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  1. Actually, in this case, as the judge's questions suggest, the plot makes no sense.
  2. First off, with actual evidence I called you on your claim that Joe Biden didn't didn't come by his money legitimately, and you offered nothing in reply. And then there was another false claim of yours that I called you on about how the Justice Dept was trying to lock up Devon Archer before he could testify. Again, nothing back from you on that. And now, you're claiming that the same guy you claimed the Justice Dept attempted to stop from testifying, is committing perjury when he says that no business was discussed on these occasions. So he volunteered to speak to the Committee and then commits perjury? You've got less than nothing.
  3. Someone else who thinks they are making a significant point by taking literally a figure of speech.
  4. Just possibly, it might have something to do with the cost. In 1995 the price of a solar cell was $5.50 per watt of capacity. In 2020 the cost was $0.20 per watt. https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/evolution-of-solar-pv-module-cost-by-data-source-1970-2020
  5. As Devon Archer repeatedly testified, Hunter Biden used the Biden name to promote himself but acknowledged that he took credit for actions his father had taken even though Hunter actually had no role in making them happen. He specifically referenced Ukraine and said that Hunter tried to make Burisma execs believe that he had played some role in getting his father to come. The Republicans on the Committee repeatedly tried to get Archer to assent that Hunter Biden had brought his father to Ukraine. Archer repeatedly rejected that characterization. Furthermore, Archer testified that people at the firm said that firing Viktor Shokin was bad for Burisima since the CEO of Burisma, Mykola Zochevsky, had Shokin under his control. Archer testifed that over 10 years there were 2 dinners at the Cafe Milano. At neither was business discussed. The second one to support the World Food Programme. As for the phone calls Archer said there were 20 over 10 years. That averages to 2 per year. Father and son spoke every. From the looks of the testimony, Hunter took advantage of phone calls that occurred when he was having dinners with business associates by putting the calls on speaker. Called that consisted of pleasantries. Now, if you're accusing Archer of lying, you would have to ask why he would expose himself to legal prosecution by voluntarily appearing before the committee and lying to its members?
  6. The notice you refer to was actually a standard notice to a judge. It typically takes weeks or months before an actual bed in prison is assigned. But it's significant that the sources you trust offer such misleading B.S. The right once again gins up a baseless claim of intimidation https://archive.ph/EEvri https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/31/doj-hunter-devon-archer/
  7. Joe Biden said he knew nothing about Hunter's business not that he didn't know who some of Hunter's business associates were.. If a husband tells his wife that someone is his partner does that mean his wife knows about his business? If you were to question her about his business what substantive piece of information would she necessarily have? . It's a matter of record that the State Dept. informed Biden in 2014 or 2015 that Hunter had joined the board of Burisma. After he was informed, Biden is reported as having told his son "I hope you know what you are doing." Obviously, when Biden denied knowing anything about his son's business, it means he wasn't privy to what Hunter was up to. You really have to be straining at gnats to say this means that Biden about Hunter's business.
  8. George Watson, the author of that piece, was a cold warrior who wrote for Commentary, a strong supporter of the notion of the Worldwide Communist Conspiracy. His goal in writing this was not to explain Hitler's views. but to tarnish the Soviet Union. For the views of the overwhelming majority of historians, here's a link that summarizes it well: Were the Nazis Socialists? "In April 1933 communists, socialists, democrats, and Jews were purged from the German civil service, and trade unions were outlawed the following month. That July Hitler banned all political parties other than his own, and prominent members of the German Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party were arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps. Lest there be any remaining questions about the political character of the Nazi revolution, Hitler ordered the murder of Gregor Strasser, an act that was carried out on June 30, 1934, during the Night of the Long Knives. Any remaining traces of socialist thought in the Nazi Party had been extinguished." https://www.britannica.com/story/were-the-nazis-socialists And, of course, Hitler exterminated German communists, socialists, and labor leaders.
  9. Others have raised the same claim before. And it should be obvious why such claim is ridiculous. Joe Biden has made public all his tax returns for years. And yet the conservative media has simply failed to take a closer look at his finances? Really.l Still, even after I saw those ridiculous claims, I decided to do something that was miraculous: I looked up the on on the internet via something called Google. This is what I got: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2021/06/10/heres-how-much-joe-biden-is-worth/?sh=519686c7461b
  10. Lots of old people who are going to need care. You think it takes a doctorate to do that?
  11. They bring to the table something you probably don't: youth for a graying population.
  12. I remember all the dire predictions about what would happen in Germany when they took in the Muslim refugees from the Middle East. Riots and anarchy were projected to be the outcome by the right wingers. I guess instead of facing your disappointment you conjure up a fantasy instead.
  13. What incriminating information? Evidence of what crime?
  14. Damned Democrats! Texas A&M suspended professor accused of criticizing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in lecture Joy Alonzo, a respected opioid expert, was in a panic. The Texas A&M University professor had just returned home from giving a routine lecture on the opioid crisis at the University of Texas Medical Branch in March when she learned a student had accused her of disparaging Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick during the talk. In the few hours it took to drive from Galveston, the complaint had made its way to her supervisors, and Alonzo’s job was suddenly at risk. https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/2023/07/25/texas-am-suspended-professor-accused-of-criticizing-lt-gov-dan-patrick-in-lecture/
  15. His comment is funny and illustrative at the same time. The Russian disinformation campaign depended on low information voters.
  16. Free Speech for Me but Not for Thee The American right has lost the plot on free speech. The passage of Florida’s House Bill 1557, which bans “classroom instruction” on “sexual orientation and gender identity” in kindergarten through third grade and in a manner that isn’t “age appropriate or developmentally appropriate” in all grades, K–12, is merely the latest in a string of what the free-speech-advocacy organization PEN America has called “education gag orders” that have been proposed by Republicans and passed by red-state legislatures from coast to coast. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/republican-dont-say-gay-bill-florida/629516/
  17. DOJ asks judge to issue protective order after Trump posts apparent threat of revenge The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump in Washington to step in after he released a post online that appeared to promise revenge on anyone who goes after him... Prosecutors pointed specifically to a post on Trump's Truth Social platform from earlier Friday in which Trump wrote, in all capital letters, "If you go after me, I'm coming after you!"... They told the judge that if Trump were to begin posting about grand jury transcripts or other evidence provided by the Justice Department, it could have a "harmful chilling effect on witnesses or adversely affect the fair administration of justice in this case." https://www.npr.org/2023/08/05/1192336975/doj-asks-judge-issue-protective-order-after-trump-post Seriously, why are they concerned that Trump, being the soul of discretion and respecter of boundaries, would use this information to coerce someone who might testify against him?
  18. Maybe you can explain to the judge exactly what Giuliani is claiming? Federal judge wants Giuliani to clarify ‘incongruous’ and ‘puzzling’ court filing in Georgia defamation case A federal judge has asked Rudy Giuliani to clarify his “seemingly incongruous and certainly puzzling caveats” in a recent filing in which he appears to admit he made false and defamatory statements about two Georgia election workers in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rudy-giuliani-georgia-defamation-lawsuit-b2387991.html
  19. "President Trump on the other hand was handed an economy that was growing. In 2017, his first year in office the deficit grew to $666 billion, was $984 billion last year and is projected to be over $1 trillion in 2020 at $1.02 trillion. This would be a 74% increase in just four years and going forward the Federal deficit could escalate to $1.7 trillion in 2030. https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2020/02/01/trumps-deficits-are-racing-past-obamas/?sh=3b3d7b814819
  20. Despite various pleas, Trump did nothing to help the people besieged in the Capitol but instead watch events unfold. He later denied that he sat and watched even though many present in the White House with him testified that he did.
  21. An increasse of 74% before covid isn't rapid? hmmmm. Before you claimed that it's not fair to include Trump's covid deficit. But on the other you believe that it is fair to include Obama's deficits which occurred after he inherited a U.S. economy rocked by the biggest shock to the world's economy since the Great Depression. Double standards much"
  22. Yet I caught you out in a massive falsehood about Trump and the deficit.
  23. What? Big Bird claimed that the jump in deficits was due to Covid spending. The article I cited relates to the 3 years before covid hit. And it showed rapidly increasing deficits. So no, the increase in deficits was ongoing before the Covid pandemic. Is that clear now?
  24. Right wingers and most right wing economists were predicting continued high inflation. If anything, the inflation rate is still exaggerated because of the way shelter costs are computed in the usa.
  25. irrelevant to what? The fact that deficits increased under Trump? And you think that the people who made this prediction should have foreseen that because there was going to be a Covid pandemic their projections should have been higher?
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