re: If food stamps don’t hit in November, there are going to be riots

Maybe many are thinking your way. Rouses seems awful crowded this week on my way home from work.

Yup. Not sure about riots, but will go way up.

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who is the tapeworm of this country

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FIFY

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so, who all are the "donors" for the ballroom?

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The truth is a simply Google search away, but you've already made up your mind so it doesn't matter whether or not I provided it. But I willl.

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Altria Group, Inc, Amazon, Apple, Booz Allen Hamilton, Caterpillar, Inc, Coinbase, Comcast Corporation, J. Pepe and Emilia Fanjul, Hard Rock International, Google, HP Inc, Lockheed Martin, Meta Platforms, Micron Technology, Microsoft, NextEra Energy, Inc, Palantir Technologies Inc, Ripple, Reynolds American, T-Mobile, Tether America, Union Pacific Railroad, Adelson Family Foundation, Stefan E. Brodie, Betty Wold Johnson Foundation, Charles and Marissa Cascarilla, Edward and Shari Glazer, Harold Hamm, Benjamin Leon Jr, The Lutnick Family, The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation, Stephen A. Schwarzman, Konstantin Sokolov, Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher, Paolo Tiramani, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss

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There may be more, but the point is that the information is readily available, but you're so bought into your OMB psychosis that you couldn't even do the most basic fact-finding before making stuff up.

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you really haven't heard about this?

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I may have, but didn't really follow it (one guy can follow only so much). Regardless, I support it as the DOJ knew there was no Trump-Russia collusion going into the 2016 election (thus no reason, other than political, for the investigations which went on during the majority of Trump's first term).

But let's recount the issues:

Let's look at the problems with the evidence considered central to Crossfire Hurricane: the Steele Dossier:

Awareness of unreliability: The FBI was aware that the Steele dossier, a key piece of evidence used to secure surveillance warrants, contained unsubstantiated information, including second and third-hand rumors.

Fabricating legitimacy: In order to establish some form of legitimacy, the dossier information about Carter Page was leaked to Yahoo News. The Yahoo News piece was used as justification for getting FISA warrants to spy on Page because the lack of supporting evidence in the dossier itself wasn't considered enough.

Continued use: Despite this awareness and despite finding nothing incriminating about Carter Page, the FBI continued to seek extensions for their Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against him (the initial warrant and three subsequent extensions).

Declassified documents: A 2020 report from the Senate Judiciary Committee revealed that declassified documents showed the FBI was on notice of the dossier's credibility problems but continued to use it in FISA applications.

Lying to the court: In one of the few successful prosecutions of the Durham investigation, FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty to altering an email used in the Carter Page FISA application.

And then we have the different standards for evidence:

Raw intelligence used: The Durham report criticized the FBI for launching a full investigation into the Trump campaign based on "raw, uncorroborated information".

Contrast with Clinton investigation: This was contrasted with the FBI's approach to information concerning the Hillary Clinton campaign. The FBI received intelligence about a potential plan by the Clinton campaign to link Trump to Russia but did not launch a full investigation, instead offering defensive briefings.

Perceived bias: The Durham report concluded that some FBI personnel involved in the case displayed a "predisposition to open an investigation into Trump," pointing to the conduct and text messages of specific individuals like Peter Strzok.

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Lisa Page: "(Trump is) not ever going to become president, right? Right?!"
Peter Strzok: "No. No he won't. We'll stop it."

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So this all added up to:

No evidence of a criminal conspiracy: The 2019 report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller did not find anything close to sufficient evidence to establish a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.

With no "evidence", we move to the politicization aspect:

Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA): Back in July, a declassified 2017 House Intelligence Committee report was released, showing that the Obama-era intelligence community assessment that legitimized the Russia collusion narrative was politically motivated and failed to follow basic standards.

But wait, there's more: That same month, ODNI Director Tulsi Gabbard released documents which show that Obama officials knew in 2016 that Russia had not hacked election systems to manipulate vote totals (it's important to note here that the Obama administration itself never made that claim, but one of the original predications for the years-long investigation was election-tampering and the Obama administration never countered that narrative).

And this is just the tip of the iceberg for the malicious, and illegal in some aspects, investigation Trump was under during his first term. Is it worth $250M? Probably not but part of the dance of lawsuits is for the plaintiff to start high and negotiate downward. Also, Trump has already pledged any awards he receives from this will go to charity.

While this information isn't as quickly found compiled all nicely and neatly like the ballroom donor list is, it's still out there and it's quite telling that you didn't bother to even look into it before implying his lawsuit has no merit. I'm sure 60 Minutes thought the same thing.

And if you think that's something, just wait until the ball starts rolling downhill towards Jack Smith.

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There will be riots snd looting in every major city

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Big cities deal with this everyday

So, laws?

Walmart stock will take a hit. Walmart makes over $26 billion from food stamp (SNAP) sales annually, capturing a quarter of all SNAP dollars

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I may have, but didn't really follow it

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how convenient!

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Trump has already pledged any awards he receives from this will go to charity

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oh, sweet, sweet summer child....

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implying his lawsuit has no merit.

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i never said it didn't have merit... i'm asking you, are you cool with an already rich guy, having the power to determine if he gets to take home $230 million funded DIRECTLY by taxpayers... it's a pretty simple question...

fwiw, i fricking hate both parties, so before you get all ultra partisan, as you want to do, you might as well save that shite for someone else... both parties are terrible and when you really boil it all down, are the exact fricking same...

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There will be riots snd looting in every major city in this country.

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Can we donate gasoline in case they want to burn their cities down too?

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fwiw, i fricking hate both parties

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Me too bro