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Haven't the USSS texts already been recovered?
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Jul 30, 2022 15:34
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No, and the prevailing notion I get is that they're actually gone forever. I haven't heard anybody advocating for a realistic recovery method yet.
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Jul 30, 2022 16:33
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USSS I'd be surprised if it's even that many texts in question (albeit heads need to roll either way, no question there). The missing texts from DHS were from rabidly pro-trump people who had been using as much of DHS as they could as a private army in support of Trump. That's probably the bigger story that is much more likely to turn up some insane communications. On that note, j6 committee brought in chad wolf 2 days ago so clearly the committee is feeling the same wrt DHS needing some cleansing investigative light shined its way https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/28/homeland-security-texts-jan6/
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Jul 30, 2022 16:40
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Also all this documentation and records going missing sure looks an awful lot like a cover up
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Jul 30, 2022 16:42
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Herstory Begins Now posted:Also all this documentation and records going missing sure looks an awful lot like a cover up Yeah. It’s hard to imagine people with the broad discretionary powers of a head of a major agency having done something that’s so obviously outside the scope of their legitimate duties that you couldn’t come up with some barely passable legal cover for your actions. Obstruction by destroying stuff you were required to maintain though? That’s pretty straight forward and should be an easy slam dunk.
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Jul 30, 2022 17:05
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You’d think I’d be better by now, but my brain still won’t properly parse “Chad Wolf” as a name the first time. Every time I’m waiting for the comparison to the “virgin tapir” or whatever the gently caress.
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Jul 30, 2022 17:07
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Some fun details from the 3 different documentary cameras that were running around the capitol for various reasons. https://twitter.com/jonswaine/status/1553368045883629571 These people are incredibly lucky the DOJ is toothless and corrupt.
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Jul 30, 2022 17:26
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How is gaetz not in handcuffs yet my god the evidence is indisputable and is right there in broad daylight
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Jul 30, 2022 18:17
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Judge Schnoopy posted:How is gaetz not in handcuffs yet my god the evidence is indisputable and is right there in broad daylight His buddy has just finished cooperating and is getting sentenced later this year.
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Jul 30, 2022 18:21
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I don't normally toss this out or even much apply it in my day to day life but Matt Gaetz is one of those people I can just look at and he instantly triggers my rear end in a top hat Douchebag Alarm. Sorry, but on my radar he's straight out of central casting when it comes to "this character is a sleazy scumbag", someone who gets up to creepy poo poo and can't be trusted. If you saw him in a movie, you'd know on sight that he's the double agent, a rapist, the cheating husband, some creepy used car salesman, an Amway Diamond or a scumbag preacher that fondles kids. Book/Cover for me. In real life, he's just a lovely (sex trafficking) Republican cast from some unholy mold.
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Jul 30, 2022 18:33
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BiggerBoat posted:I don't normally toss this out or even much apply it in my day to day life but Matt Gaetz is one of those people I can just look at and he instantly triggers my rear end in a top hat Douchebag Alarm. Sorry, but on my radar he's straight out of central casting when it comes to "this character is a sleazy scumbag", someone who gets up to creepy poo poo and can't be trusted. there are plenty of things i'd disagree with you on, but I'd trust your ability to spot a dirtbag more than almost anyone else in this forum
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Jul 30, 2022 18:40
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BiggerBoat posted:I don't normally toss this out or even much apply it in my day to day life but Matt Gaetz is one of those people I can just look at and he instantly triggers my rear end in a top hat Douchebag Alarm. Sorry, but on my radar he's straight out of central casting when it comes to "this character is a sleazy scumbag", someone who gets up to creepy poo poo and can't be trusted. He really does give off that vibe. It's uncanny.
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Jul 30, 2022 18:51
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Herstory Begins Now posted:there are plenty of things i'd disagree with you on, but I'd trust your ability to spot a dirtbag more than almost anyone else in this forum I mean...I know it's a lovely thing to say or think and no way at all to go about sizing people up but in Matt's case it feels almost instinctual. I just nope out on sight. I really don't go about making snap judgments on most people I meet based on their appearance but every once a while a motherfucker just gives me the creeps. Matt Gaetz for one.
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Jul 30, 2022 19:14
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Charlie Brownishly, I am feeling the slightest tickle of hope with these DoJ referrals and Garland’s statement about pursuing charges. I am prepared to be hurt again. BiggerBoat posted:I mean...I know it's a lovely thing to say or think and no way at all to go about sizing people up but in Matt's case it feels almost instinctual. I just nope out on sight. Jack Nicholson’s Joker face was created from latex to cause revulsion but Mama Gaetz’s poisoned womb did it for us naturally.
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Jul 30, 2022 19:22
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BiggerBoat posted:I mean...I know it's a lovely thing to say or think and no way at all to go about sizing people up but in Matt's case it feels almost instinctual. I just nope out on sight. He looks like Robbie Rotten from Lazytown. 
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Jul 30, 2022 20:46
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Warbadger posted:He really does give off that vibe. It's uncanny. No, I think it's quite canny, actually. Very explicable.
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Jul 30, 2022 21:07
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It's his incurable tuckface.
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Jul 30, 2022 21:10
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Oracle posted:He looks like Robbie Rotten from Lazytown. Hey now that's unfair. Robbie Rotten at least has some redeeming qualities 
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Jul 30, 2022 21:59
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BiggerBoat posted:...Matt Gaetz for one. He's like the absolute-worst-case-scenario Jonah Ryan from Veep.
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Jul 30, 2022 23:19
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Dr. Gargunza posted:He's like the absolute-worst-case-scenario Jonah Ryan from Veep. Didn't even have the decency to be tall.
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Jul 31, 2022 00:17
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Angry_Ed posted:Hey now that's unfair. The actor was a very cool guy (RIP) but the resemblance is eerie.
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Jul 31, 2022 01:20
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BiggerBoat posted:I don't normally toss this out or even much apply it in my day to day life but Matt Gaetz is one of those people I can just look at and he instantly triggers my rear end in a top hat Douchebag Alarm. Sorry, but on my radar he's straight out of central casting when it comes to "this character is a sleazy scumbag", someone who gets up to creepy poo poo and can't be trusted. It's because of how he presents himself. He constantly does the Slimy Politician Smile that's all teeth and no warmth, he deliberately wears a "Power Hairstyle" straight off of the Sleazy Businessman character from Futurama, and he frequently tries to dress in "Power Blue" suits that are associated with "trying to look professional" - usually for a misleading reason, aka Used Car Salesman. If you take those away from him, he looks like a relatively normal person:  But the instant you add them back in, he transforms into a sleazebag who'd sell you out in a heartbeat: 
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Jul 31, 2022 03:18
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Jesus that transformation is like an American Werewolf in London for douchebaggery.
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Jul 31, 2022 03:22
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I sort of associate that set of changes as the male equivalent of the female Fox News Host look requirement. edit: ugh, that striped shirt, though
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Jul 31, 2022 03:30
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Matt Gaetz looks like every high school bully that has ever appeared on film merged themselves together and then aged several decades.
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Jul 31, 2022 04:26
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Wow that's crazy. I'm not gonna attack someone for their icky shirt; being in front of a camera hourly but not officially a movie/tv star basically means you're going through five shirts a day but honestly who cares; spend your time on more important things. It gives me an idea though: All ads for politicians shall henceforth be without makeup. Photos must be from 5min after the candidate wakes up. (Or in other words, "tell me how many stripes are on the flag, and if you claim this country should be like 1832 then recite the pledge from that year, and tell me what Jefferson thought about slaves"; otherwise you don't deserve my vote and who cares about your hair.) ps Just watched The Canine Mutiny. Major Trump vibes from the testimony of Lt Cmdr Queeg.
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Jul 31, 2022 07:06
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PhantomOfTheCopier posted:The Canine Mutiny. Third movie in Hitchcock's The Birds cinematic universe.
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Jul 31, 2022 07:22
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Nameless Pete posted:Didn't even have the decency to be tall. Can't let this go by without the Jonah nicknames list: Jonad Jizzy Gillespie Jack and the Giant Jackoff Gaylien Tinkerballs Wadzilla One Erection The Pointless Giant Jimpanzee The 60-Foot Virgin Jono Ono Hagrid’s Nutsacks Scrotum Poll 12 Years a Slave to Jerking Off Benedict Cum-In-His-Own-Hand Guyscraper The Cloud Botherer Supercalifragilisticexpialidickcheese Teenage Mutant Ninja rear end in a top hat Spewbacca
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Jul 31, 2022 07:24
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You left off my favorite. The Colossus of Chodes
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Kith posted:It's because of how he presents himself. He constantly does the Slimy Politician Smile that's all teeth and no warmth, he deliberately wears a "Power Hairstyle" straight off of the Sleazy Businessman character from Futurama, and he frequently tries to dress in "Power Blue" suits that are associated with "trying to look professional" - usually for a misleading reason, aka Used Car Salesman. If you take those away from him, he looks like a relatively normal person: You're screwing with me, that's got to be someone else. Or him like 10 years ago. Or shopped. Or him before the brain parasite was transferred to the new host. Jeez, that's wild.
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I think a massive part of it is that he isn't... "smiling"? in the first picture. His smile looks like someone who had the concept of a smile explained to them, but had never actually seen one.
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Randalor posted:I think a massive part of it is that he isn't... "smiling"? in the first picture. His smile looks like someone who had the concept of a smile explained to them, but had never actually seen one. At some point after his first term he ordered an image consultant because he looked exactly like the kind of guy who lived in a dorm room when he first got to Washington. And he did, but my Google fu is weak right now. There’s a video of him showing off his first living space and the only thing missing was the two girls kissing poster that every guy his age had on their wall.
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Jul 31, 2022 12:45
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Kith posted:It's because of how he presents himself. He constantly does the Slimy Politician Smile that's all teeth and no warmth, he deliberately wears a "Power Hairstyle" straight off of the Sleazy Businessman character from Futurama, and he frequently tries to dress in "Power Blue" suits that are associated with "trying to look professional" - usually for a misleading reason, aka Used Car Salesman. If you take those away from him, he looks like a relatively normal person: These are the kinds of things that a section of old people LOVE, and that's why this group of people does this. It's something they can get certain voters on, while also happening to repel other voters.
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Jul 31, 2022 13:48
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Now that's what I call gumption.
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Jul 31, 2022 14:22
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Nameless Pete posted:Third movie in Hitchcock's The Birds cinematic universe. 
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Jul 31, 2022 15:49
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AsInHowe posted:These are the kinds of things that a section of old people LOVE, and that's why this group of people does this. It's something they can get certain voters on, while also happening to repel other voters. I remember waiting in a dealership for my car to get maintenance a few years back. They had fox on the tv and Gaetz was on, he was speaking about some red meat topic and what struck me was how he was doing it. Eyes into the camera, this slow and reassuring way, like you'd talk to your terrified grandma. I can totally see olds seeing that, his dumb hair, big smile and suit and thinking "what a nice young man". Meanwhile those of us with functioning social warning instincts are receiving the message of   
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Kith posted:It's because of how he presents himself. He constantly does the Slimy Politician Smile that's all teeth and no warmth, he deliberately wears a "Power Hairstyle" straight off of the Sleazy Businessman character from Futurama, and he frequently tries to dress in "Power Blue" suits that are associated with "trying to look professional" - usually for a misleading reason, aka Used Car Salesman. If you take those away from him, he looks like a relatively normal person: 
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Judge Schnoopy posted:No, and the prevailing notion I get is that they're actually gone forever. I haven't heard anybody advocating for a realistic recovery method yet. If they were SMS messages, then they exist on a server somewhere.
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Randalor posted:I think a massive part of it is that he isn't... "smiling"? in the first picture. His smile looks like someone who had the concept of a smile explained to them, but had never actually seen one. Everyone one of this right wing a-holes has the exact same look when they "smile": a massive straining grin, and an absolutely blank and lifeless shark-eyed stare bereft of the simple joy they're desperately trying to convey to you that they're ostensibly feeling. It's utterly chilling when you recognize it.
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