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*yawn* this is all just projection you know. There's another party in this country that is corrupt to the bone and yet here we are talking about a druggy's laptop with some nude selfies on it. I wonder what the real agenda of this whole Hunter Biden news cycle could be? It's a story that lacks one key component: evidence, much like all the stories about the "Clinton crime family" in previous years. Conservative White Males over the age of 40 really are chumps. Yes, I blame alcohol, drugs, diet, and the resulting inevitable onset of impotence and other health problems that all come to a head at around that age.
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We're not talking about his nude selfies, you are. Please continue enthralling us with your insights into projection.Comment
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You can't even think of an original comeback. Sad. Less bull**** supplements Berz, more sweet potatoes."Comment
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I see a Hunter Biden/Elon Musk presidential ticket coming. Bipartisan Laptop Users Unite!
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Musk wasn't born here, but DeSantis is getting hit for his involvement with the torture program. There's video of an Afghan man tortured at Gitmo and he specifically ID'd him in the room during the abuse and laughing.Comment
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Who recorded the torture? Why would a politician be invited to watch?Comment
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I mean there's video of the man accusing DeSantis, not video of the torture. But I'm sure Gitmo was recording prisoners being tortured. Dont know how long they'd keep it though, but long enough to make sure they didn't miss anything.
DeSantis was a rising star in the military legal industry, he was a lawyer there to do something. Not sure if he was representing prisoners or acting as legal council for Gitmo.Comment
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Counsel (give advise) not council (a group of people)Indifference is BlissComment
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So this thread is about GOP folks running for pres now? Look what I found:
A number of Republican presidential candidates, including Ron DeSantis, have criticized Donald Trump after the former president again praised the dictatorial leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un.
The intervention from Trump’s rivals, who have largely avoided attacking the influential frontrunner, comes as a rare moment of dissension during the campaign.
Trump posted a message of support for Kim to his Truth Social site on Saturday, after North Korea was appointed to the board of the World Health Organization.
“Congratulations to Kim Jung [sic] Un!” Trump wrote. He posted a link to an article about the appointment to the WHO, which is an agency of the UN.
Trump’s praise of Kim has prompted controversy before.
In 2018, at a rally in Virginia, the former president spoke about how he and Kim “fell in love” as they got to know each other as world leaders – and how Kim had written him “beautiful” and “great letters”. Those letters later turned up among classified documents Trump retained after he lost the presidency to Joe Biden in 2020, becoming a focus of an investigation by the special counsel appointed by the US attorney general, Merrick Garland.
The latest round of positivity which Trump directed at Kim again kicked up a political firestorm.
Over the weekend DeSantis, who announced his campaign for president in May, and Nikki Haley condemned the move.
“Kim Jong-un is a thug and a tyrant, and he has tested ballistic missiles against our allies,” Haley told NBC News.
“He’s threatened us. There’s nothing to congratulate him about. I mean, he’s been terrible to his people. He’s been terrible to America, and we need to stop being nice to countries that hate America.”
Haley, a former governor of South Carolina who served as an ambassador to the UN during the Trump administration, is running a long-shot bid for the presidency.
DeSantis, who is expected to be Trump’s closest rival for the GOP nomination, said he was “surprised” Trump had praised a “murderous dictator”, USA Today reported.
Mike Pence, Trump’s former vice-president who is expected to launch a presidential campaign this week, was similarly critical.
“Whether it’s my former running mate or anyone else, nobody should be praising the dictator in North Korea or praising the leader in Russia, who has launched an unprovoked war of aggression in Ukraine,” Pence said in an interview with Fox News.
“This is a time when we ought to make it clear to the world that we stand for freedom and we stand with those who stand for freedom.”
Asa Hutchinson, a former Arkansas governor whose presidential campaign is yet to make much of a dint on the national stage, tweeted on Saturday:
“Kim Jong-un, the tyrant dictator in North Korea should not be praised by Donald Trump for a leadership role in the World Health Organization. We sanction leaders who oppress their people. We do not elevate them on the world stage.”
North Korea was added to the WHO executive board on 25 May in a move that human rights advocates condemned.
“North Korea, a regime that starves its own people, was just elected to the who Executive Board,” Hillel Neuer, the executive director of the Geneva-based human rights organization UN Watch, wrote on Twitter.
“What this means is that one of the world’s most horrific regimes is now a part of a group that sets and enforces the standards and norms for the global governance of health care. It is an absurd episode for a key UN agency that is in much need of self-reflection and reform.”
Trump’s praise for Kim and North Korea’s ascension to the WHO was surprising given his contempt for the organization while in office. The then-president suspended US funding to the WHO in 2020, accusing it, without evidence, of withholding information, and of being too close to China.
Trump later withdrew the US from the WHO; Joe Biden rejoined the organization in one of his first acts in office.BlahComment
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Republicans, starting with those running for president, need to figure out what Trump's apparently loyal base see (or think that they see) in Trump and defuse it. He has no business running US foreign policy.Comment
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Why do you hate democracy, Geronimo?Indifference is BlissComment
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Has Trump ever indicated that he doesn't hate democracy (actions not words)?Originally posted by N35t0r View PostComment
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I don't know what that has to do with you advocating that republicans meddle with the people's choice as president.Indifference is BlissComment
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Ok I won't advocate that republicans meddle with the people's choice as president.Originally posted by N35t0r View Post
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"we need to stop being nice to countries that hate America.” - Nikki Haley
We are very nice
DeSantis said he was “surprised” Trump had praised a “murderous dictator”
Well, that wasn't
“Whether it’s my former running mate or anyone else, nobody should be praising the dictator in North Korea or praising the leader in Russia, who has launched an unprovoked war of aggression in Ukraine,” - Mike Pence
Neocons are lined up to compete with Trump and apparently still haven't realized the GOP base has grown tired of unprovoking wars
How did NK get that position? China, right? I'd like to see countries on the board that aint being bribed or protected by other countries. I want objectivity and not politics. That wont happen, so why not NK? Sure they're beholden to China and Russia but the world needs to invite NK into opening up.
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