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barleyrugsoap said:
I don't know much about EU electoral politics (and I'm skeptical anybody else here does who isn't a europoor) but this is exactly why OR and WA are consistently blue. It's not just the population centers being commies, because that voting bloc should be easy to split and/or keep home from the polls.

OR in particular is interesting to observe because the money that props up unelectable candidates (I disagree that LePen is theoretically viable, you do'nt do this with theoretically viable candidates because grassroots support can sweep them in) is coming from a very small group of high profile sources, in particular Phil Knight. But despite the fact that any fucking moron can see the pattern, it happens over and over.

The upcoming OR gubernatorial race is going to be depressing.
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The fact that the WA state Republican party sabotaged Joshua Freed so Loren Culp or Tim Eyeman could run against Inslee in 2020 all but cemented my opinion that the party is controlled opposition.
 
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Blockland Forum users now wonder when Hunter Biden will be taken out back behind the shed.


A close, longtime business partner of Hunter Biden apparently made several trips to the White House during President Barack Obama’s tenure and while then-Vice President Joe Biden was in office, a new report notes.

Eric Schwerin, the president of Rosemont Seneca, an investment fund company, met with VP Biden in 2010, according to Obama White House visitor logs.

The Blaze notes further:

Rosemont Seneca was founded in 2009 by Hunter Biden, Christopher Heinz – stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry, and Devon Archer – an American businessman who was classmates with Heinz at Yale University. Rosemont Seneca has conducted extensive business in China.

The New York Post reported: “Eric Schwerin met with Vice President Biden on November 17, 2010, in the West Wing, when he was the president of the since-dissolved investment fund Rosemont Seneca Partners.”

The report added, “The logs also reveal that Schwerin met with various close aides of both Joe and Jill Biden at key moments in Hunter’s life when he was striking multi-million dollar deals in foreign countries, including China.”

“Emails from Hunter Biden’s discarded laptop show a series of exchanges between Hunter and his associates in Rosemont Seneca’s joint venture with Chinese investment firms Bohai Capital and BHR,” Fox News further reported. “In February 2017, Schwerin emailed the CEO of BHR, Jonathan Li. Previously, Li sent Hunter his son’s resume with a list of colleges he planned to apply to,” adding, “It is unclear if Li’s son was admitted to Brown University or, if so, whether he attended.”

The Post also said that Schwerin “made at least 19 visits to the White House and other official locations between 2009 and 2015.”

The Blaze adds that Hunter’s business partner was also rewarded by the 44th president:

According to Obama White House archives, a press release from March 10, 2015, stated that Obama appointed Eric D. Schwerin as a member of the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad. The U.S. Commission for the Preservation of American Heritage names Schwerin as a past member, who was sworn in on Feb. 1, 2017.

The Obama administration noted that Eric D. Schwerin is “Founding Partner and Managing Director at Rosemont Seneca Partners, LLC, positions he has held since 2008.”

Records also show that Rosemont Seneca founders Archer and Heinz visited the White House in 2009 and 2011 for a “holiday reception” and “group tour” respectively.

Joe Biden has frequently denied having anything to do with or knowing anything about his son’s business deals and dealings.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who, along with Iowa Republican colleague Sen. Chuck Grassley, has been tracking and investigating potential Biden family corruption, noted:

“Not everyone gets to meet the vice president of the United States in the White House. The press should be asking why Hunter Biden’s business associates — like Eric Schwerin — had that privilege and were given access to the Obama White House. This is additional evidence that Joe Biden lied when he said he never discussed Hunter’s foreign business dealings. It’s well past time for the corporate media to demand the truth from Joe Biden. The corruption of Biden Inc. must be exposed.”

The new information comes amid additional recent reporting by outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN — outlets that ignored early NY Post reporting of potential Hunter Biden corruption — exposing new details about the first son’s shady business deals while confirming previously reported items.

Most recently, reports noted that federal prosecutors looking into potential tax fraud and allegations the first son may have skirted foreign lobbyist regulations have also subpoenaed Hunter Biden’s paternity and tax records.

“They wanted every record relating to Hunter Biden we had,” said Clint Lancaster, an attorney involved in the matter, told CBS News last week.

Lancaster represented Lunden Roberts, the woman who filed a lawsuit against Hunter Biden in 2019 claiming that he is the father of her child.

“All federal, state, local and foreign tax documentation related to Biden including but not limited to, IRS Forms 1099, income and payroll tax returns, state tax returns, and amended tax returns,” says the subpoena, according to CBS News.

The first son’s business and personal activities have been under scrutiny by federal investigators since before the 2020 presidential election cycle, though Republicans used the investigation in political attacks on his father,.
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Absolutego said:
The fact that the WA state Republican party sabotaged Joshua Freed so Loren Culp or Tim Eyeman could run against Inslee in 2020 all but cemented my opinion that the party is controlled opposition.
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Inslee is supremely unpopular, but the man gets all of his votes from a single county. Plus, the incumbent president was Trump and it's Washington. They'd fare better in 2024.
 
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CrippleThreat said:
Inslee is supremely unpopular, but the man gets all of his votes from a single county. Plus, the incumbent president was Trump and it's Washington. They'd fare better in 2024.
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Hey now, give Pierce and Thurston counties their due. If this bullshit was contained to King County we might actually stand a chance to put them out of power, alas.
And with Trump as the prospective nominee in 2024 I put absolutely zero faith that the state electorate will recount their error the next time around.
 
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HTTP Error 404 said:
So uh.

Twitter's apparently going to allow Elon Musk to buy it.

... Hey @Gehenna, others: How's the Midterm / 2024 Calculus change if suddenly Trump is allowed back on Social Media?
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Trump is less a factor than the removal of the biased algorithm systems and active censorship, which were instrumental in manufacturing consent and suppressing harmful (to the Neolib WEF Great Reset Narrative) information. We mock FB and Twitter both for being dog shit Boomer/Trooner bait, but these huge platforms do have some powerful effects. If Elon is able to wrest enough control by the lead up to the mid-terms that the censorship is gone and organic trending exists then huge holes are blown in the Dem's information control apparatus.

The effects could be huge, and the last thing needed is Trump tweeting all the time to suck up the oxygen that nationalist candidates need.
 
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Absolutego said:
Hey now, give Pierce and Thurston counties their due. If this bullshit was contained to King County we might actually stand a chance to put them out of power, alas.
And with Trump as the prospective nominee in 2024 I put absolutely zero faith that the state electorate will recount their error the next time around.
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Trump endorsed Culp for Congress, so that's one guy out of the perpetual opposition. He can do more (of little note) there instead of wasting time. And I meant 2024 in the case of the incumbent likely being Biden/Harris or some other mainstream or generic Democrat.

Also clown world thought, but we're amid historic inflation and we have all of these political campaigns being waged; millions of dollars are being spent and donated all over the place. And let's not forget about the Fed giving cash to Ukraine willy-nilly like water. What the fuck is the dollar anymore?
 
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Absolutego said:
Hey now, give Pierce and Thurston counties their due. If this bullshit was contained to King County we might actually stand a chance to put them out of power, alas.
And with Trump as the prospective nominee in 2024 I put absolutely zero faith that the state electorate will recount their error the next time around.
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Good ol' Thurston County.

Olympia and Tumwater and Lacey bitching about the hicks of Little Rock, Rochester, and the like.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
While the shitposting is funny, being off social media is better for the man. I say this on the principle that being off social media is better for everyone, and the sooner the world realises that, the better.
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I think the battle lines are drawn already really. Thanks to 6 years of media output, you either like him or hate him. Although if he Tweets out endorsements to particular candidates it could be helpful in raising awareness.

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President Joe Biden nominated Geoffrey Pyatt – a participant in a controversial leaked phone call with State Department official Victoria Nuland about Ukraine – to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources.

Pyatt previously served in the Obama administration from 2013 to 2016 as its Ambassador to Ukraine, and during his tenure, was embroiled in a leaked phone call controversy with then-Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland.

The two were caught on tape discussing cutting deals in internal Ukrainian politics, with Nuland appearing to favor one opposition leader over another. They appeared to plot replacing elected Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych by installing Artseniy Yatseniuk, expressing anger with the European Union for favoring Vitali Klitschko as a replacement.

“Fuck the EU,” Nuland blurted out on the call, as the pair plotted the fate of the Eurasian nation together. Together, Nuland and Pyatt are believed to have led U.S. efforts to orchestrate a 2014 revolution in Ukraine that ultimately led to President Yanukovych’s ousting.
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The party isn't going to do anything to Hunter. Complicated scandals don't grab the public interest. Worry if photos leak out of Joepedo being a pedo, not who visited whom when and which money got routed through where. If anybody cared about that sort of thing, Clinton would have gotten annihilated in 1996, and Hillary's political career would have ended right then and there.
 
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