You tube comment 6/20/2023

 I am 67 - government printing money usually comes after something else happens. Almost every other country in the world has "socialized medicine". You pay more in taxes, but there are no deductibles, no health care premiums, no employer is paying 50 or more % of your health care insurance. The benefits to the economy by not having that drag on it would be substantial. Is it perfect - no. But is it better if 100 people are using one MRI machine, or 20 people are using 5 MRI machines...... This is the same argument for people who want a flat tax - less bureaucracy, easier to manage, less people involved. But ask someone who is for a flat tax if they want socialized medicine and they will go ballistic. Real Capitalism works on supply and demand - but companies have learned how to manipulate supply and demand. Do you need to pay for 500 TV channels when you only watch 10? Do you need a $1000 smart phone when a $200 one will do fine. Do you need a $50,000 SUV to go to the grocery store when a $20,000 car will do?

Argument # 1 Hunter Biden

 I love when statements are meant to look like facts, without explanation.

The one today echoed by some people is "Why did it take the Biden DOJ five years to convict Hunter Biden?

Hmm, how long has Biden been president?  Two Years.  That makes 3 years under President Trump.  With his pick for FBI director, Attorney General and evidently the investigator was a Trump appointee who was kept on to finish and show there was no influence....

But no one is able to figure this out?

Comparison #1 LLC

 A new type of post, no opinion unless inferred or implied by facts

Comer Reveals New Evidence in Biden Family’s Influence Peddling Schemes

From the thousands of records we’ve obtained so far, we know the Biden family set up over a dozen companies when Joe Biden was vice president.

What Trump's disclosure of his 500 LLCs can and can't tell us

But reviewing a spreadsheet of the names and income streams of Trump's LLCs doesn't actually shine much light on the president's overall financial situation because we don't get to see how much actually ended up in his bank account at the end of the day.

Releasing just the list of LLCs also withholds other vital information, tax attorney Steve Moskowitz told NBC News: Without Trump's tax returns, we don't know which foreign assets or bank accounts he owns or where they're located. We don't know how much foreign tax he has paid and to which countries. We can't verify which charities he's funding. And without his taxes we can't calculate how much he may have saved on pass-through entity income as a result of the new tax law he signed in December.

First Amendment Facts

 "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Emphasis mine.

Was he or wasn't he?

An old draft I had from 2018...

"This is a low-level person who worked in a campaign," Trump, Jr. told Fox News host Tucker Carlson Monday night. "I've seen the emails where somebody says 'this is someone who is no longer working on the campaign,' and I believe one of my family members responded 'who the heck is that individual, we've never heard of him.'"

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/05/carter-page-nunes-memo-393054

But was he:

https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/21/politics/donald-trump-foreign-policy-team/index.html

Trump’s team of foreign policy advisers, led by Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, consists of counter-terrorism expert Walid Phares, energy consultant George Papadopoulos, former Defense Department inspector general Joe Schmitz, managing partner of Global Energy Capital Carter Page and former Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg. Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks confirmed the names to CNN.

Hmm

Is anyone surprised?

 When Donald Trump was President, he was impeached 2 times.

He could not be prosecuted for many crimes while President, which is why he fought so hard; even to the point of make up stories on how the election was stolen, in order to stay in office.

Once he was out of office, he no longer had this protection.

Once out, he became subject to:

1. Business dealings in NY

2. Hush money paid 

3. Classified papers he fought not to give back

4. Election interference in GA

and a slew of other business and personal lawsuits coming.

Not that he is unaccustomed to lawsuits:

From the Arizona Central:

4,095 lawsuits

"An exclusive and ongoing USA TODAY analysis of legal filings across the United States finds that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and his businesses have been involved in thousands of legal actions in federal and state courts over the past three decades. They range from skirmishes with casino patrons to million-dollar real estate suits to personal defamation lawsuits."

So to him, this is not something new.  What is new is that some of the cases might involve jail time.  Not something he can settle out of court and move on.

So people are saying he is being attacked because he is running for President.  Actually, all these cases were before he announced.  He is running BECAUSE of the cases.  He is using it to deflect and plead for sympathy and play the martyr.  

The question is - will it work?