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In reply to the discussion: What Jack Smith isn't telling us [View all]Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)59. You seem to think your secret is important
We see it's important because we see you posting it often.
You are posting frequently your secret count on a public forum as if you believe it is important to the public forum. Why else post on a public discussion forum? You aren't posting for your own ego. That would be selfish and you are mindful of community.
You don't expect us to guess what your private count is. You are intelligent so you don't expect us to be able to guess. Because you are knowledgeable and know that there are many variations of counts surrounding different public events.
For example, it is 878 days since Biden was inaugurated. 28 months, 28 days. Which is really 29 months. But somebody could call it 28 months, if they were rounding it off by truncation.
But that would be a celebration. And being a cheerful Democratic sort, you would celebrate that on a public forum.
A Republican would say the 28 months represents the time the usurper Biden is occupying the Oval Office that is rightly Trump's. But you are not a Republican. You might be a republian or a mushroom, whatever those are. But you are not a Republican.
It is 893 days since the attempted insurrection. 29 months, 12 days. That's 29 months and so that's not it.
It is 864 days since Biden stopped some arms sales to Saudi Arabia. 28 months 14 days. Perhaps you have family that was killed by Houti rebels.
It's something negative that happened between January 18th, and Feb. 18th 2021. But not personal to you, because you are not selfish.
So it's not ego.
It's not stupidity.
It's not selfishness.
It's not double standards.
It's not celebrating Joe Biden.
It's not a Republican complaint.
It's not lack of awareness of public events.
It's not marking the attempted insurrection.
It's not a republican or republian code signalling to mushrooms.
It could be arms sales ban.
Do you have any idea of why you are using a public forum? I believe you do because you are intelligent. Care to share in the space you've been using?
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January 15
The Lao People's Revolutionary Party elects Thongloun Sisoulith as its new General Secretary, replacing retiring chief Bounnhang Vorachith. Sisoulith is elected for a five-year term as top leader in Laos.[12]
COVID-19 pandemic: The global death toll from COVID-19 passes 2 million.[13]
January 20 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are inaugurated as the 46th and 49th President and Vice President of the United States. Harris becomes the first Black, South Asian and female Vice President.
January 22 The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the first legally binding international agreement comprehensively to prohibit nuclear weapons, comes into effect.[14]
January 24 2021 Portuguese presidential election: Incumbent president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is reelected.[15]
January 26 COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases exceeds 100 million worldwide.[16]
January 27 A near-total ban on abortion comes into effect in Poland.[17]
January 29 COVID-19 pandemic: The European Union invokes Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol following a row over COVID-19 vaccine supplies before reversing the decision.[18]
January 31 Nguyễn Phú Trọng is re-elected for a third five-year term as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam.[19]
February
February 1
A coup d'état in Myanmar removes Aung San Suu Kyi from power and restores military rule leading to widespread demonstrations across the country.[20][21][22]
Kosovo officially establishes diplomatic ties with Israel and announces plans to open an embassy in Jerusalem.[23]
COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations administered worldwide exceeds 100 million.[24][25]
February 4 US President Joe Biden announces that the United States will cease providing weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for use in the Yemeni Civil War.[26]
February 9
COVID-19 pandemic: A joint WHOChina investigation into the source of the outbreak concludes. Investigators deem a Wuhan laboratory leak to be "extremely unlikely", with a "natural reservoir" in bats being a more likely origin.[27]
The UAE's uncrewed Hope spacecraft becomes the first Arabian mission successfully to enter orbit around Mars.[28]
February 1317 A major winter storm kills at least 136 people and causes over 9.9 million power outages in the U.S.[29]
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If Jack Smith goes to the FISA court with national security probable cause, and he likely will,
ancianita
Jun 2023
#11
Neither of those two charged the top people. Smith has and will again. . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2023
#58
I agree with you that it's hard to imagine a federal judge sentencing him to prison
FakeNoose
Jun 2023
#36
With all the publicity it will be difficult for her to take that action.
LiberalFighter
Jun 2023
#25
Then she has to think whether Smith has other options to still go after Trump
LiberalFighter
Jun 2023
#34
I wonder if the way Trump was handled after the indictment wasn't to get more evidence for trial.
lees1975
Jun 2023
#31
Smith is seeking a gag order regarding "uncharged individuals" in other investigations
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2023
#66
If, by some chance or misfortune, the Judge is prepared to put the trial on a long delay...
kentuck
Jun 2023
#43
Yes, BUT, Mueller's scope of investigation was tightly defined by Republicans
Hortensis
Jun 2023
#63