hahahah, you are a marked man now Bruce. Pretty soon, the flying rats will drive away every single bird you…
Open Thread – Tues 9 Aug 2022
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Trump going to jail: it’s a standoff. The demorats want this so badly so they can kill the big orange…
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Monty – McConnell has been waving through Biden appointments with none of the 30 hours of “debate” that every single proposed Trump appointment candidate got – except the “acceptable” ones like Wray. They got waved through too. Which at the time was a tell.
The phone book must be indelibly inscribed into the brains of US Senators after those hundreds and hundreds of mandatory 30 hour debates McConnell caused to happen.
People who HAVEN’T been raided by the FBI:
– Pedophiles associated with Jeffrey Epstein
– Hillary Clinton
– Hunter Biden
– Eric Swalwell for sleeping with a Chinese spy
Don’t worry cohenite, your mob have it all sewn up. Gerrymandered legislatures in purple states are going to send fake electors to the Electoral College regardless of the election results… then the pogroms can start. It’s a republic not a democracy, right?
Looks like another day of serial beclownment. Adios.
Munchausens by Proxy.
On the face nappies, not only are they humiliating and a sign of virtue/control depending on your point of view…they also have the ability to concentrate and spread all sorts of pathogens (not just Covid).
A friend has just recovered from the thing. She wears her stupid mask to the shops (because Covid) breathes in all the grunge circulating around the place (hopefully catching virus fragments and other crap on the mask) and then handles the thing and eats her lunch. All without washing her hands.
I just shake my head. You can’t tell them, they aren’t interested. The mask is a magic juju talisman.
McConnell doesn’t have the numbers at the moment to control the process.
Back when he did during Trump’s term, McConnell helped usher through reams and reams of judicial appointments – at the fastest rate since the Carter administration.
Yep. One wonders when someone will say “let’s roll”.
People more likely to move to states that reflect political beliefs: Poll (9 Aug)
This is similar to the Partition of India in 1947 when another fanatical religion also moved to their own areas. Kurt Schlichter is increasingly looking more like a prophet than a fiction novellist.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
The White House says it wasn’t told about today’s FBI’s raid on Donald Trump’s Mar a’Lago home.
White House chief of staff Ron Klain was involved in this up to his neck.
Lock her up for child abuse
The fat little turd thinks (sic) he will be immune to the commies. Nic Cohen wrote a great book about how this mindset is universal amongst the left whose egos won’t let them think otherwise. The useful idiots in commie russia, china, iran and everywhere else where dictatorships emerged thought that once they led the charge against the corrupt non-commies they would enjoy the gratitude of the new commie/muzzie overlords. The look of shock and horror on their stupid faces as the purges began must have been amazing.
Those familiar with the twin towers pre 9/11, may enjoy, on Netflix, “The Walk”, a movie about Phillipe Petit walking the wire between the two buildings. Having vertigo, hubby found it hard to watch. It is a lighthearted and inspiring movie and nobody dies. Enjoy.
Cry more, cohenite.
Correct, Monty.
But you are pointing to a squirrel, since the Republicans wanted to seed the judiciary with actual judges instead of Obama’s creatures (who’ve been creating havoc ever since). But what McConnell didn’t want is for the dirty unwashed knuckledragging base to get control of the Republican Party. The bugmen in control wanted to stay in control, so he undermined Trump at every possible occasion to maintain the elite-GOP control of the party.
The GOP elites did the same during the Tea Party era. Unfortunately for them the primary system is laying waste to their guys right now as Trump’s endorsed candidate knock off theirs in droves. That’s because as mentioned upthread Trump is actually representative of the Republican membership, unlike them. The base is pissed off bigly with the GOP insiders.
We have the problem here much worse, since the central presidium of the Liberal Party has control of preselection so that the base gets overridden each time they have the temerity to choose a representative. So consequently the Liberal Party is dying visibly as their voters exit stage right.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
August 9, 2022 at 9:43 am
her father was a well known and respected professor of musicology here at Newcastle University.
Hr father was a man of many talents – during Wobbly Wobbly Two, he was working on the Enigma codes, at Bletchley Park.
Musicians seemed to have the mental make-up for cryptology, the USN used many of theirs is that field.
I don’t know why I write this stuff for Monty. It’s like trying to explain physics to a currawong.
local oafsays:
August 9, 2022 at 9:49 am
There was a story that the Japanese military tried to kidnap the emperor to prevent him surrendering after the first atom bomb?
I doubt that they would have dared to touch the Emperor, but on 15 August, they tried to hi-jack the recording of the surrender announcement, to prevent it being broadcast. The announcement is notable for its failure to mention the words “defeat” or ‘surrender”.
The band of one of the battleships, sunk at Pearl Harbor, found themselves redeployed as cryptologists.
The American media and the Democratic Party know the Democrats can’t win a fair election in 2022 or 2024. So they have become agents for the unelected Deep State in the FBI, the Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service to harrass and hobble their political opponents.
It’s now the people — voters at the ballot box — versus the Deep State and the media.
m0ntysays:
August 9, 2022 at 9:59 am
Glad to see the FBI raiding Trump’s compound. Sounds like it was ostensibly about retrieving classified documents… but I am sure there would have been a lot of other incriminating stuff lying around.
m0nty-fa pre-judges the outcome. “Trump is anti-DemonRat, therefore he is guilty of something, anything.”
Yeah Bruce, I’m not buying your thesis that McConnell is buddies with Biden now. McConnell has always been his own man, which sometimes rubs up wrong against Republicans who are trying to do something that would lessen his personal power – the one thing McConnell will never countenance.
Basically he’s a Littlefinger type, a powerbroker who is essentially in it for himself. That can tend to disappoint ideologues like yourself, who would sacrifice people like him for the cause. That doesn’t mean he’s chucked his lot in with the other side, just that he treats his own power base as more important than what you want.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
August 9, 2022 at 11:59 am
I don’t know why I write this stuff for Monty. It’s like trying to explain physics to a currawong.
Currawongs’ have More Brains?
KD
What did you think was in the safe, mUnter? The giant emerald from Romancing the Stone?
m0nty-fa don’t need your feelthy evidence, he’s got the feeeelzzz, that’s all that is necessary to send Trump to Madame la Guillotine.
The membership of the NSW Liberal Party has just wrangled that power off the central committee at their AGM on the weekend. There’ll be no more “captain’s picks”, at least in NSW.
<strong>Liberal Media Goes Bananas Over FBI Raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Residence
For liberal America, it’s time to pop open the champagne bottles. Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago this evening. Spencer wrote up the “siege” that’s taken place in Florida. FBI agents arrived unannounced and broke into the safe on the property. It was reportedly empty. The former president was not in the state; he’s in Trump Tower now. That’s another location that could be targeted within the coming days since it’s clear that the FBI has gone off the rails to prevent a duly elected president from running for office again. Trump’s 2024 plans are no secret, and it’s clear that this raid is the clearest example of the Department of Justice’s desperation in trying to derail a man from running for president again
Liberal media figures and activists cheered, of course. Some want to flash forward to the “perp walk.”
Due process of law is an alien concept to liberal America when it comes to people with whom they share a deep hatred. Michael Moore, Sunny Hostin, and the rest of this miserable camp were doing cartwheels.
That’s the reason Hirohito’s clothes never seemed to fit – the royal tailor’s, forbidden to touch the royal person with a tape measure, had to take the measurements by eye….
Mmyes, this from the movement that regularly chanted “LOCK HER UP” at rallies, and will no doubt do so again prior to the next election.
m0ntysays:
August 9, 2022 at 11:06 am
…
Yes well Bruce, the GOP, as you say, have a lot of experience at undermining Senate appointments. As they are doing right now.
33 minutes later…
m0ntysays:
August 9, 2022 at 11:39 am
[Monty – McConnell has been waving through Biden appointments with none of the 30 hours of “debate” that every single proposed Trump appointment candidate got]
McConnell doesn’t have the numbers at the moment to control the process.
I’m not accusing m0nty of dishonesty. He has the honourable excuse of being a shiteating mental defective.
H B Bearsays:
August 9, 2022 at 10:34 am
Will mUnty ever graduate from his undergraduate talking points? It like every year is 1st year Economics.
His failure there was the first in a never-ending line of failures in his life.
Tim, I was thinking more about McConnell’s statements to the press about what he would do after the midterms if he became Speaker again. He would block everything he could, in short.
In the words of that dunderhead, and in reference to the raped and tortured Islamic woman who dared to inform the wider world of what happened to her:
‘Her view is coloured by her own experience.’
South African energy watching Cats will be amused by this science news article:
Sophisticated models provide a roadmap for Southern Africa’s clean energy future (Phys.org, 8 Aug)
You’d have to be really especially clueless to write such rubbish. But maybe they haven’t noticed the rampant blackouts now plaguing RSA.
Democrats claim incriminating evidence resulting from the raid at Mar a Lago.
A diamond encrusted babushka doll was uncovered along with a signed gift card Putin.
See you in Kiev soon Don.
PS. Bring your clubs
Of course, mUnter’s real problem with 45 is that he made his own money, without resorting to marrying it.
Music and mathematics go hand in hand. Patterns. That is what code is about, making the pattern not look like a pattern. That’s why one time pads can’t be broken.
First Photo: Agent With Machine Gun Photographed Outside Of Trump’s Palm Beach Resort Mar-a-Lago During FBI Raid
This was the scene outside the Palm Beach resort Mar-a-Lago owned by Donald Trump on Monday night soon after the former president revealed the FBI had launched a raid on his property.
The image, snapped by local media WPTV, show what appears to be a plain-clothed Secret Service agent with his weapon — an automatic machine gun — as he paraded outside the property.
An unmarked vehicle is also in the picture exiting Mar-a-Lago.
A source with knowledge of the circumstances of the raid said “whatever the FBI uncovered, it could ultimately lead to unsuspected new evidence in both of the investigations.”
“However, any decision to launch a raid like this is not ever made without the full consent of the nation’s top law enforcement official,” the insider told RadarOnline.com
“That is Attorney General Merrick Garland and in order for Garland to give the green light on a raid of this magnitude, he needs to be convinced that his deputies had enough evidence of the commission of a criminal offense,” the source added. “It’s not just Garland’s view, either. A judge would have had to view the search warrant request from the Department of Justice and issued the order to search for and seize property.”
Yes, the prog-left are very quick to deny moral agency to any public indigenous figure who doesn’t toe their line. The need a pass from the gatekeeper to leave the reserve, and only good, compliant blacks get one. Being fanatics, they of course completely miss the irony.
Munty got his superior intelligence from the Kleva range as advertised on FTA. Didn’t include steak knives as anyone buying is most likely to cut themselves. The diet pills don’t work either. Please send back the elephant in the room. He thinks its too crowded in the basement. What’s that, you didn’t notice?
Trump’s claim that “The Swamp” have been out to get him since 2016 had just been verified before the cameras.
Any swinging voter who thought Trump was exaggerating has had a reality check.
It’s just possible that the Democrats are stupid enough not to realise what they have done and the fear of big state that they have now firmly planted in the minds of voters.
My thoughts exactly.
Trump confirms FBI ‘raided and occupied’ his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago
A source who was at Mar-a-Lago at the time of the FBI raid told The Post that it was “like the scene of a ‘Die Hard’ movie” as armored cars came screeching up to the Palm Beach resort Monday morning and “at least 100” FBI agents charged into Trump’s home.
“It was totally unexpected,” the source said. “The place was mostly closed today, so the only people there were close personal friends of Trump.
The staff were absolutely terrified.”
The former president was at Trump Tower in New York at the time of the raid, Post sources said.
Justice Department spokesperson Dena Iverson declined to comment on the search, including about whether Attorney General Merrick Garland had personally authorized the search.
Despite Trump’s potential law-breaking, several GOP lawmakers have lined up behind him to denounce the Justice Department and FBI’s unannounced search.
“I’ve seen enough,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said in a statement. “The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization.”
He threatened to conduct “immediate oversight” of the department and “leave no stone unturned” if Republicans take back the House.
“Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar.”
Right-wing Rep. Lauren Boebert also attacked the FBI, saying the GOP must set up a Select Committee to investigate the “politically-motivated” raid.
The #DepartmentOfInjustice has been weaponized against the American people,” she tweeted. “We’ve known this for awhile but they no longer are trying to hide it.”
From the 2237 (so far) Comments
– Millions of people walking into our country unchecked. A world power poisoning us everyday. People not having enough resources to fill their cars and pantries. Inflation eating away at our souls. We probably are about to go war. Crime out of control. Yet the most important thing to our government is a former president?
– This is so wrong. The government ignored the criminal behavior of the Biden’s that is evidenced on Hunter’s laptop – they also ignore how Hillary failed to safeguard confidential records on her personal server; but they make an unannounced raid on Trump’s home when he isn’t there. This should only galvanize the whole country against the democrats in order to prevent things from getting worse.
– FBI claims it is to retrieve classified documents requested by the National Archives. Did anybody take the time to see if the evidence boxes the FBI brought with them were empty or did the FBI bring in the evidence they were going to “look” for?
– The FBI is providing distraction from the failing economy and inept handling of the DC Gov’t. by the Biden regime.
It further provides cover for the failure of the FBI to act on the Hunter Biden lap evidence and to examine the business deals of the son of Nancy, Paul Pelosi jr. who appears to be trading influence in his Asian business deals!
– 87,000 new IRS pencil pushers are not there to go after billionaires and millionaires, there’s only a few hundred of those in America.
– Joe Biden is taking us down a dark road.
Something to excite Toowoomba
FBI raid Trump? Tick. Go after Hillary’s emails & server? NO can do.
The Internal Revenue Service currently has around 70,000 agents. The new bill the Dems have just put through Congress will giver the IRS another 80,000 agents. That is, the IRS’s ability to audit Americans is to be more than doubled.
The speculation in Washington is that 90% of the new resources will be used against Americans earning less than $US200,000 – in other words, to wage war on the American middle class.
The corrupt old Washington oligarchy is panicking. It is now at war with middle America.
It’s possible because 90% of the American media has given up its old job of being the public’s eyes and ears and is now the frontline defender of the old order. Whatever it takes – because Trump.
I am sure there would have been a lot of other incriminating stuff lying around
Gorilla Channel subscriptions? Piss-soaked pillowcases?
A laptop chockers with Trump Jnr off his tits on coke, rooting hookers, calling his mother a c**t and his father a peddler, asleep with crack pipes hanging out of his mouth and details of Ukrainian ‘business deals’?
No?
Possibly the best return of serve I have ever seen, KD.
Tintarella di Luna says:
August 9, 2022 at 10:22 am
Moreover, Il Scimmiot‘s article..
Second time you’ve used that word, do you perchance speak Friulan?
m0ntysays:
August 9, 2022 at 10:44 am
I see Trump complained that there was no difference between today’s raid and Watergate.
I mean, yeah, I can see the similarities. In both cases, the Republican Party office holders were all criminals and the Republican President committed treason.
m0nty-fa has now gone full fascist.
Correction, m0nty-fa has now gone full Third World dictator.
I’m very busy today so cant read all comments but I just want to comment on the election, unopposed, of a member of the greens party to the deputy leader of the NSW Liberals.
Bye bye LNP government of NSW. I can see the Liberals getting a result about the same as WA.
I hope the Nationals hold all their seats and maybe add to them.
I don’t think the Liberals will govern in NSW, Victoria, SA, WA, Queensland or federally again in my lifetime.
I am expecting to live another 15 or so years.
m0nty-fa
Your attempts to trivialise the charge of treason only tell on you.
Exactly what treason did Nixon commit? And Trump? Opposing DemonRats (now the party of fascism in the US)?
m0ntysays:
August 9, 2022 at 11:14 am
I wonder if the Trump camp will release the warrant. Probably not, as it would talk a lot about probable cause for crimes committed by his people. But hey, they’re not particularly smart.
They don’t need to, the FBI or White House will leak it in the next few hours or days.
McCarthy vows to investigate Garland over Trump raid: ‘Preserve your documents’
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy publicly warned Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday night that he faces an investigation over the FBI’s raid of former President Trump’s home if Republicans gain the majority in the November elections.
“Attorney General Garland: Preserve your documents and clear your calendar,” Mr. McCarthy said on Twitter. “When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts, and leave no stone unturned.”
The California Republican said after the raid of Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, “I’ve seen enough.”
“The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization,” he said.
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel added that the raid shows why voters need to elect Republicans in the fall.
“Absolute power corrupts absolutely,” she said.
“Countless times we have examples of Democrats flouting the law and abusing power with no recourse. Democrats continually weaponize the bureaucracy against Republicans. This raid is outrageous. This abuse of power must stop and the only way to do that is to elect Republicans in November,” Ms. McDaniel said.
From the Comments
– Are we living in a Communist country? I thought its only happened in Hong Kong, China or Vietnam, but we’re witnessing the most corrupt democracy country in the world turns into a third world tyranny country.
– The current regime are acting like Gestapo going after law biding citizens like parents who care about their children. During the night F.B.I raids. Sending in the ATF to Gun shops to pull their records. Going after one political party over looking into gangs like ANTIFA/B.L.M. fraud. Not helping large cities to prosecute and stop the murders and theft. Avoiding investigation of illegals who are know criminals. THIS IS AMERICA AND WE ARE ACTING LIKE A SOCIALIST OR COMMUNIST COUNTRY.
m0ntysays:
August 9, 2022 at 11:27 am
The cope and seethe around here is at high levels today.
I wonder which of Don’s capos ratted him out this time?
Get your hand off it, m0nty-fa. You’ll go blind.
cohenite
DeSantis will be next and that may be interesting because unlike Trump, DeSantis has a big National Guard at his disposal.
Der Fuehrer will federalise the National Guard, and order them to the Canadian border?
Dershowitz: DOJ Can’t Use Mar-a-Lago Evidence if FBI Raid Improper
Harvard Law School professor emeritus and noted criminal defense attorney Alan Dershowitz said Monday evening that the evidence seized by the FBI in a raid on former President Donald Trump’s home would be ruled out if the raid were improper.
After telling Newsmax the FBI raid appeared to be “misconduct,” absent further evidence, Dershowitz went on to explain:
I just hope this raid has a justification. If it doesn’t have a justification, the material seized in it will be suppressed. … The law is clear: you don’t engage in a raid unless you’ve exhausted all of the other remedies. … Raids are not a first recourse in America. They’re a last recourse. And so the government will have to show a court, eventually, that they exhausted all other possibilities or they had a reasonable basis for believing that the evidence would be destroyed if it was sought in the normal legal course of events, through subpoena.
Federal courts follow the exclusionary rule in criminal prosecutions, which is that evidence seized in violation of the Fourth Amendment must usually be excluded from a prosecution, even if it implicates the defendant in a crime. The FBI obtained a search warrant, whose validity is presumed, but which may, Dershowitz suggested, have been obtained on an improper basis.
If the FBI and the DOJ knew that the evidence seized from the raid on Mar-a-Lago Monday were likely to be suppressed, that would lend weight to the speculation that the purpose was political, rather than to pursue the truth in a criminal investigation.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
August 9, 2022 at 11:59 am
I don’t know why I write this stuff for Monty. It’s like trying to explain physics to a currawong.
Currawongs can fly, they have an understanding of many elements of physics. m0nty-fa understands only one thing: fascism rules!
m0ntysays:
August 9, 2022 at 12:16 pm
Due process of law is an alien concept to liberal America when it comes to people with whom they share a deep hatred.
Mmyes, this from the movement that regularly chanted “LOCK HER UP” at rallies, and will no doubt do so again prior to the next election.
And when was “she” locked up? Never. When was her home raided to find those 30,000 emails for the National Archives? Never.
m0nty-fa the fascist is too stupid to understand the difference between an election rally slogan and actual Gestapo actions.
End of the Republic
With the FBI raid on Trump’s home, America has fallen into the abyss.
When the FBI raided Donald Trump’s home on Monday, a key aspect of what made the United States of America great and free has been lost, and likely cannot be recovered. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson detested one another for years before their eventual reconciliation, but neither one used the agencies of the U.S. government to hound, persecute or discredit the other. Other bitter political opponents throughout the history of the republic have never before used the government’s own mechanisms of justice to do injustice to their foes.
Joe Biden, Merrick Garland and their henchmen have brought America to a new phase of its history, and it is not likely to be one that is marked by respect for the rule of law or defense of the rights of individual citizens. Instead, we are entering an ugly age of authoritarianism, in which the brute force of the state is used to bend the people to the will of the tyrant.
Trump announced on Monday, “These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before. After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate.”
The 45th president is not given to understatement, but the FBI raid on his home is much more than just unnecessary and inappropriate. It is criminal. The FBI that was heavily involved in trying to frame and destroy Trump in the Russian Collusion hoax is now trying once again to destroy him, apparently by claiming that he improperly took classified material from the White House. They never cared when Hillary Clinton misused classified material on a grand scale; what is the difference? They’re also likely trying to find something to link him more firmly to the January 6 “insurrection” that never was. The Left’s January 6 narrative has been full of holes from the beginning: Trump told the demonstrators to proceed peacefully, the people who entered the Capitol had no weapons, and no one had sketched out any kind of plan to do what the Left continues to claim that Trump was trying to do all along, overthrow the government and rule as a dictator.
But Joe Biden’s handlers are desperately afraid that Trump will return to the White House on January 20, 2025 and that things will go harder for them next time than they did during his first term. They’re afraid that a vengeful Trump will do a genuine and thorough housecleaning of the desperately corrupt and compromised Washington bureaucracy, and that many of them will, quite justly, end up out of power, and some of them will, even more justly, end up in prison. So they’ve determined to pre-emptively do the same to Trump. If they can’t actually find anything to prosecute him for (and Lord knows they’ve tried, this is the most investigated and poked and prodded and scrutinized man in American history, and still those who hate him have nothing), then at very least they hope to taint Trump so completely in the eyes of the distracted and indifferent public that they will have a fighting chance in 2024.
This is banana republic stuff. This is the kind of thing that moved Woodrow Wilson to intervene militarily in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua, explaining: “We are friends of constitutional government in America; we are more than its friends, we are its champions. I am going to teach the South American republics to elect good men.” Wilson was an authoritarian scoundrel and one of the worst presidents we have ever endured, but much as he hated Theodore Roosevelt and feared that he would be reelected to the presidency in 1920 (instead, Roosevelt died in 1919), Wilson never had rogue government agents raid Roosevelt’s home looking for something they could use to pin some crime on him.
Merrick Garland recently signaled that something like this was in the offing, when he emphasized that no one was above the law and anyone could be prosecuted. No one is above that law, that is, except Hillary Clinton, and Hunter Biden, and all the FBI officials who have been implicated in the Russian Collusion hoax, and all the other Leftists who have escaped and will continue to escape prosecution because they hold what the elites consider to be acceptable political opinions.
The two-tier justice system that aggressively prosecutes conservatives while turning a blind eye to Leftists who have committed similar or worse crimes is now out in the open. Trump did nothing, but the FBI will find some crime for which the Justice Department will prosecute him. Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden did a great deal, but none of it matters to corrupt officials who share their worldview.
The lesson is clear: in America today, in the corrupt kleptocracy of Joe Biden, you have to have the right opinions. Then all doors will open for you and you can even break laws with impunity, and have no fear of prosecution. But if you dare to dissent from the opinions of the elites, prepare to be hounded by the new super-IRS and the weaponized FBI, and you’ll face raids, and prison, and who knows what else is coming.
Many conservatives are saying that this ensures Trump’s victory in 2024. But what makes them think that this corrupt regime will allow the man whom they fear and hate above all others return to the White House? It’s clear now. They will stop at nothing.
This is no longer a republic, except of the banana variety. It may be a republic again someday, but for now, the great American experiment is over. Born July 4, 1776 in Philadelphia, died August 8, 2022, in Mar-A-Lago, at the hands of Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, and Christopher Wray.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
And the RINO’s continue
Liz Cheney’s Husband Is Partner At Law Firm Representing Hunter Biden
So this is going to be fixed by a Voice?
Next-door neighbour Doneka Oxenham said it was the same kids causing the same issues and they have had enough.
“I get on the phone to the police; [I] ring them up and they don’t come until the next day. What if they burnt themselves in that house? Even though it’s empty there’s still live wires in there,” she said.
Carnarvon Shire Council president Eddie Smith is pleading for more government support to manage escalating anti-social behaviour that he said has had left residents “absolutely broken” and rendered parts of the town a “war zone”
Aboriginal children are out of control in a lot of WA towns, the police wont do anything because RACISM you know.
This is a provocation. They are trying to get a reaction that allows a further crackdown.
Don’t take the bait.
My overall sense of what happened at Mar-a-Lago is that this is a provocation.
If New York Times reporting is right — and they never err on the side of being soft on Trump — then this raid was over documents the National Archives thinks Trump should not have, or perhaps classified documents in his possession. That is not something the FBI raids major political candidates over — See, In Re Hillary Rodham Clinton.
This is a provocation. They are trying to get a reaction that allows a further crackdown. See, In Re J6.
It’s also a provocation to get Trump to declare his candidacy for President before the midterms. Democrats would love to turn 2022 into a referendum on Trump rather than the deliberate destruction of the national borders and inflation.
Would the FBI and DOJ do such a thing? Aren’t they “above” politics? The then FBI Director James Comey admitted to trying to set up the new President Trump by alerting him to the Steele Dossier, and then leaked the story of the briefing to CNN, which gave license to report on the false allegations in the dossier. So yes, the FBI and DOJ would do such a thing, and have done such a thing to Trump.
I flipped back and forth between CNN and MSNBC. At least when I watched, they were not engaging in the expected celebrations. There was a palpable dread that this could backfire against the Democrats. Bigly.
Big_Nambassays:
August 9, 2022 at 1:38 pm
So this is going to be fixed by a Voice?
Aboriginal children are out of control in a lot of WA towns, the police wont do anything because RACISM you know.
Why the growing number of vigilantes in response to youth crime in Townsville is worrying the Indigenous community
. Jennifer Board, a 22-year-old woman, was killed in a traffic accident after vigilantes went in pursuit of a stolen car
. Townsville has had a long history of issues with youth crime
. Some in the community believe police need more power, but Indigenous communities are worried over growing racial tensions
The operation is the Queensland Police Service’s response to a fatality last month, which has re-opened deep divisions in the community over the extent of youth crime and the seeming inability of authorities to bring it under control.
Meanwhile – US pledges $1 billion more rockets, other arms for Ukraine
goes down well with the American Voters
The Unthinkable
Following the raid tonight former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik tweeted out about their next move.
The Democrats and their hatchetmen have done everything they can to stop this man. Assassination is next.
God save Donald Trump!
Thoughts after the raid.
The five stages of Cronkite
It started off with Cronkite, you’re a lunatic, then it morphed into yea, naa cronks, you’re too pessimistic and then, I don’t think so as it would be too brazen to cheat in 22.
Now, it’s a miracle they don’t cheat.
As someone above said, it makes sense. Proper musicians (not rappers), especially those who are classically trained or at least can read music, are often also intuitive at mathematics. It is partly about being able to translate symbols into something else, I suppose.
Re the Trump raid, I am at a loss to understand what he is supposed to have done. US Presidents have a very different role to say, our PM. He or she is the supreme arbiter of what is and what is not ‘classified.’ Therefore, Trump cannot ever be prosecuted for possessing ‘classified’ documents from his Presidency, because he was the sole arbiter of their status while he was President, and had and has the right to read them and deal with them as he sees fit.
That doesn’t mean that he can spray military secrets around willy-nilly, but nobody is claiming that he did. Nobody is claiming anything concrete at all. Legally, it’s a nothingburger.
The Dimmocrats are in dangerous territory here. What if a future Republican President raided Obummer’s or Biden’s house? The shrieks would be heard on Pluto.
US politics are always far more noisy and strongly contested than ours, so it is prudent not to get over-excited about things that would be unthinkable here. But what with people trying to murder members of the Supreme Court and now this, it is safe to say that there is a titanic power struggle underway in the most powerful country in the West. The silent and conservative (but armed) citizenry have largely stayed out of it so far, but the Left is pushing its luck very hard.
Any word on whether they were all saying ‘hut hut hut’ as they came.
CBS News Scrambles to Memory-Hole Documentary Claiming Just 30% of Ukraine Aid Makes It to Front Lines
fish rots from the head down … and the head is the most rotten it’s ever been
johannasays:
August 9, 2022 at 2:00 pm
Re the Trump raid, I am at a loss to understand what he is supposed to have done. US Presidents have a very different role to say, our PM. He or she is the supreme arbiter of what is and what is not ‘classified.’ Therefore, Trump cannot ever be prosecuted for possessing ‘classified’ documents from his Presidency, because he was the sole arbiter of their status while he was President, and had and has the right to read them and deal with them as he sees fit.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/fbi-raids-trumps-home-doj-planning-indictment-end-of-the-usa-as-we-have-known-it/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
The Democrats are desperate to win in November and they are taking the United States down the drain in order to forcefully impose their will, or should I say the Great Reset. On the approaching 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, The Democrats are toying with what will most likely end in a civil war and the destruction of the United States. Never in the entire history of the United States has a former president been indicted for any criminal conduct. This has not been because there was never such an incident. Most importantly, the historic precedent is that post-term indictment is NOT legally allowed.
I see Monty is here doing victory laps again.
How pathetic.
At least he will get access to some quality ukrainian hookers
Mother Load:
I saw it this morning and got a little moist in the nether regions – thought the Purge had started.
But alas!
Have you seen how much an oligarch needs to spend on a yacht these days?
are we going to begrudge him the only little pleasure he gets in life…
Great match awareness by Trump to get Watergate into his official statement.
And Biden is looking horrible. The continuation of testosterone pattern baldness is now beyond and lower than the site of his hair plantation, so he’s got a bald patch horizontally from ear to ear. I know that being in office is meant to accelerate the ageing process, but sheesh.
And with this. NSW Liberals have lost the next election
NSW treasurer elected deputy Liberal leader
NSW Treasurer Matt Kean has been elected unopposed as the new deputy leader of the state’s Liberal party.
Government whip and member for Wollondilly Nathaniel Smith addressed the media from state parliament moments ago to announce Kean’s election to the position.
“I’m happy to announce there was only one candidate who stood for election,” he said.
“Our new deputy leader of the parliamentary Liberal party, who was elected unopposed, is the honorable Matthew Kean, member for Hornsby and Treasurer of NSW and Minister for Energy.”
Why Dominic Perrottet has just signed his own political death warrant as he chooses deputy loathed by his OWN Liberal Party: ‘So far left, woke and green’
. Matt Kean, 40, has been elected unopposed as deputy liberal leader in NSW
. Premier Perrottet made sure by telling challenger David Elliott to stand down
. Mr Kean is a climate champion and will appeal to the centre ground
. But there are fears the right-wing Liberal base will be turned off by him
You’ll have to explain that one, Wally. “This is reverse Watergate” makes no sense whatsoever.
I can’t believe the Brits are playing “Pass the Dutchie …” at the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony. Why not? They have everything wrong anyway.
A judge would have had to view the search warrant request from the Department of Justice and issued the order to search for and seize property.
No problem. Garland could just do an Eric Holder and lie to the judge, secure in the knowledge that the swamp will shield him of the usual consequences of perjury.
Bamse the world’s strongest bear .. after eating thunder honey for breakfast
KD at 7:24.
She didn’t know she was loaded?
Joannasays:
August 9, 2022 at 2:06 pm
I see Monty is here doing victory laps again.
How pathetic.
He is LARPing fascism, and can’t even do that well.
m0ntysays:
August 9, 2022 at 2:25 pm
Great match awareness by Trump to get Watergate into his official statement.
You’ll have to explain that one, Wally. “This is reverse Watergate” makes no sense whatsoever.
Only to people who don’t understand what was involved in Watergate. You know, dumb fascists like you, m0nty-fa.
The timeline seems to be:
– Trump takes reams of classified documents with him after he leaves the White House
– Biden takes office
– US govt (not sure which bit) asks Trump nicely for classified documents to be returned
– Trump refuses
– govt asks less nicely, more of a threat
– Trump sends 15 boxes of classified documents back
– FBI figures out (through a leak/mole?) that there are more classified documents at Mar-A-Lago
– FBI gets a warrant from a federal judge and raids Mar-A-Lago
– FBI secures those extra documents… and leaves everything else
I am not sure that there is a lot to this, to be fair, but there is probably more to this story than meets the eye. Garland has so far been extremely cautious, so much so that he has annoyed Democrats, so this move is a massive and sudden escalation. You would suspect there is a big charge sheet being compiled for multiple Trumpists, if not Trump himself.
Timothy Neilsonsays:
August 9, 2022 at 2:27 pm
A judge would have had to view the search warrant request from the Department of Justice and issued the order to search for and seize property.
No problem. Garland could just do an Eric Holder and lie to the judge, secure in the knowledge that the swamp will shield him of the usual consequences of perjury.
Didn’t an FBI lawyer admit to altering one of the documents used to justify a FISA warrant in relation to a Trump staffer? No punishment, of course. He did it for the “Great Cause”.
This isn’t a prediction but thinking aloud. If the US begins to look inward in the sense of having to deal with a political Demonrat induced crisis which goes on for some years, we’re absolutely and totally fucked with that huge nasty colossus sitting up on the roof. We better start learning mandarin.
I am not sure that there is a lot to this, to be fair, but there is probably more to this story than meets the eye. Garland has so far been extremely cautious, so much so that he has annoyed Democrats, so this move is a massive and sudden escalation. You would suspect there is a big charge sheet being compiled for multiple Trumpists, if not Trump himself.
Wisnin’and a hopin’, wishin’ and a hopin’ …
Aaaaaannnyyyyyy daaaayyyy nooowwww, eh, m0nty-fa?
I totally agree, Fatboy. The trove they’ll claim they’ve “found” will finally show Trump needs to be indicted and sent to prison.
All those guns and still this crap goes on in US politics.
Whenever I make a comment online about Australian politics and the rubbish going on some Yank chimes in with, “This is what happens when you let them take your guns!” Well they own over half the worlds guns (?) and since 2016 the American people have let the left get away with murder.
Where is their line in the sand? They may as well have water pistols.
And I don’t think they can rely on the Republicans winning the mid-terms. No-one did anything about the 2020 election.
There’s plenty of talk about civil war in the fetid grottoes of right-wing message boards today. They are waiting for Trump to give the word, they reckon.
Mind you most of them are either too old, too fat or too chicken to actually do anything about it themselves.
Ah yeah. Like Tim Pool and Jimmy Dore.
More likely is that mathematicians are often given to playing musical instruments and these sorts of musicians might be good at cryptography. At a guess, most musicians would recoil in horror at the idea of calculus.
As opposed to the Clintons who took the crockery and soft furnishings.
I think you may be engaging in some Hyper-bowl
Mind you most of them are either too old, too fat or too chicken to actually do anything about it themselves.
Someone doesn’t own a mirror.
m0nty-fa
Mind you most of them are either too old, too fat or too chicken to actually do anything about it themselves.
Are you describing yourself, and you being “too fat or too chicken” to involve yourself in the serious business of “punch a fascist when you see one in the street” m0nty-fa? You encourage such acts, but never actually do something about it yourself.
How fat does one need to be before losing sight of their own dick.
Where is their line in the sand?
The line in the sand gets crossed when the vast majority have woken up. Essentially things need to get very bad.
At that point however, the prevalence of arms in the society means that the problem gets fixed quickly and almost permanently.
Possibly too self controlled and law abiding.
If their opposite numbers on the Left are anything to go by.
So monty is monitoring ‘right wing message boards’ in the US?
Do tell, monty. Which ones?
Or are you just making it up?
See Monty scrambling around looking for links. How long will it take?
Sealed indictments! Tunnels! Army tanks with wheels!
It’s Happening!
Gawd! Is Monty going to make another sticky mess and be left standing with a limp todger in his hand like he did with Muller?
Might as well get the ball rolling:
Aaaaany day now. Any daaaaay…
Projection?
“I see Monty is here doing victory laps again.
How pathetic.”
Some things turn him on and make him quite excited, such as…
Anything to do with Trump
Anything to do with Abbott, like when Abbott was assaulted in Hobart
An innocent man being charged, tried and sentenced – George Pell
Dead Jews in Israel……coz, coz…according to Monty, their murderers have legitimate grievances.
I could go on, as I wrote in a comment a few weeks ago, with Monty it’s only ever about the ideological side, so yes, you’re 100% right, he’s pathetic but ultimately he’s indecent.
A musician wrote I’ll never find another u. Not much use at code breaking.
Funny thing about the word fat, even tubby people seem to accentuate the fricative when pronouncing it resulting in it getting spat out like an insult.
A friend of mine who endured an African gang breaking into her Melbourne home last year tells me it’s no 3 due for sentencing tomorrow. Same judge as the last one who gave 18months so she is not holding out much hope.
The 4th one will be a bit more tricky. He’s changed his plea to not guilty as he has realised due to his age now if he is found guilty he goes to grown up prison and is shitting himself. Tells me he was super tough holding a knife to her throat, now not so tough. I hope he gets monkey pox and does not pass go.
Tinkzorg has a good short thread here outlining a plausible scenario here for the US re 2024.
As a Citizen of Florida Ron DeSantis Calls FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid “Another Escalation”
August 8, 2022 | Sundance
Wind only providing less than 5% of total energy generated in Tas, SA, Vic, NSW and Qld.
How do these wind farms survive and make a profit?
From our wallets. This is one hell of wealth transfer!
Cohenite:
“Oh! If only Stalin knew!”
Apropos of nothing, just replayed Donovan (Leitch)’s 1967 masterpiece, Season of the Witch
Another Celt with extraordinary musical talent. There are heaps of them, not just in music, but in literature and every other artform.
As a group, not so good at politics or governance. Terrible, in fact. Artists are the last people to be put in charge of anything that is meant to work.
But what are you going to do about it?
For those interested in the Alex Jones Sandy Hook case I recommend today’s podcast by Megyn Kelly. She was actually listed to be a witness for prosecution in the case due to an interview she did with him in 2017. Comments made by Jones in that interview were pretty much the cause of the legal case by one of the parents. She has pretty strong feelings about Jones to say the least and goes into some detail to back it up.
Dover
What do you expect him to do? Rubio is not from the executive branch.
Angus Young at Bletchley Park. ‘Think I’ve cracked it, it’s AC/DC, AC/DC…’ Village People..no mate its YMCA…YMCA…
This FBI.
In March 1971, the residential office of an FBI agent in Media, Pennsylvania was burgled by a group calling itself the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI. Numerous files were taken and distributed to a range of newspapers, including The Harvard Crimson. The files detailed the FBI’s extensive COINTELPRO program, which included investigations into lives of ordinary citizens—including a black student group at a Pennsylvania military college and the daughter of Congressman Henry S. Reuss of Wisconsin. The country was “jolted” by the revelations, which included assassinations of political activists, and the actions were denounced by members of the Congress, including House Majority Leader Hale Boggs. The phones of some members of the Congress, including Boggs, had allegedly been tapped.
The same year Biden was first elected to a public office.
Nothing is my guess.
The FBI has been crooked since its inception. Hoover was compromised and a bit of a monster.
The South tried that once before. It didn’t go well for them.
Fox News can squeal about it all they like, Garland is doing it by the book. If they want to foment another civil war, they can suffer the same fate as the Confederates.
How many nuclear powers plants there are in Ukraine ?
There has been a war going on for 6 months with zero disasters.
Doesn’t that demonstrate we shouldn’t be wetting ourselves over safety concerns?
Bourne
Jones made some absolutely disgraceful allegations about Sandy Hook. However, in the US , it matters if there is no proof of malicious intent and the loon (Jones) believed what he said. How did they prove Jones didn’t believe his delusion? There’s no evidence Jones was acting dishonestly and malicioiusly and therefore should not have lost the case under American defamation laws. It was a politcal decision by the jury and should be overturned if it goes to appeal.
On the subject of the US National Archives, and missing documents, does anyone remember the name of the former Clinton staffer who was caught, during the Bush Jnr administration, waddling out of the Archives with a bunch of documents stuffed down his trousers? Was he ever charged? What penalty did he incur? Oh, sorry, silly questions.
If they want to foment another civil war, they can suffer the same fate as the Confederates.
Much more analogous to the war of independence. The confederates were Democrats in any case.
“f they want to foment another civil war, they can suffer the same fate as the Confederates.”
Yes, that’ll be good, the annihilation of the Democrats.
“rickwsays:
August 9, 2022 at 3:59 pm”
Snap.
From our wallets. This is one hell of wealth transfer!
None of the “alternatives” stack up by a considerable margin.
“The 4th one will be a bit more tricky. He’s changed his plea to not guilty as he has realised due to his age now if he is found guilty he goes to grown up prison and is shitting himself. “
Surely he can plead “legitimate grievances”?
Lindsay Graham is a cuck.
m0ntysays:
August 9, 2022 at 3:52 pm
The line in the sand gets crossed when the vast majority have woken up. Essentially things need to get very bad.
At that point however, the prevalence of arms in the society means that the problem gets fixed quickly and almost permanently.
The South tried that once before. It didn’t go well for them.
Fox News can squeal about it all they like, Garland is doing it by the book. If they want to foment another civil war, they can suffer the same fate as the Confederates.
m0nty-fa needs to look at a county by county political map of the US. If the Red counties cease to send food, water, fuel and power to the Blue counties, it will be a short campaign.
And Creepy Joe is no Lincoln, just as Thoroughly Modern Milley is no US Grant (he is not even an Ambrose Burnside).
https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-rep-gohmert-cites-us-code-that-may-force-capitol-police-to-release-remaining-jan-6-surveillance-footage_4640416.html?utm_source=News&utm_campaign=breaking-2022-08-08-1&utm_medium=email&est=6%2FowQKzvOKkbP2V3ZLOJcmDxjlEtedZ5RhPCaxJ0e1L8xDUezqpItB8CBoHtZY7W
Rep. Gohmert Cites US Code that May Force Capitol Police to Release Remaining Jan. 6 Surveillance Footage
Looks like I wasn’t far wrong. The beclownment was World class … Watergate … US Civil War. Another couple of hours we’ll probably get Custer at the Alamo.
Boambee, the document stuffer was Clinton insider Sandy Berger
Another ‘internal server error’ – this time a comment about cryptocurrencies.
That’s two in one day.
Not good.
What he can in the Congress. He and others could move to cut their funding. What I don’t want is tough words alone that lead nowhere.
areffsays:
August 9, 2022 at 4:28 pm
Boambee, the document stuffer was Clinton insider Sandy Berger
Thanks, was his home ever subjected to an FBI raid, to see if he had any other archival material there?
Tried again, ‘internal server error’ again.
I had this earlier trying to post a Tinkzorg tweet but only my first. The problem we had over the last two weeks were an attempt to get around this problem.
This.
JC,
You might not have picked up on the bit where Jones said the kids were not actually killed and the whole thing was basically a false flag type event. He was saying, repeatedly, that the parents were lying.
Kelly interviewed Jones and then interviewed on of the parents who pointed out he had held the dead body of his son on the day of the shooting. One of Jones’s guys then picked up on that and said that could not have happened. Jones then, without any fact checking, carried on accusing the father about lying about holding his dead son. Imagine being a Dad and being told you did not hold your dead son’s body. It was that father that brought the recent case.
Not only that the parents received death threats and were accused of being actors.
Scum as far as I am concerned.
Excellent point.
You’re in trouble if you’re relying on the US “justice system” for anything at this point.
Hi Gilas — close Veneto is the Italian dialect I speak, there’s a lot of interchange- Friulan is a deliciously quirky dialect, do you speak it —
Third attempt, comment on cryptocurrencies attracts an ‘internal server error.’
Oh well.
Here are Los Bravos doing ‘Black is Black’ – full of life and rising sap.
Best to stick to music clips. 🙂
Michael Smith News – comments allowed….
Amen to that if what you said is accurate. He comes across as a bit bipolar from what I’ve seen.
More’s the pity they never did a number on Rev. Fred Phelps.
I suggest there is something in the comment that triggers this. Try just a single sentence in your own words and the link. That was my workaround.
Correction, m0nty-fa has now gone full Third World dictator.
He is and always will be a fat little turd.
Big news:
India’s Tata Steel is prepared to underwite metallurgical coal investment in QLD.
Tata’s MD expects Indian demand for steel to double in 10 years and wants a sure supply of coking coal.
If I’m not mistaken Jimmy Page played the lead guitar.
Stephen Stills & Al Kooper did a great instrumental version on their Super Session album.
I see the fat freak knows as much about the American Civil war as Economics 101. I bet he remembers what he had for lunch back then.
“West Australian” newspaper reports that, after three months in the top job, Albo’s on holiday in Broome.
Nice work, if you can get it. Long service leave after three months….
Put up a couple of clips today from 1967 – The Zombies and Los Bravos – and the bands are accountant-type white guys, several with heavy black spectacles. Like The Seekers of the same era. Yet, these bands were cutting edge.
Just goes to show, as I learned in my youthful adventures, that you can’t judge a book by its cover. 🙂
No, that was Hurdy Gurdy Man.
History is not his thing.
This should be preserved for prosperity:
One of my favourite ever songs – didn’t know Page played the guitar on it.
Justin Trudeau — Patrick Brazeau Charity Boxing Match — English Coverage of Complete Fight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuSpZ3_5pTc
Interesting thread on RUS casualty estimates. They appear to be far lower (under 10K KIA) then Pentagon or MOD estimates (about 20K KIA). The other thing is that the change in tactics over the last few months has led to far fewer RUS casualties over time.
You couldn’t make this shit up…..
He was very in demand as a London session player.
You can probably dig up a list of the songs he played on somewhere on the webs.
Season of the Witch & the Sunshine Superman album were recorded in LA, so probably not Page.
Bettina Arndt has done a great piece on “Women’s long march through the Australian public service.”
The lead story (of many in her well researched piece) is that the ACT government is requiring successful tenders for the build of a new school to have a 100% female management team on site, in an industry where women represent only 12% of the workforce.
We’ve come a long way since the days of “positive discrimination”. Now it’s exclusion of males.
On the other side of the coin, America’s news source of record (Babylon Bee) reports that Batgirl Movie Canceled After $70 Million In Batmobiles Destroyed Backing Out Of Batcave.
LOL.
The ACT town council certainly providing the LOLs (unless you suffer the misfortune to live there).
An afficiando! Yesss!
Of course, I have the Kooper/Stills version on vinyl (bragging unashamedly). I love it, but for many years when I listened to it, was unaware of the fact that Donovan wrote it, or of his version. Kooper/Stills is etched on my brain, every note, but I now think the original is the best.
Donovan is a great artist, therefore not very troubled with reality.
Here is Sunshine Superman
The month of August sees tension between China, the US and Australia as a result of Speaker, Pelosi. We see the partisan FBI raid Trump’s Florida home whilst he is absent. We see no immediate conclusion to the Russia/Ukraine bullshit = and we see our fearless leader, Albosleazy bugger off for a not-well-earned holiday and that cretinous greenslime, Kean elected as Deputy Premier of the (soon to be annihilated NSW State Government. The devastation of the Western World continues apace.
All in the month I decide to quit smoking. Bugger, Shit and Fuck!
I suppose we won’t be using it. That’d require industry, requiring reliable electricity, etc. etc.
Pretty sure where I’m working now will be gone in five years, very heavy electricity user. With perfect conditions during the working day, covering the place in solar panels wouldn’t cover 1/3rd of the requirements according to one of the directors.
Is that a soft allusion to the possibility that he might not have made any sense since the sixties?
Disclaimer, I have no clue how much sense he makes. Sky Saxon of the Seeds is the poster child for those that never quite got free of that decade and that sort of thing goes with the territory.
Poor JMH. It’s enough to drive you to drink.
Bourne, you’re preaching to the converted. Jones is used dishwater, but defamation laws in the US are very a difficult hurdle or have been until now? It’s almost impossible to prove Jones knew it wasn’t true and therefore acted maliciously in which case there would be a case to answer. I like US defamation laws because they tend to protect free speech even though the occasional raving rat like Jones would manage to escape financial punishment.
That’s the worst decision of your life. Don’t do it as all the things pale in comparison.
FBI raid on Trump compound stands in stark contrast to Clinton treatment years earlier
Legal experts question why FBI conducted raid and didn’t use subpoena, especially when Hillary Clinton’s lawyer got to hold classified materials in his safe.
The official word so far that the FBI raided Donald Trump’s compound at Mar-a-Lago looking for classified documents stands in sharp contrast to the way the bureau and Justice Department acted seven years ago when similar questions arose about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email.
Back then in the summer of 2015, there was no raid of Mrs. Clinton’s home in Chappaqua, N.Y., where the server has been operated. In fact, the former secretary of state’s lawyer, David Kendall, was allowed to keep a thumb drive of the archive of her inbox — complete with classified materials — inside his office.
The FBI even approved a special safe for Kendall to use to store the classified materials. In the end, Mrs. Clinton faced no prosecution because then-FBI Director James Comey refused to send the matter to DOJ even though he declared her handling of classified emails as reckless.
The disparate handling of two cases involving famous figures led immediately to charges Monday night that the FBI was acting with a political double standard.
Conservative radio and TV host Mark Levin, former chief of staff to Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese, called the raid Monday on Trump’s home and office in Florida “an unprecedented act of state-sponsored lawlessness.”
“Millions have rightly lost faith in the DOJ, FBI, media, and Congress, and this is beyond anything I can ever recall,” he said in a tweet, adding the raid left the perception Joe Biden or his administration was seeking to harm the man who might run against him again in 2024.
“The Biden Administration raid on former President Trump’s Florida home is a bald attack on our republic. The Democrat Party is dragging us into the Third World,” Levin’s tweet added.
Esteemed Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, a lifelong Democrat who voted for Biden but also defended Trump during impeachment, said the raid was an aberration, given that Trump wasn’t even in Florida. A grand jury subpoena, he said, would have been more appropriate.
Dershowitz said absent convincing proof that Trump was planning to destroy evidence, the Biden DOJ and FBI risked committing an abuse of power with the raid.
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, another Democrat who also defended Trump during impeachment, agreed the raid raised serious questions.
“The question is why a subpoena would not suffice, particularly when the subject is not present at the location,” Turley tweeted. “Instead, a raid was ordered to scope up boxes of potential sensitive documents that were not reviewable at the scene.”
The raid was approved by the main Justice Department, involved a court-approved warrant and is part of an investigation in Washington D.C. into the former president’s handling of classified information, two sources told Just the News.
Eric Trump, the president’s son, confirmed the FBI told Trump’s staff they were searching for documents the National Archives believed were classified and missing. He said the FBI brought a safe cracker and cracked open a safe but found nothing. The younger Trump said the FBI removed boxes of documents without looking through them.
Turley said Eric Trump’s mention of the safe raised only more troubling questions. Citing sources that indicate that the “safe was opened by a safe cracker but was found empty,” he tweeted: “That only highlights questions of any evidence of direct involvement by Trump and any [intentional] effort at concealment.”
Any suggestions that criminal charges against Trump are forthcoming are vastly premature, Turley cautioned.
“We cannot assume that criminal charges are inevitable after such a raid,” he tweeted. “On MSNBC, a host said that the ‘orange jumpsuit may be coming.’ That is rather premature given history of prosecutions in this area and the absence of confirmed evidence.”
There have been some prosecutions under the Presidential Records Act of officials who removed official records or espionage charges for those who stole classified information. But those have been rare.
The most famous involved President Bill Clinton’s former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, who removed sensitive documents from the National Archives by concealing them inside his clothing. He reached a plea deal that spared him prison time in favor of probation, a fine and community service.
Two sources, both briefed on the raid, told Just the News the agents who executed the search were from the Washington Field Office, the same office that FBI whistleblowers recently complained to Sen. Charles Grassley was involved in political meddling in investigations involving Trump and Hunter Biden. The former assistant agent in charge of that office was recently removed from his job.
The agents were seeking evidence related to whether Trump removed classified documents from the White House to his compound at Mar-a-Lago, the sources said. The National Archives recently lodged a complaint with the FBI regarding possible mishandling of documents, officials have previously confirmed. The sources said at least one other witness may have raised questions about presidential records at the Florida compound.
The sources also cautioned that while the records case was the stated pretext for the search, the agents might find evidence in the boxes they removed that could relate to other investigations the FBI is looking into, like the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
“Agents have latitude to seize things that match the description of items being sought in the warrant that later turn out to be relevant to other cases,” one source cautioned.
Dershowitz said the danger of such a raid, if excessive, is that it could lead to a fishing expedition. “Unless there’s evidence that we’re not aware of, this is improper and it is misconduct,” he told Newsmax on Monday evening.
If abuses are later discovered, evidence can be suppressed under the Fourth Amendment, he added.
Not Raided by FBI: Bidens, Clintons, Russia Hoaxers, Black Lives Matter
The shocking raid Monday of former President Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, stood in stark contrast to the many Trump opponents that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has not raided despite public evidence of alleged misconduct.
They include:
Hunter Biden and Joe Biden: The FBI has been in possession of Hunter’s laptop since 2019, which contains evidence that Hunter used Joe’s position to conduct lucrative foreign business. He also cut his dad into deals and commingled their funds.
Hillary Clinton: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mishandled classified information on a private server she likely used to hide efforts to use her office to raise money for her family’s foundation. She was infamously excused by the FBI.
Marc Elias and the Russia hoaxers: Elias, a lawyer for Democrats, helped arrange the so-called Russia “dossier,” which was then used to launch fraudulent and abusive investigations of Trump and his campaign. He has never been brought to justice.
James Clapper and John Brennan: The “Statler and Waldorf” of deep-state cable pundits fueled the Russia hoax and then cited their intelligence credentials to claim, falsely, that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation in 2020.
Adam Schiff: Schiff lied to the public about his role in instigating the first Trump impeachment, then used his committee’s report to spy on members of the committee and the president’s lawyer, and failed to appear before the Judiciary Committee.
Kamala Harris: As the country reeled from riots in the summer of 2020, then-Sen. Harris (D-CA) called on supporters to bail out rioters in Minneapolis, likely encouraging more violence. She also referred to law enforcement as a “paramilitary.”
Black Lives Matter: Amid evidence that the left-wing group has been abusing its charitable status, even liberal states issued warnings to the group. But though the movement’s scope is nationwide, the FBI or DOJ have yet to do anything about it.
James Comey and Andrew McCabe: Amid evidence that the former FBI director and deputy director, respectively, had leaked to the media, they were let off the hook by internal investigations and have enjoyed speaking fees and cable slots.
By contrast, Trump allies past and present — such as Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Peter Navarro, and others — have been subjected to spectacular raids, often leaked to friendly media ahead of time, over relatively minor or unrelated allegations.
Source Confirms White House Dog Has Been Running Country During Biden’s COVID Isolation
And
The Bee, “fakenews you can trust”.
These dudes are hilarious.
Oh and
Biden Invites Group Of Kids To White House To See If His Sense Of Smell Has Returned
BREAKING: Crowds Arrive at Mar-a-Lago In Support For President Trump After News Broke of FBI’s Raid On Him
Apparently, a lady cricket player tested positive for the ‘rona but was allowed to play in the Comm Games final because she had no symptoms. Good. This is where we are at. The ‘rona is a mild flu.
I recall back in 2020, a young bloke tested positive to the ‘rona in Perth. He also didn’t have any symptoms, however McClown locked down 2.5 million people for five days. Where is the apology for possibly the biggest over-reaction in Australian history?
Always a bit sceptical of crowds showing support. I remember when Rudd got poleaxed by Gillard he had a spontaneous celebration somewhere in Queensland so the locals could show their reverence for him. Turns out is was a rent-a-mob for the ten seconds of footage in the news and he stiffed them for the bill.
Ditto…hard to unhear it!
Stills is a very under rated guitarist.
Page was a thrifty Scot, and kept a sharp eye on outgoings, aided by Robert Plant. Plant is the son of an accountant, and did penance in the old man’s office before fleeing to become a singer.
I am a huge fan of the first four albums, dropping off after. One of the things I admire is that they worked hard and made a shitload of money – and doing a 50 date tour of the US is not exactly lotus land.
I was reminded of this recently when I heard that the word ‘faggot’ had been removed from a Dire Straits song, Money for Nothing. Working class guys are no longer allowed to use it in relation to fluffy haired rich kids.
Originals still survive, like here, but who knows how long for?
Get hard copies of your favourite books and music, before they are edited or deleted.
Except for the vocal track, which I evidently forgot about! LOL.
Monkeypox just cracked 30k, still doubling about every 2 weeks
It is indeed amazing that given all the federal judges Trump appointed off the Federalist Society partisan hack list, he couldn’t get a single one of them to authorise a surprise raid on his political opponents.
All of today’s whining boils down to, “hey no fair, we are the ones supposed to be doing that to you”.
One good thing we can all agree on about today’s raid is that finally the FBI has started going after Epstein’s associates. Dershowitz should be nervous.
Go for it – best day’s work you’ll ever do!
It’s clearly been a big day for you, mOnty.
Early to bed then, yeah?
“One good thing we can all agree on about today’s raid is that finally the FBI has started going after Epstein’s associates. Dershowitz should be nervous.”
Hmm, well yes, then Bill Clinton and Bill Gates should also be nervous.
Oh frabjous day, callooh callay I see the Elmer Fudd of NSW politics is now Deputy Premier of the Ship of State soon to be foundered on his follies.
First time ever I have had an internal server error – I have not had any problems until just this moment.
Someone above linked to a piece about the Left and the way they redefine stuff.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/it-is-a-privilege-to-care-about-inflation?r=10py7h&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
This is the Left telling black people they are white because they care about food on the table and inflation instead of BLM and white privilege.
It is indeed amazing that given all the federal judges Trump appointed off the Federalist Society partisan hack list, he couldn’t get a single one of them to authorise a surprise raid on his political opponents.
Even by fat little turd standards you a revolting creep. Judges can’t authorise anything unless an application is made to them. The demorat run fbi/doj/cia will never apply. You’re such a liar.
Probably why all the buzz words and talking points sound so familiar and widespread.
Today it’s “cope and seethe”.
No original thinkers there.
Absurd, isn’t it?
Good news for Queenslanders, though, because mining royalites underwrite our state budgets, and new thermal coal projects may be off the table thanks to Elbow & Co.
One of the staunchest defenders of the Regime.
Sober. Reserved.
“Dershowitz should be nervous”
Firstly, this is a classic example of what I wrote above, everything in Monty’s limited adolescent world is defined by ideology, he doesn’t give a shit about truth or what is right and wrong.
Secondly, Dershowitz is a registered Democrat (and remains one) and voted for Hillary in 2016. He is NOT a Republican and is hardly far-right. He does care about the constitution and he defends Trump’s constitutional rights, this doesn’t mean he votes for Trump, but clearly in Monty the Moron’s adolescent world, Trump or any other person on the right doesn’t deserve any legal representation.
Why should Dershowitz be nervous, Fatboy? Has been accused of a crime, or it really doesn’t matter if you went against impeachment?
Fatboy, don’t walk away from this question. Should Clinton be nervous, you fat, out of breath idiot?
This is criminal.
JC says:
August 9, 2022 at 5:48 pm
All in the month I decide to quit smoking.
That’s the worst decision of your life. Don’t do it as all the things pale in comparison.
I smoked 60 a day for just over 20 years. looked in mirror in morning after coughing my guts up and said “I don’t smoke” never had another cancer stick since (34 years).
GO FOR IT.
Eggsactly 🙂