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It is pure idiocy to describe an industry that has never been more productive and profitable as "stunted." Jeebus, any industry in the world would love to be "stunted" like that. I suspect you simply don't know the meaning of the word. And it's too late for the latter plea. We already know you have kids.

@West Better get your pom-poms warmed up so you can celebrate. Meadows won't be prosecuted federally. This is great news for people with your "deep" understanding of legal deal making, right? ?

Nearly all of it is fiction--and fiction of the stupidest kind. Your characterization of violent insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt as she broke through the barricade to get at the trapped legislators who could retreat no further--and against whom the mob had threatened extreme violence--as a "little girl making a mean face" is, unfortunately, perfectly indicative of your profound dishonesty. It's also the height of hypocrisy as the bookend to a post which you begin by claiming that Republicans never supported rioters. You literally end the very same post by minimizing the violent actions of a rioter! As I've often observed about you, this is symptomatic of pathological liars. People like you lie so often and so easily that you can't keep the story straight from one line to the next.

You are a lunatic. There's no evidence or reason to believe that Biden blew up any pipeline, or that he's somehow (in your twisted little mind) responsible for Putin invading Ukraine. Oil production is at record levels. We're at record export levels as well and we are a net energy producer, so you can stuff the "driving down business" lie right back where it came from. I'll also remind you that Biden's spending and deficits are significantly less than the dumpster fire he inherited from Trump, so you're not trying to make an honest point. As a point of trivia, do you have any idea which US president asked OPEC to cut oil production? You really do live in your own imaginary reality--complete with a TV that shows you the future!. It's kind of bizarre to watch.

Speaking of idioms that you don't understand... Look, you can observe that gas prices are higher than recent averages. That's fine. But when you try to explain why it's like Nipper the RCA dog staring into a gramophone. You don't understand the subject in the least. You can't make any logical connection between gas prices and liberalism or Joe Biden, but you'll keep barking about it. And that's really representative of your whole political ethos. You can't connect point A to point B or point C, but you really don't care about it. You've identified a "group" you should blame and hate and you've bought in 100%. Full points for enthusiasm, no points for execution.

The fool did claim that Sidney Powell was never his lawyer. ? That's the thing about a pathological liar. No matter how absurd the claim, or how certain he is to be caught, he just can't stop lying.

Disgusting? I think you mean wholly accurate. When lawyers break the law they should face the consequences. Being a lawyer isn't like being a diplomat. They are not above the law.? Isn't this the part where you shake your pom-poms and tell us what great news it is that another Trump co-conspirator has pled guilty?

You 4-chan refugee farking losers are absolutely disgusting people.

Ellis appeared in court Tuesday morning in Atlanta, acknowledging she helped supply false information related to claims by Giuliani and another Trump lawyer that nearly 100,000 mail-in ballots were fraudulently cast, that 2,500 felons illegally voted and that more than 60,000 underage people illegally registered to vote, among other assertions. She agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in future proceedings, serve five years of probation, pay $5,000 in restitution and write a letter of apology. “If I knew then what I know now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these post-election challenges,” Ellis said through tears as she addressed the judge in her case, Scott McAfee. Ellis, 38, stressed that she was a junior member of Trump’s legal team. “I relied on others, including lawyers with many more years of experience than I to provide me with true and reliable information,” Ellis declared. “What I did not do, but should have done, Your Honor, was to make sure that the facts the other lawyers alleged to be true were in fact true. In the frenetic pace of attempting to raise challenges to the election in several states, including Georgia. I failed to do my due diligence.” Another Trump felon created. Again and again we see the perpetrators of the Big Lie admit that the election fraud nonsense was entirely made up. Pure fiction. And yet, we have people on this board who will still swear up and down that it's all true. One must be bit gullible to have believed those far-fetched unsupported claims, but how utterly farked in the head does one have to be to keep believing the lie after the liars admit to the fact that they were lying? I expect that all of these crooked lawyers should--and will--be disbarred, never again in a position to wreak wanton harm upon the society that our legal system is meant to preserve and protect.

Really? Are you sure the lesson isn't that it's wrong to kneel on someone until they die, begging for mercy? Floyd's underlying vulnerability doesn't make it any less murder. Murdering a weak or frail person is still murder. Chauvin killed him. And now he's rotting in prison for it, and your uninformed denials will not change the facts.

There's a very big difference between being aware of facts and understanding causation. You don't understand any of it, but you're happy to blame Biden or the liberals or whomever it feels convenient to blame at any given moment. It's silly. You're the "Thanks, Obama!" meme brought to life.

Floyd was autopsied twice. Both concluded homicide. His murderer was convicted and now sits in prison. You can make any uninformed, irrelevant claims you like, but the facts is that Chauvin killed Floyd. You lying about it years later isn't going to rewrite history, nor will it free the murderer.

I know you blindly pastor the things you hear in your media bubble, but I take comfort in the fact that you can't discuss any of them. My favorite is that you think that record oil production--and record exports--have "squashed" the industry and driven up fuel prices. Can't make this stuff up--but it doesn't seem to stop you from trying.?

You're volunteering that you're as dumb as a stump, rather than as dumb as a post? And yes, "dumb as a post" is a very common idiom, but I suppose a stump shouldn't be expected to know that.

That's simply not accurate. Not even close. Americans overwhelmingly (71 percent) believe that in terms of U.S. policy towards the Middle East, it is either “very important” (42 percent) or “somewhat important” (29 percent) to protect Israel. This belief is impressively bipartisan: 80 percent of Republicans and 72 percent of Democrats feel protecting Israel is an important aspect of American policy. What’s more, Americans feel that supporting Israel is more important than other geopolitical priorities. Roughly three-quarters (74 percent) of Americans say it is important that the U.S. fund military aid to Israel, the highest of any issue, beating border funding and foreign humanitarian aid (72 percent each), military aid for Ukraine (61 percent) and economic/military aid for Taiwan (52 percent), per CNBC polling. Frankly, in my five decades of experience in politics, including polling extensively on issues related to Israel and the America-Israel relationship, the current support for Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorists who seek its destruction is like nothing I’ve seen before and speaks to the impact of the savagery the entire world witnessed on Oct.7 There's a lot of self-congratulatory back-patting in this thread about historical and political awareness, but very little in the way of nuance. It is entirely possible--and far more evolved--to be able to recognize Israel's right to peaceful existence and to acknowledge what is, objectively, a multi-generational humanitarian crisis for the Palestinians. Sympathy for Palestinians, whose children suffer, die and become embittered the same as any other people, does not equate to animus toward Israel or support for Hamas.

Nah, our mistake is that we overestimate the decency of the other voters.

You know, Google is paying significant bounties if you can get their AI to jump the guardrails and do something crazy. I think OP could be worth some money.

Yes, I'm well aware that it's a US political forum. But you don't live in this country. You don't vote in this country. You don't belong to a political party in this country. Hence, you sounds like a deluded fanboy talking about US politics, saying "we're"going to do X,Y, and Z! Rah! Rah! Rah! You have zero part in any of it. You aren't going to do anything here. Like those losers who watch football on TV and think "we" win the game. You're welcome to comment on foreign politics, but for fark's sake, have some dignity about it. Tape your Trump-boner to your leg and pretend to be an adult. You're not part of any "we" here.

No, he's generally unpopular. His approval average is the lowest of any president ever and he left office at 34%. I know you're a fanboy, but there is no reason to expect someone with a 34% approval rating to be reelected. Yet somehow you've convinced yourself that it's impossible that the polls were right. Lol You're just not rational. Miles from it.

I've been on this board for a year, jackass.?

How can you still not understand how a plea deal works? These people aren't pleading guilty because there is no evidence. They are pleading guilty because they expected to lose in court and have been offered a deal for lesser charges and lighter punishment in exchange for cooperation. This isn't like Manafort and Stone. Trump isn't POTUS. He can no longer buy silence with pardons.

Trump was an unpopular president polling poorly in the middle of an economic crisis caused by a medical pandemic. Honestly, it's honestly weird that you think he should have won. There's nothing wrong with mail-in balloting. It's not like the shoebox with a slot on top to elect a senior class treasurer. It has the same checks in place as in-person balloting. Votes are validated and cross checked the same way. Why do you think the many audits conducted by butthurt Republicans continued to validate the process and count?

Nonsense. Biden was polling ahead, and indeed won as projected. Not only was it possible, it was expected. There has never been any evidence of fraud discovered, despite Republicans doing recounts and audits and court challenges galore. Your "reasoning" is as sound as saying, "Only a complete liar would sit there and say the Lizard People aren't running the government!" You're begging the question, and it's a very stupid question in the first place. Maybe the weirdest feature of conspiracy kooks is that you think that other people should believe your bizarre theories without any evidence to support them.

@West Boy, your silly thread title is NOT aging well. She's got another one. Chesebro plead guilty too, with obligation to testify against co-defendants. Chesebro, who was charged alongside Trump and 17 others with violating the state’s anti-racketeering law, pleaded guilty to one felony charge of conspiracy to commit filing false documents in a last-minute deal. His plea came a day after fellow attorney Sidney Powell, who had been scheduled to go to trial alongside him, entered her own guilty plea to six misdemeanor counts. In Chesebro’s case, he was sentenced to five years’ probation and 100 hours of community service and was ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution, write an apology letter to Georgia’s residents and testify truthfully at any related future trial.

There was no fraud at scale in the 2020 election. It's the most scrutinized election in history. And if there had been fraud, and you still couldn't produce evidence after exhaustive recounts, audits and court challenges, then Republicans clearly not smart enough to be running the country anyway.