All_Pro_Bills

This might need its own topic soon. France is recommending all EU citizens leave Niger and evacuating anyone wishing to leave. Other European nations are urging their citizens to take them up on the offer. Meanwhile, Burkina Faso and Mali, two nations previous under France's domination, have said that they will consider an attack against Niger by West African ECOWAS states as a de-facto carrying out France’s bidding and as such a declaration of war. Of note, the US has two military bases in the country. One under the Pentagon and the other the CIA.

Corruption is systemic. Once you're in the Washington country club you're granted license to steal, cheat, and lie and provided protection from anyone objecting or attempting to expose your actions and immunity from any legal action.

The missing part of the story is what the Biden's provided to their foreign contacts in return for those payments? Sure, we can conclude at a minimum Hunter was trading on the Biden name. But Hunter had/has no capacity to deliver anything of value to those players, namely favors or influence over government policy or actions. The only family member with that capability was/is Joe Biden. Just using some logical extrapolation would implicate the President.

Saw this too. What isn't clear is the reason or cause. The IDC10 code I see for leprosy is A30.9. I'm going to run a diagnosis code search this week on medical data I have access to and see what pops up.

The most likely cause of outlier results in any series of surveys of the same purpose is the demographic composition of the poll is not representative of the population as a whole.

If anyone still believes in Joe's innocence at this point they're either lying to themselves or incapable of rational thought. But then again these are the same folks that believe Trump sold nuclear top secrets. Even though not a single charge mentioned it. And absent a shred of evidence or proof. But they heard it from Joe Scarborough. So it must be true! And they insist the other guys are in a cult. Comical. Just comical.

What the testimony showed is Joe Biden lied when he said he and his son never discussed his son's business dealings. Now we know Joe not only discussed but participated as well. But still no evidence. My suggestion to anyone expecting House Oversight committee chairman Comer to step up to the microphone and proclaim "now we got him!" needs to temper their expectations here. What we should expect is a series of criminal referrals to the DOJ, 10, 20, 50 counts of some criminal violation. Against various participants. What Comer is going to say to Garland is here is all the evidence and recommendations for criminal prosecution. But everything I'm giving you is everything you already know, The DOJ and the FBI already know about the extent of the Biden family bribery and payoff operation. But you've done nothing. Because you've been told to do nothing. We both know this, everybody in Washington knows this too. You've been ordered not to investigate or prosecute anything. By some person or group of persons. Given this, I suggest that nailing the Biden's here will accomplish little to nothing in the big scheme of things. Take out Joe and another player steps up to the plate for their swing at the cash ball. The real target is something entirely different. Let me explain. Let's start with the laptop. The DOJ, FBI, CIA, NSA, etc, all know the laptop and its contents are authentic and belonged to Hunter. They know it was not a classic Russian disinformation operation. They know the contents would be personally and professionally and legally damaging to Joe Biden and to his family. Barr at DOJ knew it was authentic, Garland knows it's authentic, Comey at the FBI knew it was authentic, Wray knows this too. So why did they bury the story and the machine in some basement storage room? Why did they and 51 former IC members that signed a letter concluding it was Russian disinformation lie and continue to lie? Why didn't the CIA and FBI step up and provide evidence during the Trump impeachment that would have confirmed the President had reasonable and probably cause to suspect wrongdoing by the Biden's in relation to Ukraine? More importantly, who gave these people the orders, and who continues to give orders such as the one to to bury that PC in that basement storage room and who told those IC members to lie? What's the identity of the Wizard behind the curtain giving the orders to these people? Who's running the swamp? That's really it. Who's running the protection racket that enables politicians, including the Biden's but so many more, to line their pockets? Who gave the order to the IRS director telling them to stop IRS agents from investigating the tax returns of Hunter Biden and the financial transaction record of the Biden family? The goal isn't to just take down Biden. Its to take down the mafia-like system that enables these kinds of operations to fester. Its the system that provides protection, that calls out FBI SWAT teams in the middle of the night to harass people causing problems, initiates investigations and searches for legal transgressions against dissenters, buries evidence and proof of payoffs, and silences people asking too many questions. Its an organized system of corruption that permeates the leadership of our government. It needs to be taken down to ensure the continuation of our Democracy and Constitution system of government.

That's because outrage is dependent on the actor rather than the act.

Not to make light of it, but 1,000,000 to 1 odds you put a BLM logo on the roof and the city inspectors are good with it.

My guess is the good citizens don't pay much attention to the positions of the people they elect. Urban politicians have learned just yelling racism and equity is enough to get the voters to fall in line and cast their vote for chaos.

This story is a clear case of continuously moving the goal posts. The original contention from the Biden camp was Joe had no discussions about or knowledge of his son's business dealings. But now that talking with and meeting them has been exposed the story changed to he's not involved in his son's business dealings. Now Devon Archer will testify to the specifics of their business dealings which is expected to include testimony that will implicate Joe Biden in both knowledge and participation in his son's business dealings. So what's left might be an elderly gentleman "cannot recall the specifics of those discussions" defense. Yes they are worried. But not for Joe. The professional Washington insiders are all worried about themselves and the potential to expose their role in covering up and enabling the racket. And potentially expose other rackets.

What technologies do we have currently that can replace the energy output currently generated by fossil fuels? I would say nuclear but that requires a 15 to 20 year lead time and there's not a lot urgency being demonstrated to deploy that technology. Fusion? Maybe 50+ years, if ever. If we can indeed address "climate change" (and fossil fuel depletion) without eliminating billions of people I'd like to see the plan and the details. Produced by engineers and scientists rather than politicians and environmentalists. I also just don't think there's enough discussion is public settings about the topics. Most of it is just believe what our "experts" are telling you and anyone that disagrees with their conclusions and ideas is a denier or misinformed. That's complete nonsense. Discussion and debate, diversity of ideas, and constructive criticism generally leads to better ideas and solutions.

Maybe one of our resident history buffs can give us an overview of Ukrainian collaboration with Hitler's SS during WW2? And how history, like they claim shapes race and ethnic relations today in the USA, is also the guiding force currently in Ukraine.

They're getting paid quite handsomely to censor whomever their told to censor. Most of what these platforms claim is "advertising" revenue is coming from the US government in the form of well laundered payments for censorship services. Don't believe for a minute these folks are acting out of some set of ideological beliefs. Its all about the money.

Generally, few object to applying due process to Hillary. However, there's an understanding that she's exempt from due process since the Washington insiders cult, where party affiliation is not a requirement for membership, protects her from consequences. Legal and other types of consequences. Consequences from what you might ask? Well, disregarding Department of State rules for e-mail and document handling, which exposed confidential and secret government documents to hackers through the use of an unauthorized, and hence illegal e-mail server set up, destroying evidence covered under a court order to preserve evidence, evidence in the form of electronic records and physical devices. None of which were charged or pursued. The thought behind her use of the home server is doing so protected her correspondence from freedom of information inquires which might cover DOS servers and records. How much worse were Trump's transgressions considering the unique rules of Presidential authority? In his case its unclear to unknowable that foreign enemies got hold of anything while we know Hillary's servers were hacked and its almost certain Chinese and Russian intelligence got hold of classified information because of her negligence, willful negligence I would emphasize. Add to it the shady dealings of the Clinton Foundation, which suddenly saw a flood of donations from foreign actors drop to a trickle when Bill and Hillary were both out of official government positions and you've got the model for the payoff operation the Biden's are running. The difference being the Clinton's were a lot smarter about it along with not having a drug addicted child fronting for the family business. So call it a "hoax". That's your thing. All that proves is you're blind to reality.

I'm in the mood today to tell it like it is. Because liberals are unreliable, lazy, constantly droning on about some "injustice" along with demanding narcissists craving constant attention so somebody has to do the work. It should be mandatory for them to wear tee shirts saying "I need attention" I might add 95% of the world's population struggling for survival could give a rat's ass about their "first world" pity party problems.

So what this articulate and educated woman would prefer is to be treated like a raging douche bag and she'll be extatic?

While we can debate the reliability of sources, but the actual question is reliability of the information. Does the House Oversight Committee have records of suspicious bank transactions reported to the IRS and cited by the IRS whistle blowers that their investigations identified as suspect transactions involving funds that found their way into accounting belonging to the Biden's or not? https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-probes-hunter-bidens-suspicious-foreign-business-transactions-flagged-by-u-s-banks/

Well, I'd suggest we examine the process of investigating a crime. What is most common is the investigators, detectives, officers, prosecutors, and others don't generally have "proof" that connects a specific suspect to the crime when the investigation is at the beginning. There is suspicion and an effort to gather evidence which will identify a suspect and place them at the scene of the crime. As events go forward the case becomes stronger (or could be dropped) and might reveal enough evidence to result in an arrest and an indictment. I assume your definition of proof is being in the process of presenting testimony and evidence to a court with prosecution, defense, judge, and jury. My expectation is we're getting there. Otherwise, I'm not in personal possession of "proof" as I'm not an investigator looking into the affairs of the Biden family. Or member of Congress or staff that has direct control of evidence. And I wasn't personally involved in any business dealings with Hunter, his business partners, the parties extending payments to him, or a party to any conversations. But I do believe anyone with good critical thinking and reasoning skills and a high level of objective thinking will conclude there's something to this story. I do follow along with the story. I listen to and read the testimony of witnesses, understand the activities of the committee gathering information, evidence, and data like bank transaction records, the identify of shell companies, and other artifacts. I understand the process of payments and transactions that are typically employed in money laundering schemes and how what is said to have been gathered about of transactions related to Biden family are consistent with the laundering process. I also believe I have a good understanding of what is customarily legal and what might be illegal. And following along with the story, events, statements, and activities of the House committee, the whistle blowers that have come forward, and statements from business partners, and foreign officials involved in the alleged payments I conclude its highly likely they're running a bribery and extortion operation. How else to explain a lavish lifestyle absent any employment or income sources that would generate the funds to support it?. Large amounts of income unaccounted for from legitimately understood sources. What else is there but to conclude the Biden's have been receiving income from illegal activities which in this case is an influence peddling and bribery operation. These allegations of receiving millions in payments from foreign officials in exchange for political favors is as real as it gets. What I'm beginning to come around to is the revelation that these kinds of scams and operations are more common than not in Washington.

Why would they put it out there? In the middle of 2023 15 months away from the election. Strategically that makes no sense. You'll get greater impact closer to the 2024 election. Let the Democrats make the first move. Which is decide to run Joe, or not. My guess is not and most likely they'll run Newsome while dressing him up as some moderate rather than a raging leftist aristocrat. Also, Joe and Jill filed 2017 tax return totally over over $9 million of income. Can anyone rationalize what source, or service, or product the Biden's provided to account for that income? About 35 times thier 2026 filing. You're not the least bit suspicious? As the bribe money trail lines up well timing-wise. Are we to believe all these whistle blowers, former business associates, foreign actors, bank transaction records and suspicious activity reports to authorities are involved in some grand conspiracy hatched by Russian intelligence? This theory from the very people that habitually mock believers of such things. But of course, trust them here and ignore the fact that protecting Biden has been demonstrated to be a clear vital interest of these folks. So lying and deception are required. On top of all this, can it get any more obvious the leadership at DOJ and FBI along with the permanent Washington beauracracy are running a massive protection racket? If it was you or me our ass would be in the slammer already. It's counter to your interests as a citizen to support these crooks. What hits me the most here is how people let themselves get hoodwinked by these grifters.

The Comer committee is going to bundle their findings into criminal referrals. Not make any grand public statements. If we use Trump-like criteria to assess "evidence" they'd all have been tried and convicted months ago. What's really missing is any clear understanding of who is the "brains" of their racket. We can cross off Hunter's name and play process of elimination to identify the most likely suspect.

The emergency the "environmentalists" don't discuss is their belief that the human population is too large for the Earth to support, and "we" need to get it down to a couple billion or so in order to manage the climate, address species extinction and habitat destruction along with issues like resource depletion.

Just think of the Russians as transsexual groomers and war crimes turn into Pride month celebration.

What "top secrets"? The Coyote lights the fuse on the rocket and hides behind the rocks waiting for the Roadrunner to run past? None of these clowns have any knowledge of any specifics. That includes all the clowns here too.

Or @SectionC3who never says a discouraging word about government abuse of power or over-reach would take it up the ass like a good obedient subject of the State and say "sir may I have another".