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04-01-22 21:12 #7744
Posts: 2374Originally Posted by MarquisdeSade1 [View Original Post]
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04-01-22 20:59 #7743
Posts: 2581But hey
Originally Posted by AxelHeyst [View Original Post]
Look at least he's trying to legally normalize mental illness!
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04-01-22 20:57 #7742
Posts: 2581Drivel? How apropos
Originally Posted by MarquisdeSade1 [View Original Post]
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04-01-22 20:50 #7741
Posts: 2581I love Vlad but not because of any of your suggestions
Originally Posted by Xpartan [View Original Post]
I discussed Trump and Vlad with Russians whilst in Russia and they agree with me.
They are both strong leaders that rule their countries and are not puppets for the oligarchs, ie.
I read a lot from many sources, so I will try to find it.
But several weeks back I read the writer was predicting Vlad wouldn't annex Ukraine because he could never get "Buy in".
For something like this from the "Elites". Seriously WTF? Well I believe it was in the NYT.
He was obviously wrong but lets look at what he meant, the oligarchs rule Biden and other cucks.
Vlad can take away the oligarchs money property and power overnight.
That's why the Davos crowd hates him so, and they hate Trump because they can't control him either.
They tried to cheat in 2016, that don't go well.
They tried to get him booted via impeachment twice.
But they were able to rig 2020.
Lets see what happens in 2024.
If they cheat and block Trump again and it triggers Civil War 2.0, they better hide really well.
I can see them all hiding on their yachts in the Mediterranean.
Bozo Gates Bloomberg Zuck et al.
Musk is coming out in favor of free speech.
And maybe setting up an alt to Twitter, I'm guessing he's hedging against what I'm saying.
If the Civil war 2. 0 breaks out after Nov 2024.
He wants to be on the winning side.
And the right side of history.
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04-01-22 20:13 #7740
Posts: 55614 Presidents in a row, 4 historic records in a row
Interesting pattern. A mysterious, inexplicable "business cycle"? Bad Repub luck with jobs? A witch's curse on Repubs?
Nope, nope and nopadope.
It's just plain ol' crappy Repub economic stewardship and legislation vs far, far superior Dem economic stewardship and legislation proven over and over again.
Or, as typically pro Repub Mainstream Media whose financial fortunes rely on helping their beloved Repubs get elected so they will inevitably produce those much desired scary "Disaster"! "Crash"! "Unprecedented Losses"! Headlines for them would put it, "Further evidence that Republicans seem to handle the economy better than Democrats. Now, quick! Get out there and vote"!
LOL.
"U.S. hot streak on jobs continues as unemployment rate falls".
For the first time on record, the U.S. economy has now had 11 straight monthly jobs gains above 400,000.
Note, the U.S. economy has now had 11 straight monthly jobs gains above 400,000. According to a Wall Street Journal report, thats never happened since the government started maintaining national jobs records in 1939.
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna22540
"Trump to leave office with the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover.
The number of employed Americans fell by 3 million during Trump's time in office." https://fortune.com/2021/01/11/us-ec...ce-hoover/amp/.
"A record 75 straight months of job growth under Obama"
https://money.cnn.com/2017/01/06/new...016/index.html
"Bush On Jobs: The Worst Track Record On Record - WSJ" https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-REB-2534.
Of course, the other interesting pattern is the two recent positive records for America and those who love America were not only thanks to Dem presidential stewardship but in both cases we were gifted with the presence of Joe Biden at or near the top.
Thanks, Joe.
BTW, how's Putin's Russia doing lately?
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04-01-22 20:03 #7739
Posts: 1604More fact-free opinions from Elvis
Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
"Feb. 14,2014, Baturina wired $3. 5 million to a Rosemont Seneca Thornton bank account for a 'Consultancy Agreement, the report said. "Rosemont Seneca Thornton is an investment firm co-founded by Hunter Biden. ".
The report also states that Rosemont Seneca Thorton served as a pass-through for Baturina's investments in a Chinese-based tech start-up in Buffalo, and. Why.
We reached out to the Trump campaign and they said the Republican committee report was the source for the $3. 5 million figure.
The report adds no more details about the significance of any of these transactions, although it notes that Baturina appeared to have benefited from her husband's allegedly corrupt practices.
Hunter Biden's lawyer George Mesires said Biden did not get $3. 5 million and that the report has a key error.
"Hunter Biden had no interest in and was not a co-founder of Rosemont Seneca Thornton, so the claim that he was paid $3. 5 million is false," Mesires said in an email.
We asked Mesire if he could share documents to show that Hunter Biden was not a co-founder, and he did not respond.
We asked Republican Senate staffers if they could show proof that Biden had a stake in Rosemont Seneca Thornton, and they also declined to respond.
The Senate report cites a Oct. 9, 2019, Financial Times story that says Hunter Biden was a co-founder, but the reporters don't say in the story how they substantiated that — no source is cited. An email query to the Washington-based reporter on the story went unanswered.
Regardless, the Republican report doesn't fully support Trump's claim, because it never shows that Biden got the full $3. 5 million.
Hunter Biden co-founded a firm called Rosemont Seneca in 2009, but the partnership with Thornton — even though it uses the Rosemont Seneca name — could exist without other partners in Rosemont Seneca having a stake. A business partner could have created this entity on his own. Without the ownership documents of Rosemont Seneca Thornton — which are not public — we simply can't know.
As part of the committee investigation, Republicans on the Senate committees asked the Treasury Department for suspicious-activity reports. These come from banks and other financial institutions and often involve large sums and foreign transactions.
Democratic staff on the Finance and Homeland Security committees said the Republican paper trail doesn't lead back to Biden.
"Democratic staff has reviewed all known information on file with the committees, however, including the confidential document cited by the Republicans (in the report), and are aware of no information in the committees' possession showing Hunter Biden had any financial interest in this entity or transaction," they said in a statement.
We asked Republican staff whether Hunter Biden was named in any suspicious activity report. They did not respond.
If we receive clear evidence in the future, we will revisit this, but at this time, proof that Hunter Biden received money through this transaction is unproven. https://www.politifact.com/article/2...t-35-million-/.
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04-01-22 19:57 #7738
Posts: 1068Originally Posted by GDreams [View Original Post]
World Oil Data: Canada holds 170,863,000,000 barrels of proven oil reserves as of 2016, ranking 3rd in the world and accounting for about 10.4% of the world's total oil reserves of 1,650,585,140,000 barrels.
Canada has proven reserves equivalent to 188.3 times its annual consumption. This means that, without Net Exports, there would be about 188 years of oil left (at current consumption levels and excluding unproven reserves).
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04-01-22 19:51 #7737
Posts: 1604Facts?
Originally Posted by AxelHeyst [View Original Post]
Second, nobody ever returned to pick up the laptops. Why would Hunter Biden never pick up a laptop that contained incriminating material. Wacked, for sure.
Third, the Post's coverage was controversial, including inside the paper. One reporter refused to put his name on the story due to credibility concerns and other Post staff "questioned whether the paper had done enough to verify the authenticity of the hard drive's contents. " But Trump cited what he dubbed "the laptop from hell" constantly. And conservatives began to argue that the mainstream media and social media companies were suppressing the story to help Biden win.
Fourth, Hunter's emails contained a whole lot of embarrassing and arguably newsworthy material about himself, and the shady foreign business interests of the son of the potential next president are certainly a worthy topic of media coverage. But as for the Biden who was actually on the ballot, there was very little from him personally in those messages (other than an exchange where he comforts his despondent, drug-addicted son). The emails didn't dominate mainstream media because, at least so far, they didn't have the goods.
Fifth, Yes, David Weiss is the Delaware USA attorney. Guess what, he was appointed by the one-term, twice-impeached, fake-POTUS former guy. Biden could have removed him but didn't. After all, he could have done so. But that would have been just as bad as trying to remove the Attorney General and no sitting President would do that, right? Oh, wait.
Sixth, there were two supposed "smoking guns" about Joe Biden that conservatives touted in the materials. The first was an email the Post called a "blockbuster," in which an executive at the Ukrainian gas company Burisma thanked Hunter for the "opportunity to meet your father" in 2015. If you're steeped in Trumpworld lore, this was damning because of the theory that Biden had the corrupt prosecutor general of Ukraine fired to benefit Burisma, and Biden had said he knew nothing about Hunter's Ukrainian work, but look, a meeting! (Apparently, it was a dinner at Cafe Milano that Hunter had organized, with about a dozen people.) This appears to amount to Vice President Biden seemingly going to one dinner.
The second involved a business venture that Hunter tried to set up with a Chinese energy tycoon in 2017 (after Joe Biden was no longer vice president). One email mentions that the equity split would include "10 held by H for the big guy?" A former business partner of Hunter's named Tony Bobulinski came forward to claim "the big guy" was Joe Biden. But a subsequent email from Hunter says his "Chairman" gave him "an emphatic no," and a further email clarifies that the chairman is his dad.
So, in short, it appears that your "facts" have been pulled from the depth of rightwingnut fantasyland.
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04-01-22 19:41 #7736
Posts: 428Can you imagine
Originally Posted by AxelHeyst [View Original Post]
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04-01-22 19:40 #7735
Posts: 428Great informative post
Originally Posted by AxelHeyst [View Original Post]
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04-01-22 19:32 #7734
Posts: 428Inflation killing wage gains pushing families into poverty
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
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04-01-22 19:25 #7733
Posts: 5561Well Stated. And Correct.
Originally Posted by GDreams [View Original Post]
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04-01-22 19:18 #7732
Posts: 5561Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
I just wonder how shitty the economic, foreign policy, national security and most certainly commander in chief results would have to be for America by the elected officials you would choose before you would admit your disastrous error in judgement and, you know, choose someone from a party that produces historically positive gains on every metric that matters and no Great Depressions / Recessions, Massive Jobs Destruction, etc.
Of course, we already know you were deliriously happy with Trump's horrifically disastrous across the board results for America. It might have only come in 2nd place as the worst presidential results after Putin's for Russia.
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04-01-22 19:01 #7731
Posts: 5561That settles it!
Originally Posted by AxelHeyst [View Original Post]
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04-01-22 18:58 #7730
Posts: 5561Serious questions:
Originally Posted by AxelHeyst [View Original Post]
Not just a few things. I mean everything. Does he?
Actually, do you know everything that is on your laptop computer? Who the fuck would?
And how would or could what is on your laptop require a "defense" from your daddy?
Seriously. You people are damn weird. You're not even legitimate trolls. You're just pinwheel beanie nuts on rollerskates weird.