Shiftless2
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Trump has done lots of illegal things, but paying hush money and labeling it as legal expenses is not one of them.
There is no question is it Letitia who should be the one prosecuted for that violation of law.
The only time anyone has any say in what booking label is used is when it is to avoid paying taxes.
And clearly hush money is not something you derive pleasure out of paying, and it is a legitimate tax write off.
BBC
JD,
The reason you lost is you suck. Go bang a sofa. There's one in the oval office.
'The reason we lost is the war,' JD Vance says after Democrats take control of Congress
Democrat leads by fewer than 50 votes in MississippiJD,
The reason you lost is you suck. Go bang a sofa. There's one in the oval office.
Shiftless2
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Staffer: Sir, the dog had a minor incident on the couch
Kash Patel: Did someone say dog?
JD Vance: Couch?
Trump: Minor?
Which war?
There is the Ukraine, Palestine, Iran, and Venezuela?
ICE could also be considered a war?
sear: ha !
Your counterpoint is sharp enough to cut glass R5.
Do you suppose JD is aware of them?
Or perhaps he's so burdened by guilt over the Iran War the others seem insignificant to him in comparison?
bonus trivia:
When will the MOC elect be sworn in (thereby displacing MAGA detritus)?
- hurry -
Shiftless2
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I fixed your post
Guilt vs stupidity:
Guilt refers to the conscience burden of responsibility for detriment.
Stupidity refers to intellectual inadequacy, incompetence.
We agree, it was stupid. BUT !
Vance was a United States marine,
U.S. senator from Ohio,
is a published author, has a
BA from OSU,
JD from Yale, is
current vice president of the United States,
apparently with further ambition within the exec.
You're too lenient S2.
Stupidity CERTAINLY would explain it.
Doesn't treacherous destructive malice also?
Shiftless2
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Safe to say that both guilt and stupidity apply here
Alarmingly accurate " to say that both guilt and stupidity apply here" S2 #509, edited by bloke wearing the following T-shirt art -
Bernie Sanders [I-VT] says he won't back Schumer [D-NY] as push for new leadership gains steam
Bernie Sanders says he won't back Schumer as push for new leadership gains steam
Bernie Sanders and Elissa Slotkin say they will not support Chuck Schumer for Senate majority leader, calling for a new generation of leadership.
www.foxnews.com
John Thune [R-SD] is the current Senate Majority Leader. BUT !
When the Democrat majority is sworn in early next year, the Democrats will need a majority leader.
Senator Schumer [D-NY] is recognized as a committed (some might say "hard-working") MOC.
BUT, some may believe the election results indicate a desire for change, and that may mean a change in leadership.
... can't replace somebody with nobody. If not Schumer, who ?
Bernie Sanders [I-VT] says he won't back Schumer [D-NY] as push for new leadership gains steam
Bernie Sanders says he won't back Schumer as push for new leadership gains steam
Bernie Sanders and Elissa Slotkin say they will not support Chuck Schumer for Senate majority leader, calling for a new generation of leadership.
John Thune [R-SD] is the current Senate Majority Leader. BUT !
When the Democrat majority is sworn in early next year, the Democrats will need a majority leader.
Senator Schumer [D-NY] is recognized as a committed (some might say "hard-working") MOC.
BUT, some may believe the election results indicate a desire for change, and that may mean a change in leadership.
... can't replace somebody with nobody. If not Schumer, who ?
Bernie is my favorite.
It is too bad Hillary cheated him out of the party nomination, because he would have been one heck of a good president.
No problem plugging your favorite MOC, but
it doesn't plug the leadership vacuum.
Chaz Schumer may mean well.
But I can't in good conscience let him off the hook for Biden's dotage blindsiding the Democrat's 2024 presidential race.
The one VP Harris had to leap into about a hundred days before the election.
I'm not (entirely) advocating for the nostalgic "smoke-filled room", where behind the scenes horse-trading helped pick the candidate. BUT !
I can't help but believe if minority leader Schumer [D-NY] had been sufficiently less hands-off,
the Dems. could have picked a candidate that could have / would have beat Trump in 2024.
SURELY there's more to it than that, but that alone is enough for me to be alert to the realization, it may be time to hand Democrat leadership off
to some body younger & smarter.
If Trump had not been so bad, I would not have been happy with the democrats.
Obama expanded the illegal wars in the Mideast and Afghanistan, and ACA was not the solution.
Hillary's "Arab Spring" was awful.
Biden was awful for the Ukraine and Palestine.
Harris seems to never say a thing.
Fine.
But anecdotal quibble is luxury of sloth contemporary voters cannot afford.
You blame Hillary for Arab Spring. The sources I've reviewed trace that back to the self-immolation of Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi
in protest by widespread government corruption.
My Dad was alive when the Hindenburg burned and crashed. I don't actually blame him for the disaster.
Rather than anecdotal criticism, voters are obliged to assess on full spectrum of performance, during the full term of our elected official's tenure.
We use such quantifications as GDP, job growth, etc.
By those standards Jimmy Carter was horrid. A good guy, a bad president.
Since then Democrat presidents have been quantifiably successful.
...
“It's 15 years since we've had 10 consecutive months of over 200,000 [job growth]. Just 15 years ago there was a fella from Arkansas ... there were more jobs created in Bill Clinton's 8 years than there were in Ronald Reagan's 8 years, and the 12 years of both Bush's combined. I mean 6 million more jobs created in those 8 years, ... policy does kick in, & is reflected in the results.” Mark Shields
Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO after admitting to affair with alleged Chinese spy
Fine.
BUT !
The man can be replaced.
The talent can not. Thus, reaction to infidelity may have disproportionate affect on human history.
IF China's motive for insinuating a spy into Nvidia, does this not score China an A+ success ?
Fine.
BUT !
The man can be replaced.
The talent can not. Thus, reaction to infidelity may have disproportionate affect on human history.
IF China's motive for insinuating a spy into Nvidia, does this not score China an A+ success ?
Its true Hillary did not come up with the term "Arab Spring" and it was organic in the uprising in Tunisia.
But Hillary is the one who pushed the US colonial imperialism in Libya, Egypt, the Ukraine, Palestine, Syria, Yemen, etc.
The US was responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocents in those countries and it cost us more than a trillion $.
I think I disagree over Carter also.
I think he was a great president, and just needed time to realize how corrupt the system was.
He either needed to make more payoff compromises, or have others have more accidental deaths like Putin would have caused.
But being too naive and innocent is not a bad thing.
He could have learned by a second term.
Starting out completely corrupt, like Trump, Hillary, and Biden, is not an improvement.
They can get more done, but the wrong things.
It seems not just wrong but illegal for Huang to lose over a private/personal matter.
The real problem is not China, but the fact Intel makes the worst processor I have ever been forced to use.
Intel's processor line is so bad it never should have been used even in the 1970s.
In comparison, Huang created system thousands of times faster and easier to use than the Intel garbage.
And it seems a violation of privacy for anyone to even mention a totally personal event by Huang.
As we stumble up the institutional power pyramid, we find institutional momentum.
That's not to suggest the buck stops someplace else. BUT !
After Pearl Harbor FDR gave his "date which will live in infamy" speech.
The focus was on him, one person.
I don't recall any similar pivotal leadership move on Hillary's part, resulting in "the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocents in those countries and it cost us more than a trillion $." #517
When? Where? What words did she speak? To whom? What policy change did she implement?
She may have been in office at the time. Seems to me you accord her blame for what went wrong, and absolve her of credit for what went right.
Shiftless2
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Two issues seem to be intertwined.
- The first is that he had an affair with an alleged spy.
- Second, it's been reported that he had a second affair with another individual - this time with someone who reported to him.
As for the second point, office romances are generally not a good idea. After all, the atmosphere can become absolutely toxic if things don't work out. And, if there is some sort of reporting relationship accusations of favoritism are bound to arise. In most companies that sort of relationship would see one or both of the parties being "asked" to leave.