Before it all went down in a storm of FBI agents and murky claims about Pakistani intelligence, one of the two alleged D.C. federal imposters lived a lavish life while rarely footing the bill.
Same as it ever was, this has been going on for thousands of years. And will continue for as long as greed exists.
W.C.Fields said it best “Never give a sucker an even break” because “You can’t cheat an honest man”.
I sleep well at night, I wouldn’t trade places with them for anything.
Looks like the script for season two of “Slow Horses” has already been written.
I’m uncertain why this story has legs. There are probably many just like it.
…because Taherzadeh is a Persian of interest?
People like Taherzadeh seem so foreign to my senses as I can’t imagine having so little disregard for other people.
I remember when I was a kid my dad was in a PhD program with a fellow national who finished his degree, maxed out his credit cards, then fled permanently to the old country. I felt outrage for the credit card companies back then. Now I just see it as wrong.
I think because it involves the Secret Service and at least one who protected the First Lady, not to mention the array of weaponry.
YOu failed question n of…
The GOP test.
How can people be so full of hate?
How can people rountinely vote for those in the 0.1%?
How can people make lying a virtue?
See, these two guys get slammed, as they should, by the law for their illegal antics. And it was compounded because of the secret Service being involved…They will get prison time, as they should. And some SS agents will lose their careers.
If this were trump at the head of this goofy affair would he face the music? I bet’cha not. Consider how much more evidence is publicly known about trump’s various deeds that were not legal and nothing yet has indicated serious comeuppance is coming his way.
Yes, I understand that it has tangent connection to the SS but for the most part it’s just a story about the American dream in 2022. A guy and his duped in friends trying to be rockstars and failing miserably.
Maybe all firearms need to be purchased with cash on the barrel head?
Follow. The. Money. This scheme required a lot of expensive props and substantial cash outlays. They both appear criminally-minded which makes them expendable assets in the long run. But there’s a fire behind that smoke.
That’s what you get for not being a sociopath. Taherzadeh very much wants to be one of the extremely privileged insane money class and expects to bs his way there. A little time in Club Fed will allow him to learn a more acceptable scam.
I see a very bright future in Rethugliklan politics for Taherzadeh. If not as a candidate, as a future go-to guy for the next round of endless fraudits.
What we should be also mentioning is the McConnell/McCarthy embrace of Donald Trump at this particular time
The New Yorker has a piece on the above gentlemen being “Craven Patsies” for Donald Trump.
That is very very damaging to our politics, a point stressed in the piece.
Going forward, I will be making an effort to do my part in not burying this danger to our Republic
… Ari Taherzadeh, 40, in the years before his arrest with Haider Ali, 36, ran several D.C.-area businesses that ended in a spiraling series of lawsuits.
Doesn’t that sound like someone else we know?
Wow. Just wow. Even Pence’s secret service agents were in on it.
Speaking about the threats to Pence on Jan. 6 and the chants by rioters to hang him, Raskin said the vice president’s Secret Service agents — including one who was carrying the nuclear football — ran down to an undisclosed place in the Capitol. Those agents, who Raskin said he suspects were reporting to Trump’s Secret Service agents, were trying to whisk Pence away from the Capitol.
Pence then “uttered what I think are the six most chilling words of this entire thing I’ve seen so far: ‘I’m not getting in that car,’” Raskin said.
“He knew exactly what this inside coup they had planned for was going to do,” Raskin said
From this NBC article:
It is a conundrum. One, we cannot engage these people with older paradigms. They are norm-destroyers, having taken the Trump route.
But two, we cannot become like them. Matching fascist tropes with ours using the same norm-destroying tropes will not work either.
That’s why we need engagement using the Rule of Law, but with an awareness of the Other Side’s BAD FAITH
