VV wins. I still have the google page open with all of those references and more that I looked at before posting that remark, knowing that something like this would happen here at RP, speaking of predictability ...
For years, and long before RP and the Internet for that matter, and not knowing the origins, I have said in writing and conversation that consistency is a mark of excellence, until I heard the rejoinder ... and the refuge of the mediocre.
Such as in the phrase ... that's a deep subject. And then comes the rejoinder ... for a shallow mind. There are other examples which escape my mind at the moment.
But, as usual, you all are thinking way too hard and being totally predictable.
Wait, you have the nerve to complain about me posting the actual reference to the quote you attempted while in a different forum you were trying to roast me for a typ-o in my post?
Now that's rich. Where's your kettle pic? I need to insert it here < >.
That's not what was said. The quote from Emerson is "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
Actually, it was a little less slightly butchered... I think this was what was being referred to: "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." Oscar Wilde has received credit for this saying.
VV wins. I still have the google page open with all of those references and more that I looked at before posting that remark, knowing that something like this would happen here at RP, speaking of predictability ...
For years, and long before RP and the Internet for that matter, and not knowing the origins, I have said in writing and conversation that consistency is a mark of excellence, until I heard the rejoinder ... and the refuge of the mediocre.
Such as in the phrase ... that's a deep subject. And then comes the rejoinder ... for a shallow mind. There are other examples which escape my mind at the moment.
But, as usual, you all are thinking way too hard and being totally predictable.
It has been said that consistency is the refuge of the mediocre ...
Speaking of teeing them up...
If you never stop being a crazy conspiracy theorist, or posting misinformation, I'll never stop calling you out on it (I will get tired now and then and take a break, but I'll be back).
because you're very selective with the facts you provide to support your claims—when you provide facts. You unfailingly support a very sick, depraved, amoral narcissist who would happily destroy American democracy to get and hold onto power.
Six witnesses can reportedly back up claims that the federal prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden lacked the full authority to prosecute the First Son outside of Delaware, contradicting testimony stating otherwise from Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Shapely testified that Weiss announced he was “not the deciding official” on whether charges were filed against Hunter Biden and that DC US Attorney Matthew Graves refused to allow charges to be brought against the First Son in his district. That, according to Shapely, meant that Biden would not be prosecuted for tax charges related to “foreign income from Burisma [Holdings] and a scheme to evade his income taxes through a partnership with a convicted felon” in 2014 and 2015.
This revelation contradicts Garland’s testimony, which stated that Weiss, a Trump administration appointee, was at liberty to criminally charge Hunter Biden in whatever jurisdiction he deemed appropriate.
“He is the supervisor of this investigation,” Garland said of Weiss, telling Republican Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty in April 2022, “we put the investigation in the hands of a Trump appointee from the previous administration, who is the US attorney for the district of Delaware, and … you have me as the attorney general, who is committed to the independence of the Justice Department from any influence from the White House in criminal matters,” the New York Post reported.
Either Delaware US Attorney David Weiss was lying to the IRS team investigating Hunter Biden, or Attorney General Merrick Garland lied to Congress.
Either way, Justice Department fumbling has already let Hunter escape justice for several years of tax crimes.
Which means the judge overseeing his potential plea deal must wait until Congress can get to the bottom of this mess.
According to whistleblower Gary Shapley, Weiss in January 2022 sought to indict Hunter on felony charges for 2014 tax evasion (and misdemeanor charges for 2015) on his windfall from Ukraine — but then told the team he couldn’t, because US Attorney for DC Matthew Graves (a President Biden appointee who had jurisdiction because that was Hunter’s legal residence in those years) wouldn’t go along.
So the statute of limitations expired, and so (in Shapley’s words) the Biden Justice Department “sanitized the most substantive criminal conduct” in Hunter’s case.
By the way, as for Weiss: News accounts routinely call him a “Trump appointee,” but he’d become acting US attorney under President Barack Obama; Trump merely went with the guy already in the job. He’s a Delaware insider, not a Trumpie.
The fact check link for FALSE curiously dates back to when the Biden laptop story surfaced right before the voting. You know, the one that was censored into the next two years. The one that got the second largest circulating newspaper in the country deplatformed from Twitter for publishing Russian disinformation. Done by the same people who lied about about and participated in the disinformation campaign saying that the laptop was Russian disinformation.
The same people who lied to you about the Steele dossier being factual. The same people who lied to you about Trump being a Russian agent. The same people who said that 51 spooks prove that the Biden laptop story was BS. The same people who were caught cozying up to the intelligence community putting forth the propaganda to mislead voters about about facts in the past several elections, as revealed by The Twitter Files.
You all used this story way back when the first time. A lot has changed since then. We know way much more that has been proved to be true about the Biden family mafia than even could be imagined then back when this so called Fact Check article was published. Yet you still believe that The Steele dossier is real. Biden's laptop is fake. Trump colluded with Putin. Joe did not speak to Hunter about anything. The Biden family is transparent, honest and not corrupt. And that the FBI and DOJ are still trustworthy, unbiased and above reproach.
And lastly, you state that me stating stuff like this damages my credibility. I am and have been under the impression from all of you that I have no credibility on anything for years. So you restore my credibility just so you can attack it and take it away again ? How stupid do you think I am ? I mean really, WTF are you all smoking, cuz it's way better than what I have.
"Sorry it took so long to get back on this."
You haven't done anyone a favor by doing so.
I am not going to re-hash and debunk your old, tired claims. Again: Hunter's laptop was never going to be a major factor in the 2020 campaign. People were upset by Covid, deaths, an economy that had cratered, the lack of vaccines, etc.
What happened to Gym Jordan's investigation into Biden and family? That kinda faded away quietly. Burisma did too. Again: Biden as VP pushed for the removal of the Ukrainian AG because he wasn't working hard enough against corruption. Biden made that ultimatum with Obama's approval and the approval of other Western leaders. The Ukrainian investigation into Burisma at that point IIRC had already concluded.
I never believed that the Steele dossier was entirely factual. Steele himself presented it as a gathering of rumors and hearsay. IG Horowitz and others have shown it was not the basis into the FBI's investigation into the Trump campaigns dealing with Russians.
"And lastly, you state that me stating stuff like this damages my credibility. I am and have been under the impression from all of you that I have no credibility on anything for years."
That's because you conflate fact with rumor and conspiracy thinking and support only pro-Trump ideas. When Trump yelled about "Obamagate" being bigger than Watergate, you were carrying his water and parroting his words. When Trump talked up Durham's investigation into the FBI and I compared you to Linus being stuck on Halloween in the pumpkin patch waiting for the Great Pumpkin, you assured us all that, Wait And See, Heads will roll!
And then you trot out the old debunked ideas, re-hash them and serve them up as part of a bigger, nastier awfuller conspiracy theory that is going to blow up and destroy Biden and Clinton and Obama and the FBI/DOJ cabal.
"The Biden Crime family!" Dude, have you been keeping up with the legal troubles the Trump family is facing?
But you are quiet as a church mouse about Trump's legal troubles. The willful retention and display of classified information to unauthorized individuals, the attempt to dishonestly alter the vote results in GA (checked and verified THREE TIMES before that phone call with Raffensperger), the attempts to do the same in other battleground states, the attempt to create fake electors, the attempt to have the DOJ declare the election result invalid, the incitement of a violent crowd to stop the formal electoral vote count, the failure to stop the rioting for three hours, the multiple acts of tax fraud,
ETC. ETC ETC.
Posters here have in the past verbally attacked you because you're very selective with the facts you provide to support your claims—when you provide facts. You unfailingly support a very sick, depraved, amoral narcissist who would happily destroy American democracy to get and hold onto power.
Frankly, I think you seek out negative attention when you post about politics. You seem to see yourself as a righteous martyr against blinded, arrogant and hostile captives to a leftist political establishment.
It's really tired, Kurt. And btw: Trump is not a hero or a drainer of The Swamp. He is an incompetent, foolish, cowardly and desperate child.
That's FALSE You're confused with Trump Nothing Lauren Boebert does would concern Biden. Republicans will do nothing these 2 years with the house that isn't Kabuki.
Kurt, that crap about Joe pushing to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired because he was supposedly investigating Burisma too hard is still crap. It was debunked a long time ago. When you regurgitate BS like this you really damage your credibility. It really does feel like Whac-a-mole with you.
Sorry it took so long to get back on this.
The fact check link for FALSE curiously dates back to when the Biden laptop story surfaced right before the voting. You know, the one that was censored into the next two years. The one that got the second largest circulating newspaper in the country deplatformed from Twitter for publishing Russian disinformation. Done by the same people who lied about about and participated in the disinformation campaign saying that the laptop was Russian disinformation.
The same people who lied to you about the Steele dossier being factual. The same people who lied to you about Trump being a Russian agent. The same people who said that 51 spooks prove that the Biden laptop story was BS. The same people who were caught cozying up to the intelligence community putting forth the propaganda to mislead voters about about facts in the past several elections, as revealed by The Twitter Files.
You all used this story way back when the first time. A lot has changed since then. We know way much more that has been proved to be true about the Biden family mafia than even could be imagined then back when this so called Fact Check article was published. Yet you still believe that The Steele dossier is real. Biden's laptop is fake. Trump colluded with Putin. Joe did not speak to Hunter about anything. The Biden family is transparent, honest and not corrupt. And that the FBI and DOJ are still trustworthy, unbiased and above reproach.
And lastly, you state that me stating stuff like this damages my credibility. I am and have been under the impression from all of you that I have no credibility on anything for years. So you restore my credibility just so you can attack it and take it away again ? How stupid do you think I am ? I mean really, WTF are you all smoking, cuz it's way better than what I have.
