heybruce

Let's not divert into discussions of gun laws and background checks. It is a well known fact that anyone buying a gun through an authorized retailer in the US must undergo an FBI background check, and millions of people in the US buy guns every year. That means millions of US citizens have had, and will have in the future, an FBI background check.

I would like to know your sources for information. I'm a big fan of comedy.

When the police seize a stash of drugs, do you insist there is no evidence until you've personally tested the drugs?

Words from the most blatantly biased "neutral" on the forum.

I see, now we're into the "unwritten law" territory. Like the unwritten law that Presidents will show their tax returns. You refer to millions of deaths in the middle east, deaths caused by a Republican President, that were not deemed illegal. You then insist that Republicans are held to higher standards of legality. Make up your mind. You overlook the fact that President Clinton was impeached for lying about a BJ. Were you cool with President Clinton's sex life being investigated? Would you be cool with Trump's sex life being investigated? Accept reality. No one is above the law. Not even former Presidents.

I had to change my laughing emoji to a trophy. This post gets funnier the more I think about it. Trump doing work the involves reading? Hilarious!

If you think this is a nothing burger you clearly don't understand.

When was that last time? Why was the standing order kept secret? Why is it ok to declassify documents that experienced professionals believe need to be kept secret for the security of the country? How does this change the fact that Trump took documents that weren't his, refused to return all of them, and used his lawyer to lie about no longer having them?

It's getting to where a man can't even plan an insurrection without the government poking into his affairs! ????

1. Trump lacked the capacity to find Thailand, Laos, Mayanmar, etc. on the map. 2. Biden is very much playing hardball with Russia and China. The standard comment from a Trump supporter regarding this is that it scares them.

Elections aren't decided by who has the most well attended rallies. If they were Beyonce would be President.

That political rival made the "purge" incredibly easy by doing some seriously illegal stuff and refusing to relinquish government documents and classified material when asked to do so, and also lying about keeping this stuff that wasn't his. I know, Trump lying is such a common thing some people have a hard time understanding that sometimes it is illegal. This is one of those times.

Since Democrats want to stay engaged with the world, including SE Asia, they offer Thailand an option other than total capitulation to China. A lot of retirees in Thailand and other places like that.

Democrats offer the survival of democracy and a free press. Trump did his best to undermine both.

Absentee ballots are only sent to, and accepted from, registered voters. How would the people fraudulently filling out ballots know that the legitimate voters won't also vote? Why aren't there stories of massive numbers of double vote attempts leading to investigations of the fraudulent absentee votes? And why would people commit this crime and face the stiff penalties filling out fraudulent absentee ballots that will probably not affect the outcome of the election? People who are willing to risk prison time to commit fraud usually want to commit a fraud that will pay well. Voter fraud doesn't do that.

"Personally I don't see the point in voting with mail in ballots. You should get to vote during open hours while on video and when the polls close that's it." I see. You want to disenfranchise senior citizens who have limited mobility, military people stationed outside their home state, snowbirds who are registered to vote in northern states but winter in the sunbelt, etc. You want to disenfranchise a lot of Republican voters.

What do I think of the election in which Democrats voted by absentee ballots in far greater numbers than Republicans and where that changed the outcome of close elections when those ballots were counted? I think it unfolded just as everyone who was paying attention predicted.

Since no Democratic President, or any other politician I am aware of, was ever stupid enough to do what Trump did, we may never know.

Commandos, partisans, disgruntled Russian soldiers eager for their country to hurry up and lose so they can go home..... Whoever it is, keep up the good work!

We went over this not too long ago.

Thank you for that. For those of you who can get past the paywall: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/16/trump-lawyers-fbi-raid/ It's worth reading; it's both informative and (to me) really entertaining.

Drinking while carrying a gun is criminal idiocy. It's common in many countries but should be illegal, with the law aggressively enforced, everywhere.

Getting off-topic, but: To the Democratic Party: Please, please, please run a decent candidate next time. Someone under 70, ok?

I take everything in Russian media with a huge grain of salt, and I don't take the following as literally true. Still, it is kind of funny: "In the most recent broadcast of the state TV show Sunday Evening With Vladimir Solovyov, host Vladimir Solovyov remarked: “I’m very worried for our agent Trump. They found everything at Mar-a-Lago, they got packages of documents. In all seriousness, they say he should be executed as a person that was ready to hand off nuclear secrets to Russia.”" https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-world-declares-agent-trump-211215321.html Later in the article it states that "Russian state media is stressing the need to influence Americans in the run-up to the midterms and the future presidential election." It's very clear that Russia wants Trump back in the White House and will do whatever it can to make that happen. It mentions Tucker Carlson and Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard as useful to that end. Key point; Russia has, is, and will continue to interfere in US elections, and does so to help Donald Trump. That doesn't mean Trump is colluding with Russia, but it does make me wonder how many of the pro-Trump posters are either Russian trolls or, more likely, useful idiots fed information by Russian trolls.

I have personal experience working with classified, personal knowledge of how many important files are stored, and a typical amount of experience with cardboard boxes. They're very widely used for storing documents. Since your post seem to suggest that something was amiss because documents were kept in cardboard boxes, I can assure you that it is a common practice. Do you have evidence or experience that indicates that classified documents are not stored in cardboard boxes?