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Nothing screams partisan hack like behaving as a partisan hack. Gary Shapley is now ghosting the Democratic-led IRS-oversight committee following its several-hour-long meeting with his attorney, and has called off a planned interview with the panel. “Committee staff on both sides agreed with counsel to meet directly with the whistleblower next week, however the whistleblower has since backed out of that agreement and declined an attempt to reschedule,” a source on the committee told The Independent. Shapley’s distancing from the committee comes as he revs up to lay out evidence regarding his allegations before the GOP-controlled House Ways and Means Committee in a closed session Friday. https://www.thedailybeast.com/irs-whistleblower-in-hunter-biden-probe-is-ghosting-dem-led-senate-committee

Sheldon Whitehouse, Daniel Goldman, Ted Lieu or Hakeem Jeffries.

No Democrats of note have ever said that her replacement would have to be a woman of colour. Please justify your allegation. There is no presumption that Harris would automatically get Biden's place if he were to drop out.

The IRS said in a statement that it "is deeply committed to protecting the role of whistleblowers, and there are robust processes and procedures in place to protect whistleblowers."

Manchin is likely to become a Republican soon.

Was he correct? Is Xi not a dictator?

No need, they have CCTV cameras along most main roads in Bangkok and Pattaya now.

That ship had sailed, that's the point. Was Blinken not meant to raise the question of the balloons or aid to Russia or something? In your rush to dump on Biden you'd have America kowtow to Xi. There's a time for soft diplomacy and a time for hard diplomacy. The Chips Act was an example of hard diplomacy and Xi is peeved about that. It was a fantastic example fo doing the right thing and protecting America's interests, markedly in contrast to boosting inflation by putting a tariff on Chinese goods.

Biden's sent his sons off to fight for America. One died as a direct result of his service. Previous president lied about bone spurs to avoid the draft and none of his three sons ever served. On a visit to Arlington, Trump asked his secretary of state whose own son was buried there "What was in it for them?" Unlike his son, Mr Biden never served in the US military, having received five student draft deferments and a conditional medical deferment while studying at the University of Delaware and Syracuse University in the 1960s, the latter following a physical exam in April 1968 that led to him being classified as I-Y, which meant he could only be drafted in the case of a national emergency. When he was chosen as Mr Obama’s running-mate in 2008, a spokesperson explained that asthma had been the reason given for the exemption at the time. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/did-biden-serve-military-record-b2044210.html

There's about a thousand of them on the footpath along beach road.

Oh, Comer investigating again. Biden must be shaking in his boots. You must have missed where Comer et al had to back down from the last allegations because they could produce the tapes.

So he should tug the forelock to a dictator who wants to be an enemy of the US and the free world?

Blinken was rebuffed by Xi and this is payback. Great to see a president with the guts and the courage of his convictions stand up for his country for a change.

Blinken was clearly snubbed. This is payback. https://www.voanews.com/a/china-snubs-us-military-outreach-ahead-of-expected-blinken-visit-/6910896.html

It was quite intentional I can assure you. A man of conviction who isn't just out to grift cash for his family criminal enterprise. Quite obviously the far right jibes about accepting bribes from the Chinese are from a parallel universe.

You don't have any objection to Xi actively supporting Putin and threatening Taiwan with invasion? Not to mention his recent efforts to establish an alternative reserve currency which would greatly undermine the world order? Stealing islands off the Philippines? You don't see Xi as a major threat to world peace and order?

Unless you need super portability a mini computer with an external monitor (optional hotel TV when travelling) and external keyboard and mouse will always provide far better bang for the buck. A more powerful and capable computer with greater flexibility for less money.

How was it a gaffe? Is Xi not a dictator who supports Russia and wants to invade Taiwan? Somebody has to have the guts to stand up to that. It was never going to be the previous guy.

That would be to give Putin victory. A disaster for the world. Thanks to Biden that's much, much less likely to happen. Putin's calculation was that Trump would win and he wouldn't have to attack Ukraine to seize it, or at least any invasion would be short and swift. Since Biden won, Putin was forced to go forward with an invasion to realize his dreams of restoring the soviet union and he looks like losing it, largely because of Biden. You are on the wrong side of history and Biden will be famous long after he's passed on because of his support for world democracy and opposition to expansionist criminal dictators. Trump supported Putin because of his love for fascism and dictators. Biden clearly dislikes dictators since he called out Xi for what he is. That's what I like, a president with guts.

I have an ASUS mini with a Ryzen 7 and 32 Gb RAM and do some heavy app compilation work. It doesn't get hot but I do hear the fan run harder. I also have an Intel i9 9900K with 16 Gb RAM and a Noctua cpu fan. It doesn't get hot either. Since the ASUS is a much less powerful machine if it were going to overheat I would have seen it. It has never frozen. Reliable AF.

Then why are you blaming it on Biden's 3 year administration? As for good representatives of the USA, Biden shored up the damage that his predecessor inflicted on the UN and stood beside Ukraine as opposed to his treasonous predecessor. Biden will have a legacy of being one of the most effective presidents the US has ever had. His predecessor was a laughing stock on the world stage and will be the only modern president not to have a library..

Ya'll ever tried to convict somebody on a drug use charge from a photo? It doesn't work.

Biden inherited a hostile China.