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Chula Vista 09-29-2018 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2001185)
Nah, I think you are the one lacking comprehension here.

People talk.

Junior, you've already determined that the FBI will find nothing new.

Junior, you missed the fact that they don't investigate anyone's years prior to the age of 18.

Junior, what's your address? I want to send you a gift.

https://i.etsystatic.com/10106920/r/...84094_to62.jpg

Anteater 09-29-2018 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 2001193)
Junior, you've already determined that the FBI will find nothing new.

Junior, you missed the fact that they don't investigate anyone's years prior to the age of 18.

Junior, what's your address? I want to send you a gift.

https://i.etsystatic.com/10106920/r/...84094_to62.jpg

I didn't miss them. You just aren't making observations based on how people actually communicate in the real world, especially since he allegedly continued these behaviors well into his college years. People talk. Do you think the FBI just asked his former classmates back in 1993, 1997 and the early 00's what his favorite color was over and over again? Come on now.

To give you some perspective, Blasey Ford supposedly only mentioned to one or two friends that she sent a letter to Feinstein and then those friends ended up going straight to the media, which is allegedly how Ford's identity was exposed in the first place. When juicy stuff is floating around, that information tends to make it out into the greater conversation. In regards to sex parties and some of the stuff Avenatti has gone over in his clients' allegations, it just seems too far outside reality that nobody would have talked to someone in the media or the FBI prior to 2018, even if they only heard it secondhand. That all this stuff is only showing up now tells me something is off.

The Batlord 09-29-2018 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2001191)
Ad hominem. I don't like the FBI, but I never disagreed with their findings about Russia (for example).

I've said it before and I'll say it again: if an investigation against Trump unearths legitimate (and not assumed) evidence of collusion, he should be impeached. It doesn't matter to me if he's President or not.

You'd never acknowledge it so this is a meaningless statement.

Anteater 09-29-2018 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by 66Sexy (Post 2001204)
You'd never acknowledge it so this is a meaningless statement.

Having a nuanced view of something means you have to acknowledge contradictory ideas within any given scenario. The world is a messy place and so are people. Everyone's a hypocrite to some degree as well, and responsibility tends to not be taken when it should. The question is, what are you comfortable living with versus what you won't tolerate? I can tolerate Trump and still be fine with him going down in flames if that's what ends up happening to him.

rostasi 09-29-2018 02:22 PM

I'm only gonna say just so much about this,
'cause my personal dealings aren't anyone's
business here, but the way it works is this:

If the agents visited the BK lounge for the first time back in 1993,
they would've asked him for personal friend references plus employers.
The friends would've certainly not been ones who would've said
"Yeah, he was a stinkin' mean-ass drunk all of the time."
No, you provide the people's names you trust will give you a good ref.
Other people will be checked - family, neighbors, and everything I said
in a previous post about professional connections.

Then, every five years afterwards, there's a followup - but only a followup.
Meaning that they are looking for any deviations from the initial review.
Did you suddenly come into a large amount of money during these years?
Are you suddenly taking more trips overseas than what matches your previous
years leading up to your initial review? ...and so on. The followups, if all
appears normal, take less than a half-hour - usually filled with happy chat
(usually done, I'm convinced, to see how you're doing mentally) that ends with
a handshake and a goodbye. So, all of this crap about 5 or 6 times of heavy
vetting is more than likely nonsense. If his original review was in 1993, then,
more than likely he had follow-ups in 1998, 2003, 2008, 2013, and now 2018.
There can be some bending of years, but the average time for review is 5 years.

What I'm curious about - and I'm sure the FBI would like to have enough time to investigate -
is what happened that led to BK being able to suddenly pay off, only recently,
some massive debts he accrued. This falls under one of the questions I
mentioned earlier that's a red flag for these agents on your 5-year.

OccultHawk 09-29-2018 02:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 2001193)
Junior, you've already determined that the FBI will find nothing new.

Junior, you missed the fact that they don't investigate anyone's years prior to the age of 18.

Junior, what's your address? I want to send you a gift.

https://i.etsystatic.com/10106920/r/...84094_to62.jpg

Dafuq?

Cuthbert 09-29-2018 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by occulthawk (Post 2001211)
dafuq?

:d

windsock 09-29-2018 02:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 2001193)
Junior, you've already determined that the FBI will find nothing new.

Junior, you missed the fact that they don't investigate anyone's years prior to the age of 18.

Junior, what's your address? I want to send you a gift.

https://i.etsystatic.com/10106920/r/...84094_to62.jpg

The condescension levels here have broken the Richter scale.

rostasi 09-29-2018 02:56 PM

http://tinyimg.io/i/lxtmV7H.jpg

Lucem Ferre 09-29-2018 03:09 PM

I've read the FBI's chapter on juggalos for the national gang assessment. I know how incompetent the FBI can be.

[MERIT] 09-29-2018 03:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2001055)
Two cities were razed by a tsunami in Indonesia but how can that possibly compete for news time when a rich woman was dry humped 40 years ago?

#QuotedForTruth


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Originally Posted by 66Sexy (Post 2001138)
Sexual assault is notoriously hard to prove unless the victim immediately goes to the police and gets a rape kit, so after nearly four decades it wouldn't be surprising if an unreported near rape didn't come up on the FBI's radar. TBH I'd be kinda surprised if they did uncover anything.

^ This.

Quote:

Originally Posted by rostasi (Post 2001210)
I'm only gonna say just so much about this,
'cause my personal dealings aren't anyone's
business here, but the way it works is this:

If the agents visited the BK lounge for the first time back in 1993,
they would've asked him for personal friend references plus employers.
The friends would've certainly not been ones who would've said
"Yeah, he was a stinkin' mean-ass drunk all of the time."
No, you provide the people's names you trust will give you a good ref.
Other people will be checked - family, neighbors, and everything I said
in a previous post about professional connections.

Then, every five years afterwards, there's a followup - but only a followup.
Meaning that they are looking for any deviations from the initial review.
Did you suddenly come into a large amount of money during these years?
Are you suddenly taking more trips overseas than what matches your previous
years leading up to your initial review? ...and so on. The followups, if all
appears normal, take less than a half-hour - usually filled with happy chat
(usually done, I'm convinced, to see how you're doing mentally) that ends with
a handshake and a goodbye. So, all of this crap about 5 or 6 times of heavy
vetting is more than likely nonsense. If his original review was in 1993, then,
more than likely he had follow-ups in 1998, 2003, 2008, 2013, and now 2018.
There can be some bending of years, but the average time for review is 5 years.

What I'm curious about - and I'm sure the FBI would like to have enough time to investigate -
is what happened that led to BK being able to suddenly pay off, only recently,
some massive debts he accrued. This falls under one of the questions I
mentioned earlier that's a red flag for these agents on your 5-year.

Why do you format your posts to make them look like song lyrics?

Quote:

Originally Posted by rostasi (Post 2001219)

This photo is actually a double entendre, because the "Richter" Scale was mentioned, and because Andy Richter says that his wife having an abortion is the best thing they ever did.

OccultHawk 09-29-2018 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by rostasi (Post 2001219)

Who’s this moron?

[MERIT] 09-29-2018 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2001232)
Who’s this moron?

Conan O'Brien's sidekick.

windsock 09-29-2018 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2001232)
Who’s this moron?

A failed Patton Oswalt clone.

WWWP 09-29-2018 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre (Post 2001226)
I've read the FBI's chapter on juggalos for the national gang assessment. I know how incompetent the FBI can be.

Lmao

The Batlord 09-29-2018 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by wolverinewolfweiselpigeon (Post 2001248)
Lmao

It really is dumb though. They're juggalos. How are they a gang? It's like McCarthy is still alive and his wife still isn't ****ing him.

Lucem Ferre 09-29-2018 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by 66Sexy (Post 2001251)
It really is dumb though. They're juggalos. How are they a gang? It's like McCarthy is still alive and his wife still isn't ****ing him.

Not just that, I can understand misunderstanding it as a gang since a lot of retard juggalos tag things and call themselves a family and stupid **** like that. It's just what they put into the gang assessment was really really stupid and shows that they have no idea what they are talking about.

OccultHawk 09-29-2018 05:05 PM

They call juggalos a gang so they can **** with groups of minorities that aren’t really gangs either.

WWWP 09-29-2018 06:53 PM

^ for sure

The Batlord 09-29-2018 06:59 PM

If MB gets classified as a gang I'm supporting it and will plan bank robberies and ****.

Lisnaholic 09-29-2018 08:15 PM

Instead of all the passionate conjecture about FBI investigations, why don't we just wait and see how it advances? Rostasi is the only poster who has contributed some detail that has the ring of first-hand truth to it. He is understandably coy about saying how he knows this. My guess: the FBI checked him out before he was seconded to work for MI5 alongside James Bond.

Those Thursday hearings:-

They're not a trial, many people have said, they are Kavanaugh's job interview. If that's the case, Kavanaugh failed spectacularly by:-

i) raising the irrelevant topic of his daughter's prayers and then weeping about them
ii) claiming to be exhonorated by witnesses who don't remember. It's a glaring failure in a judge if he can't grasp that there is a distinction between "That person doesn't remember" and "That event didn't happen."
iii) evading and ultimately declining to answer certain questions.
iv) ranting about a partisan conspiracy dating back to the Clinton era
v) calling the commitee process "a circus"

In trying to defend his suitability for the Supreme Court he actually exposed just how unsuitable he is. If this was indeed a job interview I wouldn't give the job to someone who was by turns maudline, self-pitying, partisan and belligerent , I'd give the job to a candidate who was polite, cooperative and respectful throughout: Dr. Ford.

Anteater 09-29-2018 08:18 PM

Everyone knows there's only one gang out there the FBI is really lookin' for.

https://i0.wp.com/thesparksv.com/wp-...08%2C414&ssl=1

Chula Vista 09-29-2018 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 2001325)
I wouldn't give the job to someone who was by turns maudlin, self-pitying, partisan and belligerent.

Indeed. If nothing else, the next week is going to allow people to go back and watch his "performance" again. In hindsight it was worse than seeing it in real time.

This is priceless (sorry if it's already been posted)


OccultHawk 09-30-2018 02:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 2001342)
Indeed. If nothing else, the next week is going to allow people to go back and watch his "performance" again. In hindsight it was worse than seeing it in real time.

This is priceless (sorry if it's already been posted)


****

I wish that were 20 minutes longer

Lisnaholic 10-01-2018 05:30 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2001055)
Two cities were razed by a tsunami in Indonesia but how can that possibly compete for news time when a rich woman was dry humped 40 years ago?

^ I thought of this post this morning when I read the following in the autobiog of a guy called Jeremy Bowen, who worked as a BBC war correspondent for many years:-

Quote:

A traditional British newsroom follows a terrible arithmatic. Generally speaking, the furthur away from London, and the poorer the people, the more deaths it takes to qualify as a big story. In 1991 a cyclone hit Bangladesh. The first reports said that around 10,000 people had been killed. I was put on standby to go, in case it turned out that more people were dead. By the afternoon the reported toll was over 50,000, but that was still not enough. A day or two later Bangladeshi authorities were saying that more than 100,000 had died. Within hours, I was on a plane for Bangladesh. Six figures had done the trick.

[MERIT] 10-01-2018 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by 66Sexy (Post 2001310)
If MB gets classified as a gang I'm supporting it and will plan bank robberies and ****.

I'm down, as long as our gang colors are this gay blue background.

The Batlord 10-01-2018 11:25 AM

Bruh, we're an internet crime syndicate. We'll use an ever changing series of meme tattoos.

OccultHawk 10-02-2018 07:11 AM

https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgetow...anaugh-hearing

An anti-Trump professor at Georgetown University is taking heat for a tweet saying white Republican senators who were at Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's hearing Friday should be castrated and endure a miserable death.

Honest to **** - how does a professor at Georgetown actually come to believe that she is not “entitled” as all ****?

Sure chop off there nuts but she’s going to be ****ing next in her fancy ****ing office living a bourgeois life while doing ****ing nothing

It’s like hello bitch that same hatred is coming for youuuuuuuu

Frownland 10-02-2018 03:08 PM

https://i.imgur.com/hB3fqM9.png

Put Qwertyy on suicide watch.

Paedantic Basterd 10-02-2018 03:18 PM

Going back to the Kavanaugh stuff, I don't know how many of you watched the actual testimony versus reading about it afterwards, but it was definitely one of the most surreal news events I've watched in my time. There was literally this moment where he was asked a direct question and went off on some sort of tangent about flatulence and eating ketchup on spaghetti, and he didn't even clear up whether he DOES eat ketchup on his spaghetti, or whether he merely objects to the practice. And that's not even wild compared to how he's being handled politically. I feel like I'm in a deteriorating timeline that was never supposed to be.

Paedantic Basterd 10-02-2018 03:27 PM

Yeah, there's this meta-wildness where he's a JUDGE who went to LAW SCHOOL and is in an INTERVIEW for the SUPREME COURT. Whether or not he committed a crime, his evasiveness and verifiable untruths are more than enough to disqualify him. I just can't believe that it's even still a conversation after that insane display of immaturity.

The Batlord 10-02-2018 03:32 PM

Is anyone willing to bet me that K-Fed will get on the Supreme Court? I say he does and this whole thing is only remembered by liberals a year from now and even the liberal politicians won't care that much cause you can't really make that much of a stink about officials appointed for life.

Frownland 10-02-2018 03:41 PM

Kavanaugh is entitled to the seat. He EARNED it. Just give him what he wants and stfu!
-GOP

Paedantic Basterd 10-02-2018 03:42 PM

It's #WackyTown folks.

OccultHawk 10-02-2018 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Paedantic Basterd (Post 2001828)
Going back to the Kavanaugh stuff, I don't know how many of you watched the actual testimony versus reading about it afterwards, but it was definitely one of the most surreal news events I've watched in my time. There was literally this moment where he was asked a direct question and went off on some sort of tangent about flatulence and eating ketchup on spaghetti, and he didn't even clear up whether he DOES eat ketchup on his spaghetti, or whether he merely objects to the practice. And that's not even wild compared to how he's being handled politically. I feel like I'm in a deteriorating timeline that was never supposed to be.

Yeah

I watched his whole show on youtube

Dude is a weird-o on the real. It’s like he’s never been ****ed with and he literally can’t believe what’s happening. ****er was tearing up over everything and saying the weirdest ****. He’d get ****ing destroyed in any working class hard labor setting. The FBI might end up extending his investigation, too. KGB his rich spoiled ass. Harvard already fired him just in case he doesn’t get on. Just that stupid look on his face makes you want to bring a sledgehammer down on his skull.

Chula Vista 10-02-2018 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Paedantic Basterd (Post 2001831)
Yeah, there's this meta-wildness where he's a JUDGE who went to LAW SCHOOL and is in an INTERVIEW for the SUPREME COURT. Whether or not he committed a crime, his evasiveness and verifiable untruths are more than enough to disqualify him. I just can't believe that it's even still a conversation after that insane display of immaturity.

The GOP led Senate will vote him in unless something big comes out of the FBI stuff. They NEED him on the court badly if they hope to retain control of both the House and Senate in November. They want all of the GOP folks running to be able to campaign on a stacked Conservative Supreme Court - something the GOP has wanted badly for decades. Why?

- Roe v Wade might get repealed.
- Teaching creationism might be allowed back into schools.
- Campaign finance reform won't stand a chance in hell.
- Same goes for any further gun legislation.
- A woman's right to her own body will suffer.
- Consenting adult's rights to privacy within their own homes will suffer.
- Executive privilege will be expanded. Trump pardons Trump might just happen!

The big one is R v W though. Red meat conservatives have been aiming at this ever since abortions became legal.

Frownland 10-02-2018 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 2001842)
They NEED him on the court badly if they hope to retain control of both the House and Senate in November.

They're obviously permanently affixed to Kavanaugh in the vote, but an empty SC seat would 100% cause a red tide to counteract any kind of blue wave. Conservatives may be stupid, but boy can they unite when their dicks are all shriveled up in fear.

Chula Vista 10-02-2018 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2001843)
They're obviously permanently affixed to Kavanaugh in the vote, but an empty SC seat would 100% cause a red tide to counteract any kind of blue wave. Conservatives may be stupid, but boy can they unite when their dicks are all shriveled up in fear.

Agree to disagree. If BK doesn't get on the bench by November a lot of conservatives are going to stay home out of disgust. BK would be another in a line of failed Trump promises - namely building a wall and repealing Obamacare.

If BK goes down buyers remorse will really hit home badly for a lot of people.

Frownland 10-02-2018 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 2001847)
Agree to disagree. If BK doesn't get on the bench by November a lot of conservatives are going to stay home out of disgust. BK would be another in a line of failed Trump promises - namely building a wall and repealing Obamacare.

If BK goes down buyers remorse will really hit home badly for a lot of people.

Did you stop voting when Merrick Garland didn't get the seat?

OccultHawk 10-02-2018 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by 66Sexy (Post 2001832)
Is anyone willing to bet me that K-Fed will get on the Supreme Court? I say he does and this whole thing is only remembered by liberals a year from now and even the liberal politicians won't care that much cause you can't really make that much of a stink about officials appointed for life.

I too think he’s getting on. He and Clarence Thomas will be dry humping Ruth Bader Ginsburg in no time.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fe/42...f2c391dacb.jpg

Hawt!!!!


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