So, the whole pie is 95% China on purpose and 5% China by accident? You don't think there are some slivers worth allocating to any other possibilities?

How about that Venezueala thing? Definitely just some wingnuts acting by themselves?

Its actually the other way 95% by accident and 5% or less on purpose imo. Def not how it's told. Acc to the info I've seen there bats can't even infect humans in that way.

I had to look that up. Trump put a bounty on the Venezuelan president for drug trafficking and money laundering? Yeah that's pretty crazy. But it looks like that president was crooked a f

Bats don't infect humans directly, they are the origin who infect other animals. Bats are excellent spreaders of disease because they have basically no immune system to fight off viruses and they live closely together in caves by the millions.

I would change that slightly as bats have the perfect immune system to fight off viruses. Their system has evolved to be basically immune to any detrimental effects of viruses while allowing it to pass thru them.

We humans, would not care at all about viruses if you tested us, showed we had caught them, but we never suffered any impact from them.

It's extremely easy for me to imagine donnie just dying to take the cia out for a few spins once he finally got in charge. That Venezuela fiasco, the Africa one etc. I just think it's worth considering there may have been some others.

That SkyNews video looks like a hs project with the directions to--make a cheesy and very obvious propaganda piece imo. But hey maybe it's all true

to me it looks like a good investigation.

One of the Crown Jewels of the Trump Empire is next in line to go.

This comes after a House Committee report exposed Trump had lost about $70MM

And now, as he no longer enjoys the protections of the Presidency from creditors let the sales begin in earnest!!


NEXT UP Trumps most prized Golf Course, Aberdeen!

Stay tuned as I suspect Trump ends up walking away from this property as he will be unable to identify the actual financial backers as they will not want to be outed nor will Trump want that association known. So instead of identifying the sources of the money he will just allow the money losing course to be taken from him while crying foul.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-...tters-n1284084

Republican grumbles grow as RNC seems to break rules to submit to pressure and pay Trump legal bills on past issues (that is just last months bill below) while he may be a candidate in the future, which should preclude him getting the RNC support due to bylaws requiring they remain neutral in this regard.

Meanwhile actual GOP candidates today are turned down for money.






But really did the RNC expect Trump to use the hundreds of Millions he fleeced his dupes for, saying it was for legal battles, without still trying to force them to pay it for him regardless???

Oh and the Trump Merch just added Xmas wrapping paper if you are so inclined to have a Trump under every xmas tree in your family!!!

Trump raised $100 million dollars (https://www.businessinsider.com/trum...a-bans-2021-10) but refuses to spend 1/10th of 1% of that for his OWN PRIVATE legal bills? The only thing more pathetic than Trump NOT paying is the emasculated Republican party who agreed to pay it! It's reminds me of the wasps that turn cockroaches into zombies and control them like puppets (https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...into-zombies1/)

Yup.

Just a small taste of what is wrong with the party.

The legend grows.
What's worse is the people donating to him love this. He's such a boss he didn't even have to use the money he raised for this specific purpose, he made the cuck RNC pay and pocketed the rest for himself. This is the kind of person we need running the country. Instead is falling asleep at a conference, Trump would not bother going to their shithole country and give them the finger. We need real leadership back!

Just listened to a legal analysis segment on the difficulties on prosecuting and convicting Trump and those around them on laws broken around his real estate valuations.

No one thinks the laws were not broken. They were. But conviction under the law is hinged on 'INTENT' and everyone thinks intent, short of an eye witness in the room saying 'he told me this was the plan', is almost impossible to prove. The defense will always say 'we had lawyers telling us one thing, this accounting firm gave us numerous valuations.. etc, to argue you cannot establish beyond a reasonable doubt out intent.

This again is an example of how the law is an a$$ imo.

A voter in Texas gets 5 years in jail for TRYING to vote and FAILING (the system worked and blocked her vote) while on probation, which is legal in most areas, and the law says 'we don't care if that was a mistake... we don't care if she honestly thought she was allowed to vote... IGNORANCE OF THE LAW IS NOT EXCUSE!'

And in the case of Trump and Co and so many white collar crimes 'intent' is everything. Intent, the hardest thing to prove beyond a reasonable doubt as it requires an admission in most cases, no matter how blatant the law break is.

Not just the party but politics and politicians generally.


I don't know of any other area where an entity can raise money for claimed specific purposes and then use it so broadly or even personally once they get it.

Is it a shock that Politicians have written the laws governing their own fund raising and that of those who support them so broadly that they can justify almost any use of the funds???

Another blatant case of Rules for Thee but not for ME.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-...efeat-n1284544

I agree. And I'm a Republican.

It Wasn’t a Hoax
People with scant illusions about Trump are volunteering to help him execute one of his Big Lies.

By David Frum - NOVEMBER 25, 2021











And lest we forget...

Russiagate Was Not a Hoax
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence confirmed what the Mueller report could not.
AUGUST 19, 2020

In case you needed another reminder that Trump is a despicable POS

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...k-meadows-book

It looks like we are heading for another election in 2024 in which Democrats will pin their hopes on their ability to convince voters that Trump is singularly dangerous.

So how dangerous do we believe Trump is compared to other realistic GOP presidential hopefuls?

I believe that the Trump is far more dangerous to the U.S. and somewhat more dangerous to the world than any other realistic GOP candidate.

Staggeringly dangerous.

Hard to imagine more dangerous but I wouldn't be that suprised if someone even more dangerous followed

He's dangerous for a few reasons:

1. He has no regard for laws.
2. He is amoral.
3. He will do anything to save himself.
4. He puts himself 1st. Country is far down the list.
5. He can easily be manipulated.
6. He is an anti-intellectual.
7. He is a pathological liar.

I believe this combination puts him at the top of the list as the most dangerous person in the GOP. Sure other people in both parties may possess some of these traits. The difference being not only do these traits make him unfit to hold any political office, it makes him unfit to be a decent human being. There are actually very few people qualified in my opinion to be President, and of those, I'm guessing 99% of them will not have any aspirations to hold the office.

Now if he runs, will he win? Knowing how poorly run the DNC is and how many low end white trash racists exist in this country, I would probably have to say Trump would probably win an election against any of the current front runners ie Biden, Kamala, etc. But a lot can happen in 3 years so my guess is pretty pointless.

What the dems need to do is focus on policies such as 1. Universal healthcare 2. Raising wages for the average Joe ie 95% of Americans so they can catch up to the past 40 years of stagnant wages ie decrease the gap between average joe and CEO pay 3. Improving education opportunities post high school at a reasonable cost 4. Eliminating money in politics 5. Complete overhaul of the tax system 6. Reducing military spending 7. Fix the border issue 8. Protect womens rights to have an abortion

Only a REAL leader could tackle any one of those issues. Currently, dems come off as a bunch of pussies unwilling to enact any type of meaningful policy on ANY of these issues. Then again, same goes for the republicans (although obviously on some issues like 1,6, and 8 they want no part of).

In my opinion, America started going down hill after 2001 and quite frankly there seems to be no bottom at this point. Someone has GOT to be elected soon that will be a once in a generation President and actually get something done. Sorry kinda got off topic but once I get started I have trouble stopping.

Without a doubt I am certain that 2024 will be a Lesser of Two Evils election and the Dems will be screaming 'shame', 'your fault' to any one not getting up to vote.

I an convinced that is why they are backsliding on most of the more ambitious elements of Biden's agenda since they know that no matter how frustrated and angry the electorate is they can just scream Lesser of Two Evils and get people up to vote.

None of the current GOP realistic alternate leaders (DeSantis, Christie, etc) pose anywhere near the threat Trump does.

If they are the candidate and lose they might make some rumblings re the system but no where near the rigged claims Trump would make.

If Trump is the candidate and loses a close election what we saw in 2020 will look tame in comparison. We might actually be faced with Alternative slates of Electors showing up for all contested States and VP Harris being put to a much worse test then Pence faced. She would have to be the face of rejecting the Trump sponsored ones and accepting the others or just outright denying some where it was clear that Operative intervention was at play.

I cannot even imagine how that then gets resolved. If the Dems are faced with clear sabotage the only thing they can do is have Harris reject it and ... ?? send it to the Supreme Court? ??

The Supreme Court really has no role in this type of issue. These are State issues and State processes for certification. I don't see the SC saying 'that person may have followed the process but it is clear to us that the threshold for voter fraud was not met and those votes should be counted' when such things are not clearly defined in State law and left purposely vague and to discretion. deliberately.

And then assuming the Dem's concede to avoid a brewing real civil war, Trump is not leaving in 2028 if he is healthy enough to hold power. He just is not. He will absolutely look to foment a civil war and grab unitary power to POTUS office.

Anyone thinking that is a bridge to far for Trump, has not being paying attention. He may not succeed but he will certainly try.

(edit - as chez says someone more dangerous will come along though. A blend of Tucker and Trump. Smart plus the brute force.)

Hard to argue with this assessment.

8 is likely to need a legislative solution. I talked to a friend who read the argument transcripts. Unsurprisingly, Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch would like to overturn Roe directly. Alito and Thomas probably would be happy to jettison the entire concept of substantive due process and the right to privacy. Roberts is trying to push the Court to reaffirm Roe and retain some sort of undue burden standard, but it's clear that he will side with the state for the most part when evaluating very significant statutory restrictions. It's unclear which camp Amy Comey Barrett is in. Somewhat to my surprise, my friend said Kavanaugh seemed to be more in the Alito camp than the Roberts camp.

So the cliff notes is that he thought there was a 50/50 chance between the two outcomes, with no chance of anything better, and not much practical distinction between the outcomes for women in conservative states.

At this point, Democrats might as well focus on controlling Congress and protecting the right via legislation.

I'm with Rocco. I'll take my chance with the field.