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Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by thegary, Mar 19, 2022.

  1. Astrodome

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    Thank goodness that is over.
     
  2. astros123

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    Wow.....hunter biden profited while his dad was VP.... It's a good thing ivanka and jared didn't have hundred million dollar business while working as offical employees of the government huh? It's not like ivanka trumps business did a 5x while she was an advisor to the POTUS huh

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommyb...ast-tracked-in-china-after-trump-was-elected/

    You literally spewed nothing but fake allegations and conspiracies for 40+ pages for something that trumps kids did in office literally 3 years ago.

    Nothing you spewed came out to be true. Nada
     
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  3. dobro1229

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    What in God's name are you blabbing about? "everyone knows"... who is everyone??

    Translation... "Every willfully ignorant person who consumes right wing propaganda believes Joe Biden and all the Democrats are doing anything at anytime that we allude to them doing... evidence be damned."

    If that is "Everyone" then sure. For the rest of the world that believes in facts, and truth..... maybe we think a little bit different than you.

    What are the facts (if you care to know):

    -Hunter Biden (Joe Biden's son) got a job with the Commerce dept because of his dads name which led to him getting brought on as an equity partner in firms that bought and sold businesses foreign and domestic.
    -As a partner he often took consulting fees from clients
    -Hunter Biden might have failed to record all his earnings in his taxes
    -He developed a bad drug habit
    -Slept with some women
    -Fathered a child that now he's paying child support for

    and Joe Biden has tried to be a loving father throughout the whole thing, and has shown characteristics that the Bible teaches in the parable "The Prodigal Son." I assume you must not be a fan of the Bible since you do not share the sentiment that a father should continue to love their son when they do what the son did in the Bible which in modern day is alot like what Hunter did. That's fine. The Bible isn't for everyone.

    Those are the facts. Hunter Biden might get some jail time, or a hefty fine (seems more logical) because of the tax issues. Good... that is justice served.

    Joe Biden however... kinda comes across as a damn good father in this story IF you are actually following the facts. Many many politicians running for president would have shunned their prodigal son, and distanced themselves instead of doing what Joe Biden has done here and continued to show him love, and try to help him out of a dark spot.
     
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  4. Os Trigonum

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    I haven't spewed a thing. If passing along news articles and opinion pieces is "spewing," I suggest you consider consulting a dictionary for a different term
     
  5. Os Trigonum

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    also you still seem angry. You might try enjoying a nice glass of wine with lunch
     
  6. NewRoxFan

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    Over? trumpsters are still talking about Hillary's emails. Hunter's laptop. This distractions will go on forever.
     
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  7. Os Trigonum

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    https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens...ty-letter-bddd4564?mod=hp_opin_pos_3#cxrecs_s

    Biden’s CIA Assist in the 2020 Presidential Election
    The agency, not only retirees, turns out to have worked on the Hunter excuse letter.
    By Kimberley A. Strassel
    May 11, 2023 at 6:32 pm ET

    Even new habits are hard to break, and that’s the case with a federal intelligence apparatus that can’t keep its fingers out of elections. It seems President-elect Biden on Nov. 4, 2020, owed thanks not only to a cabal of former intelligence officials, but to the Central Intelligence Agency.

    That’s the big takeaway of this week’s interim report from House committees detailing the origins of the October 2020 disinformation letter about Hunter Biden’s laptop. An earlier release revealed that Joe Biden’s campaign helped engineer a statement from 51 former U.S. spies that claimed the laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” That letter provided Democrats, journalists and social-media companies the excuse to dismiss and censor evidence of Hunter’s influence peddling, removing an obstacle from his father’s path to victory.

    Now we find out that, according to a written statement supplied to the committee, an active CIA official joined the effort to solicit more signers to the letter. The campaign to elect Joe Biden extended into Langley.

    The report (issued jointly by the Judiciary and Intelligence committees and the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government) tells the sordid story of the letter, beginning with a call from Biden campaign official Antony Blinken to former Deputy CIA Director Mike Morell three days after the New York Post published its laptop scoop. Mr. Morell told the committees that Mr. Blinken wanted his “reaction” to the laptop news, but another signer said Mr. Morell put it to him bluntly: the Biden campaign “asked” for the letter.

    Mr. Morell says he scurried to help because he wanted Joe Biden “to win the election,” or, as he emailed former CIA Director John Brennan, because he wanted him to have “a talking point” for the final presidential debate. Behind the scenes he campaigned for more sign-ups, because “the more former intelligence officers the better” and the “campaign will be thrilled.” The organizers put special focus on flagging the credentials of officials with Russia experience to lend credibility to their unsubstantiated claims.

    The initial draft contained two impassioned paragraphs defending Mr. Biden against criticism over his son’s seedy work in Ukraine. Some viewed them as too partisan, and they were removed. We learn that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper—last seen playing bandmaster in the Russia-collusion hoax—contributed the “all the classic earmarks” line to “strengthen the verbiage.” We also learn that of the 36 former intel officials Mr. Morell approached, 26 declined to sign—something organizers failed to note when flogging their letter as the widespread view of the intel community.

    So far, so partisan. Here’s where it crosses a line. Former CIA employees are required to submit things they intend to make public to the CIA’s Prepublication Classification Review Board, to ensure they aren’t spilling classified info. The board is made up of CIA officials and is small and notoriously slow. Its website warns that even “routine” items like résumés or op-eds “may require several weeks to months” for approval.

    No such problem for the well-connected Mr. Morell. He submitted his letter for clearance at 6:34 a.m. on Oct. 19, and presto, it was approved by 12:44 p.m. A colleague texts him to congratulate: “U have some juice!” Mr. Morell—at the time auditioning for the CIA job in a Biden administration—jokes: “They are probably afraid I’m coming back!”

    Around the same time, former CIA official David Cariens receives a call from a person on the board. After telling Mr. Cariens that his memoir had been approved (lucky!), the official suddenly tells him about the draft letter, describes its contents, and asks him to get on board. He does, as does his wife, also a former CIA official. Mr. Cariens now says he can’t remember the person’s name or when the call happened. He nonetheless sent an email to the organizers declaring himself a willing signatory at 10:35 a.m.

    That a CIA official was using government time and resources to scheme with outside partisans to assist in Mr. Biden’s victory is worthy of termination. Consider, too, that this CIA official was better placed to know there was no truth to the letter’s assertion. That very day, then-DNI John Ratcliffe—privy to all—had publicly said the intel community had nothing to support the claim that the laptop was “disinformation.”

    Such reckless disregard for rules raises the legitimate question of what other ways the CIA may have been tilting the political scales in 2020. Predictably, the agency is ignoring a request by the committees for documents related to the board’s clearance of the letter and any interactions it had with former employees (like Mr. Cariens) about the letter. There’s no excuse for such stonewalling, especially given the board itself has declared the whole issue nonclassified.

    But it’s par for the course. Federal intel and law enforcement agencies ever more brazenly interfere in politics (with leaks, probes, tip-offs to politicians), then retreat behind claims of secrecy when queried. They can’t have it both ways.

    Write to kim@wsj.com.



     
  8. rocketsjudoka

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    They got some new stuff like getting worked up over Bud Lite.
     
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  9. NewRoxFan

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    This is so funny at so many levels...

     
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    Pretty messed up with heavy Deep State vibes.

    Brennan and Clapper are still getting paid on the cable news circuit as expert bullshitter.
     
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    not exactly true, but good to know the media is running interference for him.
     
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    l.o.l.
     
  14. CCorn

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    Hey now. You wait until they start their next investigation… that has no reason to be an investigation, after he wins re-election! Then who will be laughing!!


    Trump 2020
     
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  15. astros123

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    You gotta be kidding me. Are you seriously not shamed by now the conspiracy peddling you've done for 40+ pages?
     
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  16. dmoneybangbang

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    No, you are just the willing messenger
     
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  17. CCorn

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    Lol typical libtard. It’s cute how you think you need actual evidence to charge someone with a crime.
     
  18. dmoneybangbang

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    LOL..... So mostly true then?

    And what is your media doing....... what narrative are they spinning after the investigators literally admitted there is no crime and they have no hard evidence? Your media is playing you like a chump.
     
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  19. FranchiseBlade

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    Who is John Durham?
     
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    [​IMG]
     
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