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Bank Executives Admit: Obama and Biden Pressured Us to "Debank" the Democrat Party's Political Enemies

They're speaking anonymously for fear of reprisal.

The banks faced reprisals under Obama and Biden: Do what we demand, punish our enemies for us, or we'll sic bank regulators on you and make your life a nightmare.

Obama and Biden are gone but the Democrat Party is now communist and Maoist and they will get their vengeance if they're given the chance.

Bank executives blow the whistle on how Obama, Biden admins pressured them to debank conservatives


In the wake of President Donald Trump's executive order outlawing debanking, major bank executives told Fox News Digital that they were under pressure by the Obama and Biden administrations to deny services to individuals and businesses for political reasons.

"Those pressures were very, very real. When your regulator gives you a suggestion, it's not a suggestion, it's an order. The political stuff is very real, those pressures are real," a senior banking executive told Fox News Digital.

...

The executives said that ambiguity in federal laws was exploited by regulators under the Obama and Biden administrations in order to pursue political objectives. According to one executive, banks were pressured to deny services to certain industries as part of Operation Choke Point and Operation Choke Point 2.0.

"When there's ambiguity in the law, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and for a long time the beholder was the Obama and Biden administration," the official said.

A House Oversight Committee report found that "Operation Choke Point," a DOJ task force whose aim was to "choke out" legal companies disfavored by the Obama administration, worked with bank regulators to label certain industries, including firearms sales, as "high risk."

Trump ended "Operation Choke Point" in 2017 during his first term. However, a House Financial Services Committee hearing last week heard accusations that former President Joe Biden had rebooted the initiative and targeted crypto firms for debanking as part of "Operation Choke Point 2.0."

Trump claimed to be a victim of debanking, and accused JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and others of refusing more than $1 billion in his deposits. First lady Melania Trump wrote in her memoir that she and her son Barron were debanked, as well.

"I was shocked and dismayed to learn that my long‑time bank decided to terminate my account and deny my son the opportunity to open a new one.... This decision appeared to be rooted in political discrimination, raising serious concerns about civil rights violations," Melania wrote.

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Former Republican Sen. Sam Brownback accused JPMorgan Chase of having debanked his nonprofit, the National Committee for Religious Freedom, in 2022. JPMorgan maintains that they never engaged in political debanking, but updated their code of conduct to state that they do not discriminate based on political views or religious beliefs in 2025 -- which the bank stated was merely the codification of existing policy.

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According to Inspire Investing's Tim Schwarzenberger, CFA, whose firm has been deeply involved with combating debanking, banks would use the criteria of "reputational risk" to deny services to politically disfavored groups and individuals.

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Another senior banking executive said that negative news coverage was considered criteria for "reputational risk." During the period between the 2020 presidential election and Trump's return to the Oval Office in 2024, he was subject to a flurry of lawsuits and negative press. Banks, according to the official, responding to the wishes of regulators, would use the negative press directed at conservatives as a pretext to debank them.

"It's all kind of set up, it's like somebody set the table, and it all ends up focusing on Republicans and conservatives," the executive said.

The executive added that banks were under constant regulatory pressure to file more "suspicious activity reports," reports submitted to the Treasury about unusual banking activity, and to debank more customers. He said the regulators didn't need to explicitly tell banks to deny services to any particular individual or business. The administration's preferences were well known, and the banks were expected to comply.

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"It's better for us to just not take on certain business if we suspect an examiner can come in and say six months ago you shouldn't have taken this client," the bank official told Fox News Digital.

And speaking of weaponization of government: Tulsi Gabbard revoked the security clearances of 37 officials involved in the RussiaGate Coup Attempt.


DNI Tulsi Gabbard
@DNIGabbard

Being entrusted with a security clearance is a privilege, not a right. Those in the Intelligence Community who betray their oath to the Constitution and put their own interests ahead of the interests of the American people have broken the sacred trust they promised to uphold. In doing so, they undermine our national security, the safety and security of the American people and the foundational principles of our democratic republic.

This is why, at @POTUS
' direction, @ODNIgov
directed the revocation of the security clearances of 37 current and former intelligence professionals who have abused the public trust by politicizing and manipulating intelligence, leaking classified intelligence without authorization, and/or committing intentional egregious violations of tradecraft standards.

Our Intelligence Community must be committed to upholding the values and principles enshrined in the US Constitution and maintain a laser-like focus on our mission of ensuring the safety, security and freedom of the American people.

I guess that's why this Deep State scumbag is salty.

A former FBI agent and friend of Peter Strzok who recently resigned from the bureau after he says his relationship with the disgraced ex-FBI official was scrutinized by Dan Bongino is now defending Crossfire Hurricane, suggesting Donald Trump was in contact with Russian intelligence, comparing the FBI under Kash Patel to the KGB and Chinese spy services, throwing around Nazi comparisons, and more.

Michael Feinberg, who was recently the assistant special agent in charge at the FBI's Norfolk field office in Virginia, left the FBI at the end of May after he claims his direct superior told him that FBI deputy director Dan Bongino was scrutinizing his longtime friendship with Strzok, the disgraced FBI special agent who played a key role in the Trump-Russia investigation and was fired following the emergence of biased anti-Trump texts he had exchanged with FBI lawyer Lisa Page, with whom he was having an affair.

Rather than take a polygraph test about his relationship with Strzok, Feinberg says he quit the FBI instead of risking the possible demotion he says he was facing in place of the big promotion to FBI headquarters which he had been expecting.

The FBI's website says that "although we have used polygraphs to screen new employees for many years, since the 2001 Robert Hanssen spy case, we have also been requiring regular polygraph examinations of FBI employees with access to sensitive compartmented information."
Anti-Trump operatives' new hero

Since leaving the bureau, Feinberg has been hailed this summer by some as a possible "Resistance 2.0"-style hero by multiple anti-Trump foes. He has appeared on CNN and MSNBC, talked with Daily Show host and Trump critic Jon Stewart, got a job at the Brookings Institute-affiliated anti-Trump outlet Lawfare, and more, all while lashing out at the FBI under FBI Director Kash Patel.

Feinberg has hinted at a nefarious connection between Trump and Russia, has compared the current bureau to Communist-style spy agencies, and has suggested that the Trump administration had commonalities with the Nazi regime, all while promoting the views of his friend Peter Strzok and seeking to downplay the FBI's wrongdoing during its politically-motivated Crossfire Hurricane inquiry into now debunked claims of Trump-Russia collusion.

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1 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 19, 2025 06:41 PM (5+Y60)

2 awww the poor widdle banksters!

yeah right

Im sure they were crying about it

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 19, 2025 06:41 PM (Pv3Rg)

3 >>>Bank Executives Admit: Obama and Biden Pressured Us to "Debank" the Democrat Party's Political Enemies

You know who else was just following orders?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 19, 2025 06:42 PM (i24o9)

4 Metaphor alert: the concrete is cracked and crumbling at the Obama Monument before it's even done. The concrete contractor insists it's because the architect is racist. MORE POPCORN!

https://archive.is/0fRUW

Posted by: Ian S. at August 19, 2025 06:43 PM (C/4uM)

5 Obama? Yes.
Biden? No.

It was the DC politburo keeping Obama train running.

Posted by: Axeman at August 19, 2025 06:44 PM (krQz2)

6 awww, so sad, poor ol' uncle pennybags scared of mean gummint!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 19, 2025 06:45 PM (ppG5b)

7 The laws of physics are racist.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 19, 2025 06:45 PM (gKWVE)

8 Funny Russian Collusion again

Posted by: Skip at August 19, 2025 06:46 PM (+qU29)

9 They canceled an account on a 14 or 15 YO kid.
Sasha and Malia lined up for second on the annual distribution of the reparations.
They both now have 2 mules and 8 acres and back for thirds.

We fuck all of you. In the ass. If I ever get in a biz situation again in my life and can fuck a (D), BOHICA.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 06:46 PM (gbOdA)

10 Shouldn't the article on Feinberg read " Feinberg claimed without evidence"?

Posted by: Darth Randall at August 19, 2025 06:46 PM (xp13L)

11 >>>Feinberg has hinted at a nefarious connection between Trump and Russia, has compared the current bureau to Communist-style spy agencies, and has suggested that the Trump administration had commonalities with the Nazi regime . . . .

I encourage this sort of hackery. People have no idea how bad it is.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 19, 2025 06:46 PM (i24o9)

12 As for debanking, they're still doing it. Visa and Mastercard are hitting Steam.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 19, 2025 06:46 PM (gKWVE)

13 And non-leftists would never do the same to the leftists now in retaliation. Everything is a ratchet. Or, why do the good guys never understand game theory?

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 19, 2025 06:47 PM (cduTK)

14 And the hits keep coming. Biden's own DOJ was questioning many of the last minute pardons:

https://tinyurl.com/4wj4tnsh

Posted by: beckster at August 19, 2025 06:48 PM (NLtte)

15 This is actually a big deal. People who are seeking Trump's mercy have decided that they can't go back. No one likes traitors.

Each defection creates another person who knows if the Dems get back in power, they'll be up against the wall.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 06:48 PM (ZOv7s)

16 Who runs Bartertown ??!?!?!?!

Posted by: Adriane the By That Definition, I am a Worm Critic . . . at August 19, 2025 06:48 PM (3ZUWJ)

17 13 And non-leftists would never do the same to the leftists now in retaliation. Everything is a ratchet. Or, why do the good guys never understand game theory?
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream


This absolutely needs to be done to any company donating to the Pride Parades.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 19, 2025 06:48 PM (gKWVE)

18 Feinberg was NOT a ham-n-egger? I'm shocked!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 19, 2025 06:49 PM (wVcYX)

19 You are stupid if you buy a gun on a credit card.
They know now everything about you.
(D) talk about the little girl in the attic and HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE that their bankers are pointing out where they live.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 06:49 PM (gbOdA)

20
Today's forgotten phrase is set-to.

It means: a fight or argument.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 19, 2025 06:49 PM (RgrFf)

21 Each defection creates another person who knows if the Dems get back in power, they'll be up against the wall.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd


Yeah! A bunch of redneck mothers ...

Posted by: Adriane the By That Definition, I am a Worm Critic . . . at August 19, 2025 06:50 PM (3ZUWJ)

22
Progs: Well's it's their bank, they can set their own policies, if they want to. It's NOT SOME BIG CONSPIRACY!

Banks: Actually it was...

Progs (predicted): PROOF! SHOW ME!! You can't trust BANKERS!!

Posted by: Axeman at August 19, 2025 06:50 PM (krQz2)

23 And non-leftists would never do the same to the leftists now in retaliation. Everything is a ratchet. Or, why do the good guys never understand game theory?
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 19, 2025 06:47 PM (cduTK)
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Franco understood how this worked. He gave captured Republican troops a choice - force labor or to join the ranks of his army. He knew they couldn't desert - as soon as the "Comrades" found out who they were, they were dead.

It's easy to rat. It is very difficult to re-rat.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 06:50 PM (ZOv7s)

24 "Resistance 2.0"

Lame and gay. Or is it gay and lame?

Posted by: fd at August 19, 2025 06:51 PM (vFG9F)

25 A prison designed as an advanced abattoir would be just right for these thugs.

Plus, think of all the transplant opportunities for other citizens to benefit.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 19, 2025 06:51 PM (u82oZ)

26
Who knows what a "cassandra" is?

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 19, 2025 06:51 PM (RgrFf)

27 Bank Executives Admit: Obama and Biden Pressured Us to "Debank" the Democrat Party's Political Enemies

You know who else was just following orders?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 19, 2025 06:42 PM (i24o9)

Well thank god they didn't force them to take off their hats!

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 06:51 PM (8avO+)

28 Yeah! A bunch of redneck mothers ...
Posted by: Adriane the By That Definition, I am a Worm Critic . . . at August 19, 2025 06:50 PM (3ZUWJ)
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A mother who has raised her son so well. He's 34 and drinking in a honky-tonk, kicking hippie asses and raisin' hell.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 06:52 PM (ZOv7s)

29 4 Metaphor alert: the concrete is cracked and crumbling at the Obama Monument before it's even done. The concrete contractor insists it's because the architect is racist. MORE POPCORN!

https://archive.is/0fRUW
Posted by: Ian S. at August 19, 2025 06:43 PM (C/4uM)

The article says the building is blast-rated. We don't even do that for most buildings on military bases. What in hell is that expense for? Do they think they have to protect digital documents from a zombie apocalypse and that the zombies have artillery?

And yes, it is hideous, like most things concerning Obama and his beard.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 19, 2025 06:52 PM (1Gsou)

30 Who knows what a "cassandra" is?
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 19, 2025 06:51 PM (RgrFf)

Cassandra did.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 06:52 PM (8avO+)

31 The article says the building is blast-rated. We don't even do that for most buildings on military bases. What in hell is that expense for? Do they think they have to protect digital documents from a zombie apocalypse and that the zombies have artillery?

And yes, it is hideous, like most things concerning Obama and his beard.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 19, 2025 06:52 PM (1Gsou)

Sounds like the old Lightbringer has a thoughtful comprehension of his popularity in Chicago.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 06:54 PM (8avO+)

32 You are stupid if you buy a gun on a credit card.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 06:49 PM (gbOdA)
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I like buying weapons credit. Feels very American to use unsecured debt for arms.

Oh, and as for being on a list, I am on so many lists that it's not worth worrying about.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 06:54 PM (ZOv7s)

33 It's not fascism when the government controls and dictates what businesses can sell and to who.

It's uh, it's, uh ... Our Democracy!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 19, 2025 06:54 PM (0JnyD)

34 "Who knows what a "cassandra" is?"

I do. Twenty bucks, same as in town.

Posted by: fd at August 19, 2025 06:54 PM (vFG9F)

35 Willowed: the revoking of the security clearances is necessary and may have a secondary effect. These people are the ones who talk to the propaganda ministries and at least this will gum up the leak works a bit

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 19, 2025 06:54 PM (qGI1K)

36 Do you buy every box of ammo in cash, in person ? "

Yep. Since well, ever.

Posted by: man at August 19, 2025 06:55 PM (tubbA)

37 And you keep doing this. This idiotic stance that forced compliance to arbitrary things doesn't lead to more compliance to more targeted things.

And thank God you wore the mask. Or, back in the day, the yellow star. Its just a piece of paper. No big deal.
Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 06:53 PM (n9o7H)
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Wait, so now doffing your hat leads to concentration camps? Put down the crack pipe and log off for the night.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 06:55 PM (ZOv7s)

38 I wonder how things are going for that group of brave resistance fighters, the fired State and FBI employees, that were going to bring down PDT?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 19, 2025 06:55 PM (dxWFK)

39 Who knows what a "cassandra" is?
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 19, 2025 06:51 PM (RgrFf)

Cassandra did.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 06:52 PM (8avO+)

A 2-wheeled cart for carrying ammunition?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 19, 2025 06:55 PM (wVcYX)

40 27
Who knows what a "cassandra" is?
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 19, 2025 06:51 PM (RgrFf)


I am one. Or you could call me an anti-pied piper. If I give a warning or make a suggestion, people automatically do the opposite.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at August 19, 2025 06:55 PM (FMtrg)

41 37, lol!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 19, 2025 06:55 PM (ppG5b)

42 > Who knows what a "cassandra" is?

Someone who can see the future but is cursed to never be believed by anyone they try to warn.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 19, 2025 06:55 PM (lIio7)

43 And you keep doing this. This idiotic stance that forced compliance to arbitrary things doesn't lead to more compliance to more targeted things.

Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 06:53 PM (n9o7H)
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Ah, so you've made plain your slippery slope argument.

So, if I agree with you, soon I'm going to have to agree with every thing you say, right?

Posted by: Axeman at August 19, 2025 06:55 PM (krQz2)

44 Fun fact: you can buy guns direct from the US government. Rifles shipped right to your door.

I mean, you're on a list, but M1 Garands are cool, and come cheaper that way.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 06:56 PM (ZOv7s)

45 Were you de-banked by rabid homosexual leftists because of your political beliefs? Did you lose the right to life and the pursuit of happiness because a bunch of dirty faggot democrats would not leave you alone? Well, call me! I want to get you money!

Posted by: John Morgan, Fat Monied Lawyer at August 19, 2025 06:56 PM (R/m4+)

46 "Someone who can see the future but is cursed to never be believed by anyone they try to warn.
Posted by: bonhomme"

Hey! That's me!

Posted by: fd at August 19, 2025 06:57 PM (vFG9F)

47 The illegal who pulled the across the median u turn that killed three people, failed his English language proficiency test administered by the FMCSA. Out of twelve verbal questions he only got 2 right and was only able to correctly identify one, ONE, traffic sign.
Hubbymayhem says that bastard deserves the death penalty. Hubbymayhem is right! Anything less and that motherfucker will be back here, driving again. Fucking California.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 19, 2025 06:57 PM (2J/Lj)

48 Wait, so now doffing your hat leads to concentration camps? Put down the crack pipe and log off for the night.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 06:55 PM (ZOv7s)

And since the person who first told you to wear or take off a hat was likely your mom...some issues there.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 06:57 PM (8avO+)

49 Do you buy every box of ammo in cash, in person ? I bet you do not.

Please explain to me how buying ammo using plastic get you put in The Database™

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 06:57 PM (+4Cf6)

50
Hmmm...More candidates for the guillotine.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 19, 2025 06:57 PM (3ek7K)

51 Is it wrong to think of all the Dem elite and apparatchik and everyone involved in the the BS against the nation to attend the opening of the Obama Library. As Obama walks to the stage the entire building collapses entombing the guests.
If that's wrong I don't want to be right

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 19, 2025 06:57 PM (qGI1K)

52 Ham n Eggs all the way down.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 19, 2025 06:57 PM (4HxCT)

53 Who knows what a "cassandra" is?
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It's kinda complex.

Posted by: Axeman at August 19, 2025 06:58 PM (krQz2)

54 48 Were you de-banked by rabid homosexual leftists because of your political beliefs? Did you lose the right to life and the pursuit of happiness because a bunch of dirty faggot democrats would not leave you alone? Well, call me! I want to get you money!
Posted by: John Morgan, Fat Monied Lawyer at August 19, 2025 06:56 PM (R/m4+)

Wait, are you the same guy who offered to file a class action suit for dogs who were given half a treat instead of a whole one?

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 19, 2025 06:58 PM (1Gsou)

55 As David French explained to you stupids:

It's not fascism when the government coerces private businesses to take illegal and unconstitutional actions on behalf of the government.

It's merely jawboning. It's their freedom of speech.

You'd know that if you lived in the 212 like him.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 19, 2025 06:59 PM (0JnyD)

56
People who keep warning you about how bad things will happen if you keep doing _____ are cassandras.

Got me thinking how Fake News is full of Fake Cassandras -- always warning us about tariffs causing a recession, Trump starting WWIII, blacks returning to slavery, end of "democracy," no more elections, etc.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 19, 2025 06:59 PM (RgrFf)

57 Yeah - I have been saying this since Obama took over.

That fag singlehandedly destroyed countless family businesses across the nation.

Posted by: garrett at August 19, 2025 06:59 PM (Z1dZR)

58 This is a f**king outrage.

Once again, thank God for Donald Trump.

Posted by: Beverly at August 19, 2025 06:59 PM (Epeb0)

59 And since the person who first told you to wear or take off a hat was likely your mom...some issues there.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 06:57 PM (8avO+)
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Well, most Nazis were raised by their moms.

Perhaps we try not mom-raising kids, and see if we get Nazis.

Posted by: Axeman at August 19, 2025 06:59 PM (krQz2)

60 Anything less and that motherfucker will be back here, driving again. Fucking California.

Or let the guy continue to drive exclusively in California, with the DP applied along the side of the highway if he crosses the border in any way other than by retreating to his original country?

If California wants Thunderdome, they can have it Good & Hard.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 06:59 PM (+4Cf6)

61 55 Is it wrong to think of all the Dem elite and apparatchik and everyone involved in the the BS against the nation to attend the opening of the Obama Library. As Obama walks to the stage the entire building collapses entombing the guests.
If that's wrong I don't want to be right
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 19, 2025 06:57 PM (qGI1K)

He's going to hold them hostage unless we send him one MEEEELION dollars.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 19, 2025 06:59 PM (1Gsou)

62 am one. Or you could call me an anti-pied piper. If I give a warning or make a suggestion, people automatically do the opposite.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at August 19, 2025 06:55 PM (FMtrg)

We do not!

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 19, 2025 06:59 PM (MGB5H)

63 About as much as using the correct pro-nouns. So quit being a bigot and just say the words. Its just words. Stop being such a dick.

The irony is obvious. Its why you want it to stop. Now put on the mask and take the shot. They're free.
Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 06:57 PM (n9o7H)
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Serious projection from a guy who hides behind a pseudonym.

So brave, so anonymous, but tell me more about your courage.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:00 PM (ZOv7s)

64 "And non-leftists would never do the same to the leftists now in retaliation. Everything is a ratchet. Or, why do the good guys never understand game theory?"

^^^THIS.^^^

Posted by: Beverly at August 19, 2025 07:01 PM (Epeb0)

65 Who knows what a "cassandra" is?
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It's kinda complex.
Posted by: Axeman at August 19, 2025 06:58 PM (krQz2)

Cassandra was a prophetess who crossed Apollo somehow, I believe she lived in Troy during the Trojan war. She was cursed to know what was coming, but unable to convince anyone to stop it.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 07:01 PM (8avO+)

66 Cassandra was cursed with foresight. Everything she foresaw came true . The curse was that no one believed her, and she couldn't stop the inevitable

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 19, 2025 07:01 PM (qGI1K)

67 If I give a warning or make a suggestion, people automatically do the opposite.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at August 19, 2025 06:55 PM (FMtrg)

Well, you are not the boss of us.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 19, 2025 07:01 PM (i24o9)

68 People who keep warning you about how bad things will happen if you keep doing _____ are cassandras.



Like for instance people who said allowing gay marriage would lead to pedos openly embracing their lifestyle and grooming children.

That never happe…

Oh wait.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 19, 2025 07:01 PM (4HxCT)

69 Got me thinking how Fake News is full of Fake Cassandras -- always warning us about tariffs causing a recession, Trump starting WWIII, blacks returning to slavery, end of "democracy," no more elections, etc.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 19, 2025 06:59 PM (RgrFf)

Nope. Not Cassandras. Check the AoSHQ Style Manual. Those are crap-weasels.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 19, 2025 07:01 PM (1Gsou)

70 Since leaving the bureau, Feinberg has been hailed this summer by some as a possible "Resistance 2.0"-style hero by multiple anti-Trump foes.
____

I know everything is put in terms of anti- or pro- Trump, like it's some kind of game. But it should be repeated, this asshole is defying the will of the majority of the voters in the country. We wanted Trump to break the backs of the unelected bureaucrats and put an end to their illegitimate power of stupid fuckery. And Trump is doing this legally. A very personal F.U. to you, former ham & egger agent Feinberg.

Clown.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 19, 2025 07:01 PM (Dv3i1)

71 It's not fascism when the government coerces private businesses to take illegal and unconstitutional actions on behalf of the government.

It's merely jawboning. It's their freedom of speech.


Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 19, 2025 06:59 PM (0JnyD)
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Right. They merely discussed it like a meeting between two bank officials, and then used their freedom to write what they wanted to put names down on a list of accounts to close!

Posted by: Axeman at August 19, 2025 07:01 PM (krQz2)

72 Tulsi Gabbard is.doing God's work.
Everyone of those bastards needs to stand before a judge.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 19, 2025 07:02 PM (2WIwB)

73 Serious projection from a guy who hides behind a pseudonym.

So brave, so anonymous, but tell me more about your courage.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:00 PM (ZOv7s)

He seems to be thinking everyone here hasn't heard all this a thousand times before, and that we all disagree.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 07:02 PM (8avO+)

74 And since the person who first told you to wear or take off a hat was likely your mom...some issues there.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 06:57 PM (8avO+)
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So the solution to hat-fascism is...Lebensborn?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:02 PM (ZOv7s)

75 Have you seen this trend where urban yoots ride around on a bicycle doing a wheelie and intentionally play chicken with vehicles or pedestrians?

This video starts that way, but it has a satisfying ending.

http://tiny.cc/ieer001

Posted by: bonhomme at August 19, 2025 07:02 PM (lIio7)

76 I know everything is put in terms of anti- or pro- Trump, like it's some kind of game. But it should be repeated, this asshole is defying the will of the majority of the voters in the country. We wanted Trump to break the backs of the unelected bureaucrats and put an end to their illegitimate power of stupid fuckery. And Trump is doing this legally. A very personal F.U. to you, former ham & egger agent Feinberg.

Clown.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 19, 2025 07:01 PM (Dv3i1)

He quit to avoid getting his pension cut. Such a hero to the Resistance.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 07:03 PM (8avO+)

77 The irony is obvious. Its why you want it to stop. Now put on the mask and take the shot. They're free.
Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 06:57 PM (n9o7H)
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Serious projection from a guy who hides behind a pseudonym.

So brave, so anonymous, but tell me more about your courage.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:00 PM (ZOv7s)

I told that guy to quit being an ass in the last thread. Apparently he has a reading comprehension issue.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 19, 2025 07:03 PM (1Gsou)

78 Visa and Mastercard are still totes okay with Roblox.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2025 07:03 PM (XDtG+)

79 > Cassandra was cursed with foresight. Everything she foresaw came true . The curse was that no one believed her, and she couldn't stop the inevitable

You wrote you explanation better than I did. Nicely done. I hate you.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 19, 2025 07:03 PM (lIio7)

80 Cassandra Peterson, AKA "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark"

Posted by: Don Black at August 19, 2025 07:04 PM (AOsQT)

81
When your aunt told you if you don't stop masturbatin' you'll go blind. She was being a cassandra.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 19, 2025 07:04 PM (RgrFf)

82 He seems to be thinking everyone here hasn't heard all this a thousand times before, and that we all disagree.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 07:02 PM (8avO+)
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He's writing submission pr()n, likely for his own consumption. Maybe its a performative thing, where he has to relive is failures and humiliation in front of others.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:04 PM (ZOv7s)

83 I know everything is put in terms of anti- or pro- Trump, like it's some kind of game. But it should be repeated, this asshole is defying the will of the majority of the voters in the country.

They are kind of retarded. They demand that Our Precious Democracy™ is protected by advancing minority "rights" and denying majority rule.

They use the words but don't know what they mean.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 07:05 PM (+4Cf6)

84 And it's being discussed that ICE may put agents at ALL truck weigh stations across the US!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 19, 2025 07:05 PM (2J/Lj)

85 >>Have you seen this trend where urban yoots ride around on a bicycle doing a wheelie and intentionally play chicken with vehicles or pedestrians?


I see an Urban Youth on a Bicycle and like everyone else in America, I think - "There goes a crime in progress".

Posted by: garrett at August 19, 2025 07:05 PM (Z1dZR)

86 86
When your aunt told you if you don't stop masturbatin' you'll go blind. She was being a cassandra.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 19, 2025 07:04 PM (RgrFf)

Well? Have you?

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 19, 2025 07:06 PM (1Gsou)

87 Are we sure that guy isn't David French?

David, tell me about the mask they made you wear. Did it make you feel dirty? Did it look like a puppy?

Why did your wife's boyfriend hit you with the newspaper?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:06 PM (ZOv7s)

88 I don't believe the FBI can be reformed.

I think it has to die.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2025 07:06 PM (dGCAG)

89 Cassandra was cursed with foresight. Everything she foresaw came true . The curse was that no one believed her, and she couldn't stop the inevitable

You wrote you explanation better than I did. Nicely done. I hate you.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 19, 2025 07:03 PM (lIio7)

Bonhomme in mythology was cursed by St Patrick to always see his explanations overtopped by another, better one.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 07:06 PM (8avO+)

90 They are kind of retarded. They demand that Our Precious Democracy™ is protected by advancing minority "rights" and denying majority rule.

They use the words but don't know what they mean.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 07:05 PM (+4Cf6)

The are COMPLETELY retarded. If we truly had a democracy, they would be not only out of office and out of favor, but probably out of a job.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 19, 2025 07:07 PM (1Gsou)

91 Are we sure that guy isn't David French?

David, tell me about the mask they made you wear. Did it make you feel dirty? Did it look like a puppy?

Why did your wife's boyfriend hit you with the newspaper?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:06 PM (ZOv7s)

or was it a hat?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 07:07 PM (8avO+)

92 When your aunt told you if you don't stop masturbatin' you'll go blind. She was being a cassandra.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 19, 2025 07:04 PM (RgrFf)
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Also adding more rules to the rules you're expected to follow, when rules turn you Nazi.

Posted by: Axeman at August 19, 2025 07:07 PM (krQz2)

93 that's not a monument. That's a flak tower. Mount a few 88s on it and yer set to knock down those pesky b-17s !

Posted by: Somewhere South ofI-80 at August 19, 2025 07:07 PM (89Sog)

94 @84 bonhomie, didn't see your definition. Works just fine

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 19, 2025 07:07 PM (qGI1K)

95 51Texas and other relatively sane states should no longer honor drivers licenses or ID's issued by California. Stop them at El Paso and make them go around.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at August 19, 2025 07:08 PM (XKkoH)

96 And it's being discussed that ICE may put agents at ALL truck weigh stations across the US!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 19, 2025 07:05 PM (2J/Lj)

There's only four that are ever open.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 07:08 PM (8avO+)

97 So the solution to hat-fascism is...Lebensborn?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:02 PM (ZOv7s)


No, the solution to hat-fascism is visors.

Posted by: RickZ at August 19, 2025 07:09 PM (gKDq2)

98 I don't believe the FBI can be reformed.

I think it has to die.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2025 07:06 PM (dGCAG)
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Several problems with that. First, you can't replace something with nothing. The FBI is a power tool and in the right hands, can do a lot. For too long conservatives abolished the weapons that harmed them rather than taking them up.

Practically, it can't be abolished. It's not USAID.

It is also true that one can completely rebuild an organization by purging it and pushing enough new people in to fundamentally change its culture. This is what actually happened to the FBI and the US military as well.

By forcing change, mass firings, and then mass hirings, you can pretty much rebuild something from the ground up.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:09 PM (ZOv7s)

99 No, the solution to hat-fascism is visors.
Posted by: RickZ at August 19, 2025 07:09 PM

Worn upside and backwards.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 19, 2025 07:10 PM (MGB5H)

100 Have you seen this trend where urban yoots ride around on a bicycle doing a wheelie and intentionally play chicken with vehicles or pedestrians?

This video starts that way, but it has a satisfying ending.

http://tiny.cc/ieer001
Posted by: bonhomme at August 19, 2025 07:02 PM (lIio7)


Needs more Steve Inman.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 07:10 PM (ExV1e)

101 or was it a hat?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 07:07 PM (8avO+)
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ISWYDT

Brilliant.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:10 PM (ZOv7s)

102 To me Tulsi is doing a fantastic job

Posted by: Skip at August 19, 2025 07:11 PM (+qU29)

103 I see an Urban Youth on a Bicycle and like everyone else in America, I think - "There goes a crime in progress".
Posted by: garrett at August 19, 2025 07:05 PM (Z1dZR)

I see an Urban Youth and I know there is a crime in progress. Been stealing since they could crawl.

Posted by: Mortimer Duke at August 19, 2025 07:11 PM (R/m4+)

104 Cassandra was cursed with foresight. Everything she foresaw came true . The curse was that no one believed her, and she couldn't stop the inevitable
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 19, 2025 07:01 PM (qGI1K)


So . . . Not a large, flightless bird from New Guinea? I wish someone had told me!

Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2025 07:11 PM (rbvCR)

105 Have you seen this trend where urban yoots ride around on a bicycle doing a wheelie and intentionally play chicken with vehicles or pedestrians?

This video starts that way, but it has a satisfying ending.

http://tiny.cc/ieer001
Posted by: bonhomme

"Hey! You cannot just lay there in the road. You might get hit by a car"

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 19, 2025 07:11 PM (/lPRQ)

106 >>Tulsi is doing a fantastic job


She has been an even greater surprise than Rubio 3.0.

Posted by: garrett at August 19, 2025 07:11 PM (Z1dZR)

107 My Hubbymayhem the truck driver would disagree. He hates those things. It's not as bad now that he drives for Wal-Mart. When he was hauling coal or rock it was a big pain in the ass. Fortunately the company had to pay any fines, not Hubbymayhem.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 19, 2025 07:12 PM (2J/Lj)

108 We do not!
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 19, 2025 06:59 PM (MGB5H)


*chuckle*

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at August 19, 2025 07:12 PM (FMtrg)

109 To get Lenensborn would need plenty of zug-zug. Nyah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2025 07:12 PM (XDtG+)

110 I'm not sure what it helps, but when I was in my cooperative phrase of 2020, I wore a mask.

About May, when that had passed, and everybody was talking about a lot more than 2 weeks, I didn't wear a mask, unless it was required by a store I wanted to go into.

My wife was much more anti-mask than me, and she broke earlier.

When I started being the only in my department who dared to travel around later in 2020, my company required me to wear a mask and customers required me to wear a mask.

It was stupid, but it wasn't the Dark Night of Descending Fascism.

No, that's when the fascists started talking about "Vax passports" to go out into normal society.

Of course, mainly centered where the voters most deserve it: the Eastern Seaboard.

Posted by: Axeman at August 19, 2025 07:12 PM (krQz2)

111 Here's why they issued evacuation orders to North Carolina barrier islands. The eye of the hurricane is still off Florida.

https://tinyurl.com/5e5w4cdk

Posted by: JackStraw at August 19, 2025 07:13 PM (viF8m)

112 As recently as Feb 2024, VISA MasterCard and AmEx assured California that they would be in compliance with State Law to uniquely code transactions with a new "gun store" purchase transaction tag.

Per CBS News.
Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 07:07 PM (n9o7H)
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So the state decided that THEY wanted guns and ammo on a cash-only basis.

Cool!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:13 PM (ZOv7s)

113 And it's being discussed that ICE may put agents at ALL truck weigh stations across the US!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 19, 2025 07:05 PM (2J/Lj)


That'd be great. Using 'interstate commerce', the Feds have more than enough justification/jurisdiction.

But we'll end up like Nazi Germany with checkpoints, so there's that.

Posted by: RickZ at August 19, 2025 07:13 PM (gKDq2)

114 I saw Urban Youth open for Sonic Youth at Norfolk Scope in 1982.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 19, 2025 07:13 PM (wVcYX)

115 >>Here's why they issued evacuation orders to North Carolina barrier islands. The eye of the hurricane is still off Florida.



When there is a Hurricane off the Coast of Florida, in Mid-April, I'll pay attention.

Posted by: garrett at August 19, 2025 07:14 PM (Z1dZR)

116
Shut the hell up Shitstirrer.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 19, 2025 07:14 PM (3ek7K)

117 It is also true that one can completely rebuild an organization by purging it and pushing enough new people in to fundamentally change its culture. This is what actually happened to the FBI and the US military as well.

By forcing change, mass firings, and then mass hirings, you can pretty much rebuild something from the ground up.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:09 PM (ZOv7s)

Make a new organization, transfer the jobs and money to the new org, and any 'ham and eggers' if you can find any to the new one and downgrade all the remaining folk to the nastiest jobs left in the worst spots.

But once an org forgets what is there for, recovery is next to impossible.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 07:14 PM (8avO+)

118 No, the solution to hat-fascism is visors.
Posted by: RickZ at August 19, 2025 07:09 PM (gKDq2)
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We will take that under ad-vsior-y

Posted by: The Hat Fascism Board at August 19, 2025 07:14 PM (krQz2)

119 I don't believe the FBI can be reformed.

I think it has to die.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2025 07:06 PM (dGCAG)


At this point, I agree. Too many hidden holdovers. A new organization taking applications for all positions.

Some current people may be (re)hired. Most will not. That's the cleaning these Augean stables need.

Posted by: RickZ at August 19, 2025 07:15 PM (gKDq2)

120 Of course, some folks - OldCat, you are definitely one - like to cozy up to the idea that "legit authority" would only demand compliance to things you see reasonable and right. That flies in the face of the last few decades.

Authority will tell you to jump whenever. And you won't always feel like asking "how high". No matter how much you like to scold when others don't jump.
Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 07:13 PM (n9o7H)

I'm just laughing at your hat.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 07:16 PM (8avO+)

121 I'm not sure what it helps, but when I was in my cooperative phrase of 2020, I wore a mask.

Posted by: Axeman at August 19, 2025 07:12 PM (krQz2)
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There was a ton of malicious compliance, which often gets left out of the narrative.

My Guard unit was told to make. Really told. Seriously TOLD!

And people did, when the enforcers were around, and had lookouts and such. I suppose David the Submissive Troll would count that as a win, but it wasn't, and of course the unit lost 15% of its strength as people got fed up and left.

Ironically, the mask fiasco taught people how to better resist, and distrust the leadership.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:16 PM (ZOv7s)

122 >>First, you can't replace something with nothing.


'And...also. Having a marmot.
In city limits.

That's against the Law, Dude.'

Posted by: garrett at August 19, 2025 07:16 PM (Z1dZR)

123 >Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 07:13 PM (n9o7H)
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Gud DAYUM! how did we ever get along before you arrived

Posted by: Don Black at August 19, 2025 07:16 PM (AOsQT)

124 But we'll end up like Nazi Germany with checkpoints, so there's that.
Posted by: RickZ at August 19, 2025 07:13 PM (gKDq2)


Get on a plane without RealID

Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2025 07:17 PM (rbvCR)

125 I don't believe the FBI can be reformed.

I think it has to die.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2025 07:06 PM (dGCAG)
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Several problems with that. First, you can't replace something with nothing...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:09 PM (ZOv7s)

Sure you can. You can eliminate the DOE. Let the states do what they're mandated to do. Same with damn near EVERYTHING the feds do.

Including law enforcement.

We don't need fedcops.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2025 07:17 PM (dGCAG)

126 Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 07:13 PM (n9o7H)

So, are you saying that we should conform to all, or eagerly perish? You use a lot of words but I'm not getting your thesis.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 07:17 PM (ExV1e)

127 Can we all agree on a penalty and get this show on the road?

Posted by: Eromero at August 19, 2025 07:17 PM (DdD0R)

128 Authority will tell you to jump whenever. And you won't always feel like asking "how high". No matter how much you like to scold when others don't jump.
Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 07:13 PM (n9o7H)
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I get it. You're just justifying your own cowardice when the time came. It's sad. Maybe your wife's boyfriend can spank you some more, you naughty dog.

You have no idea whether I took the vax or not, do you? Did I? What do you think?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:18 PM (ZOv7s)

129 As recently as Feb 2024, VISA MasterCard and AmEx assured California that they would be in compliance with State Law to uniquely code transactions with a new "gun store" purchase transaction tag.

I think nearly 100% of the purchases I made for ammunition were from merchants whose code was "Miscellaneous General Merchandise", "Discount Stores", "Variety Store", and "Sporting Goods".

As a person who has produced several credit card products, I have yet to see a "Gun Store" merchant code. If a shop that sells guns also sells fishing poles or archery, guess what? It is either General Merchandise or Sporting Goods.

MCC 5941 is by far the most common for those who sell ammo.

Reference: MCC: Merchant Category Codes (ISO 18245)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 07:19 PM (+4Cf6)

130 Here's why they issued evacuation orders to North Carolina barrier islands. The eye of the hurricane is still off Florida.

https://tinyurl.com/5e5w4cdk
Posted by: JackStraw

Wright Brothers went for the seasonall winds.
Now they kick tourists out because seasonal winds.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 19, 2025 07:19 PM (/lPRQ)

131 To me Tulsi is doing a fantastic job
Posted by: Skip at August 19, 2025 07:11 PM (+qU29)


To me, her and Rubio are the picks of the 'Secretary' litter.

Rubio has also really impressed me.

Never forgot this line from an interview:

Rubio was asked what's different about being a Senator versus being a Secretary?

Rubio replied, 'One boss.'

Trump's made some good picks this time, not Swamp or Swamp-adjacent.

Posted by: RickZ at August 19, 2025 07:19 PM (gKDq2)

132 It was rhetorical, Poindexter

Posted by: Don Black at August 19, 2025 07:20 PM (AOsQT)

133 I know. Let's ask AI what to do:

Q: How do you report extortion if it is federal law enforcement extorting you?

A: If you are being extorted by federal law enforcement, you should report it to the FBI (https://www.fbi.gov/tips). You can do this by contacting your local FBI field office, calling the FBI tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI, or reporting it online at tips.fbi.gov.

Q: What if the FBI is extorting you?

A: If you believe the FBI is extorting you, you should first contact the FBI's Internal Affairs Division, or your local FBI field office, or submit a tip online at tips.fbi.gov.

Q: Are you retarded?

A:When discussing AI, it's more accurate to talk about its capabilities and limitations rather than using derogatory terms.

Posted by: Orson at August 19, 2025 07:20 PM (dIske)

134 Has James Comey claimed to love My Little Pony yet?

He seems the type who would love to clop.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2025 07:20 PM (XDtG+)

135 I don't believe the FBI can be reformed.

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I'm not saying you're wrong, but I'd like to caution you that the hardline doctrine that "there is no reform", and that systems have to be destroyed is a key thought pattern of Marxism.

It drives the "systemic racism" of our institutions stuff, since we haven't torn everything down since Jim Crow or something.

Posted by: Axeman at August 19, 2025 07:20 PM (krQz2)

136 Sure you can. You can eliminate the DOE. Let the states do what they're mandated to do. Same with damn near EVERYTHING the feds do.

Including law enforcement.

We don't need fedcops.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2025 07:17 PM (dGCAG)
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How do you prosecute Russa-gate?

Or Epstein? Or Covid lies? Just get rid of a statutory investigative body and replace it with...what? Nothing? Everyone gets away with it?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:20 PM (ZOv7s)

137 And you keep doing this. This idiotic stance that forced compliance to arbitrary things doesn't lead to more compliance to more targeted things.

And thank God you wore the mask. Or, back in the day, the yellow star. Its just a piece of paper. No big deal.
Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 06:53 PM (n9o7H)
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Wait, so now doffing your hat leads to concentration camps? Put down the crack pipe and log off for the night.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 06:55 PM (ZOv7s)


Gentlemen! Please!

Let the 2028 Presidential Candidate for the Libertarian Party have his say!

And educate us all on his Grand New "No Hat Doffing Policy"!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 19, 2025 07:21 PM (iJfKG)

138 1. Name the specific regulators who gave the "suggestions".
2. Fine the regulators 200% of their net worth and imprison them for life.
3. They can have the punishment lowered to 50% and five years for testimony leading to the conviction of their superiors.
4. The bank executives are barred from working in any finance related industry for life.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 07:22 PM (ExV1e)

139 How do you prosecute Russa-gate?

Or Epstein? Or Covid lies? Just get rid of a statutory investigative body and replace it with...what? Nothing? Everyone gets away with it?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:20 PM (ZOv7s)

States.

We have states.

Did you know Epstein was attempted to be prosecuted by Florida, before the feds stepped in?

States. It's what they're for.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2025 07:23 PM (dGCAG)

140 >>Wright Brothers went for the seasonall winds.
Now they kick tourists out because seasonal winds.

In low lying coastal areas wind is the lesser problem. When the storm surge is 5 feet and the high ground on your island is 3 feet that's a big problem.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 19, 2025 07:23 PM (viF8m)

141 All in the name of agreeing to not get into the weeds and thus disagree.
Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 07:18 PM (n9o7H)
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And yet here you are, wearing a hat indoors. So stunning! So brave!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:23 PM (ZOv7s)

142 And you keep doing this. This idiotic stance that forced compliance to arbitrary things doesn't lead to more compliance to more targeted things.

And thank God you wore the mask. Or, back in the day, the yellow star. Its just a piece of paper. No big deal.
Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 06:53 PM (n9o7H)
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Wait, so now doffing your hat leads to concentration camps? Put down the crack pipe and log off for the night.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 06:55 PM (ZOv7s)

Gentlemen! Please!

Let the 2028 Presidential Candidate for the Libertarian Party have his say!

And educate us all on his Grand New "No Hat Doffing Policy"!
Posted by: naturalfake at August 19, 2025 07:21 PM (iJfKG)

He's just mad we missed the significance of the yellow star. Weez all Jews.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 07:23 PM (8avO+)

143 Other than some fund raising bull$hit obma, biden, et. al. have been exceptionally quite lately. I wonder why that is.


Usually they would be out screaming to msnbc, cnn and all of the media that Trump is lying and is making accusations without evidence. But lately they have been keeping their mouths shut, possibly on the advice of counsel.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 19, 2025 07:23 PM (0N4FZ)

144 4
'The concrete contractor insists it's because the architect is racist.'

Concrete is racist!
Physics is racist!

you fucking people.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 19, 2025 07:23 PM (3wi/L)

145 I missed the last thread bout TdA in Colorado. I was reliably informed by my betters in the media that it was just a figment of my imagination, trumped up by right-wing social media accounts and a loony city councilwoman. I like her, but can't vote for her, btw.

Posted by: AnchorPoint at August 19, 2025 07:24 PM (qgPFD)

146 States.

We have states.

Did you know Epstein was attempted to be prosecuted by Florida, before the feds stepped in?

States. It's what they're for.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2025 07:23 PM (dGCAG)
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And so the perps move to California or Illinois and laugh until they weep at the ignored extradition requests.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:24 PM (ZOv7s)

147 And yet here you are, wearing a hat indoors. So stunning! So brave!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:23 PM (ZOv7s)

Its getting a bit tight after wearing it all these decades to spite his mother.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 07:24 PM (8avO+)

148 All in the name of agreeing to not get into the weeds and thus disagree.

You should, seriously, go back and read the comments from every thread even tangentially related to the Russia / Ukraine conflict.

Or any thread related to the 2024 GOP Presidential primaries.

If you think that there's a hesitancy to disagree, you don't know shit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 07:24 PM (ExV1e)

149 Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 07:15 PM (n9o7H)

It's obvious you have several axes to grind. Would it be possible for you to turn the grinder off?

Posted by: Somewhere South ofI-80 at August 19, 2025 07:24 PM (89Sog)

150 We don't need fedcops.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2025 07:17 PM (dGCAG)

We need something on the federal level for security clearance and counter intelligence.

We'll soon be living in interesting times if our technological superiority is gone.

Posted by: Sjg at August 19, 2025 07:25 PM (aqZN1)

151 Sounds like Feinberg is jumping on the grift train as he wasn’t getting promoted.

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2025 07:25 PM (p4NUW)

152 >Wright Brothers went for the seasonall winds.
Now they kick tourists out because seasonal winds.
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an abundance of caution

Posted by: Don Black at August 19, 2025 07:25 PM (AOsQT)

153 Ain’t it grand that these banks, these bank executives are coming clean now. 15 or 20 years later. They knew it was illegal then. But, they valued their jobs, their wealth, and their position in life. Pensions, whatever.

“Just Following orders” is a valid defense, I must admit. Or at least we need to recognize that human nature being what it is, the Germans on trial at Nuremburg had a point. The Allies weren’t having any of it, but we’re no better.

The cops followed orders and shut down beaches, parks, church services during “Covid 19”. Looked the other way when innocent people got their heads bashed in during race riots. We have Snitch Lines to call for people who are not following the Rulez.

Real Profiles In Courage.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2025 07:26 PM (SH3As)

154 I missed the last thread bout TdA in Colorado. I was reliably informed by my betters in the media that it was just a figment of my imagination, trumped up by right-wing social media accounts and a loony city councilwoman. I like her, but can't vote for her, btw.
Posted by: AnchorPoint at August 19, 2025 07:24 PM (qgPFD)

Like usual, it didn't happen, but if it happened the cops would have handled it and if they didn't then it was only one, or five, or just a few percent of the complexes.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 07:26 PM (8avO+)

155 You should, seriously, go back and read the comments from every thread even tangentially related to the Russia / Ukraine conflict.

Or any thread related to the 2024 GOP Presidential primaries.

If you think that there's a hesitancy to disagree, you don't know shit.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 07:24 PM (ExV1e)
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Yeah, I stayed away. This place was lit.

I'm sure Hat-boy was very courageous and brave with his older, forgotten nick.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:26 PM (ZOv7s)

156 Gentlemen there's no fighting in the ...( checks headline) "debanking" thread

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 19, 2025 07:27 PM (qGI1K)

157 Oh, hey . . .

Bad Hombre
@joma_gc
2h
JUST IN: Adam Schiff has formed the Senator Schiff Legal Defense Fund.

He knows the preemptive pardon from the autopen he accepted has no validity.

No one is above the law.

Aug 19, 2025 · 9:09 PM UTC

Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2025 07:27 PM (rbvCR)

158 Can't we all just get along?

Posted by: zombie Rodney King at August 19, 2025 07:28 PM (0sNs1)

159 >> go back and read the comments from every thread even tangentially related to the Russia / Ukraine conflict.


Unnecessary.

I've always been on Russia's side of that one.

The day our Government prohibited me from making financial bets on the Russians to prevail, I knew my instincts were correct.

Posted by: garrett at August 19, 2025 07:28 PM (Z1dZR)

160 Let the 2028 Presidential Candidate for the Libertarian Party have his say!

And educate us all on his Grand New "No Hat Doffing Policy"!
Posted by: naturalfake at August 19, 2025 07:21 PM (iJfKG)


He would have to Jello wrestle Chase Oliver for the candidacy. And I warn everyone, no one has beaten Chase Oliver in Jello wrestling yet!

Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2025 07:28 PM (rbvCR)

161 slurp

Posted by: by choice at August 19, 2025 07:28 PM (gKWVE)

162 Wait, so now doffing your hat leads to concentration camps? Put down the crack pipe and log off for the night.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 06:55 PM (ZOv7s)

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Although I think "slippery slope" is not quite the logical fallacy people make it out to be--especially when dealing with people and society and the "Overton Window", the main form of his argument is slippery slope.

And I think it's the bad kind. Everybody was wearing masks out in public. That probably gave people like Fraudci a private thrill, but it was hardly the same thing as a marker that *singled you out*.

So, the commonality is that they were both "forced" to be worn by authority.

But the rationale for masks was also not: "You're going to wear a mask because we're going to make you." Even though at some points the execution was like that. Instead they still had to frame it as a positive thing: being polite and keeping other people safe.

Posted by: Axeman at August 19, 2025 07:29 PM (krQz2)

163 Its just words. And for a man so proud of conformity ? Whats a little word in the grand scheme of things ? Just say the words.
Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 07:25 PM (n9o7H)
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This guy is hilarious! He is David French! The plodding, repetitive prose, the assumption that everyone here bent the knee...he's beyond parody.

Yes, yes, lecture us more about your courage, Man Afraid to Use His Real Name.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:29 PM (ZOv7s)

164 Gentlemen there's no fighting in the ...( checks headline) "debanking" thread
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 19, 2025 07:27 PM (qGI1K)


Come here for the news, stay for the entertainment.

Posted by: RickZ at August 19, 2025 07:29 PM (gKDq2)

165 Has James Comey claimed to love My Little Pony yet?

He seems the type who would love to clop.
Posted by: Anna Puma
.......

My Little Futa Pony maybe.

Posted by: wth at August 19, 2025 07:29 PM (v0R5T)

166 Yeah, I stayed away. This place was lit.

I am a proud member of the filthy Russian traitor / orange robe cultist brigade.

I hold no animosity though. It is what it is. Some people get emotional about things. We could go on to the next thread and calmly discuss subjects that the people who disagreed with me were less wrong about.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 07:30 PM (ExV1e)

167 'The concrete contractor insists it's because the architect is racist.'

Concrete is racist!
Physics is racist!

you fucking people.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 19, 2025 07:23 PM (3wi/L)

You'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at that.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 07:30 PM (8avO+)

168 Shut up, Rodney.

Posted by: fd at August 19, 2025 07:30 PM (vFG9F)

169 Hat rules are racist.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2025 07:30 PM (rbvCR)

170 26
'A prison designed as an advanced abattoir would be just right for these thugs.'

A little conciliatory, don't you think?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 19, 2025 07:31 PM (3wi/L)

171 Ain’t it grand that these banks, these bank executives are coming clean now. 15 or 20 years later. They knew it was illegal then. But, they valued their jobs, their wealth, and their position in life. Pensions, whatever.

It wasn't illegal because Congress deliberately writes laws, in conjunction with their partners in their law firm, lobbyists and other rent seekers, to compose ambiguously interpreted laws so that there is a thriving, well compensated industry of regulators, controllers, lawyers, concierges and consultants who have fat invoices for helping navigate through the regulatory morass to find you your personal variances and optimum outcome.

Never forget that question: How Much Justice Can You Afford?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 07:31 PM (+4Cf6)

172 He knows the preemptive pardon from the autopen he accepted has no validity.

I suspect that it has more to do with the fact that they're looking to nail him to the wall for things not covered by his auto-pardon.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 07:31 PM (ExV1e)

173 Ain’t it grand that these banks, these bank executives are coming clean now.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2025 07:26 PM (SH3As)
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Here's the reality: Threats work or nobody would make them.

Which is why we are supposed to keep a better grip on power as a voting public.

Posted by: Axeman at August 19, 2025 07:31 PM (krQz2)

174 This discord has the potential to be unseemly on National Potato Day, folks.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 19, 2025 07:31 PM (0sNs1)

175 Can't we all just get along?
Posted by: zombie Rodney King at August 19, 2025 07:28 PM (0sNs1)

With zombies?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 07:32 PM (8avO+)

176 But the rationale for masks was also not: "You're going to wear a mask because we're going to make you." Even though at some points the execution was like that. Instead they still had to frame it as a positive thing: being polite and keeping other people safe.
Posted by: Axeman at August 19, 2025 07:29 PM (krQz2)
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Only Libertarian retards (but I repeat myself) think that there should be zero trust in government. If it's that bad, overthrow it and start again.

For society to function, you have to trust one another, and that includes shares cultural practices. Preening that because you keep your (Fedora) hat on indoors makes you some sort of definant hero is absolute nonsense.

It's like defiantly picking your nose in public or rubbing your naughty spot in the women's locker room because you identify as a gal. So stunning, so brave!

Also, getting a little borning. Frankly I don't care what the guy says, I'm here for the insults.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:32 PM (ZOv7s)

177 JUST IN: Adam Schiff has formed the Senator Schiff Legal Defense Fund.
He knows the preemptive pardon from the autopen he accepted has no validity.
No one is above the law.
Aug 19, 2025 · 9:09 PM UTC

Posted by: Kindltot
===

This "pardon" is obviously a forgery. Could have been made by anyone with access to the autopen. And then President Biden never even made a casual reference to this pardon.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 19, 2025 07:33 PM (/lPRQ)

178 >>@WCdispatch_
·
>>10m
🚨NEW: Ed Martin sends letter to Letitia James asking that she resign for "the good of the nation."

>>All of these people are about to be indicted, it's finally coming.

>>I'd take the offer Big Tish, I don't think you're going to like the next one. 🇺🇸

Posted by: JackStraw at August 19, 2025 07:34 PM (viF8m)

179 'A prison designed as an advanced abattoir would be just right for these thugs.'

A little conciliatory, don't you think?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 19, 2025 07:31 PM (3wi/L)


Related: https://youtu.be/e2PyeXRwhCE

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 07:34 PM (ExV1e)

180 Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

Posted by: fd at August 19, 2025 07:34 PM (vFG9F)

181 This discord has the potential to be unseemly on National Potato Day, folks.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 19, 2025 07:31 PM (0sNs1)

It's a glorious day here at the Curly Fry Liberation Front HQ.

Death to crinkle cuts!

Posted by: Somewhere South ofI-80 at August 19, 2025 07:34 PM (89Sog)

182 Everyone Needs to Go to Jail.®

Posted by: zombie at August 19, 2025 07:34 PM (pMi6S)

183 What's the rule on adjustable visors? I like to pretend I'm a Blackjack dealer, and I'd hate to disappoint my nephew.

Posted by: Orson at August 19, 2025 07:34 PM (dIske)

184 And educate us all on his Grand New "No Hat Doffing Policy"!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 19, 2025 07:21 PM (iJfKG)

While you are obeying the Hat Rules - as all right thinking God fearing men should do - why not go ahead and at least use some Proper ProNouns ? You know, like "they and them" for our alternately life-styled brethren ?

Its just words. And for a man so proud of conformity ? Whats a little word in the grand scheme of things ? Just say the words.
Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 07:25 PM (n9o7H)


Your wish is my command:

Gentlemen! Please!

Let the 2028 Presidential Candidate for the Libertarian Party have his xer say!

And educate us all on his xer Grand New "No Hat Doffing Policy"!


You're right! That does look better and more appropriate! Thanks.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 19, 2025 07:34 PM (iJfKG)

185 I'm wondering, can the government seek to recover the over 1m dollars Strozk was awarded for some unfathomable reason?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 19, 2025 07:35 PM (XV/Pl)

186 'The concrete contractor insists it's because the architect is racist.'

Concrete is racist!
Physics is racist!

you fucking people.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 19, 2025 07:23 PM (3wi/L)
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We need less emphasis on scientific rigor....

Unless concrete racistly cracks!

Posted by: Axeman at August 19, 2025 07:35 PM (krQz2)

187 I am still of the same opinion.

I do not think we can coexist with these people.

That is a shitty conclusion.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 19, 2025 07:35 PM (zZu0s)

188 Its just words. And for a man so proud of conformity ? Whats a little word in the grand scheme of things ? Just say the words.
Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 07:25 PM (n9o7H)


First of all, you are a poorly educated idiot who thinks liberty is guaranteed. And I can forgive that, since there are a lot of idiots who seem to do well in the world

All societies require a level of cooperation and surrendering of personal desires, wants and even freedom to participate in any society. If you want to live among the trees like a feral dog, you can obey only your own wishes, but if you want to be in as much as a single relationship, you must bend to others' needs and wishes as well/
This is what marriage is, except for the most abusive relationships.

Your wife, your brother, your parents, your neighbor, your boss, the guy paving your sidewalk all have demands on you, and you participate. Conformity signals "I am on your team" and of course acting like a stinking hippie means you are not worth including in my team, so take your hat OFF at my table or get out.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2025 07:35 PM (rbvCR)

189 JUST IN: Adam Schiff has formed the Senator Schiff Legal Defense Fund.

Of course. A new vector to launder bribes.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 07:35 PM (+4Cf6)

190 The cops followed orders and shut down beaches, parks, church services during “Covid 19”. Looked the other way when innocent people got their heads bashed in during race riots. We have Snitch Lines to call for people who are not following the Rulez.

Real Profiles In Courage.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2025 07:26 PM (SH3As)
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Again, that was not always the case. Plenty of cops stood down. When a barber in Owosso re-opened his shop in defiance of Whitmer's edict, the county sheriff and city cops refused to enforce it. They sent State Police in a show of force and then the judge tossed the case.

When the AG demanded ruthless enforcement, ALL the sheriffs told her to do it herself. Some of them even forwarded snitch calls to her office.

There were villains, but also heroes.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:36 PM (ZOv7s)

191 >>Only Libertarian retards (but I repeat myself) think that there should be zero trust in government. If it's that bad, overthrow it and start again.


While I agree that Libertarians are retards...

I think you would be equally retarded to Trust in ANY collective of man.

Trust that Humanity is loathsome to its core and any structure made there from will be equally loathsome.

Posted by: garrett at August 19, 2025 07:36 PM (Z1dZR)

192 Everyone Needs to Go to Jail.®

Posted by: zombie at August 19, 2025 07:34 PM (pMi6S)
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Can I pass Go?

Posted by: Axeman at August 19, 2025 07:36 PM (krQz2)

193 It's like defiantly picking your nose in public or rubbing your naughty spot in the women's locker room because you identify as a gal. So stunning, so brave!

Also, getting a little borning. Frankly I don't care what the guy says, I'm here for the insults.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:32 PM (ZOv7s)


That's my 'no-no' spot. (I was married once.)

So stay away, you.

Posted by: RickZ at August 19, 2025 07:36 PM (gKDq2)

194 Chic fil a's waffle fries are pretty good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 19, 2025 07:36 PM (zZu0s)

195 Has James Comey claimed to love My Little Pony yet?

He seems the type who would love to clop.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Comey would look good as a Brony.
How does that AI art work...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 19, 2025 07:36 PM (/lPRQ)

196 Frankly I don't care what the guy says, I'm here for the insults.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:32 PM (ZOv7s)


https://youtu.be/uLlv_aZjHXc?t=42

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 07:36 PM (ExV1e)

197 Don't blame the banks or the CEO's or whatever. Blame your fellow americans who voted in Obongo and Joe just so they could get more free shit from his stash.

Posted by: Never Vote democrat at August 19, 2025 07:36 PM (R/m4+)

198 Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
Posted by: fd at August 19, 2025 07:34 PM


It worked, didn't it?

Posted by: zombie Harry Reid & The Texas Democrats at August 19, 2025 07:36 PM (0sNs1)

199 I was asked for three people earlier that would shout "you can't do that" if that apartment building ran off the narco gang-bangers on their own. AH - you are most certainly one of the three.
Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 07:34 PM (n9o7H)
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Well, Mr. Fearless Anonymous Man, you're wrong, and your projection is telling. You hate mom making you take your hat off, and equated it with the Holocaust.

But keep fapping to your fantasy, and keep that hat on!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:38 PM (ZOv7s)

200 But the rationale for masks was also not: "You're going to wear a mask because we're going to make you." Even though at some points the execution was like that. Instead they still had to frame it as a positive thing: being polite and keeping other people safe.
Posted by: Axeman at August 19, 2025 07:29 PM (krQz2)


Nope. where I worked it was "you must wear the mask or we will escort you out and fire you" and the security fimageer doing the escorting was packing under his untucked polo shirt the bastard thought I couldn't see him print

Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2025 07:38 PM (rbvCR)

201 You, frankly, are a purposeful fool.
Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 07:36 PM


Well, that's like, uh, you know, your opinion, man.

Posted by: Purposeful Fool at August 19, 2025 07:39 PM (0sNs1)

202 He knows the preemptive pardon from the autopen he accepted has no validity.
+++
I suspect that it has more to do with the fact that they're looking to nail him to the wall for things not covered by his auto-pardon.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Found passed out with dead black boy in Ed Buck's old house is plausable. He'd even fail the lie detector.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 19, 2025 07:39 PM (/lPRQ)

203 The time to fess up on these things was WHEN IT WAS HAPPENING.

Who cares what you have to say now?

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at August 19, 2025 07:39 PM (eYAt4)

204 that would be f image er

Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2025 07:39 PM (rbvCR)

205 Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 07:36 PM (n9o7H)

FFS, Scogg Dog. Give it a rest.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 19, 2025 07:39 PM (3Ope8)

206 ok f___er

Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2025 07:39 PM (rbvCR)

207 Montana gun laws- open carry, concealed carry, no background check on private sales, no limit to amount of guns bought/sold. No license or permit needed. No registration. Loaded guns ok in a vehicle. Ammo sales not recorded. Just be 18 years old or older.

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at August 19, 2025 07:39 PM (iNp3L)

208 And educate us all on his Grand New "No Hat Doffing Policy"!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 19, 2025 07:21 PM (iJfKG)

If we are all following his Hat Retention Policy....aren't we all conforming to his rule?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2025 07:39 PM (8avO+)

209 You are stupid if you buy a gun on a credit card.
They know now everything about you.
——-

I don’t really care, Margaret. If you’re not on somebody’s List by now, you should be ashamed of yourself anyhow.

I’m not going to hide or silence myself, except (maybe) in extreme, immediate circumstances where discretion is the better part of valor. F ‘em.

Fight!

Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2025 07:40 PM (SH3As)

210 >>The time to fess up on these things was WHEN IT WAS HAPPENING.


Yep. The Banks would have been well within their Rights to tell the Feds to Fuck Off and head to the Courts.

But, we had a 1/2 Black President. Think of the implications!?

Posted by: garrett at August 19, 2025 07:40 PM (Z1dZR)

211
You have a deliberate, belligerent belief that the social norms will always be decided to your liking. And better yet, not decided against your personal well being.

You, frankly, are a purposeful fool.
Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 07:36 PM (n9o7H)
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No, like all your arguments, that's a straw man, and poorly argued.

But I will give you this, you made me chuckle.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:40 PM (ZOv7s)

212 Tisch and Schiff should be indicted on the same day. Completely screw up the Dems and their propaganda ministries "racist' narrative

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 19, 2025 07:41 PM (qGI1K)

213 Le CAFE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Posted by: Skip at August 19, 2025 07:41 PM (+qU29)

214 The Paolo's clients prefer he, how you say, not wear a hat.

Posted by: Paolo at August 19, 2025 07:41 PM (0sNs1)

215 You have a deliberate, belligerent belief that the social norms will always be decided to your liking. And better yet, not decided against your personal well being.


Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 07:36 PM (n9o7H)
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I think the present norms are a case against that for many of us here. I think the norms of just a couple years ago are a pretty strong case against that.

As a somewhat conservative in a society that was pretty narrowly saved from going over the falls in a barrel, I don't see where I would get a faith that the norms of society are *always* going to be decided to my liking.

Posted by: Axeman at August 19, 2025 07:41 PM (krQz2)

216 The nood guy calling nood

Posted by: Skip at August 19, 2025 07:41 PM (+qU29)

217 Schiff has nothing to fear from the legal process.

Posted by: Don Black at August 19, 2025 07:41 PM (AOsQT)

218 >>Montana gun laws-


We always had an exemption for Concealed Carry provided you were: Heading to or from the Field.

Nice big loophole.

Posted by: garrett at August 19, 2025 07:41 PM (Z1dZR)

219 Found passed out with dead black boy in Ed Buck's old house is plausable. He'd even fail the lie detector.

Schiff is so estranged from the truth, that if the demons within him left him for just a rare moment, and a truth actually fell from Schiff's lips, the polygraph would have a division by zero fault and brick.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 07:41 PM (+4Cf6)

220 Never forget that question: How Much Justice Can You Afford?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 07:31 PM (+4Cf6)


I would add that Elizabeth Warren ran the Consumer protection bureau and that was used to threaten banks as well.
Which was the purpose of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - that and to control the banking in the US by the exectutive branch

Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2025 07:42 PM (rbvCR)

221 I went to the beach to look at the surf. But, contrary to the posted signage telling to park head in, I BACKED IN!
2024's Michigan Ohio St is on. I don't think Michigan will win this game again this decade.

Posted by: Accomack at August 19, 2025 07:42 PM (4qMiv)

222 "If we are all following his Hat Retention Policy....aren't we all conforming to his rule?
Posted by: Oldcat"

It becomes uncool. Like bell-bottoms.

Posted by: fd at August 19, 2025 07:42 PM (vFG9F)

223 77
'Everyone of those bastards needs to stand before a judge.'

A real judge. Not some leftist son of a bitch in DC.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 19, 2025 07:42 PM (3wi/L)

224 Nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 19, 2025 07:43 PM (zZu0s)

225 I'm sure Hat-boy was very courageous and brave with his older, forgotten nick.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Just did a quick scan for Fen calling him out as Scogg Dog.

*Fen to the courtesy white phone*

Posted by: BifBewalski at August 19, 2025 07:44 PM (j0u0Q)

226 217 The time to fess up on these things was WHEN IT WAS HAPPENING.

Who cares what you have to say now?
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at August 19, 2025 07:39 PM (eYAt4)
_______________________________

First of all, Bea Arthur rocks in a "wow, look at that rock formation" sort of way. So, who do you report the banking extortion to? Well, the FBI gets those. But, since the FBI was compromised just like the bankers, now what? Well, you're supposed to report it to FBI Internal Affairs (also, shown to be bias and compromised). So then, your option is Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General's Office. That would have been Michael Evan Horowitz. A political, partisan hack.

Now what, genius?

Posted by: Orson at August 19, 2025 07:45 PM (dIske)

227 But the rationale for masks was also not: "You're going to wear a mask because we're going to make you." Even though at some points the execution was like that. Instead they still had to frame it as a positive thing: being polite and keeping other people safe.

Posted by: Axeman at August 19, 2025 07:29 PM (krQz2)

Nope. where I worked it was "you must wear the mask or we will escort you out and fire you" and the security fimageer doing the escorting was packing under his untucked polo shirt the bastard thought I couldn't see him print

Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2025 07:38 PM (rbvCR)
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So they said "Masks don't work, but we'll fire you anyway"?

Or perhaps they said "We would suffer some serious repercussions if we don't require masking"? In that latter case, it's still done under the guise that the State was "keeping you safe".

I already said some points of execution appear exactly that way. But the overall authoritative rationale was that it was keeping people safe from Covid.

I doubt if any firm laid it out that 1) They could chose to do other if they wanted, and 2) they don't even believe that it helps, but 3) you're going to wear a mask because they told you.

Posted by: Axeman at August 19, 2025 07:47 PM (krQz2)

228 Yep. The Banks would have been well within their Rights to tell the Feds to Fuck Off and head to the Courts.

But, we had a 1/2 Black President. Think of the implications!?
Posted by: garrett at August 19, 2025 07:40 PM (Z1dZR)


An asshole take:

The heads of those banks have private security with lots of firepower. They could give two shits about principles or the Constitution. Fat wallets and lots of expensive toys talk.

I really hate sounding like a commie rat bastard. But there it is. No, I'm not voting for Osama bin Lenin.

But it's like that CEO of Boeing. 33 million fucking dollars to head a corporation which had DEI policies leading to doors falling off planes!

Like him or hate him, Elon Musk has done some cool things with his money. Tesla, Starlink, his space program, Twitter into X.

So I'm not hatin' on wealthy people just 'cause they're wealthy.

Posted by: RickZ at August 19, 2025 07:47 PM (gKDq2)

229 You have to be real meticulous not to see the scold.
Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 07:47 PM


I think you're missing the persiflage portion in the phrase "meretricious persiflage".

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 19, 2025 07:51 PM (0sNs1)

230 Break up the banks! Make them divest businesses. Reduce their footprints. JP Morgan can spin off Chase Bank and the shareholders will make a fortune.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 19, 2025 07:55 PM (VZLTt)

231 127
'I don't believe the FBI can be reformed.

I think it has to die.'

'At this point, I agree. Too many hidden holdovers. A new organization taking applications for all positions.'

This is where I am too. We're one democrat president away from being right where we were or worse.
They might have been able to salvage it if Comey and McCabe were publicly disgraced and sent to jail.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 19, 2025 07:56 PM (3wi/L)

232 They had good intentions. That's where you are now. They were tyrants, but tyrants with good intentions.

Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 07:49 PM (n9o7H)
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Yes. Because I didn't lose the plot.

This is not about justifying their actions, it's about the equivalence between compulsory masking and Yellow stars.

CDC Mask policy didn't 1) single out a group and 2) weren't barefacedly inflicted upon its wearers.

And additionally *masks* have *failed*. Nobody wants to go back to that--including a number of progs.

We got a taste and guess what? Tolerance of mask policies didn't lead to Juden stars.

Talks about people talking past each other.....

Posted by: Axeman at August 19, 2025 08:01 PM (krQz2)

233 217
'Who cares what you have to say now?
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick'

I do if it puts any democrat cock smoker in jail.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 19, 2025 08:09 PM (3wi/L)

234 2 awww the poor widdle banksters!

yeah right

Im sure they were crying about it
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 19, 2025 06:41 PM (Pv3Rg)

This may as well be Leftist propaganda. Not that I feel sorry for companies that could and should tell the government GFY, but still.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 19, 2025 08:19 PM (k2LUN)

235 "Since leaving the bureau, Feinberg has been hailed this summer by some as a possible "Resistance 2.0"-style hero by multiple anti-Trump foes. He has appeared on CNN and MSNBC, talked with Daily Show host and Trump critic Jon Stewart, got a job at the Brookings Institute-affiliated anti-Trump outlet Lawfare, and more, all while lashing out at the FBI under FBI Director Kash Patel."

Sounds like they got rid of the right guy. My guess is the questions would be "have you ever colluded with your good friend to overthrow Trump?"


Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 19, 2025 08:31 PM (gDhA9)

236 Re banks - the only answer is they need to fear us as much as they feared Obama and Biden. We also need to make sure they no longer fear Obama and Biden.

The problem here is nobody expected the massive corruption of Biden and Obama. It was so out of left field for the U.S.

If I were a bank, going forward, I would insist every regulatory meeting was recorded and transcribed. If the regulators get out of line, drop the boom on them, and publish every threat online.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 19, 2025 08:35 PM (gDhA9)

237 Is it just me, or is every single thing conservatives have been bitching about for the last 20 years, turning out to be true the whole time?

Regarding debanking - absolutely democrats have been targeting conservatives for YEARS. Trying to choke them off economically. At the same time, they were using federal funds, donated to charities, who then funneled the money into Dem coffers. Now we have cut their funds and prevented them from cutting ours.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 19, 2025 08:38 PM (gDhA9)

238 Federal Consumer protection bureau

1) independently funded via "fines". That is they had a source of money that consisted solely of fining corporations.

2) Not controlled by congress OR the executive branch.

3) I defy anyone to explain to me what value they generated.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 19, 2025 08:46 PM (gDhA9)

239 Debanking is a great example of why regulations should minimal, gov't should not provide insurance, and the gov't should be put back in its proper place.

Posted by: GWB at August 19, 2025 09:47 PM (rSsQh)

240 112 As recently as Feb 2024, VISA MasterCard and AmEx assured California that they would be in compliance with State Law to uniquely code transactions with a new "gun store" purchase transaction tag.

Per CBS News.
Posted by: Not How That Works At All at August 19, 2025 07:07 PM (n9o7H)
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So the state decided that THEY wanted guns and ammo on a cash-only basis.

Cool!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 19, 2025 07:13 PM (ZOv7s)

TX went the opposite way and made such coding here illegal. But I still bought my M18 in cash.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 19, 2025 10:22 PM (k2LUN)

241 We don't need fedcops.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2025 07:17 PM (dGCAG)

So, no CBP or ICE for you then?

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 19, 2025 10:25 PM (k2LUN)

242 Does your blog have a contact page? I'm having trouble
locating it but, I'd like to shoot you an e-mail.
I've got some recommendations for your blog you might be interested in hearing.
Either way, great blog and I look forward to seeing it
expand over time.

Posted by: Fatvim Weight Loss Formula at August 20, 2025 04:17 AM (tkXir)

243 Feinberg: Every. Damn. Time.

Posted by: Chicolini at August 20, 2025 05:45 AM (MjCQx)

244 Michael Feinberg: fantastic new superhero of the current economic slump.

Posted by: Tommy Shanks at August 20, 2025 06:41 AM (KDpmu)

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