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2024 US Presidential Election

Who will become next President in U.S. what do you think?

  • Donald Trump

    Votes: 42 60.0%

  • Joe Biden

    Votes: 28 40.0%
  • Total voters
    70
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mexweed

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so why is there such a stark contrast between DeSantis who was a navy lieutenant and an advisor to a SEAL team but was never actually a SEAL, and Willink who was a SEAL, it's because DeSantis was just a navy officer, he pretty much just helped draft mission plans and hand them out to a team he was assigned to he never saw any action, Willink on the other hand regularly got waist deep in shit and had those drafted plans turn to shit, during which he had to come up with the real plan and still lead his team to success, in other words DeSantis was never a real leader he was a spoiled officer

look at what DeSantis spends him time doing vs the kinds of things Willink spends his time on

 
pop_rocks

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am i backing the wrong candidate?
sea otter may now be a fugitive
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/22/1189352338/sea-otter-search-santa-cruz-surfers
they say its methods are too extreme and now THE MAN want to SILENCE! the water pups voice

.......BREAKING NEWS!!.....
the chase intensifies
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im your kato bruh
if the shell dosent fit then you must acquit
 
mean mr.mustard

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mexweed said:
so why is there such a stark contrast between DeSantis who was a navy lieutenant and an advisor to a SEAL team but was never actually a SEAL, and Willink who was a SEAL, it's because DeSantis was just a navy officer, he pretty much just helped draft mission plans and hand them out to a team he was assigned to he never saw any action, Willink on the other hand regularly got waist deep in shit and had those drafted plans turn to shit, during which he had to come up with the real plan and still lead his team to success, in other words DeSantis was never a real leader he was a spoiled officer

look at what DeSantis spends him time doing vs the kinds of things Willink spends his time on

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One of these guys has a soul. The difference is clear.

I didn't know that people didn't believe that the Holocaust happened until I questioned why anyone would support Russia invading Ukraine.

How can anyone support fascism in its purest state? I'm still struggling to understand.
 
rolandomota

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It's because Double O traitor praises Vladimir putin and got impeached the first time because of the call with Ukraine president Vladimir zelinsky asking for a favor to investigate hunter biden wich is so stupid no one gives a damn about traitor trump jr, before he sent the already approved funds by congress for ammunition when Russia invaded Crimea(ukraine) and annexed it. And this lying traitor wants to say he will solve this conflict in 24 hours saying to both sides you have to settle or else? One side gets money the other side doesn't hmmm I wonder wich side he wants to give $$ to

God damn he's so full of shit yes you fucking liar that's why you solved the conflict in 24 hours when you were president o wait no you didn't your ass was impeached.
 
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"no guilty feelings and everyone was happy..." i guess that is why they sang the "blues", huh. so overjoyed at being whipped, raped, murdered and sold at auction that they spontaneously burst into song to relieve the pressure...i always wondered about that. :unsure:
 
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Biden Family Scandals Are So Much Bigger Than Hunter’s Hookers And Burisma Bribery​


By: Margot Cleveland

July 26, 2023

Joe Biden at his desk talking on the phone in black and white


The scandal was never about Hunter’s sordid sex life and drug abuse. It was about Joe Biden’s abuse of power — and all those covering it up.

When the New York Post broke the news that documents recovered from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop implicated Joe Biden in a pay-to-play scandal, the corporate media — to the extent they didn’t frame the story as Russian disinformation — pretended the reporting solely concerned Hunter Biden’s personal life.
The scandal, however, was never about Hunter’s sordid sex life and history of drug abuse. Rather, it concerned Joe Biden’s abuse of power as vice president for financial gain. But now it reaches much further — including 10 distinct scandals.

Saturated in Scandal​

1. The Many (Uncharged) Crimes of Hunter Biden​

While the current scandals swirling around the laptop are unrelated to Hunter Biden’s sex life or drug abuse, the president’s son features in the first scandal: Evidence indicates Hunter Biden committed numerous crimes, including felonies.
Evidence suggests Hunter Biden acted as an unregistered foreign agent for, at a minimum, Ukraine and China in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The confidential human source’s (CHS) reporting suggests Hunter also accepted bribes from Burisma or alternatively helped extort $10 million from the Ukrainian oil and gas company for himself and his father.
IRS whistleblowers and federal prosecutors also believed the evidence supported multiple felony tax counts. Lying on a federal firearm application is a serious felony as well.
The evidence that the president’s son likely engaged in extensive criminal conduct for over a decade is a huge scandal, but it also bred a separate scandal: the DOJ and FBI’s efforts to protect him, No. 7 below.

2. Joe Biden’s Business Lie​

Hunter Biden’s laptop also exposed the reality that Joe Biden lied to the American public, dating back to September 2019. During a campaign stop, the then-Democrat presidential candidate snapped at Fox News’ Peter Doocy, claiming: “I’ve never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.”

More than two years later, after The Washington Post and New York Times belatedly confirmed the authenticity of the emails recovered from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop, Doocy asked then-White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki whether “President Biden still maintains he never discussed overseas business deals with his son Hunter,” to which Psaki replied, “Yes.”
While Biden and his team stuck with that lie for two-plus years, his current press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, is attempting to snuff out that scandal by reframing Biden’s denial. “I’ve been asked this question a million times. The answer is not going to change. The answer remains the same: The president was never in business with his son,” Jean-Pierre said on Monday.
Moving the goalposts won’t erase the lie.

3. Joe Biden’s Corruption​

The much more serious scandal, however, concerns extensive evidence of Joe Biden’s widespread corruption. Bank and corporate records, suspicious activity reports, emails and text messages recovered from Hunter Biden’s laptop, travel records, reporting from a “highly credible” CHS, and testimony and expected testimony from Hunter Biden’s business partners indicate that Joe Biden, while vice president, exchanged political favors for payments to his family members — with a cut of the cash coming to the “Big Guy.”
People and/or organizations from Romania, Ukraine, Russia, and China, among others, all paid Biden-related business entities millions of dollars, with evidence indicating the now-president received a cut of the bribes. The evidence indicates that in exchange, the individuals received access to the then-vice president. In the case of Ukraine, Biden forced the firing of the prosecutor general who was investigating Burisma, the company where Hunter held a board seat and which allegedly paid Joe and Hunter Biden each $5 million in bribes.
The evidence of Joe Biden’s corruption is bad enough, but the scandal deepens when one considers the president has supplied Ukraine with cluster bombs and billions in American tax dollars.

Cover-Ups​

While the first three scandals involve misconduct and likely criminality by Hunter and Joe Biden, there are at least twice as many distinct scandals that flow from cover-up efforts to protect the Bidens.

4. FBI’s Interference in the 2020 Election​

By December 2019, the FBI had authenticated the laptop Hunter Biden abandoned at a computer repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware. Yet, knowing the laptop was real and contained spectacularly damaging details implicating Joe Biden in corruption, the FBI spent the months leading up to the November 2020 election grooming tech giants to believe a “hack-and-leak operation” was imminent. The FBI also pushed social media companies to change their terms of service to prohibit the posting of so-called hacked materials.
These combined efforts prompted social media companies to censor the New York Post’s Oct. 14, 2020 blockbuster article, “Smoking-Gun Email Reveals How Hunter Biden Introduced Ukrainian Businessman to VP Dad.” After the story broke and after initially confirming its authenticity to Twitter, the FBI refused to comment on whether the material had been hacked or was Russian disinformation, leading to its continued widespread censorship.
Not only did the FBI improperly protect Joe Biden and prompt the censorship of true political speech, it interfered in the 2020 election and likely handed Biden the White House.

5. Intelligence Agencies’ Interference in the 2020 Election​

Former and current members of intelligence agencies soon joined the FBI in interfering in the 2020 election. The House Intelligence and Weaponization Committees previously detailed evidence of that interference in their report titled, “How Senior Intelligence Community Officials and the Biden Campaign Worked to Mislead American Voters.”
That report established that the infamous October 2020 letter, which was signed by 51 former intelligence officials and falsely framed the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation, was concocted by Biden-campaign officials, including now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who served as a senior adviser to the Biden campaign. Then-candidate Joe Biden would cite that letter in his final debate with Donald Trump to lie to the American people (again), telling the country the laptop was Russian disinformation.
It is scandalous that scores of former intelligence officials would use their prior positions and reputations to deceive Americans in a way that likely affected the 2020 election. That any of those individuals retained security clearances adds to the scandal, as does the role of the Biden campaign and the involvement of at least one CIA employee in soliciting signatories for the statement.

6. Intel Agencies’ Failure to Protect America Against Foreign Influence​

Not only did intelligence agencies interfere in the 2020 election, but in their efforts to protect Joe Biden, they likely also failed to provide necessary defensive briefings, putting Americans at risk.
To protect our country, intelligence officials must have frank discussions with leaders (and candidates) about the risks of foreign malign influence. Given how hard the FBI and intelligence agencies tried to bury the news of the laptop, it seems likely they omitted any reference to the laptop and details contained on it in briefings to then-President Trump, then-candidate Biden, and the Biden campaign.
To date, this scandal has been overlooked and merits further inquiry to determine whether the intelligence apparatus fulfilled its duty to the country or omitted inconvenient facts in briefings to protect Joe Biden. Of particular concern is whether intelligence agencies assessed and warned about the risk that the Russians had stolen a second Hunter Biden laptop that contain materials the Biden son believed rendered him susceptible to blackmail.

7. DOJ and FBI’s Handling of Biden Investigations​

When it comes to how the DOJ and FBI handled investigations into Biden family corruption, the evidence of potential misconduct is overwhelming.
Broadly, this scandal includes conflicts of interest between Biden-appointed U.S. attorneys — including the Pennsylvania U.S. attorney handling an investigation into the Jim Biden-connected company Americorp, and the California and D.C. U.S. attorneys who reportedly refused to bring felony charges against Hunter Biden. Likewise, Attorney General Merrick Garland’s conflict of interest proves scandalous given the numerous efforts by the DOJ and FBI headquarters to interfere in the investigations.
Beyond conflicts of interest, the IRS whistleblowers and another whistleblower who’s provided information to Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, have revealed numerous instances of DOJ and FBI procedural violations, the burying of evidence such as the FD-1023, the false labeling of derogatory evidence as disinformation, and limits on the investigative steps agents could take. Consequently, the DOJ charged Hunter Biden only with misdemeanors and one firearm felony that could be dropped, and to date it appears no investigation has occurred into Joe Biden or his brother, Jim Biden, on allegations of bribery and money laundering.
While Democrats counter the growing evidence of corruption by wrongly claiming it has not been corroborated, that fact does not vindicate the Bidens: It implicates the DOJ and FBI in a separate scandal.

Cover-Ups of the Cover-Ups​

8. DOJ and FBI’s Cover-Up of Failure to Investigate Bidens​

Once whistleblowers began exposing the Biden administration’s interference in the family’s pay-to-play investigation, the DOJ and FBI began to cover-up the cover-up. We saw this most clearly when Garland professed that there was no political interference in U.S. Attorney David Weiss’s investigation into Hunter Biden. Garland stressed that, as a Trump holdover, Americans could trust Weiss’s independence.
Garland’s testimony cannot be squared with the extensive interference coming from FBI headquarters and the limitations the DOJ placed on investigative techniques. When Grassley pushed on the point, Garland maintained that Weiss had ultimate charging authority. According to an IRS whistleblower, however, Weiss said otherwise, claiming he wasn’t the ultimate decision-maker.
Here, the cover-up of the cover-up began in earnest, with Garland and Weiss writing a series of letters and making public statements that attempted to obscure the ultimate question of whether Weiss had ultimate authority to charge Hunter Biden and whether DOJ or FBI headquarters interfered in the investigation. This scandal has yet to be unraveled. But on Monday, the DOJ sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee offering up Weiss to testify — indicating Biden’s Justice Department might be preparing to throw Weiss under the bus.

9. Democrats Lying to Protect Joe Biden ​

Many Democrats are also wrapped up in lying to protect Joe Biden. Some of these lies predate the election when they spun the laptop as Russian disinformation. But more recently, we saw Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin lying to the American public about the FD-1023 form. Had former Attorney General William Barr not gone on the record to correct Raskin’s falsehood, the public would have been none the wiser.
Seeking to protect Joe Biden from damning bribery claims, Raskin falsely claimed that Trump appointees Barr and U.S. Attorney Scott Brady had reviewed the CHS’s reporting contained in a June 2020 FD-1023 form and closed out the investigation. Raskin also portrayed the CHS’s reporting as connected to Rudy Giuliani.
But as The Federalist first reported, Barr unequivocally said that Raskin’s claim was “not true.” The investigation into the FD-1023 “wasn’t closed down.” “On the contrary,” Barr stressed, “it was sent to Delaware for further investigation.” Likewise, Barr explained the CHS’s reporting was unrelated to Giuliani.

10. Press Acting as Biden-Run Media​

When the Post broke the laptop story, the legacy media either silenced it or framed it as Russian disinformation. Even two years later, after belatedly authenticating the material recovered from Hunter Biden’s computer, the corporate media refused to cover the implications — that the emails, documents, and texts indicated Joe Biden was involved in a massive corruption scandal. The corrupt press still refuses to cover the news fairly, opting instead to brand the evidence as a conspiracy theory.
The media’s refusal to seek and report the truth proves the most dire of all the scandals because without a free press checking government corruption, the corruption will only grow.

thefederalist.com

Biden Scandals Are Bigger Than Hunter's Hookers And Bribery

The scandal was never about Hunter’s sordid sex life and drug abuse. It was about Joe Biden’s abuse of power -- and all those covering it up.
thefederalist.com thefederalist.com
 
mean mr.mustard

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Yes I have a great issue with a person trying to destroy our nation by trampling the Constitution and but I wouldn't call it TDS.

I'd tell you about what I saw become of my country and family and neighbors under Trump and point out that the only people up in arms about the current president are Trump supporters (current or former).

Biden is not attacking people on a personal level, he's not obsessed with power, he's not trying to circumvent the Constitution, he's not preoccupied with crowd numbers and tweets, doesn't hit a golf course halfway around the globe when he should be working, and I don't have a clue why anyone that has a problem with Biden doesn't have the same problem with Trump.

"Derangement" is apropos but its application should be applied to the deranged.

Nobody from the Trump support group actually stresses cooperating.

I've seen enough.
 
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RobFromTX said:
Divisions a way of life in this country. Its been that way since the 60's
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No, it doesn't have to be.

You might have been taught that, but others are taught to accept fellow Americans as equals.

They see no division, just differences.... until someone teaches them otherwise.

If we decide to continue to divide instead of come together we have already lost.

If we decide that division is an inherent American value our children will suffer.
 
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