ChiGoose

Just because it isn’t unfettered capitalism doesn’t mean it’s socialism. There’s a wide breadth of economic policy between the two. Last I checked, the Dems twice rejected Bernie (who is a democratic socialist in the likes of Scandinavia and not full socialist like Venezuela).

It’s actually driven by economics. The things that were commonplace for previous generations: affordable homes, education, families, etc. are out of reach or extremely expensive for many millennials. Where people of previous generations could get good career jobs and begin accumulating wealth in their early 20’s, that’s not how the economy works anymore. People used to get more conservative as they accumulated wealth. Millennials aren’t accumulating wealth at the rates or with the ease of previous generations and that drives their politics.

The old rule is that people get more conservative as they age. It held true for the Silent Generation, Boomers, and Gen X. But it’s not true with Millennials. They are either staying the same or even getting more liberal. Millennials are shattering the oldest rule in politics  Western conservatives are at risk from generations of voters who are no longer moving to the right as they age “By my calculations, members of Britain’s “silent generation”, born between 1928 and 1945, were five percentage points less conservative than the national average at age 35, but around five points more conservative by age 70. The “baby boomer” generation traced the same path, and “Gen X”, born between 1965 and 1980, are now following suit. Millennials — born between 1981 and 1996 — started out on the same trajectory, but then something changed. The shift has striking implications for the UK’s Conservatives and US Republicans, who can no longer simply rely on their base being replenished as the years pass.” … “The data is clear that millennials are not simply going to age into conservatism. To reverse a cohort effect, you have to do something for that cohort. Home ownership continues to prove more elusive for millennials than for earlier generations at the same age in both countries. With houses increasingly difficult to afford, a good place to start would be to help more millennials get on to the housing ladder. Serious proposals for reforming two of the world’s most expensive childcare systems would be another. UK millennials and their “Gen Z” younger cousins will probably cast more votes than boomers in the next general election. After years of being considered an electoral afterthought, their vote will soon be pivotal. Without drastic changes to both policy and messaging, that could consign conservative parties to an increasingly distant second place.”

He’s just a troll. It’s not worth engaging him in good faith. He spends all day, every day on this site posting insane nonsense and tagging people he’s blocked, and then bragging about blocking them. Half this board is living rent free in his mind and yet he cannot find anything else to do with his time.

He’s not a traditional anything. He’s an anti-vaxx nutjob. His popularity with the Dems right now is solely because of his name. Once the voters get to know him, they’ll reject him.

Do you ever think that the guy espousing right wing talking points, supported by right wing activists, propped up by right wing money, might not be appealing to voters on the left? I mean, this guy is a Republican in everything but name.

Imagine bragging about how sad your life is. Dear lord. If you don’t want to consume content here, go live life in the real world for an hour or two.

Honestly, if some GOP muckraker wants to find similar scandals with the liberal justices, I’d be pretty happy with that. We need serious SCOTUS ethics reforms and they won’t happen so long as the questionable activity is just on one side of the aisle.

If you haven’t read his book Red Notice, I highly recommend it.

It was a joke, buddy.

Thoughts and prayers to our Republican friends during this trying time.

Amazingly, that was someone else. I think they deleted their account.

Look at how often he posts here from morning to night and the absolute batshit things he posts. He’s a loser with absolutely no life. Being a horse’s ass is probably the single thing that brings him joy.

I sincerely doubt that the man known as “Putin’s Chef” is trying to oust Putin.

I remain skeptical that he’s going after Putin. My guess is he wants to take over Russia’s MoD, which he has been feuding with from day one.

Already provided earlier in the thread.

Right. There is a copy that an outlet got directly from the repair shop that was not edited. There’s a copy an outlet got from a political operative that was. So when we see stories about what was on the laptop, we should make sure they verified that the materials were there when it was handed to the repair shop and not added later. Go touch some grass, moron.

Copies of the laptop were changed after Hunter turned it over to the repair shop so don’t take everything as true unless it’s been verified =\= the laptop is fake Apparently urging caution so you don’t make the same mistakes you mock liberals for making is worthy of derision. Then again, this is coming for the same genius who seems to think allegations must be proven *before* you can investigate them…

You really do wake up thinking about me, huh?

Everything has to be a conspiracy for some reason. I guess “Sub company that skirts safety launches dangerous sub that implodes” isn’t interesting enough so they need to find a way to blame people they don’t like.

Still waking up thinking about me? Was I in your dreams? You can’t seem to stop thinking about me. Hope it isn’t affecting what little life you may actually have. 🥰🥰🥰🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

The FBI hasn't released a report on their investigation as far as I'm aware. I was referencing the report of two forensic analysts who examined a copy of the laptop provided by a GOP operative. "The vast majority of the data — and most of the nearly 129,000 emails it contained — could not be verified by either of the two security experts who reviewed the data for The Post. Neither found clear evidence of tampering in their examinations, but some of the records that might have helped verify contents were not available for analysis, they said. The Post was able in some instances to find documents from other sources that matched content on the laptop that the experts were not able to assess. Among the reasons for the inconclusive findings was sloppy handling of the data, which damaged some records. The experts found the data had been repeatedly accessed and copied by people other than Hunter Biden over nearly three years. The MacBook itself is now in the hands of the FBI, which is investigating whether Hunter Biden properly reported income from business dealings." Adding to the chain of custody issues, there seems to be a copy of the laptop hard drive that's was edited after the original laptop was taken by the FBI: "...months after the laptop itself had been taken into FBI custody — three new folders were created on the drive. Dated Sept. 1 and 2, 2020, they bore the names “Desktop Documents,” “Biden Burisma” and “Hunter. Burisma Documents.” It could be that Hunter was part of some big criminal conspiracy that maybe involved his dad. Or he could be a crackhead trading on the family name. But not everything reportedly on the laptop is verified as true and we shouldn't pretend otherwise.

The chain of custody on the laptop is questionable. It's Hunter's but only some of the contents can been verified to have been his. Forensics have shown that people other than Hunter repeatedly accessed the laptop and even wrote files to it after it was handed to the laptop repair guy. Hunter's a real piece of work, but you cannot claim that everything on that laptop is his.

Just agreeing with @B-Man that both of the stories contain problematic information that shouldn't be taken as true.