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Joe Rogan had Bart Sibrel on again. He’s one of these chaps that maintains that no one has ever been…
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Serious question for Vic cats. Mask requirements in Vic? Where are they compulsory? Hospitals & med centres I’d expect. What about public tpt? Anywhere else would be appreciated.
Vic gov website is very vague, sends me in circles with links…
Boambee Johnsays:
August 10, 2022 at 8:50 am
Custard
He went on to say that a heap of documents were declassified at the end of the former administration but the national archives are refusing to release them.
They contradict the ever-so-precious “narrative”?
The Raid: Difference Between Trump and Clinton
What kind of evidence was the FBI looking for yesterday? Classified material.
So, now, conservatives and Trump supporters are enraged, while liberals and leftists on social media – specifically Twitter – are saying that we are hypocrites, since, after all, we have been shouting “lock her up” ever since it was acknowledged by this very same FBI that Hillary Clinton commissioned an unsecured server to be built in her Chappaqua, NY home and allowed classified material to be routed through it so that anyone, anywhere could have access to it.
Same crime, right? Probably not.
Consider these things. Assuming that Trump did have allegedly classified material in his possession, when did he acquire it? It had to be sometime before Inauguration Day 2021, meaning when he was still the POTUS.
And guess what! Any sitting POTUS has the intrinsic authority to declassify any classified material.
That’s right.
Therefore, I’m guessing that Trump declassified any previously classified material that may have been in his possession in 2022.
Authority. And Power. That’s what separates these cases. He had [sic] it and she didn’t.
But I’m just speculating – which, in itself, has damn near become a crime.
Dotsays:
August 10, 2022 at 9:05 am
BJ
The NSA oughta to stop snooping on civilians.
Making it military explicitly will make it so.
It once was explicitly so, and all “incidental” collection of material involving US citizens had to be isolated and “masked”. That only lasts until a suitably venal administration sets up an “unmasking” procedure based on warrants from a special court. Warrants that an FBI lawyer corrupted, by altering base documentation.
Sound familiar?
As for “military explicitly”, I give you General “Thoroughly Modern” Milley. Do you think that he would have resisted, as the then head of the NSA did?
MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE:
Report: Judge who signed off the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion donated $2,000 to Barack Obama’s campaign and represented Jeffrey Epstein’s Lolita Express pilots, his scheduler and ‘Yugoslavian sex slave.’
Oil of OhLook (at me). Sponsored by Kennards’ Sandblasting.
Apparently its alternate use is to keep the Wilkinson arse in tip-top condition. In this application a repurposed water truck is required.
All of the above, but compliance on PT is about 50/50. Far less masks in the mornings, before peak hour. More in the afternoon when ‘Authorised Officers’ are out of bed.
The school kids are just refusing to wear them on their way home.
Good on them.
Wait—Those ‘Classified’ Docs FBI Sought in Trump Raid Were Already Declassified
Medical establishments and Public Transport.
Nowhere else seems to be running with them apart from ‘recommended’.
Hillary Clinton Flaunts Her Democrat Privilege, Peddles ‘But Her Emails’ Swag the Day After Mar-a-Lago Raid
Damn, it’s good to be a Democrat! The very day after news broke of a blatantly partisan FBI raid on the home of former President Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton rubbed the furious nation’s face in her Lefty privilege.
Clinton — or whoever runs her Twitter account — thought today was a good day to pimp her swag celebrating that time DOJ let her skate after she destroyed 33,000 emails. This, even though the emails were under subpoena, and hundreds of them contained classified material that then-Secretary of State Clinton had improperly handled. Yet she suffered no legal consequences for her obvious crime.
However, Donald Trump has been accused of removing classified material from the White House — a flimsy pretext at best — and has now had his home raided and his personal safe broken into by the establishment’s weaponized FBI.
America woke up furious today. But Clinton saw an opportunity:
“Every ‘But her emails’ hat or shirt sold helps @onwardtogether [Hillary’s current slush fund for promoting hard-Left politics] partners defend democracy, build a progressive bench, and fight for our values. Just saying!” tweeted the failed presidential candidate, or the minions running her account:
Apologies to my editor, but the cast-iron t*ts on this b*tch are simply unbelievable. I guess she never got over her butthurt from 2016.
Noises in recent days about “greater enforcement” on public transport.
No doubt they are receiving lots of Karen letters.
Some in private businesses but purely voluntary.
Probably a vain attempt to prevent week-long sickies being taken.
Trump fires back on Truth Social;
https://youtu.be/Dk94EKBWZJA
Meme;
Try putting that on your ATO return and get any work deductions past them.
An economy based on state funerals has limitless possibilities.
For those who have not seen it highly recommend the below article by Dr Robert Clancy over at Quadrant.
The Suppression of Useful COVID-19 Treatments
Rowan Dean replacing Piers Morgan, good.
Serena did a good imitation of Kamala, complete with cackle and “the light at the end of the tunnel”, which when pressed she said represented “freedom”.
If she’d said fweedom it would have been perfect.
TODAY’S ENERGY TUTORIAL
I’ve discovered a wonderful energy data tool, ElectricityMaps.com, that offers interactive real-time and historical maps of electricity production and consumption around the world (insofar as data exist, which it doesn’t for China and other key places). Check it out for yourself.
I want to draw a contrast between “green energy” Germany and France as of this morning (though use the time-slide in the lower left hand corner of the site and you’ll see that today’s contrast goes back years). As you will see, France has a much lower carbon-intensity (the amount of energy per unit of economic activity) than Germany, which boasts more “renewable” power than France. Gee—I wonder why that is? Nuclear power you say? A thing to remember as we emulate Germany rather than France in our “net-zero” mania.
The creator of No Shoot Zone, Tyree Moorehead, was shot three times this morning on the block of 600 block of North Luzerne Street, Baltimore.
Bourne1879 says:
August 10, 2022 at 9:36 am
For those who have not seen it highly recommend the below article by Dr Robert Clancy over at Quadrant.
The Suppression of Useful COVID-19 Treatments
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Was Judge Bruce Reinhart in Ghislane Maxwell’s black book?..
… Which is now in the possession of the FBI.
Such that he previously had to recuse from the Epstein legal case, but didn’t recuse from the Trump raid warrant. Wouldn’t that explain things.
https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1557147230024318976
Hey, KD & SP –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNielouhqfo
(just the first few 3 seconds)
From 2017 (last para)
Followed by this list of ALP policies I compiled that go against the WEF agenda-
Happy to help.
While the Swamp pleasures itself, the US’s external enemies capitalise on the real-time failure of the Republic:
US partisan struggle further escalates, ‘political system more dysfunctional’ as Trump’s Mar-a-Lago searched by FBI
[Global Times]
CCP slanted and misunderstands the rough-and-tumble of Western politics, but a surprisingly accurate summation of the shit going down.
As always, Global Times quotes experts:
Biden gets a semi-official sneering, but the CCP line is all about the US dysfunction. An anonymous ‘expert’ opines:
Giving comfort to your enemies, writ large…
He was appointed by Trump.
Geez, you lot make it so easy. Dumbarses.
The raid on Trump was to do one thing and one thing only: produce a reaction from Trump supporters so the demorats could expand their Jan 6 insurrection bullshit and justify a suspension of the mid terms. The US is fucked.
m0ntysays:
August 10, 2022 at 9:55 am
Was Judge Bruce Reinhart in Ghislane Maxwell’s black book?..
He was appointed by Trump.
Geez, you lot make it so easy. Dumbarses.
On the recommendation of which RINO?
Interesting that the FBI got a dinky district magistrate to do the sign off rather than a Federal judge. And in particular a district court magistrate with interesting baggage.
Suggests they might’ve had a bit of trouble getting the paperwork together.
State magistrates are personally appointed by Presidents, apparently.
I just checked.
It isn’t one of the fifty automatic drop-down selections.
“Bulgarian Rent-boy” is though.
LOL
New Virus in China With Animal to Human Transmission;Taiwan Foreign Minister: China May Launch a War
China in Focus – NTD
01:00 Taiwan Foreign Minister: China May Launch a War
03:45 Taiwan President Tsai Welcomes Caribbean Support
04:29 Vacation Gone Wrong: Covid-19 Outbreak Strands Thousands in Chinese Tourist Hub
05:34 New Virus in China with Animal to Human Transmission
06:45 U.S. Sold Six Million Barrels of #OilReserves to China
09:16 Chinese Firms Facing Sanctions for Helping Iran
10:45 Report Calls Out Pro-Beijing Propaganda Campaign
Well, it costs them nothing when they make a mistake (no normal person is so cavalier with their own limited resources), they have no fear for their reputations (they only sniff each others’ farts, and the MSM wants to join them in their rarified but methane drenched atmosphere so they make the clownfish look like sharks), and their performances are policed by their peers (and none of them will be too severe in their criticism of someone upon whose forgiveness they might rely upon later).
Add to this is that they simply have neither the experience to formulate and manage a plan, nor the temperament to give it the ongoing attention implementing it requires. When things start to go off the rails they get bored. And they can always put things off to next time because resources are ever replenished at the cost to the anonymous taxpayer.
For all their shared traits of arrogance, misanthropy, susceptibility to delusions of grandeur, need to be play the hero etc, it is possible that the only difference between our elites and some of the worst tyrants in history is that the latter possess just a tiny fragment more staying power.
Almost.
Judge Reinhard is a Federal magistrates judge. A U.S. magistrate judge is a judicial officer of the district court and is appointed by majority vote of the active district judges of the court.
Mak Siccarsays:
August 10, 2022 at 1:18 am
Re Trump/De Santis in 2024. This reply is from Prof James Allan when I posed the same question to him.
The President and the Vice President can’t be from the same State. So that is a roadblock to this scenario. I can’t see DeSantis leaving Florida, as he’s the Governor. And do you see a man like Trump leaving?
Fact check: an oversimplification.
There’s no Constitutional bar on the President and VP being from the same state.
But there is a rule that Electoral College delegates from a state can’t vote for both a President and a VP from their own state.
So if Trump and De Santis ran while both were residents of Florida, the 29 Florida delegates couldn’t vote for both of them. In a close race that could be a real problem.
So practically it won’t happen. Trump/De Santis won’t occur unless one of them changes residency. Probably politically easier for Trump, but query whether he’d do it.
Dr Faustussays:
August 10, 2022 at 10:21 am
m0ntysays:
August 10, 2022 at 9:55 am
Was Judge Bruce Reinhart in Ghislane Maxwell’s black book?..
He was appointed by Trump.
Almost.
Judge Reinhard is a Federal magistrates judge. A U.S. magistrate judge is a judicial officer of the district court and is appointed by majority vote of the active district judges of the court.
ROFLMAO, m0nty-fa steps on (yet) another rake, he remains the Wrongologist supreme!
Another Monty miss, I guess.
Munty Math for fat idiots. 1+1=50 million or whatever I want it to be.
Bwah ha ha ha.
So everyone who got a new job between 2016 and 2020 is a “Trump appointment”?
I see you got the box of exploding cigars I sent, m0nster.
Must be a Lot of Cross Dressers in the American FBI
FBI searched Melania’s wardrobe, spent hours in Trump’s private office during Mar-a-Lago raid
By Miranda Devine
FBI agents scoured Melania Trump’s wardrobe and spent several hours combing through Donald Trump’s private office, breaking open his safe and rifling through drawers when they raided the former First Family’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida Monday morning.
The Post has learned that the search warrant used by the FBI to enter the palatial Palm Beach property focused solely on presidential records and evidence of classified information being stored there.
A source close to the former president expressed concern that FBI agents or DOJ lawyers conducting the search could have “planted stuff” because they would not allow Trump’s attorneys inside the 128-room building to observe the operation, which lasted more than nine hours.
The raid by over 30 plain clothes agents from the Southern District of Florida and the FBI’s Washington Field Office extended through the Trump family’s entire 3,000-square-foot private quarters, as well as to a separate office and safe, and a locked basement storage room in which 15 cardboard boxes of material from the White House were stored.
Feds arrived at 9 a.m. and didn’t leave until 6:30 p.m.
An eyewitness to the raid said all of the boxes were confiscated by federal agents Monday, but it is unknown if anything else was taken as no itemized list of items was provided by the FBI.
The boxes contain documents and mementos from Trump’s presidency, reportedly including letters from Barack Obama and Kim Jong Un, and other correspondence with world leaders.
A legal source said that the boxes had been packed up by the General Services Administration and shipped to Mar-a-Lago when Trump left office in January 2020.
Trump’s attorneys, led by Evan Corcoran, had been cooperating fully with federal authorities on the return of the documents to the National Archives and Records Administration, according to sources.
The demeanor of the three DOJ lawyers who accompanied the FBI was described by one eyewitness as “arrogant,” and they repeatedly told Trump representatives: “We have full access to everything. We can go everywhere.”
From the Comments
– Apparently – the FBI raided Melania’s wardrobe as Biden had asked them to snatch a few undergarments for Hunter to play with. To be continued,
OldOzzie says:
August 10, 2022 at 8:35 am
was that the old USyd Fisher Library Stack in the Quad before the new Building?
Sorry, if by Quad you mean the Quadrangle in the original sandstone building, then no.
The Stack I was referring to was the polished-brown-steel-clad rectangular-prism monstrosity between the Broadway entrance and the Anderson Stuart building.
Ugly in every way, but a treasure trove of old rarities, including 1950s Russian complete editions (?????? ???????) of musical works by Shostakovitch and Tchaikovsky, even Josquin de Prez editions.
And that overwhelming aroma of old paper..
Should go back there sometime.
New York Post
August 9, 2022
Reinhart is one of three federal magistrate judges in the West Palm Beach offices of the US District Court for the Southern District Court of Florida, along with William Matthewman and Ryon McCabe.
Two recent warrant applications were assigned to Reinhart and entered into the court system on Monday, the Miami Herald reported, but those warrants and information about who they targeted remain sealed. Records show another warrant was issued by Reinhart on Friday, but its contents were also sealed.
And the FBI raid memes begin…“Feral Bureau of Investigations”
Here are a few memes and tweets that I’ve seen so far this morning. Click any one for a larger image.
This little episode shows the left are truly a grotesque bunch of clowns
complete editions (?????? ???????)
(Polnoie Sobranyi)
Looks like WordPress doesn’t do Cyrillic..
racist!
Judge Jeanine: Trump search warrant was subterfuge to take him down
Gilassays:
August 10, 2022 at 10:39 am
OldOzzie says:
August 10, 2022 at 8:35 am
was that the old USyd Fisher Library Stack in the Quad before the new Building?
Sorry, if by Quad you mean the Quadrangle in the original sandstone building, then no.
Yes was referring to USyd Old Fisher Library in SW Corner of Quad – a place of Romantic Interludes
HBBear:
Mobs in the street are not there to right the Ship of State, but to encourager the Captains to do their bloody jobs. Or else.
There are some good ones there – https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2022/08/and-fbi-raid-memes-begin.html
What was in Trump’s Safe – “A Copy of Hunter’s Laptop”
and
If the FBI were a Car
Joe Biden Shakes Chuck Schumer’s Hand, Then Appears To Have Forgotten And Reaches Hand Out Again
So a goldfish has longer memory retention than O’Biden.
Tintarella di Luna says:
August 10, 2022 at 8:42 am
hearing the dialect makes me very nostalgic for what was my childhood
Yes, the unfortunate grind of advancing post-modernity.. mired in increasing, evil ignorance and destroying everything in its way.
Good news for people who want to make sure their leather car seats last.
Um???
More Detail
Judge who OK’d Mar-a-Lago raid Obama donor once linked to Jeffrey Epstein
By Miranda Devine, Mark Moore and Samuel Chamberlain
From the Comments
– No longer a swamp. It’s quicksand. Look at all the dubious connections between Judges, FBI administrators, Foreign entities, elected officials, etc.. We do indeed have a very corrupt government that is slowly eroding the foundations of America and they are on the brink of winning. Trump is a man they have feared since he ran for President and continue to fear thus seeking to completely destroy him. The American people better wake up and take control of their government and rid it of the criminals currently in the majority.
– Trump has been saying it best: “They are not coming after me, they are going after you. I’m just standing in the way.” Trump was right AGAIN!
Dot:
The cost would be too high, Dot.
But seriously, the organisations need to be purged – EVERY department down to and including branch offices, with forfeiture of pay/pensions and further investigation of financial assets of every member of these organisations.
Lizzie:
Is that principle applicable here, as well?
Nothing screams “journalistic cred” more than your own line of skin products or a signature brand Chemist Warehouse perfume selling at $19.99 a litre.
Banality of evil writ large.
I wonder if it’s WordPress or just the theme.
Gwyneth Paltrow’s lawyers will be watching her like a hawk.
Rep. Scott Perry says FBI seized his cell phone — one day after Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home raided
Staunch Donald Trump ally Rep. Scott Perry said FBI agents stopped him and seized his cell phone one day after the federal agency raided the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
Perry, a Republican from Pennsylvania, told Fox News that while traveling with his family on Tuesday, three FBI agents approached him, issued him a warrant and demanded he hand over his phone.
“They made no attempt to contact my lawyer, who would have made arrangements for them to have my phone if that was their wish,” he said in a statement to the news outlet.
“I’m outraged — though not surprised — that the FBI under the direction of Merrick Garland’s DOJ, would seize the phone of a sitting Member of Congress.
“My phone contains info about my legislative and political activities, and personal/private discussions with my wife, family, constituents, and friends. None of this is the government’s business.”
The five-term congressman added, “as with President Trump last night, DOJ chose this unnecessary and aggressive action instead of simply contacting my attorneys.”
Preppers: Sweden bracing for the worst | DW Documentary
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion into Ukraine, Sweden has grown more wary of Russian aggression. The Swedish government wants its citizens to be ready for the worst-case scenario and is encouraging them to become “preppers.”
It’s a setting of some sort, since Sinc’s Cat could do Cyrillic, Greek and even emojis (wince).
FitzSimons seems to have gone quiet on the matter since Jacinta asked him to release either the recording or a transcript of their interview.
And then every last international terrorist incident or serious domestic crime is laid at his feet.
Some Good News
GOP HOUSE MEMBER WHO VOTED TO IMPEACH TRUMP CONCEDES:
“Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, one of two Republican members of Washington’s congressional delegation who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump, has conceded her reelection bid after being overtaken in late vote tallies by an intraparty challenger. Trump had targeted the six-term incumbent and endorsed Joe Kent, a former Green Beret, in the 3rd Congressional District contest. The district is in southwest Washington state, across the border from Portland, Oregon.”
It’s very hard to argue against a charge of murder if you have to burn then bury the child. Much of the reticence in the case of abortion is that the child in utero remains behind the curtain. Still, go and have a look how Forbes wrote the headline.
Good one, Bruce.
I think I’ll skip lunch until the gagging subsides…
Old Ozzie:
“In chaos is opportunity”. Sun Tzu.
The Democrats want to gaol Trump. They believe they need to gaol him.
This act of political stupidity will be the worst mistake they can make – It will give the Boomer/X Generation the chance to put themselves into the history books with the the Revolutionaries and the ‘Greatest Generation’ – if they grasp the nettle.
Momentous times indeed.
Ya wouldn’t be dead for quids.
Big is Better
New IIHS Side-Impact Crash Test Shows Troubling Sedan, Wagon Results
The Subaru Outback got the top score of Good, while several sedans didn’t do as well, which the safety group said was partly because of ride height.
Only the 2022 Subaru Outback (pictured above) was given the top score of Good, while the Chevrolet Malibu, Nissan Altima, and Toyota Camry were all rated Poor in the new test. Subaru’s four-door sedan, the Legacy, was not included in this batch of testing.
IIHS announced in November 2019 that it would change its side-impact test to better reflect real-world crashes where a tall SUV or a pickup truck hits a smaller vehicle. IIHS said that the side-impact test it was using had been in place since 2003, and automakers had designed their vehicles to pass it. This meant that customers could not distinguish which vehicles performed better in a crash. IIHS believes its updated test will force similar changes on the auto industry in the future.
Actually 9/11 can be blamed on the FBI.
Perhaps there is one adult in his inner circle who has pointed out the hypocrisy of giving the black power salute at an all-white habourside dinner party, whilst simultaneously denigrating a black woman from central Australia.
Surprisingly, I think this adult might be from within his employer (Nein/SMH). The ratings from the Sunday sports show must be abysmal when his swathed head pops up.
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele on Trump FBI Raid: ‘What Would the U.S. Say’ if I Did That?
Is there a doctor in the hoose?
🙂
Actually 9/11 can be blamed on the FBI.
How many tip-offs and calls do you need? Americans did their bit, only to have the FBI completely drop the ball.
The FBI’s Dangerous Trump Search
Merrick Garland is taking the U.S. down a perilous path.
By WSJ The Editorial Board
Monday’s unannounced Federal Bureau of Investigation search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home isn’t a moment for anyone to cheer. The Justice Department is unleashing political furies it can’t control and may not understand, and the risks for the department and the country are as great as they are for Mr. Trump.
As everyone knows by now, an FBI law-enforcement action of this kind against a former American President is unprecedented. Monday’s search needed a judicial warrant in service of probable cause in a criminal probe. The Justice Department has provided few details beyond what has been leaked to reporters, so it is hard to judge what the FBI was looking for.
The media leaks say the search is related to potential mishandling of classified documents or violations of the Presidential Records Act. If that is true, then the raid looks like prosecutorial overkill and a bad mistake. Document disputes are typically settled in negotiation, and that is how Mr. Trump’s disagreement with the National Archives had been proceeding.
Mr. Trump has already returned 15 boxes of documents, but the National Archives wants to know if the former President retained classified material he shouldn’t have. This is what appears to have triggered the FBI search, but it’s far from clear why this couldn’t be settled cooperatively, or at most with a subpoena.
Didn’t someone at Justice point out that a search in this case would draw comparisons to Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information before her 2016 presidential campaign? She was never prosecuted, as Mr. Trump was quick to point out. Unless Mr. Trump’s offense involves a serious risk to national security, half of America may see the Trump search as an example of unequal justice.
This may not be the full FBI story. Multiple media reports suggest that Justice has opened a grand jury probe into the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and Mr. Trump may be a target of that investigation. The House committee investigating Jan. 6 has been cheering for a prosecution, and the political and media pressure is intense on Attorney General Merrick Garland to indict Mr. Trump. The FBI search may be a fishing expedition to find evidence related to Jan. 6.
On the public evidence so far, a Jan. 6 indictment would be a legal stretch. Political responsibility isn’t the same as criminal liability. In our view, the evidence would have to show that Mr. Trump was criminally complicit in that day’s violence at the Capitol.
Given its inherently political nature, the burden of proof is especially high for indicting a former President, all the more so for an Administration of the opposition party. The evidence had better be overwhelming—not merely enough to convince a 12-person jury in the District of Columbia, but enough to convince a majority of the American public.
Then there is the fraught history between Mr. Trump and the FBI and Justice. The Russia collusion probe was a fiasco of FBI abuse of process and public deception. Current FBI director Christopher Wray was Mr. Trump’s choice to succeed the disastrous James Comey, but the bureau still has a serious credibility problem.
That the Mar-a-Lago raid occurred only about 90 days from a national election also increases the political suspicion. Democrats want to keep Mr. Trump front and center in the midterm campaign, which is why the Jan. 6 committee is continuing into the autumn.
Anyone who thinks an indictment and trial of Mr. Trump would go smoothly is in for a rude surprise. Millions of his supporters will see this as vindication of his charges against the “deep state,” and who knows how they will respond. Has Mr. Garland considered all of this?
Worse in the long term is the precedent being set and the payback it is likely to inspire. Once the Rubicon of prosecuting a former President has been crossed—especially if the alleged offense and evidence are less than compelling—every future President will be a target. William Barr, Mr. Trump’s second AG, wisely resisted pressure to indict political actors without a very strong case. The next Republican AG will not be as scrupulous.
Democrats may also be wrong in their calculation about how a prosecution would affect Mr. Trump’s future. The FBI search alone makes it more likely that Mr. Trump will run again for President, if only to vindicate himself. He will run as a martyr, and even Republicans who want to turn the page on the former President may be repelled by what they see as a political prosecution.
All of this risks compounding the baleful pattern of the last six years. Mr. Trump is accused of violating political norms—sometimes fairly, sometimes not—and the left violates norms in response. Polarization increases, and public faith in institutions and the peaceful settlement of political difference erodes further.
The FBI search on Mr. Trump suggests that Mr. Garland may be committed to pursuing and indicting Mr. Trump. If so, he is taking the country on a perilous road. There is much ruin in a nation, but no one should want to test the limits of that ruin in America.
From the Comments
– Now that the FBI has physically departed, Mar-A-Lago should be thoroughly searched for surveillance equipment.
Perhaps his lawyer advised him as to what using a carriage service to harass means and the penalty if found guilty?
Mater says:
August 10, 2022 at 9:10 am
I tend to keep record of my comments.
If I’ve commented on something, I can usually retrieve the wording involved.
Thanks for the reply.
Wise decision, as the Trove search function seems unusable.
This little episode shows the left are truly a grotesque bunch of clowns
Where’s munty to give us our daily reminder of this?
In plain sight.
I think that’s right.
There are two angles to this.
.1 The legal (both civil and criminal).
.2 The optics of campaigning for “The Voice” by telling a black woman to shut up.
And even if he followed through on threats to sue Price and won in court, it would be a terrible look for an alleged campaigner for black and wymminses rights.
After listening to Barnes on the Duran talk about the Jones case I’m going to hold my judgement until I can have a closer look.
Brilliant, eh?
He just couldn’t help himelf.
But now the pirate has given the prog-left’s game away to anyone paying attention.
Only certain voices will be acceptable to them.
Vic gov website is very vague, sends me in circles with links…
If you’re planning on visiting Victoria, you’re a madman!
How’s that China reset going Albo? Albo? Where are you?
‘We don’t accept’: Marles hits back at China’s latest criticism of Australia* (Sky News, 10 Aug)
If only we had some subs which could lurk in the Taiwan Strait and keep China honest.
(* headline as it appears on Sky main page.)
The five-term congressman added, “as with President Trump last night, DOJ chose this unnecessary and aggressive action instead of simply contacting my attorneys.”
What was it that Confederate general said? “Put the skeer on them, and keep them skeered.” The DemonRats returning to their roots. Anyone not in the Swamp is now liable to random street stops.
Rogersays:
August 10, 2022 at 11:15 am
Gerard Henderson on Bolt making the point that Red Bandana is rich and Jacinta, an aboriginal woman, is not; so his threat to sue her is tantamount to bullying. It sure is.
FitzSimons seems to have gone quiet on the matter since Jacinta asked him to release either the recording or a transcript of their interview.
Fitzsimian might be worried that she has her own recording. If he edits his version, and she has her own, he will be so far in the shit, he will look back on his fight with the Frogs as the best of times.
At least Broome isn’t Hawaii. Maybe Dick could send Wong to China to smooth over the ruffled feathers? Although I don’t think Wong likes Dick much, so she might not go.
rickwsays:
August 10, 2022 at 11:46 am
This little episode shows the left are truly a grotesque bunch of clowns
Where’s munty to give us our daily reminder of this?
Wasn’t m0nty-fa here earlier, babbling about how trump personally appointed the “judge” (actually a magistrate) who issued the warrant? And stepping on another rake while doing so.
Liberty quote:
— James Delingpole.
And picking a judge magistrate who was employed as a lawyer covering up secret Epstein business.
Normally I’m a conspiracy denialist, but you’d have to think that a power message is being sent here.
More Welcome to Country pushback from actual indig people (the Hun):
And:
I completely agree with Mr Hunter when he says the WTC shouldn’t be taken lightly.
It shouldn’t be taken at all. Of course, there may be the matter of missing WTC payments for people like Mr Hunter to consider, so it’s probably no wonder he’s upset.
OK – New Game:
What was in Presidents safe?
.1 Obamas birth certificate,
.2 Hunter Bidens’ laptop,
.3 Biden’s last cognitive test,
.4 Epsteins Flight Records and address book.
There is a simple solution for Trump to exonerate himself: release the warrant, so we can all see it was a witch hunt.
Energy news.
Three papers highlight results of record 1.3 megajoule yield experiment (9 Aug)
I think it’s cool that a paper on fusion was authored by a thousand scientists led by a Dr Hurricane.
Monty – The FBI could release the warrant too. They don’t seem to’ve yet. Weird huh?
Affirmative Hiring
Healthcare company that hired ‘mentally ill’ ICU nurse for job in L.A. where she killed six people in horror crash REFUSES to say how she was vetted: Nurse held jobs in SIX hospitals in just two years despite her ‘profound’ problems
. Nicole Linton was working for AMN Healthcare, a traveling nursing company that sends nurses around the country
. She has worked with them in two hospitals since October 2020 and before that, she worked with RN Network – a different nursing outsourcer
. In total, she has held six nursing jobs across five states in the last two years
. On August 4, Linton drove her Mercedes Benz into traffic in L.A. at around 90mph
. She killed six people including a pregnant woman, her boyfriend and the woman’s one-year-old son
. Linton’s motive remains unclear but her attorney told a court yesterday she has a ‘profound history’ of mental health
AMN refused to tell DailyMail.com what background checks were done to detect such a history
Do you approve of the FBI raid on former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate?
Yes
28%
4,148 votes
No
72%
10,746 votes
Saudi ambassador falls and dies instantly in public view
“exonerate himself”
From what? He’s not guilty of any crime and if he has committed a crime then that’s up to a US court to decide. It isn’t up to a despicable toad hiding in a basement in Victoria to decide. Once again, our resident progressive hypocrite has decided that Trump is already guilty of something, he seems to have forgotten that under common law someone is “innocent until proven guilty“.
By the way, did you ever withdraw your “rock spider” description of an innocent man by the name of George Pell?
dover0beach says:
August 10, 2022 at 11:12 am
Looks like WordPress doesn’t do Cyrillic..
I wonder if it’s WordPress or just the theme.
Testing…
Cyrillic taken from this fantastic website..
Complete Collected Works, or ?????? ???????? ????????? (Polnoi Sobranyi Sochichenyie, just in case..)
A real hardcover treasure, despite the ideological interference of the Soviet apparatus during its publishing.
Until IMSLP came along, this had the only available score of the almost unknown Andante and Finale, Op.79, which Taneyev transcribed from manuscript sketches, and which was then used as the slow and final movements of a re-badged Tchaikovsky 3rd Piano Concerto in some LPs from the 1970s.
IMO, the Andante would have been the best slow movement of any Romantic piano concerto.
Carter Page wasn’t allowed to release the warrants he was served with.
It’s non an uncommon tool in the DOJ kit bag.
Under Lois Lerner the IRS started doing it too.
Sancho Panzer:
Now that was a LoL – my first of the day…
A relative’s friend just died of a cardiac arrest, completely out of the blue. 41 year old man. No known history of heart problems in the family.
I’m sure it’s just one of those things.
A lot of what the deep state is doing now was birthed under GWB post Sept 11.
There have been a few opportunities to roll it back but no ones had the balls to do.
Sealed warrants/subpoenas outside of bona fide imminent terrorist attacks or IP theft need to be outlawed.
That’s a sad story.
How can someone who was in 13 previous crashes have a licence?
If Trump wasn’t tricked into attempting to roll back Obamacare during the first two years of his administration he could have addressed this kind of shit.
But he was.
Wokeness’ in the military is worse than many of us realize
Thomas Spoehr, a retired lieutenant general who served 36 years in the United States Army, is now the director of the Center for National Defense at the Heritage Foundation. In that capacity, he gave a speech at Hillsdale College’s Washington, D.C. campus about the rise of the leftist “woke” mentality in the American military
It’s no exaggeration to say the military is overwhelmed with wokeness. Spoehr has example after example:
. Forcing all combat units to accept women, even though study after study reveals that doing so damages combat readiness.
. Opening the military to so-called “transgender” people, who have major mental health issues (including a high suicide risk) and extremely expensive physical health requirements.
. Allowing people with HIV to serve despite the risk of cross-infection in bloody environments.
. Lowering physical fitness standards for men to accommodate women.
. Changing longstanding military titles, under which people proudly served, essentially degrading institutional pride.
. Teaching troops (including at the academies) that America is a fatally flawed, deeply racist country that is irreparably damaged because of toxic whiteness.
. Training troops to believe that capitalism is inherently racist.
. Mandating “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” offices across the military.
. Destroying the military’s equipment readiness by chasing the climate chimera.
Meanwhile, as Spoehr is careful to point out, China is going full speed ahead with an old-fashioned military that has massive amounts of equipment and is filled with men who are being trained not to hate themselves and their country, but to kill the enemy. As China increases military spending, we’re decreasing military spending.
Now the US has Obamacare entrenched they need to move to universal healthcare.
If they ban Group Purchasing Organisations & Pharmaceutical Benefit Managers (spawned under a dirty deal between Gingrich & Clinton and entrenched under Boehner & Obama) universal healthcare wouldn’t cost the taxpayer much more.
But considering how GPO’s & PBM’s rival big Pharma donations to Congress that aint going to happen.
The complete Sovietization of the Democrat party
The thorough weaponization and politicization of each of our law enforcement institutions is now undeniable; the left has crossed Caesar’s Rubicon.
The Democrats are so determined to destroy Trump, they are willing to reveal their true colors: They are all Stalinist communists now.
Every Democrat voted against prohibiting China from buying U.S. farmland. Every Democrat voted against a ban on selling our strategic oil reserves to China; Biden has nearly emptied our strategic reserves. Every Democrat voted against a bill stating ythat pregnancy is unique to biological females. Every Democrat is on board the for the sexualization of very young children, the authorization of pornography in elementary school libraries and the pharmaceutical and surgical intervention of gender transition even for children under twelve. Democrat-run states seek to mandate gender-identity education for young children. Biden has made his support of gender transition abundantly clear. They all support unrestricted abortion up to and just after birth; they are in favor of infanticide.
Every Democrat has voted against protecting those who refuse the COVID vaccine. They voted against stopping the government from monitoring and prosecuting the unvaccinated. The Democrats approve of the DOJ labeling parents who attend school board meetings as domestic terrorists. The Democrats all signed onto the entirely Clinton-fabricated Russia hoax. In short, the American Democrat party is in favor of the destruction of any and all traditional Judeo-Christian American values. As President Trump remarked the other day, prayer in school is banned but drag queens are de rigeur. Our newest Supreme Court justice cannot define the word “woman” because she and her ilk insist men can become pregnant. Our left has gone the way of Orwell’s 1984, of Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon. Our world is upside down.
With the obvious exceptions of the too few good Republicans in Congress ( Jim Jordan, Ron Johnson, Matt Gaetz, MTG, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Thomas Massie, John Kennedy, Tom Cotton), most of them are squishes, RINOs without a spine, Kevin McCarthy in particular.
What has the Republican leadership done to stop the horrific abuse of the January 6 prisoners? Nothing.
Even if Trump did have documents there is no way in this wide world that there aren’t multiple electronic copies of all of them so how it’s a security threat is beyond me.
Given that so many of these incidents and crimes would not have occurred but for the involvement of the CIA or FBI, at least there would be far fewer of them if these thoroughly malignant agencies were to be shut down.
The CIA deserves the fate of the STASI – shut it down, fire everyone, doxx every agent and asset, open its entire archives to the world, turn Langley into a museum.
Glenn Diesen: As the tide turns in Ukraine, is the US preparing to throw Zelensky under the bus?
With Kiev’s defenses unraveling, the narrative surrounding the country’s leader has suddenly changed in Western media
In a display of support, the US has protected Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky from any criticism ever since Russia attacked Ukraine in February. As it becomes evident the war has been lost, someone will have to take the fall, and it appears that Washington is preparing to throw the leader in Kiev to the wolves.
The beginning of the end
The US proxy war against Russia was beneficial for Washington as long as there was a stalemate that was draining Moscow’s military, economic and human resources, even threatening to demote Russia from the rank of a great power. For example, Congressman Dan Crenshaw justified his support for the process by arguing that “investing in the destruction of our adversary’s military without losing a single American troop strikes me as a good idea.”
After more than five months of grinding down the Ukrainian military, the entire frontline is cracking. By punching through the heavily fortified defenses in Maryinka, Peski, Avdeevka, it appears that Moscow has sealed the fate of Donbass. As the fighting moves out of heavily populated industrial areas to a more open landscape, the territorial advancements of Russia will likely intensify. Furthermore, sanctions have backfired terribly on the West, causing a political crisis.
Setting the stage for the end of Zelensky?
It has been a remarkably difficult month, so far, for Zelensky in the Western media, which had previously withheld all criticism. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, closely linked to the White House, reported that “there is deep mistrust between the White House and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine – considerably more than has been reported.” Friedman also detailed Washington’s growing concerns about Ukrainian corruption and mismanagement, a topic that has been denounced as Russian propaganda since February. This is the same media that until recently repeated every line from Zelensky, including labeling the mass surrender in Mariupol as an “evacuation.” No more.
Sky News, a very anti-Russian news agency, also aired a segment with the title “Zelensky ‘not all he’s portrayed as’ by Western media.” An anchor accused Zelensky of dismantling Ukrainian democracy by seizing control of the national media, banning political opposition parties, and arresting the opposition leader. All true, but previously taboo.
Piling on, Amnesty International thereafter reported that Ukraine has been breaking the rules of war and international humanitarian law by establishing military positions in heavily populated residential areas, schools, and hospitals. It later partially backed down after a Twitter onslaught from pro-Kiev media figures, but stood by its overall findings.
The National Review speculates that the White House is quietly distancing itself from Zelensky to prepare a narrative to explain the shift from an uncompromising position to accepting concessions. It thus predicts that the Biden narrative will be “We did everything we could to help the Ukrainians defend themselves, but in the end, they were too incompetent, too corrupt, and too beset by infighting.”
Such a scapegoating would follow the precedents set in Iraq and Afghanistan, where the inadequacy and ineptitude of the protectorate were blamed for the failure.
Someone came up with the theory that Trump deliberately goaded these loons into pulling this crap to get at them. I wouldn’t put it past the orange oaf, but I think it’s a very low bet for the reason that he couldn’t possibly protect himself against the Demons planting stuff in the stash they took. Could he though? Is there anyway he could verify exactly what was in the boxes etc and therefore be 100% protected?
m0ntysays:
August 10, 2022 at 12:32 pm
There is a simple solution for Trump to exonerate himself: release the warrant, so we can all see it was a witch hunt.
There is a simple solution for the FBI to demonstrate that the “raid” was not a witch hunt. Release the warrant, so we can all know what was being sought.
Fixed for you m0nty-fa. The FBI mounted the “raid”, the FBI should defend its actions.
m0nty-fa
PS, the FBI should also release the inventory of everything seized in the “raid”.
Bruce of N, Snap, great minds etc.
Unfortunately it took a couple years before it became clear just how corrupt the FBI and the other alphabet agencies actually are. And the RINOs took even longer to realize this. They opposed Trump at every turn, and still do.
I don’t know what Trump will do if he actually wins an election (which seems highly unlikely given the complete abasement of the electoral system by the Dems) but if he does win he will have an Augean task to clean them up.
Maybe he could bring in Kevin Sorbo to do unto the FBI.
Mr Sorbo is a Trump supporter and climate realist!
Surely he’d be up for a Herculean task.
Too many conspiracy theories & hot takes out there for me.
It shows just how shit scared the deep state is regarding a Trump second act.
Which I don’t believe will happen.
I’m of the view that a Trump surrogate will be VP.
FBI searched Melania’s wardrobe, spent hours in Trump’s private office during Mar-a-Lago raid
By Miranda Devine – August 9, 2022
Now who would have fancied those beautiful fashions?
Schweizer: Paul Pelosi, Jr. Consulting ‘Very Reminiscent’ of Hunter Biden
Breitbart News senior contributor and Government Accountability Institute president Peter Schweizer said Monday night on FNC’s “Jesse Watters Primetime” that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) son Paul Pelosi, Jr. is consulting in a way that is “very reminiscent” of Hunter Biden’s business dealings.
Schweizer said, “This is a particularly cynical and galling move by the Pelosis. First of all, as you pointed out, Paul Pelosi Sr., Nancy’s husband, has been under scrutiny for insider trading issues the stock trades. He has to, of course, disclose his finances because he is the spouse of Nancy Pelosi. Your adult children do not need to disclose their financial transactions. So, it seems like they switched attention to their son’s commercial activities.”
He added, “To put even a tighter note on this, Jesse, look at what is happening here. Nancy Pelosi is flying to the Asian Pacific region as the entire region is nervous and scared about the looming threat posed by China.
You have got the Speaker of the House coming in with a couple of other Democrats. They certainly want to have her good favor, and all of a sudden, her son is along for the trip. He is not a foreign policy adviser. He has no background, looking for business deals. This is what you call leverage. This is the sort of stuff you would expect from the Mafia, where you kind of create a demand for your own services. The kind of services that Paul Pelosi Jr. is offering are very reminiscent of Hunter Biden’s, by the way. They are vague. They are consulting are offering advisory services. They don’t actually have some product they are trying to sell.
It’s particularly a galling and cynical move. I applaud you for covering this because the rest of the mainstream media is totally ignoring this story.”
Kittah’s will be pleased to know lisa wilkinson is releasing a range of skincare.
Good news for people who want to make sure their leather car seats last.
New formula! Now with extra formaldehyde!
He’s conflating Sky News with Sky News Australia, but is broadly correct – until Bernardi’s monologue, Sky News Australia has been as uncritically pro-Ukraine as any western MSM outlet.
Miranda Devine answers to the theory I posted. The theory is very likely to be crap.
More smug know-nothingness from m0nts.
It’s unimaginable that the FBI – the FBI! – would resort to such tactics.
More speculation for me.
Was this a move by the Hiden’s to try and keep members of the Hiden family out of jail? Bunter Hiden and Demented’s brother appear to be real live crooks. Of course, Demented was also in on it. The Hidens soft underbelly is Ukraine and the shit they pulled with China. Maybe their concern was they have to remove the potential of Trump retaking the Oval Office as his administration would appoint special counsel.
And then there’s this in Devine’s piece, which means the 3D chess playing Trump theory is bullshit.
Now the likelihood is that the FBI will plant stuff in the stash.
Yeah well I wouldn’t be too worried about special counsel if I was them. How’s Durham going three years in?
It is likely he never realised it was happening – the man is pretty dim – but his claim to fight for the rights of women and Aborigines is merely camouflage to make it look like he is fighting for a principle: Fighting for all women and all Aborigines.
The reality underneath is that he was only ever fighting for the rights of particular women (progressive) and certain Aborigines (urban fauxboriginals). It would never have crossed his tiny mind that being a housewife could be a worthy vocation for a woman and should not be derided as a laughable relic from a retarded age, or that Aborigines who just want as peaceful a life as their white peers should be allowed to do so.
But if he articulated his true goals the rebuttals would immediately coalesce – and it would be hard.
So he claims we need more women CEO’s and judges “for all women”, and more land councils and political patronage “for all Aborigines”.
If the left tries to comport itself as an unstoppable and courageous warrior, then Pirate Pete is the piece of toilet paper stuck to its heel that gives the flimflam away.
Fair comment, Jupes.
Look, if Trump is innocent, he has nothing to worry about. One thing we’ve learned over the last 6 years is that the US legal system is straight down the line.
Just what were they hoping to find as they searched through Melania’s knickers?
While I haven’t had much time for the Australian media during the Covid years, I have been today pleasantly surprised by the solid and critical stance the press corps took when questioning the Chinese ambassador at the ABC Australian Press Club telecast. They took no prisoners and held him to account for the belligerence of China against Taiwan after the visit of Nancy Pelosi.
In turn, the Chinese ambassador did not bother to disguise the reality of their intention of reclaiming Taiwan by force.
Compulsive viewing.
I think everyone now feels like that now after the initial surprise. It’s straight down the line with the Gestapo.
Just what were they hoping to find as they searched through Melania’s knickers?
J Edgar Hoover would approve
Bruce O’Newk:
How many decades has this glaring hole in our defences been known, and how many Billions of scarce resources have been pissed against the wall in a fruitless, time wasting feasting of bureaucrats at the trough, while the hole remained unplugged?
Thank Christ the Oberons were scrapped because after the four Collins Class, we’d be back to nothing to interdict whatever comes our way.
He is largely an emasculated house-husband too.
His missus pulls the big bucks (but probably not past this current contract).
Bandana Man really only has one employer … Nein TV and Nein newspapers.
Sure, the bookwriting gig is a handy side-hustle, but it only gets him one week in the spotlight every two years.
Despite his bluster he knows that his MSM career would effectively be over if Nein gave him the flick.
Wouldn’t it be delicious irony if Nein summarily fired him for “being racist on Twitter”.
I mean, after all he said about Israel Folau’s non-existent contractual rights, he couldn’t argue against his own sacking, could he?
Normally we assume maintaining chain of custody is considered important to vouchsafe reliability of evidence.
But in the case of the boxes carried out of Trump’s residence it would seem more to guarantee the FBI’s ability to fabricate any case it wants. There is no one who check what they have been up to.
It lays bare the unfairness of a system where the government coming after a citizen has not only greater resources, but additional rights.
If only we had some subs which could lurk in the Taiwan Strait and keep China honest.
Maybe Taiwan should look after that.
Unless people are volunteering themselves or their kids to do the reckless.
Vicki, Taiwan was never China’s in the first place. They can’t reclaim it.
PS
If Bandana Man thinks he is untouchable at Nein, he should give Elizabeth Farrelly a call.
They didn’t hesitate to pull the trigger on her when she gave them the bullets.
According to Baris the turnout for the GOP primaries in Wisconsin is on track to be the biggest of the Trump era.
Looks like the Wisconsin punter is well aware of what the Zuck bucks did during 2020.
Anyone suggesting otherwise is a dangerous conspiracy theorist and a probable white nationalist libertarian terrorist brimming with white rage who definitely needs to be put in jail before they can commit any mass shootings or other crimes.
Ian Chappell smashed Bandana Man in 2018.
Power makes right. Stop worrying just about Taiwon and show a little concern about us. If the US starts to look inward because of domestic crap the Demons are pulling and becomes a crisis, I don’t much like our chances of surviving a yellow onslaught. I’m applying for an EU passport just in case through the descent angle.
It’s not bullshit you know. Think this: you’re Jewish living in Berlin or in fact Warsaw in the 20s. Your family owns a very successful business and you feel like you own the world. Twenty or so years later, you and your family are transported to a gas chamber and you all perish. The nasty mammoth sitting on our roof really doesn’t like us much.
Dover at 2:29.
That was gold!
And summarises how he is viewed within the sports media and wider sports community.
I love how accusing him of being a “spotlight hog” is an “outrageous slur from a colleague of 20 years”.
As if working for the same channel gives him some sort of diplomatic immunity.
I don’t watch too much Baris these days, but I hope he’s punting on what his polling research is predicting.
In every primary where they have been doing research he has called it.
He’s been wrong once since 2018.
And that was the presidential election in 2020.
Daily Mail
Been banned from Twitter for 7 days and been quite sick with the flu so am playing catch up just today.
IMHO – anything seized by the FBI is inadmissible as they expressly disallowed Trump attorneys into watch, film, take notes… nothing.
US folks (and even judges) are kinda big on that.
The FBI also waited for Tucker to be on holidays.
That’s how much they fear him.
In Washington? Yea naaa. They sent the Washington Gestapo down to Palm Beach because they are totally loyal to the regime.
True JC but even if fuckwit traitor Garland comes out with some document where Trump agreed to give Putin CIA intelligence, or that he’s signed a deal with Satan himself, nothing can be believed (legally anyway).
I believe this is more Left-building-narrative.
And it will backfire.
Just get a load of this worthless piece of shit at Trump’s home. The only thing missing are the SS insignia.
It wouldn’t be especially difficult to make Australia a much harder target than it currently is. We need to be able to defend ourselves, by ourselves, and do away with the psychological need for a great power security guarantee that has afflicted Australian defence planning since the nation’s birth.
This would require some political vision and courage, and a sizeable medium-long term investment. The utter lack of the first two attributes means it won’t happen in a planned, staged, orderly transition – events we have no control over will force it upon us. And there will be a years-long capability gap over the interim.
Alternatively, we could make China our new protector.
(It was Washington Fucking Bureau of Idiots or local?)
As I said, sorry but I’m playing catch up.
Has warrant been published?
Decent call, Lysander. The only problem are the judges if this is goes to court and heard in DC. They will convict him in order to keep Trump from running again.
Or execute him.
Hmmmm….ta JC…
Eric Trump, at home mourning the loss of his mother, was on Fox – FULLY PISSED! This could start a civil war.
Oh wait, the Kleptocrapts started that in 2016.
That’s potentially a bottomless pit – because a defendant in any trial might claim the FBI used information from the Trump raid.
You know, I’ve viewed Garland a few times on vids and he appears to be a doddering old douchebag. They thing that stuck out about him too is that he looked weak. I’m guessing someone deep is running the DOJ and Garland is asked to sign the cheques.
Anyways, something more interesting. Latest Russian military equipment being introduced in Ukraine.
Baris is saying Christie, Pence & Haley were all over Wisconsin doing a full court press against Trump endorsed candidates & it looks like they lost every single race.
That’s going to put a dent in their fund raising capabilities for the presidential race.
What else would you expect?
How many decades has this glaring hole in our defences been known, and how many Billions of scarce resources have been pissed against the wall in a fruitless, time wasting feasting of bureaucrats at the trough, while the hole remained unplugged?
Yep – & I hate to say it – but most of it Liberal governments. And what did we all do to lobby for sufficient defence force budgets????
We are in deep s–t, as far as I can see. JC is going to clear out, it appears, if the CCP threatens to invade. What the rest of us will do, heaven knows. I have a 19 grandson, who I would willingly take a bullet for, if that would save him from military service in such an event. That, of course, is just an emotional reaction from someone who loves her family deeply.
The West is in an abyss after years of economic and ideological self absorption. Can we recover to save ourselves? Can the USA revive its will and energy to lead the world again in the face of an enemy that, at least in the short term, can destroy much of the free world?
I guess we will know the answers within the next three years.
Spot on JC re Garland…. He’s a doddering old fool. They’re looking for any way to get the smallest charge against him so he can’t run: Some note from Lil Kim or Putin or some letter he got from some random congratulating him for Jan 6 (or planted shit – these are the same people who have lied on warrants, in courts, in Congress…).
I think he knows he didn’t do what he needed to do from 2016: DRAIN THE SWAMP (but FOR REAL). And I think they know that he knows that now.
Seen it happen with plenty of Ministers who fall into bureaucrats hands… I mean, Yes Minister was showing this 40 years ago!
Vicki
I’m not “clearing out” as you call it. I’m buying a very low cost insurance – eventually for the family once I get the passport.
Whoever it is who now controls the Epstein blackmail videos now controls the USA.
Eric Trump: FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago goes past politics
Eric Trump reacts to the FBI raiding his father’s Mar-a-Lago estate on ‘Hannity.’
Cop on the cancellation of the Batgirl movie after a $70 meg bonfire of studio cash.
Some extracts:-
Ticked all the boxes.
What could have gone wrong?
Myth?
I think the problem is “shit movies lose money”.
insha’Allah.
Nice touch.
And the conclusion:-
Riiight.
So when actors, writers and directors are living it up burning millions of OPM it is “respect our art, man!”
When the long suffering studio turns off the cash spigot suddenly money is the root of all evil.
It’s just a few studio suits getting between the “artists” and an adoring audience.
Sorry.
Should have read “Cop this.“
Dan Bongino, like Tucker, is a guy I’m really starting to like.
I live about 39km from a nuclear target. Will cop the fallout if a SW is blowing. So some chance of surviving the initial invasion.
Oh come onsays:
August 10, 2022 at 1:43 pm
A source close to the former president expressed concern that FBI agents or DOJ lawyers conducting the search could have “planted stuff”
It’s unimaginable that the FBI – the FBI! – would resort to such tactics.
And so soon after the FBI was caught sponsoring a supposed kidnap attempt on a governor, which was used to entrap various people, who had to be invited to join the “plot”.
Pete – is Oz under threat of attack?
Biden is toast.
China has very big internal problems looming.
It’s not capable of invading and holding Australia; even Taiwan would be a stretch atm, which is why they haven’t attempted it, despite the bluster.
ML
It lays bare the unfairness of a system where the government coming after a citizen has not only greater resources, but additional rights.
I doubt that they legally have those “additional rights”, but most citizens lack the financial resources to challenge them, and the ‘ooman rites organisations have long since been taken over by fascists, and only care if someone on their side is affected.
“Chaos is a ladder” Lord Petyr Baelish*
*Not long before his summary execution by a potential birthing personage.
I’m going to Japan.
Good for JC to arrange a bolt hole if he has the resources. If I could I would to, once I would’ve picked Chile but it’s destroying itself with leftism, there’s not many places that aren’t stinking hot go to. If I had money, Andorra would be my choice.
JCsays:
August 10, 2022 at 2:53 pm
Just get a load of this worthless piece of shit at Trump’s home. The only thing missing are the SS insignia.
I’m a bit confused here. I thought that Trump, as a former president, had a continuing right to a protective Secret Service detail. Was that bloke one of the detail, observing and restraining the FBI fascists, or was this a joint operation? If the latter, the shit has now hit the fan.
There was a piece in the Bee that claimed the Batgirl movie was shelved because of the $70 million damage caused by attempts to reverse Batmobiles out of the cave.
Aren’t they going to have to do the same sums that the Imperial Japanese Army did, after the fall of Singapore? Far easier just to cut off this country from any allies, and wait for it to come to terms?
People do realise there’s a lot of countries & distance in between Australia & China don’t they?
That’s good Rog, then.
CovidSAFE App a colossal waste of $21 Million.
CovidSAFE App has been decommissioned. All the shortcomings that were predicted on the olderCat when the app was announced by the stupid fucking Liberal Government came true.
It detected only !!! 2 !!! close contacts that were not already known through manual contact tracing. $21 Xtralarge!!!!
Another failure to add to dicknozzle Morrison’s political epitaph.
This is why I like Mark Latham……
Mark Latham staff did not participate in bullying and sexual misconduct probe
One MP’s office did not participate in the highly-anticipated review into bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct in the Macquarie St bear pit due to drop it’s findings on Friday.
EXCLUSIVE: Mark Latham’s staff did not take part in a parliament-wide review into sexual harassment, bullying and misconduct, which he said was “a waste of money” and because getting offended “is a choice”.
The review led by Elizabeth Broderick is expected to hand down bombshell findings on Friday and Mr Latham said staff needed to know better than to “sook”, “dob” or write complaints.
The findings are expected to be disturbing and come shortly after Premier Dominic Perrottet dumped Fair Trading Minister Eleni Petinos after allegations and a complaint of bullying.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal Mr Latham responded to the committee’s request for interviews and told them his office will not be participating after a conversation with his staff.
“I had a talk with my staff about it and no one had any problems … I told the committee that sent the memo that we wouldn‘t be participating. That was a decision of the office and we don’t feel any recommendations will be relevant to the work we do,” he said.
“Our office didn‘t participate … We haven’t had any big turnover of staff, we don’t find this to be toxic workplace.”
The One Nation MP, who has previously worked as a staffer for Gough Whitlam, said political staff should not be offended by occasional outbursts.
“I worked with (Gough) Whitlam who was volcanic in his eruptions. His body would tremble with rage, but then he’d come up to you and say ‘How are you going?’ and give you a hug. A mature worker would realise that’s how he lets off steam,” he said.
“How would the political greats of the past cope in this environment … You just have to understand this is a man working hard for the public good and sometimes the pressure stumbles over and as a staffer you need to realise that. Don‘t go sook about it, don’t go racing off to dob someone in, writing letters.
“Offence is a choice … I chose to never be offended and I would recommend that to staffers today.”
Mr Latham said he expected the review to find Macquarie St was a “toxic workplace” but felt it was because the review was looking to “find problems to fix”.
“I’m sure the findings will be that it’s a toxic workplace … but I don’t see it myself.”
It show how shitscared Trumpists are that Trump is going to be charged with a real crime.
Bern
Yes there are a few countries, but let’s not forget that Napoleon also had a few countries between France and Russia.
It wouldn’t be an outright invasion, but our sea-lanes are pretty narrow and vulnerable too. We could be choked off. I’m not suggesting it’s a high probability, but it’s also not zero and there’s no cost to taking a low grade insurance policy. At least with an EU passport you don’t have to line up with them foreigners. 🙂
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It’s not capable of invading and holding Australia
I imagine if your capable of occupying Oz then holding on to it wouldn’t be of too much concern .. LOL!
Given that we are slightly further away than a Dover to Normandy Channel from anyone helpful I seriously doubt replaying D Day would come into consideration …….
m0nty-fa
More correctly, it shows how shit scared DemonRats are of Trump, that they will, if necessary, manufacture, an alleged crime with which to charge him.
Good to see, however, that the operator of a fantasy website also lives in the fantasy world of Alice Through the Looking Glass – The Queen of Hearts, “Execution first, trial after”.
Fascist to the core, and reveling in it, that sums you up.
They’d like to be the regional hegemon, JC, and dictate terms to us.
But I don’t think time is on their side and they’re making too many enemies in the region with their aggressive posturing.
JC
It wouldn’t be an outright invasion, but our sea-lanes are pretty narrow and vulnerable too. We could be choked off.
Eastward and westward, there are many ways not too far off a great circle route. Passage to Japan, east of the Solomons, would be longer, but also harder for the Chinese to interdict.
The real difficulty is passage through the Indonesian archipelago, but the Chinese would face worse difficulties trying to interdict us, unless Indonesia is on their side.
We’re in safe hands with VIC super plod.
You may have seen in the news that the body of 58 year old Colleen South was found in a paddock about 5km from where her car was located east of Wycheproof.
Drones, tracker dogs and search teams scoured the area we were told. A farmer found the car and another the body.
This is an area of open cropping and grazing paddocks with scattered trees and a few creek lines crossing the landscape.
Ted family is wondering how she wasn’t located sooner. A very good question.
Lysander says:
August 10, 2022 at 2:54 pm
(It was Washington Fucking Bureau of Idiots or local?)
As I said, sorry but I’m playing catch up.
Has warrant been published?
Trump Attorneys Spill the Beans on Issues With FBI Raid, Warrant
Trump attorney Alina Habba appeared on Fox News with Jesse Watters. She said that they had been cooperating with the National Archives over the records and that this was completely “unconstitutional.” “Our country should be terrified—I am terrified,” Habba exclaimed. She said the FBI went in when he wasn’t even there, and then told his attorneys to leave, that they couldn’t watch or be there. “That doesn’t sound good to me,” she declared.
Habba said the agents came in wearing backpacks, and she was concerned that they could have planted things since they were trying to get the attorneys out of there. Habba said she believed this was all part of the effort to try to take Trump down, and that people were “working in tandem” with other efforts.
Watters asked about the warrant, and Habba said the attorneys on the ground weren’t given the warrant during the raid — they were only allowed to look at it.
Now, here’s Trump attorney Christina Bobb on Real America’s Voice. She was the attorney who was on site. She explains that they initially wouldn’t even let her see the warrant, but then did; they were reluctant to let them have it. It’s not clear from what she says if they ultimately were able to obtain it at some point. She also explained that the probable cause for the warrant was sealed, so that they can’t even know what it was unless they go to court to find out.
She confirmed that it was due to the Presidential Records Act, which the host indicated has never been prosecuted–one of the many reasons this “rationale” to seize documents from Trump’s home is ridiculous. She said they also were looking for classified documents. “The irony of both…is it is the president [Trump] himself who gets to decide what is a presidential record. So, why they get to redefine that is unclear and why they get to search, why that’s even in a warrant, it doesn’t really make any sense,” she said. “The same thing with any potential classified information.”
What is ridiculous about all this is how opposed this is to how they treated Hillary Clinton, whose home was never raided, who was never gone after for getting rid of her emails or having classified documents on her private server.
Bobb explained to RSBN how this was completely unprecedented to pursue a former president this way — that Hillary Clinton even took furniture and other items from the White House when the Clintons left, and she just got an email to return things.
On top of what the attorneys said, as I noted in my Trump family reaction story, the FBI also wanted the Mar-a-Lago security cameras shut off while they were conducting their raid. Why? The only thing one can think is that they didn’t want the camera to catch something that they were doing.