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Elon Musk under federal investigation over Twitter deal
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
Well, it's certainly the case that the one person we know who had been trying hardest to stop Elon Musk from buying "the digital town square" is Elon Musk himself. Despite the fact that the case against his reneging is very strong. It's still not clear whether or not he will go through with it. -
You would think from the way Nancy Pelosi reacted that Trump's incitement was putting her life and the life of others in danger. Fortunately, he proved her wrong by his prompt call for the National Guard to intervene. Also, to be fair, he claims he was at meetings the whole time this was going on and didn't know what was happening in the vicinity of the Capitol. And why should we distrust his claim even though there are multiple eyewitnesses that he was glued to the TV reporting on the situation? Nancy Pelosi was being so unfair!
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Which reminds me of the Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times."
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So, in your professional judgement, the DoJ simply ought to have pressed charges before carefully going through the almost 12,000 documents that were recovered? And they should disregard dept. policy which stipulates no prosecutions with political ramifiaction within 50 days of an election? What don't you understand about the fact that very conservative judges ruled that Trump has no claim on documents marked classified?
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"The Republican Study Committee, the largest group of House Republicans, released a budget plan in June that called on lawmakers to gradually raise the Medicare age of eligibility to 67 and the Social Security eligibility to 70 before indexing both to life expectancy. It backed withholding payments to those who retired early and had earnings over a certain limit. And it endorsed the consideration of options to reduce payroll taxes that fund Social Security and redirect them to private alternatives. It also urged lawmakers to “phase-in an increase in means testing” for Medicare." https://www.businessinsider.com/mitt-romney-retirement-benefits-for-younger-americans-2022-3 And keep in mind that the Republicans tried this before in 2011. And in 2005 George Bush decided he had political capital and tried to use it to privatize Social Security The same people who consistently vote to slash govt revenue then raise alarms about deficits. It reminds me of the old joke about a son who murders his parents and then throws himiself upon the mercy of the court because he's an orphan.
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As I posted earlier Bobulinski made allegations about the Bidens that he claims were supported by data in 3 mobile phones. Reporters from Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal were given access to those phones. They found nothing that tied Joe Biden to any of Bobulinski's allegations. As for banks flagging transactions, by itself that means very little. It's not uncommon where large amounts of cash are transferred. Banks do this to protect themselves from charges of abetting money laundering.
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But the UK that Scotland voted to remain in was a member of the EU. If UK membership in the EU had been a major issue at the time that would have been a different. But it wasn't. A huge change like Brexit entitles the Scots to another vote.
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Scotland voted to stay in a UK that was a member of the EU. I don't think Scots signed on for this. They certainly didn't support Brexit at the polls..
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It takes very little digging to expose your comments for the BS that they are: Rick Scott Can’t Even Get Fox News to Buy His Bu1lsh*t REPUBLICAN SEN. RICK Scott couldn’t convince Fox News host John Roberts to buy his ridiculous 11 point “Plan to Rescue America,” which includes proposals to force all Americans to pay income tax, sunset all federal legislation within five years, and complete the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico to name it after former President Donald Trump... Roberts continued, “So, that would raise taxes on half of Americans and potentially sunset programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Why would you propose something like that in an election year?” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/rick-scott-fox-news-taxes-medicare-social-security-1328178/ Sen. Mitt Romney suggests he'd back cutting retirement benefits for younger Americans Romney suggested he would favor cutting retirement benefits for younger Americans to address the debt. He warned the US could find itself in "a heap of trouble" if it didn't take action. Calls to cut Medicare and Social Security benefits haven't faded entirely among Republicans. https://www.businessinsider.com/mitt-romney-retirement-benefits-for-younger-americans-2022-3 Ron Johnson calls for annual approval of Social Security, Medicare funding Republican US Senator says mandatory funding of benefits drives up federal deficit https://www.wpr.org/ron-johnson-calls-annual-approval-social-security-medicare-funding
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Unsurprisingly, with you this is an article of faith. Amazing how it coincides with your personal convictions.
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Durham Inquiry Appears to Wind Down as Grand Jury Expires
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
These passages are based on a lie. As the Inspector General of the Justice Dept confirmed, the investigation was not initiated or based on the Steele Dossier. As for the investigation being based on Trump hating human sources, that is again a falsehood. As for offering Steele 1 million dollars, Steele explicitly noted that in his his report that it contained unconfirmed rumors and chatter. And finally, on the matter of whether Trump collaborated with the Russians, Mueller in his report listed 10 possible counts of obstruction of justice violations including witness tampering in the case of Manafort, a massive tax dodger whom Trump pardoned after giving out hints that he would do just that. There has never been a President who pardoned so many persons who might have been potential witnesses against him. The power of the pardon was granted to Presidents in order for them to undo injustices, not to create them. And it looks like Durham's case against Danchenko isn't going well at all as LosLobo's post with links shows.. Keep in mind that when Barr launched the Durham investigation, after a previous one went nowhere, he and Durham were both insinuating that the Justice Dept had maliciously investigated Trump. So far one very low level line lawyer was convicted on a minor charge based on evidence brought by IG Horowitz. Durham's first prosecution failed big time. So far, it doesn't like good for the current one either. And it's just weird that you think a House and/or Senate committee are going to find out things that Durham couldn't. -
Truly bizarre use of scare quotes. The panel from the 11 circuit court has already ruled that there is no way the classified documents -- even if they have already been declassified -- could count as Trump's personal property. So that is prime facie evidence of a crime since he had government documents illegally in his possession.
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Trump asks U.S. Supreme Court to intervene over seized classified records
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Not even Clarence Thomas could find a way to support such empty legal maneuvering. -
National Archives says it still doesn’t have all Trump White House records
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
Nno one was supposed to touch those boxes. So maybe this guy just moves boxes around for fun and on his own inititiative removed them from the storage area. That might even sound likely to some. At least to the kind of person who thinks it's rational to assume that he probably moves boxes every day. -
New York City declares state of emergency over migrant 'crisis situation'
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You mean as BritManToo put it. I was just following his wise lead. You and he do seem to share a belief that a wall is the crucial component in keeping illegal drugs out of America, -
New York City declares state of emergency over migrant 'crisis situation'
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
And the situation would change very little if they didn't. So what's the point? Is that the crucial fraction that America's continuing victory against drug smuggling depends on? -
Spellcheck seems to have disappeared.
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Kanye West interview pulled over 'more hate speech'
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
Anti-semitic words.