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Iman বলেছেন...

By ordering the release of classified info to “dirty up President Donald Trump” early in 2017, Adam Schiff’s actions were unethical, illegal and potentially treasonous.

The corksoaker must be held accountable to the fullest extent of The Law.

Achilles বলেছেন...

Still watching this.

This is first hand point of view. This guy doesn't seem like a propagandist to me.

Lazarus বলেছেন...

I am watching Fallout, a recent post-apocalyptic TV series. I don't know if I like it or not. It might have been better if it had been made at another time or by other people and didn't have to be so ironic, snarky, and cynical/brutalist. Also, isn't "post-apocalypticism" tired? After like 20 seasons of The Walking Dead and its spin-offs isn't the brutal desert of the future somewhere we've visited too often and for too long.

Leora বলেছেন...

I saw with surprise that the New Yorker had an article about a rare disease that causes accelerated aging in children. I last heard about this disease in the National Inquirer sometime in the late 50's or early 60's where there were pictures of the afflicted little girl Norma looking just like the girl pictured in the New Yorker. This is fixed in my mind because one of Norma's symptoms were cold hands and feet from which I also suffered in our drafty Victorian house in upstate New York. (My brother was quick to point out the likelihood that I was also afflicted.) I do regard myself as prematurely aging as I approach my 73rd birthday.

I am so happy to see the New Yorkers editorial standards now touch those of the National Enquirer. I hope coverage of the Bat Boy will follow soon.

FormerLawClerk বলেছেন...

"By ordering the release of classified info to “dirty up President Donald Trump” early in 2017, Adam Schiff’s actions were unethical, illegal and potentially treasonous."

It would be nice if we had a President willing to uphold our laws, wouldn't it?

Turns out Trump's not the man.

Narr বলেছেন...

For the left hand--

Trifonov Brahms Bach D Minor

The last of the 3 Bs transcribed a violin piece by the first.

Mason G বলেছেন...

"It would be nice if we had a President willing to uphold our laws, wouldn't it?"

Run for office and show everybody how it's done. Or continue to sit in your basement, bitching on the internet because you didn't get your pony.

Your choice.

Achilles বলেছেন...

I never liked shotguns, but it makes sense they are popular now on the Russian Ukrainian battlefront.

Rusty বলেছেন...

Achilles. The problem is range. Even with the longest barrel and the tightest choke and the heaviest load you're maybe good for 60 yards. Longer for 00 shot, but not much.

Mr. T. বলেছেন...

Loudoun Co Groomer school district has suspended .athlete students because a transurrectionist terrorist was in the boys locker room recording them for ::checks notes:v complaining that a girl was in the boys locker room pretending to be a boy...

wildswan বলেছেন...

It's appropriate that the unaffordability crisis in NYC is being met by unaffordable reforms, i.e., Mamdani's plans.

Mr. T. বলেছেন...

Leonora said:

I saw with surprise that the New Yorker had an article about a rare disease that causes accelerated aging in children.

If it is progeria, that is a congenital genetic disorder that has about a one in five million occurrence. As it is a genetic, it cannot be spread by pathogen.

But you can bet the branch covidian leftists In the new yorker would be demanding that Frauci make us all wear masks anyway, and the democrat states declare martial law at behest of their teacher union players overlords.

Big Mike বলেছেন...

It would be nice if we had a President willing to uphold our laws, wouldn't it?

We do and it is. The previous guy and that Obambi fellow thought the law was and ought to be whatever they damned well pleased. You were part of that, weren’t you?

Big Mike বলেছেন...

@Mr. T, by the way, it’s illegal in Virginia to videotape inside a locker room while there are people changing, but in Loudoun County it’s the boys being punished.

FormerLawClerk বলেছেন...

Run for office and show everybody how it's done.

Someone will certainly need to. Donald Trump is too busy on the golf course to see to it that people like Adam Schiff, or the Epstein billionaire pedophiles, pay for their crimes against us.

Josephbleau বলেছেন...

“It would be nice if we had a President willing to uphold our laws, wouldn't it?

Turns out Trump's not the man.“

So you are anti Trump FLC?

Who are you for,

NorthOfTheOneOhOne বলেছেন...

Rusty said...

Achilles. The problem is range. Even with the longest barrel and the tightest choke and the heaviest load you're maybe good for 60 yards. Longer for 00 shot, but not much.

Range doesn't matter if you're in a trench environment. That's why shotguns were very popular with the Doughboys during WWI, especially the Winchester Model 1897. You could hold the trigger down and it would fire a round each time you pumped. You only had five rounds in the magazine, but you could still dish out some damage. It was known as the "trench broom".

Russians seem to dig a lot of trenches. I can understand the Ukrainians using them.

Aggie বলেছেন...

Shotguns are very useful for drones.

Gospace বলেছেন...

NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...
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Range doesn't matter if you're in a trench environment. That's why shotguns were very popular with the Doughboys during WWI, especially the Winchester Model 1897.


Often sawed off to 18 inches, making for more spread in close confines. Useful in trench warfare.

yet- the excuse for banning sawed off shotguns was- they weren't weapons of war.

Unlike the excuse for banning tommy-guns and other fully automatic weapons- they were weapons of war.

The two decisions are irreconcilable. And since the 2nd amendment was intended to arm the citizenry as standard issue infantry, with standard issue infantry weapons, both decisions are irreconcilable with the 2nd amendment.

Remember- it's legal to own gatling guns, and mortars, and cannon.

Achilles বলেছেন...

Rusty said...

Achilles. The problem is range. Even with the longest barrel and the tightest choke and the heaviest load you're maybe good for 60 yards. Longer for 00 shot, but not much.


In that video I linked they showed the embed in the back of a truck with other soldiers as one of the suicide drones chased them.

The drive of the truck floored it and the whole event lasted for minutes. It is hard to tell what took the drone down, probably the shotgun but the fiber line might have caught on something too.

For now I can't think of anything better than 00 buck. 10 gauge is not fun to shoot so you are probably going 12 gauge. That chase scene was legit and the drone gave it an actual horror movie suspense.

RCOCEAN II বলেছেন...

From what I've read, the biggest killer now on the battlefield in Ukraine isn't artillery - its drones. These characters can even peek through windows to see who's inside go in for the kill. Infrared makes it difficult to move, even at night.

Both sides have drones that kill other drones.

RCOCEAN II বলেছেন...

Shotguns are good for shooting someone in a trench at 5-10 yards. Otherwise, you might as well have an assault rifle. And of course, grenades are always effective at short range.

Josephbleau বলেছেন...

“I never liked shotguns,“

If I had to go to Ukraine under a Democrat administration, I would choose an M3A1 grease gun, poor on range, but I’m going to be hiding under the shrubs waiting for them to come to me.

Peachy বলেছেন...

Mr T. said:
"branch covidian leftists "

I'm stealing that.

Original Mike বলেছেন...

DNI Tulsi Gabbard Removes Security Clearances of 37 Intelligence Analysts

"Many of these names are from the fraudulent Intelligence Community letter that dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation." … "When former National Security Advisor Susan Rice, DNI James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan said, “give me this outcome,” the targeted names today are the people who constructed the fraud."

Taking out the trash.

Big Mike বলেছেন...

@Original Mike, I don’t know whether you’re aware, but having worked in the Intelligence Community for decades I can assure you that for these people their clearances (“tickets”) are basically worth multiple tens of thousands of dollars to them annually. In the course of my career I’ve met plenty of government people whose sole “skill” was their high clearances and absent those tickets they were essentially unemployable. Are any of these 37 in that latter category? I hope not, for their sakes.

Humperdink বলেছেন...

Headline from Zero Hedge: “Europe To Spend $100BN It Doesn't Have, To Buy Weapons America Doesn't Have, To Arm Soldiers Ukraine Now Lacks”

This ranks up there with the old NYPost headline: “Headless body found in topless bar.”

FormerLawClerk বলেছেন...

"So you are anti Trump FLC?"

I'm anti-Trump sitting on his fat ass and doing nothing.

They haven't perp-walked a single person for the J6 illegal prosecutions, the Russia-Collusion hoax, Clapper is still walking around a free man after committing perjury to the Congress.

Trump talks big, but everybody knows he's always folding his crap hand.

Mike (MJB Wolf) বলেছেন...

Thank you to the commenters who read and rebut the characters I skip over like Kak RC Inga Hag etc. But I have a request that the block quotes from these sources be kept to a minimum. It was becoming very difficult to avoid the sewage with such large amounts of it embedded in your thoughtful and cogent comments. Still I hesitate to criticize your work because God knows it serves to reinforce my decision to skip the crap in the first place and you who read it ALL definitely performed a service that the rest of us have no stomach for.

Thank you.

Dave Begley বলেছেন...

Brewers drop two to the Cubs.

Mike (MJB Wolf) বলেছেন...

FLC there are several grand juries hearing testimony about the crimes you mentioned. Sure Trump could rush out and start a riot by going off half-cocked and arresting people you hate before the hard work is done. But unlike his predecessors Trump is slowly assembling airtight cases while the slow drip of declassification builds to a climax down the road, not rushing to provide a headline and mugshot that in the end mean nothing, like dumbshit Jack Smith and his Pyrrhic victories. Justice, like revenge, is best served coldly and coolly.

mezzrow বলেছেন...

"Brewers drop two to the Cubs."

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Maybe two - even better than one.
Eamus Catuli.

tim maguire বলেছেন...

FormerLawClerk said...Someone will certainly need to. Donald Trump is too busy on the golf course to see to it

One would think a former law clerk would understand that there is a process and that only children think they can have everything everywhere all at once. (Also, Trump wouldn’t personally do any of this, he would instruct others to do it—which is something presidents can and do do on the golf course.)

Lawnerd বলেছেন...

I agree the shotguns are for the drones. There are tons of videos showing drones killing soldiers and how difficult it is to evade them.

Mike (MJB Wolf) বলেছেন...

Re Trump golfing: he is the most energetic president in my lifetime and gets more done each week — maybe day — than Biden did all last year. Yet his "allies" gripe that arrests have not been made yet because he's "too busy golfing." That is some weak-tea sniping from the sidelines while others work type of shit I expect from Progressives, not conservatives. Do better. You're starting to sound like a certain long-absent "Lifelong Republican" moby we used to kick around in here.

RCOCEAN II বলেছেন...

Just saw singing in the Rain in a theater last night. Improves a very good movie.

Breezy বলেছেন...

It’s crazy that Trump has to remind the European leaders that thousands of people are dying in the stalemated war, and it needs to stop sooner rather than later. He’s the only one who actually cares about saving peoples’ lives, it seems.

boatbuilder বলেছেন...

There are a lot of people who wish Trump would spend more time golfing and less time implementing his MAGA agenda. Not me. I am not tired of winning.

Congressional immunity is the problem with Schiff. (Not for the mortgage thing, but that is small potatoes). Congress should discipline him, but won't.

In a sane world the guy would be driven from office by his angry and disgusted constituents, but that isn't going to happen, either.

Enigma বলেছেন...

Drones are indeed the main use for military shotguns today. They might also be used to launch weighted nets rather than shot.

Rusty বলেছেন...

Achilles
I hope they're better shots than I am.
2 rounds of skeet last Sunday and I scored, maybe 16 -17. Ugh!

paul বলেছেন...

I'll give old hag Hillary some credit. She knew how to draw everyone in with her "I'd nominate Trump for a nobel prize if he brings peace with Russia/Ukraine". But if you listen to the rest of her statement, its "if". If Trump convinces Putin to agree to a ceasefire, not take any Ukraine territory, and returns Crimea. Because, according to Hillary's bizzaro world logic, European security demands it. And Putin is an adversary who wants to "destroy the USA and the western alliance".

She probably would've started WW III, had she been POTUS.

Mike (MJB Wolf) বলেছেন...

Congressional immunity is the problem with Schiff.

The conspiracy to commit deprivation of civil rights in NOT covered by the speech and debate clause. Yes that is the fig leaf the FBI used to squelch investigation into him, because he was on their side. But it does not cover illegal acts.

Also, Congress did punish him weakly when it censured him and removed him from the Intel Committee. But he's a senator now capable of even more malfeasance.

RCOCEAN II বলেছেন...

The other movie I saw was Sacha Guitry's 1930s "Confessions of a Cheat" - hilarious and witty. In french. This guy is unknown in USA but was an amazing director, actor, and writer for the stage and screen.

Jersey Fled বলেছেন...

It’s getting worse and worse for the illegal who killed three people in Florida last week.

https://x.com/foxnews/status/1958141569803997248?s=61

How did he get a CDL in sanctuary state California or anywhere else?

But of course we know the answer to that question.

Incidentally, his employer, who seems to specialize in illegal drivers from Punjab, should get an ICE visit promptly.

If he’s still in the country.

Jersey Fled বলেছেন...

Sorry, bad link. Here’s the right one

https://x.com/ericldaugh/status/1958140363132027073?s=12

Peachy বলেছেন...

Paul - 7:29
yeah I read that early on and a bunch of people missed it.

First - Hillary knows that most Americans know and understand clearly - --> she is a fraud and a Russian money whore and a liar - A Grand Jury should be selected for her-> setting up and using a Private Server and e-mail to hider her secret Russian money flow deals... while Secretary of State.

Second - yeah - her carefully placed "IF" reveals she is not serious.

Ronald J. Ward বলেছেন...

So we’re going to take $billions away in Medicaid and SNAP from people who need it the most and who are facing unnecessary price increases on most everything, which in turn will wreck havoc on the medical and agriculture profession, and spend it to paint a boarder wall black in order to make it too hot to climb for people who are no longer crossing?

Peachy বলেছেন...

Ronald J Ward.
The reality is non-democratic leftists are attempting to clean up the fraud and waste inside of those programs.. and ensure the programs are for US citizens and people who actually need them.
AKA - NOT illegals.

buwaya বলেছেন...

Good news - something substantial being done to reduce or reverse the damage from "climate" policies -

https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/08/19/in-his-first-200-days-trump-has-overturned-biden-climate-agenda-at-breakneck-speed-report-shows-200-actions-to-unleash-american-energy/

"In his first 200 days, Trump 2.0 has overturned Biden ‘climate agenda’ at breakneck speed, report shows – 200 actions to unleash American energy
In 2022, The American Energy Alliance began keeping a tally of all the actions Biden and the Democrats had taken to make it harder to produce oil and gas. Only two years into Biden’s term, the AEA had 125 items on its list. By the time Biden left office, the list had doubled in size. ...
Trump also terminated Biden’s pause on liquified natural gas export permits, and the following month, the Department of Energy approved the first since Biden’s freeze. Several more have been issued since.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced in March that the agency would be targeting 31 deregulatory actions. These included a review of many of the Biden-era climate agenda rules, such as the Clean Power Plan 2.0 and the tailpipe emission standards that were a key part of Biden’s EV mandates. By July, the EPA released its proposed repeal of the Obama-era “endangerment finding,” which had been the legal linchpin of the agency’s regulation of emissions from vehicles."
This all wont have an effect overnight, nor does it affect state stupidity like in California, but it is substantial.

Ronald J. Ward বলেছেন...

No meaning to be insulting but there seems to be considerable confusion with the word “reality” among many contributors here.

“The reality is non-democratic leftists are attempting to clean up the fraud and waste inside of those programs.. “

Might I ask Peachy, well, why? Is it to protect and save my tax $, possibly reducing my tax burden? No. Is it to return those savings to the treasury? Again, no. Is it to take those saved dollars and perhaps use for other resources? No. How about at least use that savings to invest in programs to bring these people affected (you know, the moochers and abusers) back into the work force and become productive? Of course not.

The safety net cuts were needed to offset a chunk of the cost for tax breaks for the wealthy. They told us in advance. They didn’t try to hide it. Yet they and the right wing media sold a warm and fuzzy feel good excuse of “waste and fraud” for people who sit mesmerized by Jessie Waters’s eyes and obediently nod their heads up and down with his to rush out to help abet such nonsense.

Even if there were actual waste and fraud, what good does it do me as a tax payer if they’re going to take it from neighbors who spend it at the local grocery, or for that matter, the “illegals” who were never eligible to begin with and do not receive them, and just give it to some wealthy elite sitting on a golden toilet contemplating what directive to give to his recently purchased congressperson?

Josephbleau বলেছেন...

With respect to “climate”, government is just the things we do together to make ex Democrat politicians rich.

Original Mike বলেছেন...

Big Mike said..."I don’t know whether you’re aware, but having worked in the Intelligence Community for decades I can assure you that for these people their clearances (“tickets”) are basically worth multiple tens of thousands of dollars to them annually."

Glad to hear it.

Jaq বলেছেন...

Supposedly the Russians are now deploying "ray gun" type pistols which are of Chinese manufacture, and which burn out the cameras on the drones with intense laser light. I don't know for sure, but supposedly.

Speaking of "supposedly," the Ukrainian constitution supposedly protects the right of Russian speakers to use the language they have been speaking in that territory for centuries.

Supposedly the Ukrainian constitution declared Ukraine neutral, and despite this, the Ukrainians were negotiating with NATO years before the Russians walked into Crimea and took the region over with the compliance of the people living there, and without firing a shot.

Supposedly the Ukrainian constitution declared Ukraine non-nuclear, at the time the Russians withdrew the nuclear weapons that had been under complete control of the Soviets, then the Russians, and which the Ukrainians never had power over, despite this, Zelensky is talking about getting nuclear weapons.

BUT! Ukrainians constitution does not allow it to give up one square millimeter of territory, not even the territory seized from Poland by Hitler and Stalin, or the territory handed over to Ukraine by the Ukrainian dictator of the Soviet Union, Khrushchev, born in the borderlands of Ukraine before the age of satellites and precise borders, who married a Ukrainian woman, and who made his way up the Party in the Soviet Union in Ukraine, and who never asked a single person in Crimea what they thought. No, this is the only part of the Ukrainian constitution that is inviolable.

Jaq বলেছেন...

The thing about propaganda is that it can be true, it is not necessarily lies, propaganda often consists of things that are 100% true that a country, especially a democracy, does not want its people to know.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the truncheon is to a dictatorship.

Enigma বলেছেন...

@Jaq: "Supposedly the Russians are now deploying "ray gun" type pistols which are of Chinese manufacture, and which burn out the cameras on the drones with intense laser light. I don't know for sure, but supposedly."

So, like any good war profiteer, China is selling DJI drones to Ukraine and anti-drone devices to Russia? The old war pigs morphed into war Winnie the Pooh.

This is precisely why the US military and deep state went all wiggy about DJI. They had ~80% of the consumer drone market share and were routinely snooping and dropping grenades on US bases worldwide. DJI also "kindly" had a free photo sharing platform (SkyPixel) with file uploading, flight route data, and location tagging. Great for military base monitoring...and the photographic hobby too.

Jersey Fled বলেছেন...

I’m switching from Grok to ChatGPT.

I originally went with Grok because of it easy access from X. But I grew tired of their endless and wordy “context and background” which turn simple answers into mush.

I find Chat to be more concise and direct in its answers. And not nearly as annoying as Grok.

Kakistocracy বলেছেন...

Russia says it must be part of international talks on Ukraine’s security ~ The Guardian

I wonder if Mr Lavrov would like to update us on the security guarantee Russia gave Ukraine back in 1994.

Mike (MJB Wolf) বলেছেন...

Ward, just show us the people, show us the PROOF, of ALL who have had their medicare and medicaid cut. Instead of blathering on about it so much, just show us. You leftists keep saying it but where are they? Every protester is a paid DNC plant. Where are the actual victims of this HUGE purge?

Citizens only, of course.

buwaya বলেছেন...

The nuclear weapons were not under the "complete control" of the Russians if they were physically in Ukraine, and moreover in the hands of Ukrainian personnel who were already or were about to be tabbed over to the Ukrainian armed forces. Moreover the USSR never implemented remote interlocks on nukes (the US had barely started doing that). The entire Soviet nuke coding system was to permit local officers to verify orders, to take their physical keys to activate nukes under their control. This was part of the vulnerabilities in the Soviet system which were called out as concerns in re proliferation at the time - i.e., of "rogue" officers or black market nuke sales. This is a typical Russian propaganda argument. If the Ukrainians at the time wanted to make the nukes on their territory usable under Ukrainian government orders it would have been trivial to make the officers in charge hand over the physical keys to other officers, or have technicians disable the locks, etc.

buwaya বলেছেন...

And as I understand it the Russian language is still widely used in Ukraine. Mr. Zelenskys TV shows and movies were in Russian and Ukrainian both, apparently, according to what best suited the circumstances of the situation or character.

Ronald J. Ward বলেছেন...

MJB Wolf, your question is as disingenuous as your denial. Republicans intentionally prolonged most cuts until after the 2026 midterms. Surely you know this and if not, you should educated yourself on the subject.

It’s getting harder and harder to distinguish dishonesty from blind indoctrination.

Tomcc বলেছেন...

"Even if there were actual waste and fraud..." My girlfriend is a Medicare fraud investigator. One example of fraud is a man who ran a chain of drug/alcohol treatment facilities in Arizona. He was charging multiple millions of dollars for services not rendered. He was eventually convicted of fraud, so he moved to our state and opened up a chain of facilities here. The misdirected funding directly affects the people in need of services.

Ronald J. Ward বলেছেন...

The CBO says the OBBBA will result in 16 million less insured by 2032.

Regardless, and again, what real difference does this isolated and unverified incident you speak of make to taxpayers like myself? It’s simply taking money from one stack and putting into the hands of the mega wealthy.

And in the meantime, an $11 million needed road improvement in Bowling Green KY. Jacksonville lost a $147 million grant award to help the city complete the remaining segments of the Emerald Trail. I could go on.

The Basket of Gulibles seem so eager to ork and clap their fins for whatever tiny fish their masters will toss their way.





Tomcc বলেছেন...

"It’s simply taking money from one stack and putting into the hands of the mega wealthy." That's a dramatic oversimplification. There are economic arguments to lowering taxes- whether you believe they are valid or not. Reducing waste and fraud in government spending is a benefit to all taxpayers.
"16 million fewer insured by 2032", perhaps- if nothing changes. Out-year projections should have that phrase appended to them.

Saint Croix বলেছেন...

My favorite pick-up lines

(for girls who work at the planetarium)

"You heard about Pluto?"

Mike (MJB Wolf) বলেছেন...

The CBO is a poor prognosticator.

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