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Congrats to Mayorkas for surviving his impeachment https://x.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1757900899261821279?s=46&t=JBd6ZXmGQ3LmWL-ineTnAA
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Lol feels like Johnson is doing that as a joke. But then he himself is a dumbass so who knows
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Failed Imagineer posted:Lol feels like Johnson is doing that as a joke. But then he himself is a dumbass so who knows I really hope Raskin is involved on the defense side just so he can continously torch marge
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Feb 15, 2024 14:27
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I imagine a lot of Republican house members in a room going “not it” when it came time to decide who would argue the case in front of the senate.
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Bird in a Blender posted:You don't become a billionaire by paying people. Excuse me I was told YOU GOTTA PAY YER BILLS
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FizFashizzle posted:Congrats to Mayorkas for surviving his impeachment That’s a hell of a thumbnail to choose for her.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:You know, I've never heard of Soros in when he's not acting as the right wing boogeyman He made an enormous amount of money by betting against the conservative U.K. government's monetary policy in the 90's (literally billions) and has basically been investing that money and using profits from investment to live his life and fund his pet political projects (post-apartheid charity work in South Africa, progressive political groups in Western Europe and the U.S., pro-democracy groups in Eastern Europe and Asia, giving money directly to people in Africa, informed suicide, drug legalization, funding universities in rural areas of Russia post-Communism, he established the Central European University, and he donates a ton of money to Bard college in the United States). His donations to progressive groups and "informed suicide"/right-to-die organizations really triggered a lot of the right-wing anger and conspiracy (plus the "rich Jewish investor manipulates the banking industry" conspiracy actually was pretty close to what he did in England).
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Feb 15, 2024 14:59
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:He made an enormous amount of money by betting against the conservative U.K. government's monetary policy in the 90's (literally billions) and has basically been investing that money and using profits from investment to live his life and fund his pet political projects (post-apartheid charity work in South Africa, progressive political groups in Western Europe and the U.S., pro-democracy groups in Eastern Europe and Asia, giving money directly to people in Africa, informed suicide, drug legalization, funding universities in rural areas of Russia post-Communism, he established the Central European University, and he donates a ton of money to Bard college in the United States). Didn’t he do that in Malaysia a few years after England too?
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Feb 15, 2024 15:20
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Pillowpants posted:Didn’t he do that in Malaysia a few years after England too? Pretty much. The super dumbed down and tl:dr version of what he did is basically that the U.K. and Malaysia were pursuing financial policies that were unsustainable, but financial markets liked them short-term. Some people were arguing that since the financial markets were booming short-term, that they were good monetary policy. Soros said that the market was being irrational because they weren't pricing in the long-term impact and were high on vibes. He then bet heavily against those currencies on the assumption that the monetary policy was unsustainable. When he did that, he was sort of proven right that a lot of the success was based on vibes because a bunch of people saw his big bets and got worried that maybe they couldn't actually keep the currency lifted long-term. But, by proving that he was right, he also basically sped up the process as a bunch of people realized he was right and all pulled out at once. That made some people claim he "caused" the crisis by speeding up the inevitable result. This was his explanation of the event and his thoughts on why the market was irrational and going to hurt people in the long-run: quote:The financial crisis that originated in Thailand in 1997 was particularly unnerving because of its scope and severity ... By the beginning of 1997, it was clear to Soros Fund Management that the discrepancy between the trade account and the capital account was becoming untenable. We sold short the Thai baht and the Malaysian ringgit early in 1997 with maturities ranging from six months to a year. (That is, we entered into contracts to deliver at future dates Thai baht and Malaysian ringgit that we did not currently hold.) Subsequently, Prime Minister Mahathir of Malaysia accused me of causing the crisis, a wholly unfounded accusation. We were not sellers of the currency during or several months before the crisis; on the contrary, we were buyers when the currencies began to decline—we were purchasing ringgits to realize the profits on our earlier speculation. (Much too soon, as it turned out. We left most of the potential gain on the table because we were afraid that Mahathir would impose capital controls. He did so, but much later.) quote:According to Soros, market fundamentalism with its assumption that markets will correct themselves with no need for government intervention in financial affairs has been "some kind of an ideological excess". In Soros's view, the markets' moods—a "mood" of the markets being a prevailing bias or optimism/pessimism with which the markets look at reality—"actually can reinforce themselves so that there are these initially self-reinforcing but eventually unsustainable and self-defeating boom/bust sequences or bubbles".
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https://twitter.com/NEWSMAX/status/1757932743521141204 Yes that is Newsmax reporting the story about how True the Vote, the org upon whose claims the "2000 Mules" poo poo came from, couldn't produced a shred of evidence when ordered to by the courts.
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Feb 15, 2024 15:49
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IIRC Newsmax pivoted away from election fraud claims after they received a bunch of lawsuits, similar to Fox
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koolkal posted:IIRC Newsmax pivoted away from election fraud claims after they received a bunch of lawsuits, similar to Fox And then they kept having the mypillow guy on and had to keep cutting his mic every time he talked because of it.
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Feb 15, 2024 17:03
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Dapper_Swindler posted:wow, hur is a loving hack if thats true and honestly it wouldnt shock me if hur lied about more. What part of the article are you responding to? It sounds like Biden just blew up at Hur, who was trying to do his job, and lied about it.
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Feb 15, 2024 17:21
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Seems to me that Biden said "it was around when Beau died - it was one or maybe two years earlier, gently caress, was this 2016 or 2017, Beau died in '16, no, '15..." and Hur somewhat insensitively wrote down "this old coot can't remember when his son died." Then Biden was furious about it and, as he often does, stretched the truth/misspoke as if Hur had directly asked/confronted him about the timing of his son's death.
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Feb 15, 2024 17:34
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Civilized Fishbot posted:Seems to me that Biden said "it was around when Beau died - it was one or maybe two years earlier, gently caress, was this 2016 or 2017, Beau died in '16, no, '15..." and Hur somewhat insensitively wrote down "this old coot can't remember when his son died." Then Biden was furious about it and, as he often does, stretched the truth/misspoke as if Hur had directly asked/confronted him about the timing of his son's death. I mean under that scenario hur did do exactly that he just did it through the press rather than to bidens face
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Feb 15, 2024 17:39
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I mean under that scenario hur did do exactly that he just did it through the press rather than to bidens face Yeah to be clear I think Hur I'd the one acting unreasonably here the same way Comey was unreasonable in 2016 - either put someone on trial or not, but declining to put them on trial while excoriating them to the press is just prosecuting them in a different court where they don't have the same rights to defend themselves or clear their name. It gets into "innocent until proven guilty" territory imo.
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Feb 15, 2024 17:49
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Civilized Fishbot posted:Yeah to be clear I think Hur I'd the one acting unreasonably here the same way Comey was unreasonable in 2016 - either put someone on trial or not, but declining to put them on trial while excoriating them to the press is just prosecuting them in a different court where they don't have the same rights to defend themselves or clear their name. It gets into "innocent until proven guilty" territory imo. It's a really standard part of the playbook for dishonest accusations by the right wing and it's reasonable to be suspicious of it even when you believe the accusation itself is plausible.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:He made an enormous amount of money by betting against the conservative U.K. government's monetary policy in the 90's (literally billions) and has basically been investing that money and using profits from investment to live his life and fund his pet political projects (post-apartheid charity work in South Africa, progressive political groups in Western Europe and the U.S., pro-democracy groups in Eastern Europe and Asia, giving money directly to people in Africa, informed suicide, drug legalization, funding universities in rural areas of Russia post-Communism, he established the Central European University, and he donates a ton of money to Bard college in the United States). oh, another finance/hedge fund guy. Should have guessed that. at least he's not a total ghoul like all the others
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Rep. Andy Ogles(R-TN) has asked the Speaker to open an inquiry into Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner (R-OH) for his "reckless" approach to announcing the Russia space nuke national security threat. Holy poo poo they are eating their own...
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Feb 15, 2024 18:09
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i get how he feels b/c if you asked me on the spot what year either of my grandparents died i wouldn't be able to confidently get it right because the times they did were pretty chaotic moments around '15/'21 and if you then turned around after that and went "haha so old and senile they can't remember!" to the loving press i would certainly want to rip that person a new rear end in a top hat or two biden is a dinosaur who has no right being prez at his age but i think i can give him a pass on this one
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Feb 15, 2024 18:10
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I had someone very close to me pass away and I can never remember which year it was because those next couple of years are a blur caused by emotional distress
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Aztec Galactus posted:I had someone very close to me pass away and I can never remember which year it was because those next couple of years are a blur caused by emotional distress Both my grandmothers passed away within days of each other and I also cannot remember what year that was.
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Feb 15, 2024 18:20
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Civilized Fishbot posted:Yeah to be clear I think Hur I'd the one acting unreasonably here the same way Comey was unreasonable in 2016 - either put someone on trial or not, but declining to put them on trial while excoriating them to the press is just prosecuting them in a different court where they don't have the same rights to defend themselves or clear their name. It gets into "innocent until proven guilty" territory imo. Putting aside the fact that Comey was put in a weird grey area as an investigator given charging authority because Bill Clinton torpedoed Lynch’s credibility, I’ll point out again that a Special Prosecutor is required by law to write a full report. Hur literally had to write down his reasoning for deciding not to charge, given the clear evidence that Biden knew he had classified information. If anyone is “responsible” for putting bad stuff out about team blue’s leader, it’s Garland. He has the leeway to not release the report, or redact parts of it. I imagine he didn’t want either the heat, or the inevitable subpoena requests from the House, that would result from not releasing the full report.
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Zamujasa posted:i get how he feels b/c if you asked me on the spot what year either of my grandparents died i wouldn't be able to confidently get it right because the times they did were pretty chaotic moments around '15/'21 yeah. like i can't give you a pinpoint year on when my grandparents died. my grandfather died soon after a graduated high school, and my grandmother died when i was in college. memory is loving weird because i can rememeber lots of moments and weird stuff but rarely dates or even chronological order. i read bidens book on that time around his sons death, and i can easily believe that poo poo blurs together because his sons death was kinda of slow crash because brain cancer is awful.
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TheDisreputableDog posted:Putting aside the fact that Comey was put in a weird grey area as an investigator given charging authority because Bill Clinton torpedoed Lynch’s credibility, I’ll point out again that a Special Prosecutor is required by law to write a full report. Hur literally had to write down his reasoning for deciding not to charge, given the clear evidence that Biden knew he had classified information. If anyone is “responsible” for putting bad stuff out about team blue’s leader, it’s Garland. He has the leeway to not release the report, or redact parts of it. I imagine he didn’t want either the heat, or the inevitable subpoena requests from the House, that would result from not releasing the full report. agreed but i get why garland did it outside decorum poo poo. if you hide it, then it gains way more legs and traction and the GOP have something that comes out way closer to november and it turns into a court circus. Now, no one will care with in a month or less and it will just be added to the chud grivance pile as they try to impeache the DHS head for not scalping migrants or some poo poo.
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Angry_Ed posted:Both my grandmothers passed away within days of each other and I also cannot remember what year that was. My sister died in just 2019 and I have to stop and remember the year each time. Memory and duress do not go well together.
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BonoMan posted:My sister died in just 2019 and I have to stop and remember the year each time. Memory and duress do not go well together. yeah. like i do not blame biden at all for being pissed about this and hur is a jack rear end for trying to use it to score points.
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Feb 15, 2024 18:36
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It was also part of a verbal recollection where he knew the date - May 30 - but was like "ok, that was around when Beau died, was that '15 or '16..." and Hur wrote it up as "demented man cannot remember he even had a son".
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zoux posted:It was also part of a verbal recollection where he knew the date - May 30 - but was like "ok, that was around when Beau died, was that '15 or '16..." and Hur wrote it up as "demented man cannot remember he even had a son". its also right after the start of a ongoing international crisis and he is spending 5 hours talking to this stuff. all the quotes showing "biden is demented" are very clearly him talking outloud to get the dates. like i think biden as old as gently caress and slowed down but wtf.
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Feb 15, 2024 18:42
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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1758183733595660310 Like most suspected, this wasn't a planned thing just a thing that happens when a bunch of people are walking around armed.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1758183733595660310 I thought an armed society was a polite society.
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BonoMan posted:My sister died in just 2019 and I have to stop and remember the year each time. Memory and duress do not go well together. My mom passed away in 2018 and my dad passed away in 2019, and I always have to pause for a second to remember which years they passed away and use the start of Covid as my reference point. I'm not blaming Joe in the slightest for having to take a few seconds to make sure he has the right year and gently caress that leech for playing political games with Beau's death.
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TheDisreputableDog posted:Hur literally had to write down his reasoning for deciding not to charge, given the clear evidence that Biden knew he had classified information. Yeah, but isn't his reasoning for deciding not to charge that the DoJ does not charge sitting presidents? Isn't all the stuff about him being a sympathetic defendant "and if he wasn't president, we'd still not charge because..."?
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The recordings of the interview will be the most important part. If he was genuinely fumbling and dazed for most of those questions, then you'll be able to tell. A transcript isn't as useful for making those distinctions during a deposition because any good lawyer is going to tell you to say "I don't recall" or "I have no memory of that" to any questions asking for too much specificity (see the many infamous deposition tapes where someone says they don't recall hundreds of times and the headlines) to avoid potential perjury or contradictions. There's not much you can definitively say one way or the other from the outside with such limited public information. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Feb 15, 2024 |
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https://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/1758160387206443456 Maybe I have dementia because the entire press is pretending like they haven't been on Biden's age since 2020.
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The migrant caravan never arrived at the border so now they have to test the waters on Biden being old again.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/1758160387206443456 The author is specifically talking about the White House press corps and claims members of it have told him they did avoid raising the issue. I have read many of the transcripts of White House press conferences over the years and I don't recall very much of it, but my memory may be faulty. If you want to confirm you could search relevant terms with site:whitehouse.gov inurl:press. Here is the article text: quote:Swift fly the years, and it’s hard to believe it’s been almost two turns of the calendar since David Axelrod earned the ire of the president, the White House, and the Democratic establishment by warning, in the pages of The New York Times, that Joe Biden’s age would be a liability in 2024. In a June 2022 interview with the paper, the famed chief strategist of Obama’s victorious presidential campaigns made the rather obvious point that “the presidency is a monstrously taxing job,” and the very rational observation that Biden, “who looks his age and isn’t as agile in front of a camera as he once was,” would be “closer to 90 than 80 at the end of a second term, and that would be a major issue.” For his sins, White House surrogates chastised Axelrod while Biden privately called him “a prick.”
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/1758160387206443456 Am I understanding that we are at the point of the press writing articles about themselves to make a bigger story out of a topic? Note: I know we past that point looooooong ago.
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Did people really and truly believe that if they elected Biden in the primary and elected him in the general that he'd serve 1 term and then step down because "he's too old"? Or were they just not thinking that hard about it? Because I remember age being a thing in the 2020 election and vague hand waiving over him only serving 1 term but anyone who thought that was really going to be a thing seems like they were being incredibly naive.
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Levitate posted:Did people really and truly believe that if they elected Biden in the primary and elected him in the general that he'd serve 1 term and then step down because "he's too old"? Or were they just not thinking that hard about it? https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/11/biden-single-term-082129
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