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So, are you claiming, like Trump, that Chinese soldiers are operating in the Canal Zone?

Thanks for the deflection.

You sure about that? "Driving the news: The president-elect doubled down in a Christmas Day message, writing on Truth Social: "Merry Christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal." https://www.axios.com/2024/12/27/trump-panama-canal-china-soldiers

Given Trump's enthusiastic embrace of fossil fuels, even coal, I think Trump's actual policy would be "We cannot allow permafrost!"

Because oil or something like it are the only valuable substances to come out of the ground?

Your idea of a deflection is correcting an error made by someone else? If the issue is a deflection, it was raised by thaibeachlover, not by me. Take it up with him.

Is this based on Trump's claim that Chinese soldiers are operating in the Canal Zone? If not please share what evidence you actually can point to.

If anyone is living in an alternative reality it's you. Stephen K. Bannon: Trump's former chief strategist in the White House was in charge of the final months of his 2016 presidential campaign and was indicted in August along with three others on wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges. Prosecutors alleged that Bannon’s crowdfunding “We Build the Wall” campaign raised more than $25 million from Trump supporters and used hundreds of thousands for personal expenses. He was taken into custody by U.S. Postal Inspection Service agents while on board the yacht of Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui. Bannon received a full pardon and now will not have to face a trial. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/full-list-trump-s-last-minute-pardons-commuted-sentences-n1254806 And there's this: On June 16, 1992, Weinberger was indicted on two counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice. Bush pardoned him before his trial. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/24/bush-pardons-iran-contra-felons-dec-24-1992-1072042 And there's this: "Orenstein said precedent had already been established by former President Gerald Ford when he granted a blanket pardon to President Richard Nixon in 1974 for any crimes committed while he was the commander in chief even though Nixon hadn't been charged with a crime when he resigned from office over the Watergate scandal." https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-considers-preemptive-pardons-experts-constitutional/story?id=116505853

Clearly, you are utterly unacquainted with the massive amount of his proposed legislation that was enacted during his first 2 years of office.

Before a grand jury is convened, there should be some basis in evidence. Otherwise it's just a fishing expedition which is something no ethical prosecutor would undertake. In Trump's case there was an abundance of evidence.

You admire the writing of a perfect Democrat? You're making progress.

Once again, you've got nothing but personal conference. Which is just another way of saying you've got nothing.

You need to read what you write. Preferably, before posting it.

Right. Because it was only those informants who were chanting and Mike Spence?

Some of us consider the merits of a case regardless of the stance of any media. Others, apparently, depend on the slant of external sources to judge those merits.

What are the first two words in the subject line of this topic?

You know that saying that the government can get a jury to convict even a ham sandwich? A case the government's tried to buildagainst the vaccine manufacturers was so bad that Desantis' bright idea utterly failed.

A statewide grand jury didn’t find evidence that COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers broke federal or state laws when making and distributing the shots, according to a report published Tuesday. The publication of the grand jury’s final report comes more than two years after Gov. Ron DeSantis asked the Supreme Court to assemble it to investigate wrongdoing related to the COVID-19 vaccines. At the time, DeSantis eyed his unsuccessful bid for the presidency and explained his petition by saying that misrepresenting the efficacy of a drug was against Florida law. https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/01/07/statewide-grand-jury-investigating-covid-19-vaccines-finds-no-evidence-of-crimes/

So those are the only 2 options? Either Hanson or socialist mumbo-jumbo?

And what's even better, is that he's going to commit aggression against a NATO Ally. If the Danish government wants to forestall this from happening, they might want to follow the example of North Korea: become a dictatorship and acquire nuclear weapons. They had just better make sure that their dictator is male, so Trump can swoon into another man crush.

House Speaker Mike Johnson sparked an unusual religion controversy last week when he recited a prayer in front of Congress after being reelected as speaker of the House. The problem, at least according to some scholars, wasn’t that he prayed in the U.S. Capitol. It was that he claimed to be quoting former President Thomas Jefferson. https://www.deseret.com/faith/2025/01/06/house-speaker-mike-johnson-jefferson-prayer/ Not only did Johnson attribute the prayer to Jefferson, but if you read the quote from Jefferson in the article, you'll see that, most likely, he would have disapproved of offering prayers in such a venue. In fact, James Madison, who's commonly known as the father of the Constitution, thought that it was unconstitutional for Congress to have chaplains.

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Before the war and in it's early days. But, like Liz Cheney, Davis has never retracted his enthusiastic endorsement of it or acknowledged it was a mistake.

President-elect Donald Trump will have trouble meeting his pledges to massively increase oil production — even if he manages to overturn President Joe Biden’s sweeping new ban on offshore drilling. Reluctance by economically skittish petroleum producers, the rise in fuel-efficient cars and Trump’s own threatened trade wars will make it difficult for the United States to produce significantly more oil than it already does, energy analysts told POLITICO on Monday. The fact that the U.S. is already the world’s biggest oil producer and biggest gas exporter will also make sharp increases hard to achieve, despite Trump’s campaign pledges of energy “dominance.” https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/07/trump-oil-promises-biden-drilling-ban-00196740

What exactly does being pardoned have to do with the question of whether or not Mike Flynn was innocent of the charges he was convicted for?