I think the ignorant often think libertarian means they like liberty. Strangely many self professed Libertarians these days are firmly in the totalitarian camp.
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Romneyâs not running in 2024:
He probably misplaced his binders full of women.
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In a move that will affect exactly 1 vote, Jenna Ellis has come out on team Never Trump, joining his former attorney general, secretary of defense, at least one of his chiefs of staff, ⌠Has a former President ever run for office while either being supported by so few of his former cabinet members or actively opposed by so many?
please. he pays the legal bill he likely stiffed her on and she will be begging to be mentioned at a rally
While I am happy for the change of heart/mind, WTELF made it happen? I mean after all this time, what finally flipped that switch?
Near as I can tell, the actual issue is DeSantisâ parents like their privacy. But Iâm down for a good mudslinging fight between DeSantis and Trump.
Trump says he will consider Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota, as his presidential running mate as she is a âwarrior for American valuesâ and âshe gave me a very full-throated endorsement, a beautiful endorsementâ.
Meanwhile the media continue to speculate that the married Noem has been having an affair for the past few years with longtime Trump advisor, Corey Lewandowski. Donât personally carry if she is or isnât having an affair but, if she is, I donât think most folks would view THAT as an American value?
Suppose that itâs Rosh Hashanah, and you are running for President. Do you a) make no social media posts about it, b) post something respectful, or c) post something anti-semitic? If you answered a or b, then you are not the Republican front runner.
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You know who her Presidential ticket mate would be? Affairs and sexual assault are red meat for todayâs MAGA-GOP. It shows youâre a dominant, attractive alpha. What other explanation for the present god-emperor?
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That is absolutely an American value to American conservatives. The rulers get to do what they want, the lessors have to obey whatever rules are given to them, the others are where all the evil resides. This shows up in their religious organizations, their law enforcement, their corporate marketplace, their political leaders, everywhere.
She is a leader so she can fuck who she wants and abort the results without recourse.
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âPeople have told me the reason why and itâs not goodâ is such a Trump kind of sentence
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Scott then repeated the question back to the audience: âWould I as president of the United States insert myself into this labor dispute?â
âLet me answer the first question,â Scott said. âI think Ronald Reagan gave us a great example when federal employees decided they were going to strike. He said, you strike, youâre fired. Simple concept to me. To the extent that we can use that once again, absolutely.â
Scottâs campaign declined to comment on why he referenced firing federal workers when asked how he would handle the current strike by the autoworkers.
Clearly a Trumpian valueâŚ
Seemed like the most relevant thread. Considered the Hunter Biden thread, but Iâm tired of claims about âthe Biden familyâ spuriously connecting Hunter and Joe.
Joe Biden Impeachment Claim Questioned - Newsweek.
Republican efforts to impeach President Joe Biden suffered a blow after fresh evidence emerged showing his bid to remove Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin in 2015 represented U.S. government policy.
Some conservatives have suggested Biden was attempting to protect Ukrainian energy company Burisma, the board of which his son, Hunter Biden, had joined in 2014, by moving against Shokin. However a pre-meeting memo prepared for Biden by the State Department, dated November 25, 2015, made it clear that removing Shokin was the Obama administrationâs policy.
The document called for Shokinâs âremoval,â claiming he was âwidely regarded as an obstacle to fighting corruption, if not a source of the problem.â This document was published by John Solomon, a conservative commentator who has argued Biden did call for Shokinâs removal to advance his sonâs business activities, on his Just The News website.
Speaking to Sean Hannity on Fox News, Solomon argued Biden was motivated by wanting to help his son, despite the memo showing moving against Shokin was U.S. government policy.
Shokin would later tell Fox News he was removed from office âat the insistence of the then Vice President Biden because I was investigating Burisma.â There are, however, no records showing the prosecutor general was actively investigating Burisma at the time with Devon Archer, one of Hunterâs business partners, recently telling a congressional committee it wasnât in the companyâs interest for him to be fired. In August, Biden insisted he ânever talked businessâ with his son.
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I donât understand this article. What is new here that would cause âthe impeachment to fall apartâ? I guess the memo has never been published before, AFAICT, but all I see are the exact same things that have been said before, that the removal of the Ukranian prosecutor was Obama policy not some Biden vendetta. I honestly donât see how additional corroboration changes anyoneâs mind who is already going down this path, especially because it appears to have been published by someone using it as further âproofâ of Bidenâs guilt.
Article from 2020
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â However a pre-meeting memo prepared for Biden by the State Department, dated November 25, 2015, made it clear that removing Shokin was the Obama administrationâs policy.â
This doesnât vindicate Joe, it implicates Obama!
Seriously, I thought it was also pushed by the EU? I donât see this as a controversial issue.
I believe the difference is, while the article you list does note some of the same things (Burisma not under investigation at the time for example), I only see in that article essentially âBiden wanted to remove and definitely pressured Ukraine to oust Shokin, but it wasnât quid pro quo.â
The memo takes it further in saying that it was the Obama administrative position to remove Shokin, and Biden followed the plan as his boss and his appointees laid out.
This is literally my understanding of what has been claimed all along, and corroborated by both White House staff from the time as well as non-US organizations who wanted the same thing.
My primary issues with the article are:
- This memo basically corroborates what is already known.
- It was published by someone trying to âproveâ Bidenâs guilt. Which means that individual thinks it does the exact opposite of what the headline/article claim it will do.
Therefore, this wonât move the needle, much less make the impeachment âfall apart.â
Hereâs a different article from 2020
Charlie Kupchan, who was a special assistant to President Barack Obama and a senior director for European Affairs on the National Security Council, said anti-corruption efforts were âa big part of our diplomacyâ with Ukraine, since âit was that corruption that allowed Russia to manipulate the country politically and economically.â
As a result, Biden leveraged $1 billion in aid as âa stick to move Ukraine forward,â Kupchan said. âHe was acting alongside our European allies. Everybody was of a single mind that this prosecutor was not the right guy for the job.â
Daria Kaleniuk, the co-founder and executive director of the Anti Corruption Action Centre in Kyiv, Ukraine, credited Biden, the International Monetary Fund â which threatened to delay $40 billion in aid for similar reasons â and others with the prosecutorâs removal.
âCivil society organizations in Ukraine were pressing for his resignation,â Kaleniuk said, âbut no one would have cared if there had not been voices from outside this country calling on him to go.â
After Shokin left the Prosecutor Generalâs Office, Jan Tombinski, the ambassador from the European Union to Ukraine, called it âan opportunity to make a fresh start.â
âI hope,â Tombinski said, âthat the new Prosecutor General will ensure that the Office of the Prosecutor General becomes independent from political influence and pressure and enjoys public trust.â