The post of distortion, distraction and "but he actually did it". ^^BearGoggles said:That was a lot of words to deflect from my original point which is beyond dispute - the Biden family grifted tens of millions of dollars in influence peddling. The 2023 house committee confirmed that. And if you believe Joe Biden had no idea about the grifting, then you're just willfully blind and foolish. Among other things, Joe received payments from Hunter and various entities that have never been explained. Devon Archer testified as such and there is ample evidence on the laptop and the forms of payments to Joe.philly1121 said:This is why there is no talking to MAGA fools like yourself. You redirect. You obfuscate. You ignore. You ignore the fact that all of these issues were investigated by the House and Senate. This is what you do - you completely ignore what I wrote that there was no evidence of wrong doing, then you write, "well what about all the info since 2020. Whta about Hunter's laptop, what about all the tens of millions of dollars selling influence". But its that influence that Biden was accused of via his son, that is what we're talking about. But, nope. You ignore it.BearGoggles said:Wow. The incorrect assumptions behind your response are quite revealing.philly1121 said:Goggles, do you really want to go there? OK! Let's do it.BearGoggles said:"no wrongdoing" by whom? Be specific. I'll wait.philly1121 said:
34 you can't crawl out of the rabbit hole can you?
You do know that not one but two Senate committees investigated Biden's dealings in Ukraine and found no wrongdoing. A House investigation by Republicans also found no wrongdoing.
And of course Kevin McCarthy wanted impeachment and so did James Comer. What happened to those investigations? Surely the Republicans found something to move forward on impeachment of Joe. No? Yeah. Crickets.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/21/fact-check-joe-biden-leveraged-ukraine-aid-oust-corrupt-prosecutor/5991434002/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/us/politics/biden-inquiry-republicans-johnson.html
Conspiracy theories are your specialty goggles. You. 34, 88. I mean, are you that daft that you believe this stuff? You went to Cal. Why are you such an easy mark? Do you fall for everything the GRU spits out? You do know that Vladimir Alexysevin ran this disinformation through Ukrainian officials as well as media in the US to spread this crap. Its nonsense. You're so bad.
So now we've established your assertion is that in 2020 investigations found no clear evidence that JOE Biden (aka "the big guy") did anything wrong.
What about Hunter and the rest of the family? Did they do anything wrong? Did they profit by selling influence and access to Joe Biden? Was that known in 2020? Do you actually believe that Joe Biden had no idea his son and brother were doing these things? If he did know, didn't that make Joe morally (though perhaps not legally) culpable?
Also, I note that, as it turns out, we have some additional evidence since September 2020. I remember hearing something about a laptop that, despite being suppressed by the main stream media and social media, was ultimately proven to be authentic. For some reason (who could ever know why?) Biden's DOJ/FBI didn't actually admit that until 2024 which seems a bit odd.
And, in a final bit of irony, you accuse me of believing in conspiracy theories while alluding to conspiracy theories of GRU involvement, ignoring facts, like the existence of the laptop and the fact the Biden's family has mined tens of millions of dollars selling influence, and then insisting that there is no basis for thinking the Biden family is corrupt.
Let's catch everyone up - a joint investigation by the House found no evidene of wrongdoing in 2020. And, for goggles, in Jaunary 2023 the House initiated what they called, the United States House Oversight Committee investigation into the Biden family. And what did they find? No evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden. And Hunter? Well, Hunter offered to testify in front of the whole committee. something James Comer had wanted him to do, but when Hunter finally accepted, Comer moved the goalposts and said, no, you have to do it in private. What an embicile. Ultimately, no charges for Hunter Biden that he misused or misappropriated or received undo income from Burisma. So where are we at right now?
Well, despite a lack of evidence of any wrongdoing, mcCarthy moved it to an impeachment inquiry. And what was the result of that? Despite 300 pages of 'evidence", the 3 investigating committees found no impeachable offenses.
But let's be real here goggles. US Intel agencies have confirmed that the GRU Liutenant General Vladimir Alexseyevin and others coordinated these false allegations via Ukrainian lawmakers, specifically Konstantin Kilimnick. It was Kilimnick, who was working with the FSB, to influence American media into running with these allegations. And who were these American media? Led by Peter Schweizer and John Solomon, they orchestrated the media campaign in the US via Breitbart, Media Matters, OAN among others. This is all factual. It is not made up. It is straight from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Intelligence Council.
So I ask again, why are you so susceptible to Russian misinformation and disinformation? Do you actually like to see the erosion of confidence in demogratic principles simply because you want "the win"? Because its coming at the expense of our country. Figure it out.
You can read the report and evidence. At a minimum, Biden lied about his knowledge of his families involvement.
https://oversight.house.gov/landing/biden-family-investigation/
All of that doesn't mean Joe Biden committed a crime and, of course, he was not going to be charged by his own DOJ. It is far from the exoneration of moral (if not criminal) culpability. That is what I said previously and nothing you posted changes that.
If you think its ok for Biden's family to be grifting in Ukraine (Burisma) and other countries at the EXACT SAME TIME Joe was directing policy there, then you have no sense of what is a conflict of interest. It is gross.
In terms alleged conspiracy theories, the bolded paragraph sure seems like that. I note you have not provided a single link to evidence of what you've claimed.
But more importantly, even if what you claim is true, it doesn't change the fact that the Biden family absolutely grifted and that Joe had to have known about it. You seem to be more upset with the fact that that Russians/Ukrainians were allegedly disseminating allegations than the fact that many of those allegations were true. That is quite a position to hold.
You're the one susceptible to misinformation and disinformation. The American "Russia Russia Russia" left has you swinging at Russian windmills to distract you from what actually happened. By the way, those were the same people telling you Biden had no cognitive issues and Kamala was a strong candidate, and no doubt you believed that too.
You know, grifting is actually theft, larceny, fraud. My question to you is, with all this so called evidence that Biden and/or Hunter Biden took, illegally financed, was enriched from or otherwise stole money from Burisma or the greater crime of extortion - why again did the House not pursue any impeachment or even censure?
As far as evidence, its not me that has to prove anything, its you! You're the one making the accusations. You're hilarious. As far as evidence, I have two House and one Senate Committee saying there was no evidence of wrongdoing.
So, let me get this straight, you would ignore a report by US Intelligence agencies that attributed the Ukraine Biden conspiracy stories to Russia? I mean, really? So you're that gullible? I mean, this story is not even close. Everyone, and I mean everyone except MAGA types like yourself know that this was a story invented to weaken Biden in the 2020 election? And the story has zero wheels now and no impetus to prosecute because it is irrelevant now? Its job done. It served its purpose.
I find it so perverse, that people like yourself would rather trust one man's word over an entire intelligence network. Our intelligence network. Because you don't agree with a Democrat. That a Democrat would represent more of a threat than the very disinformation network that is feeding lies about same. Its a far greater threat to America that you would rather believe a Putin surrogate than US Intel. How sad.
As far as Kamala being a strong candidate. Never said that. Never said that Biden had the muscle to go through another election. Hindsight he should have dropped out sooner and allowed a primary. Maybe Dems would of had Andy Breshear. Hindsight is always 20/20.