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TimInVA's avatar

Matt, I see you doing your best to make all of this simple enough for common folk to follow.

Keep doing it. That is the way to go.

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flyoverdriver's avatar

Yes. What I’d really love is to see these political factions arrayed on a battlefield map as the document releases keep coming. Then we can watch with a little more entertainment value how Tulsi et al’s pincer movement entraps and hopefully encircles the Brennan Brigade.

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TimInVA's avatar

Tulsi, like Trump, is not someone you want to have as an adversary. I knew from the first time I heard her speak that she was armed with high intelligence and is tough as nails. Not a good time to be Comey, Clapper, and Brennan.

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Kate Johnson's avatar

…or Hilary Clinton.

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

Every time I see her name, I think of her "theme" song in the '08 campaign, Tom Petty's "American Girl." With the most ironic lyric ever for a campaign song: "Sometimes it's so painful / for something to be so close / and still so far out of reach"

It makes me smile that she has sent out the measurements for Oval Office drapery not once, but twice.

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Cooper Raymond's avatar

Wait, wasn't it Hillary Clinton who spent weeks on national media calling Tulsi Gabbard a Russian Agent?

My how the tables have turned.

Truth prevails, thank God.

For Hillary, Hades awaits.

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

Clapper will sing. Prosecution's star witness, in exchange for immunity.

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Mac's avatar

You may be closer to right than you think.

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Pershalle's avatar

My guess is that Comey will sing first. Brennan was probably the instigator so Clapper and Comey have some ability to argue for a lesser charge than treason.

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

You think Trump will let Comey off? He might want Comey more than the others. Brennan may have been the instigator. (and so may have been Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, so there's that) Comey's a smoother operator than Brennan, and can cleverly miss a meeting where he knows bad things will happen, and always has a finger ready to point at someone else. But if not the ringleader, he was certainly Paulie to Brennan's Tony Soprano.

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Ann Robinson's avatar

I,ve wondered that too. He,s the only one who ever seemed uncomfortable.

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Ezlksunmorn's avatar

She will be president some day, mark my words..

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

Maybe of her HOA. Perfect personality fit.

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Pacificus's avatar

Tulsi is the real deal.. And still relatively young. President Gabbard is by no means an impossibility.

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Turd_Ferguson's avatar

Nothing is happening to anybody in this report. It's nice that it came out for those of us that knew every bit of this 8 years ago, but nothing is going to happen to anybody.

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TimInVA's avatar

I too am a hardened cynic and am not inclined to disagree with you much. I will say that as I look at the seemingly-sudden collapse of the Democratic Party machine in concert with a surprisingly anti-liberal national mood, I see the potential for, at the very least, some humiliation for a few nincompoops.

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Cooper Raymond's avatar

Did you see, watch and listen to the end of the movie Sum of All Fears?

Did you see, watch and listen to the end of the Republican National Convention last summer?

Justice will be served.

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Noitavlas's avatar

Amen

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Buffy Gilfoil's avatar

I want to see the movie--or series.

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Steve's avatar

This is a tangled web indeed. It might help to remember that the motives and strategies probably changed as events occurred. Steel project probably started just as oppo research to have in hand in case needed. When the server problem and other leaks came out and Comey fixed it, they all started getting tangled in the web. They knew Hillary would face a Republican congress with a lot of questions, and they knew the Russians might also be a problem. Why not kill two birds with one story about Trump and the Russians. That was a fine plan. But then Trump won, and they were all knee deep in it. In the end, they had to go on full attack to get Congress off the target and hope for the best. You have to give them credit. They almost pulled it off. Almost.

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Cooper Raymond's avatar

Now you know why Lisa Page was freaking out...and Peter Stroszk wasn't worried at all because he was in on the Plan B.

Lisa Page is going to flip fast on this..as will the CEO of Crowdsrike....or they'll put so much pressure and publicitiy on him that he'll lose every client this side of Ukraine.

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Francis Ingledew's avatar

This is utterly key. While I am blown away by Matt's sheer hard work, I find myself wishing he wrote less often as if playing with inside jokes for his cooler readers, wishing he'd abandon reaching for the memorable witticism, go every time for the plain-glass approach: prose as the glass through which one sees the object undistorted, for what it is. I know that to do this is in its way exhausting.

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TimInVA's avatar

Gonzo journalism is of a time. As one who once (and briefly) made his living as a public affairs reporter, I longed to break out from the confines of the AP Stylebook and go maverick, dishing out what the local politicos should have had coming to them. My small-town editors would have none of that. It probably was for the best back then.

Matt has a zippy style. I guess I can leave the dull, grey, inverted-pyramid approach to the less capable.

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Francis Ingledew's avatar

I agree down to the cellular level with the motive to dish out what our liars and word-corrupters have coming to them. I think Matt scores more devastatingly when he foregoes what seem to me flourishes that draw attention to his wit. But maybe without the wit, we lose some of the scathing motivation. Not everyone can be Jonathan Swift, stylistically speaking.

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Turd_Ferguson's avatar

Doesn't matter how simple you make it. The super highly educated left only sees, "But Trump is Epstein." Ironic considering they ignored Epstein for years while their gods were on the list.

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Laurie White's avatar

Who has been ginning up this astonishing hatred of Trump that's resulted in TDS? Honest, I know several people, including a local minister, who spend part of every day forwarding anti-Trump articles to Facebook. The media ginned it up. But why? Because they love Democrats and Hillary? It doesn't seem to me to be enough of an explanation.

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Linda Strykers's avatar

Yep! So appreciated!

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Sally Newland's avatar

I am thinking right now that the single best argument against term limits is Senator Grassley, who is even older than I am. God bless Iowa.

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zg100's avatar

Agreed - I would have thought it impossible to really esteem a Senator who's been in the Senate for 45 years. Yet there he is. His twitter account is remarkably great too. #cornwatch

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Michelle Dostie's avatar

And one of the sharpest Senators we have.

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Granny62's avatar

Isn’t that the truth?!

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Lisa's avatar

Yes. And the older one becomes, the fewer “f”s one has to give.

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erica steussie's avatar

I’m not even from Iowa and every time I see him I declare to my husband (or anyone else in the room — and sometimes I’m alone!), “Chuck Grassley is a national treasure.” Every. Single. Time.

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Whistle Pig's avatar

But you digress. Maybe to distract? 🤔😉

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Pacificus's avatar

I can only hope I have a fraction of Chuck Grassley's energy and lucidity when I am his age... He truly is a marvel, a rock-ribbed old school Iowan straight out of central casting......

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mike moakley's avatar

Hey! In the movie version (All the Presidents Weasels???) can we get Redford to play Chuck Grassley?? Grassley is smarter and better looking, but...

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Jack Gallagher's avatar

Requires an amendment to the Constitution, which means you need to support a push for Congress to call for a Convention, or you need to support a "Convention of the States."

So far, everyone is chicken to go down either of those routes.

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Pacificus's avatar

Flush this convention of the states talk.. Does anybody really think the political bozos of today that we call our leaders could possibly improve on what the original 54 framers of the Constitution created? They could only make things worse, and possibly catastrophically so.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

The only thing more obvious than the Russia Collusion Hoax was the Scamdemic.

So obvious.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

I could go for some scamdemic document drops, too.....

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

In other words we just want the truth. That's all Team Reality wants...therefore we must be punished.

The fake news will not go down without a fake fight.

They're just upset because we used to just be the rats in a maze; we were free to go anywhere as long as it was in the maze.

We tore down the walls of The Maze and that's where all the angst is coming from.

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Michael Karg's avatar

Just remember it's "public opinion" that wins, even in the courts. Roe v Wade 1973, Roe v Wade 2022. Democrats and media have been running public opinion all 87 years of my life. They lost one time, the second Roe v Wade. There's hope.

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

Well, Roe v Wade fell because of Supreme Court Justices appointed prior to 2021, so I wouldn't call that one public opinion driven.

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Michael Karg's avatar

Close, and what caused the Justices appointed prior to 2021?

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

They were appointed by a President who lost the popular vote. Public opinion voted for Hillary. If not for the Electoral College…

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

The Truth?!? You can't handle the truth!

--anonymous Wall Street/Deep State person

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Ann Robinson's avatar

Truth might be as slippery as this anonymous Wall Street/DeepState person.

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Ann Robinson's avatar

We're coming for The Maze with knives and hatchets but I,m not sure we,ll ever tear down something so fortified with human nature.

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ktrip's avatar

The way it all played out, as I have said before, is like not allowing a good crisis go to waste and tanking the economy to hurt Trump and then second guessing every Trump response during the pandemic (Lab leak? It was pangolins eating bat soup!). Add in a dash of, Old Joe can't come out of the basement because of COVID, not because he is a moron and always has been and now he has dementia. But it is OK to riot for George Floyd and so chaos. And holy crap, where did this laptop come from? Don't worry, 51 of our corrupt intel pals, many of whom are featured in the current story, say it is from the Russians. So yeah, Scamdemic+++ for sure.

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Ann Robinson's avatar

It does seem plain as day - and always has been to anyone looking. The “unreliable narrator” is a wonderful device.

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

You know Bobby's got them queued up. That little rat fuck Fauci is small fry compared to Comey and Brennan and Hillary.

The one thing that's most obviously different from the first term is the specific planning of targets.

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Ann Robinson's avatar

Specific planning of pretty much everything. I don't think Trump even planned to win in '16.

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ElleSD's avatar

This is a fantastic site with lots of information and links:

https://www.beyondthecon.com/

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Michael Waldmeier DMD, PhD's avatar

The Scamdemic killed millions, but Big Pharma made billions.

How much went to the politicians?

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steven t koenig's avatar

I think covid primarily killed people who either pre-killed themselves being obese, or were on the way out the door anyway from other comorbidities. The only person I knew who died from covid was 95 and had cancer

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MG's avatar

Those are the people who should have been quarantined, not the young and not the healthy.

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

So based on your sample set of 1, you've concluded that no one without comorbidities died from COVID?

Guessing you weren't a science major.

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steven t koenig's avatar

Primarily killed, not universally or exclusively killed. And my sample set was not one, it also included a bunch of people who didn't die. So there's always that.

Might want to brush up on your reading comprehension before you go off on other people's academic prowess. You seemed to have failed to learn the language

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

“The only person I know who died from COVID was 95 and had cancer.”

That’s a sample size of people you know who died from COVID. And it’s a sample size of 1.

Grammar—the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you’re shit.

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Ann Robinson's avatar

My doctor (pulmonologist) helped out in NY for a couple months and told me a lot of people died there. i read that a lot of people died in other places too. I didn,t personally know anyone who died, so that particular subset is definitely zero. Does that mean I can,t wonder about the compounding risk of co-morbidities, including old age? It's too depressing to think I might have stayed home all that time for nothing. I believed my doctor who said it was a lousy way to die.

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An independent observer's avatar

My mother died from COVID at 92, and she had lymphoma. But she was responding to cancer treatment well, and I think she could have been with us longer if not for COVID.

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Ann Robinson's avatar

That's one truth we,ll never know.

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Ezlksunmorn's avatar

Totally agree.. As it was unfolding, I saw it as the bullshit that it was.. The democrats story was so flimsy, all you had to do was a little reading and you would've known. The problem is most people just read headlines and fall into an echo chamber

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Ann Robinson's avatar

My granny used to say that common sense is not so common.

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dick stroud's avatar

Matt - you are a star. Do try and get some sleep!

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Substack Reader's avatar

No Sleep Till Brennan!

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Rick Olivier's avatar

Matt is a Beast. Boy!

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Granny62's avatar

Matt, can you find out why we’re only now finding out about this and Why Durham didn’t bring charges then?

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Most likely he was ordered not to.

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Sherry's avatar

I read that Durham resisted releasing it before the election, and after the election that he was afraid of being accused of politicization and being "disappeared." Make of that what you will.

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Granny62's avatar

Yes, I also read that. Do you think Durham will be called to answer that? Unfortunately, other than a few brave souls, there doesn’t seem to be much appetite in Congress to pursue this- why? Were some complicit? Indifferent?

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P.S.'s avatar

Yes, he ran home like a rabbit..

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ResistWeMuch's avatar

special prosecutors and investigations are for the sole purpise of throwing a bag over it. the FBI and CIA serve the sole purpose of protecting permanent Washinton DC. they did their jobs. no one got punished.

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Skenny's avatar

Well at least when the FBI investigated the Crooks assassination attempt, they got right to the bottom of--------

Hold on. I'll have to get back to you.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Dude did you see the slope of that roof?

These things take time.

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Skenny's avatar

Steep. And hot.

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Shelley's avatar

His work was assignment came from Bill Barr who was put through college by the CIA. Barr’s father was CIA (OSS) and was then headmaster of an elite girl’s school for which he hired Jeffrey Epstein to teach at said elite girl’s school. Bill was AG in 2019 for the Epstein case (that's why it was brought then). Prior, Bill volunteered his time and money to see to it that the feds that raided and killed family members on Ruby Ridge did NOT have justice served. The same Bill Barr colluded with Fani Willis to bring Racketeering charges against Trump et al in Georgia over the 2020 election Steal. Bill is another artful dodger who is also used and protected just like C/B/C and Hillary. Compliance is demanded and the punishment is well known and exercised when needed.

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brast's avatar

Hello Tucker

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Shelley's avatar

Don't associate me with Tucker just because I know some facts.

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Candi Wease's avatar

Why was it classified? That's what I'd like to know.

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Jack's avatar

Because there is nothing there. None of this is new info. Just how Trump wasn’t a Russian asset, there’s nothing to charge anyone. It’s just opposing political factions pushing the boundaries to get an edge on the other.

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Granny62's avatar

Clearly, you haven’t read everything that’s been released in the last week.

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Jack's avatar

Yes I have and so have many other credible independent journalists. They all so that so far, this is all things that were known before. The whole idea is flawed cause Tulsi is full of shit. If she is so smart and does her homework, why was she wrong about Iran? All she had to say was oops . I was wrong.

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Granny62's avatar

Nothing new? That’s factually false.

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Jack's avatar

The whole thing that all of you MAGA dimwits are getting wet over is the possibility of Hillary or Obama going to jail over this. There is nothing new here to make your wet dream come true. It’s just like the actual Russiagate. At most , a couple of lower level stooges might get prosecuted. You are no different than the shitlibs that were dying to see Trump put away. You are all the same as lunatics on the left

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Granny62's avatar

PS, as Jonathan Turley said yesterday, “People could be presented with a bucket of severed heads and still not be convinced…”. (I paraphrase…)

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Granny62's avatar

We’ll see Jack, but your use of ad hominem only exposes the weakness of your argument.

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Shelley's avatar

You doth protest too much.

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Jack's avatar

Very original

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Noitavlas's avatar

My fantasy ending to this sordid mess is this:

- Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Kerry and Rice are all convicted in a trial broadcast in prime time by the same crew that gave us the J6 Committee hearings;

- They are sentenced to being released into a northern Minnesota field in mid winter, wearing only their undies, to be rescued in a week should they survive;

- After they are given a 1 hour head start, Tim Walz is forced to wield his Mossberg, track them down and take them out, accompanied by whichever of Biden's German Shepherds holds the record for the most Secret Service agent attacks;

- Walz and "Shep" come across Kerry only a few hundred yards out, lying in a fetal position and mumbling in French. Walz is still dicking with his Mossberg, unable to get off a shot. "Shep" goes Biden dog on Kerry, who exsanguinates into the heretofore pristine northern Minnesota snow cover on which he lay;

-A week later, the rescue crew finds Brennan, Clapper, Comey and Rice all not far from each other and unalived. All have been partially devoured, which the media attributes to the carnivores native to the area. "Shep", however, is found soon after, very much alive and 10 pounds heavier than a week ago;

- Walz is found last. Turns out, he finally did manage to get off a shot from his Mossberg. Unluckily for him, his foot took the hit. Gangrene set in and, untreated, sent Tim into the hereafter.

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Ralph's avatar

Too elaborate. Sentence them to live on welfare in Section Eight housing in one of the decaying Rust-belt cities their policies created and to perform community service five days a week as teachers' assistants in a city public highschool.

I mean, Hillary's ambition got its start when she "went to work for" Marian Wright Edelman's Children's Defense Fund, right?

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Hektor Bleriot's avatar

This story is missing a couple of Cheneys, and mebbe a Pelosi or two...and a Pencilneck.

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Mark1's avatar

“Devoured” each other would be my preferred outcome. Come to think of it, that might actually happen (metaphorically, of course)

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Noitavlas's avatar

I like it. "Rice" might be a vegetarian, though. I just wanted to give "Shep" some love. He has a special place in the Biden presidency.

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Dave Light's avatar

Fargo, the Sequel!

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Noitavlas's avatar

I guess I could go full Coen Bros. and add an epilogue:

- “Shep” is returned to the Biden home. Having dined on a few prominent Dems, he no longer has a gustatory interest in the Secret Service. Joe and Jill are next on the menu. A few weeks later, “Shep” seizes the opportunity to feast while they sleep. Jill, possessing innate cockroach like resilience, survives. Joe dies the way he lived his last years - asleep. In a fitting tribute to his presidency, his personal physician signs the death certificate with an auto pen.

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Patrick's avatar

Return of unguent and the wood chipper.

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Dave Light's avatar

Busemi plays Comey? The bald guy is Brennan?

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Candi Wease's avatar

I dreamed of Hillary in an orange pantsuit.

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Noitavlas's avatar

Barack has immunity that DJT won. Fair or not, it is what it is.

HRC’s legal vulnerability is different. “Fat ass” can be charged, convicted and wear an orange suit specially tailored to her derrière.

As much as that would be earthly justice served, we can only satisfy ourselves with fantasy:

HRC is indicted, tried and convicted. She is sentenced to 5 years, to be served at the same Pennsylvania facility that housed Martha Stewart. Several of Martha’s acquaintances serving much longer sentences there than she did

befriend HRC in ways that are too graphic to recount. HRC is later released, an elderly woman who has spent a portion of the relatively little time she has left not as her disgustingly privileged lifestyle would have enabled, but pleasurable nonetheless. She meets her maker on the day she is released. At that moment, the REAL judgement and justice is served.

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P.S.'s avatar

Even if she is convicted, Trump will pardon her..He will never allow her to be jailed..Shamed but not jailed.

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Noitavlas's avatar

If shame is the best we can get, we celebrate it.

Our children and (in my case) grandchildren will hopefully know the truth of what was perpetrated upon we, the people.

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P.S.'s avatar

I agree. I, personally, wouldn't mind seeing her behind bars at least for a day..

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Noitavlas's avatar

I would also like to see her behind bars for a day and shtuped (I may have misspelled my Yiddish…) against her will.

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Ann Robinson's avatar

Martha was the sacrificial lamb (aka the scapegoat) - she served time so none of the others had to.

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DavidH's avatar

Don't let Lisa Monaco skate.

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Sandy's avatar

Reminds me of the ending of Wind River. Great film.

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Ezlksunmorn's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Bruce Herman's avatar

Too funny. Thanks for this!

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ResistWeMuch's avatar

thats good, but I would settle for a human catapault launch about 3 miles out to sea. or even that they all flee the country disappear, and are never heard from again. they and their kind must be ripped out, root and branch, never to be allowed into positions of power again.

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Gilgamech's avatar

What possible argument was used to classify this? To shield Clinton from accountability for her corrupt actions??

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SimulationCommander's avatar

I think it was the "Oh shit nobody can find out about this" clause.

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Gilgamech's avatar

Or as the previous post alluded to, the “She’s gonna be the boss of us all soon” clause.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Imagine the pressure on the lower-level agents.....the literal head of the FBI is colluding with one of the candidates and telling you that you better fall in line, too.

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norica's avatar

And this behavior is just par for the course. What else needs to be revealed?

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SimulationCommander's avatar

You'll note this is EXACTLY what went down during the covid debacle as well. The conclusions were pre-written and the "experts" were pressured to go along with the narrative, or else.

It's not a tough decision, as you can see -

I can blow you away, or you can ride with me.

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DaveL's avatar

This is it. Remember, it was “her turn.”

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Gilgamech's avatar

Interestingly the classified annexe says the DNC were privately “certain” she would win.

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Jack Gallagher's avatar

That explains the skullduggery from 2016 to 2023. But we need an explanation from Grassley, et al why they didn't demand declassification of the Durham annex in 2023.

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Ralph's avatar

A Harvard grad piously and solemnly intoned, the Capitalization audible in his inflection, "We cannot allow the Common Folk to question their faith in the Integrity of The Great and Holy Institutions of Democracy, as would be occasioned by these documents' release."

He went on to allude, in school-boy Russian, to Вели́кий инквизи́тор.

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Skenny's avatar

They were also hiding the fact that she was a psycho bitch, even though, not unlike Biden, we could all see it.

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Jack Gallagher's avatar

Republicans controlled both House and Senate when Durham finished his report. They would have had every reason then to request declassification. Did they? Or, did they hold off because Biden would have vetoed that, as the President has sole authority, I think to classify documents that others want to declassify.

But it doesn't make sense. They should have made it an issue in the 2024 campaign, demanding Biden declassify that part of the Durham report. Why didn't they do that????

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Gilgamech's avatar

To answer my own question- the T1 information is from an allied intelligence service. So there’s that, also “methods”, so it’s arguable I suppose. Giving Durham the benefit of the doubt.

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Jack Gallagher's avatar

But the Durham annex also reveals that the decisions, by the heads of the IC NOT to investigate the HRC Campaign for attempts to collude with the IC to smear Trump as a Russian stooge, were considered classified. Absurd. They classified their own "non-investigation" cover-up. Again, why didn't Grassley demand declassification of the of at least this portion of the Durham annex in 2023 or 2024?

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Gilgamech's avatar

According to the classified annexe, the root cause was Clinton facing a backlash within the DNC for her State Department giving special treatment to Clinton Foundation donors. It says she averted the FBI getting hard evidence of this by deleting emails from her private server. The Russiagate hoax was then set in motion to distract from the scandal of her private email server and the email deletions.

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Jennifer's avatar

....by illegally deleting emails....

And I am supposing that this was enough of a black eye for the Obama admin. that all the big shots went along with the distraction.

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Grape Soda's avatar

Yes because the Obamoids were also communicating via unsecured channels. If any other public official did what Clinton did, it would have been curtains for them.

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rob's avatar

This , it’s me of the great unreported scandals of team Obama including himself having secondary accounts fir other business

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Ralph's avatar
1dEdited

Astounding!

I had to read it myself to be certain this wasn't a mischaracterization.

It isn't, and moreover, this is **then-Chair of the DNC Debbie Wasserman Schultz's explanation!**

So this all, all these years of Sturm und Drang, which nearly brought done a presidency, which may well end up doing what the Church Commission failed to do to the Intelligence Services, it all comes down to the already ultra-rich Clintons being greedy for more "charitable contributions" from foreign actors and states.

It's all because of Bill & Hill's forty-five plus years of grifting.

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Michelle Dostie's avatar

What a tangled web she wove…with a little help from her fellow connivers.

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Belling the Cat's avatar

These are terrible, terrible people. No matter how cynical one might be about people, we just keep learning they are worse.

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Shelley's avatar

Ah, C'm on now. They were either trying to save the world from an orange explosion or protecting themselves from the rath of H&C and Pants Suit.

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Brook Hines's avatar

Marcy Wheeler is furiously trying to spin this 😝 reading the Annex now trying to figure out which conspirator was the source she burned.

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PamelaDrew's avatar

What a wretched wench she is.

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Earl Camembert's avatar

Had to look up who she is, and (for what it's worth) here's from Wikipedia:

"Wheeler makes occasional contributions to the commentary and analysis section of The Guardian, Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, Democracy Now!, and Michigan Liberal."

Ye gads, that's like a 1927 Yankees Murderer's Row of insufferableness.

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PamelaDrew's avatar

Even propaganda rag WaPo can't spin her snitching into a good thing.

"It’s pretty much an inviolable rule of journalism: Protect your sources.

Reporters have gone to jail to keep that covenant.

But Marcy Wheeler, who writes a well-regarded national security blog, not only revealed a source — she did so to the FBI, eventually becoming a witness in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of President Trump’s possible connections to Russia.

“On its face, I broke one of the cardinal rules of journalism, but what he was doing should cause a source to lose protection,” Wheeler told me in a lengthy phone interview." https://web.archive.org/web/20180708221811/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/she-broke-a-cardinal-rule-of-journalism-by-revealing-her-source-to-the-fbi-heres-why/2018/07/06/b3201632-8128-11e8-b9a5-7e1c013f8c33_story.html?utm_term=.2ef041b414c6

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Wm. S. Loder's avatar

Wait for Rachel Maddow. I watch in lieu of the Comedy channel.

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Michael Karg's avatar

"You're a better man than I...."

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GTN's avatar
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“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Intelligence Community. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let it endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the Intelligence Community with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.” – Dwight Eisenhower, had he given his most famous speech today rather than in 1961

Scatter it to the winds.

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Michelle Dostie's avatar

I liked Ike (but I was 6)

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Shelley's avatar

He would know, it was taking place long before him. He just thought he would share with us for the 'future' . . . and then dismount.

I was a budding teenager and I share his BD.

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Danno's avatar

Wasn't "Scatter it to the winds" JFK's quote when confronted with the truth about how the IC had manipulated him into approving the Bay of Pigs fiasco?

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Michelle Dostie's avatar

I don’t know. Only remember it as a near catastrophe.

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Dennis's avatar

Unfortunately Ike was late to the realization. The grift that would keep on grifting formula was set in place under he and before, with Truman. Kennedy paid the price.

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Marty Holloway's avatar

I followed Russiagate as closely as I could from CA and shared my thoughts with my skeptical siblings, who asked when the rabbit hole would end. I said with the Durham report. Well, the rabbit hole just opened again…

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Jason's avatar

Side note but I am not understanding the context of "the Olympic scandal". I have seen that a few times throughout. What do they mean?

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Ralph's avatar
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Russian state-sponsored doping in 2016?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_Report

Which was probably a much bigger deal in Russian than here, which perhaps suggests it's a Russian making the comparison?

From the text definitely an allusion to an actual scandal involving the Olympics (noun), not "Olympic" or "Olympic-level" (adjective).

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SimulationCommander's avatar

I think they just mean making the scandal huge so it would be "Olympic-level" and drown out everything else in the news cycle.

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Jason's avatar

Thanks! That's what I was thinking as well but wasn't sure if they were comparing to an actual situation that I wasn't aware of.

Thanks for the reply.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

If I come across anything to the contrary, I'll let you know!

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Shelley's avatar

Read that earlier on Washington Post. You can download the pdf it is 29 pages and this Hillary piece is on page 13.

https://nypost.com/2025/07/31/us-news/hillary-clinton-approved-plan-hatched-by-campaign-aides-to-smear-trump-with-russia-collusion-declassified-docs

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Already in the middle of it!

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Shelley's avatar

It's worth reading twice!

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Jack Frost's avatar

Boy they are coming fast and furious ( hey that would be a good movie title). Let's get some perp walks going soon. Make it theatrical.

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Art's avatar

Or a spook code name for sending guns to the Sinaloa cartel.

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Jalb's avatar

Really really soon!!!

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Danno's avatar

Those pushing for immediate perp walks either don't understand how complex building a real case will be, or are part of a psyop trying to divide Trump from his supporters.

The perps have all hired top-shelf legal counsel, and the trial in the Court of Public Opinion has already begun. I'm afraid that the perps are still ahead on the Public Opinion scorecard due to their stranglehold on most of the media. But if Matt's right, the further the "consensus media" (great name for it!) goes down the road with their lies, the worse it will be for them as the public awakens. And on the legal scorecard, it's still months before kickoff, but I'm pretty sure Team Trump are already prohibitive favorites.

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Jack Frost's avatar

Great observations but for clarity, I'm erring on the side of trying to be amusing as opposed to accurate. I leave it to Matt and the many smart commentators here for the real facts. Thanks!

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Brian Fleury's avatar

As usual, it's not the crime that snares government officials, but the coverup afterwards. The authors of the Russiagate hoax always believed they had an ace in the hole... Hillary Clinton's election. With Clinton in the White House, there would have been no assertion of Russian interference and no 8 years of Russia, Russia, Russia.

Unfortunately, Clinton was defeated & Russiagate served as the distraction that not only covered up their previous nefarious deeds but also smeared both President Trump and Russia which served the purposes of the deep state. Everyone in the Russiagate conspiracy needs to be held accountable.

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Cecilia Buschmeier's avatar

Link to “click here” not working

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Greg Collard's avatar

I'm glad SimulationCommander helped you out. FYI, the Durham annex doc is now at the bottom of the story. Sorry about that.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

It's the golden rule of Substack.

You can't find the last error until after you publish.

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Ralph's avatar

Maybe Greg's new at this. Or could we could say, Collard's *green*?

Sorry, Greg.

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Greg Collard's avatar

Thank you. The document is now with the story. Sorry about that.

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Cecilia Buschmeier's avatar

Thx but😱

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