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5 minutes ago, Crazy Alex said:But the ballots weren't actually mailed in. That was about vote harvesting of mail in ballots. A different thing altogether.
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2 hours ago, Mama Noodle said:It was sure good enough for you to barf up your original opinion on the matter before actually looking into it and getting the actual facts.
Show me the facts that prove (prove, with evidence) that there will not be voter fraud.
5 States in which the governors and both houses of the legislature were controlled by Republicans searched for evidence of voter fraud which they were convinced existed. They found virtually nothing. 5 states including Utah have been doing voting by mail for years. No evidence of fraud there.
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7 minutes ago, Paul Henry said:
Poor Donald he cannot help it if he is a compulsive liar and cheat its in his genes.We should support him and all of his despicable habits. We don't make fun of other people who are mentally ill, we give them our support and pity. The same standard should apply to Donald a poor sick decrepit old man who should be retired off to a home for such people.
His health is certainly suspect. In November he had an unscheduled medical checkup which somehow got called "routine." The checkup was far from complete. It hasn't been followed up on even though the full checkups usually take places early in the calendar year. Trump claims it's because he's too busy. Sound believable?
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Joe Biden appears in public wearing as mask in accordance with CDC recommendations. Meanwhile at the White House, President Trump accuses a reporter of wearing a mask in order to be "politically correct."
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7 hours ago, Crazy Alex said:
Your attempt to change the subject to Jared and Ivanka makes it clear you know you've lost on the issue being discussed.
Given that you raised the issue of Hunter Biden in relation to Joe Biden, I think the connection is absolutely clear.
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14 minutes ago, Crazy Alex said:
Funny stuff. Fact is, COVIC-19 has killed 0.03% of Americans. Not much to be afraid of. Life goes on.
But at least we can agree that Biden doesn't draw crowds. You may have put it a different way, but the end result is the same. Biden can't draw a crowd.
Actually, you have me wondering... do you think Biden left his crypt because he saw this poll showing Trump leading in 15 battleground states?
It had to shake up Biden.... well, for the three minutes he could remember it anyway.
And what do the vast majority of the state electoral polls show about the swing states?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/state_president/
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11 minutes ago, Crazy Alex said:
Funny stuff. Fact is, COVIC-19 has killed 0.03% of Americans. Not much to be afraid of. Life goes on.
But at least we can agree that Biden doesn't draw crowds. You may have put it a different way, but the end result is the same. Biden can't draw a crowd.
Actually, you have me wondering... do you think Biden left his crypt because he saw this poll showing Trump leading in 15 battleground states?
It had to shake up Biden.... well, for the three minutes he could remember it anyway.
Has it occurred to you that unlike the past flu epidemics Covid-19 has been responded to with very strong social measures. A real issue isn't how many have died, but how many would have died if such strong measures weren't taken. And another real issue is how many fewer would have died had Trump acted more quickly.
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2 minutes ago, Crazy Alex said:
Odd... I don't recall mentioning Trump. But yeah, good ol' Hunter.... doesn't every Chinese want a crack head kicked out of the Navy to do business with? Let's get real, shall we?
You may not have mentioned Trump but you repeat his lies. And you still haven't acknowledged that you 1.5 billion dollar claim is a lie. In fact, what evidence is there that he made any money out of the transaction? Whereas the Qataris helped to bail out Jared Kushner's family from a terrible real estate investment made by Kushner with an investment that makes no financial sense. And the Chinese speedily approved Ivanka's trademark requests. Just about the time Trump spared a major Chinese telecom company from extinction. And unlike Hunter Biden, Jared and Ivanka are both U.S. government officials.
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But they refused to do anything about Trump's promotion of that conspiracy theory about Scarborough being involved in the death of a female staffer at his office and having an affair with her even though it's been debunked repeatedly. Even after her husband pleaded with Twitter to do something about it.
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10 hours ago, khaowong1 said:
And the left and the media is screaming because President Trump played golf over Memorial Day. Of course they didn't mention that Obama played golf 7 out of 8 times over Memorial Day. But I guess that's different. Right?
The 27 times Donald Trump tweeted about Barack Obama playing golf too much
Donald Trump has tweeted about golf at least 460 times since creating his Twitter account in 2009.
He’s promoted the courses he owns, praised the game as a source of mental and physical development, critiqued other courses, and bragged about whom he’s playing with.
Between 2011 and 2016, he also tweeted at least 27 complaints, jokes, or scoldings about Barack Obama playing golf while president
https://www.sbnation.com/golf/2017/3/27/15073086/donald-trump-tweets-barack-obama-golf
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10 hours ago, Crazy Alex said:Or maybe it shows a difference between the rationality of Trump supporters and Biden supporters. You know, Biden supporters tend not to assemble in crowds and invade state legislative offices while they're carrying guns. Unlike Trump supporters, they are far more likely understand that Covid-19 is contagious and that God doesn't make exceptions for that in the case of church services.
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10 hours ago, Crazy Alex said:Oh come now, how can you leave out Hunter's struggle to cash that $1.5 billion check from the "good people" in China?
Because your claim is a lie except in the fantasy world you share with President Trump.
Trump’s Claims About Hunter Biden in China
"President Donald Trump has repeatedly accused Hunter Biden, without evidence, of making millions of dollars in a “payoff” from China, after accompanying his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, on a 2013 diplomatic trip to Beijing.
The claim involves a cross-border private equity fund involving some state-owned financial companies in China. Biden served on the management company’s board while his father was vice president, but his attorney says that was an unpaid position, that he did not create the company and has not yet received any money, let alone millions. The attorney says Hunter Biden only acquired a minority stake in the investment management company after his father left office."
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/10/trumps-claims-about-hunter-biden-in-china/
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5 hours ago, Crazy Alex said:
Excellent point to bring up. GDP per capita in the US is triple that of China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita
But as you know, communism is a GDP killer. If only everyone else realized this.
Well, if Communism is a GDP killer, then I guess China ain't communist. It's one thing to point out the flaws in China's economy, quite another to claim it's dying.
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8 hours ago, Eric Loh said:No social welfare system is the same. China’s social welfare system progression from its “iron rice bowl” in the past to “cradle to grave” and current coverage for education. health, labor etc. Details that you can obtain from public domain. SOE has been focus of much reform to reduce their inefficiency and profitability and the current reforms involved mixed ownership. SOE generated an increases in profitability last year. Again you can glean from public domain. Increasing GDP is not about population but the policies of the government and how they deploy capital. In China case, it’s their investments in R&D and infrastructure. There is no such thing as a free press and even social media. As for economic woes ahead, I can say that current China/US spat will hurt economies of both countries and the contagion will hurt the world.
Your claim about China's social safety net is flatly untrue:
“ 'When a person has no medical insurance, unemployment insurance or endowment insurance, how can that person dare spend all their money?’ said Tang Jun, a sociology researcher with the China Academy of Social Sciences. ‘The Chinese people are a nationality that likes saving money…. Ordinary people will only feel relieved about consuming if they don’t have to worry about not having money when they get old and not having money to go to the hospital.’ ”
https://carnegieendowment.org/2013/03/07/does-china-need-social-safety-net-pub-51151
"According to research by the Rhodium Group, a consultancy firm, as of June 2018, the average return on assets among SOEs was 3.9 percent, compared with 9.9 percent for private firms. They accounted for 28 percent of China’s industrial assets but contributed to only 18 percent of the total profit. Further, they racked up RMB 100 trillion (US$15 trillion) in debt by the end of 2017, equivalent to 120 percent of the national GDP."
"Today, the government’s agenda for SOE reforms combines SOE corporate governance with the institutionalization of Party leadership within SOEs."
https://www.china-briefing.com/news/chinas-soe-reform-process/
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1 hour ago, Eric Loh said:Chinese citizens are pretty content with their quality of life which is higher ranked than Italy and only 2 levels below USA. By 2025, China will overtake USA GDP. Don’t you know that they now socialist with capitalist characteristic with a central government. Maybe you should find out the definition of communist. Educational.
You must have a pretty low opinion of socialism to call China socialist. You mean like Sweden or Norway? It has s very poor social safety net system, a judiciary which is entirely under the thumb of the Party, massive Internet and press censorship. And under Xi state enterprises are growing again at the expense of private enterprise which are being asked to invest or lend (i.e. donate) to state enterprises. Lots of ecomonists believe China is headed for a middle income trap. And while it's GDP may soon be larger than the US, keep in mind that its population is about 4 times that of the USA
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35 minutes ago, RickBradford said:Yup, almost as content as the North Koreans.
In the 2019 North Korean elections, voter turnout was reported at 99.99%, and that "unanimously" the voters cast their ballots in favor of the registered candidates, ie Kim Jong-Un and his toadies.
Comparing China to North Korea is just nuts. In North Korea the population regularly faces bouts of starvation. The economy is still very primitive. On the other hand China's economy has been growing rapidly and so has its middle class. Economic contentment busy a lot of satisfaction. Chinese citizens may not have political freedoms, but they certainly have a lot more freedom of expression than do North Koreans. But then, who doesn't?. What a weird comparison.
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Trump to announce strong Hong Kong response this week
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More empty and irrelevant insults about Hunter Biden. What payoff did Hunter Biden ever get from China? What service did he provide to get it?