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    Quote Originally Posted by CaptainEurope View Post
    Wait.

    What if there was something on Alex Jones' phone that was the final straw?
    The two have got to be unrelated things... right?

    If not, that really does make the scope of Jones' lawyer's f*** up look even worse.
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    Defund the FBI! They went to Mar-a-Lago to find Hillary's e-mails!

    (want to clarify that I'm joking)

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    Quote Originally Posted by babyblob View Post
    i wonder how many GOP are bitching in public but are doing a happy dance in Private because this may damage Trump.
    I think a lot of Republicans are "secretly" happy, but this is probably going to hurt them - the pro Trump/ election denier - candidates in the Midterms. The tide seems to be shifting regarding the Midterms.

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    To get a judge to sign off on a raid against an ex-president every last I must be dotted and every single T must be crossed. The FBI probably needed enough evidence in advance to convince a jury of death penalty protesters to get the rope themselves.

    Supposedly some of the stuff the FBI recovered is so classified that the summary is above Top Secret.
    Agree. They have to have very strong probable cause to have a search warrant of this level.

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    There is also now photographic evidence that Trump flushed documents down a White House toilet.
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    Y'know, if there are current events that would have let the FBI know Trump smuggled top secret documents out of the White House when he left on 1/20/21, and who would have just come forward to rat him out...

    There are a lot of Secret Service agents who were in his orbit in January of 2021 who are on the hook for criminally deleting text messages they were told to save.

    If you wanted to avoid prison time for such a crime, ratting out Trump for swiping classified documents and throwing them in front of his safe in front of you is a nice way to cooperate with the feds to save your own ass.



    But that's really the telling thing here. People can speculate about WHICH CRIME Trump is being raided for, just like we can speculate about who ratted him out to cut a deal with prosecutors to cover up THEIR OWN CRIME to avoid jail. It's virtually anyone and everyone in his orbit.
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    On this date in 2014, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published a profile on John Koster, a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives for Washington’s 1st District who took publicity photos of himself on the lawn of the home of his female opponent Suzan DelBene to taunt her, who really torpedoed his chances by claiming that rape exceptions for abortion shouldn’t be a thing because it was “just more violence on a woman’s body”. This was, of course, but days after Todd Akin, so Koster ended up losing in his third bid to get elected to Congress.

    In both 2015, and in 2016, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” featured profiles of Jeb Bush, the former Florida Governor and 2016 presidential candidate who went from the consensus favorite to win the GOP nomination, to a goofy, pitiable mess before all was said and done. In that original article, we dug deep, and covered every last bit of detail that we could find on Jeb, because to be honest... he was widely thought by pundits to be the eventual 2016 GOP nominee for president, especially with a campaign war chest that exceeded $100 million. As such, we took hard aim at Jeb, going all the way back to the 1980s, where he frequently had shady business dealings with a Miami businessman who defrauded Medicare, all the way up to the interim after he left office as Governor and before his presidential run when he worked for Lehman Brothers bank. During his first failed campaign for Florida governor in 1994, he compared gay people to pedophiles, and when asked what he would do to help black people he answered, "Probably nothing." In 1995, Jeb wrote a book where he had a great idea for preventing single motherhood... SHAME THE WOMEN. Jeb, in case you forgot, ordered the voter rolls purged in the 2000 election, and threw tens of thousands people off them... primarily minorities, who would find out on election day that they were ineligible to vote in the election that Jeb's idiot brother would win by 537 votes in the state. Jeb has a bizarre and obsessive pro-life record, including the time in 2004 when he tried to give a state guardian to the fetus of a rape victim who had cerebral palsy in an attempt to try and stop the victim from getting an abortion, when he tried to stop a 13 year old ward of the state from getting an abortion even though her life was at risk, and his desperate attempts to force Terry Schiavo to not be allowed to die with dignity.

    In 2015, Jeb was supposed to be making the case of why he was the best Republican for the job, because he was the moderate one... but quickly made people wonder how he was ever thought of as "the smart Bush Brother". In his first foreign policy speech, he incorrectly stated the number of ISIS troops as ten times the actual amount, could not successfully name the leader of ISIS, referred to Nigerian terror group Boko Haram as “Beau-Coup Haram”, and provided no details on what he would do differently than the status quo to better combat such foes. It didn't get much better from there, as Jeb said that his brother President George W. Bush would be his “chief adviser” on the Middle East, as well as Iraq War architect Paul Wolfowitz, and when asked by Fox News Megyn Kelly, “Knowing what we know today, that Iraq did not have WMDs, would you still have invaded?” Jeb said he still would have authorized the invasion, and it was not a mistake. After being lambasted for this, he gave excuses that indicated that he did not understand how hypothetical questions work.

    Jeb also took time to praise Indiana's hugely unpopular "religious freedom" law, that allowed for discrimination and gave his support for the rights of Christian businesses to use their “religious freedom” to discriminate against LGBT citizens, and said that it would be “intellectual arrogance” to agree with scientists about humans driving climate change before criticizing Pope Francis’ stance on the environment. (Hint for you Jeb… good Catholics like you aren't supposed to question the Pope’s infallibility.) In response to the mass shooting in Charleston, S.C. at the AME church, Jeb Bush says he doesn’t “know what was on the mind of shooter” that made him kill those present. (The shooter, Dylann Roof, had already repeatedly stated it was racially motivated. For whatever reason, he chose to talk about “phasing out” Medicare, and did an about face on immigration by clamoring for “sanctuary cities” to be shut down. And lastly, right before we published that original profile, Jeb suggested we eliminate not just Planned Parenthood funding, but funding to all women’s health because “we don’t need it”.

    And that was only in our first profile, in our second, we talked about the embarrassing Jeb! 2016 campaign, that seemed to be just one sad shot kicking a man while he was down. In June of 2016, Jeb was campaigning in Miami with his mother, former first lady Barbara Bush, and said that he got her to admit that he's her favorite. Barbara Bush has always been noted as a brutally honest woman, and replied, "No I didn't." Jeb continued reversing his position on issues to try and keep up with the lunatic front-runner, Donald Trump, endorsing the use of torture, and going as far in his reversal on immigration to actually use the term "anchor babies" for the children of immigrants... when in 2013 Jeb wrote a GOP strategy about how to address immigration without looking insensitive to minorities, and advised them to not use the term "anchor babies" himself. To try and save face, then Jeb insisted he wasn’t actually badmouthing Latinos, he was referring to Asians when he said “anchor babies”, thus alienating a second minority group. But he wasn’t done. Jeb also managed to piss off Native Americans by coming out in defense of the nickname of the NFL’s franchise in Washington, D.C., argued against replacing the Voting Rights Act because “it isn’t necessary” and tried commenting on the police shooting of Tamir Rice but incorrectly named Chicago as the city it happened in, offering a meager “My bad…” when the mistake was pointed out to him.

    By November 2015, Jeb's struggling campaign tried a new campaign slogan... "JEB CAN FIX IT". Unfortunately, it is quickly deflected into reminders of how he helped fix the 2000 election for his brother. A month later, at a Republican Primary debate, Jeb told Donald Trump that he will never be president, and Trump responded by saying he's "trying to be a tough guy" before pointing out the poll numbers that show he was "At 42. You're at 3." As things spiraled further out of control, Jeb started giving out plastic toy turtles to people on the campaign trail, reminding them of the old adage that "slow and steady wins the race". The end truly was near in February 2016, as Jeb gave a speech on the campaign trail, and after what seemed like a rousing promise to be an effective commander in chief, he is met with silence. He then filled it by quietly pleading, "Please clap." Jeb was utterly humiliated in his quest for the White House in 2016 and seems unlikely to ever hold office again.
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    It was in both 2017, 2018, and in 2019, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled the U.S. House Representative from Illinois’ 6th Congressional District, Peter Roskam, who after serving in the Illinois state legislature from 1993 through 2006, served six terms in Congress since winning office in the 2006 elections. That’s no small feat, considering 2006 was a Blue Wave year, his opponent in that race was (now Senator) Tammy Duckworth, and he attacked her stance on the Iraq War as “cut and run” which is a hell of a thing to say to an Iraq War veteran who lost both her legs in that conflict in a helicopter crash. Still, Roskam’s connections within the GOP establishment. Back in the 1980s, Roskam was originally taught under the tutelage of former House Speaker Tom DeLay, who is a great example of a mentor you would want a member of Congress to have if you wanted them to learn about money laundering, before Roskam went on to work under Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde, who you may know as the guy the anti-choice Hyde Amendment is named after, who was also the only member of Congress sued in the Savings and Loan Scandal, who defended the Reagan administration during the Iran-Contra hearings, and was one of the Congressional leaders who oversaw the attempted impeachment of Bill Clinton for lying about an extramarital affair (note: Hyde had also once had an extramarital affair). So, Rep. Roskam’s two mentors were some of the most crooked, hypocritical, partisan bastards of note in Congress from the past half century but are decidedly not small fish in the Washington fish bowl. And when Hyde stepped down in his eighties, Roskam jumped at the opportunity to replace him, and in spite of his rhetoric against Duckworth as well as accusations that he had plagiarized several issue stances on his campaign website from the National Republican Congressional Committee… he won the seat over Duckworth in 2006 with 51% of the vote to her 49% thanks in part to the party support he’d built up through the years. Now, we made it pretty clear that Peter Roskam’s mentors had a long history of corruption while serving in the U.S. House of Representatives. So you would think he’s already not a fan of ethics investigations. He’s probably even less of one after he himself was a target of one in 2013 after taking a $25,000 trip to Taiwan on the dime of Chinese Culture University. And that likely was his motivation for trying to defund the Office of Congressional Ethics at the start of the current session of Congress in January of 2017. Because what’s the point of being in Congress if you have to be ethical, right? Roskam here at FRED is also climate change denier. Back in his 2006 campaign, during a debate against Tammy Duckworth, he drew groans from the crowd after he called studies into global warming “junk science”. It may not be a coincidence, then, that one of the pieces of legislation he once sponsored, that called for oil drilling in the Alaska Arctic Wildlife refuge. A brief look at Roskam’s supposedly “moderate” voting record shows that he has voted against Minimum Wage Increases, equal pay for women, voted against the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act, voted against Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform, voted against the DREAM Act, has a harsh anti-choice record including twice voting to defund Planned Parenthood, voted against Disaster Relief Funding for victims of Hurricane Sandy… etc. Peter Roskam knew he was in serious jeopardy of losing his seat representing Illinois’ 6th in the 2018 elections, when you factor in that it voted in favor of Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, and Roskam supported many of Trump’s craziest initiatives including his vote for Trumpcare and some support for Trump’s xenophobic Muslim ban, even as it has repeatedly been overturned by the courts as unconstitutional. He cancelled all his scheduled town halls so far over the past year and a half, including bailing on attending a packed March for Our Lives town because of last minute “scheduling conflicts”, like sitting at home and cowering for his political future.In the 2018 elections, Roskam only got 46% of the vote, and that Democrat Sean Casten sent him packing.

    On this date in 2020, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled the former U.S. House Representative from Georgia’s 9th Congressional District, Doug Collins, who served in Congress for four terms from 2012 through 2020, and prior to that, he served two terms in the Georgia House of Representatives. During the latter half of his career in Congress, Collins was falling all over himself to defend the indefensible Donald Trump whenever he can. Take for example, on January 8th, 2020, where after Trump ordered an airstrike to assassinate Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, and Democrats and most of the free world were outraged that he could be dragging the country to the brink of war, Collins came skulking onto Fox News to claim"Democrats are in love with terrorists, we see that they mourn Soleimani more than they mourn our gold star families." This, of course, is how Doug Collins operates… hyperbolic attacks on Democrats not based in reality, while convenient amnesia over the worst sins of his own party… considering Donald Trump has outright bashed Gold Star families and brushed off widows of fallen soldiers by telling them their husbands “knew what they signed up for”. Similarly, throughout the second half of 2019, Collins made statements prior to the testimony of Robert Mueller before Congress in July of 2019 about how the FBI should not be allowed to investigate private citizens due to “political leanings” (all indications are the FBI were investigating Carter Page and others within the Trump campaign based on legitimate reasons) and calling the entire impeachment over Trump’s attempt to solicit foreign aid from Ukraine to win the 2020 election as a “sham”, in spite of the mountain of evidence, and witnesses that testified in Congress. This man was always ready to give Trump a thorough tongue bath. If we’re still not making it clear enough, Doug Collins is the sponsor of the “Covid-19 Accountability Act”, which if passed, would allow Trump to sanction China if they do not cooperate with an investigation into the Covid-19 pandemic, claiming China conducted some sort of “cover-up”, and frankly, we’re getting into deranged conspiracy theory territory now. But every time an issue comes up, Collins is on the wrong side of the argument, for what keeps Americans safe and prosperous. He can demand people “reopen the economy” during the Covid-19 pandemic, but then tell them after they’re risking their lives in catching the disease, that the recovery will “take time”, which makes one wonder what they’re even putting their necks on the line for. On police violence, of course Doug Collins would interject to demand that charges be pressed after the police killing of Rayshard Brooks… but he wanted an investigation launched against the Atlanta DA who prosecuted the cops for killing Brooks. We’re serious… every time. The wrong side. His voting record included Collins voting against Disaster Relief Funding for victims of Hurricane Sandy in 2013, for the 2013 Government Shutdown and then voting to keep the government closed in the vote to re-open it, voting to prevent the implementation of the dreaded United Nations Agenda 21 Treaty, voting to defund Planned Parenthood, voting for HR 7, an anti-abortion bill that featured problematic language that to redefine the conditions for what “rape” is, and voting repeatedly to try and repeal the Affordable Care Act, . He has yet to resurface in politics, and his seat in the House is now held by Andrew Clyde.

    On this date in 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Nicholas Vessio, a 2020 Republican Primary challenger to Congressman Brian Mast in Florida’s 18th Congressional District, running on his background as a former New York DA’s office police sergeant. We profiled him, though, because he was yet another Republican who fits in the middle of the diagram of “GOP Congressional Candidates” and “Qanon Conspiracy Theory supporters”. How far gone was Vessio? Well, he did posit a question to Q himself into the ether on Twitter that was a bit beyond, “Lock Her Up”, asking,”Q , when is HRC and company going to GISMO to be Hung!” Yes, he misspelled “GITMO” so we’d hate to see how he his attempts at spelling Guantanamo Bay would go. But Vessio seemed way to eager for hangings of Democrats to come to pass, what with believing in the conspiracy theory that they’d be rounded up for all the Satanic basement pedophile abuse dungeons that don’t exist. Not for nothing ,he somehow didn’t get banned from Twitter, what with declaring the tech giant “Un-American” and insinuating they’re in league with China while claiming he was the victim for being “censored” by the platform, or just spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about George Soros. Nicholas Vessio only managed 14% of the vote in the primary, and hopefully that’s the high water mark for any of his political aspirations. As we feel he has little to no chance of ever being elected, we will set aside his profile at this time to cover another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 1127-55, since this was established in July 2014.
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    Quote Originally Posted by babyblob View Post
    OkayWe are all having fun with this

    But I am to be honest worried,

    All the Defund the FBI talk, the FBI being a tool of the left, This being a liberal plot.

    How long before someone gets angry at this talk. Goes into a local FBI office and takes revenge? or go after a local Democrat.

    We are having fun right now. But I am worried in a couple weeks we wont be any more.

    Already that crowd of ten people is growing pretty large at Mar a lago as the news Spreads.
    Look, I’m 63 years old, and my memory isn’t as sharp as it used to be in my youth, but, I don’t recall liberals and left wingers raising hell, screaming bloody murder and threatening to start a civil war after the FBI launched an investigation into Hillary Clinton mere days before the 2016 election. Right wingers, conservatives and Qpublicans need to shut the **** up.
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    Sean Parnell
    Welcome to what is the 1127th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Sean Parnell, a 2022 candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, who was the original candidate in that race who won the endorsement of failed coup-plotter and all around incompetent moron, Donald Trump. But, as is so frequently the case… Trump’s favored the guy who just happened to allegedly abuse his wife and children. ALLEGEDLY. (Weird how this happens so much with Trump’s picks, huh?)

    In 2021, Parnell was arguing before a judge trying to get the records of his child custody hearing with his wife sealed, arguing it was for his children’s privacy. The problem was within the same two years, he was in court arguing that he should be allowed to post photos of himself with his kids for promotional purposes… so it’s a bit odd that he wanted to selectively toggle the “privacy” switch depending on how much it benefitted him in the specific moment.

    So the records came out, and… yeah, it’s pretty clear why he didn’t want the public hearing about it:

    While we find all of that abhorrently disturbing, we think that a lot of Republican primary voters would give him a pass on everything except maybe openly discussing him pressuring a woman to get an abortion. Surprise, Parnell claims he was “pro-life”, and referred to abortion as “infanticide”, so he’s just a hypocrite.

    When the story hit, Politico also noted Parnell’s literary career seems to feature some graphic scenes of violence towards women that almost play out like a power fantasy. Hmm… how odd.

    Parnell announced he was running in May of 2021, and by November of 2021, he acknowledged there was no path to victory with his wife’s court testimony about him roughing her and the kids up in the public consciousness, and dropped out of the race, leaving Donald Trump to give his endorsement instead to Mehmet Oz.

    We’re hoping this will be the only time we have to mention Sean Parnell, and look forward to John Fetterman stomping Dr. Oz’s *ss into a mudhole at the polls in November.
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    I doubt this has anything to do with the Alex Jones Texts. The raid happened what a week after that? That is too fast for planning and setting up a raid on a former president. This has to have been in the works for a bit
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    Quote Originally Posted by babyblob View Post
    I doubt this has anything to do with the Alex Jones Texts. The raid happened what a week after that? That is too fast for planning and setting up a raid on a former president. This has to have been in the works for a bit
    The lawyers of the Sandy Hook parents had to wait 10 days after receiving access to the phone content to be allowed to use it in the trial. But if they found evidence of crime on it, they might have forwarded a copy immediately.

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    Quote Originally Posted by babyblob View Post
    I doubt this has anything to do with the Alex Jones Texts. The raid happened what a week after that? That is too fast for planning and setting up a raid on a former president. This has to have been in the works for a bit
    Yeah, this type of thing usually takes time to get greenlit, especially if it's regarding a former US President

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    Quote Originally Posted by CaptainEurope View Post
    The lawyers of the Sandy Hook parents had to wait 10 days after receiving access to the phone content to be allowed to use it in the trial. But if they found evidence of crime on it, they might have forwarded a copy immediately.
    I get that they would have forwarded it. But I still think it would have happened to fast. That is just a couple weeks to look into the texts and see that they are concerning enough to take the major step (And this is a major step) of raiding a former presidents house. They would have to get all the paper work in order, do it secretly so it doesnt get leaked, choose the agents to use etc..

    That all seems a bit rushed for just some texts. And all the crimes Trump is suspected of and admitted to what would be on the Texts that would warrant this kind of response?

    They are not going to face the back lash and the bad optics and take the major step of raiding a former presidents house over some txt messages from an idiot. Not this fast at least.

    No this I think has been in the works for a while longer.
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    Quote Originally Posted by babyblob View Post
    I get that they would have forwarded it. But I still think it would have happened to fast. That is just a couple weeks to look into the texts and see that they are concerning enough to take the major step (And this is a major step) of raiding a former presidents house. They would have to get all the paper work in order, do it secretly so it doesnt get leaked, choose the agents to use etc..

    That all seems a bit rushed for just some texts. And all the crimes Trump is suspected of and admitted to what would be on the Texts that would warrant this kind of response?

    No this I think has been in the works for a while longer.
    I think those things can move VERY fast if there is a worry about evidence being destroyed, or top secret material being sold to Russia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CaptainEurope View Post
    I think those things can move VERY fast if there is a worry about evidence being destroyed, or top secret material being sold to Russia.
    He had these things for over a year and a half. The worry was always there. The talking heads would even bring it up from time to time. So if CNN could think about it I am sure the DOJ had those same thoughts.

    I think this was a while in the planning and not because of the texts. It is fun to kick around that theory but sometimes a coincidence is just that. And there is no deeper meaning.
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