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President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Jan 20, 2021.

  1. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    "This bed of nails is uncomfortable. So I'm going to protest by jumping up and down on them."
     
  2. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    More like. ... a ruthless dictator threw me into a brutal prison (i.e. the bed of nails) for being in opposition to him. I can't do much about my plight right now, but maybe a hunger strike will draw people's attention to what is going on and put pressure on that ruthless dictator (i.e. -- the reason for jumping up and down on it).
     
  3. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    Thank you for again proving my point by proving your loyalty.
     
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  4. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    If Democrats could so easily steal an election from Donald Trump, why wait until 2020?
     
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  5. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Oop-ish TigerVols is not my favorite TigerVols. :)
     
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  6. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Why not have a bigger House majority ? Why let McConnell win?
     
  7. Octave

    Octave Well-Known Member

    I think that seems pretty accurate, Dan. Matt the Republican alpha male needed a procurer.

    I remember when Destin was just a bunch of beautiful sand dunes and hadn’t been 'discovered' by overfed tourists from Ohio and Wisconsin yet.

    Back when Matt couldn't even get laid with Daddy's help.
     
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  8. Octave

    Octave Well-Known Member

    I challenge BTE to a steer-roping contest and we'll see who's the real American man and who gets to lay down roots in Irkutsk.
     
  9. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    “You are looking li-i-i-ive at the Lazy E Arena in Guthrie, Oklahoma, where today …”
     
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  10. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    I think this is smart.

    Opinion | I Helped Lead the Gun Control Movement. It’s Asking the Wrong Questions.

    To create real and lasting change, we must end the culture war over guns. Instead, gun control groups are helping to perpetuate it.

    No decent human being, whether gun owner or not, wants to live in a country with our level of shooting deaths. The most meaningful way to deal with the problem, though, is not to look at how to keep certain guns from all people, but how to keep all guns from certain people — the people almost all of us agree should not have guns.

    I have spent the last two years building relationships with leaders in the gun rights community, and have found that this framing leads us to common ground. And it points to five specific moves that together would have an enormous impact:
     
  11. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    Sins of omission

     
  12. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Drip … drip … drip …

    Federal investigators are looking into a Bahamas trip Matt Gaetz allegedly took in late 2018 or early 2019 as part of an inquiry into whether the Florida representative violated sex trafficking laws, multiple sources told CBS News.

    Gaetz was on that trip with a marijuana entrepreneur and hand surgeon named Jason Pirozzolo, who allegedly paid for the travel expenses, accommodations, and female escorts, the sources said.
    NOTE: Mr. Pirozzolo is both the marijuana entrepreneur and the hand surgeon, in case that wasn’t clear. I wonder where Gaetz stands on legalization.

    Investigators are trying to determine if the escorts were illegally trafficked across state or international lines for the purpose of sex with the congressman.

    "Traveling across state lines is what creates a federal hook for a prosecution," Arlo Devlin-Brown, a former prosecutor and partner at Covington & Burling, said in a report that aired on the "CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell." "It doesn't matter that [Gaetz] personally paid them as long as he knows someone is doing that."

    The Justice Department declined to comment. Pirozollo did not respond to repeated attempts to contact him, and declined to comment on his relationship with Gaetz and whether he paid for escorts for him when asked by CBS News on Wednesday outside his office in Orlando.


    Investigators also want to know if Gaetz was accepting paid escorts in exchange for political access or legislative favors, the sources said.

    In a July 2018 podcast, Pirozzolo told Ganjapreneur.com that Gaetz was working to introduce federal legislation that would boost medical research of cannabis.

    "In fact, Congressman Matt Gaetz is in the process of working on legislation up in Washington, D.C., that will help facilitate research on the nationwide level. And we should see a lot of good benefit from them," Pirozzolo said in the podcast. "We've got Congressmen that are actually dealing with this federal legislation right now."

    Gaetz introduced the Medical Cannabis Research Act in April 2018 and again in January 2019, though it never came to a vote.

    "If there's evidence of a quid pro quo that the congressman was provided with benefits in return for him sponsoring some legislation that's of interest to the donor, that that's a federal crime," said Devlin-Brown.


    FEC records reviewed by CBS News show that Pirozzolo made two separate donations of $1,000 each to Gaetz's campaign arm, "Friends of Matt Gaetz," in March 2016 and May 2017.​

    Matt Gaetz trip to Bahamas is part of federal probe into sex trafficking, sources say
     
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