American Politics

[Tiny 12]

You're way off. Of course, you can say there was some corruption in Stalin's USSR. But it not even remotely close to the feastfuck that's going on today in Russia and other post Soviet states.

Really?

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/697363

Other post Soviet states like Ukraine?

I presume you're not an admirer of Stalin, just trying to make a point.

And your point is? Russia is 137. What does this number prove?

I was just replying to you:

"if EVERYONE in Ukraine was corrupt, Russian garrisons would've already been stationed in Kiyv and Lviv, and elsewhere. Instead, they're getting their asses handed to them. ".

Enabling? Still no F16. Still no ATACMS. Still no Abrams. Still, the most ridiculous restrictions to NOT fire INSIDE Russia. WTF! They're firing on Ukraine from INSIDE RUSSIA, but god forbid Ukraine should hit them back with American weapon. How much pressure do you say we put on Ukraine to appease Putin and your lot?

Any Americans who voluntarily want to donate to war efforts in Ukraine or actually go there and fight should be free to do so. As a semi-believer in the 2nd amendment, if they want to take up a collection to buy F16's and Abrams tanks and ship them to Ukraine, they should have at it. I would draw the line at strategic nuclear weapons though.

I don't want our tax dollars being used, to the tune of $75 billion, to promote a war 5000 miles away, when we're not simultaneously trying to bring an end to it. Instead we've told Ukraine that they have a blank check for as long as they want. And the Ukrainians say they're not going to stop until they've regained Crimea.

What do you think our reaction would be if the Warsaw Pact were arming Mexico to the tunes of billions of dollars and talking about taking it in as a member? How many countries in Latin America have we invaded? Remember Grenada?

Gorbachev thought he had a commitment from the USA not to expand NATO. It hasn't turned out that way.

Russia has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. We should be working to end this lunacy, instead of throwing gasoline on the fire.

[JustTK]

This is old news. It has been known for a while that three researchers at the Wuhan lab had flu like illnesses back around the end of 2019 and were treated at a hospital. The Wall Street Journal broke the story over two years ago.

This doesn't prove COVID 19 came from a lab leak, although it certainly provides evidence it may have. It also doesn't prove it resulted from gain of function research.

Respectfully JustTK, if your suspicions are true, I don't see why the USA should pay reparations instead of China. Or know if anybody should pay. Gain of function research was intended to protect us from the next pandemic, and sometimes shit happens.

I had no idea that this story had broke before. I am surprised it never got much traction. Thanks for that.

It doesn't prove lab leak? Like if I find a starnger in my house with a bloody knife in his hand and my wife dead on the floor, that doesn't prove the stranger killed her either. Its true maybe an infected bat flew in thru the lab window and infected them. Hey strange things happen!

And most certainly the lab was doing gain of function, so again you just want to ignore all the evidence and "wah, wah, wah, I can't hear you!

About reparations. Your excuse is truly terrible here Tiny. First I didn't say that China should not pay. They are just as guilty as USA. The are both guilty of reckless endangerment and should pay rapartaions to all. RFK agrees with me. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl-Fv9ZF-Og.

It is NO EXCUSE that they were doing it for good purpose. And that has not been proven either. They were doing it for their own benefit, not mine or yours or Sinezo's in Tanzania. The Nazis would argue the same thing.

[EihTooms]

Neither party is interested in the people. Only more control for themselves and the government. Both parties fear independent thinkers.

Even if that were true, the fact is the House, Senate and White House will be controlled by either the Dems or the Repubs for the rest of your life and that of your childrens' children. The only choice your vote might result in is will they be controlled by the Party that throws around a lot of big talk about handling the economy and National Security better than the opposition but in reality has legislated, produced and led us into every Great Depression, Great Recession, Massive Jobs Loss and Mass Murder of Americans and none of the Great Recoveries, Great Expansions and Historic Job Gains since the late 1920's with no indication that their agenda and methods for producing those results has changed one iota in 100 years or do you want your vote to go to the Party that has legislated and produced the exact opposite of those horrific results in that same timeframe.

Hoping the Party your vote helps to win will be filled with saintly, altruistic monks, priests and rabbis is a nice idea. But, frankly, I believe worrying about such things in the face of inarguable historic patterns, results and realities regarding Real World critical issues is for suckers. The former Party I cited above knows it is for suckers. Hence, The Great 2024 Repub War On Woke!

LOL.

[Xpartan]

There was a lot of corruption in Stalin's USSR and it kicked Germany's ass.

You're way off. Of course, you can say there was some corruption in Stalin's USSR. But it not even remotely close to the feastfuck that's going on today in Russia and other post Soviet states.

Ukraine is in a tie for 116th on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, alongside Angola, Mongolia, the Philippines, El Salvador, Algeria and Zambia. No wonder the EU never put Ukraine on track for membership.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2022

And your point is? Russia is 137. What does this number prove?

Admittedly the Ukrainian people are enduring incredible hardship by standing up to Russia. And Russia's the aggressor. I just don't know whether we should be enabling the killing to the extent we are. The USA is putting no pressure on Ukraine to settle this. We seem content to let them fight the Russians to the last Ukrainian.

Enabling? Still no F16. Still no ATACMS. Still no Abrams. Still, the most ridiculous restrictions to NOT fire INSIDE Russia. WTF! They're firing on Ukraine from INSIDE RUSSIA, but god forbid Ukraine should hit them back with American weapon. How much pressure do you say we put on Ukraine to appease Putin and your lot?

[Tiny 12]

Ah, the main argument from putin-lovers. Ukraine is corrupt.

While no one would deny that there are plenty of corruption in Ukraine, if EVERYONE in Ukraine was corrupt, Russian garrisons would've already been stationed in Kiyv and Lviv, and elsewhere. Instead, they're getting their asses handed to them. Also everywhere.

There was a lot of corruption in Stalin's USSR and it kicked Germany's ass. Ukraine is in a tie for 116th on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, alongside Angola, Mongolia, the Philippines, El Salvador, Algeria and Zambia. No wonder the EU never put Ukraine on track for membership.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2022

Admittedly the Ukrainian people are enduring incredible hardship by standing up to Russia. And Russia's the aggressor. I just don't know whether we should be enabling the killing to the extent we are. The USA is putting no pressure on Ukraine to settle this. We seem content to let them fight the Russians to the last Ukrainian.

[Tiny 12]

Neither party is interested in the people. Only more control for themselves and the government. Both parties fear independent thinkers.

Agreed. I don't think it used to be as bad. Independent thinkers and good people like Jeff Flake and Kyrsten Sinema are being run off from their parties.

[Tiny 12]

And how does that refute the irrefutable truth that your video link proved nothing of what you and those numbskulls in your video link claimed?

If you knew anything about anything, that is.

Your beloved Repubs investigated it. They found no wrongdoing by the Bidens. And they were even more desperate to find wrongdoing by the Bidens than you and your video hero numbskulls.

I realize your and Trump's "enemies" must be everyone, everywhere all the time, otherwise claimed to be the "Deep State", because you can't just blame The Democrats for revealing the sad truth about Dear Leader while exonnerating Obama, Hillary, Biden etc when far more Repubs have been doing the investigations and testifying to that result than Dems. But at some point you still need to produce some evidence of your and other Trump Cultists' silly claims.

Elvis' video link did show I was wrong. And you're not being honest with yourself if you believe the Biden's weren't involved in any wrongdoing. In the case of Hunter it's apparent he was. As to Joe, if you want to argue he's incredibly stupid and naive, then I guess hauling his son on the vice presidential jet to China so he could lock in business deals wouldn't constitute wrongdoing.

[PVMonger]

Ah, the main argument from putin-lovers. Ukraine is corrupt.

While no one would deny that there are plenty of corruption in Ukraine, if EVERYONE in Ukraine was corrupt, Russian garrisons would've already been stationed in Kiyv and Lviv, and elsewhere. Instead, they're getting their asses handed to them. Also everywhere.

Yep, everyone in Ukraine is corrupt. And all Democrats are corrupt. All 3-letter agencies are corrupt, too. Especially the DOJ. How dare the DOJ investigate the one-term, twice-impeached, twice-indicted, former-guy for willfully retaining documents and trying to obstruct said investigation. The hubris of Repubs is astounding.

[SubCmdr]

Neither party is interested in the people. Only more control for themselves and the government. Both parties fear independent thinkers.

[Xpartan]

LOL. Tooms, if you knew anything about anything, everyone in Ukraine is corrupt.

Ah, the main argument from putin-lovers. Ukraine is corrupt.

While no one would deny that there are plenty of corruption in Ukraine, if EVERYONE in Ukraine was corrupt, Russian garrisons would've already been stationed in Kiyv and Lviv, and elsewhere. Instead, they're getting their asses handed to them. Also everywhere.

[EihTooms]

LOL. Tooms, if you knew anything about anything, everyone in Ukraine is corrupt.

Second, the "aid package" ensured higher prices for natural gas and electricity for the Ukrainian consumer.

And how does that refute the irrefutable truth that your video link proved nothing of what you and those numbskulls in your video link claimed?

If you knew anything about anything, that is.

Your beloved Repubs investigated it. They found no wrongdoing by the Bidens. And they were even more desperate to find wrongdoing by the Bidens than you and your video hero numbskulls.

I realize your and Trump's "enemies" must be everyone, everywhere all the time, otherwise claimed to be the "Deep State", because you can't just blame The Democrats for revealing the sad truth about Dear Leader while exonnerating Obama, Hillary, Biden etc when far more Repubs have been doing the investigations and testifying to that result than Dems. But at some point you still need to produce some evidence of your and other Trump Cultists' silly claims.

[Tiny 12]

Tiny, he bragged about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azLKK0xTOFI.

How can that NOT be true?

....You think Biden is not that stupid, but I see a narcissist who thinks he can get away with anything.

Sorry Elvis. I read a lot on this several years ago. I've forgotten a lot, and probably didn't know as much as I thought I did.

I believed that Biden didn't make the decision precisely because he is stupid. Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton, who was running the state department, did not hold him in high regard. Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review. Hillary was a member of the Yale Law Review. Biden on the other hand was at the bottom of his class at the University of Delaware and Syracuse Law School. He might not have gotten degrees if he hadn't been plagiarizing in his classes. Obama and Clinton arguably were among the best and the brightest. Joe Biden on the other hand, now especially at his advanced age, is among the worst and dumbest. Despite our differences with others here, I believe Biden's dumber than anyone who's posted on this page. The Democratic Party could have plastered the name of every Democrat in the USA on the wall, thrown a dart, and probably come up with a smarter candidate for president than Biden.

Obama and Hillary might agree with me. So I figured the decision to try to get Shokin fired came from the State Department or the White House. And Biden was merely the messenger boy.

Apparently from what I'm reading today, I was wrong. Biden pushed Obama to be in charge of the Ukrainian portfolio, and that happened, coincidentally(?) at about the same time that Hunter became a director of Burisma.

You're probably right, that Joe did have something to do with the decision to use the $1 billion in loan guarantees as leverage to push out Shokin. Biden was lying, or close to it, in your video though when he implied he gave the Ukrainians 6 hours to fire Shokin and they did it. In reality, the firing happened three months later, and required the approval of the Ukrainian Parliament. It probably had a lot more to do with pressure by the IMF, which was going to withhold $40 billion, instead of any role Biden played. Biden's just trying to take undeserved credit.

Shokin was slow walking any investigation of Burisma. Burisma may have been paying him off. The only person in the whole sordid mess who you can believe is Vitaly Kasko, one of Shokin's deputies who appears to be clean, and that's what Kasko says. Shokin was corrupt. So was Yuriy Lutsenko, Shokin's successor as head prosecutor, who fed information to Giuliani and Parnas. And the Ukrainian presidents, except maybe Zelensky. The Ukrainians actually opened an investigation into Hunter and Burisma after the phone call between Trump and Zelensky. Then they promptly dropped it in the last part of 2020, when Biden was elected. They were doing whatever they believed to be in their best interest.

A Biden presidency was probably welcomed by the Ukrainians. Biden was pushing Obama to provide more military aid to Ukraine back in 2014 when Russia invade Crimea. Obama was reluctant as he didn't want to start World War III. Now we're supplying 10X more aid to Ukraine than any European country, even though Ukraine is on Europe's doorstep and it's 4500 miles away from the USA. Undoubtedly a significant part of that aid is being drained off by corrupt Ukrainians.

Anyway Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of Burisma, was a genius to get Hunter Biden to serve on his board. Two years prior to when he hired Hunter, he was transferring government oil and gas leases to his own company while he was Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, in a strongly pro-Russian government. When his party got kicked out and replaced by Ukrainian nationalists, Zlochevsky could have been toast. But with the son of the Vice President of the United States on his board, maybe he was bullet proof.

As to your other points, I thought the Congressmen had already seen the FD-1023. If the 17 recordings exist, hopefully they'll come out. You've been following this a lot closer than I have.

And I believe Kennedy is worse than Biden. He'd take away the jobs of my friends and family who work for oil and gas companies. So would Biden, but Kennedy would do it quicker. He's a class warrior who wants to screw over the billionaire entrepreneur class that's made the USA a world beater. And as you'd guess, I believe his fears of vaccines verge on paranoia.

[Elvis 2008]

Fact check: Biden leveraged $1B in aid to Ukraine to oust corrupt prosecutor, not to help his son.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...or/5991434002/

That's right. Even dimwit Senate Repubs weren't stupid enough to "miss" what you and that other numbskull in your video link missed. Or pretended to miss. LOL.

LOL. Tooms, if you knew anything about anything, everyone in Ukraine is corrupt.

Second, the "aid package" ensured higher prices for natural gas and electricity for the Ukrainian consumer.

[EihTooms]

Tiny, he bragged about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azLKK0xTOFI.

How can that NOT be true?

My understanding is that Senator Grassley has the FD-1023. When he asked the FBI about it, they denied it existed, and they freaked out when he told them he had it already. The Republican Congressmen were stunned to learn that the FD-1023 was not allowed for the public to see because it is not classified. The FBI is holding it to cover Biden's ass.

Then they lied and said Giulani wrote it. Well, that turned out to be false. Then there are rumors (or really people have told) and the Republican Congressmen have been told there are seventeen recordings between Burisma and the Bidens, 15 with Hunter and 2 with Joe. You can disbelieve it if you want to, but I will say not a soul has denied those recordings exist save for our Democratic douches here who know nothing about anything and deal in projections and not fact.

Hunter being on the Burisma board may have been legal, but if so, it was a legal bribe. Shokin tried to investigate it and was fired. Trump asked Zelensky to look into it and there is an attempted impeachment. Now there is war in Ukraine and Biden is making our money rain there. I have to ask, was this whole damned war a distraction from the fact that Biden may have been bribed? All this crazy Putin talk does not work with me. I think Biden provoked Putin.

You think Biden is not that stupid, but I see a narcissist who thinks he can get away with anything. I have read the bullshit here about how Trump is so much worse than Biden because he was not cooperating with the Feds on classified documents. The WSJ just ran an editorial saying that was pure bullshit. Biden thinks he can get away with anything.

Hell, the whole Trump indictment may just be a show to get the media away from the Biden bribery case.

We will see how this plays out but this may actually be in the hands of Dems. I think the Republicans are going to impeach Biden. The natural inclination is to say it will never work but the Dems do not want Biden in 2024. Maybe they negotiate a graceful way for him to leave. Ironically, RFK Jr. Seems to be the only candidate out there right now that has an organization in place. He is not a corporate hooker like Biden is, but his stock is way up, and I would consider voting for him.

Thing about RFK is he is as anti deep state as Trump is. He blasted Fauci and IMO the Dems need an anti deep state candidate.

Joe Rogan asked Dr. Peter Hotez, pharma's #2 hooker behind Fauci, on to debate RFK on his show. He offered $100,000 to any charity Hotez wanted. Just like that, others piped in and upped the ante. It is now at $1. 5 million and Hotez is still cowardly staying away. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...on-charity-pot.

It is funny how when you shine a lot on these deep state douche bags all they do is run away.

That is my take on things now. We will see what happens but IMO things look really, really bad for Biden.

That numbskull in your video asked, "What am I missing"?

Well, here is what we are all sure is just a tiny portion of easily observable and easily researched reality that he is missing:

Fact check: Biden leveraged $1B in aid to Ukraine to oust corrupt prosecutor, not to help his son.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...or/5991434002/

Despite a recently concluded investigation by Senate Republicans that found no wrongdoing by the Bidens, claims to the contrary have continued to circulate on social media.

That's right. Even dimwit Senate Repubs weren't stupid enough to "miss" what you and that other numbskull in your video link missed. Or pretended to miss. LOL.

[EihTooms]

LOL. More about Putin? You still do not get the whole Russiagate thing was a complete lie fabricated by Hiliary Clinton and law enforcement, and I doubt you ever will.

Now you do not see the irony of your other bullshit impeachment, Ukrainegate. I cannot say I am surprised.

Really? Is that why Repubs are constantly trying to Defund the Police? Because they think they fabricated all that stuff about Trump's Campaign Director working for the Russians, Trump proudly and publicly siding with the Russians against America at Helsinki, him trying to blackmail Zelenskyy into fabricating dirt on the one political opponent he justifiably feared the most or he would deny Ukraine the military aid to fight Russia that was earmarked for that purpose by Congress and so on?

Is that really what is behind the Repubs' constant efforts to Defund the Police? When they are not trying to beat the them to death with American flagpoles, that is. Oh, and we can find the video and audio recordings of that, BTW.