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  1. 1 hour ago, Longhornlove said:

    Not that there is any real need but I will indulge you since you seem to be so ignorant......... I know you aren't ignorant, you are an intelligent individual whom is just trying (I assume) to get a rise out of me and get your fellow CR junkies riled up here in your pristine little echo chamber.

    This is a fairly long video that may not be able maintain the groups attention span. I chose this because he equally bashes Trump for the same thing you appear to believe Joe Biden doesn't do.

    Just a few others off the top of my head.

    • Vaccines are safe and effective
    • Covid started in a wet market
    • Masks prevent the spread of covid
    • 6ft apart prevents the spread of covid
    • If you get the vaccine, you can't get or spread covid
    • Uncle Bosie was a pilot that got shot down and eaten by cannibals (Recent Biden)
    • Rode across the Francis Scott Key bridge via train many, many times. (Recent Biden)
    • He saved 6 people from drowning while a lifeguard(Biden)
    • Joe Biden was a civil rights icon, raised in the black, Puerto Rican, Jewish, Greek, Italian, Catholic and polish communities. Which is is, It can't be all of them?
    • Joe Biden was once a generational athlete
    • Jo Biden was a Truck Driver(someone once gave him a ride in one)
    • Bloodbathgate 
    • The Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation
    • Alpha Bank collusion
    • Trump Campaign wasn't spied on
    • Steele dossier being factual

     

    I could go on but why bother?

    Fuck, sounds like someone did do their own research.  

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  2. 22 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    Then when they are all deported by the Trump administration or their families aren't allowed in the US because of the even larger Muslim Ban that he enacts, I will feel not one ounce of sympathy for any of them. If you want to turn into a one-issue voter intent on ensuring the destruction of this country, you deserve every terrible thing that's coming your way. If these morons think Trump and Biden are the same then enjoy the utter hell that's mostly unleashed on your people. Enjoy Gaza being totally wiped off the face of the Earth, even more starvation with little to zero US aid, massive restrictions on foreign work visas, removal of people who protest against what will happen in Gaza, and all the other terrible things that side is telling you they mostly certainly will do. 

    Agreed.  But you can’t reason w these people.  

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  3. 3 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    Palestinian Supporter: I won't vote for Biden because he sends weapons to Israel

    ME: Even if the other guy wants Israel to kill all Palestinians and Muslims?

    Palestinian Supporter: I just can't support Biden

    Me: FML

    We do a decent amount of work in MI and I'm hearing this a lot, from people who hate Trump...they won't vote for Trump and they would have voted for Biden, and now will sit at home.  It's a "Biden is fucking my people (nonsense, I know), so I guess Trump will fuck all of you now."  Yes, it makes zero sense but there's a lot of browns that can swing MI and it's a real worry.  I still thing Biden is looking solid but that war could be what swings this thing...

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  4. On 4/27/2024 at 10:07 PM, Welshy said:

     

    Trump is a sociopath, and not a very smart one. The cult of personality around him is because the world is full of stupid people. In the US, they have been marginalized and ignored for decades. They are angry. Trump has tapped into it. It's deliberate (by his handlers) and mercenary. Bush was just not that guy, though roe and others moved into that space. 

     

    It is absolutely this simple.  Now the rich folks need some block of poor/middle class folks to vote against their best interests and this group of morons is who they have.  There's a reason so many billionaires were like fuck no to trump, then when it became apparent he was the guy, several jumped on board.  I'm actually more shocked by the number of rich folks this clown has lost.  

    Like Ken Griffin: https://www.ft.com/content/38563d9a-952a-4613-a1e9-a65ef153e16e

    Koch assholes: google is your friend

  5. 9 hours ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

    Yea this has bothered me most of the day. I really like Chris Finch the coach and also the person. Everyone who’s had run ins with him have stated he’s nice down to earth every day guy outside of basketball

    He’s got a pretty good lead assistant in Micah Nori who came from Denver. I don’t know if he can even be on the sidelines or coach from the second row. Not sure if crutches or a scooter would be allowed


    We need the lakers to extend this denver series to 7 so we can sort out WTF we’re gonna do with finch

    Very likely needs to be in a knee immobilzer and the dude seems tall af so I'm guessing he will be on the court with his seat way backed up but no seat in front so not technically second row.  I don't see why he wouldn't be able to be out there except for maybe the one game after surgery but even then if they schedule it when he has 48 hrs he would already be getting therapy so why couldn't he sit out there?  

    Hope MN is full strength including Finch being out there.  Watching MN and OKC is a fucking blast. 

  6. 1 minute ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    i'm completely right.  Very few of you have the perspective of the Arab position, but stupidly blame anti-semitism which is wholly inaccurate. Hamas wasn't even formed until 1987 , previously Arafat was the ruler and still was until his death in 2005 , shortly thereafter Hamas took Gaza. It's NEVER been about anti-semitism . Never ever, yet rookies think I am making a mistake. Rookies have strength in numbers though, and this is one of the better political forums in the entire internet (I've been on about 75). Sad really. I made the same mistake when I was younger, the guilt shaming of so called "Jew hatred", but that does not exist in the classic anti-semitic form.

    Yes, Arabs hate Jews, cannot be denied, but they don't hate Jews simply because they are Jews.  Turks and Kurds hate each other, again it's about territory.  It happens.  Don't read more into that, it's actually simple. 

    LOL, to act like there's ZERO antisemitism is an insane take.  But it's obvious you know more than all of us, so carry on...

  7. 3 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    It's mostly because Merchan holds a mental health court on Wednesdays and considers it too important to push off.

    Good for him.

    Seems a trump trial would fall well within the bounds of a mental health court…

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  8. 6 hours ago, locodos said:

    'So appalled': What witnesses told special counsel about Trump's handling of classified info while still president

     

    In the summer of 2019, only hours after an Iranian rocket accidentally exploded at one of Iran's own launch sites, senior U.S. officials met with then-president Donald Trump and shared a sharply detailed, highly classified image of the blast's catastrophic aftermath.

    The image was captured by a U.S. satellite whose true capabilities were a tightly guarded secret. But Trump wanted to share it with the world -- he thought it was especially "sexy" because it was marked classified, one of his former advisers later recalled to special counsel Jack Smith's investigators, according to sources familiar with the former adviser's statements.

    Worried that the image becoming public could hurt national security efforts, intelligence officials urged Trump to hold off until more knowledgeable experts were able to weigh in, the sources said. But less than an hour later, while at least one of those intelligence officials was in another building scrambling to get more information, Trump posted the image to Twitter.

    The public pushback to Trump's post was immediate: Intelligence experts and even international media questioned whether U.S. interests had just been endangered by what Trump did. When pressed about it at the White House, Trump insisted he hadn't released classified information because he had an "absolute right to do" it.

    While much of Smith's sprawling classified documents investigation has focused on how Trump handled classified materials after leaving the White House, a wide array of former aides and advisers -- including personal valets, press assistants, senior national security officials, and even Trump's briefers from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence -- have provided Smith with firsthand accounts about how Trump allegedly handled and used intelligence while still in office.

    Those firsthand accounts, as relayed to ABC News by sources, underscore what could be at stake as Trump seeks a return to the White House, and they are coming to light as he is likely on the verge of receiving formal government briefings again as the Republican Party's official nominee in the 2024 presidential election.

    In interviews with investigators last year, former aides and national security officials who were close to Trump in the White House described a president who could erupt in anger when presented with intelligence he didn't want to hear, who routinely reviewed and stored classified information in unsecured locations, and who had what some former officials described as "a cavalier attitude" toward the damage that could be done by its disclosure, according to sources.

    A book published on the CIA's website, describing the intelligence community's experience with Trump during his transition to the presidency and then his time in the White House, said that while Trump was "suspicious and insecure about the intelligence process," he still "engaged with it," even as he publicly attacked it.

    The book also noted that Trump was "unique" among presidents in that, before taking over the White House, "he had no experience handling classified information or working with military, diplomatic, or intelligence programs and operations."

    'Hand in the woodchipper'
    As former officials described meetings with Trump to Smith's team, Trump only wanted to listen to new information about certain parts of the world, according to sources.

    In particular, the sources said, Smith's team was told that Trump was uninterested in hearing about Latin America or countries that he similarly thought were not essential. The sources said witnesses confirmed previous public reporting that Trump referred to such places as "s---hole countries" and suggested the United States should stop welcoming migrants from them.

    Today, on the presidential campaign trail, Trump continues to rail against migrants from Latin American countries and others who reached the southern border through parts of Latin America.

    Sources said former officials also told Smith's team that Trump refused to listen to certain briefings related to Russia, saying Trump "absolutely" didn't want to hear about Russian influence operations, and he couldn't be convinced that Russian troops were already operating inside Ukraine -- even as his own administration was publicly calling out their routine incursions into the country's eastern region to support Russian-backed separatists.

    On the campaign trail, Trump recently insisted that he would have prevented Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 if he were still commander-in-chief.

    According to the sources, one of Trump's former advisers joked with Smith's team last year that bringing up Russia during a meeting with Trump was like "stick[ing] my hand in the woodchipper again."

    In its most recent worldwide assessment, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence concluded that Russia continues to pose a significant threat to U.S. national security and, more broadly, to "rules-based international order."

    MORE: Special counsel questioned witnesses about 2 rooms FBI didn't search inside Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence: Sources
    As he has done in public, Trump often privately disagreed with conclusions reached by the U.S. intelligence community, especially related to Russia and Ukraine, choosing instead to rely on unverified claims from other people, sources said that Smith's investigators were told.

    And sources said former aides confirmed to Smith's investigators previous media reports that Trump almost never read the President's Daily Brief, a report summarizing classified intelligence and analysis on the day's most pressing issues.

    Trump preferred to receive such summaries verbally, according to sources.

    Reached for comment, a spokesperson for Trump referred ABC News to a statement by the former president in which he called the classified documents case a "two-tiered system of justice and unconstitutional selective prosecution."

    A spokesperson for the special counsel declined to comment to ABC News.

    'Like a junk drawer'
    Throughout Trump's presidency, many of those who interacted with Trump every day saw him bring classified documents to unsecured locations, raising concerns among some of them, several witnesses told Smith's team, the sources said.

    As early as 2018, the Office of the Staff Secretary, which manages the documents flowing to the Oval Office, began asking personnel in the White House about documents that had gone missing, including some classified ones, one of Trump's personal valets told investigators, sources said.

    And at one point, sources said the valet recalled, he even warned the staff secretary's office that classified documents were being taken out of secure locations in white boxes and ending up in all sorts of potentially concerning places.

    According to the sources, several witnesses told Smith's team that they routinely saw classified documents or classified folders in Trump's White House residence, and that Trump would sometimes store as many as 30 boxes in his bedroom, which one valet said Trump treated "like a junk drawer."

    "I did not think that he respected what classified information was," sources quoted one former official as telling investigators.

    In Trump's first year in office, several media reports described how Trump had allegedly exposed sensitive information: In February 2017, he and Japan's then-prime minister reportedly discussed a response to North Korea's latest ballistic missile test over dinner in a crowded dining room at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, and then two months later Trump told the Philippines president on a phone call that the U.S. military had positioned two nuclear submarines near North Korea.

    The following month, Trump reportedly shared highly-sensitive intelligence about ISIS with Russian officials visiting the White House.

    Some witnesses who spoke with Smith's team, however, said they were not concerned by what they saw while Trump was president.

    Robert O'Brien, who served as Trump's national security adviser at the end of his presidency, told Smith's team that Trump "consistently" handled classified information appropriately, sources said.

    'The Hunger Games'
    As some former officials described it to Smith's investigators, discussing the latest intelligence with Trump could be an unpredictable task, sources said.

    At times he would become so upset over what senior national security or intelligence officials were telling him that it would derail entire meetings, according to sources familiar with what witnesses told investigators.

    In one series of meetings, ahead of an international summit in Europe, Trump met with then-CIA director Gina Haspel, then-Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and others to help plan for the summit. But when Trump was told positive things about one of the people he would likely meet at the summit, Trump "lost it," insisting that he didn't care, then he "lost it" again when he was being updated on a tax-related negotiation involving Mnuchin, sources said.

    The sources said Trump then pitted one of his top aides against Mnuchin in front of everyone else, escalating the tension so much that it reminded one of those present of the movie "The Hunger Games," with its dystopian death match broadcast live on national TV.

    The book published on the CIA's website quoted former President Barack Obama's director of national intelligence, James Clapper, as saying that Trump was prone to "fly off on tangents; there might be eight or nine minutes of real intelligence in an hour's discussion."

    And while the intelligence community worked with evidence, Trump "was 'fact-free' -- evidence doesn't cut it with him," according to Clapper.

    Still, Clapper said Trump could be "courteous, affable, and complimentary" when he engaged with or referred to members of the U.S. intelligence community.

    'People were really angry'
    Sources said that, as one former official described it to Smith's team, Trump's posting of the image from Iran's failed rocket launch revealed how the then-president "just didn't care" about protecting classified information.

    In 2021, Yahoo! News described how, during his briefing with intelligence officials, Trump thought the image "was very neat, and asked if he could keep it," which made some of the intelligence officials nervous, according to an administration official. But that news report didn't offer the same detailed account provided to Smith by witnesses last year.

    Sources told ABC News that while speaking with Smith's team, former aides and officials said Trump was specifically warned at the time that while he had the authority to declassify the image of Iran's botched launch, there were also potential risks associated with doing that.

    Trump initially agreed to wait while intelligence officials were then consulted, sources said, but the intelligence officials apparently took too long; about an hour later, Trump posted the image online.

    "I was so appalled," one former national security official told Smith's team, according to the sources.

    The former official noted that Trump may have believed it wasn't a big deal -- but only an expert would know if releasing such classified information could reveal "how we got it" it and whether it could "compromise our ability to get [it] in the future," the former official explained to Smith's team, according to the sources.

    Think of how infuriating this is.  Then think of all the DT posters who don’t want to discuss dotard.  Really weird.  Comical they have the gall to make fun of aggy while supporting THE BIGGEST aggy EVER.  

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  9. 2 hours ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

    This zone is really gumming up the okc offense. As much as they lean on SGA and Williams creating off the dribble, I’m surprised we don’t see more teams use it against them. Especially when Giddey is out there who isn’t a shooting threat. 

    You’re usually spot on.  I don’t get this take at all.  Although I’m drunk on a Wednesday night.  Delilah Miami folks.  Highly recommend.  

  10. On 4/19/2024 at 4:42 PM, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

    The solution is shadow bans. Don't let the person know they are banned and just let them post aimlessly into the void. Don't tip them off that it's time to run out and grab a new public VPN. Hell, let other shadow banned users interact with each other, so they don't get realize they're quarantined from the rest of the site. It's worked like a charm on multiple boards I've moderated.

    This is greatness.  And let us lurk for shits and giggles.  

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  11. 2 hours ago, Smax said:

    I'm so tired of hearing his voice, bitching whining lying about being the victim here

    I know it's not gonna happen, but man, that bitching/whining/moaning would be music to my ears if he was doing it from behind bars. 

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  12. 1 hour ago, Js1 said:

    Why can’t the MAGAtards and Kennedysuckers just ever walk away when they’re wrong or look stupid?

    You weren’t high. You were huffing Trump taint and GOP drugs so hard last night. 

    Let's ignore the trolls and enjoy the fact that CrackheadKennedy is absolutely going to cost fuckstain more votes than Biden.  

    As for the trolls, everyone should get one post to make fun of them, that's it.  Then we move on.  We are civilized, like Barkley in those old Right Guard commercials.  Act like it. 

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