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Remember Champ biting specific members of the secret service?
Dogs know. Dogs always know.
Yeah, that's why some rip kids' faces off, they all deserve it.
Also why they shit on grass. They know.
!fucklawns is leaking (not that there's anything wrong with that).
Shh, stop being rational, doggos are le magical social creatures
That was actually Major, their younger dog at the time. Champ was their elderly dog who died a couple years ago. They since got a younger pup, Commander, and he too, has been biting staffers, but I don't know if they revealed which agencies the victims work for. Maybe Commander is copying what his elder brother does, but iirc Major doesn't live in the White House too often nowadays. He might just have the same intuition.
In case anyone, like me, wants a source for Pence refusing to get in the car with the Secret Service. It’s from the book “I Alone Can Fix It.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/26/pence-car-raskin-comments/
The “terrified” part is speculation, but potentially true.
Sounds to me like Pence was tipped off.
I wonder if they would have used 'the VP has been kidnapped by Antifa!' as justification for the insurrection act.
They were chanting "hang Pence" and literally, physically building a gallows. The intentions were quite clear.
Do we have any proof that the messages were deleted on the instruction of the White House? I've always thought they arranged the mass-deletion on their own - but it was a very busy time and I might well have missed the bit about them being ordered to delete them.
Well it helped Trump, was against policy, and they answered to him.
All true. However, there's a difference between being told/ordered to do a thing, and thinking (on your own), "Hey if I do this thing it'll cover my ass and help my side". OP is claiming they were told to do it - and that may be true, but I'd like some proof toward that.
What's more likely? That they all independently had the same idea to commit the same crime at the same time, or that their ringleader told them to do it, so they did it?
If they used SMS those records are still around.
Or did they use something else?
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The proof is they wouldn't have done it if they had not been told.
Shouldn't background checks for Top Secret clearances that involve employees in closer contact with important government officials screen out those with links to radical ideologies?
Bold of you to assume the Trump administration would've been screening them out.
There's a question on the SF-86
https://news.clearancejobs.com/2020/01/12/extremist-groups-and-your-clearance/
The vetting can be done as was done with the National Guard deployed to DC:
https://www.rand.org/blog/2021/02/what-the-capitol-siege-means-for-the-future-of-security.html
Even National Guard members deployed to serve as an extra layer of security at the inauguration were vetted by the FBI to ensure no infiltration by potential insider threats; 12 National Guard members were removed due to security concerns. One Army reservist with a current security clearance and access to a naval munitions depot in New Jersey was also arrested in connection with the assault on the Capitol.
Wow. So much for background checks.
They did the background checks - just not in the way most people expected.
It feels like one of the flaws in the system is that, while we'd want the agents who surround the president to be vetted more than almost anyone else, it's the executive branch that's responsible and apparently the president can give the okay for someone who doesn't otherwise pass, as we saw happen for his kids. What's to stop a corrupt president from having corrupt USSS agents?
Do you guys not remember how the SS "accidentally" deleted all the texts from SS agents on the day of Jan 6th? "Whoops! Our bad!" Heads should have rolled big time!
I thought the same thing, these guys had a lot of confidence in doing what they did. They must have had that confidence for a reason,. It also explains the appearance of not having an end plan, if they believed the next stage was not their part of the coup. The next part of the plan we may never actually learn but damn we need to find out where the government has been compromised.
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The least cool eye patch wearer.
Dollar store Nick Fury: Nick Missouri
Nick Mildly-Annoyed.
I thought it was Nick Fury from the thumbnail
You don't think he looks "radical"?
You know how I get these scars?
I dropped a gun and shot myself in the face, because I'm a "responsible gun owner."
Well, colour me surprised 9 ways to Sunday and fuck me sideways. You don't say that police attend to associate with right wing terrorists. /s
Just praetorian things.
Ha.
Cops regularly reach out to far right groups for information
Also, far right groups recruit cops and ex-military. The venn diagram of law enforcement to right-wing militia groups has a lot of overlap.
It's a circle.
The degree of rot keeps getting more and more astounding. I say this as someone who is completely unsurprised. Contradiction? Yeah. Both are true at the same time.
Without reading I thought he was a poor man's Nick Fury cosplay....
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