US 2024 Elections

[ravishingravi]

This guy is real deal. @Lone Wolf Not sure if he is not a chatukar. He wrote 4 childrens book about how Trump was cornered by DOJ. 

 

Thats how this game is played. He is loyalist though. 

 

[coffee_rules]

On the Biden pardon!!

 

 Media bites

[kepler37b]

9 hours ago, ravishingravi said:

 

It might err on the side on being. But tasteless ? I wish. 

For telugus specifically. We need lot of chilli in everything. For us the Gujju cuisine is like a devil's punishment. 

[BacktoCricaddict]

Looks like the establishment's last hurrah - a smear campaign against an honest filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza.

 

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-ally-behind-2000-mules-apologizes-for-inaccurate-information-about-2020-election-depicted-in-movie-6f050360

 

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ATLANTA — The creator of the movie “2000 Mules” has issued a statement saying “inaccurate information” was provided to him about ballot-box surveillance videos featured in the film and apologizing to a Georgia man in one of those videos who was falsely accused of ballot fraud during the 2020 election.

Filmmaker and conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza said in the statement that the film and the book of the same name were based on cellphone geolocation data collected by True the Vote. The Texas-based nonprofit also provided him with drop box surveillance footage and D’Souza said his team had been “assured that the surveillance videos had been linked to geolocation cell phone data, such that each video depicted an individual who had made at least 10 visits to drop boxes.”

Gwinnett County resident Mark Andrews is seen in one of the videos, his face blurred, putting five ballots in a drop box in Lawrenceville, an Atlanta suburb, as D’Souza says: “What you are seeing is a crime. These are fraudulent votes.”

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The Dinesh D’Souza movie suggests that ‘mules’ aligned with Democrats were paid to illegally collect and deliver ballots in Georgia and four other closely watched states. An Associated Press analysis found that it is based on faulty assumptions, anonymous accounts and improper analysis of cellphone location data.

A state investigation found that Andrews was dropping off ballots for himself, his wife and their three adult children, who all lived at the same address. That is legal in Georgia, and an investigator said there was no evidence of wrongdoing by Andrews.

The film suggests that ballot “mules” aligned with Democrats were paid to illegally collect and deliver ballots in Georgia and four other closely watched states. An Associated Press analysis found that it is based on faulty assumptions, anonymous accounts and improper analysis of cellphone location data.

D’Souza’s statement says interviews in the film make clear that True the Vote “was correlating the videos to geolocation data.” But, he wrote, “We recently learned that surveillance videos used in the film may not have actually been correlated with the geolocation data.”

 

[coffee_rules]

1 hour ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

Looks like the establishment's last hurrah - a smear campaign against an honest filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza.

 

 

Do you really mean that he is am honest filmmaker or being sarcastic? He's not very credible in his career.

[BacktoCricaddict]

16 hours ago, coffee_rules said:

Do you really mean that he is am honest filmmaker or being sarcastic? He's not very credible in his career.

Dripping sarcasm.

[coffee_rules]

21 minutes ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

Dripping sarcasm.

Still think the establishment’s last hurrah is the Hunter pardon , single handedly  destroyed all liberal moral high-ground!!

[BacktoCricaddict]

31 minutes ago, coffee_rules said:

Still think the establishment’s last hurrah is the Hunter pardon , single handedly  destroyed all liberal moral high-ground!!

I think there is no such thing as "The Establishment." Whoever is in power is the Establishment. Those who are not in power hate the establishment until they are the establishment, and then they love the establishment and will uncritically defend their own establishment. Just wanted to establish that.

 

First, the Liberal side had no moral high ground to begin with. I mean look at Bob Menendez, mayors of various cities etc. All a bunch of corrupt people. Biden tried to create some moral high ground when he said he would not pardon Hunter, but ended up reneging.

 

But think about this for a minute - a convicted but scot-free criminal? Very valid Presidential candidate, if you are to follow currently established norms.

Edited December 4, 2024 by BacktoCricaddict

[coffee_rules]

8 minutes ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

I think there is no such thing as "The Establishment." Whoever is in power is the Establishment. Those who are not in power hate the establishment until they are the establishment, and then they love the establishment and will uncritically defend their own establishment. Just wanted to establish that.

 

First, the Liberal side had no moral high ground to begin with. I mean look at Bob Menendez, mayors of various cities etc. All a bunch of corrupt people. Biden tried to create some moral high ground when he said he would not pardon Hunter, but ended up reneging.

 

But think about this for a minute - a convicted but scot-free criminal? Very valid Presidential candidate, if you are to follow currently established norms.

Only difference is that Hunter’s conviction came under their own DoJ , it’s like CBI convicting Jay Shah!!

[IndianRenegade]

10 hours ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

I think there is no such thing as "The Establishment." Whoever is in power is the Establishment. Those who are not in power hate the establishment until they are the establishment, and then they love the establishment and will uncritically defend their own establishment. Just wanted to establish that.

 

First, the Liberal side had no moral high ground to begin with. I mean look at Bob Menendez, mayors of various cities etc. All a bunch of corrupt people. Biden tried to create some moral high ground when he said he would not pardon Hunter, but ended up reneging.

 

But think about this for a minute - a convicted but scot-free criminal? Very valid Presidential candidate, if you are to follow currently established norms.

Dems have their flaws in backing the wildest ideas wrt to social justice & immigration, but as a Dem being credibly accused of wrongdoing is the end of the road.

 

What Biden did was wrong, but he could only do that because he no longer needs to keep up any appearance of being moral. He or his immediate family will never run for office in the foreseeable future. 

 

Investigations against Bob Menendez was started back in 2013 during Dem DOJ & again during Biden admin, if he was an R senator he would have blamed it on a witch hunt, deep state and you would have the entire right-wing ecosystem back that up. Al Franken was literally forced out for what would have been just another day at work if you were a republican today. Biden's own DOJ was able to investigate Biden & his son without much pushback or being threatened. Merrick Garland will finish his term without once being threatened with firing. 

 

Trump's first term still had many traditional republicans who would follow protocols, but this time it will be very different If any Trump DOJ guy even looks at him & his family the wrong way he is getting fired the next minute. Like a Republican Rep said if Trump Says Jump Three Feet High… We All Jump... its going to be brutal for ppl on the left.

Edited December 5, 2024 by IndianRenegade

[gattaca]

23 hours ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

Dripping sarcasm.

Honestly after listening to RFK and Dinesh and others even on the left. I feel we have marginally better politicians lol. We do have idiots who question EVMs but the US politicians are something.

[IndianRenegade]

2 hours ago, gattaca said:

Honestly after listening to RFK and Dinesh and others even on the left. I feel we have marginally better politicians lol. We do have idiots who question EVMs but the US politicians are something.

One the reasons is India politicians don't need to talk about politics or policy a lot except for prepared speeches in stages. Many also don't have an ideology, they are just in politics for the money & power. 

[BacktoCricaddict]

23 hours ago, gattaca said:

Honestly after listening to RFK and Dinesh and others even on the left. I feel we have marginally better politicians lol. We do have idiots who question EVMs but the US politicians are something.

 

Sab kaminey hai. The underbelly of corruption in the US has become clear to me over the decades that I have spent here in the US. Only difference is that, generally speaking, the prevalence of corruption and babugiri at the general population level is much less than it was in India when I left in the 90s.

[Vijy]

On 12/6/2024 at 9:32 AM, BacktoCricaddict said:

 

Sab kaminey hai. The underbelly of corruption in the US has become clear to me over the decades that I have spent here in the US. Only difference is that, generally speaking, the prevalence of corruption and babugiri at the general population level is much less than it was in India when I left in the 90s.

US corruption is mostly masked, but it is very much there and is manifested in multiple ways

[IndianRenegade]

4 hours ago, Vijy said:

US corruption is mostly masked, but it is very much there and is manifested in multiple ways

Citizen's united legalized political corruption in the US.