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You did? I didn't see it. That is why I made mine. Merry Christmas!

The real racists are people who segregate people into races and build stereotypes about them.

•  I don't see Biden winning in 2024 unless it is fraudulent like in 2020,.... at least this year, at least 3 election officials have been indicted by the DOJ. The press has been silent about it, but the DOJ has not.
  

All that to say, I don't see Biden winning in 2024 unless it is fraudulent like in 2020. I know we both don't see eye to eye on that, but, at least this year, at least 3 election officials have been indicted by the DOJ. The press has been silent about it, but the DOJ has not.

Founded in 2018 and 2019, Tunstall’s two PACs, Support American Leaders and Campaign to Support the President, 

operated two PACs – Liberty Action Group PAC and Progressive Priorities PAC – which solicited contributions from the public via robocalls and television, radio, and internet advertisements, among other means. The two PACs stated that the contributions would be used to support the presidential nominees of the two major political parties, respectively. 

United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced today that former U.S. Congressman Michael “Ozzie” Myers, 79, of Philadelphia, PA, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to deprive voters of civil rights, bribery, obstruction of justice, falsification of voting records, and conspiring to illegally vote in a federal election for orchestrating schemes to fraudulently stuff the ballot boxes for specific Democratic candidates in the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 Pennsylvania elections.

The campaign funds were solicited based upon  the representations and premise that the funds would be used to facilitate PETERSON’S reelection for the position of State Senator.  In furtherance of her scheme,  PETERSON diverted, and caused her friends and associates to divert, campaign funds from the KCPCF to PETERSON’S personal use for the purpose of obtaining and using money and property from contributors to the KCPCF by means of materially false and fraudulent representations and promises for nearly seven (7) years.

None of the money the two groups have raised went directly to Trump or his campaign during the 2020 cycle. Even though Tunstall reports on his federal filings that his PACs have spent approximately $407,000 toward supporting Trump, a close analysis of those independent expenditures shows that approximately $380,000 of that money was spent on robocalls and operating expenses; about $27,000 was spent on advertising.

• I count donating money to the Trump campaign as Pro-Trump. Don't know why you wouldn't.
  

it was for a multi-level marketer and Instagram influencer to get a picture with a celebrity to enhance his image

your argument (fraud justified Trump's coup) still fails utterly

To be sure, “people familiar with the matter” leaked a lot of true stories in the last few years, but many were clearly problematic even at the time of release. Moreover, all took place in the context of constant, hounding pressure from media figures, congressional allies like Democrats Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, as well as ex-officials who could make use of their own personal public platforms in addition to being unnamed sources in straight news reports. They used commercial news platforms to argue that Trump had committed treason, needed to be removed from office, and preferably also indicted as soon as possible.

A shocking number of these voices were former intelligence officers who joined Clapper in becoming paid news contributors. Op-ed pages and news networks are packed now with ex-spooks editorializing about stories in which they had personal involvement: Michael Morell, Michael Hayden, Asha Rangappa, and Andrew McCabe among many others, including especially three of the four original “intel chiefs”: Clapper, Comey, and MSNBC headliner John Brennan.

Russiagate birthed a whole brand of politics, a government-in-exile, which prosecuted its case against Trump via a constant stream of “approved” leaks, partisans in congress, and an increasingly unified and thematically consistent set of commercial news outlets.

These mechanisms have been transplanted now onto the Ukrainegate drama. It’s the same people beating the public drums, with the messaging run out of the same congressional committees, through the same Nadlers, Schiffs, and Swalwells. The same news outlets are on full alert.

The sidelined “intel chiefs” are once again playing central roles in making the public case. Comey says “we may now be at a point” where impeachment is necessary. Brennan, with unintentional irony, says the United States is “no longer a democracy.” Clapper says the Ukraine whistleblower complaint is “one of the most credible” he’s seen.

So you are presenting these as cases in evidence of fraud in the 2020 election (justifying Trump's attempted coup)?

Pro-Trump robocallers convicted of keeping money raised for 2 PACs in 2016 election

According to court documents, from 2016 through at least April 2017, Matthew Nelson Tunstall, 35, of Los Angeles, together with co-conspirators, operated two PACs – Liberty Action Group PAC and Progressive Priorities PAC – which solicited contributions from the public via robocalls and television, radio, and internet advertisements, among other means. The two PACs stated that the contributions would be used to support the presidential nominees of the two major political parties, respectively. 

2 Republican candidates paid voters to vote for them in 2016 election

Pro-Trump political consultant convicted of knowingly concealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal Russian donations to the 2016 Trump campaign.

Benton served as the campaign manager of Republican Mitch McConnell, until resigning on August 29, 2014, amid rumors surrounding campaign finance allegations during the 2012 presidential election.[2] On August 5, 2015, Benton was indicted by a grand jury on charges arising from an alleged coverup to conceal the expenditure of campaign money to hire an Iowa politician.[3] Four of the five charges were initially thrown out because of misconduct by the prosecutor.[4] Benton was found not guilty at trial on charges of making false statements.[5]

Benton was subsequently re-indicted and was found guilty of conspiring to cause false records to the Federal Election Commission.[6] Benton was given two years probation.[7] He was pardoned by President Donald Trump on December 23, 2020.[8]

Benton was indicted in September 2021 for illegally funneling money he received from a Russian national into the 2016 campaign of Donald Trump.[9] [10] Benton was convicted on November 17, 2022.[11]

Every fucking case you gave was pro-Trumpist, one actually funneling cash directly from Russia to Trump's pocket and you are such a blind cult believer you still think Trump is going to reform the very corruption he encourages and directly profits by.

We thank the jury for their service but they got it wrong. This was not some grand conspiracy to get $25,000 of Russian money into the Trump campaign, rather it was for a multi-level marketer and Instagram influencer to get a picture with a celebrity to enhance his image

You don't understand what the metaphorical phrase "catches wind" means. There are no indictments at present but Trump has definitely caught wind of these unprecedented Congressional findings of fact.

No ex-president has ever been charged with a crime.

If you think the DoJ is eager to set a thousand new precedents

The Department of Justice’s resolve to hold accountable those who committed crimes on January 6, 2021, has not, and will not, wane.

The charges recommended by the committee are

conspiracy to defraud the United States,

obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress,

conspiracy to make a false statement and

aiding an insurrection.

Not much doubt that Trump is guilty of these, just based on Trump's own White House Staff testimony and what was done in public.  These crimes alone make Trump unfit for any elected in office in our democracy.

The USFG is owned by the WEF.

Nancy Pelosi is bankrolled by Soros and Pfizer. She makes all her millions by hyping billionaire companies.

Nancy Pelosi also was running Congress. She made sure pro-WEF appointees made it into the top brass of the Military and all the other departments. Those weapons sales, mandatory vaccinations, and whole takeovers of countries were never about defending Americans. It is all about increasing control of the market share for the World Economic Forum. The DoD is simply a paramilitary for the WEF.

The WEF are the ones pulling the strings. They are the Pentagon and NATO. They are also the FSB, KGB, and China. They control all of it.

But they DON'T control it in the way we thunk they do. It isn't some sort of pre-made, detailed plan. It is all about just working together to increase the collective market share of all of them. That is why nobody can pin down who is REALLY calling the shots. They all are, collectively. They sit around and negotiate how they can make the most money by working together.

You're right. Clogging up a thread is wrong. I should have responded in a PM.

PRO must argue there was a sufficient number of ballots affected by illegal election activities to decertify the election.

CON must argue there was not a sufficient number of ballots affected by illegal election activities to decertify the election.

must

auxiliary verb

1

a

: be commanded or requested to

you must stop

b

: be urged to : ought by all means to

you must read that book

2

: be compelled by physical necessity to

one must eat to live

: be required by immediate or future need or purpose to

we must hurry to catch the bus

3

a

: be obliged to : be compelled by social considerations to

I must say you're looking well

b

: be required by law, custom, or moral conscience (see CONSCIENCE sense 1) to

we must obey the rules

c

: be determined to

if you must go at least wait for me

d

: be unreasonably or perversely compelled to

why must you argue

4

: be logically inferred (see INFER sense 1) or supposed to

it must be time

5

: be compelled by fate or by natural law to

what must be will be

6

: was or were presumably certain to : was or were bound to

if he did it she must have known

7

dialect : MAY, SHALL —used chiefly in questions

What is abusive semantics?

So quick apology and "I believe in you lord" and all is forgiven.

Christianity is a relationship with a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Unless the Trump Adminstration strongarmed or coerced Twitter in some way, then calling Twitter's decision "government censorship" is just more fake news.

What? That is insane.

The oil companies have more permits than they can use.

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon is again taking the Department of Interior to court. The governor has filed a second federal lawsuit against the Department relating to a Bureau of Land Management decision to pause oil and gas lease sales. In a statement, the governor called the litigation timely and vital to the interests of people living in his state. 

“Wyoming’s energy resources can help power the nation and bring down costs at the pump,” said the governor. “BLM’s decision to cancel lease sales sure seems to be a violation of both the letter and the spirit of the law, (and) I firmly believe the pause in lease sales was politically driven and not based in law or fact.”

The first lawsuit challenged the Biden administration’s actions in First Quarter 2021, halting federal oil and gas leasing in Wyoming. A district court later ruled Secretary Deb Haaland’s decision was lawful. However, it did not consider whether other cancelations were a violation. The new lawsuit involves paused sales that Gordon said should have taken place in the second and third quarters of 2021 and the third quarter of this year.

“BLM went 18 months without a single oil and gas lease sale and has yet to resume regularly scheduled quarterly lease sales,” said the governor’s office.

In April, Secretary Haaland said Interior’s actions are meant to take into account things such as local communities, the environment, air quality, and water.

LNG is not really a big factor for oil prices.

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas that has been cooled to a liquid state (liquefied), at about -260° Fahrenheit, for shipping and storage. The volume of natural gas in its liquid state is about 600 times smaller than its volume in its gaseous state in a natural gas pipeline. This liquefaction process, developed in the 19th century, makes it possible to transport natural gas to places natural gas pipelines do not reach and to use natural gas as a transportation fuel.

After Russia invaded Ukraine, and due to several other factors, “skyrocketing oil, natural gas and electricity prices” caused European countries “to swiftly diversify from Russian supplies,” the report states. They looked to America, and Texas – a natural gas powerhouse – for help.

The U.S. became the world’s largest LNG exporter in the first half of 2022, the U.S. Energy Information Agency reports, led by Texas. Texas produces roughly a quarter of America’s natural gas supply.

The US has granted Chevron limited authorization to resume pumping oil from Venezuela following the announcement Saturday that the Venezuelan government and the opposition group have reached an agreement on humanitarian relief and will continue to negotiate for a solution to the country’s chronic economic and political crisis, including a focus on the 2024 elections.

So MAGA, Putin, and Zelensky all work for the World Economic Forum

Are they worried about all the ten of millions of dollars that company lost in lawsuits in UK, France, Austrailia, Italy, etc and the requirement that remove all citizens from those countries from their database?

Why would a bunch of world leaders surrender all their power to one petty hacker dude?

Sounds like yet another in a long string of really kooky conspiracy theories from you, PC.

engaged in scummy and toxic tactics to get to where he is. 

The consequences of this trend are alarming. According to the survey, 26% of respondents believe Brett Kavanaugh is the current chief justice of the Supreme Court; only 12% know that it was the 13th Amendment that freed the slaves in the United States; 30% think the Equal Rights Amendment guaranteed women the right to vote; 18% chose Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the author of the New Deal, a suite of public programs enacted by President Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s; and over 60% of respondents could not identify the term lengths for members of Congress.

That’s why I think the penalty for abortion should be 3 weeks of hard labor

You also might want to change your name, because with a name like that, I thought you would be pro choice.

 you are suggesting Biden did you would be wrong. 3rd quarter of 2022 was up 2.6.

the worst  economies in your lifetime happened under Republicans.

Biden literally had nothing to do with it,

Given former President Trump's announcement he would run for president in 2024 and President Biden's stated intent, Garland said he was obligated to appoint a special counsel to avoid allegations of political bias.