How Obama Took Hillary Clinton's Dirty OppoDump Cocaine and Cooked Off the Impurities to Turn It Into Clean, Healthy Psyops Crack

The DOJ announced that it is forming a "strike force" to investigate and potentially prosecute Obama and his co-conspirators in the anti-Trump Putsch:

GRAHAM, CORNYN CALL FOR SPECIAL PROSECUTOR: Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) are jointly calling for Attorney General Pam Bondi to appoint a Special Prosecutor to assess evidence former President Barack Obama managed the Russia-gate effort to undermine Donald Trump during his first term in the Oval Office.
-- Mark Tapscott at Instapundit

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Special prosecutors don't seem that good at getting to the bottom of things.

Yeah, he's right, special prosecutors seem to mostly pursue political ends, and the end here is to bury the story, because it's too big. Once you give a matter to a special prosecutor, his office is a black box from which no information flows until, one day, many years from now, he emerges from his office to declare "No intent."

Paul Sperry reports on admitted cocaine-abuser Barack Obama's cooking of Hillary Clinton's RussiaGate coke into sweet, untainted government-investigated crack:

The Obama intelligence community's claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized dirty tricks to try and help Donald Trump win the 2016 election was based on "one scant, unclear and unverifiable fragment of a sentence from one of the substandard [intelligence] reports," according to a just-declassified report that had been locked away in a CIA vault.
Nevertheless, former CIA Director John Brennan ordered agency analysts to use the claim in the Intelligence Community Assessment issued during the Obama administration's final days -- even though the ICA itself noted that how the information on Putin's plans was obtained was "not explicitly clear."
A 46-page report by the House of Representatives released Wednesday found that the source of the claim about Putin -- reportedly a Russian defector living in Northern Virginia described as "anti-Trump" -- merely speculated to Brennan about something he had been told by somebody else: namely, that Putin was "counting on" Trump winning.

I thought this was Iggy Danchenko, the permanent floating employee of various Democrat grifter operations who wanted a position in the would-be Hillary Clinton administration. But Sperry thinks it's someone else.

ICA participants interpreted the informant's phrase "counting on" several different ways, the report said. Many NSA and CIA officials viewed "counting on" as meaning the same thing as "expected," which is much different than the language -- Putin "preferred" Trump -- Brennan's five handpicked drafters used in the ICA.
The congressional review determined that "the ICA did not cite any [classified] report where Putin directly indicated helping Trump win was the objective." (Emphasis added.)
No Corroborating Intelligence
The report then drops a bombshell: "The ICA judgment on Putin's thoughts about helping candidate Trump does not stand if [Brennan's] single interpretation of the fragment [from the tip that Putin was 'counting on' Trump winning] is wrong, because there is no other intelligence corroborating it."
The 2019 report, which investigated the spycraft that went into the highly classified and restricted version of the ICA, found that the Obama intelligence community's assessment of Russia's intentions changed sharply after Trump's surprising victory.
On the eve of the 2016 election, Brennan sent a "Fusion Cell" memo to Obama summarizing all the most secret, compartmented intel gathered on Trump and Russia. According to the House report declassified and released by DNI Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday, that memo " made no mention of Putin 'aspiring' for a Trump victory." Although the Russian defector had shared his thoughts about Putin with Brennan in July, the CIA director's Nov. 6 memo concluded, "Putin expected [Clinton] to win."
But then in early December, after Obama ordered a new assessment, Brennan dusted off the informant's second-hand hearsay, which had been shelved as unreliable. The CIA director, who had previously worked for Obama in the White House, suddenly insisted it underpin the new conclusion about Putin's motives.
"The major 'high confidence' judgment of the ICA rests on one opinion about a text fragment with uncertain meaning," the House report found. "This text -- which would not have been published without [Brennan's] orders to do so -- is cited using only one interpretation of its meaning and without considering alternative interpretations," in violation of Intelligence Community Directive 203. One alternative was that Putin was "counting on" Trump winning the primary and nomination at the GOP Convention that July, just two weeks after the informant provided the tip, not the general election in November 2106.
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Brennan, who could not be reached for comment, has strongly defended his work. Requests for comment from Comey and his attorney went unanswered.
Harvey and other investigators spent hundreds of hours inside a highly secure room called a SCIF at CIA headquarters poring over the raw intelligence materials that supposedly backstopped the ICA's conclusions. In an exclusive interview with RealClearInvestigations, he said it became clear, after closer inspection, that the raw information the informant provided lacked credibility. "There really was no evidence that Putin supported Trump," Harvey said.
Even so, Brennan as well as Comey, who also handled the informant, pushed to include his tip in the ICA to back the judgment Putin worked to help Trump win the election, all the while concealing their star source's identity, background and reliability from most of the participants involved in the crafting of the ICA.
"They knew he was not reliable and they tried to hide access to him," Harvey said. "They knew he had bad sources. This stuff was weak."
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Brennan's informant is believed to be Oleg Smolenkov, who previously worked in the Russian Embassy in Washington and later as a government foreign policy adviser in Moscow, before moving back to the D.C. area in early 2017.
Brennan said his source could not be revealed because Putin might have him executed. However, reporters easily found Smolenkov living in a six-bedroom home in Stafford, Va., listed in his and his wife's real names.
It's not known if Smolenkov was paid for his information. The CIA and FBI declined to comment.
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Explaining why NSA dissented from the key Putin conclusion, former NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers argued the human source it was based on "did not have direct access" to insider information about Putin. Also, he added, "I didn't see multiple sources."
Foreign press outlets have noted that Smolenkov "would not have direct access to secret information at either the Russian Embassy in the U.S. or while working for the presidential administration in Moscow."

Mollie Hemingway has a fresh report about all of the professional, career intelligence analysts -- the ones we're supposed to always trust above political appointees like John Brennan -- who objected to Brennan's dirty oppo file cocaine and did not believe it could be cooked into pure, healthy Organic Crack with probiotis and anti-inflammatory riboflavin.

Senior intelligence officials strenuously fought the demands of former FBI Director James Comey and other Obama intelligence chiefs to include the false and unverified Steele dossier in an official assessment of Russian activities ordered by President Barack Obama in the closing weeks of his presidency, records reviewed exclusively by The Federalist show. The records, which are related to ongoing criminal investigations into Comey and other top intelligence officials for their roles in launching the Russia collusion hoax, provide damning evidence of Obama intelligence chiefs' malfeasance beyond the explosive information released Wednesday by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
Previous government investigations into the Russia collusion hoax dryly described the opposition merely as officials having "expressed concern" about using the infamous Steele dossier because it was "not completely vetted." But records reviewed by The Federalist reveal career intelligence officials expressed outright shock at the poor quality of the reporting that the FBI repeatedly insisted be included in the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) -- and objected to any reference to the dodgy dossier.
"Based solely on what we DO know now, my bottom line is this -- unless FBI is prepared to provide much better sourcing -- I believe this should NOT be included in the paper," one official wrote, caps and all. Noting that the document had not been formally issued as an FBI product, the official stressed it suffered from "POOR SOURCE TRADECRAFT," had "extremely sketchy" sourcing, and "simply does not meet normal [intelligence community] standards."
The Steele dossier, a product of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, was a collection of salacious and unverified stories about rival presidential candidate Donald Trump supposedly colluding with Russia. Clinton secretly funded the information operation and the group she hired to create the dossier spread the false information it contained to reporters, politicians, and the FBI.
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Former FBI Director James Comey's demand the ICA include the Steele dossier helped Brennan develop the false but explosive narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election in order to help Trump. Intelligence officials immediately pushed back on including the dossier in the ICA, with one senior official recorded as saying, in materials reviewed exclusively by The Federalist, that the fact that the source was paid at first by an "anti-Trump Republican, and later a different Democrat client" meant the author knew what his clients wanted. He "clearly had a motive to pass along info, however poorly sourced, since it generated revenue," the official warned.
Intelligence officials also worried that Steele had relied on sub-sources whose identity and credibility were unknown to the FBI. The concern was validated in January 2017 when interviews with the primary subsource, Igor Danchenko, showed the document's scurrilous allegations lacked credibility. Rather than admit their error, FBI officials continued to defend their use of the dossier for years and hid Danchenko's identity from congressional scrutiny by hiring him as an informant.
FBI officials insisted to the officials working on the ICA that the information in the dossier was good. One intelligence official wondered why, if the information was as good as the FBI claimed, Democrats did not deploy it against Trump during the campaign, the records stated.
The FBI countered that Steele was a credible source whose reporting had, at least somewhat, been corroborated. The intelligence officials were skeptical.
"If, as we have been told, FBI has some corroborating material from an ongoing investigation, can that be used? I thought they never do that? If they feel this overrides the investigation, some of the corroborating reporting must be included in the paper. If not, I would argue for dropping the page," the official said, explaining in detail "Why we should oppose inclusion of the FBI material."
The previously unreported records reviewed by The Federalist also showed the FBI stressing that since the Steele dossier was already "out there," it should be included in the body of the ICA.
A senior intelligence official eviscerated the argument, responding: "Just how 'out there' is it? All we know for sure is that much of the content of the document appeared in [Mother Jones] in October and a copy of something is in Sen. McCain's hands." The senior official added that including the dossier in the ICA would essentially confirm the salacious reporting, punctuating his point by comparing the Steele reporting to a December 12, 2016 National Enquirer story headlined, "MUSLIM SPIES IN OBAMA'S CIA!" That article included quotes from sources alleging that the agency had 55 double agents, so the analyst asked rhetorically if that detail should be included in an intelligence assessment as well.

DAMAGE CONTROL? Fake News CNN cuts away just as @DNIGabbard outlines the lengths to which the Obama Administration went to manufacture the Russia collusion hoax pic.twitter.com/qmzx5wQ60d
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 23, 2025

BREAKING: James Clapper admits he is concerned about prosecution and has "lawyered up."

You can even hear the trembling in his voice. Good.

That's the sound of a person who just found out that he is not "above the law."pic.twitter.com/m5esx5bztC
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) July 24, 2025

CNN's racist witch-faced left-wing "national security" (and social justice) "analyst" explained that Clapper is just sad to see that Muh Pillars of Muh Republic is crumbling.

Juliette Kayyem
@juliettekayyem
Knowing Clapper, I think that is the sound of a man distraught that a nation he spent his life defending as an intelligence chief now has one who is using the position to defame people Trump doesn't like in order to deflect from his scandals. That's the sound.

Posted by: Ace at 02:10 PM

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1 Well, as long as I'm at the front page again, let's give another look at the Sydney Sweeney ad in the sidebar...

Posted by: t-bird at July 25, 2025 02:12 PM (RQgUN)

2

Just like heroin. It's clean once you heat it.

Posted by: Hunter at July 25, 2025 02:12 PM (g6TN6)

3 How Obama Took Hillary Clinton's Dirty OppoDump Cocaine and Cooked Off the Impurities to Turn It Into Clean, Healthy Psyops Crack
—Ace

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A callback for the ages.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 25, 2025 02:13 PM (PMtkd)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 25, 2025 02:13 PM (Zz0t1)

5 "Releasing knowingly made up intelligence to impugn the reputation of a political rival is not a bad thing!"
-the left

"Okay. I'm going to do it to a Democrat or two."
-Trump

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:14 PM (GBKbO)

6 GRAHAM, CORNYN CALL FOR SPECIAL PROSECUTOR: Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) are jointly calling for Attorney General Pam Bondi to appoint a Special Prosecutor to assess evidence former President Barack Obama managed the Russia-gate effort to undermine Donald Trump during his first term in the Oval Office.

-- Mark Tapscott at Instapundit

Are they entering an election year?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 25, 2025 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)

7 Wait, Crack is more pure than regular cocaine?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 02:14 PM (zZu0s)

8 he DOJ announced that it is forming a "strike force" to investigate and potentially prosecute Obama and his co-conspirators in the anti-Trump Putsch

Which means, I suspect, that they have already done the investigation and are now rattling the cages.

Posted by: t-bird at July 25, 2025 02:14 PM (RQgUN)

9 Juliette Kayyem is also a Harvard professor. I'm just soooo impressed! /not

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 02:14 PM (2GCMq)

10 Last special prosecutor I recall was John Durham. He did a bang up job of shuffling papers. Miss Lindsey and Cornyn are trying to protect DC and the Deep State

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 02:14 PM (hIY2p)

11 I've often wondered about the constitutional (or even common law) basis for "special prosecutors".

Like (fill in the blank) "czars", the office appears to have no justification whatsoever.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 25, 2025 02:15 PM (qpyNK)

12 linkedin.com/in/seancook1/
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Tea was born from a deeply personal mission—to give women the tools they need to date safely in a world that often overlooks their protection.
Founder Sean Cook launched Tea after witnessing his mother’s terrifying experiences with online dating—not only being catfished but unknowingly engaging with men who had criminal records. Realizing that traditional dating apps do little to protect users, Sean knew something had to change.
Tea is on a mission to revolutionize dating safety by equipping women with cutting-edge tools, real-time insights, and a powerful community to navigate the modern dating world with confidence and control.
Tea was self-funded by Sean and has helped over 1,000,000 women make safer dating decisions.

So this guy saw Tyrone from Ithaca sending his mom a picture of his BBC, and that's why he created this joke of an app. To "protect" women.
How protected are these women feeling now?

Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 02:15 PM (gKWVE)

13 whole of society initiative > strike force > task force > coffee klatch > brunch

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 02:15 PM (3kTgY)

14 GRAHAM, CORNYN CALL FOR SPECIAL PROSECUTOR: Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) are jointly calling for Attorney General Pam Bondi to appoint a Special Prosecutor to assess evidence former President Barack Obama managed the Russia-gate effort to undermine Donald Trump during his first term in the Oval Office.

-- Mark Tapscott at Instapundit

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How about a dedicated team of DOJ employees, headed by a political appointee through the normal chain of command?

That good enough?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

15 You can even hear the trembling in his voice. Good.

That's the sound of a person who just found out that he is not "above the law."pic.twitter.com/m5esx5bztC

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) July 24, 2025

Call me when he's actually on trial by jury.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 25, 2025 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)

16 How do you know a special prosecutor is like a blue ribbon committee and designed to accomplish nothing meaningful in the end? Because assholes like Graham and Cornyn want one.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 25, 2025 02:16 PM (wKJf5)

17 >>> 6
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Are they entering an election year?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 25, 2025 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)

LOL

I don't think even Paxton's wife ditching him will save Cornyn.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 02:16 PM (ULPxl)

18 10 Last special prosecutor I recall was John Durham. He did a bang up job of shuffling papers. Miss Lindsey and Cornyn are trying to protect DC and the Deep State
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 02:14 PM (hIY2p)

And Hur... Yeah Biden is guilty of taking classified documents but he's a doddering old man who can't be charged but he's totally okay to remain President...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2025 02:16 PM (VE6XX)

19 whole of society initiative > strike force > task force > coffee klatch > brunch
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 02:15 PM (3kTgY)

Where does 'Mean Girl Clique' fall?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 02:16 PM (zZu0s)

20 Until I see these pigs in orange jump suits I’m not getting too excited.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 02:16 PM (Vvm2m)

21 Wait, Crack is more pure than regular cocaine?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 02:14 PM (zZu0s)

According to Hunter.

You add baking soda and cook it which gets rid of ALL the impurities.

It's cleaner and healthier than alcohol.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 25, 2025 02:16 PM (Zz0t1)

22 Gabbard may turn out to be the best administration choice.

She has credibility, she was targeted so she's motivated and she speaks without being emotional or screachy.

When she speaks, I believe what she says. I can't say that about most politicians, on the left or right.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 25, 2025 02:17 PM (PMtkd)

23
I don't think even Paxton's wife ditching him will save Cornyn.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 02:16 PM (ULPxl)

From your keyboard to God's ears.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 25, 2025 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

24 December 9th, 2016: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy!

Posted by: ShainS -- December 9th, 2016: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy! at July 25, 2025 02:17 PM (33n1u)

25 22 Gabbard may turn out to be the best administration choice.

She has credibility, she was targeted so she's motivated and she speaks without being emotional or screachy.

When she speaks, I believe what she says. I can't say that about most politicians, on the left or right.
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 25, 2025 02:17 PM (PMtkd)

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She's being allowed a moment to shine after embarrassing herself over Iran a month ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:18 PM (GBKbO)

26
Where does 'Mean Girl Clique' fall?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 02:16 PM (zZu0s)

Off a cliff?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 25, 2025 02:18 PM (Zz0t1)

27 Crack is plant based.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 25, 2025 02:18 PM (eGw1s)

28 Trump should get 4 more years for all the hell they put him through during his first term.
All based on lies.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2025 02:18 PM (NpAcC)

29 Wait, Crack is more pure than regular cocaine?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 02:14 PM (zZu0s)

Duh.

Posted by: Robert H. Biden at July 25, 2025 02:18 PM (PGK1w)

30 This has been a great day of watching my enemies driven before me, and hearing the lamentations of their women.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 02:18 PM (gKWVE)

31 23
I don't think even Paxton's wife ditching him will save Cornyn.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 02:16 PM (ULPxl)

From your keyboard to God's ears.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 25, 2025 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

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When was the last time an accusation of infidelity ended a candidate's chance at that level?

I'm genuinely curious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:18 PM (GBKbO)

32 Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) are jointly calling for Attorney General Pam Bondi to appoint a Special Prosecutor to assess evidence former President Barack Obama managed the Russia-gate effort to undermine Donald Trump during his first term in the Oval Office.

The two fucks that should be kept away as far from this as possible. Unless one of The Weak Sisters want in. Then it would be five fucks that should be kept away from it as much as possible.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 25, 2025 02:18 PM (hk7Ln)

33 @27 vegetarian crack

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 02:19 PM (hIY2p)

34 Go take a hike with your "special prosecutor."

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2025 02:19 PM (WHfpM)

35 What’s wrong with ‘pure healthy natural crack’? Lotsa women got famous for theirs. Oh wait — we’re talking about the drug?

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 02:19 PM (aeiyZ)

36
When was the last time an accusation of infidelity ended a candidate's chance at that level?

I'm genuinely curious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:18 PM (GBKbO)

They usually only get away with killing off an intern they were banging.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 25, 2025 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)

37 Call me when he's actually on trial by jury.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 25, 2025 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)

If that's the call you're waiting for, disconnect your phone. Waste of $$$.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2025 02:19 PM (ABFkN)

38 How about a dedicated team of DOJ employees, headed by a political appointee through the normal chain of command?

That good enough?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Tapscott has been in DC since the 80's as a GOP staffer and as a result is a quiet Never Trumper who keeps extolling GOPe types that he thinks are so wonderful like Lankford, etc.

He should keep to his ministry rather than political commentary nowadays as time has left him behind.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 02:19 PM (ctrM5)

39 >>> 28 Trump should get 4 more years for all the hell they put him through during his first term.
All based on lies.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2025 02:18 PM (NpAcC)

If the stupid ass leftists decide to start a civil war over things his admin is doing, he ought to suspend elections just like their hero Zelensky.

/only somewhat joking

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 02:19 PM (ULPxl)

40 If Cornyn is for it, you know it’s going to help Democrat.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 02:19 PM (Vvm2m)

41 Even if it goes nowhere, forcing the information out and mking progs sweat is worth it.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 25, 2025 02:19 PM (n4GiU)

42 32 Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) are jointly calling for Attorney General Pam Bondi to appoint a Special Prosecutor to assess evidence former President Barack Obama managed the Russia-gate effort to undermine Donald Trump during his first term in the Oval Office.

Only if it's Matt Gaetz...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2025 02:19 PM (VE6XX)

43 Knowing Clapper, I think that is the sound of a man distraught that a nation he spent his life defending as an intelligence chief now has one who is using the position to defame people Trump doesn't like in order to deflect from his scandals. That's the sound.

Nah, I'm pretty sure that's the sound of a guilty man who's afraid he's going to wind up in prison married to some buff guy covered with tattoos of daggers and barbed wire.

Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 02:20 PM (mADJX)

44 No special counsil ever again.

Posted by: Mongo at July 25, 2025 02:20 PM (s9EN2)

45 How Obama Took Hillary Clinton's Dirty OppoDump Cocaine and Cooked Off the Impurities to Turn It Into Clean, Healthy Psyops Crack
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Let him cook.

Posted by: zombie Walter White at July 25, 2025 02:20 PM (2yoRf)

46 44 No special counsil ever again.
Posted by: Mongo at July 25, 2025 02:20 PM (s9EN2)

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They just pawn in game of life.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:20 PM (GBKbO)

47 Juliette seems to be having trouble forming sentences.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 25, 2025 02:21 PM (xcxpd)

48 When was the last time an accusation of infidelity ended a candidate's chance at that level?
__________

Maybe when 7 of 9's unsealed divorce record knocked Obama's strongest opponent out of his Senate race. Of course, that wasn't infidelity per se.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 25, 2025 02:21 PM (jR6V7)

49 When was the last time an accusation of infidelity ended a candidate's chance at that level?

I'm genuinely curious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:18 PM (GBKbO)

I might have an answer.

Posted by: Gary Hartpence at July 25, 2025 02:21 PM (PiwSw)

50 'investigators spent hundreds of hours inside a highly secure room called a SCIF at CIA headquarters"

Secure Crack Ingestion Facility

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 02:21 PM (3kTgY)

51 Mistakes were made. I think it was the guys in the Cincinnati office.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 25, 2025 02:21 PM (L/fGl)

52 48 When was the last time an accusation of infidelity ended a candidate's chance at that level?
__________

Maybe when 7 of 9's unsealed divorce record knocked Obama's strongest opponent out of his Senate race. Of course, that wasn't infidelity per se.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 25, 2025 02:21 PM (jR6V7)

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So, if we take this, it's been almost 20 years.

And Ryan had far less of a profile in IL than Paxton does in TX, I believe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:22 PM (GBKbO)

53 If Cornyn is for it, you know it’s going to help Democrat.

Its helpful, at these moments, to remember that bitching at South Carolina about Lindsey Gramnasty and Kentucky about Bitch McConnell is only intellectually honest if you bitch at Texas ... the most rootin' tootin' American Place Ever ... keeps electing John Friggin' Cornyn.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 25, 2025 02:22 PM (hk7Ln)

54 Obama is t going to prison.

Clapper will probably get some slap on the hand for filing a TPS report in the wrong filing cabinet, with a $250 fine and promise to never do it again.

We’ve seen this move before. Hell we’ve seen 20 sequels of this movie. There is no justice for these pigs and never will be.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 02:22 PM (Vvm2m)

55 Tapscott as a Christian is a relic from the Falwell / Swaggart era. Yay Martin Luther King (he was a Republican you know), boo Darwin that racist. Which is why he preaches mainly to the over-60s at Instapundit's place; he'd get pantsed if he tried that to a younger audience.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 02:22 PM (gKWVE)

56 >>> 31

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When was the last time an accusation of infidelity ended a candidate's chance at that level?

I'm genuinely curious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:18 PM (GBKbO)

I can't think of anyone besides Gary Hart at the moment, and he wasn't going for Senator.

However, I do Question The Timing of her decision.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 02:22 PM (ULPxl)

57 Willowed:
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Obama offered access to his political machine if he could pick the VP. Sound familiar ? Biden said no.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 25, 2025 02:14 PM (hk7Ln)
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I think that CBS Interview Biden took right at the beginning of his presidency speaks to the counter: (paraphrase)"I told Barack that if we ever couldn't come to an agreement, I could fake an illness and step down."

Why people still stuck to a guy who didn't know better than to publicly broadcast this, is still beyond my ken.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:22 PM (krQz2)

58 When was the last time an accusation of infidelity ended a candidate's chance at that level?
__________

What, me worry?

Posted by: John Edwards at July 25, 2025 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

59
One thing I've been shocked about in this whole revelation is the number of intel officials who were conscientious and competent. Too bad they didn't speak up for the sake of the nation.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 02:22 PM (lCaJd)

60 When was the last time an accusation of infidelity ended a candidate's chance at that level?

I'm genuinely curious.
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Gee, How about when they illegally unsealed Ryan's divorce records to put the Kenyan in the Senate?

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at July 25, 2025 02:22 PM (F/35S)

61 Gabbard may turn out to be the best administration choice.

She has credibility, she was targeted so she's motivated and she speaks without being emotional or screachy.

When she speaks, I believe what she says. I can't say that about most politicians, on the left or right.
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 25, 2025 02:17 PM (PMtkd)

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She's being allowed a moment to shine after embarrassing herself over Iran a month ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:18 PM (GBKbO)
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I think this is more about revenge. She didn’t say anything wrong about Iran. The media just lied about what she said. It was another completely media-created scandal. This is her chance to say ‘and fuck you too.’

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 02:22 PM (aeiyZ)

62 Even if it goes nowhere, forcing the information out and mking progs sweat is worth it.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 25, 2025 02:19 PM (n4GiU)

That's the point. It's a public humiliation. Nobody in Trump's administration expects a trial except in the court of public opinion. They aren't stupid, at least by DC standards, anyway.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2025 02:23 PM (ABFkN)

63 When was the last time an accusation of infidelity ended a candidate's chance at that level?

I'm genuinely curious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:18 PM (GBKbO)

Jeri Ryan's husband, Jack?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 25, 2025 02:23 PM (xcxpd)

64 Sperry is one of my go-to guys.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:23 PM (krQz2)

65 When was the last time an accusation of infidelity ended a candidate's chance at that level?

I'm genuinely curious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Gary Hart on the Monkey Business comes to mind as far as presidential races. There was a last minute (true as it turned out) NYT hit on GHWB banging his traveling secretary in 92. Babs later confirmed it in her memoirs. But Bush was likely at that point to lose anyway.

Mind is blank on prominent senators or representatives. Heck, even Mark Sanford had a second short career before he committed hari kari for Paul Ryan's Never Trumper crusade.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 02:23 PM (ctrM5)

66
"Strike Force" sounds like a bad 50's noir film.

Posted by: Auspex at July 25, 2025 02:23 PM (Y8DZL)

67 I see no reason the DOJ shouldn't handle the investigation and subsequent prosecutions. Enough with this special counsel b.s.

Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 02:23 PM (mADJX)

68 Janes Clapper's face makes me think maybe there is something to the lizard people conspiracy

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 25, 2025 02:23 PM (jR6V7)

69 You can lose a lot of pounds on a crack diet.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:23 PM (krQz2)

70 >>According to Hunter.

>You add baking soda and cook it which gets rid of ALL the impurities.

>It's cleaner and healthier than alcohol.

It's essentially like Carob v Chocolate.

Posted by: garrett at July 25, 2025 02:24 PM (oSEaw)

71
Clapper squirming

Its a start

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at July 25, 2025 02:24 PM (8a1tB)

72 Knowing Clapper, I think that is the sound of a man distraught...

What is the sound of one hand clappering?

Posted by: Oddbob at July 25, 2025 02:24 PM (/y8xj)

73 is only intellectually honest if you bitch at Texas ... the most rootin' tootin' American Place Ever ... keeps electing John Friggin' Cornyn.
Posted by: Long Memory at July 25, 2025 02:22 PM (hk7Ln)

There's an incredibly strong chance Cornyn will be gone next year.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 25, 2025 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)

74 65 Gary Hart on the Monkey Business comes to mind as far as presidential races. There was a last minute (true as it turned out) NYT hit on GHWB banging his traveling secretary in 92. Babs later confirmed it in her memoirs. But Bush was likely at that point to lose anyway.

Mind is blank on prominent senators or representatives. Heck, even Mark Sanford had a second short career before he committed hari kari for Paul Ryan's Never Trumper crusade.
Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 02:23 PM (ctrM5)

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Yeah, the assumption that extramarital affairs are deadly to political careers feel decidedly...pre-Clinton at this point.

They have happened since, but they feel like pocket cases.

Democrats convinced America that personal morals are simply not a determining factor when it comes to electoral selection.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:24 PM (GBKbO)

75 In 2029, the special prosecutor will release a 17,000 page report that will find no wrongdoing and recommend better training.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 02:24 PM (Vvm2m)

76 >>You can lose a lot of pounds on a crack diet.

Meth is quicker.

Owing mostly to the density of Teeth.

Posted by: garrett at July 25, 2025 02:24 PM (oSEaw)

77 I should have remembered the JEF's "surprise".

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 02:25 PM (ULPxl)

78 I'm thinking maybe Lindsay wants something covered up.

I don't know that it would personally implicate him, but a friend or a donor or beloved DC in general?

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:25 PM (krQz2)

79 >>> 28 Trump should get 4 more years for all the hell they put him through during his first term.
All based on lies.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2025 02:18 PM (NpAcC)

If the stupid ass leftists decide to start a civil war over things his admin is doing, he ought to suspend elections just like their hero Zelensky.

/only somewhat joking
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 02:19 PM (ULPxl)

The criminal wing of the Dems might have been able to pull something off. The left wingers have no shot, their experience is just what their professors in the air conditioned offices told them 10 years ago.

Just by holding the few highways entering an urban area it would just be days before food became a problem.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 02:25 PM (8avO+)

80 @31TJM, I think John Edwards aka Silky Pony had his campaign derailed.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 02:25 PM (hIY2p)

81

Stacy Keach IS Strike Force!

Coming this Fall to CBS.

Posted by: toby928 at July 25, 2025 02:25 PM (jc0TO)

82 Larry Craig is the most recent GOP infidelity example 86ing a career that I can think of. But his also involved gay dudes in restrooms, which is extra special ...

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 25, 2025 02:25 PM (wKJf5)

83 You can lose a lot of pounds on a crack diet.
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I eat out there every chance I get!

Posted by: Rosie O'Donut at July 25, 2025 02:25 PM (2yoRf)

84
It's essentially like Carob v Chocolate.
Posted by: garrett at July 25, 2025 02:24 PM (oSEaw)

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You'd think the CIA would have Hillaried Hunter years ago.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 25, 2025 02:25 PM (PMtkd)

85

Meth is quicker.

Owing mostly to the density of Teeth.
Posted by: garrett at July 25, 2025 02:24 PM (oSEaw)

Rural areas are prone to take on the Jenny Crank diet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 25, 2025 02:25 PM (Zz0t1)

86 Well, if The Blade is appointed Special Prosecutor then you can count on truth and honesty … and motherfuckers’ heads on pikes. But mostly motherfuckers’ heads on pikes.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 02:25 PM (aeiyZ)

87 >>One thing I've been shocked about in this whole revelation is the number of intel officials who were conscientious and competent. Too bad they didn't speak up for the sake of the nation.

They were conscious of their Pensions, that's for fucking sure.

Posted by: garrett at July 25, 2025 02:26 PM (oSEaw)

88 Are they entering an election year?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 25, 2025 02:14 PM

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How do you know a special prosecutor is like a blue ribbon committee and designed to accomplish nothing meaningful in the end? Because assholes like Graham and Cornyn want one.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 25, 2025 02:16 PM

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Last special prosecutor I recall was John Durham. He did a bang up job of shuffling papers. Miss Lindsey and Cornyn are trying to protect DC and the Deep State
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 02:14 PM

All y'all are **far** too young to be this cynical. *eek*

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 02:26 PM (0sNs1)

89 78 I'm thinking maybe Lindsay wants something covered up.

I don't know that it would personally implicate him, but a friend or a donor or beloved DC in general?
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:25 PM (krQz2)

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He's just making a show because he likes being the center of attention, and the sounds of "special prosecutor" or counsel just sound good to dummies' ears.

I don't think anyone would dislike Graham nearly as much if he could just say no to a camera every once in a while.

If he could, he'd never have said to nationalize the banks in 2007, and he'd just be the good ole boy from SC who votes right almost all of the time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:26 PM (GBKbO)

90 Yeah, the assumption that extramarital affairs are deadly to political careers feel decidedly...pre-Clinton at this point.

They have happened since, but they feel like pocket cases.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:24 PM (GBKbO)
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Cheat on your wife.
Don't say "pussy".

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:26 PM (krQz2)

91 I think that CBS Interview Biden took right at the beginning of his presidency speaks to the counter: (paraphrase)"I told Barack that if we ever couldn't come to an agreement, I could fake an illness and step down."

Why people still stuck to a guy who didn't know better than to publicly broadcast this, is still beyond my ken.

Hence my point, Axe. In 2016, Joe said no. In 2020, Joe took the deal. That's entirely my point. Something changed. Probably how much graft Joe was taking. And him going senile and having to feed this group of vampires around him.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 25, 2025 02:26 PM (hk7Ln)

92 Juliette Kayyem is also a Harvard professor. I'm just soooo impressed! /not

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 02:14 PM (2GCMq)

But wait... there's more...

She is married to David J. Barron, a judge on the First Circuit Court of Appeals.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 25, 2025 02:26 PM (ExV1e)

93 80 @31TJM, I think John Edwards aka Silky Pony had his campaign derailed.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 02:25 PM (hIY2p)

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I may have to watch that again for a good laugh.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 25, 2025 02:26 PM (PMtkd)

94 *eek* =

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 02:26 PM (0sNs1)

95 Stacy Keach IS Strike Force!

Coming this Fall to CBS.
Posted by: toby928 at July 25, 2025 02:25 PM (jc0TO)

Isn't he dead?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 25, 2025 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

96 The assumption is everyone in DC is fucking everyone.

So some big revelation that - OMG - such and such Senator is fucking someone, is shrug for most people.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 02:26 PM (Vvm2m)

97 I gotta be honest about this: it too complicated and involves too many moving parts for me to follow well and I know that 99.99% of voters don't get it either. This isn't gonna resonate with anyone but I hope it ends up with guys like Clapper and Brennan getting real prison time and ruined reputations.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 02:27 PM (dfIr7)

98 There's really. only one choice for Special Prosecutor:

Carrot Top

Posted by: Otto Pen at July 25, 2025 02:27 PM (sJHOI)

99 @43

>>Nah, I'm pretty sure that's the sound of a guilty man who's afraid he's going to wind up in prison married to some buff guy covered with tattoos of daggers and barbed wire.

From what I have heard so far, Clapper didn't want to go along with the plan so they tapped Brennan to lead the op with Comey and McCabe.

If anyone talks first, I bet it's Clapper.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2025 02:27 PM (OD1lg)

100 Democrats convinced America that personal morals are simply not a determining factor when it comes to electoral selection.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:24 PM (GBKbO)

A local race might be different. I think Trump can pull Paxon through even assuming the other guy runs again. If the polls are bad he might quit to get a cushy job somewhere, or an Ambassadorship.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 02:27 PM (8avO+)

101 They have happened since, but they feel like pocket cases.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Earl Long's admonition of "being caught with a dead girl or live boy" in bed comes to mind.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 02:27 PM (ctrM5)

102 >>> Yeah, the assumption that extramarital affairs are deadly to political careers feel decidedly...pre-Clinton at this point.

They have happened since, but they feel like pocket cases.

Democrats convinced America that personal morals are simply not a determining factor when it comes to electoral selection.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:24 PM (GBKbO)

The last critical incident was an obama op on the execrable husband of 7o9. Jack Ryan gave us obama.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at July 25, 2025 02:27 PM (cduTK)

103 Meth is quicker.

Owing mostly to the density of Teeth.
Posted by: garrett at July 25, 2025 02:24 PM (oSEaw)
——

Obligatory Ozzy reference:

Wine is fine but meth is quicker
Suicide is slow with liquor
Take a bottle and drown your sorrows
Then it floods away tomorrows

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 02:28 PM (aeiyZ)

104
1.
>>The FBI countered that Steele was a credible source whose reporting had, at least somewhat, been corroborated.

This is the fulcrum they pivoted their entire cook operation on: "somewhat."

Which could mean "he spelled some of the words correctly."

2. I can't believe we are still arguing over this. It was obvious to everyone that Putin preferred corrupt, crazy, uranium selling, genocide hiding, reset button mongering Hillary.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 25, 2025 02:28 PM (Toufn)

105 >>> 79
==
The criminal wing of the Dems might have been able to pull something off. The left wingers have no shot, their experience is just what their professors in the air conditioned offices told them 10 years ago.

Just by holding the few highways entering an urban area it would just be days before food became a problem.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 02:25 PM (8avO+)

I suspect the real problem will be those who are best at lying, in the form of pretending to be someone they aren't; so sabotage, backstabbing etc outside the cities.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 02:28 PM (ULPxl)

106 I don't think the old line about being caught with a"live girl or a dead boy" applies anymore.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 02:28 PM (hIY2p)

107 100 A local race might be different. I think Trump can pull Paxon through even assuming the other guy runs again. If the polls are bad he might quit to get a cushy job somewhere, or an Ambassadorship.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 02:27 PM (8avO+)

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Senate races are more akin to presidential races than local races, especially in a state as large as Texas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:28 PM (GBKbO)

108 "The ICA judgment on Putin's thoughts about helping candidate Trump does not stand if [Brennan's] single interpretation of the fragment [from the tip that Putin was 'counting on' Trump winning] is wrong, because there is no other intelligence corroborating it."
__________

That's it? The conclusion and entire ensuing investigation rested on that alone?

If that's it, then I don't see how they can keep the lid on this.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 25, 2025 02:28 PM (XvL8K)

109 On the Dem side, there was that threesome gal from Calif. But threesome, and it involved a staffer, and she was a unloved hot mess in general.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 25, 2025 02:29 PM (wKJf5)

110 85 Ha!

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 02:29 PM (3kTgY)

111 In 2016, Joe said no. In 2020, Joe took the deal. That's entirely my point. Something changed.

... it was the impeachment of Trump. The democrats claimed Trump was targeting their upcoming presidential candidate.

Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2025 02:29 PM (GITLP)

112 108 That's it? The conclusion and entire ensuing investigation rested on that alone?

If that's it, then I don't see how they can keep the lid on this.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 25, 2025 02:28 PM (XvL8K)

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Two things:

1. This has been assumed for about 4 years based on circumstantial evidence.

2. This is the first primary documentary evidence of that assumption that proves it right.

and a third:

3. The MSM is keeping a lid on it. The same MSM that said that Trump was Hitler so much that he never got close to the presidency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:29 PM (GBKbO)

113 @97

>>I gotta be honest about this: it too complicated and involves too many moving parts for me to follow well and I know that 99.99% of voters don't get it either.

Actually, it's not very complicated and if I wasn't typing on an iPhone I could explain it in three sentences.

Over to you Jack Straw.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2025 02:30 PM (OD1lg)

114 From what I have heard so far, Clapper didn't want to go along with the plan so they tapped Brennan to lead the op with Comey and McCabe.

And thats what you have to do. Have to flip one of them, and make him sing like a bird.

And also keep real fucking people you trust outside their hotel room or cell.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 25, 2025 02:30 PM (hk7Ln)

115 Trump should get 4 more years for all the hell they put him through during his first term.
All based on lies.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2025 02:18 PM (NpAcC)
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I'm at least a partial advocate of that stance.

I do think we should get rid of that amendment, because no President before FDR had a "lame duck term". Yeah, they did a traditional 2 terms, and dictator-wannabe FDR fooled the American people into 4. But they created the half-mostly-useless system.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:30 PM (krQz2)

116 Meta on Friday said starting in October it will no longer accept political, election or social issue ads in the European Union, in response to new regulation that it says will cause "significant operational challenges and legal uncertainties."

Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2025 02:30 PM (GITLP)

117 The last critical incident was an obama op on the execrable husband of 7o9. Jack Ryan gave us obama.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at July 25, 2025 02:27 PM (cduTK)

This is somewhat of a myth. Obama would have almost certainly won that race regardless. It’s Illinois, it’s a hip young cool black guy from Chicago running for senate.. You think middle aged White guy Republican had any chance? Let’s be real.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 02:30 PM (Vvm2m)

118 Isn't he dead?

He's resting. Beautiful plumage though.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 25, 2025 02:30 PM (/y8xj)

119 If he could, he'd never have said to nationalize the banks in 2007, and he'd just be the good ole boy from SC who votes right almost all of the time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:26 PM (GBKbO)

He's way too tight with the Neocon warmongers to be trusted.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 02:30 PM (8avO+)

120
Gabbard may turn out to be the best administration choice.

She has credibility, she was targeted so she's motivated and she speaks without being emotional or screachy.

When she speaks, I believe what she says. I can't say that about most politicians, on the left or right.
Posted by: Seems Legit

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

I wish she hadn't overpromised with that "treason" and "criminal" and "prosecution" talk. I know, it's essentially true -- Obama undermined our democratic process by interfering in the 2016 election (the July 2016 fake intel) and trying to get a duly elected president hobbled if not kicked out of office based on lies (the January 2017 fake intel) -- but lawyering it is going to be another thing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 02:30 PM (lCaJd)

121 'Once you give a matter to a special prosecutor, his office is a black box from which no information flows until, one day, many years from now, he emerges from his office to declare "No intent."'

That sounds about right all righty.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 02:31 PM (3kTgY)

122 89 78 I'm thinking maybe Lindsay wants something covered up.

I don't know that it would personally implicate him, but a friend or a donor or beloved DC in general?
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:25 PM (krQz2)

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He's just making a show because he likes being the center of attention, and the sounds of "special prosecutor" or counsel just sound good to dummies' ears.

I don't think anyone would dislike Graham nearly as much if he could just say no to a camera every once in a while.

If he could, he'd never have said to nationalize the banks in 2007, and he'd just be the good ole boy from SC who votes right almost all of the time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Graham relies on the Deep State to cover up his jaunts with male prostitutes. There is a reason he is called by some as Ladybugs Lindsay.

So the call for a special prosecutor is designed to obfuscate the role of the Deep State rather than send people to jail for what they did.

Thoroughly and completely untrustworthy without a moral compass other than what is good for Lindsay is good for 'Murica.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 02:31 PM (ctrM5)

123 With all of this news coming out about the treason, "news" stations are going to have to come up with more than fraudulent Epstein stories to pretend it isn't happening.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 25, 2025 02:31 PM (Vfq+S)

124 I don't think the old line about being caught with a"live girl or a dead boy" applies anymore.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 02:28 PM (hIY2p)
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Who's talking about Tim Walz?

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:31 PM (krQz2)

125 119 If he could, he'd never have said to nationalize the banks in 2007, and he'd just be the good ole boy from SC who votes right almost all of the time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:26 PM (GBKbO)

He's way too tight with the Neocon warmongers to be trusted.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 02:30 PM (8avO+)

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He is. But I bet there are 20 others who are just as tight and don't rush to cameras to make asses of themselves.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:32 PM (GBKbO)

126 69 You can lose a lot of pounds on a crack diet.
Posted by: Axeman
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Cheaper than Ozempic, I tell you what.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 25, 2025 02:32 PM (Toufn)

127 Let 'em have it Good and Hard.

Right up the Wazoo.

No lube.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 25, 2025 02:32 PM (wVcYX)

128 I think Paxton will pull through. They've spent years and years trying to dirty him up now, and the voters have made it clear they're not buying it. Cornyn is arguably his first serious opponent though.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 25, 2025 02:32 PM (wKJf5)

129 Well, it's not Mother's Day but . . .

Mandy @glowingcanary
I wanted 4 children. I would still like to have a child. BUT WHY IN THE NAME OF GOD WOULD I BRING A CHILD INTO THIS LITERAL FASCIST HELLSCAPE WITH NO WAY OF PROTECTING THEM FROM THE REALITIES OF THE NIGHTMARE WE’VE COLLECTIVELY CREATED?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 25, 2025 02:32 PM (L/fGl)

130 120
Gabbard may turn out to be the best administration choice.

She has credibility, she was targeted so she's motivated and she speaks without being emotional or screachy.

When she speaks, I believe what she says. I can't say that about most politicians, on the left or right.
Posted by: Seems Legit
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Never get enamored with politicians, they will always break your heart. Ambition is a helluva drug.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 02:32 PM (ctrM5)

131 The last critical incident was an obama op on the execrable husband of 7o9. Jack Ryan gave us obama.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at July 25, 2025 02:27 PM (cduTK)

This is somewhat of a myth. Obama would have almost certainly won that race regardless. It’s Illinois, it’s a hip young cool black guy from Chicago running for senate.. You think middle aged White guy Republican had any chance? Let’s be real.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 02:30 PM (Vvm2m)
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Ryan was popular and good looking and rich and way out in polls, IIRC. Obama was a fag nobody at the time with a cunting wife that nobody liked.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 02:32 PM (aeiyZ)

132
3. The MSM is keeping a lid on it. The same MSM that said that Trump was Hitler so much that he never got close to the presidency.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
________

So this sentence fragment is the only thing that changed between 12/8/16 and 12/9/16. That is the entirety of the "new information." Is that right?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 25, 2025 02:33 PM (XvL8K)

133 122 Thoroughly and completely untrustworthy without a moral compass other than what is good for Lindsay is good for 'Murica.
Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 02:31 PM (ctrM5)

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Don't get me wrong. I don't think he's a good guy.

But his need for camera attention just creates this base level of hate towards him that does make him actually worry a bit every 6 years that he could otherwise avoid if he just said, "Nah...I don't need to be in front of a camera today."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:33 PM (GBKbO)

134 The only white guy who could have beaten Obama in Illinois in his Senate race was Mike Ditka

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 02:33 PM (hIY2p)

135 Mandy @glowingcanary
I wanted 4 children. I would still like to have a child. BUT WHY IN THE NAME OF GOD WOULD I BRING A CHILD INTO THIS LITERAL FASCIST HELLSCAPE WITH NO WAY OF PROTECTING THEM FROM THE REALITIES OF THE NIGHTMARE WE’VE COLLECTIVELY CREATED?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
===
She sounds nice.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 02:33 PM (ctrM5)

136 WHY IS SHE SHOUTING?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 02:33 PM (Vvm2m)

137 So the call for a special prosecutor is designed to obfuscate the role of the Deep State rather than send people to jail for what they did.
________________
Like they did with the 9-11 Commission

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 25, 2025 02:33 PM (jR6V7)

138 I wanted 4 children. I would still like to have a child.

We're all perfectly fine with you not having children.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 02:34 PM (dfIr7)

139 I'm at least a partial advocate of that stance.

I do think we should get rid of that amendment, because no President before FDR had a "lame duck term". Yeah, they did a traditional 2 terms, and dictator-wannabe FDR fooled the American people into 4. But they created the half-mostly-useless system.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:30 PM (krQz2)

Trump shouldn't run again. We have enough good people to carry it forward and he can still do rallies. Guy like Vance and Rubio should know that MAGA is the way forward, not the feckless GOPe.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 02:34 PM (8avO+)

140 I don't think anyone would dislike Graham nearly as much if he could just say no to a camera every once in a while.

Are you saying that he's a drama queen?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 25, 2025 02:34 PM (ExV1e)

141 Mandy @glowingcanary YAAAGHALLCAPSALLCAPS

I have no idea how come men find difficult to, uh, perform in a way that might involve future children, when listening to those dulcet tones.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 02:34 PM (gKWVE)

142 138 I wanted 4 children. I would still like to have a child.

May I suggest sterilization ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2025 02:35 PM (VE6XX)

143 132 So this sentence fragment is the only thing that changed between 12/8/16 and 12/9/16. That is the entirety of the "new information." Is that right?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 25, 2025 02:33 PM (XvL8K)

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Yes.

The entire Russian Collusion fracas was based on that fragment.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:35 PM (GBKbO)

144
I don't see how they can keep the lid on this.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

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I really want those "senior intel" officials who objected to it all to come forward, faces and names, telling the nation how shocked they were and how this came down from the Oval Office. I hope Bondi is spreading the word that it's safe for them to speak publicly now.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 02:35 PM (lCaJd)

145 strike force, like with a missle?

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 25, 2025 02:35 PM (tSa0B)

146 We need another “Watergate” committee. Public hearings. Streamed on social media.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at July 25, 2025 02:35 PM (6t8M3)

147 Gabbard sounds more like a soldier than that mincer Miley ever did.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 25, 2025 02:35 PM (wBaIH)

148 I bet @glowingcanary is presently over at Tea frantically deleting all her data.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 02:35 PM (gKWVE)

149 @140 just a queen

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 02:35 PM (hIY2p)

150 Clapper says no product has been more scrutinized.

He wants you to conflate the dossier with the ICA. The ICA was scrutinized but without much of the supporting material left out. Why? There was no supporting material and the nays never saw the light of day.

As this article says, analysis takes months of checking/cross checking and then double checking again.

30 days to put out a product you'd stand next to or be shot? We're about to find out.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 25, 2025 02:35 PM (FxH7T)

151 NO, Nix, naught on the Special Prosecutor or Congressional hearings.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 02:35 PM (HFcKg)

152 Regardless of whether "Presidential Immunity" ultimately protects his sorry man-and-dog-eating ass: in Florida, where the Mar-A-Lago raid occurred -- charge, indict, arrest, prosecute, bankrupt, and imprison that treasonous bastard son of a literal bitch and America-hating commie Obamas.

Make Retributive Justice & Avengeful Lawfare With The Process IS The Punishment Great Again!

Then for all the cast of c*cksucking corruptocrap criminal conspirator characters: Make Treason Executable Again!

I want to see The Cast Of C*cksucking Corruptocrap Criminal Conspirator Characters open for Prison Bitch and The Hangmen at Gator Gitmo on America's 250th birthday next year ...

Posted by: ShainS -- December 9th, 2016: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy! at July 25, 2025 02:35 PM (JH2uF)

153 I don't think the old line about being caught with a"live girl or a dead boy" applies anymore.

Y'all have it backwards.

It was being caught with a dead girl or a live boy that would end a politician's career.

But now, I'm kinda leaning towards some politicians careers ending with a bridge, a length of rope, and a cartel.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at July 25, 2025 02:36 PM (rx/UX)

154 Mandy @glowingcanary
I wanted 4 children. I would still like to have a child. BUT WHY IN THE NAME OF GOD WOULD I BRING A CHILD INTO THIS LITERAL FASCIST HELLSCAPE WITH NO WAY OF PROTECTING THEM FROM THE REALITIES OF THE NIGHTMARE WE’VE COLLECTIVELY CREATED?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
===
She sounds nice.
Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 02:33 PM (ctrM5)

Because your home is a castle and you should leave politics at your door. Instead, you let it consume you and served politics instead of family.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 02:36 PM (8avO+)

155 Quick Goolag search…

CHICAGO, April 12 (UPI) -- Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Barack Obama has a double-digit lead over Republican candidate Jack Ryan in Illinois, a Democratic poll indicates.

The survey reported by the Chicago Sun-Times Monday has the African-American state senator ahead 52 percent to 38 percent in the first poll taken since the March 16 primary.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 02:36 PM (Vvm2m)

156 68 Janes Clapper's face makes me think maybe there is something to the lizard people conspiracy - Victor Tango Kilo

His face reminds me of the sort of priest who mysteriously keeps getting shifted from parish to parish for several years before finally getting tucked away in a monastery or openly defrocked for deviant behavior.

Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 02:36 PM (mADJX)

157 WHY IS SHE SHOUTING?

THAT'S HOW YOU CAN TELL THAT SHE'S SINCERE AND NOT JUST TROLLING FOR LIKES.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 25, 2025 02:36 PM (/y8xj)

158 But his need for camera attention just creates this base level of hate towards him that does make him actually worry a bit every 6 years that he could otherwise avoid if he just said, "Nah...I don't need to be in front of a camera today."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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My hatred for Lindsay stems from his war all the time cheerleading and his repeated duplicity in judiciary committee hearings. Nasty pos. I was there in DC when Strom was senator in the 80's, everyone respected Strom. I don't think that is true of Lindsay.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 02:36 PM (ctrM5)

159 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 25, 2025 02:32 PM (L/fGl

I think her putting it in ALL CAPS makes it much more persuasive/ s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 02:36 PM (2GCMq)

160
I really want those "senior intel" officials who objected to it all to come forward, faces and names, telling the nation how shocked they were and how this came down from the Oval Office. I hope Bondi is spreading the word that it's safe for them to speak publicly now.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 02:35 PM (lCaJd)

Gabbard did say they were getting a lot of whistleblowers....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2025 02:36 PM (VE6XX)

161 I'll let you smarties do this. No idea what the ramifications of this are.

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 02:36 PM (fV+MH)

162 Democrats convinced America that personal morals are simply not a determining factor when it comes to electoral selection.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:24 PM (GBKbO)
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Yeah, but they called "backsies" and wanted conservatives to get irate about Trump's past.

They really are bossy.

It's like "Hey! How am I to win here if I can't tell you what you're supposed to be saying?!"

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:36 PM (krQz2)

163 The party of peace, love, and understanding.

https://is.gd/G2Rbwj

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 25, 2025 02:37 PM (L/fGl)

164 "The only white guy who could have beaten Obama in Illinois in his Senate race was Mike Ditka"

Moderator at their campaign debate: "Gentlemen, I would like each of you to sing 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game.' We've flipped a coin, and you, Mr. Obama, shall go first. You may have organ accompaniment, if you wish."

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 02:37 PM (3kTgY)

165 I don't think anyone would dislike Graham nearly as much if he could just say no to a camera every once in a while.

Are you saying that he's a drama queen?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
_________

He did give us that shot of him straightening his tie while the crazy chick screamed at him.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 25, 2025 02:37 PM (XvL8K)

166 158 My hatred for Lindsay stems from his war all the time cheerleading and his repeated duplicity in judiciary committee hearings. Nasty pos. I was there in DC when Strom was senator in the 80's, everyone respected Strom. I don't think that is true of Lindsay.
Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 02:36 PM (ctrM5)

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Probably why he attached himself so completely to McCain.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:37 PM (GBKbO)

167 You could wave a magic wand and wipe every camera on earth.

Lindsey Graham would still be a corrupt homosexual sadist that not even his own mother could love.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2025 02:37 PM (ABFkN)

168 Mandy @glowingcanary
I wanted 4 children. I would still like to have a child. BUT WHY IN THE NAME OF GOD WOULD I BRING A CHILD INTO THIS LITERAL FASCIST HELLSCAPE WITH NO WAY OF PROTECTING THEM FROM THE REALITIES OF THE NIGHTMARE WE’VE COLLECTIVELY CREATED?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
===
She sounds nice.
Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 02:33 PM (ctrM5)
—-

I looked her up. She’s a leftwing commie terror whore. I wouldn’t fuck her with a borrowed dildo while I was drunk enough to deny agency.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 02:37 PM (aeiyZ)

169 >>> 146 We need another “Watergate” committee. Public hearings. Streamed on social media.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at July 25, 2025 02:35 PM (6t8M3)

It won't be effective unless you have a comic strip illustrating the badness of the bad things, but you can't because there was no badness, because those people were all protecting Our Precious Democracy from the Grave Threat of OrangeManBad.

Posted by: Liz Cheney at July 25, 2025 02:37 PM (ULPxl)

170 Another one..

Democratic Senate candidate Barack Obama (search) holds a commanding lead over his opponent with five months remaining until the November election, according to a poll released Monday. Obama is supported by 52 percent of the state's registered voters while 30 percent favor Republican Jack Ryan (search), according to the first statewide Chicago Tribune/WGN-TV poll since the two won their primaries in March.

Ryan was never going to win the race. The Jerry Ryan thing was an easy excuse for the GOP to use.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 02:37 PM (Vvm2m)

171 Well, it's not Mother's Day but . . .

Mandy @glowingcanary
I wanted 4 children. I would still like to have a child. BUT WHY IN THE NAME OF GOD WOULD I BRING A CHILD INTO THIS LITERAL FASCIST HELLSCAPE WITH NO WAY OF PROTECTING THEM FROM THE REALITIES OF THE NIGHTMARE WE’VE COLLECTIVELY CREATED?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Someone should send that to Hallmark to see if it gets any traction.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 25, 2025 02:37 PM (Vfq+S)

172 Nothing matters anymore.

This information will be ignored by the MSM, it will not change the text in reddit or wikipedia, and so all the AI will be trained on the lies.

In 10 years the world's collective memory -- residing in server farms and AI models around the world -- will "know" that Trump raped a Russian prostitute on Putin's orders in the hat department of Bergdorf Goodman.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 25, 2025 02:38 PM (Toufn)

173 >>>Stacy Keach IS Strike Force!
Coming this Fall to CBS.

I'm 90% sure there was a Strike Force with Robert Stack and.. Doreen Harewood? Was that it? A black actor. His son is an actor more recently.

I think it was on ABC.

Posted by: ace at July 25, 2025 02:38 PM (KRtlO)

174 he DOJ announced that it is forming a "strike force" to investigate and potentially prosecute Obama and his co-conspirators in the anti-Trump Putsch
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Which means, I suspect, that they have already done the investigation and are now rattling the cages.
Posted by: t-bird
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The trick is proving beyond a reasable doubt what everyone who followed the slow roll coup already 'knows' - legislators, local and state officials and judges were in the mix, it went beyond Trump leaving office because 90% of the shit went down J4.

I would like to see the magistrate who approved the MAL search to go to prison for 'letting' an FBI drone rummage through Melania's underwear.

Imagine the Magistrate's innocence, "What, you want to search the former Presidents home for TOP SECRET documents and Skittles? Things he had unlimited access to last week and could de-class at will?... Sure sounds totally legit to me." Wink, wink

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 02:38 PM (/lPRQ)

175 It was being caught with a dead girl or a live boy that would end a politician's career.

But now, I'm kinda leaning towards some politicians careers ending with a bridge, a length of rope, and a cartel.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix
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Yes I did. Brain fart. Thanks for the correction.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 02:38 PM (ctrM5)

176 So putting it into a Special Counsel "black box".

So I can go look at football again?

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 02:38 PM (fV+MH)

177 Mandy @glowingcanary
I wanted 4 children. I would still like to have a child. BUT WHY IN THE NAME OF GOD WOULD I BRING A CHILD INTO THIS LITERAL FASCIST HELLSCAPE WITH NO WAY OF PROTECTING THEM FROM THE REALITIES OF THE NIGHTMARE WE’VE COLLECTIVELY CREATED?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wreck

I CANT BELIEVE FASCIST TRUMP IS DEPORTING RAPISTS AND CHILD
MOLESTERS .!!!!

Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 02:38 PM (VofaG)

178 Strike Force!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqLp-DBVyoo

Posted by: ace at July 25, 2025 02:39 PM (KRtlO)

179 i guess the point of a special prosecutor is to tie things up until after the reoubs lose the house of reps next year

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 25, 2025 02:39 PM (CWTWj)

180 I like how they tried to say the reviewing agents only had "doubts" about including the Steele Dossier.

That was the modified limited hangout they tried.

Remember:
Not one Democrat--elected or in the media--has ever said the "hookers pissing on a bed" was false.
They all still stand by that as fact.

It's like with Biden, that part is hand-waved past as "not viable as fact" but the rest?
Hoo-boy!--those are serious allegations that must be investigated.

Trey Gowdy, on FoxNews every night, proclaiming he's sure the investigation will clear Trump eventually--but we must let the process play out and see--having just sat through hours of sworn testimony with the witness confirming the entire thing was false.

That part pisses me off so much, how the House Pretend-i-Cons were in on the operation from the beginning.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 25, 2025 02:40 PM (M5STE)

181 Clapper says no product has been more scrutinized.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 25, 2025 02:35 PM (FxH7T)
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Scrutinized ... but doctored anyway.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:40 PM (krQz2)

182 ...2. I can't believe we are still arguing over this. It was obvious to everyone that Putin preferred corrupt, crazy, uranium selling, genocide hiding, reset button mongering Hillary.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 25, 2025 02:28 PM (Toufn)

I've been saying for years that a 5th grader would understand that Putin would have preferred Hillary as she was a continuation of Obama's anti-US Energy Independence/ Green Agenda that would only strengthen Russia's fossil fueled economy. Trump's campaign theme of US energy independence/dominance would have weakened Russia's economy. Why in the fuck would Putin want that? FFS!

Unfortunately, I'm afraid that much of America's voter base is stupider than a 5th grader. Which is why I'm coming to believe that so-called "Democracy" doesn't work anymore. Because we're too dumbed down to be self-governing. Thank our teachers for that.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 25, 2025 02:40 PM (i2VYc)

183 Moderator at their campaign debate: "Gentlemen, I would like each of you to sing 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game.' We've flipped a coin, and you, Mr. Obama, shall go first. You may have organ accompaniment, if you wish."
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 02:37 PM (3kTgY)

The JEF is accompanied by organs, alright.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 25, 2025 02:40 PM (wKJf5)

184 Posted by: ace at July 25, 2025 02:39 PM (KRtlO)

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If I may, ace...

Your pinned tweet still makes me chuckle.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:40 PM (GBKbO)

185 The last thing this administration should do is relinquish any control of this investigation and it's narrative to anyone outside of Trump's inner circle. Ms. Lindsey's got other ideas and they're not in Trump's best interest.

Message control. Keep everything tight. That will keep Obama and his co-conspirators guessing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2025 02:40 PM (Q4IgG)

186 Trump says Obama has immunity. I tend to agree but I want a trial by the public. Expose all his dirty laundry.

Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 02:40 PM (VofaG)

187 Mandy @glowingcanary
I wanted 4 children. I would still like to have a child. BUT WHY IN THE NAME OF GOD WOULD I BRING A CHILD INTO THIS LITERAL FASCIST HELLSCAPE WITH NO WAY OF PROTECTING THEM FROM THE REALITIES OF THE NIGHTMARE WE’VE COLLECTIVELY CREATED?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Wasn't me voting for collectivism, sugartits. Mercifully, that'll be 4 fewer trans kids in the world.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 25, 2025 02:40 PM (tSa0B)

188 So what is freebasing? I thought it was melting powder cocaine into, I guess liquid crack? Then Shooting it up? Idk, not my thing.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 02:41 PM (hlNLQ)

189 btw Strike Force was turrible. Basically unwatchable. Cancelled shortly after its debut.

i think it was on the same year as the James-Coburn-hosted horror anthology "The Dark Room."

Posted by: ace at July 25, 2025 02:41 PM (KRtlO)

190 Mandy @glowingcanary
I wanted 4 children. I would still like to have a child. BUT WHY IN THE NAME OF GOD WOULD I BRING A CHILD INTO THIS LITERAL FASCIST HELLSCAPE WITH NO WAY OF PROTECTING THEM FROM THE REALITIES OF THE NIGHTMARE WE’VE COLLECTIVELY CREATED?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
===
She sounds nice.
Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 02:33 PM (ctrM5)
—-

I looked her up. She’s a leftwing commie terror whore. I wouldn’t fuck her with a borrowed dildo while I was drunk enough to deny agency.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 02:37 PM (aeiyZ)

Just spitballin' here, but I'd guess that her tits are not calm.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 25, 2025 02:41 PM (wVcYX)

191 185 The last thing this administration should do is relinquish any control of this investigation and it's narrative to anyone outside of Trump's inner circle. Ms. Lindsey's got other ideas and they're not in Trump's best interest.

Message control. Keep everything tight. That will keep Obama and his co-conspirators guessing.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2025 02:40 PM (Q4IgG)

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I suspect that Trump learned his lesson on special prosecutors and that he will pat Lindsay on the head, call him a good boy, and tell him to go play in the yard without ever considering it seriously.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)

192 Neither a thief, a fool, nor a democrat shall enter.

Posted by: Eromero at July 25, 2025 02:41 PM (jgmnb)

193 I can only hope Brennan is at least losing sleep, doubt anything will happen otherwise

Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 02:41 PM (+qU29)

194
I gotta be honest about this: it too complicated and involves too many moving parts for me to follow well and I know that 99.99% of voters don't get it either. This isn't gonna resonate with anyone but I hope it ends up with guys like Clapper and Brennan getting real prison time and ruined reputations.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

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I had barely started getting into an argument with a lefty on X, and what shut it down pronto was me saying that Obama had ordered the Trump-exonerating intel report to be replaced.

Lefty asked Grok, and Grok confirmed it. Woops. That right there. Obama got an intel report that said there was no Trump-Russia connection, and he said "Rewrite that thing and pin something on Trump."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 02:42 PM (lCaJd)

195 163 The party of peace, love, and understanding.

https://is.gd/G2Rbwj
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 25, 2025 02:37 PM (L/fGl)

They seem nice.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 25, 2025 02:42 PM (1Gsou)

196 yup, Dark Room and Strike Force:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OMK-WTfGyo

Posted by: ace at July 25, 2025 02:42 PM (KRtlO)

197 I looked up Mandy on X . She's loving how many people are "triggered" by her post. And she has serious RBF

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 02:42 PM (hIY2p)

198 Anyone put in charge and not on the MAGA agenda will smother any investigation with a pillow

Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 02:42 PM (+qU29)

199 Nobody was saying that the ICA wasn't "scrutinized".

That's where they got those senior agents to say they couldn't find evidence of Russian interference--or even Russian interest in interfering.

And those people who questioned the inclusion of the unvetted dossier into the ICA. It went through a process of review.

And then Obama ordered a fix last moment.

However, it was "scrutinized" before is a red-herring. However many hours it was "scrutinized" is irrelevant.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:42 PM (krQz2)

200 Mandy @glowingcanary
I wanted 4 children. I would still like to have a child. BUT WHY IN THE NAME OF GOD WOULD I BRING A CHILD INTO THIS LITERAL FASCIST HELLSCAPE WITH NO WAY OF PROTECTING THEM FROM THE REALITIES OF THE NIGHTMARE WE’VE COLLECTIVELY CREATED?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Wasn't me voting for collectivism, sugartits. Mercifully, that'll be 4 fewer trans kids in the world.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 25, 2025 02:40 PM (tSa0B)
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Crazy, dick sticking, not.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 02:42 PM (XZ5S6)

201 Trey Gowdy, on FoxNews every night, proclaiming he's sure the investigation will clear Trump eventually--but we must let the process play out and see--having just sat through hours of sworn testimony with the witness confirming the entire thing was false.

Trey Gowdy ... another GOP fuck I don't trust.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 25, 2025 02:43 PM (hk7Ln)

202 >>> 191

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I suspect that Trump learned his lesson on special prosecutors and that he will pat Lindsay on the head, call him a good boy, and tell him to go play in the yard without ever considering it seriously.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)

I want him to tell Lindsey to go play in traffic.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 02:43 PM (ULPxl)

203 thanks, TJM.

but then, you're a fan of trash movies so your compliment is a disguised insult.

Posted by: ace at July 25, 2025 02:43 PM (KRtlO)

204 202 I suspect that Trump learned his lesson on special prosecutors and that he will pat Lindsay on the head, call him a good boy, and tell him to go play in the yard without ever considering it seriously.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)

I want him to tell Lindsey to go play in traffic.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 02:43 PM (ULPxl)

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*shrugs*

Trump endorsed him for re-election a week or so ago.

Graham's loyal. Scummy and kinda stupid, but loyal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

205 *peeks in*

Jeez! If I had ever presented my boss with Intel based on such a shitty source, he would have, correctly, fired me.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 25, 2025 02:44 PM (W/lyH)

206 203 thanks, TJM.

but then, you're a fan of trash movies so your compliment is a disguised insult.
Posted by: ace at July 25, 2025 02:43 PM (KRtlO)

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I WILL NOT LET YOU BADMOUTH FREDDY GOT FINGERED LIKE THIS!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:44 PM (GBKbO)

207 Hunter Biden for Special Prosecutor!

Hear me out. He hates the donks who drove his dad out of office, so, armed with his thirst for vengeance and a brand new crack pipe, he relentlessly pursues Obama and his minions to the ends of the earth.

Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 02:44 PM (mADJX)

208
Last week, on STRIKE FORCE!:

Fed- "Where were you on July 9, 2016"

Dem, exhaling smoke from crack pipe - "Uh, wha?"

Posted by: Auspex at July 25, 2025 02:44 PM (Y8DZL)

209 Clapper says no product has been more scrutinized.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 25, 2025 02:35 PM (FxH7T)

Bullshit. Shiner beer goes through hundreds of quality Czechs daily.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 25, 2025 02:44 PM (wVcYX)

210 I suspect that Trump learned his lesson on special prosecutors and that he will pat Lindsay on the head, call him a good boy, and tell him to go play in the yard without ever considering it seriously.

Given Trump's interplay with the Federal Courts this time ?

I expect him to fuck it up. I expect him to appoint a Special Prosecutor. Then hit Twitter and bitch why everything is going so slow.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 25, 2025 02:45 PM (hk7Ln)

211 "yup, Dark Room"

Looks like Helen Hunt.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 02:45 PM (3kTgY)

212 >>>I WILL NOT LET YOU BADMOUTH FREDDY GOT FINGERED LIKE THIS!

i wasn't badmouthing Freddy Got Fingered. It's got some hilarious parts.

Posted by: ace at July 25, 2025 02:45 PM (KRtlO)

213 I looked up Mandy on X . She's loving how many people are "triggered" by her post. And she has serious RBF
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 02:42 PM (hIY2p)
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"Triggered"?

She's the one posting The Apocalypse in all caps.

Self-delusion is an everyday thing for these people.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:45 PM (krQz2)

214 NO, Nix, naught on the Special Prosecutor or Congressional hearings.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 02:35 PM (HFcKg)

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There is no conflict of interest with the executive branch and DOJ, so a Special Prosecutor is not warranted anyway (in addition to it being a fraudulent waste of time and money and proof that Justice delayed is Justice denied as you imply).

Posted by: ShainS -- December 9th, 2016: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy! at July 25, 2025 02:45 PM (xHp2Q)

215 FORTY FUCKING MILLION DEUTSCHMARKS!!!

Posted by: Freddy on his non-cellular phone at July 25, 2025 02:45 PM (KRtlO)

216 209 Clapper says no product has been more scrutinized.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 25, 2025 02:35 PM (FxH7T)

Bullshit. Shiner beer goes through hundreds of quality Czechs daily.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 25, 2025 02:44 PM (wVcYX)

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Two possibilities:

1. Czechs is a typo, possibly stemming from voice to text translation errors.

2. This is a hilarious comment about Shiner being like piss passed through many Czech people.

You decide.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:45 PM (GBKbO)

217 "Trey Gowdy ... another GOP fuck I don't trust."

Correct

Posted by: Mongo at July 25, 2025 02:46 PM (s9EN2)

218 What is RBF?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 25, 2025 02:46 PM (i2VYc)

219 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

Graham runs hot and cold for my positions. He's been spot on on a lot of issues and policies but he has been on the wrong side on enough issues that he's hard to defend.

Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 02:46 PM (VofaG)

220 210 Given Trump's interplay with the Federal Courts this time ?

I expect him to fuck it up. I expect him to appoint a Special Prosecutor. Then hit Twitter and bitch why everything is going so slow.
Posted by: Long Memory at July 25, 2025 02:45 PM (hk7Ln)

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And when he doesn't, you will forget you ever said this and still be right.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:46 PM (GBKbO)

221 Graham and Cornyn both are up for reelection next year. Coincidence that they're sounding all tough now?

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 25, 2025 02:46 PM (qBdHI)

222 all obama needs to say is that as president he wanted the i c guys to be really sure that russia had not hacked the election so he wanted them to look some more. plenty of law school profs will go on cnn etc and vouch that he has immunity for wanting potential wrong doing to be thoroughly investigated

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 25, 2025 02:46 PM (CWTWj)

223 what did we used to call the phones with the radio antenna? Wireless?

Posted by: ace at July 25, 2025 02:46 PM (KRtlO)

224 It was being caught with a dead girl or a live boy that would end a politician's career.

In other words: don't get caught.

Posted by: Linsey Graham at July 25, 2025 02:46 PM (ugKWv)

225 What is RBF?

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Resting b*tch face.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 25, 2025 02:47 PM (qBdHI)

226 136 WHY IS SHE SHOUTING?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 02:33 PM (Vvm2m)

Literal Fascist Hellscapes can be quite loud.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 25, 2025 02:47 PM (PiwSw)

227 I've been saying for years that a 5th grader would understand that Putin would have preferred Hillary as she was a continuation of Obama's anti-US Energy Independence/ Green Agenda that would only strengthen Russia's fossil fueled economy. Trump's campaign theme of US energy independence/dominance would have weakened Russia's economy. Why in the fuck would Putin want that? FFS!

Unfortunately, I'm afraid that much of America's voter base is stupider than a 5th grader. Which is why I'm coming to believe that so-called "Democracy" doesn't work anymore. Because we're too dumbed down to be self-governing. Thank our teachers for that.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 25, 2025 02:40 PM (i2VYc)

You'd be wrong. Obama and Hillary were hand in glove with the Color revolutionists that were arming Ukraine to fight Russia in the future, and Russia was far weaker then than in 2022. They wanted to dismember Russia by sanctions and war. Economic policies didn't enter into it.

Trump was somewhat more of an unknown factor, and Russia has a policy of not favoring any side because they have to assume any of them might win.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 02:47 PM (8avO+)

228 I expect him to fuck it up. I expect him to appoint a Special Prosecutor. Then hit Twitter and bitch why everything is going so slow.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 25, 2025 02:45 PM (hk7Ln)
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You might be right. He does take a wrong turn on some things.

All the same, he gets more right than practically anybody we've sent to DC.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:47 PM (krQz2)

229 'Darkroom, Starring Aarin Teich, Jill Pierce, Jeff Arbaugh'

All three of whom were never heard from again.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 02:47 PM (3kTgY)

230
Message control. Keep everything tight. That will keep Obama and his co-conspirators guessing.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

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There must still be lefty double agents in the intel community and the DoJ. They've got to be leaking to Brennan, Clapper, and Comey. I guess nothing particularly scary so far, considering none of them have recently decided to mosey on over to Brunei or Moldova or wtf Russia God-damn these are shithole countries, oh BINGO maybe Vanuatu for a vacation.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 02:47 PM (lCaJd)

231 re 218: roast beef fiesta at the biden's cook and brew

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 25, 2025 02:48 PM (CWTWj)

232 Sheesh TJM, I’m still trying to come up with a workable pun for fingering hilarious parts and youve moved on to homophone Czechs.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 02:48 PM (hlNLQ)

233 What is RBF?
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 25, 2025 02:46 PM (i2VYc)

resting bitch face?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 02:48 PM (8avO+)

234 What is RBF?
Posted by: Chairborne!

Resting mike oBama Face

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 25, 2025 02:48 PM (tSa0B)

235 OT: In a stunning move, CriticalDrinker says that the FF movie is not bad.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 25, 2025 02:48 PM (ExV1e)

236 Miss Lindsey, Trey Gowdy, Mark Sanford, Nancy Mace.
No offense to SC Hordians but the old line about South Carolina too small for a republic too large for an insane asylum " really seems accurate

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 02:48 PM (hIY2p)

237 232 Sheesh TJM, I’m still trying to come up with a workable pun for fingering hilarious parts and youve moved on to homophone Czechs.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 02:48 PM (hlNLQ)

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When one never developed the skill of reading, it leaves one with plenty of time for making the funnies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:48 PM (GBKbO)

238 Posted by: Lady in Black at July 25, 2025 02:47 PM (qBdHI)

Thanks LiB.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 25, 2025 02:49 PM (i2VYc)

239 235 OT: In a stunning move, CriticalDrinker says that the FF movie is not bad.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 25, 2025 02:48 PM (ExV1e)

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Christian Toto really liked it too.

And it's tracking to make $120 million this weekend in the US.

Looks like the MCU is back for this one movie, at least.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:49 PM (GBKbO)

240 all obama needs to say is that as president he wanted the i c guys to be really sure that russia had not hacked the election so he wanted them to look some more. plenty of law school profs will go on cnn etc and vouch that he has immunity for wanting potential wrong doing to be thoroughly investigated

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 25, 2025 02:46 PM (CWTWj)
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And they let Bush Jr. by on that, right?

No. No double standards.

Still, in front of the right judge, it will fly.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:49 PM (krQz2)

241 I suspect that Trump learned his lesson on special prosecutors and that he will pat Lindsay on the head, call him a good boy, and tell him to go play in the yard without ever considering it seriously.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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For such reasons, that is why Bondi is staying put as AG. Trump can trust her a lot more even if she makes mistakes than others that might get confirmed. Jeffy Sessions and Billy Barr taught Trump to distrust the legal eagles not on the line with him for the last several years.

Presidents typically pick cronies or are forced to pick outsiders. The outsiders always cause problems for various reasons.

Reportedly, Trump wanted Giulani for AG but Giulani wanted State Dept. Trump did not think Giulani could get confirmed for State supposedly.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 02:49 PM (ctrM5)

242 I wouldn't trust any proposal put forth by Graham and Cornyn

Posted by: Halfhand at July 25, 2025 02:50 PM (g/KP8)

243
You might be right. He does take a wrong turn on some things.

All the same, he gets more right than practically anybody we've sent to DC.
Posted by: Axeman

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This is not the time for him to take one of his "wrong turns." He can misspell shit all he wants on Truth Social, and call allies names, and endorse the wrong people, but effing up on this would be an anti-MAGA move.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 02:50 PM (lCaJd)

244 I don't share your opinion. Russian intelligence knew they could handle Clinton for a number of reasons but the biggest reason they prefer Clinton or any Democrat is because they know they are bad for America which is good for Russia.

Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 02:50 PM (VofaG)

245 what did we used to call the phones with the radio antenna? Wireless?

Mobile phones? I thought of them as 'car phones', but that can't be right.

Posted by: t-bird at July 25, 2025 02:50 PM (CBxy/)

246 What the Strike Force needs are a few score young marines with full battle rattle deputised as US Marshlls to escourt high ranking reps from State, Homeland Security, DoJ, and Intel (who outrank every single person in those deptartments). Go where they need to and get whatever they want.

Marine / Dupties are there in case anyone makes a 'furtive motion' or would rather being quite and escourted off site.
Comms to the home office to permanently strip clearances and revoke passports before the bodies hit the floor/door.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 02:50 PM (/lPRQ)

247 Oh Tulsi! Tulsi!

*lurches around, stiffly waving arms*

Posted by: Zombie Seth Rich at July 25, 2025 02:50 PM (Kijkg)

248 What will sicken you is that people like Gowdy knew the truth, didn't say it, but fund raised off of the situation instead.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 25, 2025 02:51 PM (Vfq+S)

249 Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 02:48 PM (hIY2p)

Kentucky is much worse.

Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 02:52 PM (VofaG)

250 Hunter Biden for Special Prosecutor!

Hear me out. He hates the donks who drove his dad out of office, so, armed with his thirst for vengeance and a brand new crack pipe, he relentlessly pursues Obama and his minions to the ends of the earth.

Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 02:44 PM (mADJX)
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He will snort most of the budget of an SC, using the other portion as the straws.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:52 PM (krQz2)

251 248 What will sicken you is that people like Gowdy knew the truth, didn't say it, but fund raised off of the situation instead.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 25, 2025 02:51 PM (Vfq+S)

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I can't remember his part in the punishment of Nunes, but I don't think it was support of Nunes by backing him up and saying he was telling the truth.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:52 PM (GBKbO)

252 >>>Mobile phones? I thought of them as 'car phones', but that can't be right.

no... I wasn't clear. We used to have landline phones that connected with the wall unit by a short-wave radio transmission.

Oh -- cordless phones.

Posted by: ace at July 25, 2025 02:53 PM (KRtlO)

253 Marshall plan forever! (wretch)

Posted by: Mongo at July 25, 2025 02:53 PM (s9EN2)

254 Anyone put in charge and not on the MAGA agenda will smother any investigation with a pillow
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 02:42 PM (+qU29)

Melania as special prosecutor or nobody.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 02:53 PM (8avO+)

255 Two possibilities:

1. Czechs is a typo, possibly stemming from voice to text translation errors.

2. This is a hilarious comment about Shiner being like piss passed through many Czech people.

You decide.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:45 PM (GBKbO)

You darling summer child. Shiner beer is proudly brewed at the Spoetzl brewery in Shiner, Texas. This town was founded by German and Czech immigrants. Many Czech descendants (quality people!) work for the Spoetzl company and taste test the product as part of their daily job duties.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 25, 2025 02:53 PM (wVcYX)

256 What will sicken you is that people like Gowdy knew the truth, didn't say it, but fund raised off of the situation instead.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 25, 2025 02:51 PM (Vfq+S)
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Do we know that? How do we know that Gowdy knew what was going on in the executive?

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:53 PM (krQz2)

257 Back in 90, i was in meetings with Clapper at Offutt AFB. He really is an idiot. Totally killed my ambitions of becoming a general if that's what they were made of.

Posted by: sick of old nic at July 25, 2025 02:53 PM (oc8h+)

258 'What's bad for America is good for Russia.'

I hope there are some cases where that's not true, but who knows.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 02:54 PM (3kTgY)

259 If you are interested on WHY YOU DO NOT want a Special Prosecutor on this issue I'd refer you to this link:

https://tinyurl.com/3pzatvhv

I'm not, necessarily, a Conservative Treehouse afficionado. I check in there sporadically. But, this explanation is gold, Jerry, gold.

Posted by: Orson at July 25, 2025 02:54 PM (dIske)

260 Sooo.... except for like the Teapot Dome scandal... which actually did not need a Special Prosecutor...

Has a Special Prosecutor ever actually succeeded in a Prosecution?

Can't seem to find any.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2025 02:54 PM (mP0Kj)

261 236 Miss Lindsey, Trey Gowdy, Mark Sanford, Nancy Mace.
No offense to SC Hordians but the old line about South Carolina too small for a republic too large for an insane asylum " really seems accurate
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Southern states have a dysfunctional political culture of Traditionalism due to its long agrarian nature and Democrat control. Therefore you get a populist like Jim DeMent in office now and again but you also get a douchebag senator to go with him like Lady Lindsay. Trey had an upstate district where the asses are still chapped over what the coastal regions have done in power.

Lots of historical schisms in that state and others in the South.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 02:54 PM (ctrM5)

262 Trump says Obama has immunity. I tend to agree but I want a trial by the public. Expose all his dirty laundry.
Posted by: polynikes
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Should have said "Obama has the same immunity that I had after office - searched, charged, arrested, convicted, and shot in the head. Good day"

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 02:54 PM (/lPRQ)

263 Galactic Overlord level trolling.

Hodgetwins:

BREAKING: Biden & Obama Judges FURIOUS After Trump Re-Appoints Alina Habba!

Fifteen judges — all appointed by Biden and Obama — are reportedly fuming after they forced Alina Habba to step down as interim U.S. Attorney…

Only for President Trump to IMMEDIATELY reappoint her as Acting U.S. Attorney!

Trump didn’t flinch. He stood his ground and doubled down.

This is what real leadership looks like — refusing to let partisan judges dictate who gets to serve this country.

Trump is sending a clear message:
“You don’t get to cancel patriots just because you don’t like them.”

Well played, Mr. President. Well played.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2025 02:55 PM (JBVNW)

264 Walkie-talkie.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 02:55 PM (3kTgY)

265
I've been saying for years that a 5th grader would understand that Putin would have preferred Hillary as she was a continuation of Obama's anti-US Energy Independence/ Green Agenda that would only strengthen Russia's fossil fueled economy. Trump's campaign theme of US energy independence/dominance would have weakened Russia's economy. Why in the fuck would Putin want that? FFS!

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

Yeah, which is why we need to think out of the box to resolve this. Simple yet dramatic public gestures such as are RARELY seen -- Bill Clinton confessing about Monica or Weiner about his dick pics.

Hillary forced to make a televised statement to the nation that she lied about X, Y, and Z for nefarious reasons 1, 2, and 3.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 02:55 PM (lCaJd)

266 We hams call them 'handhelds.'

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 02:55 PM (3kTgY)

267 I wouldn't trust any proposal put forth by Graham and Cornyn
Posted by: Halfhand at July 25, 2025 02:50 PM (g/KP

No further than I could toss 'em. Lying weasels, the both of them.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 25, 2025 02:55 PM (wVcYX)

268 Reportedly, Trump wanted Giulani for AG but Giulani wanted State Dept. Trump did not think Giulani could get confirmed for State supposedly.
Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 02:49 PM (ctrM5)

Rudy's too old for that. The guy we got is a lot better, even if he had been as Neocon as some feared when nominated. Rubio has really improved his stock.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 02:56 PM (8avO+)

269 236 Miss Lindsey, Trey Gowdy, Mark Sanford, Nancy Mace.
No offense to SC Hordians but the old line about South Carolina too small for a republic too large for an insane asylum " really seems accurate
Posted by: Smell the Glove

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Governor McMasters is not a camera hound and does his job quietly and well.

I think SC mostly sends the crazies to DC and keeps the better ones to run the state.

Hell, Sanford was actually a good governor until his affair was discovered.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:56 PM (GBKbO)

270 I suspect that Trump learned his lesson on special prosecutors and that he will pat Lindsay on the head, call him a good boy, and tell him to go play in the yard without ever considering it seriously.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer
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It's, "play in the street.."

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 02:56 PM (/lPRQ)

271 You'd be wrong. Obama and Hillary were hand in glove with the Color revolutionists that were arming Ukraine to fight Russia in the future, and Russia was far weaker then than in 2022. They wanted to dismember Russia by sanctions and war. Economic policies didn't enter into it.

Posted by: Oldcat

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This is one sided and wrong. Obama was not arming Ukraine - they had made their play with Maidan for grift, flubbed it, and were not going to be involved. I think there had to be an agreement, and I think mostly driven by German which wanted Ukraine under Putin's thumb.

Hillary was "reset." She would forgive Russia anything if there was profit in it for her. In fact, Hillary was just the kind of corrupt traitor that Russia tries to install in all it's neighbors.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 25, 2025 02:56 PM (Toufn)

272 Mandy was done in by the Cultural Marxists not really teaching what Fascism is.

Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 02:56 PM (+qU29)

273 One intelligence official wondered why, if the information was as good as the FBI claimed, Democrats did not deploy it against Trump during the campaign, the records stated.

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Even moreso: if Bad Vlad Putin wanted Trump to win in 2016, why not leak their oppo-research information & documentation regarding Hillary's physical & mental maladies & health along with her use of tranquilizers as an "October Surprise?"

Da? Duh ...

Posted by: ShainS -- December 9th, 2016: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy! at July 25, 2025 02:56 PM (xHp2Q)

274 That article included quotes from sources alleging that the agency had 55 double agents, so the analyst asked rhetorically if that detail should be included in an intelligence assessment as well.

There were not 55 double agents. It was more...and they worked directly for our enemies...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 25, 2025 02:57 PM (ynpvh)

275 263 Trump didn’t flinch. He stood his ground and doubled down.

This is what real leadership looks like — refusing to let partisan judges dictate who gets to serve this country.

Trump is sending a clear message:
“You don’t get to cancel patriots just because you don’t like them.”

Well played, Mr. President. Well played.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2025 02:55 PM (JBVNW)

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The problem is that he has to pull her nomination for the post from the Senate. She's acting until another nominee gets confirmed by the Senate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 02:57 PM (GBKbO)

276 "Trey Gowdy ... another GOP fuck I don't trust."

Correct
Posted by: Mongo at July 25, 2025 02:46 PM (s9EN2)
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Jim Jordan too.

Although if there was anybody who talked a good game that I would want to believe in, he's one.

I just don't.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:57 PM (krQz2)

277 Obama " I have immunity? So Reggie doesn't have to use a condom, squeee

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 02:57 PM (hIY2p)

278 Rudy's too old for that. The guy we got is a lot better, even if he had been as Neocon as some feared when nominated. Rubio has really improved his stock.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Should have clarified. Rudy in 2016 instead of Sessions. Sessions was initially tabbed for Homeland Security.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 02:57 PM (ctrM5)

279
BREAKING: Biden & Obama Judges FURIOUS After Trump Re-Appoints Alina Habba!

Fifteen judges — all appointed by Biden and Obama — are reportedly fuming after they forced Alina Habba to step down as interim U.S. Attorney…

Only for President Trump to IMMEDIATELY reappoint her as Acting U.S. Attorney!

Trump didn’t flinch. He stood his ground and doubled down.

This is what real leadership looks like — refusing to let partisan judges dictate who gets to serve this country.

Posted by: rickb223

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I guess they're finally deciphering the complex, multi-layered, indirect, and subtle message, "Fight! Fight! Fight!"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 02:58 PM (lCaJd)

280 We hams call them 'handhelds.'
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 02:55 PM

Or HTs.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 02:58 PM (0sNs1)

281 Although if there was anybody who talked a good game that I would want to believe in, he's one.

I just don't.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:57 PM (krQz2)

Have you no respect for the rolled-up shirt sleeve??

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 25, 2025 02:58 PM (PiwSw)

282 @239

>>Looks like the MCU is back for this one movie, at least.

Actually, 120m US opening is rather tepid, it needs to be in the 150-180m range to be considered, Marvelesque.

It's not going to make a Billie at those numbers and that's all that matters for these blockbusters.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2025 02:58 PM (OD1lg)

283 A solid rule is to be against anything suggested by Miss Lindsay and Cornyn. They make me proud to not be a Republican.

And as much as Little Marco has impressed me with his performance at State, it seems all of MAGA wants to forget it was his campaign that started the Russia Russia Russia . When his bid shit the bed, Fusion GPS shopped their product to Hillary.

Posted by: El Borak at July 25, 2025 02:58 PM (BSNnK)

284 Mandy was done in by the Cultural Marxists not really teaching what Fascism is.

Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 02:56 PM (+qU29)
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Nobody can let the cat out of the bag that fascism is the World's #1 preferred pattern of modern government.

So they have to tie it all up to the special features of Nazism.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:59 PM (krQz2)

285 Remember the good old days when we would point and laugh at Darwin Award winners? (Because they’re stupid and funny). Why do awfls now announce their preemptive self-awards as a virtue? I think still stupid and funny.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 03:00 PM (hlNLQ)

286 281 Although if there was anybody who talked a good game that I would want to believe in, he's one.

I just don't.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:57 PM (krQz2)

Have you no respect for the rolled-up shirt sleeve??
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes
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Not when Jimmy Jordan takes big bucks from Google, etc. to protect them from antitrust and liability for what they've done to people over the years.

Show horse rather than work horse. Notice Nunes talked softly but did a helluva lot more in Trump's first term to his own detriment in the House.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 03:00 PM (ctrM5)

287 What's bad for America is good for Russia.'

I hope there are some cases where that's not true, but who knows.
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 02:54 PM (3kTgY)

There have been many times the US and Russia have worked together after WWII. One of the big improvements Trump has already done is have constant contact between us.

I think that we can particularly agree that the crap going on in the EU/Europe right now is bad for both of us. Another USSR isn't good for either of us.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 03:00 PM (8avO+)

288 Might as well tell Mandy "thank you for not breeding and screwing up the gene pool"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 03:01 PM (hIY2p)

289 I wanted 4 children. I would still like to have a child.

We're all perfectly fine with you not having children.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

"We" = "your children, especially"

Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 03:01 PM (vUfhL)

290 > Juliette Kayyem
@juliettekayyem
Knowing Clapper, I think that is the sound of a man distraught that a nation he spent his life defending...yadda-yadda-yadda.

Knowing you, I think you lie like a cheap merkin.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 25, 2025 03:01 PM (qpyNK)

291 Posted by: El Borak at July 25, 2025 02:58 PM (BSNnK)

You misrepresent what happened but keep trying to put down people on our side. Sure fire strategy in a war.

Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 03:01 PM (VofaG)

292 285 Remember the good old days when we would point and laugh at Darwin Award winners? (Because they’re stupid and funny). Why do awfls now announce their preemptive self-awards as a virtue? I think still stupid and funny.
Posted by: Farmer Bob
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I like it when they identify themselves with their "sign". Same as the idiots with all sorts of bumperstickers on their cars, rings through their noses, and dressing like Jill Biden as a teenage hooker.

Cray Cray identifiers.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 03:02 PM (ctrM5)

293 TheJamesMadison is pissing on Shiner beer????

* stunned silence from TxMoMe attendees *

* bass minor chords start playing *

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 03:02 PM (0sNs1)

294 CNN's racist witch-faced left-wing "national security" (and social justice) "analyst" explained that Clapper is just sad to see that Muh Pillars of Muh Republic is crumbling.

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Those pillars that they are worried about is the layers and layers of corruption

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 25, 2025 03:02 PM (8P/xB)

295 282 Actually, 120m US opening is rather tepid, it needs to be in the 150-180m range to be considered, Marvelesque.

It's not going to make a Billie at those numbers and that's all that matters for these blockbusters.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2025 02:58 PM (OD1lg)

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Except for Deadpool and Wolverine (which is an MCU movie, technically, but is one step removed from the public perception of the brand), $120 would be the highest opening weekend since Black Panther 2.

Which made $453 million in the US off a $180 million opening.

So...back in line with the higher part of the middle range of post-Endgame.

Not the Spider-Man nostalgia fest with mutli-Spidermens, not the pocket case of DvW, but...maybe back to making money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)

296 Any rumors about whether Ghislane (pronounced "Jizz Lane") Maxwell is spilling her guts or not?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 25, 2025 03:02 PM (qpyNK)

297 288 Might as well tell Mandy "thank you for not breeding and screwing up the gene pool"
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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You would need toxic levels of chlorine to clean up that mess in the gene pool.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 03:03 PM (ctrM5)

298 It was easy for Obama to launder the information because the media was complicit

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 25, 2025 03:03 PM (8P/xB)

299 "TheJamesMadison is pissing on Shiner beer?"

I heard that's the only way to put a head on it.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 03:03 PM (3kTgY)

300 Jordan has proven who he is...not good. Without feck.

Posted by: Mongo at July 25, 2025 03:03 PM (s9EN2)

301 Should have clarified. Rudy in 2016 instead of Sessions. Sessions was initially tabbed for Homeland Security.
Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 02:57 PM (ctrM5)

Well sure, Sessions was as much of an agent against Trump as Pelosi.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 03:03 PM (8avO+)

302 I want to hear Hunter explain why kids should be smoking crack instead of meth.

Posted by: Ripley at July 25, 2025 03:03 PM (GUOwU)

303 There's an old saying by Thomas Hobbes- "Hell is the truth seen too late" my ex-wife is experiencing it now and I expect Mandy will too around age 37-40.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 03:03 PM (hlNLQ)

304 The senior official added that including the dossier in the ICA would essentially confirm the salacious reporting, punctuating his point by comparing the Steele reporting to a December 12, 2016 National Enquirer story headlined, "MUSLIM SPIES IN OBAMA'S CIA!"

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

Well, TBF, there was a time there when the Jational Enquirer did serve as America's paper of record ... before The Babylon Bee came along.

Posted by: ShainS -- December 9th, 2016: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy! at July 25, 2025 03:04 PM (ZWclB)

305 'Any rumors about whether Ghislane (pronounced "Jizz Lane") Maxwell is spilling her guts or not?'

I read this morning that her box is big.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 03:04 PM (3kTgY)

306 And as much as Little Marco has impressed me with his performance at State, it seems all of MAGA wants to forget it was his campaign that started the Russia Russia Russia . When his bid shit the bed, Fusion GPS shopped their product to Hillary.
Posted by: El Borak at July 25, 2025 02:58 PM (BSNnK)
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Wrong. He paid for opposition research against Trump--as any other candidate would. But Fusion was on mission to dig up dirt for Hillary.

Remember, when Rubio was running against Trump the Dems still thought promoting Trump to the nomination was their best bet.

Of course, Fusion GPS would take Rubio's money and then control the outflux of dirt.

That any Republican donor played any significant role in the services Fusion GPS gave to Hillary has been *debunked* a number of times over.

This is the Dem story.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 03:04 PM (krQz2)

307
From what I have heard so far, Clapper didn't want to go along with the plan so they tapped Brennan to lead the op with Comey and McCabe.

If anyone talks first, I bet it's Clapper.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

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

Interesting, I hadn't read that about Clapper. And he's the one who lied to Congress about wiretapping them. Was this plan so bad that even he wouldn't execute it?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 03:04 PM (lCaJd)

308 > 258 'What's bad for America is good for Russia.'

I hope there are some cases where that's not true, but who knows.
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 02:54 PM (3kTgY)

An obvious one is that nuking the shit out of each other would suck quite a bit for both nations.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 25, 2025 03:04 PM (qpyNK)

309 *NATIONAL Enquirer

Posted by: ShainS -- December 9th, 2016: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy! at July 25, 2025 03:05 PM (ZWclB)

310 This is what real leadership looks like — refusing to let partisan judges dictate who gets to serve this country.

Trump is sending a clear message:
“You don’t get to cancel patriots just because you don’t like them.”

Well played, Mr. President. Well played.

Posted by: rickb223
===

And an automatic demand for recusal for all judges who faught against her, and presumptive overturn on appeal when they don't recuse... Get three appeals then charge the Judge with deprivation of civil rights under color of law (three times is enemy action).

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 03:05 PM (/lPRQ)

311 Otter: Mandy, Mandy GlowingCanary. I haven't seen you since we...

Mandy: Go away!

Otter: I'm sorry, I can only stay a minute. Can I buy you some lunch? Oh, you got your lunch. Well, how about some milk? Got your milk too. Can I just massage your thighs while you eat?

Mandy: Do I have to leave?

Otter: Is this any way to treat an intimate friend?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 25, 2025 03:05 PM (wVcYX)

312 Russian intelligence knew they could handle Clinton for a number of reasons but the biggest reason they prefer Clinton or any Democrat is because they know they are bad for America which is good for Russia.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 02:50 PM (VofaG)

Counterpoint, A reason why Putin may have not wanted a Hillary win in 2016.

Putin may have seen Trump as malleable.

But I think Putin saw Hillary as a real threat.

I don't believe Khadafi was long from Putin's mind when he thought about Hillary.

Posted by: Long time guy at July 25, 2025 03:05 PM (E2+Uh)

313 Yeah, which is why we need to think out of the box to resolve this. Simple yet dramatic public gestures such as are RARELY seen -- Bill Clinton confessing about Monica or Weiner about his dick pics.

Hillary forced to make a televised statement to the nation that she lied about X, Y, and Z for nefarious reasons 1, 2, and 3.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 02:55 PM (lCaJd)

Russia also has all the records on the Uranium 1 Deal... which would be supreme Black Mail material.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2025 03:05 PM (mP0Kj)

314

Reactions to Hogan’s death reflect American divide on race

https://t.ly/XyF8C

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2025 03:06 PM (63Dwl)

315 If you object to my recollections, lets please hear your spin.

Posted by: El Borak at July 25, 2025 03:06 PM (BSNnK)

316 Clapper seemed to be on the verge of shitting his pants in that interview.

You'd think that a former "spy chief" would be made of sterner stuff.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 25, 2025 03:06 PM (qpyNK)

317 305 'Any rumors about whether Ghislane (pronounced "Jizz Lane") Maxwell is spilling her guts or not?'

I read this morning that her box is big.
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 03:04 PM (3kTgY)
_________________________________

Only feedback if from her own attorney. So, nothing solid. Although, he did make a point to state that she answered every single question. Also, subjective. But, I think there would have been rebuttal from the Asst, AG, if the defense counsel was spinning yarns.

Posted by: Orson at July 25, 2025 03:06 PM (dIske)

318 Not the Spider-Man nostalgia fest with mutli-Spidermens, not the pocket case of DvW, but...maybe back to making money.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)

The problem is even the partial successes are the ones that escape the corporate scrutiny even partly. By that standard they can't win consistently, they will work to destroy any follow on production. See Joker II

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 03:06 PM (8avO+)

319 @295

>>So...back in line with the higher part of the middle range of post-Endgame.

I'm pulling for this film as FF was one of my favorite comics until the Claremont X-Men.

If it succinctly Kirbyesque, I'll even look past the you go girl boss save the day aspects of the movie.

I've heard Galactus is amazeballz.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2025 03:07 PM (OD1lg)

320 Have you no respect for the rolled-up shirt sleeve??

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 25, 2025 02:58 PM (PiwSw)
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I was going to mention that.

Also got to love the sharp, serious look.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 03:07 PM (krQz2)

321 I like the judge recusal thing. The vote to remove shows some bias where I'm from, that being Logictown.

Posted by: Mongo at July 25, 2025 03:07 PM (s9EN2)

322 319 I'm pulling for this film as FF was one of my favorite comics until the Claremont X-Men.

If it succinctly Kirbyesque, I'll even look past the you go girl boss save the day aspects of the movie.

I've heard Galactus is amazeballz.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2025 03:07 PM (OD1lg)

===========

I'll catch it eventually, I guess.

I'm more excited about this, though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U77zLDDdjc

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 03:08 PM (GBKbO)

323 >>>Mobile phones? I thought of them as 'car phones', but that can't be right.

no... I wasn't clear. We used to have landline phones that connected with the wall unit by a short-wave radio transmission.

Oh -- cordless phones.

Posted by: ace at July 25, 2025 02:53 PM (KRtlO)

Longer antennas because they operated on a lower frequency, around 49mhz, as apposed to cell phones that operate around 2 ghz, that require a much smaller antenna. Now, to put some water in the birdbath.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 25, 2025 03:08 PM (5xuJ/)

324 321 I like the judge recusal thing. The vote to remove shows some bias where I'm from, that being Logictown.
Posted by: Mongo at July 25, 2025 03:07 PM (s9EN2)

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Here's how the demand for recusals would go:

"Judge, I demand you recuse!"

"Nah, bruh."

*scene*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 03:08 PM (GBKbO)

325 Posted by: Long time guy at July 25, 2025 03:05 PM (E2+Uh)

Russia wasn't working in a vacuum. They already had a lot of incriminating evidence on Bill and the Clinton Foundation. And the only thing Hillary had to do with Khadafi is her incompetence to handle a crisis.

Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 03:09 PM (VofaG)

326 I want to hear Hunter explain why kids should be smoking crack instead of meth.
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"Stopped clock"...wait,....maybe?

Posted by: Crusader at July 25, 2025 03:09 PM (TN0g+)

327
Reading the content, this is where I get lost (in Mollie Hemingway's article):

>>One intelligence official wondered why, if the information was as good as the FBI claimed, Democrats did not deploy it against Trump during the campaign, the records stated.

Everything from there on down is too double-thinky for me.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 03:09 PM (lCaJd)

328 "Reactions to Hogan’s death reflect American divide on race."

Doesn't absolutely everything reflect American divide on race according to the left?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 03:09 PM (2GCMq)

329 @318

>>See Joker II

Joker 2 is a special case as the director and the main actor intentionally set out to nerf their own creation because the wrong people liked the first film.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2025 03:09 PM (OD1lg)

330 I don't expect this to claim Obama at all, and I suspect that even the minions will get less than they deserve... but oh, how I want to see Brennan dance on the end of a rope for his crimes.

Posted by: American Hawkman at July 25, 2025 03:09 PM (rM26B)

331 There's an old saying by Thomas Hobbes- "Hell is the truth seen too late" my ex-wife is experiencing it now and I expect Mandy will too around age 37-40.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 03:03 PM (hlNLQ)

She already has if she's past the "baby fever" at about 30 and already at shoulda-coulda-woulda of acceptance.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 03:09 PM (8avO+)

332 >>> Clapper seemed to be on the verge of shitting his pants in that interview.
You'd think that a former "spy chief" would be made of sterner stuff.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 25, 2025 03:06 PM (qpyNK)

Spies, a bunch of bitchy little girls.

- Sam Axe

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at July 25, 2025 03:10 PM (cduTK)

333 Here's how the demand for recusals would go:

"Judge, I demand you recuse!"

"Nah, bruh."

---------

I strenuously object!

Posted by: Lt. Cmdr. Joanne Galloway at July 25, 2025 03:10 PM (TN0g+)

334 Joker 2 is a special case as the director and the main actor intentionally set out to nerf their own creation because the wrong people liked the first film.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2025 03:09 PM (OD1lg)

But the studio didn't stop them, so they agreed.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 03:10 PM (8avO+)

335 333 Here's how the demand for recusals would go:

"Judge, I demand you recuse!"

"Nah, bruh."

---------

I strenuously object!
Posted by: Lt. Cmdr. Joanne Galloway at July 25, 2025 03:10 PM (TN0g+)

======

*does line of coke off hooker's ass in court*
-Judicial Immunity, bitches!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)

336 If GOPe cuckservatives Cornyn and Graham are going after the donk elitists then there is some there to this. They wouldn't unless they felt protected. I'm going long on popcorn futures!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 25, 2025 03:11 PM (17s+e)

337 296 Any rumors about whether Ghislane (pronounced "Jizz Lane") Maxwell is spilling her guts or not?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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She talked with Dep. AG Blanche for hours without asserting privilege, etc. So who knows?

We will find out in due course.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 03:11 PM (ctrM5)

338 Here's how the demand for recusals would go:

"Judge, I demand you recuse!"

"Nah, bruh."

*scene*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 03:08 PM (GBKbO)
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Was that taken from Kagen around Sebelius v. NFIB?

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 03:11 PM (krQz2)

339 331- ahh the rationalization stage, or as Aesop's fox would say, "those grapes were probably sour anyway"

Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 03:11 PM (hlNLQ)

340 Sunny Hostin expounding on The View:

“ ... if the comedians are being attacked, then that means our Constitution is being dismantled.

That means the very rubric of our democracy is being dismantled. And I think every single person should be really, really concerned about it.”

On your Really, Really Concerned Meter's scale of 0 to 10, how really, really concerned are you?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 03:11 PM (0sNs1)

341 Weird that Media Matters is talking about closing.

In unrelated news, a judge asserted that Trump did have authority to close down USAID.

No idea why I thought of the second after I thought of the first.

Weird. No connection at all between them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 03:12 PM (GBKbO)

342 "Reactions to Hogan’s death reflect American divide on race."

Doesn't absolutely everything reflect American divide on race according to the left?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 03:09 PM (2GCMq)

I can't imagine that someone writing that title knows much about what Hogan means for anyone. I mean I know very little about wrestling and I know better.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 03:12 PM (8avO+)

343 The solace of believing nothing of legal consequence will ultimately happen to the coup plotters is that a jury of 150 million voters decided the question in 2024 with a verdict finding Trump not guilty of being a Russian stooge and an outright rejection of the Obama/Clinton/Biden/Comey machine that tried to frame him.

Posted by: the dandy at July 25, 2025 03:12 PM (8l8nW)

344 Reactions to Hogan’s death reflect American divide on race

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Col. Hogan was beloved by fans of Kinchloe (actor Ivan Dixon)!

Posted by: ShainS -- December 9th, 2016: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy! at July 25, 2025 03:12 PM (I/KG5)

345 'why, if the information was as good as the FBI claimed, Democrats did not deploy it against Trump during the campaign'

The proposition that something can't be true because the Dems have not yet unearthed or revealed it, is a slender logical reed. IMHO.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 03:12 PM (3kTgY)

346 "Here's how the demand for recusals would go:

"Judge, I demand you recuse!"

"Nah, bruh.""

Que "and Justice for All" Pachino clip...

Posted by: Mongo at July 25, 2025 03:13 PM (s9EN2)

347
Counterpoint, A reason why Putin may have not wanted a Hillary win in 2016.

Putin may have seen Trump as malleable.

But I think Putin saw Hillary as a real threat.

I don't believe Khadafi was long from Putin's mind when he thought about Hillary.
Posted by: Long time guy

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

Not even close. He knew she was an idiot from the time she minced over to the Kremlin with that Happy Meal "reset button." He also knew how crooked she was, as the now-published reports show. He knew her blackmailable vulnerabilities. He knew she was sick and erratic. All in the reports we're now seeing.

She claimed he was utterly shook over the prospect of her as prez because she had once criticized one of the Russian elections. omg lol like that would scare him.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 03:13 PM (lCaJd)

348 Weird that Media Matters is talking about closing.

In unrelated news, a judge asserted that Trump did have authority to close down USAID.

No idea why I thought of the second after I thought of the first.

Weird. No connection at all between them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 03:12 PM (GBKbO)
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We're good as long as Trump keeps getting permissions from judges do perform executive decisions.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 03:13 PM (krQz2)

349 TheJamesMadison is pissing on Shiner beer????

* stunned silence from TxMoMe attendees *

* bass minor chords start playing *
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 03:02 PM (0sNs1)

Like the Jaws theme?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 25, 2025 03:13 PM (wVcYX)

350 "Strike Force" sounds like a bad 50's noir film.
Posted by: Auspex at July 25, 2025 02:23 PM (Y8DZL)

"Strike Force! Commence Operation Arclight 44!"

Posted by: mrp at July 25, 2025 03:13 PM (rj6Yv)

351 On your Really, Really Concerned Meter's scale of 0 to 10, how really, really concerned are you?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

_\__________

* tap tap *

_\__________

* shrug *

Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 03:13 PM (vUfhL)

352 Weird that Media Matters is talking about closing.

In unrelated news, a judge asserted that Trump did have authority to close down USAID.

No idea why I thought of the second after I thought of the first.

Weird. No connection at all between them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 03:12 PM (GBKbO)

kind of a dumb suit because even if USAID was forced open that says nothing about what they fund, how much and who gets the money. Trump could have vectored billions to Republican causes.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 03:13 PM (8avO+)

353 The problem is that he has to pull her nomination for the post from the Senate. She's acting until another nominee gets confirmed by the Senate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I don't understand how the judges could fire her.

Fifteen judges — all appointed by Biden and Obama — are reportedly fuming after they forced Alina Habba to step down as interim U.S. Attorney…

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2025 03:14 PM (JBVNW)

354 @322

>>I'm more excited about this, though:

Looks interesting, although the trailer give absolutely no clue what the film is about.

I'm looking forward to Caught Stealing and One Battle After Another the new PTA film with Leo.

Has distinct Boogie Nights vibes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2025 03:14 PM (OD1lg)

355 cornyn called in a favor, graham agreed so they’d appear large and in charge

Posted by: cherries in season at July 25, 2025 03:15 PM (OjUks)

356 Here's how the demand for recusals would go:

"Judge, I demand you recuse!"

"Nah, bruh."

---------

I strenuously object!
Posted by: Lt. Cmdr. Joanne Galloway at July 25, 2025 03:10 PM (TN0g+)

Perfect.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 25, 2025 03:15 PM (wVcYX)

357 We're good as long as Trump keeps getting permissions from judges do perform executive decisions.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 03:13 PM (krQz2)

Each is a precedent and will be quashed even more quickly if repeated.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 03:15 PM (8avO+)

358 353 I don't understand how the judges could fire her.

Fifteen judges — all appointed by Biden and Obama — are reportedly fuming after they forced Alina Habba to step down as interim U.S. Attorney…
Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2025 03:14 PM (JBVNW)

=======

The Judicial Act of 1945 (and subsequent modifications) established the procedure.

Blame Truman for signing a facially unconstitutional law to change the Judicial Code.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 03:16 PM (GBKbO)

359 Obama knows there is no possible future where he pays real consequences for actions tantamount to treason. In the end, all we're going to get from this are a few uncomfortable moments experienced by Clapper, Comey, and Brennan, who don't share Obama's invulnerability, and it isn't enough.

Posted by: troyriser at July 25, 2025 03:16 PM (DPeYO)

360 Everybody except her fangirls and boys know what a corrupt, incompetent piece of garbage Hillary really is. Putin would have used her like a dish rag

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 03:16 PM (hIY2p)

361 All the same, he gets more right than practically anybody we've sent to DC.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 02:47 PM (krQz2)

Yes !!! I've talked, like normal, about all the obvious shit - and its obvious - that Trump fucks up.

But again I'll say it, Trump showed how NO American President in our lifetime wanted to do anything right. Trump outdid Reagan - just by trying. Remember ... one of the Reagan promises was the Department of Education. Trump at least appointed someone that wants to reduce the size of the Department of Education.

Its not that Trump is a Super Genius. I will never believe he is. But he was the first guy, in my lifetime, to try.

I only voted for the guy three times. I'm OK with bitching when he screws up. I doubt I'll ever vote for another guy even twice.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 25, 2025 03:16 PM (hk7Ln)

362 354 Looks interesting, although the trailer give absolutely no clue what the film is about.

I'm looking forward to Caught Stealing and One Battle After Another the new PTA film with Leo.

Has distinct Boogie Nights vibes.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2025 03:14 PM (OD1lg)

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Neither do I, but Park Chan-Wook is one of my favorite living directors. Top 3 or something.

The new trailer for One Battle After Another was...kind of hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 03:16 PM (GBKbO)

363 Sunny Hostin expounding on The View:

“ ... if the comedians are being attacked, then that means our Constitution is being dismantled.

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

The Satanic Marxist Death Cult Constitution?

Is that Das Kapital?

Posted by: ShainS -- December 9th, 2016: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy! at July 25, 2025 03:16 PM (sF1Er)

364 I don't understand how the judges could fire her.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2025 03:14 PM (JBVNW)
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Judges are magic.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 03:17 PM (krQz2)

365 TheJamesMadison is pissing on Shiner beer????

* stunned silence from TxMoMe attendees *

* bass minor chords start playing *
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 03:02 PM (0sNs1)
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*a tumbleweed rolls slowly by*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 03:17 PM (XZ5S6)

366 Lying liars who lie lie lie.

Posted by: torabora at July 25, 2025 03:17 PM (OdY0v)

367
Russia also has all the records on the Uranium 1 Deal... which would be supreme Black Mail material.
Posted by: Romeo13

===========

If only Trump would get that out of them and somehow make a case.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 03:17 PM (lCaJd)

368 Reactions to Hogan’s death reflect American divide on race

Vwat iz zizz dead man doing here?

Posted by: Major Hochstetter at July 25, 2025 03:17 PM (wVcYX)

369 Any rumors about whether Ghislane (pronounced "Jizz Lane") Maxwell is spilling her guts or not?'

I read this morning that her box is big.
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket

Her box is big.
The chair is against the wall.
John has a long mustache.

*It's go time people!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2025 03:17 PM (JBVNW)

370 hang em high!

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 25, 2025 03:18 PM (EUNsI)

371 I don't understand how the judges could fire her.

Fifteen judges — all appointed by Biden and Obama — are reportedly fuming after they forced Alina Habba to step down as interim U.S. Attorney…
Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2025 03:14 PM (JBVNW)

The dumb rule is that the interim choice has to leave after 120 days Even though her time was up, the judges jumped the gun to nominate the assistant post holder. Trump said to hell with that, and since the assistant post is not Senate confirmed he can put anyone he wants there to effectively run the district.

If the judges had shut up, Trump might have let the assistant de facto run the district.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 03:18 PM (8avO+)

372 TheJamesMadison is pissing on Shiner beer????

* stunned silence from TxMoMe attendees *

* bass minor chords start playing *
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 03:02 PM (0sNs1)

Like the Jaws theme?
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 25, 2025 03:13 PM (wVcYX)

Look, at least he didn't say "Shiner Bock".

Posted by: mrp at July 25, 2025 03:18 PM (rj6Yv)

373 That's the sound.

As if 1,000 Deep State assholes suddenly puckered...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 25, 2025 03:18 PM (kgE5c)

374 I don't understand how the judges could fire her.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2025 03:14 PM (JBVNW)
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Judges are magic.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 03:17 PM (krQz2)

With powers omniplenipotentiary!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 25, 2025 03:18 PM (wVcYX)

375 The legacy media is all-in on Obamas Russia Gate being a distraction from Epstien.

This is a world-historical propaganda war.

It will be fascinating to see how it plays out.

Posted by: Long time guy at July 25, 2025 03:18 PM (E2+Uh)

376 Wrong. He paid for opposition research against Trump--as any other candidate would. But Fusion was on mission to dig up dirt for Hillary.

Of course, Fusion GPS would take Rubio's money and then control the outflux of dirt.

That any Republican donor played any significant role in the services Fusion GPS gave to Hillary has been *debunked* a number of times over.

This is the Dem story.
Posted by: Axeman
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firm to stop doing research on Mr. Trump in May 2016Story:
"WASHINGTON — The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website funded by a major Republican donor, first hired the research firm (Fusion GPS) that months later produced for Democrats the salacious dossier describing ties between Donald J. Trump and the Russian government, the website said on Friday.

The Free Beacon, funded in large part by the New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, hired the firm, Fusion GPS, in 2015 to unearth damaging information about several Republican presidential candidates, including Mr. Trump but told the firm to stop doing research on Mr. Trump in May 2016.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 03:19 PM (ctrM5)

377 I'll tell you, I have about 0 respect for activist judges.

They almost always aligned with the Democrat agenda. Almost always appointed by Democrats.

And the Democrats continue to bleat about "democracy", by which they don't mean representation of the people, they mean institutions that have grown up in our republic, because they mostly control them.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 03:19 PM (krQz2)

378 TheJamesMadison is pissing on Shiner beer????

* stunned silence from TxMoMe attendees *

* bass minor chords start playing *
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 03:02 PM (0sNs1)
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*a tumbleweed rolls slowly by*
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 03:17 PM

Somewhere in the distance, a dog barked...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 25, 2025 03:19 PM (kgE5c)

379 Everybody except her fangirls and boys know what a corrupt, incompetent piece of garbage Hillary really is. Putin would have used her like a dish rag
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 03:16 PM (hIY2p)

What, after the red reset button she gave Russia (I think Putin was not in office then)?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 03:20 PM (8avO+)

380 Maxwell I believe is talking again today. This could be real fun. Just keep hitting the elite left with body blows

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 03:20 PM (hIY2p)

381 364 I don't understand how the judges could fire her.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2025 03:14 PM (JBVNW)
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Judges are magic.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 03:17 PM (krQz2)

The Rules Judges work under, are written by the Supreme Court... most have no real basis in an actual Law... except a Law that says the Supremoes get to write the rules.

Contempt of Court? RULE 6...

And as there is no mechanism to actually discipline Judges EXCEPT for the Entire Congress to Impeach them? They can just ignore both Rules, and Laws, with impunity as long as they do it from the Bench.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2025 03:20 PM (mP0Kj)

382 *raises hand*

How can you “defame” people when what they did is right there in the material, some of it in their own hand? Isn’t that in and of itself defamation? Has the media not learned or are they set on increasing Trump’s net worth another billion from lawsuits alone.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2025 03:20 PM (7PBzX)

383 381 The Rules Judges work under, are written by the Supreme Court... most have no real basis in an actual Law... except a Law that says the Supremoes get to write the rules.

Contempt of Court? RULE 6...

And as there is no mechanism to actually discipline Judges EXCEPT for the Entire Congress to Impeach them? They can just ignore both Rules, and Laws, with impunity as long as they do it from the Bench.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2025 03:20 PM (mP0Kj)

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No, this rule about vacancies was passed by Congress in 1945, the Judicial Act, and signed by Truman.

It's been modified a couple of times since, but it's not something the judiciary just came up with itself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 25, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO)

384
The legacy media is all-in on Obamas Russia Gate being a distraction from Epstien.

This is a world-historical propaganda war.

It will be fascinating to see how it plays out.
Posted by: Long time guy

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And it's maddening that the timing is up to things like Congress's vacation schedule and the iceberg-like agility of the justice system!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 03:21 PM (lCaJd)

385 >> TheJamesMadison is pissing on Shiner beer????

Apostate!!

Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2025 03:22 PM (7PBzX)

386 TheJamesMadison is pissing on Shiner beer????

I drank one Shiner. From a can. One.

Its not good, people. Better than Iron City - but I suspect so is my piss, compared to Iron City.

Shiner is not a good beer.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 25, 2025 03:22 PM (hk7Ln)

387 TheJamesMadison is pissing on Shiner beer????

* stunned silence from TxMoMe attendees *

* bass minor chords start playing *
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 03:02 PM (0sNs1)
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*a tumbleweed rolls slowly by*
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 03:17 PM

Somewhere in the distance, a dog barked...

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... the only other sound the splashing of the intense stream of urine into the foul brew.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 03:22 PM (3kTgY)

388 Secure Crack Ingestion Facility
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025
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HEY! I know where that's at!

Posted by: Hunter Biden at July 25, 2025 03:22 PM (OdY0v)

389 >>If the judges had shut up, Trump might have let the assistant de facto run the district.

Trump appointed Habba as Acting US Attorney in New Jersey yesterday. Not Interim, Acting. She's back in the job.

Two can play the fuck you game.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 03:22 PM (viF8m)

390 Nood.

Posted by: Reforger at July 25, 2025 03:22 PM (sNI6D)

391 The legacy media is all-in on Obamas Russia Gate being a distraction from Epstien.

Posted by: Long time guy at July 25, 2025 03:18 PM (E2+Uh)
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Which is stupid because they had 4 years with power over the Epstein information.

How can something be a "distraction" from something the Democrats ignored for 4 years?

They just expose themselves as deep Democrat shills the more they do this kind of thing (which feeds into what I was saying about ideological paralysis).

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 03:23 PM (krQz2)

392 >>If the judges had shut up, Trump might have let the assistant de facto run the district.

Trump appointed Habba as Acting US Attorney in New Jersey yesterday. Not Interim, Acting. She's back in the job.

Two can play the fuck you game.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 03:22 PM (viF8m)

Since she isn't a candidate for the post anymore (Trump withdrew the Nom), she's free to be Acting.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 03:23 PM (8avO+)

393 Scratch 'urine,' insert 'hot pee pee.'

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 03:23 PM (3kTgY)

394 @380

>>Maxwell I believe is talking again today. This could be real fun. Just keep hitting the elite left with body blows

It depends on what questions she's being asked, if she's being asked the equivalent of, if you were a tree what tree would you be, then this is going nowhere.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2025 03:24 PM (OD1lg)

395 Reactions to Hogan’s death reflect American divide on race
.....

He wasn't black, just very tan.

Posted by: wth at July 25, 2025 03:24 PM (v0R5T)

396 *raises hand*

How can you “defame” people when what they did is right there in the material, some of it in their own hand? Isn’t that in and of itself defamation? Has the media not learned or are they set on increasing Trump’s net worth another billion from lawsuits alone.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2025 03:20 PM (7PBzX)

Truth is a defense for defamation.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 03:24 PM (8avO+)

397 Which is stupid because they had 4 years with power over the Epstein information. How can something be a "distraction" from something the Democrats ignored for 4 years?

And that is the stupidity of the Trump Administration on this. Why do you hide something that your opponent mocks your for hiding if you think it hurts them more than you ?

Trump is protecting somebody on this. I don't think it's himself ... but to Hell with him if it is. Let the chips fall where they may.

Its a dumb move. Its not Nth Dimensional Chess. He's wrong on this. Pure and simple.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 25, 2025 03:27 PM (hk7Ln)

398 "They're throwing the deportees out of the planes and into the ocean."

People sure believe a lot of egregious nonsense, don't they-as long as it ties in with "Trump bad!!!

I did laugh, however at the woman who made a whole $80.00 from a Go Fund Me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 03:27 PM (2GCMq)

399 Russian "defectors"? Back in Soviet times, "defecting" was a big deal, taking one's life in one's hands. To "defect" from Putin's Russia, all one has to do is hop into one's Lada* and drive to Finland.

*more likely an Escalade.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2025 03:28 PM (yGuY2)

400 Its not that Trump is a Super Genius. I will never believe he is. But he was the first guy, in my lifetime, to try.

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The superpower of Both Trump and Musk is fearlessness .

"Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen."

-- Dr. Robert Jarvik, inventor of the artificial heart

Posted by: ShainS -- December 9th, 2016: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy! at July 25, 2025 03:28 PM (7X03H)

401 Juliette Kayyem is also a Harvard professor. I'm just soooo impressed! /not

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 02:14 PM (2GCMq)

Ain't no Kasey Kasem, for sure.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2025 03:29 PM (yGuY2)

402 What, after the red reset button she gave Russia (I think Putin was not in office then)?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 03:20 PM (8avO+)

He was the Russian prime minister at the time. He and Medvedev switched offices whenever it suited Vlad's purpose at the time.

Posted by: mrp at July 25, 2025 03:30 PM (rj6Yv)

403 I ate some salt and vinegar chips today. That right there reflects that racial divide thing. I denounce myself.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 25, 2025 03:31 PM (kTd/k)

404 This has been a great day of watching my enemies driven before me, and hearing the lamentations of their women.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 02:18 PM (gKWV

(crickets)

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at July 25, 2025 03:32 PM (yGuY2)

405 I ate some salt and vinegar chips today. That right there reflects that racial divide thing. I denounce myself.
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much

AKA - snowball on a chip.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 03:33 PM (/lPRQ)

406 The superpower of Both Trump and Musk is fearlessness .

The rest of your post was a good quote. And maybe that's it. Reagan got elected because he was viewed as an outsider. I don't think he was much. He certainly didn't act like it - but compared to today's cast of characters ? Maybe he should get the benefit of the doubt.

That's why I keep saying ... Trump at least Tries. I think he fucks up a lot, but he tries. Puts him ahead of the Bush clan.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 25, 2025 03:34 PM (hk7Ln)

407 I want him to tell Lindsey to go play in traffic.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 02:43 PM (ULPxl)

Heh! I had the same thought.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2025 03:50 PM (N965F)

408 You darling summer child. Shiner beer is proudly brewed at the Spoetzl brewery in Shiner, Texas. This town was founded by German and Czech immigrants. Many Czech descendants (quality people!) work for the Spoetzl company and taste test the product as part of their daily job duties.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 25, 2025 02:53 PM (wVcYX)

Shiner Bock is really good beer, and at an attractive price, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2025 03:56 PM (N965F)

409 In another disturbing incident of disinformation, in a TikTok post with over 800,000 views, a woman says, "They're throwing the deportees out of the planes and into the ocean. [...] they're shackling people, flying out into open ocean and throwing them out....

The Orange Tyrant isn't having that done? I am disappoint.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2025 03:59 PM (pJWtt)

410 Life for Obama for Treason with Bill Clinton as a cellmate

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 25, 2025 06:37 PM (wGqjj)

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