DNI Ratcliffe Scrambles To Boost Laptop Conspiracy Theory, Push For Trump Re-Election | Talking Points Memo

Your sense of humor is even more twisted than mine.

And that’s saying something.

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Imagine Ratcliffe’s head is a Pumpkin …

$100.00

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if this actually had a shred of legitimacy to it - -
the Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe

would NOT be doing his big reveal by breathlessly telling Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo all about it .

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When this is over, I want him, and Chad Wolf, and Betsy DeVos, and Mnuchin, and Ross, and Pompeo, and a few others, indicted for conspiracy, malfeasance, bribery, and/or #treason.

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Pretty much
a member of the Intelligence Committee, said that Ratcliffe’s only qualification for the office appeared to be “blind loyalty” to Trump,

Ratcliffe has little experience in national security or national intelligence and is reported to have demonstrated little engagement on the matters as a congressman.[5][6][60] Trump’s intent to nominate Ratcliffe became controversial when he was found to have misrepresented his role in prosecuting terrorism and immigration cases.[5][61][62] On February 29, 2020, Sen. Mark Warner, vicechair of the Senate Intelligence Committee warned Trump against nominating Ratcliffe.[13]

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Ratcliffe is a GOP political hack whose usefulness today is the number 15. Tomorrow it will be 14. On election day it will be 0. After that, he might as well find himself a GOP hack job outside the government, because that’s where he’s going to permanently end up anyway. He’s as useful as a wart and as loved as a carbuncle. The dude has zero cred.

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Put Ratcliffe in the Treasonous Useful Idiot Column.
In fact let’s just call it the post-Trump political wing of a federal slammer.

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I guess that Ratcliffe didn’t get the memo that Sasse and Cornyn got.

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Maybe he’ll ask the good people of the 4th Congressional District (Texas) to send him back to Washington.

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Ratcliffe was put in his position PRECISELY because he doesn’t care one bit about the security of the United States of America. He is in his position to do Dear Leader’s bidding. Nothing more, nothing less.

He is the perfect example of a Kakistocracy: “Government by the least qualified.”

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It appears pretty obvious to me that Ratcliffe is himself violating the law. He should be under investigation by the FBI himself.

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Although these IQ classifications are not used anymore, feel free to make as many jokes about Ratcliffe as you want, as he appears to be at the lower end of the spectrum.

140 and over Genius or near genius
120-140 Very superior intelligence
110-120 Superior intelligence
90-110 Normal or average intelligence
80-90 Dullness
70-80 Borderline deficiency
Below 70 Definite feeble-mindedness

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Coats said that the intelligence community would “continue to faithfully execute its mission of providing timely, apolitical intelligence to the President and policymakers.”

The American People on the other hand? They can go suck on a big fat partisan lollipop…

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OT…

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This was so carefully worded. He didn’t rule out that Americans created the laptop, and then put certain documents and images on it and that those materials were copies and augmentations based on initial fake docs supplied by Russian operatives.

American traitors baked a made-in-America October Surprise cake using Russian bad eggs, and we can still smell the sulfur.

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Translation: He wasn’t in on this particular drug deal???

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When the GOP candidate loses Forbes…

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Rat, meet cliff. Proceed.

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The whole ‘copy the HDD’ thing is fishy for anyone who knows anything about Macs. MacBook Pros haven’t had HDDs since, I think, 2012. They’ve been SSDs soldered to the motherboard since then. To copy it you can’t just pop the disk out of the computer and into an external case. You need to boot the MBP into Target Disk Mode, and without the password to the drive you can’t just copy the contents, since it’s probably encrypted.
Of course, all that depends on the age of the computer. It would be easier with older laptops.

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