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Nothing more. I just found it profoundly sad. I can't imagine what it would have felt like if my parents had used a fundamental part of my identity as a casual insult.

No, you need to change your thinking. The power asymmetry makes consent impossible in the same way that there cannot be consent between and adult and a minor child.

Does your son know the nature of his sexuality is something you use as an insult in conversation with others? Boy, that can't feel good.

Nah, he could suppress his identify, find a woman, spend 20 years in a romantically loveless marriage and divorce after the kids graduate high school. That's how they did it in the old days. MAGA. ?

Oh, sure. Everything you said was correct, if you ignore the lies and outright farking nonsense. No, Trump's FBI, led by his hand-picked director, Christopher Wray, didn't interfere in the election to help Joe Biden. They made a deliberate choice to remain professionally aloof and to NOT repeat the mistakes of 2016. You claimed the FBI made a statement about Russian disinformation in October 2020. That was an outright lie. You later claimed that the FBI organized a group of retired private citizens to make a statement about Russian disinformation. Which is preposterous. And in fact, the letter didn't make a definitive statement, but simply raised a warning. You claimed that retired individuals like Clapper and Brennan spoke with the power of the "FBI brand" (as FBI lackeys, no less) when neither of them was ever even affiliated with the FBI. In fact, of the 51 signatories to the letter, NOT A SINGLE ONE was affiliated with the FBI. You claim the FBI "primed" the MSM while you know nothing about the quality of the intel regarding a potential disinformation campaign. That seems sinister to you because you are desperately grasping at any straw to keep your conspiracy alive. Indeed, the Russians were engaged in shenanigans again in 2020. Honestly, your are just full of crap from top to bottom, spouting off about things which you don't understand, and making claims that are entirely unmoored from logic. I'm sure it all makes perfect sense in the conspiracy fever swamp though.

Do you just not remember what you claim from one post to the next?You don't seem remember lying about the FBI releasing a statement. You don't seem remember claiming that a bunch of retired intelligence officers who shared a warning publicly were "lackeys" for the FBI, (even though the individuals you called out had never even worked for the FBI)? Okay, so you've abandoned multiple claims along the way and you're left with... not much. If they didn't release a statement as you earlier claimed (they didn't) and they didn't organize a gaggle of retirees to release a statement as you earlier claimed (they didn't) then you've now twisted yourself around so much that you've arrived at the conclusion that the FBI interfered in the election by not doing anything to interfere in the election. Genius! A masterful move on their part.

Wait, help us keep all the links of yarn straight. The FBI has secret control over retired persons who never worked for the FBI. Is it all government retirees? Military retirees? Is is all retired persons? Is the AARP a front for the FBI? Does the FBI control the senior discounts at Tim Hortons? How deep does this thing go!?!

You believed without question stories from tabloid newspapers, a wild web of conspiracy theories and a random dude on TV (because people can't lie on TV!), and you have the gall to call anyone else a credulous dolt? lol Did a childhood brain injury rob you of your sense of irony? Jeebus.

You don't have to "tell me" what you said. It's been quoted multiple times. This is what you wrote. "The FBI had Hunter's laptop in their possession for 11 months before they released a statement in Oct 2020, one month before the presidential election, saying that the laptop story was Russian disinformation. They knew for a fact that it was not Russian D because, like I said, they had it for almost a year themselves. So they LIED." ^^That's your lie. Again, pure nonsense. It's not the FBI's job to police speculation (from either side) about stories in the NY Post. They are also not required or expected to refute the existence of Bat Boy. They made a concerted effort to avoid influencing this election based on lessons learned in 2016. Retired professionals are "lackeys" and the FBI is responsible for them? Again, GTFO. Neither Clapper nor Brennan ever even worked for the FBI. And they're probably both Republicans. I'm not sure if either are on record both got their first political appointments from Republicans. Hell, Clapper joined both Bush administrations and was hand-picked by Gates (another Bush appointee) for the DNI job in the Obama admin.

Dude, did you really just say that people can't or won't lie on TV? lol GTFO. I have no idea if this Bobulinski guy is telling the truth, lies or some combination, but I don't think it's reasonable to simply take his word for it, particularly when he has an axe to grind. I do know that in the entire story there is no evidence that Joe Biden did anything unethical or illegal, or indeed that he was actually involved in these business deals at all--and by all appearances the deal didn't even materialize. Two different senate committees investigated and came to the same conclusion, that there was no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden. So WTF are we even talking about? No evidence that Joe Biden was involved in one of his son's business deals that didn't actually happen and would have been both legal and ethical for a private citizen if it had happened. Seems there's neither smoke nor fire.

There is an incredible amount of revisionist history going on here, as if all these things happened on day 1. Did you forget that the provenance of the information was so questionable and sketchy that the reporters at the NY Post wouldn't even put their byline on it? Seriously, someone at a two-bit tabloid like the Post was worried about damaging their credibility just by signing the story. The WSJ was working hard to establish provenance. It's not like this thing came with a certificate of authenticity or any chain of custody. It is NOT the FBI's job to go around correcting speculation about weird laptops and the jumble of claims around it. And to this day nothing incriminating about Joe Biden has come out of this laptop fiasco. Why should voters have gone to the polls with unsubstantiated speculation in mind that bears the imprimatur of the FBI. That's EXACTLY what the FBI did in 2016 with the effect of tilting the field and EXACTLY what they wanted to avoid in 2020.

Bullshit. You claimed, in no uncertain terms, that the FBI released a statement claiming the laptop was Russian disinformation. That is false. And you would not correct or even admit that it is false. That is a lie, both material and meaningful to the narrative you are trying to sell. You are a liar.

It's so, so sad that you think this^^ passes for clever. Bless your heart.❤️

Hey "dick head" a discussion IS back and forth and in a discussion both parties DO care what the other shows. Jeebus, and I thought I'd already met the runt of the litter. Biden's war in Ukraine? ? Are you posting from mother Russia, or just carrying Putin's water?

Oh you have a lovely day too. Offer stands if you can put in the effort to come up with even a single economic rationale.

Oh, jeebus, get over yourself. Lol. People who don't buy into your crackpot theories are not "FBI apologists" whatever TF that is. The problem is that you're a conspiracy junky and a liar. You're not content to report the facts. You want to make up a secret agenda to explain the facts when events can more readily be explained through far simpler means. Your naivety about the relationships and communication between government and business is a personal deficiency, not a conspiracy. If you want to claim that the FBI released a statement, provide the statement. If you want to claim that the to FBI lied, produce the lie. If you want to claim that something unprecedented or even unusual happened here back it up with evidence. ETA: I will give you credit though, you're way ahead of nationalist. You've at least proposed a mechanism for influence. It's just not particularly in evidence without a LOT of creative inference, speculation and fiction.

No, I think the FBI did "play a role" but it wasn't part of any malevolent plot. Rather it was doing due diligence to prep platform owners for a likely round of interference, as the Russians were actively interfering in both 2016 and 2020. The FBI clearly spiked the Clinton campaign in the last weeks of the 2016 election with half-baked information that turned out to be nothing. They didn't do it out of explicit political bias, but rather it was a failure of media savvy. They were rightly criticized. They learned the lesson and tried to avoid a repeat performance. You want to spin that to be something sinister because this time around they didn't spike the Democratic candidate. As if the FBI under Obama was Republican in 2016 and the FBI under Trump magically flipped to be Democratic in 2020. It's absurd, but you seem to believe it instead of the plausible and practical explanations. Moreover, you want to say that they lied about it, but you can't produce any evidence that they did anything other than warn platforms about what might be coming. And the platforms were equally--perhaps more--sensitive to the ways that they were used against the American people in 2016 and they acted accordingly. Do you know how long the laptop story was "banned" from Twitter? About 2 days. BFD. If you don't think some basic due diligence is merited before giving a story like that a megaphone that could sway a presidential election, you can fark right off.

I'm sure that's true. You have no compunction about lying, so why would you feel the need to correct those lies? I do not have to come to terms with your conspiracy theory. I'll stick to the facts, thanks.

Carter was a fundamentally good person and deeply invested in serving others more than serving himself. The economic circumstances pretty much ate his presidency alive, which is a shame. Would have been nice to see how he could have appealed to our better angels to make change.

The point would be so that you don't continue to look like a blathering fool. I haven't simply claimed anything. I've provided you with data that backs up everything I've said. I've given you authoritative charts and graphs, tables, current and historical data and on and on. And yes, that indeed does show that reality is exact opposite of the claims you made.

Lol. Linking a story about ignorant fools putting stickers on gas pumps = evidence of a secret economic lever that Biden manipulates. ? Can you articulate anything, anything at all, to support your claims? Use your words like a big boy? Apparently you're not embarrassed by this deficiency, which I just don't understand. You just keep posting to highlight it.

So you say, ad nauseum, but you clearly lack the ability to mount any argument to support that claim, nor find data to support that would-be argument. You've been invited many times to propose any economic mechanism by which Biden is driving up prices, and you cannot. Instead, you persist in babbling endlessly without saying much of anything. If you're content with that, who am I to stop you from showing the world your true colors?

Utter nonsense. You might argue that the ignorant are going to blame Biden anyway, and that it's a political problem. That much is true. But it is patently false to claim that most people "know" the cause of higher gas and oil prices. They don't. Like you, they have no understanding of supply, demand and pricing in a global market.

What is the point of that link? Remedial vandalism appeals to bog stupid people? But you do make a good point. I will go to my grave believing well researched and reasoned arguments supported by data. While you'll go to your grave believing a "bumper" sticker. That surely sums up the difference between us.

That is some first rate projection. When the data contradicts your claims entirely, you simply repeat your unsubstantiated claims. Literally, denying and ignoring reality. Are you not aware of this? Or is this simply more trolling?