Biden Admin DOE official charged with felony in MN for stealing luggage at airport

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Several posters have reported this thread due to the source of the story. Here is a copy of the summons from Hennepin County:

https://www.exchangemonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/mcro-27-cr-22-21567-e-filed-comp-summons-2022-10-27-20221128135812.pdf

Unless someone has done a pretty good job of forging that document, this should be sufficient evidence that the story is correct.

It’s a sad commentary on the state of our mainstream press that the only place you can find any coverage of this is on rightwing websites. That it happened is not in question. It absolutely happened. But the media ignores it.

Do you think CNN or other traditional media in this country would’ve ignored this story had this been an appointee of the prior administration? Of course not.


This is journalistic malpractice.

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Had this been an appointee of the previous administration, this thread would be hundreds of pages long by now. Unreal.

Yes and no. It may have gotten more attention, but this is such small potatoes compared to the daily barrage of horrors coming from the previous administration. Stories that should have been front page headlines for a week got buried quickly during the last administration, due to the sheer volume of scandals, crimes and blunders. This guy stealing a suitcase doesn’t compare to multiple presidential impeachments.

*Correction: this person stealing a suitcase

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Several posters have reported this thread due to the source of the story. Here is a copy of the summons from Hennepin County:

https://www.exchangemonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/mcro-27-cr-22-21567-e-filed-comp-summons-2022-10-27-20221128135812.pdf

Unless someone has done a pretty good job of forging that document, this should be sufficient evidence that the story is correct.

It’s a sad commentary on the state of our mainstream press that the only place you can find any coverage of this is on rightwing websites. That it happened is not in question. It absolutely happened. But the media ignores it.

Do you think CNN or other traditional media in this country would’ve ignored this story had this been an appointee of the prior administration? Of course not.


This is journalistic malpractice.

I find the hot pink mohawk, sparkly pink stilettos, along with his choke collard, and gas-masked companion, their flaunting of the nicely shaped calves, in the over-the-top and completely inappropriate to their profession and the event, flamenco dress, to be the sensational part of this story. I mean honestly, the peacockish gaudy fashion sense is way more sensational than the alleged theft of a $2,500 suitcase full of clothes (they say it was a mixup-mistake by the way). The story is a puffy piece of fluffy meets gaudy and gaudier... titillating more so because of the personality than the actual crime. Gov't employees are supposed and for the most part are boring, boring, and unimaginative.

Back in the day this story would have only run in the National Enquirer, or News of the World, if they would have even touched it, which they probably wouldn't have because the guy isn't famous, or really terribly interesting at all, he's a nobody in the grand scheme of things. National credible news source, not a chance.

Now if he'd been caught red-handed in the act of looting the "Children's Rescue Fund" federal cookie jar, while sporting the pink stilettos, with the puppy tail-wagging friend in tow, and transporting the ill-begotten cookie jar stash in said allegedly stolen $2,500 flowery Vera Bradley suitcase. Now that would make a "World of the News" worthy story!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Several posters have reported this thread due to the source of the story. Here is a copy of the summons from Hennepin County:

https://www.exchangemonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/mcro-27-cr-22-21567-e-filed-comp-summons-2022-10-27-20221128135812.pdf

Unless someone has done a pretty good job of forging that document, this should be sufficient evidence that the story is correct.

It’s a sad commentary on the state of our mainstream press that the only place you can find any coverage of this is on rightwing websites. That it happened is not in question. It absolutely happened. But the media ignores it.

Do you think CNN or other traditional media in this country would’ve ignored this story had this been an appointee of the prior administration? Of course not.


This is journalistic malpractice.

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Had this been an appointee of the previous administration, this thread would be hundreds of pages long by now. Unreal.

Yes and no. It may have gotten more attention, but this is such small potatoes compared to the daily barrage of horrors coming from the previous administration. Stories that should have been front page headlines for a week got buried quickly during the last administration, due to the sheer volume of scandals, crimes and blunders. This guy stealing a suitcase doesn’t compare to multiple presidential impeachments.

Sam was literally part of the Trump administration.

Let's all ignore the facts, I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Several posters have reported this thread due to the source of the story. Here is a copy of the summons from Hennepin County:

https://www.exchangemonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/mcro-27-cr-22-21567-e-filed-comp-summons-2022-10-27-20221128135812.pdf

Unless someone has done a pretty good job of forging that document, this should be sufficient evidence that the story is correct.

It’s a sad commentary on the state of our mainstream press that the only place you can find any coverage of this is on rightwing websites. That it happened is not in question. It absolutely happened. But the media ignores it.

Do you think CNN or other traditional media in this country would’ve ignored this story had this been an appointee of the prior administration? Of course not.


This is journalistic malpractice.

+1
Had this been an appointee of the previous administration, this thread would be hundreds of pages long by now. Unreal.

Yes and no. It may have gotten more attention, but this is such small potatoes compared to the daily barrage of horrors coming from the previous administration. Stories that should have been front page headlines for a week got buried quickly during the last administration, due to the sheer volume of scandals, crimes and blunders. This guy stealing a suitcase doesn’t compare to multiple presidential impeachments.

Sam was literally part of the Trump administration.

Let's all ignore the facts, I guess.

Yes, they were part of the previous administration, but I think pp was saying that had the suitcase theft occurred during the previous administration, it would have gotten more attention. My point is that it wouldn’t have because of everything else that was going on.

[Anonymous]

Seven pages about a person stealing luggage? Ok y’all need to get a hobby. This doesn’t warrant more than 2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Several posters have reported this thread due to the source of the story. Here is a copy of the summons from Hennepin County:

https://www.exchangemonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/mcro-27-cr-22-21567-e-filed-comp-summons-2022-10-27-20221128135812.pdf

Unless someone has done a pretty good job of forging that document, this should be sufficient evidence that the story is correct.

It’s a sad commentary on the state of our mainstream press that the only place you can find any coverage of this is on rightwing websites. That it happened is not in question. It absolutely happened. But the media ignores it.

Do you think CNN or other traditional media in this country would’ve ignored this story had this been an appointee of the prior administration? Of course not.


This is journalistic malpractice.

+1
Had this been an appointee of the previous administration, this thread would be hundreds of pages long by now. Unreal.

Yes and no. It may have gotten more attention, but this is such small potatoes compared to the daily barrage of horrors coming from the previous administration. Stories that should have been front page headlines for a week got buried quickly during the last administration, due to the sheer volume of scandals, crimes and blunders. This guy stealing a suitcase doesn’t compare to multiple presidential impeachments.

Sam was literally part of the Trump administration.

Let's all ignore the facts, I guess.

Yes, they were part of the previous administration, but I think pp was saying that had the suitcase theft occurred during the previous administration, it would have gotten more attention. My point is that it wouldn’t have because of everything else that was going on.

+1 The entire point of the Republican crimes thread at the beginning was that there was so much going on that wasn’t getting any press because Trump was sucking up every molecule of media oxygen. Remember ten or so years ago when the governor of South Carolina had an affair and had to resign? The Appalachian trail guy? That was national headline news for weeks. During the first year of the Trump administration the Alabama governor had to resign under very similar circumstances, including a sex tape!, and the rest of the country barely noticed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Several posters have reported this thread due to the source of the story. Here is a copy of the summons from Hennepin County:

https://www.exchangemonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/mcro-27-cr-22-21567-e-filed-comp-summons-2022-10-27-20221128135812.pdf

Unless someone has done a pretty good job of forging that document, this should be sufficient evidence that the story is correct.

It’s a sad commentary on the state of our mainstream press that the only place you can find any coverage of this is on rightwing websites. That it happened is not in question. It absolutely happened. But the media ignores it.

Do you think CNN or other traditional media in this country would’ve ignored this story had this been an appointee of the prior administration? Of course not.


This is journalistic malpractice.

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Had this been an appointee of the previous administration, this thread would be hundreds of pages long by now. Unreal.

No. There’s a whole thread with hundreds of crimes like this and much much worse by appointees of the previous administration and hundreds of other Republicans and it is totally ignored.

And there is a similar one covering Democrats and their crimes - also ignored. What's your point?

You seriously read that and didn’t see the point?

They do not. Republicans refuse to recognize the scale and amount of the crimes committed by their party members outstrips anything done by Democrats, just like they expect us to try and excuse the crimes committed by Democrats like they do for everything up to and including rape and theft of documents.

Not only that, but when you post a reminder of specific crimes in this thread for comparison, they report that post for deletion. Then they complain when the news doesn't report on obscure stories like this thread's subject.

You mean when you constantly deflect by going off-topic? Yeah, sorry. When you've got umpteen other threads on which to obsess, but choose to continue "whatabouting" on this thread (and others), you're going to be reported.

Pointing out the hypocrisy that reveals your bad faith isn't whataboutism. Unless you live in upside down world, I don't know how you can justify saying this guy isn't fit to hold an administrative position because he stole a suitcase, while at the same time you support an administrator who stole thousands of pages of classified documents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seven pages about a person stealing luggage? Ok y’all need to get a hobby. This doesn’t warrant more than 2.

Because lefties are supposed to know better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seven pages about a person stealing luggage? Ok y’all need to get a hobby. This doesn’t warrant more than 2.

Because lefties are supposed to know better.

So you hold Democrats to standard higher than yours. What a surprise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Several posters have reported this thread due to the source of the story. Here is a copy of the summons from Hennepin County:

https://www.exchangemonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/mcro-27-cr-22-21567-e-filed-comp-summons-2022-10-27-20221128135812.pdf

Unless someone has done a pretty good job of forging that document, this should be sufficient evidence that the story is correct.

It’s a sad commentary on the state of our mainstream press that the only place you can find any coverage of this is on rightwing websites. That it happened is not in question. It absolutely happened. But the media ignores it.

Do you think CNN or other traditional media in this country would’ve ignored this story had this been an appointee of the prior administration? Of course not.


This is journalistic malpractice.

I find the hot pink mohawk, sparkly pink stilettos, along with his choke collard, and gas-masked companion, their flaunting of the nicely shaped calves, in the over-the-top and completely inappropriate to their profession and the event, flamenco dress, to be the sensational part of this story. I mean honestly, the peacockish gaudy fashion sense is way more sensational than the alleged theft of a $2,500 suitcase full of clothes (they say it was a mixup-mistake by the way). The story is a puffy piece of fluffy meets gaudy and gaudier... titillating more so because of the personality than the actual crime. Gov't employees are supposed and for the most part are boring, boring, and unimaginative.

Back in the day this story would have only run in the National Enquirer, or News of the World, if they would have even touched it, which they probably wouldn't have because the guy isn't famous, or really terribly interesting at all, he's a nobody in the grand scheme of things. National credible news source, not a chance.

Now if he'd been caught red-handed in the act of looting the "Children's Rescue Fund" federal cookie jar, while sporting the pink stilettos, with the puppy tail-wagging friend in tow, and transporting the ill-begotten cookie jar stash in said allegedly stolen $2,500 flowery Vera Bradley suitcase. Now that would make a "World of the News" worthy story!

He took the owner’s tag off and hid it. No accident

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Several posters have reported this thread due to the source of the story. Here is a copy of the summons from Hennepin County:

https://www.exchangemonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/mcro-27-cr-22-21567-e-filed-comp-summons-2022-10-27-20221128135812.pdf

Unless someone has done a pretty good job of forging that document, this should be sufficient evidence that the story is correct.

It’s a sad commentary on the state of our mainstream press that the only place you can find any coverage of this is on rightwing websites. That it happened is not in question. It absolutely happened. But the media ignores it.

Do you think CNN or other traditional media in this country would’ve ignored this story had this been an appointee of the prior administration? Of course not.


This is journalistic malpractice.

I used to detest the "rugged individuals" of the old Republican Party, but I now regret that they have been replaced by self-pitying whiners who never stop dwelling on their supposed victimization. The sad commentary is that the mainstream media has been decimated with journalists being laid off left and right. This case took place in Minneapolis. How many national news outlets do you think have journalists covering stolen suitcase crimes in Minneapolis? Do any of you believe that any news organization has been sitting on this story for a month? Cases like this get discovered by cub reporters digging through police and court records or, more likely in this case, an insider pointing a friendly reporter to it. CNN is not staking out the Hennepin County courthouse.

The news story is out there now. I don’t see CNN covering it. Nor NBC, CBS, etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is a textbook example of what a cesspool the politics forum has become. Thank you, dear posters, for the reminder of why I stopped coming here.

Explain?

DP. I imagine the PP will launch into some “transphobe” nonsense claims, because you know, apparently it’s transphobic to hold people accountable for their crimes?

PP here. So close, and yet so far. It’s not trans- or otherwise LGBTQ-phobic to hold people accountable for their crimes. But it is trans/LGBTQ-phobic to drag their LGBTQ status so prominently into a discussion of an alleged crime that has nothing to do with said status. It would be no more or less of a crime if the individual was cis-het.

But that aside, this thread is dumb in the way some of you are trying to spin this alleged crime by a random deputy assistant secretary into evidence of Biden’s supposed corruption. If that’s the best you can do, Biden must be really clean.

Agree with the quoted reply 100%. I actually come to the politics board a lot less frequently too. It's just people making blanket statements and acting like their opinions are facts.

Some transgender person stole luggage and now it's HUGE NEWS. If they were a cisgender man or woman, this level of theft would not have generated a post. Cis people steal all the time. One trans person does so and it warrants a post with half a dozen pages of replies. One transgender person did something therefore trans people are bad. Peter Bang stole millions and it wasn't national news. It was barely local news. I really hate how people search for any incident by a trans person and try to use it to demonize an entire group of people.

Also, it's not that hard for people to use they/them pronouns instead of he/him. A transgender person doesn't automatically lose their pronouns just because they're criminals.

I'm transgender and have never stolen from anyone nor have I committed any crime in my life. I'm far more representative of the trans community that the one single person you found stealing luggage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sam was an nuclear waste advisor to the Trump administration as well. Although I agree this has some political significance, it isnt about partisan politics bc Sam served both Trump and Biden administrations.

While Sam is well qualified for the job, they also have a history of what could be deemed high risk behavior (whatever your thoughts on kink, its high risk to become a known thought leader on things like role-playing beastiality). Everyone rolled the dice along with Sam when they hired them-- both the Rs and the Ds.

I’m completely confused about the Trump references:

“ On 10 January 2022, activist and nuclear engineering graduate Sam Brinton accepted an offer to join the Department of Energy (DOE) in the Biden administration.”

I know he was an adviser over the Obama years on a lower level?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is a textbook example of what a cesspool the politics forum has become. Thank you, dear posters, for the reminder of why I stopped coming here.

Explain?

DP. I imagine the PP will launch into some “transphobe” nonsense claims, because you know, apparently it’s transphobic to hold people accountable for their crimes?

PP here. So close, and yet so far. It’s not trans- or otherwise LGBTQ-phobic to hold people accountable for their crimes. But it is trans/LGBTQ-phobic to drag their LGBTQ status so prominently into a discussion of an alleged crime that has nothing to do with said status. It would be no more or less of a crime if the individual was cis-het.

But that aside, this thread is dumb in the way some of you are trying to spin this alleged crime by a random deputy assistant secretary into evidence of Biden’s supposed corruption. If that’s the best you can do, Biden must be really clean.

Agree with the quoted reply 100%. I actually come to the politics board a lot less frequently too. It's just people making blanket statements and acting like their opinions are facts.

Some transgender person stole luggage and now it's HUGE NEWS. If they were a cisgender man or woman, this level of theft would not have generated a post. Cis people steal all the time. One trans person does so and it warrants a post with half a dozen pages of replies. One transgender person did something therefore trans people are bad. Peter Bang stole millions and it wasn't national news. It was barely local news. I really hate how people search for any incident by a trans person and try to use it to demonize an entire group of people.

Also, it's not that hard for people to use they/them pronouns instead of he/him. A transgender person doesn't automatically lose their pronouns just because they're criminals.

I'm transgender and have never stolen from anyone nor have I committed any crime in my life. I'm far more representative of the trans community that the one single person you found stealing luggage.

Nobody is commenting on this crime because the person who admitted to the theft is transgender.
i’ll
1. A woman had her luggage stolen and a government employee used said luggage to travel on trips, per video evidence.

2. The government employee lied to the police.

3. The government employee has the woman’s clothing and suitcase, refuses to return them. Many women would not want their clothes back after someone has had them and possibly wore them.

4. The MSM is still ignoring this news story.

Brinton can afford a vera bradley suitcase and clothes. Why did he take the suitcase and clothes from this woman?

Why has he not resigned? Does he still have clearance?

Lots of questions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is a textbook example of what a cesspool the politics forum has become. Thank you, dear posters, for the reminder of why I stopped coming here.

Explain?

DP. I imagine the PP will launch into some “transphobe” nonsense claims, because you know, apparently it’s transphobic to hold people accountable for their crimes?

PP here. So close, and yet so far. It’s not trans- or otherwise LGBTQ-phobic to hold people accountable for their crimes. But it is trans/LGBTQ-phobic to drag their LGBTQ status so prominently into a discussion of an alleged crime that has nothing to do with said status. It would be no more or less of a crime if the individual was cis-het.

But that aside, this thread is dumb in the way some of you are trying to spin this alleged crime by a random deputy assistant secretary into evidence of Biden’s supposed corruption. If that’s the best you can do, Biden must be really clean.

Agree with the quoted reply 100%. I actually come to the politics board a lot less frequently too. It's just people making blanket statements and acting like their opinions are facts.

Some transgender person stole luggage and now it's HUGE NEWS. If they were a cisgender man or woman, this level of theft would not have generated a post. Cis people steal all the time. One trans person does so and it warrants a post with half a dozen pages of replies. One transgender person did something therefore trans people are bad. Peter Bang stole millions and it wasn't national news. It was barely local news. I really hate how people search for any incident by a trans person and try to use it to demonize an entire group of people.

Also, it's not that hard for people to use they/them pronouns instead of he/him. A transgender person doesn't automatically lose their pronouns just because they're criminals.

I'm transgender and have never stolen from anyone nor have I committed any crime in my life. I'm far more representative of the trans community that the one single person you found stealing luggage.

Nobody is commenting on this crime because the person who admitted to the theft is transgender.
i’ll
1. A woman had her luggage stolen and a government employee used said luggage to travel on trips, per video evidence.

2. The government employee lied to the police.

3. The government employee has the woman’s clothing and suitcase, refuses to return them. Many women would not want their clothes back after someone has had them and possibly wore them.

4. The MSM is still ignoring this news story.

Brinton can afford a vera bradley suitcase and clothes. Why did he take the suitcase and clothes from this woman?

Why has he not resigned? Does he still have clearance?

Lots of questions.

DP. I look forward to your posts about all of the stolen luggage all over the US.