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https://www.wearecentralpa.com/news/regional-news/armed-pa-man-in-wig-trying-to-restore-trump-as-president-arrested-at-dairy-queen/?10974

Armed man in wig and yellow vest seizes a Dairy Queen with his handguns in his campaign to restore Donald Trump as the President King of the United States, promising to kill all Democrats. This is the stage that we're at now, apparently, in America.

@raphjd Do you come here just to spout random nonsense because Tucker Carlson can't hear you talking to him thru the television?

@raphjd

LINK: Explanation by non-profit, non-partisan science advocacy group that explains why the study you linked to is actually bullshit.

Nope, the science doesn't back you up.

@blablarg18 As I said above, the recording of the phone calls doesn't answer the question whether the calls were genuine swatting calls or staged. It could have been a crazy person on the line, or it could have been a person pretending to be a crazy person on the line. As I've said before, I'm going to wait until the investigation is over and we know who was the actual caller before I trust anything related to MTG.

As for her being suicidal, um, there's very little risk of police accidentally shooting MTG. Affluent white women don't fear police shooting them by mistake. Anyway, didn't the security footage that was released show that her people met the cops at the entrance of the property? I don't think there was any room for a mistake to have occurred. She knew the cops were responding before they got there because they likely called the residence while officers were in route, especially on the second swatting.

MTG chose to be a hack and a troll and pulled shenanigans in the past. Along with that comes a distrust from the public when shit happens to her.

@blablarg18 As far as I've seen, the only thing released recently was MTG's security footage of the police arriving. However, I don't think we "deniers" were denying that the police were called or came to her house. We were questioning whether or not it was actually one of her political opponents doing the calling. Even a recording released from the police wouldn't answer that question. If she was responsible for swatting herself, I'm sure she'd have the caller say something similar to what was said.

I'll reserve my judgment one way or the other until the investigation, if any, is concluded to discover the actual culprit.

I'll wait until the dust settles before I believe this isn't just her own doing to gain publicity for her anti-trans bill. It is very strange that a "swatting" perpetrator would so willing give the police so much detail about why they were doing it. That's suspicious, is all I'm saying.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/23/archives-letter-trump-mar-lago-document-investigation/7872613001/

It just keeps getting worse for Trump, and this time it's his own fault. In an attempt to tie Joe Biden to Trump's claims of a witch hunt, Trump's camp released a copy of the letter received from the National Archives, related to the documents turned over by the Trump camp from his private residence back in January. (NOTE: The only tie to Biden is that Biden refused to assert his executive privilege to prevent release of the boxes of documents from the National Archives over to the Justice Department; the National Archive refused to recognize Trump having executive privilege after leaving office).

We now know that it was the 100 classified documents (comprising 700 pages of classified, top-secret information) and the willy-nilly, cavalier way in which those documents were handled/stored by the former president, that lit a fire under the executive agencies to raid Trump's Mar-A-Lago resident this month.

Interestingly, neither the National Archives nor Trump's representatives at that time made any mention of the alleged claim that Trump de-classified the documents prior to leaving office. That legal argument is currently being alleged by Trump's lawyers in the court in Florida; however, they have not, and apparently cannot, produce any actual documentary evidence to support that de-classification order. If it existed, this order would be easily obtainable by Trump's attorneys.

Doesn't look like ya boi Trump is doing so hot right now @raphjd

Who gives a fuck what "philosopher" Sam Harris thinks? Sam Harris is a hack author who only sells books by saying outlandish things. He's a nobody. You're quoting a nobody to prop up your conspiracy? Wow, you're dumb.

@raphjd Imagine if you also got outraged at the inequitable policies that led to 23% of last year's layoffs (layoffs, not for-cause firings) being minority employees, despite minorities only making up 18% of the school's workforce.

@raphjd I hate to break it to you anti-woke zealots, but Disney's already reimagined Robin Hood as a red-furred fox.

@raphjd Your statement displays that you've never participated in a seizure of evidence under warrant or subpoena.

For example, a warrant will tell law enforcement to seize specific documents, but it will also include language that tells LE to seize any documents within the same container or containers stored similar to those containing named documents. This catch-all language is almost always included in warrants, and excess property is routinely seized. This is why the owner is given a receipt for all of the property seized, which Trump did, in fact, receive.

Were you under the impression that the FBI were going to pop a squat in the middle of the room and go thru each box of voluminous materials before removing them from the premises? Not even back at headquarters are the agents going thru the boxes. That's a task that some poor document review attorney had to do.

I'm sure you thought this was something, but you've got nothing here.

@raphjd As an attorney myself who realizes that every American, even the Devil himself, has a fundamental right to representation and that lawyers representing clients don't necessarily agree with their clients....

...I can imagine my reaction and I don't think it would be what you think it would be.

@raphjd To each of your points:

(1) The warrant was only necessary because Trump ignored and/or failed to comply with the subpoena.

(2) Whether all of the documents were declassified while Trump was still President is yet to be determined. Trump doesn't retain the power to classify or declassify documents after he's left office, and it isn't something he can just say, "If I brought it home, then ipso facto I declassified it." He will have to have done the official act.

(3) As far as I am aware, the only "documents" being returned are the three passports that were seized amongst the other documents.

And the thing which must be stated is that the potential crimes which may or may not be brought against Trump don't require the documents to have been classified. The fact that he has documents in his possession that belong to the People (i.e., the National Archives), then he's still committed a felony. A felony, by the way, that he strengthen while in office during his "Lock Her Up" frenzy.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mar-a-lago-search-fbi-threat-law-enforcement/

First, conservatives threaten to reduce funding to the FBI (you know, "defund the police"), and now the Right is threatening to murder law enforcement officers, judges, etc. But let's keep calling BLM the violent ones.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62527628

The FBI took 11 sets of classified files in a search of ex-US President Donald Trump's estate in Florida this week, according to a search warrant.

@raphjd So what?

@raphjd said in Raphael Warnock used campaign funds to fight a personal lawsuit: Report:

Try staying on topic

I've already explained why your "topic" is legally incorrect bullshit. The rest is just tricking you into displaying your pathological hypocrisy because you're a political hacky troll. You don't think people actually take you seriously or care about your opinions, do you?

Frankly, you're like one of those inflatable punching bag toys. We "liberals" just come here when we feel like punching a clown and to watch you wobble. And you never disappoint.

@raphjd said in Raphael Warnock used campaign funds to fight a personal lawsuit: Report:

Nice whatboutism

Actually, I don't recite Trump's campaign finance abuses to justify Warnock's alleged violations. I explained at the start why Warnock's use of funds was appropriate.

The Trump stuff was just to bait you into being your typical hypocritical self where you, as I suspected, glazed over Trump's violations while still being upset about Warnock's non-violation.

If you cared about campaign finance law, then you'd be upset about Trump's violations. You aren't, so you clearly don't actually care about campaign finance law. Your faux outrage is just your typical, hypocritical political hackery...as per your usual.

@raphjd The suit against Warnock is alleging First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment causes of action against Warnock, which would only apply if Warnock were being sued in his capacity as a governmental agent. I fail to see how use of campaign funds here is inappropriate.

Now, for example, spending $3.6 million in campaign donations defending against a purely sexual harassment suit would be the kind of thing that was illegal. You know, that thing ya boi Trump did.

Or the $1.5 million in campaign money spent litigating real estate disputes that ya boi Trump used.

Or the millions spend trying to enforce employment-based non-disclosure agreements against Omarosa, actress Jessica Denson, or Cliff Sims, a communications aide.

Looks like the Republicans are just getting desperate as Herschel Walker, Warnock's GOP rival, is getting investigated for spending campaign money before declaring himself a candidate and for undisclosedly coordinating political ads with Marjorie Taylor Greene.

@raphjd I don't love or hate The Epoch News; I don't have an opinion on it. Frankly, I had to look up what it was. I wouldn't go to The Epoch News for the same reason I wouldn't go to The Watchtower for news....it's a religious publication with whatever political slant the religion's leader has.

I imagine it's blocked in China because China banned the Falun Gong religion, and murders and organ-harvests its adherents.

I assume democrats (those that are even aware it exists) would have a negative opinion of it because it aligned itself with Donald Trump after he started spouting anti-China rhetoric...the Falun Gong religion being adversarial to China and all.