Sound up & be mesmerized. 🔊 🔊🔊 pic.twitter.com/O9pjHyS4fe
— TG (@TG22110) August 11, 2022
- In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson reviews an amazing couple of days with the famous search warrant, a seized cell phone from an insurrection-connected congressman, another seized cell phone from an insurrection-connected lawyer, Trump tax returns, and Biden accomplishments. A very busy news week.
- Infidel753 has a couple of thoughtful reactions to the Trump warrant.
Best lines express impatience with the impatient, those who thought Garland was sitting around too scared to proceed.
These cries of impatience always sounded to me like the kid in the back seat whining “Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?” at the adult driver. Well, it looks like we’re almost there. Be glad the adults took the time to get everything right.
- A raid is a search that involves a police forcible entry I had to look it up. Frances Langum says the Trump warranted search doesn’t qualify, and helpfully provides a bunch of Trump era examples that do.
- It used to irritate non-MAGA taxpayers that President Trump would vacation at Mar-a-lago, get Secret Service Protection, and get his resort to bill the Secret Service for taking up space, putting money into his own pocket. At The Onion, the FBI finishes their search for highly classified nuclear secrets Mr. Trump had denied keeping, then is presented with a bill for their 12-hour stay.
- Scotties Playtime has a reporting edge. Scottie’s husband worked nights for Trump at Mar-a-lago. Scottie is able to put the warrant into plain language. This is why it’s important.
- Ant Farmer’s Almanac has the headline as the US DOJ rejects a proposal from Geraldo. Yeah, it’s satire.
- We have been getting reports on the precise type of top secret classified documents that had been spirited away in Trump crevices. In Hackwhackers we find additional details of the possible types of nuclear secrets. Startling details.
- About those nukes:
When we have a week like the week that just was, you know you’ll find satire from Andy Borowitz. This week, Trump dismisses fears he would build nukes.
“There’s math, there’s science. Not gonna happen,” the ex-President said.
- Green Eagle looks at wide ranging Republican which is to say wingnut reaction to the FBI raid to rescue evidence at Mar-A-Lago.
I respond to one objection:The public should demand to see that warrant!
Including:
What judge approved it?
What was the probable cause?
What crime is being alleged?
What specific items were taken?That ALL should be released by …
… um…
Donald Trump?
Oh yeah. They had to give him the warrant.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 10, 2022
- Dave Columbo goes dramatic, acting out Republican drama over the Mar-a-Lago drama:
@davecolumbo You knew it was coming #democrats #democrat #democratsoftiktok #politicaltiktok #politicalhumor #fy #fyp #foryou #foryoupage ♬ Manke, honobo, everyday, funny, loop – arachang - Max’s Dad always entertains. This week he covers right wing reaction to an sudden awareness that maybe Trump is not above the law.
- Judge Bruce Reinhart saw probable cause and approved the warrant to search Trump’s resort. Julian Sanchez reacts to a little Fox News photoshop humor:
“See, the joke is, we wanted to falsely associate a public official who authorized a lawful warrant targeting a Republican with a convicted sex trafficker. Hilarious, right?” https://t.co/pMM1t4vexs
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) August 12, 2022
- In the journalistic world inhabited by Tommy Christopher, a Trump advisor is quoted. Seems the FBI search just made Donald Trump president.
Polling comes out putting actual numbers to voter reaction to the FBI whatever it’s called; raid or search or warrant at the Trump resort. Sure enough, by an impressive margin, voters say Wait! WHAT?
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors is among the first to glance at the actual released list of seized documents and manages to say the word that dares not speak its name: Espionage.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony points out contrasting views on whether taking the 5th constitutes an admission of guilt as Trump argues one side and the other side is defended by Trump.
- Dave Dubya remembers Donald Trump’s unsympathetic reaction to the 5th Amendment against self-incrimination, speculates on the three specific parts of the criminal code that likely provoked him to invoke, and explains what each of the three means.
- In four simple sentences, our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit explains to Mr. Trump the Fifth Amendment and the imminent practical difference between criminal and civil testimony.
- CalicoJack in The Psy of Life reminds us what the 2020 plot was all about. The Republican Party abandoned convincing voters to vote for them.
They, instead, moved on to preventing legitimate votes from counting. It did not work.
They went to every legal contrivance they could invent to augment their efforts. That didn’t work.
They went to every method of dubious legality they could think of. None of it worked.
They went underground, with secret plans that were clearly illegal. They didn’t work.
So they finally went to insurrection, a violent lynch mob with the parallel objectives of assassinating legislators and overthrowing our government.
None of those separate plots worked.
CalicoJack points out there were no separate plots. It was all a single escalating conspiracy.
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged, reviews last week’s CPAC – victim section featuring a performance that shows the persecution of captured lynch mob insurrectionists.
Best of many great paragraphs:
Every conservative who faces any kind of accountability is automatically a victim. Alex Jones is supposedly a victim. Trump is a victim. Everyone at CPAC is unfathomably stricken and can barely stand all their various oppressions.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has the most concise, yet most accurate reason that, in spite of the clownishness, we should take seriously Josh Hawley preaching on masculinity while scampering away from the violent insurrection he helped cheerlead.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson guests on Charlie Sykes’ Bulwark podcast to talk about the transformation of Wisconsin’s Republican Party from Paul Ryan to complete paranoia.
- It wasn’t around when I was a lad, but many younger folks will remember the original Schoolhouse Rock. Nojo takes that wonderful old civics lesson I’m Just a Bill and provides a Capitol Hill update.
- It’s a promise every progressive Democrat makes. Biden finally gets Congress to go for it. Mega-Corporations, along with fabulously wealthy individuals, will finally pay their fair share, in spite of armies of lawyers and tax specialists. 87,000 new IRS agents will have a single directive: make sure hyper-rich tax dodgers follow the law. That instruction is written into the legislation.
News Corpse takes apart an absurd claim repeated constantly by the Fox Network: that all those agents are assigned to hunt down and kill middle class taxpayers.
- At The Moderate Voice, editor Joe Gangelman has the details as Republicans successfully block efforts to make insulin affordable.
- Over the Mississippi River from here, driftglass helps the Republican candidate for Governor remember that it’s a bad, very bad, idea to say that abortion is the same as the Holocaust. Bad idea.
Yet that candidate, Darren Bailey, keeps finding ways to double down. Endless loop.
- SilverAppleQueen knows nice people who are MAGA-folk and knows how to get along. Reading between the lines, it seems to include biting her lip until it bleeds.
- The Palmer Report reports that a Republican has won a special election in Minnesota. Yet that win scares Republicans and encourages the Palmer Report.
- Nan’s Notebook explains Christian Nationalism as it is experienced by self described Christian Nationalists, and reviews how reaction to the description has changed in a single year.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz watches CPAC, the annual conclave of national conservatives, and sees one example after another of religiosity that should make actual Christians cringe.
One reason many Christians are moving on:
…they are reluctantly leaving the faith tradition of their pasts and departing local churches, so as not to be mistaken for the precise kinds of charlatans and frauds Jesus spent his entire life warning people not to become.
- PZ Myers provides a lesson in separation of church and state. If you’re going to push religion in public schools you may want to avoid very public rejection from your students.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, we are taken back to the Y2K panic as the calendar rolled to 1/1/2000. Bruce reminds us that a similar set of consecutive panics engulfed many Christian communities.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil covers the carnage and asks the logical question as a noted actor crashes into a house. Sadly, the apparent suicide, if it was a suicide, succeeded.
- In Happiness Between Tails da-AL, in addition to directing prospective writers to a useful podcast on how to get published, goes unexpectedly off path to teach us the sensitive art of sincere apology.
- YellowDog Granny explains what there is about adulthood that makes it wild.
- Ever wonder where all those specialty medical chemicals come from? Why is their manufacture a trade secret? The Journal of Improbable Research takes to the wonderful appearance and eventual decline and disappearance a compound used in some heart medications.
- John Scalzi at Whatever tells us everything we will ever want to know about how artificial intelligence applications generate art.
- Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes took a walk years ago, and came to an insight on love, loss, and identity.
- @whiskeywhistle98 goes face-to-face glamour shooting, posing to the music:
@whiskeywhistle98 #glamourshots #fyp #tiktokmom #ReTokforNature #PostitAffirmations #foryourpage ♬ Head Over Heels – Go-Go's - Imani Gandy solves a puzzle that has kept me awake many nights:
Raise your hand if you learned how to spell chrysanthemum from Anne of Green Gables.
And then retweet your hand
— ⚓️Imani Two-Kitchens Gandy⚓️ (@AngryBlackLady) August 11, 2022
- Clickbait satirist Reductress explains how to induce a coma that will fit your television viewing schedule.
A few tweets I thought worthy:
This week @POTUS struck a serious deal to cut drug prices for people on Medicare and fight climate change, received a stellar July jobs report, shrank the unemployment rate to 3.5%, eliminated bin-Laden’s successor, & gas prices fell to a 50+ day low. Great week, Mr. President!
— Bill Clinton (@BillClinton) August 5, 2022
❤Happy friday🌼❤🌼 pic.twitter.com/J65xE1pjy2
— Giselle (@Giselle_zmm) March 26, 2021
This is what I do. ☺️#artlife pic.twitter.com/38I5z1xNzS
— Linda Hampton (@Ladydragon0212) August 7, 2022
Some pretty dark stuff was uncovered when reviewing the indictment of the officers in the Breonna Taylor case. 🧵
— Natalie Whittingham Burrell 🐥 (@natlawyerchic) August 5, 2022
Dr. Frederick Banting discovered insulin. It could have made him very rich, but he decided to give the patent away for free. He wanted insulin to be available to everyone, not held out of reach at exorbitant prices. Too bad the Republican Senators aren't as gracious as this man. https://t.co/rYyaVXis3O
— mcs (@mcs16819316) August 7, 2022
Remember Biden comforting him 💙 pic.twitter.com/Jq8y6wTmob
— Tenacious “T” #VoteBlueToEndTheViolence 🌻 (@WillResistAdmin) August 4, 2022
— BH-Fanatik (@HaZe4Real) August 7, 2022
#ThanksJoe https://t.co/AyNTV1SaXl
— The Psy of Life (@ThePsyOfLife) August 8, 2022
“Look, I don’t want any wounded guys in the parade,” Trump said. “This doesn’t look good for me.” He explained w/ distaste that at the Bastille Day parade there had been several formations of injured [vets].
COS John Kelly replied: “Those are the heroes.” https://t.co/eqmYOoCto6
— Alex Ward (@alexbward) August 8, 2022
So, this Presidency, with the low approval rating, just added 528K jobs in July, brought unemployment to its lowest level in 50 years, and now passed groundbreaking legislation, the largest climate bill in history, lowering drug costs for millions.
PS – Al-Zawahiri is dead.— Duty To Warn 🔉 (@duty2warn) August 8, 2022
U.S. economy adds 528,000 jobs in July, unemployment rate falls to 3.5%. Would've been 528,001 but Rudy Giuliani still can't practice law.
— Paul Lander (@paul_lander) August 5, 2022
#Republicans block cap on #insulin costs for millions of patients https://t.co/3E5txjbyum
— Roxann Souci (@roxitheatre) August 8, 2022
Comprised? WTF? pic.twitter.com/hzihJ0L1ry
— Raymundo (@RayAgua1031) August 8, 2022
We got Joe Biden because of Black Women in South Carolina
We got charge of the Senate because of a Black Woman is Georgia
We got the inflation reduction act passed because of a Black Women VP
See a pattern here?
— Quancy (@QuancyClayborne) August 8, 2022
Republicans have waged a war on science. They’ve waged a war on education. They’ve waged a war on Social Security. They’ve waged a war on the free press. They’ve waged a war against truth. And they’ve waged a war against Democracy. It’s clear to me: Republicans hate America.
— Dash Dobrofsky (@DashDobrofsky) August 8, 2022
This was a very difficult article to read. I couldn't get through the entire article because I was getting too angry and sad to read it. I thought we learned our lesson about separating children from their families when we did it to the Native Americans.
— Richard Brower (@RichardBrower2) August 8, 2022
Import them? https://t.co/0YJMgnaaHq
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) August 9, 2022
Trump thought the US government was “his” as president. He thought the military was his. DOJ was his personal law firm. The military was his. The Secret Service. Air Force One. And classified documents. Those things belong to us. We the people. His arrogance will be his downfall.
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) August 9, 2022
Sources say the FBI seized a person, a woman, a man, a camera, and a TV.
— Doc🐕 (@DocAtCDI) August 9, 2022
Before yesterday, there had never been an FBI raid on the home of a former President. Republicans are super, super upset about that.
Before Jan 6th, 2021, there had never been a violent attempt to overthrow an American election. But Republicans weren’t upset at all about that.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) August 9, 2022
— LJ (@balittlejohn) August 9, 2022
Quite the 24 hours for Trump:
– FBI executes search warrant at Mar-a-Lago
– DC Circuit Appeals Court rules that House Ways & Means Committee can access Trump's tax returns
– Trump real estate appraiser held in contempt, forced to hand over 36K documents to NY AG— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 9, 2022
Never heard all this talk about weaponizing federal agencies against political opponents and calls to defund the FBI when they announced an investigation into Hillary Clinton 11 days before the 2016 election!.
— Covie (@covie_93) August 9, 2022
So Republicans are really about to go into the midterms with this messaging:
– Defund the FBI
– Toxin-exposed veterans don’t deserve healthcare
– End Social Security and Medicare
– 10-year-olds must be forced to give birth to their rapists’ baby
– Keep Insulin prices high— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 9, 2022
Wow all these Republicans who are outraged by the FBI raid on Mar a Lago calling it government overreach while they prosecute women for medical procedures and the doctors who perform life saving procedures!
— Sara Spector (@Miriam2626) August 9, 2022
Your argument is that the FBI, headed by a trump appointee, and the federal judge who signed the warrant, also a trump appointed, and the DOJ lawyer who drafted the warrant, aslo a trump appointee, are all corrupt but trump is innocent of any and all crimes? Are you high? 😂
— FakeJoeBiden (@fake_biden) August 9, 2022
— SF Sports Junkie . (@Rgarcia3633) August 9, 2022
“We elected a career criminal president and now his house was raided” sounds like a you problem, not an FBI problem https://t.co/T5EdiZYbAw
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) August 9, 2022
It’s not getting enough attention that a supposed billionaire former President of the United States, who stole classified documents and was trying to hide them from the Department of Justice, had a “hotel style safe” that sells for $153 and is designed to be opened by the manager
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) August 9, 2022
“Far too much has been written about great men and not nearly enough about morons.”
– Tyrion Lannister— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) August 10, 2022
BREAKING: Trump retains Rudy Giuliani to challenge FBI raid all the way up to the Supreme Courtyard by Marriott
— Zack Bornstein (@ZackBornstein) August 9, 2022
Breaking News: Florida Man Stunned to Find That Laws Apply to Him, Too
— Lynda Carter (@RealLyndaCarter) August 9, 2022
I am shocked they haven’t started the ‘planted evidence’ excuse yet.
— Just Elizabeth, II 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@nihil_ad_rem) August 9, 2022
Q: So when did the DOJ start treating removal of classified documents like a felony anyway?
A: When President Trump signed a 2018 law making it a felony. pic.twitter.com/KA6RKYlQ8L— Jeff Yarbro (@yarbro) August 9, 2022
Breaking; President Biden has signed the official paperwork for U.S. approval of Finland and Sweden to join NATO.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 9, 2022
It’s like overnight all the Republicans who talked for six years nonstop about the the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton just magically erased it from their memory so they could create this new fictional world in which only Republicans get investigated by the FBI.
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) August 10, 2022
Trump signed a law in 2018 making the removal of classified documents a felony. 😏
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@NotHoodlum) August 10, 2022
Found through a great blog: Mock Paper Scissorshttps://t.co/ZiJruZ0FrN https://t.co/c0RSBksQcc
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 10, 2022
New Yorkers have always known…😏 pic.twitter.com/NTcYVzoda7
— Susu (@SusuSem) August 10, 2022
I hope this takes off. Good job Dads #ittakesavillage pic.twitter.com/IORPB6vYLd
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) October 23, 2021
— Nancy (@BeadingfanNancy) August 10, 2022
— Ida M. Garrett, RN (@idagarrett) August 9, 2022
Let me explain the difference between Hillary’s emails and what’s happening now.
Hillary used a private BUT SECURED server to conduct work that involved classified docs. As a primary matter, she got PERMISSION to do so, and her server was set up to satisfy the specs of the DOS
— Pam Keith, Esq. (@PamKeithFL) August 10, 2022
You mean this guy? pic.twitter.com/aE3Tn5gVCT
— White w/a side of mayo😉🇺🇸🌈🇺🇦🏒 (@shannoncmallory) August 11, 2022
If the FBI is going to raid your home, it's kind of like the weather~it's inevitable, you should relax and enjoy it. They're going to do it anyway. If it's a legitimate search, the criminal's lawyer has ways to shut that thing down. It is something that God intended to happen🤷♂️
— NotJDRobbins (@not_robbins) August 11, 2022
More insanely obvious things the GOP are trying to memory hole:
Trump signed the 2018 law making mishandling classified material a felony
Trump nominated FBI Director Christopher Wray who approved the raid
Trump said Hillary should be jailed for mishandling classified material
— Nick Dyer (@nicholasddyer) August 10, 2022
Michael Seems Excited😉
BREAKING: Michael Cohen REACTS to Trump taking the Fifth Amendment https://t.co/NiSiZCSInS via @YouTube
— Badd Company (@BaddCompani) August 11, 2022
Fox News is like if Timothy McVeigh had his own TV network.
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) August 11, 2022
.@BetoORourke to a Greg Abbott supporter who laughed when the gubernatorial candidate mentioned the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas: “It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.” #txlege
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) August 11, 2022
Well Rich Most Americans don’t steal classified documents so there’s that
— TWalsh (@hogan_1969) August 9, 2022
Just to be clear for people who don't read beyond the tweet, Obama's presidential records never left custody of the federal government and are stored at a federal government facility.
— Eric Holm (@holmtweets) August 12, 2022
Sure stealing nuclear secrets is bad but have you considered the threat of a gender-neutral Mr. Potato Head
— Thor Benson (@thor_benson) August 12, 2022
And I’m allowed a few of my own:
Your idea is that keeping tax breaks for the fantastically wealthy will get us away from recession.
That has been discredited by experience.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 7, 2022
Oh Lord, please save us and our children from such as these. https://t.co/ZqedrWnHOC
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 7, 2022
I'm kind of old, and I missed the context on this.
Did it have anything to do with you hawking quack remedies for "aches, pains and common colds" and hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19?
Wouldn't your fraudulent medications and harmful advice justify you being tossed out?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 7, 2022
That statement is extraordinary.
Do I understand that you were once a medical professional?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 7, 2022
Mr. Trump says you privately confessed that you just loved looking at his body.
Hard to believe from a medical doctor.
Was this true? You confessed that?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 7, 2022
Vaccines have been a requirement in the military for generations. Nothing new.
It's to keep down military losses from disease.
And the military is not teaching CRT.What are you thinking?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 7, 2022
Economic rescue plan
Lowest unemployment in 50 yrs
Infrastructure
Gun safety
Electoral Count Reform
Semiconductors
American science
First Black woman to the Supreme Court
The Inflation Reduction Act"For a 50-50 Senate, that’s pretty damn impressive."https://t.co/TLaAwp20MA
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 7, 2022
Since he hasn't filed a suit, and there has been no specific announcement of a suit, is it at all possible he has no case?
Could folks like you, with your vague boasts about some legal action in the dim future, be making it up?
Just asking.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 7, 2022
WATCH: Inflation is the biggest concern I hear about from West Virginians. We cannot continue to add fuel to the inflation fire. The Inflation Reduction Act will bring down the national deficit — and it will NOT raise taxes. pic.twitter.com/8XrVuVvJ7l
— Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) August 6, 2022
When corporations got massive tax cuts, did their prices go way down?
Or did corporate taxes and the prices they charge us turn out to have nothing to do with each other?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 7, 2022
That has to feel horrible.
1) You insult someone for not being as worldly and knowledgeable as yourself.
("i know you know nothing about economics especially world economics or capitalism")2) Then that same person humiliates you with documented facts.https://t.co/HsMEN5qoBW
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 7, 2022
Wasn't that the think tank established by an anti-FDR group in 1937?
The conservatives who said the New Deal would never work and the Great Depression would not end?That's the organization you're citing today?
I hope you're as right about Biden as their founders were on FDR.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 7, 2022
A Biden win for America
Patriots will celebrateSenate Passes Historic Climate, Health Care and Tax Billhttps://t.co/RkCXc89pYI
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 7, 2022
It looks like Republican logic is this:
Allowing Medicare to negotiate to reduce drug prices would reduce what Medicare spends on drugs.
Reducing what Medicare spends will reduce Medicare.
Therefore reducing the cost of drugs is a War on Medicare.https://t.co/ObjFs7ZVkK
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 8, 2022
Glad you don't agree with everything!
Free speech is limited on a few things. Defamation, conspiracy to violence, advocacy of murder.
Or insistence that a mass shooting was faked by the dead children and their grieving parents, thereby subjecting them to threats and harassment.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 8, 2022
Trump was furious, yelling that his generals were not loyal to him like Hitler's were to him.
Kelly tried correct him:
Hitler's generals were not really all that loyalTrump was not having it. Raged:
His generals ought to be loyal.
Like Hitler's were.https://t.co/PY7dbYcNxK— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 8, 2022
The Republican group took down the racist article. The GOP chairman said "it was controversial to some people, I would imagine."
Then he defended it. https://t.co/CTr0wBYmVo
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 8, 2022
The real reason Trumpists love their leader so much.
He gives them what they crave and are perpetually denied: acceptance.
(He is not toasted.)https://t.co/99H5R2Kc0R— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 8, 2022
The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 8, 2022
Apparently you can make this up.
You did.New IRS agents are to see that the fabulously wealthy and corporations actually pay what they owe.
And to process refunds to those of us who pay on time.
Climate Change is a crisis, not a slush.
See?
You can, and did, make this up.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 8, 2022
Anti science. pic.twitter.com/GfPEiYtRc4
— Tori atheist (@ToriatheistTori) August 7, 2022
I am a Church-going Christian.
I'm sorry about your 1st sentence.
With you on the 2nd.If you are an extremely moral person and an atheist, then you have both in common with people I have known and admired over the years.
I wish I could match their courage and integrity.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 8, 2022
Georgia has a legal and moral responsibility to keep prisoners alive and safe. If they can and will do that in this case, then keep this murderer in Georgia prison.
If they can't do it, or aren't sure they can, then his request is legitimate. Send him to the feds.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 8, 2022
Oh, I dunno.
The very last thing this country actually needs right now would be fabulously wealthy tax-avoiding billionaires with reason to be scared right down to their socks about 87,000 more IRS employees.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 8, 2022
Friends say he's pretty much destroyed the Republican party, but I think that's a work in progress, so credit might be premature.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 8, 2022
Ooooh.
And ladies… He's available!!— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 8, 2022
Actually, that is not true.
Not "proven in court."Under WI law, Rittenhouse attys were not required to prove self-defense: only to claim it.
Prosecutors had to prove a negative:
that Rittenhouse did not believe he was in danger.WI was 1 of 15 states w/that absurd standard.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 9, 2022
Actually, the only taxpayers Republicans have been protecting have been mega-corporations and the under-taxed fabulously wealthy.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 9, 2022
Right.
It's almost as if the law applies to everyone equally.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 9, 2022
Without some context, "Joe Biden is a thug" is not a compelling argument.
Is there any logic or factual basis for what appears on the surface to be childish name calling?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 9, 2022
We have seen politicians go to jail if they were also criminals. Right?
Like if they broke the law?
Criminal law?Marvin Mandel
Rod Blagojevich
George Ryan
Duncan Hunter
Chris Collins
Steve StockmanAre you saying that anyone is above the law?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 9, 2022
May I make what I hope is a helpful suggestion?
I imagine Mr. Trump could use additional legal representation.
I understand former lawyers for Alex Jones are now available.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 9, 2022
"One of the ways that the new climate change bill¹ raises money to pay for itself is by hiring more IRS agents to audit rich people. This will make up for the massive drop in audits of the rich that's been engineered by Republicans over the past decade."https://t.co/LLJDa3HNN6
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 9, 2022
Must be painful.
Making such a pointed remark, so well received by rabid conservatives:
Then having it eviscerated by a brief response from Millie:https://t.co/CurJOedWWX
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 9, 2022
Interesting accusation.
Do you have one or two examples that will stand up under examination?
If they exist and if they prove out, it would change the appearance of your assertion.Sadly, at the moment it looks like a sandbox taunt, but you could easily change that.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 9, 2022
Trump was right about the FBI, the swamp, the deep state — all of it.
— thebradfordfile (@thebradfordfile) August 8, 2022
Including when he insisted anyone investigated by the FBI must be a criminal?
That usually was followed by "Lock her up!"
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 9, 2022
IRS did not have the personnel to go up against the army of accountants employed by mega-corps and the fabulously wealthy
Seems that will change
Increase in agents will exclusively target mega-corps paying near zero & individual tax dodgers w/income of more than $400,000/yr.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 9, 2022
Aw, that's a shame.
Weren't you the one who posted this?https://t.co/9K7JuIjfxx
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 9, 2022
If those Black families have an annual income over $400,000, that might be true.
If those Black businesses are mega-corporations that pay close to zero that could be true.
Other than that, you have been misled.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 9, 2022
Pope Francis and US Bishops seem to disagree.https://t.co/ojz59keLd7
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 9, 2022
Where's the raid on Hunter Biden’s house?
— Nick Adams (@NickAdamsinUSA) August 8, 2022
No illegally obtained documents.
No warrant issued by a judge.
No search.See how that works @NickAdamsinUSA
— MarTigress 😊🍀🐯💉 (@TheMartiScott) August 9, 2022
Before yesterday, there had never been an FBI raid on the home of a former President. Republicans are super, super upset about that.
Before Jan 6th, 2021, there had never been a violent attempt to overthrow an American election. But Republicans weren’t upset at all about that.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) August 9, 2022
Warrants are issued for probable cause, which cause has not yet been made public.
So you are outraged that any former president would be investigated for anything at all?
The cause or the probability does not matter?A former president is above the law?
Any law at all?
Ever?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 10, 2022
If reports are accurate (they seem to be) then Biden was unaware of the warrant and raid until the raid had happened .
You have been misled.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 10, 2022
And get rid of those extremists with their radical views:
Like nobody being above law.
Even exPresidentsYou know:
Police State.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 10, 2022
You mean "organize lynch mobs to assassinate legislators" type dissent?
Or "steal boxes full of top secret documents to cover up crimes" type dissent?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 10, 2022
11,780 votes
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 10, 2022
Whoever appointed that judge should go to jail!
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 10, 2022
So your argument is that any DOJ investigation of a former President is, by definition, harassment?
Probable cause is automatically invalid? No matter what the cause or how probable?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 9, 2022
It must be embarrassing to make what you think is a cutting comment, and have it turned around so completely with just one brief slash.https://t.co/6YQSvQMDxa
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 10, 2022
And we all thought Mr. Trump had no sense of humor:https://t.co/o4ks1bJ64J
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 10, 2022
Trump Could Be Charged with Violating Espionage Acthttps://t.co/4sPBjsHV5j
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 10, 2022
Federal Agents Took a Dozen Boxes from Mar-a-Lagohttps://t.co/fFJwR4geBV
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 10, 2022
Ah yes.
The OJ defense.Will Mr. Trump be trying on the glove?
Grunting and moaning with contrived pain as he makes huge efforts to slide it on?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 10, 2022
I dunno.
Nobody monitored anyone who did not threaten public officials with violence.
87,000 have been instructed to examine those very wealthy individuals who paid very little tax, and mega-corps paying virtually nothing to see whether they are cheating (spoiler-they are).
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 10, 2022
"When will Hunter Biden be raided?"
Possibly after he steals dozens of boxes of highly classified documents, then refuses to return them.
As I understand it, that hasn't happened as yet.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 10, 2022
Christopher Wray is the guy heading the FBI. Right?
Okay, so I will admit:
Whoever appointed that guy, Christopher Wray, ought to be put in jail.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 10, 2022
Probably 50 years ago.
My dad stopped at a traffic light behind a convertible with bumper sticker: "Honk If You Love Jesus"So he honked.
Driver turned around and yelled:
"What the hell's wrong with you?
Can't you see the light's red?"My dad: "B-b-but I love Jesus!"
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 10, 2022
Oh Nick
With some explanation, with even a little evidence, an iota of reasoning, these one-sentence rants might come across as actual cogent arguments
Not necessarily compelling – but we start with baby steps
Otherwise they seem like sandbox taunts
Possibly because they are.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 10, 2022
A fuss budget singing love songs to a mirror.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 10, 2022
You do have an advantage. You have knowledge of your own integrity.
The rest of us must rely on evidence.
Sadly, the evidence available to us does not favor youHowever, that can easily be addressed by a link to one of those reports
You know. On golf balls, rain coats, napkins
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 11, 2022
“That this reaction was based on claims of political bias within the FBI that have no basis in the available evidence was beside the point. The point was that the FBI became the opposition, just as Trump would have hoped.”https://t.co/ueUcriPB0E
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 11, 2022
"But it turns out that this wasn’t enough. Baseless assertions of impropriety and bias by the FBI have now been kicked up a notch"https://t.co/ueUcriPB0E
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 11, 2022
Kind of like Josh Hawley writing a book on manly man "Masculinity"
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 11, 2022
I suppose a lot would depend on whether Obama stole dozens of boxes of classified documents, then refused to return them.
Did AOC sponsor any lynch mob efforts to assassinate legislators and overthrow the government?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 11, 2022
Wait what?
The judge Trump went out of his way to appoint is biased toward Obama?
And their big scandal is a photo of him at home drinking whiskey and eating Oreo cookies?
That's what they've got?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 11, 2022
You know, if we make a song out of that, we could be rich!
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 11, 2022
You think THAT'S disturbing.
Try being old, overweight, bald, with an odd first name.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 11, 2022
"multiple figures on the right claiming — again without evidence, much less justification — that maybe the feds planted evidence…"
"Because, it seems, any opponent of Trump’s must be cast in the most nefarious terms possible."https://t.co/ueUcriPB0E
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 11, 2022
Actually, perjury would have been lying under oath.
One strategy is just to tell the truth.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 11, 2022
You do seem to accurately represent the default position of today's conservatives toward anyone who takes law enforcement seriously.
"Letitia James is a thug"
Yeah, that is the current state of contemporary conservatism.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 11, 2022
You mean where warrants with probably cause and judicial approval can be used to seize evidence?
Yeah, I recognize that.
It's on a lot of detective shows and police dramas.
They intend to show law enforcement at its most ideal.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 11, 2022
It wasn't a whistle blower with a conscience?
There was a National Archives mole?
A hidden secret librarian agent?"The name is Decimal. Dewey Decimal."
Classification 007— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 11, 2022
That is a serious blow.
We can only hope that the United States Department of Justice can rise from the ashes of your displeasure and, with extreme effort, somehow resume functioning without your trust.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 11, 2022
I think they are not equivalent.
Flynn's 5th was entirely self-protective.Trump testified in a civil proceeding.
Taking the 5th may protect him in any separate current or future criminal trial.
But it can be used against him in the civil proceeding.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 11, 2022
So it must be someone who visits often or perhaps even lives there.
— Wim Ortsen (@WOrtsen) August 11, 2022
Your 8.5 was over the last 12 months.
The President was referring to the Consumer Price Index: flat for July. That was largely because of reductions in gasoline prices.
Core inflation did go down to 3.8 percent, but it was not zero.
So Biden was right.
You have been misled.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 11, 2022
Producer Prices Fell In Julyhttps://t.co/A35N4BQk8n
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 11, 2022
Terrible!!
If the Department of Justice can investigate a former President
for stealing classified documents from the White House,
then any of us
with boxes of stolen classified documents might be next!
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 11, 2022
I am perpetually impressed that someone who helped get tax slashes for the fabulously wealthy would then want to slash programs to help everyone else.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 11, 2022
I think she works with a Tates compass.
Never works right.It's like we said so long, long ago in the Boy Scouts:
He who has a Tates is lost.(May God have mercy on my soul for that)
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 12, 2022
The newest conspiracy theory:
A secret plot to assigned Russian-made assault rifles to eye-shade accountants in the IRS to attack small businesses in Iowa.https://t.co/GfKE5m0oEW
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 12, 2022
Nuclear secrets?
This is what MAGA-folk think is persecution? https://t.co/bqx6T2nehu— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 12, 2022
"whatever it is grandpas do"
Mostly, I go to out front and yell at youngsters to get off my lawn.
Youngsters including anyone under 65
Lawn including the sidewalk used by startled pedestriansDamn kids!
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 12, 2022
That's right!
You're in danger.
I'm in danger.Everyone with stolen nuclear secrets is in danger!
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 12, 2022
“Anything short of finding the nuclear codes at Mar-a-Lago is going to hugely backfire on the Biden administration.”
— GOP operative Alice Stewart, on CNN just two days ago.https://t.co/h4FJu8jG8k— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 12, 2022
Shouldn't national security be a priority?
When it comes to highly classified documents, including nuclear secrets, 9 hours does not seem excessively cautious to me.
Why does it to you?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 12, 2022
True.
Problem is Trump claimed to be giving everything back.
No evidence otherwise until:Someone inside called and said there was more that Trump held back and that it was serious.
So that explains the 18 months – right?Now we find out about top classified nuclear secrets.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 12, 2022
That settles it then.
Forget probable cause, a warrant, and top secret classified nuclear documents.
It's about whether the AG was photogenic.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 12, 2022
Well, yeah.
That and highly classified nuclear secrets.BTW.
When Mr Trump gave back all those boxes of classified documents, and said that was all of them, why did he hold back the nuclear secrets?Why those?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 12, 2022
Well yeah.
Assuming the children are alive.That was the topic, right?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 12, 2022
Whether nuclear secrets justify the warrant and search seems obvious. But it is an interesting topic of debate with MAGA-folk.
What they may want to consider is just why Mr Trump would steal nuclear secrets to begin with.
What do my MAGA friends think were his plans?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 12, 2022
The legislation itself is explicit:
Those agents are to target those
– pulling in more than 400,000 a year
– who have been cheating on their taxes
– not paying their fair shareAnd mega corporations paying nearly zero
You have been misled about me.
I'm not part of those groups— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 12, 2022
You have been misled:
"… as the Capitol came under attack, she and the Senate Majority leader called for military assistance, including the National Guard."https://t.co/OBtFvV9Xqk
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 12, 2022
Sad news: my daughter does not like candy peanuts. I've failed as a father.
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) August 12, 2022
With time I may accept this tragic turn of events but I don't have the heart to tell her mother.
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) August 12, 2022
Covid is not the common cold, you moronic doofus.🤪
— stevelarsen4 (@stevelarsen4) January 22, 2022
You have been misled.https://t.co/pM2B2JV08U
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 12, 2022
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 12, 2022
Thank you.
I do try to be modest.Děkuji.
Snažím se být pokorný.Ale měření jsou měření.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 12, 2022
Umm.
No, actually.I appreciate your concern.
But those are the facts.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 12, 2022
Actually the 8.5 percent that entertains the MAGA laugh machine is for the last 12 months.
The CPI to which the President was referring was for the month of July. That monthly rate was flat.
So, sadly, you were misled.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 11, 2022
Actually the CPI measures inflation.
So, when he says inflation was zero in the last monthly measure, he is correct and you are mistaken.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 12, 2022
Biden approval hits two-month high after week of wins for Democrats https://t.co/jmWf2sxpIH
— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 11, 2022
Oh my.
It must be horrible to post what you consider to be an unanswerable question,
sit back smugly to await the sputtering opposition,
then find yourself so firmly schooled by Robby:https://t.co/Rdxobv20LO— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 12, 2022
I'm considered elderly, possibly because of age.
Can I count on you to explain?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 12, 2022
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