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| Silverfiddle Rant! |
So much to talk about, so little time...
Why did President Trump take and stash all those documents?
What is the absolute worst Russia could do to Europe? What do we as Americans have to fear from Russia?
Is Europe worth defending with American blood and treasure?
Has the US Federal Government become a horrible uncontrollable machine that depersonalizes us and endangers our liberties, but that we paradoxically cannot survive without?
When President Obama federalized student loans in 2010 as part of interlocking legislation with Obama Care, he said this:
"By cutting out the middleman, we'll save American taxpayers $68 billion in the coming years," the president said. "That's real money -- real savings that we'll reinvest to help improve the quality of higher education and make it more affordable."
It's 12 years later. Can anyone use federal budget figures to demonstrate this savings?
Can anyone point to any politician's promise of "savings" that actually happened?
Bonus Question: Who wrote the following? (no prizes, Yahoogle search makes finding the author way too easy):
"In any technologically advanced society the individual's fate MUST depend on decisions that he personally cannot influence to any great extent. A technological society cannot be broken down into small, autonomous communities, because production depends on the cooperation of very large numbers of people and machines. Such a society MUST be highly organized..."
What say you?
"Why did President Trump take and stash all those documents?"
ReplyDeleteBecause he wanted to.
Why did the DOJ put them all on display?
I guess "because they wanted to" seems like an appropriate answer.
DeleteHave you heard the latest Trump defense, straight from the stable genius himself?
DeleteIt goes something like this:
"That photo of stolen classified national security secrets strewn all over the floor of my office is totally fake! I am not a slob! I kept those stolen classified files nice and neat in my desk under a pull crusher, a straw, a mirror, and boxes and boxes of Sudafed! Where's my crank bank?"
*pill crusher
DeleteMy hat's off to you, if you can keep up with team crackerjack's 20-sided die of convoluted dissembling.
DeleteBamboo-zle fibers, man. ;)
DeleteWhy did President Trump take and stash all those documents?
ReplyDeleteBecause he de-classified them on Jan 19, 2021 and ordered them released to the public... and they weren't. They're proof that the NSA database has been used to spy on all Americans and that the FBI used "parallel construction" to fabricate cases based upon him and them from illegally obtained surveillance data (fruit of the poisoned tree). The DoJ then seized that data in an illegal raid to prevent the declassified data from exposing their criminality or ever seeing the light of day.
The Steele dossier was a parallel construction.
DeleteThat is the most plausible explanation, IMO
DeleteWhy did President Trump take and stash all those documents?
DeleteHow about maybe because he’s a career grifter and criminal who saw them as potential tools for future crimes? I mean, that curtaining seems more plausible.
Why is he now offering convicted rioters who attacked our Capital and assaulted our policemen pardons, apologies, money, and maybe cabinet positions if he’s re-elected?
Birds of a feather? Just what career grifters and criminals do?
Did he, or did he not, order classified documents released to the public Ronnie? If not, why not?
DeleteThat is the most plausible explanation, IMO
DeleteYep. If they were declassified, the ODNI review currently ongoing, will confirm that. If they weren't.......
erratum - If so, why not?
Delete...when the ODNI releases the declassified documents per the Jan 2021 declassification order and prints them in the Federal Register word for word, THEN we'll know who's telling the truth, and who's hiding behind document classification systems.
Delete...and NOT until then.
DeleteYour drip-drip-drip of NY Times and WaPo leaks aren't going to cut it as "evidence".
DeleteTell Joe Biden that until it happens, his "democracy" is SUSPECT!
DeleteYour position rests completely on the existence of a declassification order in the first place (since you don't know the subject of the seized information) and is in pretty stark contrast to both Trump's and his crack squad of bargain basement lawyers.
Delete...as do all your arguments to the contrary. So print the declassified documents so that we can both know.
DeletePrint the declassification order that you 'know' exists.
Delete..because the Durham Investigation is no longer even a plausible explanation for the "stall".
DeleteIs that why Trump is still banned from Twitter? lol!
Delete:P
Delete:)
DeleteNow that we know, per his own admission, that the former president had White House documents in his possession, we enter a different phase of the discussion.
DeleteThis is the part where we should deal with the Presidential Records Act and Silver's words from an earlier post...
"Technically, if he [Trump] had presidential documents, including classified ones, it is a violation of the law."
Presidential documents, secret or not, do not belong to a president. They belong to the American people. A president has no right to take them or have them once leaving office, and simply having them is a violation of the law.
lol!
DeleteSigh...and yet again - your assertion is predicated on an assumption of what information you think was at MAL.
Delete...and yours on an assumption that the declassified documents that the government has YET to declassify and release (after almost 2 years of stalling) are not the ones at Mar-A-Lago..
Delete...that Trump is secretly building a hydrogen bomb in the basement of Mar-a-Lago with his stolen SCI/CNWDI.
DeleteNo. My assumption is that there remains the possibility that the information found at MAL is not declassified. Period.
Delete...which you won't "know" until the declassified information gets "officially declassified" by bureaucrats... because the president was NEVER the president and the bureaucrats were too slow on their "DECLASSIFIED" stamps.
DeleteOr.....it wasn't declassified. You're not very good at this are you?
DeleteI guess now we know who's "really" running the country.
DeleteWanna know who says what is and isn't? Trump.
DeleteApparently far better than you. I'm not sure if you grasp this or not......but dear leader is longer POTUS.
DeleteIf the information had been declassified......there wouldn't be a need for a cleared Special Master....as the Trump team requested.
DeleteBecause executive privilege doesn't exist for the other documents seized? lol!
DeleteOnly one note in a series of contradictory statements and filings from 'team crackerjack'.
DeleteCan he please keep his passport, CI? Pretty please?
Deleteps- What is the "authority" for Executive Privilege, CI, and where in the Constitution do they get it?
DeleteYou can't raid Trump's sock drawer. :)
DeleteFFS.....if team cheeto is claiming that documents covered under executive privilege are classified......then he didn't declassify those documents. Thus, he'd be retaining classified information.
DeleteDoes a former POTUS have executive privilege? Hint, the answer has two letters.
Delete...and based on "If's"...
Deleteand spurious "bills of attainder".
Delete4th Amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.[2]
In the Thirteen Colonies, some colonists were inspired to the American Revolution because of anger at the injustice of attainder. American dissatisfaction with British attainder laws resulted in their being prohibited in the United States Constitution in 1789. Bills of attainder are forbidden to both the federal government and the states, reflecting the importance that the Framers attached to this issue. Every state constitution also expressly forbids bills of attainder.
Delete4th Amendment protections don't extend to illegal retention of government property.
DeleteTrump's personal papers? Doesn't he get to make THAT determination, (much like Hillary's e-mails)?
DeleteStay out of Trump's sock drawer. And no, you can't go into the bedroom and check to make sure that the mattress label is still on Melania's mattress.
You have a weird fascination with sock drawers....but I'm not here to kink shame. You do you.
Deletelol - At least he's not leading a Fed panty raid on Mar a Lago!
DeletePlease. The National Archives is after Trump's Library Card. He's overdue on a few book fines, and they needed the FBI to go collect it for them.
DeleteAh yes, the 'overdue library book/ defense. I can't remember if that was the same lawyer who may be facing her own day in court.......
DeleteSame theme of tripe as the "tourists visiting the Capital".
DeletePerhaps you and beamish should form an Ashli Babbitt Memorial Firing Squad...
DeleteThe "overdue library book defense" is slightly better that Dan Crenshaw's "does anyone really believe Trump is smart enough to know what he stole" defense.
DeleteThe least you can do is mule some fake ballots to drop boxes for Democrats on Nov. 8th....
DeletePenny for the Viking...?
Perhaps you and beamish should form an Ashli Babbitt Memorial Firing Squad
DeleteI'm just waiting for the Lindsey Graham Riot Force to come up the hill lisping monkeypox at us.
Perhaps you and beamish should form an Ashli Babbitt Memorial Firing Squad...
DeleteI like that idea! You're good for something after all.
(Ever remember the sixth of January,
DeleteGunpowder, treason and plot,
We see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!)
I was sorting through my father's things,
A month since he had died,
And flipping through the books he'd loved,
To still the chill inside,
When out there fell a photograph
Of me, at nine years old,
A tiny square of black and white
That made my blood run cold!
It brought the memories rushing back,
For in that ancient scene,
I stood before a building that
Would make an old man scream,
An air raid shelter, from the war,
A roof so flat and square,
And on the top the bonfire that
Once lit, brought grief to bear.
January 2021,
Was pencilled on the rear,
That date was burnt into my brain,
It brought a sudden tear,
And memories of childhood friends
I hadn't seen since then,
Nor ever would again, I thought,
I left, when I was ten!
We'd stuffed the Goy with newspaper
Inside my father's suit,
And Ben, he had supplied the hat,
And Shirley brought the boots,
We put him on the barrow
Roamed the streets and gave a shout,
'A penny for the Goy, ' we called,
The Goy just flopped about!
'He isn't very real, ' said Ben,
'His head keeps falling off!
We need a broomstick for the neck.'
Then Shirley gave a cough;
'What if I dressed up in the suit,
That mask, to hide my face?
We'd have the best Goy in the street,
The best Goy in the place!
We laughed, and all agreed, so she
Hid in her father's shed,
Put on the suit, too long for her,
The hat just crowned her head,
We put her in the barrow then,
And pushed from street to street,
'A penny for the Goy, ' we said,
You couldn't see her feet.
A funny girl was Shirley then,
With funny little ways,
She seemed too shy to play with us
Except on certain days.
She said her father Joe a brute,
He'd tie her to a chair,
And once she said, 'he tied me up
And touched me - you know where! '
We didn't understand at all,
Just kids - she shrugged and sighed,
If we thought anything at all
We thought she must have lied,
For fathers didn't do those things,
We'd never heard of that,
And blushed just at the thought of it;
(She hid beneath her hat!)
That night we sneaked her on the roof
Before our folks arrived,
We didn't want them seeing her,
The Goy would look contrived;
The wood was piled up eight feet high,
We sat her at the top,
'Now don't jump up 'til they're all here,
We'll catch them on the hop! '
I'd smelt that funny smell when we
Were climbing on the pile,
We didn't know what smell it was,
Although it smelt quite vile.
But someone had poured petrol on
The wood to make it burn,
We didn't know what petrol was,
The fumes made Shirley squirm.
The fumes, they must have knocked her out
For when the folks arrived,
We waited, she should jump and shout
But she was scarce alive,
The fireworks were going off
And lighting up the sky,
I said to Ben, 'let's get her down! '
The moment passed us by.
A spark lit up the monstrous pile,
I saw Ben, looking pale
The parents down there, staring up
Just cheered, and drank their ale.
The Goy was soon a blazing torch,
I screamed, 'the Goy's a girl! '
And Ben tugged at her father's coat:
'The Goy up there is Shirl! '
Then suddenly the Goy leapt up
And screamed in pain, aloud,
The flames engulfed her as she jumped
Into the waiting crowd,
Her father caught her in his arms
Became a blazing torch,
He ran, half stumbled back with her,
Collapsed upon the porch.
They lay, two blackened corpses there
With rockets overhead,
And Catherine Wheels and Jumping Jacks
Went off as they lay dead.
We never celebrate Goy F_cks,
That day won't go away!
I slipped that photo back into
That book, called - 'Let Us Pray! '
apologies to David Lewis Paget
erratum- "Ashli" for Shirley above.
DeleteI'm sure that in the future of the hyper-real, January 6, 2021 will be "well remembered"... as the day that Biden's mail in voteocracy almost fell.
DeleteOne of the funny anecdotes of history is when Robespierre himself went to the guillotine he had already shot off his jaw with a musket in a failed suicide attempt, and nobody could understand the no doubt revolutionary things he was shouting as the blade severed his head from his neck.
DeleteI like to imagine it sounded like "Leela la lelalulon,!_
Well, at least Robspierre left the building with his mental faculties intact.
DeleteI imagine Trump's loss to that guy fell like being cut from the Detroit Lions.
Delete"What do you mean I'm not even good enough for the bench on a losing team?"
Where was your guy, beamish? Oh, that's right. He won.
DeleteI’m curious to know who Beamish’s “guy” is.
Delete- CI
In football, my guys are the LA Rams. If you're into football minutiae, the guy that allegedly scouted Jared Goff and convinced the Rams to throw away six draft picks on that quarterback that never faced a functioning defense in high school or college. And, A being A and nothing but A, Goff player for the Rams like he'd never faced a defense before, but worse, he refused to learn how. His greatest cheerleader, the guy that brought Goff into the NFL, is now the GM of the Lions. The Rams traded Goff to the Lions for Matt Stafford, and proceeded straight to the Super Bowl and won. Goff at the Lions won 4 of 17 games. It was roster cut week in the NFL this week, hence my joke about the Lions and being good enough for their bench.
DeletePolitically, I don't have a guy. For 34 years I have never voted for a Democrat, ever. I usually voted either Republican or Libertarian, and since the Republican shift into the full blown Sorelianism idiocy that is Trump's strain of leftism, I'm leaning more and more into Libertarianism. I'm proud to say that if it weren't for Libertarians voting for their own, Trump would have been re-elected.
You're welcome.
Beamish prefers the "indirect" method when it comes to voting.
Delete@TC - Your second paragraph echoes my journey as well. I was curious as to who FJ was considering “your guy”…….since also said that he “won”.
DeleteI walked the ballot access petition beat for Ron Paul in '88. The choices were easy then... former CIA director, the governor with the disaster plan of "screw it they'll nuke Boston anyway," or the guy that shut down the Russell Means clown show in the LP. I've moved on from Ron Paul, but hey I was a kid then.
DeleteMy satisfaction is mostly that Trump lost. Jo Jorgensen had no chance at all of winning. The Libertarian Party isn't built for winning, but has proven to be an adequate spoiler when it needed to be.
As long as the LP occupies the space of the margin of error, no election will ever be close enough for me to contemplate voting Democrat to keep Trump's Sorelianists out of power.
Remember when Republicans gasped that Obama told Putin he could be "more flexible after the election" (against Romney)?
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
My first vote was the 88 Democratic Party primary. I voted for Al Gore. He seemed sane back then. I didn't trust Bush sr.
DeleteAl Gore in '88? Mr. "censor the naughty music" himself?
DeleteBecause he de-classified them on Jan 19, 2021 and ordered them released to the public... and they weren't.
DeleteWhat is significant about that date other than being the day before he left office? Trump had four years to declassify documents and publish them. It's not like he didn't straight up post and publish classified satellite imagery on Twitter and presumably retro-declassify it.
For the "declassified on January 19th, 2021" argument to be true there would a record of such (there isn't), but also rendered moot because of the legitimate transfer of Presidential powers to Biden the next day, Biden and his transition team could have Reverse Uno carded the whole effort.
"Mr. President, you know those classified national security secrets Trump wanted to declassify and publish yesterday while we were vacuuming the psuedoephedrine dust out of the seams in the woodwork of the Resolute Desk? Yeah, you know, the names and locations of all of our spies and intelligence assets around the world? Do you want us to do the same thing with that as his orders to evacuate all of our troops from every foreign base in the world and drone strike the Jimmy Fallon Show?"
"Yeah, let's cancel that bullshit. Tell our troops around the world they don't need to pack up. But, keep that drone order on Jimmy Fallon on standby, the weaselly bastard. Just kidding, cancel that too "
Do you need to be spoon fed all yor news?
Deleteps- Bills of attainder are unconstitutional.
Delete...and if the Presidential Records Act is used to punish a President, it becomes "unconstitutional"
DeleteApparently withdrawing from the Brown analysis in upholding a statute providing for governmental custody of documents and recordings accumulated during the tenure of former President Nixon,17 . For an application of this statute, see Nixon v. Warner Communications, 435 U.S. 589 (1978). the Court set out a rather different formula for deciding bill of attainder cases.18 The law specifically applied only to President Nixon and directed an executive agency to assume control over the materials and prepare regulations providing for ultimate public dissemination of at least some of them; the act assumed that it did not deprive the former President of property rights but authorized the award of just compensation if it should be judicially determined that there was a taking. First, the Court denied that the clause denies the power to Congress to burden some persons or groups while not so treating all other plausible individuals or groups; even the present law's specificity in referring to the former President by name and applying only to him did not condemn the act because he “constituted a legitimate class of one” on whom Congress could “fairly and rationally” focus.19 Second, even if the statute's specificity did bring it within the prohibition of the clause, the lodging of Mr. Nixon's materials with the GSA did not inflict punishment within the meaning of the clause. This analysis was a three-pronged one: 1) the law imposed no punishment traditionally judged to be prohibited by the clause; 2) the law, viewed functionally in terms of the type and severity of burdens imposed, could rationally be said to further nonpunitive legislative purposes; and 3) the law had no legislative record evincing a congressional intent to punish.20 That is, the Court, looking “to its terms, to the intent expressed by Members of Congress who voted its passage, and to the existence or nonexistence of legitimate explanations for its apparent effect,” concluded that the statute served to further legitimate policies of preserving the availability of evidence for criminal trials and the functioning of the adversary legal system and in promoting the preservation of records of historical value, all in a way that did not and was not intended to punish the former President.
btw -punitive ex post fact laws are also unconstitutional. So making the unclassified material in Trumps private possssion "classified" after Trump left office cannot make his possession of those documents in any way, shape, or form "criminal" or "illegal".
DeleteSource US Constitution Article I, Section 9, Clause 3:
DeleteNo Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
...which is why the National Archives Presidential Records Act imposes and carries NO CRIMINAL PENALTIES, lest it become a "bill of attainder".
DeleteSO why did Merrick Garland takes weeks to decide on approving the raid? Because he knew it was an unconstitutional fishing expedition. And as a former SCOTUS nominee, he knew better.
Delete...but hey, all's fair in love and Lawfare.
Deletebtw - Anybody think that the Lawfare Group @ Brookings isn't paying attention?
DeleteAnyone believe that they aren't weaponizing the legal system now?
DeleteLike they weaponized the MSM?
DeleteI was a registered Democrat. It was him or Dukaka.
DeleteOn the up side, Zappa had some nice riffs off Al and Tipper
The Disinformation Governance Board is the new PMRC...
DeleteZappa was miffed. He didn't make the list.
Delete:P
DeleteHe always was pretty good at laying down riffs...
DeletePacking up the documents and shipping them to Mar-a-Lago was already illegal. Thanks for playing.
DeleteRemember to take the Rice-A-Roni out of the box before boiling.
Then why isn't Obama in jail?
DeleteThanks for playing.
btw - When are the NARA Librarians going to seize Twitter's servers to comply with the Presidential Records Act to ensure that ALL of Trump's "Tweets" become part of the "permanent record"?
DeleteWhat happens to the tweets?
For Obama, the advent of social media – by its nature, an ephemeral take on a certain moment in time – means new ways of preserving records.
On Monday the White House’s deputy chief digital office wrote that all of the administration’s social media posts – “From tweets to snaps” – would be maintained for posterity.
“All of the material we’ve published online will be preserved with (the National Archives) just as previous administrations have done with records ranging from handwritten notes to faxes to emails,” the official, Kori Schulman, wrote in a post on the White House website.
She also said President Obama’s twitter handle, @POTUS, would automatically transfer to his successor, but that his own previous tweets would live at the handle @POTUS44. Similar archived accounts will be set up on Instagram and Facebook, and the White House said it would make all of their social media content available in a downloadable file.
Then why isn't Obama in jail?
DeleteFor what? Having his Presidential records in a NARA facility in Illinois?
Is there any classified material there?
DeleteThe Secret Service doesn't provide security at Mar-A-Lago?
Deletebtw - Who's paying the rent at that "NARA Facility"?
DeleteNice dodge. Why should Obama be in jail?
Delete-CI
Because his records aren't at the NARA facility in Chicago, they're at the private Hoffman Estates.
Delete...being "digitized" (for the past 5 years now) for the most transparent Administration in history. Digitization is HARD!
Deleteps - Did I mention that there's no "public access" to the records there?
DeleteI think you should get Merrick Garland to issue a search warrant.
DeleteI have probable cause to believe that the facility is filled with classified documents.
Delete...being "digitized" for easier "Russian Spy" access.
DeleteDo you really want to the Russians to see Epstein's Client List before mainstream AMericans can?
Because his records aren't at the NARA facility in Chicago, they're at the private Hoffman Estates.
DeleteI never said Chicago, did I? Oh, you mean the former Plunkett Furniture store at 2500 W. Golf Road....leased to NARA by Hoffman Estates Medical Development LLC.
Perhaps you should take your concerns to Garland.
But again......Nice dodge. Why should Obama be in jail?
Sounds like an "imminent threat to National Security" to me.
DeleteWas Hoffmann Estates Medical Development LLC vetted as a SCIF?
DeleteWeird how the leased facility in Illinois isn't by any stretch, an aberration:
DeleteLeased NARA facilities. The following NARA facilities are located on private property leased by NARA: The Atlanta Federal Records Center in Ellenwood, GA; the National Archives at Riverside and the Riverside Federal Records Center at Perris, CA; the National Archives at Fort Worth and the Fort Worth Federal Records Center at Fort Worth, TX; and the National Personnel Records Center - Civilian Personnel Records in Valmeyer, IL. These Federal records centers are listed in 36 CFR 1253.4 and archival facilities are listed in 36 CFR 1253.5.
"Who knew?"
...because it isn't a NARA facility.
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Delete...and it isn't "leased" by them.
DeleteCorrect, it's leased by the GSA. Sort of what they do.
DeleteAs for proving it, it's simple. The Obama records aren't at any NARA facility owned or leased. So where are they?
DeleteThe classified records have been relocated to the National Archives at College Park, MD, to facilitate their review for declassification as part of the work by the National Declassification Center (established by President Obama via Executive Order 13526) and in keeping with recommendations of the Public Interest Declassification Board.
DeleteI noticed that none of the facilities you mentioned as "leased NARA facilities" were on Golf Road...
DeleteThe records aren't being kept in a facility leased by the GSA, for NARA use.....in a building at Hoffman Estates?
DeleteProve it.
btw - When did they get shipped to College Park?
DeleteBarack Obama Presidential Library
Delete2500 W. Golf Road, Hoffman Estates, IL 60169
Available services: Presidential Library
Not Open to the Public · Visit Website
https://www.archives.gov/locations
Prove it wrong.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obama-center/ct-obama-archives-to-hoffman-estates-20160531-story.html
DeleteWhy should Obama be in jail?
DeleteWhy can't you answer that?
As for proving it, NARA openly ADMITS it.
DeleteThe National Archives at Chicago and the Chicago Federal Records Center in Southwest Chicago, the current location of the Obama Library in the Hoffman Estates, and the future location of the Obama Center at Jackson Park (which will be a privately operated, non-federal organization, but will host a substantial number of items loaned by the National Archives) are all situated on the ancestral lands of several tribal nations: the Council of the Three Fires: the Odawa, Ojibwe Nations and the Potawatomi.
https://aotus.blogs.archives.gov/2021/10/05/acknowledging-our-history-naras-facilities-in-chicago/
The unclassified records and the artifacts will be stored in an existing NARA facility to be determined and the classified records have been moved to the National Archives at College Park, Maryland, where they will be reviewed for declassification by the National Declassification Center (established by President Obama in 2009 by Executive Order 13526).
Deletehttps://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/information-about-new-model-for-obama-presidential-library
Prove it wrong....don't just follow the script provided by dear leader.
Issue the warrant, and it'll be proved. Show me the man, I'll find the crime.
DeleteAdmits what?
DeleteNothing you've offered proves your baseless assertions.
So....as usual....you have nothing but the cult's talking points. No surprise. Thanks for playing!
Deletefrom your article:
Deletethe agency already is providing "courtesy storage" for some of Obama's presidential papers in a location he declined to disclose, though archivists can't yet dig into the boxes of documents.
Convenient, huh?
Are those where the mysterious "missing documents went?
DeleteHe = Mayor Bill McLeod, Hoffman Estates. Premier authority on all things presidential records.
Delete"Who knew?"
“The archivist in charge of transferring former President Barack Obama’s records into the National Archives has run across a serious problem, according to a report published Sunday: A lot of the records are missing.
Deletelol! more from your source...
DeletePrevious presidential collections have also been stored in temporary quarters before making a landing at their final destination. Bush 43's archives, which includes an estimated 200 million emails, 70 million pages of documents, 4 million photos and 43,000 artifacts, were shipped by truck and military-chartered air to a warehouse in Lewisville, Texas, before making the move to the library.
The archives of his father, President George H.W. Bush, found a temporary home in a strip mall space previously occupied by a bowling alley and a Chinese restaurant, Laster said. Bill Clinton's archives landed for a time in a former Oldsmobile dealership near his future library in Little Rock, Ark.
I wonder if GSA is leasing space at Mar-a-Lago... lol!
DeleteYou know you've got nothing, when you cite an unsubstantiated article from the Trumpy version of Raw Story.
DeleteEven you should be able to be better than that.
I know that the Secret Service most certainly is.
DeleteIndeed they do.
Deletefrom above source:
DeleteThe spin at that point was that Obama’s decision to opt out of a relationship with the National Archives was a good thing. It would allow Obama to escape several regulations set by NARA in terms of both the design and endowment of the library, among other things. Whether or not that was true — or whether or not this has anything to do with the former administration’s destruction of records — is anyone’s guess, although it certainly looks somewhat more suspicious in this light.
Should I call Merrick Garland and get the warrant started?
DeleteWe should start with locating the Susan Rice "Unmasking" documents... which are most certainly Classified.
DeletePlease do…..go ahead and give him a call. Let us know what he says.
DeleteBut thanks for spending time backing up my assertions and undermining your own. Makes it more entertaining.
Look for those at the College Park facility. Please keep up.
DeleteThe absolute worst thing that Russia could do to Europe is not sell them their gas, and then watch Europe slowly commit Eco-suicide with a ridiculous non-nuclear solar panel and windmill energy policy.
ReplyDeleteEurope is NOT worth America's blood and treasure because of the above. Europe did it to themselves. They're too stupid to survive beyond the 20th century.
ReplyDeleteWe can most definitely survive without the federal government. They just need to stop using lawfare against the American people to pick winners and losers in what should be a closed-border laissez-faire economic free for all. If minorities can't survive w/o government set asides, perhaps they deserve to live in poverty. Foreign born minorities seem to do perfectly well.
ReplyDeleteSavings? How does debt forgiveness create savings?
ReplyDeleteAs for the last, it sounds likes something Robert Reisch the Nobel prize winning economist would say... like the best thing our government could do is spend their money on a defense program against alien invasion from Mars.
ReplyDeleteWe are not Laputa even though most of our tech is developed at the Grand Academy at Lagado (DARPA).
DeleteAnti-facism + Anti-racism = Anti-MAGA
ReplyDeleteThe DNC has unified their "Theory for Hate"
ReplyDeleteAmerica would be perfect, but for the MAGA Jews.
ReplyDelete...and I'm a PROUD MAGA Jew!
ReplyDeleteA penny for the Goy.
DeleteDemocrats are determined to HATE MAGA and Trump until Tel Aviv is restored as Israel's capital...
ReplyDeleteStay tuned for the further adventures of MAGA Jew and his faithful sidekick Goy Boy, the bane of leftwing BDS progressives and neo-nazis everywhere!
DeleteThat was me ;-)
Delete:P
Deletebtw - You smell Orkish.
Deletelol
DeleteHa ha ha.... great quote in the bonus question. Here's a two-parter that's probably not so Yahoogable.
ReplyDelete1. Who in the 1938-1941 timeframe (and in his subsequent work) said of the late 20th and early 21st century predictive "Considerable technical advance during this period, accompanied by a gradual deterioration of mores, orientation, and social institutions, terminating in mass psychoses in the sixth decade, and the interregnum.” and
2. who in his analysis of it said:
"Craziness can be measured by maladaptive behavior. The behavior the society uses to solve one kind of problem, when applied to an incorrect category, disorients it. When this happens the whole society, even if some members are aware of the disorientation, cannot reach the correct conclusion, or react in a fashion that preserves society from harm. As if society were a dolphin that called itself a fish: when it suffered the sensation of drowning, it would dive. But a dolphin is a mammal, a member of a different category of being. When dolphins are low on air, they surface, rather than dive. Putting yourself in the wrong category leads to the wrong behavior."
Aldous Huxley?
DeleteI remember we used to play these games at work, and you always beat everybody at it.
Robert Heinlein
Delete"One need not visit a madhouse to observe disordered minds. Our planet is the insane asylum of the universe." - Goethe
DeleteSilver... Re Europe.
ReplyDeleteThere is a part of me who, as Jesse Jackson advocated in his 1988 candidacy for the presidency, believes Europe has, or should have all the firepower they need to defend themselves, at least against Russia.
Let them go to it.
However I'm sure there are a few more geopolitical thinkers out there who will say I'm nuts on this.
Most "geopolitical thinkers" have beshat themselves, so I'd say you're pretty sane.
DeleteSilver asked... "It's 12 years later. Can anyone use federal budget figures to demonstrate this savings?
ReplyDeleteCan anyone point to any politician's promise of "savings" that actually happened?"
No politician can point to any savings any program or lowering of the deficit those programs are claimed to bring us, and I doubt any politician can point to any line item that came in at, or under budget... especially when it comes to military funding.
Which is why we should not just take political pronouncements with a grain of salt, we should respond with derisive laughter and raspberries.
DeleteI don't know that Obama's plans for savings would have panned out, but I do know that the alarm Republicans had about the national debt rising by $8.6 Trillion after Obama's eight years was definitively silenced by Trump raising the national debt by $6.7 Trillion in a mere *four years.*
DeleteThe ancillary effects are there as well. Comrade Trump effectively nuked from orbit the redoubts and last vestiges of fiscal conservatism. The best rebuttal against being against runaway socialist spending sprees is now "shut up Trump voter."
Worst President America will ever have.
Reagan couldn't control spending. Nobody can. Its an out of control monster.
DeleteReagan at least used his veto power 78 times, mostly against spending and appropriations bills.
DeleteTrump didn't even try to "control the monster."
Not really much of a defense of Trump, but he did succumb to the government-sponsored covid hysteria. I wish our government had another plan to address problems besides "Shovel trillions at it!!!"
DeleteReagan put our nation on more competitive footing economically, but his record on debt is not good.
DeleteHis presidency marks the start of wild, irresponsible spending, other than fiscally-responsible Bill Clinton.
https://www.thebalance.com/national-debt-by-year-compared-to-gdp-and-major-events-3306287
There's always DeSantis (R)* or Hogan (R)*
Delete*Contains no Dangerous or Extremist MAGA Ingredients.
BTW, Biden's blood red ranting speech from hell looked like something out of the 1930's.
ReplyDeleteUsing US Marines as props is not a good look.
It's not, but it hasn't for ever other POTUS who has done likewise. Hell, I listened to what was a campaign speech by a certain POTUS, where the audience was 80-90% uniformed.
DeleteI read that's how he pissed off the CIA, speaking in front of their memorial wall, not honoring the moment, but turning it into a self-aggrandizing political speech.
DeleteYeah, the red was weird and doesn't seem to be sitting well....with, well.....anybody.
ReplyDeleteThe ranting speech however, was no different than the state of political speech for the last several years.
Yeah, and if the GOOP take back the House, its gonna be 2 solid years of posturing, "investigations," and neverending political BS.
DeleteNo matter who wins, We The People lose...
Exactly.
DeleteExactly...
Delete:P
DeleteAt least we have advance notice that "if" Republicans take back the House, we'll get to hear impeachment bills from a Congresswoman that the current Republican minority leadership is too embarrassed to give any committee assignments to.
DeleteIt's probably a good thing the Republican Party is tired of winning.
5 'impeachment' bills wasn't enough for her? I'd call her a one-trick pony....if it wasn't insulting to ponies.
DeleteI don't know. She is kind of facially equine.
DeleteI can hardly wait for the Deep State celebrations at Biden's 2029 Inaugural... course they'll probably just wheel in a wax dummy from Madam Trousseau's and no one will notice.
DeleteBiden may try to shake hands with invisible people, but at least he's not saluting North Korean generals responsible for executing dissidents with anti-aircraft cannons or gushing about love letters from Kim Jung-il. Take your pick, a socialist that's dumb as a bowl of oatmeal or a socialist that's as gay as a beauty contest host.
DeleteSurely there's better choices out there.
AT least we're still kicking the Russian's asses, huh!
Delete...and we all know that Mitch McConnell is a freakin' political genius!
DeleteSurely there's better choices out there.
DeleteNot from either of the two major parties. The two competing cults will see to that.
But I'll admit....you probably won't be able to find someone from the other side who will dry-hump the American flag.
DeleteI hope they dry cleaned it after.
You can literally see the IQ points hit the floor when Liz Wheeler strokes her blonde hair.
Delete"Oh my God, Mitch McConnell like totally gag me with a spoon! He totally stopped having Trump's back when we attacked the Capitol! That's way harsh man!"
How many votes do you think Mitch McConnell promised Joe Biden's party in return for Joe's delivery of his speech to/ for RINO candidate's running in 2022?
DeleteWait, what? Trump is not a political fundraising juggernaut?
Delete"Help us Mitch McConnell! You're our only hope!"
This is how stump dumb European 'leaders' are:
ReplyDeleteFirst, like a patsy sidekick, they go along with the US government's idiotic schemes.
Then this:
China Is Aggressively Reselling Russian Gas To Europe
This is literally Europe saying to Russia: We will no longer buy your filthy gas from you! We'll show you! We'll watch you sell it to China, and then buy it from them at an exorbitant markup!
They make Inspector Clouseau and the Three Stooges look like geniuses.
Joe Biden's greatest campaign speech (even better than the one he plagiarized from Neil Kinnock
ReplyDeleteTriumph of the Shrill
Zelenskyy in Ukraine should tweet out a photo of himself smoking a cigarette and wearing a Bayraktar drone T-Shirt in front of a map of Russian oil and gas pipelines running out of the Caspian Basin. Just for the lulz.
ReplyDeleteBecause ZeroHedge is the gold standard of Russian news and reporting. I mean, it’s almost as trustworthy as “because Trump said so”.
Delete...because Ukraine can still win the "propaganda war." BWAH!
DeleteAs Abe Lincoln once asked, "How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg?" The answer is four, because a tail is NOT a leg no matter what you call it.
Ukraine's counter-offensive is going well in the Hyper-real world of western media. On the ground, not so much. Zelensky is a great Television president. He's winning in hyperspace.
DeleteRonald,
DeleteThat little weak piece of logical fallacy was pathetic, even for you.
From the Financial Times (are they are Rooooskie propaganda outlet, too?)
"China throws Europe an energy lifeline with LNG resales."
Go wipe the egg off your face.
Ukrainian Offensive - Pushing 3 Penal battalions of untrained militia across a river and allowing RUSFOR to wipe them out.
DeleteThey'll have more flexibility after the election.
DeleteUkrainian Offensive
DeleteAnd again.......LOL
Ah, those imaginary eggs again. Who would’ve thunk it?
DeleteI’m not bigly into international trading but my understanding is that Russia cut natural gas supply to Europe and now China is reselling their surplus, a surplus resulting from their economic slowdown.
I don’t know what the ghost writers from the pro-COVID and Trump worshiping ZeroHedge are selling you but I’m sure it’s a
Site to behold.