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Post by DanMcQ on Jan 4, 2023 23:27:26 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Feb 2, 2023 19:52:49 GMT -5
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 24, 2023 11:54:31 GMT -5
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Post by Massholya on Apr 24, 2023 17:01:30 GMT -5
It’s embarrassing. She needs to go. The vanity of some of these politicians is just unbelievable. They wrap their whole identity into being a politician and seem to think the realities of time don’t apply to them.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 24, 2023 17:59:42 GMT -5
As a Californian who has voted for Sen. Feinstein in every one of her Senatorial campaigns, I totally agree.
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Post by DFW HOYA on Apr 24, 2023 21:50:30 GMT -5
As a Californian who has voted for Sen. Feinstein in every one of her Senatorial campaigns, I totally agree. The nature of politicians is they never want to walk away, even if they're incapacitated. Strom Thurmond was still in the Senate at 100. T.F. Green from Rhode Island was born two years after the Civil War and was in office as late as 1961. Whether Democrat (Feinstein, Sanders, Durbin, etc.) Republican (Grassley, McConnell, Romney), or Independent (Sanders, King), they never leave without a fight. In 2024, one of six U.S. Senators will be 75 or older next year. I'm not altogether suggesting that running Gavin Newsom vs, Ron DeSantis would be optimal, but two candidates who have to get this nation to seriously start planning for the future is, in theory, preferable to two candidates who will be 81 and 78 in 2024.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 25, 2023 17:20:57 GMT -5
As a Californian who has voted for Sen. Feinstein in every one of her Senatorial campaigns, I totally agree. The nature of politicians is they never want to walk away, even if they're incapacitated. Strom Thurmond was still in the Senate at 100. T.F. Green from Rhode Island was born two years after the Civil War and was in office as late as 1961. Whether Democrat (Feinstein, Sanders, Durbin, etc.) Republican (Grassley, McConnell, Romney), or Independent (Sanders, King), they never leave without a fight. In 2024, one of six U.S. Senators will be 75 or older next year. I'm not altogether suggesting that running Gavin Newsom vs, Ron DeSantis would be optimal, but two candidates who have to get this nation to seriously start planning for the future is, in theory, preferable to two candidates who will be 81 and 78 in 2024. Yeah, I've been comparing her to good ol' Strom. That is not a school which she should be attending. I have no recollection of T. F. Green.
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Post by SSHoya on May 9, 2023 14:37:24 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on May 26, 2023 7:01:12 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on May 26, 2023 13:03:50 GMT -5
Menendez beat the rap last prosecution with a hung jury IIRC and DOJ declined to retry him. Will he beat the rap this time? Maybe he should just switch parties, claim to be a "Republican" and the victim of a witch hunt. Or pull a Clarence Thomas and claim that he became friends with the donor AFTER he became a Senator so what's the big deal? The donor was already "friends" with his now-spouse. GMAFB. The Department of Justice is investigating whether expensive gifts were given to New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez and his wife, including a Mercedes-Benz, a luxury D.C. apartment, money and jewelry, sources familiar with the matter said. According to sources, investigators want to know if the gifts — which would be valued in the tens of thousands of dollars — came from the owner or associates of an Edgewater, N.J., business that won a controversial exclusive contract to perform Halal meat certification with the Egyptian government — even though U.S. Department of Agriculture officials complained that the firm had no previous experience in this field. Sources close to IS EG Halal said Hana, the owner, has been longtime friends with the senator’s wife — and that friendship existed long before she even met the senator. One source familiar with the company said Arslanian had received gifts from the owner, including jewelry, over the years. www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/feds-investigating-menendez-wife-got-gifts-dc-apartment-mercedes-jewel-rcna86339
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Post by SSHoya on Jun 3, 2023 14:07:58 GMT -5
N.J. Sen. Bob Menendez escaped legal peril once. Can he do it again? A month after his trial on federal corruption charges ended in November 2017 with a deadlocked jury, Sen. Robert Menendez settled into a booth at the International House of Pancakes in his New Jersey hometown of Union City. In a quarter-zip sweater, the influential Democrat posed for a photograph next to a friend, who held up a small red sign bearing the words delivered by the senator outside federal district court: “To those who were digging my political grave so they could jump into my seat, I know who you are and I won’t forget you.” The words were a declaration of Menendez’s political resurrection — a measure of how vindicated and empowered he felt after prosecutors failed to convince jurors that he helped a wealthy Florida doctor in exchange for lavish gifts. After beating back the government’s case, Menendez won reelection in 2018. And when Democrats captured control of the Senate in 2021, he regained the chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Committee, giving him influence over major foreign policy debates and cementing his place as one of the highest-ranking Hispanic leaders in the nation. But now just six years later, Menendez is once again at the heart of a sprawling federal criminal investigation concentrating at least in part on the possibility that the senator received undisclosed gifts, according to people familiar with the probe who, like others interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/03/menendez-new-jersey-investigation/
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Post by Massholya on Jun 3, 2023 16:15:44 GMT -5
N.J. Sen. Bob Menendez escaped legal peril once. Can he do it again? A month after his trial on federal corruption charges ended in November 2017 with a deadlocked jury, Sen. Robert Menendez settled into a booth at the International House of Pancakes in his New Jersey hometown of Union City. In a quarter-zip sweater, the influential Democrat posed for a photograph next to a friend, who held up a small red sign bearing the words delivered by the senator outside federal district court: “To those who were digging my political grave so they could jump into my seat, I know who you are and I won’t forget you.” The words were a declaration of Menendez’s political resurrection — a measure of how vindicated and empowered he felt after prosecutors failed to convince jurors that he helped a wealthy Florida doctor in exchange for lavish gifts. After beating back the government’s case, Menendez won reelection in 2018. And when Democrats captured control of the Senate in 2021, he regained the chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Committee, giving him influence over major foreign policy debates and cementing his place as one of the highest-ranking Hispanic leaders in the nation. But now just six years later, Menendez is once again at the heart of a sprawling federal criminal investigation concentrating at least in part on the possibility that the senator received undisclosed gifts, according to people familiar with the probe who, like others interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/03/menendez-new-jersey-investigation/I couldn’t believe he got off the last time. Made me very disappointed at the high bar that seems to have been constructed to protect our elected officials from bribery claims.
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Post by hoyarooter on Jun 3, 2023 18:01:33 GMT -5
N.J. Sen. Bob Menendez escaped legal peril once. Can he do it again? A month after his trial on federal corruption charges ended in November 2017 with a deadlocked jury, Sen. Robert Menendez settled into a booth at the International House of Pancakes in his New Jersey hometown of Union City. In a quarter-zip sweater, the influential Democrat posed for a photograph next to a friend, who held up a small red sign bearing the words delivered by the senator outside federal district court: “To those who were digging my political grave so they could jump into my seat, I know who you are and I won’t forget you.” The words were a declaration of Menendez’s political resurrection — a measure of how vindicated and empowered he felt after prosecutors failed to convince jurors that he helped a wealthy Florida doctor in exchange for lavish gifts. After beating back the government’s case, Menendez won reelection in 2018. And when Democrats captured control of the Senate in 2021, he regained the chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Committee, giving him influence over major foreign policy debates and cementing his place as one of the highest-ranking Hispanic leaders in the nation. But now just six years later, Menendez is once again at the heart of a sprawling federal criminal investigation concentrating at least in part on the possibility that the senator received undisclosed gifts, according to people familiar with the probe who, like others interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/03/menendez-new-jersey-investigation/He had better contact his friend Tony Soprano.
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Post by SSHoya on Jun 5, 2023 9:36:23 GMT -5
Democratic wack job. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tests the conspiratorial appetite of Democrats INDIANAPOLIS — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a candidate for president supported by one in five Democratic voters in some recent polls, campaigns on the idea that powerful people have been working in secret to deceive you. He began a recent speech here by recounting the Eisenhower Administration’s 1960 decision to lie when the Soviets downed an American spy plane by calling it weather research. Then came further alleged deceptions — some proven, some refuted, many just conjecture. Before long, Kennedy was arguing that a 2019 tabletop exercise about a mock pandemic archived on YouTube actually revealed a secret plan, involving U.S. spymasters, to enrich drug companies and suppress free speech. He then rattled off clinical data from a coronavirus vaccine trial that was not designed to measure mortality, falsely suggesting clear evidence that vaccines killed more people than they saved. He made no mention of the abundant science that has found the vaccine prevented serious illness and saved lives. “We were lied to by the government and by the media,” he told a well-heeled crowd of hundreds of political skeptics at the Meridian Hills Country Club, many dressed in spring pastels or sockless shoes, some with wine glasses in hand. “And so it was all confusing, because they keep us confused.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/05/rfk-jr-democratic-primary-biden/
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Post by tashoya on Jun 5, 2023 11:04:01 GMT -5
Democratic wack job. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tests the conspiratorial appetite of Democrats INDIANAPOLIS — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a candidate for president supported by one in five Democratic voters in some recent polls, campaigns on the idea that powerful people have been working in secret to deceive you. He began a recent speech here by recounting the Eisenhower Administration’s 1960 decision to lie when the Soviets downed an American spy plane by calling it weather research. Then came further alleged deceptions — some proven, some refuted, many just conjecture. Before long, Kennedy was arguing that a 2019 tabletop exercise about a mock pandemic archived on YouTube actually revealed a secret plan, involving U.S. spymasters, to enrich drug companies and suppress free speech. He then rattled off clinical data from a coronavirus vaccine trial that was not designed to measure mortality, falsely suggesting clear evidence that vaccines killed more people than they saved. He made no mention of the abundant science that has found the vaccine prevented serious illness and saved lives. “We were lied to by the government and by the media,” he told a well-heeled crowd of hundreds of political skeptics at the Meridian Hills Country Club, many dressed in spring pastels or sockless shoes, some with wine glasses in hand. “And so it was all confusing, because they keep us confused.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/05/rfk-jr-democratic-primary-biden/I don't know who is most delusional about their chances of winning among the group of Kennedy, Christie and Pence.
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Post by hoyarooter on Jun 5, 2023 18:11:00 GMT -5
Democratic wack job. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tests the conspiratorial appetite of Democrats INDIANAPOLIS — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a candidate for president supported by one in five Democratic voters in some recent polls, campaigns on the idea that powerful people have been working in secret to deceive you. He began a recent speech here by recounting the Eisenhower Administration’s 1960 decision to lie when the Soviets downed an American spy plane by calling it weather research. Then came further alleged deceptions — some proven, some refuted, many just conjecture. Before long, Kennedy was arguing that a 2019 tabletop exercise about a mock pandemic archived on YouTube actually revealed a secret plan, involving U.S. spymasters, to enrich drug companies and suppress free speech. He then rattled off clinical data from a coronavirus vaccine trial that was not designed to measure mortality, falsely suggesting clear evidence that vaccines killed more people than they saved. He made no mention of the abundant science that has found the vaccine prevented serious illness and saved lives. “We were lied to by the government and by the media,” he told a well-heeled crowd of hundreds of political skeptics at the Meridian Hills Country Club, many dressed in spring pastels or sockless shoes, some with wine glasses in hand. “And so it was all confusing, because they keep us confused.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/05/rfk-jr-democratic-primary-biden/I don't know who is most delusional about their chances of winning among the group of Kennedy, Christie and Pence. The difference is that Christie and Pence, whatever their faults, aren't whack jobs. I swear, RFK would be turning over in his grave if he knew what his son, not just any son, but the one named after him, was doing.
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Post by DallasHoya on Jun 5, 2023 21:12:39 GMT -5
I don't know who is most delusional about their chances of winning among the group of Kennedy, Christie and Pence. The difference is that Christie and Pence, whatever their faults, aren't whack jobs. I swear, RFK would be turning over in his grave if he knew what his son, not just any son, but the one named after him, was doing. We have a new leader in the delusional candidate race. Link
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Post by SSHoya on Jun 6, 2023 4:49:05 GMT -5
The difference is that Christie and Pence, whatever their faults, aren't whack jobs. I swear, RFK would be turning over in his grave if he knew what his son, not just any son, but the one named after him, was doing. We have a new leader in the delusional candidate race. LinkMo Udall joke: Mo often told a story about campaigning in New Hampshire in the early days of the primaries. Walking up to a group of elderly men, he introduced himself and told them he was running for president. “Oh, yeah,” they said. “We were just laughing about that.”
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