07-08-2021, 03:40 PM
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#2461
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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Originally Posted by troutman
Well, he could get elected again.
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07-08-2021, 04:22 PM
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#2462
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by Dion
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Side random rant, I can't stand Huff post and to this day don't understand why that garbage outlet got a seat at our Federal election leadership debate.
Heck that article is pretty much just stealing from the Guardian article.
Anyway, carry on.
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07-13-2021, 09:07 AM
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#2463
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland State House, Annapolis
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The inevitable end for anyone who enters the Trump sphere: The bottom of the bus
https://twitter.com/user/status/1414920040521023489
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07-13-2021, 10:29 AM
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#2464
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Ben
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: God's Country (aka Cape Breton Island)
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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
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Where would he have been without Trump?
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia? Just a guess
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07-13-2021, 11:47 AM
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#2465
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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Trump didn't even appoint him, didn't know who he was. Federalist Society did
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07-13-2021, 03:29 PM
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#2466
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Franchise Player
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07-13-2021, 03:53 PM
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#2467
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by chemgear
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This makes sense. WTF.
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07-13-2021, 04:06 PM
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#2468
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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The Russian disinformation campaign is working really well. Amazing to watch America get dummied so easily by their enemies.
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07-13-2021, 04:19 PM
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#2469
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Plutanamo Bay.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzz
The Russian disinformation campaign is working really well. Amazing to watch America get dummied so easily by their enemies.
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At least we’re closer to the less crazy half.
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07-13-2021, 04:58 PM
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#2470
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tromboner
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: where the lattes are
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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
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Is he trying to say that he appointed someone completely unqualified?
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07-13-2021, 06:36 PM
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#2471
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Franchise Player
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There's been some reported concerns from the Ethics Watchdog that Hunter Biden is selling his art work which has been valued as high as $500K a piece. One can get a Matisse piece for the same amount of money. While it's not the same as Trump giving his daughter and son-in-law jobs in the WH, it's also a concern that this is happening, as a buyer could leverage their purchase of one of the paintings to secure support from the WH on other things they have an interest in.
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07-13-2021, 06:53 PM
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#2472
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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I assume the concern is along these lines?
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07-13-2021, 08:00 PM
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#2473
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GOAT!
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Originally Posted by activeStick
There's been some reported concerns from the Ethics Watchdog that Hunter Biden is selling his art work which has been valued as high as $500K a piece. One can get a Matisse piece for the same amount of money. While it's not the same as Trump giving his daughter and son-in-law jobs in the WH, it's also a concern that this is happening, as a buyer could leverage their purchase of one of the paintings to secure support from the WH on other things they have an interest in.
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A President's adult children making their own money from their own job is somehow comparative to Trump giving his unqualified children jobs in the Whitehouse?
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07-13-2021, 08:26 PM
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#2474
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Franchise Player
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Well, I did say it's not the same but I think the potential of someone using it as leverage for purchasing his son's art is there.
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07-13-2021, 08:39 PM
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#2475
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland State House, Annapolis
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Not really sure it'd be a leverage tool per se, I would think of it more as just an indirect bribe. I'm sure we will have much scrutiny of the buyers list, and it will cross referenced with the WH visitor logs and any new bills Biden signs coming up. Still, as far as Murica goes, a former crack addict selling art for $500,000 a piece just a few years after kicking the rock is pretty close to peak Murica.
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07-13-2021, 08:44 PM
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#2476
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Craig McTavish' Merkin
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Not really sure it'd be a leverage tool per se, I would think of it more as just an indirect bribe. I'm sure we will have much scrutiny of the buyers list, and it will cross referenced with the WH visitor logs and any new bills Biden signs coming up. Still, as far as Murica goes, a former crack addict selling art for $500,000 a piece just a few years after kicking the rock is pretty close to peak Murica.
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The White House is keeping the buyers anonymous. They say it's to prevent buying access. Biden could never approach Trump's level of corruption but this arrangement still seems fishy to me.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57786303
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07-13-2021, 08:48 PM
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#2477
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland State House, Annapolis
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At the same time I also profess to not knowing anything about art, so how would I know if anything he does is worth $500,000? Pollock literally just threw #### at the wall and his works sell for tens of millions.
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07-13-2021, 11:51 PM
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#2478
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Victoria
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Quote:
Originally Posted by activeStick
Well, I did say it's not the same but I think the potential of someone using it as leverage for purchasing his son's art is there.
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I find this less egregious than his last job making millions as a board member of a Ukrainian resource company despite not speaking Ukrainian, or having literally any experience in the field. While that same company made billions from deals his father could influence.
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07-14-2021, 12:29 AM
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#2479
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: east van
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
At the same time I also profess to not knowing anything about art, so how would I know if anything he does is worth $500,000? Pollock literally just threw #### at the wall and his works sell for tens of millions.
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07-15-2021, 08:16 AM
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#2480
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland State House, Annapolis
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One of the worst things about MAGA's rise has been it has allowed some neocons to have a kinda, sorta, rehabilitation of their image. Like take Liz Cheney. She sucks, I don't like almost anything about her policies. But then she tells someone even worse, like Jim Jordan, to #### right off, and you're left torn: On the one hand she's still a neocon warmongerer, on the other.....yeah, #### Jim Jordan.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/whodun...aw-him-commit/
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