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[QUOTE=Paulie97;2731046]It's at best grossly irresponsible carrying all that stuff off with him, but that's the sort of thing narcissists do. And it was funny when Uncle Tom Tim Scott kept going on about the search saying "this is unprecedented!" Well, Tim has a non-sequitur going as something that is unprecedented isn't necessarily unfair and unreasonable, ie. His conclusion doesn't flow from the evidence. The question as to whether an action is unprecedented speaks nothing to whether or not we should do it.

[URL]https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Non-Sequitur[/URL][/QUOTE]LOL. This is why Trump was the only Repub not demanding the warrant be released prior to Garland calling the Repubs' bluff by agreeing to support the release of it, why he wouldn't release his own copy himself even though he could have on day one and why he no doubt was praying everyone else on his 'side' would STFU about demanding Garland ok the release of it:

Watch the damning video here:

[B]Former FBI Official Reads Warrant, Says 'This is Much More Serious'.
Chris Swecker, who was all over Fox TV and Fox Business questioning the search of Mar-A-Lago, is now backing off his original criticism.[/B]

[URL]https://crooksandliars.com/2022/08/former-fbi-official-reads-warrant-says[/URL]

[QUOTE]Sean Duffy, filling in for Laura Ingraham last night, asked former FBI official Chris Swecker for his view on another guest's contention that Trump did not violate any laws by taking classified documents to Mar-A-Lardo.

"Sean, these are heavyweight statutes," he argued.

"The first statute, 793, is basically the espionage statute. It talks about things that he may have done with the documents that would result in injury to this country and he did these things willfully. That is serious enough that is a ten-year penalty if hes convicted.

"Now, the third statute, which is the obstruction-related statute, carries a 20-year penalty and it alleges that he somehow impeded an ongoing matter, which could have been the grand jury investigation of what we now know is an espionage case. [b]So this is a much more serious case than just possession of classified documents.[/b]

He said it's clear the DOJ is alleging actions by Trump, which is much more serious.

Swecker appeared on Fox on the day of the search, and at that time, called it "absolutely wrong." Now that he's seen the warrant, he's walking it back.[/QUOTE]Notice how he totally dismisses the utterly irrelevant "classified vs declassified" issue with regard to Trump's potential serious prison time criminal liability.

The "classified vs declassified" bit is quickly being revealed to be this year's "Mueller found no 'collusion'" street hustle style misdirection from Trump's consistent and ongoing anti-American transgressions.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2730724]Trump now is collecting tons of money in donations: [URL]https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trump-shattering-all-fundraising-records-after-fbi-mar-lago-raid-son[/URL].

Then Trump told the DOJ to release all the documents.

"Not only will I not oppose the release of documents related to the unamerican, unwarranted, and unnecessary raid and break-in of my home in Palm Beach, Florida, Mar-a-Lago, I am going a step further by encouraging the immediate release of those documents."

The FBI was looking for 'classified documents relating to nuclear weapons,' among other things, during its Monday raid at former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, WaPo reports, citing 'people familiar with the investigation.'

So hours after Merrick Garland says that DOJ only speaks through its filings in court, they go out and leak this story to the Washington Post.

Attorney General Merrick Garland revealed during a brief Thursday speech that he personally approved the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, and that the DOJ has asked a federal court to unseal the document.

Material about nuclear weapons is especially sensitive and usually restricted to a small number of government officials, experts said. Publicizing details about USA Weapons could provide an intelligence road map to adversaries seeking to build ways of countering those systems. And other countries might view exposing their nuclear secrets as a threat, experts said.

One former Justice Department official, who in the past oversaw investigations of leaks of classified information, said the type of top-secret information described by the people familiar with the probe would probably cause authorities to try to move as quickly as possible to recover sensitive documents that could cause grave harm to USA Security. -Washington Post.

So. We're to believe that the FBI took several boxes from Trump in June, told him to put a bigger lock, and then two months later realized 'oh -- he might have nuclear secrets' - justifying the raid.

So we assume the narrative will now be that Trump leaked, or could have leaked, nuclear secrets to Putin. Which justified "authorities to try to move as quickly as possible to recover sensitive documents" in the name of national security.

Right.

End of link. So the thing the WaPo story leaves out is Trump can declassify anything he wants, so this case has no chance in hell of winning and like I said before, the search was totally unconstitutional.

If the FBI precedes with this case, they will have to release the documents, and there is no way in hell they will. This all adds up to not a criminal charge against Trump but a criminal case whereby the FBI seized documents embarrassing to themselves.

I still cannot believe that nuclear shit. That technology is nearly 80 years old. What a fucking joke.[/QUOTE]All the illegal crap the democrats and DOJ come up with just make more Americans realize that they will continue to push their communist agenda.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2730868]

[B]You do not have to comply with a subpoena. They are voluntary.[/B] If Trump defies a subpoena, the proper process is go to a judge and have the subpoena enforced. A judge can say that Trump had to follow the subpoena. The problem with this is that whatever decision the judge makes, it can be overturned by the Appeals Court and after that the Supreme Court which I bet it would have been, and the FBI knew that.[/QUOTE]Profoundly and utterly wrong. Failure to respond timely to a subpoena can result in civil and / or criminal contempt charges and fines and may compromise your ability to later contest parts of the subpoena. [B]Voluntary??[/B] Dear God, Elvis where do you get these ideas?

[URL]https://www.findlaw.com/litigation/going-to-court/what-is-a-subpoena.html[/URL]

Now that Biden's domestic and economic accomplishments are shaping up to be among the greatest in POTUS record history, pro Repub electioneering Bothsiders like Bill Maher love to harp on how Biden didn't "stick the landing" on the Trump-negotiated surrender and withdrawal from Afghanistan. That is despite the irrefutable fact that it was the smoothest, safest, least deadly withdrawal from an occupied country by the losing side of all time.

So now we have Trump's own National Security Advisor schooling Fake Newsmax's Fake News Anchor Eric Bolling and everyone else that the 13 American soldiers killed by a single suicide bomber the then controlling Taliban allowed to pass through was "Trump's deal", not Biden's!

Oh, along with the usual reminder from those who know him best and worked with so-called potus Trump what a blithering ignorant fool and moron his is.

Excellent 'Must See" video here:

[URL]https://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2022/08/watch-john-bolton-school-newsmax-host[/URL]

To break the monotony of the custard pie slinging from both sides of clowns:

'I've worked in the media alongside politicians for 25 years. Once you see how the super-rich run everything solely for their own benefit you cannot unsee it. If people understood what lies in store for us they wouldn't be on strike, there would be a revolution' - Matthew Todd.

If you are on a side that is slinging custard pies at the clown opposition, you are on the wrong side of history.

Have Repubs ever proposed, championed and passed any healthcare legislation this beneficial to the American people?

Nope. Never.

Thanks, Obama-Biden, Nancy, Harry, the Dems and everyone who voted for them:

[B]8.2 million people may soon get a rebate from their health insurer[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/12/8point2-million-people-may-soon-get-a-rebate-from-their-health-insurer.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

[QUOTE]The refunds are expected to average $141 per participant in plans through the marketplace, $155 for those in plans through small employers and $78 for enrollees in large-group plans.

The aggregate total being refunded $1 billion is down from $2 billion issued in 2021 and a record $2.5 billion in 2020.

The reason these rebates go out each year is related to a requirement that insurers spend at least 80% of premiums on health-care costs and reimburse policy holders for the difference if they do not meet that threshold.
......
In the last couple of years weve seen some really large rebates twice the size of this years amount, said Cynthia Cox, a vice president at the foundation and director of its [b]Affordable Care Act[/b] program. But Id say $1 billion is still significant.
[/QUOTE]As I recall, one of the "great" Repub contributions to the crafting of that now sacred law in the midst of all their usual griping, sniping, whining, delaying, complaining and refusing to contribute anything helpful at all was to moan and groan particularly loudly about how many pages it was. LOL.

Seriously. That is the extent of what Do Nothing Repubs can offer the American people for their paycheck.

[QUOTE=Canada;2731192]All the illegal crap the democrats and DOJ come up w they will continue to push their communist agenda.[/QUOTE]Who is "they" and what communist agenda do you refer to? Can you give me some examples of coomunism at work in the major parties in the USA?

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2731320]Now that Biden's domestic and economic accomplishments are shaping up to be among the greatest in POTUS record history, pro Repub electioneering Bothsiders like Bill Maher love to harp on how Biden didn't "stick the landing" on the Trump-negotiated surrender and withdrawal from Afghanistan. That is despite the irrefutable fact that it was the smoothest, safest, least deadly withdrawal from an occupied country by the losing side of all time.

So now we have Trump's own National Security Advisor schooling Fake Newsmax's Fake News Anchor Eric Bolling and everyone else that the 13 American soldiers killed by a single suicide bomber the then controlling Taliban allowed to pass through was "Trump's deal", not Biden's!

Oh, along with the usual reminder from those who know him best and worked with so-called potus Trump what a blithering ignorant fool and moron his is.

Excellent 'Must See" video here:

[URL]https://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2022/08/watch-john-bolton-school-newsmax-host[/URL][/QUOTE]According to Labor Department data, the number of workers in the USA Has fallen 400,000 since March, a troubling sign after the number of workers approached prepandemic levels earlier this year. The total labor force is now about 600,000 smaller than it was in early 2020, right before widespread COVID-19 restrictions plunged the economy into a recession.

Biden policies are killing the economy and sending USA into a recession. Economists said that the only way Biden could lower oil prices was to drill more domestically or put the country in recession. Easy to see which way Biden chooses.

Inflation at its highest level in 41 years and Biden cure is to spend more money. The poor can't afford food or gas and he is giving them tax credits for buying an electric car. What a joke!! Border is in crises with only 20,000 border agents and he is adding 80,000 IRS agents to audit the middle class and small businesses. People are suffering and in poverty with Biden policies and democrats are to stupid to see it or they just ignore it.

[QUOTE=JustTK;2731591]Who is "they" and what communist agenda do you refer to? Can you give me some examples of coomunism at work in the major parties in the USA?[/QUOTE]Communism in democrat party is visible every day with wokeness and the killing of free speech. DNC is just another socialist or communist party. Facts are facts.

[QUOTE=Canada;2731623]According to Labor Department data, the number of workers in the USA Has fallen 400,000 since March, a troubling sign after the number of workers approached prepandemic levels earlier this year. The total labor force is now about 600,000 smaller than it was in early 2020, right before widespread COVID-19 restrictions plunged the economy into a recession.

Biden policies are killing the economy and sending USA into a recession. Economists said that the only way Biden could lower oil prices was to drill more domestically or put the country in recession. Easy to see which way Biden chooses.

Inflation at its highest level in 41 years and Biden cure is to spend more money. The poor can't afford food or gas and he is giving them tax credits for buying an electric car. What a joke!! Border is in crises with only 20,000 border agents and he is adding 80,000 IRS agents to audit the middle class and small businesses. People are suffering and in poverty with Biden policies and democrats are to stupid to see it or they just ignore it.[/QUOTE]Do you have a link for that Mount Everest of horse manure you just posted?

For the desperate Trump-loving revisionist historians out there.

With substantiation links:

[B]Trump to leave office with the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover[/B]

[URL]https://fortune.com/2021/01/11/us-economy-jobs-numbers-trump-compared-past-presidents-worst-record-since-hoover/[/URL]

[B]Fact check: Chart of job growth by president shows historic unemployment under Trump[/B]

[URL]https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/06/fact-check-pandemic-unaccounted-presidential-job-growth-chart/6177339002/[/URL]

[B]Trumps GDP Was the Worst Since Hoovers, But Who's Counting?[/B]

[URL]https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-08-02/trump-s-gdp-record-was-the-worst-since-hoover[/URL]

[B]Trumps Final Numbers.
Statistical indicators of President Trump's four years in office.[/B]

[URL]https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps-final-numbers/[/URL]

[B]Trump administration ended pandemic early-warning program to detect coronaviruses[/B]

[URL]https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-04-02/coronavirus-trump-pandemic-program-viruses-detection[/URL]

[QUOTE=Canada;2731625]Communism in democrat party is visible every day with wokeness and the killing of free speech. DNC is just another socialist or communist party. Facts are facts.[/QUOTE]Facts are facts, indeed. So please show me any reference, from ahywhere, that demonstrates that wokeness and the killing of free speech are communist policies. Maybe by wokeness you mean freedom for the woring class and the overthrow of the bourgeois state? Yeah, on reflection I am sure that is what you meant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism#Theory

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2731791]Do you have a link for that Mount Everest of horse manure you just posted?[/QUOTE]US Bureau of Labor Statistics. [URL]www.bps.gov/ces[/URL].

They post every day. Both good and bad. Don't be lazy. Look it up. Facts are facts and I know you socialists don't like the facts of Biden policies and record inflation.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2731536]Have Repubs ever proposed, championed and passed any healthcare legislation this beneficial to the American people?

Nope. Never.

Thanks, Obama-Biden, Nancy, Harry, the Dems and everyone who voted for them:

[B]8.2 million people may soon get a rebate from their health insurer[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/12/8point2-million-people-may-soon-get-a-rebate-from-their-health-insurer.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

As I recall, one of the "great" Repub contributions to the crafting of that now sacred law in the midst of all their usual griping, sniping, whining, delaying, complaining and refusing to contribute anything helpful at all was to moan and groan particularly loudly about how many pages it was. LOL.

Seriously. That is the extent of what Do Nothing Repubs can offer the American people for their paycheck.[/QUOTE]50 million people can't afford food today because of Biden inflation but it is great that 8.2 million people are getting a rebate. Thanks Joe, Nancy and Chuck for putting so many people into poverty.

By Jarrett Stepman.

. . Traditional Marxist ideas were adopted but changed in the 1920's by Italian communist Antonio Gramsci and others, and became the project of the Frankfurt school of critical theory. That new theory focused more on shaping culture, Lindsay said, marrying traditional Marxism with Freudian psychology and other social theories to change the way people think, , , "It has all of the conflict theory—separate the world into oppressor-versus-oppressed classes—with zero-sum conflict, no ability to agree or understand one another across those, and then takes on the postmodern understanding of truth being just politics by other means, which removes all of the brakes standing up against it," Lindsay said. Seeing the world through that lens is what constitutes wokeness.

Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation and author of the new book "The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics Is Dividing the Land of the Free," explained how these ideas entered the workplace under the guise of combating racism and why they are so toxic. "Anti-racism training is a con," Gonzalez said. "These consultants get paid exorbitant amounts of money. Often these fees come from taxpayer funds. "

Though many of the advocates of wokeness are con artists, we have to take them seriously, Gonzalez said, because there is a strong ideological component to it. "The true name of anti-racism training is consciousness-raising struggle sessions," he said. It's used to demolish the "hegemonic narrative," which in simpler terms, Gonzalez said, is simply "the American story, the American dream, the promise of liberty and prosperity that have attracted about 100 million immigrants from all over the world from 1850 to the present. " [URL]https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/wokeness-based-communism%E2%80%94heres-why-you-should-worry-166129[/URL].

In a nutshell, Wokeness replaced the workers with Identity classes. . . Same marxist analysis of oppressor vs oppressee with the solution being revolution and thought police. Result is the victim Olympics we see today competing for bigger and better victim status and government cash.

[QUOTE=JustTK;2731862]Facts are facts, indeed. So please show me any reference, from ahywhere, that demonstrates that wokeness and the killing of free speech are communist policies. Maybe by wokeness you mean freedom for the woring class and the overthrow of the bourgeois state? Yeah, on reflection I am sure that is what you meant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism#Theory[/QUOTE]