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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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According to Seth Abramson's twitter, which he claims he got info from CNN and a Harvard Professor, Michael Flynn is going to expose as much dirt as he has on Trump to the FBI in exchange for Protection from them. If it is True, we're going to learn about the shadiest shit that's been going on from Trump, which may prove that Trump is a Russian Stooge.
That is absolutely huge! Not only was 2016 the first time a Foreign Power actually interfered in the US's election (though only 'indirectly'), this would be the first time a Presidential Candidate actively worked with a Foreign Power to get himself elected!
Again, that all depends on if these Tweets are true.
edited 25th Mar '17 2:39:36 PM by DingoWalley1
Oh, that. I already knew about that, all the way since last fall. Hell, I thought everyone knew. The only difference now is that it may just be official. It's big news, certainly, but it's not shocking news, at least for me. Actually, the only reason I asked was because I thought you were thinking about something even worse. Not that this isn't already bad as is.
edited 25th Mar '17 2:43:28 PM by kkhohoho
Trump would become the first American President impeached and convicted for high treason. Sounds good.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Report: Bannon told conservatives 'this is not a debate,' you have to back bill
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Obviously, that didn't work.
You know, if I recall correctly, in one of the early debates (i.e., when Jeb Bush was still in the running), Trump actually defended Planned Parenthood, saying that they did good things for women's healthcare. And yet here he is, saying that it has to go.
Not that I'm surprised by this, of course. Just another thing I'd like to seem him called out on, I suppose.
Oh God! Natural light!I think it was honest advice. When you look at the flustercluck the GOP nominations were, I don't think Biden would have been able to make any solid difference if he had tried to run. <_<
People like Bannon need discrediting and their infowars visibly spiked before moderates like Biden can have a solid run and hope to get anywhere. :/
I dunno. I still think people woefully underestimate Hillary just cuz immediately relating her to criminal shady stuff is a social meme at this point. But from my understanding primary voters tend to be older people who I think remember Hillary more like this
https://youtu.be/zf0ZyJigOGw?t=1m2s
edited 25th Mar '17 4:47:48 PM by Aszur
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesI think Biden had better odds by virtue of being of a man and not a Clinton, as well as building on the goodwill of the Obama administration. Granted, this election (and the primaries) was going to be a clusterfuck either way but I feel he might have stood at odds. I see it being somewhat harder to run a smear campaign against him the way it was easy against Hillary and how even easier it would be to run one against Bernie.
Though to be fair to Joe as well, his son died not too long ago and in every interview you can see Biden is shaken to the core by this. The man wasn't in a very good mental state to run for President.
edited 25th Mar '17 4:50:22 PM by Gaon
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Biden is a lot harder to target than Hillary. And he wasn't under FBI investigation which did half the talking against Hillary to a lot of people.
Let me guess, it's because he's a man?
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot

That pretty much can't happen with the level of partisanship going on right now.
Doesn't help that the only real way forward is some sort of public insurance, if nothing else then to help control cost.
edited 25th Mar '17 2:38:30 PM by Mio