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[–] LarryTheMatador 155 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Remember Champ biting specific members of the secret service?

Dogs know. Dogs always know.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

That was actually Major, their younger dog at the time. Champ was their elderly dog who died a couple years ago. They since got a younger pup, Commander, and he too, has been biting staffers, but I don't know if they revealed which agencies the victims work for. Maybe Commander is copying what his elder brother does, but iirc Major doesn't live in the White House too often nowadays. He might just have the same intuition.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, that's why some rip kids' faces off, they all deserve it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also why they shit on grass. They know.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

!fucklawns is leaking (not that there's anything wrong with that).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Shh, stop being rational, doggos are le magical social creatures

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In case anyone, like me, wants a source for Pence refusing to get in the car with the Secret Service. It’s from the book “I Alone Can Fix It.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/26/pence-car-raskin-comments/

The “terrified” part is speculation, but potentially true.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Sounds to me like Pence was tipped off.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if they would have used 'the VP has been kidnapped by Antifa!' as justification for the insurrection act.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

They were chanting "hang Pence" and literally, physically building a gallows. The intentions were quite clear.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do we have any proof that the messages were deleted on the instruction of the White House? I've always thought they arranged the mass-deletion on their own - but it was a very busy time and I might well have missed the bit about them being ordered to delete them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well it helped Trump, was against policy, and they answered to him.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All true. However, there's a difference between being told/ordered to do a thing, and thinking (on your own), "Hey if I do this thing it'll cover my ass and help my side". OP is claiming they were told to do it - and that may be true, but I'd like some proof toward that.

[–] RegularGoose 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What's more likely? That they all independently had the same idea to commit the same crime at the same time, or that their ringleader told them to do it, so they did it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they used SMS those records are still around.

Or did they use something else?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is likely bullshit, your milage may vary...but I though they used encrypted black berries. Its on a private network/vpn separate from civilian traffic.

It seems like Trump threw a fit about it at one time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The proof is they wouldn't have done it if they had not been told.