mjmooney Posted July 18, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted July 18, 2022 On 17/07/2022 at 03:43, Vancvillan said: Outside Left Number 11, then. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted July 20, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted July 20, 2022 Seeing as everyone is doing it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nick76 Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 Got to love Josh Hawley being the butt of the joke! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 On 20/07/2022 at 20:21, maqroll said: While we're talking about what the constitution actually says, I'm often baffled by people arguing that background checks or licensing requirements for firearms are somehow unconstitutional. What are the second and third words of the 2nd amendment, again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXD Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 Quote GOP congressman attends gay son's wedding after opposing protections for same-sex marriage GOP Rep. Glenn Thompson attended his gay son's wedding last week, three days after opposing a bill in the US House that would enshrine protections for same-sex marriage into federal law https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/25/politics/glenn-thompson-attends-gay-sons-wedding-after-opposing-protections/index.html Good man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted July 26, 2022 Author Share Posted July 26, 2022 1 hour ago, AXD said: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/25/politics/glenn-thompson-attends-gay-sons-wedding-after-opposing-protections/index.html Good man Standard issue Republican. Total hypocrite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 Washington Post reporting that Trump is being investigated for crimes over January 6th. The fact this guy has faced zero consequences for the shit he has done makes an absolute mockery of the democracy in that country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted July 27, 2022 Moderator Share Posted July 27, 2022 17 minutes ago, DCJonah said: Washington Post reporting that Trump is being investigated for crimes over January 6th. Is that actually news? I thought it was pretty obvious he was being investigated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 (edited) I'm surprised how little attention it seems to be getting over here. The secret service staff having deleted all their messages from that day. Then trying to get Pence into a car so they could drive him out of Washington and him refusing to get in a car with them. The SS agents apparently just being able to decline to testify. Vast swathes of paperwork being removed from the white house to Trump's property It's looking increasingly likely that trump's team weren't just actively stoking up a riled up fanbase that got it of hand but that it was a planned out attempt at a coup Edited July 27, 2022 by Davkaus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 42 minutes ago, DCJonah said: Washington Post reporting that Trump is being investigated for crimes over January 6th. The fact this guy has faced zero consequences for the shit he has done makes an absolute mockery of the democracy in that country. I think it’s fairly common knowledge he’s being investigated for it. Just one of many things he’s been investigated for along with Georgia for the phonecall and NY. Just one of many investigations but I can’t imagine he’ll get any consequences of note like jail time. I’ll be surprised if he gets indicted for any of it. I’m guessing the worst he’ll get is his personal stuff with large fines. I assume one his close associates take the fall maybe somebody like Meadows or Rudy but even then I’m sceptical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 Not sure why but this feels like peak US of A to me Quote Ivana Shatara barred from Alabama execution for ‘too short’ skirt In Alabama, the jail guards are also the fashion police. A reporter in the southern state says she was forbidden by prison officials from covering an execution Thursday night because they said her skirt was too short. Ivana Hrynkiw Shatara, a video news producer for AL.com, claims she was told by a Department of Corrections that her outfit was “inappropriate” and “too revealing” as they barred her from joining other journalists in viewing the lethal injection of convicted killer Joe Nathan James, she tweeted Friday. She wound up having to borrow rain pants from a male photographer, held up with suspenders under her skirt — and her media company is now filing a “formal complaint,” she said. “I have worn this skirt to prior executions without incident, to work, to professional events and more, and I believe it is more than appropriate,” Shatara wrote Thursday night. https://nypost.com/2022/07/29/ivana-shatara-barred-from-alabama-execution-for-short-skirt/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 Good to see the result in Kansas 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 Why visit Taiwan now? Highly provocative move at a time when there should be a concerted effort to isolate Russia. If Russia and China formally combined that would be a major problem for the world. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 3, 2022 Moderator Share Posted August 3, 2022 7 minutes ago, bannedfromHandV said: If Russia and China formally combined that would be a major problem for the world. Russia can't combine with anything right now. And China absolutely isn't going to do anything with Taiwan with it's totally unproven Army that hasn't been in any meaningful combat since 1979. I doubt there's a single member of the armed forces in the PRC who has combat experience. China have just been sabre rattling to judge the response. Visiting Taiwan is part of that response. It's tit for tat and it's to prove that the US hasn't taken their eye off the ball with Taiwan despite what is going on in Ukraine 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKP90 Posted August 3, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted August 3, 2022 27 minutes ago, bickster said: Russia can't combine with anything right now. And China absolutely isn't going to do anything with Taiwan with it's totally unproven Army that hasn't been in any meaningful combat since 1979. I doubt there's a single member of the armed forces in the PRC who has combat experience. China have just been sabre rattling to judge the response. Visiting Taiwan is part of that response. It's tit for tat and it's to prove that the US hasn't taken their eye off the ball with Taiwan despite what is going on in Ukraine I can't agree. The timing of the visit is awful. At a time of heightened tensions, when we are engaged with an increasingly isolated Russia, the visit is provocative, gives China an excuse on the world stage to behave more aggressively toward Taiwan and gives a clear common enemy to Russia and China. It almost seems designed to create a Russia China Axis. Them and us. It's an awful piece of timing, not sanctioned by the White House, and moreover, it's just a terrible idea. If China had initiated actual military action on Taiwan then sure, but at this stage what was wrong with diplomatic solidarity from a distance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 4 hours ago, HKP90 said: I can't agree. The timing of the visit is awful. At a time of heightened tensions, when we are engaged with an increasingly isolated Russia, the visit is provocative, gives China an excuse on the world stage to behave more aggressively toward Taiwan and gives a clear common enemy to Russia and China. It almost seems designed to create a Russia China Axis. Them and us. It's an awful piece of timing, not sanctioned by the White House, and moreover, it's just a terrible idea. If China had initiated actual military action on Taiwan then sure, but at this stage what was wrong with diplomatic solidarity from a distance? Pelosi has a thing about China. She was critical of China before it was cool I think she saw this as her last chance to stick it to them, she knows she will lose her position in November. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKP90 Posted August 3, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted August 3, 2022 20 minutes ago, LondonLax said: Pelosi has a thing about China. She was critical of China before it was cool I think she saw this as her last chance to stick it to them, she knows she will lose her position in November. I had time for her during the disastrous Trump campaign, but if that's true, it's pretty god damn selfish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 21 minutes ago, HKP90 said: I had time for her during the disastrous Trump campaign, but if that's true, it's pretty god damn selfish. There is a bit of background about her protests against the CCP over the years here: Quote Pelosi’s role as a crusader against the CCP began in 1991, two years after the Tiananmen Square massacre and four years after she entered Congress as a Democrat from California. While visiting Beijing on a delegation, she and two fellow Congress members broke away from their escorts and visited Tiananmen Square without permission. While there, they held up a hand-painted banner saying: “To those who died for democracy in China”. Pelosi and her colleagues fled the scene, but several journalists covering the event were detained by Chinese police. https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/pelosi-s-taiwan-visit-the-culmination-of-decades-of-defying-beijing-20220802-p5b6k3.html 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 The Alex Jones/sandy Hook trial has taken an interesting turn. It seems his defence lawyer accidentally sent a full digital copy of his phone and the prosecutors have every text and email he's sent in the last 3 years. Surely there's some dodgy January 6th stuff on there to someone. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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