What? A Democrat-controlled house found that a Democrat did something wrong?
Where did they learn such a thing? Who would DO that? I mean they guy's on your own team - you can't actually find him GUILTY! They might put a REPUBLICAN in his place!
Oh! It's called ETHICS! Something we haven't seen for about 4-years (6, really)...
@raphjd said in Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul Calls Pro-Lifers ‘Neanderthals’ After 20-Plus Violent Attacks On Pro-Life Centers:
You're a proud Biden voter.
Not quite - YES, I voted for Biden, but I held my nose doing it because I couldn't bring myself to hold my nose AND cover my mouth (to keep from vomiting) and vote for Trump...
Honestly, I have no regret! Whatever misgivings I had about Trump were confirmed - in spades - by Jan 6 and the continued endless whining about his loss.
TRUTH: Even if 2020 was the MOST CORRUPT election in the history of mankind - it was not, but if it was totally a SHAM - EVEN IF that were true, there is NOTHING that can be done about it until 2024. Trump himself proved (nay, established) that you cannot charge a sitting President - with anything! You can only impeach him and hope the Senate convicts...
"Truth" as the DNC(CP) sees it.
I don't need the DNC (and I have no idea what you mean by CP) to tell me what is truthful... Indeed, they're just as guilty of "spinning" facts as most Republicans are - Trumpism has just taken it to a whole new level! An absurd level...
When I see something that seems "too good to be true" I look for other sources... when I see something that seems "too awful to be true" I look for other sources.
Then you see something that supports your viewpoint, you don't look into it at it AT ALL - you just accept it as fact! And when you see something that is contrary to your viewpoint, you also don't look into it at it AT ALL - you just dismiss it as a lie. This is why I often refer to you as "Humpty Dumpty":
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
You, like Humpty Dumpty seem to think that, somehow, you're always right - because you create your own facts... and (another Trumpism) believe that if you repeat the lie often enough, it will become truth... Take it from Trump's playbook - it doesn't work!
I call it terrorism and you call it the "most peaceful summer of love".
I never called it that, and I believe both are hyperbolic representations of 2020... in other words: neither is true.
No, you jackass - I'm saying that Congress refers SOME people to the DOJ for contempt of congress and the DOJ files charges, and that Congress refers SOME people to the DOJ for contempt of congress and the DOJ declines to file charges
If you took your head out of your ass, you'd have understood that from the original posting....
Again with the open ended, straw-man attacks...
I don't follow the DNC at all! I'm a proud Republican voter - even if I wasn't willing to vote for DJT's re-election! (NOTE: I wasn't alone in that - look at precinct after precinct around the country... in most cases, lower-level Republican candidates OUTPOLLED the (thankfully former) President in 2020! Want to know why he lost the popular vote? Because he couldn't convince any but the most fanatic REPUBLICANS to vote for him!
I mostly report FACTS - more importantly, I point out when you report FAKE and FALSE claims (albeit, usually there is a nugget of truth [or, almost truth] in your post, but it's usually couched in misinformation or cast in an untruthful light)... For example: say a postman is bitten by a dog. You'll report that the postman was attacked by a rabid dog, that the owners were fascists, that the dog was beaten by the postman, and that Biden or AOC were to blame. While it's true the dog bit the postman, none of the rest of what you said was true, but you'll keep coming back to the point that the dog bit the postman as a way of "validating" your absurd post...
That's just you - and I call you out on it... regularly! 
I should be careful here too, though... Trump tried to politicize the DOJ. He succeeded in some small ways, but the 2020 election shows just how LITTLE success he had in that effort.
He made inroads (damaging the credibility of the DOJ in the process), but he was NOT fully successful in re-making the DOJ as his own political hit-squad as he had hoped...
No, the DOJ was NOT politicized under Obama - you just thought they were because they didn't do your partisan bidding, and his term in office was the nascent beginnings of the "make up your own facts" era of politics (an era we're firmly entrenched in today!)
I like Mitch McConnell - I think he's been an exceptionally successful leader of the Senate.... but I cringed when he said, at Obama's inauguration in 2009, that his sole political agenda was to prevent Obama from gaining a 2nd term.
I never downplayed the riots (esp in Seattle, where I thought "ceding territory" to the rioters was ABSURD!)
And no other event in the history of the US compares to the level of what happened on Jan 6 - there are no equivalences. None. All claims you make to there being equivalences are partisan, Russian misinformation campaign kinds of shit. In 233 years, no group of citizens has ever - NOT EVEN IN THE CIVIL WAR - attacked the US Congress!
43 former Presidents ceded their offices - without complaint or effort to overcome it - to their successors... until Donald Trump. Some of them ceded to new Presidents who DEFINITELY achieved the office by nefarious means (see election of 1876 for a REAL story of corruption and vote-buying!)...
Until sore-loser (but DEFINITELY a loser) Donald Trump came along... he'll go down in history as the President who put 3 conservative SCOTUS Justices in place - tilting the power in the court for decades to come, but little else GOOD will be remembered about the man.
Well, I made that mistake only once - which you were quick to point out, so I looked it up (eventually) and admitted my mistake...
Would that I were infallible like you, but I am not...
Some VPNs to not permit the use of their networks for torrenting. You may be being blocked there...
It is also possible that Kaspersky is blocking you... I've had a lot of "false positives" from that suite over the years.
FWIW: I've found (personally) that Windows software in my home network isn't the greatest way to do torrenting.
Instead I do the following (NOTE: I'm a computer consultant who knows Linux inside and out, so there's that to consider!)
Problems? The only REAL problem I have is the limited storage... but I manage... and if I wanted MORE storage, I'd just have to pay for it!
OH! One more thing - once a month or so I use the linode console to change the IP address of my system...
@raphjd said in Department of Justice Stymies Congressional Attempt to Get Information on Hunter Biden Probe:
For what?
It's the same DOJ that failed to act when Holder was found in Contempt of Congress, in a bi-partisan vote? Fast and Furious, any of that ring any bells?
Yes, the same DOJ that failed to act when former Trump advisor Mark Meadows was found in contempt of congress...
I know it's hard for you to fathom, what with your authoritarian-biased views, but the structure of the American Government is - at its foundation - a separation of powers. No one branch of the Government - not the Exec (Presidency), not the Legislative (Congress), and not the Judicial - can do anything that anther branch cannot undo! There is NO absolute power in our Government - every potential action of any one branch can be overturned... and sometimes requires the approval of... another branch.
In this case, finding someone in contempt of congress is major shit - so the Legislature has to approve of it AND the Justice Department (part of the Executive branch)... and it's not at all uncommon for Congress (a purely political entity) to make a referral and for Justice (a legal, non-partisan entity... well, until Trump got ahold of it) to nix it...
YOU say that the Dept of Justice is politically motivated in failing to bring charges in certain cases... but they are cases against both conservative & liberal sides... I say the referrals themselves are politically motivated, and the Justice Dept is quashing their unsupported (legally) charges. Again, against both sides...
It's the same DOJ that called angry parents "terrorists".
Angry parents who made threats against local authorities? Threats backed up with guns?
Yes!! And it was the right call!
You really have a VERY limited mind... you've made that same argument before, and I've successfully refuted it before... yet, you make the same assertion over and over again...
Alzheimer's can be a terrible and debilitating disease. If you are having memory problems, please seek help! There aren't any TREATMENTS yet, but those same scientists who tried to kill the entire human population with their revolutionary COVID-19 vaccines are also working on treatments (even cures) for memory-loss issues like Alzheimer's.
Sorry, not from Joy Reid... incorrect, sure... but not from any left-wing site.
The same DOJ that wouldn't prosecute Trump?
But they didn't say anything - likely because he was "one of them" (a Democrat)... not that Republicans don't do the same thing (Donald Trump sound familiar?)
Tribalism in politics leads to terrible things... witness current state of politics (whether you want that to be Trump or Biden doesn't matter - they're both awful)
Yeah - rhetoric like that is the problem....
Show me a single instance where I've revealed a source that is Joy Reid (who I couldn't pick out of a lineup, much less listen, watch, to or read), or Slate, or Salon, or any other particularly Liberal source.
In reality, my news sources are mostly middle-of-the-road... some lean slightly liberal, some slightly conservative. Fox news is not commonly on my list of sources. More importantly, I get a lot of my news from foreign news sources... Australian, German, English, Japanese, and others...
How explicitly do I have to make it: we agree on this point. QI is bad law, and bad cops need to be dealt with. Not doing so reflects badly on ALL cops (witness current conditions).
LOL to quote the Republicans in the 1990s, and the Democrats in the 2010's... and quite honestly, both sides in the 2020s:
You are entitled to your own opinions, but you are not entitled to your own facts.
Fox news isn't the same as the Yahoo channels & Russian propaganda sites you so often use as sources....
Pedophiles are awful people. They can be found in all walks of life: some are conservatives, some are liberals, some are green-party activists, some are communists, some are nazis, some are white, some are black... you get the idea.
I'm sorry - but tempers are flaring over abortion rights on BOTH sides now...
You show 20-plus violent attacks on pro-life protesters
Others will show you 20-plus violent attacks on pro-choice protesters
A LOT of bad actors on both sides - and absolutely no room in the middle.