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  1. 8 hours ago, aggie08 said:

    Yes, that's exactly what Anastasis has repeatedly referred to by name. 

    Y'all realize that he's on your "side" on this one, right? At least for now.

    Ana “wants” to follow the money because he doesn’t think Trump paid Epstein to traffic girls.
     

    It’s sort of like Garland watching Trump openly plan 1/6 and thinking “hmmmmm, we can nail him if we can find evidence that he paid for people to travel to DC,” except Ana knows that type of evidence isn’t there and when it isn’t found he can use that to distract from what’s practically a signed confession.

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  2. 2 minutes ago, wild_turkey said:

     


    People here have linked meeting minutes from a couple of separate meetings in which they seemed to reject funds that came from Obama or Biden. The quotes were pretty damning.

    I listened to The Daily (NYT) podcast episode on this yesterday and it was a little less clear about it. You can listen here, starting at the 19:30 mark:

    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000717346070

    They said that Kerr County officials tried on multiple occasions to get funding and were denied.
    1. Kerr County approached TDEM in 2017 and told the proposal did meet federal grant requirements.
    2. They tried again in 2018 and the state declined again.
    3. In 2024, the Upper Guadalupe River Authority went to the Texas Water Development Board, which only offered a tiny grant that wasn’t big enough.

    For whatever reason, The Daily makes no mention of the funding that was supposedly offered and Kerr County declined because it came from Biden. They are normally pretty thorough with their journalism and that seems easy enough info to uncover, so I was confused why it wasn’t discussed.

    I found this other article from The Texas Tribune that goes into it:
    https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/texas-kerr-county-commissioners-flooding-warning/

    It says that Kerr County was given a $10.2 million grant from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) in 2021. That is apparently the “Biden money” they wanted to send back, but ultimately kept it and opted to spend it on things other than flood warning systems. They spent $7MM on public safety radios for the sheriff and fire departments, $1MM on bonuses for the sheriff’s employees, and other undisclosed stuff.

    Perhaps it wasn’t mentioned by The Daily because the ARPA funds were specifically provided for flood warning systems. Although they could’ve used it for that and chose not to, and you have to wonder about those $1MM in bonuses when the flood warning system also costs $1MM.

     

     

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  3. 12 minutes ago, Dutchrudder said:

    Asked Google AI:

    No, the President cannot fire the Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair. The Fed Chair serves a fixed four-year term and is not removable by the president except "for cause," similar to other members of the Board of Governors. This "for cause" provision is meant to protect the Fed's independence from political interference. 

     

    I guess they could drum up some sort of issue to create cause. I expect to see a release of the Epstein files in the near future, but with a Find&Replace done to swap Trump's name for Powell. Then fire him for being a kiddie diddler and kill 2 birds with 1 stone!

    SCOTUS recently ruled that "for cause" protections are invalid and the President can fire whoever he wants.  They did include a cute little asterisk that said their decision doesn't apply to specifically to the Fed chair, which is why Trump is drumming up some pretextual bullshit cause about repairs to the Fed's offices or something. 

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  4. On 7/12/2025 at 11:29 AM, Speedtrucker said:

    lol sorry wild afternoon and night!

    We had a bank robbery where the defendant was charged with robbing a bank and a 924c for a gun that he threatened he had in the note.

    The whole event was: he robbed the bank with a note that said he had a gun. He never brandished it. He gets the money and runs out and in the alley between buildings he runs into a rival gang member. They get in a fight and he pulls the gun out and shoot the dude.

    Fast forward to trial prep, I pull CCTV footage from the cameras not affiliated with the bank and you can pretty clearly see the pistol bulging in his pants.

    We also get fbi and atf forensics to separately verify finger prints from the pistol and the magazine AND 2 bullets still in the magazine from the recovered pistol all matched the defendant.

    Fast forward again to trial: an engineer gets left in the jury panel against my protests. We get a guilty on the robbery because it thankfully wasn’t charged as armed robbery but the 924c gets hung and mistrialed.

    The jury reason… the engineer was couldn’t agree the concept of circumstantial evidence in practice despite not disagreeing during voir dire. He basically said that without seeing him brandish, hold or own the firearm prior to the alley murder, he couldn’t deduce that the guy did infact have pessessionnif a firearm during the robbery. And that his fingerprints on any ammo and the firearm could have been solely from the murder.

    Now on its face it isn’t a bad argument but all 11 other jurors were adamantly in opposition to his work (which he had also done a complete flow chart on the white board in the jury room)

    It was wild, the jury was pissed, we were pissed.

    I had since added the whole “does anyone watch CSI and expect to have fingerprinting or dna analysis on every piece of evidence?” To our questioning. emoji1787.png

    This right here is a Coen brothers movie.

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  5. 6 hours ago, CTC2 said:

    I posted in the DT thread about my experience in joining a search team for a couple of days. 
    My CR comment on that is that nearly all of the efforts going on in Hunt right now are being carried out by non profits.  Some are religious based, others are ex military. 
    I am positive that a lot of these folks were MAGA.  Believe me, there were lots of signs of where these folks came down on things. 
    What I am having difficulty reconciling is that these people were obviously doing good work and I am appreciative of their efforts, but are also supportive of some of the worst people to ever inhabit our government, and who are doing some pretty terrible things. 
    There were several chaplain types walking around supporting those who were doing the work. I give them credit for that. But, one in particular came up to check on me and ended our discussion by asking if I wanted to pray for our leaders and especially our President. 
    Out of respect for the work he was doing, I did not make a big deal of it but it was just hard to reconcile.  
    Like I said, it is extremely admirable what these people are doing and I want to give them credit for that.  I just don’t understand how they recognize the suffering of people in one way but not another. 

    They like being able to play hero. They don’t exactly consciously think of it this way, but if they’re gonna get to play hero they need victims.

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  6. On 7/11/2025 at 2:32 PM, Chuckie Finster said:

    I'd bet a decent amount of money that:

    1) It was a legitimate assassination attempt that only occurred due to universal incompetence in those that surround Trump

    2) None of the shots got near Trump

    3) He cut his ear on the way down (secret service belt?) and that's what caused the bleed

    4) In the immediate aftermath with a bloody ear, I think the president's crew legitimately DID think he got shot, but it quickly became clear that it was not a bullet wound 

    5) There's no way Trump would ever admit to NOT getting shot, so the lie will forever persist

    This is the obvious occam's razor theory. If the bullet had actually grazed him, there'd be more visible damage. One of the shots missed him by millimeters, close enough for him to feel something, then he accidentally scratched himself. I suppose it might've been debris from a missed shot that nicked him, but I think there'd still be some visible damage. 

    It was a real attempt though. Trump never in a billion years would knowingly allow someone to fire a real bullet at him and he had no reason to fake it. He was way ahead in the polls at the time. The reason public attention on it dropped so quickly afterward is because they couldn't make a big deal out of the shooter's ethnicity or politics (since he was a white, right wing weirdo), and Biden dropping out for Kamala became the big story very quickly after.

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  7. 1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

    Update: I received an unexpected call from a Detective from Oakland.  Someone had called in and reported my mugging and the black sedan.  They must have given a partial license, because the detective said that their crime detection cameras and license plate scanner had found the car quickly.   Using my credit card information from the gas station they found my address and phone number, and called me to ask if I was in Oakland on Monday around 11:30.   When I confirmed I was mugged around then and my watch stolen, the detective was extremely happy.   They weren’t sure if anything was taken, but the guy  they arrested had just gotten out of jail for robbing people at gas stations.   There was also a mini crime spree Saturday, Sunday and Monday, which they think mostly involved this guy at nearby gas stations.   Because of the information I gave them (watch stolen) they were now formally charging him with a felony.   I told the detective that I would be happy to fly to Oakland on my dime to testify, and to tell the Dipshit that at the pre-trial.   

    Given that I never made a police report, the fact Oakland detectives tracked me down and have arrested a likely suspect is pretty damn awesome. Remind me not to go crime-ing in Oakland.   

    oh. They got a subpoena for the car from the scan match - and found what looks to be some stolen stuff in it.  If they find my watch, they will send it to me after the case is closed. 

    Are you telling me Oakland PD actually does got em working in shifts?

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  8. 11 minutes ago, Ten Bears said:

     

    I am very thankful that I have an office door I can close after reading that.

    I made sure I didn't read it until today, when I'm working from home.

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  9. 38 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Is he really polling badly here?  In Texas?  I have heard Ronny Jackson say that, but he's delulu.

    I wonder if it isn't a timing thing, file get it out of the way before the primary, get some extra goodies.

    There's been some pretty bad general election polls against unnamed Dems, IIRC. This far out, without a Dem candidate, I think those are basically meaningless, but maybe some Republicans disagree. I dunno.

    Of course, pedocon theory being a theory like gravity is a theory, maybe we're about to hear some breaking news about him molesting kids. 

  10. 7 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Why ol Ang decided enough was enough is anyone's guess.

    I suspect someone from Cornyn's camp showed her some bad general election polling and she realized she didn't want to risk being married to a guy who might lose a statewide race to a Democrat.

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