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China on the Edge

  

Category:  Op/Ed

By:  vic-eldred  •  2 years ago  •  188 comments

China on the Edge
It's very dangerous. We cannot let China, Russia, Iran, North Korea -- what I call the new axis of evil -- dictate foreign policy to us. The weakness of Joe Biden and this administration, the hesitancy they have had with dealing with the Chinese Communist Party is causing issues domestically for us. It is causing foreign policy issues. You need to let your allies know that they're your allies and your enemies know that they are your enemies, and they are going to be held to account. When you...

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Xi Jinping



Nancy Pelosi made a photo-op visit to Taiwan. Biden's handlers tried to dissuade her by leaking the planned visit. After Pelosi left, China began a four day military exercise in 6 zones that circle Taiwan. A few of the zones face the island’s biggest commercial ports and are within 12 miles of Taiwan's coastline. Some military analysts have described it as a temporary blockade. The exercise began Thursday using warships and about 100 planes. Eleven missiles were fired, some of them splashing down in Japan's economic zone.

Link to the above quote:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/marsha-blackburn-slams-biden-blurred-policy-toward-china-faulkner-focus-dangerous

So what has our leader done about it?  First of all, Joe Biden is isolated because he has covid again. His (or his handlers) immediate reaction was to  postpone the scheduled test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to avoid upsetting China. He had no comment on the missiles splashing down in Japan's economic zone. Biden is appeasing China, as the Asian superpower flexes its military muscle all around Taiwan. It wasn't that long ago that Trump held China by the collar.


The Week:


FBI Director Wray testifies:  Thursday the FBI Director appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he answered questions ranging from the Hunter Biden investigation to the rampant crime going on in big blue cities. Important questions need to be asked concerning the FBI's blatant political bias, the investigations/intimidation of parents at school board meetings and Wray's failure to clean up the mess. Today's performance was pathetic. The FBI still can't explain what happened to Hunter's laptop, which was in their custody. Wray is about half way through his term. If he can't do the job, he should resign or be fired by the probable next Republican President.


Governor DeSantis suspends woke prosecutor:  Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that he would be removing Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren, a twice-elected Democrat who made the mistake of saying that he would decline prosecuting cases involving violations related to abortion and gender-transition treatments.  “State Attorneys have a duty to prosecute crimes as defined in Florida law, not to pick and choose which laws to enforce based on his personal agenda,”  Mr. DeSantis said.  “It is my duty to hold Florida’s elected officials to the highest standards for the people of Florida.”   


WNBA All-Star Britney Griner was sentenced to 9 years:  The sentence which is the norm for drug possession and smuggling in Russia.  Stay tuned....Maybe Joe Biden will make a trade.


The weeks good news story:  "In a faceoff that lasted seconds, an armed man was shot by an 80-year-old Southern California store owner who pulled a shotgun out from behind the counter and opened fire during an attempted robbery. Surveillance video captured the moment the business owner opened fire on would-be robbers armed with long rifles at the convenience store in   Norco, a city in Riverside County  roughly 50 miles east of Los Angeles."


https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/03/armed-robber-80-owner-california-shotgun-norco/10226047002/


"Inflation Reduction Act" is prepped for procedural vote:  "  Mr. Schumer said Thursday that the Senate would take an initial procedural vote on the package on Saturday afternoon, setting in motion a series of votes that could wrap up within days." "Successfully shepherding the bill through the Senate means contending with the demands of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.), another pivotal centrist   whose support Democrats will need   for the bill, as well as an anticipated onslaught of Republican amendments that could challenge Democratic unity on issues like raising taxes and border policy."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/kyrsten-sinema-gop-fuel-fears-for-fate-of-democrats-climate-plan-11659618001

(Update on that one: Sinema is now on board)



What Have We Learned?

First and foremost, right here we learned that "abortion" is the hot button issue for the Feminist Brigade. Let's just ponder that. What possess a full grown woman to ignore suffering and dedicate all of their time & conversation to this fanatical cause of an explicit right to have an abortion?  Not that abortion is any danger of being outlawed. What on earth can make a woman that coarse and bitter?  What happened in their lives to cause such an unfeminine instinct? Maybe somebody can figure it out by examining the endless abortion seeds we see here. If someone comes up with an answer, let me know.

Does anyone recall the little lecture Obama gave at North High School in Des Moines, Iowa? He famously advised leftist students to debate rather than dismiss opposing views: 

“I’ve heard some college campuses where they don’t want to have a guest speaker who is too conservative or they don’t want to read a book if it has language that is offensive to African-Americans or somehow sends a demeaning signal towards women,” Obama said. “I gotta tell you I don’t agree with that either. I don’t agree that you, when you become students at colleges, have to be coddled and protected from different points of view.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/obama-college-political-correctness_n_55f8431ee4b00e2cd5e80198

Well, I don't think many got the message. I've been to the back room and I can tell you that it's an echo chamber where no opposing views are allowed. BTW, you'll find people there that you might not have heard from in months.



The Cartoon of the Week:

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Honorable Mention:


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Governor Ron DeSantis with his new State Attorney - Hillsborough County Judge Susan Lopez.

Also worthy of mention is Craig Cope who defended himself and his store.

And Ro Malabanan, a good Samaratan for taking down a thug in NYC

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Vic Eldred
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1  author  Vic Eldred    2 years ago

This is what some in the media are calling "a good week for Biden." Meanwhile many democrats don't want to talk about supporting him in 2024.

That must be the new litmus question for democrats via Fox News: "Would you support a Biden candidacy in 2024?"

Ask that question and they squirm.

 
 
 
squiggy
Junior Silent
1.1  squiggy  replied to  Vic Eldred @1    2 years ago

Is DeSantis reading her speech?

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
1.2  devangelical  replied to  Vic Eldred @1    2 years ago
we learned that "abortion" is the hot button issue for the Feminist Brigade

it's about the individual freedom of bodily autonomy. there's always room for compromise. what freedom are you ready to give up?

 
 
 
Eat The Press Do Not Read It
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1.3  Eat The Press Do Not Read It  replied to  Vic Eldred @1    2 years ago

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Biden has been in office 18 month, and you have the impertinence to blame him for the entire China/Russia/North Korea/Iran Security Risk that goes back over 100 years.

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Biden is not the problem. Angry, Republican Insurrectionist, Corrupt Rich Republicans in public office are the real threat to this country.

When your Conservative views are so enmeshed with politics, that you will resort to outlandish bullshit to bash a settling president, because that DANGEROUS POS, Donald J. Trump, was not reelected, is not partisan harping, it is TREASONOUS dangerous, miss information, as treasonous as Fox TV Fake News, Putin's spies in our country, China's deliberate threats, North Korea's real nuclear warning, Iran's Murderous Religious Regime of Jihadists. 

We are on the tipping edge of a GD Civil War, and International WWIII stoked by Russia, China, and North Korea, and supported by Iran, 
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Where is your allegiance? To you ego, or to this country?

 
 
 
Ronin2
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1.3.1  Ronin2  replied to  Eat The Press Do Not Read It @1.3    2 years ago
Biden has been in office 18 month, and you have the impertinence to blame him for the entire China/Russia/North Korea/Iran Security Risk that goes back over 100 years.

Don't remember China conducting such a massive military exercise around Taiwan before the Human Fuck Up Machine took office. Joe is supposed to be great friends with Xi. Maybe he should try being bitter enemies instead; because it is a one sided friendship- with Xi taking advantage of Biden (or paying him off if you prefer) repeatedly.

Biden is not the problem. Angry, Republican Insurrectionist, Corrupt Rich Republicans in public office are the real threat to this country.

Fucking TDS suffering morons wouldn't know an insurrection if they were about ready to be executed because of one. Jan 6th is the only insurrection where they got bored and left for Happy Hour. The only person killed was an unarmed ex Marine female rioter; by a Barney Fife wannabe; that somehow managed not to lose his gun for a change in the bathroom.

When your Conservative views are so enmeshed with politics, that you will resort to outlandish bullshit to bash a settling president, because that DANGEROUS POS, Donald J. Trump, was not reelected, is not partisan harping, it is TREASONOUS dangerous, miss information, as treasonous as Fox TV Fake News, Putin's spies in our country, China's deliberate threats, North Korea's real nuclear warning, Iran's Murderous Religious Regime of Jihadists. 

When you suffer from rampant TDS you back a Human Fuck Up Machine who has:

  • Single handedly opened our southern border to any illegal that cares to cross it (They are all criminals violating our; but some of the them are Cartels, terrorists, rapists, and gang members- looking for the better life Brandon's US has to offer). 
  • Abandoned US citizens in Afghanistan; and has "turned the page" to make sure they don't get out.
  • Emboldened Russia to start a war in Ukraine
  • Destroyed US energy production.
  • Begged our enemies for oil. We would still be getting oil from Russia if they hadn't invaded Ukraine. Brandon is willing to let Iran get nukes if they will just sell us some oil. He will side with any South American dictator if they can just increase their production and send the US some oil. At least he managed to piss off our ally Saudi Arabia. With a few more visits by Brandon; they will gladly welcome China and Russia into the fold. Both of those countries have better leverage over Iran than the US does right now.

  • Put the US into a recession. No matter how hard Brandon Co try to change the definition and spin it. With rampant inflation and increased fuel prices. Brandon needs to be reminded he that every last gallon of oil needs to be replaced that he is stealing from the Federal Oil Reserves. The temporary dip in fuel prices will gone the second the US government has to make a bulk purchase of oil. In the meantime Brandon betting be praying to the God most leftists doesn't believe exists no disasters occur that we need the oil from our now diminished reserves.
  • Put into place a wonderful two tier justice system; that has criminals, leftists, and Democrats laughing at laws- as it pursues Jan 6th rioters for violating that most important of laws "Parading"! Hell, the FBI admitted it didn't have the resources to go after leftist activists violating the law by protesting outside of conservative Supreme Court Justices houses illegally. They are just too busy tracking down Jan 6th rioters!
We are on the tipping edge of a GD Civil War, and International WWIII stoked by Russia, China, and North Korea, and supported by Iran, 

Whose fault is it again that we are on the edge of a Civil War? When TDS driven morons in the House feel free to defy all laws and ethics to put on a show trial; and demand a highly politically biased AG to press charges on their findings (Of doctored videos; omitted evidence; trying to force Trump lawyers to turn over files and testify against him (seems that client confidentiality only applies to Democrats and those they support); and only putting interviewers on stage that have been heavily coached and repeat "Get Trump at all costs" message). Think putting Trump on trial won't fracture this country further? Democrats have been trying to get Trump since he became the Republican nominee. But that is OK; because it is just Trump; and the ends justify the means.

As for WWIII. Than the weak incompetent Human Fuck Up Machine you helped put into office.

According to Politico , the former president said: "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f... things up."

Mr. Obama was also said to have spoken about his own understanding of the 2020 Democrat electorate in Iowa.

"And you know who really doesn’t have it? Joe Biden," he reportedly said.

"I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades,” former Defense Secretary Robert Gates says of Vice President Joe Biden in his new book coming out later this month.

Knowing that dumb fucks still put him the White House. He has proven both Obama and Gates right beyond a shadow of a doubt.

 
 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
2  author  Vic Eldred    2 years ago

While the voters made the final decision to elect John Gibbs over Peter Meijer in the Michigan Republican House primary, Democrats’ efforts influenced it. 


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JBB
Professor Principal
3  JBB    2 years ago

original

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
3.1  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  JBB @3    2 years ago

Killing the head of al-queda is the only thing good on that tiny list.

Have a good one

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
3.1.1  devangelical  replied to  Vic Eldred @3.1    2 years ago

meh, another one of trump's ideological comrades takes a dirt nap...

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
4  author  Vic Eldred    2 years ago

 
 
 
Dulay
Professor Guide
4.1  Dulay  replied to  Vic Eldred @4    2 years ago

That's pretty fucking hypocritical considering the fact that your next fluffing comment whines about the FBI investigating speech. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
4.1.1  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Dulay @4.1    2 years ago

You mean FBI officials have a right to biased political speech?

It was your colleague who coined the term "fluffing."

 
 
 
Dulay
Professor Guide
4.1.2  Dulay  replied to  Vic Eldred @4.1.1    2 years ago
You mean FBI officials have a right to biased political speech?

Why not? If they were expressing bias to the right, you'd be all for it. 

It was your colleague who coined the term "fluffing."

The term fluffing was coined LONG before NT existed. 

Oh and BTFW, I have no colleagues here. In fact, I'm retired and when I do work it's solo. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
4.1.3  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Dulay @4.1.2    2 years ago
Why not?

For one thing it discredits the entire FBI or don't you think so?


Oh and BTFW, I have no colleagues here.

You maybe one who can think for herself, but there is another who wants to be leader.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
4.1.4  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Vic Eldred @4.1.3    2 years ago

I kind of preferred when the FBI stayed out of politics and played it straight...before Obama.

 
 
 
Dulay
Professor Guide
4.1.5  Dulay  replied to  Vic Eldred @4.1.3    2 years ago
For one thing it discredits the entire FBI or don't you think so?

No, I don't think so. The statements of ONE mid-level Agent do not represent an Agency of 3500. 

You maybe one who can think for herself, but there is another who wants to be leader.

WTF does that have to do with 'colleagues' Vic? Hint: Nothing. 

 
 
 
Dulay
Professor Guide
4.1.6  Dulay  replied to  Vic Eldred @4.1.4    2 years ago

You must never have heard of J. Edgar Hoover. 

Seriously Vic, the FBI was a Fiefdom for the first 48 years. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
5  author  Vic Eldred    2 years ago

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
5.1  Tessylo  replied to  Vic Eldred @5    2 years ago

Cruz grilling Wray?

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Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
5.1.1  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Tessylo @5.1    2 years ago

Wray only has 2 years left.

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
Professor Expert
5.2  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Vic Eldred @5    2 years ago

Wray is a political hack.  He didn't answer a single question.  

I love how the idiot from Detroit who bungled the Whitmer kidnapping / murder plot investigation is now running the Jan 6th "investigations".  No.  There's no political bias going on here.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
5.2.1  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @5.2    2 years ago

They've insulted everyone's intelligence....(as Robert De Niro might say)...Just a little bit!

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
Professor Expert
5.2.2  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Vic Eldred @5.2.1    2 years ago

Just a little.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
6  author  Vic Eldred    2 years ago

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
6.1  Tessylo  replied to  Vic Eldred @6    2 years ago

Grassley - you old fucking dinosaur - there was no reason to investigate Hunter Biden in the first place.  

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
6.1.1  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Tessylo @6.1    2 years ago

Nope, not a one! /S

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
Professor Expert
6.1.2  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Vic Eldred @6.1.1    2 years ago

Some people really have their head firmly up their 4th point of contact don't they?

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
6.1.3  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @6.1.2    2 years ago

The key word is firmly

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
6.1.4  devangelical  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @6.1.2    2 years ago

how do trumpsters walk like that?

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
6.1.5  Tessylo  replied to  devangelical @6.1.4    2 years ago

Ya!  How do they walk with their heads up theirs and trumps'?

 
 
 
Sunshine
Professor Quiet
6.1.6  Sunshine  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @6.1.2    2 years ago
Some people really have their head firmly up their 4th point of contact don't they?

Well they are Biden supporters.

 
 
 
bugsy
Professor Participates
6.1.7  bugsy  replied to  Tessylo @6.1.5    2 years ago

Oooooooooooo what a witty reply s/

 
 
 
bugsy
Professor Participates
6.1.8  bugsy  replied to  bugsy @6.1.7    2 years ago

Well, I was expecting some sort of "witty" reply, but I realized I posted the above after normal working hours on a Friday, so no response expected until Monday after 9am. 

 
 
 
Thomas
Masters Guide
6.1.9  Thomas  replied to  Tessylo @6.1.5    2 years ago

It's not easy,  but I hear being two-faced let's them taste both...

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
7  author  Vic Eldred    2 years ago

 
 
 
Jasper2529
Professor Quiet
8  Jasper2529    2 years ago
Biden is appeasing China, as the Asian superpower flexes its military muscle all around Taiwan.

He has to appease China. If he doesn't, China will expose the Biden Family Syndicate ... including "the Big Guy".

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
8.1  Tessylo  replied to  Jasper2529 @8    2 years ago

There is no such thing as the Biden family syndicate.  You're thinking of the big fat turd who waddled out of the White House on 1/20/21.  13 days after his failed insurrection/coup.  

 
 
 
Greg Jones
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8.1.1  Greg Jones  replied to  Tessylo @8.1    2 years ago
"'There is no such thing as the Biden family syndicate." 
The investigations will convene after the midterms.
Even now the evidence is overwhelming
 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
8.1.2  Tessylo  replied to  Greg Jones @8.1.1    2 years ago

What evidence?

 
 
 
bugsy
Professor Participates
8.1.3  bugsy  replied to  Tessylo @8.1.2    2 years ago
What evidence?

Tell you what.

I will give you the evidence of the Biden crime family when you show concrete evidence that Trump should be indicted for other grown ass adults storming the Capitol on January 6.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
8.2  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Jasper2529 @8    2 years ago

You know, I think you hit the proverbial nail right on the head!

 
 
 
Jasper2529
Professor Quiet
8.2.1  Jasper2529  replied to  Vic Eldred @8.2    2 years ago

In time, all will eventually be exposed. Patience is a virtue.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
8.2.2  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Jasper2529 @8.2.1    2 years ago
Patience is a virtue.

I remind myself every day.

 
 
 
arkpdx
Professor Quiet
8.2.3  arkpdx  replied to  Jasper2529 @8.2.1    2 years ago

I want patience damn it and I want it right now!

 
 
 
cjcold
Professor Quiet
8.2.4  cjcold  replied to  arkpdx @8.2.3    2 years ago

The most interesting thing you've ever posted.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
8.2.5  Tessylo  replied to  Jasper2529 @8.2.1    2 years ago

What 'all will' eventually be exposed?

There is nothing there to be found.  

 
 
 
arkpdx
Professor Quiet
8.3  arkpdx  replied to  Jasper2529 @8    2 years ago

The Biden family is a wholely owned subsidiary of the Chinese government 

 
 
 
Jasper2529
Professor Quiet
8.3.1  Jasper2529  replied to  arkpdx @8.3    2 years ago
The Biden family is a wholely owned subsidiary of the Chinese government 

The photos, emails, and texts on Hunter's laptop prove it. What a stupid man - or ... maybe he kept all of that incriminating evidence on his laptop to deliberately destroy his father. Beau seems to have been Daddy's favorite - the good son ... and Hunter is Daddy's drug addict son who used Biden international influence to make the family very wealthy. Time will tell. 

 
 
 
cjcold
Professor Quiet
8.3.2  cjcold  replied to  arkpdx @8.3    2 years ago

And Trump is a wholly owned subsidiary of Putin. 

 
 
 
Sunshine
Professor Quiet
8.3.4  Sunshine  replied to  cjcold @8.3.2    2 years ago
And Trump is a wholly owned subsidiary of Putin. 

Do you know what a subsidiary is?  lol

 
 
 
Ronin2
Professor Quiet
8.3.5  Ronin2  replied to  cjcold @8.3.2    2 years ago

You have evidence? You had better get it to bobble head boy Schiff. He seems to have lost his.

 
 
 
bugsy
Professor Participates
8.3.6  bugsy  replied to  Ronin2 @8.3.5    2 years ago

Several of them have claimed evidence, but when called on it to show that evidence, the feelings come out, insults are thrown, then they disappear until they again claim the same evidence.

Sad way to get through their day.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
9  author  Vic Eldred    2 years ago

Adams asks for photos of city job applicants in effort to increase diversity: report

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https:// trib.al/mFlbQJY

 
 
 
Jasper2529
Professor Quiet
9.1  Jasper2529  replied to  Vic Eldred @9    2 years ago

I had great hopes for Adams's success as mayor, but he's revealed that he's just a whiny child. He got a busload of 50 illegal aliens at Port Authority and ran to the federal government for help. Funny what happens when a sanctuary city has to use its own money to feed, house, educate, and medically care for illegal aliens.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
9.2  Sean Treacy  replied to  Vic Eldred @9    2 years ago

Straight out racism. 

but no surprise from the party of racists. 

 
 
 
cjcold
Professor Quiet
9.2.1  cjcold  replied to  Sean Treacy @9.2    2 years ago
but no surprise from the party of racists. 

So sick of far right wing republican racists.

 
 
 
arkpdx
Professor Quiet
9.2.2  arkpdx  replied to  cjcold @9.2.1    2 years ago

Well the more I read here the more PTSD I get. 

Pretty 

Tired of 

Stupid 

Democrats 

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
9.2.3  devangelical  replied to  arkpdx @9.2.2    2 years ago

there, there, it shouldn't be too much longer...

 
 
 
afrayedknot
Junior Quiet
9.2.4  afrayedknot  replied to  arkpdx @9.2.2    2 years ago

“Well the more I read here the more PTSD I get.”

Petty

Tiresome

Sophomoric 

Delerium

Be well, ark…tis a common affliction. 

 
 
 
arkpdx
Professor Quiet
9.2.5  arkpdx  replied to  devangelical @9.2.3    2 years ago

You going away?

 
 
 
arkpdx
Professor Quiet
9.2.6  arkpdx  replied to  afrayedknot @9.2.4    2 years ago

You get that from listening to the Democrats also

 
 
 
Ronin2
Professor Quiet
9.2.8  Ronin2  replied to  cjcold @9.2.1    2 years ago

Which is the reason you back far left wing Democrat racists.

 
 
 
arkpdx
Professor Quiet
9.2.9  arkpdx  replied to  afrayedknot @9.2.4    2 years ago

Your PTSD is suffered almost entirely by liberals. 

 
 
 
bugsy
Professor Participates
9.2.10  bugsy  replied to  arkpdx @9.2.9    2 years ago
Your PTSD is suffered almost entirely by liberals. 

Yep...Just post one word as a response to any of their comments....Trump.....and the cray cray comes out.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
10  author  Vic Eldred    2 years ago

"I suspect what happened with Brittney Griner is she became massively entitled in this country—“I’m black, I’m a lesbian and I’m a leftist, so I’m a superior person and basically above the law.” Then she discovered, to her astonishment, that other countries don’t see it that way!....Dinesh D'Souza

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
10.1  Tessylo  replied to  Vic Eldred @10    2 years ago

Dinesh D'Souza is a dumb whackjob conspiracy theorist.

Only morons listen to him.  

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
10.1.1  devangelical  replied to  Tessylo @10.1    2 years ago
Dinesh D'Souza is a dumb whackjob conspiracy theorist.

a trump pardoned criminal that makes his living jerking off rwnj's...

 
 
 
Dulay
Professor Guide
10.2  Dulay  replied to  Vic Eldred @10    2 years ago
Dinesh D'Souza

The perfect example of the go to commentary from the RW. A felon, a documented liar and a domestic abuser. 

Congratulations on the trifecta. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
10.2.1  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Dulay @10.2    2 years ago

"D’Souza was charged with illegally organizing for two people to each make $10,000 campaign donations to Wendy E. Long, a friend from his days at Dartmouth College. He pled guilty to the allegations in May and told FOX411 that at the time, he was simply frustrated that he couldn’t do more to help Long, who he says was struggling financially with her campaign.

“She was asking me for other favors, like speaking and fundraisers and meeting with potential donors. I didn’t think that I what I chose to do to help was a felony, but it was careless,” he explained. “Being prosecuted was the furthest thing from my mind.”



Hardly like the "felons" on your side of the aisle.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
10.2.2  devangelical  replied to  Vic Eldred @10.2.1    2 years ago
Hardly like the "felons" on your side of the aisle.

uh, yeah. tell us again how many of the 840+ felons waiting for trial on J6 charges are democrats.

 
 
 
Dulay
Professor Guide
10.2.4  Dulay  replied to  Vic Eldred @10.2.1    2 years ago

Read what you block quoted Vic. Another term for 'illegally organizing' is conspiracy.

Oh, and speaking of 'privileged', what D' Souza thinks is a felony is irrelevant, he could have been charged with much more. 

Hardly like the "felons" on your side of the aisle.

Of whom do you speak Vic? 

 
 
 
Dulay
Professor Guide
10.2.5  Dulay  replied to  Vic Eldred @10.2.1    2 years ago

"Typically when a person avoids answering a question, that       question was posed by another person in a debate or discussion  . In such cases, the person is not only evincing flawed reasoning but also violating basic principles of discussion."

learnreligions  

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
10.2.6  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Dulay @10.2.5    2 years ago

Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith was sentenced to 12 months probation and 400 hours of community service Friday after pleading guilty to making a false statement.

That's the difference.

 
 
 
Dulay
Professor Guide
10.2.7  Dulay  replied to  Vic Eldred @10.2.6    2 years ago
That's the difference.

Your comparison of those two cases is ridiculous Vic. 

There ARE some very important differences between them, not the least of them is the fact that Clinesmith pled guilty and accepted responsibility while D' Souza STILL whines about being 'selectively prosecuted'. 

Oh, and the little fact that D'Souza conspired with his assistant and mistress to violate federal law and then lied to his 'friend' the candidate, about it. 

Ya, there's a difference. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
10.2.8  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Dulay @10.2.7    2 years ago
Your comparison of those two cases is ridiculous Vic. 

I beg to differ.

In every case there is one set of rules for democrats and another for Republicans.

 
 
 
Dulay
Professor Guide
10.2.9  Dulay  replied to  Vic Eldred @10.2.8    2 years ago
I beg to differ.

Beg all you want, it means nothing.

Facts win out Vic. I posted facts, you posted 'feelings'. Not a good look in your circle. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
10.2.10  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Dulay @10.2.9    2 years ago

No you didn't.

The sad part is that deep down you know it's true.

 
 
 
Dulay
Professor Guide
10.2.11  Dulay  replied to  Vic Eldred @10.2.10    2 years ago
No you didn't.

Can you cite what you claim is false in my statement about the 2 cases Vic? 

The sad part is that deep down you know it's true.

What's sad is that you actually think that misrepresenting my comments and ME is a 'winning' strategy.

Where's your Perry Mason meme Vic? 

 
 
 
Dulay
Professor Guide
10.2.12  Dulay  replied to  Vic Eldred @10.2.10    2 years ago

"Typically when a person avoids answering a question, that       question was posed by another person in a debate or discussion  . In such cases, the person is not only evincing flawed reasoning but also violating basic principles of discussion."

learnreligions 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
10.2.13  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Dulay @10.2.12    2 years ago

Your questions were answered

 
 
 
Dulay
Professor Guide
10.2.14  Dulay  replied to  Vic Eldred @10.2.13    2 years ago

That is a lie Vic. You didn't answer this:

Can you cite what you claim is false in my statement about the 2 cases Vic? 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
10.2.15  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Dulay @10.2.14    2 years ago

Why would I lie?

Your questions are so damn easy, sometimes I think you want to make me look good!

 
 
 
Dulay
Professor Guide
10.2.16  Dulay  replied to  Vic Eldred @10.2.15    2 years ago
Why would I lie?

[removed]

Your questions are so damn easy, sometimes I think you want to make me look good!

Yet you STILL haven't answered my question. Every member reading this can see that for themselves. If THAT makes you 'look good' in their opinion, so be it. Though I would question their standards. 

 
 
 
Dulay
Professor Guide
10.2.17  Dulay  replied to  Vic Eldred @10.2.15    2 years ago
Why would I lie?

Only you can answer why. 

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Senior Expert
10.2.18  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Dulay @10.2.17    2 years ago

Only you know and I know
All the love that we've got to show
So don't refuse to believe it
By reading too many meanings
Cause you know that I mean what I say
So don't go and ever take me the wrong way
You know you can't go on gettin' your own way
Cause if you do it's gonna get you someday

 
 
 
Dulay
Professor Guide
10.2.19  Dulay  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @10.2.18    2 years ago

You must have meant that for Vic. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
11  author  Vic Eldred    2 years ago

BREAKING: Trump-backed Kari Lake wins Arizona Republican gubernatorial primary

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Tessylo
Professor Principal
11.1  Tessylo  replied to  Vic Eldred @11    2 years ago

Oh, the one who won before the votes were counted but if lost there was rigging involved

 
 
 
cjcold
Professor Quiet
11.1.1  cjcold  replied to  Tessylo @11.1    2 years ago

Much like Trump?

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
11.1.2  Tessylo  replied to  cjcold @11.1.1    2 years ago

But of course

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
12  author  Vic Eldred    2 years ago

"BREAKING: Attorney General Merrick Garland announces that the Justice Department has charged four current and former Louisville Metro Police Department officers with federal crimes related to death of Breonna Taylor."


https:// abcn.ws/3JyAEof


It's too bad Ashli Babbitt is unavailable for comment

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
12.1  Tessylo  replied to  Vic Eldred @12    2 years ago

That traitor bitch Babbitt is dead, just as she deserves.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
12.2  devangelical  replied to  Vic Eldred @12    2 years ago

it's too bad her brains weren't blown all over her compatriots in that hallway...

 
 
 
Sunshine
Professor Quiet
12.2.2  Sunshine  replied to  Texan1211 @12.2.1    2 years ago
Maybe you can dig her up and kill her all over again.

 [Deleted]

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Senior Expert
12.2.4  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Texan1211 @12.2.3    2 years ago
[deleted]
[comments about other members are always off topic.]
 
 
 
Sunshine
Professor Quiet
12.2.5  Sunshine  replied to  devangelical @12.2    2 years ago
t's too bad her brains weren't blown all over her compatriots in that hallway...

[Deleted]

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
12.2.6  devangelical  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @12.2.4    2 years ago

incorrect. I don't consider thumpers anywhere close to being Christians...

 
 
 
cjcold
Professor Quiet
12.2.7  cjcold  replied to  Texan1211 @12.2.3    2 years ago

I'm sure that you meant far right wing fascists.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
12.2.8  Tessylo  replied to  devangelical @12.2.6    2 years ago

They're what I call small c Christians or we could also call them CINO's

I think they're both appropriate

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
12.2.11  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  devangelical @12.2    2 years ago

[deleted]

 
 
 
sandy-2021492
Professor Expert
12.2.12  sandy-2021492  replied to  Vic Eldred @12.2.11    2 years ago

Death wishing a cop who was performing his duty?  Don't you back the blue?

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
12.2.13  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  sandy-2021492 @12.2.12    2 years ago
Death wishing a cop who was performing his duty?

You don't want to answer my question?

BTW Sandy I was careful NOT to death wish like your dear friend constantly does.

One more thing: the cop in question was a careless officer who had problems in the past. The lefties in charge covered for him. He even told reporters that he didn't know if she was armed. Imagine that?

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
12.2.14  devangelical  replied to  Vic Eldred @12.2.11    2 years ago
what goes around sometimes comes around

I'm counting on that for J6 scum, and they have all been officially doxxed.

 
 
 
sandy-2021492
Professor Expert
12.2.15  sandy-2021492  replied to  Vic Eldred @12.2.13    2 years ago
You don't want to answer my question?

Your question is meta.  Ask it in Metafied.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
12.2.16  devangelical  replied to  Vic Eldred @12.2.13    2 years ago

please explain to me how I death wished somebody that's already dead. what a moronic comment.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
12.2.17  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  sandy-2021492 @12.2.15    2 years ago

[deleted]

 
 
 
sandy-2021492
Professor Expert
12.2.18  sandy-2021492  replied to  Vic Eldred @12.2.17    2 years ago

Meta is addressed in Metafied, Vic.  You know that.  Discussion of the site is meta.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
12.2.19  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  sandy-2021492 @12.2.18    2 years ago

[deleted]

 
 
 
sandy-2021492
Professor Expert
12.2.20  sandy-2021492  replied to  Vic Eldred @12.2.19    2 years ago

Still meta.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
12.2.21  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  sandy-2021492 @12.2.20    2 years ago

How about the cop who killed Babbitt? Is that still up for open discussion?

 
 
 
sandy-2021492
Professor Expert
12.2.22  sandy-2021492  replied to  Vic Eldred @12.2.21    2 years ago

The guy doing his duty in the face of an attempted insurrection?

The one whose performance of his duty you resent so much?

The cop who engaged in justifiable homicide which you then misrepresented as "murder"?

The one who killed the insurrectionist whom you have repeatedly and with abject lack of success attempted to make into a martyr?

That cop?

 
 
 
Dulay
Professor Guide
12.2.28  Dulay  replied to  Vic Eldred @12.2.13    2 years ago

It doesn't matter if 'she' was armed. She was in the process of committing a crime. 

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
12.2.29  Split Personality  replied to  Vic Eldred @12.2.21    2 years ago

Yes, but it is for discussion with other members of the site if you introduce it for discussion.

The multiple posts from Vic to Vic starting with 12.2.23 and ending with your

umpteenth Perry Mason self award have been deleted and the thread

locked for "silence".

 
 
 
Dulay
Professor Guide
12.2.30  Dulay  replied to  Vic Eldred @12.2.21    2 years ago

Sure, but could you tell me how it's ON TOPIC? 

 
 
 
Thrawn 31
Professor Participates
12.3  Thrawn 31  replied to  Vic Eldred @12    2 years ago
It's too bad Ashli Babbitt is unavailable for comment

The bitch shouldn't have participated in an attempted insurrection.

Trying to conflate the two is pathetic. 

 
 
 
sandy-2021492
Professor Expert
12.3.1  sandy-2021492  replied to  Thrawn 31 @12.3    2 years ago

Agreed.

One was sleeping in her bed.  The other was attempting to overturn a fair and legal election.

wonder what the difference was that one apparently deserved to die in some folks' eyes, and the other was a hero?

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
12.3.2  devangelical  replied to  sandy-2021492 @12.3.1    2 years ago

gee, that's a real head scratcher ...

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
12.3.3  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  sandy-2021492 @12.3.1    2 years ago

[deleted]

[your definition of grave dancing must be different.]

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
12.3.4  devangelical  replied to  sandy-2021492 @12.3.1    2 years ago

well to be fair, the woman shot in her bed by the goober cops did have a sheet over her...

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
13  JohnRussell    2 years ago
Chinese Communist Party

Generally, I find those who have an ongoing need to refer to China as the Chinese Communist Party to be crackpots. 

 
 
 
Jasper2529
Professor Quiet
13.1  Jasper2529  replied to  JohnRussell @13    2 years ago
Generally, I find those who have an ongoing need to refer to China as the Chinese Communist Party to be crackpots. 

Precisely what party controls China, John? The Whigs? The Bull Moose Party? The Tea Party? lol 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
13.1.1  JohnRussell  replied to  Jasper2529 @13.1    2 years ago

Cant you refer to China without saying communist ?

Do you refer to Communist North Korea? 

 
 
 
Greg Jones
Professor Participates
13.1.2  Greg Jones  replied to  JohnRussell @13.1.1    2 years ago

Good grief JR, they're still commies, who seem to be your favored people.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
13.1.3  JohnRussell  replied to  Greg Jones @13.1.2    2 years ago

Fox News has tended to not be able to refer to China without calling them communist. It is intentional. 

Right wingers constantly imply that communism in America is a big threat, which is ridiculous. 

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Senior Expert
13.1.5  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  JohnRussell @13.1.1    2 years ago

I prefer Red China.

 
 
 
Jasper2529
Professor Quiet
13.1.6  Jasper2529  replied to  JohnRussell @13.1.1    2 years ago
Cant you refer to China without saying communist ?

So far, I have. However you have not. See your comment 13 :

Chinese Communist Party

And your comment 13.1.1 :

Cant you refer to China without saying communist ?

Have a good day, John.

 
 
 
arkpdx
Professor Quiet
13.1.7  arkpdx  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @13.1.5    2 years ago

Only if the right color tablecloth is used. 

 
 
 
Jasper2529
Professor Quiet
13.1.8  Jasper2529  replied to  Greg Jones @13.1.2    2 years ago

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

 
 
 
Jasper2529
Professor Quiet
13.1.9  Jasper2529  replied to  JohnRussell @13.1.3    2 years ago
Fox News has tended to not be able to refer to China without calling them communist. 

That's really funny, John! Have you ever seen the official flag of the CCP? The communist hammer and sickle are a nice touch, don't you think? They remind me of the wonderful glory days of USSR.

150px-Flag_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party.svg.png

Further:

The  Chinese Communist Party  ( CCP ), [4]  officially the  Communist Party of China  ( CPC ), [5]  is the founding and  sole   ruling party  of the  People's Republic of China  (PRC). [6] [7]  

The CCP was founded in 1921 by  Chen Duxiu  and  Li Dazhao Mao Zedong  was a founding member of the party and rose through its ranks to become its leader and  chairman  in 1943. [8]  

"It is my will to join the Communist Party of China, uphold the Party's program, observe the provisions of the Party constitution, fulfill a Party member's duties, carry out the Party's decisions, strictly observe Party discipline, guard Party secrets, be loyal to the Party, work hard, fight for communism throughout my life, be ready at all times to sacrifice my all for the Party and the people, and never betray the Party."

Chinese Communist Party Admission Oath [182]

Don't get me wrong, John ... although I don't admire your apparent acceptance of communism, marxism, and/or socialism, as a US citizen I respect your right to hold those beliefs.

 
 
 
cjcold
Professor Quiet
13.1.10  cjcold  replied to  JohnRussell @13.1.3    2 years ago

China is our biggest trade partner. They're not likely to screw that up.

I tend to worry about Trump's best friends.

Russia, Putin and far right wingers are the worst threat to America.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Senior Expert
13.1.11  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  cjcold @13.1.10    2 years ago
China is our biggest trade partner.

Partner, interesting use of the word.

 
 
 
squiggy
Junior Silent
13.1.12  squiggy  replied to  cjcold @13.1.10    2 years ago

“Russia, Putin and far right wingers are the worst threat to America.”

Does that welding helmet have wifi, too?

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
13.1.13  Split Personality  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @13.1.11    2 years ago

That appears to be the accepted language,

Ranked: Visualizing the Largest Trading Partners of the U.S.

Ranked: Visualizing the Largest Trading Partners of the U.S. (visualcapitalist.com)

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
13.1.14  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Split Personality @13.1.13    2 years ago

It's kind of like saying OJ Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson were husband and wife.

A true technical term.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
13.1.15  Tessylo  replied to  cjcold @13.1.10    2 years ago

So true

Horrific and true

 
 
 
bugsy
Professor Participates
13.1.16  bugsy  replied to  squiggy @13.1.12    2 years ago
Does that welding helmet have wifi, too?

Yes it does..

And it also has direct connection to planet 29crzy1eft located 500 gazillion light years away.

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
13.1.17  Split Personality  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @13.1.5    2 years ago

I prefer mainland China.

Communist China is a false flag from decades ago.

And I would never say Jewish Israel either. It's nonsense.

" Mainland China" obviously excludes Taiwan.

It avoids the paradox that politically China is a single party system trying to control the

power through avowed socialist ideals while

becoming one of the largest capitalistic economies in the world.

They are trying to be socialist, capitalist and Confuciusist all at the same time.

 
 
 
squiggy
Junior Silent
13.3  squiggy  replied to  JohnRussell @13    2 years ago

Chinese Communist Party seems to make a distinction between a government and a people. [Deleted]

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
15  author  Vic Eldred    2 years ago

Mike Pompeo came in with the question of the day:

"86,000 new IRS Agents. How many of them will be conservative?"

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
15.1  devangelical  replied to  Vic Eldred @15    2 years ago

... with that groups very basic and loose grasp of math, fair play, and patriotism, probably none.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
15.1.1  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  devangelical @15.1    2 years ago

And with the history of the democrats politicizing & weaponizing the IRS under Obama, the correct answer is absolutely none.

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
15.1.2  Split Personality  replied to  Vic Eldred @15.1.1    2 years ago

Prove it.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
15.1.3  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Split Personality @15.1.2    2 years ago



You didn't live through that?

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
15.1.4  Split Personality  replied to  Vic Eldred @15.1.3    2 years ago

What does 4 year old news have to do with the political bent of new IRS hires?

You made the statement that absolutely none of the 86,000 new hires will be 

conservatives.  That's wishful partisan balderdash.

I worked for the IRS and was never asked who I voted for or contributed to.

It is a violation of state and federal laws going back to 1800, not to mention a 1st Amendment violation.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
15.1.5  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Split Personality @15.1.4    2 years ago
What does 4 year old news have to do with the political bent of new IRS hires?

My comment made it quite clear. Has anything changed at the IRS?  Lois Lerner, the career official at the center of the IRS scandal, retired on full pension after invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination before Congress.  The dishonest media then stopped covering the story.


You made the statement that absolutely none of the 86,000 new hires will be 

conservatives.  That's wishful partisan balderdash.

So did your buddy devangelical.


I worked for the IRS and was never asked who I voted for or contributed to.

Believe it or not, that's not very reassuring.


It is a violation of state and federal laws going back to 1800, not to mention a 1st Amendment violation.

So was forging a FISA application or leaking someone's tax returns. Lerner walked, right? Did they ever get the one who leaked Trump's tax return 36 days before the 2016 election?

 

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
15.1.6  Split Personality  replied to  Vic Eldred @15.1.5    2 years ago
So was forging a FISA application

"forged"?

Did they ever get the one who leaked Trump's tax return 36 days before the 2016 election?

Why? It would not matter one bit as long as it wasn't an IRS employee.

... the Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that the First Amendment allows the press to publish newsworthy information that was legally obtained by reporters even when those in power fight to keep it hidden. That powerful principle of the First Amendment applies here.

The newspaper got the information then from “someone who had legal access to it,” who they also declined to identify.

Who Leaked Trump’s Tax Returns to The New York Times? | Heavy.com

 
 
 
Thrawn 31
Professor Participates
15.2  Thrawn 31  replied to  Vic Eldred @15    2 years ago

Ummmm, if conservatives can do math then probably a good number of them. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
16  author  Vic Eldred    2 years ago

"The DOJ secured a 3 year sentence for a man who sent anonymous threatening emails to Fauci and others."

https:// foxnews.com/us/west-virgin ia-man-who-threatened-fauci-serve-three-years-prison

While justified, it does offer another contrast to the couple of years given to two NY lawyers for firebombing a police vehicle."...Jonathan Turley





 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
17  author  Vic Eldred    2 years ago

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vows more migrant buses coming to NYC

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https:// trib.al/5c84U3c

New York, they're all yours!
 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
18  author  Vic Eldred    2 years ago

Humm.....An FBI official transferred after whistleblower allegations of political bias, senator reveals


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And investigative reporter John Solomon is on it!

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
18.1  Split Personality  replied to  Vic Eldred @18    2 years ago
investigative reporter John Solomon

That's an oxymoron.

Solomon's tenure at the Washington Times was focused on profit, not necessarily what  The Unification Church wanted.

In 2019 The Hill had to go back in time to review and correct Solomon's OpEds.

Fox fired him after he foisted a false story and then doubled down on it.

If a conservative shill like Solomon loses face with The Hill and Fox News and the Washington Times,

maybe a new source is in order.

Jest sayin'.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
18.1.1  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Split Personality @18.1    2 years ago
In 2019 The Hill had to go back in time to review and correct Solomon's OpEds.

You mean the facts his opinion was based on?

I recall that the Hill's complaint was that Solomon's opinion pieces read like news stories.

Am I correct?

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
18.1.2  JohnRussell  replied to  Split Personality @18.1    2 years ago

Some of the staff was going to quit The Hill, including numerous reporters, if Solomon wasnt demoted from investigative reporter to op-ed contributor , and he was.  Seems there were too many holes in some of his stories he wrote while he was an "investigative reporter". An op-ed writer doesnt need to stick to the facts as much. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
18.1.3  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  JohnRussell @18.1.2    2 years ago
Seems there were too many holes in some of his stories he wrote while he was an "investigative reporter". An op-ed writer doesnt need to stick to the facts as much. 

It seems that the facts of Hunter Biden and his dealings in the Ukraine have been proven true. The complaint was that it looked like a news story when it was an op-ed.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
18.1.4  JohnRussell  replied to  Vic Eldred @18.1.3    2 years ago
In Wong’s exchange with Speier, the reporter stressed that he works on the Hill’s news side,

whereas Solomon was an “opinion contributor,” a risible title  invented  when Solomon’s conspiratorial “news” stories so alienated staffers that they demanded distance from the veteran Washington scribe.

According to Calderone, Speier dismissed the distinction. As she should have.

Opinion | John Solomon leaves behind lasting damage at the Hill - The Washington Post
 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
18.1.5  JohnRussell  replied to  JohnRussell @18.1.4    2 years ago

He was an investigative reporter at The Hill until the staff demanded the title of reporter be taken away from him. 

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
18.1.6  Split Personality  replied to  Vic Eldred @18.1.1    2 years ago
You mean the facts his opinion was based on?

The "facts" that the Trump State Department said were unfounded

or the "facts" that Solomon's "source" ( a former Ukranian prosecutor ) also denied?

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
18.1.7  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  JohnRussell @18.1.4    2 years ago

You are submitting an opinion piece?

Here - right from the horses mouth:

While Solomon’s columns on Ukraine were labeled as opinion, they largely read like news stories. Adding to the potential confusion between opinion and news, Solomon was identified as “an award-winning journalist” in his column tagline. When appearing on television to discuss his Ukraine columns, Solomon was not typically labeled an opinion writer by the broadcast programs. The Hill did not contact television producers to label Solomon as an opinion columnist. It should have. 

.

A far cry from making stuff up!

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
18.1.8  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  JohnRussell @18.1.5    2 years ago
He was an investigative reporter at The Hill until the staff demanded the title of reporter be taken away from him.

[Deleted]

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
18.1.9  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Split Personality @18.1.6    2 years ago
( a former Ukranian prosecutor )

You mean the one that Biden threatened to deny aid to?

Solomon's main source, who he did name was Lev Parnas.

Meanwhile, the sources that fed the Russia/collusion hoax to all of the msm have never been revealed.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
18.1.10  JohnRussell  replied to  Vic Eldred @18.1.3    2 years ago

Bob Cusack, editor-in-chief of The Hill, wrote on Monday that John Solomon is a new “opinion contributor” for the Capitol Hill publication. “[E]ffective immediately when he writes for us, it will be as an opinion contributor,” noted Cusack in an email to colleagues.

In the past, Solomon has worked on news/investigative pieces for The Hill’s site — frequently collaborating with Alison Spann — on the Clinton Foundation, the Russia investigation and adjacent topics.   Colleagues at The Hill complained to management   over Solomon stories that they thought lacked context and rigor. A   Jan. 8 piece about alleged news leaks to the media , meanwhile, fetched a   meticulous dismemberment at the hands of the Huffington Post . And  as this blog has argued , the October 2017 Solomon-Spann collaboration on the Uranium One-Clinton Foundation nexus was a rickety, flimsy mess of innuendo and insufficient connections.

Opinion | The Hill’s John Solomon moves to new spot as ‘opinion contributor’ - The Washington Post

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
18.1.11  Split Personality  replied to  Vic Eldred @18.1.1    2 years ago

The last time that Solomon was an investigative reporter with any objectivity was

around 2008.  Since then he was just another angry conservative with connections 

to many partisan news outlets, most of which have since banned him because of 

his style over substance approach to his "journalism".

What happened in 2008?  Obama was elected.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
18.1.12  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  JohnRussell @18.1.10    2 years ago

Opinion pieces from the Washington Post are meaningless.

I gave you the Hill's statement.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
18.1.13  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Split Personality @18.1.11    2 years ago

Whatever you want to call him, he got the Hunter Biden story right as did Miranda Devine.

What a shame that the dishonest left wing media stifled the truth during the 2020 election.

I expect nothing less from the left.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
18.1.14  JohnRussell  replied to  Vic Eldred @18.1.8    2 years ago

Removed for context - sandy

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
18.1.15  JohnRussell  replied to  Vic Eldred @18.1.7    2 years ago
While Solomon’s columns on Ukraine were labeled as opinion, they largely read like news stories.

You dont understand. He was demoted from reporter to op ed contributor at The Hill precisely because his "news stories" read like op-eds. 

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
18.1.16  devangelical  replied to  Vic Eldred @18.1.13    2 years ago
What a shame that the dishonest left wing media stifled the truth during the 2020 election.

oh, the irony...

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
18.1.17  Split Personality  replied to  Vic Eldred @18.1.13    2 years ago

Was Hunter on the ballot?

No more so than Trump's kids I suppose and collectively they made quite a bit more

money than Hunter, right under our noses while some were "working" in the WH.

I expect nothing less from the left.

I expect more from the right.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
18.1.18  devangelical  replied to  Split Personality @18.1.17    2 years ago
they made quite a bit more money than Hunter, right under our noses while some were "working" in the WH

.... er, ...uh, those were part time jobs while they were off the clock... yeah, that's the story...

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Senior Expert
18.1.19  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Split Personality @18.1.17    2 years ago
I suppose and collectively they made quite a bit more money than Hunter, right under our noses while some were "working" in the WH.

Do you have an audit? 

 
 
 
igknorantzrulz
PhD Quiet
18.1.20  igknorantzrulz  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @18.1.19    2 years ago

Didn't Wonder Son in Law gety a TWO BILLION DOLLAR , as in $2,000,000,000.00 dollar deal with the Saudi's ? As it was widely reported that he DID! For what ? Pleas, someone, anyone, please explain. I believe Hunter Biden was wrong, not sure if determinable by the head honchos or not, but he pulled off a political deal that should have been major eye opener and attention grabber for all, missing their phone cards. 

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
18.1.21  Split Personality  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @18.1.19    2 years ago

The Hill claims Jared and Ivanka made up to $640 million outside of the WH while

serving there.  Their combined net wort is estimated to be $840 million.

Compared to them Hunter is very small potatoes. 

His highest earned income between 2014  and 2017 was $6 million,

he pretty much resigned from everything in 2019, sold some

assets and everyone pretty much agrees he has a net worth of about $1 million.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Senior Expert
18.1.22  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Split Personality @18.1.21    2 years ago

Thanks, Hunter apparently can’t apply himself financially but he has his art.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
18.1.23  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  devangelical @18.1.16    2 years ago

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Split Personality
Professor Guide
18.1.24  Split Personality  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @18.1.22    2 years ago

jrSmiley_30_smiley_image.gif , I have my art too, lol.

 
 

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