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    Quote Originally Posted by Roma_Victrix View Post
    The Washington Post just revealed in a new article that among the items taken from Mar-a-Lago in the FBI raid were top secret documents regarding the nuclear military capabilities of a foreign nation, the type of classified intel kept secure in a SCIF and known only by a handful of individuals on a need-to-know basis. The foreign nation in question has not been specified, but could likely be Israel given how clandestine it is about its possible nuclear capabilities. On a possibly related note, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner's private equity firm recently received $2 billion from the royal family of Saudi Arabia.
    That would make sense. As we know Trump is motivated by revenge and spite as much as he is greed and was very upset that a fifth of Israel's population doesn't like him:

    “Who are those 20 percent who do not support me in Israel? They are ungrateful and they are bad people,” he said.
    He also got mad that Netanyahu congratulated Biden for winning and considered it a betrayal.

    him,” Trump said about Netanyahu. “I haven’t spoken to him since.”
    https://politizoom.com/revealed-trum...saved-his-ass/

    Did Trump sell details of Israel's nuclear program to Saudi Arabia as a form of revenge as well as greed? Maybe.

    Is he spiteful, thin-skinned, and reckless enough to have done so? Definitely.

    There is a smell stronger than "fishy" here, and as I've said in a previous post, Trump could very well go to prison on charges of espionage (the charge the Rosenbergs were executed for when they shared US nuclear secrets with the Soviets).
    Call me a cynic but I doubt he'll face any meaningful punishment. He is a wealthy Republican after all, so the rules don't apply to him. That said, we'll know if he really is facing charges if he starts trying to pin the blame on his kids or Kushner.

    Trump going to prison certainly wouldn't do anything good for cooling tempers and calming the asinine civil war rhetoric of some on the right wing, but they've pretty much already gone for the jugular anyway with the January 6th riot at the Capitol.
    Considering they can't even handle the minor discomfort of wearing a mask in public, they're not gonna last a day if civil war really broke out. That and once their EBT and Social Security and Disability and other goodies they get from the government and paid for by money from the blue states stops rolling in they'll be shooting each other over dwindling supplies of cigarettes and opioids.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alhoon View Post
    What are you talking about? Drugs are illegal in most of Europe, aside a couple of pothead nations - and those nations have above-average murders.
    It doesn't have to do with decriminalizing drugs. Colorado, that decriminalized Canabis first, has ~6 murders per 100K people, more than 5 times the European average.

    The war on drugs certainly increased violent crime, but it is certainly not responsible for the majority of murders.
    There's still meth, cocaine and other goodies that make giant profits for organized crime, the only beneficiary of "war on drugs" other then overcompensated federal law-enforcement agencies that gorge on taxpayer funds that are wasted on funding of enforcement of those stupid laws.
    Organized crime plays key role in violent crime statistics in US, so if we get rid of "war on drugs", we pretty much remove almost half of violent crime in one sweep.

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    https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...x-us-attorney/

    Former President Trump’s Justice Department pushed for a criminal investigation of former Secretary of State John Kerry, an ex-U.S. attorney revealed in a new book, according to The New York Times.
    The push for an investigation of Kerry was one of several instances in which Trump’s Justice Department pressured the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan to take action against the then-president’s critics, according to Geoffrey Berman, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. Berman was fired by Trump in June 2020.
    It can never be overstated that anything Republicans accuse Democrats of doing, such as political prosecutions, is a confession that the Republicans have done, are doing, tried to do, or will do whatever it is they are accusing the Democrats of.

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    https://thehill.com/regulation/court...-as-manifesto/

    A judge on Friday dismissed former President Trump’s lawsuit against his 2016 Democratic presidential opponent, Hillary Clinton, calling it a “political manifesto.”
    “Plaintiff is not attempting to seek redress for any legal harm,” Judge Donald Middlebrooks, who was appointed by Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, wrote.


    He continued: “Instead, he is seeking to flaunt a two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him, and this Court is not the appropriate forum.”
    Trump sees the legal system as the grown up version of "telling". He wants teacher to punish everyone who hurt his feelings and make them let Trump play, and they have to let him win too or else he'll feel bad. And when it doesn't work like telling the teacher, he gets baffled, no matter how many times his demands have been rejected by the court.

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    https://news.yahoo.com/virginias-gop...194459180.html

    WASHINGTON – Virginia's Republican attorney general announced Friday he has created an "election integrity unit," an apparent follow-up to Donald Trump's unproven claims of voter fraud during the 2020 presidential balloting.
    The office of Attorney General Jason Miyares said the new unit of more than 20 attorneys, investigators, and paralegals "will provide legal advice to the Department of Elections" and "investigate and prosecute violations of Virginia election law."
    Just like Desantis in Florida. It is certain that these packs of fascist MAGAthugs will "find" enough "voter fraud" to ensure that no Republican will ever lose an election in those states again. Then once that is done they can work towards getting rid of elections entirely and turning the nation into the white supremacist fascist dictatorship the GOP-Nazi Party has always dreamed of.

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    Wait, if Democrats didn't cheat, then how come anti-fraud unit is a bad thing according to Democrats and their pocket journos? I mean Democrats protesting anti-voter fraud measures is like creepy SJW types vocally protesting anti-pedo laws. Everyone knows why they are doing it, despite how they themselves try to rationalize it.

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    https://thehill.com/latino/3637788-c...spect-dignity/

    Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) on Saturday called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) busing of migrants to the city “un-American.”
    “You don’t treat people with this lack of respect, lack of dignity, putting them on buses to an unknown destination with very little food, very little water,” Lightfoot said during an appearance on “CNN Newsroom with Pamela Brown.”


    “They have very little that they need when they’re on these multiple-hour, cross-country bus trips,” she said.
    Abbott’s office said on Friday the state has bused more than 10,400 migrants since April to Democratic-run cities in protest of President Biden’s immigration policies.
    About three-quarters have been sent to Washington, D.C., while more than 2,200 arrived in New York City since last month. The first bus sent to Chicago arrived on Wednesday, and Abbott said more than 300 migrants have arrived in the city so far.
    “What I don’t like to see is people taking these cross-country trips, getting off the bus and being immediately taken to the hospital because they were put on the buses with delicate medical conditions that no one in Texas seemed to care anything about,” Lightfoot said on CNN. “That is simply not right, and it’s un-American.”
    Abbot's stunt really puts what the Republican party is all about on display. They thought that busing migrants to the hated blue state cities would destroy them by creating race wars. It didn't occur to them that real Americans aren't as racist as they are and don't typically respond to the sight of dark skin with extreme violence.

    This is a recurring motif with fascists; because most of them are sociopaths with limited understanding of other people, whenever they attempt to deduce another person's motives or thoughts they'll often project their own issues and flaws onto them. Whenever any of them discuss liberals or Democrats or blue states or Biden, it quickly becomes clear they're talking about themselves.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Heathen Hammer View Post
    Wait, if Democrats didn't cheat, then how come anti-fraud unit is a bad thing according to Democrats and their pocket journos? I mean Democrats protesting anti-voter fraud measures is like creepy SJW types vocally protesting anti-pedo laws. Everyone knows why they are doing it, despite how they themselves try to rationalize it.
    As an aside, I have never in my life seen an "SJW" protest anti-pedophile laws who didn't turn out to be some 4channer trying to make them look bad. The "wokest" of the "woke" people out there are still very much against pedophiles, as any rational human being is. Now, they might advocate for pedophiles to be treated as mentally ill and be given therapy as opposed to immediately castrated/executed/whatever biblical punishment the average right winger may wish to inflict on them, but even that's a rarity, and that's a belief they apply to all criminals, not just pedophiles. There is nothing wrong with treating criminals as human beings.

    To address the main point: the problem isn't an anti voter fraud commission. The problem is if it claims to be an anti voter fraud commission, but really means an anti democracy commission. What the right means by "anti voter fraud" is actively disenfranchising people from voting through gerrymandering and other forms of governmental interference that try to make it harder for people to vote legitimately. Because only in a republican's mind is it a good thing for an election to have fewer voters.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Strider View Post
    As an aside, I have never in my life seen an "SJW" protest anti-pedophile laws who didn't turn out to be some 4channer trying to make them look bad. The "wokest" of the "woke" people out there are still very much against pedophiles, as any rational human being is. Now, they might advocate for pedophiles to be treated as mentally ill and be given therapy as opposed to immediately castrated/executed/whatever biblical punishment the average right winger may wish to inflict on them, but even that's a rarity, and that's a belief they apply to all criminals, not just pedophiles. There is nothing wrong with treating criminals as human beings.
    It's especially disingenuous because it was the right who saw a ten-year old girl being pregnant as normal/no big deal and tried to block her getting an abortion not that long ago. It seems ten years old is plenty old enough to consent on the right.

    To address the main point: the problem isn't an anti voter fraud commission. The problem is if it claims to be an anti voter fraud commission, but really means an anti democracy commission. What the right means by "anti voter fraud" is actively disenfranchising people from voting through gerrymandering and other forms of governmental interference that try to make it harder for people to vote legitimately. Because only in a republican's mind is it a good thing for an election to have fewer voters.
    It's a toxic combination. The oligarchs demand total control and all the money and the GOP politicians exist purely to give it to them. Meanwhile the Republican voter fears democracy might benefit marginalized people, so he doesn't want democracy anymore.

    With every case of actual voter fraud coming from a Republican, Democrats should start alleging all Republican wins are due to voter fraud. If any win in November, Democrats should refuse to recognize it and say it was stolen. At least there's evidence for it unlike every baseless Republican accusation.

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    Of course Republicans are no strangers to human trafficking.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2169520.html

    Matt Gaetz told a former White House staffer that he was hoping to get a pre-emptive pardon from then-President Donald Trump concerning an investigation into him by the Department of Justice, a report has said.
    The allegation came in testimony given to the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, The Washington Post reported.

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    https://news.yahoo.com/trump-accused...051240327.html

    Former President Donald Trump, while in Ohio to rally support for Republican Senate candidate JD Vance, slammed President Joe Biden for the recent decline in national gas prices.
    Speaking at the 7,000-seat Covelli Centre in Youngstown, Trump — who himself schemed in an effort to overturn the 2020 election — claimed that shrinking gas prices are a ploy Biden is using for political gain.
    Just a reminder that no Republican ever has or ever will care about the US economy. It's 100% about resentment and a desire to harm others with them.

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    https://twitter.com/NotHoodlum/statu...04092720746502



    https://www.amazon.com/dp/1977249248...XSZ2WZHR0JCP_0

    During the presidency of President Donald Trump, it became evident to me that the prophecies about the Son of Man, as predicted by Jesus in the Bible were, to a significant extent, fulfilled at the hands of Mr Trump. The Bible speaks about two different Christs-or Messiahs. Jesus, the Son of God is the one Christ, whereas the Son of Man is the other. Jesus always referred to the Son of Man in the third person. The greatest distinction or significance between the Son of Man and the Son of God (the Lamb) is their respective positions at the throne of God. There are numerous differences between the Son of God and the Son of Man, but overall, people read these scriptures and they do not realize that the Son of God (the Lamb) stands in front of the throne of God, whereas the Son of Man, is positioned on the right hand of God. Jesus spoke about two different killings in the four gospels of the New Testament. People read these scriptures and are unaware that Jesus (the Son of God) predicted his own killing in the first person, as opposed to the several prophecies that He made in respects to the Son of Man who will be crucified. The New Testament speaks about "two Kings;" Jesus, the Son of God, is the "King of the Jews," whereas the Son of Man is the "King of Kings" who will be a world-ruler, and He will rule all the nations (the tribes) of the earth with a rod of iron. This book will explain in depth how "Donald John Trump's" full name literally means: "The Ruler of the World, graced by Yahweh (the LORD) and a descendant of a Drummer." Upon reading this book, the reader will be captivated when they realize how President Donald John Trump fulfilled most of the prophecies as the Son of Man. It speaks about End Time Prophecies and Biblical revelations regarding "President Donald J. Trump, the Son of Man. The Christ."
    Strange to think that the future will be shaped by an Evangelical Christian offshoot religion with Trump as the central figure, Qanon as holy texts, and Biden as the devil.

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    But it's TOTALLY not a cult, guys
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    https://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-...out-it-1745174

    Former President Donald Trump is defending his handling of sensitive government records, telling Fox News host Sean Hannity that the president can declassify materials with just a thought.
    Trump made the remarks Wednesday evening in response to litigation that's increasingly centering on whether Trump properly declassified thousands of documents seized by FBI agents from his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. Speaking to Hannity at Mar-a-Lago, Trump reiterated his claim that he declassified the documents in addition to declaring a sweeping new ability for the president to do so.
    "You can declassify just by saying it's declassified, even by thinking about it. Because you're sending it to Mar-a-Lago or to wherever you're sending," said Trump. "And it doesn't have to be a process. There can be a process, but there doesn't have to be. You're the president. You make that decision. So when you send it, it's declassified. Because I declassified everything."
    By his logic Biden can say that on the day he took office he re-classified all documents in Trump's possession just by thinking it.

    Favorite comment:

    He’s actually invoking the Secret Telepathic Unilateral Preemptive Irreversible Declassification (S.T.U.P.I.D.) defense.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coughdrop addict View Post
    https://twitter.com/NotHoodlum/statu...04092720746502



    https://www.amazon.com/dp/1977249248...XSZ2WZHR0JCP_0



    Strange to think that the future will be shaped by an Evangelical Christian offshoot religion with Trump as the central figure, Qanon as holy texts, and Biden as the devil.
    If I was Christian, I'd be more convinced Trump is the Anti-Christ. A rare case that actually epitomizes all seven deadly sins to the nth degree. He's even got his mark of the beast.
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    Quote Originally Posted by chilon View Post
    If I was Christian, I'd be more convinced Trump is the Anti-Christ. A rare case that actually epitomizes all seven deadly sins to the nth degree. He's even got his mark of the beast.
    Were I a Christian, I'd think Evangelicalism and the Republican party were both under Satan's control with their beliefs that the poor and the immigrant are to be scorned, might makes right, and the only worthwhile goal in life is to become as rich and powerful as possible.

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    https://www.newsweek.com/trump-faces...-cohen-1746038

    Former President Donald Trump is facing "criminal liability" in New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit into alleged business fraud that could "wipe him out," his ex-personal attorney Michael Cohen said Saturday.
    James, a Democrat up for reelection this year, announced Wednesday the civil lawsuit against Trump that seeks at least $250 million in repayment from allegedly fraudulent practices and to remove all of the Trumps from their positions within the Trump Organization. Three of Trump's children—Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric Trump—and two senior executives at the Trump Organization were also mentioned in the lawsuit.
    She alleged that the Trumps enriched themselves with "numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentations" and that Trump "grossly" inflated his net worth by billions of dollars. She also accused him of cheating lenders and others with false and misleading financial statements.
    While announcing the investigation, she credited Cohen, who served a prison sentence for campaign finance charges, with providing information to help bolster her case against the former president.
    Running for President was the biggest mistake of Trump's life. He had no reason to run beyond the fact that he wanted to be the President. He had no agenda he wanted to push, he wanted to be in power just to be in power. That's why he did as little work as possible, preferring to just rubber-stamp whatever the Republicans wanted so he could quickly get back to being worshiped at his cult rallies. What he didn't realize was that as President it would be much harder to conceal his gifting and crimes.

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    Ah yes, episode 148869420 of the 8-year series of "Well now Trump will go to jail!"
    But sure, anti-Trump people are totally not a Jonestown-style cult!

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    https://www.newsweek.com/trump-backe...asting-1747297

    Pennsylvania Republican Doug Mastriano may be down in polls in his bid to become governor, but intends to fast and pray for the 40 days leading up to the midterm elections.
    Mastriano's campaign posted Monday on Facebook that the candidate intended to start fasting Thursday, "interceding for our elections, our state and our nation."
    The notice includes a Bible quote from Isaiah 58:12 reading, "Then you will be known as a rebuilder of walls and a restorer of homes."
    “Be careful not to do your acts of righteousness before men to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven." Matthew 6:1

    ”When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show men that they are fasting. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full." Matthew 6:16

    "But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you." Matthew 6:18

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coughdrop addict View Post
    https://www.newsweek.com/trump-backe...asting-1747297



    “Be careful not to do your acts of righteousness before men to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven." Matthew 6:1

    ”When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show men that they are fasting. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full." Matthew 6:16

    "But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you." Matthew 6:18
    Actually half the Bible is devoted to advice against hypocrisy.
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