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Ah, the list of people Biden will pardon.

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What a great list! it’s my sincere wish that everyone on it is sweating bullets trying to figure out how much money their attorneys are going to cost and how they are going to pay for it! Yep, couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people.

Maybe this will wipe that smirk off of the face of Lisa Page’s paramour-Peter Schmuck-probably spelled his name wrong, but it’s close enough for government work.

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Retribution must be exacted against all traitors and treasonous vermin for their crimes against America. They each need to squeal upon those that put them up to their skullduggery. The lower level pieces of trash should expect a greater rate of suicide. Ie.: “Committed suicide by two shots to the head.” Witness elimination like Clinton witnesses.

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At least he gave them plenty of warning, which was nice of him. Personally speaking, I don't like to show my cards until I'm ready to play them, because let's face it, sometimes all you can do is bluff.

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or fold.

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As a stock trader, something I learned very early in the game:

Your first loss is your best loss. To put it in mathematical terms, if you lose 50% on a position, you have to make 100% return on the next one just to break even.

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Unfortunately these guys don't know how to fold, they just keep doubling down.

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Yes. This is perhaps a gross generalization, but the conclusion I reached over 40+ years in the arena is that they are plenty smart, but they don't know when to quit.

Usually just their own detriment, but when the stakes are large enough, there can be plenty of pain to go around.

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Don't know when? Or don't know how? I tend to think that given the number of players involved, the stakes involved, the personal investments and risks all of them have made and taken, the complexities of no one having a macro view of the historical record, and the entanglements all of them have with one another and the law make jumping off of the train, much less stopping it, very problematic.

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I hear you, dissonant. We may be so far into double down that it is no longer a when choice.

In my more mundane (Wall St, actually) experience, smart guys would often push the envelope beyond what an objective evaluation of all the facts would justify, often, it appeared to me, in the belief that their superior intelligence, or their perceived superior bargaining power, or maybe just their innate sense of superiority, would prevail. Often I observed that these bad bets led to disaster. This is the experience I was referring to.

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Thanks for the clarification, Cassander. Yes that is a very common malady. I think anyone who has had experience in the corporate world has observed this among certain managers. There is a competitive impetus if not an imperative to "get out in front of your skis."

Certainly the financial industry is fertile ground for this as it thrives on speculation based on perceived analytical superiority. I also imagine one has to have a very thick skin in that ultra-competitive environment, as it is prone to very stressful pressures and setbacks.

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He's making a list

He's checking it twice

He's going to find out

Who's naughty and nice

Kash Patel is coming to town

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Whenever a new name appears on my radar I always do a compound search:

<name> + Israel

Sure enough....

https://vinnews.com/2024/12/01/kash-patel-urges-americans-to-prioritize-israel-in-incoming-fbi-role/

Saves a lot of time trying to figure out what their real priorities are.

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The FBI does, in fact, investigate Israeli intel activities in the US. Is that what he means by "prioritizing". It's just that the FBI isn't normally allowed to take any action. There have been some exceptions to that, the most public being the Pollard case. But the Pollard case didn't just come to the FBI's attention by some weird accident or by luck. As the saying goes, you make your own luck.

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No need to over-analyze, just read what he said:

"Kash Patel, who has been tapped as Trump’s choice for the next FBI director, recently made a statement calling for Americans to “wake up” and place a higher priority on supporting Israel. Patel emphasized the need for a strong partnership between the U.S. and Israel, stating that America’s security and global leadership depend on the nation’s commitment to its ally in the Middle East."

Could it be any clearer?

I realize that to get anywhere in American politics you have to pay homage to Israel, but at this point doing that simply makes you complicit in genocide. Frankly I don't see a way around the problem, so now I just take them at their word.

"It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world" --George Washington.

"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none." --Thomas Jefferson.

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Sorry, shoulda included a </sarc> tag re the prioritizing. But the rest is true.

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Is it time for some Gallows humor?

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Ask and you shall receive (stand back!)

https://gallowshumormag.substack.com/p/weekly-news-massacre-647

Kash and Curry

Trump’s proposed new FBI director, one Kashyap “Kash” Patel, has many on the left nervous due to his brash style and proven efficiency in hotel management, but he is also quite the entrepreneur.

Over the past four years the Kash-man has sold such things as a Kash-themed Punisher Scarf (LOL), pills for reversing the effects of the (Trump-approved but let’s not bogged down in details) vax, and a children’s book in which “Kash the wizard” saves “King Donald” from “Hillary Queenston” (impressive subtlety).

It remains to be seen whether the wild Indian will be confirmed by the senate, or whether it turns out they don’t accept kash—but one thing is for sure, whatever the future holds for Kash, Kash will find a way to kash in.

When asked what he thinks of Mr. Patel, Disney CEO Bob Iger said, “Wow! If we ever do a live-action version of Casper the Friendly Ghost, we have our man.”

There are hot links in the Gallows Humor 'Stack. All too many of them.

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Tx. I had a vague recollection of his entrepeneurial side.

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I dislike the way the Right gives derogatory nicknames. But if turnabout is fair play, then let me introduce Krass Patel.

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Here's a thought. deSantis, the former JAG, as head of FBI with Patel sitting on his right shoulder telling him where the bodies are. deSantis might have the guts to take them on. And I personally found his statements on Ukraine indiscernable from Biden's. Just mealy-mouthed "of course we don't want war, unless you really deserve it (which you do)" nonsense.

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It's a start!

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Bring it on!!

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That's quite a list of criminals.

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I haven't read Patel's book. These people may all be DS operators, but they may not all have committed actual crimes.

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That's filed under the rubric of "Plausible Deniability" for political criminals and traitors.

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We need a ranked-choice poll, here. There are levels of evil, corresponding with circles in Hell.

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We caught them all. -Trump

Future proves past.

NCSWIC

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Statute of limitations? Durham / Barr deliberate ran out the clock on many charges already.

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Not necessarily. Many charges isn't all charges. And then there's always the prospect of process charges arising from investigations.

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how about the consequences of legal defense draining their wealth?

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Or, as in Me Too, guilty until proved innocent:

accusation = guilt = punishment

So much for due process of law.

Its a slippery slope with plenty of consequences.

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Just forcing them to lawyer up and spend all of that time and money defending themselves would almost be enough

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as above, Yes!

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Good f***ing luck. He is a little short on sense. Those people against Trump and our country? I think the score is about 65-3.

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Would we be looking for a moral victory vs. a historical comeback for the win! A big deficit to overcome, indeed, Jeff.

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