[johnforbes]

hile making the case that President Trump should put off filling the current high court vacancy until after the 2020 presidential election, Harris offered a fabricated “history lesson” about Honest Abe, according to the Federalist.

“In 1864 … Abraham Lincoln was up for re-election. And it was 27 days before the election. And a seat became open on the United States Supreme Court. Abraham Lincoln’s party was in charge not only of the White House but the Senate. But Honest Abe said, ‘It’s not the right thing to do. The American people deserve to make the decision about who will be the next president of the United States, and then that person will be able to select who will serve on the highest court of the land,’” Harris said. “And so Joe [Biden] and I are very clear: The American people are voting right now, and it should be their decision about who will serve on this most important body for a lifetime.”

But in truth, Lincoln wasn’t able to fill the seat before the November election because the Senate was not in session until December. Lincoln then pushed through a confirmation of Justice Salmon Chase the first chance he had — one day after the session began, historians told the outlet.

[Clownkicker]

Trump was not honest about his Federal income taxes.

He was also not honest about dodging the draft.

Worst of all, he went to a fund raiser AFTER he had been told Hope Hicks had tested positive for COVID. Trump went without a mask anyway , was in a closed room with donors and endangered all their lives just to get his grubby hands on more money. He knows what kind of trouble he's in.


Oh, wait, but you have some irrelevant story about the only thing you can get Harris on. The real reason the nomination should wait is that McConnell (“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new President,” McConnell said in a statement on February 13, 2016, the day Scalia died.) and Graham (“I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said, let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination, and you could use my words against me and you’d be absolutely right. We’re setting a precedent here today, Republicans are, that in the last year, at least of a lame-duck eight-year term, I would say it’s going to be a four-year term, that you’re not going to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court based on what we’re doing here today. That’s going to be the new rule,” Graham said at a Judiciary Committee meeting in March 2016.)
and a slew of other Republicans all insisted the nomination should wait for NINE MONTHS!

Now they think six weeks is too long to wait.

Just more Republican hypocrisy. (including this thread by johnforbes, our poster boy for partisan hypocrisy.)

[johnforbes]

How do you know?

Candidates don't always release their income taxes.

I have been looking at Biden's, and he receives about 200k in pension from his 47 years in politics.

He had about 500k in income last year, so it was interesting reading. He doesn't give much to charity, but then Democrats seldom do.

[Clownkicker]

You're always criticizing Biden for things that Trump is much worse at.

In this case, you don't need to ask how much Trump GAVE to charity with his alleged billions of dollars.

You need to ask how much he TOOK from charities, like his charity that the courts shut down for fraud.

He used his charity as a slush fund for the Trump Organization.

But that doesn't even register with johnforbes. He's laser-focused on the amount Biden actually does give instead of how much Trump takes.

[johnforbes]

Why, thanks.

It is true that I have a laser-like focus on the truth.

I would type more, but I'm back from hiking and my tawny thighs -- rippling in the pale October sunlight -- must enter the shower.

[Clownkicker]

So you DO realize that Biden gives money to charity and Trump takes millions from charities and commits fraud.

That is the truth proven in court that claim you are laser-focused on.

So why are you here pretending Biden is somehow unfit to be president for giving to charity while Trump is somehow fit to be president because he is a thief and a fraud?

Why do Republicans find such reprehensible behavior on Trump's part to be admirable and worthy of support?

One can only conclude that all Republicans are thieves and frauds, or at least aspire to be.


"Candidates don't always release their income taxes."-johnfibs

johnny always has to throw in some weasel word to try to intentionally mislead while desperately trying to be technically correct.

We aren't talking about "candidates" right now. We are talking about the sitting President. And for the past 43 years ALL U.S. Presidents ALWAYS released their tax returns until Trump came along and had to hide his incompetence as a business man and his swishy $70,000-a-year comb-over hairdo. (I don't think johnforbes even spends that much on all his fruity drag queen stage outfits in a year.)

He also had to hide that he seldom paid any federal income tax because working people hate that. Republican working people would still hate that except for some reason they now admire it. That's how hypocritical Republicans are. They want those making $25,000 a year to support a family of four to pay thousands in federal income tax but believe billionaires shouldn't pay anything beyond maybe $750, if they pay even that.

It's really mystifying why Republicans believe everyone except the wealthy and super wealthy should pay income tax.

There's no explaining it.....other than low IQs and hypocrisy of the Republican base, of course.

[johnforbes]

I'd like to thank Clowntoker for his praise of my posts and for his courtesy on this fine autumn morning.

During the 16 years or so Al Gore was in the Congress, he famously did not invest in stock to avoid conflicts of interest.

Believe it or not, I actually had respect for that approach, even though Gore later cashed in on the energy frenzy, got 200 million dollars, and lives in an enormous house wasting more energy than a factory.

Biden was always known for having no money, and his net worth was less than a million except for the house on 3 acres he bought from a credit card executive while doing oversight of that industy.

So, to be fair, Biden doesn't contribute much to charity, but most Democrats don't. They want taxpayers to fund socialism instead.

[Clownkicker]

Al GORE? Who is talking about Al Gore, dimwit? He isn't running for President....or anything, for that matter. If you don't like his behavior, don't vote for him, dummy.

Why does johnforbes have so much trouble sticking to the issue being discussed? He has to distract from Trump's charity fraud with people who are not President or even running for President.


"Biden was always known for having no money, and his net worth was less than a million except for the house on 3 acres he bought from a credit card executive while doing oversight of that industy. So, to be fair, Biden doesn't contribute much to charity, but most Democrats don't."-johnforbes

No, "to be fair" you have to compare the worst thing you have on Biden concerning charities to the worst thing you have on Trump concerning charities.

So the worst thing johnforbes has on Biden concerning charities is that Biden gives money to them.
Meanwhile, the worst thing you have on Trump concerning charities is that he steals money from them, commits fraud with them, and illegally uses them as corporate slush funds.

Which would you say reflects the most poorly on the candidate, johnny? Let's see if you can answer that simple question.

If you notice, johnforbes couldn't contribute a single comment about Trump and his 'charitable giving' that was in any way superior to Biden's behavior, but he sees Biden's behavior as somehow insufficient. Imagine what johnforbes must think of Trump's behavior but he's simply too much of a partisan chicken shit to tell us.

I wonder what other non-Presidential candidate johnny will desperately try to distract with next. The only thing we can be certain of is he won't say anything about Trump's 'giving' and charity fraud.

[johnforbes]

History is always relevant, and thus my Gore comments were -- as we used to say in the military -- iron on target.

[divermouse]

i'm starting to think johns a fraud. just another fat kid sitting on a bed in siberia. hardly a patriot.

[johnforbes]

You'd be thinking wrong, kiddo.

Your problem in jousting with me isn't that I'm fake, but that I'm real.

[divermouse]

ring the bell, john your a fake patriot.

[johnforbes]

Wrong, my boy.

[divermouse]

your boy says, "then FUCKING ACT LIKE IT"! all you do is stir hate and consternation. just like they teach in certain classes on disruption of governments.

[johnforbes]

Diver, the problem you are having -- even in a little online conversation -- doesn't arise from me being fake, as you err in assuming, but from my reality.

[divermouse]

oh i get that you are a real sparkle pony patriot.

[johnforbes]

You don't get it at all, kiddo.

[Clownkicker]

Yeah, johnny, I believe you. I doubt ANYONE here can get just how much of a sparkle pony patriot you are.