nortex97 said:

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There's nothing wrong with that. And, Dems operated CFPB which distributed confiscated funds to leftist groups for many years, much less legitimately. Guys like John Strand deserve to be compensated (and hopefully elected to congress).

The Biden (*) cabal, including Wray/Garland and the DC judiciary loudly and proudly created this backlash and I support the renumeration involved.

🚨🇺🇸 ENDORSEMENT: John Strand for Congress, Florida's 19th District (FL-19) 🇺🇸

I've never done a formal endorsement like this, and I don't know if I will do many more. I want to explain why, because endorsements are not free. If I'm wrong, I've spent credibility I can't get… pic.twitter.com/9Lh09ylsOC

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) May 18, 2026

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In 2022, the DOJ offered John Strand a plea deal. One misdemeanor; a wrist slap. His co-defendant took a similar deal and got 60 days. All he had to do was say he was guilty of something he believed he wasn't guilty of.

He said no... twice.

He went to trial. A D.C. jury convicted him on all five counts, including a felony carrying up to 20 years. He was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison. He spent four months in solitary confinement ... punished, in part, for helping other J6 defendants get outside support and for speaking publicly about conditions inside.

Then the Supreme Court ruled in Fischer v. United States that the obstruction statute used against him was wrongly applied. He was released, and on January 20, 2025, he was fully pardoned.

He could have taken the deal; almost everyone did. He looked at the easy road and the hard road and he chose the hard road because he believed it was the truthful one. That is a man whose faith is not decorative.

I've met and talked to John. He gets it. He understands what it means when the machinery of the state is aimed at you personally... not in theory, but in a SWAT team at your door and a concrete box they put you in for months. That kind of experience either breaks a person or clarifies them. John came out clarified.

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Perfect example of the authoritarian miscreants in the Democratic Party leadership that desire centralized power to take over the country and inprison their opposition. They are not openly calling for packing the Supreme Court, destruction of the electoral college, advocating for acceptance of sharia law which is antithetical to our Constitution and more.
Anyone considering voting for any Democratic candidate at any level of government should reconsider their voting preferences.
The Democratic Party leadership is adherents to the teachings of Saul Alinsky with the ultimate goal of the destruction of the Constitution and our freedoms.

DeschutesAg said:

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Very well stated.

Purity tests and loyalty tests are a helluva thing.

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Just because you can never pass one doesn't mean they are bad.

NEW: J6 celeb cops Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges--both of whom lied about their experiences on Jan 6 and extent of their injuries and who were pre-pardoned by Joe Biden to protect them from prosecution--have filed a lawsuit in DC to block the anti-weaponization fund. H/T… pic.twitter.com/kYd4fiV2QM

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) May 20, 2026

Dunn and Hodges are represented by Brenan Ballou, a former DOJ prosecutor who claimed nearly 1 1/2 years ago that pardons would green light "vigilantism" and paramilitary activity on the Right. Never happened. pic.twitter.com/V8n6PIJAXY

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) May 20, 2026

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Pylon Cam said:

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Part of the agreement is that the irs will never be able to audit Trump or his family again, meaning that they are quite literally able to commit tax fraud without the government being able to find out about it. It was an unfathomable conflict of interest that Trump administration attorneys were the ones defending the government against Trump's lawsuit. This is a deeply corrupt administration…they're adding to the swamp.

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This is actually false. The hatred for Trump has apparently caused a mass outbreak of a lack of reading comprehension. The was only for past taxes. All this means is they can't try to redo all of gimmicks they tried under Biden. Nothing prevents them from investigating future taxes if something is amiss.

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And the reason people can't read is due to the President Carter Administration that enacted the creation of the Department of Propaganda Education.

Interesting note regarding some history of the Democratic Party leadership's policies in direct opposition to the Constitution.
"In fact, FDR used the IRS and the FBI against publishing companies like the Philadelphia Inquirer, went after Annenberg to try and put him in prison, went after other publications. He took the licensing period for these fairly new television stations that were two years and he reduced them to six years and he put his campaign manager in charge of determining who got what licenses. You get the drift?
John Kennedy would share IRS filings of conservative groups he didn't like. And the Getty family with Newsweek and others. LBJ even wiretapped his running, his vice president at that point wasn't his running mate, Hubert Humphrey, because he wanted to know where he stood on Vietnam.
And of course, John Kennedy tapped Martin Luther King's phone as well as other civil rights leaders. And Johnson tapped their phones at the Democrat Convention at the Atlantic City Convention Center. All kinds of stuff."

From Mark Levin Podcast: 5/18/26 - Mark Levin on Trump, Iran, and Why Peace Requires Regime Change, May 18, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mark-levin-podcast/id209377688?i=1000768483090&r=1349
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Seems to be a pattern

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DeschutesAg said:

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Very well stated.

Purity tests and loyalty tests are a helluva thing.

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Just because you can never pass one doesn't mean they are bad.

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The reason I view them as a generally bad thing is because they usually start out as being relatively reasonable, but then over time they gradually become extremist, severe, and restrictive, eventually reaching the point of inane stupidity and dumb behavior.

I thank you for stating I could never pass one. The truth is I could pass one thirty or forty years ago when I was young, naive, less experienced, and less informed about the real world. I couldn't pass one now because I'm in my 70s and I have seen too much and learned too much about the world.

Gordo14 said:

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This is frankly the most openly corrupt thing ever done in American history

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Here is a picture with a little less forced perspective.

Some of us have never been as naive or inexperienced in our 30s and 40s as you seem to be in your 70s.

The man yells at clouds claiming all sorts of nonsense and misinformation gets a little thick.

No reason to give up in your 70s to learn new things. I invite you to keep an open mind on these discussions and not default to Orange Man bad so much.

He's doing great things for Our Country. You may not like his methods, but the results are phenomenal. He is resolving things you thought would never be resolved in your lifetime.

Take a breath and a step back to appreciate some of it.

The OP went overboard with his description.

That doesn't change the fact Trump and his accomplices have once again done something very corrupt.

DeschutesAg said:

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The OP went overboard with his description.

That doesn't change the fact Trump and his accomplices have once again done something very corrupt.

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How?

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His DOJ decided to settle a lawsuit He brought against them by creating a 1.8 billion dollar slush fund that the people who decide who gets the money are appointed by His DOJ (which Trump can remove at anytime with out cause) and the recipients on the money are to be kept confidential.

If that doesn't scream corruption to you I don't know what could.

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No. This is compensation for lawfare resulting from a corrupt DOJ. It resolves and compensates for the corruption, it is open for anyone to apply. There is congressional audits.

As you would expect, personal information will be kept confidential FROM THE PUBLIC but will be subject to audit, oversight and legal challenges.

And Dear Leader Obama had his Keepseagle program for the injun farmers.

Sometimes you kids would do better to look at the details, precedents and safeguards instead of your thought police convictions of future Trump corruption.

It feels like another case of Team Blue projecting or simply admitting what they would do with the money.

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This is frankly the most openly corrupt thing ever done in American history and it's just happening. Just depressing the level of corruption in this administration and cult followers celebrate it. This is what the real decline of America looks like. "But he doesn't take a salary". He just dumps crypto scams, hides oil money from Venezuela in Qatar (selling the oil to donor traders from Vitol), now he just take 1.8B from the IRS, no bid contracts for labor, the privately funded ballroom that taxpayers need to pay for now, his stock trading (but Nancy Pelosi!), the insiders trading his announcements before he posts, and this disaster of a war. Honestly, you have to be a mindless cult follower to believe any of this is good for America. If only this wasn't so ****ing predictable.

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Idk the Trump meme coin, the Qatari jet, the tariff market manipulation, the pumping and dumping of individual stocks he bought and sold are all pretty bad. My fav is when Trump was the first Presidential Candidate to not voluntarily release his tax stmts, someone in his admin leaks them, he sues his IRS admin for the leak, and then settles with his own DOJ admin…with taxpayer money.

Gotta hand it to him, he's deep in his corruption bag.

Oh wait you mentioned those too. My b.

Ya, Trump is basically speed running every corruption allegation any MAGA person has ever hurled at a Dem and he did it all in basically 18 months! Truly impressive.

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We should fix it by voting for Marxists right ?

DeschutesAg said:

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The OP went overboard with his description.

That doesn't change the fact Trump and his accomplices have once again done something very corrupt.

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We totally still believe you're a conservative

Believe it's called a Jimmy Carter Republican in East Texas.

Just going to point out that if I am going to be purchasing intimate relations, it being with a popular fornicating thespian seems like something to strive for, take pride in.

But you do you.

M.C. Swag said:

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How about like a decent person? Someone who wasn't convicted of felonies, didn't cheat on 3 different wives, didnt pay a porn star for sex, didn't brag about assaulting women, didn't get found civilly liable for sexual assault of a woman, and didn't personally enrich himself using public office that even Nancy Pelosi would blush at? Would that be a start?

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Let me see if I can clear up some misconceptions about these supposed character flaws: (1) it was a witch hunt; (2) the wives all got older and less attractive; (3) he paid hush money, not for sex; (4) simple locker room talk; (5) witch hunt part two; (6) he's not taking a salary so it's ok to take a little on the side.

Does that cover it?

M.C. Swag said:

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How about like a decent person? Someone who wasn't convicted of felonies, didn't cheat on 3 different wives, didnt pay a porn star for sex, didn't brag about assaulting women, didn't get found civilly liable for sexual assault of a woman, and didn't personally enrich himself using public office that even Nancy Pelosi would blush at? Would that be a start?

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Policy is more important than the person.

So how about a person who is anti corruption as a policy then? Oh wait…it's almost as if liars and cheats lie and cheat so in essence, the person does matter!

You being envious of someone is not "corruption". HTH.

M.C. Swag said:

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So how about a person who is anti corruption as a policy then? Oh wait…it's almost as if liars and cheats lie and cheat so in essence, the person does matter!

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No. Real policy is all that matters. If some guy is a saint but he bans my guns or enacts any gun control at all then **** him. Give me the lying cheater. One impacts me, one doesn't.

Policy is all that matters.

You realize that's asinine though right? If I were a candidate and simply said all the right things to TeslaAg and his MAGA cohort for electability purposes, and then enact none of the policies I campaigned on…that's bad. And it's why the messenger is just as important as the message (or policy).

Except that Trump has literally kept gun control at bay, tried and has deported a lot of human garbage, and largely pushed for policy i like. And most importantly kept ****bag Marxist democrats out of office.

So ya I got what I voted for, "good person" be damned.

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M.C. Swag said:

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So how about a person who is anti corruption as a policy then? Oh wait…it's almost as if liars and cheats lie and cheat so in essence, the person does matter!

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No. Real policy is all that matters. If some guy is a saint but he bans my guns or enacts any gun control at all then **** him. Give me the lying cheater. One impacts me, one doesn't.

Policy is all that matters.

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I'm not sure I could believe someone's policy when they've cheated, lied to, etc. many of the people closest to them. I'd worry that they would just sell their services to the highest bidder who could maximize their own position (whether it's supplying them with endless $$$, women, power, etc.).

Liars lie and cheaters cheat...and they don't discriminate. So I'm not sure why anyone would put their faith in someone who has a long track record of saying one thing while doing another.

**I posted this on the wrong thread....not leveling these at Trump or any specific politician, thought I was posting on the thread about drawing the line on candidates.***

And what about the "drain the swamp" policy? What would you say to those voters who supported him because they truly believed that, as a billionaire, he would be "incorruptible" to the underbelly of DC politicking? That he would operate outside the system of "quid pro quo" and enact government as it was intended; for the people and by the people? What do you say to them? Now that he's turbo boosted through every conceivable corrupt avenue available to him? Does that not matter?

lol also it's hilarious the first thing you mention is gun control when he's the only president in the 2000s to pass strict gun control reform (bump stock ban). Not even Obama or Biden accomplished that.

M.C. Swag said:

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lol also it's hilarious the first thing you mention is gun control when he's the only president in the 2000s to pass strict gun control reform (bump stock ban). Not even Obama or Biden accomplished that.

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He also got rid of it this term and got rid of the suppressor tax. He even tried to get rid of the suppressor rule completely. Not to mention he also put pro gun rights judges on SCOTUS and lower courts.

You're not going to gaslight me into laughably thinking Trump is worse for guns than a ****bag democrat.

I wasn't trying to gaslight you. I was trying to make fun of you.

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Teslag said:

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M.C. Swag said:

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So how about a person who is anti corruption as a policy then? Oh wait…it's almost as if liars and cheats lie and cheat so in essence, the person does matter!

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No. Real policy is all that matters. If some guy is a saint but he bans my guns or enacts any gun control at all then **** him. Give me the lying cheater. One impacts me, one doesn't.

Policy is all that matters.

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I'm not sure I could believe someone's policy when they've cheated, lied to, etc. many of the people closest to them. I'd worry that they would just sell their services to the highest bidder who could maximize their own position (whether it's supplying them with endless $$$, women, power, etc.).

Liars lie and cheaters cheat...and they don't discriminate. So I'm not sure why anyone would put their faith in someone who has a long track record of saying one thing while doing another.

**I posted this on the wrong thread....not leveling these at Trump or any specific politician, thought I was posting on the thread about drawing the line on candidates.***

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Because he's quite literally done and tried to do the things he's campaigned on. Do you think democrats would deport loads of **** bag human garbage? Not enact gun control? Put conservatives on SCOTUS? Reduce business regulations? Get rid of woke **** in the military?

Democrats and liberals are human trash and have trash policies. That's all matters.

M.C. Swag said:

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I wasn't trying to gaslight you. I was trying to make fun of you.

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You failed. No one for a second believes democrats are more pro gun than trump. GTFO

Teslag said:

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M.C. Swag said:

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I wasn't trying to gaslight you. I was trying to make fun of you.

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You failed. No one for a second believes democrats are more pro gun than trump. GTFO

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Massie is. (Or was). Yay Trump!

There's a certain elegance to how completely you miss the point.