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Re: adding to the lies. Trump 'do whatever he can' to 'help the country' - Today

A little old, but I’ll toss it in here: RNC warning to Trump: If you run for president, we stop paying your legal bills, says official QuoteSince October 2021, the Republican National Committee has paid nearly $2 million to law firms representing Trump as part of his defense against personal litigation and government investigations. But an RNC official told ABC News that as soon as Tru

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Re: About theose 87,000 new IRS "Agents" - Today

Quotemattkime Quotemacphanatic It's time to end the mortgage deduction Hasn't that one essentially been phased out? No but Trump tightened the limits on it, mostly as an FU to places with high real estate values (ie Blue states), along with limiting deductions on State and Local taxes (for the same reason). For a lot of people, it now makes more sense to take the standard deduction. But, f

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Re: Mediterranen re-flooding 'most catastrophic flooding event in Earth's recorded history' - Today

Quotetestcase What? None of the "usual suspects" here trying to blame Trump for this event? Silly.

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Re: Christopher Hitchens defending Peerage given Rushdie - Yesterday

Not my idea of treasure: QuoteHitchens employed the term "Islamofascist" and supported the Iraq War, causing his critics to consider him a "neoconservative"…In 2004, Hitchens stated that neoconservative support for US intervention in Iraq convinced him that he was "on the same side as the neo-conservatives" when it came to contemporary foreign policy issues, and

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Re: Speaking of NaCl... - Yesterday

I have used NuSalt, which is just straight potassium chloride. The taste is different, but not unpleasant (to me - your taste may vary, of course). I did so because I’m hypertensive, but I’ve been pretty well controlled on losartan, once a day, and since I last ran out of NuSalt, I haven’t seen any change in BP. So I really don’t think I’m salt-sensitive, and have been using sea salt

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Re: Rand Paul’s lasted crazy - Yesterday

BTW, would he posthumously pardon the Rosenbergs if got his way?

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Re: Rand Paul’s lasted crazy - Yesterday

I’m sure he would have felt the same if top secret, possibly nuclear documents had been found in ex-president Hillary Clinton’s basement after she had been subpoenaed for same and had her lawyer attest that she didn’t have them. Right?

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Re: In other news, they won’t have Gableman to kick around any more - Yesterday

More here.

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Re: About those 87,000 new IRS "Agents" - Yesterday

Some crazy folks want to bring the IRS into the 21st century so they’d be able to calculate most folks income taxes for them, for free: Quote“It’s definitely something we should do, and when the IRS is adequately resourced, it’s something that will happen,” said Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at a June Senate Finance Committee hearing. … Perhaps this biggest hurdle is an agreem

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Re: Sunday Morning: Armed Trump supporters protest outside of FBI office in Phoenix following Mar-a-Lago probe - Yesterday

QuoteTiangou Last chance to visit a dying city... Expert Explains the Reason Phoenix May Be Uninhabitable by the End of the Century ...Particularly in Phoenix, the Heat Island Effect's adverse impacts will be exacerbated too, by ongoing infrastructure projects that worsen resource scarcity problems. According to the said report, Arizona's water infrastructure is already weak, as human o

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Re: Investigate Hunter Biden? Most Democrats say yes. Investigate Trump? Most Republicans say no. - Yesterday

Some people like to say both political parties are the same, that one is as bad as the other - two sides of the same coin. I would say those people are just not paying attention. Trump has made that abundantly clear.

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Re: He just took work home with him, that's all - 2 days ago

Yeah, well, it's not what he says out loud in public; it's what he thinks inside his head. And the latter works retroactively.

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"They coulda just asked for it" - 2 days ago

They did, and they did again, and again, and finally Trump's lawyers swore there was nothing else. QuoteAt least one lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump signed a written statement in June asserting that all material marked as classified and held in boxes in a storage area at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and club had been returned to the government, four people with knowledge of t

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Re: “ Rep. Lauren Boebert's neighbors called 911 after her husband ran over their mailbox 'looking to fight' “ - 2 days ago

Oh great - another redneck “First Dude”.

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Re: He just took work home with him, that's all - 2 days ago

QuoteSteve G. Trump further claimed that he had a "standing order" to declassify documents "the moment" they left the Oval Office. "President Trump, in order to prepare for work the next day, often took documents, including classified documents, from the Oval Office to the residence. He had a standing order that documents removed from the Oval Office and taken into the

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Re: Did I miss the outrage by Republicans over Warrant release? - 2 days ago

I’m surprised about the “you coulda just asked” thing, when the DOJ had asked, and then when that didn’t work, had gone to the trouble of a getting a subpoena for the documents (which they kept super-secret, for the benefit of the irresponsible holder of such documents). I guess more than anything, I’m surprised Trump thinks anyone would believe this. But that’s not unusual - every

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In other news, they won’t have Gableman to kick around any more - 2 days ago

…well, actually, they may, since he still appears to have that 4 lawsuits and/or contempt of court findings against him to deal with. But: QuoteThe Wisconsin Assembly Republican leader who hired a former state Supreme Court justice to investigate the 2020 election fired him Friday, three days after beat a primary opponent whom and former President Donald Trump had endorsed. Don’t

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Re: Swords,knickknack foreign gifts taken? - 2 days ago

I would guess Garland will let him keep the knicknacks, as long as the nuclear secrets aren’t in the basement of his golf club any more.

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Re: Did I miss the outrage by Republicans over Warrant release? - 2 days ago

Oh, there has been all sorts of Republican outrage. Well, first there was the outrage that Garland wasn’t providing information. Then, on Thursday, there was outrage that he provided information on the matter (because it sounded bad). And that he didn’t provide enough information (to let them spin it into something less bad). Then, yesterday, they were outraged in all sorts of ways.

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Re: Trump is under investigation for violating the Espionage Act - 3 days ago

The usual suspects respond (in the usual, predictable way): Quote“What they’ve been doing to President Trump is a political persecution,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) told reporters on the steps of the Capitol. “Merrick Garland has abused his position of power…” Greene then walked into the Capitol and introduced articles of impeachment against Garland. QuoteRep. Lau

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Re: Trump is under investigation for violating the Espionage Act - 3 days ago

Oopsies: George Will - Garland has a political duty to explain the circus perpetrated at Mar-a-Lago Released...uhhh...yesterday. Composed...maybe in 2016, before we all knew the Trump we thought we knew was exactly what he actually was? Regretted...forever? One would hope so.

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Re: Happy Birthday Spiderman (60 years old) - 3 days ago

I think that was the going price for comics back then - Archie too. 12 cents.

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Re: Salman Rushdie attacked on a lecture stage in New York - 3 days ago

PS - He's still in surgery at this point.

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Re: Salman Rushdie attacked on a lecture stage in New York - 3 days ago

I've heard an assault rifle is the ideal defense weapon against unruly authors.

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Re: Trump is under investigation for violating the Espionage Act - 3 days ago

Just heard on NPR. They were talking to a law professor from the U of Michigan who said what came out today made her eyes pop. At the end of the segment: NPR: Earlier this week, Trump supporters were saying this was going to turn out to be a nothing-burger. Professor, is there a burger here? Professor: It's a double-decker cheeseburger with extra sauce.

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Re: Trump is under investigation for violating the Espionage Act - 3 days ago

QuoteKash Patel, a Pentagon chief of staff during the Trump administration, told Breitbart News in May that the documents previously recovered from Mar-a-Lago had been declassified by Trump, but their markings were not updated. “Trump declassified whole sets of materials in anticipation of leaving government that he thought the American public should have the right to read themselves,” Patel

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Re: Trump is under investigation for violating the Espionage Act - 3 days ago

Quotevision63 QuoteN-OS X-tasy! It's about time. What's interesting is he's been under investigation for these things and Garland's Justice Department leaked nary a whisper. I agree. Garland’s department looks like incredible competence, discretion and professionalism next to the last bunch.

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Re: WTH would the Orange Traitor DO with classified material about nuclear weapons ? - 3 days ago

One last bit: QuoteThe search warrant for Trump’s residence cited three criminal laws, all from Title 18 of the United States Code. Section 793, better known as the Espionage Act, which covers the unlawful retention of defense-related information that could harm the United States or aid a foreign adversary; Section 1519, which covers destroying or concealing documents to obstruct government

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Re: WTH would the Orange Traitor DO with classified material about nuclear weapons ? - 3 days ago

Finally, someone let the NYT see a copy of the warrant: QuoteFederal agents who executed the warrant did so to investigate potential crimes associated with violations of the Espionage Act, which outlaws the unauthorized retention of national security information that could harm the United States or aid a foreign adversary; a federal law that makes it a crime to destroy or conceal a document to

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Re: WTH would the Orange Traitor DO with classified material about nuclear weapons ? - 3 days ago

PPS - I bit the bullet and went to Faux News, because they were one of the outlets that were given the leak. Aside from the usual obfuscation, they are going with the (desperate, I think) claim of Trump's that all these documents were declassified. Apparently only in Trump's mind. Awaiting the full-throated defense from the echo chamber of how Trump could (retroactively, I would guess) dec

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