Christopher Rufo: Biden Has Dispatched The Secret Police of the FBI to Harass and Intimidate Whistleblowers Who Expose Hospitals Illegally Performing Trans Surgeries on Children

And the FBI, of course, is only too eager to play the role of the American Stasi.

The allegation brought forward by whistleblowers is that some trans doctors are defrauding Medicaid by falsifying eligibility for trans "therapy."

Rather than investigate the substance of these allegations, the FBI is intimidating the whistleblowers.

Again.

As usual.

City Journal:

The "gender-affirming care" business has always had an aura of madness around it. Wielding the authority of white coats and prestigious degrees, doctors have convinced large swaths of the public that some children are "born in the wrong body." The solution? Stop puberty, prescribe cross-sex hormones, and then, with the stroke of a knife, remove body parts--most commonly breasts, less frequently genitalia.
These medical practices use scientific rhetoric to affirm what is, at bottom, an ideological program. And gender activists have been successful enough at capturing the legitimizing institutions--medical societies, regulatory bodies, and teaching hospitals--to repel most challenges to the burgeoning child sex-change industry.
...
I have reported on one of these programs, the pediatric gender clinic at Texas Children's Hospital. Last year, I published an investigation demonstrating that, though it had promised to shut down its program, Texas Children's had continued to administer hormone drugs to children as young as 11. Following the story, the state attorney general launched an investigation, and state legislators passed a bill, SB 14, prohibiting all transgender medical interventions on minors.
While these scandals caught the headlines, another story involving the same institution was brewing in the background: medical fraud.
According to a new whistleblower, doctors at Texas Children's Hospital were willing to falsify medical records and break the law to keep practicing "gender-affirming care." Caught in the wave of ideological fervor, two of the hospital's prominent physicians, Richard Ogden Roberts and David Paul, cut corners and, according to the whistleblower, committed Medicaid fraud to secure funds for the hospital's child sex-change program.
(Texas Children's Hospital, Roberts, and Paul did not respond to a request for comment.)
This is a story of fanaticism, hubris, and the murky business of transgender medicine. It would have remained hidden, except for the courage of two people inside the hospital, a surgeon named Eithan Haim and a nurse who has now decided to come forward. Both have risked much to alert the public to the barbarism that is occurring at the nation's largest, and arguably most prestigious, children's hospital.
Some years ago, Vanessa Sivadge thought she had it made, having just accepted a position as a registered nurse at Texas Children's Hospital. She had wanted to be a nurse since high school and felt a sense of joy in helping children.
But her feelings toward Texas Children's didn't last. Beginning in 2021, Sivadge saw a dramatic rise in the number of "transgender children" treated at the hospital. These patients struggled with various problems: depression, anxiety, addiction, suicide attempts, physical abuse, and discomfort with puberty. But rather than deal with these underlying psychological conditions, Sivadge says, doctors at the hospital would diagnose them with "gender dysphoria" and assign them to a regimen of "gender-affirming care."
The practice made Sivadge recoil. "In the cardiac clinic, we were taking sick kids and making them better," she says. "In the transgender clinic, it was the opposite. We were harming these kids."
Then, the following year, she breathed a sigh of relief. Under pressure from the state attorney general, Ken Paxton, Texas Children's CEO Mark Wallace said that he was shutting down the child gender clinic. But it wasn't true. Mere days later, it had secretly reopened for business.
And business was booming. Doctors, including Roberts, Paul, and Kristy Rialon, were managing dozens of pediatric sex-change cases, performing surgeries, blocking puberty, implanting hormone devices, and making specialty referrals. They were motivated not only by ideology, but by hope for prestige: they were saviors of the oppressed, the vanguard of gender medicine.
Sivadge soon had seen enough. She read my investigative report exposing Texas Children's sex-change program, which relied on testimony from Haim, and reached out to share her own observations.
"I work very closely with this provider, Dr. Richard Roberts. I've been in the room with him when he speaks with these patients," she told me in an interview. "Dr. Roberts is extremely encouraging of their transition and will essentially do whatever he can to make sure that they are happy, at least externally happy. Because I am absolutely certain that they are not internally happy. He is very accommodating. He does whatever they want. Essentially, there is no critical analysis of the process."
In Sivadge's view, Roberts and other providers were manipulating patients into accepting "gender-affirming care." When parents objected, the doctors bulldozed them, she claims. Some families, she believed, feared that the hospital would call Child Protective Services if they dissented.
Then, two months after I spoke with her for that story, Sivadge called me in a panic. The FBI had sent two special agents, Paul Nixon and David McBride, to her home. The agents knocked on the door, asked her about "some of the things that have been going on at [her] work lately," and then asked to enter her home. She was terrified. (The FBI declined to comment.)
The agents told Sivadge that she was a "person of interest" in an investigation targeting the whistleblower who had exposed the child sex-change program. They told her that the whistleblower had broken federal privacy laws. "They threatened me," Sivadge said. "They promised they would make life difficult for me if I was trying to protect the leaker. They said I was 'not safe' at work and claimed that someone at my workplace had given my name to the FBI."

Much more at the link. As you know, the lawless, corrupt tyranny that has usurped this country's government is opening up the federal dragnet claiming that these whistleblowers -- who are exposing real crimes and fraud -- are guilty of... HIPPA violations.

Video of The Knock At the Door below.

Christopher F. Rufo
@realchrisrufo
This is where we are now: The Biden Administration sent two FBI agents to intimidate a nurse who told the truth about the child sex-change program at Texas Children's Hospital. The regime is mobilizing to threaten and imprison anyone who opposes "transgender medicine."

alexandriabrown
@alexthechick
Remember, everyone, the rank and file FBI would never go along with anything like this. At least that is what people who truly need to wipe their chins have typed for decades now vis a vis FBI field agents.

Auron MacIntyre
@AuronMacintyre
The FBI intimidate political opponents and threaten law abiding citizens who try to protect children
I don't want to hear about reform or cleaning house
The entire organization must be dismantled

Jesse Kelly
@JesseKellyDC

You can have a free country or you can have a FBI. You cannot have both. Free countries don't survive with secret police agencies. Those two things cannot coexist
The only acceptable position on the FBI is its complete abolishment.

Sean Davis
@seanmdav

The FBI is a domestic terrorist organization. It is the American Stasi, and it exists entirely to terrorize the American people on behalf of a corrupt and evil regime.

Thanks to andycanuck for all this.

This is where we are now: The Biden Administration sent two FBI agents to intimidate a nurse who told the truth about the child sex-change program at Texas Children's Hospital. The regime is mobilizing to threaten and imprison anyone who opposes "transgender medicine." pic.twitter.com/XbtZVnp5Kw
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) June 18, 2024

YOU WILL BE MADE TO KNEEL.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:00 PM

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1 First!!

Posted by: Jmel at June 18, 2024 07:02 PM (bVhJi)

2 Scumbags

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 18, 2024 07:02 PM (nOjd9)

3 They are not worried about Trump winning.

Posted by: Jamaica at June 18, 2024 07:03 PM (dKbuD)

4 Damn. Read the content. Rookie mistake.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2024 07:03 PM (Wnv9h)

5 Ham and Eggers. Good guys all around.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 18, 2024 07:03 PM (nOjd9)

6 You walk to my door dressed like roofers and claim to be FBI and I’m calling the police so I don’t have to threaten bodily harm if you don’t leave.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 07:05 PM (SHMXB)

7 Eagerly waiting for Hannity to lecture me on how this is just a few bad eggs in the FBI and the rank and file want nothing to do with this.

Posted by: Chemist at June 18, 2024 07:05 PM (PKI0C)

8 Christ’s warning about harming His little ones was apparently something these guys never heard.

Posted by: Jmel at June 18, 2024 07:05 PM (bVhJi)

9 And of course, no lofty principles of righteousness prevented these poorly dressed, obese government drones from their repugnant duties.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 18, 2024 07:05 PM (MeG8a)

10 Evening.

Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2024 07:06 PM (iiuEY)

11 Looks like the FBI has a donut buffet at the agency office for breakfast .

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 07:06 PM (SHMXB)

12 There is no one righteous, no not one.

Posted by: Eromero at June 18, 2024 07:07 PM (73pb+)

13 Yesterday, Ace posted a story concerning a memo sent to various government agencies toting the benefit of an intelligence officer being a transgender. To me it was an obvious effort to get feedback....and then dismiss those government employees that responded negatively. It's an effort to weed out people with common sense, morals and normal behavior in favor of those who carry the approved ideological agenda.

My point is thus: There are no more Rank and File FBI agents. They've been weeded out. Those who object to this sort of intimidation on behalf of a ludicrous agenda are punish, suspended...then fired.

Posted by: Orson at June 18, 2024 07:07 PM (dIske)

14 More about the good doc:

Real Mac Report @RealMacReport
🚨Breaking: The Biden Administration has unsealed the indictment against Dr. Eithan Haim, who blew the whistle on the child sex-change program at Texas Children's Hospital.

He is now facing up to 10 years in prison for telling the truth about a practice that is now illegal.

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo
BREAKING: The Biden Administration has unsealed the indictment against Dr. @EithanHaim, who blew the whistle on the child sex-change program at Texas Children's Hospital.

He is now facing up to 10 years in prison for telling the truth about a practice that is now illegal.

Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11
Dr. Eithan Haim is the hero who exposed illegal child abuse taking place at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.

After Texas acted to make child sex-change treatments illegal, TCH continued to perform these abusive, harmful "treatments" anyway. Haim blew the whistle.

Now, the Biden DOJ is trying to throw him in prison for ten years.

Inexcusable. The forces targeting our children are more evil than we can imagine. We must defeat them.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 07:07 PM (ZdexC)

15 YOU WILL BE MADE TO KNEEL.

And suck tranny dick?!?!?!?

(Also, will Zod be pleased by this news?)

Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at June 18, 2024 07:07 PM (ycI94)

16 3S time is coming.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at June 18, 2024 07:07 PM (/nCD+)

17 This country is rotten beyond repair.

Posted by: Allen at June 18, 2024 07:08 PM (m1Vbl)

18 This is why I will look at the homes in my old neighborhood of San Antonio with their "This House BACKS THE BLUE" signs in front of their homes and think to myself "Idiots live there." The cops on any level cannot be trusted.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 07:09 PM (8sMut)

19 I'm so saddened and disgusted by this. Texas Children's was one of the most respected medical institutions in this state. They operated on my daughter when she was 6 months old and she got the best of care.

It absolutely sickens me that they would do this.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 18, 2024 07:09 PM (XPM1I)

20 Removing breasts isn't just evil.

It's downright un-American.

Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 07:09 PM (fV+MH)

21 Then, two months after I spoke with her for that story, Sivadge called me in a panic. The FBI had sent two special agents, Paul Nixon and David McBride, to her home.

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I approve of this. All agents need to be identified for everything. No more anonymity.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 18, 2024 07:10 PM (2fIO4)

22 Where's the guy who says the thing, man?

Posted by: Max Power at June 18, 2024 07:10 PM (Hucnr)

23 There was a man named Hotez
who said we should all wear Kotez
One on your mouth and one on your hole
Shut up and do as your told

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 07:10 PM (bQ/08)

24 Those clowns look like they are selling windows or gutters door-to-door. Can't we at least rate more professional looking oppressors?

Posted by: Weasel at June 18, 2024 07:11 PM (JwHpX)

25 Inexcusable. The forces targeting our children are more evil than we can imagine. We must defeat them.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 07:07 PM (ZdexC)

You will be arrested.

Posted by: U.S. Government at June 18, 2024 07:11 PM (8sMut)

26 I'm so saddened and disgusted by this. Texas Children's was one of the most respected medical institutions in this state. They operated on my daughter when she was 6 months old and she got the best of care.

It absolutely sickens me that they would do this.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 18, 2024 07:09 PM (XPM1I)

Hopefully Paxton will get up their ass !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 18, 2024 07:11 PM (NtVYv)

27 During pride month?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at June 18, 2024 07:11 PM (2YqUJ)

28 Abolish The FBI.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 18, 2024 07:11 PM (R/m4+)

29 I could not hate these people more. I came pretty close to getting caught up in something along with a number of other morons and 'Ettes and when I see this stuff, I say There but for the grace of God go I.
It could happen to anyone....

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 18, 2024 07:11 PM (t/2Uw)

30 They are not worried about Trump winning.
Posted by: Jamaica at June 18, 2024 07:03 PM (dKbuD)

They are plenty worried. But this is what they do, like breathing. They can't stop.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 07:12 PM (eoQWY)

31 To abolish the FBI would require some sort of opposition group in government.

Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 07:12 PM (fV+MH)

32 Come on, Biden did not do this. Republicans should be taking this time to asking who is doing the work in the White House. Who sent that order? Who ran that Field Office, that got a memo signed by some Nazi who was taking orders from another Nazi who was just doing their job. And all the Nazis in the Chain of Command will be exposed and should be forced to renounce their Nazism. But the Ole Crapper has no concept about what is going on.

Posted by: wferrin at June 18, 2024 07:12 PM (/JbUt)

33 I could not hate these people more. I came pretty close to getting caught up in something along with a number of other morons and 'Ettes and when I see this stuff, I say There but for the grace of God go I.
It could happen to anyone....
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 18, 2024 07:11 PM (t/2Uw)
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Were they selling reefer?

Posted by: Weasel at June 18, 2024 07:13 PM (JwHpX)

34 31 To abolish the FBI would require some sort of opposition group in government.
Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 07:12 PM (fV+MH)

A what?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 07:13 PM (8sMut)

35 Well this story is horrifying.

Fuck the FBI and fuck Joe Biden.

Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2024 07:14 PM (vukQR)

36 Come on, Biden did not do this. Republicans should be taking this time to asking who is doing the work in the White House. Who sent that order? Who ran that Field Office, that got a memo signed by some Nazi who was taking orders from another Nazi who was just doing their job. And all the Nazis in the Chain of Command will be exposed and should be forced to renounce their Nazism. But the Ole Crapper has no concept about what is going on.
Posted by: wferrin at June 18, 2024 07:12 PM (/JbUt)

He'd be for it if he could comprehend it. Senility is not an excuse.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 07:14 PM (eoQWY)

37 Isn't this the same rank and file we were all assured were straight shooting, dedicated public servants?

I want to see them lining the beltway, holding signs begging for food. All of them.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 18, 2024 07:14 PM (1bNHn)

38 If you're against the FBI you're not an American.

Posted by: Mike Johnson at June 18, 2024 07:14 PM (aFNOf)

39 First thought when seeing those jabroni's door knocking was....Selling pork n beans door to door it seems.

Posted by: scsmpydog at June 18, 2024 07:14 PM (41CYW)

40 Nazis, all the way down

Posted by: Private Hudson at June 18, 2024 07:15 PM (dzZCL)

41 This is why I will look at the homes in my old neighborhood of San Antonio with their "This House BACKS THE BLUE" signs in front of their homes and think to myself "Idiots live there." The cops on any level cannot be trusted.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

Yeah cops and crooks. Kind of a toss up at this point.

Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 07:15 PM (fV+MH)

42 8 Christ’s warning about harming His little ones was apparently something these guys never heard.
Posted by: Jmel at June 18, 2024 07:05 PM (bVhJi)

Who is Christ?

Posted by: Texas Children's Hospital at June 18, 2024 07:15 PM (8sMut)

43 My point is thus: There are no more Rank and File FBI agents. They've been weeded out. Those who object to this sort of intimidation on behalf of a ludicrous agenda are punish, suspended...then fired.
Posted by: Orson at June 18, 2024 07:07 PM (dIske)

The Nuremberg Defense -- that they were only following orders -- was never a valid defense.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 07:15 PM (eoQWY)

44 The FBI is a domestic terrorist organization. It is the American Stasi

How long before people start disappearing in the middle of the night?

Posted by: Halfhand at June 18, 2024 07:15 PM (wra9p)

45 I support former president Trump's $100M FBI Headquarters rebuild plan. It's the American thing to do.

Posted by: Mike Johnson at June 18, 2024 07:16 PM (aFNOf)

46 Peter Hotez point man for Texas Medical Center's insanity.

Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D. is Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine where he is also the
Co-director of the Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) and
Texas Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics.

He is also University Professor at Baylor University, Fellow in Disease and Poverty at the James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy, etc. ad nauseam

https://peterhotez.org

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 07:16 PM (bQ/08)

47 Weasel, if it had been weed, there would have been no problem with the Feds. lol

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 18, 2024 07:16 PM (t/2Uw)

48 24 Those clowns look like they are selling windows or gutters door-to-door. Can't we at least rate more professional looking oppressors?
Posted by: Weasel at June 18, 2024 07:11 PM (JwHpX)

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Remember there was a video about a year ago of agents going to some guy's house to ask him about some friend that they were looking for. Those agents were dress slovenly too.

I suspect they do that for two reasons. The stupid, "we are just regular guys", and more importantly, they want to give the target the idea that maybe they aren't agents and are up to no good and the subject may do something that could be classified as assaulting a federal official.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 18, 2024 07:16 PM (2fIO4)

49 The fact that they are tossing felony violations of the HIPAA law against the doctor here in Texas that blew the whistle on illegal transgender treatments at the Texas Children's Hospital is all you need to know. There is a very well funded agenda backed by the federal government into these experimental treatments for kids.

We are sliding down the "all gays want to do is get married and that's all we want" slope on our way to these freaks wanting to bang children.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 18, 2024 07:16 PM (QNSds)

50 45 I support former president Trump's $100M FBI Headquarters rebuild plan. It's the American thing to do.
Posted by: Mike Johnson
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They've got you by the tight one's don't they Mikey?

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 07:17 PM (bQ/08)

51 The Director of Texas Children's and those doctors need a colonoscopy with a rusty chainsaw blade.

A few thousand calls to Ted Cruz's Houston office would not be amiss and I will go first.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 18, 2024 07:17 PM (7iAr4)

52 I support former president Trump's $100M FBI Headquarters rebuild plan. It's the American thing to do.
Posted by: Mike Johnson at June 18, 2024 07:16 PM (aFNOf)

I'd be in favor if the last step is to weld the doors and windows shut.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 07:17 PM (eoQWY)

53 37 Isn't this the same rank and file we were all assured were straight shooting, dedicated public servants?

I want to see them lining the beltway, holding signs begging for food. All of them.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 18, 2024 07:14 PM (1bNHn)

To the Sean Hannitys and Michael Berrys of the world, we MUST worship these people.

When cops walk on water, give me a call.

No matter the level. Local, state, fed.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 07:17 PM (8sMut)

54 "There are no more Rank and File FBI agents."

Those guys look astonishingly normal for a couple of creeps.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 18, 2024 07:18 PM (MeG8a)

55 The Eff Bee Eye has become the KGB for the Democrat/ Marxists

Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2024 07:18 PM (fwDg9)

56 Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 18, 2024 07:16 PM (t/2Uw)
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These things happen when you fall in with a bad crowd.

Posted by: Weasel at June 18, 2024 07:18 PM (JwHpX)

57 The FBI are standing on the shoulders of the KGB and Gestapo.

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 18, 2024 07:19 PM (JLq/1)

58 The Nuremberg Defense -- that they were only following orders -- was never a valid defense.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 07:15 PM (eoQWY)

Yes it is!!!

Posted by: Police Officers at June 18, 2024 07:19 PM (8sMut)

59 I'm here waiting.

Posted by: Wholesale Jury Nullification at June 18, 2024 07:19 PM (aFNOf)

60 Trump will task his VP with cleaning up the FBI, who will outsource it to his chief of staff who will outsource it to Chris Wray who will outsource it to a summer intern in Cincinnati.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 18, 2024 07:20 PM (rsqyi)

61 Why is the FBI allowed to put out propaganda on network TV? It would be nice if counter propaganda was allowed on TV. Tonight's episode of FIB Injustice and Disorder, agents conduct a no knock raid at 3am at an Amish dairy farmer's house for the crime of selling unpasteurized milk. Tune in ttonight to see if the dog survives and find out what happens to the rest of the family.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2024 07:20 PM (zsxJT)

62 Are cops on any level taught that there is a difference between what is legal and what is moral?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 07:21 PM (8sMut)

63 So good people, what would you have suggested the peons in Russia and Germany do to the Stasi and Gestapo agents at the time?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 18, 2024 07:21 PM (2fIO4)

64 Meal Team Six is on the case, I see.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 18, 2024 07:22 PM (LQExH)

65 Defund the police is bad. Fund the police is bad. What is good?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 18, 2024 07:22 PM (63Dwl)

66 These things happen when you fall in with a bad crowd.

Posted by: Weasel

I know. I know. I had to buy multiple weapons for self defense and then had a disastrous canoe accident.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 18, 2024 07:22 PM (t/2Uw)

67 Texas Children's is part of the Texas Medical Center. The Methodist Houston, under lawsuit by Mary Tally Bowden M.D., is part of the Texas Medical Center and the number one, the very first hospital in the U.S. to force employee vaccination.

Texas Medical Center has stink all over it.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 07:22 PM (bQ/08)

68 Ben Had, I've been trying to contact you by text for months. Not sure if you got a new phone number or something?

Posted by: DangerGirl lost the SanityProd (tm) at June 18, 2024 07:22 PM (Qt9EI)

69 IIRC, it was the Eff Bee Eye who sat on the investigation into that perv U.S. gymnastics doctor for years.

Posted by: fly gal at June 18, 2024 07:22 PM (6CtMt)

70 Trump needs to not want the biggest most beautiful FBI building that ever there was. I think he said something like this once in support of the spending on the new HQ. Hopefully he's been brought up to speed.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2024 07:23 PM (zsxJT)

71 65 What is good?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

We suggest .308

Posted by: Brownells at June 18, 2024 07:23 PM (aFNOf)

72 59 I'm here waiting.
Posted by: Wholesale Jury Nullification at June 18, 2024 07:19 PM (aFNOf)

Trial by jury is that palladium of civil liberty and the only safe guarantee of the life, liberty and property of the citizen.

Posted by: Texas Declaration of Independence; March 2, 1836 at June 18, 2024 07:23 PM (8sMut)

73 Local cops have often been portrayed as corrupt but the FBI has usually been portrait as square jawed and incorruptible. Why would that be

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 18, 2024 07:24 PM (JLq/1)

74 70 Trump needs to not want the biggest most beautiful FBI building that ever there was. I think he said something like this once in support of the spending on the new HQ. Hopefully he's been brought up to speed.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Don't count on it.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 18, 2024 07:25 PM (aFNOf)

75 Has the FBI funded movies?

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 18, 2024 07:25 PM (JLq/1)

76 I'll say it again: the next Republican president should, after getting Undercovers and informants to safety , dump the entire FBI and CIA databases onto the web. Nuke it from orbit so to speak

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 18, 2024 07:25 PM (KhB32)

77 but the FBI has usually been portrait as square jawed and incorruptible
_____

Don't forget the perfect hairstyle!

Posted by: Chris Wray at June 18, 2024 07:25 PM (zsxJT)

78 Local cops have often been portrayed as corrupt but the FBI has usually been portrait as square jawed and incorruptible. Why would that be

Posted by: Northernlurker

TV?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 18, 2024 07:25 PM (t/2Uw)

79 More details have come out about the guy arrested for firebombing several buildings at the University of California, Berkeley campus.

He is 34.

He has a PhD in African Studies from Northwestern (he is white).

He doesn't have a job.

He lives with his parents in the suburbs.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 18, 2024 07:26 PM (uxCna)

80 DangerGirl, I just saw your text from yesterday. I must have missed any others somehow. I will rectify this in the morning and thank you for not giving up on me.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 18, 2024 07:26 PM (7iAr4)

81 65 Defund the police is bad. Fund the police is bad. What is good?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 18, 2024 07:22 PM (63Dwl)

A heavily armed population that by itself reduces crime due to FAFO thinking and deterrence, leading to fewer police officers, and forcing an atmosphere of extreme professionalism in the police force.

Oh, and a police force that knows and understands that while law enforcement is a necessary evil, they operate with the understanding that when they fall afoul of the law that they do so at their own great personal risk.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 07:27 PM (8sMut)

82 76 I'll say it again: the next Republican president should, after getting Undercovers and informants to safety , dump the entire FBI and CIA databases onto the web. Nuke it from orbit so to speak
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Hey, I've been saying that too! Maybe we can start a movement.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2024 07:27 PM (zsxJT)

83 Like vampires, they cant come into you house unless you invite them in.

Warrant or fuck off.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at June 18, 2024 07:28 PM (wBaIH)

84 I'd be in favor if the last step is to weld the doors and windows shut.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 07

Airtight.

Everyone inside.

Posted by: Stateless at June 18, 2024 07:28 PM (jvJvP)

85 He has a PhD in African Studies from Northwestern (he is white).

He doesn't have a job.

He lives with his parents in the suburbs.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 18, 2024 07:26 PM (uxCna)

And people wonder why I don't get a PhD in history.

And even then, with a PhD in history, I'd have a better chance than someone with a degree in "(insert region/sex/group name here) Studies."

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 07:28 PM (8sMut)

86 Healthcare is Turning Texas Blue
COVID shot mandates started in Texas for a reason.
_Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, MD,

... forcing working citizens to choose between their right to bodily autonomy and staying employed was the most egregious, and it all started in Houston, Texas.

May 2021, three months before Biden announced federal employees would be required to get the COVID shots, Houston Methodist Hospital proudly declared it was setting a precedent - “leading medicine” as they like to say - and mandating COVID shots for all of its employees.

https://shorturl.at/sp1F2

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 07:28 PM (bQ/08)

87 Ben Had at June 18, 2024 07:26 PM (7iAr4)

Oh good! I was concerned that your phone had marked me as spam or something when I sent a bunch of pictures. I hope you are well and I never would give up on you, my dear!

Posted by: DangerGirl lost the SanityProd (tm) at June 18, 2024 07:28 PM (Qt9EI)

88 @82 we can have a $1 bet on whose house gets visited by agents first

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 18, 2024 07:29 PM (KhB32)

89 Dudes showing up at my place looking like that and trying to knock and talk, will result in a call to the local PD.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 18, 2024 07:29 PM (W/lyH)

90 Also, hi everyone else. Sorry for threadjacking...I've been waiting all day for Ben to show up lol.

Posted by: DangerGirl lost the SanityProd (tm) at June 18, 2024 07:29 PM (Qt9EI)

91 Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2
3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Interesting here by Special Counsel Jack Smith.

In seeking his gag order against Trump in classified docs case, Smith appears to concede that FBI agents may be unarmed in the course of official business (raids) if "operational considerations" dictate so.

Is this a caveat to the "SOP" argument? [...]

More about the armed SOP raid on Mar-a-Lago unrolled as an ordinary webpage...
https://tinyurl.com/2z5mn4bd

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 07:29 PM (ZdexC)

92

“You can’t professionalize unless you federalize”

-John Kerry

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 18, 2024 07:30 PM (63Dwl)

93 The Eff Bee Eye has definitely changed, they took down 2 Republican Presidents

Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2024 07:31 PM (fwDg9)

94 And people wonder why I don't get a PhD in history.

I would have loved to do graduate work in history, but even many moons ago, I knew that there were no jobs in history, so I did graduate work in economics instead.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 18, 2024 07:31 PM (uxCna)

95 Millions of criminals streaming across the border and disappearing into the interior of the US. Seems like this would be a great use of FBI resources.

Instead, witness intimidation and political ops are their remit.

The FBI much prefers creating criminals to catching criminals.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 18, 2024 07:31 PM (tT6L1)

96 "We will bury you"

I told you so

Posted by: Khrushchev at June 18, 2024 07:31 PM (NtVYv)

97 You can’t professionalize unless you federalize”

-John Kerry
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
--------------
You can't jazzercize with these thighs either.

Posted by: Lizzo at June 18, 2024 07:32 PM (41CYW)

98 But muh ham and eggers
Sean Hannity

Posted by: steevy at June 18, 2024 07:32 PM (FQmDC)

99 86 Healthcare is Turning Texas Blue
COVID shot mandates started in Texas for a reason.
_Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, MD,

What if I have no health for which to care?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 07:32 PM (8sMut)

100 88 @82 we can have a $1 bet on whose house gets visited by agents first
Posted by: Smell the Glove
_______

If FBI and CIA didn't do anything wrong, then they have nothing to hide. Isn't that how it works?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2024 07:33 PM (zsxJT)

101 Fucking Bastards, Inc. Ratio of crimes solved to coverups and intimidation rapidly approaching zero.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at June 18, 2024 07:33 PM (2llnt)

102 The ATF needs to be abolished too. They straight up assassinated a man.

Posted by: steevy at June 18, 2024 07:34 PM (FQmDC)

103 -Remember there was a video about a year ago of agents going to some guy's house to ask him about some friend that they were looking for. Those agents were dress slovenly too.

I suspect they do that for two reasons. The stupid, "we are just regular guys", and more importantly, they want to give the target the idea that maybe they aren't agents and are up to no good and the subject may do something that could be classified as assaulting a federal official.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 18, 2024 07:16 PM (2fIO4)

All their white shirts and khakis were at the dry cleaners.

Posted by: Bete at June 18, 2024 07:34 PM (LX4y3)

104 But Sean Hannity said they are fine people. I confused.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 18, 2024 07:35 PM (8Ldii)

105 98 But muh ham and eggers
Sean Hannity
_______

I suggest kindly that you go have sexual relations with your empty cranium.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2024 07:35 PM (zsxJT)

106
If the media would remove the DNC's dick from their mouths they could actually do some journalism.

They've already seen the FBI & government agencies used against journalists. What's holding them back from reporting on these obvious intimidation campaigns for political purposes?

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 18, 2024 07:35 PM (+oR7L)

107 The ATF needs to be abolished too. They straight up assassinated a man.
Posted by: steevy at June 18, 2024 07:34 PM (FQmDC)
--------------

The ATF wanted to show the FBI they weren't the only ones who knew how to assassinate an American citizen. Didn't the FBI go in guns blazing because a guy said some stuff which threatened Joe?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 18, 2024 07:36 PM (tT6L1)

108 Come to my door looking like slobs I'd better see a badge, credentials, and a.business card. Before I even say hello. And we will chat on the porch.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 18, 2024 07:36 PM (W/lyH)

109 Eithan Haim is on Laura Ingraham's show right now.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 18, 2024 07:36 PM (63Dwl)

110 "Trump needs to not want the biggest most beautiful FBI building that ever there was."

Alcatraz is beautiful in its own way...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at June 18, 2024 07:37 PM (2llnt)

111 What if I have no health for which to care?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
-----------------------------

Read her article, she will explain it to you.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 07:37 PM (bQ/08)

112 102 The ATF needs to be abolished too. They straight up assassinated a man.
Posted by: steevy at June 18, 2024 07:34 PM (FQmDC)

That would be preferable but right about now I'd like an ATF which is infinitely smaller - like about 90% smaller - that doesn't have the manning or the budget to engage in bullshit like what happened in AR.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 07:38 PM (8sMut)

113 They've already seen the FBI & government agencies used against journalists.
______

They weren't journalists, they were reporters. They had it coming.
- Journalists

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2024 07:38 PM (zsxJT)

114 First, do no harm.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
-- Far too much of the medical community

Posted by: Tonypete at June 18, 2024 07:39 PM (WXNFJ)

115 *looks at watch*

Are we done here yet?

I've got a taxpayer funded jet idling on the tarmac waiting to take me to my vacation house.

Posted by: Christopher Wray at June 18, 2024 07:39 PM (nOjd9)

116 In the interim we can keep them but build their new headquarters in the Aleutians....

Posted by: steevy at June 18, 2024 07:39 PM (FQmDC)

117 I'd be in favor if the last step is to weld the doors and windows shut.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 07:17 PM (eoQWY)

And plumb the showers for phosgene.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 18, 2024 07:39 PM (yLiuJ)

118 I'd have a better chance than someone with a degree in "(insert region/sex/group name here) Studies."

You're insane if you are white and get a PhD in "African Studies" - by definition, all academic jobs in "African Studies" are DEI jobs, and a white person would never be considered for them.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 18, 2024 07:39 PM (uxCna)

119 Follow the money. If the Republicans repealed the clause in the Obamacare bill that compels third-party payers to pay for "gender affirming" care, this would end. Immediately.

Posted by: Nemo at June 18, 2024 07:39 PM (S6ArX)

120 Trump has four years. Can he get it done?

Cleaning out all these government agencies will take a lot of time.

I'm concerned he won't be able to scorch the earth like we want.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 18, 2024 07:39 PM (8Ldii)

121 62 Are cops on any level taught that there is a difference between what is legal and what is moral?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 07:21 PM (8sMut)

It might come up, but more time gets spent on making sure everyone is aware of their 401k and pension benefits.

Posted by: Bete at June 18, 2024 07:40 PM (LX4y3)

122 108 Come to my door looking like slobs I'd better see a badge, credentials, and a.business card. Before I even say hello. And we will chat on the porch.
_____

Start chat with "Your wife let you out of the house looking like that?"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2024 07:41 PM (zsxJT)

123 Come to my door looking like slobs I'd better see a badge, credentials, and a.business card. Before I even say hello. And we will chat on the porch.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 18, 2024 07:36 PM

I would add a warrant to that list. These days talking to any fib agent is just asking to be arrested for "false statements". Remember they can lie to you with impunity but if you forget a date or time, you can be facing felony charges for lying to the fib.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 18, 2024 07:42 PM (QNSds)

124 It might come up, but more time gets spent on making sure everyone is aware of their 401k and pension benefits.
Posted by: Bete at June 18, 2024 07:40 PM (LX4y3)

That makes sense but I think even that level of attention is generous.

Oh, one other big thing needed to improve the cops: police unions go bye bye. They are taking money from taxpayers to be assholes. Great. Kiss your right to unionize goodbye. (That goes for teachers, firefighters, etc).

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 07:42 PM (8sMut)

125 You're insane if you are white and get a PhD in "African Studies" - by definition, all academic jobs in "African Studies" are DEI jobs, and a white person would never be considered for them.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Get out!!
--Rachel Dolezal (Current name - Nkechi Amare Diallo)

Posted by: Tonypete at June 18, 2024 07:42 PM (WXNFJ)

126 Nice baby crib ya got there. It'd be a sorry shame if a flash-bang was to land in it.

Posted by: Agent Haman Egger at June 18, 2024 07:43 PM (nOjd9)

127
Come to my door looking like slobs I'd better see a badge, credentials, and a.business card. Before I even say hello. And we will chat on the porch.
_____

Start chat with "Your wife let you out of the house looking like that?"
Posted by: Chuck Martel

This man with me IS my wife.

Posted by: FBI man at June 18, 2024 07:43 PM (63Dwl)

128 Trying to imagine doctors caring more about that new Mercedes Benz SL43 then about their patients well-being. Not hard to do.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * levitating above the madness at June 18, 2024 07:44 PM (JhYv0)

129 I would add a warrant to that list. These days talking to any fib agent is just asking to be arrested for "false statements". Remember they can lie to you with impunity but if you forget a date or time, you can be facing felony charges for lying to the fib.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 18, 2024 07:42 PM (QNSds)

Yeah. An' we gotta history of not keepin' good notes!

*snort*

Posted by: Agent Haman Egger at June 18, 2024 07:44 PM (nOjd9)

130 Did you hear that we just exceeded 1 trillion dollars of interest on the national debt?

I trillion dollars is just the juice.

And growing.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 18, 2024 07:44 PM (8Ldii)

131

If the media would remove the DNC's dick from their mouths they could actually do some journalism.

They've already seen the FBI & government agencies used against journalists. What's holding them back from reporting on these obvious intimidation campaigns for political purposes?
Posted by: Frank Barone at June 18, 2024 07:35 PM (+oR7L)

The Media IS the DNC. Almost all the journalists gone after are not part of "The program", and just like minorities the ones trying to leave the plantation are severely delt with to send a message, Corleone style.

Posted by: Bete at June 18, 2024 07:45 PM (LX4y3)

132 Start chat with "Your wife let you out of the house looking like that?"
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2024 07:41 PM (zsxJT)

Wouldn't have much effect today. This is a society that feels no shame in going around in pajamas and blankets. In public. (I don't advocate dressing to the nines all the time - TX encourages informality - but pajamas and blankets in public? Really?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 07:45 PM (8sMut)

133 A number of years I had recordings of comedy shows called The Secret Policeman's Ball and The Secret Policeman's Other Ball--produced IIRC, by Monty Python.
They were funny but didn't seem as relevant than as in this day.

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 18, 2024 07:45 PM (JLq/1)

134 alexandriabrown @alexthechick
Remember, everyone, the rank and file FBI would never go along with anything like this. At least that is what people who truly need to wipe their chins have typed for decades now vis a vis FBI field agents.
===

Hannity, to the white courtesy phone, please.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 18, 2024 07:45 PM (RIvkX)

135 That would be preferable but right about now I'd like an ATF which is infinitely smaller - like about 90% smaller - that doesn't have the manning or the budget to engage in bullshit like what happened in AR.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
----------------------------

Old man Bush was going to disband the ATF and distribute the agents among the other law enforcement agencies. The other agencies wouldn't accept them.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 07:46 PM (bQ/08)

136 If by some miracle Trump wins the election, the entire government will resist him, along with a big chunk of US society, especially the media.

At best he can, and must, expose the criminality. If enough is laid bare we might have a chance.

Posted by: davidt at June 18, 2024 07:46 PM (SYTee)

137 130 Did you hear that we just exceeded 1 trillion dollars of interest on the national debt?

I trillion dollars is just the juice.

And growing.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 18, 2024 07:44 PM (8Ldii)

(yawn)

Posted by: Americans at June 18, 2024 07:46 PM (8sMut)

138 I would support a new $100 headquarters for the FBI, as long as it was sited in the remotest area of Alaska, or the middle of Death Valley (no AC in the new HQ).

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 18, 2024 07:46 PM (XMwZJ)

139 Trying to imagine doctors caring more about that new Mercedes Benz SL43 then about their patients well-being. Not hard to do.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * levitating above the madness at June 18, 2024 07:44 PM (JhYv0)
--------------

PP got caught marketing baby parts for Corvettes which was clearly illegal. The people who caught PP wound up having the DOJ go after them.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 18, 2024 07:46 PM (tT6L1)

140 I trillion dollars is just the juice.
_______

When's the last time a regular order budget passed the house? 15, 20 years ago?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2024 07:46 PM (zsxJT)

141 That is one fat Gestapo agent. What would the Fuhrer say?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 18, 2024 07:47 PM (RIvkX)

142 Old man Bush was going to disband the ATF and distribute the agents among the other law enforcement agencies. The other agencies wouldn't accept them.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 07:46 PM (bQ/0

Pink slips and a pat on the back and "Learn to code" is better.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 07:47 PM (8sMut)

143 Old man Bush was going to disband the ATF and distribute the agents among the other law enforcement agencies. The other agencies wouldn't accept them.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 07:46 PM (bQ/0

We'll take 'em.

*takes another bite out of glazed cruller*

Posted by: The TSA at June 18, 2024 07:47 PM (nOjd9)

144 120 Trump has four years. Can he get it done?

Cleaning out all these government agencies will take a lot of time.

I'm concerned he won't be able to scorch the earth like we want.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Napalm.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 18, 2024 07:47 PM (FWnMr)

145 140 I trillion dollars is just the juice.
_______

When's the last time a regular order budget passed the house? 15, 20 years ago?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2024 07:46 PM (zsxJT

Yup. Just like that, one day congress decided not to pass budgets anymore. Just continuing resolutions.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 18, 2024 07:47 PM (8Ldii)

146 >>>journalists. What's holding them back from reporting on these obvious intimidation campaigns for political purposes?

Posted by: Frank Barone
----------------------------

Their personal life.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 07:47 PM (bQ/08)

147 I trillion dollars is just the juice.

And growing.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 18, 2024 07:44 PM (8Ldii)
------------

This is the real reason interest rates will not go up. The Fed is frightened at the idea of not being able to cover the interest payments, let alone the principle.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 18, 2024 07:47 PM (tT6L1)

148
When's the last time a regular order budget passed the house? 15, 20 years ago?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2024 07:46 PM (zsxJT)

FY08. Before the reign of His Majesty The Shahinshah.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 07:48 PM (8sMut)

149 120 Trump has four years. Can he get it done?

Cleaning out all these government agencies will take a lot of time.

I'm concerned he won't be able to scorch the earth like we want.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 18, 2024 07:39 PM (8Ldii)

Tanned, rested and ready!
-Jeff Sessions

Posted by: Bete at June 18, 2024 07:48 PM (LX4y3)

150 Take off and nuke the site from orbit.

Its the only way to be sure.

Posted by: blaster at June 18, 2024 07:48 PM (IFNME)

151 Tanned, rested and ready!
-Jeff Sessions
Posted by: Bete at June 18, 2024 07:48 PM (LX4y3)

It's past your naptime, Jeff.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 18, 2024 07:49 PM (nOjd9)

152 "How long before people start disappearing in the middle of the night?"

What about all the Clinton related strange deaths, or sudden heart attacks, or Tucker's recent video out Ruby getting almost instant death cancer after a CIA visit. Lots of other witnesses seem to die early.

Too many on "the right" have met odd early demise, and no one is going to investigate the FBI or CIA (or any of them). The regime are killers, even in the 100k plus range with Covid ... but the kickbacks were awesome.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 18, 2024 07:49 PM (Cus5s)

153 DO NOT TALK TO THE FBI. NEVER TALK TO THE FBI. GET A LAWYER.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at June 18, 2024 07:49 PM (PWI4f)

154 @130

>>Did you hear that we just exceeded 1 trillion dollars of interest on the national debt?

And the PetroDollar has fallen, so things are going to get interesting very soon.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 18, 2024 07:49 PM (XV/Pl)

155 And the PetroDollar has fallen, so things are going to get interesting very soon.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 18, 2024 07:49 PM (XV/Pl)

Disinformation. You liar.

Posted by: U.S. Media at June 18, 2024 07:50 PM (8sMut)

156 End table near the front door. In the drawer, is stack of about a dozen business cards from my Attorney.

Response-wise, I'm flexible. If a Badge at my door is asking if I was a witness to a local atrocity or car crash or such, I'll be Mr. Good Citizen, by and large.

But if that same Badge comes to my door asking about my role in the Great AoS Conspiracy to POINT and LAUGH at Our Betters? I'll point and laugh at THEM, right as I hand 'em that Lawyer's card.

And I *will* video tape any subsequent "interview". They don't get to fill out their FEEB FORMS willy-nilly, without my evidence OF that interview, to put them in Check.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 18, 2024 07:50 PM (e6UQI)

157 You wanna get rid of the FIB ?

Just close the cafeteria.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 18, 2024 07:50 PM (NtVYv)

158 "I'm concerned he won't be able to scorch the earth like we want.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Napalm.
Posted by: nurse ratched "

There needs to be carnage. Actual heads rolling.

Posted by: fd at June 18, 2024 07:50 PM (vFG9F)

159 Corvettes which was clearly illegal. The people who caught PP wound up having the DOJ go after them.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker

Yep. The world we live in. Reason no 23 why my range time has increased exponentially.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * levitating above the madness at June 18, 2024 07:51 PM (JhYv0)

160 Corvettes which was clearly illegal. The people who caught PP wound up having the DOJ go after them.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker

iirc, Lambos.

Posted by: davidt at June 18, 2024 07:52 PM (SYTee)

161 Did you hear that we just exceeded 1 trillion dollars of interest on the national debt?
And the PetroDollar has fallen, so things are going to get interesting very soon.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 18, 2024 07:49 PM (XV/Pl)

Is there a government website where we can get some of those "Petrodollars"? Like on a debit card?

We leave on a cruise to Cancun soon!

Posted by: Boomer And The Bimbo at June 18, 2024 07:52 PM (R/m4+)

162 Depending on who Trump picks for VP, we could have 12 years.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 18, 2024 07:52 PM (t/2Uw)

163 Kash Patel should be appointed the Czar of Dismantlement.

Posted by: blaster at June 18, 2024 07:53 PM (IFNME)

164 "YOU WILL BE MADE TO KNEEL"
-----------------

No.

And wth w/"gender-affirming care"? It should mean: to help persons ACCEPT their bodies, not destroy them.

Posted by: JQ at June 18, 2024 07:53 PM (njWTi)

165 162 Depending on who Trump picks for VP, we could have 12 years.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 18, 2024 07:52 PM (t/2Uw)

Good point. Whomever the Veep, he/she needs to be Vlad the Impaler.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 18, 2024 07:53 PM (8Ldii)

166
Yup. Just like that, one day congress decided not to pass budgets anymore. Just continuing resolutions.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 18, 2024 07:47 PM (8Ldii)

Easier to spend money without scrutiny that way.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 07:53 PM (8sMut)

167 https://youtu.be/on7VPe_SG7s?si=oukAALgpxIrpMcFs

I came across this song the other day and I found it moving
L. The women strike me as the type who would shed nary a tear when the secret police come to take you to prison and torture or death. She would tell you to be faithful and strong. We will meet again.
It is Russian.

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 18, 2024 07:53 PM (JLq/1)

168 The fact that all these govt agencies that have nothing to do with law enforcement, unless you count regulation enforcement as law enforcement (I don't), started acquiring weapon arsenals and stockpiling ammunition, and not a thing was done or said about it in congress or the media, should have been a bright neon sign that we became a police state.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2024 07:53 PM (zsxJT)

169 Go long on the currency of Biafra.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 18, 2024 07:55 PM (7iAr4)

170 Haha, the FBI guy is fat and loves trannies.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 18, 2024 07:56 PM (b4o9z)

171 I kneel before G-D, all others can fuck off.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 18, 2024 07:57 PM (7iAr4)

172 too much *type/delete*

out.

catch ya all on the ONT

Posted by: JQ at June 18, 2024 07:57 PM (njWTi)

173 And the FBI, of course, is only too eager to play the role of the American Stasi.

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

The FBI is making sure there is nobody to defend them when it's their turn, and there will come their turn. When that happens they may not even get security jobs at warehouses.

Posted by: Decaf at June 18, 2024 07:57 PM (unUNN)

174 The fact that all these govt agencies that have nothing to do with law enforcement, unless you count regulation enforcement as law enforcement (I don't), started acquiring weapon arsenals and stockpiling ammunition, and not a thing was done or said about it in congress or the media, should have been a bright neon sign that we became a police state.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2024 07:53 PM

Uh congress is the body that gave all of those agencies law enforcement powers, why would congress bitch about them buying guns and ammo after they said that was all cool?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 18, 2024 07:58 PM (QNSds)

175 QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO SPACE ACTIVITY FOR JUNE 18.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Astra 1P/SES-24 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral
New T-Zero: 8:23 p.m. EDT (0023 UTC, 02:23 CEST) due to elevated winds at the launch site. Teams are continuing to monitor weather, which is currently 55% favorable.

https://www.youtube.com/live/m7vYHll94cc
__________________________

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 9-1 - SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space
Launch Date: June 18 (PDT).
Launch Time: 8:00 p.m. PDT (0300 UTC, 05:00 CEST - June 19). Launch inclination will be south-east.

https://www.youtube.com/live/cUtwTIckmtE

Posted by: Ciampino - Tue Update #02 at June 18, 2024 07:58 PM (qfLjt)

176 I kneel before G-D, all others can fuck off.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 18, 2024 07:57 PM (7iAr4)

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

Yep.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 18, 2024 07:58 PM (tT6L1)

177 Northernlurker very nice, gave it a 👍

Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2024 07:59 PM (fwDg9)

178 174 The fact that all these govt agencies that have nothing to do with law enforcement, unless you count regulation enforcement as law enforcement (I don't), started acquiring weapon arsenals and stockpiling ammunition, and not a thing was done or said about it in congress or the media, should have been a bright neon sign that we became a police state.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2024 07:53 PM

Uh congress is the body that gave all of those agencies law enforcement powers, why would congress bitch about them buying guns and ammo after they said that was all cool?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 18, 2024 07:58 PM (QNSds)

The Founders never anticpated Congress cheerfully surrendering their authority to an adminstrative state because they were just too cowardly to use the power they have under Article I.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 08:00 PM (8sMut)

179 YNet: Jewish girl, 12, gang raped in Paris in apparent antisemitic attack
Three boys ages 12-14 beat girl while shouting antisemitic epithets and then raped her in an abandoned hangar; the girls ex-boyfriend accused her of hiding the fact that she was Jewish from him

https://tinyurl.com/65tphpw4

Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2024 08:00 PM (pEvzm)

180 Oli London
@OliLondonTV
Non-binary teacher wearing a They/Them mask caught climbing under toilet cubicle to watch a young child at Kentlake High School in Washington State.

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NTTAWWT

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 08:00 PM (L/fGl)

181 Saw this the other day. Only the govt should have guns. Yes, it's the same govt that has lost 6 nuclear weapons that have not been recovered.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 18, 2024 08:01 PM (b4o9z)

182 169 Go long on the currency of Biafra.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 18, 2024 07:55 PM (7iAr4)

Why not my inflation proof currency? I just outlawed inflation. Problem solved.

Posted by: Robert Mugabe at June 18, 2024 08:01 PM (8sMut)

183 171 I kneel before G-D, all others can fuck off.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 18, 2024 07:57 PM (7iAr4)

That's us!

Posted by: U.S. Government at June 18, 2024 08:03 PM (8sMut)

184 Why don't the fbwhatever, fib arrest itself.
Haven't read fiction for some time, so I might say anything.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at June 18, 2024 08:03 PM (ajOX3)

185 181 Saw this the other day. Only the govt should have guns. Yes, it's the same govt that has lost 6 nuclear weapons that have not been recovered.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 18, 2024 08:01 PM (b4o9z

The State in omnipotent and all powerful in all ways.

(Or so it is said.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 08:04 PM (8sMut)

186 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
At least 38 people shot, 6 fatally in Chicago Father’s Day weekend shootings.
Does anyone in the media care?

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It's the systematic racism.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 08:04 PM (L/fGl)

187 why would congress bitch about them buying guns and ammo after they said that was all cool?
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Good point. But I hoped that because some didn't vote for that and because at least a handful still have a tenuous grip on what it means to be American, there would be a move to stop it. But I guess with the continuing resolutions being the new standard operating procedure, nothing can be done about it. FU to Mike Johnson and the other loser that was there before him that they wouldn't do what was necessary to get back to regular order budgets.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2024 08:05 PM (zsxJT)

188 WTF is a they/them mask? Is it an iron mask? Does it come with manacles? And an oubliette? Because if not, somebody needs to tighten this shit up.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 18, 2024 08:05 PM (0FoWg)

189 Is there a government website where we can get some of those "Petrodollars"? Like on a debit card?

We leave on a cruise to Cancun soon!
Posted by: Boomer And The Bimbo at June 18, 2024 07:52 PM

Do you have student loans? Are you DACA or DACA-adjacent?

If so, we have programs just for you! See my Press Secretary for more details!

Jill, where's my ice cream????

Posted by: J. Robinette Biden at June 18, 2024 08:05 PM (AMBt6)

190 Uh congress is the body that gave all of those agencies law enforcement powers, why would congress bitch about them buying guns and ammo after they said that was all cool?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 18, 2024 07:58 PM (QNSds)

The Founders never anticpated Congress cheerfully surrendering their authority to an adminstrative state because they were just too cowardly to use the power they have under Article I.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 08:00 PM

I agree 100% with you, but that is not what the OP was stating. Regardless of what the founders intended, they gave Congress the power to make laws and fund those laws. The fact that they decided to abrogate their responsibilities is the topic of another dozen conversations.

As Ben Franklin stated after everyone signed the constitution, what you have is a republic, if you can keep it.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 18, 2024 08:06 PM (QNSds)

191 Nood. Café is open

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 18, 2024 08:06 PM (AMBt6)

192

Was there in fact any actual HIPPA violation? Actual patient records, with identifying information included?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 18, 2024 08:06 PM (7xqnr)

193 Sigh. I was enjoying this discussion. Doggy video time I guess.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2024 08:09 PM (zsxJT)

194 Launch scrubbed - try again tomorrow afternoon.
High winds.

Posted by: Ciampino - Tue Update #03 at June 18, 2024 08:19 PM (qfLjt)

195 >>>163 Kash Patel should be appointed the Czar of Dismantlement.

Posted by: blaster
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I always forget about him. Heavy. And David Nunes.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 08:25 PM (bQ/08)

196 "Can we sit down for a minute, and let me do my song and dance?"

"HELL NO. Come back with a warrant, and then you can talk to my lawyer."

NEVER let them in the house.

Posted by: Half Dozen at June 18, 2024 08:31 PM (wSMaH)

197 167 https://youtu.be/on7VPe_SG7s?si=oukAALgpxIrpMcFs

I came across this song the other day and I found it moving.

...It is Russian.

Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing that.

Posted by: Half Dozen at June 18, 2024 08:37 PM (wSMaH)

198 I remember reading about this in middle school...

Only it was about the Soviet Union...

And we all asked why didn't the population stand up to the tyrannical and murderous government.

Posted by: Crazy at June 18, 2024 08:44 PM (EES2L)

199 6 You walk to my door dressed like roofers and claim to be FBI and I’m calling the police so I don’t have to threaten bodily harm if you don’t leave.
Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 07:05 PM (SHMXB)
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A guy at my church is a criminal defense attorney. Small town, small town crimes. I asked him, if I ever get that knock on the door- and I don't have any reason to think I would, but IF I did, who would I call? You?
He said, of course. Immediately put his phone # in my phone. He emphasized, "We'll be courteous about it..."
He is correct. We did not discuss video-recording my conversation w/ the jack boots, but I'd go beyond the advice he gave me and do that.
Don't ever want it to be my word against their. The judges automatically believe anyone from the govt, even though they're not supposed to.

Posted by: Evil Incarnate at June 18, 2024 09:03 PM (YrqgQ)

200 The fact it is the eff bee eye is the tell. They are not charged with investigating HIPPA violations or Medicaid fraud, which was alleged by Rufo's second whistleblower. HHS OCR handles HIPPA investigations and HHS OIG/OI and state MFCUs handle Medicaid fraud investigations.

Posted by: Fish at June 18, 2024 09:21 PM (SQp9n)

201 They show up trying to inflict costs on you by making you hire a lawyer to deal with their crap.

Posted by: torabora at June 18, 2024 09:21 PM (LMbDX)

202 Sorry, fat fingered HIPAA.

Posted by: Fish at June 18, 2024 09:23 PM (SQp9n)

203 I don't know who here is still on that side. If someone comes to your door, first of all, don't open the door. If you have to open the door, don't talk to them. ASK FOR A WARRANT. if they don't have one, order them off of your property. Video every movement they make. Tell them to get lost. Anyone who, and let's face it, there might be some who still think they are on the side of the good, the beautiful and the true - they are not. Refuse. You do not have to cooperate with them.

Posted by: Isolden at June 18, 2024 09:36 PM (dB99g)

204 Chesterton's Fence got blasted flat by Big Anus.

And here we are.

And we haven't been under the rule of law for quite some time. But if you don't wriggle, you won't feel the chains.

Posted by: Beverly at June 19, 2024 12:08 AM (Epeb0)

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