hoyainspirit
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Post by hoyainspirit on Jun 7, 2023 13:48:59 GMT -5
I enjoyed a few artificially induced altered states of mind with RFK Jr in school...
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tashoya
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Post by tashoya on Jun 7, 2023 14:48:50 GMT -5
I enjoyed a few artificially induced altered states of mind with RFK Jr in school... Apparently, only one of you snapped back to reality.
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 17, 2023 16:03:21 GMT -5
Not a Democrat, right? I'm waiting for MAGA GOP "leadership" to disavow the insurrectinists MTG, Gym Jordan, Jim "Goober" Comer, Paul Gosar, Scott Perry, et al. *crickets* HoyaTalk "Republicans" are similarly silent. "Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle." -- Alexander Solzehnitsyn After the New York Post’s report on Kennedy’s comments, the Democratic Party was quick to distance itself from a guy who is seeking the party’s presidential nomination. “These are deeply troubling comments and I want to make clear that they do not represent the views of the Democratic Party,” party chairman Jaime Harrison wrote on Twitter. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee offered an even more aggressive response. Kennedy’s comments included “reprehensible anti-semitic and anti-Asian comments aimed at perpetuating harmful and debunked racist tropes,” it said in a statement. “Such dangerous racism and hate have no place in America, demonstrate him to be unfit for public office, and must be condemned in the strongest possible terms.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/17/rfk-covid-democrats/
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 22, 2023 9:00:53 GMT -5
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RusskyHoya
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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 22, 2023 13:39:22 GMT -5
Both a jury and the courts are likely to take a different and much dimmer view of selling sensitive info to foreign actors:
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tashoya
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Post by tashoya on Sept 22, 2023 14:05:35 GMT -5
Both a jury and the courts are likely to take a different and much dimmer view of selling sensitive info to foreign actors: Not surprising that Menendez continues to be a scumbag.
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 22, 2023 15:18:32 GMT -5
Both a jury and the courts are likely to take a different and much dimmer view of selling sensitive info to foreign actors: I think a criminal violation as an unregistered agent of a foreign principal under FARA could have been brought but DOJ has had mixed success in these cases. I also wonder if Menendez and wife have been the subject of a formal counterinteligence investigation (not undertaken to necessarily discover criminal activity).
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Post by hoyajinx on Sept 22, 2023 15:25:56 GMT -5
Wait, what are we doing? We should be rallying around this guy and calling it a politically motivated “witch hunt” and “hoax” because he shares some of our political leanings, facts be damned. That seems like the way to play it with obvious criminals within your party, or do I have this wrong?
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 23, 2023 5:13:05 GMT -5
Wait, what are we doing? We should be rallying around this guy and calling it a politically motivated “witch hunt” and “hoax” because he shares some of our political leanings, facts be damned. That seems like the way to play it with obvious criminals within your party, or do I have this wrong? WTF is wrong with the Democratic Party? Have Democrats have no sense of loyalty?? Dems are just so WEAK!! New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) and two veteran New Jersey members of Congress on Friday called on Sen. Robert Menendez (N.J.), a fellow Democrat, to resign after the senator was indicted on federal bribery charges, saying the “deeply disturbing” allegations “implicate national security.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/22/bob-menendez-foreign-relations-chair/
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Post by Elvado on Sept 23, 2023 6:44:34 GMT -5
Query how the people of NJ returned this scumbag to the Senate after his “hung jury” victory last time around.
What is it they say about people getting the government they deserve?
Where were these principled statesmen last indictment for this recidivist?
Any chance they stayed quiet then because their Democrat colleague would have been replaced by the then Republican governor ?
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 25, 2023 21:01:11 GMT -5
Compare and contrast with the MAGA GOP's continued fellating of Mango . . . Two Democratic senators on Monday called for Sen. Bob Menendez to resign, joining a growing chorus of lawmakers urging the New Jersey Democrat to step down amid federal corruption charges. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio — chairman of the Banking panel where Menendez chairs a subcommittee — and Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont called on their colleague to leave Congress. Over the weekend, Sen. John Fetterman of neighboring Pennsylvania became the first Senate Democrat to say Menendez should resign. www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/indicted-sen-bob-menendez-indicates-not-resigning-rcna117144
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Post by Elvado on Sept 26, 2023 3:54:16 GMT -5
Compare and contrast with the MAGA GOP's continued fellating of Mango . . . Two Democratic senators on Monday called for Sen. Bob Menendez to resign, joining a growing chorus of lawmakers urging the New Jersey Democrat to step down amid federal corruption charges. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio — chairman of the Banking panel where Menendez chairs a subcommittee — and Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont called on their colleague to leave Congress. Over the weekend, Sen. John Fetterman of neighboring Pennsylvania became the first Senate Democrat to say Menendez should resign. www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/indicted-sen-bob-menendez-indicates-not-resigning-rcna117144Why not the last time? Variation on the one bite rule?
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 26, 2023 4:16:26 GMT -5
In a compare and contrast in hypocrisy among politicians, the MAGA GOP takes the cake and it's not even close. Just keep fellating Orange Jesus. . . Similarly, Republicans on the state level appealed to their Democratic counterparts to, as Assembly Minority Leader John DiMaio put it, “protect the interests of all Americans and New Jerseyans from this corrupt politician.” Or, in the words of the Republican ticket in District 38, Micheline Attieh, Gail Horton and Barry Wilkes, Democrats should “immediately disavow this despicable behavior.” “This will be a real litmus test for New Jersey’s Democrat leaders. These are serious charges, and it’s not the first time the senator has been accused of criminal activity,” DiMaio said. “It’s time for him to go and for Democrats to do the right thing.” Jeanette Hoffman, a Republican political consultant, said about Menendez, “This is such an outrageous situation. I’m not surprised he’s not resigning, given his personality. The accusations in the indictment are just outrageous, and to think that he could serve the people in the United States Senate is ridiculous.” The response is a far cry from what has played out on the other side of the aisle as a certain prominent Republican faces charges ranging from conspiring to defraud the government to trying to overturn election results in several states, yet he still sits securely atop the leader board for the party’s presidential nomination. www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2023/09/26/bob-menendez-trump-charges-indictment/70965503007/
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Post by Elvado on Sept 26, 2023 4:39:25 GMT -5
In a compare and contrast in hypocrisy among politicians, the MAGA GOP takes the cake and it's not even close. Just keep fellating Orange Jesus. . . Similarly, Republicans on the state level appealed to their Democratic counterparts to, as Assembly Minority Leader John DiMaio put it, “protect the interests of all Americans and New Jerseyans from this corrupt politician.” Or, in the words of the Republican ticket in District 38, Micheline Attieh, Gail Horton and Barry Wilkes, Democrats should “immediately disavow this despicable behavior.” “This will be a real litmus test for New Jersey’s Democrat leaders. These are serious charges, and it’s not the first time the senator has been accused of criminal activity,” DiMaio said. “It’s time for him to go and for Democrats to do the right thing.” Jeanette Hoffman, a Republican political consultant, said about Menendez, “This is such an outrageous situation. I’m not surprised he’s not resigning, given his personality. The accusations in the indictment are just outrageous, and to think that he could serve the people in the United States Senate is ridiculous.” The response is a far cry from what has played out on the other side of the aisle as a certain prominent Republican faces charges ranging from conspiring to defraud the government to trying to overturn election results in several states, yet he still sits securely atop the leader board for the party’s presidential nomination. www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2023/09/26/bob-menendez-trump-charges-indictment/70965503007/And they just might this time because the governor’s mansion is held by a Dem. Last time, not so much. But the people of NJ deserve this guy. They keep sending him back criminality be damned.
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tashoya
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Post by tashoya on Sept 26, 2023 7:40:25 GMT -5
In a compare and contrast in hypocrisy among politicians, the MAGA GOP takes the cake and it's not even close. Just keep fellating Orange Jesus. . . Similarly, Republicans on the state level appealed to their Democratic counterparts to, as Assembly Minority Leader John DiMaio put it, “protect the interests of all Americans and New Jerseyans from this corrupt politician.” Or, in the words of the Republican ticket in District 38, Micheline Attieh, Gail Horton and Barry Wilkes, Democrats should “immediately disavow this despicable behavior.” “This will be a real litmus test for New Jersey’s Democrat leaders. These are serious charges, and it’s not the first time the senator has been accused of criminal activity,” DiMaio said. “It’s time for him to go and for Democrats to do the right thing.” Jeanette Hoffman, a Republican political consultant, said about Menendez, “This is such an outrageous situation. I’m not surprised he’s not resigning, given his personality. The accusations in the indictment are just outrageous, and to think that he could serve the people in the United States Senate is ridiculous.” The response is a far cry from what has played out on the other side of the aisle as a certain prominent Republican faces charges ranging from conspiring to defraud the government to trying to overturn election results in several states, yet he still sits securely atop the leader board for the party’s presidential nomination. www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2023/09/26/bob-menendez-trump-charges-indictment/70965503007/Time for the Democrats to do the right thing. Odd that you've never heard the same said about the former Republican party with regard to Trump. If Menendez tries to now steal an election, does that automatically make him a "Republican?"
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 26, 2023 11:13:20 GMT -5
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Post by Elvado on Sept 26, 2023 11:15:44 GMT -5
Bravo to those who have done so thus far.
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tashoya
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Post by tashoya on Sept 26, 2023 13:52:44 GMT -5
Bravo to those who have done so thus far. This, sadly, encapsulates where we are. Getting kudos for doing the simplest, most straightforward thing that ALL of them should do. Denouncing a criminal whose job it is not to enrich himself and his family but to serve those he was elected to serve. Very clearly, that's FAR more difficult for one side than it is for the other but neither side is remotely admirable.
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Post by Elvado on Sept 26, 2023 14:32:57 GMT -5
Bravo to those who have done so thus far. This, sadly, encapsulates where we are. Getting kudos for doing the simplest, most straightforward thing that ALL of them should do. Denouncing a criminal whose job it is not to enrich himself and his family but to serve those he was elected to serve. Very clearly, that's FAR more difficult for one side than it is for the other but neither side is remotely admirable. So sad and so true. People get the government they deserve. As we stand still for this permanent ruling class bent only on acquiring and retaining power, we are victims of our own sloth.
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 26, 2023 15:25:07 GMT -5
Now up to 18 Democratic Senators calling for Menendez to resign. Yesterday, only 3, starting with Fetterman. The tie to the Egyptian government makes this case more than just "normal" political corruption. It is a national security matter. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what-the-menendez-indictment-says-about-u.s.-egypt-relationsEDIT: In the time I took to post the above it has grown to 19 as Senator Peters of Michigan just came out for resignation. Bizarrely, some "Republicans" (Hawley) are using Menendez to attack the DOJ. Truly pathetic how craven the MAGA GOP is.
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