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PCIntern

(25,556 posts)
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 07:19 AM Aug 2022

So who else here believes that this whole sequence

of great events was planned and timed to occur in sequence three months prior to the midterm elections?

I know this is not necessarily in case, but if I’ve were writing a script I would have Joe Manchin as the Lynchpin and least likely to be the Deus ex machina of the process. This timing reminded me of that terrific scene in the Hunt for Red October when the Russian captain played by Sean Connery is navigating the trenches deep beneath the ocean and does not follow the maps in the way that the crew wants him to but test the skills and the ability to follow orders of his crew by using his own timing and instincts. It is entirely possible that the group hired to choreograph the January 6 hearings has an analog in the White House and Congress who is scheming most cleverly to grotesquely undermine the Republicans. How many films or mystery novels have we watched or read wherein the individual who is presumed to be the villain throughout the narrative turns out to be the key to the heroism and success of the good guys? And you know what, even if this isn’t true it’s a great story!

I will cling to the belief that this has been an orchestrated choreographed event until proven otherwise. Oh, and one more thing: so much for Democrats in disarray.

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So who else here believes that this whole sequence (Original Post) PCIntern Aug 2022 OP
Possibilities: Tetrachloride Aug 2022 #1
It is God's plan, gab13by13 Aug 2022 #2
... EYESORE 9001 Aug 2022 #4
Thread winner for joke of the day... PCIntern Aug 2022 #5
Oh fuck. MrsCoffee Aug 2022 #17
If I were in charge of things, I would definitely consider the timing of events EYESORE 9001 Aug 2022 #3
i think it might have occurred to SOMEONE that doing it aug 8, mopinko Aug 2022 #6
Yes, that little tidbit is just delicious. niyad Aug 2022 #10
since today is my bday, i couldnt miss it. mopinko Aug 2022 #15
Happy Birthday. How are you observing this day? niyad Aug 2022 #16
well, i'm replacing my stolen phone at 11 mopinko Aug 2022 #19
So poetic, there's no way it was entirely coincidental. nt crickets Aug 2022 #21
The experts have said ... Novara Aug 2022 #7
You keep saying this and I agree. This is not just "documents" in general. They already Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #9
Right. And it's possible they found evidence of other crimes ... Novara Aug 2022 #11
I think I read a tweet where Junior said there was nothing in the safe. That means there was Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #12
Right. People - especially criminals - don't have safes to keep them empty. Novara Aug 2022 #13
Mara-Lago at least, is not about politics stopdiggin Aug 2022 #8
Humans are pattern seekers... brooklynite Aug 2022 #14
I think the FBI timed the warrant so they could enter MAL while TFG was out of town blogslug Aug 2022 #18
Investigators visited in June. dclarston13 Aug 2022 #20
Are you saying DeSantis is no longer a villain because he allegedly called the FBI tip line? Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2022 #22

Tetrachloride

(7,849 posts)
1. Possibilities:
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 07:30 AM
Aug 2022

1. Some things had to happen before September. DOJ knew this. Hence, the fundamental choreography.
2. Unpredicted events: Alex Jones’ messages. Photo of Trump documents in toilet.
3. The many investigations at the same time: Steve Bannon for example. Someone had to be first. National Security documents were highest priority. Hence we are back to choreography but not necessarily sedated choreography.

Lots of smells coming from the kitchen. No dinner
dates (indictments) are set.

gab13by13

(21,360 posts)
2. It is God's plan,
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 07:30 AM
Aug 2022

Everything that happens, happens because God is in control. There is no such thing as free will in predestination.

EYESORE 9001

(25,947 posts)
3. If I were in charge of things, I would definitely consider the timing of events
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 07:31 AM
Aug 2022

It would be foolhardy to trot out everything you’ve got all at once, giving the adversary an opportunity to thwart your efforts. Gotta keep them off-balance.

mopinko

(70,129 posts)
6. i think it might have occurred to SOMEONE that doing it aug 8,
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 07:52 AM
Aug 2022

will tie him to nixon til the end of time.

mopinko

(70,129 posts)
19. well, i'm replacing my stolen phone at 11
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 10:30 AM
Aug 2022

but i'm chatting on fb w the boss of my new band, so i got that going.
phone was last seen in my dear friend's antique store, so i'll prolly stop in on my way to the phone store.
that's a far as i got. hoping for a nice nap.

Novara

(5,844 posts)
7. The experts have said ...
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 07:55 AM
Aug 2022

... that fresh evidence, possibly urgent must have come to light. So this timing might not have been deliberate at all. There is speculation that somebody spilled some beans. In other words, someone high up is talking. Meadows?

Scrivener7

(50,955 posts)
9. You keep saying this and I agree. This is not just "documents" in general. They already
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 09:09 AM
Aug 2022

have 15 boxes of classified documents since February. Those 15 boxes already satisfy the statute that people keep pointing to today saying if you take documents you can't hold office.

This is about some specific and very significant set of documents or something that was intentionally held back in February. And they had to have specific information about whatever it is.

That being said, much as everyone is talking about it, no one has any idea what they are going after here.

Novara

(5,844 posts)
11. Right. And it's possible they found evidence of other crimes ...
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 09:11 AM
Aug 2022

... while they were in that safe.

We do know they took evidence with them.

Legal experts are also saying that this is based on recent information, so someone on the inside may be talking and has knowledge of crimes.

Scrivener7

(50,955 posts)
12. I think I read a tweet where Junior said there was nothing in the safe. That means there was
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 09:15 AM
Aug 2022

something significant in the safe.

Also, tfg very specifically put the subject of that safe out there in the airwaves. It struck me, as most of his statements do, as a veiled threat. It makes me wonder if there was compromat about others in that safe and his statement is a demand that those others protect him.

stopdiggin

(11,317 posts)
8. Mara-Lago at least, is not about politics
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 07:57 AM
Aug 2022

or elections. It's about the LAW.

And Manchin? Can't get my head quite that far around ...

blogslug

(38,002 posts)
18. I think the FBI timed the warrant so they could enter MAL while TFG was out of town
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 10:05 AM
Aug 2022

There might have been some ugliness with the former president's Secret Service detail if the old man had been on the premises when the FBI came to call.

Also, I told someone in real life yesterday, this was no "raid". I bet that orange bastard was fully informed that federal agents were coming to retrieve federal property.

I have no theories beyond those two.

dclarston13

(412 posts)
20. Investigators visited in June.
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 10:53 AM
Aug 2022

Presumably they documented what was there. Then there was this Golf Tournament with some Saudis. If information was passed during that event it may have spurred action.
I do find it curious that the AQ guy got a hellfire through his window when the golf thing was going on. I wonder whose phone buzzed when that happened?

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