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  • George KG George K

    @doctor-phibes said in Spying?:

    I have no wish to take the test, and I don't mind not voting. Them's the rules.

    So, you have no desire to be "special," because "them's the rules."

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    Doctor Phibes
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    #105

    @george-k said in Spying?:

    @doctor-phibes said in Spying?:

    I have no wish to take the test, and I don't mind not voting. Them's the rules.

    So, you have no desire to be "special," because "them's the rules."

    I'm special enough already.

    I was only joking

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    • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

      @george-k said in Spying?:

      @doctor-phibes said in Spying?:

      I have no wish to take the test, and I don't mind not voting. Them's the rules.

      So, you have no desire to be "special," because "them's the rules."

      I'm special enough already.

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      Jolly
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      #106

      @doctor-phibes said in Spying?:

      @george-k said in Spying?:

      @doctor-phibes said in Spying?:

      I have no wish to take the test, and I don't mind not voting. Them's the rules.

      So, you have no desire to be "special," because "them's the rules."

      I'm special enough already.

      Short bus doesn't count...

      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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      • George KG George K

        @catseye3 said in Spying?:

        Only 32 percent of Americans can name all 3 branches of government. Only 57% know that Thomas Jefferson was the main author of the Declaration of Independence.

        Being an asshole or a blowhard doesn't remove your rights and protections.

        Neither does being an ignoranus.

        (that wasn't a typo)

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        Catseye3
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        #107

        @george-k I was addressing Jolly's assertion that if we can't agree on this, it's over. If, as is likely, a sufficiency of Americans don't even know what NSA is, we're hardly in shape to agree (or disagree) on anything having to do with the NSA. It's far more likely to be "over" over much more elementary issues.

        And we're not there yet by a long shot.

        Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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        • JollyJ Jolly

          @doctor-phibes said in Spying?:

          @george-k said in Spying?:

          @doctor-phibes said in Spying?:

          I have no wish to take the test, and I don't mind not voting. Them's the rules.

          So, you have no desire to be "special," because "them's the rules."

          I'm special enough already.

          Short bus doesn't count...

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          Doctor Phibes
          wrote on last edited by
          #108

          @jolly said in Spying?:

          @doctor-phibes said in Spying?:

          @george-k said in Spying?:

          @doctor-phibes said in Spying?:

          I have no wish to take the test, and I don't mind not voting. Them's the rules.

          So, you have no desire to be "special," because "them's the rules."

          I'm special enough already.

          Short bus doesn't count...

          My goal is to put the colon back into the colony.

          I was only joking

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          • George KG George K

            @doctor-phibes said in Spying?:

            Those annotations look a little like Glenn Beck's infamous chalk-board.

            Agreed.

            Now, show me where they're wrong.

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            Aqua Letifer
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            #109

            @george-k said in Spying?:

            @doctor-phibes said in Spying?:

            Those annotations look a little like Glenn Beck's infamous chalk-board.

            Agreed.

            Now, show me where they're wrong.

            It's up to them to back up their own silly claims, not the other person to disprove them. Argument Construction 101.

            Please love yourself.

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              Jolly
              wrote on last edited by
              #110

              Bullshit. 500 graduate level.

              “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

              Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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              • CopperC Copper

                @loki said in Spying?:

                All interesting convo but until Fox gets on board

                They gave him millions of dollars worth of air time to tell the story

                I believe that is a lot like being on board

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                #111

                @copper said in Spying?:

                @loki said in Spying?:

                All interesting convo but until Fox gets on board

                They gave him millions of dollars worth of air time to tell the story

                I believe that is a lot like being on board

                So they are turning down a massive scoop for some other news source? So many leaps of faith one has to take to get there.

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                  Doctor Phibes
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #112

                  As George would say, it's all about the Benjamins.

                  I was only joking

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                    George K
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                    #113

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                      Loki
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                      #114

                      Isn’t there a way to interview the whistleblower to see what actions should be taken next? I know Congress has a history of fishing expeditions and man did we witness that for the past four years especially but it doesn’t make fishing expeditions right. There should be a threshold and it seems to me the whistleblower holds all the relevant cards right now.

                      Also a news organization who has actually seen Tucker’s emails would be helpful.

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                        Copper
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                        #115

                        Nice demand

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                          Loki
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                          #116

                          So reporters are trying to validate Carlson’s claims and provide interesting new details that would be relevant.

                          https://theweek.com/tucker-carlson/1002436/fox-news-host-tucker-carlson-seems-scandalized-reporters-are-investigating

                          Carlson is holding his cards close to what he is alleging. He’s got a humdinger of a case if he has the smoking gun. No one has seen it yet.

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                          • CopperC Copper

                            Nice demand

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                            Loki
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                            #117

                            @copper said in Spying?:

                            Nice demand

                            So you advocate any journalist finding a congressman to start an investigation without a shred of evidence. Sounds very 1984.

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                              Copper
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                              #118

                              @loki said in Spying?:

                              a shred of evidence

                              He has a shred of evidence

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                              • CopperC Copper

                                @loki said in Spying?:

                                a shred of evidence

                                He has a shred of evidence

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                                Loki
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                                #119

                                @copper said in Spying?:

                                @loki said in Spying?:

                                a shred of evidence

                                He has a shred of evidence

                                I maybe be missing his evidence. As far as I can tell he says a whistleblower told him but I haven’t seen any corroborating evidence. What am I missing? He didn’t share any emails, he didn’t have anyone else talk to the whistleblower, right?

                                Do you really just get to make an allegation? I’ve been fighting that with TDS for 5 years now.

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                                  @copper said in Spying?:

                                  @loki said in Spying?:

                                  a shred of evidence

                                  He has a shred of evidence

                                  I maybe be missing his evidence. As far as I can tell he says a whistleblower told him but I haven’t seen any corroborating evidence. What am I missing? He didn’t share any emails, he didn’t have anyone else talk to the whistleblower, right?

                                  Do you really just get to make an allegation? I’ve been fighting that with TDS for 5 years now.

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                                  Horace
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                                  #120

                                  @loki said in Spying?:

                                  @copper said in Spying?:

                                  @loki said in Spying?:

                                  a shred of evidence

                                  He has a shred of evidence

                                  I maybe be missing his evidence. As far as I can tell he says a whistleblower told him but I haven’t seen any corroborating evidence. What am I missing? He didn’t share any emails, he didn’t have anyone else talk to the whistleblower, right?

                                  Do you really just get to make an allegation? I’ve been fighting that with TDS for 5 years now.

                                  What is Mr Paul's motivation? Political tribalism?

                                  When we saw the investigations into Cavanaugh, that was clearly tribalism. What about Mr Paul?

                                  Education is extremely important.

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                                    Horace
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                                    #121

                                    The NSA was eager to respond when this story first broke, with their non-denial denial. "Mr Carlson has never been an intelligence target". Will they be as eager to respond to Mr Paul's four questions? If not, why not? I bet they will not answer those questions, at least not without an investigation.

                                    Of course, recent history shows us, as Mr Paul notes, that it is far, far from an "implausible conspiracy theory" that the NSA might employ people with security clearance and political axes to grind, and without the requisite honor as human beings to not grind those axes.

                                    When pop culture welcomes such tribal righteousness with open arms, who can blame them? They are only human, operating as humans always have, and always will. That's why they need to be held in check. I respect Mr Paul's attempt to do so.

                                    Education is extremely important.

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                                    • HoraceH Horace

                                      The NSA was eager to respond when this story first broke, with their non-denial denial. "Mr Carlson has never been an intelligence target". Will they be as eager to respond to Mr Paul's four questions? If not, why not? I bet they will not answer those questions, at least not without an investigation.

                                      Of course, recent history shows us, as Mr Paul notes, that it is far, far from an "implausible conspiracy theory" that the NSA might employ people with security clearance and political axes to grind, and without the requisite honor as human beings to not grind those axes.

                                      When pop culture welcomes such tribal righteousness with open arms, who can blame them? They are only human, operating as humans always have, and always will. That's why they need to be held in check. I respect Mr Paul's attempt to do so.

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                                      Loki
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                                      #122

                                      @horace said in Spying?:

                                      The NSA was eager to respond when this story first broke, with their non-denial denial. "Mr Carlson has never been an intelligence target". Will they be as eager to respond to Mr Paul's four questions? If not, why not? I bet they will not answer those questions, at least not without an investigation.

                                      Of course, recent history shows us, as Mr Paul notes, that it is far, far from an "implausible conspiracy theory" that the NSA might employ people with security clearance and political axes to grind, and without the requisite honor as human beings to not grind those axes.

                                      When pop culture welcomes such tribal righteousness with open arms, who can blame them? They are only human, operating as humans always have, and always will. That's why they need to be held in check. I respect Mr Paul's attempt to do so.

                                      So every fishing expedition must be responded to?

                                      This thread is full of wordy words….and no evidence.

                                      Let me repeat…NO evidence. He said he/she said. Seriously. Kafkaesque to demand so much with no evidence to be followed up on.

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                                      • HoraceH Horace

                                        @loki said in Spying?:

                                        @copper said in Spying?:

                                        @loki said in Spying?:

                                        a shred of evidence

                                        He has a shred of evidence

                                        I maybe be missing his evidence. As far as I can tell he says a whistleblower told him but I haven’t seen any corroborating evidence. What am I missing? He didn’t share any emails, he didn’t have anyone else talk to the whistleblower, right?

                                        Do you really just get to make an allegation? I’ve been fighting that with TDS for 5 years now.

                                        What is Mr Paul's motivation? Political tribalism?

                                        When we saw the investigations into Cavanaugh, that was clearly tribalism. What about Mr Paul?

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                                        Loki
                                        wrote on last edited by Loki
                                        #123

                                        @horace said in Spying?:

                                        @loki said in Spying?:

                                        @copper said in Spying?:

                                        @loki said in Spying?:

                                        a shred of evidence

                                        He has a shred of evidence

                                        I maybe be missing his evidence. As far as I can tell he says a whistleblower told him but I haven’t seen any corroborating evidence. What am I missing? He didn’t share any emails, he didn’t have anyone else talk to the whistleblower, right?

                                        Do you really just get to make an allegation? I’ve been fighting that with TDS for 5 years now.

                                        What is Mr Paul's motivation? Political tribalism?

                                        When we saw the investigations into Cavanaugh, that was clearly tribalism. What about Mr Paul?

                                        I think Mr. Paul is not unreasonable to ask, it’s better than the poo flung at Trump by the likes of Schiff, but still there should something other than Carlson’s word.

                                        Carlson, where’s the beef???? Show us what you got.

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                                          @horace said in Spying?:

                                          The NSA was eager to respond when this story first broke, with their non-denial denial. "Mr Carlson has never been an intelligence target". Will they be as eager to respond to Mr Paul's four questions? If not, why not? I bet they will not answer those questions, at least not without an investigation.

                                          Of course, recent history shows us, as Mr Paul notes, that it is far, far from an "implausible conspiracy theory" that the NSA might employ people with security clearance and political axes to grind, and without the requisite honor as human beings to not grind those axes.

                                          When pop culture welcomes such tribal righteousness with open arms, who can blame them? They are only human, operating as humans always have, and always will. That's why they need to be held in check. I respect Mr Paul's attempt to do so.

                                          So every fishing expedition must be responded to?

                                          This thread is full of wordy words….and no evidence.

                                          Let me repeat…NO evidence. He said he/she said. Seriously. Kafkaesque to demand so much with no evidence to be followed up on.

                                          HoraceH Offline
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                                          Horace
                                          wrote on last edited by
                                          #124

                                          @loki said in Spying?:

                                          @horace said in Spying?:

                                          The NSA was eager to respond when this story first broke, with their non-denial denial. "Mr Carlson has never been an intelligence target". Will they be as eager to respond to Mr Paul's four questions? If not, why not? I bet they will not answer those questions, at least not without an investigation.

                                          Of course, recent history shows us, as Mr Paul notes, that it is far, far from an "implausible conspiracy theory" that the NSA might employ people with security clearance and political axes to grind, and without the requisite honor as human beings to not grind those axes.

                                          When pop culture welcomes such tribal righteousness with open arms, who can blame them? They are only human, operating as humans always have, and always will. That's why they need to be held in check. I respect Mr Paul's attempt to do so.

                                          So every fishing expedition must be responded to?

                                          This thread is full of wordy words….and no evidence.

                                          Let me repeat…NO evidence. He said he/she said. Seriously. Kafkaesque to demand so much with no evidence to be followed up on.

                                          We're all treating this as something more than a random person making an accusation. Maybe we're all deluded, but our priors about Mr Carlson and what he has to lose if this is made up, are a form of evidence.

                                          Education is extremely important.

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