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[Rubus Leucodermis]

14 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

Really easy to hand out these quips with absolutely nothing to back them up.

Do righties go to a special school to learn gaslighting or does it just come naturally?

I am not the one claiming Democrats were big USSR fans — you were.

Your assertion, not mine.

Back it up.

Or not, your choice.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

I mean, really, who were those Dems who loved the Soviet Union and Soviet-style communism?

Truman, who helped create NATO in response to the Iron Curtain falling across Europe?

JFK, who played nuclear brinksmanship with Khruschev during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

LBJ, whose hatred of communism led him to get embroiled in Vietnam?

Jimmy Carter, who began the so-called "Reagan defense buildup" (yes, it actually started with Carter, not Reagan) after the USSR invaded Afghanistan?

Please, help me.

[Chewbacca Defense]

1 hour ago, snow_wizard said:

I don't believe any of the negative crap I hear about Trump anymore.  Just been lied to too many times by the media.  Anyway....there are already more funds popping up to cover Trump's legal fees.  I'm highly tempted to donate.  This madness is out of control now.

You want to throw your money away, knock yourself out.  I'll even help you with the link:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with-trump-raise-the-settlement

 

They have raised $33k so far.   Almost there, 0.01% of the goal, should have the $335M by tomorrow morning.

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

It's amazing what Trump has given up for US. Almost messianic. 

[Andie]

So, if there’s so little belief in Trump here, who’s the next savior?   Biden 2.0?   
I don’t think that boat will float unless it’s all the fentanyl addicts and illegals that vote for the open crime border.  
Is there another hero(ine) in the wings?

[SilverFallsAndrew]

We need TUCKER.

[Deweydog]

12 hours ago, snow_wizard said:

I don't believe any of the negative crap I hear about Trump anymore.  Just been lied to too many times by the media.  Anyway....there are already more funds popping up to cover Trump's legal fees.  I'm highly tempted to donate.  This madness is out of control now.

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Based 

[SnarkyGoblin]

15 hours ago, snow_wizard said:

Really easy to hand out these quips with absolutely nothing to back them up.

This is one of the most hypocritical things I've ever read. 

[SnarkyGoblin]

From the judge presiding over Trump's last trial.  

Remember when judges were respected by both sides?

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The English poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744) first declared, “To err is human, to forgive is divine.” Defendants apparently are of a different mind. After some four years of investigation and litigation, the only error (“inadvertent,” of course) that they acknowledge is the tripling of the size of the Trump Tower Penthouse, which cannot be gainsaid. Their complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological. They are accused only of inflating asset values to make more money. The documents prove this over and over again. This is a venial sin, not a mortal sin. Defendants did not commit murder or arson. They did not rob a bank at gunpoint. Donald Trump is not Bernard Madoff. Yet, defendants are incapable of admitting the error of their ways. Instead, they adopt a “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” posture that the evidence belies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/nyregion/engoron-judge-highlights.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WE0.MpYE.Pb7Ql1O0js-h&smid=url-share

[SnarkyGoblin]

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“Forward! Success! To new borders!” Putin declared to one young worker who had proclaimed her admiration for the president.

All you need to know about putin's intentions.  The guy should be hanged for war crimes.

[Iceresistance]

Just now, SnarkyGoblin said:

All you need to know about putin's intentions.  The guy should be hanged for war crimes.

He should be, genocide against Ukraine.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

50 minutes ago, Iceresistance said:

He should be, genocide against Ukraine.

Hahaha 

[Iceresistance]

3 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Hahaha 

There is enough evidence that Putin is doing Genocide against Ukraine, forced deportations, filtering camps, and "Russification" of Ukrainian Children.

Also, don't forget mass murders too... 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

6 minutes ago, Iceresistance said:

There is enough evidence that Putin is doing Genocide against Ukraine, forced deportations, filtering camps, and "Russification" of Ukrainian Children.

Also, don't forget mass murders too... 

From what I’ve heard lately, Russia is winning the war. 

[hawkstwelve]

Skip to 2:00 to get a first hand look at today's Republican party. 

 

[Andie]

Hey gang!  I have a snazzy idea!

Let’s let these SOBs all run for office and see how it shakes out!?  Novel idea called Democracy.  
The winner is the guy that holds office. Instead some bunch of ol drunks in a back room are ‘jury rigging’ the press, the courts, and who knows what, just to get their way.  

Seems there’s a lot of Soviet style gamesmanship going on.  I recall that sheit back in the good ol days with Krushev  and Brezhnev.  Those were fun days.
They had nice parades too! 

I don’t know who’s pulling the strings in this delio but I smell a rat.  

[Deweydog]

Ya’ll ain’t on the Trump Train until you drop $400 on the high tops.

[Iceresistance]

11 hours ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

From what I’ve heard lately, Russia is winning the war. 

That doesn't mean they can't get into serious trouble for war crimes.

[SnarkyGoblin]

11 hours ago, hawkstwelve said:

Skip to 2:00 to get a first hand look at today's Republican party. 

 

I hope you remember this when it comes to voting in the general.

[hawkstwelve]

23 minutes ago, SnarkyGoblin said:

I hope you remember this when it comes to voting in the general.

He'll win South Dakota regardless but I will not be voting for Trump in the general, and neither will my wife. First time we won't be supporting the Republican nominee in our lifetimes.

[Iceresistance]

19 minutes ago, hawkstwelve said:

He'll win South Dakota regardless but I will not be voting for Trump in the general, and neither will my wife. First time we won't be supporting the Republican nominee in our lifetimes.

Would it be a different story if it was Nikki Haley that was the frontrunner?

[hawkstwelve]

1 hour ago, Iceresistance said:

Would it be a different story if it was Nikki Haley that was the frontrunner?

Yes. We will either be writing in Haley, voting independent, or just ignoring the top of the ticket all together.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

2 hours ago, Iceresistance said:

That doesn't mean they can't get into serious trouble for war crimes.

Wanna make a bet on that? 

[Deweydog]

2 hours ago, hawkstwelve said:

He'll win South Dakota regardless but I will not be voting for Trump in the general, and neither will my wife. First time we won't be supporting the Republican nominee in our lifetimes.

Congrats!

I haven’t voted for prez since 2008. Snowed quite a bit several weeks later. Thanks Barack HUSSEIN Obama!

[SnarkyGoblin]

2 hours ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Wanna make a bet on that? 

What's morally right is not the same thing as what will actually happen.

[SnarkyGoblin]

People like this should not feel empowered by our leaders.

https://www.ktvu.com/news/masked-demonstrators-wave-nazi-flags-in-front-of-tennessee-capitol

[Iceresistance]

Been seeing claims that Trump's cognitive decline is worse than Biden's, but where is the proof in that?

[Andie]

7 hours ago, SnarkyGoblin said:

What's morally right is not the same thing as what will actually happen.

Government and morality aren’t strangers, but they’re hardly friends either and compromise is their step child.  
It’s a very  dysfunctional family.  

[Andie]

Follow up on Navalny death.  Hesdline:
“Navalny’s body found and shows ‘signs of bruising’ after mystery spies seen at prison”

Says it all.  

[Rubus Leucodermis]

18 minutes ago, Andie said:

Follow up on Navalny death.  Hesdline:
“Navalny’s body found and shows ‘signs of bruising’ after mystery spies seen at prison”

Says it all.  

He mysteriously collapsed for no apparent reason… after a routine beating and torture session.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

10 hours ago, Iceresistance said:

Been seeing claims that Trump's cognitive decline is worse than Biden's, but where is the proof in that?

There isn't. Just MSNBC doing MSNBC things. 

[hawkstwelve]

This article was written prior to the verdict but is still an important note. Democrats will say, 'oh but we are just enforcing the law' while in the same breath stretching the law beyond precedent just to harm Trump in any way they can. I dislike the guy as much as the next person but, again, it's shit like this that makes his martyr act all the more effective. Democrats have turned a billionaire into a victim. Insane.

"An Associated Press analysis of nearly 70 years of civil cases under the law showed that such a penalty has only been imposed a dozen previous times, and Trump’s case stands apart in a significant way: It’s the only big business found that was threatened with a shutdown without a showing of obvious victims and major losses."

https://apnews.com/article/trump-fraud-business-law-courts-banks-lending-punishment-2ee9e509a28c24d0cda92da2f9a9b689

[Iceresistance]

We've been warned about noncitizens holding office... (IDK who, but it might be Trump who put out the warning)

https://www.kqed.org/news/11976026/san-francisco-appoints-first-non-citizen-to-serve-on-elections-commission

[Chewbacca Defense]

28 minutes ago, hawkstwelve said:

This article was written prior to the verdict but is still an important note. Democrats will say, 'oh but we are just enforcing the law' while in the same breath stretching the law beyond precedent just to harm Trump in any way they can. I dislike the guy as much as the next person but, again, it's like this that makes his martyr act all the more effective. Democrats have turned a billionaire into a victim. Insane.

"An Associated Press analysis of nearly 70 years of civil cases under the law showed that such a penalty has only been imposed a dozen previous times, and Trump’s case stands apart in a significant way: It’s the only big business found that was threatened with a shutdown without a showing of obvious victims and major losses."

https://apnews.com/article/trump-fraud-business-law-courts-banks-lending-punishment-2ee9e509a28c24d0cda92da2f9a9b689

The thing is, the dude has been dodging legal troubles going back to the 70's.  Prosecutions build a solid case, then it just disappears.  Tends to happen when you have lots of money in a corrupt system, which is very much the case with New York.  Let's not forget that for all of the bad stuff Al Capone was tied to, the only way they got him was on tax evasion.

[SnarkyGoblin]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/19/world/europe/navalny-letters-russia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Wk0.j0uJ.L9165pG3WhWb&smid=url-share

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“Trump will become president” should President Biden’s health suffer, Mr. Navalny wrote from his high-security prison cell. “Doesn’t this obvious thing concern the Democrats?”

Yes, it does.  RIP.

[Andie]

15 hours ago, Andie said:

Follow up on Navalny death.  Hesdline:
“Navalny’s body found and shows ‘signs of bruising’ after mystery spies seen at prison”

Says it all.  

A postscript-

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1868266/alexei-navalny-wife-death-poisoned-novichok

[SnarkyGoblin]

 

[MossMan]

Continuing with cleaning out my dads bedroom after his passing, he had this gem by his computer lol 

[Iceresistance]

Largest Covid vaccine study yet finds up to 3 times greater risk (msn.com)

I only had 2 shots from Pfizer, how much at risk am I?