The Trump Riot Aftermath (Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes found guilty of seditious conspiracy. Proud Boys join the club)

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[EmirOfShmo]

 

[Larry]

1 hour ago, @DCGoldPants said:

It's almost like they were ordered to delete any and all texts. 

 

Oh, I doubt they were ordered to.  

 

That would have, you know, created evidence.  

 

Now, maybe "Please make sure not to delete any text messages which the Congress has not yet requested, but they are expected to, as part of their investigation into numerous felonies that I'm sure none of you had anything to do with."  That I'd believe.  

[The Evil Genius]

Or...they just wanted to hide any and all evidence of their culpability.  It's not like the USSS is not maga infested. 

Edited July 20, 2022 by The Evil Genius

[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

 

[Dan T.]

 

[The Evil Genius]

41 minutes ago, Califan007 The Constipated said:

 

 

 

Maybe because they didn't enter with weapons and with the intent to commit domestic terrorism AND because the Colbert 9 were invited to be there in the first place?

 

Conservatives are such 😺's.

Edited July 20, 2022 by The Evil Genius

[Dan T.]

The GOP can be really bad at whataboutism.

[The Evil Genius]

Just now, Dan T. said:

The GOP can be really bad at whataboutism.

 

Like when they talked about how unfair it was that Rep Omar got to wear a hijab despite the seperation of church and state. 😄

[Califan007 The Constipated]

31 minutes ago, The Evil Genius said:

 

Maybe because they didn't enter with weapons and with the intent to commit domestic terrorism AND because the Colbert 9 were invited to be there in the first place?

 

Conservatives are such 😺's.

 

Hey, at least they admitted the rioters were Trump supporters and not Antifa lol...

[tshile]

The USSS and text message thing makes me laugh cause we went through this, with roles reversed, with Clinton’s e-mail server 😆 

 

[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

 

[balki1867]

3 hours ago, Dan T. said:

 

 

Coming to A&E this fall: RINO Eye for the MAGA Guy 

[The Evil Genius]

2 hours ago, tshile said:

The USSS and text message thing makes me laugh cause we went through this, with roles reversed, with Clinton’s e-mail server 😆 

 

 

Care to expand on that? My uneducated recollection was that the HRC email server fiasco wasn't over missing or deleted emails. It was that she had a private server housing classified emails to begin with. Was there another component to it that Republicans were up in arms over because that doesn't seem anything like the current deleted USSS text messages after the USSS was told to not purge them. 

Edited July 20, 2022 by The Evil Genius

[PeterMP]

4 minutes ago, The Evil Genius said:

 

Care to expand on that? My uneducated recollection was that the HRC email server fiasco wasn't over missing ot deleted emails. It was that she had a private server to begin with. Was there another component to it that Republicans were up in arms over because that doesn't seem anything like the current deleted USSS text messages after the USSS was told to not purge them. 

 

The two went togehter.

 

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-deleted-33000-emails-secretary-state/story?id=42389308

Edited July 20, 2022 by PeterMP

[The Evil Genius]

1 minute ago, PeterMP said:

 

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-deleted-33000-emails-secretary-state/story?id=42389308

 

So according to that link, HRC deleted emails that she deemed were not work related before being asked to hand them over for investigation.  Whereas, the USSS deleted text messages after they were asked to hand them over.

 

And that's similar because?

[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

 

[The Evil Genius]

 

 

Hard not to think that the current USSS actions are anything other than deliberately trying to hide damaging evidence. 

Edited July 20, 2022 by The Evil Genius

[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

 

[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

 

 

[tshile]

3 hours ago, The Evil Genius said:

And that's similar because?

Both sides were hiding something

 

people pick which one they care about, therefore refusing to believe whoever was hiding it, but accept whatever excuse their favorite team offered for hiding theirs

[China]

Steve Bannon's judge says he refuses to allow the trial to be a 'political circus'

 

The federal judge presiding over Steve Bannon's trial pledged Wednesday to prevent the high-profile proceeding from turning into a "political circus."

 

Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee confirmed in 2019, shut down questioning from defense lawyers about the motives of the House lawmakers who supported subpoenaing the longtime Trump ally as part of the congressional inquiry into the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

 

"I do not intend for this to become a political case, a political circus, a forum for partisan politics," Nichols said.

 

Nichols' admonition came on the third day of Bannon's trial, which began with prosecutors objecting to the defense team's apparent effort to inject politics into the case.

 

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[China]

Overstock Weirdo Patrick Byrne Brings The Crazy To Jan. 6 Committee Testimony

 

On Friday, the January 6 Select Committee spent more than seven hours interviewing former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, according to CNN.

 

Poor ****s.

 

Byrne bankrolled much of the Stop the Steal goon squad, including funding the Arizona fraudit, and he showed up in the infamous December 18, 2020, Oval Office meeting where he, Sidney Powell, Mike Flynn, and Rudy Giuliani tried to get the president to seize the voting machines and possibly re-run the election.

 

Even as a CEO, Byrne was kind of a wacko, convinced that the company's woes were the result of hedge funds shorting its stock, rather than Amazon and Wayfair eating its lunch. During a 2005 conference call with shareholders, he referred to one accused short seller as a "Sith Lord" (likely SAC Capital founder Steve Cohen), a move that caused his own father to threaten to step down from the board if he didn't rein that **** in.

 

In the most predictable turn of events possible, he became obsessed with blockchain, convinced it would save the world. In a less predictable turn, he embarked on an affair with Russian agent Maria Butina, which he says he conducted at the behest of the FBI. As one does.

 

Right. Cool. So awesome that this ****in' weirdo was able to sneak into the Oval Office. And BTW, he continued to send Butina cash "gifts" even after she returned to Russia and James Comey was out of power at the FBI, which just goes to show the power of the Deep State!

 

Details of the Oval Office conflagration appeared online within weeks. In what seemed like an attempt to scoop Axios, whose story appeared online on February 2, 2021, Byrne published an account on his own blog on February 1. (Hat tip to Marcy Wheeler, who flagged this bat**** post.)

 

Axios depicts Byrne scarfing down plate after plate of ****tail meatballs, while shouting that the White House lawyers were "quitters."

 

"I know how this works. I bribed Hillary Clinton $18 million on behalf of the FBI for a sting operation," he blurted out, attempting to underline his own expertise in the face of lawyers insisting that their plan was entirely illegal and also bat**** insane.

 

"What the hell are you talking about?" shot back Eric Herschmann. "Why would you say something like that?"

 

In contrast, Byrne describes the White House lawyers, particularly Pat Cipollone, losing their ****, while Donald Trump, the wise, old owl, "measured, gracious, and even soft-spoken," chuckled quietly to himself, and philosophically considered each point presented.

 

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[China]

3 hours ago, The Evil Genius said:

 

 

Hard not to think that the current USSS actions are anything other than deliberately trying to hide damaging evidence. 

 

And those actions were likely illegal...

 

Jan. 6 panel says Secret Service may have violated law with ‘erased’ text messages

 

he Secret Service may have violated federal records laws by failing to preserve data — including information related to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack — after it had been requested by investigators, the House committee investigating the riot said Wednesday.

 

The condemnation came after the panel subpoenaed the agency following an allegation from the inspector general at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees the Secret Service, that it had “erased” the texts during a device replacement program.

 

“We have concerns about a system migration that we have been told resulted in the erasure of Secret Service cell phone data,” Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said in a joint statement.

 

“The U.S. Secret Service system migration process went forward on January 27, 2021, just three weeks after the attack on the Capitol in which the Vice President of the United States while under the protection of the Secret Service, was steps from a violent mob hunting for him. Four House committees had already sought these critical records from the Department of Homeland Security before the records were apparently lost,” they added.

 

“Additionally, the procedure for preserving content prior to this purge appears to have been contrary to federal records retention requirements and may represent a possible violation of the Federal Records Act.”

 

Lawmakers confirmed Wednesday that the Secret Service turned over just one text sent on Jan. 6, a plea from then-Capitol Police chief Steven Sund to the Secret Service for help.

It was the only text included in more than 10,000 pages sent in response to the committee’s Friday subpoena.

 

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[Califan007 The Constipated]

44 minutes ago, tshile said:

Both sides were hiding something

 

people pick which one they care about, therefore refusing to believe whoever was hiding it, but accept whatever excuse their favorite team offered for hiding theirs

 

Are you saying there's no difference at all between the two events outside of one involves a Democrat and one involves a Republican?