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onecaliberal

(36,594 posts)
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 10:20 AM Tuesday

Can you imagine going to the store and buying something.

Paying for your item and being told you can’t have it. It’s not yours.

That’s what is being done with these investigations and reports. WE the American taxpayer foot the good damn bill. The reports are stolen from us. We need to start suing. ALOT.

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Attilatheblond

(4,822 posts)
3. Especially alarmed with ridiculous charges for getting cop body cam videos some departments have instituted
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 10:25 AM
Tuesday

Flat out trying to prevent the taxpayers from being able to call abusive cops to account!

gab13by13

(25,605 posts)
4. Let's call a spade a spade
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 10:35 AM
Tuesday

Hur investigated President Biden for having a few classified documents. One of the documents was the Secret service route that it was going to take to get Joe to his son's funeral,

Garland then releases the entire Hur report which claimed that the only reason that Hur didn't prosecute President Biden was because he was old and feeble and forgetful. Garland showed the piece of shit that he is to release those lies.

Garland could release the Mueller report.

Garland still has time to release the Smith reports without being overly redacted.

Garland stated it publicly when he said he would not be partisan, he was speaking to Magats.

I double dare Garland lovers to defend this.

Emile

(31,334 posts)
5. Garland is dragging his feet on purpose.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 10:43 AM
Tuesday

He knows Trump is seeking to block release of special counsel report and that will give him an excuse for not releasing it.

Moostache

(10,201 posts)
8. Lawsuits against the unlawful? Sounds like a hoot...
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 10:52 AM
Tuesday

What we REALLY need is exactly what WON'T happen - a general strike and complete shut-down of the economic engine that allows the powerful to believe that they are untouchable and that no one will ever truly stand up to them. Sadly...humanity is easily distracted and led astray and they have the most omnipotent propaganda devices in human history stuck 6 inches from every human face that can read and they control the information and the response of the easily swayed masses.

I recommend no longer giving a fuck about the ruin and ravage that is imminent. Watch it as a spectator sport and pick a "team" to root for...it will have about the same effect on the outcome, but you may steal some enjoyment from the shit show.

slightlv

(4,620 posts)
16. Moostache, while I hate to say it
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 01:19 PM
Tuesday

because it sounds and feels so defeatist, I agree with you. And to a large extent, that's what I've been doing since the election.

Americans are too soft, too scared, and too dominated to do a general strike. Other countries aren't like us. Their citizens protest, riot, and actually run out bad government actors. They shut down not just a city... they shut down cities all over the country. Just imagine what could happen here if Americans could come together to do something like that. But "coming together" is the one thing that won't happen... period. There's too much of a political/sociological/religious divide and it's all but 50/50. Without buy in from everyone, strikes like that aren't effective. Our oligarchs just hire scabs and fire everyone else.

Oh, to be like the French....!

Moostache

(10,201 posts)
18. I wish I was wrong. 100% wish that was true and I was deluded.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 01:23 PM
Tuesday

You summed it up perfectly.

MiHale

(10,960 posts)
9. I'm willing to bet...
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 12:24 PM
Tuesday

Jack Smith has multiple copies of that report hidden away…digital copies are rather easy to hide well.

I’m thinking he should release it in a book available for purchase or if motivated as a free download.
He’d probably have to get out of the country first.

allegorical oracle

(3,591 posts)
15. Smith strikes me as being one who takes all the legal high roads. But...if he got angry
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 01:13 PM
Tuesday

enough? TSF in his presser said something about Smith going back to The Hague.

What frosted me was TSF accusing the Biden admin of "playing the refs" -- meaning judge shopping. Then his own personal judge, Cannon, blocks the Smith report. Usual projection.

slightlv

(4,620 posts)
17. All the Maga types do is judge shop...
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 01:21 PM
Tuesday

that's why everything that impinges on freedom of body, freedom of love, freedom of religion, etc., goes through that damned TX court. That judge there is one step away from declaring a theocracy all on his own. And, regardless of what venue SHOULD hear a case, somehow it always ends up with that TX judge.

intheflow

(29,125 posts)
20. I was thinking CREW or ProPublica issuing a FOIA request.
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 03:15 AM
Wednesday

Unpublished is not the same as classified.

IronLionZion

(47,311 posts)
11. Wait until you hear about MAGA
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 12:50 PM
Tuesday

a lot of Trump supporters are in for a complete shock when he doesn't deliver what he promised them.

 

onecaliberal

(36,594 posts)
12. They don't care what he promised. He's a fascist and so are they. /end.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 12:54 PM
Tuesday

All their weird bullshit complaints are window dressing because they don't have the balls to live authentically. Most would be fired from their employment because in the real world rapists don't get promotions after they are exposed.

dchill

(40,898 posts)
13. You can just lump Social Security in there, too.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 01:06 PM
Tuesday

Coming soon to our country near you. Very near.

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