bickster Posted June 22, 2023 Moderator Share Posted June 22, 2023 21 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: Just for those of us that perhaps don't follow US politics that closely - who is Durham? The Special Counsel who oversaw the Trump - Russia investigation 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted June 22, 2023 Moderator Share Posted June 22, 2023 Backslidin' How do you do? These slippery people Gonna see you through. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted June 22, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted June 22, 2023 1 hour ago, bickster said: The Special Counsel who oversaw the Trump - Russia investigation Or, more accurately, the Special Council who oversaw the investigation of the Trump-Russia investigation. Trump and his lackeys (i.e. the Republicans) contended that the Trump-Russia investigation was a partisan witch-hunt initiated on false pretenses based on the Steele Dossier, which contained, among other things, unsubstantiated claims that Russians may have evidence of Trump in golden showers escapades with hookers in Russia. Trump's AG appointed Durham, known to be a right winger, to investigate how it started and expected him to find all kinds of nefarious players and bring charges against all the anti-Trumpers who subjected him to all this unfair abuse. In the end, Durham came up with nothing. One minor charge against a low-level guy who failed to disclose his relationship with a law firm when presenting the case for some investigations or something like that. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pas5898 Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 (edited) Whilst the USA media were pointlessly focused on an already blown up submersible to be recovered. Joe Bidens Son cut a plea deal for tax evasion. Undeclared taxes as they were from foreign entities / lobbying allegedly on behalf of his father. As part of the plea deal he talked himself out of the gun possession whilst a known drug offender which is a mandatory prison sentence of up to 10 years. *puts on tin hat* Edited June 23, 2023 by pas5898 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 41 minutes ago, pas5898 said: Whilst the USA media were pointlessly focused on an already blown up submersible to be recovered. Joe Bidens Son cut a plea deal for tax evasion. Undeclared taxes as they were from foreign entities / lobbying allegedly on behalf of his father. As part of the plea deal he talked himself out of the gun possession whilst a known drug offender which is a mandatory prison sentence of up to 10 years. *puts on tin hat* Have you read comparisons to his charges, they generally don’t charge federally for the gun possession. The tax error which has already been paid was seen as a harsh charge by many specialists and to argue against it Roger Stone, $2m tax issue last year only had to pay his and no charge and Hunter’s amount was far far less. As for lobbying, as a I quoted a few pages back is unsubstantiated and detailed the reasons why, this charge also shows after 5 years of investigation by a Trump appointee, they hadn’t the evidence, couldn’t find the evidence to the hearsay, told to an FBI informant years ago with no proof. Experts suggest given the charges, that Hunter ended up being dealt with harsher than equivalents to the dismay of MAGA GOP 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted June 23, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted June 23, 2023 1 hour ago, pas5898 said: Whilst the USA media were pointlessly focused on an already blown up submersible to be recovered. Joe Bidens Son cut a plea deal for tax evasion. Undeclared taxes as they were from foreign entities / lobbying allegedly on behalf of his father. As part of the plea deal he talked himself out of the gun possession whilst a known drug offender which is a mandatory prison sentence of up to 10 years. *puts on tin hat* Not sure why you would need a tin hat for posting about someone who is not President Biden? Unless you're suggesting Biden personally got involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 Trump doing the prosecutions job for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted June 29, 2023 Share Posted June 29, 2023 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sidcow Posted June 29, 2023 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2023 6 minutes ago, nick76 said: Sorry. I have absolutely no idea what that's saying. I need a translator. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted June 29, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted June 29, 2023 Anyone who writes "womp womp" needs taking outside and being soundly beaten. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted June 29, 2023 Share Posted June 29, 2023 49 minutes ago, sidcow said: Sorry. I have absolutely no idea what that's saying. I need a translator. GOP source denies what GOP has said publicly about VP Biden being involved….womp, womp! is it beating time? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted June 30, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted June 30, 2023 Supreme Court overturns affirmative action in college admissions. Crowbar firmly in Pandora's box. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marka Ragnos Posted June 30, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted June 30, 2023 (edited) 14 hours ago, Chindie said: Supreme Court overturns affirmative action in college admissions. Crowbar firmly in Pandora's box. Could be. Definitely the least surprising ruling of the year, you have to admit. Everyone knew it was coming, and colleges have been working on changing policies since last year to prepare. It will be interesting to see if there's actually a sustained reaction now. My sense is that a large majority of the public aren't bothered by the ruling. Very liberal California never did find a way to rid themselves of Prop 209 despite the huge effects at UC. It's a very tough one because Harvard so clearly discriminated against Asian Americans in a completely **** up way. That was wrong and never going to go unchallenged. My own belief is that the US needs to focus its attention on educational racial and economic disparities at the K-12 levels, and less on ultra-elite private college admissions. Just my 2 cents. In other SCOTUS news, I have some friends pretty upset about the anti-LGBTQ ruling on the "web designer" -- not sure if she's for real tbh. And the student loan thing has already taken front and center, too. You might as well add that to Pandora's box, too, because hell is breaking loose. Could have effect on fall elections. Edited June 30, 2023 by Marka Ragnos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted June 30, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted June 30, 2023 I'm trying hard not to plead ignorance to every post on this thread. But I feel I am ignorant to every post on this thread. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desensitized43 Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 6 hours ago, Marka Ragnos said: Could be. Definitely the least surprising ruling of the year, you have to admit. Everyone knew it was coming, and colleges have been working on changing policies since last year to prepare. It will be interesting to see if there's actually a sustained reaction now. My sense is that a large majority of the public aren't bothered by the ruling. Very liberal California never did find a way to rid themselves of Prop 209 despite the huge effects at UC. It's a very tough one because Harvard so clearly discriminated against Asian Americans in a completely **** up way. That was wrong and never going to go unchallenged. My own belief is that the US needs to focus its attention on educational racial and economic disparities at the K-12 levels, and less on ultra-elite private college admissions. Just my 2 cents. In other SCOTUS news, I have some friends pretty upset about the anti-LGBTQ ruling on the "web designer" -- not sure if she's for real tbh. And the student loan thing has already taken front and center, too. You might as well add that to Pandora's box, too, because hell is breaking loose. Could have effect on fall elections. I’m certainly no conservative or fan of the Republican Party but I don’t necessarily agree with the principle of affirmative action (or as we call it, positive discrimination). We’ve just had a ruling that the RAF broke the law by assigning quotas to their admissions, essentially turning away perfectly qualified white men from being admitted purely because they wanted to have a more racially diverse workforce. Ive always been of the mind that you get the most suitable candidate and race or sex doesn’t come into it. Idealistic, sure, I get there are people who are racist and those people are themselves breaking the law and need to be punished. Basically the crux of my point is that I don’t think you can fight discrimination with more discrimination. I think to do so would be massively divisive. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted July 4, 2023 Author Share Posted July 4, 2023 Reading about Americans opting out of public gatherings for Independence Day celebrations today because they worry they might get shot, or that their children might get shot. If only the rest of the world were as "free" as we are! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted July 4, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted July 4, 2023 2 hours ago, maqroll said: Reading about Americans opting out of public gatherings for Independence Day celebrations today because they worry they might get shot, or that their children might get shot. If only the rest of the world were as "free" as we are! At least we’re free to shoot back, eh? Enough “good guys with a gun” show up and nothing could go wrong. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted July 5, 2023 Share Posted July 5, 2023 14 hours ago, il_serpente said: At least we’re free to shoot back, eh? Enough “good guys with a gun” show up and nothing could go wrong. Yep Free-dumb! Sorry, I meant Freedom… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted July 5, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2023 15 hours ago, il_serpente said: At least we’re free to shoot back, eh? Enough “good guys with a gun” show up and nothing could go wrong. Yep, nothing wrong with a good healthy shoot up in a big crowd. Patriotic really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted July 5, 2023 Moderator Share Posted July 5, 2023 On 01/07/2023 at 00:00, Marka Ragnos said: In other SCOTUS news, I have some friends pretty upset about the anti-LGBTQ ruling on the "web designer" -- not sure if she's for real tbh. My understanding is that the web designer is real but the case that was put forward as the example she was fighting back against - a gay couple getting married and wanting a wedding website - is entirely fictitious. Essentially it's a battle to prevent her from being forced to do something she has never been asked to do. I know the gay wedding thing to be spurious because, and here's something random, the man named as "Stewart" in the documents (who wanted the website) is actually a really good friend of mine. He had no idea about it at all until a journalist called him on the contact details from the court papers. For the record he's happily married (to a woman) and has a child. Originally from the UK, he now resides in Portland. Ironically, he's a highly skilled web designer himself. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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