“Everyone will be vetted” means “we have to know they have got the cash” and “Manhattan District Attorney has agreed to look the other way because it’s not Trump”

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As a conversational viewpoint, if Kamala continues to mess up as VP, can a POTUS choose another VP?

She'd have to die, resign, or be incapable (in some legal, medical or psychological sense) of carrying out her duties as Veep since she's independently elected to her office. While the Constitution (Art. II) says that Congress can provide "by law" for how a replacement would be chosen, it seems to me that Richard Nixon simply appointed Gerald Ford as Veep when Spiro Agnew stepped down.

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"He really wants to help Hunter and for people to recognize his talent," Davis said of the gallery owner, Georges Berges. "So you know, I think it's all on the up and up."

Yes, yes, the publicity, the political associations and favors, and the percentage-based commissions on a series of lucrative domestic and overseas bribes mean nothing to an idealist like Georges Berges.

You just gotta love the Babylon Bee. A bit of honesty wrapped in satire.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
You just gotta love the Babylon Bee. A bit of honesty wrapped in satire.

What’s this “satire” you mention? Seems pretty factual to me.

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Originally posted by sdy:
it is like Alice in Wonderland:

https://www.breitbart.com/crim...yers-anonymous-sale/

Hunter Biden will meet with prospective art buyers at two art shows in Los Angeles and New York City later this year...

I still maintain this is the biggest money laundering scheme in the HISTORY of mankind and EVERYONE is swallowing it hook, line, and sinker. Shit...even choking down the rod and reel to boot!! If this were Donald Trump, Jr., the media and every Leftarded sunuvabitch that's stealing my oxygen would be having a total melt-down hissy-fit. JSMH...

"Whomever is appropriate will be attending". That says volumes right there.
I guess that means I wont get an invite.

Erj, I don’t think anyone is buying this bullshit, not even the lefties. It pisses me off that they even bother with the charades. Don’t insult my intelligence.

Tony Podesta Hired By Huawei To 'Warm Relations With Biden Administration'

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...biden-administration

Chinese telecom giant Huawei is hiring Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta to try and 'warm relations with the Biden administration,' according to Politico which cites two people familiar with the matter.

Podesta will work to advance a variety of the company’s goals in Washington, according to one of the people. He declined to comment. A spokesperson for Huawei also declined to comment.

Huawei faces a host of challenges in Washington. In February 2020, the Justice Department charged the company with violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO — a key DOJ tool for going after organized crime. DOJ alleged that Huawei helped Iran’s authoritarian government build out its domestic surveillance capabilities and tried to secretly do business in North Korea. The Justice Department has also brought charges against the company’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou. She was arrested in Canada, where she is fighting extradition to the U.S. Huawei and Meng maintain their innocence. Huawei has said the accusations are an effort to “irrevocably damage” its reputation and business, as CNBC has reported.

Podesta, the art-collecting, red-shoe wearing, K-street lobbyist whose firm self-destructed after he became a target in the Mueller probe, was reportedly offered immunity to testify against former partner Paul Manafort.

Manafort and Podesta both made millions together as unregistered agents on a pro-Russia project in Ukraine. While Podesta had the uncanny foresight to retroactively file as a foreign agent in April 2017, Manafort did not, and was subsequently found guilty of tax fraud, failing to disclose foreign bank accounts, and bank fraud.

One week after Mueller announced he was targeting Manafort and an unnamed "Company B" in October, Podesta resigned from his position as chairman of the Podesta Group, which he co-founded with his brother Tony in 1988.

As we noted in 2018, Manafort and Podesta worked with the Pro-Russia European Centre for a Modern Ukraine (ECMU), a Brussels based think tank tied to former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych which was pushing for Ukraine's entry into the European Union. Manafort oversaw the ECMU project, on which the Podesta Group made some $1.2 million, Manafort's firm also earned $17 million between 2012 - 2014 consulting for Yanukovychs centrist, pro-Russia Party of Regions. Yanukovych fled from Ukraine to Russia after he was unseated in a 2014 coup.

The Podesta Group received more than $1.2 million from the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine for its work from 2012 to 2014, according to the new disclosures. The Podesta Groups work included meetings with State Department officials Tom Nides and Jake Sullivan and staffers of Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), as well as contacting congressional staff, reporters and think tank researchers. -Politico

As Mueller began to close in on Paul Manafort, Podesta Group clients became spooked.

Before dawn on Monday Oct. 23, 2017, NBC News reported that Mr. Mueller was preparing to indict Mr. Manafort and implicate Mr. Podesta regarding the Ukraine work. The phones started ringing: Clients wanted to know what was going on. The firms bank wanted to discuss its account.

The following night, Mr. Podesta threw himself a birthday party, serving hundreds of guests pizza from a brick-oven stove in his backyard in Kalorama. -WSJ

Podesta's problems began long before Mueller's probe grazed his orbit. During the summer of 2016, SunTrust bank severed ties with the Podesta Group over their work for a U.S. subsidiary of a sanctioned Russian bank - presumably Russias Kremlin-owned Sberbank - which paid the Podesta group $170,000 over a 6 month period through September 2016 to lobby against economic sanctions handed down by the Obama administration over the 2014 annexation of Crimea.

SunTrust Banks Inc. sought to sever ties with the firm over the sanctioned Russian bank. The Podesta Groups chief executive sent an exasperated email to a colleague. Tony thinks these types of clients have no repercussions on the firm, she said, but this should really provide evidence that we have to take the clients we bring on seriously.

Following Mrs. Clintons defeat that November, the Podesta Group cut bonuses and commissions. -WSJ

Fast forward to October, 2017 - just one day after US prosecutors announced the indictments of Manafort and Gates, "an official with the firm's new bank, Chain Bridge Bank, demanded $655,000 in cash or collateral within 24 hours - or it would cut the firm's credit line."

Mr. Trump, who occasionally pointed an unwelcome spotlight on the firm, tweeted that day: The biggest story yesterday, the one that has the Dems in a dither, is Podesta running from his firm. -WSJ

Finally, in April of this 2018, the Podesta Group shuttered its doors in what the Wall Street Journal described as a "calamitous collapse":

Then he fell, a calamitous collapse propelled by unexpected blows, delivered by fate and made worse by hubris. Financial problems, legal threats and the election of President Donald Trump took it all awaythe clients, the firm and, finally, Mr. Podestas position as one of Washingtons most influential players. -WSJ

Last but not least; in October 2017 a "long time" former Podesta Group executive with "direct personal knowledge" of the operation divulged several other aspects of life inside Tony Podesta's lobbying machine to Tucker Carlson, after he says he was interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller. Perhaps he felt his testimony would end up on the cutting room floor, which detailed potential money laundering through Tony's art collection, Clinton Foundation links to Uranium One, and claims that the Russians were trying to establish inroads to the Obama White House through the Podestas.

According to the Politico report, "Podesta is expected to soon pick up more clients. He has known President Joe Biden for decades and is friendly with a number of his advisers. Podesta also lives down the street from former President Barack Obama in the glitzy D.C. neighborhood of Kalorama. His brother John was a counselor for Obama as well as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton."

Let's see if the ol' Podesta magic can help Huawei worm its way into the Biden administration's good graces.

Q to biden: Are there people in the Democratic Party who want to defund the police ?

biden response: "Are there people in the Republican Party who think we're sucking the blood out of kids?"


video at link:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1418576362349207555

Vampirism would explain more than a few things about the Democrat party.

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Originally posted by sdy:
Q to biden: Are there people in the Democratic Party who want to defund the police ?

biden response: "Are there people in the Republican Party who think we're sucking the blood out of kids?"


video at link:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1418576362349207555

Oh yeah, his brain's working at 100% efficiency. This guy is totally gone at this point. Light is barely flickering but no one is home.

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biden response: "Are there people in the Republican Party who think we're sucking the blood out of kids?"

Sounds like a guy who's guilty of sucking the blood out of kids.

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biden response: "Are there people in the Republican Party who think we're sucking the blood out of kids?"

Demoncraptic Party Leaders: "Oh shit, Uncle Joe revealed our blood harvesting plan, we need to quickly move it. Call "Bela" Pelosi and tell her that this weeks blood will be late."

Was this one of his usual nonsensical, non sequitur remarks, or is there some vague basis for it?

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is there some vague basis for it?

He may have used it as in "Does the bear live in the woods ?"

Asking if the REPs think they are sucking blood out of kids, and expecting that reply to be "No", would emphasize his answer is No too.

The trick here is, there are absolutely "people in the Democrat Party who want to defund the police"

He couldn't answer the question honestly

example:

Missouri Democrat Rep. Cori Bush's campaign paid a handful of entities for security services totaling more than $98,000 from January through June despite her frequent statements advocating for police budgets to be slashed.

"It’s not a slogan. It’s a mandate for keeping our people alive. Defund the police," she has said while knowing her own safety will not be jeopardized as a result. Meanwhile, her community deals with the highest murder rate in 50 years.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...r-this-year-n2592820

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Originally posted by sdy:
Q to biden: Are there people in the Democratic Party who want to defund the police ?

biden response: "Are there people in the Republican Party who think we're sucking the blood out of kids?"

Blood? No. Brains? Definitely.

video at link from Australia about Biden in the CNN TownHall

https://twitter.com/rising_ser.../1418966739086360578

more biden stumbling and rambling

"If your kid wanted to find out if there is a man on the moon ...."

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Was this one of his usual nonsensical, non sequitur remarks, or is there some vague basis for it?

I think most everything that comes out of his mouth that was not scripted, is word salad. Like someone said "He can't find his was home after dark".

I find his constant eye blinking and other nonverbal behaviors quite annoying. He holds out both of arms while speaking from the podium as if he is a TV preacher in an impoverished area. His speech does not yet qualify as word salad or gibberish, but he is working on it. His aphasia appears worse as is his tangential thinking.

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Originally posted by jljones:
“Everyone will be vetted” means “we have to know they have got the cash” and “Manhattan District Attorney has agreed to look the other way because it’s not Trump”

For me, "everyone will be vetted" means they made "deposits" already.