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Open thread 7/31/2025 — 26 Comments

  1. Thread by Green Beret Nap Time:

    Lt. Col. (R) Tony Aguilar is not only a liar, but he is also an unhinged, incompetent narcissist, and I can prove it.

    Buckle up, because this thread includes receipts that proves Tony was fired for cause, begged for his job back, resorted to threats when he was denied, and ultimately made up a story to get back at his previous employer and gain personal fame and notoriety. He even forged an official document that he then sent to the press.

    https://x.com/GBNT1952/status/1950874132889116970

    This Aguilar guy is being used by MotherJones as a “whistleblower” (i.e. liar) to smear the GHF operation in Gaza and by proxy to prop up Hamas, as leftists the world over are wont to do.

    Read the whole thread for details.

  2. https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/newly-declassified-appendix-to-durham-report-sheds-additional-light-on-clinton-campaign-plan-to-falsely-tie-trump-to-russia-and-fbis-failure-to-investigate

    Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today is making public the formerly Classified Appendix (“Durham annex”) to John Durham’s 2023 Special Counsel report. The Unclassified Report and the Classified Appendix form the entirety of Durham’s Special Counsel Report.

    The Durham annex contains previously classified information exposing a reported Clinton campaign plan to falsely tie President Donald Trump to Russia.

    The annex also goes into further detail on matters discussed in the Unclassified Report, specifically:

    Potential election influence by a foreign government regarding Hillary Clinton;

    False statements to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA court) regarding FISA renewal applications for Carter Page;

    The FBI’s failure – under the leadership of then-Director James Comey – to investigate intelligence that the Clinton campaign may have created the Russia collusion hoax. Meanwhile the Comey-led FBI used the Steele Dossier – a Clinton campaign creation – to obtain FISA warrants on Carter Page.

    pdf link to the Appendix itself is in the Grassley memo at link above.

  3. Tough day to keep up with events you know.

    Miller and Sears to the Pads, Kittredge to the Cubs, Bieber is a Jay, Eflin back to the IL (back discomfort again), Ramon Urias to Houston, Eugenio Suarez back to Seattle, Jhoan Duran a Phil, Sewald to Det, Zach Littel to Cincy, K. Hayes to Cincy, Helsley’s a Met, Caleb Ferguson a Mariner, Tyler Rogers a Met and his twin brother Taylor goes from the Reds to Pitt in the K. Hayes deal, S. Matz goes to BoSox, Soroka a Cub, and this madness doesn’t end until 6pm tonight.

  4. More on the Durham Annex:

    BREAKING: Trump’s administration has declassified the Durham Annex, discovered in burn bags inside a “secret room,” confirming that Hillary Clinton conspired with Obama’s FBI to fabricate the Russia Collusion Hoax

    – The Steele dossier was pushed despite clear flaws.
    – FBI leaders ignored intelligence that discredited the Russia collusion claim.
    – Under Comey, the FBI dismissed evidence the Clinton campaign created the hoax but used the dossier to secure illegal FISA warrants on Carter Page.

    Treason.

    For some reason, “burn bags” and “secret rooms” all have an air of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys for me.

  5. Are trained cats a thing, or are those the only ones in the world?
    Seems almost like a magic trick.

  6. Margot Cleveland:

    Below is play-by-play thread of quick once-over of Appendix. My big picture take-away is this: The details reveal how corrupt the investigation into Trump was! They opened Crossfire Hurricane on the Presidential candidate with nothing, continued it with that nothing disproven AND 1/

    2/ continued it during President’s first term with more nothings and evidence that it was all fake. I care more about that fact and fact that Obama, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Mueller, and more conspired to further hoax, along with media than that they ignored Clinton plan.

    3/ This new evidence is damning of FBI’s failure to investigate Lynch, Clinton, and others, and that’s bad. But what’s worse is what they did–target Trump to destroy his candidacy and then his presidency. It’s also damning on Think Tanks & legacy media’s involvement.

    4/4 Bottom line on emails provided by source is CIA found it credible, but FBI and others did nothing. And whether fake or true frankly doesn’t matter because what they did to Trump is true. This evidence merely confirms the plot to take down Trump.

    https://x.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1950941405800464883

  7. fullmoon:

    I’m pretty sure I’ve seen other trained cats. But it’s so hard to do that it’s very impressive.

  8. Yes, you can train cats. It’s done for commercials and movies. Guy I know trained his cat to jump through a hoop. Lots of YouTube videos on how to train cats.

    I don’t think techniques for training dogs probably work all that well though.

    Cats train themselves all the time, as all cat owners have discovered when running an electric can opener.

  9. Cats train themselves all the time, as all cat owners have discovered when running an electric can opener.
    ==
    You’re not training the cat. They’re just wise to you.

  10. For that matter, where is Irish Otter?

    Hope all is OK….
    – – – – – – –
    sdferr, thanks much for that link on the Green Beret guy.
    His claim was over-the-top nasty…the more so because it seems convincing…but I guess that’s the whole point of the smear/slander…
    (Thanks, too, for the Margot Cleveland links. She really rocks…as per usual.)

  11. Trump should hire the cat ladies to train the Republican members of Congress to cooperate with him and execute his agenda.

  12. Both Ryan O’Hearn and Ramon Laureano to the Padres for unknown returns. Yikes.

  13. sdferr,
    Fire sale, everything must go. Usually by the deadline, the M’s are sellers.
    Glad we got Eugenio back.

  14. I think my O’s cut loose 9 guys so far and i haven’t toted up how many are coming back (though all of the returns are minor leaguers if I recollect aright). So we’ll be seeing a heap of guys coming up from AAA. Charlie Morton off to Detroit late.

    San Diego went nuts today. Texas, Houston, the Twins and Snakes were pretty active too. It was a big day.

  15. A company called Figma went public today. Market capitalization at the close reached $15B.

    The company was founded by Dylan Field, who received a Thiel Fellowship in 2012…the fellowships are $100K grants for people who want to start something creative immediately rather than go to college. Larry Summers did not approve.

    Michael Gibson, who co-managed the Thiel Fellowship (and now co-manages the 1517 venture capital fund) posted today:

    “About the same time Larry Summers said the Thiel Fellowship was “the most misdirected philanthropy of the decade”…

    with a picture of Field from his $3.8MM raise in 2013.

    https://x.com/William_Blake/status/1951001266697490443

  16. Rangers, Astros and Mariners are buyers. Shaping into a three-way race with Rs and Ms fighting for the last wildcard but both can win the division. Rangers-Mariners 4 game series starting tonight.

  17. “Rangers-Mariners 4 game series starting tonight.”

    Hot-diggity, that’s the stuff!

  18. RE: There are far too many people squatting on, or wandering around our streets who—out of the blue–attack you for no reason, cold cock you from behind, push people in front of subway trains, etc., etc., taking out their madness, aggression, hatred, and delusions on you.

    As I wrote here before, we got to get these violent nut jobs off the streets.

    As a recent example, here is the case of a young restaurant worker attacked by a stranger and bitten six times–and, as pictured, they’re deep wounds, which will leave scars–by some larger rando guy who accosted and attacked him as he was taking out the restaurant’s garbage, as the owner says that business is down, because people are afraid to come out and walk the streets.*

    * See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lelcm_cX3FM

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