Politico notes that the appeals panel hearing our case had deep reservations about the government’s arguments, with Judge Patricia Millett asking: “Can the president then offer on eBay to sell them, all of our national security secrets, to the highest bidder?”

The government’s response was, in short, “yes.”

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[–] 113 points 1 week ago (10 children)

They aren't even hiding the corruption any more, the enforcement arm is mostly MAGA and if we don't do something it will get much worse.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 week ago (8 children)

    You'd think it has bottomed out, and you'd be wrong.

    All it takes for evil to flower is good people not weeding.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Armed, masked men kidnap and murder with impunity on American streets and not a single round has been fired in their direction. Nothing, nothing, has made me more aware that we are done as a country.

    Anyway, I'm actively looking for them. None within 100+ miles so far. I'm not ready to die, I'll be scared shitless, but I'm opening fire if I see masked men abducting people on my streets. I'll die, but I won't die regretting cowardly inaction.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 week ago* (5 children)

    Armed, masked men kidnap and murder with impunity on American streets and not a single round has been fired in their direction.

    Trump had at least one assassination attempt, and Charlie Kirk got murdered.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    trumpletantrum had a staged assassination attempt to sucker fools like you into sympathy votes. And Charlie Kirk died protecting the gunmans rights to give him a much needed emergency tracheotomy.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    So the same Secret Service that Biden purged, and Trump wasn't in charge of, was in on it? Biden's FBI who concluded it was a real attempt was in on it? The NYT photographer that caught the bullet in flight was in on it?

    Here's the best part, and I want you to repeat it, "Brave Donald Trump schemed to have a teenager fire live rifle rounds at him from 350'. And because Trump is known to run tight-lipped, crack teams of professionals, there wasn't a single leak."

    How'd that sympathy vote go BTW? A very short, single-digit bump in the polls?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago*

    They’re not hiding it because every time they do their corrupt shit, no one comes to drag his coward ass out and separate his hemispheres on the Shite House lawn.

    So, it boils down to this:

    If you’re above the law, there is no law. He has proven this time and again.

    And if the only recourse we have isn’t even allowed to be spoken because of some bullshit Voldemortian code that doesn’t allow open defiance of fascism, then I’m afraid there just isn’t much we can do.

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  • [–] 105 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Aaron Schwartz got hounded to suicide by the Feds for downloading a library of scholarly articles.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Good people are in disadvantage in this fight :(

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    good people are at a disadvantage in every fight.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago*

    Are good people really good people if they make the world safe for evil people?

    Maybe those aren’t good people. Just passive people.

    There was a time when openly calling yourself a nazi, for example, would have gotten the shit kicked out of you. And rightfully so. Now good people just don’t respond.

    I’m a little bit old, but that came with a genuine lack of shit for my own safety.

    I’ve gotten into 3 solid fights in the last year with the kind of people you see in London Tommy Robinson rallies.

    I really like the idea that I made this time quite shit for a couple of bald head racist dickheads.

    I think they should be scared of being proud racists.

    I’m as white as they come, I’m also bald, I’m also old. So it’s really difficult for them to point at me and accuse their imaginary immigrant enemy.

    I hope they’re still hurting.

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  • [–] 74 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    You know if someone wanted to cripple the US militarily and diplomaticially, MAGA is how you would do it.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Why do you think Russia is waging Cold War II and supporting MAGA? Precisely for that reason. As you probably do know, I'm not trying to educate. Just venting frustration.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    imagine how fast you'd go to jail if you just accessed information without permission.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 week ago

    #JustConservativeThings

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    I'll buy all the secret papers in the Epstein files for public release, thanks.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    People don't get this but the entire classification system is done under the authority of the president. Legally, the president alone decides what is and isn't classified. Of course one person can't do that so he delegates that authority to thousands of people under him. But it's literally impossible for the president to mishandle classified information because he's the sole authority on it. If he goes on TV and start spilling Top Secret info, that just means he has decided to unclassify that info and that's his right and no one can do anything to stop him.

    It's just... never been a issue before.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Wow that’s wrong. Yes he can declassify documents. You can’t sell secrets.

    See when you declassify something it no longer has value as a secret because everyone has access.

    So what trump did before and plans to do now is take classified files and sell them while they are still classified.

    That’s illegal. He can declassify stuff, but you have to actually say it declassified.

    You can’t keep it classified and say “well I have the power to declassify things”

    I have the power to drive the correct speed in the school zone. That doesn’t mean all speeds I drive are therefore legal.

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    [–] 34 points 1 week ago

    This means, somewhere, there is already a post by trump selling secrets on ebay i am sure

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  • [–] 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Welp, this is the end my friends.

    If they’re saying this out loud, you know they’ve been selling secrets privately for years – long enough that this doesn’t sound insane to them. It’s the logical next step. This is just an admission that everyone with money has been spanking the US with impunity. I mean, we knew that, but this is them admitting it openly.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    We knew when there was the pile of documents at Mar-a-Lago.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Yes, and not just the documents – people miss that one of the rooms had nothing but stacks of boxes containing top secret documents and one office copier. Nothing else.

    This one:

    All those boxes are classified documents, and the white thing at the right is a copier. Nothing else in there.

    Everyone talks about the toilet one or the ballroom one as though the issue was mishandling. No, the worst one was this room, with a copier, and this was the room they had locked and tried to keep the FBI out by saying it was flooded by the pool and the maintenance guy had lost the keys. Do you see any water damage in there? Remember that lie?

    e: link, and I just remembered that the reason we have this photo is the FBI didn’t buy his excuses and stationed an agent outside the door so trump goons couldn’t tamper with the evidence until they opened it under court order, which was like a week or something. That whole thing was crazy.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago

    I mean, it's the Trump DOJ. They will break the law and won't say anything about it unless someone else brings it up.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago

    Wait, what even the fuck?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    Claiming to be the most transparent president ever...

    It's so obviously transparent, it doesn't even have to be mentioned how bad it actually is. Perhaps a recurring reminder that it's yet again worse then we previously thought.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    Free market capitalism baby. Why should Putin have a monopoly on state secrets? Open that shit up for bidding on the free market.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Surely satire

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