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On behalf of the Rock, I protest any association, express or implied, between the Fast and Furious franchise and Benghazi, because if'n him and Vin Diesel had been there, totally different outcome. ;)
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Foggy wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 1:39 pm
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On behalf of the Rock, I protest any association, express or implied, between the Fast and Furious franchise and Benghazi, because if'n him and Vin Diesel had been there, totally different outcome. ;)
Fun fact, actually: one of the guys who died at Benghazi was doing my job there, in effect. He was an Information Management Specialist. We all get reminded during training that we are basically always going to be on the last evacuation out with the Ambassador and the Marines since we have certain to-the-last-call obligations involving the Ambassador being able to keep communicating with D.C., and all that.

Given my next assignment is actually to a danger post, this is something I think about often. That said, the idea of Nunes trying to regurgitate this One. More. Time. has a great many of my colleagues who *are* leaning conservative going "oh, hell to the naw!"
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As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.

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Yeah, Nunes can lie to the base, but honestly, even if there's a huge Republican upset in November, they won't do Benghazi again. They have other fish to fry watch swim away.
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tek wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 6:52 am TBH, investigating the future is difficult for most sane people.
I think meaning they have no future as a party.
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Ben-Prime wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 2:21 pm Given my next assignment is actually to a danger post, this is something I think about often. That said, the idea of Nunes trying to regurgitate this One. More. Time. has a great many of my colleagues who *are* leaning conservative going "oh, hell to the naw!"
Leaning conservative at this point in time is leaning fascist. I don't get why anyone intelligent would do it.
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pipistrelle wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 6:57 pm
Ben-Prime wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 2:21 pm Given my next assignment is actually to a danger post, this is something I think about often. That said, the idea of Nunes trying to regurgitate this One. More. Time. has a great many of my colleagues who *are* leaning conservative going "oh, hell to the naw!"
Leaning conservative at this point in time is leaning fascist. I don't get why anyone intelligent would do it.
Most of these guys are grizzled old near-retirees who did 20 years military, then 15-25 years State Department. They are all at least in their late 50s or early 60s.

I've thought long and hard about it and I really do believe that the Robert Anton Wilson/Timothy Leary theory about "reality tunnels" forming at a certain age and then being very hard to change must be a factor here. Most of these colleagues formed their political and philosophical worldviews during early to middle years of military service in the Reagan/Bush I era and then moved to the State Department in the early W presidency. I really do believe most of them are either coming from the populist or Cold Warrior angles and just can't give up on the Republican Party no matter how bad it gets because that's their team.

I could ramble on about this at some length. I started to do so before deleting the *6* more paragraphs I'd been writing on this subject. I'll just stand on what I said above and note this shorter summary observation:

We are professionals in the State Department, just like in the military. The guy next to me? He could literally be reading Mein Kampf at his work desk and if I am asked to help him with a project, I will do so. Because I have had the most quietly hateful people drop what they are doing to help me in the Foreign Service. Knowing that I am at Post alone as a divorced man with no minor children, they come check on me when I am sick; when I was not tenured and so was afraid to complain about an abusive boss, they filed complaints after witnessing me taking verbal abuse on the job without flinching; they write me recommendations for my work praising me and demanding I be promoted immediately even though they agree with me on few if any social issues, and ask me as a trusted colleague to write '360' recommendations for them during bidding season likewise; when I made tenure, they are often the first ones to come to me with congratulations and the offer of buying me dinner. We are strangers in strange lands, far from home, and we are each other's lifelines, regardless of how we feel about each other's politics. I accept political discord from them that I would not accept from friends from my pre-Foreign Service life because I *have* to, as a matter of both practicality and honor.

So, okay, a little rambly, but yeah.
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Very interesting - they sound like a good group of workmates
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Ben-Prime wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 2:21 pm
Foggy wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 1:39 pm
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On behalf of the Rock, I protest any association, express or implied, between the Fast and Furious franchise and Benghazi, because if'n him and Vin Diesel had been there, totally different outcome. ;)
Fun fact, actually: one of the guys who died at Benghazi was doing my job there, in effect. He was an Information Management Specialist. We all get reminded during training that we are basically always going to be on the last evacuation out with the Ambassador and the Marines since we have certain to-the-last-call obligations involving the Ambassador being able to keep communicating with D.C., and all that.

Given my next assignment is actually to a danger post, this is something I think about often. That said, the idea of Nunes trying to regurgitate this One. More. Time. has a great many of my colleagues who *are* leaning conservative going "oh, hell to the naw!"
Ya I actually "Knew" one of them - Sean Shields. Knew is probably a strong term - we played in the same group in Eve Online and we spoke 3 or 4 times. Nice guy.
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Devin Nunes would’ve been far more valuable to Trump right now as an obstructionist and leaker on the House Intel Committee than he is trying to run his shitty website. Another brilliant strategic Trump hire.
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https://www.reuters.com/legal/governmen ... 022-08-15/
(Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump's media and technology company must turn over information about ex-Congressman Devin Nunes' employment as its chief executive officer, a federal judge ruled on Friday.

The ruling stems from a $75 million defamation lawsuit brought by Nunes, a former Republican U.S. Congressman from California, against Hearst Magazine Media Inc and journalist Ryan Lizza.

U.S. Magistrate Judge William Matthewman in West Palm Beach, Florida, ruled that Trump Media and Technology Group Corp has 10 days to comply with the defendants' subpoena and provide information regarding Nunes' employment as CEO. Trump Media owns Truth Social, Trump's social media startup.
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Devin Nunes' little known twin brother David Nunes.
PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes wrote: In response to the Mar-a-Lago search, David Nunes is calling for House Republicans to form a special committee to investigate “two to three dozen rats at the FBI.”
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Devin Nunes says the search of Mar-a-Lago for documents is connected to Fast & Furious and Benghazi: “All this stuff is intertwined.”
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What a dipshit.
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That's the last important events he can think of from his time in Congress. Lucky for the nation that he left, he would have the umpteenth Benghazzzziii committee established to investigate that his Dear Leader hadn't sneaked away some papers. But of course he may on the way uncover the missing emails, he missed to mentioned Hillary!

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I'm fairly certain that, in his mind, EVERYTHING is intertwined.
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I fear for his livelyhood. His Big Brother Teh Donald will not remember him any longer! He forgot to mention the Russian Hoax :twisted:
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RTH10260 wrote: Thu Oct 13, 2022 11:59 am I fear for his livelyhood. His Big Brother Teh Donald will not remember him any longer! He forgot to mention the Russian Hoax :twisted:
Au contraire! It was the first thing he mentioned.
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Devin Nunes blames Democrats for the terrorist attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband: “Where were the Democrats and Pelosi when people were outside my home? When they targeted my 98 year-old grandmother? When Antifa showed up on my family farm?”
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Tsk tsk tsk - were those people inside your home, did they break your door, your windows ? Were they on your property or on the streets open to the public? :brickwallsmall:
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Well Devin & Steven Biss are now suing CNN & Jake Tapper for defamation.

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/ ... er-cnn.pdf

The Cow is amused.



And Devin isn’t asking for much, just 5% or more of CNN’s net worth.


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What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
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The five statements in question, from that document:
1 “He [referring to President Donald Trump], at least, did condemn the attack on Paul Pelosi, as did House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy,1
as did Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell”

2 “But you know what, far too many other Republicans and Conservative leaders are out there instead spreading insane, offensive and false conspiracy theories, such as the complete and utter lie, the deranged smear that Paul Pelosi and the attacker, the man who hit him in the head with a hammer, were in a sexual relationship”

3 “It’s hard to fathom the kind of mind that hears of a tragedy, like what happened to 82 year-old Paul Pelosi, and decides to traffic in this filth. But, sadly, Donald Trump Jr. is hardly alone. Former Republican Congressman and Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, who now runs Trump’s social media company, Truth Social, shared this Halloween image [link to truth] with the words, ‘at least this guy has his clothes on.’ Nunes also reposted this meme [link to retruth], using a poster for the gay romantic comedy Bros, twisting it into a smear of Paul Pelosi. And, again, the man who tried to bash Paul Pelosi’s head in with a hammer. Words fail.”

4 “What is wrong with these people?”

5 “In addition to being an inhuman and inhumane response to a tragedy, it’s a lie … Pelosi did not know the suspect.”
Seems a reach to me...
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I mean, let's be fair and clear here: Devin Nunes has learned less than I know about 1st Amendment law from being a) a sworn representative of or to the U.S. Federal Government (as I likewise am, in a different way) and b) the filer of several failed lawsuits targeting speech (as I am not). One could make the case at this point that his blindness is a willful ignorance, an unwillingless to learn, a weaponized incompetence.

Or one could just reduce it to the absurd but true-ish statement that this is a man who gets schooled by a cow.
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tek wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 7:19 am The five statements in question, from that document:
1 “He [referring to President Donald Trump], at least, did condemn the attack on Paul Pelosi, as did House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy,1
as did Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell”

2 “But you know what, far too many other Republicans and Conservative leaders are out there instead spreading insane, offensive and false conspiracy theories, such as the complete and utter lie, the deranged smear that Paul Pelosi and the attacker, the man who hit him in the head with a hammer, were in a sexual relationship”

3 “It’s hard to fathom the kind of mind that hears of a tragedy, like what happened to 82 year-old Paul Pelosi, and decides to traffic in this filth. But, sadly, Donald Trump Jr. is hardly alone. Former Republican Congressman and Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, who now runs Trump’s social media company, Truth Social, shared this Halloween image [link to truth] with the words, ‘at least this guy has his clothes on.’ Nunes also reposted this meme [link to retruth], using a poster for the gay romantic comedy Bros, twisting it into a smear of Paul Pelosi. And, again, the man who tried to bash Paul Pelosi’s head in with a hammer. Words fail.”

4 “What is wrong with these people?”

5 “In addition to being an inhuman and inhumane response to a tragedy, it’s a lie … Pelosi did not know the suspect.”
Seems a reach to me...
IANAL, but I really don't see anything in those five paragraphs that defames Nunes. Number 3, is unflattering, and specifically mentions Nunes (none of the other four paragraphs do), but it mostly is pointing to Nunes own public statements and postings on Truth. Tapper was, in effect, saying, "Here is what Devin Nunes himself said", if not in words but it the posted images and the inescapable implications.

In any defamation case, truth is always a defense. If I say you said something, and I can prove you really did say it, then, no matter how despicable those words are, or how bad a light they put you in, you have no valid grounds to claim defamation. That seems to be what Tapper did here.

But then, Nunes has a history of suing people for pointing out his own words and actions, hasn't he?
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My Dad's standard conclusion always works for Devin Nunes.
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noblepa wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:01 pmBut then, Nunes has a history of suing people cows for pointing out his own words and actions, hasn't he?
FIFY. ;)

Nunes filed this suit in M.D. Fla. Now, Florida has an anti-SLAPP statute, but the 11th Cir. (which includes Florida) has ruled federal courts can't apply a state anti-SLAPP laws. But there has been some pushback against that.

Whether Tapper will join the fray to have federal courts enforce state anti-SLAPP laws remains to be seen. (Ditto with seeking Rule 11 sanctions.)

But Jason Kobal, the local schmuck who signed onto this, may regret this decision.

And this suit surely is asymmetrical warfare, as filing is comparatively cheap.
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