I don’t think there are good Republican elected officials. But Jaime Herrera Beutler did show courage during impeachment. While ultimately her vote for Speaker and for much of the Republican agenda is bad, her being replaced by Joe Kent, who came in ahead of her in the primary, would be a step down.
Fortunately, Democrats have a rad candidate, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. If you’re able to volunteer or donate, they could use your help.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
What’s the over-under on this chick holding her job through the midterms?
This explains why YLB is what she is. It’s X-linked unseriousness.
Maybe I spoke @ 1 too soon.
She apparently got it from my senile, imbecilic, incompetent president.
This is the IRS:
Lois Lerner and POS like her figuratively weaponized the IRS against US citizens. First Vegetable Joe Biden and POS like him are doing it literally, with the support of Momala and every single Senate Democrat.
It’s no joke: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/resources/job-descriptions/irs-criminal-investigation-special-agent
Looking forward to learning about the shooting death of a single mother who abused the EITC, by a packin’ IRS special agent, courtesy of First Vegetable Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.
@3 Which of the many IRS job titles does that job description go to? Building security? The field agent who goes out and arrests the armed militia members and sov citz who bragged on Facebook about never having filed a tax return or paid taxes, and vowed to shoot on sight any government agent who came to their door? As far as I’m concerned they can’t use deadly force on the Timothy McVeighs of the world fast enough.
Trump showed up for his deposition today and took the Fifth, as any quarter-assed defense attorney would advise his client to do, which of course isn’t an admission of guilt, but sure as fuck makes him look guilty to the average shlub in the street.
Especially given, “While campaigning in 2016, Trump suggested not answering questions was a sign of guilt. At a campaign stop in Iowa in 2016, Trump said, ‘If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?'”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/10/politics/trump-deposition-ny-attorney-general/index.html
@1 July inflation is 8.5% instead of the predicted 8.7%, and the Dow is +500 points.
Doctor Dumbfuck, hoping and praying for a double-digit inflation reading, shorted the market.
Biggest loser in Monday’s FBI raid in Florida: Ron DeSantis.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/08/10/geoff-duncan-georgia-mar-a-lago-fbi-doj-trump-desantis-2024-newday-vpx.cnn
“We are no better than a third world country, a banana republic,” Trump wrote .
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/10/politics/trump-fbi-search-stokes-backlash/index.html
He should be celebrating, after working so hard and long to turn us into one.
No idea if this is accurate. YMMV.
I’m confident it’s fairly accurate.
What this real estate, securities, and civil def attorney describes is very normal procedure. But she wouldn’t know that.
The warrant is not a public document. It’s contents describe allegations of criminal activity that have not been proven in court to the legal standard of conviction, but only to the probable cause standard as set forth in the 4th Amendment. This woman who was present, and who is an attorney, may not be Donald J. Trump’s attorney at all. Trump’s private Florida sex club is enormous. It has multiple residential wings intended to provide accommodations to guests who attend his private sex parties. Trump frequently provides his hospitality to members of his sex club or to their guests, even while he is away, as was often the case while he was briefly serving as president. Alina Habba may be a member who was staying at the club over the weekend. She may even have been engaged to perform some kind of legal work for Trump or his private sex club related to her area of specialization as an attorney. But that does not automatically grant her a power of attorney in all matters.
Federal search warrants get executed in the presence of random attorneys all the time, especially in cases involving corruption, financial crimes, fraud conspiracies, etc. Often these attorneys are no more familiar with criminal investigative procedures and criminal search warrants than a random street drunk. Sadly that seldom inhibits them from declaring themselves and demanding compliance, etc. FBI agents who carry out these kinds of searches are pretty used to it. They are polite, but firm. For all they know she works for a tabloid or perhaps even for HILLARY!
In the case of a garishly sprawling private sex club the warrant will be specific about rooms and areas to be searched. Excluding the random guests, service staff, thumb-headed security guards, and family pets from those areas during the search is also perfectly normal procedure. What the New Jersey lawyer describes sounds exaggerated but essentially accurate.
This man suffered from an STD.
https://news.yahoo.com/singaporean-man-accused-smothering-nagging-230551914.html
Sen. Mike Lee on democracy, replying to Prince Harry: “Nor do I understand how allowing questions of public policy to be decided by democratically elected lawmakers is ‘an assault on democracy.’”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/based-mike-lee-twitter-account_n_62f3b5fce4b0ee32ad78931f
It isn’t, when lawmakers are democratically elected.
8,
The “Draft Trump” movement has finally gotten underway.
I wonder if there are any opportunities to volunteer?
@ 7
Sorta. Sold covered calls on three holdings.
New vehicle prices are up double digits over last year, and are up over last month. So I sold naked puts on Ford. I think Toyota is cheap, relatively speaking, right now.
Bank stocks are up today, because they benefit from 1) seeing another 50 basis point boost in short-term rates next month and 2) reduced risk that a 75 basis point boost that might further weaken the economy will occur.
There are different ways to play bank stocks. There’s the Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit way, which is to buy Citigroup in the high 60s, as he did, and then watch the shares plummet into the mid-40s before recovering to today’s $54ish. Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is still down by $13-15/share relative to his purchase price. Or, one can sell naked puts on Citigroup with strike prices about 20% less than the trading price, and expirations 4-6 months out. A naked put on Citigroup sold fewer than 75 days ago will expire worthless in 9 days, with a several hundred dollar profit, and the shares themselves were never owned.
One can make a lot of money by reading about Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s latest share purchase and selling a naked put against the company at a strike price 20% less.
It’s profit off of Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s poor investment decisions, plain and simple.
@10
Sue the violin.
The my change labels that say Made in America for products they had made in China.
We could always request lie detector tests, I’m sure they’d comply or be happy to oblige
@10 “a garishly sprawling private sex club”
Here it would be well to recount the history of the building and grounds now serving as Trump’s private sex club.
Mar-a-Lago was built in the Roaring 20s as a personal monument to the obscene wealth of Marjorie Merriweather Post, who did absolutely nothing to earn her vast wealth except be born, as was typical of second-generation wealth in those days.
Upon her death, she bequeathed the property to the National Park Service “hoping it could be used for state visits or as a Winter White House, but because the costs of maintaining the property exceeded the funds provided by Post, and because it was difficult to secure the facility (as it is located in the flight path of Palm Beach Airport), the property was returned to the Post Foundation by an act of Congress in 1981.” (Wikipedia) Four years later, Trump purchased it for $10 million in a decrepit and neglected state, and replaced the wallpaper with red velvet.
And, as you know, Trump used it as a Winter White House anyway; security not being a concern, as Chinese spies were routinely invited onto the premises anyway, as long as they had spreadable legs. And also because air traffic could be rerouted, to the inconvenience of every user of Palm Beach Airport, which was of no concern to him, whenever he chose to spend a golf weekend there at taxpayer expense which was frequently. And, not least, because he could charge taxpayers $650 per room, per night, for his Secret Service guests.
So the main thing to observe about Mar-a-Lago is that it was garish and impractical from the beginning, which had no bearing on the purposes of its builder, and Trump’s genius and business acumen turned it into a profitmaking real estate venture while enhancing and adding to its garishness, and even taking its notoriety to a new level by housing stolen national security records there to provide a reading library for highly trained Chinese comfort girls.
And then there’s 3M, which Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit breathlessly told us he bought on a day during which he probably paid about $177/share or so. The stock’s been a dog, and recently was in the $120s before recovering to the current level just short of $150. Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has lost roughly $27/share on that investment, and can only point to 3M’s dividend yield when he has to face his family and admit his failures.
Does anyone want to join Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit in the hope that 3M will recover by purchasing the shares today at $150? Didn’t think so.
But one can still make money off of 3M and off of the dumbfuckery of a certain bloviating, fat lagomorph, while not having to own the shares. Sell naked puts against 3M shares at a strike price of $130, expiration January 2023. There’s a risk of having to buy the shares at a price roughly $47 less than Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit paid to purchase them, but for taking that risk one is paid $3.10 up front, so the purchase price effectively would be $127 if the shares were put.
IOW one would pay $50/share LESS than Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit paid.
Sell 3 contracts, collect $930 today, and in about 130 days the contracts most likely expire worthless. It’s an easy way to make money while at the same time laughing one’s ass off at Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s stupid investment decisions.
My Notadumbfuck Method of investing. There are few investment programs more reliably profitable than merely doing the opposite of what Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit does.
@14 “One can make a lot of money by reading about Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s latest share purchase and selling a naked put against the company at a strike price 20% less.”
I don’t doubt this is true, but your constant whining about the price of hay leads one to think you’re not the “one” making all that money.
All I can say is, if you can’t afford the hay, you can’t afford the horse.
@17 What I can do is sell the 3M for a tax loss to offset the taxable gain on the Exxon I bought at $36 a share, wait out the wash sale period, then buy back the 3M. By doing that I pay no taxes on my massive XOM gain and still own 3M.
You should know there’s ways to profit from a falling market and sinking stocks, doc, since you brag all the time about doing it.
Today’s investment commentary is brought to you by a guy who has overhead at a feed store on a holding that doesn’t pay dividends. But at least he can argue you can’t fuck 3M or Citibank.
@ 20
…he can argue you can’t fuck 3M or Citibank.
Indeed. In fact, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, instead your purchases of 3M and Citigroup have fucked you.
And your family.
As predicted, even on the night of the FBI search, starting with Newsmax, Dersh has been serving up to the MAGAts and Qanon Patriots what they want to hear.
But just so there isn’t any confusion for anyone else, applying for and obtaining a search warrant from a judge is not “always a last resort”. In front of federal courts the FBI will have to provide reasons why they are unable to obtain the information by other means. But that doesn’t mean that all the other means have to be exhausted.
And the FBI has been in negotiations with Trump’s team of overworked, RNC-provided lawyers since the beginning of this year to retrieve the remaining boxes of documents that Trump stole from the White House. It’s clear that at least some of these people lied to the FBI during those negotiations. It’s a very safe bet that somebody is facing a section 1001 charge.
Too bad it isn’t Dersh.
Nother!
Mr. Reid, a former principal at Robious Middle School in Chesterfield who died early on July 17 just 15 days shy of his 80th birthday, played a central role in a Republican renaissance to make Virginia a two-party state and promote conservative political values, especially in Henrico.
https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/former-del-jack-reid-dies-at-79-remembered-as-stalwart-henrico-republican/article_abf537d9-2035-535e-9b64-315548406acf.html
Of natural causes… Escaped an untimely death though..
In January 2006, Mr. Reid escaped injury when a handgun he was unloading in his office accidentally discharged, sending a single bullet into a bulletproof vest hanging on his office door. Mr. Reid apologized to fellow lawmakers and said he was thankful no one was hurt.
Can we all say #guuuunnnnfaaaayle ???
Old guy.. SS check? No more!
It only follows from the “seriously” inane, deranged, idiotic, silly babblings of teh widbee kreepshit…
GOOD…
for my kids..
AMIRITE????
@ 19
@17 What I can do is sell the 3M for a tax loss to offset the taxable gain on the Exxon I bought at $36 a share, wait out the wash sale period, then buy back the 3M. By doing that I pay no taxes on my massive XOM gain and still own 3M.
Oh, where to begin?
1. A $50 gain on a $36 purchase is not a “massive gain”, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Massive gains are what one would have if one sold the Starbucks shares bought 20 years ago. Since this was not your example, we can safely assume that you dumped SBUX awhile ago. XOM was a pretty silly example to use.
Massive gains are what result from buying – and still holding – AAPL in 1993 and AMGN in 1995 and 1997. Trust me on this. The massiveness is maximized if those purchases were made in retirement accounts. Trust me on this.
2. Proper use of capital losses on share sales is not to offset capital gains, but to offset higher-taxed income, such as earned income, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Let’s take your situation. You earn no income and your household income from all sources is so fucking pitiful that your tax burden is miniscule. At most, maybe you’re in the cap gains 15% bracket, and that’s a stretch. Add to that the 3.8% Obamacare tax, but not for you, since you don’t take in enough to trigger it. So you’re looking at a 15% tax on a sale of a puny number of Exxon shares. A big whopping $750 tax on a sale of 100 shares, which is between-the-sofa-cushions change for real millionaires, but apparently a considerable sum in the Dumbfuck Rabbit household.
What you want to offset is earned income, taxed at a rate in the mid-30s, like people who have some wealth do, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. So you sell the 3M and own the loss, because it reduces the income tax on your mid-six figure earned income for the year.
3. So, what to do with the Exxon shares, then? Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, the proper thing to do with a “massive gain” is to donate the appreciated shares and not incur a taxable event in the first place. It’s how those with wealth handle their charitable contributions. An example:
In March 2020 you purchased 1,000 Alcoa shares at $20 each. In late Winter this year they appreciated to $75, so you transferred some of them into your charitable gift fund, and then they reached $90, so you transferred the rest. You avoided incurring a taxable event because you donated the shares, not cash, and let the gift fund manager sell them for cash. You donated $37,500 plus $45,000 = $82,500 to any of thousands of worthy causes (your choice, whenever you choose to make it), and you get to take a tax deduction of $82,500 at your IRS rate of, say 35%, which saves you $28,875 in federal income tax. The end result of this is:
• charities are $82,500 richer
• you avoid what could have been a $62,500 taxable gain by donating rather than selling the shares
• you reduce your tax bill by $28,875 by donating something that only cost you $20,000 to buy, little more than two years ago.
That’s how to handle a “massive gain”, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, but your family has neither the massive gain nor the wherewithal to donate to someone less fortunate than you. After all, there are few retirees who are less fortunate than you.
Rep. Elise Stefanik
@RepStefanik
If the FBI can raid a U.S. President, imagine what they can do to you.
8:15 AM · Aug 9, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://mobile.twitter.com/RepStefanik/status/1557022640866459651
Why would this be so hard to “imagine”?
If any of us were to steal classified documents from the government and then lie to the FBI about that we would have to count ourselves very lucky if all the FBI did about it was retrieve the documents.
I don’t “imagine” any of us would be lucky enough to be treated so gently. But then again, I don’t “imagine” most of us know anything at all about classified documents.
But people like Elise Stefanik do. As part of her party’s leadership in the House she is assigned to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. With full oversight of the entire array of U.S. intelligence services, including regular, closed-door, SCIF briefings on the most sensitive classified documents and programs, Ms. Stefanik has been required to receive special training in classification, SCIF protocols, and the criminal laws related to breaching classification, and has signed documents attesting to that fact.
And so did Trump. Although he probably ate cheeseburgers and texted during the training and didn’t read what he signed.
@ 25
But then again, I don’t “imagine” most of us know anything at all about classified documents.
And in 2016, the people who did took the Fifth or were granted immunity.
I need to apologize for my numbers in @ 17. I wrote that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit paid $177 or thereabouts for 3M shares.
He actually paid about $189/share for his loser 3M investment.
I am deeply sorry for suggesting that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit lost $28/share on his 3M purchase, when in fact he lost $40/share.
We should all feel even worse for Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s family.
Well, this was interesting.
Gasoline stockpiles had been predicted to decrease modesty, but the report just released says that they fell several times more than predicted.
Oil and gas stocks had been down on the day, but now they’re up.
Hey, y’all, who’s lookin’ forward to the release of the August CPI numbers next month? Other than the GOP candidates, I mean.
Newsweek, just now:
Ya think?
@24 “A $50 gain on a $36 purchase is not a ‘massive gain.'”
True. Until you start multiplying. Who the fuck buys only 1 share of Exxon? I have a four-digit holding in Exxon.
Massive gains also result from buying and holding Starbucks for $1.10 a share (split-adjusted). I sleep well on that one.
@25 “If the FBI can raid a U.S. President, imagine what they can do to you.”
They sure can. All they need is a search warrant, and to get one, all they need is probable cause that I’ve committed a crime.
http://handbill.us/2022/08/09/.....ing-point/
@27 The $177 was right. You got that number from me, of course, and your memory is failing you in your old age.
As they should. Just like Cheetolini. It is their right guaranteed under our constitution.
Let police, detectives, investigators, and prosecutors do their jobs.
As they should.
I certainly don’t.
I don’t think the FBI or the Attorney General misread anything.
Recall now that not once in it’s history going back more than a century has any Democrat ever served as Director of the FBI. FBI agents are notoriously conservative, clean cut, quasi-Mormon, whole-milk-drinking dullards who generally vote Republican without fail throughout their lives. If anyone would know how to read MAGA-Land it would be the FBI.
They knew that the same Republicans who insist that Trump won the 2020 election, and that the January 6th attack on the electoral college count was planned and carried out by this guy, were never not going to completely lose their shit and fall all over the ground sobbing and crying.
But America can’t suspend our laws and abandon modern, peaceful society simply because angry, disappointed, racially and sexually confused old white men are losing elections.
Cry more.
@35 Who won that one?
#DEFUNDFBI and #TRUMPWON are now mainstream Republican dogma.
Nice.
I see former Fake President FuckHump, after pleading the 5th, showed his supporters the Heil Hitler fist command.
New hotness: Democrats like Klain want Trump to run and blow up the GOP, so they gin up a silly -ass raid to goad him into it.
@ 33
I appreciate your consistency.
The Fat Cow has The Wuhan.
Obesity is a risk factor.
39,
I sure wish Democrats were capable of all that.
But again I’m reminded that the FBI is staffed and run by Republicans and that they obtained their warrant from a judge who came from Trump’s Palm Beach circles.
Biden has not fired his way through a series of FBI Directors and “acting” Attorneys General to assemble a team of puppet yes-men. As unhinged and dangerous as Republicans have become, I’d applaud him if he did. But alas, it isn’t the case. .
“…affluent, elite, healthy, and highly educated coastal progressives.”
Vicious Troll, the statement above (from McFuckhead) is all you need to know about these egocentric “liberals.” I saved this quote from McFuckhead because it so succinctly sums up their arrogance. Don’t waste your time trying to communicate with them.
43,
Yum.
The tears of violent Republican insurrectionists are delicious.
If it makes barefoot, toothless, uneducated, less productive, arm-fishing, sister-fucking trailerbillies cry to see themselves described as such, I wonder why they don’t change and improve themselves?
@43 your statement sounds pretty arrogant itself. And you’re wasting your time telling the Vapid Troll that he’s wasting his time. Nor will he ever listen to you. What are you a Dumbfuck too?
@44 I simply refer to that as a Neanderthal Hetero.
Breeding will not save them, PI’s mom realizes that now too
How many black kids get to plead the 5th when stopped by a cop?
Bob is trying to acquire Roger’s stealth in investing. It’s apparent. He’s poorer than he states, like Donald Duck
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRyJhYDa/?k=1
We are not a democracy.
@40 You’re consistent, too. Very consistent. In all respects.
@43 It’s hard not to talk down to people whose mothers still have to use baby talk.
@44 “I wonder why they don’t change and improve themselves?”
Lack of aptitude.
Bolton says it’s Biden’s fault Iran wants to kill him.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/3596199-bolton-says-biden-approach-to-iran-encouraging-threats-to-us-officials/
It’s a trap!
” … Gateway Pundit website has started promoting a pro-Trump rally directly outside the FBI’s headquarters in Washington D.C. to ‘protest the out-of-control FBI and its actions against President Trump.’ However, … many pro-Trump commenters are … speculating that it’s an elaborate trap enacted by the Deep State.”
https://www.rawstory.com/fbi-trump-2657842418/
Just look at Jan. 6! That was a trap! The FBI arrested hundreds of tourists for looking around, taking selfies, and putting feet on desks!
Buh… buh… buh… but… HUHRDUHRHAM!!!!!!!
“China on Wednesday criticized a U.S. law to encourage processor chip production in the United States and reduce reliance on Asian suppliers as a threat to trade and an attack on Chinese business.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/china-criticizes-us-chip-law-threat-trade-88189665
Don’t stop there. Let’s fuck ’em some more.
I read here the odds of getting into a medical school are roughly 1 in 2. I thought it was tougher. This explains how dumbfucks get to be radiologists.
54)Would be ironic if Tgey said heads should roll. The AG who formed the original Bureau of Investigation last name was Bonaparte.
Three minute video of the Democrat mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, taking down Ilhan Omar in an interview last night. He referred repeatedly to the 20 point swing in the primary results compared with two years ago.
I loved the part about his team flying to DC in order to meet with her and being stood up.
What a vitriolic POS is Ilhan Omar. POS was my word, vitriolic was the term used by the mayor.
Some of @ 59:
Rep. Scott Perry (Traitor-PA) must see the walls closing in on him much like our low IQ Nazi traitor and his raging orange man-baby see walls closing in on them. How it must suck to be a traitor.
Feds drop subpoenas on multiple GOP offices inside Pennsylvania Capitol: report
“The information being requested centered around U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., and the effort to seek alternate electors as part of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to remain in office after the 2020 election, several sources said,” PennLive reported. “Perry, a York County Republican in his 5th term in the House, has come under as much scrutiny as any Pennsylvania office-holder over his involvement in Trump’s efforts to stay in power after his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden. The primary focus on Perry from multiple congressional investigations that have played publicly has been his connection to former Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Clark, one of the few Department of Justice officials who appeared to be sympathetic to Trump’s false claims that the vote in several swing states had been rigged against him.”
God bless Raw Story.
I see the low IQ Nazi traitor with a rope around his neck.
‘I see a rope around his neck’: Trump supporters issue violent threats against judge who approved Mar-a-Lago warrant
“Let’s find out if he has children… where they go to school, where they live… EVERYTHING,” wrote a person on a message board where the judge’s address was posted.
Individuals have posted the judges name, address, phone number and members of his family. The information was then followed by violent threats.
@60 Which almost got her sacked by her constituents. Democracy works better in that corner of the country than in WA-3, whose voters by implication are inferior to those in MN-5.
@62 “Let’s find out if they have children … where they go to school … ”
If those were my kids, they’d be followed to school by their dad and he’d have a gun.
Remember, this is Florida. Stand your ground. And you can run down protesters with your car, too, if they’re blocking the street.
59, 60,
Sounds like both Frey and Degen we’re badly beaten and are struggling to process their defeat.
I’m grateful Degen pointed that out to us – twice. As terribly as things are going this week for extremist Republicans, I might have overlooked it otherwise.
There probably ought to be some sort of convenient pocket-sized handbook published to provide guidance for these fucksticks. It seems like common sense, but maybe the problem is that extremist Republicans simply lack common sense.
But if you are a crypto-fascist, anti-Semite trying to run for statewide office in a state with a lot of older Jewish retirees and plenty more decent human beings who despise bigotry, when you get caught having phone sex with Nazis you admit it happened, you claim you didn’t know they were Nazis, and you apologize.
What you don’t do is pretend that it never happened.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/blake-masters-lying-andrew-torba-gab-1395547/
This morning Arizona Republicans get to wake up and admit that not only is their Senate nominee a crypto-Nazi (which they secretly knew, and kinda liked), but he’s also an incompetent liar and a phony. And all their golf buddies know it too.
Some people handle losing a statewide election for the second time better than others.
Beto should model himself after the Fat Cow, who will simply return to quietly overeating when the GA race is over.
When you consider how increasingly common incidents like the Blake Masters Nazi-gate scandal have become for Republicans, it helps make sense of underdog challengers like Beto O’Rourke and Stacy Abrams.
You just never know where the next “perfect phone call” will come from. Except that it will come from inside the GOP.
An unabashed Christian nationalist, Torba positions Gab as a social network for “free speech.” The Anti-Defamation League decries Gab, accurately, as a “haven for extremists, conspiracy theorists and misinformation.”
Next shoe to drop… the “genius” Musk’s agenda of bringing “free speech” to the pig in a poke aka twitter..
i.e. for fanbois of “true cultural diversity” aka apartheid…
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/18/tesla-california-racial-harassment-discrimination-lawsuit
Only thing holding it back was the Federal Reserve threatening its stock price.
Republicans seemed to like the FBI a whole lot more when they mostly focused on setting up and assassinating civil rights leaders, planting drugs on college students protesting Nixon’s war, and financing right wing paramilitary terror groups in California.
Good day for the DJIA TODAY, so far.
It’s headed to 40,000! Nothing no Repuke could ever achieve.
Thank You President Biden! God bless Joe Biden!
@70 Republicans are just a bunch of POS’s.
A bunch of fascists cloaked in the American flag, yelling Freedom, Constitution, Justice, and Democracy!
Bunch of frauds. They should all be locked up or shipped to TexAss
Some people handle losing a statewide election for the second time better than others.
The low IQ Nazi traitor sides with the “motherfucker” who laughed at Uvalde’s dead schoolchildren.
Here’s how the low IQ Nazi traitor and friends “back the blue” these days.
‘Gut them like a fish!’ Trump-loving lawmaker vows to lead fight to defund the FBI
Armed man showed up at Cincinnati FBI office and started making threats: police
The low IQ Nazi traitor and his GQP are nothing but a bunch of fascist fucking traitors.
So it seems that Merrick Garland truly did not know about the raid. The FBI asked Hillary Clinton for authorization, not Garland.
The FBI asked Hillary Clinton for authorization, not Garland.
Wow.. teh widbee kreepah wallowing like a stuck hog in its hateful fantasy world.. one for the ages..
boring as well… yaaawwnn..
74,
Since it’s part of an ongoing criminal investigation, and any persons alleged to have violated federal law are entitled to due process protections guaranteed under the 4th and 14th Amendments, any statement will be limited to generalities about how the FBI obtains and executes search warrants. I think it’s also likely that Garland or Monaco will address specific false statements being made by Trump, Trump lawyers, and members of the Trump family about the search.
Such a statement is for the benefit of the media to provide them with the certainty about the federal rules of criminal procedure and how those rules are followed so that they will no longer pass along some of the false statements being made.
We’ve actually seen all this before dozens of times going back decades when the FBI have executed search warrants on major crime syndicate bosses. “Fat Tony”, “Mike the Nose”, and “Other Tony” would frequently stand outside of a “social club” in Newark complaining about how “they tore my wife’s nightgown” and “the cat got out”, etc. Then the local AUSA in the crim div would issue a statement confirming that the wife was not present and that “Fat Tony had drowned the family cat in his swimming pool three years earlier.
75,
A little boring, yes.
But in the same way that, when you get right down to it, a neighbor’s house fire is boring. Tragic perhaps. But boring. Yet there you are, standing barefoot in the street at 4am, watching from a safe distance and wondering how they fucked up.
Only this time it’s the house of the guy everyone in the whole neighborhood despises and wishes would just move to Montana like they keep “threatening”.
Even Democrats understand that Inflation Reduction Act is an intentionally false misnomer.
Only a quarter of Democrats are gullible enough to believe it. That’s the low-information, YLB/The Even Bigger Fucking Moron wing of the Democrat party.
@78 “Inflation reduction” was a sop to Manchin… It had to have a name..
Through reconciliation:
Democrats want to invest in and address the long standing needs of their constituents..
Maybe at least make a start on staving off catastrophe..
Republicans want to enrich their wealthy donors with tax cuts. That and only that.. if making a degenerate kreep from widbee feeel good keeps it in the fold.. fine.. it can’t go anywhere else as it is..
No one chooses their parents, and sometimes people have to walk away from their families, and find another “family” to be part of.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/moms-campaign-divided-texas-town-family-rcna42031
To be fair to Tesla, the only model that does this is the #BLM Protester Model.
79,
Degen runs a naked victory lap because he got to name the new family kitten “Fido”.
A few days later he’s out by the garbage cans bitching because his new “dog” won’t play fetch.
Delightful news that Degen should welcome!
In his statement today AG Garland announced that the department has filed a motion to unseal the portions of the search warrant already in Donald Trump’s possession:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854.18.0_2.pdf
Trump files motion to oppose in 3… 2… 1…
To be fair to Tesla, the only model that does this is the #BLM Protester Model.
Thanks for not only confirming the “genius” Musk’s deep feelings for a whites only homeland..
apparently it’s a homicidal maniac as well.. for those who “don’t know their place”..
One noteworthy observation about the motion is that it is co-signed by the DOJ Chief of Counterintelligence.
It has been said that he is known to take a very keen interest in the preservation of White House lunch menus.
Joe Kent, WA-3 (R), upon placing second in the primary, made a statement: “This was a very hard fought primary and that was a good thing. Steel sharpens steel, and I feel very prepared to go forward and fight the far left and the security state that are threatening the future of our country and the liberty of our people. “
Question I have is where is the “rigged election”, “mail-in voter fraud” and “stolen election” claims? Oh yeah, he placed second in a top-two primary, so of course there was none of that other stuff going on.
You know if he fished third all of those Trumpalo claims would be flying out of his mouth. Ain’t that so Doc?
The financial markets certainly faded at the end of the trading day. It must have been the day traders existing their positions at the end of the day, causing the erasure of the earlier gains.
@66 I suspect Mark Kelly’s seat became safer on Tuesday.
@67 Good for Beto O’Rourke that he called someone laughing about the slaughter of teachers and kids a “motherfucker,” because that’s exactly what the guy is.
He won’t be laughing if the next time it’s his kids lying in pools of their own blood on the classroom floor, with pieces of their flesh dripping from the walls and ceiling.
Where Beto went wrong was by not calling him a “stupid motherfucker.”
@88
I doubt it. The Trump GOP appears to be content and poised to elect people sitting in prison.
@69 Musk is looking less like a genius and more like a motherfucker every bleeping day. His overpriced cars are no good, either. They catch fire and crash into things.
@74 “So it seems that Merrick Garland truly did not know about the raid.”
I’m sure you know by now he said in his statement he personally authorized the search.
You’re never right about anything, it seems.
88,
I suspect the Christian Nationalist Revolution is now running out of vulnerable seats to challenge. It looks like a D +1 Senate is pretty doable with a D +2 as a worthy stretch goal. Cortez Masto appears to be the one remaining target for Team Kill Him With His Own Gun. But all the public polling for Nevada is over a month old. Some shit happened since early July. But honestly Laxalt is the lone bright spot among Republican nominees. He’s about the only one this year that isn’t hiding a secret swastika tattoo or a basement sex dungeon. Colorado GOP didn’t get the memo I guess.
@76 Right again, as you almost always are. If you and Dumbfuck were baseball players, he’d be cut from the minors (he probably was), you’d be sent to the Bigs, and he’d spent the rest of his life slobbering tears of jealousy into his beers while endlessly playing Springsteen’s “Glory Days” on the juke. Which is more or less what he does here on HA.
Nother!
When Robert Brockman, one of the richest people in the country, was visiting his company’s offices near Dayton, Ohio, he stayed at budget motels and ate frozen dinners in his room, a former employee recalled.
The penny-pinching was integral to Mr. Brockman’s success in the automotive business, where he rose from humble roots to control one of the largest U.S. providers of software for car dealerships, Reynolds & Reynolds Co.
Though he had a net worth measured in the billions, few could have guessed it by the relatively modest way in which he lived. He didn’t appear on Forbes’ list of wealthiest Americans until he was indicted in 2020 on federal charges that he had committed the biggest individual tax fraud in U.S. history. (His wealth was pegged then at $4.7 billion, but his wife said in a December 2020 affidavit that a Brockman Bermuda trust had assets of at least $7.7 billion.)
https://finance.yahoo.com/m/17ad444d-0b9b-3df2-b492-80fd6ecdc81e/billionaire-robert-brockman-.html
A tax-dodging HERO to our own kreepee degenerate ZERO from widbee but a lifestyle role model???
Frozen dinners? Fuck that.. Try aged steaks from the most upscale steak house.. only the best bourbon to wash it down..
And somewhat more upscale accommodations..
Old guy.. SS check. no doubtboutit.. and no more!
Follows logically from the silly deranged inane “seriously” insane babblings of teh kreepshit of widbee..
GOOD…
for my kids…
AMIRITE???
@78 Here’s Doctor Dumbfuck reminding us again that when people believe something, that makes it true.
In politics, unscrupulous leaders try to get the masses to believe lies, so they can enact those lies into laws and/or public policy. Doctor Dumbfuck appears to have no problem with this, even though that’s how the world got Auschwitz and countless lesser atrocities.
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Everyone at the top of DOJ and at the SDF knew about it.
Fucking Trump himself knew about it.
They just all agreed to keep it low key, which was a very bad move, imho. Hopefully they learned their lesson.
Next time you show up with flood lights, media, tactical snipers in overwatch positions, helos circling overhead, “FBI” windbreakers on everything that moves, a team in yellow HazMat suits with breathing helmets, and you fill a dozen Rider trucks with empty boxes, Glad trash bags, and a few mil spec body bags stuffed with old newspaper.
And you march the occupants out one by one with their hands clasped over their heads and line them up face down on the pavement for the duration of the search.
Fuck those assholes.
Murder. Part sexually transmitted Neanderthal disease.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/onlyfans-model-accused-murder-boyfriends-fatal-stabbing-rcna42575
@81 What about political parties that mow down children? Republican gun policies have killed far more kids than Musk’s lousy cars have. At least he doesn’t laugh at your dead children.
@87 An alternative explanation is traders harvesting profits after more than 800 points of gains in two days.
Nothing’s posted yet in this thread yet about the guy in body armor who invaded the Cincinnati FBI office today armed with an AR-15 and nail gun, shot nails at FBI employees, then fled down the freeway until cornered by cops, whom he shot at. Last I heard, he’s still alive, and “contained” within a perimeter. If he wishes to call his actions “civil war,” then the government should negotiate by plastering the cordoned-off area with cluster bombs.
Looks like the only safe space our low IQ Nazi traitor can find today is out in the barn.
At least his raging orange man-baby has found himself a safe space.
Trump responds to Merrick Garland by raging at Obama’s presidential library
That sure is a hell of “pass on the tweet” factoid there Bob at 74.
Tweet Tweet!
Being a compassionate and caring man, I’ve called the Island County Sheriff’s Office to request a wellness check on our low IQ Nazi traitor.
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“Patriotic” Republican Trump supporter named Ricky Shiffer who, after days of getting jacked up on right wing media violence, came armed when Tucker Carlson called.
Wanna know who pays attention to this shit most closely?
Federal judges weighing pretrial release and sentencing for dangerous Republican fucksticks who rioted in The Capitol on Jan 6.
‘Nother
105,
Whenever you make those kinds of compassionate calls it’s very important to let law enforcement know about any firearms or other weapons that might be present as well as any threats of violence toward police, other government officials, or anyone else.
For officer safety.
@106 Sadly, Mr. Shiffer has passed away. That his Trump Derangement Syndrome led to this is a tragedy for his family, militia buddies, and fellow Jan. 6 rioters. He announced his intentions on Trump’s Truth Social, and an intervention might have saved him, had someone timely notified authorities, which was unlikely. He met his end in a cornfield, carrying on the tradition of Pretty Boy Floyd. His Social Security contributions will now go to YLB’s kids, his nail gun and AR-15 to an evidence room, and his ashes to a landfill if no one claims them. That’s a good reason not to root around in landfills for aluminum cans, etc.; you just don’t know what else might be there.
Whenever you make those kinds of compassionate calls it’s very important to let law enforcement know about any firearms or other weapons that might be present as well as any threats of violence toward police, other government officials, or anyone else.
Alas, I only cautioned them that the low IQ Nazi traitor was a member of a violent cult whose leader had recently inspired acts of violence against cops.
His Social Security contributions will now go to YLB’s kids.
GOOD…
for YLB’s kids…
AMIRITE???
He probably already sold them to Russia.
FBI searched Mar-a-Lago for classified ‘nuclear weapons’ documents: report
More bad news for our low IQ Nazi traitor.
The national average price for regular gasoline fell to $3.99 a gallon on Thursday, according to AAA.
Bad news is piling up.
FL-Sen: Second Poll Confirms A Tied Race Between Rep. Val Demings (D) & Little Marco (R)
111,
That would indeed be “keys to the kingdom” Intel, potentially exposing the entire US population and that of nearly all our NATO allies to first strike obliteration.
Doctrinally, securing such a breach would come at an almost incalculable cost. If targeting system details are exposed it could render a substantial portion of the US nuclear arsenal strategically ineffective.
Lunch menu.
Assholes.
It just can’t be overstated how vital it has become for us to get rid of Republicans. They have made themselves too dangerous to be allowed to participate in government at any level.
@114 We don’t have to get rid of Republicans. They’re getting rid of themselves, one civil warrior at a time.
Well, it all makes sense now. We now know the Mar-a-Lago search wasn’t related to the Jan. 6 insurrection or Trump’s coup attempt. We know Trump took not 15, but 27, boxes of records with him to Mar-a-Lago. We know the government negotiated to get those records back, we know they were subpoenaed, we know Trump told DoJ to take a hike. We know AG Merrick Garland personally approved, if not ordered, the search. We know why a lowly federal magistrate signed the search warrant probably knowing that he was risking his life and his children’s lives by doing so. We now know there isn’t a federal judge or magistrate in all 50 states who wouldn’t have signed that search warrant, once informed of what the agents were looking for. We know an informant told the FBI what was there and led them to it. The only thing we don’t know is why in God’s name Republicans still have a problem with this search. Their houses and families will get blown up, too, in a Russian or Chinese first strike.
Ramsey County, Minnesota, taxpayers will pay $1.45 million to 8 county correctional officers who were banned from the floor where Derek Chauvin was held for being non-white.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/officers-of-color-barred-from-guarding-derek-chauvin-due-to-race-get-15-million_n_62f50e45e4b0da517ef6511a
The supervisor who made that decision was demoted, but not fired, probably because of the union.
111)Launch codes, attack options, maybe whether we have the B-61s at bases in Europe. The last one is so sensitive, we usually don’t confirm or deny if they are there.
Elijah’s right, (some) police don’t do what you think they do.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/l-sheriffs-deputy-charged-sexually-assaulting-four-girls-ages-7-13-rcna42675
114)Isn’t this now a potential Capitol Crime?
118,
Launch codes.
Fuck me. Now that you say it, that is just exactly the kind of “souvenir” that fat cunt would have demanded.
God help them all, they are just so dangerously stupid.
120,
Not one they would prosecute IMHO. That fat imbecile is just as likely to take the stand in his own defense and spill even worse secrets.
Maybe the US can trade him for Brittney Griner.
Maybe the US can trade him for Brittney Griner.
Excellent idea. Give them the low IQ Nazi traitor as well.
Speaking of our low IQ Nazi traitor, I can’t help but notice that he’s been out in the barn for a very long time.
Launch codes. Jesus. Fucking. Christ.
Signals intelligence?? Good fucking grief.
The fact signals intelligence was reportedly recovered at Mar-a-Lago shocked national security professionals.
Retired USAF Gen. Michael Hayden, who served as director of the NSA and CIA, simply tweeted, “Jesus Christ.”
Bill Kristol, who served as Vice President Dan Quayle’s chief of staff, offered his analysis.
“It’s been a while since I was in government, but signals intelligence—man, you are really not supposed to mess around with that,” he wrote.
He wondered if it might be connected to Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
“People ask why Trump would keep docs,” he added. “Plenty of possible reasons. E.g.—and this example is pure speculation: Signals intel on MBS and [Jamal] Khashoggi, or on Saudi nukes, are the kind of docs you’d want in case you had to remind the Saudis to keep the $ coming.”
Historian Claire Potter wrote, “If it was you or I who, and not Trump, who were in possession of top secret documents about nuclear weapons, or signals intel–well, you or I would be in handcuffs in a very bright room with glam rock playing in our ears. Yet he plays the victim.”
Journalist Kurt Eichenwald wrote, “I never thought there was anything left that Trump could do that could shock me. But THIS? He took nuclear weapons and signals intel documents to his goddamn golf resort? Ok, I will finally say it. Lock him up.”
Former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes was asked about the reporting during an interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell.
Rhodes said, “I keep coming back to the fact that — how unusual, how remarkably unusual it would be for anybody to be keeping this information, frankly even like while you are in the White House. It’s not like you need to keep records of the stuff if you are the president of the United States.”
As I’ve been saying for some time now, make FEMA Camps located deep in the swamps of Louisiana a real thing. No food and no water. When only a few are still alive, shoot them dead.
Louis Keene
@thislouis
Temple Beth David has canceled its Beach Shabbat this week under a deluge of antisemitic threats about Bruce Reinhart, the judge who signed the Mar-a-Lago search warrant and sits on the synagogue’s board.
On FOX they are primarily concerned with learning who this “mole” was inside MAL who tipped off the FBI and led agents to the stolen classified documents containing US nuclear defense secrets.
By tomorrow morning they will have formulated a “Locker Room Talk” defense and Degen will have his talking points memorized and a shit storm of tweets to copypasta.
Nothing matters to these assholes. Nothing.
They basically think it’s funny that Trump has imperiled the lives of 950 million people.
Degen will have his talking points memorized and a shit storm of tweets to copypasta
The low IQ Nazi traitor knows he’s in deep shit. He’s probably on a flight to Moscow where he’ll seek asylum, telling them about how he loyally posted 10,000 GRU-generated Pro-Putin hashtags in support of Russia on a little-read liberal blog.
Maybe the one good thing to come out of this is Trump might have just saved Liz Cheney’s re-election.
128)Doubt it. Although Wyoming is home to F.E. Warren AFB, 20th AF HQ, and home base of the 90th Missile Wing, a Minuteman ICBM unit. Then again, most states home to nuclear units voted for Trump.
Maybe the one good thing to come out of this is Trump might have just saved Liz Cheney’s re-election.
What she and Kinzinger are doing requires true courage. Hell, those treasonous fucks even threatened to kill Kinzinger’s wife and their 5-month old baby. At the very least, I’d like to see them being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The low IQ Nazi traitor believes courage is posting anonymous, low IQ snide on a liberal blog.
Speaking of Rep. Liz Fucking Cheney,
Rep. Liz Cheney
@RepLizCheney
I have been ashamed to hear members of my party attacking the integrity of the FBI agents involved with the recent Mar-a-Lago search. These are sickening comments that put the lives of patriotic public servants at risk.
12:22 PM · Aug 11, 2022
Damn. I never imagined that I’d one day have such huge respect for that woman. First the 1/6 hearings, and now this. When it really counted, Rep. Liz Fucking Cheney has proven herself to be an American patriot and a true profile in courage.
Was just watching parts of the season finale of For All Mankind, mainly to see where Season 4 will take place. Looks like 2003. Would like to see if 9/11 still happens, despite the Soviets not invading Afghanistan, and the First Gulf War not occurring. Although we had our own domestic terrorists, anti-NASA types take out Mission Control. Killed in the attack was the First American woman in space(In For All Mankind universe), trying to get the injured out.
Also, in this show, Bill Clinton loses to Texas Senator and Astronaut Ellen Wilson. She had a secret that fans of tge show had known since Season 1. They went with a fan theory for this season, President Wilson comes out. Bad news is, the 92 ticket was balanced with an evangelical. Although the ERA has been ratified in the timeline since the brief Edward M Kennedy administration..(Beat Nixon in 72, lost to Reagan in a close one in 76).
https://youtu.be/Y4Y7MZaUaXw
How far we’ve come from buttery males.
“It’s no big deal to take home the nation’s nuclear secrets! We’d all do it if we could!” – Every republican you know.
Republican think rules don’t apply to republicans.
133,
“Can Joe Biden’s America get worse?
Runaway inflation, $10 gasoline, porn in public school libraries, out of control crime as our cities burn, our borders overrun, our global allies losing respect and our global enemies laughing at us.
And now carelessly giving away our most important nuclear secrets.”
It’s formulaic and simple enough that even a Republican gets it.
“Was Commander in Chief Joe Biden asleep at his post?
Why were these vital, classified nuclear secrets left exposed for a year and a half? Is Biden capable of keeping Murica safe?”
Similar words to this effect.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
“The exposure of our most vital nuclear secrets to hostile foreign actors is just a symptom of the larger cultural decay in Murica. We won’t be secure from attack until we return to our roots as a people, embracing the values of the Founders, and the traditions that made our nation great.”
I can do this shit all day.
And Republicans will.
Stripped of its hyperbole and jargon the Republican defense of their party leader and presumptive nominee stealing and exposing highly classified nuclear defense system intelligence to our enemies will be this:
-This is “partisanship”.
-Partisan Democrats are overreacting because they are not “serious” people.
-It’s Democrat’s fault anyway, because they are not “one of us”.
Less than a month before Every Republican You Know voted to make Donald Trump the next President of the United States he went on television and admitted to them that he had bragged to a bus load of complete strangers about his long and “successful” career as a serial rapist.
If Republicans have changed in the six years since it has only been for the worse.
At least after this we won’t have to debate anymore if Trump controls the GOP.
Once the dust settles, the appropriately redacted details of the warrant become public, and the appalling extent of Trump’s disregard for U.S. and NATO defense becomes obvious, we’ll see if the Republican Party, Republicans in Congress, and their aligned media continue to back him.
I’m betting they will.
I’m betting that right now they are all meeting individually and in groups with communications strategists formulating the message. They’ll drop the calls for the assassination of federal judges, for defunding federal law enforcement, and for impeaching AG Garland. But they’ll continue to back Trump.
They really have no other choice.