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Discussion in 'Tilted Philosophy, Politics, and Economics' started by pan6467, Apr 23, 2012.

  1. boink

    boink Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Seattle
    Good links.

    For sure, his ex wife should take advantage of an opertunity to make some money with an interview. It'd be interesting if she came on tv.
    I wanted to see Hershel Walker's ex partners who got abortions come speak out.

    As far as I gather he can't be stopped just by the fact that he totally misrepresented who he is during campaign, odd cause it's really a total misrepresentation across the board. The people elected total vaporware.

    Oh well...just another GOP POS to watch.

    On another note this vid was interesting..

    View: https://youtu.be/KJVDRGUy2-8
     
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  2. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX

    It would be great to see NPD Trump pay for his numerous Covid failures that helped kill who knows how many thousands of people.

    I don't ever see it happening.
     
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  3. boink

    boink Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Seattle
    I agree but I thought their legal argument was good..
     
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  4. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
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  5. boink

    boink Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Seattle
    Is there a name for opportunistic sexuality ?
    I wonder if he's just open to anything that makes his image (in his mind) a good token or gives him good blackmail leverage.

    I had thought his mom was Catholic and his dad was the escaping Jew.
    I think he's an advantagest claiming any allegiance he thinks will help him.

    Question being, help him do what ?
    I feel like he's sort of a compulsive lyer with the vision of Kevin McCarthy who I don't see any ideology from at all.

    Considering the GOP can run a presidential campaign with no plan or stated platform aside from pushing the most corrupt POS America has ever seen forward, despite multiple lawsuits of various types...GS is the perfect poster boy for the Gang Of Perverts.
     
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  6. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    Brazilian Authorities Will Revive Fraud Case Against George Santos

    Can we send "George Santos" back to Brazil?


    Every lie disgraced incoming Congressman George Santos has been accused of

    This list doesn't include the criminal charges in Brazil, or his use of alias, Anthony Zabrovsky, & Anthony Devolder (at least this one is part of his real name).

    Maybe I'm naive as to how the business world works, but I'm very suspicious of people who need to do business under aliases (what are they hiding?).
     
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  7. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion...0230101-df6c2yxlvveyjglh6pqidfpkd4-story.html

    A good summary of the LEAs that clearly don't have, and some that might have, the authority to go after "George Santos" in the legal sense.


    I'm seriously bothered by the idea that what happens with Santos is pretty much up to the voters where he was elected. That would be sort of maybe possibly OK if he was limited to local politics. The problem is he's going to be involved in national politics, & world politics to a lesser extent. We should not be stuck with Santos because his congressional district is fine with him being a pathological Liar.

    Do I need to mention how much the silence of GOP leadership bothers me?

    As the article mentions, get this anus under oath and let him hang himself.
     
  8. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/29/north-shore-leader-santos-scoop/

    ^ Paywall?

    George Santos Story Broke by Local LI Newspaper Months Ago

    A small community? newspaper, the North Shore Leader, raised questions about/broke the Santos story months before the election.


    The following is very old news, but I'm including it because it also involves a small newspaper.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brio_Superfund_site

    In Houston the South Belt Leader, small community newspaper, broke the story about the Brios hazardous waste site. I won't repeat the info from Wiki, but I'll add we have a very large junior college, and a major hospital & medical complex, that can't expand into certain areas because of hazardous waste contamination. The two open fields visible from the hospital appear to be simply nice green space.
     
  9. boink

    boink Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Seattle
    Seems to be very little info about who he IS and what he HAS done with himself that's verifiable, like bank statements, real addresses with neighbors saying he's coming and going daily, co workers, class mates, " friends", sex partners of any flavor etc.

    Is he the air duct crawling shape shifter from X Files ?

    Is he paying cash for every restaurant bill ? Every haircut ? Rent, ? Who's name was on the checks he deposited for his supposed $5000. Bank account or his $11m bank account ?!?

    What is Dovolder ? Is it like a Desolver of financial footprints ?

    His parents didn't immigrate from wherever so who WERE they and where'd they come from ? Where'd they go ? Dosn't he any other relatives who can spill his past for the world to see ?

    Pretty much every article I see asked the same questions over and over with no info or discoveries. I'm getting tired of it.

    This seems to be the problem with folks who fiddle with money for a living, it's all just a bunch of numbers in tables and ledgers that come and go with a puff of smoke all the time with nothing to show for it all ya know ?

    Like musk loosing 200b one day and then he'll be up 205b the next week and all for no visible work, benefit, change, advance or anything tangible for it.

    I don't understand the bottomless need for attention and limelight AND absurd amounts of money.
     
  10. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    The big ? is: Where did his money that suddenly appeared come from?

    All reports indicate he never actually worked a job that paid really well, & was constantly short on money. It could be some group trusted him and supported him completely legally, but now wants to remain anonymous for obvious reasons. Or this could be a plot, unethical at best, to find a suitable environment to get a con man elected to HOR.

    Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how this plays out. My guess is: Santos will serve his term (very quietly if he's smart), & won't run for reelection. If he's a compulsive attention whore, he'll try to leverage his position as a much needed vote for the various Repub caucuses, & run for reelection.

    I think he'll eventually end up making a decent salary as a member of a school board, port authority commission, or something similar.
     
  11. boink

    boink Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Seattle
    If I was carrying that reputation I would expect to loos all my relationships and opertunity work or otherwise.

    I lie occasionally, both ways. I fudge my hrs at work sometimes cause I show up a little late and I'm embarrassed what a looser I am (15min max) but I also don't bother asked for mileage if I drive my car and pay for my parking and I reverse fuge hrs if I make a dumb mistake that's not requiring buying more material...like re cut 5-10 small parts from remnant or whatever.

    But this guy fabbed up his whole life, so much that I can't tell what's up or down so I'd immediately dismiss his job ap because...get real, nobody has time to research and audit this amount of lying while evaluating new employees. It's hard enough just figuring out whose gonna be the best person among those who don't make a career of lies.

    If I hired him to clean McDonald's kitchen I'd know, there's dead rats behind the cook top, flys in the fryer oil and a torn nitrile glove stuck on the milkshake mixer.
    He'd be stealing and ebaying donations from goodwill or a homeless assistance center, God knows what.
    Fuck him.

    Boy it'd be interesting to see Rep. Hakeem Jeffries take the vote for speaker of the house !
     
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  12. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    I came across this while reading up on George "Catch Me If You Can" Santos. I'm certain the following list of politicians involved in scandals is incomplete.

    *******

    Edit: The link directly to the database referenced in the article failed, but I've left it in place. The link directly below this edit should be to the article that contains the link to the list of politicians & scandals.

    https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/george-santos-resign/

    ************



    View: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ksBLxRR3GCZd33IvhkcNqqBd5K8HwlWC7YuAkVmS1lg/htmlview#gid=0
     
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  13. boink

    boink Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Seattle
    Awesome link !
     
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  14. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    From Texas border, New York mayor vows to pressure U.S. government over migrants

    They need to take legal action against the states transporting the illegal immigrants. AND there needs to be a national plan that isn't a temporary band-aid.


    https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/records-abbotts-migrant-busing-has-cost-texas-14-million/

    I hope some journalists with backbones are looking into Wynne Transportation. It wouldn't surprise me if there are financial ties, direct &/or indirect, to certain Texas politicians &/or the businesses making donations to their campaigns.

    Records: Texans spent $20 million to bus migrants | wfaa.com

    This shows the expense at $20M in early Nov 2022. The absolute crazy part is: Texans mostly aren't bothered by this.


    https://communityimpact.com/austin/...-for-overall-child-well-being-new-data-shows/

    Nationally our public school system ranks 36th, overall support for children ranks 45th.


    Texas budget: Lawmakers have $188.2 billion in state money | The Texas Tribune

    How much of this surplus will be spent on public school education, & how much on a "pressing need" such as property tax relief?
     
  15. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    Failed GOP candidate arrested on suspicion of orchestrating shootings at homes of Democrats in New Mexico, police say | CNN

    Talk about being a sore loser.

    Pena hired four separate gunmen, it'll be interesting to see how he managed that. Did he reach out to people he knew from prison? people he knew through hard right groups? maybe the internet?

    Edit: Apparently NM has a law, or at least a judge's interpretation of it, that allows former felons to run for public office. Basically if you can vote, you can run.
     
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  16. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    Mike Pence also had (has?) classified documents at his home. What the hell?

    First on CNN: Classified documents found at Pence's Indiana home | CNN Politics

    What we know about the Pence classified documents: A timeline of events | CNN Politics

    https://thehill.com/homenews/senate...ered-by-pence-classified-document-revelation/

    Pence either plays the choir boy very convincingly, or he is one. I still firmly believe he still has man crush on NPD Trump, which makes me wonder what he would do to help the man he worships.

    Does the WH have history of mishandling classified documents? Obviously not all classified docs are of equal importance, but still this' getting ridiculous.
     
  17. boink

    boink Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Seattle
    Mike may still have feelings for trump but he worships Jesus 1st, but that mindset of loyalty to a dogma regardless of it's bad aspects is what allows the affection to trump as he is the king of charisma on earth in his conservative world. And as an old guard repug pence still adheres to the convention of leadership tiers and that governs his actions over (mountains of) conflicting logical reality.
    Like doing what father and mother says regardless of what logic tells you is right or not is ok in his mind. Part of his brain never grew up and thought that mom and dad are just flawed people too and could be wrong. His mind is not free in that way.

    I'm hearing those that control all there's secret papers are sending letters to all previous living presidents and VPs to look in their personal papers for secret docs and return them...

    Not surprisingly it's a bit of a shit show but there's really only one guy who I see as seriously and egregiously nefarious in his efforts to keep docs and show them off like a gold toilet of status and leveraging devices.
     
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  18. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
  19. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    Yes, Chinese Spy Balloons Flew Over The U.S. When President Trump Was In Office Too

    Trump officials deny Chinese spy balloons flew above U.S. on their watch

    Did waiting for the balloon to clear landfall before shooting it down make sense?

    Were the previous balloons "insignificant?"

    Did people in the NPD Trump administration actually know about them?
    If not, should've they known?
    Did his habit of ignoring some agencies play a role?


    I'm looking forward to hearing about what they retrieved from the balloon.
     
  20. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    Top general says Trump-era spy balloons flew over the U.S. undetected

    Pentagon says it had an 'awareness gap' that led to failure to detect 3 Chinese balloons under Trump | CNN Politics

    So why was NORAD so incompetent under NPD Trump? Of course Repubs are leaving "under NPD Trump" off their questions.

    Or is the military "falling on its sword" to protect NPD Trump? Let's not forget
    that some people at the Pentogon intentionally deleted phone records from Jan 05 & 06, 2021.

    Edit: Also let's remember NPD Trump skipped intelligence briefings, & he knew more than the intelligence agencies.
     
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