[Well, Happy 2023 everyone and we might as well start the new year off with a fresh sandbox. In the 19dec22 Sandbox Mr scenes offered an intriguing suggestion (830am) in an attempt to eliminate the detritus of TDS and things gratuitously Trump from continually contaminating practically every other topic with yet another boring lap around the Trump barn. He suggested that RR add a Trump category and restrict posting of Trump-centric comments to that category. I envision it being structured like the Sandbox with dated, and perhaps even topical, labels so that the comment streams don’t become too long. I need to noodle on this and invite readers’ ideas about how it would work. gjr]

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1,208 responses to “Sandbox – 1jan23”
The tube sock @239 seem to forget about freedom of association. LOL
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Aviation; The Woke are bat shit crazy.
https://fb.watch/h_-c20V1PX/
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MM 2:39 – “Kavanaugh’s party-going raises questions about when a justice’s personal relationships cross a line and become problematic.”
Har Dee Har Har Har.
Was never “problematic” before…
What do all the lefty Supremes do? Sit around the house and knit all day?
This is all a bunch of partisan horse shit. Could we pulleeze have a full list of who all the lefty Supremes pal around with?
Ah, that’s right – THAT’S different.
Lookit lefties – we have a majority of Supremes now that look at the Constitution and then pass judgement. They don’t make up crap or ‘read’ into the document hidden meanings. They don’t decide to ‘update’ what they think the founders ‘really’ meant. You are just going to have to deal with it.
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BT 2:29 – Maybe the Wild Cherry deal was a notice to Gavin.
I think this was what Gregory wanted to post:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ggNbVd8f3M
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Scott @11:30
Would you be in favor of de funding the fed government to a degree if they appeared to be weaponized for political purposes?
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Yes, that’s a link to the VDH video!
The Wild Cherry link is also well worth watching… the best One Hit Wonder of the 1970’s. The singer/bandleader/guitarist who wrote it in 5 minutes after the inspiration hit retired on the proceeds.
Here’s a live cover by the artist once known as Prince:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNrAFb3I2js
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Bill W – “…if they appeared to be weaponized for political purposes?”
IF??!! IF??!!
Dude – the fed govt is so beyond weaponized.
The fed govt needs to be stripped back to what it was authorized to do in the first place.
No Dept of Ed – they educate no one. Test scores have steadily gone down since it’s inception.
Get rid of the IRS and replace with a sales tax. It isn’t perfect and there will be bugs to work out but it has to happen.
The FBI needs to be bitch-slapped back to it’s original purpose. Just take care of ACTUAL crimes that cross state lines and jurisdictions.
The single largest issue is that the Dems are the biggest sugar daddies for the fed govt. They always promise more depts and more personnel and higher pay no matter what. Results and success is never asked for. Naturally the fed employees will skew to the Dems and act in partisan ways without qualms.
The fed govt has to stop being the welfare dept. Only states and local munis should be in the business of handing out goodies to the proles.
No direct payments or programs from the fed govt to the individuals or local or state govts that transfer wealth. No bailing out corps or states or muni govts or unions. Period.
The states and cities can spend all they like on welfare. The feds only should help in actual disasters or emergencies.
Covid shut downs were from the mayors and governors. So the mayors and governors can pony up the dough, but not the fed govt.
So much more, but you get the idea. We are a Republic – not a democracy. The states are to try out different ideas of what works and what doesn’t work and the feds should not intervene to try to level out the results. Lefty states that overspend will just have to suffer and the better run states will shine.
End note:
Not that I have the slightest hope of this ever happening.
Too many Dems and Rs love the present set up and they don’t give a shit that we are headed for ruin.
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Whats wrong with this picture? –
NJUHSD scored low or very low in every measure, except suspension rates which were very high.
https://www.theunion.com/news/report-card-from-the-california-dashboard-for-njuhsd/article_e07adbea-906d-11ed-8e74-ef9238c1784c.html?fbclid=IwAR09tZSpjxXhaA3fkE2hrvArqn5THZgk6KRIaBxmd0L2df3dxihAc-diEJc
https://knco.com/tentative-teachers-contract-agreement-njuhsd/
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The WH pleads just repeat our lies and dont do reporting pretty please –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/11/white-house-pleads-reporters-to-avoid-confrontation-bidens-possession-classified-documents/
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Scott O @ 5:25 pm
Looks like the one who shoves microphones in people’s faces with his little tape recorder asking “why, why, why” without answering any questions is back.
Just substitute Bill W for Punchy the Asshole and I cannot see, hear, or distinguish any difference.
“Scott @11:30
Would you be in favor of de funding the fed government to a degree if they appeared to be weaponized for political purposes?
Posted by: Bill W | 11 January 2023 at 04:13 PM”
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Thanks To Needless Covid School Lockdowns, Your Kids’ Lifetime Earning Potential Plummeted
https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/11/thanks-to-needless-covid-school-lockdowns-your-kids-lifetime-earning-potential-plummeted/
Remember who shot down your schools, your businesses, your life. Teachers Unions, local and state unelected health officials, and social media.titans.
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Don 5:55 – “Ed, we don’t need to have this. We work very well together. We don’t need to have this kind of confrontation,”
Gotta love it! Asking questions is now ‘confrontation’.
So open and transparent!
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If creepy grampa joe and the global warming luddites would just get out of the way of US energy we could cut off vlads balls and bankrupt ussr 2.0 –
The sanctions have already dug deep into Russia’s oil revenues, as crude oil exports fell 12% in December while crude oil revenues fell by a whopping 32%, the study found. The decline comes as a massive blow to Putin, as oil was among his biggest cash cows at the beginning of the war, while fossil fuel revenues constituted the “financial bloodline for Putin’s war,” Svitlana Romanko, founder of Razom We Stand, an organization seeking a full embargo on Russian fossil fuels, said in a statement accompanying the CREA study.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/putin-made-big-bet-energy-215331681.html
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Scott
So in order to achieve reform within the FBI, Dept of Ed, IRS and Fed gov in general, you would want to see restructuring involving budget cuts, or defunding in order to achieve more efficient government departments.
Would that be an accurate assessment?
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Bill W 9:46 – Depends on what agency you’re talking about. The dept of ed is a joke – just get rid of it. I have no idea what to do with the FBI beyond simply firing (for cause) the top 20% and letting the rest know they’re next if they don’t straighten up. It seems you can’t punish them for criminality and perjury, so just throw them out on the street with no pension.
The very nature of the IRS is un-Constitutional. We have to spend money to hire expensive lawyers to prove we are innocent? Who thought that was a good idea? Income tax is a fine on productivity. We fine people for doing things we don’t want them to do.
How does that help? We need to reward work and savings, not punish it.
Not sure what to do with the military. They can’t even account for what we give them. If a unit can’t account for the money they take within a year, cut their budget by 50%. Also the military needs to get back to the idea that they are to be the best at destroying stuff and killing people. Throw out all the equity crap. Toxic masculinity is what a military is all about. Why would a man want to die for a country that wouldn’t let him post photos of naked women in the barracks?
The fed govt is an unmanageable monster. It needs a financial chain saw to rip right through it.
As it is our debt is going to destroy the country.
It will be a hard and painful slog to set the books aright, but it needs to be done or someday we’ll wake up to the fact that no one wants our worthless paper money and no one will buy our debt. Then what do you do?
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Yes….shop the matter to someone reliable politically.
Then in a few weeks we can give our captive press something else they can use to distract the hoi polloi and this largely goes away. Just like every time a democrat is involved.
IMPORTANT GRAMMATICAL CORRECTION NOTICE: “hoi polloi” is automatically corrected to “hot polo”. Make your edits accordingly.
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Biden has worn out his usefulness. Now the swamp is throwing him under the bus
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Crap Barry…..that was fast!
All in Red and with the flashing lights at Drudge (always the showman!)
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This Biden “secret records” deal smells more and more like a way for the Dems to slide the senile idiot out before the bigger issue of the Biden crime family sell-out to the chicoms comes to light.
Who did all of this ‘discovering’? Normally they just keep their mouth shut. We know they timed the release of the info and there was no one to my knowledge that had any suspicion that this stuff existed.
Now Paul can break out the 100 lbs of popcorn he’s been saving for the last few years!
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Barry and fish – That article had some interesting points. It seems that Biden’s own lawyers ratted him out? Damn. I guess he missed last month’s payment. And Garland hands the matter off to a guy in Chicago who hands it off to a Trump-appointed guy.
Nice. Now if the investigation goes nowhere or is fumbled, they can complain it was a Trump related witch hunt.
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Posted by: Scott O | 12 January 2023 at 11:05 AM
The DC Shuffle…..
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Scott,
It sounds like you are aware and attentive to important facts and issues.
Abolishing agency’s would be even more extreme than de funding them, and I am reminded of a similar situation where socially aware
individuals recommended restructuring or de funding the police when they appeared out of control.
Seems like being woke is not limited to the left leaning types.
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Barry, Scott, fish
Nothing in DC happens by mistake. Leaks to a major newspaper, 2022 midterms have passed and now it’s time for ‘them’ to get rid of Joe. Sure, it’s just a conspiracy theory right now, but follow the time lines.
There is just too much in the Hunter laptop to continue on. Charge Hunter with some tax evasion or lesser offenses soon to neatly avoid the meat and potatoes of the Crime Syndicate. It will take the pressure off the DOJ, but I digress.
Joe has outlived his usefulness. A friggin intern at the National Archives alerted the DOJ. Think what was happening in August 2022 when the FBI raided Trump’s house. Kept Trump front and center for a month leading up to the midterms. A big distraction, but I digress again.
It certainly was not a box or two of classified docs in Biden’s closet. Closet? Didn’t Hillary have classified docs in her closet with a private server that she Bleach Bit’ed?
I have posted here months to a year ago about the working of Joe, the U of Penn, the Chicoms huge donations, and the scam Biden think tank and his 750-900k teaching position where he did not teach. Get the Chinese to donate to Penn, which in turns around and provides Joe with a slush fund. Small potatoes.
Nay, my brethren that was not what the this is about. It is all about protecting the Surveillance State. Joe has to go….not by the voters, but by the Security State.
Only time will prove Barry, Scott, and fish correct. Time has proven that all of our “conspiracy” theories have proven correct.
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Biden clip
https://youtu.be/JB4ZkAQBex4
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Rather than posting all the recent andsundry stories individually (too much work), here is most of it in one link.
LOOSE ENDS (201)
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/loose-ends-201.php
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Bill,
That laptop is like a dairy cow that has yet to produce milk, unless someone can show otherwise it would appear.
As far as China concerns, was there any complaints of Ivanka getting 41 Chinese trademarks while actually employed
in The White House?
Any complaints when Ivanka and Jared were conducting official business on private email accounts and encrypted apps while
actually employed in The White House?
It does seem like Joe is getting some re direction to persuade against him running again, but if Trump is the competition it’s not going to be a deal breaker.
He’s still a lot better than Trump if it came to that, as evidenced by the popular vote counts of both 2016 and 2020.
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Matt Taibbi drops damning and explosive #TwitterFiles, part 14: ‘THE RUSSIAGATE LIES’
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2023/01/12/matt-taibbi-drops-damning-and-explosive-twitterfiles-part-14-the-russiagate-lies/
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Despite over half of all Dems believing the Russia Collusion Hoax (Big Lie) was true and affected the 2016 Election, even Raw Story will not be able to change the deranged minds on the Left. Waste of time.
https://www.rawstory.com/russian-bots/
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Techno Fog disagrees with me about throwing Biden under the bus, but agrees with me that the real story is the Biden Crime Syndicate.
‘Classified documents found in Biden’s GarageThey were unsecured, next to the Corvette.’
“Second, there’s been some speculation that this is part of an effort to throw Biden under the bus. Not seeing it. There’s bigger issues where Biden is more vulnerable, namely corruption”
https://open.substack.com/pub/technofog/p/classified-documents-found-in-bidens?
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Techno Fog disagrees with me about throwing Biden under the bus over some stolen classified docs, but agrees with me the Corruption angle is where it is at. Get out in front of it to control the narrative.
‘Classified documents found in Biden’s Garage’
They were unsecured, next to the Corvette
“Second, there’s been some speculation that this is part of an effort to throw Biden under the bus. Not seeing it. There’s bigger issues where Biden is more vulnerable, namely corruption.”
https://technofog.substack.com/p/classified-documents-found-in-bidens?utm_source=po
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Dr. Rebane
See if you can pull out my Techno Fog post around 1:06 pm. Techno Fog, being a isite run by former and current DOJ, FBI, and Intel assets makes it darn near impossible to copy and paste. Maybe you can pull it out (the 2nd one).
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Yeah….I remember when this excuse wouldn’t fly!
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-defends-storing-classified-documents-garage-locked-1773372
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More Americans identify as Republicans than Democrats
“That survey also revealed that the Democrats are more liberal than ever. “After hovering near 50% in recent years, the percentage of Democrats who identify as politically liberal rose four percentage points in 2022 to 54%, a new high for this group,” said Gallup.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/more-americans-id-as-republicans-than-democrats
When you lose the working class……. Independents on the rise.
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bw 1124a
“…and I am reminded of a similar situation where socially aware individuals recommended restructuring or de funding the police when they appeared out of control”
In general, when folks who write like you say “socially aware” what you are meaning to say is “fully indoctrinated”. Socialist, woke, “progressive”. Mostly Marxist muffins.
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Gregory,
It is generally the right wing loons which claim they can see in the heart of another.
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Lol
PLANTED: The View Suggests GOP ‘Behind’ Classified Docs in Biden’s Garage
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2023/01/12/planted-view-suggests-gop-behind-classified-docs-bidens
CNN Pulls Plug on McCarthy After He Criticizes Democrats Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/bill-dagostino/2023/01/12/cnn-pulls-plug-mccarthy-after-he-criticizes-democrats-adam
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MSNBC’s Ruhle Whines GOP Voted to Protect Babies in Botched Abortions
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kevin-tober/2023/01/12/msnbcs-ruhle-whines-gop-voted-protect-babies-botched-abortions
Stolen
MSNBC Downplays Own Exclusive Report on 2nd Batch of Docs Biden Took
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2023/01/11/msnbc-downplays-own-exclusive-report-2nd-batch-docs-biden
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ROFLMAO
KJP: it’s pure coincidence that Biden saw no migrants in El Paso
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/01/12/kjp-its-pure-coincidence-that-biden-saw-no-migrants-in-el-paso-n523204
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Why not just cut to the chase and ban the word ‘work’ and save us all a lot of time.
Out Of Left Field: USC’s School Of Social Work Bans The Word ‘Field’ Because It’s Racist, Apparently
https://www.dailywire.com/news/out-of-left-field-uscs-school-of-social-work-bans-the-word-field-because-its-racist-apparently
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Ouch
New Study Says Maybe You’re Not Depressed, You’re Just Narcissistic
https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/11/new-study-says-maybe-youre-not-depressed-youre-just-narcissistic/
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What House Democrats Got Wrong about the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-house-democrats-got-wrong-about-the-born-alive-abortion-survivors-protection-act/?
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bw 141p
“It is generally the right wing loons which claim they can see in the heart of another”
That’s what hard left loons tend to fall back on when faced by a centrist who doesn’t fall in the face of their standard rhetoric.
So, what does “socially aware” mean to you besides a not very subtle put down of folks who don’t have the same views as you?
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Try again. Techno Fog disagrees with me that ‘they’ are throwing Biden under the bus over the stolen docs, but agrees with me they are being preeminent in controlling the narrative for the real corruption.
https://open.substack.com/pub/technofog/p/classified-documents-found-in-bidens?
https://open.substack.com/pub/technofog/p/classified-documents-found-in-bidens?r=1w1lfq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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“It is generally the right wing loons which claim they can see in the heart of another“
And it is generally the Lefty loons that assign nefarious motives to everything a Righty does. Trump had two scopes of ice cream! Proof he is an narcissistic. The cadets at the Army-Navy game where flashing White Supremists signs by giving the “ok game” gesture.
“I think we know why you are silent on Hurricane Maria. It’s because you can’t stand people who do not look like you!”
No use getting on your good side so eat shit and die.
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Bill W 12:31 – “That laptop is like a dairy cow that has yet to produce milk, unless someone can show otherwise it would appear.”
LOL – Yeah, the references to the “Big Guy” was a person with the first name of ‘Big’. Must be Buddy Guy’s brother, right?
Did you watch the Tony Bobulinski interview?
Biden openly bragged about bribing the Ukrainians to pull the prosecutor off of the company that was paying Hunter money for protection. And Biden is sitting there bragging about how he did it.
A dairy cow can’t produce milk if the owner (DOJ) is a strict vegan.
Maybe Bill W can spin us a funny story about why the FBI had the laptop and knew it was legit all the while telling the public that anyone who claimed it was real was spreading dis-info.
Go ahead, Bill W – We could all use a good laugh.
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Bill W 11:24 – “Abolishing agency’s would be even more extreme than de funding them,…”
There’s nothing ‘extreme’ about getting rid of something that cost billions and is destructive. There was never a demonstrated need for the Dept of Ed and the results of their stupidity and racist malice against poor and black children is reprehensible. They are nothing more than a slush fund for the left and a huge payback to the lefty teachers unions.
“individuals recommended restructuring or de funding the police when they appeared out of control.”
But they weren’t “out of control” – The police are a needed and important function of a proper society. Police incompetence, corruption and brutality has to be looked at and corrected, but the nonsense from the leftists about police “causing” crime and the “fact” that white police just go around murdering blacks is stupid bull shit for stupid people.
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The Congressional milking shed has been monopolized by Democratic teats in the past four years.
Congressional oversight will be changing, and with the nuggets from Twitter and Fakebook, there’s plenty of room for a balanced congressional inquiry.
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Aaaand the McCarthy Circus is off to an expected start.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled House on Thursday voted to block oil from the country’s emergency stockpile from going to China.
You had to watch it to understand how partisan and fucked up this bill is compared to the competing bipartisan bills that would block oil from any US controlled sources from going to any country the US has sanctioned.
Small minds at work.
Yeah Kevin, that will show those Chinese fucks, right?
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said ‘like a lot of people’ she had ‘easily gotten sucked into some things I had seen on the internet’ regarding QAnon conspiracy theories.
Small minds.
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It is the proper use of the word ‘stolen’ to say stolen classified doc where found in Joe’s garage.
“Today, counsel to President Biden revealed that classified documents were found in Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware residence.
This is the second batch of classified materials that were taken by Biden in 2017 – the first being those found at the Penn-Biden Center. Here’s the relevant part of the statement of Richard Sauber, Special Counsel to President Biden (highlights are ours):
“Following the discovery of government documents at the Penn Biden Center in November 2022, and coordinating closely with the Department of Justice, the President’s lawyers have searched the President’s Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, residence – the other locations where files from his Vice-Presidential office might have been shipped in the course of the 2017 transition. The lawyers completed that review last night.
During the review, lawyers discovered among personal and political papers a small number of additional Obama-Biden records with classified markings. All but one of these documents were found in a storage space in the President’s Wilmington residence garage. One document consisting of one page was discovered among stored materials in an adjacent room. No documents were found in the Rehoboth Beach residence.”
This statement follows reporting that Attorney General Merrick Garland has assigned the U.S. Attorney in Chicago, John Lausch, Jr., “to review” these documents. The FBI is “also involved in the U.S. Attorney’s inquiry.” Lausch is a hold-over from the Trump Administration, one of the few U.S. attorneys not forced to resign during the transfer of power. In the past, he reportedly helped the DOJ speed up the processing of documents “in response to a House Judiciary Committee subpoena that related to the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.”
What should we make of these latest developments?
First, Biden’s attorneys are conducting these searches of Biden’s residences to show the DOJ that their cooperation is full and transparent. These are steps done to avoid the potential for any type of subpoena. Biden is convincing his own Justice Department that a search will not be necessary. Attorney General Garland will undoubtedly agree.
****SECOND, there’s been some speculation that this is part of an effort to throw Biden under the bus. Not seeing it. There’s bigger issues where Biden is more vulnerable, namely corruption.*******
Third, to state the obvious – yes, there is a double standard. Yes, the Biden DOJ subjects Trump to standards that Biden himself can’t maintain. Yes, Biden’s homes won’t be raided. Yes, there won’t be inaccurate leaks from Biden DOJ about what Biden’s classified documents contained. In other words, yes, it will be business as usual.
Fourth, why release this information now? To get ahead of the story and control how it’s released. From the Administration’s perspective, better to disclose the discovery of classified documents on their own – with their own spin – rather than be subject to anonymous leaks they can’t control. Thus, they put out the written statement and give Biden something to read:
Finally, what is to come?
While there are no guarantees, we believe it is more likely than not that Garland does not appoint a Special Counsel to investigate Biden’s possession of classified materials. (We’re 80/20 on that one.) If Garland believed such a step was necessary, he probably wouldn’t have assigned the investigation to the US Attorney for Chicago to look into a matter where the President is a suspect and classified documents included “some top-secret files with the ‘sensitive compartmented information’ designation that is used for highly sensitive information obtained from intelligence sources.” (Garland’s choice of investigator should suggest where this is headed…)
After all, Garland refused to appoint a Special Counsel in a more high-stakes investigation – the Hunter Biden criminal case – where Biden is a witness and in which implicates Biden with his own potentially criminal conduct.”
https://twitter.com/dannydeurbina/status/1613567182604234753?
Emphasis on SECOND because the actions taken about the closet stolen docs will be just a distraction from the real scandal, i e, Joe Biden’s corruptiom
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“When I was a CIA analyst, if I took classified docs home, kept them in my garage, and then told CIA security personnel that “it’s cool, my garage was locked”
they would have told me to lawyer up, taken my badge, and escorted me out of the building, awaiting charges”
https://twitter.com/BuckSexton
https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/01/1344/756/biden-delaware-garage.jpg?
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Of course the crack head owned the house where the 3rd batch of docs were found in the garage –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/12/report-document-shows-hunter-owned-joe-bidens-delaware-house-in-2018/
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toes 504p
Yes, the Bray and Cluck Show was on fire this morning.
I do miss hearing the Baby Elephant Walk of My City Is Gone… Limbaugh was the finest at getting the Left pissed off not because he was being offensive but because he knew how to push their buttons.
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Gregory,
Centrist don’t reliably defend every far right/ trump narrative.
Socially aware is not a put down as far as I’m concerned. It might be interpreted as such on far right media.
Bill,
BiDeN has ice cream all the time, no one gives two shits, why would it be different for Trump?
you seem unhappy this evening Bill.
Scott
Lol indeed about the “big guy” if that is all that laptop has to offer. If it ever turns into more than that, let me know. It’s an example of you guys getting way ahead of your ski’s
The whole chain of custody on that thing is why people say it fits Russian disinfo. It will either pan out or it won’t. I’d say if anything tangible was there it would be out already since Rudy had it in his possession.
I’d still say abolishing anything is more extreme than de funding it, and I would say “Who’s woke now”, if you were Bill, but I don’t remember you pushing woke narrative like him.
The out of control police comment from me was referring to the examples you listed, I dont think they should abolished. Plenty examples of white cops killing blacks and others that fit the out of control description. Not a majority though
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Bill Wokestain @ 5:40 pm
“Bill,
BiDeN has ice cream all the time, no one gives two shits, why would it be different for Trump?”
Because it WAS a big deal from the Unhinged TDSers that Trump liked two scoops of ice cream while everybody else got one scoop. A bon-e-Fidel moral crime against humanity. Where have you been, Buckwheat?
Thank you kindly for making my point.
The Woke are 100% in on genital mutilation and sterilization of 14 year old kids. That’s their thang. They own it. Sick fucks. You know how I know the Woke (or those who are afraid of being cast out of the Woke tribe)? Do you know why I am soooo very sure, Bill W oke? Because you, Punchy, any of Punchy’s friends and local acquaintances REFUSE to talk about it.
Your silence is violence against children. Your silence is proof.
“I never hear you criticize The Woke. That means you are a woke buddy.”
Again, that’s for making my point. The Lefties and old Libs suddenly gave a shit about Trump eating ice cream. Personally, I don’t give a shit about anyone eating ice cream. Punchy certainly did.
If I am guilty of anything, it is that I see you, all of you, the same way I see the Asshole Punchy. So, if you are one of the few one the Left who did not care about Trump having TWO!! scoops of ice cream, then I was wrong.
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