Evidently Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College in NY is on the list; and rumor has it that by default, any students and graduates of Bard and its affiliate Simon’s Rock College in MA “made the list” in the recent past. Botstein has been outspoken about the current state of affairs.
It would seem surprising if they are considered assets by Trump. I noted that "Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, who refused to “find” the 11,780 votes" made the list.
Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert... Shame we can't know their response.
In-Q-Tel Corporation, which is owned by the CIA, gets 12 of its people on the honor roll. And RAND Corporation is mentioned 83 times, not surprising. But the Carnegie Endowment places no fewer than 51! What's with that?
I've seen Carnegie Endowment articles on former Soviet republics which are well outside the Putin-United Russia worldview. Guessing that's a significant factor.
News continues and we are fortunate that we can still speak and write the Truth. At least in some states. This morning in Politics news, Doris Kearns Goodwin: “We’ve gone way back in time with these book bans.” NAACP “issued a travel advisory for Florida over republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “aggressive attempts to erase Black History and to restrict diversity, equity and inclusion programs” in the state’s schools.. “ https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/naacp-warns-people-color-traveling-florida-rcna85478
It is scary stuff, Lynell. As long as certain citizens continue to vote for candidates and issues that they think keep them safe, but in reality are racist and are filling the pockets of corruption, we also are victims.
Thank you for the links. I was able to translate first to Español, then to English. Some version of alphabetical order. I haven’t read all of the names yet, but their rationale stands out, as well as this important statement about the detained journalist:
: “confirm that the request by the US Embassy in Moscow for a consular visit to journalist Evan Gershkovich, detained for espionage, is once again being denied in response to Washington's refusal to grant visas to Russian journalists, which prevented them from flying to New York to accompany Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during Russia's presidency of the UN Security Council.”
She did actually tell us on the letter from the 19th. That is also where you'll find a link to the full list. Either embedded in reader comments or maybe links at the end.
The names appear in English in parentheses on the Russian version of the website. Interestingly, this page does not exist on the English version of the website.
I searched repeatedly for the actual list on all the mainstream corporate media sites the web was showing reported on it. NOT ONE provided a link to the primary source...NOT ONE. Never found it until the subscriber here (Lynelle) provided that. Be thankful for independent journalism and Substack. Corrupt politicians hate both.
Google Translate does an excellent job from Russian to English on this document.
I'd rather be on Putin's list of banned American's than FBI/Twitter/Social Media
list of Americans political opponents.
This Trump deraignment syndrome on full display. Let me guess. Trump called Putin on his secret decoder ring.
I'd be a lot more worried about the way Biden administration is weaponizing the FBI/CIA/IRS against its own citizens.
Ask journalist Matt Tiabbi about the visit the IRS paid him at home the day of his testimony before Congress on the Twitter files.
Ask Carter Page what it was like to be spied on by the FBI who admitted to forging a document and providing the unverified Steele dossier, who they failed to mention this source was the Clinton Campaign when they applied to the FISA court for warrants.
Or how about the folks Michigan who were accused of plotting to kill Gretchen Witmer? I guess the jury didn't care much for the FBI undercover agents who kept provoking them. They were all acquitted.
Or how the churchgoers or PTA attendees who were under FBI surveillance?
Or how the all the FBI and CIA agents who flushed their reputation down the toilet
and signed a letter claiming the Biden Laptop was Russian disinformation. Not only did the FBI have the laptop for over a year, they had the receipt from the repair store with Hunter's signature, and no one family ever denied it was Hunter's. Of course long after the election was over all the major media outlets admitted the laptop was Hunters.
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that they became aware of group chats on social media in early 2020 threatening to conduct the violent overthrow of state governments and law enforcement.[44][76] A U.S. Army veteran, Dan Chappel, had joined the group but became concerned about their use of a hunting app that could be used to track the addresses of police officers. He informed a friend and a local officer from an unidentified police department in Michigan, who then relayed the concerns to the FBI. During the initial investigation of social media chats, the FBI said that they encountered Barry Croft and Adam Fox. The FBI then interviewed Chappel, who agreed to become a confidential source after they raised concerns that there were plans to kill officers.[68][76][99]
According to many of the plotters, as detailed in a report by BuzzFeed News, their first meetings were arranged by someone who turned out to be a longtime government informant from Wisconsin, who paid for hotel rooms and food as incentives.[99] On March 30, Pete Musico, a co-founder of the Wolverine Watchmen, made a comment about placing Whitmer under citizen's arrest and numerous other statements on tape that prosecutors later said had indicated "a violent intent".[102]
James, I do not want paramilitary groups to be operating in such a way that they can kidnap a governor, detain her, even kill her. This is activity that law enforcement organizations ought to be monitoring.
Ari Melber’s recent show demonstrated how Faux was still spinning the news on the nothing-burger Durham report. Drink your covfefe and do some reading.
Who, prefix, first name, last name, suffix if they have them? “People” is the sort of vagueness that causes trouble here. Actual people or corporate people? Ugh. Simple communication or weasel talk?
I see you spend a lot of time down rabbit holes. Try connecting with some actual news in the real world. Come up out of the poisonous, hate-filled conspiracy theories that will end up completely destroying you if you continue to marinate in them.
This guy loves to provoke. Why else would someone keep commenting on a more liberal site, other than to get attention? That so many conservatives are against equality and decent lives for all is sad, but what's even worse is that they are willing to say it out loud. They apparently have no shame.
Yes. Although I would suggest it's all fueled by fear. The Republican propaganda machine has been very effective in triggering many people's fear. Fear of difference, fear of being "replaced" fear of being expected to behave decently toward others.
You can't cite a single example of ANYTHING I said that was untrue. You can't because its all public record. Instead you just look like a fool hurling empty insults.
I know truth isn't a left wing value. It never has been.
People just did cite examples of things you posted that are untrue, James. I think your last sentence applied much more to you than to anyone else on the thread.
James, I'm really tired of your posts, and your partisan interpretation of documents and events. The Durham Report! Hunter's Laptop! You left out Hillary's E-Mails!!
PTA members being surveilled by the CIA? That's pretty vague, guy. Were they surveilled because they were in the PTA, or for some other reason? Why do you think they were surveilled?
I've never figured out why I should care whether or not some laptop was once owned by Pres. Biden's son, especially since it is also undisputed that the computer was out of Hunter's possession for an unknown period of time before it was handed to Republican political operatives who when shopped it to news organizations. Do you object to Hunters employment with Burisma or his taste in porn?
Frankly, I wish you'd redraft your list of complaints into a form easier to address. Like, why would I ask Carter Page anything? And why should I trust Matt Taibbi on anything? As for the latter, the fact that Musk chose him as his Twitter-leak tool, which never actually proved anything that I could tell, damages Taibbi's credibility pretty severely, imho.
James, I do not doubt that have gathered an assortment of facts, that, alone and lacking full context can imply a certain level of official corruption in US government institutions. Such concern and skepticism is valid in upholding accountability.
However, it appears that your collection is a grab-bag of right wing talking points in an effort to try to stave off a huge volume of facts fully presented within current and historical context by HCR and other respected journalists.
And all of your efforts appear to deliberately ignore the flood of revelations presented against the previous Trump administration and current GOP.
As a recovering Reagan Republican but now Democrat, let me encourage you to continue pointing out the “splinters in our party’s eye” so that we can correct them in the spirit of effective democracy. But please remove the “log in your own party’s eye” so that you can properly see the whole picture.
HCR post reads like "While Rome burned Nero fiddled"
To appear on a list on Putin enemies, when the FBI is weaponizing the legal against political opponents is near sighted.
Its indisputable that the Clinton campaigned cooked up the "Putin & Trump connection.
CIA director John Brennan brief Obama/Biden on it in July 2016. Its also indisputable that know one in the intelligence had much faith in Christopher Steele, his sub source Igor Dyachenko or the dossier. They offer Steele $1MM to verify, he couldn't. They paid Dyachenko $300K and he couldn't. Yet they proceeded anyway leak the dossier to the media.
No one in the elite media would touch it, back when there were still journalistic standards under Buzz Feed finally published it. The FBI knew the dossier was garbage when opened "Operation Crossfire Hurricane". The knew its source was the Clinton campaign, and that the dossier was unverified when they went to court and materially lied.
James, I was admittedly generalizing on your overall approach. Your specific comments on the weaponization of the FBI against conservatives on the surface is a bit rich considering the current flailing efforts and questionable conduct of Gym Jordan’s House committee on the topic of weaponization. The Durham report does Not have much substance, but evidently is fueling much unsubstantiated Fox News and other rightist media claims that the Durham report has some significant evidence beyond what the Inspector General’s report described.
Rather than try to refute point by point of your weaponization allegations, check out Charles Savage’s defense of his journalistic credentials on his NYT column against a rather reckless assault by conservative WaPo columnist Marc Thiessen. In my view, your concerns on this topic align quite closely with Mr. Thiessen who also apparently fudged the accuracy of his analysis while slamming Mr. Savage’s column. I refer you to the following link rather than me trying to “re-invent the wheel” that Mr,. Savage so well documents! I use the threadreader app to save some headache in tying his tweets together…
What does the Steele Dossier have to do with current events? Aren’t we talking about the “Freedom to Fiddle While Rome Burned” Caucus hypocritically trying to manipulate Biden with a manufactured problem? Try to keep up!
Ha! As an old (er, elderly) activist from the anti-Vietnam war days, it is almost an honor to be on the FBI's watch list. They watch over most of us, especially if we post politically oriented posts of either side. No worries.
You are correct. I was incorrect in stating that they had all been acquitted. The first trial was
a hung jury for all involved and there were major concerns about FBI undercover agents prompting the plan.
Three were convicted.
The truth isn't a rant. This however doesn't change my overall point which that the FBI has been weaponized against American citizens by the Biden administration.
So the FBI shouldn't investigate people who are espousing actions that subvert democracy, push white supremacy, Christian nationslism just because they're citizens? That's like a mob boss griping about police interference.
Who is subverting democracy? The FBI? When they open phony investigations, lie to the FISA court, forge documents? When they break the law? Censor citizens?
Who are the white supremacists? PTA parents? Church goers?
This question mark thing just makes your posts hard to read and makes you appear wishy-washy. Try this for a technique: Make a statement of fact, state why you think it's important, then cite a source for you "fact." It's easy. Try it. It's not even that hard.
Someone who asks Putin to commit a cyber crime and find those email belonging to Clinton?
Someone who tries to shake down another country's president by withholding weapons already approved by Congress?
Or maybe it's the guy who begged a state secretary to find him enough votes to turn his election loss to a win, regardless of the voters' wishes?
How about one who keeps lying about losing an election?
Or is it someone who ignores the fact that the Durham investigation just concluded without finding more than a good reason to whine about the mean FBI, having obtained zero convictions of minor players at trial, while also ignoring that the FBI agreed that information provided to the FISA commission was "overzealous" and have corrected their procedures?
How about Trump operatives who pled guilty of lying about Russian connections (and then pardoned by the former p***sy grabber in chief?
Your mention of PTA and church goers are code words for bullshit culture war issues based on isolated cases and inflated risks.
Go have a look at his substack newsletter. You'll see what he's about, right in the banner. He thinks TFG is a dandy "savior" for the USA. "James A" isn't as vitriolic as most of the trolls have been, but don't let the mild-mannered spread of oleaginous mis- and disinformation fool you.
I really wish we had a way to block these trolls from LFAA.
No need to block. Just remember remember their name, and there’s no need to read their posts, because they’re always the same. No responses and they go elsewhere. They thrive on engagement; ergo “don’t feed the trolls”
At least he doesn't write in all caps. I see that he describes himself as an "intellectual" on his substack page, although his output is very poor. If he wants to be an intelligent player for the Right on this Board, I wish he'd pick up his pace. Hey, James! Do you think you could cite a source now and then? Write something verifiable, preferably without relying on question marks and innuendo, and you'll get my respect, that's for sure. This country is dying for the lack of right-wing believers who are willing to stand up and state why they support their beliefs without resorting to name calling, religion, and violence.
How modest of Dr. HCR to not mention that she was also on Putin's list of banned Americans. Congratulations on being deemed an enemy of autocracy.
Evidently Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College in NY is on the list; and rumor has it that by default, any students and graduates of Bard and its affiliate Simon’s Rock College in MA “made the list” in the recent past. Botstein has been outspoken about the current state of affairs.
I am making a Tee shirt that says, I Have Proudly Added Myself To The List. Or maybe another one which reads, I May Not Be Sane, But I'm No Mad MAGA.
Michael, where is access to the actual list?
Hey, Ed. After clicking on the link, you may have to pause to get a translation into English.
https://www.mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1871495/
Heather is Number 317 on the list!
Thanks. I did a translation and found our own Attorney General is # 60 on the list too, along with our Governor and one member of the Colorado House.
Gee, kind of a roundabout Nobel Prize for Statecraft.
Surprisingly there are about 20 Republicans on that list too, mostly at state level.
It would seem surprising if they are considered assets by Trump. I noted that "Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, who refused to “find” the 11,780 votes" made the list.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is also on the list. ?????
Lots of people from the Rand Corporation?
Marvelous!!
Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert... Shame we can't know their response.
In-Q-Tel Corporation, which is owned by the CIA, gets 12 of its people on the honor roll. And RAND Corporation is mentioned 83 times, not surprising. But the Carnegie Endowment places no fewer than 51! What's with that?
Brookings Institute made the hit list a number of times. Dr Fiona Hill, as expected made the list.
I was looking for my name with the description, " that loudmouth from LFAA. 🤣
I've seen Carnegie Endowment articles on former Soviet republics which are well outside the Putin-United Russia worldview. Guessing that's a significant factor.
Makes me even more proud of Phil Weiser!
ED Nuhfer, Hip Hip Hurray for COLORADO! (My voting state -- I live in Canada.)
Not Senator Bennet?
News continues and we are fortunate that we can still speak and write the Truth. At least in some states. This morning in Politics news, Doris Kearns Goodwin: “We’ve gone way back in time with these book bans.” NAACP “issued a travel advisory for Florida over republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “aggressive attempts to erase Black History and to restrict diversity, equity and inclusion programs” in the state’s schools.. “ https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/naacp-warns-people-color-traveling-florida-rcna85478
Scary stuff, Irenie.
It is scary stuff, Lynell. As long as certain citizens continue to vote for candidates and issues that they think keep them safe, but in reality are racist and are filling the pockets of corruption, we also are victims.
Because truth-tellers, journalists, educators, and scholars are "enemies of the people."
Agree, Lasley.
She's listed as "Professor at Boston College", "профессор Бостонского колледжа".
Thank you for the links. I was able to translate first to Español, then to English. Some version of alphabetical order. I haven’t read all of the names yet, but their rationale stands out, as well as this important statement about the detained journalist:
: “confirm that the request by the US Embassy in Moscow for a consular visit to journalist Evan Gershkovich, detained for espionage, is once again being denied in response to Washington's refusal to grant visas to Russian journalists, which prevented them from flying to New York to accompany Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during Russia's presidency of the UN Security Council.”
Thanks for digging deeper, Irenie. This info is not surprising when taken in context.
Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Myers, and Stephen Colbert walk into bar...
If only!
Seriously?!!!
Liz, yes that surprised me.
Really...on the list?
Yup.
She did actually tell us on the letter from the 19th. That is also where you'll find a link to the full list. Either embedded in reader comments or maybe links at the end.
As Featured in the Newsletter Putin Doesn't Want You to Read!
Yesterday someone here posted the link with the names transliterated into English.
The names appear in English in parentheses on the Russian version of the website. Interestingly, this page does not exist on the English version of the website.
I searched repeatedly for the actual list on all the mainstream corporate media sites the web was showing reported on it. NOT ONE provided a link to the primary source...NOT ONE. Never found it until the subscriber here (Lynelle) provided that. Be thankful for independent journalism and Substack. Corrupt politicians hate both.
Google Translate does an excellent job from Russian to English on this document.
I'd rather be on Putin's list of banned American's than FBI/Twitter/Social Media
list of Americans political opponents.
This Trump deraignment syndrome on full display. Let me guess. Trump called Putin on his secret decoder ring.
I'd be a lot more worried about the way Biden administration is weaponizing the FBI/CIA/IRS against its own citizens.
Ask journalist Matt Tiabbi about the visit the IRS paid him at home the day of his testimony before Congress on the Twitter files.
Ask Carter Page what it was like to be spied on by the FBI who admitted to forging a document and providing the unverified Steele dossier, who they failed to mention this source was the Clinton Campaign when they applied to the FISA court for warrants.
Or how about the folks Michigan who were accused of plotting to kill Gretchen Witmer? I guess the jury didn't care much for the FBI undercover agents who kept provoking them. They were all acquitted.
Or how the churchgoers or PTA attendees who were under FBI surveillance?
Or how the all the FBI and CIA agents who flushed their reputation down the toilet
and signed a letter claiming the Biden Laptop was Russian disinformation. Not only did the FBI have the laptop for over a year, they had the receipt from the repair store with Hunter's signature, and no one family ever denied it was Hunter's. Of course long after the election was over all the major media outlets admitted the laptop was Hunters.
And the band plays on....
James, who pays you, and why do they bother?
Pro tip: don’t feed the trolls
This is becoming a sad trend. No one disputes a single word I write. Why? Because its public record and FACTUALLY true.
Why did I bother? Because the truth matters.
That may seem strange to you because truth is not a left wing value, power is.
FROM the Wikipedia website for Gretchen Whitmer:
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that they became aware of group chats on social media in early 2020 threatening to conduct the violent overthrow of state governments and law enforcement.[44][76] A U.S. Army veteran, Dan Chappel, had joined the group but became concerned about their use of a hunting app that could be used to track the addresses of police officers. He informed a friend and a local officer from an unidentified police department in Michigan, who then relayed the concerns to the FBI. During the initial investigation of social media chats, the FBI said that they encountered Barry Croft and Adam Fox. The FBI then interviewed Chappel, who agreed to become a confidential source after they raised concerns that there were plans to kill officers.[68][76][99]
According to many of the plotters, as detailed in a report by BuzzFeed News, their first meetings were arranged by someone who turned out to be a longtime government informant from Wisconsin, who paid for hotel rooms and food as incentives.[99] On March 30, Pete Musico, a co-founder of the Wolverine Watchmen, made a comment about placing Whitmer under citizen's arrest and numerous other statements on tape that prosecutors later said had indicated "a violent intent".[102]
James, I do not want paramilitary groups to be operating in such a way that they can kidnap a governor, detain her, even kill her. This is activity that law enforcement organizations ought to be monitoring.
Bwahahahahahahaha!!!
I just did dispute you.
🤣🤣🤣. I do respect your transparency, James.
Yes, transparency right through the brain. Ah, James A. Turn off Faux and pay attention. Wittmer’s plotters all went to jail on a second trial. Ringleader Croft got almost 20 years in prison. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/us/barry-croft-michigan-sentencing.html
Ari Melber’s recent show demonstrated how Faux was still spinning the news on the nothing-burger Durham report. Drink your covfefe and do some reading.
So, I will ask you again, “Who pays you?”
People who love truth.
Who, prefix, first name, last name, suffix if they have them? “People” is the sort of vagueness that causes trouble here. Actual people or corporate people? Ugh. Simple communication or weasel talk?
I see you spend a lot of time down rabbit holes. Try connecting with some actual news in the real world. Come up out of the poisonous, hate-filled conspiracy theories that will end up completely destroying you if you continue to marinate in them.
This guy loves to provoke. Why else would someone keep commenting on a more liberal site, other than to get attention? That so many conservatives are against equality and decent lives for all is sad, but what's even worse is that they are willing to say it out loud. They apparently have no shame.
They clearly have no shame. Nor any consideration for other people. It's all poison and hatred.
Yes. Although I would suggest it's all fueled by fear. The Republican propaganda machine has been very effective in triggering many people's fear. Fear of difference, fear of being "replaced" fear of being expected to behave decently toward others.
You can't cite a single example of ANYTHING I said that was untrue. You can't because its all public record. Instead you just look like a fool hurling empty insults.
I know truth isn't a left wing value. It never has been.
People just did cite examples of things you posted that are untrue, James. I think your last sentence applied much more to you than to anyone else on the thread.
Cite what you disagree with?
The premise is still true. The FBI has the Durham report, Mueller Report, IG Report, et cetera
acted in a partisan manner to affect the election, The Trump presidency, Hunter Biden laptop, and is still going on.
You dispute this?
James, I'm really tired of your posts, and your partisan interpretation of documents and events. The Durham Report! Hunter's Laptop! You left out Hillary's E-Mails!!
Not worth a reply.
PTA members being surveilled by the CIA? That's pretty vague, guy. Were they surveilled because they were in the PTA, or for some other reason? Why do you think they were surveilled?
I've never figured out why I should care whether or not some laptop was once owned by Pres. Biden's son, especially since it is also undisputed that the computer was out of Hunter's possession for an unknown period of time before it was handed to Republican political operatives who when shopped it to news organizations. Do you object to Hunters employment with Burisma or his taste in porn?
Frankly, I wish you'd redraft your list of complaints into a form easier to address. Like, why would I ask Carter Page anything? And why should I trust Matt Taibbi on anything? As for the latter, the fact that Musk chose him as his Twitter-leak tool, which never actually proved anything that I could tell, damages Taibbi's credibility pretty severely, imho.
James, I do not doubt that have gathered an assortment of facts, that, alone and lacking full context can imply a certain level of official corruption in US government institutions. Such concern and skepticism is valid in upholding accountability.
However, it appears that your collection is a grab-bag of right wing talking points in an effort to try to stave off a huge volume of facts fully presented within current and historical context by HCR and other respected journalists.
And all of your efforts appear to deliberately ignore the flood of revelations presented against the previous Trump administration and current GOP.
As a recovering Reagan Republican but now Democrat, let me encourage you to continue pointing out the “splinters in our party’s eye” so that we can correct them in the spirit of effective democracy. But please remove the “log in your own party’s eye” so that you can properly see the whole picture.
Be specific?
HCR post reads like "While Rome burned Nero fiddled"
To appear on a list on Putin enemies, when the FBI is weaponizing the legal against political opponents is near sighted.
Its indisputable that the Clinton campaigned cooked up the "Putin & Trump connection.
CIA director John Brennan brief Obama/Biden on it in July 2016. Its also indisputable that know one in the intelligence had much faith in Christopher Steele, his sub source Igor Dyachenko or the dossier. They offer Steele $1MM to verify, he couldn't. They paid Dyachenko $300K and he couldn't. Yet they proceeded anyway leak the dossier to the media.
No one in the elite media would touch it, back when there were still journalistic standards under Buzz Feed finally published it. The FBI knew the dossier was garbage when opened "Operation Crossfire Hurricane". The knew its source was the Clinton campaign, and that the dossier was unverified when they went to court and materially lied.
it goes on and on....
James, I was admittedly generalizing on your overall approach. Your specific comments on the weaponization of the FBI against conservatives on the surface is a bit rich considering the current flailing efforts and questionable conduct of Gym Jordan’s House committee on the topic of weaponization. The Durham report does Not have much substance, but evidently is fueling much unsubstantiated Fox News and other rightist media claims that the Durham report has some significant evidence beyond what the Inspector General’s report described.
Rather than try to refute point by point of your weaponization allegations, check out Charles Savage’s defense of his journalistic credentials on his NYT column against a rather reckless assault by conservative WaPo columnist Marc Thiessen. In my view, your concerns on this topic align quite closely with Mr. Thiessen who also apparently fudged the accuracy of his analysis while slamming Mr. Savage’s column. I refer you to the following link rather than me trying to “re-invent the wheel” that Mr,. Savage so well documents! I use the threadreader app to save some headache in tying his tweets together…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1659536184366735370.html
What does the Steele Dossier have to do with current events? Aren’t we talking about the “Freedom to Fiddle While Rome Burned” Caucus hypocritically trying to manipulate Biden with a manufactured problem? Try to keep up!
Ha! As an old (er, elderly) activist from the anti-Vietnam war days, it is almost an honor to be on the FBI's watch list. They watch over most of us, especially if we post politically oriented posts of either side. No worries.
James the Agitator strikes again! Glad we all have a sense of humor!
https://www.reuters.com/legal/michigan-jury-finds-three-men-guilty-plot-kidnap-governor-2022-10-26/
Make an attempt to get your facts straight in your rants, James
You are correct. I was incorrect in stating that they had all been acquitted. The first trial was
a hung jury for all involved and there were major concerns about FBI undercover agents prompting the plan.
Three were convicted.
The truth isn't a rant. This however doesn't change my overall point which that the FBI has been weaponized against American citizens by the Biden administration.
So the FBI shouldn't investigate people who are espousing actions that subvert democracy, push white supremacy, Christian nationslism just because they're citizens? That's like a mob boss griping about police interference.
Who is subverting democracy? The FBI? When they open phony investigations, lie to the FISA court, forge documents? When they break the law? Censor citizens?
Who are the white supremacists? PTA parents? Church goers?
Are we prosecuting Catholics?
This question mark thing just makes your posts hard to read and makes you appear wishy-washy. Try this for a technique: Make a statement of fact, state why you think it's important, then cite a source for you "fact." It's easy. Try it. It's not even that hard.
Who IS subverting democracy? Hmmm.
Someone who asks Putin to commit a cyber crime and find those email belonging to Clinton?
Someone who tries to shake down another country's president by withholding weapons already approved by Congress?
Or maybe it's the guy who begged a state secretary to find him enough votes to turn his election loss to a win, regardless of the voters' wishes?
How about one who keeps lying about losing an election?
Or is it someone who ignores the fact that the Durham investigation just concluded without finding more than a good reason to whine about the mean FBI, having obtained zero convictions of minor players at trial, while also ignoring that the FBI agreed that information provided to the FISA commission was "overzealous" and have corrected their procedures?
How about Trump operatives who pled guilty of lying about Russian connections (and then pardoned by the former p***sy grabber in chief?
Your mention of PTA and church goers are code words for bullshit culture war issues based on isolated cases and inflated risks.
This is the last response you'll get from me.
Go have a look at his substack newsletter. You'll see what he's about, right in the banner. He thinks TFG is a dandy "savior" for the USA. "James A" isn't as vitriolic as most of the trolls have been, but don't let the mild-mannered spread of oleaginous mis- and disinformation fool you.
I really wish we had a way to block these trolls from LFAA.
No need to block. Just remember remember their name, and there’s no need to read their posts, because they’re always the same. No responses and they go elsewhere. They thrive on engagement; ergo “don’t feed the trolls”
At least he doesn't write in all caps. I see that he describes himself as an "intellectual" on his substack page, although his output is very poor. If he wants to be an intelligent player for the Right on this Board, I wish he'd pick up his pace. Hey, James! Do you think you could cite a source now and then? Write something verifiable, preferably without relying on question marks and innuendo, and you'll get my respect, that's for sure. This country is dying for the lack of right-wing believers who are willing to stand up and state why they support their beliefs without resorting to name calling, religion, and violence.
Intellectual?
His self-description, not mine, although I get the impression that he ruminates a lot. (A curse I recognize all too well.)
Ah. I get it. He’s really a cow.
Michael Biales-See her letter from the 19th-should you delete this inaccurate comment?
It’s a badge of honor. She’s in good company.
Ryan Zinke is on the list. Perhaps he and Huckabee didn’t kiss TFG’s lard butt enough after they left the administration.
It's like someone not mentioning that they were on Nixon's enemies list