Monitoring Biden and other Contemporary Events

@neptuneblue,

neptuneblue wrote:

Builder wrote:
You kids haven't got a ******* clue what is really going on, so enjoy some of our subsistence viewing.

As if a movie trailer from 2015 shows us how "in tune" you are in current events.

Actually, it does..........

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On the weekend, Trump gave a speech to an audience of Republican donors and politicos at Mar a Lago. He talked about himself - how the election he won by millions of votes was stolen, how the covid vaccine should be named the Trumpcine, and how Republicans needed to stick together before calling McConnell a "dumb son of a bitch" and berating Pence for not supporting overturning the election and vowing to primary any candidate who'd spoken or voted against him.

And then the GOP paid Trump $100,000 for the speech about himself.

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@blatham,

After she resigned as secretary of state, Clinton joined the speaking circuit, raking in millions for paid speeches at about $200,000 a pop.[/quote]

source

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@Builder,

blatham wrote:

And then the GOP paid Trump $100,000 for the speech about himself.

Builder wrote:

After she resigned as secretary of state, Clinton joined the speaking circuit, raking in millions for paid speeches at about $200,000 a pop.

What's your point, Builder? Did the Democratic Party pay Mrs. Clinton $200,000 to make speeches about herself?

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@hightor,

What else has she ever talked about, hippy?

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The USA is increasing its troops in Germany by 500 soldiers. This was announced by US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin after a meeting with his counterpart Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer in Berlin. The soldiers are to be stationed in the Wiesbaden area. "These troops will strengthen deterrence and defence in Europe," Austin said.

Last summer, shortly before he was voted out of office, then US President Donald Trump had announced the withdrawal of 12 000 of the roughly 35 000 US troops in Germany as a punitive measure.
Biden had already stopped this troop withdrawal. But the fact that additional troops are now being sent to Germany is a surprise.

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@Builder,

As usual, you fail to grasp the point, creepy. Trump was paid by the GOP. Clinton didn't charge speaking fees when she was addressing her own party, whether she talked about herself or not.

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@hightor,

One great bit... As Trump attacked those Republicans who had spoken out against him, he offered up the following principle:

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“We can’t have these guys that like publicity”

And, of course, as this speech was mainly before an audience of donors, we ought to note that his super pac is competing with the GOP for those donors' money.

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@blatham,

It's really unprecedented — a defeated candidate squaring off against the party that nominated him and competing for monetary donations. The 1912 election saw a major split in the GOP but the party still had a nominal leader in Taft and even though T.R. won more votes for his Progressive Party he didn't try to re-establish control over the GOP and instead, undertook a two year exploration of the Amazon basin follow2ing his defeat by Wilson.

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Kind of gerrymandering on a different level:

Idaho lawmakers hear pitch to absorb three-fourths of Oregon

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BOISE, Idaho — Idaho lawmakers appeared intrigued but skeptical on Monday when pitched a plan to lop off about three-fourths of Oregon and add it to Idaho to create what would become the nation’s third-largest state geographically.

Representatives of a group called Move Oregon’s Border For a Greater Idaho outlined their plan to a joint meeting of Idaho lawmakers from the House and Senate on Monday.

The Idaho Legislature would have to approve the plan that would expand Idaho’s southwestern border to the Pacific Ocean. The Oregon Legislature and the U.S. Congress would also have to sign off.

Supporters of the idea said rural Oregon voters are dominated by liberal urban areas such as Portland, and would rather join conservative Idaho. Portland would remain with Oregon.

“There’s a longtime cultural divide as big as the Grand Canyon between northwest Oregon and rural Oregon, and it’s getting larger,” Mike McCarter, president of Move Oregon’s Border for a Greater Idaho, told Idaho lawmakers.

If everything falls in line with Oregon, supporters envision also adding adjacent portions of southeastern Washington and northern California to Idaho. Backers said residents in those areas also yearn for less government oversight and long to become part of a red state insulated from the liberal influence of large urban centers that tend to vote Democratic.

“Values of faith, family, independence. That’s what we’re about,” said Mark Simmons, an eastern Oregon rancher and former speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives. “We don’t need the state breathing down our necks all the time, micromanaging our lives and trying to push us into a foreign way of living.”

President Joe Biden easily won Washington, Oregon and California in November, while President Donald Trump carried Idaho with 64%. The Idaho House and Senate each have supermajorities of Republicans.

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@hightor,

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As usual, you fail to grasp the point, creepy.

I grasp it just fine, creepy Hitor; only the party faithful would ever bother going to one of Hillary's bogus attempts at a speech. Going on her "pay-to play" history, only those attempting to curry favour would be mugs enough to pay her, and her derelict sex offender husband, to speak publicly.

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Clinton didn't charge speaking fees when she was addressing her own party, whether she talked about herself or not.

Did you have your head planted firmly up your own ass, when Clinton decimated the ranks of the DNC on her headlong march into infamy?

She even went so far as redirecting funds from state coffers to her "fighting fund", but I'm sure that was for the "eventual" benefit of all in the party, right Hi??

See, this is why I'm thinking you're really a response bot, although most of them actually have a "learning memory" for this kind of thing.

Might be a glitch your programmers missed, but even your short-term memory needs a helluva lot of help.

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@Builder,

The discussion was about speaking fees. This is a practice where corporations and other organizations pay some person (sometimes a washed up celebrity but usually someone who has enjoyed access to wealth and power) to address their conference. We all know about Hillary Clinton's presidential run and the machinations involved as she secured control of the party. But the discussion was about speaking fees and whether it makes sense for a party's failed candidate to charge speaking fees to address a party conference.

You can read up on it here:

The Republican National Committee is shelling out over $100,000 for a 400-person dinner at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort

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@hightor,

"Democratic allies that said they want Bill and Hillary to go away......"

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@Builder,

I'd like Bill and Hillary to go away as well. Why do you keep bringing them back?

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@hightor,

Hypocrisy seems to be your middle name.
You're on a Biden thread rabbiting on about a former president.

What's the difference?

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@Builder,

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Hypocrisy seems to be your middle name.

Where have I been hypocritical? I'm not a fan of the Clintons. They're not the only politicians who have lined their pockets by drawing large speaking fees. The discussion about speaking fees concerns the propriety of the Trump's recent event at Mar a Lago and the hold the failed candidate still has on the party.

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What's the difference?

It's current.

blatham could have posted the story on the "Stupid Trump" thread but it's really more about the "Stupid GOP" and it's not out of place here.

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rabbiting on about a former president

The title of the thread says "...and other contemporary events."

Every major republican leader is still kissing his ring and saying they would support him for re-election, or publicly blaming him for inciting a riot. So the former president is not "contemporary"?

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@snood,

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Every major republican leader is still kissing his ring and saying they would support him for re-election

That's because anyone with more than a pair of firing synapses knows he got re-elected.

Try and keep up, hippy.

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@hightor,

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it's not out of place here.

As if it makes any difference to you bunch.

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a dead ender wrote:

That's because anyone with more than a pair of firing synapses knows he got re-elected

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I was waiting for this shoe to drop! Laughing

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