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Thursday, March 31. 2022

MIT Relents

Finally: Finding Holds DNC and Hillary Clinton Campaign Accountable for Dossier Hoax

Homelessness Is Not About Housing. Michael Shellenberger skewers the Left’s narrative on homelessness and urban disorder

Biden tears into 'political attacks' on transgender children: Slams bills stopping them getting puberty blockers, stopping biological boys playing sport against girls and Florida's 'Don't Say Gay Bill' for 'damaging mental health'

Gender Ideologues’ Alarming Campaign to Get Kids While They’re Young

Hunter Biden Dam About To Burst? WaPo, CNN Go Scorched Earth Over 'Laptop From Hell'

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The campaign was fined. Well, I guess it's something. Hopefully there is more to come. It is not going to change any minds among the HRC supporters, but anything on the record at least changes what the historians can do with it.

What am I saying? Of course it won't change that. Except maybe for a few.

May that be enough for our descendants to know the truth.

#1 Assistant Village Idiot on 2022-03-31 08:13 (Reply)

Russia Threatens Nuclear Strike on Europe if NATO Force Deploys

QUOTE:

A Russian political scientist tied to President Vladimir Putin warned that Moscow will launch a nuclear strike on Europe if a NATO peacekeeping force is deployed to intervene in Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine.

Is he freelancing or is he speaking for Putin?

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/putin-loyalist-threatens-nuclear-strike-on-europe-if-nato-force-deploys/

#2 feeblemind on 2022-03-31 08:58 (Reply)

Mostly it's just feeding the propaganda war.

Both sides are corrupt and weak, and need world opinion on their side.

#2.1 William O. B'Livion on 2022-03-31 09:30 (Reply)

It would be impossible for Russia to use nukes in Europe and for it to not be a full on nuclear war with total destruction of the U.S. Russia and China. Maybe one small nuke could be used without full scale nuclear war but even that is unlikely if the nuke was used against Europe or the U.S. Studies have shown that a full scale nuclear war would kill about 2 billion people in the Northern hemisphere, almost everyone would die. We better hope that Russia is bluffing.

#2.2 Anon on 2022-03-31 10:35 (Reply)

Army Reducing Its Numbers in Face of Recruiting Difficulties

I have long wondered how much recruiting has declined for the military since it went woke and we 'elected' a mental incompetent as CinC.

Actually I am surprised the numbers aren't worse than this for the Army, but then I am sure that is just my cognitive bias at work.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/30/army-reducing-its-numbers-in-face-of-recruiting-difficulties/

#3 feeblemind on 2022-03-31 09:04 (Reply)

I served the US military for 10 years, active, reserve and guard.

Young men don't really follow politics. Hell, one military podcaster talks about how he thought he was going to "Nam" when he joined the Navy to be a SEAL...In 1990.

These kids have also had 12 years of indoctrination by The Party, so they're sort of used to it.

Of course it means the next time Democrats start shit overseas, these poor kids are going to be fed into the meat grinder because their officers will be a lot better at pronouns than patrolling.

#3.1 William O. B'Livion on 2022-03-31 09:33 (Reply)

I don't blame young men today for not wanting to join. They're reading the signs of the times and wondering why the hell they should put their asses on the line to defend them.

#3.2 Maniac on 2022-03-31 10:08 (Reply)

My tax bill--and by that I mean the check I have to write next month--is bigger than Hitlary's fine.

So no, they didn't hold her accountable, they make a weak ass gesture.

#4 William O. B'Livion on 2022-03-31 09:28 (Reply)

I’ve paid more taxes in a single quarter, than that fine.

#4.1 B. Hammer on 2022-03-31 10:04 (Reply)

"WaPo, CNN Go Scorched Earth Over 'Laptop From Hell'

Neither of those are news sources. Pretending they are is engaging in fraud.

#5 ccoffer on 2022-03-31 09:48 (Reply)

For those who think the kerfuffle about 'gender instruction' for pre-schoolers is a tempest in a teapot, they should consider the female child grooming and sexual abuse rings in the United Kingdom, an array of crimes that targeted young Caucasian girls and went on for years under the nose of police. It was as close as sanctioned activity as one can get.

Although the UK law enforcement and local politicians knew that something was going on, police failed to investigate the reports - in some cases, refused to investigate - for fear of being branded as 'racists' (the perpetrators were / are mostly east Asian). The punishment of the perpetrators is only recently started to happen, and only because of the outcry of victims and parents.

Here, the community of elected and appointed officials, Ron DeSantis notwithstanding, are not going to protect your kids from child predators. They are not even going to stand and fight policies that allow this kind of programming. They may not even have the backbone to say something when they see it. They are exactly like the officials in the UK. The parents have to do it, with effort, resolve, and a refusal to accept the offerings of shelter organizations like Disney. And a willingness to make the lives of politicians a living hell until they do something about it. It's the same with women's sports, the same exact lunacy.

#6 Aggie on 2022-03-31 09:51 (Reply)

Not East Asian, but from the Northwestern portion of the Indian Subcontinent.

#6.1 DeGaulle on 2022-04-01 16:56 (Reply)

Yes, sorry meant to say 'west Asian'. Must have been looking in the wrong direction.

#6.1.1 Aggie on 2022-04-01 18:28 (Reply)

Eight thousand dollar fine, for the Clinton Campaign! Are you kidding me? Hillary and the DNC tried to kneecap a fellow American in a campaign for President, and then they went on to use all the Russia collusion hoax in attempt at taking the dully elected President out with impeachment, and the total in fines $113,000 dollars? They should be on trial for treason. And to top it all off, these very same people ran around ranting and raving about how Our Democracy (spit) is in peril. Hypocrisy, does not even begin to describe these people.

They are enemies to the Republic, the very Constitution they give lip service to; some even hold their hands over the Bible while swearing their oaths. The very definition of: Thou shall not take the Lords name in vain. They have infested every nook and cranny of government. Their evil has now taken over the entire school system, the mass media and many corporations. Why are more people not exploding with righteous anger over what they are doing to the innocent children? How do we vote our way out of this?

#7 B. Hammer on 2022-03-31 10:01 (Reply)

B. Hammer: Eight thousand dollar fine, for the Clinton Campaign!

They made a technical violation on reporting requirements resulting in a civil fine imposed by a regulatory agency.

B. Hammer: They should be on trial for treason.

They weren't charged with treason. For that, you would need to show probable cause in a criminal court.

#7.1 Zachriel on 2022-03-31 10:10 (Reply)

Please inform us. What would you say might constitute probable cause in this case?
Thanks - as always, we await your erudition!

#7.1.1 Louis Miller on 2022-03-31 10:34 (Reply)

Louis Miller: What would you say might constitute probable cause in this case?

Some background: The Clintons came of age during the era of Nixon's dirty tricks. They explicitly adopted strategies to counter those dirty tricks, including rapid response teams and the use of spin, to advance what they perceived as the public good (from a liberal perspective), but with the intent to never cross over into the illegality of Nixon and his cronies. However, the Clintons have always trod close to the line of legality, realizing that the confluence of power and moneyed interests is at the heart of American politics.

The political right could never make the connection between what might be termed ordinary corruption and illegal acts. That's why they went after Bill Clinton on a civil suit that was eventually tossed by the courts. It's all they had.

Consider the Clinton Foundation: The Foundation allows the Clintons to do good, to be seen as doing good, and to cultivate relationships to the moneyed interests that are the source of power, especially in the context of the dysfunctioning American political system. When the connection was too close, they instituted additional controls to strengthen the firewall between the political and the philanthropic. There is no need (and no evidence) to suppose money laundering or any of a host of other crimes. The very ordinary corruption is in plain view and legally sanctioned in the U.S.

If the Clintons crossed the line, they should be held to account. However, at this point, nothing resembling probable cause for treason or any related crime has come to light. We are left with explanation marks: Lewinsky! Benghazi! But her emails! No, YOU colluded with Russia Ukraine Russia!

#7.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2022-03-31 11:22 (Reply)

And instead of answer the question, zachriel tries to justify the Clintons' decades of crime.

She lies about Trump, then defends the Clintons.

Of course she lies about everything. It's in (((her))) nature.

#7.1.1.1.1 DrTorch (Link) on 2022-03-31 11:47 (Reply)

Yeah, Hillary came of age durning the Nixon era. She learned early that the media is not at all interested in corrupt lefties. She has used that to her advantage the entirety of her pathetic life.

My own reaction was of regret that, when I terminated her [Hillary] employment on the Nixon impeachment staff, I had not reported her unethical practices to the appropriate bar associations.

Hillary Clinton conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.

-Jerry Zeifman

Hillary is a career criminal. You gotta give her props though, she is masterful at her trade. A genuine genius. How much different her life would be with an honest media.

#7.1.1.1.2 B. Hammer on 2022-03-31 11:57 (Reply)

Zeifman: My own reaction was of regret that, when I terminated her [Hillary] employment on the Nixon impeachment staff, I had not reported her unethical practices to the appropriate bar associations.

Zeifman didn't fire Clinton. She was let go along with most of the Nixon impeachment staff only at the very end of the investigation, and not before. If Zeifman had just cause, he should have reported her, then there would be a record, and she would have had a chance to defend herself in the proper forum. Instead, it lives on as an unsubstantiated accusation. Notably, Zeifman doesn't claim Clinton committed illegal acts.

B. Hammer: Hillary is a career criminal.

She's a public figure, and you can certainly have and express your opinion. However, you only offer unsubstantiated accusations of non-criminal behavior.

#7.1.1.1.2.1 Zachriel on 2022-03-31 12:13 (Reply)

What dirty tricks? Name your top Nixon dirty trick.

#7.1.1.1.3 JustMe on 2022-03-31 16:39 (Reply)

JustMe: Name your top Nixon dirty trick.

Oh! There’s just so many! Well, if we have to choose, we’ll go with the classic—Watergate.

#7.1.1.1.3.1 Zachriel on 2022-03-31 17:42 (Reply)

Watergate wasn't a "dirty trick" and Nixon didn't even do it. Watergate was an over zealous person who was not Nixon heard from his girlfriend that the DNC was providing hookers to people who donated to them and they actually had a book of naked pictures of the hookers in their office in the Watergate hotel. So he stupidly broke in to get the evidence of their criminal activity and got caught. No dirty trick and Nixon didn't even know it happened until after the fact.

Come on! So many dirty tricks, certainly you can come up with one that isn't fake news...

#7.1.1.1.3.1.1 JustMe on 2022-03-31 23:33 (Reply)

JustMe: Watergate wasn't a "dirty trick" and Nixon didn't even do it.

Haha! Nixon is recorded ordering a coverup. He said, "If the President does it, it's not illegal." He said, “Goddamn it, get in and get those files. Blow the safe and get it.” The 'zealous' people were being paid in cash from a Committee to Reelect the President slush fund.

But, sure. Keep believing in unicorns.

Speaking of coverups, Nixon's long-time friend, his 'law-and-order' attorney general, John Mitchell, had his wife kidnapped, locked-up, and beaten to keep her from talking to the press. Or how 'bout the time, Nixon undermined U.S. peace negotiations with Vietnam to hurt LBJ politically, thereby prolonging a devastating war he knew the U.S. couldn't ultimately win?

#7.1.1.1.3.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2022-04-01 07:29 (Reply)

He did indeed try to keep it out of the news since he was in the middle of an election. Obviously a mistake but nothing like paying for a false dossier and then getting all our intelligence agencies to go along with the hoax. It was hardly a dirty trick it was a stupid decision. He should have simply put the facts out there. The Democrats used that mistake to destroy him and his presidency. But still not a dirty trick.

So! Can't find any dirty tricks from tricky dick???

#7.1.1.1.3.1.1.1.1 JustMe on 2022-04-01 11:20 (Reply)

JustMe: Obviously a mistake

Think you mean crime.

JustMe: He did indeed try to keep it out of the news since he was in the middle of an election.

Nixon said, "If the President does it, it's not illegal." He said, “Goddamn it, get in and get those files. Blow the safe and get it.” The 'zealous' people were being paid in cash from a slush fund of the Committee to Reelect the President (CREEP).

But, sure. Keep believing in unicorns.

#7.1.1.1.3.1.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2022-04-01 11:30 (Reply)

QUOTE:

And it didn't start with Watergate. "In May 1973...Bob Considine asked John Roosevelt, the President's youngest son, what he thought about the scandal. John Roosevelt responded, "I can't understand all the commotion in this case. Hell, my father just about invented bugging. Had them spread all over, and thought nothing of it." (P.168)

It Didn't Start With Watergate
- May 1, 1977 by Victor Lasky

#7.1.1.1.3.1.1.1.1.1.1 Zachinoff on 2022-04-01 13:16 (Reply)

Yeah! You said all that but those who committed the crime were punished and Nixon didn't plan or execute the Watergate break-in and knew nothing of it until after the fact. So stop dithering and come up with something, anything that Nixon did that was a dirty trick.

#7.1.1.1.3.1.1.1.1.1.2 JustMe on 2022-04-01 14:57 (Reply)

JustMe: You said all that . . .

Which you ignored.

#7.1.1.1.3.1.1.1.1.1.2.1 Zachriel on 2022-04-01 15:04 (Reply)

You still haven't come up with a single dirty trick by Nixon. You seem totally clueless about what Watergate really was and are simply spouting the party line on it. Nixon didn't do it and the guys that did went to jail. The Democrats used this to push Nixon out but he didn't do it. The irony of watergate was it was intended to get the evidence of the Democrats breaking laws and that story was buried. So come on, where are the Nixon dirty tricks...

#7.1.1.1.3.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1 JustMe on 2022-04-02 10:42 (Reply)

JustMe: You still haven't come up with a single dirty trick by Nixon.

Of course we have. We even provided specifics, while all you do is say "Is not!"

JustMe: Nixon didn't do it and the guys that did went to jail.

Nixon abused power, obstructed justice, and didn't go to jail. Instead, he was pardoned.

#7.1.1.1.3.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2022-04-02 11:03 (Reply)

A technical violation, that’s the spin? You’re a blithering fool and a intellectual dishonest one at that.

#7.1.2 B. Hammer on 2022-03-31 11:49 (Reply)

B. Hammer: A technical violation

If the government could prove the Clinton campaign purposefully misreported, it could result in a criminal charge; but, as the Clinton campaign argued, attorneys often conduct background investigations, so the reporting was as ordinarily done. The issue was settled without an acknowledgment of wrong-doing, and the fine was relatively small. That's justifies calling it a technical violation.

#7.1.2.1 Zachriel on 2022-03-31 12:02 (Reply)

Ah, yes, a technical violation, the product of which was used to bolster a technically falsified FISA warrant application by FIBI agents who technically knew where it came from, that it was false, and who paid for it, which FISA warrant was then used to technically open up surveillance on members of the opposing political campaign. All very technical.

Your deflections are becoming desperate.

#7.1.2.1.1 SK on 2022-03-31 15:25 (Reply)

SK: Ah, yes, a technical violation, the product of which was used to bolster a technically falsified FISA warrant application by FIBI agents who technically knew where it came from, that it was false, and who paid for it, which FISA warrant was then used to technically open up surveillance on members of the opposing political campaign. All very technical.

You're conflating different issues. The FEC ruled on reporting requirements, and the fine was approximately the same as attorney costs. Proper reporting wouldn't have changed anything with regards to the Steele dossier. Nor did the Clinton campaign release the dossier before the election.

As you point out, the FBI did know that the Steele dossier had a political source. They also knew it was largely uncorroborated. The FBI began the original investigation because of evidence of contacts between Russian agents and members of the Trump campaign. The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee later determined these contacts represented a "grave" national security threat.

#7.1.2.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2022-03-31 15:50 (Reply)

You just can't stop trying to change the subject. Clearly you know you've been caught out. Is this what you call "waving your hands around"?

This isn't about Trump, or Manafort, or any other distraction you bring up. This has always been about a presidential campaign and Federal LE at the highest levels using disinformation from a hostile foreign country to interfere in a presidential election. Whatever "grave threat" the intelligence committee thinks existed never manifested itself in such an unprecedented and frightening way.

The biggest issue and the real threat to the republic are people like you who deny the seriousness of what happened.

Shame on you.

#7.1.2.1.1.1.1 SK on 2022-04-01 09:50 (Reply)

By the way, you need to look up the definition of the word "conflate". You too often use it when you mean "confuse".

#7.1.2.1.1.1.2 sk on 2022-04-01 10:03 (Reply)

SK: You just can't stop trying to change the subject.

The original subject was the amount of the fines imposed by the FEC on the Clinton campaign. YOU questioned whether it was reasonably considered a technical violation. We supported our claim.

SK: This isn't about Trump

YOU brought up the FBI investigation of contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian agents. We pointed out that you were conflating (combining two or more texts, ideas, etc. into one) the issue of the FEC fines with the investigation of the Trump campaign. But, if you prefer, you were diverting from the original question by introducing the investigation of the Trump campaign.

SK: The biggest issue and the real threat to the republic are people like you who deny the seriousness of what happened.

The fines were what they were, and were reasonable based on the allegations. If you have evidence of criminal activity, then you should support that with evidence rather than just assuming your conclusion.

#7.1.2.1.1.1.3 Zachriel on 2022-04-01 11:12 (Reply)

Incorrect. The subject is the fact that the Clinton campaign and partisan FBI agents used Russian disinformation in an effort to interfere with a US presidential election and administration. It has nothing to do with whether or not Clinton et al have been charge or convicted--is has to do with what we know they did.

You know full well that's why the story was linked here, and yet you pretend you don't.

Stop trying to change the subject.

Again, this is an example why people discount everything you say. How can you be so un-self aware?

#7.1.2.1.1.1.3.1 SK on 2022-04-01 11:52 (Reply)

Bringing up the FBI investigation and abuse of the FISA process in this discussion is not a "conflation", it is not a confusion, and it is not a diversion.

It is in fact THE central part of the discussion of the Clinton campaign's purchase and use of Russian disinfo. You are attempting to divert from that discussion (and to dismiss the seriousness of what happened) by trying to make it about the FEC fine.

It ain't working.

#7.1.2.1.1.1.3.2 SK on 2022-04-01 12:08 (Reply)

SK: You know full well that's why the story was linked here

The story claimed: "Finally: Finding Holds DNC and Hillary Clinton Campaign Accountable for Dossier Hoax". But that isn't accurate. The FEC fined the Clinton Campaign for misreporting, a technical violation of reporting rules. Attorneys often conduct background checks, but even if they had reported it separately, it wouldn't have changed anything with regards to the dossier. Frankly, you should have agreed with this point, especially as you think Clinton is guilty of serious crimes.

SK: The subject is the fact that the Clinton campaign and partisan FBI agents used Russian disinformation in an effort to interfere with a US presidential election and administration.

It is not illegal to compile background on political opponents, and the Clinton campaign didn't release the dossier before the election. The FBI opened the investigation based on contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian agents, contacts the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee later found constituted a "grave" national security threat.

The FBI had an obligation to investigate. Opening an investigation doesn't mean any laws were broken; it doesn't even mean there is probable cause that laws were broken. However, clear evidence of illegal Russian interference in the campaign as well as contacts between Russian agents and members Trump campaign were uncovered. Gee whiz, Trump openly called for Russia to release hacked emails, and Donald Jr. said he would 'love' Russian dirt on Clinton.

SK: it is not a diversion.

That's funny. You just said, "This isn't about Trump".

SK: It is in fact THE central part of the discussion of the Clinton campaign's purchase and use of Russian disinfo.

They didn't use it. However, there is this:

Wendell Willkie, 1940 Donald Trump, 2022: Maybe the stable genius, Adolph Hitler Vladimir Putin can dig up dirt on Roosevelt's Biden's kid.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/03/30/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-biden/7216200001/

#7.1.2.1.1.1.3.3 Zachriel on 2022-04-01 12:36 (Reply)

Quibble-DickZ are trying so hard and failing miserably.

#7.1.2.1.1.1.3.3.1 Zachinoff on 2022-04-01 13:27 (Reply)

Pulling out all the stops, eh. Seriously, back to the offhand smartass joke about the Russians investigating the emails? That's it? Good lord. Can't you get new material? The sad part is, you seem to be a bright boy, so you know it was a joke, and yet you keep pointing at it and...wait for it...waving your hands.

Maybe if the Clinton campaign hadn't deleted and bleach bitted and smashed phones with hammers Trump would have never been able to make the joke...but that's just dreaming.

They didn't use the dossier? Technically, I guess? Good lord, Obama was even briefed that the Clinton crew was going to attempt to tie Trump to Russia. The stench of your dishonesty is becoming unbearable.

Stop diverting from the central fact that the Clinton campaign and partisans at the FBI used the dossier to open up surveillance on a US pres. campaign. The FEC fine is irrelevant--stop trying to make the conversation about it.

And yeah, you used "conflate" improperly--the two issues are of the same fact set. But it's OK, lots of people do it, even prominent ones who should know better. Of course they're trying to make themselves sound smarter than they are, which is a bad look.

#7.1.2.1.1.1.3.3.2 SK on 2022-04-02 09:00 (Reply)

SK: The FEC fine is irrelevant

Um, that was the actual topic.

SK: Maybe if the Clinton campaign hadn't deleted and bleach bitted and smashed phones with hammers Trump would have never been able to make the joke

We referred to Trump's comments just the other day (2022).

SK: Stop diverting from the central fact that the Clinton campaign and partisans at the FBI used the dossier to open up surveillance on a US pres. campaign.

The investigation was opened because of contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian agents, which the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee later found constituted a "grave" national security threat.

Compiling the dossier was not a crime.

#7.1.2.1.1.1.3.3.2.1 Zachriel on 2022-04-02 09:56 (Reply)

QUOTE:

We referred to Trump's comments just the other day (2022).

If it weren't for their quibbling the Quibble-DickZ would have nothing at all.

Such assclownZ.

#7.1.2.1.1.1.3.3.2.1.1 Zachinoff on 2022-04-03 01:46 (Reply)

There was no predicate to open the investigation--the Strzok EC starting Crossfire Hurricane is a farce.

"Compiling the dossier was not a crime."

Stop diverting. Stop trying to change the subject. Again, you know damned well why the story was linked here--in hopes that more people will come to understand what actually happened.

Using the dossier to bolster falsified FISA warrants almost certainly was illegal.

In a moral and ethical sense working with the Russians to interfere in the election and a sitting admin is a historical breach of the public trust and deeply dangerous to the rule of law and the idea of equal standing under the law.

The fact that you refuse to recognize that is a huge moral and ethical failing on your part.

#7.1.2.1.1.1.3.3.2.1.2 SK on 2022-04-03 18:26 (Reply)

SK: There was no predicate to open the investigation-

The Inspector General found the investigation was properly predicated, and the opening of the investigation preceded the FBI's receipt of the Steele dossier.

SK: In a moral and ethical sense working with the Russians to interfere in the election and a sitting admin is a historical breach of the public trust and deeply dangerous to the rule of law and the idea of equal standing under the law.

Trump asks Putin to release dirt about Hunter Biden (March 2022)

#7.1.2.1.1.1.3.3.2.1.2.1 Zachriel on 2022-04-04 08:19 (Reply)

Re Hunter Biden: "Scorched earth"? More like somebody dropped a cigarette butt on the lawn. Now that the New York Slimes has yanked the rug out from under the MSM ormerta on this story, they're trying to position themselves so that they're not the last ones standing when the music stops.

#8 Hairless Joe on 2022-03-31 10:08 (Reply)

They were discussing the symptoms of aphasia on TV this morning and I suddenly realized that Biden, Kamala and Pelosi have aphasia.

#9 JustMe on 2022-03-31 10:59 (Reply)

The Clinton insurrection (russia, russia, russia)...small fine and no jail time. Meanwhile the Jan6 fiasco goes on and on over what is primarily trespass.

#10 indyjonesouthere on 2022-03-31 11:01 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: Meanwhile the Jan6 fiasco goes on and on over what is primarily trespass.

Well, that and charges of insurrection.

#10.1 Zachriel on 2022-03-31 12:15 (Reply)

Who has been charged with insurrection?

#10.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-03-31 12:27 (Reply)

Sorry. We meant to indicate the more serious crime of seditious conspiracy, 18 U.S. Code § 2384.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-oath-keepers-and-10-other-individuals-indicted-federal-court-seditious-conspiracy-and

#10.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2022-03-31 12:35 (Reply)

Ten out of a few hundred? That's the best they could do? Let's see all the video of the protestors.
What charges have been filed against Clinton?

#10.1.1.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-03-31 12:50 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: Ten out of a few hundred?

Hundreds have been indicted and probable cause shown for assaulting police, violent entry, obstruction of Congress, making threats, and seditious conspiracy.

indyjonesouthere: What charges have been filed against Clinton?

Hillary Clinton, none. Bill Clinton, civil contempt of court for lying about sex in a lawsuit that was eventually tossed by the court.

#10.1.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2022-03-31 13:22 (Reply)

Where is the Weiner laptop that has Hillary information? Did the FBI lose it or hiding it?

#10.1.1.1.1.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-03-31 15:21 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: Where is the Weiner laptop that has Hillary information?

Weiner's laptop was examined by the FBI in 2016.

#10.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2022-03-31 15:39 (Reply)

Where is the information?

#10.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-03-31 16:13 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: Where is the information?

The Clinton emails were largely duplicates of emails already investigated. Most were confidential State Department documents or personal to Clinton, so would not generally be available to the public. Weiner's data was likewise private.

#10.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2022-03-31 16:22 (Reply)

Man who beat cop with American flag at Capitol riot charged

#10.1.1.1.1.2 Zachriel on 2022-03-31 13:34 (Reply)

Bracken sends ... Fifth generation warfare. Chaos is the feature of the present and the future.
https://westernrifleshooters.us/2022/03/30/bracken-sends-146/

#11 indyjonesouthere on 2022-03-31 11:17 (Reply)

The strategic oil reserve was created to allow the U.S. to have fuel for military purposes in the event of war. If you wanted to sabotage the U.S. one way to do that would be to drain the oil reserve. Biden is doing this. Knowing that the daily use of oil for civilian purposes is so much bigger than the amount of oil in the reserve it is clear that using the reserve to lower gas prices or to meaningfully increase the amount of oil for civilian use is ludicrous. But Biden is doing it anyway. Is he doing it because he intends to sabotage us or out of mere stupidity? I would rule out stupidity because obviously his advisors are telling him to do it and they are not stupid. I'm thinking impeachment may be the only way to save the Republic.

#12 Anon on 2022-03-31 11:17 (Reply)

Of course the Hunter Biden dam is about to burst - Hunter must be thrown under the bus to protect Joe. All the sleazy grifting that took place? All Hunter. Joe knew nothing about any of it.

#13 Jerryskids on 2022-03-31 11:35 (Reply)

Jeremy’s Razors: The Greatest Commercial Ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s92UMJNjPIA&t=218s

3:54 video

#14 feeblemind on 2022-03-31 11:47 (Reply)

That was awesome. That link is going to Gab.

#14.1 DrTorch (Link) on 2022-03-31 11:51 (Reply)

Second the awesome, Is it a real ad? What that the Babylon Bee? I'm buying!

#14.1.1 grant1863 on 2022-03-31 16:26 (Reply)

It's an ad with balls.

Got my kit pre-ordered.

#14.2 Earle on 2022-03-31 22:41 (Reply)

And MIT does provide support for its students through its excellent tutoring programs, affinity networks, support services, alternative curricula, summer programs, and so on.

Translation: MIT has a set of "fig leaf" programs to show that they care about their mathematically-impaired students. Who will linger on for a few more semesters before getting the Big Clue that they're out of their depth and dropping out. Leaving some hefty tuition bucks behind.

Why does everyone intuitively recognize that great athletes, e.g football players, are trained from an early age to become proficient, but folks get stupid thinking that a kid can become a math whiz with a couple of catch-up courses?

#15 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2022-03-31 17:26 (Reply)

I read an interesting article a few years back. A young man decided to go into the computer business in China. He decided to get his BS in computer science from MIT in one year. He did this by taking online classes allotting 3 months for each year of school. Simultaneously he studied and became proficient in written and spoken Chinese. At the end of the year he partnered with a Chinese man and created a business in China producing software sold worldwide. You never heard his story. If he had been black, a woman or gay his story would be all over the internet. But he was a white man doing what white men have been doing for millennium. He and people like him are the reason we have a modern civilization.

#15.1 JustMe on 2022-03-31 17:42 (Reply)

My alma mater. When I showed up on campus in 1974, the mathematics department was allowing people to advance place out of freshman calculus by taking tests. I managed to place out of the first term class, but not the second. But those classes were all self-paced. You could go in and take the tests whenever you felt ready. My recollection is that each term's class had about a half dozen or more tests that had to be passed. You went in, took the test, and it was graded immediately in front t of you so you could see what you did wrong.

Over the years, MIT has allowed their academics to slip in order to play social justice signaling games. Ho[pefully this signals the reversal of that failed policy.

#15.2 ruralcounsel on 2022-04-01 08:31 (Reply)

Does anyone else see the delicious irony in Biden signing a bill that makes lynching a hate crime? The party of the KKK and Biden who praised the Democrat grand wizard when he was in congress is now signing a bill to make believe they weren't the haters all along.

I have an idea! How about a bill making it a hate crime to push someone in front of a subway train or to wipe your feces on their face, or polar bear hunting, or gang beatdowns where the victim is kicked in the head after he/she is down? This is the new lynching, the new hate crimes and we are making believe it is no big deal.

#16 OneGuy on 2022-03-31 17:32 (Reply)

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