chakan2MTG shows Hunter Biden revenge porn for congress.
ChihuahuaOfDoomIt blows my mind that this is how far political discourse has fallen. Fuck anyone who supports shit like this.
Unfortunately even though most people don’t ‘support’ it- it’s a spectacle that gets headlines and clicks, and those further incentivize more spectacle. She’s not doing it for the few people that would say they support it, she’s doing it for the attention of people that don’t.
██████████This would have worked in ancient Greece too
circuitfarmerAnd hey, things went well for them (until they didn’t).
Flying SquidShe would have had to hold up an urn.
jeffwIf you don’t think people support this, you haven’t been in any conservative US spaces. They love Hunter’s penis
jtkAn here we all are :/ I’ve said this everywhere I frequent, and it’s never worked, but maybe Lemmy will buy in. Lets just stop posting and upvoting obvious negative attention seeking garbage. Downvote it, harshly. Let the names of these idiots be forgotten in these parts. We’re better.
I dont think ignoring the issues with psychopaths in government will help the problem go away.
dtcYea, I don’t really want to forget about the regressive that get to pick what laws I have to obey.
Call me crazy, but knowledge of their bullshit has helped me avoid their problems.
TechyDadI would love to just ignore these people and have them go away, but it sadly doesn’t work that way. If we ignore them, then they’ll just push the envelope more and more. Silence is taken as permission to go further with their fascist tactics.
If we fight back enough, then perhaps the day will soon come when they are politically irrelevant and we can ignore them. Until then, we need to pay attention to what they are doing.
Unfortunately your crippling yourself if you think you can beat them while maintaining the moral high ground. The unfortunate fact about politics since time inmemorial Is that the biggest loudest nastiest dudes always win. Democrats don’t want to win they just want to stay on their high horse (moral high ground)
See The Murder of Ceasar for the universal example
Buddy, “both sides are the same” is long dead and has been for a few years now.
What I said the Democrats are not the same. They clearly are trying to lose
OpenStarsAs Jon Stewart said in his podcast, liberal media aims to be correct, while conservative media is effective). It's a real thing - like when you marshal ALL your forces to stop abortion, whether you should have or not, and keep at it for a full decade, tying it to everything else like fiscal conservatism and more important NOT being liberal, it can achieve a powerful end...even if originally it was not meant to be taken entirely seriously.
All Democrats had to do back then was have someone else run other than Hillary - ANYONE else would have done just fine. People forget, but Republicans did not "win" that election - it was Democrats that did this to us. More people voted against her than for him in the "Never Hillary" movement, including lifelong liberals even immigrants. The "email scandal" - no not the one people talked about afterwards for so long where it was her emails that were leaked (well that too I suppose), the but the earlier one with the DNC emails were leaked and showed the collusion against Bernie Sanders - did a great deal of harm. e.g. we will never know (we are literally prevented from accurate measurements) exactly how many people died excess deaths from the pandemic that could possibly have been prevented, if truth had been reported from the halls of power rather than lies.
That is worth considering now that Kamala Harris will become our next Presidential candidate, under Biden's name but after he dies or becomes incapacitated somewhere along the way she will take the position. That may not be a 100% certainty, but it does seem a possibility that it might happen, with a greater-than-average chance given his age.
I am not exempting Republicans from blame here, just saying that neither am I exempting those who claim to be the more responsible party. Like if the only thing standing between us and a horde of zombies is a locked door, then the person who swings that door open wide has some measure of responsibility, no? Even if they do none of the flesh-eating directly. And whoever handed that person the only key to the door has a level of responsibility as well, no? By this I mean our for-profit media, who all but outright lies to us, even if technically telling the truth then still spinning it wildly out of proportion, in order to clickbait. I just wish there were any options at all between shooting yourself in the head vs. a slow death by poison.
Oh well, who wants to live forever!?! :-D
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Congrats you did praxis
Never heard of it, maybe it did me:-D
MomoTimeToDieAs Jon Stewart said in his podcast, liberal media aims to be correct, while conservative media is effective.
Lmao seriously?
I mean I went to the effort of including the link... you could click it and find out? :-P
But yeah, conservative media says whatever it needs to in order to achieve its aim, it does not sweat the small details like accuracy or whatever, while liberal media gets bogged down in those and forgets what it was even talking about in the first place.
Clicked your link. Just because some jerkoff agrees with you that his side is great, it doesn’t make it anything resembling true.
Very true. Kudos to being skeptical btw -> keep asking questions!:-) We may not agree on this particular matter but I hope we can agree on that much at least. If not... I am still going to do it anyway:-P. Also, I have no skin in that game - I do not work in the industry, but he is somewhat of an expert on the topic, having worked in it for several decades, so I offered in case people wanted to hear what he had to say.
All Democrats had to do back then was have someone else run other than Hillary - ANYONE else would have done just fine.
My father, who was openly fascist long before it was “ok” in right wing circles and thinks anyone to the left of Hitler is a Communist, said prior to the 2016 election, that if it was Trump vs Bernie Sanders, he would vote for Bernie. The only person who could convince him to choke back the vomit and vote for Trump was Hillary.
Since 2008, I had been saying that the left wing refused to understand how hated Hillary is. She should have never been within 1000 yards of the nomination. You don’t need to like what the right is saying, but we should all at least listen, if only to know what we’re up against.
Obama ignored the rural areas following the fiscal crisis (this is not true in actual fact, but the perception, which carries much greater weight than real facts, yes?), thus they turned to someone who they felt "listened" to them. Bernie did, and while in many ways Bernie may have been a horrible president - idealistic, not grounded in reality, unable to make compromises (as Obama said, Bernie is a "prophet in the wilderness, pointing to the way we should go, but not a king, able to make the tough choices", paraphrased) - Hillary's and more relevant the DNC's treatment of him pushed many into the act of voting "for" Trump, as a protest "against" her.
As the story goes, his wife Melania cried that night that he won, and not tears of joy. Trump himself even briefly explored turning down the offer... he never had any intention of winning, it was all a publicity stunt for his next TV show, as it always was, every time he did it. Trump - while he is a prime mover / cause all on his own - is nonetheless also a "victim" of the set of circumstances that put him into office, and may yet do so again. The media claims to have learned something from the whole event, but has it, really, when it continues to do exactly as it did before?
Those who do not learn from their history... will be given unlimited chances to do so still yet again and again!:-P
Thinking you’re mad you can’t ride on Biden Jr’s dong.
Both sides are parties of Wall Street.
They represent shareholders.
Neither party represents workers.
This is incredibly reductive.
The biggest / loudest / noisiest do not always win.
There’s more to politics than “winning”, winning is pointless if you have to trade your principles to do so.
I don’t think conservatives would say they have up the moral high ground to win. They just interpret morality differently. That doesn’t make it ok, but it does mean that discarding “the moral highground” in order to win is an absurd proposition.
Sorry mate principles don’t feed my family
Yes they do.
Whatever your employment or wherever your income is from it very likely depends on you at least appearing to not be a lying asshole.
You comment like platitudes do, though.
Damn that was SAVAGE.
Max voltage or min iq, who knows
The Republicans’ only principle is winning power. Therefore any lie, change in position, or trick in service of that is not a sacrifice. I’m not being sarcastic. That’s really all they are now.
Yeah, my reading of it is arrogance. They genuinely believe that they are the better governers because they will guide the nation on a godly path, therefore a bit of theatre (lies) in a campaign is the lesser evil.
The folks who murdered Caesar lost too. The people loved Caesar. Everyone involved in his death were afraid for their lives.
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Democrats laugh at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after she calls for 'decorum' #Shorts
“We need decorum while I show everyone these naked Hunter Biden photos I found online in a crazy attempt to hurt Joe Biden politically.”
We’re getting to the point where verbally attacking or making fun of conservatives in any way will be considered abuse of the mentally handicapped.
Enjoy it before it’s too late.
I thought we didn’t like sex trafficking. Sorry what’s the new narrative.
She’s just a troll, nothing more. She contributes nothing towards policy or making life better in America. Whatever will own the libs is what she exists for. Trash.
ElcaineVoltayou're absolutely right, and that is way more than enough for a staggering portion of the electorate.
It’s been painfully obvious since 2016, but the bulk of the Republican party from the average voters up to their current orange god-king have been addicted to hate and contrarianism for a long time. Everyone other than them is an enemy they must never agree with, even if it’s for something basic like building a road or following public decency guidelines. Everyone on the planet has human wants and needs, but Republicans have been publicly calling non-Republicans as inhuman demonic monsters for a while (no hyperbole necessary, their own ugly words).
So now we’re at the point where millions of wingnuts will sabotage anything that might conceivably help an ordinary person, set the planet on fire and kill themselves in the process, because they value hurting the enemy more than benefiting a group beyond themselves. It boggles the mind how these guys get a slap on the wrist for blowing up a power grid, taking bribes over Venmo or sharing revenge porn on live TV when ordinary sane people get thrown in solitary or a coffin for far less.
Indeed her name is Margarine “Trailer Park” Trash Greed.
Also, I’ve got some reading to do as not-a-lawyer, but I’m doing a big think on this and how it may/can/should apply:
withoutmyconsent.org/…/statutory-criminal-law/#cr…
There’s no damn way throwing around actual nudes can apply under speech and debate.
Crimes are okay when they’re done by the rich and well-connected, didn’t you get the memo?
I will never understand how people don't realize that Hunter Biden is irrelevant. He's not a politician.
Because his name is ‘Biden’ and a significant number of people operate at a sort of Pavlovian word-association level.
As always when it comes to conservatives, you can trace it back to projection and how they think everyone else is just like themselves.
They put personal faith into the person they support, and see any criticism of that person as a personal attack on them. And they assume everyone else does as well, so they honestly think talking negatively about Hunter Biden is a personal blow to democratic voters.
roadkillWhataboutism is their only defense, even if what they claim is evidence doesn't hold up to scrutiny. If they don't double down on it, they have nothing at all.
He should be. He would win in a landslide. Same way trump won btw
Same people who lose their mind over hunter ignore jared and Ivanka actually being hired into the white house, a crime, not filling out their sf86, a crime, and profiting off of what they knew from being in the white house.
Look we don’t have all day to list off every last single crime that family has committed, in the white house alone.
Yeah, you kind of have to limit yourself to crimes committed on a particular day to keep it down to a manageable number.
NeatoIt's because conservatives have zero imagination. All they do is project their own crimes into their opponents assuming everyone is as evil and guilty as they are.
"Hunter Crime Family" is laughable when we have a literal ex president crime family. Accusations Hunter took foreign bribes is pathetic when it's almost certain the entire trump family is in Putin's pocket.
All they do is project their own crimes into their opponents assuming everyone is as evil and guilty as they are.
I don’t know if your theory holds up…
I don’t think MTG has Jewish space lasers…
Well, Ivanka and Jared collected paychecks and used government positions to benefit themselves, so Hunter MUST be doing corrupt stuff.
HegarMost people attacking hunter know he's irrelevant. The right loves staking an absurd position or threatening massive harm to extract concessions without giving up anything important.
I also suspect that some of this is to poison the well so it's harder for democrats to prosecute trumps kids for all their crimes.
Though in all seriousness, isn’t revenge porn illegal? I hope Hunter takes her to court.
Should iirc
It varies from state to state, but in DC (which I suspect would have jurisdiction in this case), it’s classed as a felony. Whether or not she’s actually indicted is another matter, though.
Of course, she may have civil liability as well if Biden decides to take her to civil court for harassment.
Because it happened before Congress, I doubt a prosecutor would touch it. There’s specifically a lot of latitude given for purportedly acting as an elected official. It would probably take her saying, repeatedly, that she wasn’t presenting it as a congressperson but as a private citizen to overcome that hurdle.
But I am not a lawyer, and I’ll defer to someone with better information who contradicts me.
Yeah, that was my thinking as well. This seems like a political football that DC prosecutors would hesitate to touch.
Yes, and she did it in a Federal Building to the public.