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by Bricktop
Thu Oct 19, 2023 10:18 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Air France-KLM News and Discussion - 2023
Replies: 1099
Views: 289752

Re: Air France will stop flying out of Paris-Orly by 2026.

Air France will remain at Orly to operate the Corsica flight, it's operated under a Public Service Order and which the airline is tied into maintaining. Why would the govt. care from which Paris airport the Corsican flights operate- the only important thing is there is a link with Paris. Uuugh... t...

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by Bricktop
Wed Apr 05, 2023 5:15 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Trump Organization found guilty on all counts of criminal tax fraud
Replies: 158
Views: 19272

Re: Trump Organization found guilty on all counts of criminal tax fraud

Bragg has said that under New York law, the underlying felony does not have to be charged or tried, it just has to be a reasonable conclusion. The logic behind that is, if the crime has been concealed, it's unlikely to have resulted in charges. But that should not be a method to avoid the consequen...

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by Bricktop
Wed Apr 05, 2023 4:57 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Trump Organization found guilty on all counts of criminal tax fraud
Replies: 158
Views: 19272

Re: Trump Organization found guilty on all counts of criminal tax fraud

Well actually, we don't know what he is accused of. It's a felony charge, not a misdemeanor. In NY state, his alleged false business records only elevate to felony it is done to conceal or further other crimes. Bragg has not said what those alleged crimes are. Bragg has said that under New York law...

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by Bricktop
Wed Apr 05, 2023 4:34 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Trump Organization found guilty on all counts of criminal tax fraud
Replies: 158
Views: 19272

Re: Trump Organization found guilty on all counts of criminal tax fraud

Since this thread has turned into the indictment thread, it is possible to start one on the indictments and charges? I know it turned into a disaster last time but maybe this time will be different? Yeah, because someone dared to speak up against the non-av orthodoxy. Not our fault that somebody ge...

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by Bricktop
Wed Apr 05, 2023 4:13 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Trump Organization found guilty on all counts of criminal tax fraud
Replies: 158
Views: 19272

Re: Trump Organization found guilty on all counts of criminal tax fraud

seb146 wrote:
Since this thread has turned into the indictment thread, it is possible to start one on the indictments and charges? I know it turned into a disaster last time but maybe this time will be different?

Yeah, because someone dared to speak up against the non-av orthodoxy.

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by Bricktop
Wed Apr 05, 2023 4:11 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Trump Organization found guilty on all counts of criminal tax fraud
Replies: 158
Views: 19272

Re: Trump Organization found guilty on all counts of criminal tax fraud

Press conference with DA Bragg at 3:30 pm ET, to lay out the case against Trump. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-holds-press-conference-following-trump-arraignment Finally we learn what exactly Trump is accused of … and even at an acceptable time for us Eur...

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by Bricktop
Fri Mar 31, 2023 11:19 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: N.Y. grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
Replies: 84
Views: 6457

Re: N.Y. grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump

QF7 wrote:
I think we can agree there was an attempt to disrupt the long-established norms regarding the peaceful transfer of power that are a hallmark of our democracy.

We can agree on that, but that does not a coup make.

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by Bricktop
Fri Mar 31, 2023 10:57 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: N.Y. grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
Replies: 84
Views: 6457

Re: N.Y. grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump

Not a factual error at all. The coroner says he died of natural causes, that there was no evidence of bear spray having an impact, and while “all that transpired played a role in his condition.”, that he "could not comment on whether Sicknick had a preexisting medical condition, citing privacy...

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by Bricktop
Fri Mar 31, 2023 10:04 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: N.Y. grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
Replies: 84
Views: 6457

Re: N.Y. grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump

I am touched by your almost pathological refusal to address a simple question. Not atypical though, hence the hashtag. What's the sense in answering a question posited on false and irrelevant premises? See Avatar2go's post above. The only thing you are correct in is the false and irrelevant premise...

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by Bricktop
Fri Mar 31, 2023 10:00 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: N.Y. grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
Replies: 84
Views: 6457

Re: N.Y. grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump

Or perhaps if the media had done THEIR JOB of vetting Trump instead of actively promoting him, because they were so f***ing certain he would be slaughtered, or if the DNC hadn't screwed Bernie Sanders, or if Biden had run in 2016, or if Hillary wasn't so massively unappealing and arrogant (cough! W...

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by Bricktop
Fri Mar 31, 2023 9:56 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: N.Y. grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
Replies: 84
Views: 6457

Re: N.Y. grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump

I keep raising it because it shows how Democrats at the highest level lied about something as emotive as a police officer's death in a violent way at the hands of a mob. Do you not think that lying about it in real time might have enhanced the narrative back then that this "coup" was more...

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by Bricktop
Fri Mar 31, 2023 8:30 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: N.Y. grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
Replies: 84
Views: 6457

Re: N.Y. grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump

So, I am curious about something: When he is formally charged, he could be released without bail for a number of reasons, but couldn't he simply go to Russia or Saudi Arabia or Hungary at that point? DeSantis has said he would not extradite him (which is against the law) but in a country friendly t...

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by Bricktop
Fri Mar 31, 2023 8:16 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: N.Y. grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
Replies: 84
Views: 6457

Re: N.Y. grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump

So, I am curious about something: When he is formally charged, he could be released without bail for a number of reasons, but couldn't he simply go to Russia or Saudi Arabia or Hungary at that point? DeSantis has said he would not extradite him (which is against the law) but in a country friendly t...

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by Bricktop
Fri Mar 31, 2023 8:09 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: N.Y. grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
Replies: 84
Views: 6457

Re: N.Y. grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump

From the Washinton Post The full picture of how many among the crowd were armed before the riot occurred is unclear, but court records, trial testimony and accounts from police officers and rioters have supplied growing evidence that multiple people brought firearms to Washington for Jan. 6, 2021. S...

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by Bricktop
Fri Mar 31, 2023 5:45 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: N.Y. grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
Replies: 84
Views: 6457

Re: N.Y. grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump

seb146 wrote:
As far as loving democracy, which side attempted a coup after their person lost? Which side demanded elected officials be executed because their candidate lost? It's not the side you are told!

A coup? April 1st is tomorrow. Oh wait, you're serious.

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by Bricktop
Fri Mar 31, 2023 5:27 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: N.Y. grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
Replies: 84
Views: 6457

Re: N.Y. grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump

When there is reasonable doubt the law has been broken, I would think the "law and order" Republican party would be on board with following the law Therein lies the problem. If you have a DA who is on record saying two years ago that he doesn't believe there is a case and then abruptly ch...

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by Bricktop
Mon Mar 27, 2023 6:09 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Nominee for FAA Administrator Lacks Aviation Knowledge
Replies: 92
Views: 6669

Re: Nominee for FAA Administrator Lacks Aviation Knowledge

Kinda inaccurate description. A couple seconds on Google Maps taught me South Bend has US-31, I-90/80, and KSBN, which is actually home to a TRACON facility. The roads are Federal facilities which he was not in charge as Mayor, but is now. KSBN is a county airport, not city of South Bend. Are you s...

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by Bricktop
Mon Mar 27, 2023 6:06 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Nominee for FAA Administrator Lacks Aviation Knowledge
Replies: 92
Views: 6669

Re: Nominee for FAA Administrator Lacks Aviation Knowledge

I guess this needs to be asked again: How does a person who ran a successful international airport not qualify for the head of FAA but a banker and person on the board of a non-profit qualify to be head of transportation in America? It's not an either/or thing. It's just a question of where they fa...

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by Bricktop
Tue Mar 14, 2023 10:51 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Silicon Valley Bank Collapse
Replies: 104
Views: 9894

Re: Silicon Valley Bank Collapse

Some orange Republican president we shall not name removed the need for all these bothersome rules for banks like SVB. But it's the Democrats' fault. Barney Frank himself lobbied for the changes. From the WSJ Former Rep. Barney Frank co-sponsored the law that tightened banking regulations after the...

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by Bricktop
Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:22 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: State of the Union Speech
Replies: 33
Views: 3743

Re: State of the Union Speech

There’s a tendency in modern times to think anything current is the “Greatest Of All Times”. How often do we hear of someone being The GOAT? Far too frequently in my opinion. But not as it relates to what we were privileged to hear and see Tuesday, February 7, 2023. I am sure my as yet unborn grandc...

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by Bricktop
Mon Feb 06, 2023 4:04 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

Unlike Trump, at least Biden and Pence are being honorable anb open about handling this issue with the classified documents. Makes you wonder who Trump sold the documents too. Probably the Rusisans. Since this came in between my posts, allow me to respond as my good friend Avatar2go would say And y...

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by Bricktop
Mon Feb 06, 2023 3:58 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

Tell you what, just for fun how about if we figure out what we actually agree on? I’ll list a series of statements and you reply (with reasons) which ones, if any, you disagree with. 1. Trump had documents marked with classified markings at a non-government approved facility. 2. Biden had documents...

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by Bricktop
Mon Feb 06, 2023 3:49 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

Look, this game you are playing is way past tedious. You have some long post calling me some hybrid of MAGA, Roy Cohn and Joe McCarthy which I answer, but you don't reply to. So you parachute into a respectful discussion between myself and another poster. I won't play along with your silly whack-a-m...

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by Bricktop
Sun Feb 05, 2023 11:22 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

Actually I haven't made any allegations. That’s true. You just flatly stated… I know, it's straight out of FBI procedure to let a criminal… … as if it were incontrovertible fact that someone who hasn’t been charged, tried, or convicted is a criminal. Here's something you rarely see on a.net, and ne...

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by Bricktop
Sun Feb 05, 2023 8:51 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

The facts remain as they are. No evidence exists that Biden did not fully cooperate or that he concealed or destroyed evidence. I invite you to offer any evidence you have to the contrary, for consideration here. Otherwise, your implications have to be considered false, until proven. The motivation...

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by Bricktop
Sun Feb 05, 2023 7:35 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

As explained here numerous times now, the allegation made without proof, followed by the allegation that no proof exists due to conspiracy to cover it up, Actually I haven't made any allegations. I have pointed out facts that might lead one to question whether we are being told the truth, when the ...

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by Bricktop
Sun Feb 05, 2023 4:06 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

"Democrat Senators"? Please explain who they are. Every Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee for starters. <typical MAGA nonsense deleted> As far as "not getting answers" agencies will not release any information about ongoing investigations period. If they did, it woul...

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by Bricktop
Sun Feb 05, 2023 3:20 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

Probably better for credibility to add some qualifiers there. Not a fanboy either, just actually interested in nuance and accuracy. Careful now. You're wandering dangerously close to MAGA Country if you admit something like that. As to the lack of qualifiers, I note your critique. But in the words ...

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by Bricktop
Sun Feb 05, 2023 2:27 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

Need to be perfectly clear that the allegation of Biden destroying documents remains entirely a MAGA conspiracy theory. Despite all the protests here to the contrary. There is not one shred of evidence. I know, it's straight out of FBI procedure to let a criminal have free, unfettered, unsupervised...

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by Bricktop
Sun Feb 05, 2023 2:07 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

I wanted an honest answer to an honest question. While I doubt that there exists a scintilla of honesty in the question, here's my honest answer. I don't know. And you don't know either. Nobody from this Administration is saying anything. Even Democrat Senators can't get answers. We didn't know abo...

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by Bricktop
Sun Feb 05, 2023 12:04 am
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

You may be noseblind to it, but to any of us who dare to suggest that Biden is marginally less than perfect can smell the stench of this facile, lazy argument. I’m not sure if that is directed at me personally, but I take no offense from it. For the record, I do not think Biden is perfect and on th...

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by Bricktop
Sat Feb 04, 2023 9:45 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

You: MAGA! MAGA! Trump! MAGA! Traitor! Where has the poster or anyone anywhere said that? Someone has a different point of view and rather than debate on the merits this is the response? If something is irrefutably true, it should be easy to provide the evidence of that. If something is irrefutably...

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by Bricktop
Sat Feb 04, 2023 3:00 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Ice Storm in the Southern United States as Brutal Cold Comes to New England
Replies: 12
Views: 1313

Re: Ice Storm in the Southern United States as Brutal Cold Comes to New England

Obviously caused by the boiling seas. Or it's February.

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by Bricktop
Sat Feb 04, 2023 2:55 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

So, let's ask this again, since Biden is not cooperating: Were there raids on Biden's properties? Were there subpoenas? Were there search warrants? Were the classified documents strewn about or in drawers in common spaces? I know well how this game is played. Me: <insert some logical, fact based, c...

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by Bricktop
Fri Feb 03, 2023 11:01 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

Firstly, absolute props to you for the style of your reply. It brought a genuine smile to my face, and credit is well due to you. The substance side is where it falls down. Quoting oneself always seems off, but Point it out in what I said. in Biden decided to go to Rehoboth two weekends ago, before...

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by Bricktop
Fri Feb 03, 2023 8:53 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

Obvious it is, Padawan. Evidence there is not, for destruction of documents by the Alliance Leader. Evidence there is, for destruction of documents by the Emperor himself. False is the equivalence that compares these events. Always two there are, the false equivalence and the conspiracy together. N...

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by Bricktop
Fri Feb 03, 2023 2:34 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

Biden decided to go to Rehoboth two weekends ago, before the FBI searched. Don't worry about it being a potential crime scene or anything like that. Maybe his team finally got their act together and got the fireplace going and made some 'smores before the FBI's appointment. Go ahead Mr. President. ...

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by Bricktop
Fri Feb 03, 2023 12:57 am
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

Maybe he could eat them or burn them or flush them down the toilet, or lie about the contents and location, or have some bimbo lawyer sign affidavits lying about their contents and location. The possibilities are endless if he were to follow the lawn order party's leader :rotfl: Nah, he's better th...

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by Bricktop
Fri Feb 03, 2023 12:50 am
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: FL Don't Say Gay Author Indicted, Bro-in-Law Sentenced to 5 Years for Fraud
Replies: 18
Views: 2104

Re: FL Don't Say Gay Author Indicted, Bro-in-Law Sentenced to 5 Years for Fraud

Just as "Don't say Gay" was not mentioned anywhere in the text of the bill. Just a fake outrage by the usual crowd. But there's no opportunity for a discussion when they are all screeching it 24/7, because homophobe. Must be a lot of them in FL if DeSantis won by almost 20%. As to Harding,...

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by Bricktop
Fri Feb 03, 2023 12:43 am
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

The FBI searched Biden's second home and found no classified documents. They did haul off a few boxes of official records for further review. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/01/politics/fbi-searching-joe-biden-home-rehoboth/index.html Not enough of a pacifier for the rabid crowd. Biden decided to go to...

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by Bricktop
Wed Jan 25, 2023 2:51 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

So now Pence is self-reporting. How soon before you see a line of these dopes doing a Reverse-Sandy-Berger and sneaking stuff back in? Pathetic. And just like that "both sides do it" is not even on the radar. <trolling deleted> Utterly wrong. Unsurprisingly. Here on Planet Earth, "bo...

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by Bricktop
Tue Jan 24, 2023 5:17 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

So now Pence is self-reporting. How soon before you see a line of these dopes doing a Reverse-Sandy-Berger and sneaking stuff back in? Pathetic.

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by Bricktop
Tue Jan 24, 2023 5:12 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

I too will follow the facts and the evidence, despite the sly dig that I don't. ;) We will see where it goes. More may come out, but I think everyone will ultimately get off scott free, even HWMNBN. Not that they aren't guilty of something, but because such is life (for them). Both sides should forg...

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by Bricktop
Tue Jan 24, 2023 4:28 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

Again with the false equivalence. Biden was permitted to have copies of official records, to which the Archives did not object. Whether anyone knew they included classified records, is not yet known. But is doubtful. The question, as I pointed out, is what is the process for monitoring or returning...

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by Bricktop
Tue Jan 24, 2023 3:12 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

So just to correct the facts here: The originals of the Biden documents are in the Archives, because they weren't withheld. Biden had copies of the originals, which would have been known when they were made. Therefore the claim that they were not supposed to be in Biden's possession, is unsubstanti...

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by Bricktop
Tue Jan 24, 2023 2:20 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

Has anyone actually claimed Biden's issue is "better" than that of "he who cannot be mentioned"? It's certainly different, but that's a subtlety that's apparently beyond the comprehension of the red hatters. It is "He Who Must Not Be Named". I expected better from an E...

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by Bricktop
Tue Jan 24, 2023 12:16 am
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/23/garland-biden-trump-classified-document-probes-00079072 “We do not have different rules for Democrats or Republicans, different rules for the powerful or the powerless, different rules for the rich and for the poor, we apply the facts, and the law in each ca...

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by Bricktop
Mon Jan 23, 2023 11:14 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

Then we do get into the realm of opinion why I wonder the reason for stuff still turning up. Can it be attributed to anything other than incompetence? Saying incompetence is far kinder than some interpretations that can be made. If Biden takes this so seriously then he should be incandescent with a...

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by Bricktop
Mon Jan 23, 2023 11:02 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

But I thought Obama and Biden were closerthanthis, best buds, "Last Guy In The Room" stuff. Even so, I would be surprised if Biden didn't see 99% of the documents Obama saw, same with any VP because they have to be "ready from Day One" don't they? It's pure sophistry to argue th...

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by Bricktop
Mon Jan 23, 2023 10:40 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Replies: 280
Views: 18780

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

I can't put it any more simply than this. If you want us to stop citing Trump, then stop saying stuff like this: "Two and a half months later they are still finding docs, despite the White House saying MULTIPLE TIMES that the search is over. It's a cluster-f of incompetence, but some people ar...

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