Today from the Huffington Post;
In response to:
Donald Trump’s Corruption Was On Full Display At The RNC
Eric Trump is running the president’s company and is under investigation in New York, but spoke at the convention Tuesday. That was only the beginning.
By George Zornick and Jesselyn Cook
Midway through the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, Pam Bondi, the former attorney general of Florida, railed against the supposed corruption of the Biden family: “A corrupt Ukrainian oligarch put Hunter on the board of his gas company, even though he had no experience in the country ? or in the energy sector.” That may sound familiar, because that supposed malfeasance was at the heart of the scandal that led to President Donald Trump’s impeachment late last year.
Impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives showed that Trump threatened to withhold crucial military aid unless Volodymyr Zelensky, then Ukraine’s president-elect, opened an investigation into the Biden family and the discredited theory that Joe Biden intervened to end a criminal probe into the gas company where Hunter was on the board. The House voted to impeach Trump after several key actors in this scheme testified against him.
It’s a bold move to remind voters of the extensive scandal for which you were impeached less than a year ago. But Tuesday night’s RNC lineup amounted to an almost proud display of three and a half years of the Trump administration’s corruption ? from the mingling of the presidency and the Trump Organization, which the president did not divest from, to several flagrant displays of using federal resources to advance Trump’s re-election campaign. Four years after he campaigned on “draining the swamp,” Trump is showing off his graft.
Bondi was enmeshed in an entirely different Trump corruption scandal herself, although she claimed on Tuesday: “I fought corruption and I know what it looks like.”
As Florida’s attorney general in 2013, Bondi was considering joining the state of New York in a lawsuit against an affiliate of Trump University, Trump’s now-defunct for-profit education company, which was facing allegations of fraud. But after Trump donated $25,000 through his charity to a political action committee supporting Bondi’s re-election — violating federal tax laws in the process ? Bondi quietly decided not to join the case. (Trump’s campaign later claimed the donation was a “mistake,” and Trump himself paid a $2,500 IRS fine, because as a nonprofit, his charity is prohibited from making political gifts.)
Bondi is also a registered lobbyist for Qatar, which the U.S. Department of Justice has accused of bribing FIFA officials in exchange for hosting the 2022 World Cup, as The Daily Beast reported.
And then there was Eric Trump, who is still executive vice president of the Trump Organization but spoke during prime time at the RNC, urging people to vote for his father.
It was another bold move: Earlier in the day, the New York state attorney general asked a judge to force Eric Trump to answer subpoenas about whether the Trump Organization committed fraud by inflating its assets to get loans and tax breaks. To date, Eric has refused to comply with seven subpoenas about the matter......
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Some have suggested that Mike Pence won't even show up for a debate with Kamala Harris.
Indeed, it would not surprise me at all, if he will by coincidence
become sick on that day or the day before.
But, so far, Pence radiates confidence.
From USA Today last night;
In response to:
Chelsey Cox
USA TODAY August 20, 2020, 8:20 PM EDT
Will Pence face Harris on the debate stage?
The vice president is looking forward to debating Harris, according to an interview on Fox News.
"I like the matchup. It's on, Sean," Pence told Fox News' Sean Hannity on the Aug. 12 episode of "Hannity."
"I think she is a skilled debater, but I can't wait to get to Salt Lake City and be on the stage with her, to compare Joe Biden's nearly 50 years in public life – the agenda of the radical left, the agenda that she's embraced throughout her political career – with the results of this president and this administration," Pence said.
After hearing about Harris being picked as Biden's running mate on Aug. 11, Pence told Trump supporters in Mesa, Arizona, he's looking forward to debating Harris in October.
"So my message to the Democratic nominee for vice president: Congratulations. I'll see you in Salt Lake City,” Pence said, according to Fox News.
CNN and The Hill also covered Pence's statements.
The vice presidential debate is scheduled for Oct. 7 in Salt Lake City at the University of Utah, according to USA TODAY.
"Lets get ready to rumble !"
Here's a preview;
If I were him, I wouldn't attempt to grab that.... feline.
While there is still a hint of the stuttering issue that Biden used to have (to a greater extent),
it should be obvious, that there is no cognitive issues at all. That was an intentional misinterpretation.
Joe Biden is an experienced good public servant, who has care for fellow citizens and motivation to make things better on many fronts. He and his vice president are exactly who this country needs at this time
to unite and lead us out of the corrupt mess that the current lying "so-called" president has helped create.
The U.S. Army opened an investigation Wednesday into why two soldiers are wearing uniforms to partisan events as they appeared on video at the Democratic Convention, which is forbidden.
is not about a certain place or time....am going to quote the author herself Ayn Rand"We the Living is not a story about Soviet Russia in 1925. It is a story about Dictatorship , any dictatorship, anywhere, at any time..whether it be Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, or-which this novel might do its share in helping to prevent-a socialist America." Unquote from book flap of the 75th anniv edition....Anyone else out there an Ayn Rand fan?
online today!
...sniffy, creepy, likely impaired, real racist uncle Joe Biden, apparently has a fine intellectual substrate on which to layer cognitive impairment. Current thinking is that if one begins with lots of horse power, the dementias tend to progress more slowly.
Had to repeat grade 3, we are told, which was a lead in to C's and D's in much of college. And an "F", as in failure, in reserve officer training class (ROTC). How he got into a decent law school, like that of Syracuse University, is unclear, but he barely finished, well in the bottom 10% of the class. As with the last affirmative POTUS, (B Hussein), it would seem that Law School entrance exam scores, and other such data, are well guarded.
So it all makes sense now. His ridiculous positions and statements on foreign policy, economics, jurisprudence, and much more, while in the Senate, and as VP, seen in this perspective.
Elder abuse, placing him in this role as candidate. Which is why I suspect a sneaky plan to pull a switch as to who will lead the ticket soon.
online today!
those of the fagot fan ilk for sure, worshiping/checking carefully my every word here, I like to spend time among liberals, the more syndromic, intolerant, hate filled and deluded, the better. Of course, I do draw the line at their many violent infantile tantrumic looting-thrashing-fire brand "peaceful gatherings". My street fighting skills aren't what they used to be.
What types of Liberal venues? Meetings of the UU and Quaker religious traditions. Democratic Party local and State gatherings, and activist shops. Government school board meetings. Any tree hugger outing. Other of their many Vuck festivals.
Well, after I sold my last sailboat, I needed to sell the auxiliary outboard motor, as it was too big and I'm downsizing, to more coastal and bay craft. The fellow that bought it was an administrator at the counseling center at our local State Juniorversity, where our twins attended, for decent educations, and major doses of liberal biases, and rank intolerance of ideas. I drove up to see the place once more, and to deliver the engine, to be sure it fit into the aft motor well of his very yacht y Drascombe open topsides, drop board pocket yawl.
What a show. He and wifey live close to the school. Driving down their street, almost every home had a sign for "Black Lives Matter". He did as well, but also had one saying "no hate accepted here", and one saying 'Biden for President". And unkind intolerant words for Republicans.
Now, we have signs here, at the vast, VERY vast, Vierk Estate and manor. All saying "Biden for RESIDENT-of a care home", and the usual "Trump/Pence" banners. Along with "All, not just liberal, Black Lives Latter". On first arriving to see the motor run in my water tank, he said, on seeing the signs, "Oh, very interesting".
Singe I had to do business, when visiting his lavish home, in his lily white upscale neighborhood, I kept my political comments to a minimum, saying about HIS signage, VERY interesting. He paid my high asking price, as the engine fit like a glove..
But since these folks never miss a chance to signal virtue, by openly, loudly, endless dissing of the right, without first surveying the mood of where the hell they are, I make it a habit of responding to their rants, as I do here. My usual tight arguments presented at low volumes, so they have to strain in the back to hear. Nonplussed, almost always, these crowds seem. And if I stay long enough, the vulgarity and ad hominem rants usually follow. Usually friom the women, as they assume no one will ever slap them upside the head. Biology is destiny.
Are we having fun yet?