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mawarannahr posted:Remarks by Vice President Harris at the Munich Security Conference | Munich, Germany | The White House It's like someone flipped a switch when the teleprompter part ended Jesus Christ.
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Willa Rogers posted:lmao that libs are gloating that the prosecution in fulton county decided to not have fani go under oath again means that she cooked those chuds well-done yesterday & nothing more needs to be said, period! Willis' defiant afternoon on the stand What unfolded on Thursday is extremely rare in American courtrooms. The district attorney who has charged Trump with racketeering went under oath to defend her ethics and answer personal questions about her relationship with Wade. The risks could not be greater, and Willis' credibility is on the line. Things quickly went off the rails. Willis didn't act much like a traditional witness and was more like a prosecutor, arguing with the defense attorneys, raising objections, making legal arguments and even having exchanges with the judge. She even raised her voice at one point. This led to a few rebukes from McAfee, who urged her and other attorneys in the courtroom to maintain "professionalism" and to not "talk over each other." Willis repeatedly accused some of the defense attorneys of peddling lies - before and after the judge's admonishment. "You've lied in this. ... I think you lied right here," Willis said to attorney Ashleigh Merchant, pointing to copies of filings that raised accusations of self-dealing and nepotism. 'I'm not on trial,' Willis says Willis seized several opportunities to defend herself. The district attorney had fought efforts to make her appear, both in Wade's ongoing divorce proceedings and in the hearing on Thursday, up until the moment she came into the room to take the stand. She said at the beginning of her testimony that she was "very anxious" to defend herself, "so I ran to the courtroom." "You think I'm on trial," Willis said, in her sharpest pushback of the day. "These people are on trial for trying to steal an election in 2020," she added, pointing toward the table of attorneys representing defendants in the criminal case. "I'm not on trial, no matter how hard you try to put me on trial." She later slammed the defense attorneys, calling them "confused" and "intrusive." "Ms. Merchant's interests are contrary to democracy, not to mine," Willis said, attacking the attorney for Trump campaign attorney Michael Roman, who is accused of playing a leading role in the multi-state "fake electors" plot to subvert the Electoral College. Wade and Willis describe using cash for reimbursements Wade and Willis have offered a simple explanation for why there's essentially no paper trail to back up his claims they split expenses: Willis used cash. Credit card statements submitted in Wade's divorce proceedings show he paid for two flights for them in recent years, to San Francisco and Miami. They also took lavish trips to Belize, the Bahamas and some Caribbean cruises. When pressed on whether he paid for Willis' travel when they vacationed together, Wade said that Willis reimbursed him for a flight "in cash." Wade said he did not have receipts for all of the times Willis reimbursed him for trips - pushing back against the allegations from the defense side that Willis was essentially getting kickbacks from him in the form of vacations. "I did not deposit the cash in my account," Wade replied, smirking at times. Defense attorney Craig Gillen, who represents one of the fake electors, grilled Wade on what he would do with the cash reimbursements - in at least one case, thousands of dollars. "You don't have a single solitary deposit slip to corroborate or support any of your allegations that you were paid by Ms. Willis in cash?" Gillen shot back, raising his voice slightly. "No sir," Wade said, to which Gillen replied: "Not a single solitary one?" "Not a one," Wade responded.
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Willa Rogers posted:she testified that she brought $2500 cash to belize to repay him on the spot, lol. lol jfc
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Feb 16, 2024 22:51
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Nothus posted:It's amazing that they entrusted their entire smear operation to these incompetent corrupt poo poo heads It's a loving insane fumble, but makes me think maybe the DNC really does run entirely on machine politics so it didn't even occur to them to do otherwise?
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Feb 17, 2024 03:06
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Who the gently caress is this person Ezra Klein is describing? Because it sure as hell isnt' Joe Biden. Get through the first 1:30 challenge.
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Feb 17, 2024 17:14
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Zerg Mans posted:Maserati SUV Is this an American phenomenon? Why would you drive an SUV made by a sports car manufacturer instead of a sports car? Why do they even make SUVs?
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Feb 17, 2024 18:01
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Karach posted:have you ever met rich idiots, unknown poster? Yes, but if you're going to drive a Maserati, wouldn't you want to drive a Maserati, as opposed to a RAV4 with a Maserati badge?
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Feb 17, 2024 18:09
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SixteenShells posted:All the car companies are making SUVs and big trucks because the larger and heavier the vehicle is, the easier it is to meet emissions standards. That seems counterintuitive?
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Feb 17, 2024 18:52
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mcmagic posted:Hyundai's shouldn't cost 50 grand. The i30N is the best hot hatch around that price.
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Feb 17, 2024 20:35
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Nichael posted:what this even mean Air Force Ones are a Nike sneaker that has limited editions that are very collectable, as well as vintage AF1s often going for a high price. For this reason, there's a big market for knock offs. Air Force One is also the plane the American president flies on. So they're saying the closest Trump will get to the presidency is the knockoff AF1s that can be found on the convention floor.
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Feb 17, 2024 21:31
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Nichael posted:okay but he already was on air force one, and the last time they taunted him with never being president, he schlonged them It's a tweet made for Adam Friedland type dudes who will VBNMW and were really into this series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CynWJbREA8g
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Feb 17, 2024 22:18
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No, no, see the United Kingdom was a democracy. Bengal and Ireland were colonies. Entirely different. Colonies of who, you ask? Next question.
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Feb 18, 2024 04:11
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This is by no means a great measure, but the instagrams of people on Broadway who were all in with the Biden-Harris stuff in 2020, to the point of it being extremely cringey, are dead silent on this year's election. I don't know if you remember how Broadway was about the 2020 election and covid, but, being the most high profile theatre kids in the world, it was super visible. That makes the absence of anything at all pretty noteworthy imo.
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Feb 18, 2024 18:58
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The Democrats killing #MeToo to elect Joe Biden, and then rushing to bring it back for the sake of Israel is very funny, ngl. But considering they have just unsealed more testimony by Virginia Giuffre that Bill Clinton was involved with Epstein, Hillary should not be setting herself up as the believer of all women.
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Feb 18, 2024 20:08
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The idea of a universal set of values based on moral judgement instead of focus grouping is alien to them lol
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Feb 18, 2024 20:23
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Willa Rogers posted:my favorite wikileaks was the citi guy spitballing obama's cabinet before the election, most of which appointments came into fruition a few months later. Excuse me, the only thing Obama did wrong was wear a tan suit.
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Feb 19, 2024 01:44
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uber_stoat posted:Obama gets to hang out with the Illuminati all day now and that's the best way to win at life if you're completely amoral outside of inventing a way to become immortal. Finkelstein's description of him* as a howling void of narcissism is genuinely frightening. *Which is extensively researched and full of citations, is the crazy thing.
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Feb 19, 2024 01:48
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gradenko_2000 posted:Bespoke I've had to have things bespoke tailored before, and still like British tailoring and boots, but if every single thing the American president wore was bespoke, I feel like political attacks would be too easy. Pragmatically, wearing "attainable" clothes is probably more comparable with the image Americans have of their society than say what's worn in House of Lords or by the Royal Family. Realistically, not everything you wear in a workday needs to be an Eton shirt and Sanders and Sanders shoes.
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Feb 19, 2024 17:36
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In more Broadway gossip, the new Glinda in Wicked, Alexandra Socha, is an outspoken Zionist - even by NYC theatre standards - and there's been a bit of unease about her casting.  Probably they'll just tell her to tone it down on social media, but it's the first time I've seen theatre kids care about Palestine when someone is cast for a role, so.
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Feb 19, 2024 18:16
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBD-U3nypfE I don't know if you can cringe to death, but this as less than 2k views after 3 days, where in 2020 every person in the arts was posting about the upcoming election and getting a huge response. I saw SIX in Toronto and thought it was awful, so they were starting from a bad place here, but still. If Biden has lost Broadway, he's lost entirely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNcEVYq2qUg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZrpMeLE5Xw DJJIB-DJDCT has issued a correction as of 18:42 on Feb 19, 2024 |
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Best Friends posted:Also, trying to understand why a being of pure evil like Putin (or any other Russian) does anything means you sympathize with them and it’s insanely problematic
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Feb 19, 2024 18:52
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VoicesCanBe posted:I feel like even by the criteria of managing the affairs of empire, which is how I'm assuming those historians are ranking the Presidents (and they are, because they're liberals, and even subconsciously that's how liberals would judge which President is "good"), then Biden should be easily in the lower half Liberals have this weird thing where nothing is apparently Biden's fault.
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Feb 19, 2024 18:59
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VoicesCanBe posted:Bias is only something that evil tankies have. These liberal historians are simply searching for The Truth in an enlightened, non-biased fashion. Doris Kearns Goodwin giving the Obama administration brain poisoning is kinda funny too.
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mcmagic posted:He’s always has been a liberal zionist. See, that ideology has never made sense to me. First, the premise is that Dual Loyalty is not only true, but good. But then, if Israel is the only place in the world for the Jewish people, and you’re Jewish, shouldn’t you live there? It’s never made sense to me because supposing a place is your homeland and the only place in the world you belong and feel safe… and therefore it’s “unique character must be preserved” (apartheid)… it doesn’t make sense for you to then not live there, right? To be a United States senator but claim Israel is the only place in the world Jewish people have a say in the state or whatever… doesn’t add up. DJJIB-DJDCT has issued a correction as of 02:45 on Feb 20, 2024 |
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loquacius posted:but if they get rid of laws that "subsidize single motherhood" that number will go up! presumably via shotgun wedding. sounds like a wonderful future There's a very interesting book that gets into this but the shortest possible answer is that the conservatives spent the 80s - 2000s attributing issues in African American marriages/families caused by poverty to race or "culture" (race) but, when white people started to get immiserated, and the exact same trends appeared at the same rates, overlapping almost identically with trends that began among black people in the 60's - because clearly this is an economic phenomenon - it kind of... broke... conservative rhetoric on the subject. Really interesting stuff but conservative rhetoric on marriage is a dead end without a racial scapegoat.
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Telluric Whistler posted:The "Liberal Democracy is the Greatest Thing To Ever Exist" campaign has broken a lot of brains and that's why Dems have been able to present "Vote" as being just as meaningful as "Healthcare"
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Leo posted:What book? Marriage Markets
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mcmagic posted:So groceries are expensive in all "free" countries? I don't get it.... Free Markets make Free Societies or whatever the axiom is Because they believe that The Market is both Providence (the will of It’s why “progressive” liberals can be so insidious with having a libertarian streak, because the solution to any societal problem can be, (and under the nudge theory, must be) limited to deregulating and commodifying something and letting the most perfect fairness of The Market do its work. “People should be free to choose X” sounds good and liberatory and progressive, and that’s how Democrats in particular talk about every single social issue - access to - but that’s completely ideological. Thinking of society as a series of markets where people just need to be free to rationally decide what’s in their best interest and somehow that will lead to the common good or whatever is insanely baked into American culture at this point, but … I mean, that poo poo’s not real. So things are expensive because people are so free to choose that the prices reflect what the market will bear, and they really want to pay more because they want stuff so much - the prices reflect how much they demand it. Instead of an authoritarian system that unfairly limits what people who really want things can pay, (because you can only express how much you want things by spending money, there is no other way) free societies fairly let everyone compete and express their preferences on a free market. Because the prices are inherently good and fair, a society that allows people who want things more to pay more is good. It’s all babybrained nonsense imo DJJIB-DJDCT has issued a correction as of 09:53 on Feb 21, 2024 |
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I love the pefectly smooth and spherical liberal brain
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PhilippAchtel posted:https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1760273369520296308     lol that New York in the 1700's seems to have been a better society than in 2024, though the parts highlighted in red remain the same.
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As a result of these more recent efforts, a fragile de-escalation had taken hold by mid-2023. Iranian proxies had stopped attacking American forces, and Tehran had hit the pause button on high-level uranium enrichment. In return, Washington unfroze some Iranian funds and agreed to a prisoner exchange that took place in September of that year. Significantly, this relatively successful round of talks paved the way for an even more ambitious round of negotiations that was meant to take place in Oman on Oct. 18. And here’s where the monster Tehran has created began wreaking havoc on its creator. Against the backdrop of an American election year, and with Iran widely viewed as being complicit in the Hamas atrocities but later also the aggressive actions of Hezbollah and the Houthis, serious diplomatic engagement between Washington and Tehran became impossible to sustain. The Oman talks were quickly canceled — with little prospect of their being revived any time soon. To continue with the analogy, negotiations with the U.S. that might have decisively secured Iran’s nuclear program collapsed because the monster Tehran created has a mind of its own and, like Dr. Frankenstein’s monster, Tehran’s monsters are hell-bent on inflicting pain and suffering on those they believe to be the source of their own pain and suffering — irrespective of the concerns of their Iranian patron. Thus the Hamas atrocities of Oct. 7. Thus the Houthi efforts to disrupt Red Sea shipping. Thus Hezbollah’s so far limited — but potentially far more dangerous — rocket attacks on northern Israel. All of which were or are being driven by the respective agendas of the members of the axis of resistance, not by Iran. And thus, ultimately, Washington’s decision to pause — or perhaps indefinitely suspend — negotiations that might have led to a modus vivendi with Tehran that would secure the regime and open the door to greater prosperity for the Iranian people.
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The Nudge and it’s consequences (Obama reading it) have been a disaster for all mankind
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Willa Rogers posted:Last June, a senior Secret Service agent with the Presidential Protection Division thanked staff members for their patience during the string of dog bites – and issued a warning. Commander created a pretty funny conundrum there.
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Willa Rogers posted:
I was wondering why discussion over breakfast today was that Trump is badly suffering from dementia.
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Can you complain to democracy's manager?
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Rectal Death Alert posted:the response to the president being objectively unfit for office and needing removed with the 25th amendment due to extremely obvious late stage dementia is for his party to unify under the message of "I know you are but what am I?" Like you said, it's uncanny that it worked immediately and they're unified in perfect lockstep. I think that post about Trump's dementia was the top trending on reddit today.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:"Why is our democracy more important than those peoples' lives?". So good.
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Uphill: A Memoir An empowering, unabashedly bold memoir by the Atlantic journalist and former ESPN SportsCenter coanchor about overcoming a legacy of pain and forging a new path, no matter how uphill life’s battles might be. Jemele Hill’s world came crashing down when she called President Trump a “white supremacist”; the White House wanted her fired from ESPN, and she was deluged with death threats. But Hill had faced tougher adversaries growing up in Detroit than a tweeting president. Beneath the exterior of one of the most recognizable journalists in America was a need―a calling―to break her family’s cycle of intergenerational trauma. Born in the middle of a lively routine Friday night Monopoly game to a teen mother and a heroin-addicted father, Hill constantly adjusted to the harsh realities of not only her own childhood but the inherited generational pain of her mother and grandmother. Her escape was writing. Hill’s mother was less than impressed with the brassy and bold free expression of her diary, but Hill never stopped discovering and amplifying her voice. Through hard work and a constant willingness to learn, Hill rose from newspaper reporter to columnist to new heights as the coanchor for ESPN’s revered SportsCenter. Soon, she earned respect and support for her fearless opinions and unshakable confidence, as well as a reputation as a trusted journalist who speaks her mind with truth and conviction. In Jemele Hill’s journey Uphill, she shares the whole story of her work, the women of her family, and her complicated relationship with God in an unapologetic, character-rich, and eloquent memoir.
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spacemang_spliff posted:https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/1761800163834921045 It's very funny comparing Biden to the loving master of the senate.
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