What Hold Does Putin Have on Trump? The Crisis Facing America

We still do not know what hold Vladimir Putin has upon resident Trump, but the whole world has now witnessed the power of its grip.

Russia helped Donald Trump into the residency, as Robert Mueller’s indictment vividly details. Putin, in his own voice, has confirmed that he wanted Trump elected. Standing alongside his benefactor, Trump denounced the special counsel investigating the Russian intervention in the U.S. election—and even repudiated his own intelligence appointees.

This is an unprecedented situation, but not an uncontemplated one. At the 1787 convention in Philadelphia, the authors of the Constitution worried a great deal about foreign potentates corrupting the American presidency.

When Gouverneur Morris famously changed his mind in favor of an impeachment clause, he explained his new point of view by invoking a situation very like that now facing the United States:

Our Executive was not like a Magistrate having a life interest, much less like one having an hereditary interest in his office. He may be bribed by a greater interest to betray his trust; and no one would say that we ought to expose ourselves to the danger of seeing the first Magistrate in foreign pay without being able to guard [against] it by displacing him.

The United States was then a comparatively poor and vulnerable country, so the Founders imagined corruption taking the form of some princely emolument that would enable an ex-president to emigrate and—in the words of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney—“live in greater splendor in another country than his own.” Yet they understood that even the most developed countries were not immune to the suborning of their leaders. As Morris said, "One would think the King of England well secured [against] bribery. … Yet Charles II was bribed by Louis XIV.”

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The reasons for Trump’s striking behavior—whether he was bribed or blackmailed or something else—remain to be ascertained. That he has publicly refused to defend his country’s independent electoral process—and did so jointly with the foreign dictator who perverted that process—is video-recorded fact.

And it’s a fact that has to be seen in the larger context of his actions in office: denouncing the EU as a “foe,” threatening to break up NATO, wrecking the U.S.-led world trading system, intervening in both U.K. and German politics in support of extremist and pro-Russian forces, and his continued refusal to act to protect the integrity of U.S. voting systems—it adds up to a political indictment whether or not it quite qualifies as a criminal one.

America is a very legalistic society, in which public discussion often deteriorates into lawyers arguing whether any statutes have been violated. But confronting the country in the wake of Helsinki is this question: Can it afford to wait to ascertain why Trump has subordinated himself to Putin after the president has so abjectly demonstrated that he has subordinated himself? Robert Mueller is leading a legal process. The United States faces a national-security emergency.

We want to hear what you think. Submit a letter to the editor or write to letters@theatlantic.com.

David Frum is a senior editor at The Atlantic. In 2001–02, he was a speechwriter for President George W. Bush.

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Thanks To Robert Mueller, Trump And Putin Now Have A Summit Agenda

Susan B Glasser/New Yorker:

Thanks to Robert Mueller, Trump and Putin Now Have a Summit Agenda
Rosenstein dropped another astonishing revelation into his press conference: resident Trump had been aware all along about the charges against Russian actors, and had been briefed on them by the Justice Department even before he left for Europe. “The resident is fully aware of the department’s actions today,” Rosenstein told reporters as he announced the indictments, which lay out in methodical detail the ways in which agents of the Russian government systematically worked to infiltrate the Democrats’ 2016 campaign with the apparent goal of helping Trump win the American Presidency.
Trump knew the indictment was coming when he bragged about what an easy meeting he would have with Putin. He knew it was coming when he once again attacked the investigation by his own government as “rigged.” And he knew it was coming when he rambled on about an agenda for the Helsinki summit that would cover just about everything but the Russian interference in the 2016 campaign. Talk about brazen.

And by the way, everyone expects Americans to be the next indictment targets. Roger Stone? More?

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Grand Jury Indicts 12 Russian Intelligence Officers for Hacking Offenses Related to the 2016 Election

The Department of Justice today announced that a grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment presented by the Special Counsel’s Office. The indictment charges twelve Russian nationals for committing federal crimes that were intended to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. All twelve defendants are members of the GRU, a Russian Federation intelligence agency within the Main Intelligence Directorate of  the Russian military. These GRU officers, in their official capacities, engaged in a sustained effort to hack into the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic National Committee, and the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, and released that information on the internet under the names "DCLeaks" and "Guccifer 2.0" and through another entity.

“The Internet allows foreign adversaries to attack America in new and unexpected ways,” said Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein. “Together with our law enforcement partners, the Department of Justice is resolute in its commitment to locate, identify and seek to bring to justice anyone who interferes with American elections. Free and fair elections are hard-fought and contentious, and there will always be adversaries who work to exacerbate domestic differences and try to confuse, divide, and conquer us. So long as we are united in our commitment to the shared values enshrined in the Constitution, they will not succeed.”

According to the allegations in the indictment, Viktor Borisovich Netyksho, Boris Alekseyevich Antonov, Dmitriy Sergeyevich Badin, Ivan Sergeyevich Yermakov, Aleksey Viktorovich Lukashev,  Sergey Aleksandrovich Morgachev, Nikolay Yuryevich Kozachek, Pavel Vyacheslavovich Yershov, Artem Andreyevich Malyshev, Aleksandr Vladimirovich Osadchuk, Aleksey Aleksandrovich Potemkin, and Anatoliy Sergeyevich Kovalev were officials in Unit 26165 and Unit 74455 of the Russian government’s Main Intelligence Directorate.

In 2016, officials in Unit 26165 began spearphishing volunteers and employees of the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, including the campaign’s chairman. Through that process, officials in this unit were able to steal the usernames and passwords for numerous individuals and use those credentials to steal email content and hack into other computers. They also were able to hack into the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) through these spearphishing techniques to steal emails and documents, covertly monitor the computer activity of dozens of employees, and implant hundreds of files of malicious computer code to steal passwords and maintain access to these networks.

The officials in Unit 26165 coordinated with officials in Unit 74455 to plan the release of the stolen documents for the purpose of interfering with the 2016 presidential election. Defendants registered the domain DCLeaks.com and later staged the release of thousands of stolen emails and documents through that website. On the website, defendants claimed to be “American hacktivists” and used Facebook accounts with fictitious names and Twitter accounts to promote the website.  After public accusations that the Russian government was behind the hacking of DNC and DCCC computers, defendants created the fictitious persona Guccifer 2.0. On the evening of June 15, 2016 between 4:19PM and 4:56PM, defendants used their Moscow-based server to search for a series of English words and phrases that later appeared in Guccifer 2.0’s first blog post falsely claiming to be a lone Romanian hacker responsible for the hacks in the hopes of undermining the allegations of Russian involvement.

Members of Unit 74455 also conspired to hack into the computers of state boards of elections, secretaries of state, and US companies that supplied software and other technology related to the administration of elections to steal voter data stored on those computers.

To avoid detection, defendants used false identities while using a network of computers located around the world, including the United States, paid for with cryptocurrency through mining bitcoin and other means intended to obscure the origin of the funds. This funding structure supported their efforts to buy key accounts, servers, and domains. For example, the same bitcoin mining operation that funded the registration payment for DCLeaks.com also funded the servers and domains used in the spearphishing campaign.

The indictment includes 11 criminal counts:

• Count One alleges a criminal conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States through cyber operations by the GRU that involved the staged release of stolen documents for the purpose of interfering with the 2016 president election;
• Counts Two through Nine charge aggravated identity theft for using identification belonging to eight victims to further their computer fraud scheme;
• Count Ten alleges a conspiracy to launder money in which the defendants laundered the equivalent of more than $95,000 by transferring the money that they used to purchase servers and to fund other costs related to their hacking activities through cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin; and
• Count Eleven charges conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States by attempting to hack into the computers of state boards of elections, secretaries of state, and US companies that supplied software and other technology related to the administration of elections.

There is no allegation in the indictment that any American was a knowing participant in the alleged unlawful activity or knew they were communicating with Russian intelligence officers. There is no allegation in the indictment that the charged conduct altered the vote count or changed the outcome of the 2016 election.

Everyone charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court. At trial, prosecutors must introduce credible evidence that is sufficient to prove each defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, to the unanimous satisfaction of a jury of twelve citizens.

This case was investigated with the help of the FBI’s cyber teams in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and San Francisco and the National Security Division. The Special Counsel's investigation is ongoing. There will be no comments from the Special Counsel at this time.

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Trump aides whine about ‘viciousness’ of private citizens cursing them out in public

From Kellyanne Conway to Stephen Miller, Trump’s advisers face taunts from hecklers around D.C.

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Mitch McConnell chased from Kentucky restaurant by protesters

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was followed to his car Saturday by protesters who hurled both personal insults and political rhetoric at him while he left a Kentucky restaurant.

The encounter, which took place in a parking lot outside of a Louisville restaurant, was captured on camera by one of the protesters. In the video, you can hear the group of protesters chanting "vote you out!" and "abolish ICE!" to the Republican senator from Kentucky.

One man can be heard calling the senator "turtle head" and repeatedly saying "we know where you live" as the senator and two dining companions climb into their parked vehicle.



McConnell did not respond to the protesters' comments. The Washington Post was first to report the video Sunday.

Mitch McConnell Heckled Out of Restaurant for Second Time in Two Days

Our Deeply Perverse Resident Won't Shut the Fuck Up

Posted by Rude One

One of the weirdest moments from last night's campaign rally for some fuckin' asshole GOP senate candidate in Great Falls, Montana (motto: "We hate those Mexicans so much even though most of us have never met one") was when, for no apparent reason other than that the roulette wheel in his brain of "Shit I Don't Like" stopped on it, resident Donald Trump attacked a line that George H.W. Bush said 30 years ago. It's the equivalent of saying, "You know what always pissed me off? That St. Elsewhere finale" to a group of high school students.

Here's what our goddamned demented resident said, "All the rhetoric you see here, the ‘thousand points of light,’ what the hell was that by the way? ‘Thousand points of light.’ What does that mean? Does anyone know? I know one thing. ‘Make America Great Again’ we understand. ‘Putting America first,’ we understand. ‘Thousand points of light,’ I never quite got that one." The crowd of slobbering knob gobblers hooted and laughed as Trump did his little prancy jig of derision, all agreeing that a metaphor is just too fucking hard to understand.

Now, I have no love for George H.W. Bush, and I don't give a single, hard rat turd that he's an old, old man confined to a wheelchair with a recently dead wife. Yeah, yeah, he was a war hero and he's done a lot of charitable stuff post-presidency. Fuck that guy. He was a shitty president who helped pave the way for political campaign damnation with the Willie Horton ad. And he jizzed out George W. Bush. Fuck him.

Still, Trump's attack is just fuckin' weird. First off, it wasn't Bush's 1988 campaign slogan. Those would have been "A Kinder, Gentler Nation" or "Experienced Leadership for America’s Future," which are arguably easy to comprehend. "A thousand points of light" was an instantly mockable line, but it was from a speech and Bush was talking about volunteer organizations. He even said he was talking about those. I can remember criticizing the phrase at the time, thinking, "That evil motherfucker just wants charities to take over shit that the government is supposed to do." But it wasn't too hard to understand, for fuck's sake. You'd have to be a fucking moron and/or a Trump supporter to not see what that means.

Trump's tone at his rallies has gotten increasingly deranged, increasingly threatening, and increasingly unhinged (yes, that is possible). Last night, he started his usual riff on one of his obsessions, the "truth" of Senator Elizabeth Warren's racial heritage (which is really of a piece with his refusal to accept that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii). Deriding her as "Pocahontas" - he doesn't even use her name anymore and his slavering hordes love it which makes him do it even more because leadership or something - he then created an entire scenario of facing Warren in a debate.

He literally acted it out as he said, "I'm gonna get one of those little kits. And in the middle of the debate, when she proclaims that she's from Indian heritage...We will take that little kit and say — but we have to do it gently, because we're in the #MeToo generation, so we have to be very gentle. And we will very gently take that kit, and we will slowly toss it, hoping it doesn't hit her and injure her arm, even though it only weighs probably two ounces."

So, let's see, in one small segment of a 70-minute "speech" (if by "speech," you mean, "blabbering from an old man who finally has an audience to cheer on his incoherent brain farts and misanthropy"), Trump was not just racist, but he was sexist, rapey, rape-mocking, and bullying. What a puddle of weak shit our resident is.

In a single tweet in response, Warren reamed out Trump, reminding him that there are far, far more important things going on than his ability to get the yokels all het up.

Essentially, we don't have a president. How many bullshit rallies has he done in the last week? No, that's not a goddamn president. That's a mascot. We have a Philly Phanatic out there, getting the crowd pumped up, to distract from the vile, awful things done by the vile, awful people who work for this vile, awful man.

Donald Trump is going there to meet with his handler

Author & MSNBC Analyst Malcolm Nance reacts to Trump's latest remarks on Putin and GOP senators meeting with Russian officials in Moscow. Nance is joined by reporter Brian Bennett who has more on Trump's upcoming summit with Putin.

Fuck Scott Pruitt

I am not going to waste any time talking about you.  I'm glad your ass is finally gone. Fuck you, Scott Pruitt.

Ed Schultz, Former MSNBC Host, Dies At 64

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Michael Avenatti vs. Groper Trump in 2020?!!

IF (big) he seeks re-election, I will run, but only if I think that there is no other candidate in the race that has a REAL chance at beating him. We can't relive 2016.  I love this country, our values and our people too much to sit by while they are destroyed. #FightClub #Basta

— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) July 4, 2018

Civility!

This Is The World Mitch McConnell Gave Us

By Alec MacGillis

Mr. MacGillis is the author of a biography of Mitch McConnell.

There is an unusual space in the basement of the University of Louisville library, in the large anteroom to the official archives for Senator Mitch McConnell. The space is called the Civic Education Gallery, but it is, essentially, a kind of shrine to the political career of Mr. McConnell, not unlike the exhibits on Babe Ruth or Hank Aaron you’d find at the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The mere fact of the shrine is curious enough, given that it memorializes a politician who shows no sign of leaving the stage any time soon. What’s most unusual, though, is what it chooses to highlight. 

There are a few artifacts from Mr. McConnell’s youth — his baseball glove, his honorary fraternity paddle — but most of the exhibits are devoted to the elections Mr. McConnell won, starting with high school and on up through Jefferson County executive and the Senate.

When I visited the room while researching my 2014 biography on Mr. McConnell, I was struck by what was missing: exhibits on actual governing accomplishments from the Senate majority leader’s four decades in elected office. That absence confirmed my thesis that Mr. McConnell, far more even than other politicians, was motivated by the game of politics — winning elections and rising in the leadership ranks, achieving power for power’s sake — more than by any lasting policy goals.

Well, that was then. Four years later, it is becoming increasingly clear that Mitch McConnell is creating a legacy for himself, and it’s a mighty grand one.

Mr. McConnell has created the world in which we are now living. Donald Trump dominates our universe — and now has the power to fill the second Supreme Court seat in two years. Mitch McConnell, who has promised a vote on whomever the resident nominates “this fall,” is the figure who was quietly making it all possible, all along.

First, there was Mr. McConnell’s vigorous defense, going back to the early 1990's, of the role of big money in American politics, which would help Mr. Trump not so much in terms of funding his campaign, but in helping shape the conditions for his appeal.

While Mr. McConnell has long cast his defense of campaign spending as a First Amendment issue — money is speech — he made no secret of his motivation for fighting so hard on the issue. Namely, that he was well aware that he, as someone lacking in natural campaign talents, and the rest of the Republican Party, as more business-oriented than the Democrats, would need to maintain the flow of large contributions to be able to win elections. “I will always be well financed, and I’ll be well financed early,” he declared after winning his first race for county executive, in 1977.

His crusade against campaign finance reform culminated in the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling eliminating limits on corporate spending on elections, which Mr. McConnell followed up by blocking legislation to disclose the identity of large donors. Even before that ruling, the spread of big money in politics had done so much to sour the public on government, creating a ripe target for the Tea Party and, later, for a billionaire populist running against “the swamp.”

Mr. McConnell laid the groundwork for the right-wing insurgency of 2009 and 2010 in another way, too, with his decision to withhold Republican support for any major Democratic initiatives in the Obama years. This meant that Republicans had less influence on the final shape of legislation such as the Affordable Care Act than they would have had as fully willing negotiators.

But Mr. McConnell, prioritizing elections over policy, calculated that by blocking or delaying Democratic legislation, above all through aggressive use of the filibuster, Republicans would create a tedious gridlock that voters would blame the Democrats for. After all, weren’t they the ones in power?

Mr. McConnell was right. This strategy helped to foment opposition to the health care bill, and to drive huge Republican gains in the 2010 election. But it also fueled the rise of the Tea Party, which was motivated substantially by the notion that Mr. Obama was “ramming things down our throats” — that is, passing legislation on a partisan basis after Mr. McConnell withheld any Republican negotiation. Of course, Mr. McConnell proceeded to have plenty of headaches managing the far-right contingent in his own caucus, but it was a contingent he helped produce.

His role in the election of Trump was even more direct. Most notable was his refusal to hold a confirmation hearing, let alone a vote on Merrick Garland, Mr. Obama’s nominee to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, despite the fact that the nomination was made a full 10 months before the end of Mr. Obama’s term. This refusal exploded norms and dismayed Beltway arbiters who had long accepted McConnell’s claim to be a guardian of Washington institutions. It also provided crucial motivation to Republicans who had grave qualms about Mr. Trump but were able to justify voting for him as “saving Scalia’s seat.”

Mr. McConnell’s other form of aid for Trump was more hidden. As The Washington Post reported a month after the 2016 election, Mr. Obama had been prepared that September to go public with a C.I.A. assessment laying bare the extent of Russian intervention in the election. But he was largely dissuaded by a threat from Mr. McConnell. During a secret briefing for congressional leaders, The Post reported, Mr. McConnell “raised doubts about the underlying intelligence and made clear to the administration that he would consider any effort by the White House to challenge the Russians publicly an act of partisan politics.” The Obama administration kept mum, and voters had to wait until after Trump’s election to learn the depth of Russian involvement.

Now, with the retirement of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, it is evident just how much of a lasting legacy Mitch McConnell’s will leave the country: Donald Trump will have at least two lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court. The resident has — and will now enjoy — greater latitude in filling those seats as a result of Mr. McConnell’s doing away last year with the 60-vote requirement for Senate confirmation, to get Neil Gorsuch seated. In the day and a half before Justice Kennedy’s announcement, the impact of the Scalia seat was made plain again, as the court issued 5-4 rulings in favor of Trump’s “travel ban” and anti-abortion groups, and against public employee unions.

The abortion and union rulings had an ironic resonance, as far as Mr. McConnell goes. In the 1970's, when he ran for county executive in Louisville, he secured the pivotal endorsement of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. by pledging to back collective bargaining for public employees (a promise that went unfulfilled), and while in office he worked effectively behind the scenes to protect abortion rights locally.

But that was a long time ago, before Mr. McConnell saw the rightward swing of the Reagan revolution and decided to hop on board for his own political preservation as a Southern Republican. 

These days, Mr. McConnell has made explicit, with taunting tweets among other things, that he views long-term conservative control of the Supreme Court as his crowning achievement. It’s not hard to see why: Holding a long-term majority on the court greatly aids his highest cause — Republican victories in future elections — as recent rulings on voting rights and gerrymandering demonstrated once again.

Whether Mr. McConnell decides to add an exhibit in the Civic Education Gallery documenting his role in the rise of Donald Trump is another matter. The final historical judgment on that score will not rest with him, in any case.

Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) covers government and politics for ProPublica and is the author of “The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell.”

The Baby Snatchers

Maxine Waters My Hero - We Need To Treat Trumpscum Like Trumpscum - Full Court Press

By PaulX2

Trump and his supporters are all upset because their whiteness is losing it's total control of our government. White racist men are being overwhelmed by women, demographics, and a culture shift. Brown people and women are actually doing things, and they don't like it one bit.

Trump's only option is to double down on Fascist behavior to impress his base of mentally retarded racist crackers, and hope they turn out in greater numbers in November. The more Trump mistreats the powerless the happier it makes them. Trump knows it. We know it. The world knows it.

Trump, and all his minions need to be opposed any and every way possible. From kicking a lying fake Christian out of a restaurant, to kicking any lying fascist nazi supporter out of anywhere. Trump supporters are scum and need to be treated like scum.



Full Court Press

We stand for good, and they stand for evil.

We act like christians, and they obviously serve Satan.

Get In Their Face.

They have never been nice, and I refuse to be nice to sickos.

Maxine, they are scumbags. Give it to them.

When they go low, I kick them in the chops with a 63 yard field goal kick.

No quarter.

Protests are now planned in all 50 states. 523 of them.

The executive order that Donald Trump signed today is not a solution to the crisis created by his administration; it keeps kids imprisoned indefinitely, and doesn't reunite thousands of separated families. But it does show the administration is reacting to public pressure, so we will continue to increase our pressure for justice at hundreds of events on Saturday, June 30, to say that families belong together—and free.

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Donald Trump and his administration are cruelly separating children from their families.

But we won't allow it to continue. On June 30, we're rallying in Washington, D.C., and around the country to tell Donald Trump and his administration to stop separating kids from their parents!

Trump and his administration have been systematically criminalizing immigration and immigrants, from revoking Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to ramping up intimidating ICE tactics. 

Join us on June 30 to send a clear message to Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress: Families Belong Together! 

If there's not an event near you, keep checking back or create an event at the link below.

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Buckle Up?

There are few things more gratifying in my role as an advocate than when a whistleblower trusts me with explosive information (docs, images, etc.) and looks to me to ensure it is released for maximum impact for the public good. Today is another such day. #BuckleUp #Basta

— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) June 23, 2018

Vote against the GOP this November

By George Will

Amid the carnage of Republican misrule in Washington, there is this glimmer of good news: The family-shredding policy along the southern border, the most telegenic recent example of misrule, clarified something. Occurring less than 140 days before elections that can reshape Congress, the policy has given independents and temperate Republicans — these are probably expanding and contracting cohorts, respectively — fresh if redundant evidence for the principle by which they should vote.

The principle: The congressional Republican caucuses must be substantially reduced. So substantially that their remnants, reduced to minorities, will be stripped of the Constitution’s Article I powers that they have been too invertebrate to use against the current wielder of Article II powers. They will then have leisure time to wonder why they worked so hard to achieve membership in a legislature whose unexercised muscles have atrophied because of people like them.

Consider the melancholy example of House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.), who wagered his dignity on the patently false proposition that it is possible to have sustained transactions with today’s president, this Vesuvius of mendacities, without being degraded. In Robert Bolt’s play “A Man for All Seasons,” Thomas More, having angered Henry VIII, is on trial for his life. When Richard Rich, whom More had once mentored, commits perjury against More in exchange for the office of attorney general for Wales, More says: “Why, Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world . . . But for Wales!” Ryan traded his political soul for . . . a tax cut. He who formerly spoke truths about the accelerating crisis of the entitlement system lost everything in the service of a resident pledged to preserve the unsustainable status quo.

Ryan and many other Republicans have become the resident’s poodles, not because James Madison’s system has failed but because today’s abject careerists have failed to be worthy of it. As explained in Federalist 51: “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place.” Congressional Republicans (congressional Democrats are equally supine toward Democratic presidents) have no higher ambition than to placate this president. By leaving dormant the powers inherent in their institution, they vitiate the Constitution’s vital principle: the separation of powers.

Recently Sen. Bob Corker, the Tennessee Republican who is retiring , became an exception that illuminates the depressing rule. He proposed a measure by which Congress could retrieve a small portion of the policymaking power that it has, over many decades and under both parties, improvidently delegated to presidents. Congress has done this out of sloth and timidity — to duck hard work and risky choices. Corker’s measure would have required Congress to vote to approve any trade restrictions imposed in the name of “national security.” All Senate Republicans worthy of the conservative label that all Senate Republicans flaunt would privately admit that this is conducive to sound governance and true to the Constitution’s structure. But the Senate would not vote on it — would not allow it to become just the second amendment voted on this year .

This is because the amendment would have peeved the easily peeved resident. The Republican-controlled Congress, which waited for Trump to undo by unilateral decree the border folly they could have prevented by actually legislating, is an advertisement for the unimportance of Republican control.

The Trump whisperer regarding immigration is Stephen Miller, 32, whose ascent to eminence began when he became the Savonarola of Santa Monica High School . Corey Lewandowski, a Trump campaign official who fell from the king’s grace but is crawling back (he works for Vice President Pence’s political action committee), recently responded on Fox News to the story of a 10 year old girl with Down syndrome taken from her parents at the border. Lewandowski replied: “Wah, wah.” 

Meaningless noise is this administration’s appropriate libretto because, just as a magnet attracts iron filings, Trump attracts, and is attracted to, louts.

In today’s GOP, which is the resident’s plaything, he is the mainstream. So, to vote against his party’s cowering congressional caucuses is to affirm the nation’s honor while quarantining him. A Democratic-controlled Congress would be a basket of deplorables, but there would be enough Republicans to gum up the Senate’s machinery, keeping the institution as peripheral as it has been under their control and asphyxiating mischief from a Democratic House. And to those who say, “But the judges, the judges!” the answer is: Article III institutions are not more important than those of Articles I and II combined.

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ICE Spokesman Resigns, Saying He Could No Longer Spread Falsehoods For Trump Administration

By Jonah Engel Bromwich

James Schwab, who was an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman until last week, said that his decision to resign was prompted by the agency’s statements after the mayor of Oakland, Calif., warned about an immigration raid.

A spokesman for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement has resigned, saying that he could no longer “bear the burden” of spreading falsehoods on behalf of the Trump administration.

The spokesman, James Schwab, who had worked for the agency’s San Francisco Division, told news outlets Monday that his decision was prompted by false statements made by the agency on Feb. 27 and repeated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week.

The statements criticized the mayor of Oakland, Libby Schaaf, for her decision last month to warn city residents that a raid by federal immigration agents targeting roughly 1,000 people was imminent. 

The agency’s deputy director, Thomas D. Homan, said that Ms. Schaaf’s warning had helped “864 criminal aliens and public safety threats” to evade capture in the raid.

Mr. Sessions, in a visit to California last week, condemned Ms. Schaaf, a Democrat, and echoed the agency, asserting that her actions had allowed hundreds to escape.

Mr. Schwab said in interviews, first with The San Francisco Chronicle and then with CNN, that he had been frustrated by the remarks, and had quit “because I didn’t want to perpetuate misleading facts.”

“I asked them to change the information,” he told The Chronicle, referring to the 864 people to whom the statement alluded. “I told them that the information was wrong, they asked me to deflect, and I didn’t agree with that. Then I took some time and I quit.”

He explained that the enforcement agency would have been unlikely to capture all of the roughly 1,000 undocumented immigrants in the area that it had targeted, and that it was incorrect to identify those who were not detained as threats to public safety.

“We were never going to pick up that many people,” he said. “To say that 100 percent are dangerous criminals on the street, or that those people weren’t picked up because of the misguided actions of the mayor, is just wrong.”

Mr. Schwab did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Tuesday. He resigned last week, according to CNN.

“I just couldn’t bear the burden — continuing on as a representative of the agency and charged with upholding integrity, knowing that information was false,” he told CNN, adding that in his 16 years of experience in government he had never been asked to deflect when he knew something was inaccurate.

In a statement, Ms. Schaaf, whom resident Trump criticized last week for alerting residents to the raid, praised Mr. Schwab “for speaking the truth while under intense pressure to lie.”

“Our democracy depends on public servants who act with integrity and hold transparency in the highest regard,” she added.

An official at the Department of Homeland Security, which includes ICE, briefed on the plans for the raid said last month that agents find only about 30 percent of their targets on average during large sweeps.

Mr. Schwab told CNN that he thought Ms. Schaaf’s actions were “misguided,” but that blaming her “for 800 dangerous people out there is just false.”

ICE responded to Mr. Schwab’s comments in a statement, saying, “Even one criminal alien on the street can put public safety at risk.”

“As Director Homan stated, while we can’t put a number on how many targets avoided arrest due to the mayor’s warning, it clearly had an impact,” the statement said. “While we disagree with Mr. Schwab on this issue, we appreciate his service and wish him well.”

“If anyone wants to have a public argument over precisely how many dangerous criminal aliens eluded arrest because of the mayor’s irresponsible actions, we are happy to have that debate,” Sarah Isgur Flores, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department, said in a statement.

In a 2016 interview, Mr. Schwab told The Marion Press, his hometown paper in Michigan, that he joined the Army after high school and was deployed to Korea for four years. His service lasted until 2005, according to his LinkedIn page, and he later joined the Department of Defense, where he became a public affairs specialist in 2011. He also worked at NASA for several years before joining ICE.

Follow Jonah Bromwich on Twitter: @Jonesieman.

Katie Benner contributed reporting.

A version of this article appears in print on March 14, 2018, on Page A11 of the New York edition with the headline: Protesting ‘Falsehoods,’ A Spokesman For ICE Quits. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

Keep Trump off 2020 ballot unless he releases his tax returns

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The Cold Political Calculus Of Taking Away The Children Of Migrants

Posted by Rude One

We are at a moment in our history that demands action. It demands that people fuck shit up. We hope they do it by protesting, by voting, or with legislation. But what the GOP hopes is that it leads to crazy shit, and Trump is going to keep pushing and pushing, with the ICE round-ups and the family separations, because they want congressional Democrats arrested, they want violence to occur at one of the concentration camps, they want protesters to riot, and they want it all filmed.  Trump is going to keep upping the intensity of his immigration crackdown until the left cracks.

This is the cold political calculus of Trump advisor and man most likely to own a suit made of human skin, Stephen Miller. It's beyond "annoy the libtards and make the snowflakes cry." We're now into "let's get good footage for campaign ads" territory. You can imagine it now: Evil music, low-pitch voice saying, "Nancy Pelosi and the crooked Democrat Party want to let MS-13 animals into the country" over footage of, say, a fight at a detention center or maybe Rep. Juan Vargas or other members of Congress getting led away by cops as the voice continues, "Tell Nancy Pelosi that you stand with Americans, not illegal animals." Or some such shit. That's probably too subtle. More likely it'll just be Trump braying something incoherent like a particularly brain-damaged jackass.

Trump's GOP (and it is Trump's GOP now) doesn't give a fat rat fuck about reaching out beyond his base. The election strategy is simple: get his idiot horde all fired up with a stream of Reddit-provided conspiracies and blatant lies; suppress the vote wherever and however it can be suppressed; and, possibly, look for an assist from hackers. In order for the first part to work, you've gotta be as confrontational as possible to draw Democrats and liberals into an act that can be portrayed as extremism. Sure, an action like blocking the roads to and from detention locations, like, fer the love of fuck, tent cities for children is a relatively mild form of civil disobedience, but as far as the whiners on the right are concerned, it'll be "terrorism the likes of which the nation hasn't seen" or whatever the fuck Fox "news" contorts it to be.

Unsurprisingly, Fox has gone all-in on supporting Trump on the savage child detention policy, so Tucker "Bitch Face" Carlson and Laura "My Kids Went to the Shittiest Summer Camps" Ingraham would orgasm constantly if they got to report on violence involving migrants or defenders of migrants. Sean Hannity's studio would be sticky for weeks.

Let's be clear that the family detention policy didn't start with Trump, but the "zero tolerance" part of it, which includes asylum seekers and the separation of children from parents, is totally Trump's.

They planned this shit specifically to deter people on the run from awful violence, including rape and murder, including forcing kids into gangs, to stop seeking asylum in the United States. And lying ogre of blonde doom, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, can repeatedly insist, as she did at her belly flop of a press appearance yesterday, "DHS is not separating families legitimately seeking asylum at ports of entry. If an adult enters at a port of entry and claims asylum, they will not face prosecution for illegal entry. They have not committed a crime by coming to the port of entry." And Trump can assert in that goddamned moron voice of his that "We’re stuck with these horrible laws. They’re horrible laws" that are forcing the country to treat migrants this way, even going so far as to blame Democrats for the laws themselves.

But the motherfucking truth is that those "laws" have been in place since the 1950's, agreed to and signed off on by Congress members and presidents of both parties, including, most recently, in 2008, George W. Bush. And the mother fucking truth is that story after story is coming in about asylum seekers who have their children taken away from them. And the mother fucking truth is that none of what the Trump administration is doing, the written policy they have, is going to deter a mother trying to escape from a man who is beating her and her kids and threatening their lives. They don't have fucking Twitter on the path from El Salvador to the American border.

Today, in a tweet, Trump made clear the racist intent of his immigration policies, which is a refreshing change from the coded racism that Republicans usually use. Saying that "illegal immigrants...infest our Country" (incorrect capitalization courtesy of Trump), he is blurring the line between violent criminals and economic refugees and asylum seekers, which is exactly what a racist would want to do.

So what do we do? The left is obviously being baited into a fight. Yet that doesn't mean we shouldn't fight. Fucking hell, if traumatized kids doesn't get you fighting, nothing will. So fuck it. Let the ads fall where they may. They'll say we're shitty criminal lovers no matter what. Sometimes a big enough fish can grab the bait, yank the fisherman right into the water, and devour him.

When Did You Figure It Out?

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In a tweet, ABC News called Trump’s child concentration camps “shelters.”

 

When did you first realize that the Republican Party jumped the shark and began falling into a deep dark abyss of hostility to facts, reason, and empathy?

Was it when Nixon sent the National Guard to Kent State which resulted in that horrific massacre of anti-war protesters?  Maybe for some it was Nixon and Watergate?  Well, I get it. It would be fairly understandable to believe those were  just aberrations.

But why wasn’t it enough to come to that understanding when  Reagan decided to launch his 1980 campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi the city where some of the most brutal civil rights killings took place, but not to memorialize the dead and and send a warning to the future, but to embrace concepts like “reverse racism,” which was clearly a dog whistle to the “I will tell you who the REAL racists are”?

OK, maybe coincidence? What about his nomination of a deeply racist man in Jeff Sessions to a federal judgeship? Or the nomination of an equally racist man in Judge Bork to the Supreme Court who also called the Ninth amendment to the constitution an “irrelevant inkblot.”

No?

What about Reagan’s press secretary cracking jokes about gay men dying of AIDS during an official White House press conference?

What about Reagan’s cynical invention of the racist “welfare queen” stereotype of poor black women?

What about what remains one of the most hateful political conventions in history in the 1992 Republican Convention?

No? Just a few bad apples?

What about Bob Dole’s return of donations to the Log Cabin Republicans as to avoid offending his right wing base because he did not want to be seen as affiliating himself with LGBT who agreed with the Republican Party’s platform on all but one measure?

What about the subliminal confession of an absence of compassion for the suffering of others among the Republican faithful when George W Bush felt a need to coin the term “compassionate conservatism.”

No? What about when the Republican majority on Supreme Court decided to take the unprecedented step of reviewing state election law to shutdown attempts to have a proper recount in Florida?

No? Not then either?

What about when the Bush administration fabricated an excuse to go into a preemptive war in Iraq? What about Colin Powell’s fake vial of anthrax at the UN? What about Condi Rice’s mushroom cloud scare tactics to grow support for that illegal war? And it was an illegal war.

What about Abu Ghraib? Guantanamo? Water boarding? “Enhanced interrogation? No?

What about the cult of personality surrounding Sarah Palin who ran a smear campaign against Obama so awful that her own running mate had to refute her claims?

What about the threat of martial law in the USA if Congress did not give $800 billion to the big banks?

What about lies about “death panels?” What about “do not ask what good you could do?”

What about tea party activists waving guns at protests outside of events featuring Obama?

When did you figure it out? Was it when Republicans booed Rick Perry from uttering that very politically incorrect term “compassion” at a Republican debate? Did you figure it out then? Did you figure it out when mass shooting after mass shooting Republicans refused to act to protect the citizenry for the sake of the gun industry that lined their pockets?

What about the enthusiasm for Trump’s overt racism, xenophobia, islamaphobia?

If you just figured out the Republican Party is deep into an abyss of darkness, lies, mendacity, racism, and bigotry when they got to ripping babies from their mother’s arms, and refusing to give those children back to the mothers after immigration proceedings were over, you figured it out too late.

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Perfect Dark: GameShark Character Modification FAQ

Perfect Dark: GameShark Character Modification FAQ
Version 1.5
5-19-01
By William Mistretta
willmistretta@hotmail.com
http://www.geocities.com/willmistretta
Codes by Hackmaster 64 and J. Lint

The character mods are here! Now you can alter the heads and bodies of characters in both
multiplayer and solo missions!

For example, let's say you want to modify Joanna Dark to look like James Bond. Let's start with
the head. Trent Easton looks rather Bond-like, so we'll borrow his. Start by taking the
base head codes for both characters:

JOANNA COMBAT

8007CF56 0001
8007CF57 009C

TRENT EASTON

8007CFBA 0001
8007CFBB 00A1

Take the base code of the character you want to modify:

8007CF56
8007CF57

And add the modifier digits associated with what you're modifying it to:

0001
00A1

Resulting in your final code:

8007CF56 0001
8007CF57 00A1

Some heads aren't associated with particular bodies (or vice-versa) and only have modifier
digits.

Now for our body. We'll start with the base code for the Joanna Combat body:

JOANNA COMBAT

8007D5BE 0000
8007D5BF 0042

Now we need to modify it. Obviously, a Bond-like Dinner Jacket costume is in order. Looking
below, we see:

DINNER JACKET

0000
0047

Combine the two codes as above, resulting in:

8007D5BE 0000
8007D5BF 0047

And so, our efforts to turn Joanna Combat into James Bond have resulted in this final code:

8007CF56 0001
8007CF57 00A1
8007D5BE 0000
8007D5BF 0047

Give it a try!

Notes:

You cannot play as an invisible character, any kind of Skedar, Dr. Carrol, the CamSpy, or
a patrol robot.

In order to modify Simulants to look like Skedar, you must first create the Simulant(s) like
normal and save your settings. Then input the code to modify the Simulant bodies to Skedar
bodies, start up the game, load your settings, and play. Viewing a Skedar Simulant in the
character editor window will cause the game to crash. Follow this same procedure whenever
modifying a Simulant to resemble any non-human, non-Maian character. 

If you modify a character's body to a Skedar or other unusual, non-human or Maian thing, make
sure that that character is never displayed on the Combat Simulator character editor window or
the game will crash.

If you modify a character's body to a Skedar or other unusual, non-human or Maian thing, make
sure they don't show up on screen for any cinema scenes or the game will crash.

Not all head and body combinations are guaranteed to work.

**********Head Mod Codes**********

JOANNA COMBAT

8007CF56 0001
8007CF57 009C

ELVIS

8007CF6A 0001
8007CF6B 009D

CARRINGTON

8007CF92 0001
8007CF93 009F

MR BLONDE

8007CFA6  0001
8007CFA7  00A0

TRENT EASTON

8007CFBA 0001
8007CFBB 00A1

DATADYNE SHOCK TROOPER

8007CFCE 0001
8007CFCD 00A2

CASSANDRA DE VRIES

8007D01E 0001
8007D01F 00A6

MAIAN

8007D032 0001
8007D033 00A7

MAIAN SOLDIER WITH BLUE HELMET

8007D23A 0003
8007D23B 003B

THE PRESIDENT

8007D3CA 0005
8007D3CB 005B

VELVET

8007D3DE 0005
8007D3DF 0061

JONATHAN

8007D226 0003
8007D227 003A

JOANNA WITH MAKEUP

8007CFF6 0001
8007CFF7 00A4

BLONDE-HAIRED WOMAN #1

0001
00A5

BROWN-HAIRED MAN

0001
009E

BLONDE-HAIRED WOMAN #2

0001
00A8

RED-HAIRED MAN #1

0001
00A9

GRIMSHAW

0001
00B2

FOSTER

0001
00B3

RED-HAIRED MAN #2

0001
00BC

FREAKY HUMAN/MAIAN (SCARY!)

0001
00BD

FROWNING MAN

0001
00BE

AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN #1

0001
00C0

MAN WITH PONYTAIL

0001
00C2

BLOND WOMAN WITH GLASSES

0001
00C5

BIOTECHNICIAN

0001
00D0

MAN WITH MOUSTACHE AND GOATEE

0002
0062

SMILING MAN

0002
0067

ELVIS WITH SCUBA-GEAR

0005
0054

JOANNA ARCTIC

0005
005A

AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN #2

0005
000D

MIYAMOTO

0005
000E

DATADYNE SNIPER

0004
00AE

BLONDE WOMAN WITH PIGTAILS

0004
00A7

BROWN HELMET WITH MASK

0005
0011

MAN WITH LONG PONYTAIL

0007
00CD

HOWARD LINCOLN

0007
00C6

**********Body Mod Codes**********

JOANNA COMBAT

8007D5BE 0000
8007D5BF 0042

MAIAN

8007D5D2 0000
8007D5D3 004A

AREA 51 BROWN SUIT GUARD

8007D5E6 0000
8007D5E7 003F

OVERALLS

8007D5FA 0000
8007D5FB 0051

CARRINGTON

8007D60E 0000
8007D60F 0040

MR BLONDE

8007D622 0000
8007D623 004E

SKEDAR

8007D636 0000
8007D637 0053

TRENT EASTON

8007D64A 0000
8007D64B 0057

DATADYNE SHOCK TROOPER

8007D65E 0000
8007D65F 0045

MALE LAB TECHNICIAN

8007D672 0000
8007D673 004D

NSA BODYGUARD

8007D686 0000
8007D687 0054

JOANNA PARTY FROCK

8007D69A 0000
8007D69B 0043

JOANNA TRENCHCOAT

8007D6AE 0000
8007D6AF 0044

OFFICE SUIT

8007D6C2 0000
8007D6C3 004F

OFFICE CASUAL

8007D6D6 0000
8007D6D7 0050

SECRETARY

8007D6EA 0000
8007D6EB 0052

CASSANDRA DE VRIES

8007D6FE 0000
8007D6FF 0041

ELVIS

8007D712 0000
8007D713 0056

FEMALE GUARD

8007D726 0000
8007D727 004C

DATADYNE LAB TECHNICIAN

8007D73A 0001
8007D73B 0094

DATADYNE SECURITY

8007D74E 0000
8007D74F 0046

DR CARROL

8007D762 0000
8007D763 0048

CAMSPY

8007D776 0000
8007D777 004B

JOANNA PARTY FROCK (RIPPED)

8007D78A 0001
8007D78B 00B1

DATADYNE INFANTRY

8007D79E 0001
8007D 79F 00BF

DATADYNE TROOPER

8007D7B2 0001
8007D7B3 00C4

INVISIBLE

8007D7C6 0000
8007D7C7 0055

BIO TECHNICIAN

8007D7D7 0001
8007D7DB 00C8

FBI

8007D7EE 0001
8007D7EF 00C9

CIA

8007D802 0001
8007D803 00CB

AREA 51 TROOPER

8007D816 0001
8007D817 00CC

PILOT

8007D82A 0002
8007D82B 0031

PATROL ROBOT

8007D83E 0002
8007D83F 0036

STEWARD

8007D852 0002
8007D853 0037

STEWARDESS

8007D866 0002
8007D867 0039

THE PRESIDENT

8007D87A 0002
8007D87B 003B

HEAD STEWARDESS

8007D88E 0002
8007D88F 003C

SMALLER SKEDAR

8007D8A2 0002
8007D8A3 0040

NSA LACKEY

8007D8B6 0002
8007D8B7 0042

PRISIDENTIAL SECURITY

8007D8CA 0002
8007DBCB 0044

NEGOTIATOR

8007D8DE 0002
8007D8DF 0046

G5 GUARD

8007D8F2 0002
8007D8F3 0061

PELAGIC 2 GUARD

8007D906 0002
8007D907 0063

G5 SWAT GUARD

8007D91A 0002
8007D91B 0064

ALASKAN GUARD

8007D92E 0002
8007D92F 0065

MAIAN SOLDIER

8007D942 0002
8007D943 0066

PRESIDENTIAL CLONE

8007D96A 0003
8007D96B 0039

JOANNA STEWARDESS

8007D97E 0003
8007D97F 003C

JOANNA WETSUIT

8007D992 0004
8007D993 009E

JOANNA AQUALUNG

8007D9A6 0004
8007D9A7 009F

JOANNA ARCTIC

8007D9BA 0004
8007D9BB 00A0

JOANNA LAB TECHNICIAN

8007D9CE 0004
8007D9CF 00A1

FEMALE LAB TECHNICIAN

8007D9E2 0004
8007D9E3 00A2

DATADYNE SNIPER

8007D9F6 0004
8007D9F7 00A3

AIR FORCE ONE PILOT

8007DA0A 0004
8007DA0B 00A4

CI MALE LAB TECHNICIAN

8007DA1E 0004
8007DA1F 00A5

CI FEMALE LAB TECHNICIAN

8007DA32 0004
8007DA33 00A6

CARRINGTON EVENING WEAR

8007DA46 0004
8007DA47 0049

CI SOLDIER

8007DA6E 0004
8007DA6F 00AB

SKEDAR KING

8007DA82 0005
8007DA83 000B

ELVIS WAISTCOAT

8007DA96 0005
8007DA97 000C

JOANNA LEATHER

8007DAAA 0005
8007DAAB 0059

JOANNA NEGOTIATOR

8007DABE 0007
8007DABF 0096

BLACK DINNER JACKET #1

0000
0047

BLACK DINNER JACKET #2

0001
019B

WHITE DINNER JACKET

0001
0199

 GameShark Codes

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Using Your GameShark With Perfect Dark
Enable Codes
High and Low-Resolution Codes
Low-Resolution Codes
High-Resolution Codes

Welcome to my Perfect Dark GameShark page. This is where I'll post my favorite GameShark codes. None of these codes are for "cheating" as such, but each one will help you to bend the rules a little to get even more out of your Perfect Dark experience.

Using Your GameShark With Perfect Dark

You'll need one of the newer GameShark Pro models to really hack Perfect Dark. A 3.3 or higher is highly recommended.

You'll need to enable the Zelda keycode before your GS will boot up with Perfect Dark.

There are two subdivisions of Perfect Dark GS codes: high and low resolution. Low-resolution codes can only be used in the Combat Simulator, because they only function when Perfect Dark fails to detect the N64 4MB Expansion Pak. High-resolution codes can be used in any game mode, but only with certain GameShark versions and the use of a special enable code (see below) to allow the game to detect the Expansion Pak and to prevent it from crashing upon startup or not starting up at all.

Please note that not all codes will work with all GameShark versions. Trial and error is sometimes the only way to determine which codes work with which GameShark versions.

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Enable Codes

The appropriate code must be active if you wish for your GameShark to function with Perfect Dark.

GameShark Pro version 3.3 or higher high-res enable code:

FF1EAE00 0000

Or, if you can't get a code to work with that enabler, try this alternate one:

FF000220 0000

Now, on to the other codes!

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High and Low-Resolution Codes

Extra death animations in Combat Simulator. This code will add several very cool death animations that normally only show up in solo missions to your multiplayer games. These include choking, elaborate flips, wild limb-flailing, etc. Works in both high and low-resolution. Code by hack master with modifications by me.

80070769 0019
8007076B 0038
8007076F 0086
8007076D 0088
8007076F 0089
80070771 0091
80070773 00A7

Sky color modifier. These codes allow you to set the color of Perfect Dark's skies. They work in all game modes (solo, multiplayer, etc). The first line regulates the amount of red in the sky, the second green, and the third blue. Mix them to create any color you choose. The "????" represents a value of your choice. Setting all three color values to 0000 results in a black sky. Code by hack master.

80081060 ????
80081061 ????
80081062 ????

Custom weapon modification. A GameShark and a copy of this guide are all you need to begin creating your own customized weapons for Perfect Dark solo and multiplayer use. You can set just about everything. Primary and secondary functions, sound effects, clip size, zoom, whether your weapon can be “doubled up”, and more. Guide by SquareGuru.

Perfect Dark Weapon Modification Guide

As an example of what can be accomplished with the information in this great guide, here's a sample weapon. A silly little version of the Devestator that I like to call the Toilet Launcher:

8106D956 0186
8106D9BA 0186
8106D94E 805C
8106D9B2 805D
8106DA1A B100

New Falcon 2. This code will modify the Falcon 2 (scope) into a new version of the Falcon 2 fitted with both a silencer and scope! There are a couple tiny graphic glitches, but overall, the effect is perfect. Code by Wreck7.

8006B78F 0074
8006B7B6 00B3
8006B7B7 00BC

Slayer in all solo missions. This code modifies the standard Rocket Launcher to fire fly-by-wire rockets like the Slayer! Now you can use fly-by-wire rockets in any solo mission. Sometimes they explode right when launched, so invincibility is recommended. Note that aiming straight up as you fire seems to prevent this premature detonation. Code by Wreck7.

8106D6E2 D7C8

IR Scanner in multiplayer. The Perfect Darkness cheat is almost useless for multiplayer games because the Night Vision that you start out with disappears after you die once. The X-Ray Scanner is a poor substitute to say the least. This code will modify the X-Ray Scanner to work like the IR Scanner, making Perfect Darkness a much more viable option for multiplayer. Also great for spotting cloaked adversaries. Code by Wreck7.

8106F73A F520

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Low Resolution Codes

GoldenEye items in Perfect Dark. Thanks to a truly amazing GameShark code, we can now see that a number of unused items from Perfect Dark's prequel game GoldenEye 007 are actually hidden deep within the game! To see the items, you must enter and activate one of these three codes. Then, simply start a game in the Felicity multiplayer level. You will see that the ammo boxes at the top of the stairs (outside the outer bathroom door) have been replaced with an item from GoldenEye! Codes by SubDrag and Wreck7.

GoldenEye computer terminal:

811EED4C 0018
811EEDF4 0018

GoldenEye multiplayer flag token:

811EED4C 0016
811EEDF4 0016

GoldenEye "beta" metallic cube:

811EED4C 0003
811EEDF4 0003

Weird weapons.This code enables you to make your weapons look and function very strangly. You must be playing in the Temple level with no other players for the code to function. Basically, this code replaces whichever weapon that is set to slot one with an item simply called "." When you pick up a ., it will show up as a blank space on your inventory screen. Just equip one of your regular guns, then hit start and select the blank line on your inventory menu. Your regular version will be replaced by a glitchy weapon. Usually, the glitches consist of the weapon being held higher up than normal or the weapon's clip appearing beside it. The weapon loses its normal characteristics and acts like an AR-34 with no zoom, a 27-round clip, and a quick, GoldenEye-like reload animation.

801DC7E4 0059

Beta weapons! This code allows you to access some glitchy but very cool "beta" weapons that were used in programmer testing but never made it into the final version of Perfect Dark. You must be playing in the Temple level with no other players for the code to function. Basically, this code replaces whichever weapon that is set to the designated weapon slot with the item specified in the code. Codes by SubDrag and Wreck7. The beta weapons are:

Tester: Looks like a hovering grenade but fires like a Falcon 2. Quick, GoldenEye-like reload animation.

Rocket Launcher: This version looks and behaves very strange. The rockets it shoots don't explode, but instead hover in place when they come into contact with a solid surface. Reloads like normal.

Tester (Weapon slot one modifier. Temple.):

801DC62C 0033

Rocket Launcher (Weapon slot one modifier. Temple.):

801DC62C 0034

Both (Weapon slots one and two modifier. Temple.):

801DC62C 0033
801DC7E4 0034

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High-Resolution Codes

Character head/body modifiers. These codes will allow you to swap heads and bodies between different characters in both multiplayer and solo modes. You can do everything from changing dataDyne troopers into Pelagic 2 guards, to dressing Carrington in a ripped party frock, to turning every human enemy in a level into a Skedar, to turning Joanna Dark into James Bond! Plus just about anything else you can imagine. Just check this FAQ for details:

Perfect Dark: GameShark character modification FAQ

Codes by Hackmaster 64 and J. Lint.

Walk through doors. Pretty much what it says. This code allows you to walk through any door in the game as though it weren't there at all. One of the best ways to hunt for secrets in Perfect Dark. Code by Ructir.

80285798 0001

Walk through walls. A companion code to the one above, this will actually let you walk through almost any barrier. Even better for exploring every hidden nook and cranny of this fantastic game. Code by Ryan Toluchanian.

8002804B 0001
80028053 0001
80028057 0021
8002805B 0001
8002805F 0001
8002806B 00A1
8002806F 0001
80028073 0021
80028077 0001

Moon jump. Just get off the ground slightly by either falling off of something or running down a ramp or other incline, then hold the B button to fly. Release it again to drop back down. Another fantastic code for exploring Perfect Dark's many levels. Codes by Crocc.

Player One Moon Jump:

D009C7E4 0040
81206720 40F2
D009C7E4 0040
802066D3 0000
D009C7E4 0040
811ED720 40F2
D009C7E4 0040
801ED6D3 0000
D009C7E4 0040
811D4720 40F2
D009C7E4 0040
801D46D3 0000

Player Two Moon Jump:

D009C7EC 0040
81208390 40F2
D009C7EC 0040
80208343 0000
D009C7EC 0040
811EF390 40F2
D009C7EC 0040
801EF343 0000
D009C7EC 0040
811D6390 40F2
D009C7EC 0040
801D6343 0000

Player One Moon Jump (Multiplayer):

D009C7E4 0040
811BB720 40F2
D009C7E4 0040
801BB6D3 0000

Player Two Moon Jump (Multiplayer):

D009C7EC 0040
811BD390 40F2
D009C7EC 0040
801BD343 0000

Player Three Moon Jump (Multiplayer):

D009C7F4 0040
811BF000 40F2
D009C7F4 0040
801BEFB3 0000

Player Four Moon Jump (Multiplayer):

D009C7FC 0040
811C0C70 40F2
D009C7FC 0040
801C0C23 0000

Shield-penetrating weapons. This code allows you to shoot through some enemy shields that it is not normally possible to. Using this code, for example, you can blow up the patrol robot in Chicago or shoot the Skedar king to death. Fun. Code by Ryan Toluchanian.

80255108 0020

Lights out. This code automatically turns off all of the lights in the game that can be destroyed. Different from the Perfect Darkness cheat, the effect is quite different and creepy. Code by Ryan Toluchanian.

8022169C 0020

Weapons in the CI. Ever want to grab a machine gun from the Carrington Institute firing range and blast those rude CI employees? Well now you can! Simply enable this code, go to the firing range, start an exercise with the weapon you want, and then abort right away. You'll still be holding the weapon and will be able to take it anywhere in the building you want! Whenever you need more ammo or want to switch weapons, just head back to the range and repeat the process. Code created by Ryan Toluchanian.

802C92C4 0020

Kill CI employees. This great code will let you kill the normally invincible Carrington Institute employees in traning mode! Great fun! Combine it with the previous code to take weapons off the firing range and go on your very own workplace rampage with the weapon of your choice.

This code also has other odd effects. It makes all enemies inactive in solo missions and occasionally eliminates background music, environmental effects (like rain), and even cinema scenes.

Since this code also deactivates almost all enemies in solo missions, so it is also useful for setting up two-player Co-Operative and Counter-Operative deathmatches, since guards and other enemies won't harass players.

Code by Ryan Toluchanian.

8022EE80 0020
802C92C4 0020

Infinite Psychosis Gun ammo. Even with the game's two built-in infinite ammo cheats activated, you are still normally limited to four shots with the Psychosis Gun. With this code, you can brainwash your enemies into allies all you want and raise a virtual army. Have fun. Codes by Crocc.

Player One Infinite Psychosis Gun Ammo:

80207EA3 00FF
801EEEA3 00FF
801D5EA3 00FF

Player Two Infinite Psychosis Gun Ammo:

80209B13 00FF
801F0B13 00FF
801D7B13 00FF

GoldenEye Weapons in Combat Simulator. Using this code, all players will begin every multiplayer match with the classic GoldenEye guns already in their inventories! Furthermore, they will not be lost upon death. All you need to use them is ammunition. You can get this by activating either of Perfect Dark's infinite ammo cheats. In you haven't earned them, or simply prefer to pick up ammo off the ground like normal you can stock your levels with the following weapons, each of which comes with ammunition that the GoldenEye guns can use. Check the following chart for compatability. Happy deathmatching! Code by Crocc.

Falcon 2 (any), MagSec 4, Mauler, Phoenix - PP9i, CC13
CMP150, Cyclone, Laptop Gun - KLO1313, ZZT (9MM), ZMG, RC-P45
Callisto NTG, RC-P120, Dragon, K7 Avenger, SuperDragon, Sniper Rifle - KF7 Special, AR-53

D01BCF0F 001E
801BCF10 0007
D01BEB7F 001E
801BEB80 0007
D01C07EF 001E
801C07F0 0007
D01C245F 001E
801C2460 0007

CarrolSims. This one is great. This code will turn all the Simulant characters in multiplayer games into Dr. Carrol! They will even fight (unarmed only) and explode when defeated, making distinctive Dr. Carrol noises when shot or killed. Code by SubDrag.

800AC548 003E
800AC594 003E
800AC5E0 003E
800AC62C 003E
800AC678 003E
800AC6C4 003E
800AC710 003E
800AC75C 003E

Two player deathmatch in Carrington Institute! This code will let you play a two-player deathmatch in the Carrington Institute training level (not CI - Defense, so Carington and company will still be walking around and talking to you while you fight). Just input the following code, start up in high-res mode, and begin any solo mission.

For complete details, read my CI training deathmatch FAQ.

Main code by Ryan Toluchanian.

8009DFE9 0026
8009DFEB 0080
802C92C4 0020
D01BCF0F 001E
801BCF10 0007
D01BCF0F 001E
801BBEFB 00FF
D01BCF0F 001E
801BC69F 00FF
D01BEB7F 001E
801BEB80 0007
D01BEB7F 001E
801BDB6B 00FF
D01BEB7F 001E
801BE30F 00FF

Turbo Jo. This neat code will make Joanna Dark run at incredible speeds. Much faster than a hoverbike. It's a lot of fun. Code by Ryan Toluchanian.

8001AC0F 0000
8001AC1F 0080
8001AC4B 0081
8001AC5B 0001
8001AC6B 0081
8001AC7B 0001
8001AC8B 0081
8001AC9B 0001
8001ACAB 0081
8001ACB7 0001

Initial character placement. This is a very cool and very weird code. It lets you view every character in solo levels in their initial placement, including character that normally only show up in cinema scenes. This includes Elvis on Air Force One - Antiterrorism and Trent Easton in Air Base - Espionage. Every solo level in the game reveals strange new surprises with this code enabled. Code by Ryan Toluchanian.

8023E698 0020

Music modifier. This code will let you modify the music that plays on the Perfect Menu. Just change the "??" to any value of your choice. The digits 15, 75, and 3C correspond to previously hidden "beta" music tracks. Code by SubDrag.

800AA5FB 00??
800AA66B 00??