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Termin8tor » 09 Aug 2019 9:46 am » wrote:Someone has severe issues. :blink:
Misty » 12 Jul 2019 7:02 pm » wrote:How the **** do you know what many rapists do to subdue their victims?

Are you speaking from first hand knowledge you sick ****?

:loco:

But that was just an "innocent question" I'm sure she'll lie.
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Termin8tor » 09 Aug 2019 8:32 am » wrote:If Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist, every conservative is a white supremacist.
If you say so Precious.

The white supremacists believe he's a white supremacist.

Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer, has referred to Carlson as “literally our greatest ally” — describing his hourlong broadcast as “basically ‘Daily Stormer: The Show.’”

Alt-right figurehead Richard Spencer praised him as “very intelligent.”

And David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, once tweeted “God bless Mr. Carlson.”
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Termin8tor » 09 Aug 2019 9:17 am » wrote:Hey wackjob, the El Paso shooter's girlfriend said he was mentally ill and that it had nothing to do with race.
Hey wackjob, it was the Dayton shooter's ex girlfriend Adelia Johnson who said that he was mentally ill and fascinated with violence.

The El Paso shooter told us exactly why he targeted that city and why he killed those people.
It was to stop the 'invasion' (Trump's favorite word) of Hispanics.

You can't even keep your shooters straight.
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Termin8tor » 09 Aug 2019 8:38 am » wrote: Hillary Clinton colluded with the Russians.
Steele testified under oath that he got his information from Russian officials including a former high Russian Intelligence official.
. As mentioned earlier, Steele maintained that a “former top Russian intelligence officer” was one of his principal sources
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine ... y-dossier/
I told you yesterday that if you posted that **** in here one more time I would suspend your ***.
Did you think I was bluffing?

Enjoy your time out Precious.
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Many of these white supremacist groups and websites are being sued now and losing.
The Daily Stormer has lost two big lawsuits.
Court Sanctions Defendants Days Before Anniversary of Unite the Right Violence

A federal judge is forcing some people and groups that took part in the Unite the Right rally in 2017 to pay the attorneys’ fees for the people who sued them.

CHARLOTTESVILLE - Days before the two-year anniversary of the Unite the Right violence, a federal court has sanctioned white supremacists following a motion filed by the plaintiffs in Sines v. Kessler, the landmark civil suit backed by Integrity First for America (IFA) against the two dozen individuals and groups responsible.

Elliot Kline (aka Eli Mosley), Matthew Heimbach, and Vanguard America were primary organizers of the violence over August 11 and 12, 2017.

The lawsuit details how the violence was meticulously planned for months in advance, including via the online chat platform Discord.

Kline, Heimbach, and Vanguard America have so flagrantly violated court-ordered discovery obligations that the plaintiffs moved for sanctions earlier this year - first against Kline and Heimbach and then against Vanguard America.

In the opinion issued today, the federal court sanctioned defendants Kline, Heimbach, and Vanguard America by requiring them to pay plaintiffs’ attorneys’ fees.

The court also left the door open to even harsher sanctions depending on the defendants’ future compliance with their discovery obligations.

As the court explained in today's decision, “Defendants have continually failed to fulfill even their most basic obligations to this Court, their counsel, and the other parties to this case.

Their refusal to meaningfully participate in discovery—or in Kline’s case to participate at all - despite repeated court orders directing them to do so has shifted everyone’s focus ‘from the merits to the collateral and needless’ and stalled the litigation’s progress for months on end.

This behavior is unacceptable and will be sanctioned.”

The court continued, “‘Ordinary defendants must participate in the ordinary process of litigation,’ even if they do not want to.

They cannot ‘step in and out’ of the litigation at their leisure; abandon the case because they are ‘kind of frustrated’ and do not ‘want to deal with it’; or ‘respond to . . . a court order’ compelling discovery by firing their attorneys and refusing to show up for court.

‘On these facts, I cannot interpret each Defendant’s continued disregard for’ the Court and its orders ‘as anything other than bad faith.’”
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Termin8tor » 10 Aug 2019 8:53 am » wrote:
Gopher Eyes » 09 Aug 2019 11:35 am » wrote:I told you yesterday that if you posted that **** in here one more time I would suspend your ***.
Did you think I was bluffing?
Enjoy your time out Precious.
Hillary Clinton colluded with the Russians.
Steele testified under oath that he got his information from Russian officials including a former high Russian Intelligence official.
. As mentioned earlier, Steele maintained that a “former top Russian intelligence officer” was one of his principal sources
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine ... y-dossier/
Are you **** retarded or what?
You posted that **** in here and in my Giggles thread again even after you were suspended.
I posted this in my Giggles thread and I will repeat it here.
I can't **** believe that you were warned not to post that **** in here again and even suspended for it, and you posted it again.

I don't have to do this, but I am going to give you one more warning, because there is obviously something wrong with you.

You are heading towards being banned permanently, and I have gotten the green light to do it, so keep trying me mother ****.

Your fate is in my hands.
There is no one here to protect you.
I guess you actually want to get banned permanently.
You might very well get your wish.
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Termin8tor » 11 Aug 2019 12:47 pm » wrote:Yadda, yadda, yadda.....
Stop spamming my threads with posts filled with images of burned out and dilapidated buildings.

I didn't want to say this on an open forum, but since CP posted this on the forum yesterday I can post it here now.
Cannonpointer » 10 Aug 2019 7:55 pm » wrote:
Vegas » 10 Aug 2019 7:48 pm » wrote:I didnt want to say her in particular, but yes, I 100% agree. Her hypocrisy and political correctness is unbearable. But I'm not going to walk on egg shells just because she has powers that I dont.
Yeah, I'm pretty **** sure than no one on this board has "walked on egg shells" for gopher eyes, kid. And I'm pretty GODDAMNED sure I never suggested that anyone should.

I recommend you take paper and pencil, and one one side write "spam the thread," and on the other side write, "walk on egg shells," and then scratch your pointy little noggin until you can think of something to write between those two.

Gopher Eyes is a **** saint/idiot for the amount of thread **** she has put up with from clemtard. Control-V is all it takes to **** up a thread, whereas moving **** to the peanut gallery is tedious. That fapping *** has put her to work removing his easy peasy, control-V spam, to the point that she has had to lock her own **** threads, unable to keep up with his furious spam attacks.

Does that sound like anyone is walking on egg shells? If so, it's not clemtard - it's gopher eyes. And she's done, now.

In PMs, I have taken her to the woodshed for putting up with that **** and NOT using her powers in self-protection.

Just keep working that pencil and paper until you have an epiphany about the size of the gap between spamming a senior moderator's threads and walking on egg shells, kid.
Got that Precious?
CP thinks you should be banned.

Your fate is in my hands.
Keep it up.
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Gopher Eyes » 11 Aug 2019 1:28 pm » wrote:
Termin8tor » 11 Aug 2019 12:47 pm » wrote:Yadda, yadda, yadda.....
Stop spamming my threads with posts filled with images of burned out and dilapidated buildings.

I didn't want to say this on an open forum, but since CP posted this on the forum yesterday I can post it here now.
Cannonpointer » 10 Aug 2019 7:55 pm » wrote:
Vegas » 10 Aug 2019 7:48 pm » wrote:I didnt want to say her in particular, but yes, I 100% agree. Her hypocrisy and political correctness is unbearable. But I'm not going to walk on egg shells just because she has powers that I dont.
Yeah, I'm pretty **** sure than no one on this board has "walked on egg shells" for gopher eyes, kid. And I'm pretty GODDAMNED sure I never suggested that anyone should.

I recommend you take paper and pencil, and one one side write "spam the thread," and on the other side write, "walk on egg shells," and then scratch your pointy little noggin until you can think of something to write between those two.

Gopher Eyes is a **** saint/idiot for the amount of thread **** she has put up with from clemtard. Control-V is all it takes to **** up a thread, whereas moving **** to the peanut gallery is tedious. That fapping *** has put her to work removing his easy peasy, control-V spam, to the point that she has had to lock her own **** threads, unable to keep up with his furious spam attacks.

Does that sound like anyone is walking on egg shells? If so, it's not clemtard - it's gopher eyes. And she's done, now.

In PMs, I have taken her to the woodshed for putting up with that **** and NOT using her powers in self-protection.

Just keep working that pencil and paper until you have an epiphany about the size of the gap between spamming a senior moderator's threads and walking on egg shells, kid.
Got that Precious?
CP thinks you should be banned.

Your fate is in my hands.
Keep it up.
JUST DO IT!
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Attorney General William Barr decries 'serious irregularities' in Epstein's detention, vows full investigation.

Attorney General William Barr on Monday blasted corrections officials and vowed to investigate the “serious irregularities” uncovered at the federal prison in Manhattan where accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was held and found dead Saturday morning.

Barr's criticism came amid complaints about squalid, rat-infested cells and as union officials charge warnings about overworked employees at the understaffed facility went unheeded.
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“I was appalled, and indeed, the whole department was – and frankly, angry – to learn of MCC’s failure to adequately secure this prisoner,” Barr said Monday.

“We are now learning of serious irregularities at this facility that are deeply concerning and demand a thorough investigation.”

He added: “The FBI and the Office of the Inspector General are doing just that.

We will get to the bottom of what happened and there will be accountability.”
Since the prison is under control of the DOJ, he can start with himself.
Then he can ask his boss why the head of the Bureau Of Prisons is one of the many federal agencies operating under the leadership of an acting director, and the deputy position is vacant.
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11 Warning Signs of Gaslighting

Gaslighting is a manipulation tactic used to gain power. And it works too well.

Gaslighting is a tactic in which a person or entity, in order to gain more power, makes a victim question their reality.

It works much better than you may think.

Anyone is susceptible to gaslighting, and it is a common technique of abusers, dictators, narcissists, and cult leaders.

It is done slowly, so the victim doesn't realize how much they've been brainwashed.

Gaslighters typically use the following techniques:

1. They tell blatant lies.

You know it's an outright lie. Yet they are telling you this lie with a straight face. Why are they so blatant? Because they're setting up a precedent. Once they tell you a huge lie, you're not sure if anything they say is true. Keeping you unsteady and off-kilter is the goal.

2. They deny they ever said something, even though you have proof.

You know they said they would do something; you know you heard it. But they out and out deny it. It makes you start questioning your reality—maybe they never said that thing. And the more they do this, the more you question your reality and start accepting theirs.

3. They use what is near and dear to you as ammunition.

They know how important your kids are to you, and they know how important your identity is to you. So those may be one of the first things they attack. If you have kids, they tell you that you should not have had those children. They will tell you'd be a worthy person if only you didn't have a long list of negative traits. They attack the foundation of your being.

4. They wear you down over time.

This is one of the insidious things about gaslighting—it is done gradually, over time. A lie here, a lie there, a snide comment every so often...and then it starts ramping up. Even the brightest, most self-aware people can be sucked into gaslighting—it is that effective. It's the "frog in the frying pan" analogy: The heat is turned up slowly, so the frog never realizes what's happening to it.

5. Their actions do not match their words.

When dealing with a person or entity that gaslights, look at what they are doing rather than what they are saying. What they are saying means nothing; it is just talk. What they are doing is the issue.

6. They throw in positive reinforcement to confuse you.

This person or entity that is cutting you down, telling you that you don't have value, is now praising you for something you did. This adds an additional sense of uneasiness. You think, "Well maybe they aren't so bad." Yes, they are. This is a calculated attempt to keep you off-kilter—and again, to question your reality. Also look at what you were praised for; it is probably something that served the gaslighter.

7. They know confusion weakens people.

Gaslighters know that people like having a sense of stability and normalcy. Their goal is to uproot this and make you constantly question everything. And humans' natural tendency is to look to the person or entity that will help you feel more stable—and that happens to be the gaslighter.

8. They project.

They are a drug user or a cheater, yet they are constantly accusing you of that. This is done so often that you start trying to defend yourself, and are distracted from the gaslighter's own behavior.

9. They try to align people against you.

Gaslighters are masters at manipulating and finding the people they know will stand by them no matter what—and they use these people against you. They will make comments such as, "This person knows that you're not right," or "This person knows you're useless too." Keep in mind it does not mean that these people actually said these things. A gaslighter is a constant liar. When the gaslighter uses this tactic it makes you feel like you don't know who to trust or turn to—and that leads you right back to the gaslighter. And that's exactly what they want: Isolation gives them more control.

10. They tell you or others that you are crazy.

This is one of the most effective tools of the gaslighter, because it's dismissive. The gaslighter knows if they question your sanity, people will not believe you when you tell them the gaslighter is abusive or out-of-control. It's a master technique.

11. They tell you everyone else is a liar.

By telling you that everyone else (your family, the media) is a liar, it again makes you question your reality. You've never known someone with the audacity to do this, so they must be telling the truth, right? No. It's a manipulation technique. It makes people turn to the gaslighter for the "correct" information—which isn't correct information at all.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog ... aslighting
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Misty » 12 Aug 2019 9:35 pm » wrote:11 Warning Signs of Gaslighting

Gaslighting is a manipulation tactic used to gain power. And it works too well.

Gaslighting is a tactic in which a person or entity, in order to gain more power, makes a victim question their reality.

It works much better than you may think.

Anyone is susceptible to gaslighting, and it is a common technique of abusers, dictators, narcissists, and cult leaders.

It is done slowly, so the victim doesn't realize how much they've been brainwashed.

Gaslighters typically use the following techniques:

1. They tell blatant lies.

You know it's an outright lie. Yet they are telling you this lie with a straight face. Why are they so blatant? Because they're setting up a precedent. Once they tell you a huge lie, you're not sure if anything they say is true. Keeping you unsteady and off-kilter is the goal.

2. They deny they ever said something, even though you have proof.

You know they said they would do something; you know you heard it. But they out and out deny it. It makes you start questioning your reality—maybe they never said that thing. And the more they do this, the more you question your reality and start accepting theirs.

3. They use what is near and dear to you as ammunition.

They know how important your kids are to you, and they know how important your identity is to you. So those may be one of the first things they attack. If you have kids, they tell you that you should not have had those children. They will tell you'd be a worthy person if only you didn't have a long list of negative traits. They attack the foundation of your being.

4. They wear you down over time.

This is one of the insidious things about gaslighting—it is done gradually, over time. A lie here, a lie there, a snide comment every so often...and then it starts ramping up. Even the brightest, most self-aware people can be sucked into gaslighting—it is that effective. It's the "frog in the frying pan" analogy: The heat is turned up slowly, so the frog never realizes what's happening to it.

5. Their actions do not match their words.

When dealing with a person or entity that gaslights, look at what they are doing rather than what they are saying. What they are saying means nothing; it is just talk. What they are doing is the issue.

6. They throw in positive reinforcement to confuse you.

This person or entity that is cutting you down, telling you that you don't have value, is now praising you for something you did. This adds an additional sense of uneasiness. You think, "Well maybe they aren't so bad." Yes, they are. This is a calculated attempt to keep you off-kilter—and again, to question your reality. Also look at what you were praised for; it is probably something that served the gaslighter.

7. They know confusion weakens people.

Gaslighters know that people like having a sense of stability and normalcy. Their goal is to uproot this and make you constantly question everything. And humans' natural tendency is to look to the person or entity that will help you feel more stable—and that happens to be the gaslighter.

8. They project.

They are a drug user or a cheater, yet they are constantly accusing you of that. This is done so often that you start trying to defend yourself, and are distracted from the gaslighter's own behavior.

9. They try to align people against you.

Gaslighters are masters at manipulating and finding the people they know will stand by them no matter what—and they use these people against you. They will make comments such as, "This person knows that you're not right," or "This person knows you're useless too." Keep in mind it does not mean that these people actually said these things. A gaslighter is a constant liar. When the gaslighter uses this tactic it makes you feel like you don't know who to trust or turn to—and that leads you right back to the gaslighter. And that's exactly what they want: Isolation gives them more control.

10. They tell you or others that you are crazy.

This is one of the most effective tools of the gaslighter, because it's dismissive. The gaslighter knows if they question your sanity, people will not believe you when you tell them the gaslighter is abusive or out-of-control. It's a master technique.

11. They tell you everyone else is a liar.

By telling you that everyone else (your family, the media) is a liar, it again makes you question your reality. You've never known someone with the audacity to do this, so they must be telling the truth, right? No. It's a manipulation technique. It makes people turn to the gaslighter for the "correct" information—which isn't correct information at all.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog ... aslighting

I like to hide my wife’s keys on her and then when she says “I swore I put them right here”, I give her a concerned look and say “Is this what slow onset dementia looks like?”

Tricks like this keep her unbalanced enough to almost never challenge me overtly.
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Misty » 25 Jul 2019 11:39 am » wrote: That the president and members of his campaign willingly and happily accepted foreign intel which was described by Mueller as unpatriotic, unethical and in certain instances a crime.
The fisa warrants were based on the steele dossier compiled by a foreign intelligence agent.

You're good with that.

That means you're good with trump doing what hitlery did. Indeed, the foreign intel CAME TO TRUMP. Free. Hitlery actually COMMISSIONED AND PAID FOR the foreign intel that SHE used for campaign purposes.

If it's illegal for trump, it's illegal for hitlery.
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Termin8tor » 13 Aug 2019 7:08 am » wrote:
11 Warning Signs of Gaslighting

Gaslighting is a manipulation tactic used to gain power. And it works too well.

Gaslighting is a tactic in which a person or entity, in order to gain more power, makes a victim question their reality.

5. Their actions do not match their words.
You have shrieked for 2 1/2 years about Trump's and deplorable's supposed racism, but when I pointed out your corrupt party's Systemic Racism that destroyed the lives of many millions of minority Americans, you not only didn't respond, you censored all my posts.
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Cannonpointer » 12 Aug 2019 10:27 pm » wrote:
Misty » 25 Jul 2019 11:39 am » wrote:That the president and members of his campaign willingly and happily accepted foreign intel which was described by Mueller as unpatriotic, unethical and in certain instances a crime.
The fisa warrants were based on the steele dossier compiled by a foreign intelligence agent.
It was information about George Papadopoulos (a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser) that prompted the FBI investigation, not the dossier.
Cannonpointer » 12 Aug 2019 10:27 pm » wrote:Hitlery actually COMMISSIONED AND PAID FOR the foreign intel that SHE used for campaign purposes.
That's a Clem talking point.
And I will ask you the same question I asked him, which of course he did not answer.

How did she use the Steele dossier for campaign purposes?
Be specific.
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Misty » 14 Aug 2019 1:28 pm » wrote: It was information about George Papadopoulos (a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser) that prompted the FBI investigation, not the dossier.
Look, jids - it'a another Clinton talking point. Good thing I didn't let you play slug bug on those things - they're everywhere.
Misty » 14 Aug 2019 1:28 pm » wrote: That's a Clem talking point.
And I will ask you the same question I asked him, which of course he did not answer.
How did she use the Steele dossier for campaign purposes?
Be specific.
Are you under the impression that the fisa warrant HELPED the trump campaign?

Oh, that's right - you just got through lying that the fisa warrant that was based on the steele dossier wasn't. So THAT'S why you told that lie - to slime the above fake question through.

Well, let's play along with your lie. The dossier had nothing to do with the fisa warrants - nothing at all.

And THAT, according to you, means buying damaging information against your opponent from a foreign source is perfectly legal, so long as no one can prove that you used it. Clinton law wins, nanny boo boo!

Have you ever even watched a cop show? My cat understands the law better - and I don't even have a cat.

I do not HAVE to prove she profited from her crime, duh. You don't even DENY that she committed it.
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Cannonpointer » 14 Aug 2019 6:08 pm » wrote:Are you under the impression that the fisa warrant HELPED the trump campaign?
Did anyone even know about the FISA warrant before the election?

Seems to me that both candidates were under investigation, but we only knew about one of them before the election.
Cannonpointer » 14 Aug 2019 6:08 pm » wrote:Oh, that's right - you just got through lying that the fisa warrant that was based on the steele dossier wasn't. So THAT'S why you told that lie - to slime the above fake question through.
Well, let's play along with your lie. The dossier had nothing to do with the fisa warrants - nothing at all.
I didn't say that.

The dossier may have been a factor, but it is not what started the investigation.
Competing memos from the Republicans and the Democrats on the House intelligence committee both say that information about George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, had prompted the FBI investigation in July 2016.
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A memo released Feb. 2, 2018, by the Republicans on the House intelligence committee raised concerns about the use of the dossier in an application from the DOJ and FBI under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to conduct electronic surveillance on Carter Page, another Trump campaign foreign policy adviser. But it said the “Papadopoulos information triggered the opening of an FBI counterintelligence investigation in late July 2016.”

The Democrats on the House intelligence committee agreed with that, saying in a memo released Feb. 24, 2018, that the FBI investigation started “more than seven weeks” before the FBI received Steele’s intelligence reporting in mid-September of that year.

The two sides disagree about how essential the dossier was to the FISA court application to monitor Page. But one of the few points of agreement is that the FBI investigation began with information on Papadopoulos.

After the GOP memo was released, Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, also a member of the intelligence committee, said the dossier didn’t have any effect on the Russia investigation. “I actually don’t think it has any impact on the Russia probe,” Gowdy said on Feb. 4, 2018, on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

Gowdy mentioned other incidents that had nothing to do with the dossier, including Papadopoulos’ contacts with the professor and the June 9, 2016, Trump Tower meeting Donald Trump Jr. arranged with what he was told was a “Russian government attorney” offering incriminating information on Hillary Clinton.

“So there’s going to be a Russia probe, even without a dossier.”

https://www.factcheck.org/2019/03/dossi ... l-of-this/
Fox News’ Chris Wallace Sets Record Straight: Russia Investigation Did Not Start With Trump Dossier

‘This will drive some of our viewers nuts,’ the ‘Fox News Sunday’ host noted. ‘The Trump investigation did not start with the FISA warrant and Carter Page and the dossier.’

Wallace continued: “It started in June and July of 2016 when George Papadopoulos had spoken to a Russian agent and spoke to an Australian diplomat and said he had heard they had information on—dirt on Hillary Clinton.”
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Misty » 14 Aug 2019 6:20 pm » wrote: Did anyone even know about the FISA warrant before the election?

Seems to me that both candidates were under investigation, but we only knew about one of them before the election.

I didn't say that.

The dossier was a factor, but it is not what started the investigation.
Seems a lot of officers are being shot in your state as we speak.
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