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LordMortis wrote: Wed Jul 05, 2023 5:33 pm

Jaymann wrote: Wed Jul 05, 2023 4:35 pm Nevertheless, the gray-matter challenged will try to paint this as Biden is a drug crazed zombie being propped up by evil white powder. I don't even have to verify.

Won't it be a Hunter visit to White House that Biden is personally covering up?

Smoove_B wrote: Thu Jul 06, 2023 1:55 pm

LordMortis wrote: Wed Jul 05, 2023 5:33 pm

Jaymann wrote: Wed Jul 05, 2023 4:35 pm Nevertheless, the gray-matter challenged will try to paint this as Biden is a drug crazed zombie being propped up by evil white powder. I don't even have to verify.

Won't it be a Hunter visit to White House that Biden is personally covering up?

It's amazing to me the amount of investigative and media space being given to a bag of cocaine and yet 2.5 years later we still don't know who planted bombs on the night of 1/5/21 around D.C. ahead of the attack on the Capitol.

LawBeefaroni wrote: Thu Jul 06, 2023 2:52 pm Media maybe is making a big deal but now that they know it was coke, I don't think there's much investigation going on. At least not until the House forms a committee to investigate.

Smoove_B wrote: Thu Jul 06, 2023 3:35 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote: Thu Jul 06, 2023 2:52 pm Media maybe is making a big deal but now that they know it was coke, I don't think there's much investigation going on. At least not until the House forms a committee to investigate.

I thought I'd read (over the weekend?) that the Secret Service was conducting an investigation into what happened? Maybe I interpreted that wrong and they just looked around and shrugged their shoulders, but I took it it to mean they were formally doing something.

malchior wrote: Thu Jul 06, 2023 3:51 pm

Smoove_B wrote: Thu Jul 06, 2023 3:35 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote: Thu Jul 06, 2023 2:52 pm Media maybe is making a big deal but now that they know it was coke, I don't think there's much investigation going on. At least not until the House forms a committee to investigate.

I thought I'd read (over the weekend?) that the Secret Service was conducting an investigation into what happened? Maybe I interpreted that wrong and they just looked around and shrugged their shoulders, but I took it it to mean they were formally doing something.

What I read was that they couldn't identify where it came from and essentially wouldn't be able to figure it out. Of course that absolutely means it was a cover up.

Mysterious White Powder Found In West Wing Identified As President Biden

LawBeefaroni wrote: Thu Jul 06, 2023 2:52 pm Media maybe is making a big deal but now that they know it was coke, I don't think there's much investigation going on. At least not until the House forms a committee to investigate.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is requesting a Secret Service briefing on the recent discovery of a bag of cocaine at the White House.

In a letter Friday to Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, Comer, R-Ky., said he wanted a staff-level briefing by the end of next week as his committee seeks more details about the cocaine that was found in a highly trafficked part of the West Wing on Sunday, prompting a brief evacuation.

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In an accompanying statement, Comer said the incident “and the eventual evacuation of staff now clearly raises concerns about the level of security maintained at the White House.”

The Secret Service did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for comment on Comer's letter.

GreenGoo wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 2:12 pm I don't find that particularly unusual. I think finding drugs, particularly any of the more illicit drugs, in the white house is something that needs to be followed up on, even if it turns out to be nothing in the end.

GreenGoo wrote: Sat Jul 08, 2023 11:26 am I'm not sure. I think the other branches have a right to know wtf is going on. Should they have authority over the investigation? Probably not. Who should? Not the white house. Asking for a report from the SS hardly seems over reaching. At least imo.

Alefroth wrote: Sat Jul 08, 2023 4:14 pm What makes it worthy of the attention of congress? Just the fact that it was in the WH?

Holman wrote: Sat Jul 08, 2023 4:42 pm The White House in every administration has a huge staff made up of go-getters and climbers of all ages and stages of their careers.

I assume that there has been some amount of coke, speed, or other stimulant on the premises every day since the late 1950s, at least.

GreenGoo wrote: Sat Jul 08, 2023 7:25 pm

Holman wrote: Sat Jul 08, 2023 4:42 pm The White House in every administration has a huge staff made up of go-getters and climbers of all ages and stages of their careers.

I assume that there has been some amount of coke, speed, or other stimulant on the premises every day since the late 1950s, at least.

Almost certainly. So just ignore?

The quote above is the house just asking for a report from the secret service. Hey secret service, we heard about the cocaine, what's the deal?

I don't understand wtf is happening in this thread.

GreenGoo wrote: Sat Jul 08, 2023 7:25 pm

Holman wrote: Sat Jul 08, 2023 4:42 pm The White House in every administration has a huge staff made up of go-getters and climbers of all ages and stages of their careers.

I assume that there has been some amount of coke, speed, or other stimulant on the premises every day since the late 1950s, at least.

Almost certainly. So just ignore?

The quote above is the house just asking for a report from the secret service. Hey secret service, we heard about the cocaine, what's the deal?

I don't understand wtf is happening in this thread.

"This alarming development requires the Committee to assess White House security practices and determine whose failures led to an evacuation of the building and finding of the illegal substance," Comer wrote.

"The presence of illegal drugs in the White House is unacceptable and a shameful moment in the White House’s history," he added.

Isgrimnur wrote: Sat Jul 08, 2023 8:33 pm

"This alarming development requires the Committee to assess White House security practices and determine whose failures led to an evacuation of the building and finding of the illegal substance," Comer wrote.

"The presence of illegal drugs in the White House is unacceptable and a shameful moment in the White House’s history," he added.

Ratfucking.

Blackhawk wrote: Sat Jul 08, 2023 7:38 pm Because it isn't what is happening in this thread that we are responding to. It is what is happening in the conservative media and in the Republican party as they take yet another non-issue and try to blow it up into something massive because they hope it'll make a Democrat look bad.

This is Hillary sending email from Hunter's laptop in the basement of a pizza parlor, and we're fed up with it.

Apollo wrote: Mon Jul 10, 2023 4:05 pm The NYT just reported that Erdogan has agreed to allow Sweden into NATO.

Accidentally posted this in the wrong forum earlier, so forgive me.

Blackhawk wrote: Mon Jul 10, 2023 4:21 pm

Apollo wrote: Mon Jul 10, 2023 4:05 pm The NYT just reported that Erdogan has agreed to allow Sweden into NATO.

Accidentally posted this in the wrong forum earlier, so forgive me.

First he pisses off Putin by releasing Ukrainian prisoners of war, now this. Is this Russia looking weak, leading Turkey to back away? Or did someone else make them a better offer?

In exchange for giving a green light to Sweden this time, Erdogan got Stockholm to agree to continue counterterrorism cooperation with Ankara. Sweden also said it would push inside the European Union to reduce trade barriers with Turkey and to make it easier for Turkish citizens to enter the E.U. Stoltenberg agreed to appoint a NATO counterterrorism coordinator, long a request of Turkey’s.

The joint news release said Sweden “reiterates” it would not support groups Turkey regards as terrorist entities — a key Erdogan demand — including a movement accused of trying to overthrow Erdogan’s government in 2016 and a Kurdish militia in Syria affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has fought a long insurgency against the Turkish government.

Turkey’s main focus, analysts said, has been the completion of a $20 billion deal for American F-16 fighter jets, an agreement that is backed by the Biden administration but has faced opposition on Capitol Hill.

The planes were not mentioned by Stoltenberg nor by the Turkish and Swedish leaders in their joint declaration, and it was not immediately clear whether there had been a side deal with the United States. Some senators, including Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), have vowed to block the sale of the jets until Sweden is admitted to NATO.

Max Peck wrote: Tue Jul 11, 2023 12:15 am Turkey drops

“I’m holding the military accountable; others are holding our national security hostage by forcing their agenda where it doesn’t belong," Tuberville said in March. "Americans want a military focused on a national defense − and that’s what I’m fighting for.”