Alan Zweibel

With the help of a QAnon buddy. "In the days following her order to turn off the surveillance cameras, Peters allowed Conan Hayes, co-founder of the clothing company RVCA and proponent of QAnon conspiracy theories,[33] to access the room where Mesa County's electronic voting machines were stored and to copy sensitive information from those machines.[34] Days later, Peters allowed Hayes to be present for a software update to the voting machines and to record video of the update taking place.[35] Peters' chief aide, former deputy clerk Belinda Knisley, described Hayes as a "mystery man," and said that Peters told her she brought him in to access files from the voting machines because Peters "was afraid the Colorado Secretary of State's office was going to remove them."[36] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Peters_(politician)#:~:text=In%20the%20days,%5B36%5D

For those who have loved ones in prison. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wraps-up-2025-with-more-hateful-tirades-rot-in-hell/

This is the same kind of moronic thinking that held was applied by right wingers to people on the left for opposing the Iraq War. It was claimed by right wingers that their opposition meant that they supported Saddam Hussein.

Another deflection. What does it take to make you understand that the topic is Trump's pardon, and not the difficulties that members may experience in sleeping?

I have said nothing on the issue of criminals running freely. This topic isn't about that despite your best attempts to derail it. And, no, it doesn't bother me that Trump pardons "someone". It does bother me that he pardoned a drug running President of one country, while committing to a major military operation to depose another. And if it a mutual-contradiction you're looking for, that pardon and the military expedition are where you'll find one.

Start a thread about that issue if you want. This isn't that.

You're in the wrong forum. This one isn't dedicated to discussing members but rather issues. To put it another way, you've got nothing.

Trump has engaged the US in a costly military operation because the leader of that country is working in concert with cocaine dealers to transship cocaine. And most of that cocaine doesn't even go to America But a leader of another country convicted of helping to send hundreds of tons of cocaine to the USA he sets free. And all you have to offer is a deflection about illegal aliens. You've got nothing.

Is this a confession of stalking?

How many pardons of foreign presidents convicted of helping to run drugs to the USA have there been? Pardons don't just happen. It's not like the weather. It takes actual human agency. In the case of pardons, ultimately the agency of one person.

A non-issue? So Venezuela allowing shipments of cocaine, which mostly go to Europe, justifies military action? But pardoning the vermin who profited from letting huge amounts of cocaine pass through to the USA is a "non-issue"?

Well, given your failure to condemn Trump's pardon of someone convicted of what Maduro is alleged to be doing, it seems a reasonable assumption. Of course, you can dispel that doubt by condemning Trump for letting such a piece of slime go free.

Haven't told you what?

2 more attempts at the same tired deflection and then another expression of your lack of comprehension. You've still got nothing.

Well, even if your assertion about the left is true, by the same token it would seem that the right should be shocked by it. Haven't heard much in the way of expressions of shock from MAGA about this.

Another lame attempt at deflection. By all means start a thread about whether or not Trump lies about everything in my view, or that I believe that he is a shuffling drooling wreck or falling down stairs, talking to dead people etc. But the issue here is the alleged attack on Putin's residence. In other words, you've got nothing.

The only significant thing about your comment is that your attempt to make this issue personal. Which means that you've got nothing.

There are 2 issues here. One is whether or not it's the truth. Given the paucity of evidence produced by the Russians, it seems very unlikely. The other issue is whether or not Russians believe it. That does matter. But whether Russians mostly believe the claim or are skeptical about it, who can say? It's not like they enjoy a lot of access to outside news sources. Which, in itself, is significant.

If you don't understand why Donald Trump either lying about the issue or, worse, being intellectually incapacitated isn't significant, then there's no point in explaining to you why it is, in fact, significant.

A post that demonstrates why you should always doublecheck an AI assertion before posting it.

Of course, it might just be the case that you actually have been following the story, and aren't thrilled at how it casts discredit on Trump. First for his gullibility in believing Putin and second for the fact that during questioning by reporters, first he denied knowing about the alleged attack but little later said this: “This is not the right time,” Trump said about the alleged drone incursion. “It’s one thing to be offensive, it’s another thing to attack his house. I was very angry about it.” https://nypost.com/2025/12/29/world-news/russia-claims-ukraine-attacked-vladimir-putin-residence-with-over-90-drones/ It doesn't really speak well of his mental condition that during the same press conference Trump first denied knowing about the Russian claims of a drone attack on Putin's residence but then said he "was very angry about it." He also claimed that this imaginary attack was vindication of his decision to stop supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine.

If you don't know why this is news, maybe you should do a little bit of googling. Or can you just spare us further expressions of your indifference and vanish from the thread. Or maybe someone else will volunteer to school you.

Trump administration tightens US childcare reporting requirements, no funds frozen in Minnesota - A day after the U.S. deputy secretary of Health and Human Services announced on social media that federal childcare funds for Minnesota were being frozen, a spokesperson for the department said that instead, reporting requirements had been tightened across the country. Officials in President Donald Trump's administration had singled out Minnesota in social media statements on Tuesday, ramping up what Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat, characterized as a political confrontation over immigration and allegations of widespread fraud in social services programs. https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trump-administration-freezes-child-day-care-payments-minnesota-2025-12-31/ TACO!!! Is this the beginning of a Trump Administration retreat?

Lauren Boebert did claim that Trump's veto occurred because of her support for the release of the Epstein files. But she also said this: "Boebert also argued that the veto would have been reasonable if it targeted more liberal voters in Colorado, but not people in her region who “overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump in the last three elections.” https://newrepublic.com/post/204832/lauren-boebert-donald-trump-veto-water-epstein-vote Because in Magaworld, there are 2 classes of citizens. And voting against Trump is an offense that deserves punishment.

That's not what Trump said: He then explained, saying he stopped talking to Epstein after "he did something that was inappropriate." "He hired help and I said, 'Don't ever do that again,'" Trump said. "He stole people that worked for me. I said, 'Don't ever do that again.' He did it again, and I threw him out of the place, persona non grata." "I threw him out and that was it. I'm glad I did, if you want to know the truth," Trump added. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-says-he-ended-friendship-with-epstein-because-he-stole-people-that-worked-for-me