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02-18-24 20:48 #14150
Posts: 5381Trump stole Millions from working people, small businesses, and taxpayers.
Of course, Bank Fraud is not a victimless crime.
Aside from the obvious theft of money and available resources from everyone who didn't commit Bank Fraud, unless bank fraudsters like Trump are fined huge monetary penalties far beyond whatever they might have gained from their bank fraud, there will be zero deterrence for him or anyone else from doing it again and again and again.
Everything Trump said outside the doors of his NY fraud trial is wrong. Here's why, point-by-point.
Dec. 8, 2023
https://www.businessinsider.com/dona...tcheck-2023-12
The banks "love us" and there are "no victims"
In relying on Trump's exaggerations, Deutsche Bank lost out on $168 million in interest payments they would have otherwise charged him between 2014 and 2023, they allege.
"Trump's crimes are not victimless," James told reporters a year ago. "When the well-connected and powerful break the law to get more money than they are entitled to, it reduces resources available to working people, small businesses, and taxpayers."
Uh. If you steal a car, you still committed the crime of car theft and denied the owner and everyone else relying on that car access to it even if you return it 9 years later with a full tank of gas and a new coat of wax.
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02-18-24 12:55 #14149
Posts: 1091Bad Parents Jailed, due to Problem Child...
Jennifer and James Crumbley were the first parents in the US to be charged in a mass school shooting committed by their child, Ethan Crumbley who is serving a life sentence in prison.
Originally Posted by ABCNews
Maybe if they didn't have such immunity, perhaps they'd put safer gun measures into their products, for fear of being sued, like everyone else?
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02-18-24 07:41 #14148
Posts: 3160Originally Posted by MarquisdeSade1 [View Original Post]
The fucking FBI can lie all they want AKA Russiagate but you cannot. You handled it right. You do not say anything with those assholes because they will lie about what you said.
The only good news is the perverted Democratic Department of Justice may have gone too far. I am sure you have heard about the $364 billion Trump verdict as Dems tried like crazy to spin it that there were victims with it when they were none. It was such bullshit that the truckers of America have had enough.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fk...tarting-monday
Truck drivers transport between 70% to 73% of all freight in the United States. Therefore, when truckers begin discussing plans on social media to boycott loads to progressive hellhole New York City, it's important to pay attention.
X user Chicago1 Ray, who appears to be a Midwest truck driver, shared a video late Friday night detailing that a number of truck drivers will begin denying loads to NYC on Monday.
"I don't know how far across the country this is. Or how many truckers are going start denying loads to NYC. But I'll tell you. You f**k around and find out," Chicago1 Ray said.
He continued: "We're tired of motherf**king leftist f**king with Trump. Okay. Motherfu**ers start to get tired of this shit. Our bosses aren't going to care if we deny loads. We'll go somewhere else. ".
"You know how hard it is to get in and out of NYC?" the trucker emphasized. I've been on the radio for over an hour and I've talked to at least (10) Truckers who are going to start refusing loads of Monday for (NYC) . I talked to (3) guys that I work with who texted the boss and told him no (NYC).
By Saturday morning, the video had amassed nearly 3 million views.
End of link. The truckers in Canada were the first ones who organized in mass against Covid and now we have to rely on their common sense again. I get their point. If you want to cost Trump $350 million on bullshit charges, we are going to hit you for $3 billion in damages you POS New Yorkers. I am done trying to convince these Dems of anything. They are so dumb they think this is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
What really gets me is the Covid crap we had to deal with. How many boosters you Dems get it? You still wearing masks and social distancing? Uh, why not? There is still Covid out there. You can still die from it just look at all the daily deaths in the world. Look up the numbers if you do not believe me.
It was only after states like Texas and Florida opened up that the gutless ones like California and New York saw the hits to their pocket books that they backed down. WAIT, YOU MEAN WE CANNOT JUST PRINT MONEY AND STAY HOME? That is what it is going to take with New York, getting hit in the pocket book.
I just hope the first thing Trump does when he gets in office is start over with law enforcement. Just destroy the corrupt FBI, CIA, and NSA and start fresh. They do way more harm than good.
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02-17-24 10:52 #14147
Posts: 5381Trump Pulls Another Classic Do Nothing Repub Stunt
Aww. Who told Repub Trump what had begun in 2014, expanded in 2022 and was already happening this year?
LOL. That is such a Classic Do Nothing Repub move for him to leave his booth at the KFC to run out in front of a passing parade that had already been marching down Broadway for years in hopes that at least a few ill-informed numbskulls might think he is the one who organized it.
Germany's Scholz commits to spending 2% on defense 'in the 2020's, in the 2030's and beyond'.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/17/germ...ndroidappshare
MUNICH, Germany German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday reaffirmed Berlins commitment to spend 2% of the national gross domestic product (GDP) on defense, this year and over the longer term.
Germany will invest 2% of its GDP on defense in the 2020s, in the 2030s and beyond, Scholz told the Munich Security Conference.
Germany has this commitment in 2024 through regular and special budget outlays for the first time since the early 1990s, a defense ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday, according to Reuters.
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Germany announced a new 100 billion euro ($107 billion) debt-financed fund for the Bundeswehr the German armed forces to beef up its national security in 2022, days after Russias full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Scholz at the time dubbed the move a Zeitenwende or watershed moment in Germanys modern history, which would allow the country to meet its long-held 2% defense spending goals.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2...s-that-he-got/
2014, following Russias illegal annexation of Crimea, North Atlantic Treaty Organization members agreed to spend 2% of their national gross domestic product on defense spending by 2024. Spending has increased since then. As of 2023, 11 countries met that goal.
Experts said Russia President Vladimir Putins actions in 2014 and 2022 in Ukraine spurred the defense spending increases.
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02-17-24 05:30 #14146
Posts: 2579Funny story
"Some Dem is lapping up an FBI accusation as proof of guilt versus the FBI playing politics. What else is new? You mean the same FBI that sat on Hunter Biden's laptop during the 2020 election? That FBI?
David Weiss is charging Smirnov with lying to the FBI about the details he's presented in the Hunter Biden probe. Smirnov faces up to 25 years in prison.
Remember, this is the same David Weiss who said the IRS whistleblowers were lying, even though it was proven that they were telling the truth, and he offered Hunter that sweetheart plea deal before the Judge rejected it.
Did you guys know that Alexander Smirnov is only being charged with the DOJ catch all: "Making a false statement" 18 USC 1001, and "Creating a false and fictitious record" 18 USC 1519. The old "process crimes" attack. Classic Biden.
Ok. So where are all the indictments for everyone who gave the FBI false information about the Russian collusion charges against Trump?
Russiagate was the FBI telling countless lies about Trump being in bed with Putin. They lied to the FISA court. They lied in their documents, they changed testimony and now the FBI is outraged, outraged about someone lying? LOL.
Repeat after me, Tooms. Russiagate was the FBI lying to everyone in America about Trump. Can you say that? Sure you can.
So why the fuck should any of us care about the FBI and lying?
I got busted by a reverse sting mongering in a Sheraton hotel next to Ohare airport several years ago (circa 2015), guess who was running it, the FBI.
They asked my name of course I gave a bullshit name I said I found an ad online for a massage.
He was pissed yelling in my face he was a latino about 4 maybe 5 feet tall LOL with his FBI jacket on, yelling at me in my face, don't lie to me I'm the FBI.
I told him to blow me I want to speak to an atty and I sat down.
An hour or so later I was home.
Pro tip, leave wallet in the car.
Leave ignition key inside the gas cap door space.
Always say you just came for a massage and leave your wallet and keys behind.
They were towing other mongers cars.
I said my office was down the road and I took a taxi.
They didn't find any car FOB on me, they looked for one.
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02-17-24 05:09 #14145
Posts: 5381Please provide a link to all those FBI lies
Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
This is what Trump's own Department of Justice found regarding the FBI's necessary and totally justifiable investigation of Trump, Camp Trump and their extraordinarily deep and intense collusion with Russia all through the election:
FBI was justified in probing Trump-Russia, fed watchdog says.
Dec. 9, 2019
https://apnews.com/fbi-was-justified...7ad4c8f8af565c
WASHINGTON (AP) The FBI was justified in opening its investigation into ties between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia and did not act with political bias, the Justice Departments internal watchdog declared Monday, undercutting President Donald Trumps repeated claims that he has been the target of a witch hunt.
The long-awaited report rejected theories and criticism spread by Trump and his supporters, though it also found serious performance failures up the bureaus chain of command that Republicans are citing as evidence that Trump was targeted by an unfair investigation.
The affirmation of the investigations legitimacy, balanced by criticism of the way it was conducted ensured that partisan battles would persist over one of the most politically sensitive investigations in FBI history. Another review of the origins of the probe continues, and the prosecutor picked by Attorney General William Barr to lead that effort hinted Monday hell take a harder view of the FBIs actions.
"Russia, if you're listening", neither your top American political stooge Donald Trump nor your and MAGA's top useful idiot in the media Tucker Carlson has yet uttered one word of criticism for your Murdering your political enemies. Actually, your and MAGA's top useful idiot in the media has lovingly defended and supported it.
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02-17-24 04:41 #14144
Posts: 5381He was not a Democrat anymore
Originally Posted by Spidy [View Original Post]
By then he was passing himself off as an Independent, the kind of pol meant to attract votes from pro Repub "Bothsiders" who can't admit openly or to themselves that they want Repubs to win elections so they can produce horrific results in office but that is typically the end result of their vote anyway.
The same thing he is doing with his No Labels movement.
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02-17-24 03:33 #14143
Posts: 1091Joe Lieberman aka. ACA DINO.
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
Just take the recent case of the DINOs, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, w/r to the initial, bigger $4.5 trillion IRA.
Originally Posted by NPR
Thanks, it's always good to put a face/name to those "filibuster" impeding progress transgressors, even if it's a DINO.
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02-17-24 01:50 #14142
Posts: 123MCU is coming to ISG
Originally Posted by Xpartan [View Original Post]
Feb 23, Zelensky made a speech.
Feb 24, Putin (Thanos) mobilized 100 K troops to the border using a new transporting power he got from riding a horse half naked somewhere in Russia. Easy peasy.
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02-16-24 21:25 #14141
Posts: 1925Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
Would you vote for Menendez?
One of my Rep friends who hates Trump's guts told me he'd vote for him anyway. I asked him why, and he said it's either him or Biden. I asked him half-jokingly how he'd be able to live with himself, and he said amazingly similar things to what you just did. That once you make a choice you have to stick with this choice even when it stinks and makes you cringe.
The danger of your approach is that when merit flies out of the window, it only encourages bad behavior. When politicians of any creed know they are politically invincible, there is nothing to prevent them from "menendezation".
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02-16-24 18:21 #14140
Posts: 3160Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
David Weiss is charging Smirnov with lying to the FBI about the details he's presented in the Hunter Biden probe. Smirnov faces up to 25 years in prison.
Remember, this is the same David Weiss who said the IRS whistleblowers were lying, even though it was proven that they were telling the truth, and he offered Hunter that sweetheart plea deal before the Judge rejected it.
Did you guys know that Alexander Smirnov is only being charged with the DOJ catch all: "Making a false statement" 18 USC 1001, and "Creating a false and fictitious record" 18 USC 1519. The old "process crimes" attack. Classic Biden.
Ok. So where are all the indictments for everyone who gave the FBI false information about the Russian collusion charges against Trump?
Russiagate was the FBI telling countless lies about Trump being in bed with Putin. They lied to the FISA court. They lied in their documents, they changed testimony and now the FBI is outraged, outraged about someone lying? LOL.
Repeat after me, Tooms. Russiagate was the FBI lying to everyone in America about Trump. Can you say that? Sure you can.
So why the fuck should any of us care about the FBI and lying?
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02-16-24 17:55 #14139
Posts: 3160Originally Posted by Xpartan [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by Xpartan [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by Xpartan [View Original Post]
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/vic...has-biological
The Russian Foreign Ministry asserted that "Russia obtained documents proving that Ukrainian biological laboratories located near Russian borders worked on development of components of biological weapons. ".
So that is easy to swat down. Just say it is not true. Well, it turns out that is not what happened: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), hoping to debunk growing claims that there are chemical weapons labs in Ukraine, smugly asked Nuland: "Does Ukraine have chemical or biological weapons?
Rubio undoubtedly expected a flat denial by Nuland, thus providing further "proof" that such speculation is dastardly Fake News emanating from the Kremlin, the CCP and QAnon. Instead, Nuland did something completely uncharacteristic for her, for neocons, and for senior USA Foreign policy officials: for some reason, she told a version of the truth.
She acknowledged: "uh, Ukraine has, uh, biological research facilities."
So Russia makes a claim and Nuland admits it is true. No one knows exactly what those facilities were working on including you. But when NPR and the NYT pretend to know, and they spew out MAGA, QAnon, Russian conspiracy to confuse people like you, you lap it up like a puppy.
Originally Posted by Xpartan [View Original Post]
Then there is Mexico: The Mexican American War was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848. It followed the 1845 American annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered its territory because Mexico refused to recognize the Treaties of Velasco its generals signed.
The USA Army, under Major General Winfield Scott, invaded the Mexican heartland and captured the capital, Mexico City, in September 1847. The war was successfully concluded with the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. It ended the war, and Mexico recognized the cession of present-day Texas, California, Nevada, and Utah as well as parts of present-day Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming. Mexico relinquished its claims on Texas and accepted the Rio Grande as its northern border with the United States, a loss of 55% of its territory.
Hey, Xpartan, maybe you just learned something.
Originally Posted by Xpartan [View Original Post]
Think I am kidding? How many Covid boosters have you gotten lately? You have not gotten any. You are just too much of a coward to admit it.
And can you say this? Russiagate was a total fraud. The fact that you cannot say Russiagate was a fraud means you believe what you want and not the truth. You would not know the truth if it bit you in the ass.
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02-16-24 10:11 #14138
Posts: 5381That was a Repub and Third Party decision
Originally Posted by Spidy [View Original Post]
The New Republic: It Was Lieberman All Along.
Oct. 28, 2009
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/...ryId=114233563
The eternal lesson being, if you want a better Economy, better National Security, better Border Control, Lower Inflation, more and better jobs created, higher wages, more affordable and better Healthcare, lower debt and deficits, greater Stock Market gains and any other significant improvements in the lives of Americans, you do not, repeat, do not vote for Repubs, Third Party candidates or refuse to vote at all. No, you vote Democrat all the way down the ballot every time, no exceptions. And do your best to convince everyone you know to do the same.
America must have a Dem in the White House, at least 235 Dems in the House and at least 5 more Dems than required to constitute a Super Majority in the Senate if the country is going to deliver great things for our taxpayer dollar. It is as simple as that. Even 1 decisive non Dem in the House or Senate and most definitely any Repub in the White House is enough to put the entire country and much of the rest of the world in serious danger.
I wish it weren't so. But the data and evidence supporting that conclusion is overwhelming and inarguable now.
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02-16-24 08:36 #14137
Posts: 1925To see a classic Putin apologist -- look no further.
Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/23...plea-for-peace
Did you mean another speech? Or did you just pull this shit out of your ass? Link please.
Even if this speech had happened, whatever Zelensky might've said on Feb 23, couldn't have meant anything. The Russian troops had already been positioned for the invasion. The USA Intelligence knew that the invasion was imminent months before it happened. This claim of yours is insane.
Lie #2: Ukraine's hostility against the Crimea and Donbass separatists provoked Putin. shut off water to Crimea, launched bombers into the Dombass, coddled neonazis, and none other than Kamala Harris spoke of Ukraine joining NATO.
Lie 3: Then we hear of all these weird biolabs in Ukraine getting funded by the Pentagon and Victoria Nuland worrying they might fall into Russian hands, https://greenwald.substack.com/p/vic...has-biological.
How the false Russian biolab story came to circulate among the USA Far right.
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/25/10879...russia-ukraine
Theory About USA -Funded Bioweapons Labs in Ukraine Is Unfounded.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/u...formation.html
Finally:
Senator Rubio Questions Undersecretary Nuland Over Biolabs in Ukraine
During her testimony in front of the Senate Foreign Relations committee about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland answers a question from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) about whether or not Ukraine has chemical or biological weapons. She replies, "Ukraine has biological research facilities, which, in fact, we are now quite concerned...Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of." She then refutes allegations from Russia that Ukrainians are plotting to use biological weapons, and says that if such an attack happens in Ukraine, "there is no doubt in my mind" it would be caused by Russian forces.
[QUOTE]Lie #4 = Lies 1-3 combined: So putting nuclear and potentially bioweapons on another nation's doorstep is not provocation unless it is the USA and Cuba. Then it is provocation, but when it is Ukraine and Russia, it is not. Got it. [ / QUOTE]Do you get it? You sure? Well, I'm glad.
Truth #1: Yeah, I cannot believe why MAGA idiots could be so dumb as to be confused by that.
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02-16-24 07:14 #14136
Posts: 1091The Arc of Health Care...
Originally Posted by Xpartan [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by Xpartan [View Original Post]
Too steal and plagiarize an MLK/Obama quote:- "The arc of truly affordable heath care for ALL Americans maybe (Repub obstructed unnecessarily) long, but I'm hopeful it bends towards "universal health care" or "Medicare for all."
- Just like much of the rest of the civilized world, as you've nicely stated.