House Proposes Bill to Rescind January 6 Committee Subpoenas, and Therefore Spring Peter Navarro from Federal Prison for Defying Them, and Spare Steve Bannon His Prison Sentence

Why didn't they do this six months ago?

Oh right, because they're the Junior Partner in the Uniparty.

Now they say they'll finally get around to this now that Merrick Garland has declared himself to be above any contempt-of-Congress charge.

The recent U.S. House vote to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt and the subsequent "No, thank you" by the Department of Justice he heads in response has invited renewed scrutiny over the plight of similarly situated individuals -- in particular, former Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon.
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Following the DOJ's declination of prosecution as to Garland, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced that they'd see the DOJ in court, noting:

"It is sadly predictable that the Biden Administration's Justice Department will not prosecute Garland for defying congressional subpoenas even though the department aggressively prosecuted Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro for the same thing. This is yet another example of the two-tiered system of justice brought to us by the Biden Administration."
Navarro is currently sitting in prison, and Bannon is set to begin serving a four-month sentence on July 1, both for refusing to comply with congressional subpoenas and subsequently being held in contempt for it.
Now, GOP House members have taken further action in relation to the seeming double standard. As laid out by Representative Eric Burlison (R-MO) in this tweet thread, the House has introduced a measure aimed at rescinding the subpoenas directed to Navarro and Bannon, as well as Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino, and withdrawing the recommendations to hold them in contempt of Congress.

Don't get excited -- the "moderates" in the party, the not-so-secret allies of the Democrats, will never vote for this.

Speaking on state corruption on a Soviet scale, the FBI knew about Hunter Biden's $120 million deal with a Ukranian oligarch when Joe was VP and I guess they, get this, covered it up.

Quick Hit:
According to Just The News, The FBI has known since 2016 about Hunter Biden's involvement in a $120 million deal with a Ukrainian oligarch during Joe Biden's vice presidency, according to recently disclosed documents.
Key Details:
Hunter Biden's team planned a venture funded by Burisma's owner, Nykola Zlochevsky.
The FBI obtained documents detailing this plan during a 2016 securities fraud investigation.
The information was revealed by former business partner Devon Archer to the House Oversight Committee.
Diving Deeper:
The FBI learned as early as 2016 that Hunter Biden and his partners were working on a venture involving a $120 million investment from Nykola Zlochevsky, the controversial owner of Burisma Holdings. Documents obtained by Just the News reveal that this information, kept from the public for eight years, was uncovered during an investigation of securities fraud nearly a decade ago.

The FBI covered this up so that Joe Biden could claim at his 2020 debate that Hunter Biden never took a single dime from overseas oligarchs.

Then, of course, they lied all through 2019 and 2020 when they staged wargames with the media in which they gamed out a scenario in which falsified documents about Hunter Biden were pushed by Russia in a "hack-and-release" operation.

They did that. They prepared the media to reject any documents that got released about Hunter Biden through a "tabletop simulation" at the Aspen Institute. Bill Kristol was a participant.

They told the media in advance that false, fraudulent documents would be "hacked" and released by Russia, even though they had the laptop they knew these documents would be leaked from, and knew they were 100% real, and would not be released by Russia but by Rudy Guiliani and former FBI agents.

That's so incredible I can't believe it-- but that's what they did.

And not only has no one been prosecuted for this, but no one even missed a scheduled pay-rise.

These documents, totaling 3.39 million, were recently handed over to the House Oversight Committee by Hunter Biden's former business partner, Devon Archer, as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden's conduct. The new evidence indicates that the deal was being orchestrated while Hunter Biden was on Burisma's board and Joe Biden was vice president, overseeing U.S.-Ukraine policy.
The memos show that Hunter Biden was to serve on the board of a new company called Burnham Energy Security LLC, incorporated in Liechtenstein, and funded by Zlochevsky. The venture was planned to be capitalized in 2015 and aimed to transform Burisma into a global energy leader. Hunter Biden's involvement was seen as essential for "credibility" purposes, according to Vadym Pozharskyi, Zlochevsky's lieutenant.
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Hunter Biden's attorney, Abbe Lowell, did not respond to requests for comment from Just the News.

If Trump doesn't prosecute these people -- using the same fanciful "conspiracy to defraud the US of a free and fair election" charge the FBI and DOJ have used against January 6ers -- then he's a failure, a sell-out, and a handmaiden to the death of the Republic.

Speaking of corruption on a Soviet scale -- Niall Fergusen writes that, due to the corruption and incompetence of the Regime, "We're all Soviets now."

He means we're in the same position the Soviet Union was in -- right before it collapsed.

Niall Ferguson: We're All Soviets Now
A government with a permanent deficit and a bloated military. A bogus ideology pushed by elites. Poor health among ordinary people. Senescent leaders. Sound familiar?
By Niall Ferguson
The witty phrase "late Soviet America" was coined by the Princeton historian Harold James back in 2020. It has only become more apposite since then as the cold war we're in--the second one [with China]--heats up.
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But it only recently struck me that in this new Cold War, we--and not the Chinese--might be the Soviets. It's a bit like that moment when the British comedians David Mitchell and Robert Webb, playing Waffen-SS officers toward the end of World War II, ask the immortal question: "Are we the baddies?"
I imagine two American sailors asking themselves one day--perhaps as their aircraft carrier is sinking beneath their feet somewhere near the Taiwan Strait: Are we the Soviets?
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Economists keep promising us a productivity miracle from information technology, most recently AI. But the annual average growth rate of productivity in the U.S. nonfarm business sector has been stuck at just 1.5 percent since 2007, only marginally better than the dismal years 1973--1980.
The U.S. economy might be the envy of the rest of the world today, but recall how American experts overrated the Soviet economy in the 1970s and 1980s.
And yet, you insist, the Soviet Union was a sick man more than it was a superpower, whereas the United States has no equal in the realm of military technology and firepower.
Actually, no.
We have a military that is simultaneously expensive and unequal to the tasks it confronts, as Senator Roger Wicker's newly published report makes clear. As I read Wicker's report--and I recommend you do the same--I kept thinking of what successive Soviet leaders said until the bitter end: that the Red Army was the biggest and therefore most lethal military in the world.
On paper, it was. But paper was what the Soviet bear turned out to be made of. It could not even win a war in Afghanistan, despite ten years of death and destruction. (Now, why does that sound familiar?)
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Even more striking to me are the political, social, and cultural resemblances I detect between the U.S. and the USSR. Gerontocratic leadership was one of the hallmarks of late Soviet leadership, personified by the senility of Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko.

But by current American standards, the later Soviet leaders were not old men.
Brezhnev was 75 when he died in 1982, but he had suffered his first major stroke seven years before. Andropov was only 68 when he succeeded Brezhnev, but he suffered total kidney failure just a few months after taking over. Chernenko was 72 when he came to power. He was already a hopeless invalid, suffering from emphysema, heart failure, bronchitis, pleurisy, and pneumonia.
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Another notable feature of late Soviet life was total public cynicism about nearly all institutions. Leon Aron's brilliant book Roads to the Temple shows just how wretched life in the 1980s had become.
In the great "return to truth" unleashed by Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, Soviet citizens were able to pour forth their discontents in letters to a suddenly free press. Some of what they wrote about was specific to the Soviet context--in particular, the revelations about the realities of Soviet history, especially the crimes of the Stalin era. But to reread Russians' complaints about their lives in the 1980s is to come across more than a few eerie foreshadowings of the American present.

It's a long article, worth the read.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:20 PM

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1 yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 19, 2024 05:21 PM (qZEuM)

2 Pieces of shit, all of them.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 19, 2024 05:21 PM (qZEuM)

3 I, Soviet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 19, 2024 05:22 PM (Q4IgG)

4 While they are at it they can spring every one of the J6 prisoners from jail as well. That would get every one of the Republicans who vote for it voted back in.

Posted by: Decaf at June 19, 2024 05:22 PM (unUNN)

5 They told the media in advance that false, fraudulent documents would be "hacked" and released by Russia, even though they had the laptop they knew these documents would be leaked from, and knew they were 100% real, and would not be released by Russia but by Rudy Guiliani and former FBI agents.

Are we quite sure they weren't cheap fakes?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 05:22 PM (xCA6C)

6 If Trump doesn't prosecute these people -- using the same fanciful "conspiracy to defraud the US of a free and fair election" charge the FBI and DOJ have used against January 6ers -- then he's a failure, a sell-out, and a handmaiden to the death of the Republic.

I'm not really sure how he can do that, but I suppose in the era of made-up executive authority, there must be a way.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 05:24 PM (xCA6C)

7 I nood'd.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 19, 2024 05:25 PM (qZEuM)

8 Brezhnev was 75 when he died in 1982, but he had suffered his first major stroke seven years before. Andropov was only 68 when he succeeded Brezhnev, but he suffered total kidney failure just a few months after taking over. Chernenko was 72 when he came to power. He was already a hopeless invalid, suffering from emphysema, heart failure, bronchitis, pleurisy, and pneumonia.

I hadn't known this before reading Ferguson's article. Amazing. The WWII just couldn't let go, although as it turned out, they were right (from their pov).

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 05:26 PM (xCA6C)

9 The neat thing about this is the "injured party" that is pressing charges is in a different party's hands (at least ostensibly).

Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 05:26 PM (krQz2)

10 Now, GOP House members have taken further action in relation to the seeming double standard.

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Seeming? There is nothing seeming about it, it is a gold plated double standard.

Posted by: Decaf at June 19, 2024 05:27 PM (unUNN)

11 If Trump doesn't prosecute these people -- using the same fanciful "conspiracy to defraud the US of a free and fair election" charge the FBI and DOJ have used against January 6ers -- then he's a failure, a sell-out, and a handmaiden to the death of the Republic.
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That would be tyranny and the end of "our democracy".

It's (D)ifferent when they do it.

Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 05:27 PM (krQz2)

12 I wouldn't be surprised if this weren't a "face saving" exercise. The Presidential Immunity decisions are eminent from the Supreme Court, and if they totally fall to Trump's benefit, then it will, also, effect the cooperative measures of people like Navarro who is sitting in the slammer. The Republicans kept their distance from the whole issue when they should have been raising holy Hell.

And, as I stated yesterday, barricades and barriers are currently going up in front of the SC Building...which is not a normal thing. They only do it on controversial rulings like axing Roe v. Wade. It's not the right which responds with violence, so read into that what you will.

Posted by: Orson at June 19, 2024 05:27 PM (dIske)

13 Oh goodie! Now that it's been proposed, the House can quickly pass it, send it on the Senate, where it'll zip right through, and head to the Presdent's desk.

Where he will surely sign it into law.

Cuz, it's urgent and necessary. Right?

Posted by: BurtTC at June 19, 2024 05:27 PM (rEPmj)

14 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: Change my mind at June 19, 2024 05:28 PM (Oe90T)

15 Trade for shutting up about bai-din. Kabuki.

Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2024 05:28 PM (LHPAg)

16 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: Change my mind

No, I don't attempt the impossible.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 05:29 PM (xCA6C)

17 BTW, that thing about Alec Baldwin pretend-shooting a crew member is something that I remember from the first day it all came out.

It must have gotten buried as the time passed.

Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 05:29 PM (krQz2)

18 Don't get excited -- the "moderates" in the party, the not-so-secret allies of the Democrats, will never vote for this.
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I don't know about that. Many, I think, will be afraid not to. There are two things we know about them:

1. Yes, they are corrupt.

2. But they are also cowards.

#2 might overrule #1.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2024 05:29 PM (1bNHn)

19
Gerontocratic leadership was one of the hallmarks of late Soviet leadership

HALLMARKS!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2024 05:29 PM (63Dwl)

20 The Republican AG of Georgia, Christopher Michael Carr, is indicting a Georgia Republican DA for 24 felonies for spending ~$4K on incidentals that he claims are illegal.

Fani Willis was not available for comment.

But I'll still vote Republican in local elections. GFY.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 19, 2024 05:29 PM (aFNOf)

21 Trade for shutting up about bai-din. Kabuki.

Nonsense. I'm quite sure that if presented with the choice of staying in jail for a few months, and getting Biden out of office, they'd both take the latter in a heartbeat.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 05:30 PM (xCA6C)

22 Also, f*ck Mike Johnson and John Boehner.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 19, 2024 05:30 PM (aFNOf)

23 Maybe they can bribe half a dozen or so Democrats to sign off on this thing, if they promise to spend another $60 bil on "Ukraine."

Posted by: BurtTC at June 19, 2024 05:30 PM (rEPmj)

24 I don't know about that. Many, I think, will be afraid not to. There are two things we know about them:

1. Yes, they are corrupt.

2. But they are also cowards.

#2 might overrule #1.

Absolutely correct.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 05:30 PM (xCA6C)

25 A fanny probe?

Posted by: Pete Bootygig at June 19, 2024 05:31 PM (Oe90T)

26 FukBeI

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 19, 2024 05:32 PM (MXs8Q)

27 If you die due to heatstroke while on hajj, do you get into Paradise?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: zombie Abdully McAbdulface at June 19, 2024 05:32 PM (rc+e1)

28 I was thinking, all FBI employees are entitled to their political beliefs, whatever those may be. But how do you weed out the ones who employ those beliefs when it comes time to investigate a crime, or not, or shoot someone dead, or not

Posted by: Don Black- it's hip to be square at June 19, 2024 05:32 PM (/7KEl)

29 ***the FBI knew about Hunter Biden's $120 million deal with a Ukranian oligarch when Joe was VP and I guess they, get this, covered it up.***
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They know about everything. They had 40 subcontractors working on Biden corruption even before he was elected VP.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 05:32 PM (/Rqse)

30 Sorry, but prosecution is an executive function. Yes, we've given the legislators the playtime "subpoenas" for a while, but they only have the force of the DoJ prosecution to enforce them.

That's all America has ever had. So when AG Steadman decided to use "prosecutorial discretion" to avoid defending the Defense of Marriage Act, we started down this spiral of a tyrannical ("INDEPENDENT!") DoJ.

Just shaking my head at all the dumbfucks.

Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 05:32 PM (krQz2)

31
I like how Bannon is handling his probably imprisonment.

LIKE A MAN WITH A PAIR OF FUNCTIONING TESTICLES.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 19, 2024 05:32 PM (RKVpM)

32 The Idaho Republican congress is shutting off water supplies to local farmers because, they are Republican's that love the feel of Chinese cock in their collective asses.

But, I'll continue to vote Republican in my local elections.
GFY

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 19, 2024 05:33 PM (aFNOf)

33 Guarantee you that even if they actually go ahead and do this that the biden doj will ignore it and force bannon to go to jail and they will refuse to release navarro.

By the time it gets up to SCOTUS everyone will be out of jail and have already been punished.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 19, 2024 05:33 PM (QNSds)

34 They prepared the media to reject any documents that got released about Hunter Biden through a "tabletop simulation" at the Aspen Institute. Bill Kristol was a participant.

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That's another thing, no more Aspen Institute, WEF and such. No more votes for anybody who attends any of these cabals and coven as they are nothing but evil plans being hidden from the people. If you can't discuss anything in front of all then you are hiding something and it's certainly not because you are doing good.

Posted by: Decaf at June 19, 2024 05:33 PM (unUNN)

35 Should we start upsetting the diaper-wearing college students that Ethel and Julius were executed IN PRIDE MONTH! And on Juneteenth!

See how many know that neither was a thing at the time.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2024 05:34 PM (1bNHn)

36 Should we start upsetting the diaper-wearing college students that Ethel and Julius were executed IN PRIDE MONTH! And on Juneteenth!

See how many know that neither was a thing at the time.

Who?

Posted by: Zoomers at June 19, 2024 05:35 PM (xCA6C)

37 Unrelated (I think), seeing a clip of RFKJR talking with Sink Weeger, and RFK's face is incredibly red, with straining veins.

And no, it's not a saturation effect, Sink's face looks "normal."

Bobby's gonna pop. One of these days, that head is just gonna explode... without a bullet being put into it, like the CIA did to his daddy and uncle, I mean.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 19, 2024 05:35 PM (rEPmj)

38 22 Also, f*ck Mike Johnson and John Boehner.
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They've got a hand on his nethers and when they pull he honks.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 05:35 PM (/Rqse)

39 I wouldn't be surprised if this weren't a "face saving" exercise.

Posted by: Orson at June 19, 2024 05:27 PM (dIske)
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Especially because it could be the case that over half of the voting public are migrating to the opinion that Jan-6 was a setup, or shenanigans of some kind.

Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 05:35 PM (krQz2)

40 Also, f*ck Mike Johnson and John Boehner.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 19, 2024 05:30 PM

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Kevin McCarthy at June 19, 2024 05:35 PM (rc+e1)

41 The Soviet man was not LGBTQ, did not think men could have babies, did not agree to cut off oil to save the planet, didn't teach generations of kids to hate their own country ... USSR had at least a few advantages over our current state.

But yeah, the other points are very good.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 19, 2024 05:36 PM (Cus5s)

42 All Trump has to do on the 26th is relay the message that Hunter took bribes from foreign countries and shared the money with dad, and dad lied about it on national television.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 19, 2024 05:36 PM (lTGtQ)

43 Should we start upsetting the diaper-wearing college students that Ethel and Julius were executed IN PRIDE MONTH! And on Juneteenth!

See how many know that neither was a thing at the time.

Who?
Posted by: Zoomers at June 19, 2024 05:35 PM (xCA6C)
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*munches Tide pod*

Posted by: Zoomer #2 at June 19, 2024 05:37 PM (krQz2)

44 13 Oh goodie! Now that it's been proposed, the House can quickly pass it, send it on the Senate, where it'll zip right through, and head to the Presdent's desk.

Where he will surely sign it into law.

Cuz, it's urgent and necessary. Right?
Posted by: BurtTC at June 19, 2024 05:27 PM (rEPmj)
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Did the Senate have any role in issuing the original subpoenas? I thought it was solely the House committee.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2024 05:37 PM (1bNHn)

45 BTW, I watched the first 2h of Oppenheimer on Amazon Prime last night. While it's still a bunch of lefty horses***, they did better than expected in avoiding the "poor Japanese victims of a race war" crap. We'll see if that holds true for the 3rd hour.

It deserved the praise it got as a movie.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 05:37 PM (xCA6C)

46 Also Niall: "the dynamic market economy that we Americans take pride in."

Nothing big happens in this country without subsidies, set-asides, kickbacks, backslapping, gladhanding, payoffs, graft, and perverse taxing and regulatory incentives. It probably never was a "market economy;" that's a national myth.

Posted by: gp In A Vat at June 19, 2024 05:37 PM (MvF+J)

47 Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon.

The problem is, this prosecution has become and embarrassment to the Dems. So, they will get rid of it.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at June 19, 2024 05:37 PM (nLFEI)

48 That's all America has ever had. So when AG Steadman decided to use "prosecutorial discretion" to avoid defending the Defense of Marriage Act, we started down this spiral of a tyrannical ("INDEPENDENT!") DoJ.

Just shaking my head at all the dumbfucks.
Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 05:32 PM (krQz2

Yes Steadman also ignored a a Congressional Subpoena. I believe it had to do with voting integrity /violations.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2024 05:38 PM (SHMXB)

49 Especially because it could be the case that over half of the voting public are migrating to the opinion that Jan-6 was a setup, or shenanigans of some kind.

Correct. This isn't going the way they'd planned.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 05:38 PM (xCA6C)

50 Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon.

The problem is, this prosecution has become and embarrassment to the Dems. So, they will get rid of it.
Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at June 19, 2024 05:37 PM (nLFEI)
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"Oh. We were never serious about it!" -- Dems

Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 05:38 PM (krQz2)

51 LYNCHBURG, Va.—Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), who is the head of the Freedom Caucus is locked in a tight race with Trump-backed Virginia state Sen. John McGuire.

Another self inflicted blow by a party that knows shit-from-Shinola about what the base wants.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 19, 2024 05:39 PM (aFNOf)

52 We have a soviet state within the 50 States. Anyone who takes a check, money, bribes, kickbacks, awards, payoffs, grants, refunds, credits, pensions, salaries and reach arounds from the cabal in warshington dc are part of the soviet state within the 50 States.

Eliminate the soviet state and the 50 States would get on quite well without it.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 19, 2024 05:39 PM (R/m4+)

53 All of the DOJ depts. It's going to take a strong hand to rein that in.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 05:40 PM (/Rqse)

54 Did the Senate have any role in issuing the original subpoenas? I thought it was solely the House committee.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2024 05:37 PM (1bNHn)

I don't know about any of that. I'm just referring to the whole Schoolhouse Rock version of how bills work.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 19, 2024 05:40 PM (rEPmj)

55 Oh goodie! Now that it's been proposed, the House can quickly pass it, send it on the Senate, where it'll zip right through, and head to the Presdent's desk.

Where he will surely sign it into law.

Cuz, it's urgent and necessary. Right?
Posted by: BurtTC at June 19, 2024 05:27 PM (rEPmj)
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Did the Senate have any role in issuing the original subpoenas? I thought it was solely the House committee.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2024 05:37 PM

The senate had nothing to do with the original criminal referrals and they won't have anything to do with this action if the House approves it.

The only argument I can see with this entire mess is the committee (jan 6th) that issued the criminal referrals no longer exists and that may gum up the works.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 19, 2024 05:40 PM (QNSds)

56 Cue the "I'm shocked, shocked to find out ..." speech from Casablanca.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at June 19, 2024 05:40 PM (CecP5)

57 The only argument I can see with this entire mess is the committee (jan 6th) that issued the criminal referrals no longer exists and that may gum up the works.

According to the mandated procedures, it never existed.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 05:41 PM (xCA6C)

58 Russians said something to the effect they knew the end was getting close, when everything they heard by their government was bullshit. So take heart, America!

One huge, crucial difference, everybody was made of pretty tough stuff and knew how to scrape by, survival wise.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 19, 2024 05:41 PM (RXYwk)

59 40 Also, f*ck Mike Johnson and John Boehner.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 19, 2024 05:30 PM

What am I, chopped liver?
Posted by: Kevin McCarthy at June 19, 2024 05:35 PM (rc+e1)
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No, Kev. You're a pile of dog doo. And not even steaming anymore.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2024 05:42 PM (1bNHn)

60 > I'm just referring to the whole Schoolhouse Rock version of how bills work.
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"Well Timmy, when a Senator and a Congressman love each other very much, they share a special kind of hug that.... "

Posted by: Don Black- it's hip to be square at June 19, 2024 05:42 PM (/7KEl)

61 Afternoon Komrades!
Is being very nice day in Pacific Northwest.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 19, 2024 05:42 PM (W/lyH)

62 We have a soviet state within the 50 States. Anyone who takes a check, money, bribes, kickbacks, awards, payoffs, grants, refunds, credits, pensions, salaries and reach arounds from the cabal in warshington dc are part of the soviet state within the 50 States.

Eliminate the soviet state and the 50 States would get on quite well without it.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 19, 2024 05:39 PM

So mine and the wife's Navy pension checks for serving 22 years each are part of the Soviet State?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 19, 2024 05:42 PM (QNSds)

63 >>>>Another self inflicted blow by a party that knows shit-from-Shinola about what the base wants.
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They know what the base wants. They don' GAS.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 05:42 PM (/Rqse)

64 However, the moderate Republicans are being winnowed down.

It's a slow, tough slog, to be sure.

I saw the bit about Bob Good losing his primary and two fed Chad's were pissed.

Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, voted to oust McCarthy, endorsed DeSantis.
McGuire was at J6 and was endorsed by Trump.

IDK. Who knows if it's good or bad.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 19, 2024 05:43 PM (8+c8C)

65 No, Kev. You're a pile of dog doo. And not even steaming anymore.

What ever happened to his brilliant plan to "get" all the people who orchestrated his removal from the Speakership?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 05:43 PM (xCA6C)

66 LYNCHBURG, Va.—Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), who is the head of the Freedom Caucus is locked in a tight race with Trump-backed Virginia state Sen. John McGuire.

Another self inflicted blow by a party that knows shit-from-Shinola about what the base wants.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 19, 2024 05:39 PM (aFNOf)

How is that a bad thing? If two "acceptable" candidates are competing for a seat, are you expecting the eventual primary winner is going to lose to a Democrat?

Or are you suggesting because Trump backs a guy, that automatically means he's shit?

Posted by: BurtTC at June 19, 2024 05:43 PM (rEPmj)

67 Had anyone else ever been imprisoned for ignoring a Congressional subpoena?

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2024 05:43 PM (SHMXB)

68 And, as I stated yesterday, barricades and barriers are currently going up in front of the SC Building...which is not a normal thing. They only do it on controversial rulings like axing Roe v. Wade. It's not the right which responds with violence, so read into that what you will.
Posted by: Orson at June 19, 2024 05:27 PM (dIske)

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I see it as threats to Supreme Court judges to decide the right way, that is the left way, or there will be trouble.

Posted by: Decaf at June 19, 2024 05:43 PM (unUNN)

69 If speaker Johnson would hang out at the tanning booth longer and cry more we'd have Boehner 2.0.

Posted by: Son of Dad at June 19, 2024 05:43 PM (8JB5s)

70 If you rescind a subpoena, does that mean the witness gets his testimony back?

Posted by: gp In A Vat at June 19, 2024 05:44 PM (MvF+J)

71 the J6 committee destroyed evidence.
Whether exculpatory or not, the fact that they needed to destroy evidence should have legal consequences.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 19, 2024 05:44 PM (MeG8a)

72 Hhahaha.

Just had a patient come in complaining about his right wing sister who is "one of this MAGA idiots." I said, " be careful, I am too."

"But wait, no, you're not."

"Sure I am. Is that a problem?"

He couldn't help himself and turned into a frothing idiot. I poked only a couple times. I left smiling. He's in a rage and his blood pressure through the roof.

Teehee!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 19, 2024 05:44 PM (f0sdr)

73 "Well Timmy, when a Senator and a Congressman love each other very much, they share a special kind of hug that.... "
Posted by: Don Black- it's hip to be square at June 19, 2024 05:42 PM (/7KEl)

... that gets filmed in a Senate hearing room?

Posted by: BurtTC at June 19, 2024 05:44 PM (rEPmj)

74 49 Especially because it could be the case that over half of the voting public are migrating to the opinion that Jan-6 was a setup, or shenanigans of some kind.

Correct. This isn't going the way they'd planned.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 05:38 PM (xCA6C)
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Were I to hypothesize, I'd bet that the Supreme Court rulings on Presidential Immunity is going to tank the entire Jack Smith case. This is damage control for the Dems because they can't control the Judge in that case and receive nothing but bad publicity from it (not to mention Biden's situation with confidential files). At the same time I suspect the Georgia and NY cases will continue after some rather questionable gymnastics to skirt around any decisions favorable to Trump. The fact that NY still has that gag order in effect supports this as well.

Posted by: Orson at June 19, 2024 05:44 PM (dIske)

75 Speaking on state corruption on a Soviet scale, the FBI knew about Hunter Biden's $120 million deal with a Ukranian oligarch when Joe was VP and I guess they, get this, covered it up.
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It's kind of looking like this whole Ukraine thing was a CIA op against Russia, where they let their "assets" grift away as reward for assisting.

Somebody said that Hunter was an "asset", and that it was the CIA that set up the Burisma deal and wanted the prosecutor fired and put Joe Biden up to it.

I could all be an extravagant pooch-screw for the "Defense of America", over which they impeached a President because he got too close and revealed too much and the Col Jessups in the CIA and Deep State don't think you can handle the truth and don't appreciate our tone when they are providing these services. They'd rather that we just say "Thank you" and proceed on our way.

Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 05:44 PM (OaZlZ)

76 Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, voted to oust McCarthy, endorsed DeSantis.
McGuire was at J6 and was endorsed by Trump.

IDK. Who knows if it's good or bad.

I detect an alarming lack of certainty and a disconcerting willingness to think about an issue, Comrade.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 05:45 PM (xCA6C)

77 61 Afternoon Komrades!
Is being very nice day in Pacific Northwest.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Rain storm finally making it to Mexico. The Texas valley's getting wet. Any plans at Boca Chica are on hold.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 05:45 PM (/Rqse)

78 "So mine and the wife's Navy pension checks for serving 22 years each are part of the Soviet State?"

Pensions, social security, all doomed eventually.

Posted by: gp In A Vat at June 19, 2024 05:45 PM (MvF+J)

79 I'm not getting my hopes up but the GOPe in the House could signal that they realize we're in a civil war if they vote to void the subpoenas. Fight on the beaches, in the hills in the streets, but first you have fight in the Capitol

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 19, 2024 05:46 PM (KhB32)

80 73 "Well Timmy, when a Senator and a Congressman love each other very much, they share a special kind of hug that.... "
Posted by: Don Black- it's hip to be square at June 19, 2024 05:42 PM (/7KEl)

... that gets filmed in a Senate hearing room?
Posted by: BurtTC at June 19, 2024 05:44 PM (rEPmj)
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Well, if I were a Senator (and single), and Anna Luna wanted a special hug, I'd be willing.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2024 05:46 PM (1bNHn)

81 the J6 committee destroyed evidence.
Whether exculpatory or not, the fact that they needed to destroy evidence should have legal consequences.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 19, 2024 05:44 PM (MeG8a)
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It should. But "shoulds" have to be backed up with power to compel them, unfortunately.

Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 05:46 PM (OaZlZ)

82 We aint seen nuthin yet...

Ever had to clean up an apartment, after a vindictive ex-tenant was forcibly evicted? You know... range turned to "hi" and left on; concrete poured into toilets; holes in the walls & cabinets pulled down... that sort of mess?

Well, if demonrats can't pull off The Steal--

*that* is what they will do to our country, before leaving office.

Hell, it's almost as if they've begun already (like we're just now serving the papers to them)

Posted by: JQ at June 19, 2024 05:47 PM (njWTi)

83 69 If speaker Johnson would hang out at the tanning booth longer and cry more we'd have Boehner 2.0.
Posted by: Son of Dad

I wonder if Boehner has to put on a pair of glasses when he attends one the Chinese bukkake festivals? To protect his eyes.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 19, 2024 05:47 PM (aFNOf)

84 Ever had to clean up an apartment, after a vindictive ex-tenant was forcibly evicted? You know... range turned to "hi" and left on; concrete poured into toilets; holes in the walls & cabinets pulled down... that sort of mess?

Well, if demonrats can't pull off The Steal--

*that* is what they will do to our country, before leaving office.

Hell, it's almost as if they've begun already (like we're just now serving the papers to them)

Why do you think they've opened the border?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 05:47 PM (xCA6C)

85 If you rescind a subpoena, does that mean the witness gets his testimony back?

Posted by: gp In A Vat at June 19, 2024 05:44 PM (MvF+J)
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"Jury, you will unhear that testimony!" -- Judges

Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 05:48 PM (OaZlZ)

86 >Had anyone else ever been imprisoned for ignoring a Congressional subpoena
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G Gordon Liddy

former ATTY Gen Richard Kleindienst plead guilty to the charge and received a suspended sentence

this is Watergate era stuff

Posted by: Don Black- it's hip to be square at June 19, 2024 05:48 PM (/7KEl)

87 81 the J6 committee destroyed evidence.
Whether exculpatory or not, the fact that they needed to destroy evidence should have legal consequences.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 19, 2024 05:44 PM (MeG8a)
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It should. But "shoulds" have to be backed up with power to compel them, unfortunately.
Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 05:46 PM (OaZlZ)
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Well, Cheyney did suffer rejection by the enemies of Our Democracy, so there's that.

And from what I've seen in video clips, Hageman is pretty good.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2024 05:48 PM (1bNHn)

88 Had anyone else ever been imprisoned for ignoring a Congressional subpoena
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G Gordon Liddy

former ATTY Gen Richard Kleindienst plead guilty to the charge and received a suspended sentence

this is Watergate era stuff
Posted by: Don Black- it's hip to be square at June 19, 2024 05:48 PM (/7KEl)
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Which was (D)ifferent.

Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 05:49 PM (OaZlZ)

89 It's kind of looking like this whole Ukraine thing was a CIA op against Russia, where they let their "assets" grift away as reward for assisting.

Somebody said that Hunter was an "asset", and that it was the CIA that set up the Burisma deal and wanted the prosecutor fired and put Joe Biden up to it.

I could all be an extravagant pooch-screw for the "Defense of America", over which they impeached a President because he got too close and revealed too much and the Col Jessups in the CIA and Deep State don't think you can handle the truth and don't appreciate our tone when they are providing these services. They'd rather that we just say "Thank you" and proceed on our way.
Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 05:44 PM (OaZlZ)

It's really larger than that. It's the neocon (which is both parties) dream of the perpetual empire, always expanding, always at war.

These people are so far up their own arses, the believe everything they do is right, and nobody's going to stop them.

This is Russia, stopping them. Soon to be followed by everyone else who realizes what a paper tiger the U.S. of A. is.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 19, 2024 05:49 PM (rEPmj)

90 85 'Wait, I was paid good money for that testimony!'

Posted by: gp In A Vat at June 19, 2024 05:49 PM (MvF+J)

91 "So mine and the wife's Navy pension checks for serving 22 years each are part of the Soviet State?"

Pensions, social security, all doomed eventually.

Posted by: gp In A Vat at June 19, 2024 05:45 PM

That was not the statement the OP made. I understand that the entire federal government is doomed eventually, but he claimed that the wife and I are part of the Soviet State simply by serving in the military long enough to get a pension.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 19, 2024 05:49 PM (QNSds)

92 Yes, Archimedes. That's why.

Posted by: JQ at June 19, 2024 05:49 PM (njWTi)

93 Well, if demonrats can't pull off The Steal--

*that* is what they will do to our country, before leaving office.

Hell, it's almost as if they've begun already (like we're just now serving the papers to them)
Posted by: JQ at June 19, 2024 05:47 PM (njWTi)
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They are already "kidproofing" the Oval Office. First the passed a law which makes is impossible to leave NATO (something like Senate super majority)....they they created a 10 year plan to enrich Ukraine that would have to be reversed in Congress (also, nearly impossible).

Posted by: Orson at June 19, 2024 05:49 PM (dIske)

94 " Did the Senate have any role in issuing the original subpoenas? I thought it was solely the House committee."

yeah, I think their statement says if it passes the House, it is over. But with Johnson and the turncoats, it is not assured, or maybe not even likely. idk

Posted by: illiniwek at June 19, 2024 05:50 PM (Cus5s)

95 I'm for going all in, Soviet style. The left will be empowered to do leftist things... like start killing off their own.

I can't believe that the Olde Guard Democrats would sit still for a Soviet-like takeover by the likes of "the squad." It's a sure-fire recipe for massive chaos among the left.

I'd encourage it. When the dust settles we'd likely need fewer bullets to clean up.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 19, 2024 05:51 PM (Q4IgG)

96 British Election. Yesterday's polls have Labour with 500+ seats and conservatives at 50ish. A poll previewed on GB News and to be released tomorrow has:
Labour 35%
Reform 24%
Tories 15%
Two weeks until the vote.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at June 19, 2024 05:51 PM (+xYe0)

97 Fauci is SCIENCE and Garland is LAW. Kind of scary.

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 19, 2024 05:52 PM (JLq/1)

98 Did the Senate have any role in issuing the original subpoenas? I thought it was solely the House committee."

yeah, I think their statement says if it passes the House, it is over. But with Johnson and the turncoats, it is not assured, or maybe not even likely. idk

Posted by: illiniwek at June 19, 2024 05:50 PM

And the doj will ignore it, just like they are ignoring a legitimate contempt ruling on AG garland. It's all theater at this point. And when Trump wins in November it will ramp up to biblical proportions. Trump will face lawsuits just for winning the election.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 19, 2024 05:52 PM (QNSds)

99 Well, if I were a Senator (and single), and Anna Luna wanted a special hug, I'd be willing.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2024 05:46 PM (1bNHn)

You want Anna Luna.

You'd settle for AOC.

You'll get Aidan Maese-Czeropski.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 19, 2024 05:53 PM (rEPmj)

100 >>>I understand that the entire federal government is doomed eventually, but he claimed that the wife and I are part of the Soviet State simply by serving in the military long enough to get a pension.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)
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Just tip your hat to the doomsayers and walk on by.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 05:53 PM (/Rqse)

101 This should have been done 17 months ago.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 19, 2024 05:54 PM (RDcc+)

102 I would take AOC. Gag her first thing.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 05:54 PM (/Rqse)

103 97 Fauci is SCIENCE and Garland is LAW. Kind of scary.
Posted by: Northernlurker at June 19, 2024 05:52 PM (JLq/1)
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And Biden is both Intelligence and Activity.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2024 05:54 PM (1bNHn)

104 I'm wearing my shocked face.
Now back to watching the TV special, "LGBTBBQWTF+ Juneteenth Celebration: More Pride than Eva!"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 05:54 PM (ynpvh)

105 They are already "kidproofing" the Oval Office. First the passed a law which makes is impossible to leave NATO (something like Senate super majority)....they they created a 10 year plan to enrich Ukraine that would have to be reversed in Congress (also, nearly impossible).
Posted by: Orson at June 19, 2024 05:49 PM (dIske)
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"Presidents" are doing more things to get around having the Senate chime in on treaties, these days, since Obama's "personal agreement with Iran".

Joe has signed one or two of these "personal agreements", so Trump can send a "personal withdrawal letter" to NATO (and be promptly impeached for going against the DC grain!)

Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 05:54 PM (OaZlZ)

106 103 97 Fauci is SCIENCE and Garland is LAW. Kind of scary.
Posted by: Northernlurker at June 19, 2024 05:52 PM (JLq/1)
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And Biden is both Intelligence and Activity.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2024 05:54 PM (1bNHn)

Hmmm...Depends.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 05:55 PM (ynpvh)

107 @99 BurtTC I would modify that to ;you get Rose DeLauro

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 19, 2024 05:56 PM (KhB32)

108 First the passed a law which makes is impossible to leave NATO (something like Senate super majority)....they they created a 10 year plan to enrich Ukraine that would have to be reversed in Congress (also, nearly impossible).
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Pfft. Invoke the *nukular* option, just like ol' Hairy Screed. What? We don't get the Senate?

EO. Not 'legal'? Pfft. We don't ~~need~~ have no steenkin laws.

Posted by: JQ at June 19, 2024 05:56 PM (njWTi)

109 91 I'm on social security, so the remark stings me too a bit. I take no offense. I accept that YMMV.

Posted by: gp In A Vat at June 19, 2024 05:56 PM (MvF+J)

110 I FUCKING LOVE IT

Posted by: Max Power at June 19, 2024 05:57 PM (q177U)

111 101 This should have been done 17 months ago.
Posted by: tankdemon
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Election's coming up ---> things get done.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 05:57 PM (/Rqse)

112 And the doj will ignore it, just like they are ignoring a legitimate contempt ruling on AG garland. It's all theater at this point. And when Trump wins in November it will ramp up to biblical proportions. Trump will face lawsuits just for winning the election.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 19, 2024 05:52 PM (QNSds)
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Remember when Rosenberg was rattling his sabre about Senators asking too many questions and just possibly "obstructing" the DoJ?

I do.

The oversite-less DoJ, that's the future these lock-steppers are driving us to (nevermind the mixed metaphor I left in the road back there)

Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 05:57 PM (OaZlZ)

113 I meant to say I love it when the House proposes a Bill that will never pass.

Posted by: Max Power at June 19, 2024 05:58 PM (q177U)

114 I'm on social security, so the remark stings me too a bit. I take no offense. I accept that YMMV.

I do. I earned what I have. OTOH, he got to sound butch saying what he did, and that's the important thing.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 05:58 PM (xCA6C)

115 "Vote for me- I appear to be Doing Something"

Posted by: Don Black- it's hip to be square at June 19, 2024 05:58 PM (/7KEl)

116 101 This should have been done 17 months ago.
Posted by: tankdemon

When the last five Republican Speakers were/are on the grift or weak sisters or both you get nothing. But vote Republican because...change.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 19, 2024 05:59 PM (aFNOf)

117 ---
Remember when Rosenberg was rattling his sabre about Senators asking too many questions and just possibly "obstructing" the DoJ?
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I thought he was executed.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 06:00 PM (/Rqse)

118 I meant to say I love it when the House proposes a Bill that will never pass.
Posted by: Max Power at June 19, 2024 05:58 PM (q177U)
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A quote from Hannibal Smith?

Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 06:00 PM (OaZlZ)

119 I for one am shook to my core over the revelation that the same entity that:
Shot a woman holding her baby
Ignored the 9/11 bombers
Ignored the Boston bombers
Helped terrorist to attempt to kill Pam Geller
Protected a pedophile for decades while he raped gymnasts
Blocked any investigation into Epstein
Arrested more people for illegal parading than sex trafficking

And now you tell me they are protecting a politician taking bribes?
When did the FBI lose its way?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 19, 2024 06:00 PM (8+c8C)

120 Having lost family, lifelong friends and strained numerous other former business and personal connections due to Trump support....
If Trump were to out-ballot the Communists in November and does not --above all other 'policies' --punish the sedition and treason to the fullest extent of the law, his Presidency will be, at best, a short rest stop before The Abyss.
Still it is an open question whether Trump will do and have justice done to the Treasonous Left. Maybe Trump will deal with The Left in a way they deserve.
May be Trump's learned something sitting in court and facing phony felonies, corrupt juries and 'judges' and imprisonment ..let's hope so.

Posted by: Voter theater. at June 19, 2024 06:01 PM (FCPbW)

121 Remember when Rosenberg was rattling his sabre about Senators asking too many questions and just possibly "obstructing" the DoJ?
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I thought he was executed.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 06:00 PM (/Rqse)
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Was it Rosenstein then? Yeah, I think it was.

Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 06:01 PM (OaZlZ)

122 A third world police state, if you can keep it ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at June 19, 2024 06:01 PM (NGa9E)

123 Remember when Rosenberg was rattling his sabre about Senators asking too many questions and just possibly "obstructing" the DoJ?
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I thought he was executed.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 06:00 PM (/Rqse)
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Was it Rosenstein then? Yeah, I think it was.

I was wondering....

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 06:01 PM (xCA6C)

124 I'm on social security, so the remark stings me too a bit. I take no offense. I accept that YMMV.

I do. I earned what I have. OTOH, he got to sound butch saying what he did, and that's the important thing.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 05:58 PM

And he dumped a load of crap and left. Typical coward.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 19, 2024 06:01 PM (QNSds)

125 I understand that the entire federal government is doomed eventually, but he claimed that the wife and I are part of the Soviet State simply by serving in the military long enough to get a pension.
Posted by: Mister Scott

In my era we were not allowed to wear our uniforms off base. So ignore them and thank you for you years of service.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 19, 2024 06:02 PM (UC3nL)

126 He couldn't help himself and turned into a frothing idiot. I poked only a couple times. I left smiling. He's in a rage and his blood pressure through the roof.

Teehee!
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 19, 2024 05:44 PM

Sounds like a French 34 candidate!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 19, 2024 06:02 PM (rc+e1)

127 And he dumped a load of crap and left.

Biden is not supposed to be a role model.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 06:02 PM (xCA6C)

128 Trump will do and have justice done to the Treasonous Left.

I asked the same question when Antifa was shooting people dead in the streets and firebombing the ICE center during the summer of love. He will do nothing.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 19, 2024 06:03 PM (aFNOf)

129 114 I'm on social security, so the remark stings me too a bit. I take no offense. I accept that YMMV.

I do. I earned what I have. OTOH, he got to sound butch saying what he did, and that's the important thing.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 05:58 PM (xCA6C)
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Disagree. I, too, am on SS. And I'd be in deep s**t if I lost it. (Among the other delightful effects of gummint policy is the fact that my non-SS income's value has been deflated.)

But if it comes down to my nation vs my being screwed, I have to accept the screwing. Many Americans have sacrificed more. And I'm in no shape to help much in a war. Social Security < Lives, fortunes, and sacred honor.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2024 06:04 PM (1bNHn)

130 We truly are no longer a serious nation.

Summer fruit injuries are real. Here's how to prevent and treat avocado hand, watermelon wounds and lime burns.

https://tinyurl.com/7zkwhdbu

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 06:04 PM (xCA6C)

131 And now you tell me they are protecting a politician taking bribes?
When did the FBI lose its way?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

When J. Edgar Hoover's staff covered up for his wearing women's clothing. That's when those duplicitous cock suckers lost their way as an organization.

Posted by: BifBewalski at June 19, 2024 06:05 PM (MsrgL)

132 We truly are no longer a serious nation.

Summer fruit injuries are real. Here's how to prevent and treat avocado hand, watermelon wounds and lime burns.

https://tinyurl.com/7zkwhdbu
Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 06:04 PM (xCA6C)
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"Slap a hot iron on it. Problem solved."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 19, 2024 06:05 PM (BpYfr)

133 It's probably what Hunter's Crack and Hookers period was about. As an "intelligence" asset who was paid by the IC turning their back on graft and sweetheart no-show jobs--and also as the son of the VP, he probably felt invulnerable and untouchable.

It's probably also what the hidden no-future-prosecution clause in the plea deal is about.

Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 06:06 PM (OaZlZ)

134 Navarro has maybe a month left, but they are taking out Bannon for the four months before the election. His War Room has a lot of loyal followers.

With Garland's non-prosecution for same thing, a higher court, up to SCOTUS should take the case. But then they should also take the Trump lawfare case(s) down.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 19, 2024 06:06 PM (Cus5s)

135 Disagree. I, too, am on SS. And I'd be in deep s**t if I lost it. (Among the other delightful effects of gummint policy is the fact that my non-SS income's value has been deflated.)

But if it comes down to my nation vs my being screwed, I have to accept the screwing. Many Americans have sacrificed more. And I'm in no shape to help much in a war. Social Security

And as I have said here repeatedly, if I could be assured that my sacrifice of WHAT I EARNED would go to solving the country's debt problem, and not politicians trying to buy votes, I'd accept it. I would, however, expect my sacrifice to be acknowledged, and not mocked as something I didn't earn.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 06:06 PM (xCA6C)

136 Here's how to prevent and treat avocado hand

I heard Lindsey Graham has a chronic case of that.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 19, 2024 06:06 PM (aFNOf)

137

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 06:07 PM (xCA6C)

138 Then again, Jefferey Epstein probably "kept America safe" in his own way that his own supervising Col. Jessup approved of as "necessary" for state security.

But no patriot can actually back his actions.

Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 06:07 PM (OaZlZ)

139 129 I hope we can all agree that, going forward, it is foolish to trust government promises, particularly about financial returns, and especially those promises to be fulfilled by future generations, not by the people who made the promises. We were suckers.

Posted by: gp In A Vat at June 19, 2024 06:07 PM (MvF+J)

140 121 Remember when Rosenberg was rattling his sabre about Senators asking too many questions and just possibly "obstructing" the DoJ?
----------------------

I thought he was executed.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 06:00 PM (/Rqse)
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Was it Rosenstein then? Yeah, I think it was.
Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 06:01 PM (OaZlZ)
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Rosencratnz. Supported by Guildenstern. Both are dead.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2024 06:08 PM (1bNHn)

141 The FBI needs a plot alongside J. Edgar.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 19, 2024 06:08 PM (pohLc)

142 140 121 Remember when Rosenberg was rattling his sabre about Senators asking too many questions and just possibly "obstructing" the DoJ?
----------------------

I thought he was executed.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 06:00 PM (/Rqse)
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Was it Rosenstein then? Yeah, I think it was.
Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 06:01 PM (OaZlZ)
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Rosencratnz. Supported by Guildenstern. Both are dead.

No, that was Rosie O'Donnell.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 06:09 PM (xCA6C)

143
I asked the same question when Antifa was shooting people dead in the streets and firebombing the ICE center during the summer of love. He will do nothing.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

I enjoy reading these type of posts: He was and will be head of the FEDERAL government. The Feds can't step in and do anything until the State asks for help.
What part of that don't you understand?

That being said I suspect he can change the rules of engagement for fed owned properties all on his own.
That will get people killed for attacking federal property: court houses, jails, and whatnot...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 19, 2024 06:09 PM (UC3nL)

144 White House video caption slip-up dubs Kamala Harris ‘Madam President’ during ‘Queer Eye’ cast meeting

Posted by: Don Black- it's hip to be square at June 19, 2024 06:09 PM (/7KEl)

145 FBI/CIA has folders inside dossiers inside binders on every member of congress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb5moqslJM4

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 06:09 PM (/Rqse)

146
Disinformation, disinformationist.

Task Force Tater is on it.

Posted by: Auspex at June 19, 2024 06:10 PM (j4U/Z)

147 Then, of course, they lied all through 2019 and 2020 when they staged wargames with the media in which they gamed out a scenario in which falsified documents about Hunter Biden were pushed by Russia in a "hack-and-release" operation.

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None Dare Call It Collusion, Treason, and A Soft Coup.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at June 19, 2024 06:10 PM (NGa9E)

148 FBI/CIA has folders inside dossiers inside binders on every member of congress.

Wheels within wheels.

Posted by: Kwisatz Haderach at June 19, 2024 06:10 PM (xCA6C)

149 America strong as ox.

Posted by: ... at June 19, 2024 06:10 PM (lX8VI)

150 Here's how to prevent and treat avocado hand

Link?

Posted by: Mrs. Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke at June 19, 2024 06:10 PM (rc+e1)

151 FBI/CIA has folders inside dossiers inside binders on every member of congress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb5moqslJM4

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 06:09 PM (/Rqse)
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And Hillary Clinton read most of them that they had in the 90s.

Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 06:10 PM (OaZlZ)

152 Just read Sundowner's attack dog Commander actually drew blood on a SS agent and a request for the tape recently it was let know that was destroyed right pronto.

Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2024 06:11 PM (fwDg9)

153 America strong as ox.
Posted by: ... at June 19, 2024 06:10 PM (lX8VI)
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Just dumb as one, too.

Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 06:11 PM (OaZlZ)

154 Wait.

Arguably one of the, if not THE most powerful US gov administration positions - FBI director - is a cross dressing queer? From the 1920s thru the 1970s? 50 years, and nobody thought this was important? How does that happen?

Posted by: Common Tater at June 19, 2024 06:11 PM (RXYwk)

155 DURING PRIDE MONTH?!!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at June 19, 2024 06:11 PM (5cMXi)

156 Rosencratnz. Supported by Guildenstern. Both are dead.

No, that was Rosie O'Donnell.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 06:09 PM (xCA6C)
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I don't think Rosie is dead.

Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 06:12 PM (OaZlZ)

157 Rosencratnz. Supported by Guildenstern. Both are dead.

No, that was Rosie O'Donnell.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 06:09 PM (xCA6C)
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I don't think Rosie is dead.

With her LDL? It's a medical miracle.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 06:12 PM (xCA6C)

158 Some of us are watching long, complete speeches by the president.
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Those are from 1988 and written by Neil Kinnock.

Posted by: ... at June 19, 2024 06:12 PM (lX8VI)

159 we're like the soviets but way faggier

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 19, 2024 06:13 PM (s3qiR)

160 Task Force Tater is on it.
Posted by: Auspex at June 19, 2024 06:10 PM (j4U/Z)

Task Force Tater. I like it.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 19, 2024 06:13 PM (pohLc)

161 There Is Nothing More Important Than Being Gay.

Posted by: There Is Nothing More Important Than Being Gay at June 19, 2024 06:13 PM (8sMut)

162 >and nobody thought this was important? How does that happen?
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J Edgar had dirt on everybody
LBJ made him director-for-life

Posted by: Don Black- it's hip to be square at June 19, 2024 06:13 PM (/7KEl)

163 " Just read Sundowner's attack dog Commander actually drew blood on a SS agent and a request for the tape recently it was let know that was destroyed right pronto."

Wonder if Joe himself is safe from the dog? Come on Joe, we need you still standing, even if frozen, for the election.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 19, 2024 06:14 PM (Cus5s)

164 we're like the soviets but way faggier

Speak for yourself.

Posted by: Rudolf Nureyev at June 19, 2024 06:14 PM (xCA6C)

165 Yawn. Has DNC Parrot Maj. Healey ever had a negative word for her masters?

Bore. Bore. Bore.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 19, 2024 06:14 PM (wBaIH)

166 Wonder if Joe himself is safe from the dog? Come on Joe, we need you still standing, even if frozen, for the election.

2 words. Ramsay Bolton.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 06:15 PM (xCA6C)

167 Just read Sundowner's attack dog Commander actually drew blood on a SS agent and a request for the tape recently it was let know that was destroyed right pronto.
Posted by: Skip at June 19,

Forgive the intensity of my density but was the dog destroyed or the tape?

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 19, 2024 06:15 PM (JLq/1)

168 Arguably one of the, if not THE most powerful US gov administration positions - FBI director - is a cross dressing queer? From the 1920s thru the 1970s? 50 years, and nobody thought this was important? How does that happen?

Posted by: Common Tater at June 19, 2024 06:11 PM (RXYwk)
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That's just the whisper campaign against Hoover. I saw a real historian say there is no proof of that. But there is proof that it was started as a whisper campaign.

Not that I have much love for Hoover and what he started of the American Surveillance state (even though it's possible that his measures "kept us safe"), but that's probably not true.

They said that Joe McCarthy was gay for his brother. That line where he's dressed down with "Have you no decency", IIRC was when Joe was trying to get back on the topic of Commie infiltration and off the subject about whether he wanted to bone his brother.

Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 06:15 PM (OaZlZ)

169 24 attacks by Biden's abused dog on SS

funny

speaking of faggotry, did the Dylan's Hairdresser Kamala visit make the blog yet today?

that guy is something speshull

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 19, 2024 06:16 PM (s3qiR)

170 what about
we have won the war and need to win the peace
Grant and civil war stuff

Posted by: yoeman at June 19, 2024 06:16 PM (j1QfB)

171 Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 19, 2024 06:09 PM (UC3nL)

That not entirely true . The Feds can intervene w/o the States invite when Federal property is being attacked. The President can invoke the Insurrection Act.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2024 06:16 PM (SHMXB)

172 >>According to Just The News, The FBI has known since 2016 about Hunter Biden's involvement in a $120 million deal with a Ukrainian oligarch during Joe Biden's vice presidency, according to recently disclosed documents.

Of course they knew. They know everything.

The US intel community has been running Ukraine since the coup in 2014.

Joe isn't their boss, he's their partner. If Joe goes down so do they.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 19, 2024 06:17 PM (LkLld)

173 The politburo does not approve. You will be moved to Alaska

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 19, 2024 06:17 PM (WF/xn)

174 There's not the slightest possibility Joe could handle a dominant or aggressive dog.

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 19, 2024 06:17 PM (JLq/1)

175 Joe isn't their boss, he's their partner. If Joe goes down so do they.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 19, 2024 06:17 PM (LkLld)
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Kamala is more likely to go down.

Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 06:17 PM (OaZlZ)

176 nood

Posted by: gp In A Vat at June 19, 2024 06:18 PM (MvF+J)

177 The politburo does not approve. You will be moved to Alaska

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 19, 2024 06:17 PM (WF/xn)
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Forget it, Jake. It's DC.

Posted by: Axeman at June 19, 2024 06:18 PM (OaZlZ)

178 174 There's not the slightest possibility Joe could handle a dominant or aggressive dog.
Posted by: Northernlurker at June 19, 2024 06:17 PM (JLq/1)

Well he can stand there and get his leg pissed on.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 19, 2024 06:18 PM (pohLc)

179 nood quick hits grey boxing

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 19, 2024 06:19 PM (ZdexC)

180 Pizza Hut franchises suffering from Bidenflation... and from selling hot circles of garbage.

Posted by: Son of Dad at June 19, 2024 06:19 PM (8JB5s)

181 In September 1989, just two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall and amid the final years of the Soviet Union, a member of the Soviet Parliament paid a visit to a grocery store in the Clear Lake area.

His name: Boris Yeltsin. Yes, that Boris Yeltsin.

He'd been the mayor of Moscow, and two years later, he'd play a significant role in the end of communism in Russia. He'd also later serve as that nation's first post-Soviet president.

But on Sept. 16, 1989, Yeltsin just wanted to catch a glimpse of everyday American life. So, during his visit to NASA, he asked to check out a local grocery store.

This will be the demise of the USA. A member of the Peoples Republic of Greater North America will visit Houston, or Orlando and see stores with food, and clothes, and electronics and will go back to the DC Mega City and mention to a High Party Member the wealth and happiness. She will be told that it is possible to go take the food, and clothes, and electronics and bring it all back. When asked with what? Our army our trucks our might.
She will be told we have NONE of that. It is gone. It was sold. It was stolen. It was a mark on paper that was burned for heat and light.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 19, 2024 06:20 PM (ENQN6)

182 The DOJ should not be able to enforce subpoenas from Congress. Congress is legislative, their product is legislation and bills of attainder are unConstitutional.

BUUUUUUT, now the left is ok with it, Trump better hire hot and bothered DOJ officials that are willing to take the Dems to the wall.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 19, 2024 06:20 PM (IG4Id)

183 The tape, Commander like Major before him got sent to live elsewhere but not allowed in the White house

Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2024 06:20 PM (fwDg9)

184 "Here's how to prevent and treat avocado hand, watermelon wounds and lime burns.

https://tinyurl.com/7zkwhdbu
Posted by: Archimedes"

How about cucumber injuries?

Posted by: Pawl at June 19, 2024 06:20 PM (vFG9F)

185 167 Forgive the intensity of my density but was the dog destroyed or the tape?
Posted by: Northernlurker at June 19, 2024 06:15

The tape. The dog was given away. The Biden’s have given 2 GSD away since he was in office for these episodes. GSDs are protective, but well bred ones are not aggressive. It seems very strange they would have 2 serious biters in a row.

Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 06:20 PM (pZEOD)

186 It's not the right which responds with violence, so read into that what you will.
Posted by: Orson at June 19, 2024 05:27 PM (dIske)

Are you sure about that?

Posted by: Tiki boys ready to be deployed deploy at June 19, 2024 06:22 PM (JIf/x)

187
Melon ball balls -- the worst!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 19, 2024 06:22 PM (xG4kz)

188 Yeah, the train wreck pile-up definitely culminated around ‘68 thru early ‘72 right in there. A confluence of a lot of changes.

Remember all the Geritol Geriatrics hanging on by their fingernails now, *they* were the “new wave” kicking all the old Democrats eg Hubert Humphry, Scoop Jackson, and George McGovern to the curb. Tom Hayden and the rest of it.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 19, 2024 06:22 PM (RXYwk)

189 I would take AOC. Gag her first thing.
by: Braenyard

*****

She'd chomp right thru your standard S&M ball gag. Would take something more substantial.

Posted by: Son of Dad at June 19, 2024 06:23 PM (8JB5s)

190 The Idaho Republican congress is shutting off water supplies to local farmers because, they are Republican's that love the feel of Chinese cock in their collective asses.
But, I'll continue to vote Republican in my local elections.
GFY
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 19, 2024 05:33 PM (aFNOf)

You seem to use a lot of homoerotic and rape imagery in your postings. Is there something you would like to get off your chest, or is this the world you live in?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2024 06:25 PM (D7oie)

191 Rudolf Nureyev

White Nights?

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 06:26 PM (/Rqse)

192 He may need to get something off his chest but they did cut the water off 500,000 acre that had already been fertilized and planted.
Holodomor anyone?

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 06:30 PM (/Rqse)

193 Oh, thanks, hind tit again.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 06:31 PM (/Rqse)

194 Jerry Ford as president once had his dog wake him up early to go outside and he took the elevator downstairs from the residence in his bath robe and slippers. Problem was he got locked out, and had to pound on the walls to get the attention of the staff.

People used to drive right up to the WH in their cars and park out of the rain under the portico during thunderstorms. Each successive big war meant increasing security and isolation.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 19, 2024 06:31 PM (RXYwk)

195 That was not the statement the OP made. I understand that the entire federal government is doomed eventually, but he claimed that the wife and I are part of the Soviet State simply by serving in the military long enough to get a pension.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 19, 2024 05:49 PM (QNSds)

Germany is cancelling service pensions for service related injuries because "they knew what they were getting into" when they volunteered for airborne and scouts and tankers and other high impact slots.
Which is pretty rich from some Euro-commie who probably rioted against the national service act.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2024 06:32 PM (D7oie)

196 They lie

We know they lie

They know that we know that they lie

And yet we let them lie anyway

Posted by: Tom at June 19, 2024 06:40 PM (cASes)

197 'Having lost family, lifelong friends and strained numerous other former business and personal connections due to Trump support....'

So fkn what? Blah blah blah de blah. Nobody owes you anything, your life is what YOU make it.

Posted by: pakisa at June 19, 2024 06:42 PM (aYLkU)

198 I think the faggotry is a bridge too far for the________.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 19, 2024 07:02 PM (QSrLX)

199 F***F*** the DOJ and FBI. As an officer of the court I repudiate and reject everything associated with these corrupt snakes of our government. Did I say F*** Brandon also? Well then, F*** Brandon too.

Posted by: Sanity break 2 at June 19, 2024 07:31 PM (0cJcL)

200 There's N0 comparison to be made between us and ivan in terms of military. We by no means suffer the degree of corruption and incompetence--simply put, WE ARE as lethal and competent as indicated. Just ask Japan and Germany.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at June 19, 2024 07:40 PM (hKoQL)

201 How DARE you point out the obvious to #conservatives
They paid in to the system, and by GOD, they'll get what's coming to them.

Hopefully, it's a 0.5 ounce of lead with a copper jacket.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at June 19, 2024 08:01 PM (s/6fM)

202 I've heard NY and NJ have a bad problem with hit and run drivers. It would be a tragedy if an epidemic occurred of judges getting run over by vehicles.

Posted by: Sanity break 2 at June 19, 2024 08:20 PM (0cJcL)

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