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GORDON wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:01 am It took them almost a decade, but sounds like they finally got their stories straight.

GORDON wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:10 am We have very different default positions of the honesty and integrity of the rich and powerful.

Leisher wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:43 am So all Rs can shut the fuck up about the Biden family taking bribes, just like all Ds never talk about Trump and Russia collusion anymore, right?

TheCatt wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:17 am It's almost like Russia is just fucking with the US.

Leisher wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:43 am His son didn't have a no show job at a Ukrainian firm as a VP through his own merit? So...how's he wealthy? Biden's fortune isn't large enough to support the life this clown lives. His laptop, which was a "right wing conspiracy" prior to the election turned out to be real, but none of the emails inside detailing odd payments from China, photos of him doing crack with hookers, and all the gun stuff matter in the slightest? He's a politician's kid, so he has immunity. Meanwhile, Joe is a multimillionaire despite not having any job the last 40 or 50 years that would enable such a fortune.

Federal agents said they knew Smirnov’s story was false because Hunter Biden has “never travelled to Ukraine.”

TheCatt wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 12:24 pm Hannity never took shop class.

Joe Biden’s wild economic claims during his State of the Union address were fact-checked six times by The New York Times.

1. “15 million new jobs in just three years — a record,” Biden claimed.
• The Times ruled the claim needed context because the job gains “were beginning to return” before Biden came to office from the huge losses during the pandemic.

2. “My policies have attracted $650 billion in private sector investment, in clean energy, advanced manufacturing, creating tens of thousands of jobs here in America!”
• The Times ruled Biden’s statement lacked context and Biden calculated $650 billion based on “public announcements of investments — not necessarily dollars spent — across industries targeted by Mr. Biden’s legislative accomplishments.”

3. “I am cutting our carbon emissions in half by 2030.”
• The Times determined that Biden’s statement lacked context and Biden confused his goal of cutting emissions in half with what his actual policies would cut.

4. “We’ve already cut the federal deficit over a trillion dollars.”
•The Times ruled Biden’s claim needed context:
Under Mr. Biden’s watch, the federal deficit dropped to $1.4 trillion in fiscal year 2022 from $3.1 trillion in fiscal year 2021 — but much of that reduction was attributed to the expiration of coronavirus relief spending. The deficit then rose in 2023, to about $1.7 trillion. The deficit remains higher than it was before the coronavirus pandemic.

5. “You know, there are 1,000 billionaires in America. You know what the average federal tax is for these billionaires? They are making great sacrifices: 8.2 percent. That’s far less than the vast majority of Americans’ pay.”
•The Times reported Biden’s claim did not “technically” reflect the current tax rate.

6. “Many of my friends on the other side of the aisle want to put Social Security on the chopping block.”
•“Republicans are not currently calling for cuts to Social Security,” the Times said. Former President Trump, in fact, said in 2022 that he would never cut Social Security.