 01:21 PM (v0R5T)

41 Contrast that muted downplaying of the Muslim perpetrators of the vast majority of worldwide terror attacks with how DOJ treated the January 6th "insurrectionists" and angry parents at school board meetings -- compared again to 2020 ANTIFA and BLM anarchists and rioters. The FBI has also been accused by a whistleblower of artificially-inflated domestic terrorism data as pertains to rightwing groups. Certainly, appears one-sided and partisan, no?
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No. It's moved well beyond that. Again with the weird tameness that I do not understand.

This is not merely "one-sided" or "partisan." It is, of course, but it is not the whole truth.

It's a state internal security organ now. That's it. It's the Stasi or any of its analogues in any totalitarian system you wish to mention. Were the Stasi "one-sided" and "partisan?" Sure, but that is not its defining characteristic.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2023 01:21 PM (zxP/x)

42 We need the FBI. But it can't continue to whistle past the graveyard, refusing to embrace necessary reforms. To do otherwise will serve as the agency's Waterloo.

No, we don't. By operating as a political enforcer, the FBI has forfeited its right to exist.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2023 01:21 PM (guGkK)

43 willowed
359 338 331 In the odd event Trump is permitted to win, who is joining his administration?
Posted by: mr tmz

Me. I am going to be the Secretary of Go Fuck Yourself.

My job will be to close government agencies.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 15, 2023 01:03 PM (NYzgN)

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I want the job of closing the FBI HQ in DC, and relocating all the FBI Agents to their new jobs of policing American Indian Reservations and reporting to the FBI HQ in Tulsa OK.

Posted by: rd at December 15, 2023 01:21 PM (M6DqJ)

44 Zod Daywalker

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 15, 2023 01:22 PM (RIvkX)

45 Ignoring a Dem subpoena // Ignoring a GOP subpoena
Not very subtle, CNN.
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The NPCs neither need nor want subtlety. They simply want to be told what to think. They need programming, not convincing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2023 01:22 PM (zxP/x)

46 27 Jebus. It' Liz Cheney with 50% less butch.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 15, 2023 01:18 PM (9v1kn)

She looks to me like a combo of Lisa Page and Taylor Lorenz. Yikes!

Posted by: Gref at December 15, 2023 01:22 PM (5fDan)

47 EVERY member of the FBI should be spat on in public.

Child-diddling political enforcers. Our own Stasi.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 15, 2023 01:22 PM (JMAcK)

48 This all seems ridiculous. If Clown World has a plan the plan must be slipping on a banana peel.

Honk Honk!

Posted by: Max Power at December 15, 2023 01:22 PM (q177U)

49 The country will glow next year.

It'll make 2020 look like a marshmallow roast.

Posted by: Lite Brite at December 15, 2023 01:23 PM (ccC3M)

50 "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
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It's a shame we can't seem to apply this thinking to the FBI...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2023 01:23 PM (7fElN)

51 to include this author -- have long caveated criticisms of the FBI by maintaining the bias and partiality concerns are related to certain FBI senior executives.

FU, you blind, corrupt fuck. This has been apparent for fucking years.

you're highly educated

Wrong. Their credentialed. Not educated.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 15, 2023 01:23 PM (IG4Id)

52 49 The country will glow next year.

It'll make 2020 look like a marshmallow roast.
Posted by: Lite Brite at December 15, 2023 01:23 PM (ccC3M)

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If the left decides that the only way to save the Biden presidency is to burn Portland and Baltimore again, I'm going to run out of popcorn.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 15, 2023 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

53 >>relocating all the FBI Agents to their new jobs of policing American Indian Reservations
Posted by: rd at December 15, 2023 01:21 PM (M6DqJ)

Yao.

Posted by: ZOD at December 15, 2023 01:24 PM (5HQE5)

54 It's Christmas. You want a miracle? I give you the FBI.

Posted by: Hans Gruber at December 15, 2023 01:24 PM (SYTee)

55 At some point local police chiefs won't report to their local executive but to the local FBI SAIC.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 15, 2023 01:24 PM (RIvkX)

56 And yeah, I'm kind of at the point where yes, I do want these people to be tortured.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2023 01:18 PM (sm6Pk)

You want nuts? Nipples? Potty trainer?

Posted by: Marvin Boggs at December 15, 2023 01:24 PM (gmo/4)

57 43 I want the job of closing the FBI HQ in DC, and relocating all the FBI Agents to their new jobs of policing American Indian Reservations and reporting to the FBI HQ in Tulsa OK.
Posted by: rd at December 15, 2023 01:21 PM (M6DqJ)

I want the job of whacking them with a Captive Bolt Cow Hammer.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2023 01:24 PM (sm6Pk)

58 33
The first day of every month, they get to choose which limb will be smashed by a sledgehammer.

And there is no getting out of Physical Punishment.
Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2023 01:20 PM (sm6Pk)

It's pitchfork time. If you're late, you don't get the spit. And believe me, Charlie, you want the spit. ( In quivering voice ) I want the spit.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 15, 2023 01:25 PM (N39Ws)

59 MSNBC is suggesting the House vote to open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden is an orchestrated distraction from a booming economy.

everybody knows this economy is limping along aimlessly

which is why I was surprised that the Christmas cards were all but sold out, the only ones left were the fugly ones.

I only send out about a dozen, and I have forever stamps from prior years, the expense if everything were new would be about 20-25 bucks. I guess people believe the holiday season deserves a little splurge.

Posted by: kallisto at December 15, 2023 01:25 PM (dCxaZ)

60 I want the job of closing the FBI HQ in DC, and relocating all the FBI Agents to their new jobs of policing American Indian Reservations and reporting to the FBI HQ in Tulsa OK.
Posted by: rd at December 15, 2023 01:21 PM (M6DqJ)
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I think the only reason why none of these agencies have ever been closed is because no one has seriously tried to do it. Sure, the courts wills scream bloody murder about it, but since when do the courts have jurisdiction over the Executive Branch?

Tell the courts to piss up a rope because their funding will be next if they complain too loudly.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2023 01:25 PM (7fElN)

61 ... sigh, of course, THey're

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 15, 2023 01:25 PM (IG4Id)

62 Wolf retired because now she can't be questioned by an inspector general, which is a bullshit law, if you got paid to work in government your time working should always be fair game during an investigation, retiring shouldn't give you cover.

We'll see so much more of this as it becomes clearer that Trump will win, and any cases against him will be thrown out on appeal since they have no merit (NYT is already running cover for the fact the NY case is going to implode, calling the Judge unorthodox and admitting he said Trump was guilty before the case started)

Posted by: Rbastid at December 15, 2023 01:26 PM (6ORuo)

63 I'm sure that the FBI will straighten itself out once it moves into its new sprawling new complex of offices, monitoring centers and torture chambers.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2023 01:26 PM (guGkK)

64 I'm shocked he got any time at all
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 15, 2023 01:15 PM (iFTx/)
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I'm only mildly surprised.

Every system - even totalitarian dictatorships - need to have a facade of legitimacy. Sometimes, they have to throw a bone to people to maintain that facade. This usually takes two forms:

1. "Anti-corruption" campaigns. This is when Party members go down for corruption - but oddly, only Party members in factions opposed to the head man. Red China under Xi uses this type extensively.
2. Periodic enforcement against Party regulars. They break the rules and sometimes one of them draws the short straw and gets a punishment. The punishments are usually reversed or completely canceled later, once the public is deemed placated. This is commonly done in our system. Kevin Clinesmith is a pretty good example of this style.

But they do sometimes have to send up a Party member to keep up appearances. Nothing unusual about it at all. This particular symbolic punishment isn't one I would have guessed, but it isn't surprising.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2023 01:26 PM (zxP/x)

65 >>46 27 Jebus. It' Liz Cheney with 50% less butch.

Platinum Ahab.

Posted by: ZOD at December 15, 2023 01:27 PM (5HQE5)

66 The economy is booming so much that one needs 2.5x median income to possibly purchase a house. And 90% of those who have houses can't sell them, because buying a new replacement house would have an interest rate triple their current mortgage.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 15, 2023 01:27 PM (lTGtQ)

67 which is why I was surprised that the Christmas cards were all but sold out, the only ones left were the fugly ones.

I only send out about a dozen, and I have forever stamps from prior years, the expense if everything were new would be about 20-25 bucks. I guess people believe the holiday season deserves a little splurge.
Posted by: kallisto at December 15, 2023 01:25 PM (dCxaZ)

Because they're not buying gifts this year. Just sending cards?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 15, 2023 01:27 PM (Angsy)

68 66 The economy is booming so much that one needs 2.5x median income to possibly purchase a house. And 90% of those who have houses can't sell them, because buying a new replacement house would have an interest rate triple their current mortgage.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 15, 2023 01:27 PM (lTGtQ)

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"That's because you shouldn't own a house. You should live in a 500 sq ft apartment in NYC."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 15, 2023 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

69 Can't wait for a red state governor to tell state cops not to cooperate with the FBI.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 15, 2023 01:27 PM (rJ48h)

70 I am going to guess that holiday spending will "shatter" expectations based on the fact that people spent more this year than last.

It is the economy is doing great because people are charging more on their credit cards type logic.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 15, 2023 01:28 PM (NYzgN)

71 You want nuts? Nipples? Potty trainer?
Posted by: Marvin Boggs

Bring the pig

Posted by: Kratwurst at December 15, 2023 01:28 PM (nIRE6)

72 MSNBC is suggesting the House vote to open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden is an orchestrated distraction from a booming economy.

+++
Wondering if a courier delivers bags of money to them each day from the White House, or if they just get direct-deposit. I'm guessing direct-deposit.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 15, 2023 01:28 PM (CmpAD)

73 "That's because you shouldn't own a house. You should live in a 500 sq ft apartment in NYC."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 15, 2023 01:27 PM (GBKbO)
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500 sq ft in NYC? Who do I have to pleasure to get a deal like that?

I was expecting a broom closet...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2023 01:29 PM (7fElN)

74 The economy is booming so much that one needs 2.5x median income to possibly purchase a house. And 90% of those who have houses can't sell them, because buying a new replacement house would have an interest rate triple their current mortgage.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 15, 2023 01:27 PM (lTGtQ)
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This is why the residential real estate market is locked up in a *lot* of markets. Prices are high on the back of low inventory and nothing else, and low inventory is there because of the high prices. It's locked.

What will break the lock is forced selling (layoff, divorce, mandatory relocation, etc.). When that starts - and it hasn't yet, but I think it will - look out below.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2023 01:29 PM (zxP/x)

75 68 "That's because you shouldn't own a house. You should live in a 500 sq ft apartment in NYC."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 15, 2023 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

Still bigger than an affordable apartment in Tokyo or Seoul.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2023 01:29 PM (sm6Pk)

76 Mike Johnson and Paul Ryan caught playing reach around in the US Capital stairwell.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 15, 2023 01:29 PM (eYF7X)

77 I'm guessing direct-deposit.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 15, 2023 01:28 PM (CmpAD)

CNN gets the cash.

MSNBC is just in it for the love of the game.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 15, 2023 01:29 PM (9UlRk)

78 What numbers are being used by the left to support their booming economy narrative?

Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 15, 2023 01:30 PM (hCt6Y)

79 but since when do the courts have jurisdiction over the Executive Branch?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

The courts would side with the agencies/depts because the courts are infected with the same kind of DC worshipping corpo-leftism. From Chevron deference to union status of employees, courts routinely have sided with them, primarily during GOP admins. It should be done, but you'd have to remap the judiciary first.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 15, 2023 01:30 PM (IG4Id)

80 55 At some point local police chiefs won't report to their local executive but to the local FBI SAIC.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 15, 2023 01:24 PM (RIvkX)

At some point, I want a local police chief to tell the Feds to f' off when they show up at a crime scene. If they try to claim preemption, tell them to shove off or be arrested for interfering with an investigation, and then actually arrest them and put them through the full arrest experience (fingerprinting, search, placed in a gen pop holding cell, etc.). Sure, will the arrests hold up? Of course not. But that's not the point.

The process is the punishment. That's the chilling effect of the FBI's corruption on the behavior of conservative citizens. It would be nice to have the pendulum swing the other way as well.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 15, 2023 01:30 PM (a/dOO)

81 ZOD IMPERIAL.
Posted by: ZOD at December 15, 2023 01:15 PM

A Zod sighting!

How go things?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2023 01:30 PM (Wnv9h)

82 Men break down major red flags when dating someone new
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1 does she own a private jet

(shall I go on?)

Posted by: Don Black, Premier Properties at December 15, 2023 01:31 PM (geLO8)

83 I'm sure that the FBI will straighten itself out once it moves into its new sprawling new complex of offices, monitoring centers and torture chambers.
Posted by: Cicero

Wray says that the FBI has already straightened itself out. But he can't tell you what policies or if anyone is punished because there is still an ongoing investigation and it might compromise sources and methods and let the terrorists win.
Ted Cruz got a chubby at the answer and gave them another $100B.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 15, 2023 01:31 PM (NYzgN)

84 >> But she's become a bit of an embarrassment,

Not an embarrassment, a liability. Apparently she is somehow immune to congressional subpoena if she is not working for DOJ, and is a Democrat.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 15, 2023 01:31 PM (KLXLF)

85 "Certainly, appears one-sided and partisan, no? ---
No. It's moved well beyond that. Again with the weird tameness that I do not understand."

That sort of tameness could be a result of massive lawsuits and criminal arrests of those that Defy the Narrative? "Journalists" must be very careful or they get a lawsuit for "slander/liable" ... true even with pronouns at this point.

The corrupt system does influence speech.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 15, 2023 01:32 PM (Cus5s)

86 At some point, I want a local police chief to tell the Feds to f' off when they show up at a crime scene. If they try to claim preemption, tell them to shove off or be arrested for interfering with an investigation, and then actually arrest them and put them through the full arrest experience (fingerprinting, search, placed in a gen pop holding cell, etc.). Sure, will the arrests hold up? Of course not. But that's not the point.

The process is the punishment. That's the chilling effect of the FBI's corruption on the behavior of conservative citizens. It would be nice to have the pendulum swing the other way as well.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 15, 2023 01:30 PM (a/dOO)
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Humiliation is an excellent tool for breaking the high and mighty.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2023 01:32 PM (7fElN)

87 "We need the FBI. But it can't continue to whistle past the graveyard, refusing to embrace necessary reforms. To do otherwise will serve as the agency's Waterloo."

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NO! We don't need the FBI. We need a national federal agency to investigate federal crimes. Big Difference!

My idea is a regional based agency with maybe 8-12 regional HQ. Except that DC and the surrounding area has no regional HQ, but is overseen by a rotating board of regional directors, and staffed by temporary regional investigators assigned to DC for only a single five year term.

Each region is separate and the investigators all are assigned to the region permanently, and the leadership is only from the region. There is no national HQ, no National Leadership, each regional head is equal to the others.

Keep them busy fighting each other instead of plotting against Washington DC. We don't need an FBI Praetorian Guard meddling in DC.

Posted by: rd at December 15, 2023 01:32 PM (hos8Q)

88 if you got paid to work in government your time working should always be fair game during an investigation, retiring shouldn't give you cover.
Posted by: Rbastid

Again, that becomes questionable once you realize how it would and is being used against staffers in a GOP admin. The Left in power is determined to ruin everyone that worked for Trump. They ain't stopping there.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 15, 2023 01:32 PM (IG4Id)

89 Could be back at the outstanding firm of Ballard Spahr. (Note: US Rep Mary Gay Scanlon's (D-PA) husband is partner & she also ran (or runs) Pro Bono.)

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun the bear, they only need to outrun us - for now at December 15, 2023 01:34 PM (GshMh)

90 87 Keep them busy fighting each other instead of plotting against Washington DC. We don't need an FBI Praetorian Guard meddling in DC.
Posted by: rd at December 15, 2023 01:32 PM (hos8Q)

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I'm more along the lines of: There should be no federal crimes.

Maybe something like an interstate agency that helps get criminals who have fled a state in which they committed crimes back to that state, but that's it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 15, 2023 01:34 PM (GBKbO)

91 "What numbers are being used by the left to support their booming economy narrative?"

Inflation has forced prices sky-high so people are spending way more money than before.

If people are spending way more money than before then the economy must be booming.

Posted by: davidt at December 15, 2023 01:34 PM (SYTee)

92 80 At some point, I want a local police chief to tell the Feds to f' off when they show up at a crime scene. If they try to claim preemption, tell them to shove off or be arrested for interfering with an investigation, and then actually arrest them and put them through the full arrest experience (fingerprinting, search, placed in a gen pop holding cell, etc.). Sure, will the arrests hold up? Of course not. But that's not the point.

The process is the punishment. That's the chilling effect of the FBI's corruption on the behavior of conservative citizens. It would be nice to have the pendulum swing the other way as well.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 15, 2023 01:30 PM (a/dOO)

Would be nice if they actually had to go to PMITA prison and fear being stabbed to death or raped.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2023 01:34 PM (sm6Pk)

93 At some point local police chiefs won't report to their local executive but to the local FBI SAIC.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 15, 2023 01:24 PM (RIvkX)
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If there is a plan (and I don't think there is) behind the "crime is legal" policies, this is it.

Things go to shit. People cry out for SOMEBODY to DO SOMETHING! The feds step in to "do something." They reorganize local police under temporary deputizing and new rules to go restore order. They do it - but not just in the cities. They also deputize LE in the suburbs, then the exurbs, then the rural sheriffs, too. The problems don't exist those places, but hey - somebody has to do something.

During the 12-24 months it takes to crack enough skulls in the cities to reign in the problem, they purge anyone who chafes under the federal yoke. Then we have nothing but fed-friendlies at every level, and the local police forces are federalized under the banner of cleaning up the cities.

Would probably work.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2023 01:34 PM (zxP/x)

94 >>Highly classified binder on 2016 Russian election interference went MISSING during Trump's last days in the White House: CIA still searching for file that vanished from a safe
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that headline asks me to believe 4 or 5 things I'm not willing to believe

Posted by: Don Black, Premier Properties at December 15, 2023 01:34 PM (geLO8)

95 Let me guess the address of the new FBI Headquarters: Prince Albert Street.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 15, 2023 01:35 PM (RIvkX)

96 Mike Johnson and Paul Ryan caught playing reach around in the US Capital stairwell.

Posted by: Maj. Healey

It could just be Ryan begging Johnson to help out the party (the democrat party). Ryan may have been sent there by his bosses.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 15, 2023 01:35 PM (lTGtQ)

97 During the 12-24 months it takes to crack enough skulls in the cities to reign in the problem, they purge anyone who chafes under the federal yoke. Then we have nothing but fed-friendlies at every level, and the local police forces are federalized under the banner of cleaning up the cities.

Would probably work.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2023 01:34 PM (zxP/x)
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Cloward-Piven...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2023 01:35 PM (7fElN)

98 >>A Zod sighting! How go things?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2023 01:30 PM (Wnv9h)

Good--Green Acres is the place to be. Second-order cognitive dissonance: Moved from an indigo county in a purple state to a deep-crimson county in an indigo state.

How is the People's Republic?

Posted by: ZOD at December 15, 2023 01:35 PM (5HQE5)

99 91 Inflation has forced prices sky-high so people are spending way more money than before.

If people are spending way more money than before then the economy must be booming.
Posted by: davidt at December 15, 2023 01:34 PM (SYTee)

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Also, the economy is trash because of corporate executives bilking customers which is causing inflation. Also, Biden beat inflation, and prices are going down. Also, the economy is great because of low unemployment. Also, decreased participation rates don't matter because white people need to make way for the new, brown coalition. Also, replacement theory is racist and it's great that it's happening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 15, 2023 01:35 PM (GBKbO)

100 We need the FBI. But it can't continue to whistle past the graveyard, refusing to embrace necessary reforms. To do otherwise will serve as the agency's Waterloo.
____

Eh, not sure we need the FBI. In order to make the correct decision on whether reform or dismantling is the best option, every single document going back to the agency's founding must be declassified and reviewed by our representatives and shared with the people (redacting names of field agents).

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2023 01:35 PM (fs1hN)

101 >"We need the FBI. But it can't continue to whistle past the graveyard, refusing to embrace necessary reforms. To do otherwise will serve as the agency's Waterloo."

Waterloo
couldn't reform if they wanted to
Waterloo
Promise corruption for evermore

Posted by: Don Black, Premier Properties at December 15, 2023 01:36 PM (geLO8)

102 Would be nice if they actually had to go to PMITA prison and fear being stabbed to death or raped.
Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2023 01:34 PM (sm6Pk)

A local county jail would feel like Alcatraz for most Poison Ivy League and Ivy wannabees. Again, for them to be fingerprinted? For them to have to be strip searched? Much less the holding pen:

OMG! There's a guy passed out over there in his own filth, and he smells like alcohol!

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 15, 2023 01:37 PM (a/dOO)

103 500 sq ft in NYC? Who do I have to pleasure to get a deal like that?

I was expecting a broom closet...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2023 01:29 PM (7fElN)

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And you don't need a closet for your two suits, four shirts, and five ties because you store the spare clothes at the dry cleaners.

Posted by: rd at December 15, 2023 01:37 PM (hos8Q)

104 Willowed from last thread:

So Hillary gets schlonged again?

Posted by: torabora at December 15, 2023 01:38 PM (OUiUM)

105 OMG! There's a guy passed out over there in his own filth, and he smells like alcohol!
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 15, 2023 01:37 PM (a/dOO)

"Wake up, Sheriff, we got another one!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 15, 2023 01:38 PM (9UlRk)

106 What’s this “rule of law” thing again?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 15, 2023 01:38 PM (FgV+x)

107 94 >>Highly classified binder on 2016 Russian election interference went MISSING during Trump's last days in the White House: CIA still searching for file that vanished from a safe
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that headline asks me to believe 4 or 5 things I'm not willing to believe
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I believe all of it! I BELIEVE it SO HARD!!!!!

Posted by: Average Democrat Voter that the Headline is Aimed At at December 15, 2023 01:38 PM (fs1hN)

108 Government law & the big, progressive private law firms are now completely intertwined, imo. And the O&Joe administrations made it so.

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun the bear, they only need to outrun us - for now at December 15, 2023 01:39 PM (GshMh)

109 What’s this “rule of law” thing again?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 15, 2023 01:38 PM (FgV+x)

Those who rule make the laws.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 15, 2023 01:39 PM (9UlRk)

110 orchestrated distraction from a booming economy.

Blowing up Hamas with precision guided weapons is booming but not an economy.

Posted by: DaveA at December 15, 2023 01:39 PM (FhXTo)

111 >>Highly classified binder on 2016 Russian election interference went MISSING during Trump's last days in the White House: CIA still searching for file that vanished from a safe.

The binder that said there was no collusion.

Posted by: davidt at December 15, 2023 01:39 PM (SYTee)

112 The woke leftist mayor of SF has eliminated their Office of Reparations, due to budget deficit.

With that, she's done more to reduce the size of government than the entire Gope in Congress.

Posted by: You won't believe this at December 15, 2023 01:40 PM (ccC3M)

113 102 A local county jail would feel like Alcatraz for most Poison Ivy League and Ivy wannabees. Again, for them to be fingerprinted? For them to have to be strip searched? Much less the holding pen:

OMG! There's a guy passed out over there in his own filth, and he smells like alcohol!
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 15, 2023 01:37 PM (a/dOO)

It's more that they should be subject to the same conditions and threats that they want to subject normal people to.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2023 01:40 PM (sm6Pk)

114 I want the job of closing the FBI HQ in DC, and relocating all the FBI Agents to their new jobs of policing American Indian Reservations and reporting to the FBI HQ in Tulsa OK.
Posted by: rd at December 15, 2023 01:21 PM (M6DqJ)
.......

Female Body Inspecting the hawt Rez chicks is too good for them.

Posted by: wth at December 15, 2023 01:40 PM (v0R5T)

115 We do not need the FBI. There is some need for federal law enforcement and intelligence, but not the FBI. I'd like to see *all* federal LE and the entire IC dismantled and replaced entirely with five new agencies that do all of it - no more independent IC or LE assets in any other agency.

1. Law enforcement, narrow mandate
2. Military intelligence, narrow mandate
3. Foreign intelligence, wide mandate
4. Domestic intelligence (optional), razor-thin mandate
5. Internal Affairs, sweeping mandate

Agency five watches the watchmen, and is designed to be aggressive. Its people must *not* be sourced from any of the other four agencies. If you work in those - ever - you're disqualified from IA. The enforcement employees in IA (not the administrators, IT workers, etc.) are paid a modest base salary and generous bounties on those they run down who are misbehaving in the other four.

There are perverse incentives there and eventually IA becomes the top dog and then whole structure needs to be torn down again, but I bet it would buy 20-30 solid years of reform and reduced abuse.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2023 01:40 PM (zxP/x)

116 Actually, I should amend that. A holding pen is probably filled with a bunch of border jumpers who are all looking askance at the nebbish guy in a suit who literally pisses himself when the jailer casually announces he need to go the can for the next 10-15 minutes.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 15, 2023 01:40 PM (a/dOO)

117 We can totally vote our way out of this. Easy peasy.

Posted by: No worries at December 15, 2023 01:41 PM (R3DgF)

118 With that, she's done more to reduce the size of government than the entire Gope in Congress.
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That's ironic. We're in talks with our friends across the aisle to set up an Office of Reparations.

Posted by: GOPe Congress Leadership at December 15, 2023 01:41 PM (fs1hN)

119 Also, the economy is trash because of corporate executives bilking customers which is causing inflation. Also, Biden beat inflation, and prices are going down. Also, the economy is great because of low unemployment. Also, decreased participation rates don't matter because white people need to make way for the new, brown coalition. Also, replacement theory is racist and it's great that it's happening.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 15, 2023 01:35 PM (GBKbO)
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Promote that guy!

Posted by: Ministry of Truth at December 15, 2023 01:41 PM (RIvkX)

120 111 >>Highly classified binder on 2016 Russian election interference went MISSING during Trump's last days in the White House: CIA still searching for file that vanished from a safe.

Maybe the guy who brought the cocaine took it.

Posted by: Kratwurst at December 15, 2023 01:42 PM (nIRE6)

121 Ryan was maybe sharing about why the speaker Must cooperate with the regime. (including the part where Ryan found his horse's head in his bed one morning, or something similar).

Posted by: illiniwek at December 15, 2023 01:42 PM (Cus5s)

122 How is the People's Republic?
Posted by: ZOD

Going down fast, won't you say a prayer for me?

Posted by: Peoples Republic of Clapton at December 15, 2023 01:42 PM (v0R5T)

123 69 Can't wait for a red state governor to tell state cops not to cooperate with the FBI.
Posted by: mr tmz at December 15, 2023 01:27 PM (rJ48h)

You mean how various local Dems refuse to cooperate with ICE regarding people who should not be in this country?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 15, 2023 01:43 PM (FgV+x)

124 Bannon had a better "excuse" than Hunter, but obviously was outside the junta's "favorite friends" list.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 15, 2023 01:44 PM (Cus5s)

125 Didn't I tell you that the phone in my limousine is busted, and I can't get in contact with my bitches?

Posted by: Billy Ray Valentine, FBI agent in the holding pen at December 15, 2023 01:44 PM (4I/2K)

126 >>>Humiliation is an excellent tool for breaking the high and mighty.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

>We must give ridicule and shame its due. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 15, 2023 01:45 PM (9v1kn)

127 You mean how various local Dems refuse to cooperate with ICE regarding people who should not be in this country?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 15, 2023 01:43 PM (FgV+x)
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Yes, I mean how judge let defendants who are illegal out the back SECURE door of her courtroom to abet escape and evasion of law enforcement.

Posted by: Ministry of Truth at December 15, 2023 01:45 PM (RIvkX)

128 Because they're not buying gifts this year. Just sending cards?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 15, 2023 01:27 PM (Angsy)

that's a possibility, for sure

Posted by: kallisto at December 15, 2023 01:45 PM (dCxaZ)

129 117 We can totally vote our way out of this. Easy peasy.
Posted by: No worries at December 15, 2023 01:41 PM (R3DgF)

Refuse to participate in elections. This is how we got rid of Maduro!

Posted by: Venezuelan opposition at December 15, 2023 01:46 PM (FgV+x)

130 The weekend is coming

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2023 01:46 PM (pvKxo)

131 if they actually had to go to PMITA prison and fear being stabbed to death OR raped
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Um, yeah we're gonna need you to embrace the power of "and"

Posted by: Reasonable people everywhere at December 15, 2023 01:46 PM (R3DgF)

132 116 Actually, I should amend that. A holding pen is probably filled with a bunch of border jumpers who are all looking askance at the nebbish guy in a suit who literally pisses himself when the jailer casually announces he need to go the can for the next 10-15 minutes.
Posted by: Virginia SoCo

I have been that guy. Didn't pee all night, since if I stood up I would have lost my place to sit. Fortunately I have a strong bladder.
It is a long story, but I was in a CA town on a saturday night. If you ever go to CA, boy you better walk right....

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 15, 2023 01:46 PM (KLXLF)

133 There are perverse incentives there and eventually IA becomes the top dog and then whole structure needs to be torn down again, but I bet it would buy 20-30 solid years of reform and reduced abuse.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2023 01:40 PM (zxP/x)

100% changeover on every new administration? Previous employment in any of the 5 bars you from ever again working in any of the 5?

The fundamental problem is that government itself *is* the perverse incentive.

I'd say keep 2&3 only, make them explicitly part of the military, and make it very, very, very illegal to ever overstep the mandate in any way. I'm talking complete asset forfeiture and lengthy prison term at the very least.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 15, 2023 01:47 PM (9UlRk)

134 /See, this is why I hate putting socks on

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 15, 2023 01:47 PM (RIvkX)

135 But she's become a bit of an embarrassment, so she's been asked to work in the private sector for a while, where she'll be paid off hugely for her past service.

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Reporting to Lois Lerner, who reports to Susan Rice, who reports to the Obamas, who report to the Soros'.

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 15, 2023 01:47 PM (TNctX)

136 The Bulwark, "Use the Constitution to Protect the Constitution"

Only by twisting the Fourteenth Amendment’s text into absurdity can you claim it doesn’t disqualify Trump from re-election, By Alston Ramsay,* Published today

*Alston Ramsay, a writer and producer in Hollywood, was a senior speechwriter in the Pentagon during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations.

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun the bear, they only need to outrun us - for now at December 15, 2023 01:47 PM (GshMh)

137
It's been a hard day.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2023 01:47 PM (MoZTd)

138 This is too good to miss! What a video. This should win an Oscar.

A supercut that opens with Fake Jake and closes with Rachel Madcow, liberally sprinkled with the ravings of Joe "Mika's Puppet" Scarborough, and detailing all the Trump fears of the deranged left.

(Some of the ideas actually sound worth pursuing...)

https://shorturl.at/isGKZ

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2023 01:47 PM (yVKAE)

139 ... 1. 100% changeover on every new administration? Previous employment in any of the 5 bars you from ever again working in any of the 5?
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2. I'd say keep 2&3 only, make them explicitly part of the military, and make it very, very, very illegal to ever overstep the mandate in any way. I'm talking complete asset forfeiture and lengthy prison term at the very least.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 15, 2023 01:47 PM (9UlRk)
++++
1. This is the spoils system, essentially. I advocate for it. It should be the way, but it isn't as long as we have a codified professional civil service.

2. Works for me.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2023 01:48 PM (zxP/x)

140 Hang in there Hadrian and HRH and Delilah

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 15, 2023 01:49 PM (RIvkX)

141 @96

>>It could just be Ryan begging Johnson to help out the party (the democrat party). Ryan may have been sent there by his bosses.

Paul Ryan and Mike Johnson are both super-catholics and both super religious, Ryan was there to lean on Johnson and make sure he continues to kiss the ring.

I was hopeful Johnson would be different and in some ways he has but hes also proven that the LE/IC hold tremendous sway with him.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 15, 2023 01:50 PM (h2jdn)

142 We must give ridicule and shame its due. Just sayin'.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 15, 2023 01:45 PM (9v1kn)
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Bring back the stocks! They served a useful purpose once upon a time...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2023 01:50 PM (7fElN)

143 Maybe something like an interstate agency that helps get criminals who have fled a state in which they committed crimes back to that state, but that's it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 15, 2023 01:34 PM (GBKbO)

that is what it was supposed to be, but Hoover had plans and ambitions. And blackmail material.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2023 01:50 PM (D7oie)

144 It's been a hard day.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2023 01:47 PM (MoZTd)

Delilah not doing well?

Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 15, 2023 01:51 PM (hCt6Y)

145 There has been a lot of get out of Dodge before your on the hook

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2023 01:52 PM (pvKxo)

146 Repeal the Patriot Act.
Disband DHS
Cut 50% of the federal workforce across the board as a start.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 15, 2023 01:54 PM (NYzgN)

147 50 "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
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It's a shame we can't seem to apply this thinking to the FBI...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2023 01:23 PM (7fElN)

———

King George ain’t got nothing on the current day Feds

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 15, 2023 01:55 PM (s5c1p)

148 Report in Jpost that IDF mistakenly shot 3 hostages

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 15, 2023 01:56 PM (RIvkX)

149 Cut 90% of the Feral workforce... for starters

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 15, 2023 01:56 PM (ZV+pB)

150 Nothing is like it seems
But everything is exactly
Like it is.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 15, 2023 01:56 PM (nnp+f)

151 I don't think that one quote really covers what went wrong in society. He blames schools, but go back to family.

In a modern economy kids do not get enough time with parents or adults to learn the necessary lessons of life.

Imagine any man getting on his f--cking knee for $100 gift card. This is disgusting.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 15, 2023 01:56 PM (KLXLF)

152 The courts would side with the agencies/depts because the courts are infected with the same kind of DC worshipping corpo-leftism. From Chevron deference to union status of employees, courts routinely have sided with them, primarily during GOP admins. It should be done, but you'd have to remap the judiciary first.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 15, 2023 01:30 PM (IG4Id)

One way to counter that. Start impeaching fed judges.

But that will never happen.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 15, 2023 01:57 PM (BdMk6)

153 Paul Ryan and Mike Johnson are both super-catholics and both super religious,
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So are WE!!!!!!

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden at December 15, 2023 01:57 PM (R3DgF)

154 And then move ALL agencies to small towns in Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, South Dakota and North Dakota

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 15, 2023 01:58 PM (ZV+pB)

155 Repeal the Patriot Act.
Disband DHS
Cut 50% of the federal workforce across the board as a start.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 15, 2023 01:54 PM (NYzgN)
......

Begin mass deportations.

Posted by: wth at December 15, 2023 01:58 PM (v0R5T)

156 155 Repeal the Patriot Act.
Disband DHS
Cut 50% of the federal workforce across the board as a start.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 15, 2023 01:54 PM (NYzgN)
......

Begin mass deportations.
Posted by: wth at December 15, 2023 01:58 PM (v0R5T)

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*nods sagaciously*

Of federal employees.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 15, 2023 01:58 PM (GBKbO)

157 Report in Jpost that IDF mistakenly shot 3 hostages
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 15, 2023 01:56 PM (RIvkX)

It's easy to say not being a hostage, but I'd like to think that were i in such a horrible spot, my official position would be "you know that meat actually makes a terrible shield, right? Fire away."

Still, disgusting situation. And 100% the fault of the hostage takers.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 15, 2023 01:59 PM (9UlRk)

158 I have updated my response to any feeb qustion.

I used to fall back on: "Go f--- your mother" (-Tomy DeVito)

But now I am thinking: "Here's $100, get on your knees boy. I hear that's the going rate"

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 15, 2023 02:01 PM (KLXLF)

159 >>>Imagine any man getting on his f--cking knee for $100 gift card. This is disgusting.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest

>Does this gift card cover unlimited salad and breadsticks?

Posted by: Barack Obama at December 15, 2023 02:01 PM (9v1kn)

160 > I have updated my response to any feeb qustion.
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I'm just going to repeat one word over and over

'lawyer'

Posted by: Don Black, Premier Properties at December 15, 2023 02:02 PM (geLO8)

161 Imagine any man getting on his f--cking knee for $100 gift card. This is disgusting.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 15, 2023 01:56 PM (KLXLF)

Or to propose marriage. At least in the first case there's a $100 upside.

Posted by: Never sell out! at December 15, 2023 02:03 PM (wtpA4)

162 I have been binge watching Midsomer Murders. Like so many cop shows anyone not fully cooperating with the police is suspect.

Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 15, 2023 02:04 PM (hCt6Y)

163 Fire Sale. Everybody and everything must go. Business owner and his wife are on sale too.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at December 15, 2023 02:04 PM (J8LnB)

164 O/T I'm going to hunt down this instructor and stifle him with his own scarf.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 15, 2023 02:04 PM (RIvkX)

165 154 And then move ALL agencies to small towns in Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, South Dakota and North Dakota
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 15, 2023 01:58 PM (ZV+pB)

What the hell did we do to deserve that?!? Why can't they be sent to territories like Puerto Rico or Guam instead?

Posted by: Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, and the Dakotas at December 15, 2023 02:06 PM (a/dOO)

166 Remember, once she has left government, she can't be compelled to give testimony.

Posted by: Harun at December 15, 2023 02:06 PM (c2WeP)

167 160 > I have updated my response to any feeb qustion.
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I'm just going to repeat one word over and over

'lawyer'
Posted by: Don Black, Premier Properties at December 15, 2023 02:02 PM (geLO

Never ever EVER talk to cops or feds. They are not your friends, they are not there to help you out, they are not there to just hear your side of the story. Invoke your right to remain silent and to legal counsel. As those two criminal defense lawyers say in their ad: "Shut the fuck up!"

Posted by: They're looking to fuck you. Period. at December 15, 2023 02:06 PM (wtpA4)

168 "You can't arrest me for all those murders. I retired as a hitman three weeks ago. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 15, 2023 02:07 PM (9UlRk)

169 But they do sometimes have to send up a Party member to keep up appearances. Nothing unusual about it at all. This particular symbolic punishment isn't one I would have guessed, but it isn't surprising.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2023 01:26 PM (zxP/x)
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Why? While that might have been true back when voting and thus appearances mattered. But now? They can do whatever they want -- and do -- and there's nothing that can or will stop them. Why even bother punishing this cunt at all? It won't mean anything either way.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 15, 2023 02:07 PM (iFTx/)

170 Never ever EVER talk to cops or feds. They are not your friends, they are not there to help you out, they are not there to just hear your side of the story. Invoke your right to remain silent and to legal counsel. As those two criminal defense lawyers say in their ad: "Shut the fuck up!"
Posted by: They're looking to fuck you. Period. at December 15, 2023 02:06 PM (wtpA4)
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Yes. 100%. Never, ever, for any reason, no matter what, talk to a cop of any kind other than to say, "I am exercising my right to remain silent and I want a lawyer."

That former is bullshit, but nonetheless necessary because an asshole judge made a very bad decision - so now you have to tell them you're being quiet because you're allowed to.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2023 02:07 PM (zxP/x)

171 Bring back the stocks! They served a useful purpose once upon a time...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Give us a call...

Posted by: Gibbets-R-Us at December 15, 2023 02:08 PM (XeU6L)

172 166 Remember, once she has left government, she can't be compelled to give testimony.
Posted by: Harun at December 15, 2023 02:06 PM (c2WeP)

Good then Trump doesn't have to testify.... Wait

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2023 02:08 PM (n2vyf)

173 162 I have been binge watching Midsomer Murders. Like so many cop shows anyone not fully cooperating with the police is suspect.
Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 15, 2023 02:04 PM (hCt6Y)

That's how they're trained IRL. They also like to threaten you with obstruction charges if you exercise your 4th Amendment rights.

Posted by: Art follows life follows art at December 15, 2023 02:08 PM (wtpA4)

174 "You can't arrest me for all these murders. They're part of an ongoing contract."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 15, 2023 02:08 PM (9UlRk)

175 54 And then move ALL agencies to small towns in Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, South Dakota and North Dakota
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report

They need de-funded and shut down.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 15, 2023 02:08 PM (R4t5M)

176 >>Imagine any man getting on his f--cking knee for $100 gift card. This is disgusting.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 15, 2023 01:56 PM (KLXLF)

Imagine any federal agent/NG getting on their knees in front of the WH to show support for BLM .

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 15, 2023 02:08 PM (eYF7X)

177 $100 gift card to kneel. For grown men to bow down and kiss the .... ring.

Well, as the FBI, and probably any governmental worker in DC at this point, are all whores. Now we've established their going rate.

Sadly, I know LEO - police chiefs - who took the knee and did it for free.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 15, 2023 02:08 PM (N39Ws)

178 "Mirandize me, MFer!"

would that work

Posted by: Don Black, Premier Properties at December 15, 2023 02:09 PM (geLO8)

179 Remember, once she has left government, she can't be compelled to give testimony.
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Ding ding we have a winner.

Posted by: Timing gives it away. at December 15, 2023 02:09 PM (R3DgF)

180 Former Co-Host of ‘The View’ Meghan McCain, Threatens Legal Action Against the Show for ‘Slanderous’ Accusations

LOL

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 15, 2023 02:09 PM (eYF7X)

181 Why? While that might have been true back when voting and thus appearances mattered. But now? They can do whatever they want -- and do -- and there's nothing that can or will stop them. Why even bother punishing this cunt at all? It won't mean anything either way.
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 15, 2023 02:07 PM (iFTx/)
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Appearances *always* matter, and so does legitimacy. No government - no matter how powerful and brutal - can resist a revolution. To avoid revolution, they must appear legitimate, at least sometimes. There has to be an attitude of legitimacy. Even if most or all people know it's a lie, they *must* pretend. It's mandatory.

People will eat a shit a sandwich, but you have to have enough respect for them to at least lie and tell them it's peanut butter. If you say, "yeah, it's a shit sandwich - in fact, it's *my* shit - but you're going to eat it anyway because I said so," you tend to get dead.

Appearances always matter. Even in totalitarian systems, there are systems of law and legal codes and judges and courts and a degree of pretending that they matter. They have to. If you don't give that to the people, they will eventually kill you.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2023 02:10 PM (zxP/x)

182 >Former Co-Host of ‘The View’ Meghan McCain, Threatens Legal Action Against the Show
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when does this woman's 'relevance' expire?

Posted by: Don Black, Premier Properties at December 15, 2023 02:10 PM (geLO8)

183 Former Co-Host of ‘The View’ Meghan McCain, Threatens Legal Action Against the Show for ‘Slanderous’ Accusations

LOL
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 15, 2023 02:09 PM (eYF7X)

"I am so NOT fatter than Whoopi!!!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 15, 2023 02:10 PM (9UlRk)

184 180 Former Co-Host of ‘The View’ Meghan McCain, Threatens Legal Action Against the Show for ‘Slanderous’ Accusations

LOL
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 15, 2023 02:09 PM (eYF7X)

That's Co-Cow

Posted by: Mooghan McCain at December 15, 2023 02:10 PM (n2vyf)

185 Fire Sale. Everybody and everything must go.
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Not so fast there, bub. In my little Progressive town you must first buy a permit to do that, Going Out of Business Fee, $50.00.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2023 02:11 PM (XeU6L)

186
Imagine any federal agent/NG getting on their knees in front of the WH to show support for BLM .
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Read the content, that is what I am talking about. These scum were given $100 by the union to kneel. Happy ending costs extra.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 15, 2023 02:11 PM (KLXLF)

187 when does this woman's 'relevance' expire?
Posted by: Don Black, Premier Properties at December 15, 2023 02:10 PM (geLO

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Give her a break. She's still in mourning.../sarc

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2023 02:11 PM (7fElN)

188 "Yet, it is becoming exceedingly more difficult to separate large swaths of FBI rank and file from its questionable leadership."

Has Sean Hannity been alerted to the obvious yet?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 15, 2023 02:11 PM (aXxgO)

189 Officer, you can't cite me for speeding. I pulled over before you turned your lights on.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 15, 2023 02:11 PM (NYzgN)

190 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 15, 2023 02:12 PM (T4tVD)

191 Meghan McCain is a foul mouthed dimwit with her own gravity.

Posted by: It's not slander because its true at December 15, 2023 02:13 PM (R3DgF)

192 181 Why? While that might have been true back when voting and thus appearances mattered. But now? They can do whatever they want -- and do -- and there's nothing that can or will stop them. Why even bother punishing this cunt at all? It won't mean anything either way.
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 15, 2023 02:07 PM (iFTx/)
++++
Posted by: Joe

They are not punishing her, they are isolating her from an obligation to testify at various congressional hearings. In fact, as Ace stated, they are probably rewarding her.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 15, 2023 02:14 PM (KLXLF)

193 They don't make barf bags big enough?

The Hill
@thehill
Hunter Biden says Republicans "have weaponized my dad’s love for me"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 15, 2023 02:14 PM (FVME7)

194 Coney took the FBI from Pinkertons to pinkos.
Wray led them from Pinkos to pussies.

Posted by: Augusto Perez at December 15, 2023 02:15 PM (aYFpa)

195 The Hill
@thehill
Hunter Biden says Republicans "have weaponized my dad’s love for me"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 15, 2023 02:14 PM (FVME7)

OMG...Barfarama

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2023 02:15 PM (n2vyf)

196 "...it's accelerated because I think the type of recruit they're bringing in is more opinionated, more idealistic, more liberal, highly educated, more Ivy League, and they tend to not just follow the facts, they tend to insert their own ideologies, their own opinions because the indoctrination that's taking place in the schools these days..."

More idealistic? Highly educated (Ivy League)?

I reject your premise. You may be making a sensible conclusion, but I find the foundation suspect if not outright wrong.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 15, 2023 02:15 PM (aXxgO)

197 The Hill
@thehill
Hunter Biden says Republicans "have weaponized my dad’s love for me"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 15, 2023 02:14 PM (FVME7)
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I'm guessing Hunter's daddy weaponized his love against his son a long, long time ago...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2023 02:15 PM (7fElN)

198 NOOD

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 15, 2023 02:16 PM (R4t5M)

199 Former Co-Host of ‘The View’ Meghan McCain, Threatens Legal Action Against the Show for ‘Slanderous’ Accusations

LOL
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Hell, slander is their bread and butter.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 15, 2023 02:17 PM (FVME7)

200 So, did she show up to give a statement or not? I read the whole thing's wandering storyline and I still don't know! Poor writing.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 15, 2023 02:17 PM (8Ta2Y)

201 Why even bother punishing this cunt at all?
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I saw the punished cunts open for the satisfied cocks at the Odeon in 1988.

Posted by: Great show man at December 15, 2023 02:17 PM (R3DgF)

202 Somehow I don't see Republicans being responsible for Hunter's tax cheating and false gun registration... I guess that's just me.. Oh, by the way... The DOJ is bringing the charges not the House

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2023 02:18 PM (n2vyf)

203 MSNBC is suggesting the House vote to open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden is an orchestrated distraction from a booming economy

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The gaslighting is part of the kink.

"The future is known, comrades -- it's the past that keeps changing!"

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 15, 2023 02:18 PM (S8LYt)

204 A ballsy president could, actually, circumvent the FBI by deputizing local and state law enforcement to act on federal crimes. As head the executive branch of government he/she has that ability.

That would not solve the problem, but it would disallow the FBI from hiding and deep sixing evidence of voter fraud like they did in Michigan. The Michigan State Police did an investigation and uncovered massive fraud. They turned it over to the FBI, who threw it down a hole.

Posted by: Orson at December 15, 2023 02:18 PM (dIske)

205 Hunter Biden says Republicans "have weaponized my dad's love for me"

So, um, a father's love is the new Get Out Of Responsibility and Jail Forever Card? My dad loves me so no one can do anything to me because everyone is a poopyhead?

Is that really the pitch?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 15, 2023 02:19 PM (aXxgO)

206 195 The Hill
@thehill
Hunter Biden says Republicans "have weaponized my dad’s love for me"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 15, 2023 02:14 PM (FVME7)

Is there nobody in that pathetic man's life who can lovingly tell him to fuck off?

Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 15, 2023 02:19 PM (hCt6Y)

207 Leftists sure cry wolf fast

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2023 02:27 PM (pvKxo)

208 202 Somehow I don't see Republicans being responsible for Hunter's tax cheating and false gun registration... I guess that's just me.. Oh, by the way... The DOJ is bringing the charges not the House

this just shows the depth of the perfidy of orangemanbad. the doj *has* to bring the charges so they aren't in deep doo-doo when orangemanbad retakes the white house.

Posted by: anachronda at December 15, 2023 02:35 PM (v3pYe)

209 Good--Green Acres is the place to be. Second-order cognitive dissonance: Moved from an indigo county in a purple state to a deep-crimson county in an indigo state.

How is the People's Republic?
Posted by: ZOD at December 15, 2023 01:35 PM

Glad to hear it. The People's Republic continues to beclown itself. I continue to look for NH property.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2023 02:41 PM (Wnv9h)

210 >>>"You can't arrest me for all these murders. They're part of an ongoing contract."

Posted by: Warai-otoko

>We can't comment on these murders going forward as they are part of an ongoing contract.

Posted by: Barack Obama at December 15, 2023 02:47 PM (9v1kn)

211 Is there nobody in that pathetic man's life who can lovingly tell him to fuck off?
Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 15, 2023 02:19 PM (hCt6Y)

God could, but probably not in those particular words. Short of divine intervention, Hunters life won't change all that much. He says he's clean now, but I doubt it, and he's had numerous stints in rehab. He has LOTS of money and protection from the DOJ. Why should he change?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2023 03:06 PM (RSbhh)

212 This far bigger then Watergate this involves Treason and Phony President and his Traitor son

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 15, 2023 05:19 PM (wGqjj)

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