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Old 05-31-2024, 07:06 AM
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Based on how things are going. I’m waiting for the news broadcast where they bring on some scientific experts to measure conservative skulls and show how they’re different from a normal human skull. How this explains why they don’t play nice in society, don’t believe in freedom or democracy, and that’s why we should consider removing them from the population.


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BREAKING: NYC changes laws to Indict Trump for unknown, inarticulable, puppy crimes.
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It's embarrassing and shameful .... not that Trump is now ***shivers*** a **FELON!!**, but because of how obvious it was that this was completely motivated by political bias with an agenda to disrupt his political ambitions. Nobody else in the same circumstance would have been had such a heavy handed punishment, if it was even pursued in the first place. People who rob liquor stores get lighter sentences ... Now, I've been seeing a lot of people happy to see this outcome, but I think this is a dangerous precedent. Using criminal courts can as a political weapon to silence adversaries is more corrupt than anything Trump was involved in.
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Originally Posted by akaryrye
Nobody else in the same circumstance would have been had such a heavy handed punishment, if it was even pursued in the first place. People who rob liquor stores get lighter sentences ...
Sentencing in NY v. Trump is set to take place on July 11, 2024.

As of today, which is June 1, 2024, Trump has received no punishment nor been given any sentence.

Or... do you claim to have already seen the script for next month?
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https://nypost.com/2024/06/02/opinio...tried-to-hide/

NIH scientists made $710M in royalties from drug makers — a fact they tried to hide

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Published June 2, 2024, 12:08 p.m. ET
0 of 1 minute, 36 secondsVolume 0%During the pandemic, the American people started to feel that Big Government was very cozy with Big Pharma.

Now we know just how close they were.

New data from the National Institutes of Health reveals the agency and its scientists collected $710 million in royalties during the pandemic, from late 2021 through 2023. These are payments made by private companies, like pharmaceuticals, to license medical innovations from government scientists.
3New data from the National Institutes of Health reveals the agency and its scientists collected $710 million in royalties during the pandemic.Getty ImagesAlmost all that cash — $690 million — went to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), the subagency led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, and 260 of its scientists.

Information about this vast private royalty complex is tightly held by NIH. My organization, OpenTheBooks.com, was forced to sue to uncover the royalties paid from September 2009 to October 2021, which amounted to $325 million over 56,000 transactions.


We had to sue a second time, with Judicial Watch as our counsel, to pry open this new release.

Payments skyrocketed during the pandemic era: those years saw more than double the amount of cash flow to NIH from the private sector, compared to the prior twelve combined. All told, it’s $1.036 billion.

It’s unclear if any of the Covid vaccine royalties from Pfizer and Moderna, the latter of which settled with NIH by agreeing to pay $400 million, is even included in these new numbers. NIH isn’t saying.
3Fauci won’t be able to misspell words to evade scrutiny or have folks physically courier messages — just two of the FOIA-avoiding actions described by Dr. David Morens, a key Fauci deputy.Getty ImagesThe American people have one last crack at getting some candor from Fauci, the face of our COVID response, when he testifies Monday before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

There’s plenty to answer for.

He’s spent years scoffing at questions about potential conflicts of interest between COVID policymakers, who relentlessly pushed vaccines, and recipients of private royalties.

Now he’ll also need to account for bombshell emails sent by one of his deputies, which described in-house strategies to circumvent the federal Freedom of Information Act.

Fauci won’t be able to misspell words to evade scrutiny or have folks physically courier messages — just two of the FOIA-avoiding actions described by Dr. David Morens, a key Fauci deputy.

Instead, cameras from around the world will be trained on Fauci and he’ll be answering for information he gave in a sworn deposition earlier this year.
3Sen. Rand Paul has sponsored the Royalty Transparency Act, which sailed unanimously through the committee process and deserves a floor vote immediately.Getty ImagesIt’s a chance to either come clean or further cement the public’s perception of him and the NIH as secretive and self-interested.

Beyond this small cabal of scientists covering up discussions of the virus’ origin, NIH has consistently treated FOIA requests like viral attacks of their own. No wonder, then, that we’re plaintiffs in six ongoing FOIA cases.

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NIH official finally admits taxpayers funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan — after years of denials

Characteristically, NIH is still redacting pieces of the data that would help us more easily connect therapeutics with their government-paid inventors. For example, they refuse to show us the amount of royalties paid to each individual scientist. So we still can’t entirely follow the money.

In the meantime, Sen. Rand Paul has sponsored the Royalty Transparency Act, which sailed unanimously through the committee process and deserves a floor vote immediately.

There’s plenty Fauci could do in the meantime, too. He could indicate he supports bills like Paul’s. He could call on NIH and CDC to voluntarily “unmask” the royalty payments. Then we could see whether their decisions have advanced the general welfare or their own.

Fauci could also support fixes to the FOIA law that create real consequences for those who purposely violate it.

At minimum, he must apologize for the utter contempt for FOIA, and the transparency war waged by his colleagues that’s now been revealed in private communications.

Among the government’s most basic duties to the public are providing for the general welfare and reporting its income and spending.
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Originally Posted by cordycord
21st century American lefties genuinely will not see the irony in this, because they have appropriated and re-defined the word "fascism."

They have actually gotten one tiny little piece right, and that is that the genuine fascists of the mid 20th century were opposed to communism.



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21st century American lefties genuinely will not see the irony in this, because they have appropriated and re-defined the word "fascism."

They have actually gotten one tiny little piece right, and that is that the genuine fascists of the mid 20th century were opposed to communism.


People like Mussolini and Henry Ford thought that the Central Planners could create a utopia because all the smartest people were running things. It's pretty much the working plan of the current Democrat party, as it forgives its own sins because the ends will certainly justify the means. If they were opposed to Communism, it's because they hadn't realized that the end results of fascism and communism would look so similar.
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Originally Posted by akaryrye
It's embarrassing and shameful .... not that Trump is now ***shivers*** a **FELON!!**, but because of how obvious it was that this was completely motivated by political bias with an agenda to disrupt his political ambitions. Nobody else in the same circumstance would have been had such a heavy handed punishment, if it was even pursued in the first place. People who rob liquor stores get lighter sentences ... Now, I've been seeing a lot of people happy to see this outcome, but I think this is a dangerous precedent. Using criminal courts can as a political weapon to silence adversaries is more corrupt than anything Trump was involved in.
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I'm burn out on this election and all of the lawfare. Nov 5th can't come too soon.

Although I wonder what the real reason is that dems are going such lengths to win. It's not for the publicized reasons. It's got to be self-preservation of the current state of the fbi and/or maybe there was not only some shenanigans with the 20 election, but there is some proof to be had from an investigation.

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Originally Posted by LeoNA
I'm burn out on this election and all of the lawfare. Nov 5th can't come too soon.

Although I wonder what the real reason is that dems are going such lengths to win. It's not for the publicize reasons. It's got to be self-preservation of the current state of the fbi and/or maybe there was not only some shenanigans with the 20 election, but there is some proof to be had from an investigation.
the same reason the FBI killed JFK when he tried to reign in their power.
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What sucks for the citizens of this country is that we have this three-letter group that is capable of changing our elections and it is made up of non-elected people.
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Originally Posted by LeoNA
What sucks for the citizens of this country is that we have this three-letter group that is capable of changing our elections and it is made up of non-elected people.
heres a good breakdown of the bs:

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At this point, I'm actually starting to become more and more curious about Judge Cannon, who is overseeing the Federal case down in Florida, and has thus far been remarkably cooperative with regard to the defense's strategy of delaying the start of that trial until after the election.

If Trump does win in Nov, it will be interesting to see what amazing and unexpected career advancements she suddenly finds coming her way.
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If Trump does win in Nov, it will be interesting to see what amazing and unexpected career advancements she suddenly finds coming her way. [/color]
Same same, but with a Biden win and the NY judge who gave unprecedented jury instructions to get a conviction he knows won't stand. Judges are just lawyers with political goals. Never forget that.

I dislike politicians.
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
At this point, I'm actually starting to become more and more curious about Judge Cannon, who is overseeing the Federal case down in Florida, and has thus far been remarkably cooperative with regard to the defense's strategy of delaying the start of that trial until after the election.

If Trump does win in Nov, it will be interesting to see what amazing and unexpected career advancements she suddenly finds coming her way.
She's a Trump appointee and isn't playing games.


also, the physical laptop was presented as evidence in the gun trial. do you finally believe it?
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also, the physical laptop was presented as evidence in the gun trial. do you finally believe it?
Purely Russian disinformation. Same with the fake diary the Russians made up that Ashley admitted was real last week.

******* Russians, man.
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