BREAKING>>>>Nunes: Intel community surveiled Trump transition officials

[Cyber Liberty]

    @Frank Cannon I don't mean to hijack this thread but have you figured out how to add yourself to your buddy list, I haven't figured it out yet?

Wouldn't that be like fapping?  As when one "Likes" their own Bookface post?

[Sanguine]

I don't use the buddy list because there is no one worthy of that honor......including myself. I have very high standards.

He just doesn't use them very often....

 

[corbe]

He just doesn't use them very often....

 

   As his avatar indicates everything is high when you've fallen down and can't get up.  He's been that way since the election.

@Frank Cannon

[Cyber Liberty]

You can't fall down if you're already lying on the floor.

Friend of mine used to tell me that, back before he croaked.

[Frank Cannon]

You can't fall down if you're already lying on the floor.

Friend of mine used to tell me that, back before he croaked.

Well you can fall lower than the floor if you die.....approximately 6 feet.

[Cyber Liberty]

Well you can fall lower than the floor if you die.....approximately 6 feet.

Does it count as a fall if somebody else digs the hole for you, even if they used a backhoe?

[LonestarDream]

Indeed it has transpired.

Regardless, the key point is the distribution of whatever was collected. Recall that one of Obama's parting gifts was a large expansion of the agencies who get to routinely look at raw data. 

Perhaps that expansion had good intent and envisioned a good result. But, it surely can be seized on by those with nefarious intent, as has obviously transpired.

Hello Ben Rhodes.

@r9etb
@LonestarDream

[Smokin Joe]

Yes it was a bummer. I came to realize what a minority I really was and that many "conservatives" just want a different flavor of big government that does what they want and are not all that interested in getting government off everyone's backs and back into the constraints of the constitution. As a result I'm partyless for the first time in my adult life.

I really liked the Constitution Party platform, and voted that way, so I check 'other'  or write that in when someone asks--if I choose to give an answer at all. I consider it a loose association, though, for the moment.

[Smokin Joe]

JR did nothing to calm the savages either, I think he figured it was time for another purge, despite claims to the contrary.

Every election year there has been one for a while now. Controversy is good for web hits, but there is a limit. When the witch hunts started, it was time to quietly leave town. Science is sorcery to the primitives, and could get a person burned at the stake for pointing out the obvious.

[Smokin Joe]

I left in 2014 after I got the "soft zot" because I called Michelle Obama a "Wookie."  I private emailed him demanding reinstatement, which he did (he told me it was "raciss"), but I had come to the conclusion the Moderators were an out-of-control bunch of jerks who had it in for me after years of BS and I left, quietly.  I still have post privileges, and I've done so on very rare occasions (like the other day).

I thought there were people there calling the former FLOTUS a 'wookie' from the day that bunch stepped into the limelight. I was surprised anyone suddenly had a problem with that. Raysis? Only if you don't like Wookies!

[Smokin Joe]

@Emjay @Rivergirl I can't believe you guys would put each other on Ignore because you disagree about the relative ease of use of TBR and TOS. 

I think it's funny, considering TOS doesn't have an ignore feature.

[Cyber Liberty]

I thought there were people there calling the former FLOTUS a 'wookie' from the day that bunch stepped into the limelight. I was surprised anyone suddenly had a problem with that. Raysis? Only if you don't like Wookies!

That was the day I decided the Mods were a bunch of Bleeps, and Jimbo was encouraging it.  Eff 'em.

[Smokin Joe]

That was the day I decided the Mods were a bunch of Bleeps, and Jimbo was encouraging it.  Eff 'em.

Well, before I left I noticed new names calling out old hands, and then not getting gigged by the mods. Not only were they violating posting "rules" with personal attacks, there was a thread over there where the "Trump Family" got together and plotted how to 'take out' posters by stalking and gang-spamming them. Wow. When I pointed that out, no one seemed to take notice.
When you are standing next to the police, pointing at the armed robber, trying to call their attention to it, and they look the other way, you know you are in the wrong neighborhood.

[Silver Pines]

Did you notice there's a new Emoji above the posting box?   

@Cyber Liberty

I love that one!

[Cyber Liberty]

@Cyber Liberty

I love that one!

Thank @bigheadfred !

[bigheadfred]

After the afrobutt thing I thought we needed one. But that one had me doing the whole head and eye roll thing.

[Cyber Liberty]

@bigheadfred You're steering the ship....

[Silver Pines]

After the afrobutt thing I thought we needed one. But that one had me doing the whole head and eye roll thing.

@bigheadfred

You did good.  I've already used that little guy.

[Smokin Joe]

Has there ever been an administration so littered with people who worked for foreign governments against American interests.   Manafort did not just fall from the tree, he has been working for DT since the 80s.
None of these people ever bothered to register as agents for foreign interests.
DT did a lot of screeching about lobbyists...........then he filled his transition team with lobbyists.
Yet there are those that would stand up and say.......I believe Donald Trump.

Point well taken. It is the election all over again, oddly enough, only the "Who are you going to believe?" question boils down to a choice between the Democrats/MSM and a candidate who lied and slandered his way to the nomination, and has yet to fulfill promises (it is not done until it is done). This will persist until one or the other establishes credibility, and right now I have the odds even on that, with probability of success low on both sides. 

[Emjay]

Wouldn't that be like fapping?  As when one "Likes" their own Bookface post?

I always do that ... it's the only way I can get likes.

[Emjay]

I think it's funny, considering TOS doesn't have an ignore feature.

TOS has an ignore feature.  I ignore it entirely.

[Cyber Liberty]

TOS has an ignore feature.  I ignore it entirely.

[Smokin Joe]

TOS has an ignore feature.  I ignore it entirely.

:sword: Touche! 

[DiogenesLamp]

Remarkable. 

Here's the deal: I've explained to you what "incidental information" means.  You don't get to just make up alternate definitions to suit your preconceptions.

The point attempting to be made here is that this is exactly what Obama and company may have done with this "incidental"  claim.    They may have deliberately targeted Trump and Co,  while claiming that they only acquired the info from "incidental"  contacts.   

You know,  making up an alternate definition of the word "incidental" to suit their political needs.   

[bigheadfred]

The point attempting to be made here is that this is exactly what Obama and company may have done with this "incidental"  claim.    They may have deliberately targeted Trump and Co,  while claiming that they only acquired the info from "incidental"  contacts.   

You know,  making up an alternate definition of the word "incidental" to suit their political needs.

Is this something like plausible deniability?