The Conservative Cave

usonian (21,093 posts)
1. Apparently in today's society, taking a walk around the block without identification is risking zip restraints ...

You are (we are) almost Black now.
Black Americans are just plain shot and killed for doing so.

White privilege? not much, but beats being summarily executed.

lame54 (38,533 posts)
14. The day will come...
Reply to BeneteauBum (Original post)
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 04:13 PM
When someone with a MAGA hat shows up to tell you to get out because your house is now theirs

liberalgunwilltravel (947 posts)
17. What is coming

Is rather than citizens presenting their papers they are going to start presenting their AR15s, Mini14s, Glocks, Sigs, Colts, S&Ws, Rugers, Ithicas, Remingtons, Barettas, Barretts, Savages, Brownings, Marlins, Springfield Armories, and whatever other weapon they can get their hands on. That's a sad reality as to where we are headed unless the coward Republicans in Congress and the courts stand up to the fascist. And that will lead to unnecessary deaths and suffering. And it's just what the Nazis want to happen. But once it does, there's no telling how things will end. How did we become such a stupid nation?

Recently declassified documents indicate that people close to former FBI Director James Comey and Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff were connected to leaks of classified information to prominent reporters designed to portray Donald Trump and his allies as being in league with Russia.  

Written in 2017, the FBI documents expose how selected Washington reporters, including Ellen Nakashima of The Washington Post and Michael Schmidt of The New York Times, scored a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning scoops in 2017 by repeating false and inflammatory leaks during President Trump’s first term.

Much of their reporting has been debunked and shown to be part of a smear campaign by high-ranking officials to undermine Trump, but the identities of those leakers have remained hidden because of the government’s apparent unwillingness to expose its own and the refusal of reporters to identify the people who misled them and the nation.   

Although the heavily redacted recent disclosures do not specifically identify the suspected leakers, an RCI analysis of the documents strongly suggests that people close to Comey and Schiff, among others, were feeding the reporters information to advance the Russiagate hoax. 
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The documents also detail the incestuous nature of media-government relationships inside the D.C. Beltway. In some cases, spouses and friends of government officials and reporters were used to spread damaging misinformation about Trump, making it difficult for federal investigators to follow the trail of illegal disclosures.  

“All of these cozy friendships of leakers and leaker recipients, many of whom are married to each other, are precisely why reporters adore hiding their sourcing behind walls of ‘senior administration officials’ or ‘senior U.S. officials’ and associated disguises,” said Tim Graham, director of media analysis for the Media Research Center, a Washington-based journalism watchdog group.

‘Topple the Administration’ 
The new disclosures include the previously sealed testimony of an FBI informant who had worked on the Democratic side of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for more than a decade, who told agents that “all hell broke loose” after Trump’s surprising 2016 election win. In February 2017, he asserted, Schiff, then a House member, hatched a plan to weaponize U.S. intelligence to smear Trump in the media as a Kremlin conspirator with the goal of triggering his impeachment. Schiff was the ranking Democratic member of the committee at the time.

They’re talking out of both sides of their mouths. They’ll claim, on the one hand, that deportations are bad and will hurt the economy. Then they’ll claim that Obama and Biden deported more people, and praise the economy under those two.