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malaise

(286,794 posts)
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 01:11 PM Tuesday

Bwaaaah hahaha - autopengate 😂😂🧒🧒

So Comer used an auto pen to drumroll…subpoena former Biden officials to investigate Biden’s use of the auto pen😂😂😂😂😂

You can’t make up this shit.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/biden-autopen-james-comer

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A Kentucky Republican leading the Trump administration’s investigation into Joe Biden’s mental capacities during his time in office, including Biden’s reliance, like many other presidents, on an automatic signature machine, has been shown to have used a digital signature himself in the course of the investigation.

NBC reported that some letters and subpoena notices issued by James Comer, which were sent out in connection to his investigation into Biden’s use of the so-called autopen, bore a digital signature.

Comer has sent 16 letters to former Biden White House officials requesting transcribed interviews, NBC said. Metadata analysis showed that all appeared to be signed with a digitally inserted signature.

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Bwaaaah hahaha - autopengate 😂😂🧒🧒 (Original Post) malaise Tuesday OP
K&R spanone Tuesday #1
Every criticism is projection surfered Tuesday #2
Every criticism is an admission of guilt FakeNoose Tuesday #20
this is complete truth! Jvp Tuesday #24
Comer is a creep. mountain grammy Tuesday #3
Just when you think they couldn't be any stupider... not fooled Tuesday #4
Hard to process malaise Tuesday #5
easy to understand Hieronymus Phact Wednesday #29
A made up scandal LogDog75 Tuesday #6
OMG, just keep making the US government look like the idiots they are. Bev54 Tuesday #7
Trump wins again. He had top secret files at his home and wouldn't cooperate so the FBI searched his home. twodogsbarking Tuesday #8
A huge part malaise Tuesday #13
Then he went one better - he got SCOTUS to give him something called "presidential immunity" FakeNoose Tuesday #21
This practice should sunset. BurnDoubt Tuesday #9
What will comer do when he finds out BOSSHOG Tuesday #10
Didn't Trump admit to using an autopen? intheflow Tuesday #11
Yes malaise Tuesday #14
Ahhh, James Comer forgot to take his Irony Deficient tablets again. n/t aggiesal Tuesday #12
Good one! calimary Wednesday #26
It sounds like something from a very twisted Monty Python sketch. Dave Bowman Tuesday #15
Perfect malaise Tuesday #16
rank stinking hypocrites (R) BoRaGard Tuesday #17
It's the same old story. MIButterfly Tuesday #18
THIS malaise Tuesday #19
INVESTIGATE!!!!!!! LiberalLovinLug Tuesday #22
This shit is as Republican as it fucking gets. Karasu Tuesday #23
I'll take "Shades of Newt" for $200, Alec Bristlecone Wednesday #25
Nicely played malaise Wednesday #28
bfd AllaN01Bear Wednesday #27
These. Fucking. Fuckers. Blue Owl Wednesday #30

FakeNoose

(37,924 posts)
20. Every criticism is an admission of guilt
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 05:55 PM
Tuesday

... especially when it's coming from a Repuke and directed at ANY Democrat.

not fooled

(6,390 posts)
4. Just when you think they couldn't be any stupider...
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 02:19 PM
Tuesday

There is no bottom.


77 million dumbf*cks made this possible.

LogDog75

(642 posts)
6. A made up scandal
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 02:54 PM
Tuesday

Much of what the president signs is letters, cards, and similar items that don't have the effect of an Executive Order or approving legislation. If it weren't for the auto pen then he'd eventually get carpal tunnel requiring surgery and wouldn't be able to sign anything while healing.

Really, all this is is the republic party trying to distract people from what the harm the Orange Turd is doing

twodogsbarking

(14,458 posts)
8. Trump wins again. He had top secret files at his home and wouldn't cooperate so the FBI searched his home.
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 03:03 PM
Tuesday

Knowing this ahead of time Trump tried to hide the top secret files and then said they were his and he had secretly declassified them when no one was looking. That certainly trumps autopen. The media has failed us miserably. They are resposible at least in part for the orange turd.

FakeNoose

(37,924 posts)
21. Then he went one better - he got SCOTUS to give him something called "presidential immunity"
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 05:59 PM
Tuesday

... whatever the f**k that is, he has it.

Does Biden have it, or Obama? Oh, hell no!

BurnDoubt

(826 posts)
9. This practice should sunset.
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 03:15 PM
Tuesday

It needs to end now, as it is certainly easily abusable, apparently.
Perhaps the whole concept of governance is so fraught that we should abandon the notion and revert to the Cave. We're already firmly on the path to brutishness and might as well "Eat the Devil as Drink His Broth", as my Wizened Granny used to say.
So much time, energy and government wasted trying to establish "whose ass is blacker" that we are ignoring any chance we have to better the lives of rank-and-file Americans.
All the while, larceny runs rampant and the rich get richer.
It's Working!!!!!
So, let's get this sorted: When Democats use autopen it's a Crime; when Republicans use autopen it's MAGA- nanimous!

BOSSHOG

(43,331 posts)
10. What will comer do when he finds out
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 03:21 PM
Tuesday

George Washington used autopen? And that children in poor countries are kept alive by eating food and drinking water.

intheflow

(29,624 posts)
11. Didn't Trump admit to using an autopen?
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 03:25 PM
Tuesday

Indirectly, and I can't remember for which EO or decree, but a reporter asked him a question about some "policy" and he said he didn't know what they were talking about, Rubio took care of it for him. It was probably around deportations, maybe in late March or April. Anyone else remember that?

MIButterfly

(868 posts)
18. It's the same old story.
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 04:12 PM
Tuesday

When a Democrat does it, it's evil, immoral, wrong, outrageous or criminal. When a Republican does THE EXACT SAME THING, it's nobody's business; much ado about nothing; nothing to see here; move along.

So what else is new?

AllaN01Bear

(26,511 posts)
27. bfd
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 09:57 AM
Wednesday

i remember when one of the nonsense thingys was that our rellied on teleprompters ? as a famous wabbit said " ahhh sheeduppp.

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