It’s primary election season, so Jordan Klepper headed to a Wisconsin Trump rally to discuss all the big midterm issues, like the economy, overturning Roe v. Wade, and which candidates and conspiracies the MAGA crowd is most excited about. #DailyShow #Comedy
Well this is just dumb. Sending documents to a presidential library *through the National Archives* is not in any way the same as hiding documents from the National Archives and DOJ. Donald Trump’s defenders are scraping the bottom of the barrel here.https://t.co/izEiq90tPF
— Noah Bookbinder (@NoahBookbinder) August 12, 2022
re: #1 Charles Johnson
BEHOLD… GEMATRIA!
They’d have a better chance of seeing Gemara than Gematria (which involves math - and we know how they *suck* at math).
FBI search at Mar-a-Lago removed 11 sets of classified information, photo binders, handwritten notes, according to copy of inventory reviewed by The Wall Street Journal https://t.co/vQ9E4Gxy0h via @WSJ
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 12, 2022
re: #3 lawhawk
They’d have a better chance of seeing Gemara than Gematria (which involves math - and we know how they *suck* at math).
In fairness, we were all told there would be no math.
Rando
Garland holds all the cards here.
He knows what’s in the search warrant and the warrant application, and what was found. Meanwhile the Republicans have to rely on speculation, and even worse, Trump’s assurances. If the Republicans seem to be getting close Garland can bread-crumb some clues, and if they’re making fools of themselves he can let them proceed.
In a way it’s a parallel to the early days of the Lewinski scandal, where Democrats were defending Clinton based on his personal assurances, and Ken Starr knew the facts and could control the narrative
re: #2 Dangerman
National Archives is the repository of documents, including classified documents for the Nation. They preserve documents and follow protocols for handling of documents (see Sandy Berger stealing them in his pants out of the national archives for a refresher).
Obama doesn’t possess any classified documents. None. They are in possession of the NA.
re: #7 lawhawk
National Archives is the repository of documents, including classified documents for the Nation. They preserve documents and follow protocols for handling of documents (see Sandy Berger stealing them in his pants out of the national archives for a refresher).
Obama doesn’t possess any classified documents. None. They are in possession of the NA.
These people are not clever
They really don’t know how any of this works
Just four kicks.
Wordle 419 4/6*
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg just days before they were executed in 1953 for selling TOP SECRET nuclear weapon designs to the Russians.
And the resemblance is UNCANNY. pic.twitter.com/pN07vEedeB— Paul Lahticks (@PaulLahticks) August 12, 2022
People so disconnected from reality yet living, working, surviving in society as these Trump rally-goers are a true illustration of privilege.
The CDC’s new guidance: “Hey, whatever.”
They’re just giving up.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 12, 2022
WTF is with this headline, WaPo? pic.twitter.com/1z2XoNCzDb
— Miranda Yaver, PhD (@mirandayaver) August 12, 2022
That is a reminder that everyone was pointing out that Trump businesses were incapable of being secured for purposes of classified work, and Trump would openly talk about classified information in and among those attending on any given day. He had no clue how opsec works, and regularly mishandled classified information. Or worse, passed it on to foreign powers.
Just a reminder that Donald Trump managed to pull in well over a billion dollars as president and we don’t really know where it was from https://t.co/Vn2bLp7kto
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) August 12, 2022
GOP Congressman @RepChipRoy just said Republicans will “shut this government down” if they take control, because he’s mad that Democrats are lowering prescription drug prices for millions of Americans. Pathetic. pic.twitter.com/EwFLTOgwoK
— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) August 12, 2022
re: #12 Charles Johnson
It’s been refreshing here in Canada to see how many people are still taking Covid pretty seriously.
Of course, I’m heading back to the U.S. in a couple of days…
“Democrats might pass something the American people like, and where will that leave us?”
Siri, what does butt pucker look like? pic.twitter.com/lrZmvx7cYN
— Sean (@sean_s_mc) August 12, 2022
The hits keep on comin’. https://t.co/xZI2VZfL6B
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 12, 2022
re: #15 Charles Johnson
Its close to a sure bet that if the GOP gains control of either House of Congress, there will be a government shut down at some point next year.
By sheer chance, we happened to have a camera where the Half-Moon Pack decided to have a rendezvous site last summer! As a result, we got tons of footage of the pups and a bit of the adults…most footage is of pups slowly meandering around or sleeping. pic.twitter.com/bZCQGjRVHz
— Voyageurs Wolf Project (@VoyaWolfProject) August 12, 2022
re: #4 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
But wait, there’s more…
New WSJ report: FBI agents who searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home removed 11 sets of classified documents, including some marked as top secret and meant to be only available in special government facilities, according to documents reviewed by The Journal.https://t.co/e1nW5iIetN
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 12, 2022
I no longer think the Saudis were the intended recipients of the information…
“Quit making things up and debate this bill.” https://t.co/8iBE84NdD9
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 12, 2022
re: #24 Teukka
So there it is, it would seem.
Trump was in possession of secret compartmentalized information.
But hey, I mean, c’mon…who among us doesn’t have secret compartmentalized information lying around the house?
Folks, the reason why we’re getting this before 3 is Trump is trying to get in front of stuff.
Tho kudos to WSJ for getting the scoop.— emptywheel (@emptywheel) August 12, 2022
So, are we not expecting a Friday news dump of nuclear proportions? Or are we in the two-a-week mode now?
re: #28 jaunte
No kudos to the WSJ editorial writers though. They have been just as bad as the rest.
re: #12 Charles Johnson
The CDC’s new guidance: “Hey, whatever.”
They’re just giving up.
what’s the point of making yourself look irrelevant and ludicrous by offering guidance that nobody is going to follow?
re: #331 Barefoot Grin
I typed in “can missiles fired from Taiwan destroy the Three Gorges Dam” and the answer seems to be “probably not.”
That would, of course, be a war crime. (Luckily for Barnes Wallis and his pals this is only in the post 1945 Geneva conventions).
Everything went through normal processes. A high-profile criminal has been caught and Americans are relieved, while the enemies of our democracy and rule of law are terribly upset. We’re starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 12, 2022
re: #32 John Hughes
That would, of course, be a war crime. (Luckily for Barnes Wallis and his pals this is only in the post 1945 Geneva conventions).
Dam Busters!
11 sets of classified docs. some top secret. some compartmented. NEVER EVER supposed to be even looked at off site. he’s up there w Edward Snowden, depending of course on what people think of him.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) August 12, 2022
re: #32 John Hughes
That would, of course, be a war crime. (Luckily for Barnes Wallis and his pals this is only in the post 1945 Geneva conventions).
As would an unprovoked attack on Taiwan, I would think.
re: #31 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
what’s the point of making yourself look irrelevant and ludicrous by offering guidance that nobody is going to follow?
I don’t know about the current COVID situation over there in Germany, but here in Czech Republic, it’s like it never even existed.
Hell, there’s a big ol’ concert going on in a pub right down the street. Pretty good band, though I don’t know who it is. It sounds like Kabát, a legendary Czech hard-rock band, but it’s most likely a tribute band.
re: #33 Crush White Nationalism
The FBI is part of the DOJ, Failson.
re: #333 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and the yaws
Yeah, horrible looking. But just like the black death, penicillin stops it quick.
( I remember being shocked when my doctor told me that my daughter had scarlet fever. I was reading a lot of romance novels at the time and had internalised that scarlet fever meant DEATH. “No, no, don’t worry, quick course of antibiotics and it’s all over”. And it was.)
Are we sure it was actually Trump who took the boxes and not Jared or some other crony?
re: #40 Eclectic Cyborg
Are we sure it was actually Trump who took the boxes and not Jared or some other crony?
If it was, it’s a sure bet that the actual culprit would have fingered ASAP by The Donald, personally: identifiable by the bus-tire treadmarks all over his back……
re: #33 Crush White Nationalism
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“It’s not the beginning of the end; but it’s the end of the beginning.”
(was that Churchill?)
re: #30 Ace Rothstein
No kudos to the WSJ editorial writers though. They have been just as bad as the rest.
WSJ editorial writers have always been ranting RW lunatics. They were Tucker Carlson before Tucker Carlson, OAN before OAN, Hannity before Hannity.
Trump dumped the warrant documents — to Breitbart “News,” of course.
Oddly enough, they didn’t publish them. But they have questions. https://t.co/6DTuERid4C— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 12, 2022
re: #33 Crush White Nationalism
Everything went through normal processes. A high-profile criminal has been caught and Americans are relieved, while the enemies of our democracy and rule of law are terribly upset. We’re starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Only loyal Americans are relieved; the Trump acolytes who are traitors to our nation are incensed.
re: #41 Jay C
If it was, it’s a sure bet that the actual culprit would have fingered ASAP by The Donald, personally: identifiable by the bus-tire treadmarks all over his back……
Trump had to have someone advising him what to take.
Predictably, Trump RELEASED the warrant with the names of the FBI agents unredacted. The one that will be released will redact those names.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) August 12, 2022
re: #47 Charles Johnson
That wasn’t a mistake.
Trump would like nothing more than to see FBI agents targeted. https://t.co/LjoVhjPrm5
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 12, 2022
Yay! Started the post Trump EU/USA trade wars have!
(The comission is pissed that US subsidies for buying electric vehicles only apply for the purchase of US made vehicles. Also some more complicated stuff to do with batteries.)
re: #45 Hecuba’s daughter
Only loyal Americans are relieved; the Trump acolytes who are traitors to our nation are incensed.
Yeah, I intentionally othered them as “the enemies of our democracy and rule of law”
I know they’re a rotten kind of American. I just like to give them some of what they give decent people.
Twitter is fucking around again - playing with algorithms that suggest something is an unpopular opinion.
In what universe does a Twitter algorithm find that those who think those who steal top secret documents belong in jail turns into an unpopular opinion? pic.twitter.com/UB4ywHb9PE
— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) August 12, 2022
Trump is trying to get in front of this by dumping the documents to right wing news outlets. https://t.co/8b1qVoxYzr
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 12, 2022
Incredible. pic.twitter.com/EAMYaecDoo
— Christian Vanderbrouk 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 (@UrbanAchievr) August 12, 2022
DeSantis:…”The raid of MAL is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves. Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic.”
re: #39 John Hughes
Yeah, horrible looking. But just like the black death, penicillin stops it quick.
( I remember being shocked when my doctor told me that my daughter had scarlet fever. I was reading a lot of romance novels at the time and had internalised that scarlet fever meant DEATH. “No, no, don’t worry, quick course of antibiotics and it’s all over”. And it was.)
Penicillin and sulfa drugs were quite the game changer in terms of medical treatment. One reason wound survival in WW2 was much better than WW1. Plus in high demand for civilian use. Thus their black market value and why it shows up as a plot point in movies such as “The Third Man” and episodes of M*A*S*H.
re: #41 Jay C
If it was, it’s a sure bet that the actual culprit would have fingered ASAP by The Donald, personally: identifiable by the bus-tire treadmarks all over his back……
And ultimate authority for their removal would still have been Trump himself.
Desperate to find any angle to discredit the warrant, Breitbart ends up beclowning themselves as usual. https://t.co/UtI66ICNIg
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 12, 2022
re: #55 jaunte
DeSantis:…”The raid of MAL is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves. Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic.”
So in other words DeSantis wants to help hostile nations potentially kill millions of Americans through nuclear malpractice, in addition to helping to kill thousands of Floridians through his own medical malpractice.
re: #57 Crush White Nationalism
Anne Heche has died.
Sad, but expected. Her family had noted she was already brain dead and just on life support until it could be determined if any organs could be donated.
those wacky college girls https://t.co/sB5AeLzyg3
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 12, 2022
re: #57 Crush White Nationalism
Anne Heche has died.
Sad. Mental health issues can be a motherfucker.
re: #339 Eclectic Cyborg
A good friend of mine and her husband from NYC have decided to travel across the southern US by way of I-10 for their honeymoon, visiting various places along the way.
The couple in question are black. They’ve decided not to drive at night due to personal safety concerns (relating to asshole cops or others who might give them problems).
America, 2022. 🙄
They need a copy of “Negro Motorist Green Book”.
re: #33 Crush White Nationalism
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Idiot
re: #64 John Hughes
They need a copy of “Negro Motorist Green Book”.
Just a few years ago the NAACP suggested that Black drivers should avoid traveling through rural Missouri.
“Why the authorities waited several days to execute service of the warrant if the matter rose to such a serious national security issue is unclear.”
It’s known as a “weekend.”— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 12, 2022
re: #63 Eclectic Cyborg
Sad. Mental health issues can be a motherfucker.
Mental health issues?
She died from a car accident, and it’s unclear whether the narcotics found in her system were actually from the post-crash treatment she’s received.
So the emerging defense is “trust me, I declassified anything I took before I left office but created no record of doing so and forgot to mention until the FBI showed up at my door”? https://t.co/2b2j4HF7YF
— Jacob “Inside Elections is hiring” Rubashkin (@JacobRubashkin) August 12, 2022
re: #69 aatharuv
Mental health issues?
She died from a car accident, and it’s unclear whether the narcotics found in her system were actually from the post-crash treatment she’s received.
Yes, 100% mental health issues. Why do you think she drank and used drugs?
If Jesse Watters didn’t get fired for telling an audience full of QAnon nuts to follow and confront Fauci, nothing will happen to Kilmeade for posting a fake photo of a fed judge with Ghislaine Maxwell undressing. The only thing that gets you fired at Fox is calling AZ for Biden.
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) August 12, 2022
He’s saying these things on a website for people who want to be lied to by a narcissistic sociopath and his minions. A site where all pushback from the few sane people there to watch the freakshow can be deleted.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 12, 2022
re: #69 aatharuv
She has struggled with mental issues in the past. I’m not sure if they played a role in the crash but they were certainly affecting her.
Breitbart reveals that the Former President is under investigation for violating the Espionage Act. 18 USC 793.
10 year penalties for each document.— emptywheel (@emptywheel) August 12, 2022
Just leaving this here… pic.twitter.com/3UUp8rON9e
— Ed (@terkey76) August 12, 2022
re: #58 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And ultimate authority for their removal would still have been Trump himself.
Offs he’s the one who possesses them now
hes hiding them and not returning them.
They are under his control now
re: #60 aatharuv
So in other words DeSantis wants to help hostile nations potentially kill millions of Americans through nuclear malpractice, in addition to helping to kill thousands of Floridians through his own medical malpractice.
It’s NOT malpractice. It’s being done internationally and with extreme malice. He wants my Community dead and is taking active steps to achieve that goal.
Florida has just added Puberty Blockers, Hormone Therapy, and GRS as “not medically necessary” to treat gender dysphoria. It will pull all Floridians who receive hormone therapy off of their coverage for their medication.
This is trans ADULTS.
Private insurances might follow. pic.twitter.com/yMVh3vpYYv— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) August 12, 2022
And we still have New York, Georgia, E. Jean Carroll, and the J6 Fall Season.
re: #71 Crush White Nationalism
Yes, 100% mental health issues. Why do you think she drank and used drugs?
She was also sexually abused by her father.
Salman Rushdie is in surgery, Reuters news agency quotes his agent as saying.
That’s all we have at the moment, we’ll bring any more information on his condition as we get it via @BBCNews #SalmanRushdie— Soutik Biswas (@soutikBBC) August 12, 2022
re: #70 jaunte
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The bank coulda had back all the money I stole
All they had to do was ask
New Essay up on Stonekettle Station.
The president can’t just wave his hand and declassify anything he wants. Well, okay, he can, but you wouldn’t like it.
What did Trump take? Why did he take it? https://t.co/18SYRv3FLl— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 12, 2022
Another GOP disaster, bottom falling out of gas prices. Below 4.00/gal. nationally. Average in Texas is down to 3.483.
State and national low price leader Webb County (67% Biden in 2020) is down to 3.222.
Trumpite run hellpit Roberts County (97% MAGA) remains the highest in the state at 4.199.
Anyone else would already have been arrested.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 12, 2022
So, Trump could possibly be looking at ten years per document.
There were what, 11 documents, IIRC? That’s 110 years if convicted on all counts.
Heh, bet Trump is on the phone right now, trying to contact bin Salman in Riyadh 😄 Something like, “Bro, I need you do me a solid right now!”
The @FBI agents took around 20 boxes of items, binders of photos, a handwritten note and the executive grant of clemency for Trump’s ally Roger Stone, a list of items removed from the property shows. Also included in the list was information about the “President of France.
— Sadie Gurman (@sgurman) August 12, 2022
Agents sought to search “the 45 Office,” and “storage rooms and all other rooms or areas within the premises used or available to be used by [the former president] and his staff and in which boxes or documents could be stored, including all structures or buildings on the estate.”
— Sadie Gurman (@sgurman) August 12, 2022
re: #89 Dr Lizardo
So, Trump could possibly be looking at ten years per document.
There were what, 11 documents, IIRC? That’s 110 years if convicted on all counts.
Heh, bet Trump is on the phone right now, trying to contact bin Salman in Riyadh 😄 Something like, “Bro, I need you do me a solid right now!”
11 “sets” of docs
We will now move to the “just because it was in the search warrant doesn’t mean they found it” section of the limb the Republican party is currently out on.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) August 12, 2022
holy. fucking. shit. the search warrant reveals that that Donald Trump is under investigation for violating the Espionage Act. let that sink in
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) August 12, 2022
re: #77 jaunte
I just posted that to my Facebook. I probably won’t even check to see if I get pushback.
Fox was not on at my vet today, Maybe Monday is right-wing authoritarian propaganda day, and Friday is just local news.
re: #89 Dr Lizardo
Trump jet landing in Moscow in 3…2…1…
Breitbart: The FBI should have raided Trump sooner.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 12, 2022
re: #87 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Another GOP disaster, bottom falling out of gas prices. Below 4.00/gal. nationally. Average in Texas is down to 3.483.
State and national low price leader Webb County (67% Biden in 2020) is down to 3.222.
Trumpite run hellpit Roberts County (97% MAGA) remains the highest in the state at 4.199.
Sunoco just north of me is still $4.29; it was $4.55 a month or so ago. Three miles further north on PA-8 the Sunoco there was down to $4.19. So I guess the chain of gasoline from the refinery -> distributor -> station is starting to get the cheaper gasoline in. (And the additive packages and ethanol are usually mixed in by the distributors, not at the refinery since the required packages vary by state, season, and other factors.)
This has been running around in my head, so I posted it: littlegreenfootballs.com
I don’t think that Trump meant to sell the docs ONLY. I think that they might have also been something that his evil lizard-brain thought might be used to either blackmail the U.S., or to give to his freak cultists to set off nukes if he ever really was in danger of going to prison.
re: #92 jaunte
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— Schooley (@Rschooley) August 12, 2022
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I am very curious what DOJ was worried about re 1519 https://t.co/IzFNdi3s5G
— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) August 12, 2022
re: #89 Dr Lizardo
So, Trump could possibly be looking at ten years per document.
There were what, 11 documents, IIRC? That’s 110 years if convicted on all counts.
Heh, bet Trump is on the phone right now, trying to contact bin Salman in Riyadh 😄 Something like, “Bro, I need you do me a solid right now!”
They’d likely be treated concurrently, as opposed to sentencing consecutively as you indicate.
That’s essentially a life sentence for someone Trump’s age. Fuck that guy. If you commit treason, do the time.
re: #95 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump jet landing in Moscow in 3…2…1…
Two-stop flight. First stop Riyadh, then second stop in Budapest.
re: #101 Crush White Nationalism
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I really hope Trump is truly fucked this time. He certainly should be.
Maybe a nice air-mailed bottle of tea will arrive for his refreshment shortly. From Moscow.
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re: #96 Charles Johnson
Breitbart: The FBI should have raided Trump sooner.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 12, 2022
That’s my favorite take on Breitbart’s response to the warrant being executed, and smarter people than those at Breitbart would have seen that coming and not complained about weekends existing.
re: #102 Eclectic Cyborg
Jesus H. Fucking Christ. Talk about a Friday afternoon news dump. Trump is being charged for ESPIONAGE?!?
re: #107 Dopamine Fish
Jesus H. Fucking Christ. Talk about a Friday afternoon news dump. Trump is being charged for ESPIONAGE?!?
People joked about what Friday would be based on Monday’s news. Friday delivered.
re: #101 Crush White Nationalism
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I really hope Trump is truly fucked this time. He certainly should be.
Still think unless they have the goods on him actually selling the information or at least giving it to foreign powers it will end up in front of the SCOTUS who will determine he did nothing illegal.
“Why the authorities waited several days to execute service of the warrant if the matter rose to such a serious national security issue is unclear.”
It’s known as a “weekend.”— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 12, 2022
Note that the warrant authorized searches wherever docs can be, so cd be they seized evidence of all sorts of offenses, not just the classified top secret docs
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) August 12, 2022
re: #107 Dopamine Fish
Jesus H. Fucking Christ. Talk about a Friday afternoon news dump. Trump is being charged for ESPIONAGE?!?
I wonder if a few documents (or copies/photos thereof) surfaced in Moscow or Beijing that the DOJ/FBI could directly trace back to the documents in Trump’s possession; e.g. ones with watermarks, etc. indicating they were given to the White House and from there had not been properly handled and then taken away to MAL.
re: #56 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Penicillin and sulfa drugs were quite the game changer in terms of medical treatment. One reason wound survival in WW2 was much better than WW1. Plus in high demand for civilian use. Thus their black market value and why it shows up as a plot point in movies such as “The Third Man” and episodes of M*A*S*H.
One reason why illegal abortion was able to be minimized in the decades prior to Roe was due in large part to penicillin. Yeah, there were a LOT of botched abortions, which damaged fertility but relatively few women and girls died since penicillin became widely available.
re: #107 Dopamine Fish
Jesus H. Fucking Christ. Talk about a Friday afternoon news dump. Trump is being charged for ESPIONAGE?!?
Under investigation…not charged…yet
re: #107 Dopamine Fish
Jesus H. Fucking Christ. Talk about a Friday afternoon news dump. Trump is being charged for ESPIONAGE?!?
Not charged. Investigated.
Old and busted: “How dare the FBI raid our Dear Leader Trump?”
New hotness: “Why didn’t the FBI raid our Dear Leader Trump sooner?”— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 12, 2022
re: #425 Jay C
Good, concise analysis of how China “fell” to Mao and the CCP - lotta factors at play, but yes: a main one was that China was always considered a secondary theater by the Allies (US mainly) - the prevalent attitude being that China was big enough and resource-rich enough to be able to defend itself, and that Allied aid and efforts (US mainly) should be deployed on other fronts.
Wrong decisions (among many), but that’s History for you…..
So, what’s the alternative?
A land war in Asia?
Not just *a* land war in Asia, but *the* land war in Asia.
In the middle of the fucking second World War!
How well is that going to go?
Yesterday, the US government moved to unseal the warrant with only the names of the FBI agents redacted.
Meanwhile, the former president’s team is leaking the unredacted documents to Breitbart, which is actively highlighting the names of the agents.https://t.co/tJTy7C0ihp pic.twitter.com/6UcUFxKyKQ— Christian Vanderbrouk 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 (@UrbanAchievr) August 12, 2022
Those FBI agents’ lives are in serious danger.
re: #107 Dopamine Fish
Jesus H. Fucking Christ. Talk about a Friday afternoon news dump. Trump is being charged for ESPIONAGE?!?
Investigated for espionage.
The warrant was for probable cause of committing acts of espionage.
Charging (aka indictments) are the next step.
Minimize offense by criticizing investigation timeline. Check!
re: #121 lawhawk
Do you see indictments actually happening?
re: #107 Dopamine Fish
Jesus H. Fucking Christ. Talk about a Friday afternoon news dump. Trump is being charged for ESPIONAGE?!?
well, um… not “charged”. Yet. Just under investigation.
Now I really wanna know (I doubt they’ll tell me) what the phone warrants, trap and trace, turned up.
re: #117 Charles Johnson
Yeah, they’re all going all in on the competency angle - that the FBI and DOJ should have executed this warrant sooner if this was as serious as claimed.
Right. I agree - they should have executed warrants sooner, and should be hauling Trump off in cuffs today, given that he’s accused of espionage. That’s the part they know to be true and think Trump above the law even now.
DOJ executed the warrant on the evidence they had. Getting new evidence of nuclear secrets and mishandling them added to the urgency leading to this week’s events.
Right wingers cannot handle new information. They default to conspiracy theories, because they can’t process that they’re being lied to by Fox and Trump and GOPers.
I’m sure they delayed the search until Trump was out of town. Otherwise, he would have been standing in front of Mar-a-Lago summoning a mob to attack the agents executing the warrant.
re: #118 John Hughes
So, what’s the alternative?
A land war in Asia?
Not just *a* land war in Asia, but *the* land war in Asia.
In the middle of the fucking second World War!
How well is that going to go?
Part of it as well is that the logistics for pushing supplies into China were all awful by 1942.
1. Burma Road cut by the Japanese.
2. Via Cochin China/Vietnam cut by Japanese in 1940 when they occupied French Indo-China.
3. Chinese coastal ports occupied by Japan from 1936-1940.
4. Ledo Road eventually built. But took time and was an awful route.
5. Flying materials over “The Hump”. Which included the plane having to carry enough fuel to get back. (The attempted B-29 campaign from China previous to the Allies capturing the Mariana Islands in 1944 was a logistical nightmare.)
While China was tying down a lot of the Japanese Army the truth is that logistics and supplies being used elsewhere was probably more efficient.
And as an alternative to invading the Philippines there were advocates in the US Navy who wanted to invade Formosa (Taiwan) and try to liberate part of coastal China as well.
re: #125 sagehen
well, um… not “charged”. Yet. Just under investigation.
Now I really wanna know (I doubt they’ll tell me) what the phone warrants, trap and trace, turned up.
And that net will catch a whole pile of people in addition to Trump.
RE: “Why didn’t they raid him earlier?”
Mrs. Fish raised the question last night, but in a different way. Put in a roundabout way, “Why did they let him hang on to the documents for 18 months?” I know there’s been a lot of back and forth on these documents between NARA/DOJ and Trump’s lawyers, but I’m wondering why there wasn’t as much of a sense of urgency before. Maybe they figured the documents were relatively safe under the watch of the Secret Service, until they uncovered evidence of documents being sold?
re: #126 lawhawk
….
Right wingers cannot handle new information. They default to conspiracy theories, because they can’t process that they’re being lied to by Fox and Trump and GOPers.
There are some who can. Joe Walsh was threatening violence in November 2016 if Hillary won, and then 2 months later he began changing his tune when he finally began to understand Trump’s allegiance to Putin.
re: #126 lawhawk
Yeah, they’re all going all in on the competency angle - that the FBI and DOJ should have executed this warrant sooner if this was as serious as claimed.
Right. I agree - they should have executed warrants sooner, and should be hauling Trump off in cuffs today, given that he’s accused of espionage. That’s the part they know to be true and think Trump above the law even now.
DOJ executed the warrant on the evidence they had. Getting new evidence of nuclear secrets and mishandling them added to the urgency leading to this week’s events.
Right wingers cannot handle new information. They default to conspiracy theories, because they can’t process that they’re being lied to by Fox and Trump and GOPers.
They knew he wasn’t in Florida and that likely nothing would happen to the docs over the two day weekend
re: #131 Dopamine Fish
RE: “Why didn’t they raid him earlier?”
Mrs. Fish raised the question last night, but in a different way. Put in a roundabout way, “Why did they let him hang on to the documents for 18 months?” I know there’s been a lot of back and forth on these documents between NARA/DOJ and Trump’s lawyers, but I’m wondering why there wasn’t as much of a sense of urgency before. Maybe they figured the documents were relatively safe under the watch of the Secret Service, until they uncovered evidence of documents being sold?
More likely is they didn’t know the scope of the docs taken - classified can encompass a bunch of different things. That includes low level stuff and then highest level classifications, including stuff like nuclear secrets that get you locked away forever.
Trump turned out to have a bunch of the latter, to go with the former. All of it is a felony - but the nuclear secrets are the ones that raised all the alarms once DOJ and FBI realized what Trump took.
re: #131 Dopamine Fish
RE: “Why didn’t they raid him earlier?”
Mrs. Fish raised the question last night, but in a different way. Put in a roundabout way, “Why did they let him hang on to the documents for 18 months?” I know there’s been a lot of back and forth on these documents between NARA/DOJ and Trump’s lawyers, but I’m wondering why there wasn’t as much of a sense of urgency before. Maybe they figured the documents were relatively safe under the watch of the Secret Service, until they uncovered evidence of documents being sold?
We also dont know when they learned about the nature of all the docs
Maybe they didn’t t know 18 mos ago specificslly and exactly what was missing, and just learned that recently
I don’t know
Certainly the bloviators don’t either
re: #95 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump jet landing in Moscow in 3…2…1…
To the best of my understanding, Air Force None is no longer airworthy. Then again, I suppose he could charter a private jet.
re: #89 Dr Lizardo
So, Trump could possibly be looking at ten years per document.
There were what, 11 documents, IIRC? That’s 110 years if convicted on all counts.
Heh, bet Trump is on the phone right now, trying to contact bin Salman in Riyadh 😄 Something like, “Bro, I need you do me a solid right now!”
If Trump would agree to a deal to be stripped of his US citizenship and have to live his life in exile in Riyadh, never to return, I would be amenable to that, as much as I would like him to spend the rest of his days in prison.
re: #126 lawhawk
Yeah, they’re all going all in on the competency angle - that the FBI and DOJ should have executed this warrant sooner if this was as serious as claimed.
Right. I agree - they should have executed warrants sooner, and should be hauling Trump off in cuffs today, given that he’s accused of espionage. That’s the part they know to be true and think Trump above the law even now.
DOJ executed the warrant on the evidence they had. Getting new evidence of nuclear secrets and mishandling them added to the urgency leading to this week’s events.
Right wingers cannot handle new information. They default to conspiracy theories, because they can’t process that they’re being lied to by Fox and Trump and GOPers.
I hope they’re watching Trump and ready to pick him up at an airport.
Everyone struggles with new information that isn’t congruent with what they believe.
They believe so much that isn’t true, and it’s very difficult to dig out from that trap. A lot of people are going to go fully off the deep end rather than admit to themselves that they embraced a hardcore criminal. Some will be violent. I wouldn’t leave kids at any daycare in a federal building.
re: #36 Barefoot Grin
As would an unprovoked attack on Taiwan, I would think.
Yes, a war of agression. Be careful about going there :)
Go fuck yourself, you swivel-eyed dumbass. pic.twitter.com/L1zzuoSb2u
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 12, 2022
re: #132 Hecuba’s daughter
I’d argue that the fact that there are so few that you’d be able to name them as proof that the rest are a lost cause.
re: #128 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Part of it as well is that the logistics for pushing supplies into China were all awful by 1942.
1. Burma Road cut by the Japanese.
2. Via Cochin China/Vietnam cut by Japanese in 1940 when they occupied French Indo-China.
3. Chinese coastal ports occupied by Japan from 1936-1940.
4. Ledo Road eventually built. But took time and was an awful route.
5. Flying materials over “The Hump”. Which included the plane having to carry enough fuel to get back. (The attempted B-29 campaign from China previous to the Allies capturing the Mariana Islands in 1944 was a logistical nightmare.)While China was tying down a lot of the Japanese Army the truth is that logistics and supplies being used elsewhere was probably more efficient.
And as an alternative to invading the Philippines there were advocates in the US Navy who wanted to invade Formosa (Taiwan) and try to liberate part of coastal China as well.
My father led supply trucks through the CBI trail during the war. I believe he was a captain at the time and commanded a group of soldiers who drove the vehicles to resupply Army forces.
re: #103 lawhawk
They’d likely be treated concurrently, as opposed to sentencing consecutively as you indicate.
That’s essentially a life sentence for someone Trump’s age. Fuck that guy. If you commit treason, do the time.
Yeah, at Trump’s age, sentencing him to ten years in Federal prison would basically be like strapping him into Old Sparky.
re: #104 Ace Rothstein
Two-stop flight. First stop Riyadh, then second stop in Budapest.
Hungary has extradition to the United States. Saudi Arabia and Russia don’t.
re: #107 Dopamine Fish
Jesus H. Fucking Christ. Talk about a Friday afternoon news dump. Trump is being charged for ESPIONAGE?!?
Investigated for espionage; there has been no indictment yet.
I got the little ball to go into the little cup after hitting it four times.
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Garland isn’t the one who engaged in espionage, stealing classified info, mishandling classified info, and nuclear secrets punishable by 10 years per charge.
Trump did that. Trump wrecked US natsec and politicized DOJ.
Garland’s holding him to account.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) August 12, 2022
re: #29 wrenchwench
So, are we not expecting a Friday news dump of nuclear proportions? Or are we in the two-a-week mode now?
In Agile development, we call those sprints.
re: #37 Dr Lizardo
ALERT: US Justice Dept court motion says Trump defense team “have informed the government that the former President does
not object to the government’s motion to unseal Limited Warrant Materials”— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) August 12, 2022
re: #147 lawhawk
Just some friendly advice for some of the worst people in the nation.
It’s well past time to distance your propaganda outlet from the corrupt failed former President. Act like you sided with the nation all along. Most of your viewers will go along with it when Trump is charged with espionage.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 12, 2022
The National Archives pushes back on Trump’s lies: pic.twitter.com/6g1osJuSHU
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 12, 2022
Exactly. Trump AND Breitbart knew very well what would happen when they released the names unredacted. It’s deliberate, premeditated menace. https://t.co/nVvFIwtQ02
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 12, 2022
re: #154 Charles Johnson
Stochastic terrorism.
re: #148 Belafon
In Agile development, we call those sprints.
DOJ is definitely working iteratively. /Kanban
Sure stealing nuclear secrets is bad but have you considered the threat of a gender-neutral Mr. Potato Head
— Thor Benson (@thor_benson) August 12, 2022
re: #157 Eclectic Cyborg
One of the cooler items I took from my grandparents home was this piece of ammunition my grandfather had sitting on his desk.
The markings clearly show it to be WWII era and I was able to determine it is a round from an anti-aircraft gun from the ship he served on.
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um… is it live?
The seamless pivot from one of the “serious” Fox News folks from “what reason could they possibly have to justify this?” to “come on it wasn’t even that much” and then to whataboutism. https://t.co/NJ3cpxFXol
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) August 12, 2022
re: #95 Eclectic Cyborg
Also included in the list was information about the “President of France,” according to the three-page list
so I guess he’s not going to be seeking asylum in Paris.
re: #59 Charles Johnson
This feels like the lawyer releasing the cell phone video in the Aubrey killing.
Some people think Bret Baier was once a legitimate journalist. He was never a legitimate journalist. He just played one on TV until Fox News didn’t need that role any more.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 12, 2022
re: #163 Charles Johnson
I never thought Bret Baier was a serious journalist. I never thought Shep Smith was one, either. Smith played Fox’s closest equivalent to a serious journalist for years, though, and the role fell to Baier by default when Shep left the network.
I hate “let it sink in” tweets as much as anyone, maybe more, but let it sink in that a former president of the United States is being investigated for ESPIONAGE.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 12, 2022
Seems important:
re: #26 Ace Rothstein
LOTS!!!!
Apparently the National Archives responded almost immediately, releasing a statement explaining that President Obama adhered to Presidential Records Act to the letter.
re: #160 jaunte
I listened to a bit of wingnut radio at lunchtime, and it was stream of consciousness whataboutism: “what about Seth Rich, the Dossier, the Durham Report, etc.”
re: #128 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Part of it as well is that the logistics for pushing supplies into China were all awful by 1942.
1. Burma Road cut by the Japanese.
2. Via Cochin China/Vietnam cut by Japanese in 1940 when they occupied French Indo-China.
3. Chinese coastal ports occupied by Japan from 1936-1940.
4. Ledo Road eventually built. But took time and was an awful route.
5. Flying materials over “The Hump”. Which included the plane having to carry enough fuel to get back. (The attempted B-29 campaign from China previous to the Allies capturing the Mariana Islands in 1944 was a logistical nightmare.)While China was tying down a lot of the Japanese Army the truth is that logistics and supplies being used elsewhere was probably more efficient.
And as an alternative to invading the Philippines there were advocates in the US Navy who wanted to invade Formosa (Taiwan) and try to liberate part of coastal China as well.
Also Chiang Kai-shek diverted munitions and war material for the looming battle for control of China with Mao.
re: #163 Charles Johnson
He only committed a LITTLE BIT OF TREASON!
re: #143 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, at Trump’s age, sentencing him to ten years in Federal prison would basically be like strapping him into Old Sparky.
while all this is all true, there has to be some symbolism of the punishment vis a vis the seriousness of the crime and who committed it and how.
i dont care if he ‘only’ has 10 years to live
you sentence him to 100, or whatever…
otherwise it will be meaningless to the next guy
jfc the news hit the ground running when the week started and it’s still going
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 12, 2022
re: #174 Dangerman
while all this is all true, there has to be some symbolism of the punishment vis a vis the seriousness of the crime and who committed it and how.
i dont care if he ‘only’ has 10 years to live
you sentence him to 100, or whatever…otherwise it will be meaningless to the next guy
Yeah, of course. Give him the full sentence. And any and all co-conspirators he might have had.
re: #141 lawhawk
I’d argue that the fact that there are so few that you’d be able to name them as proof that the rest are a lost cause.
It is very sobering that in 2020 Trump received over 11 million more votes than he did in 2016. Says something very troubling about our nation. Certainly possible that included some conservatives who didn’t vote for him in 2016 because they thought he wouldn’t deliver the justices they wanted came home to the party when they realized that yes, he would get Roe repealed. But it remains troubling that so many were willing to support this evil man.
All suspects deserve equal treatment under the law. It’s what makes America great. pic.twitter.com/1aGnU7dQ6K
— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) August 12, 2022
re: #153 No Malarkey!
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like i said, these people are clueless how this stuff actually works
The National Archives pushes back on Trump’s lies: pic.twitter.com/6g1osJuSHU
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 12, 2022
— It reaches out 🇮🇲 (@furiousyisser) August 12, 2022
re: #177 Hecuba’s daughter
It is very sobering that Trump received over 11 million more votes than he did in 2016. Says something very troubling about our nation. Certainly possible that included some conservatives who didn’t vote for him in 2016 because they thought he wouldn’t deliver the justices they wanted came home to the party when they realized that yes, he would get Roe repealed. But it remains troubling that so many were willing to support this evil man.
Even after all this time, I find the scope and scale of the evils of political conservatism to be appalling. It’s a path that has only one destination (Hitler’s bunker), yet so many people want to do this.
re: #167 Charles Johnson
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I hate “let it sink in” tweets as much as anyone, maybe more, but let it sink in that a former president of the United States is being investigated for ESPIONAGE.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 12, 2022
so much winning!
re: #172 BeenHereAwhile
Also Chiang Kai-shek diverted munitions and war material for the looming battle for control of China with Mao.
That was mentioned (sort of in passing) in some the earlier comments in this sub-thread.
re: #177 Hecuba’s daughter
Trump’s opponents included a black woman, so there’s that.
re: #171 No Malarkey!
I listened to a bit of wingnut radio at lunchtime, and it was stream of consciousness whataboutism: “what about Seth Rich, the Dossier, the Durham Report, etc.”
ah, the oldies.
when you hate listening to what’s on the hip radio stations
Hey all you red hat assholes, we warned you five years ago that this motherfucker had no business being within 500 miles of the White House.
So, another unprecedented act by the most corrupt and criminal to ever hold office in the US. Of course the investigation into same is unprecedented - no one else has ever engaged in this kind of crime spree (and it’s still ongoing).
— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) August 12, 2022
The goal posts have moved back 32,000 miles over the last 3 days.
The US has jailed and executed over this kind of shit.
Three words, folks: Espionage Act charges. https://t.co/cnQ7qasyxk
— Arch (Space Laser Vaccination Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) August 12, 2022
re: #167 Charles Johnson
Problem is about half the country lets it sink in and decides it means the current administration is corrupt and we are in a banana republic because they are investigating the leading opposition candidate.
re: #133 Dangerman
They knew he wasn’t in Florida and that likely nothing would happen to the docs over the two day weekend
The reality why the FBI did not go in to Mar-a-Lago could be simply that the club was filled with weekend social activities such as weddings, anniversaries and the normal weekend crowd. Another 72 hours did not impose any additional risk after months of knowing the documents were there. Also, Monday would have been much less crowded and manageable with all the agents searching the facility. Sometimes the answer is the simplest reason and not the one inviting the most intrigue.
re: #187 Ace Rothstein
Hey all you red hat assholes, we warned you five years ago that this motherfucker had no business being within 500 miles of the White House.
Espionage? Really?? I thought he turned things around after he paid that pornstar to shut up because he had sex with her while his wife was pregnant with their son.
— Davram (@davramdavram) August 12, 2022
re: #189 Dr. Matt
The goal posts have moved back 32,000 miles over the last 3 days.
heck, by now they’ve been knitted into a doily
I see people wondering why it took 18 months. Trump turned over 15 boxes, and probably told them that was all of them. We know now that someone, maybe in the Secret Service, tipped them off that not only was there more, but it was bad stuff. That was probably pretty recent.
re: #192 terraincognita
The reality why the FBI did not go in to Mar-a-Lago could be simply that the club was filled with weekend social activities such as weddings, anniversaries and the normal weekend crowd. Another 72 hours did not impose any additional risk after months of knowing the documents were there. Also, Monday would have been much less crowded and manageable with all the agents searching the facility. Sometimes the answer is the simplest reason and not the one inviting the most intrigue.
that only works for sane people
WSJ: “Mr. Trump’s lawyers argue that the former president used his authority to declassify the material before he left office.”
But as @charlie_savage points out. NONE of the 3 crimes cited in the warrant turn on whether the information is classified.https://t.co/xcGr2LotPD pic.twitter.com/vmsbp1vD3z— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) August 12, 2022
re: #128 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
re: #142 Hecuba’s daughter
re: #128 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
As best as I understand the history, after the Japanese surrender in 1945, the general attitude among US policymakers wrt China was that once the Japanese forces were repatriated, the situation would revert to the status quo ante: i.e. that Chiang Kai-shek’s KMT government (the “legitimate” government of China) would simply (re)take over its “legitimate” territory, and deal with the Communist “bandit insurgency” in due course. Mao, of course, had other plans….
But there was, AFAICT, little, if any, support in the US for the sort of massive direct involvement, i.e. boots-on-the-ground, to defeat what was painted, for several years, as a minimal threat to the “legitimate” authority of the KMT - a view enhanced by a flood of pro-Chiang propaganda from the Usual Sources - so that when the Chiang Regime finally collapsed (and fled to Taiwan), events came as something of a nasty surprise to the US FP Establishment, and the efforts to support the non-Communist government were much too little, much too late.
IMHO.
re: #176 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, of course. Give him the full sentence. And any and all co-conspirators he might have had.
Except the ones who flip on him; they can can a lesser sentence. This is your chance to be free of him, Melania!
re: #197 Ace Rothstein
I guess Susan Collins was wrong.
I’m sure Senator Collins’ brow will be deeply furrowed in concern tonight.
re: #195 Belafon
I see people wondering why it took 18 months. Trump turned over 15 boxes, and probably told them that was all of them. We know now that someone, maybe in the Secret Service, tipped them off that not only was there more, but it was bad stuff. That was probably pretty recent.
that was in june, in response to the subpoena
they didnt have the full details of how much (or what) had been taken. there was no inventory.
we dont know when they learned what they learned. was it all at once, or piecemeal?
that’s what an investigation is
re: #200 No Malarkey!
Except the ones who flip on him; they can can a lesser sentence. This is your chance to be free of him, Melania!
I’d say Melania could make a good argument, with a good lawyer of course, that her prenup is invalidated.
I believe that the fact that a third of the Supreme Court was appointed by someone whose loyalty to the United States is seriously in doubt justifies the unusual remedy of adding six seats to the Court to make sure that Trump’s justices do not wield power.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) August 12, 2022
Here you go. Find someone who can read to read it to you.https://t.co/OurODhEpaU
— Sean (@sean_s_mc) August 12, 2022
re: #184 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Trump’s opponents included a black woman, so there’s that.
The irony is that the reforms that made it easier to vote in 2020 due to the pandemic, which Trump hated, also helped many Republicans to vote, to produce the record vote Trump bragged about.
re: #198 jaunte
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some legal beagles said the most secret stuff, the nuclear stuff can’t be declassified.
and it can only be viewed in secure locations
so TFG is clearly lying when he said he declassified the stuff he had
or, as i keep saying he has no idea how this stuff works and has no idea why his lie is nothing more than revealing asshattery and ‘wont work’
re: #190 (((Archangel1)))
The US has jailed and executed over this kind of shit.
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A federal magistrate judge has found probable cause to believe evidence of the crime of ESPIONAGE to be found at Mar-A-Lago. Repeat 5 times.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) August 12, 2022
re: #208 Dangerman
some legal beagles said the most secret stuff, the nuclear stuff can’t be declassified.
and it can only be viewed in secure locations
so TFG is clearly lying when he said he declassified the stuff he hador, as i keep saying he has no idea how this stuff works and has no idea why his lie is nothing more than revealing asshattery and ‘wont work’
As the joke goes, he would normally revert to declaring bankruptcy at this stage.
re: #208 Dangerman
He constantly lies about this stuff, and people like Meadows, McConnell and other high up Republicans KNOW he lies. They just further the lie without comment because they’re all using their marks.
Here again I put forward a caution: it is easy to exaggerate what exactly is going on.
The Espionage Act includes simply losing or mishandling classified information. No foreign actor need be involved.
So is the evidence ‘planted’ or is stealing nuclear secrets ‘not a big deal’? Republicans can’t seem to get their lies straight today.
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 12, 2022
It never happened, it was planted.
Okay, it happened but no biggie
Okay, it’s a a big deal but TFG declassified it
Okay, he didn’t declassify it but he’s the Chosen One
Mortal laws don’t apply to God’s greatest gift to humanity
re: #210 Belafon
As the joke goes, he would normally revert to declaring bankruptcy at this stage.
Yeah…declaring bankruptcy isn’t really gonna help him out this time 😄
We can’t (sniff!) even afford (sniff!) buns for our hotdogs because (sniff!) the IRS got all our money! Also FBI spies at the school board meeting (sniff!)
And proxy voting! Democrats are all at their vacation houses (sniff!) voting to crush Americans with taxes (sniff!)— Doktor Zoom (@DoktorZoom) August 12, 2022
The important thing to remember is that Trump didn’t commit these crimes by himself…and he shouldn’t go down by himself.
Whoever gets to a cooperating agreement first sees the least amount of jail time. pic.twitter.com/7eVOyTE3T0— Sean (@sean_s_mc) August 12, 2022
re: #79 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
It’s NOT malpractice. It’s being done internationally and with extreme malice. He wants my Community dead and is taking active steps to achieve that goal.
My apologies, you’re right it’s certainly not malpractice. I just learned about his removal of gender-affirming treatments from Medicaid, though, I’m sadly* not surprised.
I had only been thinking about his incompetence in the covid epidemic, diverting of vaccines to people in rich area codes, over to places with a higher risk of spreading covid vaccines. Prioritizing purchasing of covid-treatments over covid vaccines to funnel money to big pharma. “A 20,000$ cure gives more profits than a $50 vaccine.”
But, even that too was intentional, everything he’s done has been done intentionally, with extreme malice, and to keep the money flowing in.
*And angrily.
When can we say TFG stands for “Totally Fucked Guy”?
re: #214 Dr Lizardo
Yeah…declaring bankruptcy isn’t really gonna help him out this time 😄
Too bad for him, he just can’t declare moral bankruptcy..
Stock market finished strong for the week, its fourth straight in positive territory. The Dow is up nearly 13% since its June 16 low for the year.
4 musicians play Billie Jean on one guitar.
your reminder that Reality Winner took one document and spent four years in prison. one document. four years. no negotiations
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) August 12, 2022
re: #225 DodgerFan1988
More recently, a nuclear engineer agreed to a twelve year sentence in February. https://t.co/oM6j3lU8XI
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) August 12, 2022
his post claims the stuff was ‘secure’ because he put an extra padlock on the door.
That’s the level of stupid he’s working with
we’re not talking stiffing some vendors or a third rate real estate scam
or a fake university
he’s in a world of hurt because this is all so far out of his league, it’s another sport entirely.
he does not comprehend, does not have an inkling how deep he’s in
we are here:
whereas the investigators and prosecutors know their shit
Hell yes. https://t.co/xkHlEoefJA
— Charles Gaba 🇺🇦 (@charles_gaba) August 12, 2022
To every conservative FBI agent: He’s trying to get your colleagues killed. He DGAF about you. https://t.co/zB84EfJZeZ
— Rachel Vindman 🌻 (@natsechobbyist) August 12, 2022
What’s the joke?? https://t.co/JTNX6VkCNm
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 12, 2022
I mean is the joke that the judge who approved the search warrant is a pedophile? Is that the joke? Or a human human trafficker? I just don’t get it.
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 12, 2022
re: #227 Dangerman
he’s in a world of hurt because this is all so far out of his league, it’s another sport entirely.
he does not comprehend, does not have an inkling how deep he’s in
Exactly. This isn’t one of usual, two-bit shyster scams. He’s possibly up to his eyeballs in shit and the potential consequences he could be looking at are like nothing he’s ever imagined.
re: #218 aatharuv
My apologies, you’re right it’s certainly not malpractice. I just learned about his removal of gender-affirming treatments from Medicaid, though, I’m sadly not surprised.
I had only been thinking about his @#$@# incompetence in the covid epidemic, diverting of vaccines to people in rich area codes, over to places with a higher risk of spreading covid vaccines. Prioritizing purchasing of covid-treatments over covid vaccines to funnel money to big pharma. “A 20,000$ cure gives more profits than a $50 vaccine.”
But, even that too was intentional, everything he’s done has been done intentionally, with extreme malice, and to keep the money flowing in.
Yep. I’m really hoping that Floridians have had enough and votes his corrupt malignant ass out come November. Along with Texas shit canning Abbott for all his fuck ups and wanton cruelty as well.
Trump is going to have a heart attack and not face justice like that guy in Casino when the feds served him a warrant and stormed his house.
re: #203 Dr Lizardo
I’d say Melania could make a good argument, with a good lawyer of course, that her prenup is invalidated.
Or Melania could have been working for the Russians all along..
re: #227 Dangerman
his post claims the stuff was ‘secure’ because he put an extra padlock on the door.
That’s the level of stupid he’s working with
we’re not talking stiffing some vendors or a third rate real estate scam
or a fake universityhe’s in a world of hurt because this is all so far out of his league, it’s another sport entirely.
he does not comprehend, does not have an inkling how deep he’s in
we are here:
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whereas the investigators and prosecutors know their shit
From the same dopes that think a wall at the border is impregnable.
re: #206 Dr Lizardo
Heh, Drudge site right now:
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My impression was that Drudge was never a big fan of Trump so not surprising how they played it.
re: #235 Ace Rothstein
Trump is going to have a heart attack and not face justice like that guy in Casino when the feds served him a warrant and stormed his house.
Ah, yes…this scene (it’s towards the end of the clip):
Uploaded here. https://t.co/ZhOwVjlnM5
— Seamus Hughes (@SeamusHughes) August 12, 2022
re: #240 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
What was removed from Mar-a-Lago: pic.twitter.com/5oVZGbJuGE
— David Gura (@davidgura) August 12, 2022
Oh shut the fuck up! Everything that’s ever come out of Trump’s mouth and his malignant minions has been vulgar! https://t.co/qW4N6j0wrj
— 🕉Stevie Van Zandt☮️ (@StevieVanZandt) August 12, 2022
Kushner was the brains pic.twitter.com/Kj93ovvsdk
— Jim #Resists (@jimohar) August 12, 2022
She going to have to jettison the kind, gentle, warm, loving, rational, measured approach to public service she had as a state employee. pic.twitter.com/zT7OXiZsK1
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) August 12, 2022
Top comments on Trump forums right now are just trying to ID the specific FBI agents who were part of and signed off on the raid so they can be “helicopter passengers,” a reference to Chilean dictator Augusta Pinochet murdering dissidents by throwing them out of helicopters.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) August 12, 2022
Awaiting NPR’s comment on propriety of murder threats.
re: #240 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
lA - Info re: President of France
Aha, dirt! This is what I expect.
re: #240 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Reading to this document, it explicitly excludes Mar-a-Lago guest rooms, unless they’re also available for use by Trump and his associates.
I’m not a lawyer but I wonder if this means they could search guest suites if they believe Trump or his associates could have used them for to stash items. If so, I wonder how this will impact traffic at Trump-owned or Trump-branded properties.
“Come to a Trump property, and get your business documents held in an secure US government storage locker for free!*”
*Items will be returned as per the convenience of the DoJ.
re: #241 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
And it’s confirmed: under Description of Item(s), note 2A - “Various Classified/TS/SCI documents”.
re: #242 gocart mozart
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I think the crowd cheering proved that this wasn’t one of those times.
All three. 793 does not require that the defense information be classified, either.
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) August 12, 2022
— Charlie Adler (@charlie_adler) August 12, 2022
— Jim Hundley (@Jim_Hundley) August 12, 2022
re: #250 Belafon
I think the crowd cheering proved that this wasn’t one of those times.
Remains to be seen. The people there were probably mostly there because they were already Beto supporters. How will people on the fence(how can anyone be on the fence between O’rourke and Abbot anyway?) react to it?
re: #251 jaunte
The good part about this is that then we don’t have to go through a knock-down, drag-out constitutional fight about whether Trump properly declassified the documents or not (spoilers: He didn’t, the courts have repeatedly affirmed that there is a process even presidents must follow to declassify documents). If they can prove he held on to information that could materially damage the security of the United States, he is guilty, full stop.
HOW FUCKING EMBARRASSING is it that this asshat GOP lawyer doesn’t even know how the Espionage Act works? https://t.co/0xbrXxUi3a
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) August 12, 2022
re: #251 jaunte
Under/below classified in the realm of unclassified information is controlled unclassified information (CUI). This includes confidential, “For official use only”, “trade secrets”, personally identifying information, health info/HIPAA type stuff, etc.
None of this is OK to just be released either. All CUI, even in civilian contractors has to be protected. One of the last big projects at my previous job was implementing NIST 800-171 security controls on CUI.
re: #257 Backwoods_Sleuth
And he’s wrong on another front: The president cannot arbitrarily classify information, because he cannot use it to cover up crimes or things that would be embarrassing.
Classification authority derives from laws defining it.
Top comments on Trump forums right now are just trying to ID the specific FBI agents who were part of and signed off on the raid so they can be “helicopter passengers,” a reference to Chilean dictator Augusta Pinochet murdering dissidents by throwing them out of helicopters.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) August 12, 2022
“It was a joke. So you can’t sue us…
Right?”
Last night while subbing for Tucker Carlson, we showed you an image of Judge Bruce Reinhart w/ Ghislaine Maxwell that was sourced on screen to a meme pulled from Twitter & wasn’t real. This depiction never took place & we wanted to make clear that we were showing a meme in jest.
— Brian Kilmeade (@kilmeade) August 12, 2022
Donald Trump’s official story has now changed from “the FBI planted everything” to “every document I took was declassified,” which is also a lie. pic.twitter.com/xMCIwdMwnS
— Max Burns (@themaxburns) August 12, 2022
I keep coming back to: If it was all declassified, as Trump claims, WHY THE FUCK SHOULD WE TRUST SOMEONE WHO IS DECLASSIFYING NUCLEAR SECRETS WHAT THE FUCK.
def not worried. no, sir-ee pic.twitter.com/VHNQyTEHKr
— David Mack (@davidmackau) August 12, 2022
re: #219 Eclectic Cyborg
When can we say TFG stands for “Totally Fucked Guy”?
Been saying it for years, now….. 😜
re: #9 Charles Johnson
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Wordle 419 6/6
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Translation: They’re running away and hurting the American people on purpose. https://t.co/mnKbQAJOca
— Reed Galen (@reedgalen) August 12, 2022
re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL I think it’s just now dawning on Donnie that he is indeed That Fucked Guy.
re: #259 Belafon
And he’s wrong on another front: The president cannot arbitrarily classify information, because he cannot use it to cover up crimes or things that would be embarrassing.
Classification authority derives from laws defining it.
I am not a lawyer and either are most folks making pronouncements on the law right now. My opinion however, is regardless of the law, if this ends up before the current supreme court, and any case involving a former president and espionage act/classification/document handling, is almost certain to, they will rule he was within his presidential power to do whatever he did. Will not spend a day in prison for this. Caveat being if he actually sold or gave away secrets, then all bets are off.
re: #261 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
“It was a joke. So you can’t sue us…
Right?”
Hannity made it clear that it’s a joke, but Kilmeade did not give in.
Sean Hannity, another Fox News host, pointed out the inauthenticity of the photo when Kilmeade asked, “Sean, can you relate to that?”
Hannity replied, “I think that’s actually a picture of Jeffrey Epstein with somebody putting his head on there … I’m guessing, I don’t know.”
“Who knows?” Kilmeade said.
On Saturday, the World Dog Surfing Championships took place on the California coast in Pacifica.
Dog surfers and their human pals competed for gold and for charity.
Tune in tonight at 6:30pm ET/5:30pm CT to watch more.
Read more here: https://t.co/RSK7YT1IKd pic.twitter.com/iin5IOq8ml— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) August 12, 2022
is it friday yethttps://t.co/ozWuEMtcWH
— darth™ (@darth) August 9, 2022
seriously tho
a long weekhttps://t.co/glgGxeUFNB— darth™ (@darth) August 11, 2022
i am calling a lid on news for the week
no more n…the what bill is still being debated what— darth™ (@darth) August 12, 2022
they just keep talking darth it’s amazing
— Dave Levitan (@davelevitan) August 12, 2022
re: #267 jaunte
What are the requirements for quorum in the House?
re: #275 Belafon
“With a full membership of 435 Members in the House, a quorum is 218.”
archives-democrats-rules.house.gov
re: #236 Hecuba’s daughter
Or Melania could have been working for the Russians all along..
The Florida judge who approved the FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence has faced an onslaught of antisemitic attacks and threats online, some of which targeted the synagogue he belongs to.https://t.co/vj5PSeefI7
— POLITICO (@politico) August 12, 2022
re: #267 jaunte
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isn’t the whole point of voting by proxy that it counts as if you were there?
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg just days before they were executed in 1953 for selling TOP SECRET nuclear weapon designs to the Russians.
And the resemblance is UNCANNY. pic.twitter.com/pN07vEedeB— Paul Lahticks (@PaulLahticks) August 12, 2022
re: #279 sagehen
isn’t the whole point of voting by proxy that it counts as if you were there?
Except with a certain judge in Texas, I’m sure.
re: #279 sagehen
I don’t understand Republican thought.
re: #276 jaunte
“With a full membership of 435 Members in the House, a quorum is 218.”
archives-democrats-rules.house.gov
So that means representatives may have to fly in to DC for a vote. If the GOP actually do this, they show once again how petty they are and how depraved their base is.
I think everyone is sleeping on the fact that before they got the warrants the DOJ was given surveillance footage of the rooms in which the documents were stored.
They got video of who looked at them THEN went in.
Chew on what that implies for a second. It tastes like treason.— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) August 12, 2022
re: #199 Jay C
As best as I understand the history, after the Japanese surrender in 1945, the general attitude among US policymakers wrt China was that once the Japanese forces were repatriated, the situation would revert to the status quo ante: i.e. that Chiang Kai-shek’s KMT government (the “legitimate” government of China) would simply (re)take over its “legitimate” territory, and deal with the Communist “bandit insurgency” in due course. Mao, of course, had other plans….
But there was, AFAICT, little, if any, support in the US for the sort of massive direct involvement, i.e. boots-on-the-ground, to defeat what was painted, for several years, as a minimal threat to the “legitimate” authority of the KMT - a view enhanced by a flood of pro-Chiang propaganda from the Usual Sources - so that when the Chiang Regime finally collapsed (and fled to Taiwan), events came as something of a nasty surprise to the US FP Establishment, and the efforts to support the non-Communist government were much too little, much too late.
IMHO.
CCP lore: American soldiers were there and were creating a lot of ill will in KMT (GMD) areas through harassment, rape, accidents—the usual stuff. Some of it is definitely true. More importantly, you can earn a lot of good will by taking land from the wealthier and giving it to the poorer.
re: #284 Hecuba’s daughter
So that means representatives may have to fly in to DC for a vote. If the GOP actually do this, they show once again how petty they are and how depraved their base is.
there’s more than 218 Democrats. They can have a quorum with 0 Republicans present.
re: #287 sagehen
there’s more than 218 Democrats. They can have a quorum with 0 Republicans present.
True BUT some may be voting remotely and now they will be forced to travel to DC. And if there are any quarantining because of COVID, they may not be able to attend in person.
Still working the tsunami of lies tactic.
Earlier this week, the Eric Trump told conservative media that FBI agents “would not give [Bobb] a copy of the search warrant.”
The documents that were unsealed, however, revealed that Trump’s attorney Christina Bobb actually signed the FBI’s receipt.https://t.co/1NJk1yPQub— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 12, 2022
re: #288 Hecuba’s daughter
True BUT some may be voting remotely and now they will be forced to travel to DC. And if there are any quarantining because of COVID, they may not be able to attend in person.
Or they can make arrangements to file in for the vote and file back out. I’m sure Democrats can figure it out.
Public Service Announcement: You can get up to 10 years in prison for threatening a federal law enforcement officer. Have a good day.
— Maya Wiley (@mayawiley) August 12, 2022
re: #287 sagehen
there’s more than 218 Democrats. They can have a quorum with 0 Republicans present.
There are currently 186 active proxy letters not sure how many of those people are actually out of town but if it is a significant portion, then they may be forced to fly back to cast the vote in person if physical quorum is actually required.
“Often.”
Former NSA @AmbJohnBolton to @CBSNews: “Often the president would say [to intelligence briefers], ‘Well, can I keep this?’ And in my experience, the intelligence briefers most often would say, ‘Well, sir, we’d prefer to take that back.’ But sometimes they forgot.”
— Robert Costa (@costareports) August 12, 2022
So, maybe not just at the end of his time in office, but an ongoing theft over four years.
re: #239 Dr Lizardo
Ah, yes…this scene (it’s towards the end of the clip):
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“Those are my mudda’s books!” This guy Piscano could fuck up a cup of coffee!
re: #264 The Pie Overlord!
This is the spin I heard on Hannity on the way home from work: “The charges are trumped up because they could’ve had these documents anytime they wanted over the last two years just by asking. All they asked for in June was that another lock be installed.”
Someone needs to make an N-motherfucking-PR totebag.
BREAKING | The man who allegedly attacked Salman Rushdie was identified by police as 24-year-old Hadi Matar from Fairview, New Jersey.
He’s accused of stabbing Rushdie at least twice—once in the abdomen, once in the neck.https://t.co/qOVrHH9GnL— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 12, 2022
Tomorrow’s Wordle: five is the new four.
Wordle 420 5/6
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SibData affected by Saturday go slow: 4,5,X
AG Garland and Dir. Wray need to hold the longest press conference God ever put breath in and answer all questions—as long as it takes—so they can assure the American people that this isn’t political. pic.twitter.com/CCZygkaCCm
— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) August 12, 2022
Where’s the affidavit?
We still need to see the affidavit.— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) August 12, 2022
We need answers as to why a former President’s home was invaded immediately.
This abuse of power by Biden’s highly politicized DOJ and FBI has undermined our judicial process and norms.— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) August 12, 2022
The GOP continues to Gaslight Obstruct Project
re: #300 The Pie Overlord!
The GOP continues to Gaslight Obstruct Project
Looks like the south is trying to rise. Again.
re: #300 The Pie Overlord!
The GOP continues to Gaslight Obstruct Project
Can’t prove a negative, Kennedy. They couldn’t hold a press conference long enough.
i just had a nap
and woke up
and remembered the last two days
this whole thing is so effing surreal
a president of the united states
espionage
stolen documents
bobbing, weaving, basically daring law enforcement to, you know enforce laws
while republicans do normalcy and complacency
it makes us look like a goddamned joke
(unless something more worse has happened in the last hour)
re: #300 The Pie Overlord!
AG Garland needs to hold the shortest press conference ever, where he announces that Republicans in office that enable Trump’s crimes will be charged as accessories after the fact.
re: #302 Belafon
Can’t prove a negative, Kennedy. They couldn’t hold a press conference long enough.
Also can’t prove anything to the goddamn willfully pig-ignorant GOP.
i am calling a lid on news for the week
no more n…the what bill is still being debated what— darth™ (@darth) August 12, 2022
Loud sustained cheering from Democrats on the House Floor as the bill reaches the number of votes required for passage
— Aaron Fritschner (@Fritschner) August 12, 2022
Not to be a downer, but I’ve seen this warning in a couple of threads from people who know:
I am dreading this whole debate, but: just b/c the Trump warrant says “the Espionage Act” doesn’t mean he committed “espionage”. It’s a very broad law. Just ask all the sources of reporters who’ve been thrown in jail.
(This is not a defense of Trump, he is still terrible, etc.)— Trevor Timm (@trevortimm) August 12, 2022
220-207: House along party lines passed the Democrats’ tax policy, health care and climate change bill. The Senate approved the Inflation Reduction Act Sunday 51-50 with Vice President Harris breaking the tie. It now heads to President Bident to be signed into law. pic.twitter.com/lLD1tuYMTK
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) August 12, 2022
re: #307 jaunte
Loud sustained cheering from Democrats on the House Floor as the bill reaches the number of votes required for passage
— Aaron Fritschner (@Fritschner) August 12, 2022
So the GOP scheme failed? Or are they going to challenge the passage by claiming the House did not adhere to the appropriate rules?
re: #309 Barefoot Grin
Not to be a downer, but I’ve seen this warning in a couple of threads from people who know:
Right, but the penalties in the law are very real.
re: #312 Hecuba’s daughter
GOP, masters of failed schemes.
And just yesterday at my favorite produce stand there was a visibly well off sack of broken eggs wearing a pristine Trump ballcap.
I was not alone in staring a hole through him.
He was asking one of the older women working there in a loud voice “Are these peaches from Adams county? Gettysburg has the best. Gettysburg blarg barf woka woka.”
The lady just said “I don’t know.”
re: #272 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
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On Saturday, the World Dog Surfing Championships took place on the California coast in Pacifica….
oh, i was envisioning…
re: #309 Barefoot Grin
Not to be a downer, but I’ve seen this warning in a couple of threads from people who know:
Good to know. They cited the law for some reason, though, and I would like to know what it was.
re: #313 Dopamine Fish
Right, but the penalties in the law are very real.
10 years for each TS/SCI violation. Yep.
re: #291 jaunte
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Public Service Announcement: You can get up to 10 years in prison for threatening a federal law enforcement officer. Have a good day.
— Maya Wiley (@mayawiley) August 12, 2022
if someone prosecutes it
re: #318 Barefoot Grin
A “box” could hold a ream (500 sheets) of paper easily.
re: #312 Hecuba’s daughter
So the GOP scheme failed? Or are they going to challenge the passage by claiming the House did not adhere to the appropriate rules?
I’m sure it’s the latter.
re: #317 Belafon
Good to know. They cited the law for some reason, though, and I would like to know what it was.
I think it’s worse than some of those counseling caution, but I think it’s ok to temper expectations until any of us know.
I do love, though, how Blackburn and the others are demanding the affidavit, which there is zero chance will be produced until charges are brought or case dropped.
re: #295 No Malarkey!
This is the spin I heard on Hannity on the way home from work: “The charges are trumped up because they could’ve had these documents anytime they wanted over the last two years just by asking. All they asked for in June was that another lock be installed.”
amateurish and idiotic reasoning that’s been taken apart 10 times, 10 different ways already
assumes facts nobody outside the actual investigation knows
i.e. - that they’ve always known what was stolen and where it was
Democrats did a lot of good today. And they didn’t try to get any FBI agents killed.
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) August 12, 2022
re: #317 Belafon
Good to know. They cited the law for some reason, though, and I would like to know what it was.
They probably have to review all the material they received to see if charges are warranted. Perhaps the documents were not of such a significant level that the espionage act applies.
DoJ on a roll:
The investigation follows an explosive report that found top Southern Baptist Convention officials had silenced sexual abuse survivors for two decades and fought reforms out of fears of lawsuitshttps://t.co/FoXMzJmX2W
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 12, 2022
re: #300 The Pie Overlord!
The GOP continues to Gaslight Obstruct Project
Let it forever be known that the Republican Party, despite decades of attempting to hijack the notion that they are the only true patriots of the USA, are currently trying to find any way to cover and redirect serious espionage charges against a multi-divorced marriage-destroyer, a man who actively derides US Military Vets for their service, disdains the poor and middle class, and considers the very worst dictators on the planet as personal friends and worthy of admiration.
They are not serious people on any political or social intellectual level. The only thing serious about them is the malevolent level of destruction and evil they plan, promote and agitate against our country.
Evil does exist. It is the GOP. And they feel they have their backs against the wall.
re: #305 EPR-radar
Also can’t prove anything to the goddamn willfully pig-ignorant GOP.
also, they dont answer to you all
re: #312 Hecuba’s daughter
So the GOP scheme failed? Or are they going to challenge the passage by claiming the House did not adhere to the appropriate rules?
overruled/denied/whatever
next
re: #324 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) August 12, 2022
or steal anything
re: #325 Hecuba’s daughter
They probably have to review all the material they received to see if charges are warranted. Perhaps the documents were not of such a significant level that the espionage act applies.
if the material is as has been described, then correct people with correct clearances have to review all the material…
1519 is about more than just holding on to documents; it’s about messing with them. And if the concern was that President Trump was simply retaining classified information, why use 793 but *not* 1924? This is all speculation, but it sure points to something beyond mere retention. pic.twitter.com/FUYspaKc7R
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) August 12, 2022
I know it’s a lot to ask, but I’m also hoping he gets indicted for January 6th.
re: #326 jaunte
DoJ on a roll:
[Embedded content]The investigation follows an explosive report that found top Southern Baptist Convention officials had silenced sexual abuse survivors for two decades and fought reforms out of fears of lawsuits
ie ‘the heck with their souls and the destroyed lives, this could cost us money’
The ears.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/NyfnxWH5IG
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) August 12, 2022
re: #324 Backwoods_Sleuth
Biden has now shown himself to be the most consequential President since LBJ, at least in accomplishments that benefit the nation. Of course, Obama’s ACA certainly gives him an honorable mention. Sad to say, Trump may ultimately prove to be the most consequential President ever if he and his minions succeed in their efforts to destroy our democracy and turn us into a white supremacist banana republic.
re: #334 I Would Prefer Not To
I know it’s a lot to ask, but I’m also hoping he gets indicted for January 6th.
Yes. I hope they bring him out of prison to face charges for the many wrongs he has committed.
re: #315 nines09
And just yesterday at my favorite produce stand there was a visibly well off sack of broken eggs wearing a pristine Trump ballcap.
I was not alone in staring a hole through him.
He was asking one of the older women working there in a loud voice “Are these peaches from Adams county? Gettysburg has the best. Gettysburg blarg barf woka woka.”
The lady just said “I don’t know.”
Lancaster County would like to have a word. Probably York Co. as well, but I can’t vouch for their peaches. Oh, wait. This guy is an idiot. Never mind.
should take a page from the R’s book
forget the nuance
stop saying espionage, or slicing and dicing it coulda been this or it coulda been that
go for the easy to say bumper sticker
45 is a spy
BREAKING: Congress just secured the most essential piece of @POTUS’ strategy for building a secure and affordable clean energy future: the Inflation Reduction Act 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Here’s what this means for Americans ⬇️ (Thread) https://t.co/sXMXEJ08rJ— Secretary Jennifer Granholm (@SecGranholm) August 12, 2022
It makes historic investments to protect and improve land, water, air, and health in underserved communities nationwide, advancing @POTUS’ Justice40 initiative.
Bottom line: We will make sure NO ONE is left behind in our clean energy revolution. 3/— Secretary Jennifer Granholm (@SecGranholm) August 12, 2022
By enacting the Inflation Reduction Act alongside @POTUS’ Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the CHIPS and Science Act, President Biden has put the nation on track to lead the $23 trillion global clean energy market. 👏🇺🇸 5/
— Secretary Jennifer Granholm (@SecGranholm) August 12, 2022
Of course, more than simply passing laws, success depends on effective implementation. That means @ENERGY’s work is just beginning.
The future is bright—and it will be clean. 7/7 https://t.co/sXMXEJ08rJ— Secretary Jennifer Granholm (@SecGranholm) August 12, 2022
ps proxy voting is legal
it’s been tried and tested in court
this is a performative nothingburger
(except to use in campaigns against said R’s)
Asha what if Biden reclassified them in HIS mind? Who wins?
— Desda (@Desdakon) August 12, 2022
re: #345 gocart mozart
The Republican party needs deassification.
Chocolate Chip Cookies #ShabbatShalom #Shabbat #goodshabbos pic.twitter.com/mGAMPy10Kd
— Liddle Cherry Pie 🌻🇺🇦🌈🍒🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) August 12, 2022
re: #331 Dangerman
if the material is as has been described, then correct people with correct clearances have to review all the material…
When I was in the Air Farce and sitting in the hole on nuclear Alert, my Clearance as a pilot was Top Secret, No Foreign Dissemination, Emergency War Order.
re: #348 The Pie Overlord!
Mmm. They look delicious. They look a little pale. Did you do something to the lighting?
A respected snake researcher who had been making significant discoveries about the species since childhood has died after being bitten by a timber rattler. https://t.co/ZxRLu2CnpJ
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 12, 2022
re: #347 Captain Magic
I hate my life. Do not send any one ovrt.
That doesn’t sound good! What is the problem? What can we do to help?
re: #156 lawhawk
DOJ is definitely working iteratively. /Kanban
Can-ban or Kahn-bahn? Inquiring minds want to ky.
Day 1: It’s a Deep State conspiracy
Day 2: It’s all a hoax
Day 3: The evidence was planted
Day 4: Yeah, but Obama did it too
Day 5: Trump did it, but it was an accident https://t.co/TxbDq09gmW— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) August 12, 2022
SHOT: JD Vance has a net worth of $7 million and has spent his days in San Francisco with “tasty brunches, day trips to wine country, and art-gallery tours.”
CHASER: I’m still paying off my family’s mortgage and like to spend my time throwing the football with Brady.— Tim Ryan (@TimRyan) August 12, 2022
The usual subjects are still worried about their precious European heritage (wrt Amazon’s RoP):
“Different cultures”? What cultures do you think are behind Tolkien’s ideas for the 2nd Age?
Here:
1) Plato’s Atlantis (for Numenor);
2) Canaanite god El (which becomes Tolkien’s Catholic god Eru).
The first is a fall from grace story. The second is about a wrathful god.— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) August 12, 2022
Palmetto activities | #ONLYinDADE pic.twitter.com/brTLyYFMTo
— ONLY in DADE (@ONLYinDADE) August 12, 2022
Quite the week of splitscreens:
Mon: Biden in KY; Mar-a-Lago raid
Tues: Biden signs CHIPs; Trump must give taxes to Congress
Wed: Biden signs burn pits; Trump pleads 5th
Thurs: Biden vacations; DOJ seeks warrant release
Fri: IRA passes; Trump investigated for espionage— Matt Viser (@mviser) August 12, 2022
re: #347 Captain Magic
People here care about you and want you around. Bad as it is, please don’t harm yourself.
This isn’t the “take that” argument he thinks it is. https://t.co/XOWG945Fhg
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) August 12, 2022
re: #359 A Cranky One
People here care about you and want you around. Bad as it is, please don’t harm yourself.
Dear Captain Magic: I confirm these statements!
I’m going to start playing these clips for security officials at the clearance appeals of my clients. https://t.co/5MUVueEtXM
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) August 12, 2022
re: #361 retired cynic
He logged off. I’m worried.
2017 story from the Onion about nuclear:
re: #363 A Cranky One
Pie Overlord took charge last time, and called 911. But I don’t know his address, and it is Friday evening, which is not a good time for TPO.
“’Trump melted…an emotional person, somewhat impulsive. He needs recognition’…The KGB’s private dossier on Trump…would have gotten larger.” https://t.co/CgHlpQVPGE
— Kat 4 Obama (@Kat4Obama) August 12, 2022
re: #365 PhillyPretzel
I don’t have an account.
re: #361 retired cynic
Dear Captain Magic: I confirm these statements!
Me too! Please reach out to us.
re: #363 A Cranky One
He logged off. I’m worried.
Nope: still lurking at this minute.
Though still worrisome.
Once the Inflation Reduction Act is signed into law, it will:
- Cut consumer energy costs
- Boost manufacturing and good-paying jobs
- Reduce pollution to tackle the climate crisis
- Advance environmental justice
- Create opportunities in rural communities— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 12, 2022
so many sad twerps in the responses
They haven’t been too successful at it and are awaiting an affidavit because it will “NAME the traitors.”
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) August 12, 2022
re: #365 PhillyPretzel
I believe he is also on twitter.
he hasn’t tweeted in six days
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re: #376 Backwoods_Sleuth
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This looks like the information about French President Macron is a subset of Roger Stone’s clemency.
In 2017, Roger Stone acolyte Jack Posobiec shared hacked Macron emails. The White House gave him press credentials. https://t.co/BPiqr27XhN pic.twitter.com/xN8RJWbRxz— Roger Sollenberger found true love, suckers (@SollenbergerRC) August 12, 2022
The reason Trump would want to have the goods on Macron is to empower Le Pen who is another Putin puppet pic.twitter.com/zh435KdO8W
— Brooke22 🇺🇸🌊💙🇺🇸 (@J0Y_88) August 12, 2022
re: #379 Backwoods_Sleuth
That sounds as though it could be true.
re: #354 Backwoods_Sleuth
Typical Republicans. Never take responsibility for anything you do.
A nap with Captain Teddy*
(*It lasts longer and he doesn’t care if I fall asleep on top of him)#BetterThanSex pic.twitter.com/0Q3qsvdgzF— “Mad Cat” Cattis (@GeneralCattis) August 12, 2022
CRS on the protection of classified information — updated today https://t.co/bGS4TXfeKZ pic.twitter.com/5qk3pQ93Dk
— Steven Aftergood (@saftergood) August 12, 2022
You encouraged the violence against the FBI, against the Judge, and this half-assed, false, both-sides BS does not mitigate what you have done to US.
— David Rothschild 🇺🇦 (@DavMicRot) August 12, 2022
Lil Marco, both are bad. It’s okay to say this is bad without the qualifier.
Studio Guitarist Bill Pitman Dead at 102.
His hit sessions include: Ronettes “Be My Baby,” Beach Boys “Good Vibrations,” Sinatra “Strangers in the Night,” Presley “Blue Hawaii,” Streisand “The Way We Were,” & ukulele on “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head”https://t.co/qCZ3oMKYyQ— Paul Myers (@pulmyears) August 12, 2022
Mar-A-Lago Assistant Manager Wondering If Anyone Coming To Collect Nuclear Briefcase From Lost And Found https://t.co/LrdIYWemJj
— Alice Dreger, Ph.D. (@AliceDreger) August 12, 2022
“checking fingerprint set chemical composition 19…”
“…”
“…”
“filet o fish again?”
“filet o fish” https://t.co/7uXzpJjewZ— darth™ (@darth) August 12, 2022
“The Republican-led review of Wisconsin’s 2020 election abruptly ended Friday when the GOP Assembly speaker who launched the inquiry last summer fired the former state Supreme Court justice he had hired to lead it.”https://t.co/TdwtIhoVOB
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) August 12, 2022
re: #390 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m not sure which of those two fools is the more corrupt.
“Some of what was in Trump’s possession is mind-boggling,” said Javed Ali, a senior official at the National Security Council during the Trump administration. “Whenever you leave government…you can’t just take it with you.” https://t.co/1siFiseQX2
— Alice Dreger, Ph.D. (@AliceDreger) August 12, 2022
re: #339 calochortus
Lancaster County would like to have a word. Probably York Co. as well, but I can’t vouch for their peaches. Oh, wait. This guy is an idiot. Never mind.
Around here (western PA) they are often advertised as being from Chambersburg. Which is Franklin County, just west of Adams County and Gettysburg. I got some at a farmers’ market earlier this week and they were excellent!
Wylie says Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator and cannot speak. “The news is not good,” he said. “Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged.” https://t.co/KtRtnVMywo
— Joumana Khatib (@joumana_khatib) August 12, 2022
“Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is now trying to protect Trump by filing articles of impeachment against Attorney General Merrick Garland.”
https://t.co/0TGHzprgvG via @politicususa— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) August 12, 2022
If they planted it how is it declassified? https://t.co/t6QdQu2Moc
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 12, 2022
mood pic.twitter.com/z0K9KKXna0
— Pocket•Cindy (@Pocket_Cindy) August 12, 2022
re: #390 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hilarious, Gableman eventually accused Vos of being part of the conspiracy!
Gableman went further in a Monday appearance on former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon’s podcast, contending Vos had a role in stealing the 2020 election. (Recounts and court rulings in Wisconsin have confirmed Biden’s win and independent reviews have found no signs of significant voter fraud.)
“[Vos] oversaw the implementation of all the odious apparatus that the Wisconsin Elections Commission put to use to steal the election from — and I’m not even going to say from a particular candidate. I’m going to say they stole it from the voters and the good citizens of the state of Wisconsin,” Gableman said.
Hard to imagine anything more un-American than trying to turn your audience against the FBI for recovering top secret nuclear documents from a guy who just orchestrated a coup against our government. 🇺🇸 https://t.co/eEvJKVfJ0G
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) August 12, 2022
Let’s all be honest for a moment;
Who here hasn’t randomly and innocently violated the Espionage Act?
Hands?
No?
….
FUCK
I am logging off now for Shabbat but I will be back tomorrow night so don’t panic.
BYE FOR NOW.
When you make Christina Bobb look like Clarence Darrow: https://t.co/dLvZklp3Rc
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) August 12, 2022
re: #402 Backwoods_Sleuth
He really has people advising him that are dumber than he is.
FBI investigating “unprecedented” number of threats against bureau in wake of search of Mar-a-Lago, including against agents listed in court records as being involved in the search, a law enforcement source tells CNN.
— Ana Cabrera (@AnaCabrera) August 12, 2022
re: #404 Backwoods_Sleuth
These idiots are in for a big surprise when they learn that simply threatening these agents is a crime.
Laughing while terrified. https://t.co/LRlmnNfpPW
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 12, 2022
Re-upping this story I wrote about “Roger Stone’s man” Jack Posobiec, Macron Leaks and Russian Intelligence for reasons 👀 https://t.co/Z06q6wM55a
— Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) August 12, 2022
Elise Stefanik is going to get cops killed. @washingtonpost reported in May that Stefanik echoed the racist theory espoused by the Buffalo mass shooter. Now she’s making the same baseless attacks against the FBI as the Cincinnati shooter. She has priors & knows what she’s doing. https://t.co/qj9GHjowpb
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) August 12, 2022
re: #401 The Pie Overlord!
I am logging off now for Shabbat but I will be back tomorrow night so don’t panic.
BYE FOR NOW.
Thanks for the notice, VB
Shabbat shalom!
A Surprising Photo Captures an Osprey Gently Gliding Along the Water’s Surface
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Amazing photo!
re: #378 Backwoods_Sleuth
This looks like the information about French President Macron is a subset of Roger Stone’s clemency.
In 2017, Roger Stone acolyte Jack Posobiec shared hacked Macron emails. The White House gave him press credentials.
— Roger Sollenberger
I don’t quite see why anyone would be interested in “the Macron emails”.
Shortly after the alt-right media boosted the leak, chief of Macron’s campaign Mounir Mahjoubi stated that they have been watching GRU hacking attempts since February, and let them steal a carefully prepared cache of trivial and forged documents. After this was confirmed against the leaks contents, its credibility was seriously undermined
re: #246 jaunte
Awaiting NPR’s comment on propriety of murder threats.
These people they are talking about are not just ordinary poll workers they can scare or regular folk they can intimidate. These people have been trained in self defense and weapons. These dumbass motherfuckers could break off a little more than they can chew trying to intimidate agents.
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ...
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Alone in a Bathroom: The Fear and Uncertainty of a Post-Roe Medication Abortion Angel tucked two white pills into each side of her mouth, bracing herself as they began to dissolve. Her deepest fears and anxieties took over. Angel had wanted to talk to a doctor before she took the pills to ... Cheechako
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March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
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The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
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