Is that the new name for grifters these days? It's so hard to keep up! [NYPOST] The sprawling $20 million mansion on Kiawah Island in South Carolina — where President Biden and his family are currently staying free of charge — has been plagued for years by a laundry list of problems, including mold, mildew, termites and cracks, according to a new report.
Typical summer place, in other words. Nobody wants to do maintenance when they’re on a vacay. And nobody wants to spend on maintenance when they aren’t there to enjoy it. I was truly shocked at the deferred maintenance visible at the Vanderbilts’ Biltmore estate, and they have a large, year round crew of volunteers working on site..
The Post reported last week that the Bidens, including disgraced first son Hunter, are spending their summer vacation at the beachfront property owned by big-time Democratic donor Maria Allwin — the widow of hedge fund founder James Allwin.
"They stayed here before and they’re not paying," a source close to Allwin said. "They’ve never paid. They’re just friends."
The Daily Mail reported on Monday, citing court documents, that behind its seemingly pristine facade, the nine-bedroom estate that has hosted the Bidens on and off since 2009 has become something of a money pit and the subject of several rounds of litigation.
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I apologize for not answering you very useful question here, but I only saw it just after the rollover, too late to respond there. You wrote
#30 TW,
Please forgive my ignorance.
By your own numbers, views, this site is pretty small.
Why would you urge caution?
This topic, article, has had 358 views. Probably a quarter of them are mine.
Should we not speak freely here?
Not sarcasm, just don't get it.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-08-15 23:47|
My dear, you are ever the gentleman, and I never thought to suspect you of being otherwise.
My concern was for the other site, the one where Sloluse Slutle9788 reported conversing with the angry young vets, that perhaps some there were actually outside agitators aiming to get him and his friends in trouble. We know agitators/trolls come here, too, though at the moment I haven’t noticed anything more exciting than Communist Chinese, Russian, and Ukrainian boiler room trolls trying to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt or bring us over to their side. In the past there was young JUSTICE, among others, a Saudi lad whose father was a connected Saudi air force pilot; J. couldn’t handle our — particularly my — lack of respect for his Saudi Muslim awesomeness, and applied his newly learnt programming skillz in an attempt to overload and crash the site. He failed and eventually was banned, but for a while several of us moderators had to be tapped in nearly full time to stay on top of his nonsense. A number of Rantburg’s anti-spam subroutines were written in response to his nonsense.
But also, while Rantburg is not the kind of big site that gets 10,000 hits a day, we have almost from the beginning had the quiet attention of the Pentagon, Langley, and Foggy Bottom, just as our articles and discussions became part of the raw intel streams for Jamestown, Strategy Page, and Long War Journal... and possibly others. The audience for our words is larger than just one another, though many of our articles get twenty or thirty views, and only the most rambunctious get a shocking 358 views and 32 comments. This is also why we do not allow threats of violence to American citizens here— though Fred does not object, we need to ensure we do not cause him trouble with his peer group when he so generously provides us this wonderful place to play.
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I’d like to leave your comment up for today to trigger discussion, Dron, then spamcop it after the midnight rollover so it doesn’t get archived. Is that an acceptable compromise?
Otherwise until dear Walking Unvaxxed responds, so we know that communication occurred.
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We live in SC very near Charlotte, NC, where mold is fairly prevalent (warm, humid climate and all that.)
There was huge hysteria in Charlotte and the Carolinas over mold just a few years ago, and I don't know if it's abated or not. But mold is both very common and hysterically feared (an odd combination, I know) here in the Carolinas.
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I guess I fit into the category of old angry vet who uses my keyboard during lunch. I am not sure why there would be an assumption that the folks who come to Rantburg for information and interaction don't do anything else to move forward the cause when we are not typing. My issue is not with action, I am against random violence and destruction of property.
For instance, I don't believe that the guy who crashed his car into the capitol barrier an immolated himself moved the cause forward substantively, but I do believe that the trucker and farm protests are effective, so I am not against physical action.
I am unable to assimilate tossing Molotov's with the oath I took as a young man to support and defend the Constitution. I am old enough to not really care if that annoys the "storm the Bastille" crowd.
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the folks who come to Rantburg for information and interaction don't do anything else to move forward the cause
Of course I didn't mean that, SH. I mean everybody here is ... uhh, of the same opinion essentially as you. About their oaths and molotovs, I mean. And I don't expect this crowd to do that. But thankfully you do have a fringe. There's just not much in the way of coordination and strategy. Or leaders who can effectively use them. I have seen the value a fringe can add to a party. I think, for example, that there's a credible threat to DJT's life. How many LSD's lives are threatened? I shall just shut up now.
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For instance, I don't believe that the guy who crashed his car into the capitol barrier an immolated himself moved the cause forward substantively,
The Guardian reports he had a degenerative brain condition and was not political, my dear, which would explain it:
The mother of a Delaware man who shot himself to death after driving into a US Capitol barricade over the weekend says she believes he was struggling with brain trauma from growing up playing football.
Richard Aaron York III’s mother, Tamara Cunningham, said she suspects his past as a high school football player left him with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain condition colloquially known as CTE. Some football players develop CTE because of repeated head blows that are common to the sport.
“Something was going on for a while,” Cunningham told the Guardian in an interview Tuesday. “And it was progressively getting worse.”
A CTE diagnosis can only be definitively made with a postmortem brain autopsy. Cunningham said she had requested one from a private doctor as well as the local coroner’s office but had not immediately been able to schedule the procedure.
Nonetheless, in prior cases where CTE was ultimately confirmed in late football players and athletes in other violent sports, families suspected their loved ones had the condition beforehand because of behavior they considered erratic or aggressive.
Cunningham spoke out on her thoughts about her son as police continued investigating what may have motivated York to aim his car at a barricade outside the Capitol in Washington DC early on Sunday.
And York’s mother on Tuesday said she didn’t know her son to be that closely attuned to politics or to support Trump – in fact, she believed his voter registration listed him as a Democrat.
“We’re just not that kind of family,” Cunningham said when asked if anything politically motivated her son on Sunday.
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^ Won't stop the media as portraying it as "Trump backed white supremaciss, rayciss, insurrectionist extremizm. And gullible lefties will lap it up.
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No need to shut-up. Rantburg is the fringe. How many Americans know who Joseph Kony is? Thomas Paine's ideas were also on the fringe.
Recognize the chess board. Biden is currently being held over on "vacation," because the raid went so badly for his side. Putting him in back of a podium for questions cannot be done.
If they take further steps forward, Trump will be inaugurated before January 2023. Jim Jordan already has whistleblowers.
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Off topic [or back on topic]
How does Black Mold mix with Covid?
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Black Mould! Anybody read Brian Lumley's short story called Fruiting Bodies? It's about a 'orrible fungus that gestates inside everything, even dead and living bodies, and takes them over.
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Smokeyed per request, as communication has been accomplished. :-) The article has 205 views directly, plus however many readers scrolled down from the top of the page, which is enough communication for going on with.
How does Black Mold mix with Covid?
Poorly, I’d imagine, as both debilitate the lungs, and fungal pneumonia is less often tested for — and therefore less often treated — than the bacterial variety.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] A confidential document obtained by The Post Millennial from the leading transgender health association shows they plan to lower the recommended age for minors to obtain cross-sex hormones that cause permanent changes to the body and irreversible chest, genital and face surgeries. This health association is one that countless doctors and hospitals rely on to create their guidance for medicalized gender transition for minors and adults.
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) is set to release the 8th edition of their Standards of Care this year, but a recently unearthed, early draft reveals that their minimum age recommendations for children to start the process of medicalized gender transition have been lowered.
For cross-sex hormones, the recommended minimum age has been lowered to 14, from 16 in the previous guidelines. The recommended age limit for double mastectomies of healthy breasts has been lowered to 15, and for male minors seeking breast augmentation, WPATh recommends 16 years old as the lower age limit. That is also the age limit, per WPATH's draft guidelines, for facial surgeries and tracheal shaves.
The age for genital surgeries, such as hysterectomy and vaginoplasty, has been lowered to 17, a year earlier than previous guidance.
The WPATH sets international guidelines and protocols for the medical process of gender transition, which is undertaken through prescribing cross-sex hormones and through surgical procedures designed to give the appearance of the opposite sex, though function is often lacking and complications are common.
WPATH also gives recommendations for minors. These guidelines are viewed as the gold standard for the field of health care for those diagnosed with gender dysphoria, and are widely used in hospitals and clinics across the US, Canada and the UK. WPATH guidelines are highly influential to major medical groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychological Association, as well as for health insurance companies around the world.
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So simply put.
The leader of a collection of Mental Illness followers recommends medical practices that a number of Major Medical Inst. have conducted research on and said was harmful, dangerous and was only reinforcing a mental illness.
Remember, just a recent as 2 years ago Athletes found taking Hormones were villainized by the press. 20162014
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It’s happening: “LGB drop the T” keeps trending on Twitter as gay activists turn on transgender activists
Someone seems to have figured out that the 'kids' are the third rail. Demanding the normals to literally sacrifice their children to your group is going to get really nasty. Demanding submission is no part of tolerance.
Plea discussions between Allen Weisselberg's counsel and the Manhattan District Attorney's office remain ongoing
The allegations of fraud include payments for rent, cars and school tuition fees Ugh. All are standard non-monetary compensations for senior executives and the more generous ex-pat packages. For execs there is usually a business entertainment and spouse wardrobe package as well. Mr. Wife was given rent, car, and school tuition supplements beyond the Cincinnati norm for such expenses when we were posted to Europe by the international Fortune 100 company, back when he was still a dear little group leader, and a parties-for-the-troops budget for team building as an associate director. The Manhattan District Attorney is pounding the table because he hasn’t got anything substantial.
At a hearing on Friday the judge in the case said jury selection would start in October
Trump called the probe by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, and a parallel civil case by New York AG General Letitia James, politically-motivated 'witch hunts'
The plea deal would not require Weisselberg to testify or cooperate in any way with an ongoing criminal investigation into Trump's business practices
Three insider sources who spoke to the Associated Press did so on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the case. They said the purpose of Thursday's hearing was for Weisselberg to enter a guilty plea, but cautioned that plea deals sometimes fall apart before they are finalized in court.
Do they indeed? Perhaps that’s what we’ll see in two days.
Weisselberg's lawyer, Nicholas Gravante Jr., told The New York Times on Monday that Weisselberg has been engaged in plea negotiations to resolve the case, but did not specify terms of a potential plea deal. Reached by the AP, Gravante declined to comment.
The Times, citing two people with knowledge of the matter, said Weisselberg was expected to receive a five-month jail sentence, which would make him eligible for release after about 100 days. The deal would not require Weisselberg to testify or cooperate in any way with an ongoing criminal investigation into Trump's business practices.
Or he could get, and do, nothing at all, which is even less than a three month holiday at a low security prison. Interesting times, my dears, and more interesting still for those who respond like cats to laser pointers when Donald Trump is involved.
[PJMedia] When a phalanx of SWATted-out FBI agents descended upon Donald Trump’s Palm Beach home, they also walked off with boxes of what the DOJ claimed were “classified” documents, photographs, the former president’s passports, and privileged legal documents that, the last time we checked, the Trump-Russia collusion hoaxers or any other government actor shouldn’t put their prying fingers on.
Now, according to Just the News, we’ve learned that the FBI will give back President Trump’s passports and documents containing privileged information between the former president and his attorneys. No doubt the Justice Department will be reading and copying the documents as they prepare to return them. It may be why the DOJ estimates it will take two weeks to get Trump back his property.
The department was making plans Monday evening to return the passports and has also alerted defense lawyers the FBI may have obtained materials covered by various privileges that will be returned in the next two weeks, two sources told Just the News.
DOJ has designated a process for separating materials that could be covered by executive privilege or attorney-client privilege, the sources said.
“Occasionally a warrant collection can grab things outside the scope authorized by the court and the department is now following a procedure we would for any person affected this way,” one official said Monday night.
The sources spoke only on the condition of anonymity because the communications between the two sides are confidential.
This announcement came after The Daily Beast’s Mitchell Epner, a former federal prosecutor who now works at a New York City law firm, wrote, “Former President Donald Trump says the Department of Justice must ‘immediately’ return the documents seized from his office and residence at Mar-A-Lago because of alleged violations of ‘attorney-client’ material and ‘executive’ privileged material.”
“This is, to put it plainly, completely bogus,” Epner adds.
Except it’s not. It’s legit.
Considering that the warrant was overly broad, which used to be unconstitutional, the fact that FBI agents took Trump’s passports and privileged legal documents to which they weren’t entitled may not be so surprising. The fact that the DOJ is fighting to hide the reasons behind the raid does nothing to inspire the already rickety confidence in the department.
And then there’s the issue of the super-duper-secret documents the DOJ obviously told the judge they were looking for. You can’t get a warrant for not turning over presidential records, so lawyers must have insisted that Trump had committed some sort of actual crime. Voilà! The DOJ told the Washington Post the almost certainly bogus story that Trump was holding “classified documents relating to nuclear weapons,” which Trump denies.
But assume that we believe the DOJ and FBI and this is true. Let’s game this out with the help of former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy, who intimated on his podcast Friday that this scenario is almost laughable.
First off, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) alleged that some of the documents Trump returned to NARA were stamped classified and, in their Trump-Derangement-tinged concern, brought in the big boys and girls at the FBI and DOJ.
“Let’s say we’re talking about what the Washington Post was talking about,” said McCarthy. “Special Access information which only a handful of people in the government are read-into and allowed to get access to, and it’s totally need-to-know, and it’s a teeny-tiny group of people, OK? And that’s what they expected to find.”
Since they expected to find such dramatically super-secret information at President Trump’s home, they must have sent super-secret agents with super-secret clearances to figure out which information this was and retrieve it. Since there were only so few people with the clearance for this kind of information, does it make sense that more than 30 FBI agents were also cleared for that information? McCarthy isn’t buying it for a second.
There were [more than] 30 FBI agents there. Do you think they read 30 FBI agents into a Special Access program so they could execute a search warrant thinking that that information was really going to be there? I don’t think so. … I’ve seen how classified information gets handled when it’s handled correctly and how persnickety they are about how somebody who doesn’t have the clearance or doesn’t have the need-to-know is not in a position where that person is able to see the thing he doesn’t have the right to see – even if he has a security clearance. And I’m sure all these FBI agents who got sent there had security clearances of some level and I’m sure there were some people who were running things that had very high-security clearances, but if you’re going to turn 20 or 30 [or 40] FBI agents loose and tell them, ‘OK, fellas, go find what’s in the warrant, you’re opening the possibility of somebody who doesn’t have the appropriate security clearance to see this top secret, super secret, Special Access information is going to get precisely that they’ll be exposed to something they’re not allowed to see. I don’t believe it. So, maybe I’ll be wrong too but I don’t believe it.”
The DOJ is fighting to divulge the contents of the affidavit supporting the warrant. Trump is calling on the department to release the full, unredacted version of the affidavit. The feds will wait until they indict the former president while Americans wait in alarm, fear, and disgust and get fitted for their Carmen Miranda banana republic hats.
But don’t you worry, America. Merrick Garland and the rest of the Biden Administration will keep looking for a Trump crime. Just give them time. After all, it’s only been a few years.
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Crimes committed under the "color of authority" when you have willing and credentialed FBI agents doing it. The lower level agents may just be unwitting actors, but the supervisory leadership and the DoJ lawyers on-scene knew they were exceeding the warrant scope, but knew they had no risk of consequences. "Rule of Law" in the era of the Imperial Presidency...
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Btw: The DOJ by saying items were improperly collected has also in advertantly admittedly stated that its evidence collection process was tainted and conducted improperly. Thus placing all collected items suspect and challengable for court use.
[Townhall] The Department of Justice, led by Attorney General Merrick Garland, asked a federal judge Monday afternoon to keep the affidavit used to justify the raid on Mar-a-Lago -- President Donald Trump's personal residence -- a secret. In other words, they don't want the details about the warrants, and the arguments made to obtain them, released to the public.
"The affidavit supporting the search warrant presents a very different set of considerations. There remain compelling reasons, including to protect the integrity of an ongoing law enforcement investigation that implicates national security, that support keeping the affidavit sealed," DOJ presented to a federal judge. "Information about witnesses is particularly sensitive given the high-profile nature of this matter and the risk that the revelation of witness identities would impact their willingness to cooperate with the investigation. Disclosure of the government’s affidavit at this stage would also likely chill future cooperation by witnesses whose assistance may be sought as this investigation progresses, as well as in other high-profile investigations."
Just last week Garland explained his direct involvement in the raid and refused to provide further details.
When NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST Gestapo type tactics are used and a Secret warrants served, and even a copy kept from the victim and their legal council. What is to keep the warrant from being adjusted to fit the needs of any constitutional violations that were used to collection materials on a HUNTING Exposition?
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My hunch is that it was a fishing expedition, using something ridiculous and fabricated to gain entry. Classified documents could have simply been a ruse.
Once inside, "inadvertent discovery" would become the legal method to get something on the President.
The Deep States goal is to control the narrative, protect 'phony baloney' jobs, etc. Basic survival mode.
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Given their performance in the Russian hoax, the FBI and DoJ are not entitled to have any consideration before the docket in legal matters concerning Mr. Trump.
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I would think because the warrant was not given to Trump lawyer t the time of the search, it would make the search illegal and all the evidences gathered inadmissible in court.
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Fourth Amendment? What Fourth Amendment???
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Gotta wonder what they're hiding. It must be good. Probably compromising to certain individuals. That'd explain why they don't care if the evidence is inadmissible in court. Most likely the purpose of the raid was to make damn sure it's never admitted into court.
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Gotta hide it long enough that the reality doesn't damage he wishful thinking version of what and why the left has been brewing in their fevered imaginations.
[Red State] As RedState reported on Monday, Donald Trump accused the FBI of taking his passports during the unprecedented raid of his Florida residence. According to the former president, three passports were taken during the search, which apparently went far beyond just recovering supposedly classified documents that threatened "national security."
Predictably, after Trump made the claim, the press quickly jumped into the fray to call him a liar. Norah O’Donnell of CBS News claimed via a source that the FBI was "not in possession of former President Trump’s passports."
When I saw that report from O’Donnell, I put out my own post questioning the phrasing. "Not in possession of" is very specific wording that could have simply meant the FBI had passed them on to another agency. Why not just say "we didn’t take the passports" if they didn’t take the passports?
Well, as it turns out, Trump’s team was ready and waiting with the receipts that showed the press narrative was a falsehood.
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Just read the DOJ has issued a statement now claiming the Passports Have Been Returned? A day after flat out stating they never had them. I guess, Trump one up'ed them by having proof they did not count on.
Either way, given their constant tripping over their own recorded politically skewed words, tactics and actions. The DOJ/_ _ _ Leadership would be hard press to discredit itself any harder.
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#6 She needs to be fired. Faster.
Posted by: Frank G 2022-08-16 08:39
frank,
If I may suggest - firing makes her a martyr. On the other hand, continued correction and embarrassment just make her look less competent every single time.
Watching her made a fool of - repeatedly - is just full of schadenfeudaliciouness.
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Classic example of the media technique of lying with partial truth. It is factually accurate that the FBI "did not have them" when O'Donnell spoke. It was not stated but strongly implied that they never did. But is also factually accurate they were returned. But the former true statement was broadcast to a wide audience, and the admission they were returned was a tweet with a far smaller audience. In the twisted logic of liberal MSM reporting, they did not lie. They just didn't tell all of the truth!
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Nora O'Donnell is a damn liar and an ugly hag. Her stock in trade is half truths, lies and hysteria...propaganda to be succinct. She is true only to the CBS tradition of Dan Rather. I wasn't watching when she made this claim because I quit watching her a long, long time ago. She comes on here at 5:30 p.m. which some civilized people might consider to be their happy hour. How could I be happy watching her?
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It won't do any good if CBS fires O'Donnell because they'll find another flunky to read the same shit they give her to read. Example: I remember Scott Pelley's claim when he was the CBS News anchor that Christopher Steele was a reliable source of information. The best thing that could happen would be if everybody stopped watching CBS and all of the other compromised, corporate, main stream media outlets. Just turn the damn TV off and go outside for a walk or something...maybe read a book or go fishing. I dunno. Anything but sitting like a zombie in front of the television.
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Example: I remember Scott Pelley's claim when he was the CBS News anchor that Christopher Steele was a reliable source of information.
Yeah, I know, the Ministry of Truth wants that one down the Memory Hole. Shame on me. I remember it anyway.
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#4 Notice how the January 6 hearings and attendees seem to have hit the memory hole transporter ?
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You people ready for 30 fully armed Federal Agents showing up at your door at 6AM for posting "misinformation" about the Federal Government online?????
[Fox News]I have to think they didn't believe he would fight back. They were wrong
Prosecutors argued that releasing the affidavit used to obtain a search warrant for Trump's home would 'harm the government's ongoing criminal investigation'
The Department of Justice filed a motion on Monday opposing the release of the affidavit that was used to justify the search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home.
"If disclosed, the affidavit would serve as a roadmap to the government’s ongoing investigation, providing specific details about its direction and likely course, in a manner that is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps," the 13-page filing says.
"The fact that this investigation implicates highly classified materials further underscores the need to protect the integrity of the investigation and exacerbates the potential for harm if information is disclosed to the public prematurely or improperly."
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What they did was unprecedented, they better well be prepared to publicly and openly explain every step of why they did it.
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The affidavit will be totally wide-open to allow for a fishing expedition and everyone will freak because although the do this all the time, not to Presidents which should require extra scrutiny.
If Biden truly did not know, it was because they wanted him to have deniability because they knew what they were doing was borderline if not outright criminal.
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They will block disclosure with the "ongoing investigation" scam. In the end impeachments will be tried, but there will probably not enough votes to convict. Americans have to be prepared to remove politicians until the FBI can be squeezed by progressive levels of defunding up until 2024 where Trump can do actual firings.
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They will definitely drag it out through the midterms with occasional 'leaks' and 'gotchas' that will all prove false after the midterms.
[NYPOST] Former President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... claimed Monday that he was willing to do "whatever I can to help the country" before accusing the FBI of a "sneak attack" raid on his Florida estate last week.
"The country is in a very dangerous position," Trump told Fox News Digital in his first interview since the Aug. 8 search. "There is tremendous anger, like I’ve never seen before, over all of the scams, and this new one — years of scams and witch hunts, and now this."
"If there is anything we can do to help, I, and my people, would certainly be willing to do that," he continued.
Federal agents seized more than two dozen boxes of items, including 11 sets of classified documents, from the 45th president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla.
According to an inventory that was unsealed by a federal judge Friday, four sets of documents were marked "Top Secret," the highest level of classification the government can give information; three were marked "Secret," the second-highest level, while the remaining three were marked "Confidential," the lowest classification level.
Another set was marked "Various classified/TS/SCI documents," which is the abbreviation for "top secret/sensitive compartmented information," a special category meant to protect the nation’s most important secrets.
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I don’t believe the classified material allegation, but I don’t get the documents angle even if there was stuff in there. Trump and Melanie did not pack up the WH documents as they shared tearful memories of their favorite classified briefings. Nor will you find an email from Trump instructing someone to save all the nuclear codes because they could be the basis of a really strong password to his Truth Social account. This is just going to crash like all the other times Trump “was painted onto a corner.”
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As I was taking my evening walk I couldn't help but notice the local police guarding the FBI station in the neighborhood. As far as I know it's a first. Last week the staff were eating lunch at the picnic table.
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^ Who knows? Maybe the FBEye will stage a fake attack on themselves in order to foist the blame on the vast rightwing conservatives. They're actually pretty good at staging fake insurrections.
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Dunno. Seems everything about the Witchmore abduction had everyone going HUH? except the media and those who wanted to believe.
What has me a bit concerned about that, though, is that for some 6 months NYC has been advising what to do if nuked? campaign, media has been banging the nuke gong since this raid, then the deal yesterday about a nuke attack in NYC being a Trump conspiracy.
That is a lot of pump priming which I do not believe is happening in other cities.
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Currently with the judge connected to Epstien I have to wonder if Trump had the client list or something and they were desperate to recover it, even at the cost of a bit of political blow-back.
Either that or the left are power-hungry and stupid. Both seem reasonable explanations.
A fascinating take on the idea that a civil suit by Trump, in the Florida courts, that could use the seized "classified/declassified" documents that appear to be the focus of the raid to prove culpability for the Russia Hoax and spying against Trump by the Clinton Campaign, Obama Admin et al.
Its a Florida court, and a civil suit, so the jury pool would be Floridians, not DC sympathizers and the verdict majority, not unanimous. Such a trial would be successful if what we have been told about the documents is true, and it would inevitably also lead to many, many criminal referrals against the heart of the Obama/Puppet Show players.
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It seems like this action by the DOJ/FBI violates the 4th Amendment, i.e. an illegal search and seizure. Anything gathered from such a search and seizure probably cannot be used in any court as evidence. It also would seem that that Trump is entitled to a copy of the affidavit which was the basis for the warrant in order to defend himself. Just a layman's common sense view of things. The raid seems more like a fishing (fisting?) expedition.
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^ # 2 - The first lady is fully vaccinated and has received two booster shots. She has mild symptoms, the White House said, and will start taking Paxlovid.
Paxlovid - the other miracle cure.
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So 4?
Wasn't too long ago, anyone less than five would be considered a murderer. No wonder The Experts of Science! are going, nah, nevermind. Except Fauci the Dog. Fauci the Dog wants Idols. Serious and Totally Sane Idols.
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Well, Daily Mail, if we aren't going to talk about re-nuking the economy and focus instead of fashion, might I introduce Dr. Jill and the brave and stunning Feed Sack Dresses of the Great Depression. Hizzah!
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Meanwhile back in Ohio, last week's summary of COVID 19 cases showed not a single person in the state died of COVID in the cited 7-day period. One might think this would be newsworthy, but it is not.
Los Angeles has the government it deserves.
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The effort to recall Soros-linked Los Angeles DA George Gascon failed. Organizers submitted 520k petition signatures, short of the required 566k. Los Angeles is experiencing a surge in homicides that some analysts attribute to the prosecutor's policies. https://t.co/dZv1zyn7Rq
Courtesy of NoMoreBS, who titled his submission A Preview of November from LA - Where Demokrat's Rule, No Voter ID Required and Yet One-Third of the Signatures Were Invalid!, Citizen Free Press reports:
Another attempt to recall Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón has failed to qualify, Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan said in a statement Monday.
Logan said 520,050 signatures were found to be valid and 195,783 were found to be invalid. To qualify the recall for the ballot, the petition required 566,857 valid signatures, he said. A previous effort to recall Gascón also failed to gather enough valid signatures to make it onto the ballot last year.
The CFP article links to the San Francisco Chronicle, which adds:
Anne Irwin, executive director of Smart Justice California, a criminal justice reform group, said that “Angelenos saw through these disingenuous tactics for a second time.”
“Fueled by Republican mega-donors, police unions and others ideologically opposed to reform, the campaign followed a familiar pattern of using misinformation, fear-mongering and the politicization of tragedies to scapegoat District Attorney George Gascón,” Irwin said.
There were other differences between the unsuccessful attempts efforts to recall Gascón and the successful effortto boot Boudin from office. One is that Gascón is a more experienced prosecutor with a longer track record, while Boudin had served for much of his career in the public defender’s office.
“He has more of a track record,” said Jim Ross, a San Francisco political consultant who advised Boudin during his recall. “It’s harder to go after him. He’s progressive, but he was also a former police officer.”
Plus, it is more challenging to get enough signatures in sprawling Los Angeles County, which is more than 10 times as populous as San Francisco.
Also, while San Francisco Mayor London Breed did not take a position on the Boudin recall, she was open about her frustrations with the district attorney’s office. Meanwhile, Rep. Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, who is the poll leader for November’s race for Los Angeles mayor, has opposed the recall. Gascón appeared at Bass’ campaign kickoff event.
Gascón said he learned something from Boudin’s recall: To focus less on crime and prosecutorial data and more on the emotions that people feel about crime in the community.
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So that's a 26% error rate compared to a 2020 election error rate of 1%.... if you don't think the fix is in, call me... I have some crypto currency to sell you.
(I wasn't just talking about the recall election).
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The petitioners sought a lot more signatures than the required 566k because they knew a certain percentage of signatures would be ruled invalid. Wonder how many were deliberately invalid.
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No signature match challenges were allowed in the 2020 contested states. I can't imagine that the a sampling of ballots from Fulton County would have faired well against this type of process. Unfortunately we are a couple of weeks away from the destruction of those ballots. In that Gascon's term runs to 2024, it will be interesting to see whether LA takes another bite at the recall apple.
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