Leading Republicans are in thrall to a dangerously conspiratorial view of the US government.



After news of the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home broke on Monday night, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy responded by openly threatening Attorney General Merrick Garland.

"The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization," he said in a statement. "Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar."

Think about this for a second. Here you have the likely next speaker of the House claiming without the tiniest shred of evidence that the Justice Department is persecuting a former president - and vowing to use his authority to punish them as a result. His response to his baseless claim of the politicization of investigative powers is to promise a politicized investigation of his own.

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Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchampzack@vox.com Aug 9, 2022, 12:45pm EDT




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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

Come November Garland is toast.

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

wow you read fast
LOL

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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

You find that scary but not this, go figure...

recently re-emerged clip of Schumer warning that Kavanaugh and fellow conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch would "pay the price" for opposing abortion rights in 2020.

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If it’s legal will do it, if it’s not legal, we’ll figure out how to change the law-Joe Biden

It's because he's a fucking hypocrite!

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

what scares me is that they could get away with the selective prosecution of political opponents

Yea, republicans are destroying the country to protect the fatass conman that tried to overturn an election, but you can buy some sweet conspiracy merch from them on IG.

Yeah?

Fuck you!

http://redstate.com/nick-arama...s-of-the-ny-ag-n610336

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

The USA is now under the "Rule of Not That Law".

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Dora Hates You

LOL - Bannon and Jones are now talking about assassination of Trump.

Grifters are going to grift, and that is what the GOP is up to now.
So, send them mo'money!!!

https://www.mediamatters.org/s...ng-assassination-trump




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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV


Edited: 08/11/2022 at 04:55 AM by Bamboo

How's that Biden Crime Family doing?

Joe Biden has been grifting for 49 years!

His criminal empire is old and rooted.





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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

It's ok. Progs scare easily. See, e.g., the great covid panic. A Congressman performing his oversight duties is calculated to scare progs.

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Trump put a link to his donation site on his outraged social media post. lol

Does an honest man need to take the 5th in a civil courtroom?

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I was right.

All the time. Pretty routine in situations like that, actually.

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Then why did he say only criminals do it? Do his words mean nothing?

All of you know he lost the election. All of you know he deserves the scrutiny.
All of you know he is a lout. Enough with the feigned outrage already.



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I was right.

Everyone has their opinions.

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All of you know he lost the election.

Lie.

All of you know he deserves the scrutiny.

Lie.

All of you know he is a lout.

You're a lout.




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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

Well, as everyone knows, during her many many hours of Congressional depositions,

Hillary invoked the 5th... umm. how many times?

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GOP:

Gaslight
Obstruct
Project

Speaking of that did you see how the CDC just flip-flopped on pretty much all of their guidelines, even though cases right now the seven day average is about six times higher than it was last summer

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If it’s legal will do it, if it’s not legal, we’ll figure out how to change the law-Joe Biden

The smart people are vaccinated now and if they catch it they have a couple days of feeling like shit. The others are dead or don't care.

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“It is the heart of US policy to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism “ - Michael Parenti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9LW8FEUyVs

Well The house GOP held a press conference about this today.
Lots of butter emails comments, this was sudden w/o warning and not coordinated (it was and they made sure trump wasn't there and it was during daylight hours and not wearing their agency vests/jackets to help avoid a spectral), and how unfair this is type comments.

Then they said they don't know what the docs are, but if they were weapon related and SAP....yeah, that could be a problem.

So, they bowed before their Cheeto Jesus but really aren't sure about anything like the rest of us.

Apparently trump isn't going to stop the unsealing of the documents, but he has already paved a Alternate Fact story seed for the faithful about how the FBI planted documents in his house.

Sheesh....


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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV

Orrr pretty much like healthy people all along. What about all the stuff about healthy non-symptomatic people spreading it to other unhealthy people and killing them, what about the mask the vaccinated should wear to protect the old and unhealthy people, did you forget about all that. You guys have a very selective memory



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If it’s legal will do it, if it’s not legal, we’ll figure out how to change the law-Joe Biden

Qrump is the salvation of the democrats! The far right has proven themselves ineffective and beholden to a platform that alienated large groups of Americans. They are pasty and have weaknesses that range from the Bible to food and strippers.

Not really frightening. Just a bump in our great history.

fukk all that. if WG or effK says it's scary....its scary, dammit

Dark Brandon rising

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“It is the heart of US policy to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism “ - Michael Parenti

The fact that they fully embraced the Alex Jones world view about the time Obama got elected should have been the warning bell. What is crazy is that the Kevin McCarthys and Mitch McConnells and Ron Desantises don't really believe any of that shit. They are cynically appealing to the Truthers and the Birthers and the Pizzagaters in order to court their vote knowing that all traditional Republicans will hold their nose and vote R no matter how crazy as long as they think that R will keep the government from taking their stuff and giving it to undeserving people. The collateral damage is that they are managing to mainstream some really far our shit like that historically pedaled by fringe Alex Jones, Joe Mercola, etc... types.

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Rick Scott can explain it best: I was committing a huge amount of fraud and I spread the blame everywhere and when everyone took the fifth, the government could prove the crime but they couldn't pin it down to who actually committed the crime so there was no prosecution. That's the red hat blue print.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

From the Atlantic today: "In short, Americans shouldn't really know what to think about the search. We can hope that the momentous decision to search the former president's residence met appropriate legal standards and merited the DOJ's historic intervention. We can fear that the warrant represented either a politicized attack or an unnecessary law-enforcement escalation of a politically perilous investigation. But we simply can't know if the DOJ's actions were appropriate until we see their legal and evidentiary support."
That about sums it up.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Yeah - happens all the time - in situations when members of the mafia are on the stand

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There are NO white people at all in the Bible... take all the time you need with that...
Please stop feeding the trolls - they will go away if you do...

Edited: 08/11/2022 at 06:40 PM by surfsail

only if you let the Atlantic do your thinking for you. how very pedantic of you, counselor

Hillary took the hardest shots the GOP could throw at her for the Benghazi hearings. She never once invoked her right against self incrimination. 12 hours. Trump called it a perjury trap and invoked his fifth over 400 times. Huge difference.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Legitimate question: did Trump and the GOP unleash a crazy man that got himself killed when he acted upon all the outrageous inferences they knew the crazies would answer with violence.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

CB8ball says....It's possible

"The former President was going to return ALL those classified documents right after releasing his tax returns. As soon as his audit was over. And after they found those 11870 votes in Georgia. And the election was reversed. And his bone spurs healed, and the trunt healthcare plan was released.

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So if you are a surfer I wish you the prosperity that allows you more time to pursue the salt water dream, and the true happiness that comes from warm water, clean waves and the companionship of your fellow surfers. If you are an internet troll just spewing bs then f off.

FBI Librarians.......... don't like it - when you keep their books late! Hmmmm.... I wonder how that new golf league is gonna work out.....

You progs still scared about this? Might I suggest that you go covid mode and hide under your beds.

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LOL
scared?
We are celebrating a functional government!

And laughing at that stupid piece of shit, if this is the dumb way he self-destructs.

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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

Title of this thread, which you started, BTW: And you guys are clearly scared. Frankly, you have good reason to be.

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All Republicans are outraged at the FBI recovering nuclear secrets. They have done nothing but help Democrats in the upcoming election. They called for civil war, when the country was actually being protected by the FBI.

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I was right.

Garland plans on showing the warrant - which Trump could have done - and has asked a judge to show what was taken. Trump knows this was a just search, but chose to make it an outrage/money making venture. More scamming of the gullible.

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I was right.

Do the right thing and lose your job. Kiss ass, take the cash and ignore the people you serve.

Pretty solid party delineation right there.

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I was right.

sounds like..... you got it all figured out ... sike!

Yep, still scared. Just wait until we take over.

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Scared of what? Trump is getting what he deserves. I find your Keyboard Cowboys outrage hilarious.

And what's with the threat, will Republicans get revenge on Democrats for enforcing a well-known law? How very Nazi of you. Scum.




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Edited: 08/12/2022 at 06:24 AM by Cole

Another McCarthy Era does seem quite likely
Who does nazi it coming?

Ah what a wonderful legacy for trump, taken down by librarians. He always was an enemy of books.

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“It is the heart of US policy to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism “ - Michael Parenti

Librarians know the answers to questions ...........most people don't know to ask

June 10, 2016, 9:16 AM EDT / Updated June 10, 2016, 9:20 AM EDT
By Steve Benen

"About a month ago, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was reminded that during his failed presidential campaign, he told voters that Donald Trump shouldn't be given access to nuclear codes because he lacked the necessary judgment and temperament. "I stand by the things that I said," Rubio replied, shortly before saying he'll support Trump's candidacy anyway."


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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

So why did they do that?
And what does it have top do with Trump and his theft of nuclear secretes?

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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

showing that....maybe they really DGAF?

i c wut u did ther lol

What's a nuclear secrete? Now you have privy to what was taken? Nuclear secrets? OK, it has nothing to do with it other than it's just another thing you guys have always been scared of. And why did they do that, probably another distraction tactic. But also to continue the legacy of flip-flopping like they have done the whole pandemic.

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If it’s legal will do it, if it’s not legal, we’ll figure out how to change the law-Joe Biden