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One thing that really irks me about them stonewalling on the Hunter laptop is that exposing it would have completely exonerated Trump in that impeachment of him by the Interagency.

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Aug 27, 2022·edited Aug 27, 2022

Barr is very disappointing. They talk a big game then, crickets. The swamp enlarges. Middle class White Americans take it right in the gonads, hard.

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Barr is the poster child for Lord Acton’s dictum that “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. He is not only blind to the extent of his own hubris, but that same trait in others as well, as in the case of Chris Wray! Barr obviously missed Wray’s infuriating performance in front of Senator Grassley’s committee, “Wish I could stick around Senator, but I’ve got a plane to catch”………what an arrogant, self-important sob. Hey Barr, you think you could take your head out of your butt long enough to realize that you were, are and will be forever a shame and disgrace because of your cowardly dereliction of duty during your time as AG. Your “insights” are just more bureaucratic horse manure and quite frankly, nobody gives a crap what you think.

I’m just so furious with this clown, but it has not escaped my attention that not one Republican has called him out publicly for his sanctimonious blather.

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Didn't ShipwreckedCrew have all sorts of explanations for why the FBI might have not done what we wanted them to do with Hunter's Laptop for that entire year? I haven't bothered to check his feed in a long while, wonder what he's saying these days.

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A reliable source says it was Barr who leaked the fake Matt Gaetz sex trafficking story to the NYT. Barr is a career bureaucrat who seems to enjoy gossiping as much as he like eclairs.

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I sort of like the old tradition of naming things after something they're not, or with which they're never actually associated, e.g. Curly Howard of the three stooges with his shaved head.

I give you . . . "Salad Barr"!

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Sadly but predictably I see that the never-quite-recovered liberal Rod Dreher thought Bluto's performance was brilliant. He sees no irony in Bluto--a guy who never in his life ran for office--is advising a guy who ran for president and won against all odds that the solution is ... to win elections. Reading between his lines, Bluto claims the secret to winning elections is to run as a moderate, rather than running on clear principles and knocks Trump for being "all about himself." Of course, that's Bluto knocking a guy who never says a mean thing about his team players as long as they're loyal to him, too. As Deplorable Dave says, sad display of sanctimony and back stabbing. The subtext is Barr's seeming belief that the system still works, as long as the Establishment is at the controls.

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Barr is right. We have "to channel those feelings in a constructive direction," and then "to win an election with a decisive majority that allows you to put a program into effect and deal with some of these problems going forward and fix them." That would include prosecuting all those who betrayed our trust and ran roughshod over the rules, facilitating an illegal transfer of power and then glorifying in it. We cannot allow our local Congressional elections to be stolen in November.

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I wonder how far down Bluto's throat a truly committed interrogator could wedge his bag pipes?

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Barr is like the British commander in The Bridge on the River Kwai.

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We've got to build a bridge for the DNC to keep conservatives from becoming a disorganized rabble.

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OMG, where do these supposed 'leaders' like Barr get their ethics?! No matter what, in the final analysis truth is truth and lies are lies and all people learn that in childhood, unless they're psychopaths or have antisocial personality disorders. When Trump said 'it's a swamp, he could have added septic tank, sewer, or a ring of hell. I am so sick of government lies.

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Aug 26, 2022·edited Aug 26, 2022

He's at the top of the list of the corruptocrats. A deep state plant to protect the deep state.

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The Swamp at its most disgusting -- that's Barr.

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Right. The Fed is simply the enemy of our other enemies for the moment and the lesser of the two threats--at this time.

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Naivete isn't steering Barr.

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Isn't it infuriating? To paraphrase, "We let every dirty, disingenuous, dishonest trick in the book slide right on by. Why won't the rest of you deplorables do that too?"

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