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And they came to their senses in 2020 and bludgeoned 45 with the worst pasting any incumbent repub has ever experienced. He is a cult leader who appeals to the ignorant, to the brain addled demographic, and those who hate the US, democracy, rule of law and freedom. In 2016 repubs had the White House, Senate and House. In 2020 45's anti-American idiocy got them all flushed down the toilet, losing all three entities.

He mocked a man with cerebral palsy. You can try to spin it al you want, but he mocked the man...and he did it for a laugh from his drooling goobers. 45 mocks disabled persons, he calls POWs 'losers', and he even called men and women who served the US 'losers'. He did not even want injured and disabled soldiers in the military parade he tried to arrange, saying, "it makes me look bad". He said that to Gen Kelly, a man whose son was killed in Iraq. He is a vile, disgusting excuse for a human being, deserving of zero respects, and with each passing day it looks as if he will spend his remaining years in Leavenworth, if he is not executed for sedition. I prefer trial, conviction, sentencing and execution.

Disability? The guy cannot even remember what foot had the 'bone spurs'. In any event, it didn't stop him from playing tennis. 45 is a coward. Not a single person from his family, since his grandad immigrated from Germany and his mother took advantage of chain migration, has served. Zero.

This comes as no surprise. Remember he appointed "Grossberger" from the Stir Crazy movie (or a stunning look-alike) as AG? That guy (Whittaker) had handled one single case as a lawyer (regarding a rent dispute between a mall kiosk and the mall owner), plus the guy was schlepping a special toilet with a lower water level for 'well hung men" as well as pushing investments in a Time Travel Machine. That made the Keebler Elf Sessions that he fired look like Justice Brandeis.

Liz Cheney gave an impassioned speech tonight about the threat to freedom and democracy that 45 represents. She ripped the fat guy a new one, saying real Americans should unite to make sure 45 never gets near the Oval Office ever again. I think it would be entertaining for her to declare as a repub candidate for POTUS. Imagine the debates! She is clever enough to know how to goad him and call him out both on his contempt for the Constitution, his willful ignorance, and his abject weakness as a man. She would emasculate him on live TV. In fact, I bet he would refuse to go to a debate if Cheney were there. At his core he's a weakling and a coward, and in particular, strong women get him shaking in his tighty whities. Remember the silliness in 2016 when he responded to comments about his really short fingers and what they suggested about his junk? That he felt it necessary to state on live TV in a US Presidential debate that 'women never complained about that thing' shows how insecure he is about his junk. When Stormy came out and said "Not freakishly small but well below average" he tried to silence her and press her on the NDA. Cheney is clever enough to take the debate below the belt. She would slay him.

While you are likely correct. I look at the totality of his adult life: there is NOTHING---from his name to his 'charity' that he did not try to monetize. Given that, I am led to believe he looked at secrets as a kind of 401K. We shall see. What seems to have driven him in life---and helps explains his inability to accept his bludgeoning in the 2020 election---was that according to family and friends, his father always called him a "LOSER". That is why he is obsessed with that term. His own claims about his start in business are pure lies. He claims a 'small loan' from his father. In point of fact---according to bank records---he was given a couple hundred thousand dollars a month 'allowance from the age of 3 until his father died. He also 'inherited' $412 million from his father's estate. Also, every bank loan he got from US banks---back when they still loaned him money---was co-signed by his father. He did nothing on his own. Despite all of that---hundreds of millions of cash inflow---he declared six bankruptcies, and in casinos of all things (plus The Plaza Hotel). People come to casinos to lose money, yet he found a way to bankrupt casinos 6 times. That demonstrates an extraordinary lack of business skill. When his father still lived, 45 had to listen to his dad calling him a LOSER re the bankruptcies, plus all of his other shuttered businesses like his airline, travel agency, USFL team, steaks, water, and his failed university where 'students' sued him and won.

I was involved in declassification. I don't need to 'research' or find a 'link;. We had in-house counsel at the agency, and the White House and Nat Sec Staff has counsel. They lead everyone through the process. It is NOT instantaneous. There is a protocol, and there are markers, because once 'declassified', the handling of it matters as little as how one handles a napkin. 45 lied. Repeatedly. He is flailing now, because his lies show bad intent, and will be used to prosecute him. To repeat, because some people refuse to get it or are incapable of getting it.... A request is made to declassify a doc. Relevant agency heads are asked to see if anything critical would be revealed. They make changes or redactions and sign off. The headings are then removed from the docs. "DECLASSIFIED" is stamped on the doc, and it is initialed by counsel. At that point it no longer need be handled any differently than a used napkin. It could be placed in a Macs Happy Meal with no security violation. The docs at MaL were NOT declassified. 45 lied. He was asked to return them, as he had no right to hold them. He returned some, then lied and said he returned everything. That shows bad intent, and suggests he intended to monetize them. In the search, according to the released inventory, there were TS and TS/SCI, and perhaps other things too sensitive to note. The inventory would be unlikely to note if RD docs were present, because those are so serious no one would want it noted, lest there be more hidden at MaL. ANYBODY who held the docs noted in the inventory would already be cuffed and perpwalked, because the violations are so dangerous. That 45 isn't yet behind bars shows he is being given far more understanding than he should. Get it? He did not declassify the stuff. He had no right to have it. He lied about giving it all back. Jail the traitor.

I think it is appropriate to comment on the current state of the former Party of Lincoln, the repubs. They are 100% a cult of personality. Nothing more. Then have no policy, no philosophy, they stand for nothing other than 45, and they have no concept or concern for the ideals upon which the US was built. It's a Cult only. National security? They couldn't care less. Recklessness with classified material is only bad if it's HRC; 45 can do whatever he wants, jeopardize natsec to his heart's content, and repubs do not care. If russia attacked the US, repubs would side with putin. Certainly 45 would, because he's a traitor. Democracy? They hate it and have spent the last couple of years trying to wipe out democracy in the US. Rule of law? Meaningless to them. They try to get away with crimes, like sedition, insurrection, voter fraud, even manufacturing fake electors. They think they are above the law, hence their snowflake cries and claiming of victimhood when the DoJ and FBI do their jobs. Fiscal conservatism? LOL. 45 ran up $7,000,000,000,000 in new debt in his 4 years, exacerbated by the tax cut for the Donor Class. Freedom? They hate it if it is someone else's. repubs love big and intrusive govt that goes into the bedroom and into women's bodies. repubs believe in autocracy, self-dealing, drinking from the Taxpayer trough, and worship of an individual, especially a wildly flawed individual with zero character or integrity or morality. Everyone from Lincoln to Howard Baker is likely rolling over in their graves seeing the cesspool that the repub party has become.

Yea, 'admin and paperwork error'. LOL Is there any lie 45 tells that you would not believe? He is a traitor. Pure and simple. He had zero right to those docs, so the word for that in English is 'stolen'. As for his bogus claim he 'declassified' all of them, anyone who believes that should be at the top of the mailing list of the Nigerian 419 scammers. Having been involved in document declassification, I know how the system works. It is a long process that requires sign offs by relevant agency chiefs, so that nothing that could harm natsec or a clandestine asset/operation could be negatively impacted. What a silly excuse you spout...admin and paperwork error. Have clearance and try that as a defense, and the guards at Leavenworth will be laughing hysterically as they lock the bars. I'll state this again: presence of the docs at MaL is a felony. Lying about returning everything shows intent to deceive, which suggests he intended to monetize the docs. That is Conspiracy to Commit Espionage, a capital offense. If charged and convicted, he can--and should---be executed. His cult will either have to find a new false messiah, or else finally grow up.

Actually, I believe that not only would they imprison him---or as former DirNSA and DCI Gen Hayden said 'execute him'---but they must do it. It must be demonstrated that in the US, NOBODY is above the law, not even a defeated POTUS. If one endangers the security and safety of 330 million Americans, there must be a price paid. It must be shown not only to Americans that nobody is above the law, but the world must also see it. South Korea, a vibrant and modern democracy, jailed 3 former Prime Ministers. If South Korea can do it, surely the US can. 45 has at least one potential capital charge stemming from his behavior re 6 January 2021: Sedition. If there is evidence that he intended to monetize the documents he stole (it is theft, as he had no more right to those docs than anyone reading this), that is "Conspiracy to Commit Espionage", another capital offense. That his cult would go apoplectic is no reason not to follow the law. They are already apoplectic because of his constant lies (he lost the election, the search warrant was 100% legal) Let the law work the same as it would for any other American. He is owed nothing by virtue of what he once was. That is not how the US works.

No, that is incorrect. There is a protocol. I can't believe the cultists cannot even take one second to consider the ramifications if what they have decided to believe, based on yet another 45 lie, were true. POTUS has to request declassification. The specific document is then run passed relevant agency heads to make sure there is no possible damage resulting from the declassification. Once signed off, the original classification headers are removed and "DECLASSIFIED: is stamped on each document. That stamp then tells anyone who subsequently sees the document that it neither requires special handling nor must be kept in a SCIF or secure facility. 45 did none of this with all those docs. Even his former NatSec Bolton said 45 was lying. There is a very good reason there is a protocol. Suppose the CIA had a deep penetration of putin, maybe an intercept or even had medvedev recruited as a clandestine asset. The DCI would obviously object if someone like 45 wanted to declassify that knowledge (such material would be classified TS/SCI because the identity would fall under "Sensitive Compartmentalized Information"). Can you get past your teenager crush on the bloated liar long enough to understand that and the danger 'instant declassification' represents? Also, some material is classified RD, Restricted Data. That is the highest classification, beyond TS/SCI. Not even a POTUS can declassify this, as it falls under the AEA. There are the facts: 1) 45 removed docs he had no right to remove nor keep 2) He lied about returning all docs he had taken 3) DoJ secured a warrant to go remove the remaining docs 45 had lied about 4) 45 has thrown out myriad excuses since the search, all of which are lies

Perhaps you forget, but there's an entire left of the mean on the IQ Bell Curve. Move out from the median 1-2 std devs left, and you have landed in 45's bread and better demographic. Look at the drooling goobers who show up at his rallies. Lots of QAnon flags and logos, caricatures of 45 that make him look other than the morbidly obese butterball he is, etc. Pure fantasy. I don't think any of the rally goers were in my class at Harvard or Stanford. The Universe severely shortchanged them when it came to intellect.

He also cost the US Taxpayer big. When his wife stayed in NYC for the first six months, security cost $500,000 per day. Overall bill was $90,000,000. His golf cost, according to OMB, was more than $150 million over 4 years. His kids' trips to Dubai and India to try to license the name to properties there costs a lot. He also used to insist that stopover flights in the UK put up SS and other personnel at his Scottish golf course, Turnberry.

Actually, he did have a State translator in the room (Maria Gross), but claimed executive privilege and did not even allow Pompeo to question her. He also took her notes and destroyed them, not showing his Nat Sec Adviser, Sec State, DCI or DNI. He would not have been allowed to carry any classified docs into that meeting, by the way. Not with vladdy in the room. He could bring what was in his head, which tends to be delusions of grandeur and little more. He walked out of that meeting as white as a ghost, while putin had a devilish smile. 45 then sided with vladdy over the US intel Community and accepted the soccer ball gift from putin (which was bugged).

I agree 45 is enough of a petulant child to do as you say, but the presence of the CI Chief on the search team is what has me leaning towards more extensive charges. I would say beyond the shadow of a doubt DoJ has to consider that 45 intended to monetize the material. It would be irresponsible not to consider that. Perhaps they will find it not to be the case, but absolutely they will consider it. It is always a consideration in violations involving classified material. The same was considered when an NSA employee was found with lots of docs at his home. Investigation cleared him of that, but he still got 9 years in jail.

I would say it is particularly bad news for 45 that he hasn't been charged yet. The fact that the search team had with them the Chief of Counterintelligence is a really bad sign for him, because it suggests they are building a big case to include "Conspiracy to Commit Espionage", a capital offense carrying the death penalty. Here's how they build it: 1) He had documents he had no right to have 2) He lied about returning everything in June 3) Lying shows criminal intent and obstruction of justice 4) The obvious reason for retaining docs and lying about it is that he planned to monetize the material; there is no other possible explanation The Feds have someone inside MaL. It is quite possible that long ago they got a warrant to tap his commo, and if so, they could have evidence of his intent to monetize the material. Such a case takes time to build, and DoJ will not only try to get the ringleader, but everyone else who might be involved. As has now become abundantly clear, AG Garland is meticulous and thorough. Because ANYONE who help 45 pack and ship those classified docs to MaL is subject to criminal prosecution and imprisonment ("45 told me to do it" is not a defense), DoJ may well have other co-conspirators under investigation and some might be cooperating as part of a plea deal.

Of all the resorts I have been to in the world, I am beginning to think Thailand in general, and Pattaya in particular, is a magnet for low lifes and the detritus from Western society. I never saw these types at Pebble Beach. TAT take note. A few cypress trees, some humpback whales, cool morning fog and icy cold waters seem to help filter out the vermin and riff raff.

Such a joke that Finland and Sweden want to join the rebuilt and better-than-ever NATO. Lowest UE among Western nations also delivered, even after inheriting 6.8% UE from 45. And what 'millions of dollars worth of arms' did Biden give to the Taliban (those Taliban 45 released from jail and who now run the country)? Perhaps you also forgot 45 actually invited the Taliban to Camp David in a meeting that would have happened on 9-11-20, but it was cancelled when the lout was informed it would be a 'bad optic'. I do know Biden delivered one particularly special arm to Ayman al -Zawahiri, so maybe that's what you are talking about. The 'world wide joke' you claim is a fantasy Fever Swamp dwellers have. Instead, though while the world fears the idiocy of the voters in the US who still support 45, the US post-45 is RESPECTED again around the world and feared where fear is wise. Democracy might win, despite the best efforts of the fascists like 45 and his ilk.

Dear Potential Clandestine Assets of US Intelligence: DON'T DO IT ! Your identity is only as safe as a self-serving, reckless POTUS makes it. On a whim, for reasons that make no sense, he will play fast and loose with your life and the lives of your loved ones. He does this because he couldn't care less. What's in it for him? is his only consideration. Terror target? If you know of plans to explode a nuclear device in a major US city, keep it to yourself. Bioterror weapon about to be unleashed? Quiet ! Take down a few airlines? Flying is already a pain in the butt; a few lost aircraft isn't that much worse. SAVE YOURSELF. You want to have your brothers find out you betrayed them? You'll get your head cut off on the internet, like that Israeli penetration of ISIS that 45 outed in his meeting in the Oval Office with Lavrov and Kislyak. But hey, 45 had to show off in front of the russkis. US Adversaries? Yea, some of you know some really big secrets, and some of you either don't like your leader putin or xi, or else have some sort of personal grudge against them. Sure you could share things that might save billions of lives. You could share things that, like Adolf Tolkachev, could save the US hundreds of billions of dollars. Still, don't take the plunge. Just say "NO !" to the CIA pitch, because a reckless POTUS can expose you and get you and your family killed. I'm sure you know about the guy 45 exposed with his irresponsible behavior. You know the one. In russia. Putin had the guy fed into a furnace, alive, while forcing the man's family to stand there and watch dad baked. The poor guy's kids will never forget the sound of those screams. You want that? I'm guessing no. Gina Haspel and Dan Coats did everything possible to keep key intel away from 45, knowing he was careless and self-serving. They did a great job, but when 45 can pack boxes and boxes of classified docs when going out the door, it's almost futile trying to stop his selfish recklessness. The entire game has changed. 45 made classification meaningless. The US is much less safe today because of his self-serving behavior. And frankly, let's be honest. That some 40% of Americans still support the clown kind of says the US is no longer worth saving. Let a bioterror weapon get unleashed. Let it make Covid look like a headache. Maybe tens of millions of Americans will die. So be it. Most of them aren't worth the air they waste anyway. Look, the US did okay even after Pearl Harbor, so who really needs an intelligence organization. We also survived 9-11, so the 9-11s prevented since that one...well, would it have been so bad if they all happened instead of being stopped? Darwinian Socialism---let the chips fall where they may----has its draws. And since one Party actually wants to overthrow democracy and make the US an autocracy---despite the 45-fomented failure on 6 January 2021---the US just ain't worth saving anymore. It's everyone for himself. Just like 45. I come first and last. It's all about ME!

You speak for all Brits, eh? And why was ending a 20 year war a betrayal of the UK? You are welcome to go back and keep the war going if you are so miffed. Perhaps you are unaware that 45 released hundreds of Taliban fighters being held by the Afghan govt. Many of those folks now run the Taliban Govt. Perhaps you can tell me if all Brits agree that was a betrayal.

As a former TS/SCI holder, if I had a single TS/SCI doc in my home, even if the reason I had it was 'to prepare for work the next day', I would have been arrested. If I turned the docs back over and said 'everything has been returned', but was subsequently found to have kept things I had no right to have, it would have been assumed I was going to try to monetize the material. I would be charged with the capital offense of 'conspiracy to commit espionage'. When 45 lied about returning everything he had no right to retain, it is likely this thought came up, which is why the Chief of Counterintelligence was part of the group searching MaL. Part of the length of this investigation, and why 45 has not yet been charged, is NOT because there is no case, but more likely the DoJ is building a much wider case to include 'conspiracy to commit espionage'. Lying to the authorities, as 45 did, plus his subsequent lies about 'standing order to declassify everything I took' suggests bad intent. There is no possible reason for having the material, and no excuse for lying about 'returning everything'. 45 fully intended to monetize the secrets. Of that I have no doubt. Former DirNSA and DCI Gen Hayden said Sunday that 'execution is a good idea'. After a trial, make it so.

There is a major difference between an intractable problem and a Snake Oil salesman who pretends he has a solution. The intractable problem: Low-skill labor has zero pricing power. Jobs were not so much exported by globalization, but rather were sent to way station of the road to oblivion. At every level of the labor ladder, labor is being obviated. If you're a poorly educated laborer in a Western nation, you really are redundant. Unnecessary. An anachronism. You can learn a new skill, or accept that you are just in the way. This is most clear in the US in Red States. There are three States where SSDI (Social Security Disability Insurance) is the major 'employer' (KY, TN, WV). There are also pockets of despair in most other Red States, because what their poorly educated workforce offered is no longer needed. Technology---which takes no time off---replaced them. Many stopgap measures tried to ameliorate the decline in labor's pricing power. Cheap credit and the 3rd household income (home equity) was one, but that ended really badly in 2008. There has been some shuffling of jobs, and many new jobs are in the service sector, but for the most part, the problem is going to keep coming back. The recently signed Bill will help, because it introduces money for new industries (green) as well as infrastructure (which cannot be exported). Ironically, repubs opposed those measures, likely because it would help the voting block they and 45 need. As labor was obviated, along came the Snake Oil salesman, telling people it wasn't their fault they were falling behind. It was immigrants or Moslems or Democrats. It was democracy itself. Make him king and there'll be a double bucket of KFC on every dinner table. Of course none of those people are actually going to want to pick strawberries or lettuce or clean the toilets at MaL (he employed dozens of undocumented aliens), but when he tells them things they want to hear ("You have the best houses, the best boats"....as he has done in many of his rallies), they suck it up. The major difference---besides actually caring about the US---between the current Administration and the defeated one, is that this one is offering the best solution possible, while the standing joke about the last failed Administration was 'this is Infrastructure Week', which turned out to be Godot. Everything is a stop gap, even the switch to clean energy and infrastructure has a shelf life, but it buys time. It is a positive. The last guy only offered excuses, not solutions. Rather than make things better, his schtick was to foment anger, then manufacture enemies for the rage. It worked to build a cult, but it did no good for the country. New forms of energy, making the US less dependent on foreign sources, is a step forward. It also creates jobs. Rebuilding infrastructure is an infinitely better use of monetary resources than a $2 trillion tax cut for the Donor Class. Negotiating prescription drug prices---which Biden's Bill does---will save tens of millions for the elderly. This is reality. The labor issue will return, as technology's progress is relentless. It will continue to move up the foodchain, obviating white collar jobs quite soon.

I appreciate you are too deep sniffing the vapors of the Fever Swamps to even begin to understand the recklessness of 45. So brain addled is your thinking that you call 'doing your job' corruption. 45 had ZERO right to the docs he kept. His counsel/he LIED in a signed affadavit in June claiming they had returned everything. That is intent to deceive and can form the basis for charging him with "conspiracy to commit espionage". It would have been a gross dereliction of duty for the AG NOT to get a warrant and seize the docs 45 lied about. There is more to come. The US is a democracy that operates by the rule of law. You and the Drooling Goobers of 45's cult seem to hate everything upon which the US is based. You are traitors to US ideals. You are fascists who despise democracy and prefer autocracy. You lose. US wins.

I'm going to argue that US education standards are infinitely superior to Britain. You, a Brit, wrote: 45 'did more good in 4 years than any other in history' (sic) Q.E.D.

There's an interesting fact jared does not know. Whether this is relevant or not I will not say. jared communicates with MbS via WhatsApp. jared is seemingly unaware that NSA/CIA/FBI can all break WhatsApp's encryption.