Political discussions about everything
#133589
"... government watchdog is demanding the US attorney probing Hunter Biden in Delaware investigate tens of millions in anonymous donations from China to the University of Pennsylvania, where an academic center is named for his father, President Biden. The Ivy League college raked in a total of $54.6 million from 2014 through June 2019 in donations from China, including $23.1 million in anonymous gifts starting in 2016, according to public records."
#133593
"A University of Pennsylvania spokesman denied any anonymous Chinese money had gone to the center.

“The Penn Biden Center has never solicited or received any gifts from any Chinese or other foreign entity. In fact, the University has never solicited any gifts for the Center,” Stephen MacCarthy said.

Although the center’s mission statement says it does not accept contributions, MacCarthy contended that it had received a combined $1,100 in three unsolicited gifts from two donors since 2017, but said both donors are Americans.
[Oooooh, $1,100 in contributions! Criminy, johnny, call out the Feds!]

Other Ivy League colleges have raked in Chinese money, including Harvard, which got $75 million during the 2014-2019 period, and Yale, which received $43.5 million, records show.

The Education Department opened investigations in 2020 into whether Harvard and Yale were meeting reporting requirements for foreign cash."


So why didn't dimwit johnny call out Yale for doing the same thing, I wonder? (Can you say "dishonest partisan hack"? I knew you could)

The answer is, all johnforbes ever has is inuendo to attempt to give the appearance of something improper where there is no evidence of anything improper. The same thing was done at other Ivy League schools. SO WHAT? johnflubs doesn't care so why should the rest of us?

Yes, if only johnforbes would give us the benefit of his dimwitted glassy-eyed stare and nonexistent "thoughts" on this non-issue. But as always, he has no thoughts to offer.

(Instead, impotent personal attacks will commence in 5--4--3--2...)
#133598
Biden is seeing ghosts...after finishing a speech

'... President Biden looks lost again after appearing to shake thin air
President Joe Biden looked lost again Thursday after finishing a speech on the nation's ongoing supply chain crisis when he turned around and stuck his hand out as if to shake hands - but there was no one else on stage..."
:O :laugh:
#133612
My goals have remained unchanged throughout my 87 years on the Internet -- to enlighten and edify, to elucidate and entertain.

If Penn got no donations from nefarious sources, and there was no quid pro quo, then Democrats will be delighted.

But how did presidents as far back as Bush and Clinton run their foundations?
#133613
"But how did presidents as far back as Bush and Clinton run their foundations?"-johnfoibles

People give them money or they use their own from speaking fees or otherwise, dummy. But not from China, in this case.

There is nothing illegal about that.

In the future, you should really read the entire article from the original source instead of just the edited version from your handlers before you shit yourself. It will stop you from looking like such a gullible tool.
#133618
Granted (no pun intended), foundations are a clever method of money laundering.

Didn't Bill Clinton pardon the biggest tax cheat in US history, Marc Rich, and then had his foundation receive money?

When Hunter et al. got 4.8 million dollars, was that for his expertise in Ukraine energy or his fluency in the local language, or was it a quid pro quo for being related to an influential politician?

By the way, wasn't it Bush Senior who in many ways pioneered the business of going to foreign lands after being out of office, giving a speech or too, and then raking in the dough?
#133623
If any former President breaks the law, the prosecute them. And that includes Trump.

If you have any evidence that Clinton or the Bushes broke any laws, then charge them for it. Unlike you, I couldn't care less whether they are the guy I voted for or not if they broke the law. You're still here saying Trump shouldn't be investigated, you partisan hack.

All you and I know is that there is no evidence that the Biden Center did anything wrong. Your own source suggests they follow the rules.

What I do know is that innuendo isn't fact or evidence. Any actual lawyer knows that too.

So where do you stand on that point, johnny?
#133628
Of course, we don't know that at all.

For example, it is simply a fact that Hillary deleted 33,000 emails under subpoena and BleachBit-ed the server.

Democrats are above the law and she won't be charged, but that is conceptually different from Clown's assumption that uncharged people are paragons of virtue.
#133630
No one is above the law, but that is conceptually different from johnforbbs' assumption that uncharged people with no evidence against them are guilty of crimes which there is no reason for anyone to believe even occurred. (Such as the stupid story of Chinese donations to the Biden Center which never happened.)

This is the delusional partisan rabbit hole world of the typical Trump supporter such as johnforbes.

When you can't demonstrate a crime has occurred, just make up some stupid shit and pretend it did with childish, unsupported innuendo.
#133642
Sadly, Democrats are above the law.

Nobody believed in October 2020 that the laptop was fake.

Heck, Hunter's lawyer asked for it back.

Yet 51 former intel "experts" pretended it was Russia disinfo, and the mainstream media jumped on board with that obviously false narrative in order to help Joe get past the election.

Does anybody believe that important Dems will ever be brought to justice for their role in the fake dossier, the wiretapping of Trump staffers, the spying on Trump inside the WH?
#133643
Sadly, johnforbes believes that when you simply follow the law, you are somehow "above the law" if you are a Democrat.

How did that stupid fucker ever graduate from law school without understanding a thing about the law?

Remember, johnny's own source for this story said there is no evidence of the Biden or the Biden Center breaking the law. johnny's Vetas Mater (and the rest of the Ivy League) did exactly the same thing that Penn did, but johnny tries to spin this into something shady in Biden's case. It makes you wonder what johnforbes knows about shady dealings at Yale that johnny thinks this behavior is corrupt.

Because johnny desperately wants Biden to have done something wrong, he slithers off into a fantasy world where he can seethe and bitch and moan about how Biden can't be collared for a crime. The worst thing about it is he and Tucker Carlson try to drag us along with them into their warped "Weltbild" built on unsupported partisan innuendo and a perverse fascination with testicle tanning. (Fer gawds sake, why don't you clowns stop perversely focusing on men's crotches and "good butts" already?)

Get back to us when you have some evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden, johnny. Otherwise, give us a rest from your impotent partisan diversions about Hunter. Hunter Biden is not President, nor did anyone elect him to any office, nor is he trying to destroy America as Trump is. Get your dimwitted priorities straight.
#133650
I have perused and pondered this fine thread, and one post stands out above all the rest:

Sadly, Democrats are above the law.

Nobody believed in October 2020 that the laptop was fake.

Heck, Hunter's lawyer asked for it back.

Yet 51 former intel "experts" pretended it was Russia disinfo, and the mainstream media jumped on board with that obviously false narrative in order to help Joe get past the election.

Does anybody believe that important Dems will ever be brought to justice for their role in the fake dossier, the wiretapping of Trump staffers, the spying on Trump inside the WH?
#133654
if anybody ever failed to show up for traffic court appearance a whole shit storm would quickly rain down upon them. But apparently Mark Meadows can just blow off a congressional subpoena and now it has been 4 months or whatever and nothing has happened......I'm not sure when they will arrest the fucker????
#133693
But if justice IS done and Meadows is convicted of wrongdoing, you will be here claiming that he is innocent and that it was just a political witch hunt.

You KNOW that is your position in advance, johnny, regardless of the evidence against him.

You're nothing but a completely predictable partisan hack.
#133694
Nota Bene:

I do know my position in advance, which is that the one person-one vote notion in Baker v. Carr in 1962 was correct.

The applies to every voter, whether Dem or Repub.

It applies to Mark Meadows, and it applies to Clownslacker who voted 249 times in the last election.
#133698
Notice johnny didn't deny that he would claim Meadows was innocent and that a successful prosecution would be nothing more than a partisan witch hunt.

This is because it is precisely what he plans to do if Meadows is found guilty.

Heck, johnforbes would claim Meadows was innocent even if Meadows confessed to vote fraud. That's how partisan and unAmerican johnforbes is despite his disingenuous whimpering about supporting "one person-one vote."
#133706
No, my position is the essence of simplicty.

My belief was ALWAYS in the Baker v Carr mode of one man, one vote.

If Meadows or any ballot harvester in 2020 or anybody violated the law, then provide due process and whatever happens is what happens.

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