I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!

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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Posts: 46,506
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    1/3 of the American people would still vote for this piece of highly damaged humanity.

    May be an image of 2 people and text that says '"With ample evidence, this is now an espionage investigation of a former President of the United States. MINDBLOWING." -MICHAEL BESCHLOSS Presidential Historian OCCUPY DEMOCRATS'

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Posts: 46,506
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    May be an image of 5 people and text that says 'STRUMP AS LONG AS MY SHEEP KEEP SENDING ME MONEY, I'LL NEVER ADMIT DEFEAT! American News X'

    And that is all those people are useful to him for -- if he met them on the street he'd jaywalk to the other side.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Posts: 46,506
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    May be an image of stripes and text that says 'Ketchup. @a'

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Posts: 46,506
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    May be an image of 1 person and text that says 'FOX IS ATTACKING TRUMP! TRUMP IS ATTACKING MCCONNELL AND HIS WEE GOP CANDIDATES ARE ATTACKING GOP INCUMBENTS AS RINOS. "NEVER INTERFERE WITH AN ENEMY WHILE HE'S IN THE PROCESS OF DESTROYING HIMSELF." ~Napoleon~ American NewsX'

    Sounds like good advice to me. Duly noted that the Reps. are being silent for the most part since the redacted affidavit was released. Well, there is no real defense for Trump himself and for the things he has done -- and I'd say he has really done it now. To be underinvestigation by two government agencies at once. Criminal investigation. Maybe Home Sweet Home won't be so sweet anymore.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Posts: 46,506
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    May be an image of 4 people and text that says 'WHAT YOU NEED IS FAITH AND WHAT YOU NEED IS A PSYCHIATRIST WHO ENJOYS A CHALLENGE'

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Posts: 49,071
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    Bea Arthur is so right in that meme!

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Posts: 46,506
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    Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an
    understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the
    best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

    Marvin J. Ashton

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Posts: 46,506
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    The Bitchy Pundit3h · A wonderful way to start a weekend Heather Cox RichardsonAugust 26, 2022 (Friday)The Department of Justice (DOJ) today released the redacted affidavit that persuaded a judge to agree to issue a search warrant for FBI agents to look for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, the property owned by the Trump Organization in Florida. It was bad. The affidavit explained to the judge the history behind the FBI's request. On February 9, 2022, the National Archives and Records Administration (what did I say about archivists?) told the DOJ that after seven months of negotiations, on January 18 it had received 15 boxes of material that former president Trump had held at Mar-a-Lago. Those boxes contained "highly classified documents," including some at the very most secret level of our intelligence: those involving our spies and informants. In those initial 15 boxes, FBI personnel found 184 classified documents. Sixty-seven were labeled CONFIDENTIAL, 92 were SECRET, 25 were TOP SECRET. Some were marked SCS, FISA, ORCON, NOFORN, and SI, the very highest levels of security, involving human intelligence, foreign surveillance, intelligence that cannot be shared with foreign governments, and intelligence that is compartmented to make sure no one has full knowledge of what is in it. The former president had made notes on "several" of the documents.On June 8, 2022, a DOJ lawyer wrote to Trump's lawyer to reiterate that Mar-a-Lago was not authorized to store classified information, and warned that the documents were not being handled properly. The DOJ lawyer asked that the material be secured in a single room at Mar-a-Lago "in their current condition until further notice." Trump's lawyers told the DOJ that presidents have the absolute authority to declassify documents—this is not true, by the way—but did not assert he had done so. The FBI opened a criminal investigation "to, among other things," figure out how the classified records were taken from the White House and ended up at Mar-a-Lago, and to determine if other classified records might have been improperly taken and stored, and to figure out who might have taken and mishandled them. They concluded that there was good reason to think that more classified records remained at Mar-a-Lago and that investigators would find evidence that Trump and his allies were obstructing the government's effort to recover the material. The person who made the affidavit said they were a special agent with the FBI, "familiar with efforts used to unlawfully collect, retain, and disseminate sensitive government information, including classified N[ational] D[efense] I[nformation]." They swore that "there is probable cause to believe" that locations at Mar-a-Lago "contain evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed." The affidavit confirmed that the Department of Justice is "conducting a criminal investigation concerning the improper removal and storage of classified information in unauthorized spaces, as well as the unlawful concealment or removal of government records," and asked for the affidavit to be sealed because "the items and information to be seized are relevant to an ongoing investigation and the FBI has not yet identified all potential criminal confederates nor located all evidence related to its investigation."Sidestepping Trump's insistence that he could declassify whatever he wished when president, the affidavit specifies that the documents could cause damage even if they are not classified, and it notes that retaining "information related to the national defense" is illegal. The information that Trump stole classified documents itself was eye-popping, and then that he refused to return them was astonishing. Now, the knowledge of the extent of it, and that it included information from our human sources, is stunning. AND THIS WAS JUST THE AFFIDAVIT TO GET A SEARCH WARRANT TO GET MORE RETAINED DOCUMENTS…which the FBI did on August 8. We still don't know what was in those more recently recovered boxes.Trump is in serious trouble…and so are the rest of us. This stolen and mishandled classified intelligence compromises our security. The best-case scenario is that it was never seen by anyone who knew what they were looking at. Even that would mean that our allies have every reason to be leery about sharing information with us again. But that's the best-case scenario. We have to wonder, who else now knows the secrets designed to keep Americans safe? Multiple news stories during Trump's presidency noted that even then, Mar-a-Lago was notoriously insecure. And, unthinkable though it should be but sadly is not, what if secret documents have already been given or sold into the hands of foreign actors whose interests conflict with ours? I have been writing today about Trump's first impeachment and the hearings where Marie Yovanovitch, Fiona Hill, and Alexander Vindman, immigrants all, who served our nation faithfully and fully, risked—and ultimately lost—their jobs to warn us that Trump was willing to compromise our national security for his own interests. "He has betrayed our national security, and he will do so again," House impeachment manager Adam Schiff warned the Senate. "You can't trust [Trump] to do the right thing. Not for one minute, not for one election, not for the sake of our country. You just can't. He will not change and you know it." Schiff begged them to say "enough." But they would not, and they did not, and here we are.
  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Posts: 46,506
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    I presume I'll never quite find a way to get over that the Loon EVER happened to us. Just when I think I've reached a flat spot, the roller coaster starts all over inside me.

  • ruthbru
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  • cardplayer
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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Posts: 49,071
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    "A Republic if you can keep it."- Benjamin Franklin

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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Posts: 46,506
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    Card, I love the Loon redaction.

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Posts: 49,071
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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Posts: 46,506
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    Hoping we'd quit hearing about the border, but still out there for Reps. use.

    May be an image of 6 people and text that says 'NOTHING TO SEE HERE JUST THE SAME FOLKS WHO KEEP DEMANDING A WALL AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM ENTERING ILLEGALLY, TRUM PROVING THAT WALLS DON'T KEEP PEOPLE FROM ENTERING ILLEGALLY! News X American'

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Posts: 46,506
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    May be a Twitter screenshot of 1 person, standing and text that says 'Omar Rivero @OmarRiverosays WELL PLAYED, JOE! A Trump supporter just heckled President Biden during a speech tonight by yelling "you stole the election," and President Biden laughed it off and responded, "folks, ignorance knows no bounds!" The crowd went wild. Joe is ON FIRE lately, and I'm here for it! 10:12 PM 8/25/22 Twitter for iPhone'

    I think Pres. Biden has a good sense of when to take the gloves off and go a few rounds.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Posts: 46,506
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    May be an image of text that says 'Mike Templeton 15m・ The fact that the extremist right is taking about burning books in an age in which every fucking one of these books is available as a downloadable pdf is further proof that these people do not even know what century we are in.'

  • cardplayer
    cardplayer Posts: 2,086
    edited August 2022

    Is the United States headed for civil war?

    Fighting words and extremism are on the rise. We are not yet in 'Turner Diaries' territory, but that doesn't mean the country will avoid violent conflict.

  • divinemrsm
    divinemrsm Posts: 6,621
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  • ruthbru
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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Posts: 46,506
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    It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit
    or turn off an old tape doesn't depend on how long it has been running; a shift
    in perspective doesn't depend on how long you've held on to the old view.
    When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn't matter whether its been dark
    for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades.
    The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see
    the things you couldn't see before.
    Its never too late to take a moment to look.

    Sharon Salzberg
    Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Posts: 46,506
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    Just looking at all thos last memes. We are living in and through such a time. A totally crazy orange con man at the head of our government. Idiotic Reps. following and enabling him and really still on the same page as we speak. Just such incredible things. Mentioned before that I came to following politics later in life, but always before the last few yrs. it made sense to me. If felt workable even if difficult. Now it is more the opposite which is extremely difficult to the max and who knows is it will work.

    The Reps. have made it so difficult to trust anything by the fact that they twist and turn everything. Pointing fingers with huge criticisms for what the Democrats do, but taking credit for the things that do work out. Sigh !!

    Topsy-turvy - no wonder you walk around with an apprehensive feeling most of the time. A lot is resting on the upcoming election. It sounds like with hard work it could turn out okay for us. The media still has its troubles with keeping the Loon front and center, but even they have to call what he has done as criminal. It is in black and whilte with no way to dress it up. There is no conspiracy to fit this situation.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Posts: 46,506
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    The problem:

    May be a Twitter screenshot of text that says 'Middle Age Riot @middleageriot Republicans: "Lock her up!" Also Republicans: "No matter what Donald Trump did, if you lock him up, there will be civil war."'

  • cardplayer
    cardplayer Posts: 2,086
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    Do you think he noticed?

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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Posts: 46,506
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    May be an image of 2 people and text that says 'RESISTANCE HIS FAULTS SEEM PRETTY BLOODY HARD TO MISS. AFTER IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO READ A SINGLE TWEET, OR HEAR HIM SPEAK SENTENCE OR TWO, WITHOUT STARING DEEP INTO THE ABYSS. HE TURNS BEING ARTLESS INTO AN ART FORM; IS PICASSO PETTINESS; OF ARE HIS FLAWS HAVE FLAWS, so ON AD INFINITUM. GOD KNOWS THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN STUPID PEOPLE IN THE WORLD AND PLENTY OF NASTY PEOPLE TOO. BUT RARELY HAS STUPIDITY BEEN NASTY, NASTINESS so STUPID. MAKES NIXON LOOK TRUSTWORTHY AND GEORGE LOOK SMART. INFACT, FRANKENSTEIN DECIDED TO MAKE MONSTER ASSEMBLED ENTIRELY FROM HUMAN HE WOULD MAKE TRUMP.'

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Posts: 46,506
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    May be an image of 5 people and text that says '"Trump called you an Alfred E. Neuman. what goes through your mind when_that happens?" "You know, we talk about elevating the dialogue, so the fact that inspired him to make a literary reference possibly for the first time..."'

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