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President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Jan 20, 2021.

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  1. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Starman, Jan 11, 2023
    #51421
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  2. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    The lawyers did it to get ahead of the story, not do a cover-up.

    10 docs vs. the thousands of pages that f*ckface had; plus

    most importantly, Trump was given multiple opportunities to come clean and every time it was "nope we have nothing" and then finally a forced warrant seizure.
     
    qtlaw, Jan 11, 2023
    #51422
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  3. Regan MacNeil

    Regan MacNeil Well-Known Member

    Will you please stop weighing in, Mr. Lawyer, on what the lawyers were thinking? They're the same thing. It's been established.
     
    Regan MacNeil, Jan 11, 2023
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  4. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    That is not their story.

    Regardless, let's say that happened. ... then that opens up this can of worms. He's the president of the United States. If you put any stock in the whole "boogity, boogity classified documents" thing (something a lot of people suddenly had strong opinions about when it was Trump), then Biden jeopardized the nation's security by mishandling sensitive materials and risking them falling into the wrong hands. And he's the president.

    I personally think most of the national security / classification apparatus in this country exists to keep the population in the dark. So the fun part of it for me is what a putz Joe Biden is (example number 1 million), and how people who treat the political parties like they are blindly rooting for the Red Sox vs. the Yankees will dance spastically to avoid criticizing their team.
     
    The Big Ragu, Jan 11, 2023
    #51424
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  5. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    There’s still a big difference between the two.
     
    Smallpotatoes, Jan 11, 2023
    #51425
  6. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    The media needs Trump news every hour of every day, the way junkies need junk and I need pizza.
    There hasn’t really been much to “report” about Trump lately so it's not a surprise that the media is creaming itself over this “scandal” because they get to talk all about Trump anew!
     
    TigerVols, Jan 11, 2023
    #51426
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  7. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    This may be true, but it isn’t the official story.

    The official story is that the lawyers were were helping to vacate office space at the PennBiden Center, and happened upon them in a locked closet.

    Why were they there?

    In Trump’s case, dummy that he is, he at least took them to the most logical place (for him) - his home. And he took a lot of files. Whatever he was planning to do with those files, he wasn’t hiding them, and the feds knew where to go to look for them. Plus, the volume of documents that Trump took reveal him as an idiot, but they don’t necessarily reveal him as someone who is trying to hide something specific. Because if that were the goal, then Trump just would’ve taken that specific thing. How do we know? Well, because it took 6 years, and a random search, to find the classified files kept at the think tank. They weren’t missed, in other words.

    These think tank files were in a locked closet. Now, it’s possible that whoever put them there did so with a batch of other documents that weren’t classified, and these classified ones just happened to fall in with those. That’s possible - maybe even likely. But it’s also possible that they were placed in that closet by someone - not Biden, but someone - for some specific reason, and that someone broke the law.

    The other thing is, lawyers found those think tank documents in early November. And we’re just finding out about those documents now. Why?
     
    Alma, Jan 11, 2023
    #51427
  8. Octave

    Octave Well-Known Member

    No reputable outlet covered his bullshit event last week, so this trope does not really apply.

    The dog that returns to its own vomit every day is Trump, not the networks.
     
    Octave, Jan 11, 2023
    #51428
  9. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

     
    Neutral Corner, Jan 11, 2023
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  10. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Members of Congress are legislators. They don't actually have a "duty" to act as a facilitator to constituents in dealing with administrative agencies. The reason they all do it is that it builds political support. They do that work with an eye toward the next election. The guy may be a complete shit, but for me there is actually a certain honesty to him not feeling the need anymore to try to buy votes that way anymore after he lost his primary.
     
    The Big Ragu, Jan 11, 2023
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  11. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    No Republican, no matter how bad and how long ago their transgressions occurred, is beyond a current revisionist whitewash.

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    garrow, Jan 11, 2023
    #51431
  12. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Nobody's saying he is. But there is no decent reason to fire somebody for telling the truth, as Stelter did about Trump. Unless you want fomenting of treason and tyranny to go unpunished and to be repeated.
     
    tapintoamerica, Jan 11, 2023
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