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Lake baikal - Pebble - 8/20/2022 2:53:45 PM
- Did you see the jellyfish? - ER - 8/20/2022 3:35:12 PM

I guess there are conservatives in Finland, too. - ER - 8/19/2022 8:59:31 PM

States with the toughest abortion laws have the weakest maternal supports, data shows - RL - 8/19/2022 1:58:05 AM

My Dark Materials - ER - 8/15/2022 7:12:34 PM
- My family knows my father had clearance - podrock - 8/15/2022 8:18:03 PM
  - Even the knowledge that a given person does NOT have a clearance can be useful to adversaries - RL - 8/16/2022 2:39:46 AM
    - Nice. - podrock - 8/17/2022 7:09:09 PM
    - A trivial aside - Pebble - 8/16/2022 6:33:13 AM
  - I had clearance. - Pebble - 8/15/2022 9:58:38 PM
    - Were there any? Grays or Reptilians? - podrock - 8/15/2022 10:13:50 PM
      - Just Aussies … <laughs> - Pebble - 8/16/2022 6:27:03 AM
        
        lol - podrock - 8/16/2022 12:32:02 PM
  - Ma7be Trump should be asked to show his receipts. - ER - 8/15/2022 9:01:34 PM

Lest we forget... - ER - 8/17/2022 1:44:53 PM

So, assuming Trump wasn't a Nuclear Physicist on the side as a hobby... - RL - 8/12/2022 9:53:18 PM
- Pretending to be still president? - podrock - 8/15/2022 3:53:37 PM
  - I don't believe he thinks he won the election. Don't think he ever did. - RobVG - 8/15/2022 6:39:02 PM
    - "It's not a lie if you believe it." - podrock - 8/15/2022 8:15:37 PM
  - Not quite the same thing. - ER - 8/15/2022 6:34:05 PM
- One other reason...blackmail. - ER - 8/15/2022 12:16:15 PM
  - Yup... - RL - 8/15/2022 2:26:44 PM
    - Libertarians are just anarchists with money. - ER - 8/15/2022 6:29:22 PM
      - Or beholden to the same country? - podrock - 8/15/2022 8:42:25 PM

The Empire Strikes Back. - ER - 8/15/2022 6:51:30 PM

Armed Man Who Stormed FBI Office Said He Wanted ‘War’ After Mar-a-Lago Raid - RL - 8/11/2022 11:19:20 PM
- And today: Man fatally shoots self after crashing car into barricade near US Capitol Building - RL - 8/14/2022 2:21:30 PM
- At this time FOX news makes zero mention of the gunman's motive - RL - 8/12/2022 4:15:53 AM
- "Well, I thought I had a way through bullet proof glass, and I didn't" - RL - 8/12/2022 1:54:06 AM
- Still no word from Trump or other GOP leaders on this guy? - BuckGalaxy - 8/12/2022 1:49:38 AM
  - They will claim he was secretly anti-fa - RL - 8/12/2022 2:09:19 AM
- What the GOP encouraged - RL - 8/12/2022 12:13:58 AM
- The GOP is a terrorist organization - RL - 8/11/2022 11:51:44 PM

Trump must be desperate, and abandoned by his lawyers... - RL - 8/13/2022 7:57:30 PM
- A hypothetical - RL - 8/13/2022 8:28:55 PM
  - Once again, Stonekettle lays this out on his most recent blog entry - podrock - 8/13/2022 9:59:57 PM

Top secret documents were recovered - RL - 8/12/2022 7:00:54 PM
- Trump team leaked unredacted documents to Breitbart, that included names of agents involved - RL - 8/12/2022 11:06:55 PM
  - Last night, Fox "News" - podrock - 8/13/2022 1:32:13 AM
    - More on this - podrock - 8/13/2022 2:18:58 PM
      - Right wing media might as well just hire the assassins directly - RL - 8/13/2022 6:39:33 PM
    - This timeline... Is simply not believable... - RL - 8/13/2022 11:49:44 AM
- One was TS-SCI - RL - 8/12/2022 7:26:33 PM
- Trump is essentially admitting he took classified information on nuclear weapons - RL - 8/12/2022 7:05:11 PM

Trump's friends would have made billions from the sale of nuclear tech - RobVG - 8/12/2022 6:31:46 AM
- Tom Barrack - RobVG - 8/12/2022 6:37:10 AM
  - He's another piece of ... - podrock - 8/12/2022 4:28:30 PM
    - I do not think it was a nuclear energy tech- it was weapons related. - RL - 8/12/2022 10:37:14 PM

Calling the bluff - RL - 8/11/2022 8:39:59 PM
- You can read the motion to unseal: - RL - 8/11/2022 10:54:02 PM
  - Note who signed that document: - podrock - 8/12/2022 2:05:34 AM
    - Yeah, that caught my eye as well - RL - 8/12/2022 2:31:08 AM
- Also, Garland did NOT sound like someone that not found what they were looking for in that search... - RL - 8/11/2022 10:39:41 PM
- How does that work? - ER - 8/11/2022 9:25:04 PM
  - 3 things - podrock - 8/11/2022 10:22:58 PM
  - He can challenge the un-sealing - RL - 8/11/2022 10:13:19 PM
    - We will know by 3pm tomorrow if Trump challenges it - RL - 8/11/2022 10:49:25 PM
      - Supposedly he won't challenge it - RL - 8/12/2022 3:53:03 AM

FBI searched Trump’s home to look for nuclear documents and other items, sources say - RL - 8/12/2022 12:26:33 AM
- In a sane world (a Pre-Trump world ) this news would leave stunned and horrified... - RL - 8/12/2022 2:37:11 AM
- "But at least the Washington corruption baggage wasn’t firmly in place right at the start." TB on Why he voted for Trump 3-12-17 - RL - 8/12/2022 1:36:47 AM
- I am willing to bet it is related to this incident... - RL - 8/12/2022 12:29:45 AM
  - I wonder how much he sold it to Putin for? - RL - 8/12/2022 12:38:37 AM
    - Or the Saudis - podrock - 8/12/2022 2:11:14 AM
      - I doubt the Saudi's would be able to make use of it... - RL - 8/12/2022 2:46:27 AM
        
        Remember, - podrock - 8/12/2022 3:15:03 AM
        
        If, in 2014, someone wrote a fictional villain like Trump - RL - 8/12/2022 2:59:55 AM

Even Donald Trump has rights. - ER - 8/12/2022 12:48:34 AM
- "...at least until he’s proven guilty in a court of law." - BuckGalaxy - 8/12/2022 1:43:49 AM
- If it were you or I the warrant would be unsealed... - RL - 8/12/2022 12:56:30 AM
  - And if you or I stole top-secret nuclear secrets... - RL - 8/12/2022 1:32:43 AM

Trump's Mar A Lago home raided by FBI - RL - 8/8/2022 11:05:50 PM
- PROBABLY unrelated - RL - 8/10/2022 1:35:05 AM
  - My gut feeling is that this is related to Trump's illegal attempts to overturn the election - BuckGalaxy - 8/10/2022 11:44:40 PM
  - I have to admit, I'm chuckling. - podrock - 8/10/2022 2:58:35 AM
- I'm not convinced anything will come of this. - ER - 8/9/2022 5:28:18 PM
  - I’m sure that it’ll all fizzle out - Pebble - 8/9/2022 10:17:17 PM
    - Nope... it won't fizzle out... - RL - 8/10/2022 1:48:29 AM
      - And predictably, the violence has started ... - RL - 8/11/2022 11:10:56 PM
      - Trump will walk away unscathed - Pebble - 8/10/2022 6:45:17 AM
- The "safe" - podrock - 8/9/2022 4:49:10 PM
- Smoking gun - RobVG - 8/9/2022 3:15:03 PM
  - Was there witness testimony? - podrock - 8/9/2022 4:24:45 PM
    - Wall Street Journal says yes, informant. - podrock - 8/10/2022 11:22:40 PM
- His personal library was destroyed - Pebble - 8/9/2022 12:58:25 PM
  - lol - podrock - 8/9/2022 2:43:14 PM
- Watch the rate, and tone, of conspiracy theories from the right escalate to new levels of insanity... - RL - 8/9/2022 2:06:25 AM
  - Already seeing it. - podrock - 8/9/2022 2:26:13 AM
    - The terrorists want a war - RL - 8/9/2022 9:24:06 PM
      - Only since 1865. - podrock - 8/9/2022 11:08:26 PM
    - Yup - RL - 8/9/2022 2:51:32 AM
      - Comments on Fox News - RL - 8/9/2022 3:06:39 AM
- FBI agents endure lengthy decontamination procedure. - podrock - 8/9/2022 12:50:32 AM
  - Trump: “Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before.” - RL - 8/9/2022 1:15:58 AM
    - NYT reports its about classified documents he stole... - RL - 8/9/2022 1:39:35 AM
      - Now do Jared. - podrock - 8/9/2022 2:47:19 PM

Submitted without comment. - ER - 8/10/2022 2:12:51 AM
- A long history of being an asshole - BuckGalaxy - 8/10/2022 11:12:26 PM
  - Judo Gene Lebell - BuckGalaxy - 8/11/2022 5:24:39 PM
- #$%@ that guy - podrock - 8/10/2022 3:00:40 AM
  - And what's more, he uses a stunt double. n/t - RobVG - 8/10/2022 8:16:57 PM
  - A disgrace to the human race. - Pebble - 8/10/2022 6:46:21 AM
- No shortage of useful idiots - RL - 8/10/2022 2:16:55 AM

Politics makes strange bedfellows - RL - 8/9/2022 4:33:36 PM
- And apparently his wife is NOT pleased he sent the pic... - RL - 8/10/2022 12:49:41 AM
  - Isn't she his ex-wife? - podrock - 8/10/2022 1:06:04 AM
    - I can't keep up with the Jones' - RL - 8/10/2022 1:09:48 AM
      - Yeah, it's a train wreck - podrock - 8/10/2022 1:35:52 AM
- Unsolicited Dick Pic - RL - 8/9/2022 4:48:29 PM
  - The GOP has been taken over by trailer trash. - ER - 8/9/2022 5:29:37 PM

Russian casualties in Ukraine = 70/80k --- Pentagon - ER - 8/9/2022 12:25:43 AM

From The New Yorker, a long but must read. - podrock - 8/8/2022 5:51:34 PM
- The type of 'man' he was was obvious long before he came down that escalator in 2015... - RL - 8/8/2022 9:47:26 PM
- Trump's actions and crimes are a horror... - ER - 8/8/2022 8:12:24 PM

A Cheney-Kinszinger ticket? - ER - 8/7/2022 7:21:44 PM

Interesting- Russian Hypersonic Scientist arrested for treason - RL - 8/6/2022 7:26:42 PM

Perspective is everything - ER - 8/2/2022 5:28:01 PM

GPS war laboratory... - ER - 7/28/2022 8:28:15 PM
- Lots of interesting information on this twitter - podrock - 8/2/2022 2:31:26 PM
- The fog - podrock - 7/28/2022 10:10:01 PM

100 days - ER - 7/31/2022 4:38:31 PM
- Do you think Kamala will run in 2024? - RobVG - 8/1/2022 5:42:45 PM
  - If Biden doesn't run for reelection, she will for sure - BuckGalaxy - 8/1/2022 9:44:05 PM
    - I forgot about Gavin! Wouldn't that stick to the GOP? - ER - 8/2/2022 12:33:47 AM
  - Unfortunately, it would give the D's the same choice as in 2016. - ER - 8/1/2022 7:59:14 PM
  - Perhaps - podrock - 8/1/2022 7:22:58 PM
- I am not optimistic - RL - 8/1/2022 1:09:07 AM
  - Yeah, but what happens when..... - ER - 8/1/2022 1:26:41 AM
    - No problem - RL - 8/1/2022 2:22:22 AM

What has Biden done? - BuckGalaxy - 7/30/2022 4:30:46 PM
- One more thing... - BuckGalaxy - 8/1/2022 11:58:10 PM
- "No Drama" is the part I've enjoyed, but, - podrock - 7/30/2022 6:49:37 PM
  - Agreed - BuckGalaxy - 7/30/2022 8:14:17 PM
- That's why they hate him so much. - ER - 7/30/2022 5:01:02 PM
  - It was worse under Obama - BuckGalaxy - 7/30/2022 10:04:24 PM
    - I wonder... - ER - 7/31/2022 1:24:27 AM
    - It's a puzzlement - podrock - 7/30/2022 10:17:23 PM

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