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Biden's Speech, Look who's Mr. Democracy!!!!

Postby ConfederateSS on Thu Nov 03, 2022 7:21 am

--------------- Just when you think Biden can't give the worst speech in American History...He tops himself, time after time....This one beats the last blood red speech at Independence Hall... :lol: :lol: :lol:
----------------- He is all about Democracy, vote Democrat... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

---------------- I said , in the other thread....Paul Pelosi's attack looks fishy...Right before The Mid Term Election 2022 A.D....Democrats are going to be smashed all over the country....

---------------- Biden , Like the Left Media...Connecting the attack on Paul to , yes wait for it... JANUARY 6th... :roll: :roll: :roll: ...Where is Nancy???...Where is Nancy???...The attacker cried ...Like Jan. 6th....OMG... :roll: :roll: :roll: ...In His Speech Last Night....WOW there have been people pushed in front of Subway cars/trains, or the 3rd rail ;) ...Old West shoot outs across the country...Axe crazy people, people just beating people down.... Congressman Lee Zeldin running for Governor of New York...was attacked...But all of a sudden....Biden and the Democratic Party want to talk crime...

---------------- Biden wants to talk Democracy.... :lol: :lol: :lol:
---------------- He as the 3rd Obama term in office....Wants everyone to vote Democrat... :roll: :roll: :roll:
---------------- While Vice President , Biden was part of getting rid of A Ukrainian President, allowing Russia to take the Crimea back....Brought Slavery back to North Africa (Libya)... Now as President, Back to The USA through open borders...Cartels are making Billions off human trafficking (Slavery)...It gets better... Biden's government/administration, melded in this year's elections in Brazil... Brazil is the only Chinese controled hold out in South America...Think about it...

---------------- The Democratic Party leads the Teacher's Unions...They don't want Parents raising their own kids...They want ,schools / government to mold America's kids... Parents no say in their kids lives...YAY Democracy... :roll: :roll: :roll:

---------------- Biden warns already...Vote counting could take 7 days after the election next week to count....Yeah, they need to see how far they are behind... Magical Ballots can appear...
---------------- The Best Country in the World can't get the vote total in...One Day Election...Outside of Retirement people....Or Military people...Or if requested by say , kids are away at college...Or crippled (Yes, Jesus healed the cripples,(Bible), cripple good enough for Jesus, so let it be written, so let it be done.)...Just mailing out ballots, you are asking for voter fraud...They had mail in ballots in France in the 1970's A.D...They stopped, they found it was easy to commit voter fraud.... SURPRISE!!!!
---------------- The lines are to long, we need water, or other stuff... :roll: ... Really...
---------------- Outside of voting...When has waiting been a problem...Think about it...You have 12 hours to get your ass down there and vote...You don't need 18 day voting......If you need water bring it...Stop off at Burger King , bring food...Let us face it....We used to put a quarter up , while waiting to play video games at the corner store.... Americans wait in lines at Amusement parks...Do the parks run up and down the lines with water(free)...No, they want you to pay $8.00 for a coke... Americans sleep out in tents for days...For Movie tickets, Concerts etc...They will wait 30 minutes or more for a table at a restaurant to stuff their faces...Not for the Best thing you can do in a Democracy...though...VOTE :!: ...Too busy(lazy)...Then cry when gas is $10.00 and they can't eat...They will be waiting in lines for food...When they could have waited in line , for just One day a year....Not a surprise either...You have a year to plan for it...It is pathetic Americans can't save one day a year for as Biden says, "Democracy"..
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Postby jimboston on Thu Nov 03, 2022 2:17 pm

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That’s all I see.
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Postby jimboston on Thu Nov 03, 2022 2:24 pm

I will admit I prefer in-person voting, and wouldn’t mind if mail-in ballots were limited.
You could request one but had to certify a valid reason… like the way it was 20 years ago.

That said… there’s no reason in-person voting can’t occur over the course of several days.

Of course the biggest argument against requiring in-person voting is that nowadays at some polling places you see a pickup truck full of good’ ole boys wearing camouflage, and it can be unsettling for some.
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The rest of his rant is all the deranged nightmare of a lunatic unconnected with reality.

Typical post from our own resident racist.
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Postby saxitoxin on Thu Nov 03, 2022 3:03 pm

Whistleblower and acclaimed civil rights activist Edward Snowden had a good take --

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Postby mookiemcgee on Thu Nov 03, 2022 3:23 pm

Republicans will talk about anything else to distract from talking about the candidates they put forward who 'won't accept results if they lose'.
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Postby saxitoxin on Thu Nov 03, 2022 3:28 pm

mookiemcgee wrote:Republicans will talk about anything else to distract from talking about the candidates they put forward who 'won't accept results if they lose'.


Um ... those are like all of our candidates.
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Postby mookiemcgee on Thu Nov 03, 2022 4:50 pm

saxitoxin wrote:
mookiemcgee wrote:Republicans will talk about anything else to distract from talking about the candidates they put forward who 'won't accept results if they lose'.


Um ... those are like all of our candidates.


Saxi agrees that all republican candidates no longer want America to be a democratic republic and are in favor of fascist rule.

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Postby saxitoxin on Thu Nov 03, 2022 5:51 pm

mookiemcgee wrote:
saxitoxin wrote:
mookiemcgee wrote:Republicans will talk about anything else to distract from talking about the candidates they put forward who 'won't accept results if they lose'.


Um ... those are like all of our candidates.


Saxi agrees that all republican candidates no longer want America to be a democratic republic and are in favor of fascist rule.


McGee agrees that it is unacceptable to ever question the integrity of an election and anyone who expressed skepticism at the results of the 1963 Paraguayan general election, which Alfredo Stroessner "won" with "92%" of the vote, was rightfully arrested and shot.
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Postby mookiemcgee on Thu Nov 03, 2022 6:03 pm

"we haven't even had the election, but its valid if my team wins and invalid if my team loses"
-republicans up for elections

"I have no problem with this, f*ck joe biden this is his fault."
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Postby saxitoxin on Thu Nov 03, 2022 6:07 pm

"Alfredo Stroessner is a hero. No one ever raised an eyebrow at the results of the 13 elections in a row that he won ... at least no one who survived."
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Postby mookiemcgee on Thu Nov 03, 2022 6:31 pm

saxitoxin wrote:"Alfredo Stroessner is a hero. No one ever raised an eyebrow at the results of the 13 elections in a row that he won ... at least no one who survived."
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When democrats win 13 national presidential elections in a row we can talk about it Saxi. Till then just keep cheering for Russia claiming that makes you a patriot (but no collusion).
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Postby saxitoxin on Thu Nov 03, 2022 6:34 pm

mookiemcgee wrote:
saxitoxin wrote:"Alfredo Stroessner is a hero. No one ever raised an eyebrow at the results of the 13 elections in a row that he won ... at least no one who survived."
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When democrats win 13 national presidential elections in a row we can talk about it Saxi.


When Republicans deny 13 national presidential elections in a row we can talk about it McGee.
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Postby saxitoxin on Thu Nov 03, 2022 6:36 pm

Here's 12 minutes of Rats denying the legitimacy of elections (AKA "attacking our democracy") -


Also, all the Republican "election deniers" the Democrats are bemoaning now were funded and financed by Democrats. Without the Democrats, we would have had to make due with a bunch of RINO election legitimizers on next week's ballot. The Democrats can't be too concerned about Republican candidates, since they spent $44 million helping them win their primaries. If you were concerned someone was an existential risk to democracy, why would you spend $44 million helping them get elected?

Democrats Spent $43 Million Helping Election Deniers Win Their Primaries

The Democrats are trying to beat the Republicans at their own game this midterm cycle, meddling in a number of GOP primaries with the hope that it'll improve their odds in November. But the strategy has required the party to spend tens of millions of dollars boosting election deniers, and if it backfires, the Democrats will have to shoulder some of the blame for helping those far-right candidates into office. Democrats have spent at least $43,885,000 on advertising campaigns in races across six states.

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Postby mookiemcgee on Thu Nov 03, 2022 7:56 pm

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But they are 'patriots', and you should vote for people who share their beliefs.
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Postby mookiemcgee on Thu Nov 03, 2022 7:59 pm

saxitoxin wrote:
mookiemcgee wrote:
saxitoxin wrote:"Alfredo Stroessner is a hero. No one ever raised an eyebrow at the results of the 13 elections in a row that he won ... at least no one who survived."
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When democrats win 13 national presidential elections in a row we can talk about it Saxi.


When Republicans deny 13 national presidential elections in a row we can talk about it McGee.


I'd wait for the 10 more you want, but if your side gets it's way we won't even have elections anymore.
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Postby saxitoxin on Fri Nov 04, 2022 2:18 am

mookiemcgee wrote:
saxitoxin wrote:
mookiemcgee wrote:
saxitoxin wrote:"Alfredo Stroessner is a hero. No one ever raised an eyebrow at the results of the 13 elections in a row that he won ... at least no one who survived."
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When democrats win 13 national presidential elections in a row we can talk about it Saxi.


When Republicans deny 13 national presidential elections in a row we can talk about it McGee.


I'd wait for the 10 more you want, but if your side gets it's way we won't even have elections anymore.


Yeah yeah yeah. In 2016 the Rats told us there'd be a nuclear war within 24 months of Trump winning. This time it'll be the end of democracy itself. In 2024 they'll say Godzilla will destroy New York if you don't vote Democrat.

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Postby ConfederateSS on Fri Nov 04, 2022 12:09 pm

mookiemcgee wrote:
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mookiemcgee wrote:Republicans will talk about anything else to distract from talking about the candidates they put forward who 'won't accept results if they lose'.


Um ... those are like all of our candidates.


Saxi agrees that all republican candidates no longer want America to be a democratic republic and are in favor of fascist rule.

I petition to re-name America as either 'New Rome' or "Gilead"


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Postby saxitoxin on Sat Nov 05, 2022 4:41 pm

Today's metaphor for the Democrat government -

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Postby karel on Fri Nov 11, 2022 11:39 pm

when we going to see that info on that lap top,dems scared joe is a fraud just like his kid
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Postby mookiemcgee on Fri Nov 11, 2022 11:40 pm

karel wrote:when we going to see that info on that lap top,dems scared joe is a fraud just like his kid


Saxi's already shared a bunch, pretty sure he has a copy of the hard drive to fap to if you want to reach out he may be willing to share
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Postby karel on Sat Nov 12, 2022 12:38 am

mookiemcgee wrote:
karel wrote:when we going to see that info on that lap top,dems scared joe is a fraud just like his kid


Saxi's already shared a bunch, pretty sure he has a copy of the hard drive to fap to if you want to reach out he may be willing to share

im for real,when we going to see it,if it was trumps son he would been in jail with in 3 months
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Postby Dukasaur on Sat Nov 12, 2022 7:40 am

Never mind Trump's son. Trump himself has committed far worse crimes and still isn't in jail, so your point is false.
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Postby jusplay4fun on Sat Nov 12, 2022 7:48 am

Trump's son wasn't DUMMMM enough (or high on Coke or other illegal drugs) to leave a lap top with SOOO much incriminating evidence at a repair shop. That evidence implicates Hunter and his father, President Joe Biden.

Donald Trump is up to his usual strategy of delays and denials and misleading statements. Part of the major delays is tie up things legally in court to "wear out" the opposition. The current opposition now has motivation to not get worn out too soon.
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Postby jimboston on Sat Nov 12, 2022 9:36 am

I am so sick of hearing about this “laptop”.

The “laptop” that everyone has been talking about isn’t even a laptop.

It’s a portable hard drive that some pro-Trump guy handed to the media and said was “from Hunter Biden’s laptop”.

The data on this PORTABLE HARD DRIVE (not laptop) has been moved and modified so much that it’s impossible for even the best forensic data engineers to determine the authenticity/provenance of a good majority of the files on the drive. It may be that some of the word files and emails are authentic, and it does appear Hunter likely benefited monetarily from the political position of his father… and this isn’t great and there. may be some illegal activity there. I don’t know…. ur neither do any of the MAGA pundits who keep talking about this.

I believe it’s possible the FBI has the actual laptop, but I don’t know if I’ve read this in any valid or reliable source.

I DO KNOW that all the BS that MAGA nutjobs are shouting about the laptop is bullshit.

JP4…you claim to be well informed… we’ll do your research. The data people are talking about is NOT from Hunter’s laptop directly.
Look it up!

Here’s a start… do more research…

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Postby jusplay4fun on Sat Nov 12, 2022 3:49 pm

Lap top or not; does it really matter? NO.

Try this:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/hunter-biden-laptop-investigation.html

I have read most of the above cited article and have quotes below. There is nothing DEFINITIVELY criminal, YET, but a good, thorough, and unbiased investigation is needed to sort out the details and to dig into the allegations and to get to the "bottom" and end the "rumors" that are going around.

Here are a few quotes:

And imagine that, in the middle of all of this, you lose control of 217 gigabytes of your personal data: videos in which you have sex; videos in which you smoke crack; bleary-eyed selfies; selfies that document your in-progress dental work; your bank statements; your Venmo transactions; your business emails; your toxic rants at family members; analysis from your psychiatrist; your porn searches; your Social Security number; explicit photos of the many women passing through your bedrooms, photos of your kids, of your father, of life and death, despair and boredom.

Imagine revealing this kaleidoscopic archive of all your different selves to anyone else. Now imagine it’s not just anyone but the same political opposition that has already sought to destroy your father’s candidacy by improperly pressuring a foreign leader to offer up dirt about your (sketchy, for sure) business dealings. Imagine, in a country with toxic and broken politics, how explosive this collection of data might appear to your enemies in the days leading up to a presidential election, and how valuable it might become after their defeat, as they seek to overturn and then undermine the results. For the sake of simplicity, let’s call this nebulous cloud of data a “laptop.”

The first thing you need to understand about the Hunter Biden laptop, though, is that it’s not a laptop. The FBI reportedly took possession of the original — at least if you accept the version of events promoted by those who have distributed the data, which Hunter Biden and his lawyers don’t — and all we have now are copies of copies. When it first publicly surfaced, 20 days before the 2020 election, the authenticity of the material was doubted to the degree that Twitter and Facebook effectively banned the story from legitimate political discourse. Since then, mainstream news organizations, including the New York Times and the Washington Post, have come to verify that at least some of the information contained in the cache is authentic.

(...)

Hidden inside the laptop, according to those (almost exclusively on the right) who have reviewed the data or who trust the word of those who claim they have, is a corruption scandal that implicates not just Hunter but other members of the Biden family, including the president. The laptop details Hunter’s involvement with a Ukrainian natural-gas producer that paid him millions of dollars to serve on its board — the relationship at the center of Donald Trump’s first impeachment. It shows how a Chinese energy company directed millions of dollars in consulting fees to Hunter and his uncle. It reveals White House meetings and slush-fund dinners and wheeling and dealing, from Romania to Monte Carlo to Cafe Milano. Most important, these people claim the laptop contains proof that, despite his denials, Joe Biden — allegedly referred to in emails as “the big guy” — was fully aware of, and looking to profit from, his son’s business activities.

The fine print of the original signed repair order says that equipment left in the shop longer than 90 days becomes its property. In interviews, several experts on Delaware law agreed that the document would make the laptop legally Mac Isaac’s after that time, and once he took possession of the computer, nothing would legally prevent Mac Isaac from sharing its contents with the world. Even so, by his own account, Mac Isaac started to poke around before 90 days had elapsed. The very first time he looked at the desktop, he says, he noticed an intriguing file: “Income.pdf.” “That kind of stood out,” Mac Isaac says. “So I clicked.”

If you want to make an argument to justify what happened next, the “Income” file is where it all starts. The Laptop From Hell, a 224-page book based on raw material from the data dump by New York Post columnist Miranda Devine, quotes from material found on the laptop to make the case that Hunter felt like his “family’s cash cow,” the son assigned the role of rainmaker while his father and older brother devoted themselves to public service. “Beau didn’t take on these fucking responsibilities,” Hunter reportedly ranted in a 2018 voice memo. “He didn’t do any of this shit.” In a text to his daughter Naomi, who was 25 at the time, Hunter complained that he had to “pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years,” assuring her that unlike “Pop” — the family’s name for Joe — he wouldn’t take “half your salary.” In right-wing circles, these texts have been construed to suggest there was a formal revenue-sharing agreement between Joe and Hunter, though looked at in a more forgiving light, they can be read as hyperbolic bitching.


Two FBI agents visited Mac Isaac’s home. He says they seemed primarily concerned with figuring out if the computer contained child pornography. Mac Isaac said he had not seen any. On December 9, 2019, according to the date on a copy of the grand-jury subpoena, the agents came to Mac Isaac’s shop and took away a MacBook, serial number FVFXC2MMHV29, along with the external drive provided for the data recovery. That same day, the House Judiciary Committee was preparing to debate two impeachment articles. Mac Isaac was thrilled — finally, Attorney General Bill Barr and the Justice Department were going to see what he had discovered.

Mac Isaac had made a copy of the laptop’s hard drive for himself as insurance. He had also set up a kind of dead man’s switch, making another copy of the drive to give to someone he trusted, with instructions to pass it along in the event of his death to President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

Within a few days, he started to feel uneasy about the FBI. The agents called him up asking for assistance in getting access to the drive. Didn’t the FBI have its own tech support? He thought back to his conversation with the agents, especially a comment he recalled their making about his safety concerns, something to the effect of “Nothing happens to people who don’t talk about these things.” Was that a threat? He got back in touch with his father, and they called up an uncle, another former Air Force colonel who served on the board of a conservative nonprofit.


The tipster went on to claim to have “email proof” that Hunter and a business partner had been paid more than a million dollars in fees by Burisma and that they had used “their influence at the White House to pressure the Ukraine government to stop investigating” the company. “I feel the closer we get to the election,” Mac Isaac wrote, “the more this will be ignored.”

Costello wrote right back, telling Mac Isaac that he and Giuliani were “in position to get the information to the right places, provided the information is accurate and was obtained lawfully.” The timing was auspicious. A Republican-controlled Senate committee was working on an investigation of Hunter Biden, and Democrats were attacking the probe as a partisan smear job. The following month, the committee’s report would cite bank records to conclude that Biden and his business associates had received at least $4 million in fees from Burisma as well as millions more from other “foreign nationals with questionable backgrounds.” Trump was seeking to capitalize on the issue. His campaign soon started selling T-shirts that asked WHERE’S HUNTER?

Mac Isaac replied to Costello by sending him an image of the signed repair order and the subpoena, which seemed to indicate that the laptop was relevant to a criminal investigation.


In December 2013, not long before Hunter got involved with Burisma, he accompanied his father on a visit to Beijing aboard Air Force Two and met with a Chinese businessman who was interested in investing capital outside the country. Later on — only after his father left office, Hunter has stressed — Hunter took a 10 percent equity stake in a venture with the businessman. Toward the end of the Obama administration, Hunter began a separate set of talks with Ye Jianming, a Chinese energy magnate who, like many businessmen of his stature, had ties to the nation’s Communist Party. In 2017, Hunter and his partners formed a corporate entity to pursue business ventures with Ye’s company, including a later-scuttled $40 million investment in a natural-gas project on Monkey Island in Louisiana. A 2017 email from a representative for one of the partners (subject line: “Expectations”) was allegedly found on the laptop. It proposed a corporate structure in which Hunter would own 20 percent of the company, with another 10 percent “held by H for the big guy.” The big guy, many on the right believe, was Joe Biden.

There is little else on the laptop to suggest that Joe Biden profited from, or was even fully aware of, his son’s business activities. In 2017, the former vice-president was a private citizen, so partaking in the deal wouldn’t have been illegal, but he hadn’t foreclosed the possibility of a future presidential run, and going into business with Chinese investors connected to the Communist Party would certainly have been a political and ethical nightmare for him. That said, the “Expectations” email was not written by Hunter Biden, and that deal ended up falling apart. But the Chinese relationship still proved fruitful for the Biden family. According to a subsequent Washington Post investigation, Ye later struck an agreement that paid nearly $5 million in legal and consulting fees to entities controlled by Hunter and his uncle James Biden. At the time, Hunter was acting as an attorney for an associate of an executive at the company, who ended up being arrested at JFK airport and charged with bribing government officials in Chad and Uganda. The next year, Ye was detained by Chinese authorities, and the payments eventually stopped.
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