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esquared

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FelixDeCat

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Snopes is a liberal conspiracy to make conservatives look bad by presenting facts.

Snopes is liberal Democratic leaning and anything presented there must be taken with a gain of salt.

If you read the Snopes link presented above you will see things like:

Foundation Admits to Disclosure Mistakes

One fault investigations into the Clinton Foundation’s practices did find was that not all of the donations were properly disclosed — specifically, those of Uranium One Chairman Ian Telfer between 2009 and 2012. The foundation admitted this shortcoming and pledged to correct it, but as the Guardian pointed out in its May 2015 discussion of Clinton Cash, the fact that it happened is reason enough to sound alarm bells:

The Clintons know who their "friends" are, especially ones that give large sums of money (the quid) to Hillary (the pro) and can influence the other 8 members of the comittee that would approve the deal with Russia for uranium (the quo).

Even if you dismiss this, you cannot deny the Clintons have a long history of dirty deals and underhanded behavior.
 

brycejones

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Snopes is liberal Democratic leaning and anything presented there must be taken with a gain of salt.

If you read the Snopes link presented above you will see things like:



The Clintons know who their "friends" are, especially ones that give large sums of money (the quid) to Hillary (the pro) and can influence the other 8 members of the comittee that would approve the deal with Russia for uranium (the quo).

Even if you dismiss this, you cannot deny the Clintons have a long history of dirty deals and underhanded behavior.

When you are incapable of defending Trump (the subject of this thread) bring up Hillary.

Yet somehow this criminal mastermind who scares the shit out of you continues to get away with it. Your "team" must be dumb as a rock.
 
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Jhhnn

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Snopes is liberal Democratic leaning and anything presented there must be taken with a gain of salt.

If you read the Snopes link presented above you will see things like:



The Clintons know who their "friends" are, especially ones that give large sums of money (the quid) to Hillary (the pro) and can influence the other 8 members of the comittee that would approve the deal with Russia for uranium (the quo).

Even if you dismiss this, you cannot deny the Clintons have a long history of dirty deals and underhanded behavior.

Facts do have a liberal bias, huh?

That's never been more true, either. It's not like you care about that, anyway. You're just in it for the liberal tears.
 

esquared

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Facts do have a liberal bias, huh?

That's never been more true, either. It's not like you care about that, anyway. You're just in it for the liberal tears.
Good one.
These simpletons won't let facts get in the way of their agenda. Which is why trolls like Pavel here, deflect back to uranium one, Benfuckingghazi, ,or other right-wing tropes when they can't argue current topics.
 

BonzaiDuck

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Not thinking to bother answering FelixdeCat's rhetorical question about Hillary, I still went back to look at old news. Other posters, like Thebobo, laid it all out nicely how a comparison of Hillary and Trump are like comparing a crab-apple to a rotten apple.

For a long time, my view of Clinton was colored by the stream of Hillary-spin we've been subjected to since she became Secretary of State. The myth about pay-for-play donations to the Foundation has been debunked for what it was. During all that time, nobody raised attention to Madame Secretary's long life-history of public service, counterbalancing the negative spin that began with Whitewater and the negative celebrity attaching to the Clinton's over a bl*w-j*b perjury impeachment. As for e-mails, I've deleted millions of them from my server. Who hasn't? But I never asked an adversarial power to hack someone else's server.

There's nothing to discuss with these people, whom you might likely catch at some rally with Trump railing against his imaginary "Deep State", and it leaves you with the question "When did they stop taking their meds?"
 

BonzaiDuck

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Why hasn't the OP apologized for this thread yet?

I want them to apologize for hating America so much because the rest of us are . . in it. They should apologize for electing such a disgusting Piece of Filth, that any daily news channel appearance of the Blowhard makes ordinary people gag and puke.

This could only happen when enough ignorant people conclude that voting is an exercise in responsibility that sometimes leaves a bad taste in the mouth, and anything else is just a bunch of drunken Romans at the Coliseum flipping thumbs-up/thumbs-down based on a logic of whim and personal mood.

Without a 20% to 40% lunatic component in the electorate, the human race could jump ahead 200 years in its advancement.
 

blankslate

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I have nothing to apologize for... I stopped watching MSNBC shows that shifted their focus to every minute detail about what was going on in the Mueller investigation.

This does not mean I like Trump... I think he has violated the emoluments clause of the Constitution, he has allegedly committing Fraud involving hush money payouts at least one former mistress while he was in office, there is the U.S. support for Saudi Arabia in their war using illegal tactics that can be described as War Crimes under Trump.

Now it looks like Mueller didn't find enough evidence to conclusively say that Trump entered into a conspiracy with Russia that doesn't mean the released report in whatever redacted form won't indicate some circumstantial evidence that just didn't rise to the level where he felt a prosecutor would indict a person.

I will say this I do think all of the focus on Russia has been to the detriment (in terms of time that could have otherwise been spent on them) of explaining to the public how Trump was allegedly (since no court other than public opinion has weighed in) been involved in the other crimes I have listed in the second paragraph on this post....

Here is a good video that largely shares my views on this issue


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Indus

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I will say this I do think all of the focus on Russia has been to the detriment (in terms of time that could have otherwise been spent on them) of explaining to the public how Trump was allegedly (since no court other than public opinion has weighed in) been involved in the other crimes I have listed in the second paragraph on this post....
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Agree with most of your post except this little part.

We have seen clear evidence to how Russia tried to and is still actively trying to undermine democracies around the world (hint ours too) and we have Russian agents in jail that we caught who pled guilty to doing just that.

I mean there's a reason 1 party loves Russians now. It's an effort to tear the USA apart and it seems to be working.

Do we fight against it or do we do what you suggested? Or do we just divide the country now?

It's quite a pickle isn't it?
 

soundforbjt

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I have nothing to apologize for... I stopped watching MSNBC shows that shifted their focus to every minute detail about what was going on in the Mueller investigation.

This does not mean I like Trump... I think he has violated the emoluments clause of the Constitution, he has allegedly committing Fraud involving hush money payouts at least one former mistress while he was in office, there is the U.S. support for Saudi Arabia in their war using illegal tactics that can be described as War Crimes under Trump.

Now it looks like Mueller didn't find enough evidence to conclusively say that Trump entered into a conspiracy with Russia that doesn't mean the released report in whatever redacted form won't indicate some circumstantial evidence that just didn't rise to the level where he felt a prosecutor would indict a person.

I will say this I do think all of the focus on Russia has been to the detriment (in terms of time that could have otherwise been spent on them) of explaining to the public how Trump was allegedly (since no court other than public opinion has weighed in) been involved in the other crimes I have listed in the second paragraph on this post....

Here is a good video that largely shares my views on this issue


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All those things HAVE been reported on MSNBC, were they over-shadowed by the Mueller report, absolutely. Should they have concentrated more on those, maybe but those are on-going investigations that will come to courts in the future. Hopefully they will come up before the election.
 

Jhhnn

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I mean there's a reason 1 party loves Russians now. It's an effort to tear the USA apart and it seems to be working.

The Russians just amplified the hateful & divisive message the GOP has been preaching for the last 25 years.
 
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ImpulsE69

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The best thing for this country would be if the news completely stopped reporting on Trump, and the WH banned him from twitter, and he just played golf 24/7. Then when 2020 comes around boot his ass out. It was an interesting experiment, but I'm tired of playing. If he is 'what represents' the real american, then maybe the rest of the world is right in their disdain for our country, and it's time to move to a country with a little self respect. My thoughts aren't even politically based. He is just a horrible person in general. Any research on his history shows you this.
 

blankslate

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All those things HAVE been reported on MSNBC, were they over-shadowed by the Mueller report, absolutely. Should they have concentrated more on those, maybe but those are on-going investigations that will come to courts in the future. Hopefully they will come up before the election.

Well that's the thing the Mueller Investigation was ongoing just as you suggested the other issues are... most of them... providing air refueling services to Saudi Arabia so they could bomb Yemen more easily doesn't really need an investigation... it was done.

I have my own pet hypothesis as to why the Russia-gate investigation was focused on to (imho) the detriment of other things that should and could have been explained to people who don't follow politics that much and only know about the (now seemingly defunct) collusion charges.

but that's really a tangential issue now.


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blankslate

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Agree with most of your post except this little part.

We have seen clear evidence to how Russia tried to and is still actively trying to undermine democracies around the world (hint ours too) and we have Russian agents in jail that we caught who pled guilty to doing just that.

I mean there's a reason 1 party loves Russians now. It's an effort to tear the USA apart and it seems to be working.

Do we fight against it or do we do what you suggested? Or do we just divide the country now?

It's quite a pickle isn't it?


That's fine....

remember it wasn't too long ago that Romney was Hawkish toward Russia and President Obama suggested Romney had an 80's view toward Russia.
As such Russia preferred the Democratic Candidate.

Hillary was more hawkish on Russia than Trump was and because of that Russia preferred that Trump won in 2016.

Putin is a person who goes around ordering murders/assassinations (allegedly). He is however rational in the CIA world view sense of how they evaluate foreign governments. So it's fairly logical that he would prefer a President who says the least hawkish things about Russia.

some may call this whataboutism it's not it'a just context... every major power has and probably will continue to interfere in other countries politics in ways both subtle and painfully blatant....

https://ccisf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/201612201405.pdf scans of the Time July 16, 1996 issue detailing how Yeltsin accepted help from U.S. advisors to win an election. Obviously that benefited us.
and if Mueller's report came back with a conclusion that Russia and Trump conspired to win Trump 2016 we'd know where Putin got the idea....


My suggestion is to secure our elections as Mike Figuerra suggested in the video I linked (I guess you didn't watch it... I'd recommend it)... going to paper ballots and eliminating electronic voting machines which caused a bit of a stir in the 2004 election. Tulsi Gabbard introduced such a bill and where is it now?
If one is worried about election interference then why not support measures that would in some way mitigate those concerns like Gabbard's bill would have it taken up and passed.

Isn't it odd that given the concern about the another nation interfering with our elections no real measures to help secure our elections were championed by the ones who thought collusion would be proven without a doubt? If that is one's concern then introduce measures that would mitigate foreign interference in our elections...

Or maybe they did and I just didn't really notice.


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Indus

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That's fine....

remember it wasn't too long ago that Romney was Hawkish toward Russia and President Obama suggested Romney had an 80's view toward Russia.
As such Russia preferred the Democratic Candidate.

Hillary was more hawkish on Russia than Trump was and because of that Russia preferred that Trump won in 2016.

Putin is a person who goes around ordering murders/assassinations (allegedly). He is however rational in the CIA world view sense of how they evaluate foreign governments. So it's fairly logical that he would prefer a President who says the least hawkish things about Russia.

some may call this whataboutism it's not it'a just context... every major power has and probably will continue to interfere in other countries politics in ways both subtle and painfully blatant....

https://ccisf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/201612201405.pdf scans of the Time July 16, 1996 issue detailing how Yeltsin accepted help from U.S. advisors to win an election. Obviously that benefited us.
and if Mueller's report came back with a conclusion that Russia and Trump conspired to win Trump 2016 we'd know where Putin got the idea....


My suggestion is to secure our elections as Mike Figuerra suggested in the video I linked (I guess you didn't watch it... I'd recommend it)... going to paper ballots and eliminating electronic voting machines which caused a bit of a stir in the 2004 election. Tulsi Gabbard introduced such a bill and where is it now?
If one is worried about election interference then why not support measures that would in some way mitigate those concerns like Gabbard's bill would have it taken up and passed.

Isn't it odd that given the concern about the another nation interfering with our elections no real measures to help secure our elections were championed by the ones who thought collusion would be proven without a doubt? If that is one's concern then introduce measures that would mitigate foreign interference in our elections...

Or maybe they did and I just didn't really notice.


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Yeah but preferring is a long way from actually meddling in the election yourself.

So yeah we're gonna have to secure our elections because those stupid electronic voting machines are notorious for making errors, as is voter suppression.
 

soundforbjt

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Bottom line is whoever the Dem candidate is, they're going to have to go to Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania to have any chance. Right now Trump wins Michigan according to polls.
 

blankslate

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Bottom line is whoever the Dem candidate is, they're going to have to go to Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania to have any chance. Right now Trump wins Michigan according to polls.

I think there are candidates among the current crop of Democratic 2020 hopefuls who can do that. The question is will big money allow them to do so.


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