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Old 07-23-2024, 11:44 AM
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when all they have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.


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Originally Posted by Braineack
when all they have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

They don't even care that she's Indian/Jamaican. She's just dark enough to pass so they're running with it and the racists who only see color will fawn all over her for the sake of progressiveness. How stunning and brave.


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Black is beautiful.

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Mark Kelly is not black, and he is her best choice.

Soon we will feel the steal.

The legacy media will run with the concept that harris is going to win and do everything they can to make it seem plausible enough for a manipulation. They only need the majority to believe it was possible. They don't need the majority of the votes, electoral or popular. They just need it to be close enough so it can be manipulated.

If the media pushes it hard enough, she will pick up the bonus votes of the non-thinkers that just want to be on the winning team. That combined with some extra black and woman votes it will be plausible. Get ready for a record turnout on Nov 5. I'm guessing DJT will get 80mil votes and the total will be 180mil. It will only be unbelievable to those with common sense.

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There hasn't been a formal press conference from Biden on his retirement from the race, and there hasn't even been a formal press conference about the assassination attempt.

The public is left to wonder what REALLY happened, and what's REALLY happening now. And that's when you wonder if these conspiracy theories really are theories, or just reality.







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Originally Posted by LeoNA
The legacy media will run with the concept that harris is going to win
The voters who make a difference this November aren't going to be the ones watching legacy media. It's gonna be the teens and 20-somethings, probably voting for the first time, who get their political information from TicTok and Twitter.

Here's an example:




XKCD is a somewhat left-leaning cartoon, which very loudly endorsed Hillary in 2016, as well as Obama in 2008 and 2012. I do not recall him having much to say in 2020.


This is closer to reality:


Anyone who thinks we're all going to spend the 2032 elections poring over rambling blog posts by teenagers has never tried to read a rambling blog post by a teenager.
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Didn't Peter Navarro just get out of prison for the same thing? Is avoiding a subpoena successfully dependent on which party will benefit?
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Originally Posted by cordycord

The head of the Secret Service testified before the United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability yesterday, July 22, 2024. Here is a New York Times article which describes her testimony, and it is quite damning: https://archive.is/EjP2e#selection-891.2-891.226

The Committee is presently chaired by Republican James Comer, who has declined or stopped investigations into former President Donald Trump and is presently leading an investigation into the Biden family. As such, this investigation might appear, to someone who suffers from TDS, to be a witch-hunt.



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Is avoiding a subpoena successfully dependent on which party will benefit?
Broadly speaking, yes, when speaking of individuals at that high rank of government.
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The head of the Secret Service testified before the United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability yesterday, July 22, 2024.
she declined, then was subpoenaed -- because she wanted to be forthright and update the public with the facts.
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez

The Committee is presently chaired by Republican James Comer, who has declined or stopped investigations into former President Donald Trump and is presently leading an investigation into the Biden family. As such, this investigation might appear, to someone who suffers from TDS, to be a witch-hunt.
Can never figure out when you're serious and when you're foolin'.



Comer witch hunt...
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They don't even care that she's Indian/Jamaican. She's just dark enough to pass so they're running with it and the racists who only see color will fawn all over her for the sake of progressiveness. How stunning and brave.

I was deeply surprised no black Americans pointed out she wasn't black back in 2020. George Soros gave the finger to the entire Blafrican American community, and no one said ****.
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she declined, then was subpoenaed -- because she wanted to be forthright and update the public with the facts.

Funny how some people actually still bother invoking the 5th amendment.
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Originally Posted by cordycord
Can never figure out when you're serious and when you're foolin'.

As a broad generalization, I try to avoid using sarcasm / hyperbole / etc in this thread, without specifically calling it out.

Which part of what I wrote do you find objectionable?
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Funny how some people actually still bother invoking the 5th amendment.
Peter Navarro did that and landed in jail. He was upholding the separation of powers clause with lots of precedent. But it didn't matter.

Apparently all those primary votes for Biden didn't matter either, but it never seems like Democrats mind when the "will of the people' is subverted by the DC Swamp.
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Originally Posted by cordycord
Peter Navarro did that and landed in jail.
This is the same man who, in 2022, refused to turn over to the National Archives official business-related emails from a personal ProtonMail account which he used to conduct White House business during his tenure in the Cabinet of President Trump from 2017-2020, as required by the Presidential Records Act.

When the Department of Justice sued Navarro in U.S. District Court to compel him to turn over these records, Navarro acknowledged that he had at least 200 to 250 records in his possession belong to the government.

But he claimed that no mechanism exists to for the government enforce that requirement (basically, "Yeah, I'm breaking the law, but you can't do anything about it".)

And the best part, and I swear that I am not making this up: he also claimed that being compelled to turn over said records might violate his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.

In other words, he was defending himself against one crime by admitting that the records which the government wanted contained evidence that he had committed other crimes while in office.

I am not talented enough to make **** like this up.




Weren't the MAGA crowd really riled up about government documents being stored on personal email accounts back around 2016 or thereabouts?

I seem to remember that being a thing which we were all talking about at the time...





I'll say this again, for clarity: pretty much all politicians are crooks, regardless of the color of their tie.


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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
This is the same man who, in 2022, refused to turn over to the National Archives official business-related emails from a personal ProtonMail account which he used to conduct White House business during his tenure in the Cabinet of President Trump from 2017-2020, as required by the Presidential Records Act.

When the Department of Justice sued Navarro in U.S. District Court to compel him to turn over these records, Navarro acknowledged that he had at least 200 to 250 records in his possession belong to the government.

But he claimed that no mechanism exists to for the government enforce that requirement (basically, "Yeah, I'm breaking the law, but you can't do anything about it".)

And the best part, and I swear that I am not making this up: he also claimed that being compelled to turn over said records might violate his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.

In other words, he was defending himself against one crime by admitting that the records which the government wanted contained evidence that he had committed other crimes while in office.

I am not talented enough to make **** like this up.


Weren't the MAGA crowd really riled up about government documents being stored on personal email accounts back around 2016 or thereabouts?

I seem to remember that being a thing which we were all talking about at the time...

I'll say this again, for clarity: pretty much all politicians are crooks, regardless of the color of their tie.
At least he just got a slap on the wrist, like HRC.

Let's be honest, I really hope DJT gets into office, and when he's there I want a reckoning of Hunter's desktop, along with Weiner's laptop that was supposed to have over 600,000 HRC emails. I know, wishful thinking.

I agree about politicians. The ONLY remedy is to have less of them. I 1000% endorse the Javier Milei plan for government....cut it down to size.
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Cordy, I will respond to your post shortly.

Right now, I need to re-post this fact:

The Black Lives Matter folks are publicly condemning the DNC right now.






You know how, in the 1800s, the Republicans were opposed to slavery, whereas the Democrats supported it? Up to and including folks like George Wallace (D) standing in the doorway at the main entrance to the University of Alabama, to block the path of negro students from entering, in 1963?

And then, somewhere around the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the parties flipped sides on this issue, and suddenly the Republicans were the bad, evil racists and the Democrats were the good, pure party which supported the rights of everyone?

"A 24-hour process of talking to party bosses is not democratic, nor is it a process Democrats should be proud of. We do not live in a dictatorship. Delegates are not oligarchs."

Mark my words: We are at a turning point in history right now.

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