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Lefties are mentally disturbed and must be stopped.
nedboy7 replied to Unforgiven's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
It is borderline insanity how obsessed you are with this loser. -
Trump’s Post Presidency—What Will He Do?
nedboy7 replied to Trump_is_Mentally_fit's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Jail time. Tucked into a bill Trump signed into law in January 2018 was a provision increasing the punishment for knowingly removing classified materials with the intent to retain them at an “unauthorized location.” Previously, someone found guilty of this crime could face up to one year in prison. When former CIA Director David Petraeus was charged in 2015 with mishandling classified data, he pleaded guilty under this statute to avoid a felony charge, as Politico pointed out. A similar situation unfolded a decade earlier, when former national security adviser Samuel Berger pleaded guilty to removing terrorism-related materials from the National Archives in 2005. Now, a person convicted of violating this law can face up to five years in prison ― making it a felony-level offense to mishandle classified documents under 18 U.S.C. 1924. Could 2018 Trump have unknowingly put 2022 Trump in a tough spot? -
You people are ignorant. Moving on from Covid, the conspiratorial wing of the populist Right has a new cause célèbre on which to hang its fears of global governance and the Great Reset purportedly being plotted by Klaus Schwab from his Alpine lair. This time, it’s Dutch farmers, whose protests against their government’s plans to force them to curb their use of nitrogen-based fertilisers and lower the polluted runoff from their farms has seen them lauded by Right-wing commentators across the Anglosphere as some form of modern peasants’ revolt. As a recent UnHerd explainer made clear, the Dutch government may have handled the process badly, but the problems are clear enough: the Netherlands’ hyper-intensive form of agriculture is ecologically untenable, severely harming the tiny country’s biodiversity and locking the country’s agricultural sector into a system of overproduction of livestock for export. This entails dangerously low profit margins for farmers themselves, and a system reliant on imports of chemical fertilisers. Partly as a result of the country’s painful experience of famine during the Second World War, Dutch agriculture has long pursued maximum efficiency, making the Netherlands a food exporting powerhouse second only to the vastly larger United States, but locking farmers into a cycle of dependency on globalised agribusinesses. All of the UK’s problems with intensive farming practices that have lowered farmers’ incomes while harming animal welfare and polluting Britain’s landscape are displayed to a significantly heightened degree in the Netherlands. The country’s food production system relies on what are essentially green factories or giant warehouses for livestock, packing animals together four times more densely than in the UK, rather than the small family farms many outside supporters seem to imagine. The current system in the Netherlands is simply unsustainable, but the Dutch government’s abrupt approach to solving the problem has turned it into a political crisis. As the Dutch spokesperson for the World Wildlife Fund, Natasja Oerlemans observes, the problems now are “the result of 30 years of inaction, despite all of the scientific reports and warnings”. “We as a society have allowed this broken food system to happen,” she added, “and we are responsible for providing farmers alternatives”. As the Guardian noted last year, while the Dutch government’s proposals include paying off farmers to reduce production or leave the industry, it also includes billions of Euros of aid designed towards “helping others transition to more extensive (as opposed to intensive) methods of farming, with fewer animals and a bigger area of land”. The goal of the Dutch government’s proposals is aimed to bring Dutch farming closer in line to British farming, where herds of cows roam freely on wide pastures, and away from the American agribusiness model, where cattle live on feedlots eating imported grain. However badly the transition has been handled — and Dutch farmers should be better supported in their shift to a more sustainable model — this goal is, in itself, a welcome shift towards a better functioning food model. Excitable conservatives of a conspiratorial bent should think carefully about which they prefer: a world of small farms producing high-quality food while shepherding the natural environment, or the continuation of a fragile, globalised food system in hock to giant corporations.
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Poll, are you better off or worse off
nedboy7 replied to Over 29 years of fanhood's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
yeah. He is a liberal. Probably the most respected investor in America is a democrat. -
Poll, are you better off or worse off
nedboy7 replied to Over 29 years of fanhood's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
The stock market goes up and down. Don't panic. -
Poll, are you better off or worse off
nedboy7 replied to Over 29 years of fanhood's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Pretty sure the cult is mentally unstable since Biden took over. So you are doing better. Good for you. -
The Thread To Vent On Nancy Pelosi & Her Hubris
nedboy7 replied to 3rdnlng's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-stock-act-violations-senate-house-trading-2021-9#sen-sheldon-whitehouse-a-democrat-from-rhode-island-6 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/gop-senator-called-his-brother-in-law-minutes-later-they-both-dumped-stocks-ahead-of-covid-crash-1249567/ 2,596 Trades in One Term: Inside Senator Perdue’s Stock Portfolio The Georgia Republican’s stock trades have far outpaced those of his Senate colleagues and have included a range of companies within his Senate committees’ oversight, an analysis shows. -
I wonder what they will do for water? It's not a raid. My god. Calm down with your BS takes. “I don’t know,” Mr. Trump said. “I haven’t really been following it too much. I just wish her well, frankly.” “I’ve met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach, and I guess they lived in Palm Beach,” the president continued, referring to the Florida town where his Mar-a-Lago resort is and where Mr. Epstein had a home. “But I wish her well, whatever it is.” It was 1992, and Mr. Houraney had flown two dozen or so women in for what was supposed to be a “calendar girl” competition at Mar-a-Lago. The only guests, it turned out, were Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein. Mr. Houraney, who at the time had just teamed up with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, was taken aback. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s,’” he recalled. “‘You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
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Early reports that the F.B.I. search of former President Donald J. Trump’s residence in Florida related to an investigation into whether he had unlawfully taken government files when he left the White House focused attention on an obscure criminal law barring removal of official records. The penalties for breaking that law include disqualification from holding any federal office. Specifically, the law in question — Section 2071 of Title 18 of the United States Code — makes it a crime if someone who has custody of government documents or records “willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies or destroys” them. If convicted, defendants can be fined or sentenced to prison for up to three years. In addition, the statute says, if they are currently in a federal office, they “shall forfeit” that office, and they shall “be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.”
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Name a Right Wing Position
nedboy7 replied to Backintheday544's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Unfortunately I think you are very close to the truth here. Hurts me to say. I think the order is here. The idea that the order is coming is the illusion. It has been established. But recently the right is starting to act like a cult. Try to get a Trumper to tell you something they didn't like about him. "oh I wish he would tweet less". Trumpers are a new breed, not really Republicans.