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And further on the same points regarding Hunter Biden's business ventures: GOP Misleading Claims in Biden Impeachment Investigation December 14, 2023 "House Republicans passed a resolution on Dec. 13 to formalize their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. In attempts to build momentum for the vote, Republicans continued to present misleadingly incomplete information in service of the claim that Biden benefited from his family members’ “influence peddling” with foreign businesses and governments. So far, Republicans haven’t been able to establish that Biden was involved in his family’s business dealings, that the president directly benefited from those deals or that he ever used his position as vice president to assist the companies." (more) https://www.factcheck.org/2023/12/gop-misleading-claims-in-biden-impeachment-investigation/

How Republicans overhype the findings of their Hunter Biden probe August 17, 2023 ... “The Committee has now identified over $20 million in payments from foreign sources to the Biden family and their business associates.” — Majority staff of the House Oversight Committee, Third Bank Records memorandum, released Aug. 9 ... "As for the $20 million in payments, Comer and other Republicans invoke this figure often. A close reading of the memos, however, finds that only about $7 million can be directly attributed to Biden family members, mostly Hunter, while the rest went to “associates,” according to the memos. Yet Comer and other lawmakers misleadingly suggest all of the money went to the Biden family or, as some label it, “the Biden crime family.” No evidence has emerged that any of these funds can be traced to Joe Biden himself." [emphasis added] https://archive.ph/6uw3V https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/17/how-republicans-overhype-findings-their-hunter-biden-probe/ Hunter Biden was and is a private citizen, not an elected official or government employee. He had the right to engage in private business transactions, just as anyone else would. But of course, he also had the legal obligation to correctly report his income and pay the resulting taxes, for which he is now being held to account. And unlike Trump in his legal woes and prosecutions, President Biden isn't making unfounded accusations of "lawfare" or disparaging the U.S. legal system or those involved in it. The difference between the two is stark and telling, another example showing why Trump is unfit and ill-suited to serve as president.

Really??? Trump’s Company Gets Maximum Punishment for Evading Taxes The Trump Organization must pay $1.6 million for giving executive off-the-books benefits and pay. Jan. 13, 2023 Former president Donald J. Trump’s family real estate business was ordered on Friday to pay a $1.6 million criminal penalty for its conviction on felony tax fraud and other charges, a stinging rebuke and the maximum possible punishment. New York Times https://archive.ph/sEnOy AND Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s. Oct. 2, 2018 President Trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents, an investigation by The New York Times has found. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

From Axios' report today: "President Biden has ruled out pardoning his 54-year-old son." https://www.axios.com/2024/09/05/hunter-biden-trial-republicans-impeachment President says he won’t pardon Hunter Biden He also seemed to indicate he would not commute Hunter Biden’s sentence. 06/13/2024 ... Trump was convicted last month in his criminal hush money trial in New York and will be sentenced next month. Biden’s words of respect for the legal system stand in stark contrast to Trump’s relentless criticism of it. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/13/president-says-he-wont-pardon-hunter-biden-00163281

The House Republican committee came up with nothing of substance proven relating to the current president. Former Biden family business associate recycles unproven allegations to House panels February 13, 2024 A former Biden family business associate levied critical but unproven allegations against President Joe Biden in a closed-door House interview Tuesday, resurrecting claims he has lobbed since 2020. Over the past several years, Tony Bobulinski has seemingly shared his story with anyone who would listen, including the Trump campaign. But his loftiest claims — that Joe Biden was deeply involved in his son’s overseas business deals — are still uncorroborated and have been undercut by other key witnesses. [emphasis added] ... Bobulinski’s claims also stand in stark contrast to a growing list of other Biden family business associates who have stated that Joe Biden, as a private citizen and as vice president, was never involved in his any of his family’s foreign business dealings. Raskin had raised serious questions about Bobulinski’s credibility ahead of Tuesday’s interview. https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/politics/tony-bobulinski-impeachment-investigation/index.html GOP's Biden corruption crusade goes up in smoke Sept. 5, 2024 ... The July ticket switch didn't stop House Republicans from releasing a report last month — on the first day of the Democratic National Convention — accusing the president of a conspiracy to "enrich his family" through influence peddling. The report doesn't offer direct proof that Joe Biden engaged in any corrupt quid pro quo on behalf of his family, but suggests he abused his power even if his family members only sold the "illusion" of influence. [emphasis added] ... The bottom line: It's not just that the GOP's "Biden crime family" attack has lost its salience. Trump himself could be sentenced to prison on Sept. 18 for his New York hush money conviction, which he continues to fight. https://www.axios.com/2024/09/05/hunter-biden-trial-republicans-impeachment

Putin's saying one thing in public, because he knows he's considered a criminal pariah in the West, and thus anyone who he publicly claims to like might suffer. Meanwhile, he and his government are spending money to accomplish their true end, which is to get Trump elected so that he'll drop the U.S. support of Ukraine and ease Russia's illegal takeover of its neighboring country. As Sky News reported: "With relations between Moscow and Washington as bad as they are, he [Putin] will know that any endorsement of a candidate might actually harm their chances come November, rather than improve them. So that might well be what Mr Putin is trying to do here, hoping instead that Donald Trump takes power. And why would he want that? Because in all likelihood, it would mean a cut to US aid to Ukraine, which in turn would significantly boost Russia's prospects on the battlefield." https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-russia-latest-putin-war-live-updates-skynews-blog-12541713?postid=8231104#liveblog-body Trump is Putin's U.S. lapdog, and Putin wants his lapdog back! Trump sides with Putin over US intelligence July 16, 2018 Helsinki, Finland CNN — US President Donald Trump, in a stunning rebuke of the US intelligence community, declined on Monday to endorse the US government’s assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, saying he doesn’t “see any reason why” Russia would be responsible. Instead, Trump – standing alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin – touted Putin’s vigorous denial and pivoted to complaining about the Democratic National Committee’s server and missing emails from Hillary Clinton’s personal account. “I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today,” Trump said during a joint news conference after he spent about two hours in a room alone with Putin, save for a pair of interpreters. (more) https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/16/politics/donald-trump-putin-helsinki-summit/index.html Trump 'treasonous' after siding with Putin on election meddling Donald Trump has been condemned as “treasonous” for siding with the Kremlin over his own government agencies after a stunning joint appearance with Vladimir Putin in which he seemingly accepted the Russian leader’s denial of election meddling. At a joint press conference after one-on-one talks lasting more than two hours in the Finnish capital, the US president offered no criticism of Putin or the cyber-attacks that the US intelligence community says he coordinated to help Trump’s 2016 election campaign. ... The comments set off a new firestorm in Washington and critics suggested it was a historically weak performance by a US president against a foreign adversary. It also fuelled the intrigue of why Trump’s refusal to speak ill of Putin remains one of the few constants of his White House tenure. (more) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/16/trump-finds-putin-denial-of-election-meddling-powerful

Sep 3, 2024 NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Donald Trump’s request to intervene in his New York hush money criminal case, thwarting the former president’s latest bid to overturn his felony conviction and delay his sentencing. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled that Trump had not satisfied the burden of proof required for a federal court to take control of the case from the state court where it was tried. Hellerstein’s ruling came hours after Manhattan prosecutors raised objections to Trump’s effort to delay post-trial decisions in the case while he sought to have the federal court step in. ... Prosecutors urged the trial judge, Juan M. Merchan, not to delay his rulings on two key defense requests: Trump’s call to delay sentencing until after the November election, and his bid to overturn the verdict and dismiss the case in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling. Merchan has said he will rule Sept. 16 on Trump’s motion to overturn the verdict. His decision on delaying sentencing has been expected in the coming days. (more) https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/federal-judge-turns-down-trumps-request-to-get-involved-in-hush-money-conviction

Crims are gonna be crims! Joined in criminality together.

Strange that the above OP report doesn't seem to include the following nugget cited in CNN's report on the same case: "CNN has independently confirmed that “Company 1” is Tenet Media, which is a platform for independent content creators. It is self-described as a “network of heterodox commentators that focus on Western political and cultural issues,” according to its website, which matches language contained in the newly unsealed indictment. The goal of the operation, according to prosecutors, was to fuel pro-Russian narratives, in part, by pushing content and news articles favoring Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and others who the Kremlin deemed to be friendlier to its interests. [emphasis added] ... Among the commentators listed on Tenet Media’s website are right-wing personalities Benny Johnson and Tim Pool. Both have millions of subscribers on YouTube and other social media platforms. Pool interviewed Trump on his podcast in May." https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/politics/doj-alleges-russia-funded-company-linked-social-media-stars/index.html In other words... support Vladimir Putin?... vote Trump!

Davidson was sentenced to three months in jail in May A convicted murderer whose life sentence was commuted by Donald Trump on the last day of his presidency has recently been convicted of attacking his wife. Jaime Davidson was serving a life sentence in a New York jail for his role in a 1990 robbery that led to the death of Wallie Howard Jr., an undercover police officer. Davidson, while not present, planned the robbery that targeted one of his rival drug dealers. Trump, in the final 24 hours of his presidency, commuted Davidson’s sentence. Then, earlier this year, officers in Orange County, Florida, charged Davidson with beating and strangling his wife, who he had been married to for five months, the Tallahassee Democrat reports. A jury acquitted him of all charges except misdemeanor domestic battery and a judge sentenced him in May to three months in jail. (more) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-clemency-jaime-davidson-b2606960.html The above case also isn't the only one of it's kind where Trump's actions as president going soft on criminals have come back to bite him. The above article also recounts the past case of a New York drug smuggler and loan shark who Trump gave clemency at the same time as Davidson above. That person also later was arrested and now faces several assault charges after police say he punched his father-in-law in the head during a domestic dispute. Perhaps it's a case of one future criminal (Trump) having natural sympathy for other criminals. Guilty: Trump becomes first former US president convicted of felony crimes May 31, 2024 NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump became the first former American president to be convicted of felony crimes Thursday as a New York jury found him guilty of all 34 charges in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who said the two had sex. https://apnews.com/article/trump-trial-deliberations-jury-testimony-verdict-85558c6d08efb434d05b694364470aa0

Ya.. a really "radical" agenda, as expressed in the above White House transcript: "And it saddens me to think and then talk about aspects of the moment we are in — a moment when LGBTQ+ people and families and freedoms and basic rights are under attack in our country. ... These extremists have a plan to push their agenda as far and as wide as they possibly can. Their blueprint is to attack hard-won rights and freedoms state by state, to attack the right to live as your authentic self, to attack the right to vote, to attack the rights of workers to organize, to attack the right to make decisions about one’s own body." https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/06/26/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-at-biden-victory-fund-and-the-lgbtq-leadership-council-24th-annual-lgbtq-gala/

I'd say, another topic about dangerous, despicable Trump.... another good example of why he doesn't deserve to be elected as U.S. president. Uncle Donald, the trauma-maker Sept. 3, 2024 ... "The Trump name is toxic,” echoes her brother, Fred C. Trump III, in his own new memoir “All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way.” Without quite as much introspection, Fred chronicles his own Uncle Trump atrocities. A disturbing number of the stories in “All in the Family” show the former president as much more than obnoxious. He causes, countenances, orders and savors the physical pain of others. “If this wasn’t evil,” Fred writes of one especially horrific incident, “I couldn’t say what might qualify …. Where did the cruelty come from? I’ve wrestled with this question for years.” Los Angeles Times https://archive.ph/hEnFA#selection-2591.0-2619.187 https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-09-03/donald-trump-fred-trump-mary-trump-memoir

There's nothing in the meat of Harris' actual full answer, as posted in the full video I linked above, that was "simplistic kindergarten speak." But she was a bit slow to focus in on the asked topic, which of course is why the various Republicans choose to post and reference only that brief into to her remarks, and ignore/omit the substance of all the rest. No one with a non-partisan mindset who would read / view Harris' full answer as given in the video above would describe it as you have. Clear evidence below. Harris transcript from Fox: "There is also a point that is important to make on the Build Back Better framework. One, it is designed to make it less expensive for working people to live. It was specifically designed to bring down the costs of child care and increase accessibility and availability. Designed to bring down the cost of elder care and make it available to all the working families that need that support and need that help," she said. "And, Build Back Better is not going to cost anything — we're paying for it. So when we can get Build Back Better passed, and we are optimistic that we will, the American people will see costs actually reduced around some of the most essential services that they need to take care of their basic responsibilities, including issues like child care and elder care, and also preschool," Harris said. https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/flashback-kamala-harris-responds-how-shed-handle-inflation

Harris' full 4 minute long answer to the asked question was clear, detailed and cogent... But readers here of only the OP don't get to see/hear any of that, because the failed Republican congressional candidate consciously decided to post only the small opening part of Harris' actual detailed answer, which came to a question having nothing to do with the event and discussion Harris was participating in. Nor does the OP post make clear that the video clip in question was back from 2021 at an event in Paris where the substance of the meeting and discussions were about the U.S.-France relationship and global international cooperation, not U.S. domestic inflation. So perhaps that's why it took Harris a moment to reorient her thoughts to an entirely unrelated out-of-left-field question before proceeding to give a clear and specific answer. Adams' lately posting a clipped, out-of-context excerpt video from three years ago that omitted the substance of Harris' actual answer is anything but classy.

BTW, Jane Adams, the "political activist" who posted the original X / Twitter excerpted, out-of-context video that the OP poster used here is a failed Republican congressional candidate who finished in SIXTH place in her Nevada 2022 Republican primary... LOSER! The congressional seat ultimately was won by a Democrat! https://ballotpedia.org/Jane_Adams

As is typical of these kind of attempted partisan political hit pieces, the above clip is taken out of context (no reference to when/where the remarks were given) and provides only the opening halting 1 minute portion of what in fact was an almost 4-minute long, cogent, detailed and specific answer given by Vice President Harris back in November 2021 during a press conference at the Paris Peace Summit that included a major focus on the U.S.-France relationship and international relations issues (and not U.S. domestic inflation). But nonetheless, Harris' full answer to a Bloomberg reporter's question starting at the 22:30 point about U.S. inflation amid the COVID pandemic and what at the time was the administration's Build Back Better legislative proposal that ultimately became the enacted Inflation Reduction Act is here starting at the 22:55 time point and concluding at about 26:40. Also, Fox News later posted a partial transcript of Harris' comments that I can only partially quote below, as per forum rules: ""So we have addressed it in a number of ways. One of the issues that we know is related to this is the supply chain issue that we just discussed. So on a domestic level, in terms of domestic policy, one of the approaches we have taken is to work with labor unions and to work with municipalities in opening back up and extending the hours of our ports," she said. ... "There is also a point that is important to make on the Build Back Better framework. One, it is designed to make it less expensive for working people to live. It was specifically designed to bring down the costs of child care and increase accessibility and availability. Designed to bring down the cost of elder care and make it available to all the working families that need that support and need that help," she said. "And, Build Back Better is not going to cost anything — we're paying for it. So when we can get Build Back Better passed, and we are optimistic that we will, the American people will see costs actually reduced around some of the most essential services that they need to take care of their basic responsibilities, including issues like child care and elder care, and also preschool," Harris said. And more comments from her answer after that, as given in the above video. https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/flashback-kamala-harris-responds-how-shed-handle-inflation

Thanks for digging down further in the page to find that nugget. That answers my question above!

Right..... The effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines to prevent long COVID symptoms: staggered cohort study of data from the UK, Spain, and Estonia March 2024 "Vaccination against COVID-19 consistently reduced the risk of long COVID symptoms, which highlights the importance of vaccination to prevent persistent COVID-19 symptoms, particularly in adults." ... Added value of this study To our knowledge, this is the first multinational study to assess population-level vaccine effectiveness to prevent long COVID symptoms. Our study of more than 10 million vaccinated people and 10 million unvaccinated people, showed that COVID-19 vaccination reduces the risk of developing long COVID. Our findings were consistent across three different European countries and four databases, covering different health-care settings and national health-care policies. All vaccines reduced the risk of developing long COVID symptoms, with BNT162b2 showing slightly better effectiveness than ChAdOx1. ... Discussion Our analyses of more than 20 million vaccinated and unvaccinated people show the clinical effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines to prevent the development of long COVID in three European countries (the UK, Estonia, and Spain), with overall vaccine effectiveness ranging from 29% to 52%. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(23)00414-9/fulltext

Of course this above is what the New York Post would claim in the Rupert Murdoch property's relentless pro-Trump, anti-Democrat coverage. "Trump could..." But take it for just what it's worth. So "could" a lot of other outcomes result. Other media outlets have a different read on the current state of things: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/elections/polls-president.html https://archive.ph/cDPVi The share of undecided voters in major battleground states Polls in battleground states suggest that Harris and Trump are practically in a dead heat. That means even the few percent of voters who remain undecided could tip the scales one way or the other. Keeping an eye on these voters will be key to understanding what to expect in each of the swing states. https://www.vox.com/politics/369735/2024-election-biden-harris-forecast-approval-undecided-spending

My simple question here is -- has it been explained anywhere here how it is that Chinese nationals were working as laborers on a Thai government (State Railway of Thailand) contracted construction project? I always thought construction labor work in Thailand was mainly restricted by law to Thai nationals. Prohibited Occupations in Thailand ... "According to the Alien Act Law set by Thailand, the following are the type of work or jobs not allowed to be handled by foreigners working in Thailand and expect that foreigners engaging in such type of job or work will not be granted a Thai work permit: ... --Labor work, with the exception of fishing boat labor. --Whether it’s bricklaying, carpentry, or other types of construction work. --Professional civil engineering services, excluding tasks needing specialized skills. But include design and computation, systemization, analysis, planning, testing, construction supervision, and consulting services. https://www.thaiworkpermit.com/prohibited-occupations-in-thailand.html

Except numerous studies from various sources have consistently found that unvaccinated people become infected with COVID and also suffer Long COVID at higher rates than the vaccinated. Just some of many examples: Vaccinated People Have Up to 58% Lower Risk of Long COVID Feb. 21, 2024 – People vaccinated against COVID-19 were significantly less likely to have long COVID during the first few years of the pandemic, a new study from Michigan shows. ... The researchers compared vaccinated and unvaccinated people multiple ways and consistently showed at least a 40% difference in long COVID. https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20240221/vaccinated-people-lower-risk-long-covid-study Getting Vaccinated May Be Your Best Protection from Long COVID People vaccinated before their first case of COVID-19 are diagnosed with Long COVID almost four times less than unvaccinated people, suggests a large new study published Nov. 22 in the BMJ. That’s not an entirely new finding. For years, studies have shown that, while vaccinated people can and do develop Long COVID, they are at lower risk than people who haven’t had their shots. https://time.com/6338434/vaccination-long-covid-risk/ Long Covid and Vaccination: What You Need to Know A new study adds to evidence that the shots can reduce the chances of developing one of the most dreaded consequences of Covid. July 17, 2024 ... "In the new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Al-Aly and his colleagues provided persuasive evidence that vaccines cut the risk of long Covid. Before the vaccines were introduced, about 1 in 10 people had long Covid one year after being infected. After the shots were available, 9.5 percent of the unvaccinated developed long Covid after an infection with the Delta variant, and 7.8 percent did so after infection with the Omicron variant. But among vaccinated people, only 5.3 percent developed long Covid after infection with the Delta variant, and 3.5 percent after infection with the Omicron variant. New York Times https://archive.ph/6BCEg#selection-1021.0-1033.164

Of course! By your standard, they must have been price control espousing Marxists!

So by your price controls illogic, former Republican presidents Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon must have been Marxists and Fascists as well: In 1971: "Nixon issued Executive Order 11615 (pursuant to the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970), imposing a 90-day freeze on wages and prices in order to counter inflation. This was the first time the U.S. government had enacted wage and price controls since World War II." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock And then later from 1975: FORD SIGNS BILL ON ENERGY THAT ENDS POLICY IMPASSE AND CUTS CRUDE OIL PRICES WASHINGTON, Dec. 22—President Ford ended a yearlong stalemate with. Congress over energy policy today by signing into law a bill that will roll back crude oil prices and help stabilize gasoline and fuel oil prices for consumers, at least temporarily. ... Cut in Crude Oil Price The new law will force a reduction in the average price of crude oil produced in the United States from the current $8.75 a barrel to $7.66 a barrel. The change will go into effect in February." Shocking what those Republican Marxist presidents were up to.... 😞 But when it comes to "fascism", the definition of that sounds a whole lot more like a different presidential candidate: "Not all scholars agree on what fascism is. Philosopher Jason Stanley of Yale University says it is "a cult of the leader who promises national restoration in the face of humiliation brought on by supposed communists, Marxists and minorities and immigrants who are supposedly posing a threat to the character and the history of a nation." That is, fascism focuses on one person as leader, fascism says communism is bad, and fascism says that at least one group of people is bad and has caused the nation's problems. This group could be people from other countries or groups of people within the country.[9] [BOLD emphasis added] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism That sound a whole lot like the campaign platform and ravings of.... well, you know who.

Someone above kind of put their foot in it.... 🙂

Trump having "a somewhat promiscuous relationship with the truth" is pretty much like saying... ...water is wet!