Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[Mike]

The more I learn about the Ds election interference, the more pissed I get. Nothing will come of this, of course, because it will only reach nerds like me who read RCP. I highly recommend reading the whole piece.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/06/26/james_clapper_mr_october_surprise_how_obamas_intel _czar_rigged_2016_and_2020_debates_against_trump_1 040444.html

James Clapper, Mr. October Surprise: How Obama's Intel Czar Rigged 2016 and 2020 Debates Against Trump

On Oct. 7, 2016 – just two days before the presidential debate between Trump and Clinton – Clapper issued the unprecedented intelligence advisory with Obama’s personal blessing. It seemed to lend credence to what the Clinton camp was telling the media — that Trump was working with Russian President Vladimir Putin through a secret back channel to steal the election. Sure enough, the Democratic nominee pounced on it to smear Trump at the debate.

And we're off!

In 2020, he was the lead signatory on the “intelligence" statement that discredited the New York Post’s October bombshell exposing emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop, which documented how Hunter’s corrupt Burisma paymasters had met with Joe Biden when he was vice president. It was released Oct. 19, just three days before Trump and Biden debated each other in Nashville.

Crazy coincidences on the timing. Super bad luck for Trump.

Some former U.S. intelligence officials say the Oct. 7 intelligence assessment appears to have been cooked up for the benefit of Clinton.

“There was no evidence to support it,” said retired U.S. Army Col. Derek Harvey, who investigated the origins of the assessment for the House Intelligence Committee. “It was a political diversion to help Clinton.”

Despite Clapper himself directing in 2015 that

"Analytic assessments must not be distorted by, nor shaped for, advocacy of a particular audience, agenda or policy viewpoint,” according to the six-page document."

On the 2020 Hunter Biden laptop op...

In a House deposition, former deputy CIA Director Mike Morell, a Clapper confidant and one of the 51 signatories of the letter, testified that around Oct. 17, top Biden campaign aide Antony Blinken, now Biden's Secretary of State, reached out to him to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Morell revealed that one of the goals in releasing the letter two days later “was to help then-Vice President Biden in the debate,” according to an April 20, 2023, letter House investigators sent to Blinken....

After the Oct. 22 debate, Morell testified that Biden campaign chairman Steve Ricchetti called him to thank him “for putting the statement out.”

Clapper also leaked the Steele Dossier nonsense to CNN's Jake Tapper who published the salacious details on Jan. 10, 2017 before Trump had even taken office. Tapper won something called the "Merriman Smith Award for broadcast journalism as a result. LOOOOL. Clapper denied leaking to Tapper then, changed his story in testimony to congressional investigators.

The next day, Clapper issued a statement describing a call with Trump in which Clapper “expressed my profound dismay at the leaks that have been appearing in the press” and stressed that “I do not believe the leaks came from within the IC,” or Intelligence Community.

If Trump got convicted of 34 felonies for noting the expense from an NDA in the wrong column, what should the punishment for these guys be?

[Dr. Strangelove]

A military coup in Bolivia apparently underway

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/26/luis-arce-bolivia-coup

[Mike]

Damn. They have a big game against Uruguay tomorrow night, too.

[THE_WIZARD_]

The Hill poll shows swing state voters trust Trump more than Biden...heh...lmao...I guess The Chairman still has the abortion issue...

[THE_WIZARD_]

Trump going to a debate moderated by CNN is like playing Satan in Hades...or Miami playing Ohio State with Terry Porter...

[Dr. Strangelove]

You’re not a REAL conservative unless you’ve been divorced at least twice and currently cheating on wife #3 with a second tier porn star.

[Mike]

Still preferable to a dementia patient.

[Jeff Buchanan]

General that led failed coup in Bolivia arrested. Apparently the president of Bolivia and this general had been feuding over the governance of the country. Prior to the Pandemic, Bolivia's economy was hot and citizens were doing well. Then typical COVID missteps by the current government plunged the economy into debt. It hasn't recovered. The coup was labeled as "pro-democracy."

https://apnews.com/article/bolivia-military-deployment-arce-coup-fears-028cd88f3be1fb02164c05deb0faa099?user_email=c1f04330e9c0a57c8aa70f2b5f07e60e0aee1aca0314f908ce7c6cf8856b9cc9&utm_medium=Morning_Wire&utm_source=Sailthru_AP&utm_campaign=Morning%20Wire_27%20June_2024&utm_term=Morning%20Wire%20Subscribers

[Tom W]

You’re not a REAL conservative unless you’ve been divorced at least twice and currently cheating on wife #3 with a second tier porn star.

Despite my not doing, or advocating, any of the above, it’s not necessarily a bad thing when you can get away with some unscrupulous behavior against less than wholesome characters. Make no mistake- it’s doubtful if any of us would like to settle down, raise kids and grow old with any of Trump’s women.

But, we’re talking about dealing with running the country- directing the economy, setting domestic policy, dealing with foreign affairs and owning the nuclear football.

The ability to swim with sharks might be useful.

Dementia? Not so much.,

[Dr. Strangelove]

Still preferable to a dementia patient.

Well apparently The Chairman takes some miracle drug that transforms him from drooling invalid to elder statesman almost instantly.

If I were the White House I would simply give him this drug all the time.

[Tom W]

I’m sure that was part of the “Big Guy” arrangement that Hunter set up.

[Mike]

Along with the miracle drug, I'm sure his team had tonight's questions in advance.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Oh absolutely. Very rigged.

[Dr. Strangelove]

"My opponent is using drugs!" is an amusing part of Trump's standard playbook, I shall note. No one outdoes Trump at anything unless they're cheating. We ALL know that.

Donald Trump Challenges Hillary Clinton to 'Take a Drug Test' Before Final Debate (nbcnews.com)

[Dr. Strangelove]

I'm not going to be watching the shitshow tonight. I'm not THAT mentally ill.

More importantly, Supreme Court decisions in under 10....