Category: Police / Law Enforcement / ICE

REPORT: Docs May Have Had Payroll Info On US Spies

REPORT: Docs May Have Had Payroll Info On US Spies

We are learning that the DOJ had video recordings of the storage area that caused them a lot of concern.  We see that these documents are very valuable to a foreign government.    Imagine the damage to nation security this information about who is a spy could cause.   The fact that trump is this careless with national secrets of the highest level really shows he shouldn’t ever have been president and must never be again.   Nor should any of his maga supporters in any elected office at any level.   It is well known that trump is in money troubles and that he faces over 600 million dollars of loans coming due this next year.   How much would any government give him for the spy information or the nation’s nuclear secrets?   Hugs

Newsweek reports:

In pursuing the unprecedented search of Donald Trump’s residence on Monday, the FBI was seeking to retrieve Top Secret and “compartmented” documents dealing with intelligence “sources and methods,” two federal government sources tell Newsweek—documents with the potential to reveal U.S. intelligence sources, including human sources on the American government payroll.

This greatly complicates any public discussion of the documents or any substantiation of Trump’s potential violation of U.S. law. The sources, who were briefed on the investigation, requested anonymity in order to discuss sensitive information.

Read the full article.

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olandp • 3 hours ago

He never worked for the American people, he works for the highest bidder.

BlondeAmbitionn olandp • an hour ago

The thing that pisses me off is that Garland (and Biden) knew he had these docs and wasted months negotiating with that mfer to get them back.

j.martindale • 2 hours ago

I read where tRump threatened Garland, saying he was making some of tRump’s friends very angry. Literally mob-like threats. He has all kinds of knowledge that he can use to blackmail the government and keep them from prosecuting him. He is the biggest threat to our democracy in American history.

Gustav2 j.martindale • 2 hours ago

I’ve thinking for a while he took them as a protection from being prosecuted.

rednekokie • 2 hours ago

It goes without saying that he only had those documents in order to sell them to the highest bidder, no matter who that might be.

Statistics Palin rednekokie • 31 minutes ago

It is also possible the lists included FBI informants on domestic terrorism/insurgency. – informants on Trump’s blow buddies.

DirtyPierre • 3 hours ago

It looks like Russia has seen the nuclear documents, or so they claim

Boreal DirtyPierre • 2 hours ago

Trump was probably shopping these docs while he was still in office.

Fearsome Beard Boreal • 2 hours ago

No doubt that he hasn’t been shopping potential access to them since before he was elected.

Dreaming Vertebrate • 2 hours ago

The Russians have been grooming Spanky for forty years.
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Putin: Jackpot!

kcken • 2 hours ago

I know he’s a shit bag and a nasty individual, but this… this level of espionage shocked and saddened me. At this point I don’t know why I’m shocked, but I’m definitely sad…

What a fucking shit bag.

Buford kcken • 2 hours ago

What’s worse is the 30% of the country defending him… declaring that serial liar Trump has more credibility that the entirety of the US government’s national security and intelligence apparatus.

They rest easy in the comfort of that security while they cheer Trump’s attempts to tear it all down.

Rocco • 3 hours ago

Here’s hoping he finally gets held accountable for his malfeasance…🤞

BigYear1987 • 3 hours ago

This will get real ugly real quick. Most Republicans backed themselves in a corner, and actually do not support treason. But their lip flapping and now the evidence is going to put them in a quandary, and just before the midterms. Which is always a good thing.

Trump possibly could’ve had foreign powers look at those documents or he could’ve transmitted those documents to foreign powers. This is the very definition of treason.

If the Democrats are smart, and they usually are not, this would be the question they would ask their constituents. Is it OK to support a candidate who commits treason? There will always be the few who do. But the majority will not.

Trump Lawyer Told DOJ All Docs Had Been Returned

Trump Lawyer Told DOJ All Docs Had Been Returned

The New York Times reports:

At least one lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump signed a written statement in June asserting that all material marked as classified and held in boxes in a storage area at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and club had been returned to the government, four people with knowledge of the document said. The written declaration was made after a visit on June 3 to Mar-a-Lago by Jay I. Bratt, the top counterintelligence official in the DOJ’s national security division.

The existence of the signed declaration, which has not previously been reported, is a possible indication that Mr. Trump or his team were not fully forthcoming with federal investigators about the material. And it could help explain why a potential violation of a criminal statute related to obstruction was cited by the department as one basis for seeking the warrant used to carry out the daylong search of the former president’s home on Monday.

Read the full article.

 

Charlie In SF • 17 hours ago

Theyve just said the the DoJ has hacked the security cameras at Mar-a-Lago.

Priceless.

jharp Charlie In SF • 17 hours ago

My hope is the feds seize Mar a Lago because it was used for espionage against the United States.

Isn’t that one of the best tools used against drug dealers?

Dreaming Vertebrate Charlie In SF • 17 hours ago

They used their top-secret Italian satellite capabilities. 😉

jharp • 17 hours ago

Is it just me or does it seem Trump has lost his mojo when it comes to denials?

Or is it just that his latest crimes are truly indefensible?

Buford jharp • 17 hours ago

Ari Melber offered a pretty good summary of how Trump’s defiant bluster in the media quickly turns to meek acceptance once he realizes he’s really in a tough place… to wit, his pathetic pleading the fifth last week.

In that context, this situation will be fun to watch.

Todd20036 Doug105 • 16 hours ago

The charges are serious and undeniable and the explanations may sell in Trumpland but they’re laughed away elsewhere

Armed Cultists Rally At Phoenix FBI Office [VIDEO]

Armed Cultists Rally At Phoenix FBI Office [VIDEO]

Armed maga thugs, trump brownshirts, with the intent to intimidate the ones they are against / hate which in this case is law enforcement.   They did this to school board meetings over masks and Covid precautions, they have done this to the drag queen story hours, they have done this to schools / libraries over LGBTQ+ materials.   This is what open carry means to them.    The power to make others fearful.  They are the enforcement arm of the republican party, and the party loves to support them and to aim them at their enemies.   Scary and it is going to get worse.   Hugs

Phoenix’s Fox affiliate reports:

Signs reading “Honor your oath” and “Abolish FBI” were seen outside the FBI office in Phoenix on Aug. 13, just days after news broke that the agency searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. Several of those who were there were armed with guns.

FBI agents seized classified records from Trump’s home during the agency’s unprecedented raid on Aug. 8, including some marked as top secret, according to a warrant and property receipt. Trump disputes the classification, saying the records have been declassified.

Read the full article.

 

JB • 2 hours ago

This is domestic terrorism and needs to be treated as such.

Mark • an hour ago

Well hell! Let’s get some more of those ‘open carry’ laws passed!
I mean, what could go wrong?…..or maybe the rethugs wanted this all along…

Reality.Bites JB • an hour ago

Yeah, but your country decided a long, long time ago that citizens walking around with guns is perfectly OK.

There are lots of ways in which the United States is different from every other democracy on earth. And not one of them makes it better or more free.

Boreal • 2 hours ago

Look at them, backing the blue. How cute.

margaretpoa • an hour ago

Can we stop treating armed white people like they are harmless and treating unarmed black people like they’re a dire threat now?

rcdcr • an hour ago

If anyone in the area encounters any of these goons, you can easily escape them by walking up a couple of stairs…

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Ninja0980 • an hour ago

Imagine if they folks were a different skin color.
They’d been blown to bits by now.

On the road • 2 hours ago

As someone posted on BB… if they were POC doing this, they would mostly be dead now.

Librarian Sues Anti-LGBTQ Activists For Defamation

Librarian Sues Anti-LGBTQ Activists For Defamation

I want to point out a few facts that seem to hard for the rabid right maga to understand.   Anal sex is not gay.    Not all gay people want anal sex.   A lot of straight couples practice both female and male anal sex because the anal cavity has a lot of nerves that can be pleasurable stimulated and in fact the male “g” spot is up in the butt.   In fact there were reports of teen girls preferring to do anal with their boyfriends as they thought it kept them virgins and reduced the risk of them getting pregnant.   The idea against anal sex is a religious one as it is not sex for procreation but for fun.   The horror of that idea, sex for fun.   These people that are trying to prevent anyone from getting anal sex are also against anyone getting a blow job, because again that is sex for fun.   I really wish the US would break away from that damn 1600 Puritan way of thinking about the human body and sex.    Hugs

The Hill reports:

A librarian in Louisiana filed a lawsuit against two men and a conservative organization, alleging they defamed her when they attacked her for supporting the teaching of books involving the LGBTQ community.

Amanda Jones, a middle school librarian and the president of the Louisiana Association of School Librarians, alleged in the lawsuit that a “public campaign” against her started after she spoke out against removing certain books from the Livingston Parish Library system at a board meeting.

The lawsuit also alleges that Ryan Thames, who runs a Facebook page called “Bayou State of Mind,” posted a meme of Jones on or around July 21, showing her smiling and sitting behind a desk and saying that she advocated teaching anal sex to 11-year-olds.

Reads the full article.

The Twitter account of the above-cited right wing group, Citizens For A New Louisiana, is full of Trump cultist, anti-vax, “stolen election” batshittery.

Ed B • 3 hours ago

Just an aside…
There are actually gay people who are *not* into anal sex.

Crazy, I know.

Elagabalus Ed B • 3 hours ago • edited

And many straights who are. In fact, I’d wager that most of the “sodomy” that’s being “committed” is happening among straights since they represent more than 90% of the population compared to little old us.

Longpole Elagabalus • 2 hours ago

16 year girls can “keep” their virginity by letting their boyfriend butt fuck her.
And, no worry about pregnancy either.

billbear1961 • 3 hours ago

We were 12 and 13, I think, when they told us about the “birds and the bees” in our final year of elementary school and first year of junior high. Anal sex, what it was, was among MANY things we were told about. Nothing was “advocated”–we were told what things were, not how to DO them. As for younger children, say 5 to 10 years old, I would imagine that, especially if they ASKED, you’d tell them some men have boyfriends instead of girlfriends, and they can marry and raise a family; and some women have girlfriends instead of boyfriends, and THEY can ALSO marry and raise a family. There’s nothing very complicated about ANY of this, and nothing SINISTER, except when dishonest people PRETEND there is, and the sly media fan the flames for the sake of sensationalism.

Steven in TX 🏳️‍🌈 ISOLATION billbear1961 • 3 hours ago

It is just this simple.
Welcome back, always love your postings!

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Elagabalus • 3 hours ago • edited

The lawsuit also alleges that Ryan Thames, who runs a Facebook page called “Bayou State of Mind,” posted a meme of Jones on or around July 21, showing her smiling and sitting behind a desk and saying that she advocated teaching anal sex to 11-year-olds.

So, in the minds of the cultists, teaching children that LGBT people exist is tantamount to teaching anal sex to children. That’s their “argument.” Good for this librarian for hitting back.

Ninja0980 Elagabalus • 3 hours ago

An age old trope.
Reduce LGBT people to sex acts and it makes it easier to shun and discriminate against them.

JF910 Bambino🇺🇦🌻 • 3 hours ago

“Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.”
I like wearing this in front of all bigots!

S_E_P • 3 hours ago

In the 70s and 80s there were no books in my school library that discussed lgbt issues. Somehow I became gay anyway. I wonder how?

Mouse 2024 🇺🇸 • 3 hours ago

These fool are worried about books and librarians wile priests and GOP congressmen are arrested daily for molesting children🤔

Stoned and loving it Mouse 2024 🇺🇸 • 2 hours ago

it’s always been do as I say not as I do.

re: TFG signs legislation for handling classified material. TFG violates same.

TuuxKabin • 3 hours ago

Fundraiser for Amanda Jones by Tiffany Whitehead : Legal Fees for Librarian Amanda Jones

https://www.gofundme.com/f/…

S_E_P • 3 hours ago

Isnt butt sex supposed to be how good xstain girls stay virginal until their married off by their parents?

Trump’s latest defense for Mar-a-Lago documents is everyone ‘brings home their work from time to time’ and the files were automatically declassified

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-claims-standing-order-automatically-declassify-docs-2022-8?op=1&scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
There are steps that must be taken to declassify material and it cannot be done with a standing order, handwaving, or trump bellowing “Mine, my precious”.   In fact the president cannot declassify some nuclear secrets.   Also remember that trump lost both the clearance a president has and his right to intelligence briefings because Biden said he was erratic.   The fact is this is a national security matter.  He had these documents that were highly classified improperly stored and he is known to be associating with two foreign government that desperately want those documents, Russia and Saudi Arabia.  Some of the documents are so secret thatthe FBI plans to dust them for prints.        Hugs
 
Former President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

Former President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. 

  • Trump’s new explanation for Mar-a-Lago documents is that “everyone ends up having to bring home their work from time to time.”
  • Trump claimed he had a “standing order” to declassify documents “the moment” they left the Oval Office.
  • The DOJ is investigating whether Trump broke three laws when he took government records to Mar-a-Lago.

Former President Donald Trump said that everyone takes work home sometimes, as he sought to develop a new line to explain why top secret government documents were stored at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.

“As we can all relate to, everyone ends up having to bring home their work from time to time. American presidents are no different,” said the statement from Trump’s office on Friday night read out on Fox News.

Trump further claimed that he had a “standing order” to declassify documents “the moment” they left the Oval Office.

“President Trump, in order to prepare for work the next day, often took documents, including classified documents, from the Oval Office to the residence. He had a standing order that documents removed from the Oval Office and taken into the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them,” the statement said.

It claimed that the power to classify and declassify documents rests solely with the president and that he did not need approval from a “paper-pushing bureaucrat.”

This new defense – portraying Trump as just another hard-working American – contradicts previous statements by Trump and his lawyers that baselessly claimed the FBI could have planted evidence while on site.

While the president has the authority to declassify documents, legal experts say they must follow a defined procedure. It is not clear if Trump ever did.

“He can’t just wave a wand and say it’s declassified,” Richard Immerman, a historian and an assistant deputy director of national intelligence in the Obama administration, told NBC News. “There has to be a formal process. That’s the only way the system can work.” 

Immerman noted that declassified documents are marked with the date they were declassified. It is not the case with some of the documents returned from Mar-a-Lago to the National Archives this year, per NBC.

When reports of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago emerged in May, former Trump administration official Kash Patel claimed that Trump had declassified the files shortly before leaving office but that the classified markings had not been removed.

When searching Mar-a-Lago, FBI agents recovered 11 sets of classified documents, some of which were marked top-secret.

The Department of Justice is investigating whether Trump broke three laws, including the Espionage Act, when he took government records to Mar-a-Lago after he left office, according to the warrant unsealed on Friday.

One of the laws relates to removing information about the US’s national defense, and the other two relate to the concealment or destruction of government records.

The possible crimes being investigated do not depend on the classification of the documents.

“Because the Espionage Act speaks in terms of national defense information, it leaves open the possibility that such information could be unclassified as long as an agency is still taking steps to protect it from disclosure,”  Steven Aftergood, who runs the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, told The New York Times.

 

 

Sarah • 2 hours ago • edited

He sounds like a second-grader trying to explain why they don’t have their homework to turn in.

Boreal • 2 hours ago

I didn’t take any documents
Okay, I took documents but they weren’t classified
Okay, they were top secret but I declassified them
Look over there, Obama took 30 million documents with him!

GOP Plots Legal Challenge To Inflation Reduction Act

GOP Plots Legal Challenge To Inflation Reduction Act

Please note the deception and hope that some company will sue.   The republicans have farmed out their job of governing to the maga people.   They want the anti-abortion enforcement done by the maga spying on women, the want maga parents / people objecting to the books they want banned, schools can be sued by the public if a parent doesn’t like something just like the Texas abortion bill.    The republicans cannot win on policy, and they cannot win politically on the federal level, so they have to resort be being sneaky assholes.     Hugs

Axios reports:

House Republicans are planning to try to open up Democrats’ $740 billion tax, climate and health care bill to a legal challenge after it passes, Axios has learned. The move is Republicans’ way of showing their base that they’re going to great lengths to kill the legislation, which is likely to be unanimously opposed by House Republicans.

Republicans, led by members of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, plan to get “as many members as possible to vote by proxy” in order to deny Democrats a physical quorum. The bill would still pass, but Republicans hope a company affected by the tax provisions in the bill will then sue to challenge the law’s constitutionality.

Read the full article.

 

BeccaM • 17 hours ago

As I recall, the proxy thing was already challenged in court once before and bounced immediately because the ruling was, “The Congress of the United States is free to set its own operating rules.”

Ore Carmi • 17 hours ago

They’re upset they lost on this one. They can’t let it go. That is ALL they care about—obstructing anything the Democratic Party does, good or bad. (And generally good.)

Uncle Mark eats the rainbow Ore Carmi • 16 hours ago

They’re vindictive, petty, bitchy little things. Didn’t many of this same lot attempt to repeal Obamacare some 30+ times?

These sore losers are exhausting.

Geoff Ore Carmi • 10 hours ago

Much like American Rescue Plan (ARP) this is a good thing for the Rethugs constituents. A reasonable intelligent person would have voted for IRA, but thats not how Rethugs roll .

One hopes – that the lame ass DNC is ready to run counter programming against each and every single one of these Rethugs in their districts.

I go to my local Rethug’s “town halls” and pepper it with questions about ARP.. but its TaliBama … so its like asking questions to a wall.

Brian Curtis Ore Carmi • 13 hours ago

It’s even more important to block the GOOD bills, to ensure that Democrats can’t take credit for any accomplishment and–gods forbid–become popular by actually serving the public.

Ore Carmi Brian Curtis • 12 hours ago

Which is odd, because when good legislation does pass, Republicans still claim credit for it, even though they worked against it and voted against it. I hate Republicans!

danolgb • 17 hours ago

Biden and the Dems have had massive wins over the last two weeks. It’s very upsetting to the party of No.

Ninja0980 danolgb • 17 hours ago

The judges Biden has been able to put on the courts makes them angry as well.

Gigi • 17 hours ago

The Party Of No strikes again. If only they worked this hard at helping improve the lives of the people who voted for them.

Hank: NO MORE WoW!!! JackFknTwist • 16 hours ago

Actually it stopped in the 90’s with Newt Gingrich. Not just when he decided to go after Bill Clinton!!!

Texas Investigates Bar That Hosted Drag Event For Kids

Texas Investigates Bar That Hosted Drag Event For Kids

The Christian Post reports:

The Texas comptroller said the state has opened an investigation into a Dallas bar that held a drag show for children earlier this summer.

In a statement released Friday, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar identified himself as one of many Texas parents who found themselves “disturbed by the recent images showing children participating in a drag show in the Dallas area, including one of a child placing money in a performer’s undergarment.”

Hegar’s announcement came one day after Republican state Rep. Bryan Slaton [photo] called on Hegar to treat Mr. Misster as a “sexually-oriented business.” As Slaton explained, “Sexually-oriented businesses are required to pay $5 per attendee present and they must also prevent children and sex offenders from attending or participating.”

Read the full article.

Slaton, who is fond of making public appearances carrying an assault weapon and wearing a belt of ammunition, first appeared on JMG in March 2021 when he introduced a bill making abortion a death penalty crime for doctors and even women who undergo the procedure.

Earlier this year he introduced a bill requiring genital exams for trans athletes in public schools.

As I reported in June, extremists mobbed and attempted to enter Mr. Misster during the show, hurling abuse at children and parents.

https://twitter.com/EFJBGC/status/1533217028731027456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1533217028731027456%7Ctwgr%5Ee23dbf03d2a6cbfb16068aa5fc19abfcfc9b45e6%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.joemygod.com%2F2022%2F08%2Ftexas-investigates-bar-that-hosted-drag-event-for-kids%2F

https://twitter.com/EFJBGC/status/1533323135054921728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1533323135054921728%7Ctwgr%5Ee23dbf03d2a6cbfb16068aa5fc19abfcfc9b45e6%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.joemygod.com%2F2022%2F08%2Ftexas-investigates-bar-that-hosted-drag-event-for-kids%2F

 

Teedofftaxpayer • 14 hours ago

As usual the backward asses wants to make something funny as something stupid. And there are people out there who has no idea of the entertainment that Drag shows give. Just another way for the right wing assholes to turn communities against us.

ErnestMc • 17 hours ago

If only children hadn’t been forced to attend this drag event. Oh, wait …

Mihangel apYrs • 17 hours ago

So, parents shouldn’t take their kids to these events, being irresponsible, BUT must be informed if their kids come out, or have related issues.

Jean-Marc Canada – ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ • 17 hours ago

Texass being Texass.

Like Florid’uh, cruelty and violence is the point.

Teedofftaxpayer • 17 hours ago

These backwards assholes have no idea what a drag show it. Their heads are so far up their asses it’s unbelievable.

BKnSF Teedofftaxpayer • 17 hours ago

Exactly. It’s so frickin ridiculous. ‘Entertainment should only be what we the State believes is proper’. The GOP has thrown out western values.

Hank: NO MORE WoW!!! • 17 hours ago

What about “Parents RIGHTS”????

They use that falsehood to Ban Books and teaching TRUTH inSCHOOLS.
So, if a parent wants to take their kids to a Drag Show, do they NOT HAVE THE RIGHT to DO SO???

PickyPecker another_steve • 18 hours ago

but that’s how fascism works. you change your behavior to meet the expectations.

Serene Pumpkin PickyPecker • 18 hours ago

Right. First they get drag queen story time canceled, then all drag shows, then they’ll work on getting all gay bars closed (a child might walk past one!) and all LGBTQ content expunged from TV, movies, and the Internet. Think of the chilllldrennnnnn!

Misutaa Roboto another_steve • 18 hours ago

There is no appeasing them. Their concerns are disingenuous, and if they are allowed to shift the Overton Window, they’ll just keep pushing until they are allowed to criminalize and/or kill us again.

Serene Pumpkin HomerTh • 18 hours ago

If we really want to appease them, we all need to stop existing ASAP. Because our existence is what triggers those delicate snowflakes’ feeeeeelings more than anything.

Mark • 18 hours ago

In the video, I’m noticing a column of cop cars – yet not a single cop is present in the confrontation. WTF?

Hayseed Mark • 18 hours ago

Maybe this?

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Former Trump WH Aide Doxxes Families Of FBI Agents

Former Trump WH Aide Doxxes Families Of FBI Agents

The Daily Beast reports:

Just hours after a list began circulating among right-wing media of FBI agents who signed off on the search warrant for Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property, a former Trump aide tried to sic MAGA fans on the family members of the purported agents.

Garrett Ziegler, who recently went on a sexist tear against former White House colleagues, took to Telegram to post the personal information of men he identified as agents.

The former Trump administration staffer further listed out the FBI agents’ date of birth, work emails and linked to alleged family members’ social media accounts. “We have to have faces,” he said. “There are people ruining America, and they have names, and emails, and addresses.”

Read the full article.

Ziegler’s Telegram channel is full of QAnon, racist, and anti-LGBTQ imagery.

He last appeared on JMG when he declared the Jan. 6 investigation to be a “Bolshevistic anti-White campaign.”

 

SilentMike • an hour ago

Not really OT:

Breitbart Slammed for Doxxing FBI Agents Involved in Mar-a-Lago Raid
https://www.newsweek.com/br…

Commentators soon took to Twitter to accuse Breitbart, an outlet previously managed by former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, of doxxing—the practice of identifying a person or releasing personal information about them, often with the aim of enabling targeted harassment. Some also accused Trump of leaking the warrant to Breitbart in hopes of targeting the agents.

crewman • 42 minutes ago

This is clearly to induce stalking, harassment, and threats to these agents and their families. Isn’t there any legal protection for this?

Uncle Mark eats the rainbow • 30 minutes ago • edited

Some folks are going to learn the hard way the perils of declaring war on the FBI. When they act like thugs and declare war on FBI families, it’s not going to having the intimidating effect these MAGA Brownshirts are counting on.

Lil’ Spanky here is gonna get spanked

Anastasia Beaverhousen • 38 minutes ago

Yes, I would fuck around with an FBI agent that has been trained and I a certain is quite good with guns. Yeah, you morons, go show up at their homes.

What, me worry? Anastasia Beaverhousen • 5 minutes ago

It really pisses me off that they go after the children.

Listen: Lauren Boebert’s neighbors’ 911 calls describe threats, husband running over mailbox

https://www.denverpost.com/2022/08/12/lauren-boebert-neighborhood-disturbance-calls-911/

“I’m sure he’s loaded to the hilt. Do you know who his wife is? Lauren Boebert. She’s loaded. They all have guns,” one neighbor told 911 dispatchers.

 
In this Sept. 16, 2021, file photo U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colorado, right, speaks during a Second Amendment Rally at a gun store in Midland, Texas. Colorado state Sen. Kerry Donovan, a leading Democratic challenger to Boebert in next year's election, has suspended fundraising for her campaign after the state's independent congressional redistricting commission approved a map that places Donovan's residence in another district. (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP, File)
In this Sept. 16, 2021, file photo U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colorado, right, speaks during a Second Amendment Rally at a gun store in Midland, Texas. Colorado state Sen. Kerry Donovan, a leading Democratic challenger to Boebert in next year’s election, has suspended fundraising for her campaign after the state’s independent congressional redistricting commission approved a map that places Donovan’s residence in another district. (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP, File)
By  | cswanson@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
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Garfield County Sheriff’s deputies decided to let neighbors of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert settle a dispute between themselves and the congresswoman’s husband after he reportedly threatened them and destroyed their mailbox.

But 911 calls from the incident, obtained by The Denver Post, show just how upset and nervous the neighbors were over their run-in with Boebert’s husband, Jayson Boebert.

The calls also provide additional context into what the neighbors, in Silt, said amounted to excessive speeding, property damage, possible drunken driving and threats made from a man whose family openly and regularly carries their firearms.

“I’m sure he’s loaded to the hilt. Do you know who his wife is? Lauren Boebert. She’s loaded. They all have guns,” one neighbor told a 911 dispatcher. “He just got chest to chest, face to face, looking to fight.”

That additional context from the calls appears to match the limited information available in reports from Garfield County deputies. But still, Sheriff’s Office spokesman Walter Stowe refused to say why deputies didn’t investigate further and would not provide any additional information.

WARNING: This audio contains graphic language and has been edited to remove identifiable information of the callers such as names and addresses.

 

 

The apparent inaction drove the head of American Muckrakers — a political group looking to oust Boebert — to ask Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, the local district attorney and the Colorado Bureau of Investigations to investigate the relationship between the congresswoman’s family and the Sheriff’s Office.

“This was clearly a serious situation as there were two 911 calls, five deputies and at least four families involved,” David Wheeler, head of American Muckrakers, wrote in an email asking for the investigation.

The incident began in the evening hours of Aug. 4, after a neighbor flagged down one of Boebert’s sons asking him to stop speeding up and down their street in a dune buggy, according to the calls and a short incident report filed by deputies.

“He’s going like 50 miles an hour and this is a residential lane, there’s kids,” one neighbor, told 911 dispatchers, according to the audio. “We tried to stop him and he’d just freakin’ cuss at us and just left.”

That neighbor could not immediately be reached for comment, but she was so flustered that she had a difficult time recalling her own phone number when asked by the dispatcher.

“It’s the Boeberts, if you know who the Boeberts are,” she said. “I need the sheriff out here.”

“Our wonderful congresswoman,” someone else said in the background.

By the time the second neighbor called 911, deputies hadn’t yet arrived. During that call, Jayson Boebert reportedly began to run the second neighbor’s mailbox over in a truck.

“There’s about to be some s— going down here,” the second neighbor told dispatchers. “It’s Lauren Boebert’s jackass husband, Jayson Boebert.”

During the call the second neighbor can be heard yelling at Jayson Boebert.

“Stop, you jackass! Get the f— out of here,” he yelled. “Come on, man. What are you doing? What did we do wrong?”

Jayson Boebert did not respond to a message seeking comment, nor did the second neighbor. However, over the phone, the second neighbor told the 911 dispatcher that Jayson Boebert had driven to their house with his son “trying to claim that someone took a swing at his kid and nobody did.”

He calls Jayson Boebert “dumb as a post” and “irrational,” then expresses concern about the being threatened and more.

“Jayson’s probably drunk. You could probably get him for a DUI, he just drove down here,” he said.

Eventually deputies arrived and Sheriff Lou Vallario previously told The Post that everybody had “agreed to work it out as neighbors. No charges. No further action.”

Confronted about the additional context provided by the 911 calls, Stowe on Friday would not, however, say whether deputies declined to investigate further.

Lawrence Pacheco, a spokesman for Attorney General Phil Weiser, confirmed the office had received Wheeler’s request to investigate Wheeler’s message. Representatives from the Colorado Bureau of Investigations and 9th Judicial District Attorney Jefferson Cheney’s office did not immediately reply to requests for comment.

Jayson Boebert was previously arrested in 2004 and pleaded guilty to public indecency and lewd exposure after exposing himself to two minors in a bowling alley. The congresswoman who is not mentioned in any account as being present during the Aug. 4 incident also has a history of minor arrests and failures to appear in court. Vallario supported her first run for office in 2020.

Lauren Boebert is currently running for a second term in Congress against former Aspen City Councilman Adam Frisch.

 

Gustav2 • 42 minutes ago • edited

This riding dirt bikes, etc. thru neighborhoods, violating noise, speed, and licensing laws has become the antigovernment thing to do for a certain type.

They move into an area for safety from the other and become the nightmare they think they left behind.

clay • 44 minutes ago • edited

“They’re loaded.” Three possible meanings, but probably not about money.

crewman • an hour ago

Talk about nightmare neighbors. If the neighbor wanted to move, they’d probably have trouble selling their home because who would want to live next to this entitled white trash.

Susan Montgomery • 36 minutes ago

“Sheriff’s deputies decided to let neighbors of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert settle”

Is that a polite way of saying “the cops didn’t do shit”?

rednekokie • 30 minutes ago

How the hell do people such as this scumbag ever get elected to public office? Has the electorate gone totally mad?

Jerry Kott Happy_Housewife • a few seconds ago

It is an entirely different Reality. We receive a message on line from a neighbor who clearly despises us and she doesn’t even know us. The Pecking order that many live by was established decades earlier when they all roamed the Halls of the local High School. Ground Hog Day on a loop.

Susan Montgomery rednekokie • 29 minutes ago

Yes. I think that there’s a kind of establishment fatigue, too. Given how badly our schools have declined, the idea of what the electorate finds “relatable” has gotten really low.

Jerry Kott Susan Montgomery • 10 minutes ago

When we as a culture keep pressing the snooze button each time we get a wake up call, this is where we are. When you have millions willfully resisting a vax to protect the collective, your answer is in that mess. Just make sure all your recording devices are fully charged when you leave your home.

Makoto • 35 minutes ago

Drunkenly gets into a fight over destroying a mailbox.. while packing heat.. why yes, I’m sure that’s exactly what the Founding Fathers intended when they wrote the 2nd Amendment, with no care to things like “well regulated” or anything silly like that.

99sdad • an hour ago

And these people still walk the streets. More reason to just stay home.

Bridget’s Trans Identity In Guilty Gear Finally Leaves Behind The Character’s Harmful ‘Trap’ Origins

https://www.thegamer.com/bridget-trans-identity-trap-origins-guilty-gear-strive/

The world continues to change.   Even the gaming universe which a decade ago or more was rocked by a huge anti female scandal has long ago accepted being gay and lesbian.   Those character settings and modifications are available in all mainstream big name games.   But trans characters were haphazardly applied, hard to set or understand.    Even though it was common for a trans person to choose a different gender character the game play was still cis gender.   That is changing.   Now before there are the grooming complaints and such, understand the buyers and users of the games drive big video game characters.   So once there was a large drive by users that there be gay characters for them to play as gay characters were able to be chosen, that is now happening for characters to be trans.   This is the world of the future, the world of acceptance.    Hugs

Guilty Gear Strive has finally done right by one of its best characters.

Gaming still has a lot of baggage when it comes to femininity. The medium that largely focused on an audience of straight white men for its early decades has become one of the most diverse forms of media in the world. Such progress has different ethnicities, sexualities, and genders welcomed into the fold as the toxic echo chamber becomes more tolerable.

Things are changing, and we’re forced to confront long-standing issues before we can justify moving forward. Rampant sexualisation, thinly-veiled racism, and fear that supporting more inclusive audiences will see games reduced to political objects are all things we’re still grappling with. Progress is being made, but slowly, and not without forces holding us back. I don’t think this will change, at least not for a long time, but the steps being taken by games like Guilty Gear Strive give me hope for the future. More specifically, characters like Bridget.

Guilty Gear Strive confirmed earlier this week that series veteran Bridget is transgender. This had been part of a complex headcanon for years, but the continued use of masculine pronouns and the narrative’s unwillingness to explore this aspect of her character meant nothing was ever satisfactorily confirmed in the canon. Raised in an English village, Bridget was brought up as a girl due to a local superstition that twins born of the same gender were bad luck, but has remained in ‘girl mode’ well into adulthood.

Her parents believed this superstition, so she came to wear feminine clothes, use she/her pronouns, and presented herself as a cis women. However, the audience (and several other characters) knew she was born male, and she was referred to by he/him or other masculine titles on occasion too. Back in the day she wasn’t viewed from a strictly queer perspective, but was seen as a ladyboy hiding a penis under her clothes that male gamers could make fun of one another for finding attractive because dicks are scary apparently. It leaned into a ‘trap’ stereotype that claims trans people are merely trying to fool people into finding them attractive before their genitals expose the real truth. Like we’re a sick circus attraction instead of actual human beings.

This is a situation that in the real world has gotten trans people killed (and cis people have gotten away with it, under the Trans Panic defence), but given how juvenile and heteronormative games tend to be, burdening Bridget with this stereotype happened quickly and remained an inside joke amongst series’ fans for decades. As a closeted teenager I admired characters like Bridget because they were male beneath it all, yet exhibited all the signatures of an attractive, passing woman.

She was someone I wanted to be, so to see the character labelled as transgender with such explicit declaration feels like queer fans are reclaiming something that was once held over them as a twisted joke. Women have to look and behave in a certain way, or they risk being seen as a societal oddity or unworthy of attention. Bridget fell into this nebulous middle ground.

Her transgender identity is immediately embraced by the wider cast of Guilty Gear Strive, which only furthers how positive this reveal has been. One scene in the arcade mode has Bridget talking with Goldlewis Dickinson and Ky Kiske about a journey of self discovery that is far from easy, but she knows the final destination will be more than worthwhile. The two characters sit alongside her, nodding in agreement while providing the advice that every trans person needs to hear – leaving behind the fear of prejudice and failure to become the individual you want to be is worth the inevitable heartache.

Dickinson is unsure of what to call Bridget, given the complex layers of her gender identity, calling her “cowgirl” before falsely correcting himself to “cowboy”. She responds: “Cowgirl is fine. Because… I’m a girl!” So many games would be scared to define something so clearly, largely so the typical minority of vocal chuds can deny any semblance of queer representation in fear it will ruin the entire game for them. Guilty Gear Strive couldn’t care less, and the conviction it expresses in Bridget’s character and how unapologetic she is in being a trans girl is so damn liberating.

Players have already unearthed further instances of dialogue that only serve to reinforce Bridget’s transgender character arc in the game, making it clear that Arc System Works are fully on board with this new interpretation. It’s been a long time coming, and feels like fitting retribution for a character that for years has been the victim of transphobic punchlines.

While the games themselves might have never leaned into the idea of Bridget being a trap designed to fool eagle-eyed male players, the community embraced that idea and made it the most iconic aspect of her character. It sucked, and I wish I knew better as a teenager instead of leaning into such needless jokes. My internal fascination would eventually lead to me making strides with my own queer identity, but Bridget has always deserved better, and to see her receive that respect in Strive means so much.

She joins Testament, a character who was revealed to be non-binary earlier this year and has also been taken in by fans as a welcome example of queer representation. Fighting games aren’t always heavy on narrative, often leaving us to fill in the blanks or providing lore dumps outside the core gameplay for audiences to obsess over. That is also true for Guilty Gear, but it makes characters like Bridget and Testament so much easier to fall in love with.

Their queerness is deliberate and seldom up for debate, with small nuggets of dialogue between encounters and nestled between modes providing just enough context for us to rejoice over. Bridget is a cute, confident, and empowering trans character who for decades has been working towards this eventual destiny, and to see it capitalised upon while simultaneously subverting a culture of ingrained transphobia is a perfect storm of brilliance.

I wrote recently that Guilty Gear Strive made me wish I wasn’t so bad at fighting games, and not even a day later Bridget is revealed as a trans character to entice me. Maybe it’s a sign.