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In the military, they're called Rules of Engagement. Even the dumbest private has the standard rules of engagement regarding deadly force memorized, it's a requirement for graduation from boot camp. And yes, every operational order includes the rules of engagement for that operation, even when there is no change from whatever is standard for that time and place (obviously, the rules of engagement are going to be different in a combat zone than they would be for peacetime guard duty in a stateside base).

The FBI isn't any different. Executing a search warrant is an operation, one where there is a small but real risk of armed resistance, so their rules of engagement are gonna be repeated in the order.

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What point does the person saying, “ Now we know how the Nazis got Germans to load the trains. It’s standard procedure for all the Jews to get on” think they’re making? Of course the Nazis behaved like there was nothing odd about loading all the Jewish people onto trains. Is the idea that the FBI pretended it was a normal raid?

Wait, I’m forgetting that this person likely doesn’t have a point and just wanted to cast PAB in the role of the wrongfully persecuted. Someday I’ll learn.

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This is gonna be their excuse. For what? Whatever.

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What's the really long German word for when 'someone thinks their ignorance is secret knowledge.' [???]

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May 24·edited May 24

The short English version is MAGA.

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"the human Dr. Pimple Popper excavations who watch Fox."

Oh, Evan 🤣🤣🤣

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Imagine living a life where you believe everyone is a liar, the government is corrupt and has an agenda to destroy mankind, and the only person you can trust is the one who lied a documented 30,000 times in 4 years, or about 20 times a day. That’s bleak.

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I give a married couple who can't drive rides to doctor's appointments, grocery store, etc.

One weird quirk the guy has is that, if we run across any change from the norm in the world, new construction, repairs to existing infrastructure, that sort of thing, he automatically starts compiling lists of people who could possibly be corruptly benefiting from this change.

Like I said, weird.

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Birds aren’t real.

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Birds are real, but they're psychically linked with their ancient cousins, the Evolved Shape-Dinosaurs who run the illuminati from beneath the hollow earth, and are used as a kind of bio drone/ spy camera

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Of course not. They're augmented reality, placed in our brains by Bill Gates' nanobots.

Except penguins. Penguins are real.

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May 24·edited May 24

BUT you never see a penguin with a polar bear! What about THAT!.??

See?!, More proof. Besides, penguins are too cute to be real and we don’t deserve them.

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“They didn’t do it against Joe Biden when they seized his records.”

Not surprisingly, they relied on the same policy for both. However, it would make sense if they used far more caution with Trump. He was a former president who reluctantly vacated the White House after attempting a coup and to use force and coercion to remain in office. He was disgruntled. Furthermore, he refused to cooperate. He ignored demands and offers and his lawyers lied when they pinky swore Poppy had no more stolen documents. He did have more. He was stockpiling it for some reason. He had surveillance footage destroyed. He ordered staff to lie.

Biden, on the other hand is a sitting POTUS. He invited the FBI to come in, search, remove any classified information. He cooperated. He agreed those documents did not belong to him. Trump claimed the classified documents were his. Or he declassified them with his mind. Or they were shredded and being used as potty butt paper, or something. The FBI were coming into MAGA compound to take back property Trump claimed didn’t exist and belonged to him. Violence was possible. He had urged his J6 followers to “fight like hell,” after all. What would he order his security to do at his compound if he was under some perceived threat?

So Boxwine and all the other drunk or brain damaged nutters can talk about the disparate handling of the seizures, but there wasn’t any. Had there been, it would have made all the sense in the world.

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If President Biden or Future President Harris ever orders Donald Trump assassinated, that would be legal, according to Trump's lawyers, because the president is allowed to do anything as an official state action even after they leave office.

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Hay you guyzes, remember when these same chuds couldn't shut up about President Obama's birth certificate, and they were all WHARRGARRBL WHAR BIRF SIRFATICKET??

And then he finally shared it (which I personally think was a mistake, but I suppose he thought that would call their bluff), and THAT INSTANT, they were like FAKE!!!!ONE!1

Nothing on earf... sorry, earth... will convince people who are determined to go through life going LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!! because they think ANY facts and evidence are a conspiracy to trick them.

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Traitor in chief wasn't even there. SS was informed by FBI beforehand. Lousy, inept TFG assassinators. These rubes need to talk to Putin. Now THERE's a guy who knows a thing or two about assassinations.

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"No 10th floor windows were damaged at any point during the serving of these FBI warrants."

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"Order"? Not *order*, no.

Now WANT? You didn't ask that.

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I wonder about Maria Bartiromo. I can't really work up to hating her because I can't shake the sense, based on nothing, that at some point something truly terrible happened to her.

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Idc if something terrible happened to her. She is something terrible happening to the rest of us.

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𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥.

Or it’s a bot swamp, a directed effort to overwhelm with dezinformatsiya, false equivalence, and doubt.

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Both, to one degree or another. It’s a toxic pool of Russian bots, right wing trolls and MAGA true believers who enjoy consuming ANY material that affirms their backward, twisted belief that Joe Biden, a pretty moderate career democrat with a history of bipartisan success is the devil.

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Ta, Evan. So very much stupidity in this country, to go along with the meanness, intolerance, rudeness, and I'd better stop before I really get angry.

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"huffing bath salts off each other’s asscracks."

That's disgusting! Use cocaine!

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A voice of reason at Faux? MADNESS!

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