I guess we will! Thing about the Presidency is whomever wins will not DICTATE my business one way or another! This country could be in a BAD recession and my business WOULD STILL flourish REGARDLESS, period!
Trump lost moving on with new year go Biden
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When people stop spending it doesn't matter what currency they use
Mine isn't based on whether or not people stop spending! They can stop spending if they want, my business will STILL increase in revenue, period! My business isn't the same like a traditional business! Oh, the LUXURY!!!
If there's no demand there's no valueMine isn't based on whether or not people stop spending! They can stop spending if they want, my business will STILL increase in revenue, period! My business isn't the same like a traditional business! Oh, the LUXURY!!!
Lmao, you sound like those so-called experts that said Bitcoin could be shut down! But, what they fail to realize is that, in order to shutdown Bitcoin, *******, YOU WOULD HAVE to shut down the ENTIRE Internet! China LEARNED that the HARD way and the U.S. is just now seeing that! You cannot FUCK with or STOP something when it's de-centralized! An intro to my business, shawty!
The U.S. Is Very Worried About Bitcoin—And It’s Finally Doing Something About It
The U.S. has admitted bitcoin and cryptocurrency could undermine the dollar's status as the world’s reserve currency—and it wants to find out exactly how bad for the country, its economy, and security that could be...
www.forbes.com
Good luck
Thanks! If anything, the U.S. will need some luck because they BETTER hope that the dollar doesn't lose it's value internationally! Then, that will make not ONLY Gold important, but also cryptocurrency (even though most folks continue to hate on that technology)! So, with that said, the U.S. may want to create a digital currency like China is doing! You DON'T want to be LEFT behind, dumbasses!
Crypto-Crash: Bitcoin Just Dropped $1000 In 50 Minutes, Back Below $10,000
Following Bitcoin’s relative stability around the $10,200 price mark, the cryptocurrency had suddenly crashed to $9,200 in a matter of just 50 minutes.
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That's right! Bitcoin outperformed ALL that tenfold! And, the HALVING process hasn't even started yet! Ya'll muthafuckas probably lost as to what is "halving"!
www.newsbtc.com
Bitcoin Outperforms Gold, US Stocks, and Bonds in 2019; Will 2020 be Same? | NewsBTC
Most of the commodities, stocks, and bonds staged an outstanding run in 2019. But the traditional asset classes still fell short before a stronger and a
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By the way, since I know HOW to trade in crypto, I earned an ADDITIONAL $5,000 in one hour! Bitcoin isn't the ONLY cryptocurrency on there, ya know!Crypto-Crash: Bitcoin Just Dropped $1000 In 50 Minutes, Back Below $10,000
Following Bitcoin’s relative stability around the $10,200 price mark, the cryptocurrency had suddenly crashed to $9,200 in a matter of just 50 minutes.
Like I said good luck
Good luck ISN'T needed when you UNDERSTAND money! Ask Robert Kiyosaki or the bigtime BILLIONAIRE, Ray Dalio! Wow, his mailing list of members is HUGE! Thanks though for that, @Allforthewifey!
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My circle of acquaintances and business contacts run the political spectrum. From my observations:
- the Trump supporters are successful in life/business and generally happy, with well-defined pro-Trump positions.
- the anti-Trumpers are struggling more in life and generally dis-spirited. They struggle to define their opposition to Trump and resort to meaningless, unsupportable claims like Racist, Misogynist, Bigot, etc. (The coffee-house equivalent of screaming at the sky.)
- the anti-Trumpers also can't articulate what they ARE for. They are disappointed with their candidates and their opinions drift.
*******....forgot that was on......you watch CNN and more politics than I do
2020 Democratic Debate: Highlights From Nevada
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2020 Democratic Debate: Highlights From Nevada
Everything you need to know as six Democratic presidential candidates prepare to face off in Las Vegas three days before the Nevada caucuses.
- This was the first debate to include former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York. He joined five other Democratic candidates: Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont; former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.; Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts; former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind.; and Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota.
- Candidates had one minute and 15 seconds for answers, and 45 seconds for follow-up responses at the moderators’ discretion. The moderators were Lester Holt and Chuck Todd of NBC, Hallie Jackson of NBC and MSNBC, Vanessa Hauc of Noticias Telemundo (whose reporting has often focused on climate issues) and Jon Ralston of The Nevada Independent.
- A quick rundown of the candidates’ closing statements.
- Should the Democratic nominee be the person with the most pledged delegates?
- Klobuchar vs. Buttigieg boils over.
- Remember Joe Biden?
- Warren is having a strong night, putting her rivals on notice.
- Buttigieg: ‘I was into Bernie before it was cool’
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5 hours ago · Six of the candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination took the stage on Wednesday night in Las Vegas for their last debate before Nevada…
Fact-Checking the Las Vegas Democratic Debate
Our reporters followed all of the exchanges and fact-checked the candidates, providing context and explanation.
Six of the candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination took the stage on Wednesday night in Las Vegas for their last debate before Nevada’s caucuses on Saturday.
Here is how the candidates’ remarks stacked up against the truth
WHAT THE FACTS ARE:
Senator Elizabeth Warren highlighted past comments by Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, that derided women.
WHAT MS. WARREN SAID:
“I’d like to talk about who we’re running against, a billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians. And no, I’m not talking about Donald Trump. I’m talking about Mayor Bloomberg.”
This is mostly true. In 1990, Mr. Bloomberg’s colleagues at his financial data company compiled a book of one-liners purportedly uttered by their boss, including a number of bawdy and sexist comments. Among the quotations was a quip about the British royals, in which Mr. Bloomberg used the terms “horsey-faced lesbian” and “fat broad” to refer to two women in the royal family.
In 2001, Mr. Bloomberg dismissed the book as “Borscht Belt jokes.” He has never explicitly acknowledged having said the quotations cited in the book. Last year, though, a Bloomberg spokesman, Stu Loeser, issued a general comment about Mr. Bloomberg’s history of misogynist remarks, saying: “Mike has come to see that some of what he has said is disrespectful and wrong. He believes his words have not always aligned with his values and the way he has led his life.”
What the Facts Are:
Ms. Warren said Mr. Bloomberg had blamed the 2008 financial crisis on African-Americans and Latinos.
What Ms. Warren said:
“When Mayor Bloomberg was busy blaming African-Americans and Latinos for the housing crash of 2008, I was right here in Las Vegas literally just a few blocks down the street holding hearings on the banks that were taking away homes from millions of families.”
This is exaggerated. Mr. Bloomberg’s comments were made in 2008 as the subprime mortgage crisis was pulling the country into the biggest economic slowdown since the Great Depression. Asked to explain the origins of the crisis in an appearance at Georgetown University, Mr. Bloomberg linked it to federal interference in the mortgage lending business and a wide variety of other factors like “very cheap money” in the form of low Federal Reserve interest rates, a failure by banks to consider that home prices could fall and developers that built more houses than the market could absorb.
Where his critics have focused, however, is on the first part of his eight-minute answer. He started by saying the present economic woes began when “there was a lot of pressure on banks to make loans to everyone.” He then pointed to legislation passed by Congress to end the practice known as “redlining,” in which banks declared entire neighborhoods off limits to lending. These were usually poor, heavily minority communities.
“Once you started pushing in that direction,” he added, “banks started making more and more loans where the credit of the person buying the house wasn’t as good as you would like.”
Adding more unpredictability to the situation, he said, were bankers and Wall Street executives who had created such complex instruments to profit from mortgages that they did not, in essence, understand what they were selling.
What the facts are:
Mr. Bloomberg and Senator Bernie Sanders came under fire for being extreme opposites whose views are not representative of the Democratic Party.
What PETE Buttigieg said:
“Let’s put forward somebody who’s actually a Democrat.”
This is exaggerated. Mr. Sanders is formally running for president as a Democrat, according to his Federal Election Commission filing. However, as a senator he is an independent who caucuses with the Democrats. His F.E.C. filing for his 2024 senate re-election campaign lists his party affiliation as “independent” and his Senate website continues to have an “I” next to his name.
As for Mr. Bloomberg, he was a lifelong Democrat before running for mayor of New York City as a Republican in 2001. In 2007, he changed parties and became an independent. In 2018, as he prepared to run for president, Mr. Bloomberg once again became a Democrat.
What the Facts Are:
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. claimed undue credit for being the “first” candidate to introduce a public option.
What MR. BIDEN Said:
“I notice what everybody’s talking about is the plan that I first introduced.”
This is exaggerated. Four candidates — Mr. Biden, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., and Mr. Bloomberg — support a public option, which anyone can buy into but retains private insurance. The concept has been around for many years.
Mr. Biden first released his health care plan in July and Mr. Buttigieg delivered his in September. Ms. Klobuchar released hers in May, though it did not detail its enforcement to the same degree as the other plans did. Mr. Bloomberg entered the race in November and released his plan in December.
Mr. Biden’s and Mr. Buttigieg’s plans do share many facets — but that is not especially surprising or a sign of Mr. Biden’s particular leadership on the issue. (Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado, who has since dropped out of the race, has argued that Mr. Biden actually copied his 2017 health care plan, which Ms. Klobuchar supported.)
“It’s not unusual to see presidential candidates have health care reform proposals that are very similar,” said Larry Levitt, the president of the nonprofit Kaiser Health Foundation. “Many of the ideas in the Biden and Buttigieg plans have been circulating in health policy circles for several years. Candidates rarely create these policy proposals from scratch.”
What their plans represent, Mr. Levitt said, “is an emerging consensus among Democrats of what a health care reform plan might look like in 2021 other than Medicare for all, if the party wins in 2020.”
What the Facts Are:
Mr. Sanders and Mr. Biden both charged that a Bloomberg policy in New York City went after African-American and Latino people.
What MR. Sanders Said:
“Mr. Bloomberg had policies in New York City of stop and frisk, which went after African-American and Latino people in an outrageous way.”
This is true. A judge ruled in 2013 that the tactics underlying stop and frisk as practiced in New York disproportionately stopped blacks and Latinos.
What MR. Biden Said:
“He had stop and frisk, throwing close to five million young black men up against a wall.”
He later added: “The reason that stop and frisk changed is because Barack Obama sent moderators to see what was going on. When we sent them there to say this practice has to stop, the mayor thought it was a terrible idea we send them there, a terrible idea.”
This is mostly false. New York’s wholesale stop-and-frisk policy began its death spiral with a report in May 2012 from the New York Civil Liberties Union that revealed more than 685,000 stops had been made the year before. The next month, Mr. Bloomberg announced that the program was going to be overhauled, and over the next year, the number of stops plummeted. Lawsuits were also underway or about to be filed. In August 2013, as Mr. Bloomberg approached his final months in office, a judge ruled against the city and as part of the remedies, appointed a monitor. Mr. Bloomberg strongly objected to the monitor, to no avail. By then, the number of monthly stops had declined by more than 90 percent from its peak.
What the Facts Are:
Mr. Bloomberg accurately cited his record on coal plant closings.
What He Said:
“Well, already we’ve closed 304 out of the 530 coal-fired power plants in the United States.”
This is true. Mr. Bloomberg was referring to his more than $100 million contribution to the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign since 2011. According to the Sierra Club, 304 coal-fired power plants have since either retired or have announced plans to close. They estimate that 40 percent of those closings would have not happened had it not been for the campaign. Over all, he has donated about $278.2 million to environmental and climate change causes, according to a recent tally by The New York Times, and as a mayor of New York City, had a strong record on climate change.
What the facts are:
Mr. Biden and Mr. Buttigieg misrepresented the possibility that their proposals could raises taxes on small businesses.
What they said:
Asked if their plans would raise taxes on small businesses,
Mr. Biden said, “No, taxes on small businesses won’t go up.”
Mr. Buttigieg said, “Not if they are small businesses.”
This is misleading. Both Mr. Biden and Mr. Buttigieg would raise the corporate rate from its current level of 21 percent — to 28 percent for Mr. Biden and to 35 percent for Mr. Buttigieg. That rate applies to all corporations, regardless of size. Though it is rare for small businesses to organize themselves as corporations, some small businesses do so, and they would face higher taxes under Mr. Biden’s and Mr. Buttigieg’s plans.
For business owners who earn more than $250,000 per year. Mr. Buttigieg would also eliminate a tax break that is used by businesses organized as so-called pass-through entities like limited liability corporations. That elimination could raise taxes on some small businesses, albeit those owned by high-income Americans.
What They’re Talking About:
Ms. Warren said Mr. Biden had hoped Senator Mitch McConnell would prevail in his re-election campaign.
What they said:
Ms. Warren: “According to The New York Times, the last time that Mitch McConnell was on the ballot, the vice president stood in the Oval Office and said, I hope that Mitch gets re-elected so I can keep working with him.”
Mr. Biden: “That’s totally out of context.”
Ms. Warren was likely referring to a September 2019 report in The Times about Mr. Biden’s working relationship with Mr. McConnell, the Republican majority leader who during the Obama administration thwarted many Democratic legislative priorities and judicial appointments.
Harry Reid, the former Nevada senator and Democratic leader, told The Times that President Barack Obama had pressed Mr. McConnell to work on a budget package before the 2014 midterm elections, when Mr. McConnell was up for re-election.
Mr. McConnell rejected the offer and said that it would present an obstacle for Republicans in their primaries.
Mr. Biden responded by saying, “Mitch, we want to see you come back,” according to Mr. Reid.
What the facts are:
Mr. Bloomberg referred incorrectly to the relative greenhouse gas emissions of China and India.
What Mr. Bloomberg said:
“In all fairness, the Chinese have slowed down. It’s India that is an even bigger problem. But it is an enormous problem. Nobody’s doing anything about it.”
This is false. China’s emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, rose last year from 2018, according to the International Energy Agency. In fact, emissions have risen each year since 2017, after having declined in 2015 and 2016. Experts say China had been stimulating its economy to try to keep up growth rates. Industrial coal burning is the largest source of greenhouse gases in China, which remains the world’s largest emitter.
What the facts are:
Mr. Buttigieg pointed to Ms. Klobuchar’s votes on immigration and judges.
What Mr. Buttigieg said:
“You voted to make English the national language.”
He also said: “You have been unusual among Democrats. I think the Democrat among all of the senators running for president most likely to vote for Donald Trump’s judges.”
This is mostly true. During a 2007 debate on an immigration bill, Ms. Klobuchar was one of 17 Democrats to support an amendment that would have reversed an executive order issued by President Bill Clinton requiring federal agencies to provide materials in language other than English. It passed, but the underlying bill failed.
Ms. Klobuchar has since disavowed that vote. In an interview on Sunday on the CBS program “Face The Nation,” she described it as “an early vote on English as the official language.” She added: “A number of other Democrats voted the same way, and actually nearly all Democrats eventually voted for it. It was in the base bill. I know that’s not a good idea because it would be hard to translate brochures and voting materials and the like. And I was glad after working on the latest version, the 2013 immigration bill, that that wasn’t in there. It shouldn’t be in there.”
As to judges, Ms. Klobuchar, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was a forceful critic of Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh after Mr. Trump nominated them to the Supreme Court. But according to a recent analysis by the progressive group Think Progress, Ms. Klobuchar voted in favor of more than 56 percent of the Trump judicial nominees who were eventually confirmed, while the other senators running for president have each voted to confirm fewer than half of Mr. Trump’s judicial nominees.
Fact checks and explainers by Michael M. Grynbaum, Jeremy W. Peters, Alan Rappeport, Linda Qiu, Jim Dwyer, Edward Wong and Sheryl Gay Stolberg.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/19/us/politics/democratic-debate-nevada-fact-check.html
5 hours ago · Six of the candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination took the stage on Wednesday night in Las Vegas for their last debate before Nevada…
Fact-Checking the Las Vegas Democratic Debate
Our reporters followed all of the exchanges and fact-checked the candidates, providing context and explanation.
Six of the candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination took the stage on Wednesday night in Las Vegas for their last debate before Nevada’s caucuses on Saturday.
Here is how the candidates’ remarks stacked up against the truth
WHAT THE FACTS ARE:
Senator Elizabeth Warren highlighted past comments by Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, that derided women.
WHAT MS. WARREN SAID:
“I’d like to talk about who we’re running against, a billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians. And no, I’m not talking about Donald Trump. I’m talking about Mayor Bloomberg.”
This is mostly true. In 1990, Mr. Bloomberg’s colleagues at his financial data company compiled a book of one-liners purportedly uttered by their boss, including a number of bawdy and sexist comments. Among the quotations was a quip about the British royals, in which Mr. Bloomberg used the terms “horsey-faced lesbian” and “fat broad” to refer to two women in the royal family.
In 2001, Mr. Bloomberg dismissed the book as “Borscht Belt jokes.” He has never explicitly acknowledged having said the quotations cited in the book. Last year, though, a Bloomberg spokesman, Stu Loeser, issued a general comment about Mr. Bloomberg’s history of misogynist remarks, saying: “Mike has come to see that some of what he has said is disrespectful and wrong. He believes his words have not always aligned with his values and the way he has led his life.”
What the Facts Are:
Ms. Warren said Mr. Bloomberg had blamed the 2008 financial crisis on African-Americans and Latinos.
What Ms. Warren said:
“When Mayor Bloomberg was busy blaming African-Americans and Latinos for the housing crash of 2008, I was right here in Las Vegas literally just a few blocks down the street holding hearings on the banks that were taking away homes from millions of families.”
This is exaggerated. Mr. Bloomberg’s comments were made in 2008 as the subprime mortgage crisis was pulling the country into the biggest economic slowdown since the Great Depression. Asked to explain the origins of the crisis in an appearance at Georgetown University, Mr. Bloomberg linked it to federal interference in the mortgage lending business and a wide variety of other factors like “very cheap money” in the form of low Federal Reserve interest rates, a failure by banks to consider that home prices could fall and developers that built more houses than the market could absorb.
Where his critics have focused, however, is on the first part of his eight-minute answer. He started by saying the present economic woes began when “there was a lot of pressure on banks to make loans to everyone.” He then pointed to legislation passed by Congress to end the practice known as “redlining,” in which banks declared entire neighborhoods off limits to lending. These were usually poor, heavily minority communities.
“Once you started pushing in that direction,” he added, “banks started making more and more loans where the credit of the person buying the house wasn’t as good as you would like.”
Adding more unpredictability to the situation, he said, were bankers and Wall Street executives who had created such complex instruments to profit from mortgages that they did not, in essence, understand what they were selling.
What the facts are:
Mr. Bloomberg and Senator Bernie Sanders came under fire for being extreme opposites whose views are not representative of the Democratic Party.
What PETE Buttigieg said:
“Let’s put forward somebody who’s actually a Democrat.”
This is exaggerated. Mr. Sanders is formally running for president as a Democrat, according to his Federal Election Commission filing. However, as a senator he is an independent who caucuses with the Democrats. His F.E.C. filing for his 2024 senate re-election campaign lists his party affiliation as “independent” and his Senate website continues to have an “I” next to his name.
As for Mr. Bloomberg, he was a lifelong Democrat before running for mayor of New York City as a Republican in 2001. In 2007, he changed parties and became an independent. In 2018, as he prepared to run for president, Mr. Bloomberg once again became a Democrat.
What the Facts Are:
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. claimed undue credit for being the “first” candidate to introduce a public option.
What MR. BIDEN Said:
“I notice what everybody’s talking about is the plan that I first introduced.”
This is exaggerated. Four candidates — Mr. Biden, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., and Mr. Bloomberg — support a public option, which anyone can buy into but retains private insurance. The concept has been around for many years.
Mr. Biden first released his health care plan in July and Mr. Buttigieg delivered his in September. Ms. Klobuchar released hers in May, though it did not detail its enforcement to the same degree as the other plans did. Mr. Bloomberg entered the race in November and released his plan in December.
Mr. Biden’s and Mr. Buttigieg’s plans do share many facets — but that is not especially surprising or a sign of Mr. Biden’s particular leadership on the issue. (Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado, who has since dropped out of the race, has argued that Mr. Biden actually copied his 2017 health care plan, which Ms. Klobuchar supported.)
“It’s not unusual to see presidential candidates have health care reform proposals that are very similar,” said Larry Levitt, the president of the nonprofit Kaiser Health Foundation. “Many of the ideas in the Biden and Buttigieg plans have been circulating in health policy circles for several years. Candidates rarely create these policy proposals from scratch.”
What their plans represent, Mr. Levitt said, “is an emerging consensus among Democrats of what a health care reform plan might look like in 2021 other than Medicare for all, if the party wins in 2020.”
What the Facts Are:
Mr. Sanders and Mr. Biden both charged that a Bloomberg policy in New York City went after African-American and Latino people.
What MR. Sanders Said:
“Mr. Bloomberg had policies in New York City of stop and frisk, which went after African-American and Latino people in an outrageous way.”
This is true. A judge ruled in 2013 that the tactics underlying stop and frisk as practiced in New York disproportionately stopped blacks and Latinos.
What MR. Biden Said:
“He had stop and frisk, throwing close to five million young black men up against a wall.”
He later added: “The reason that stop and frisk changed is because Barack Obama sent moderators to see what was going on. When we sent them there to say this practice has to stop, the mayor thought it was a terrible idea we send them there, a terrible idea.”
This is mostly false. New York’s wholesale stop-and-frisk policy began its death spiral with a report in May 2012 from the New York Civil Liberties Union that revealed more than 685,000 stops had been made the year before. The next month, Mr. Bloomberg announced that the program was going to be overhauled, and over the next year, the number of stops plummeted. Lawsuits were also underway or about to be filed. In August 2013, as Mr. Bloomberg approached his final months in office, a judge ruled against the city and as part of the remedies, appointed a monitor. Mr. Bloomberg strongly objected to the monitor, to no avail. By then, the number of monthly stops had declined by more than 90 percent from its peak.
What the Facts Are:
Mr. Bloomberg accurately cited his record on coal plant closings.
What He Said:
“Well, already we’ve closed 304 out of the 530 coal-fired power plants in the United States.”
This is true. Mr. Bloomberg was referring to his more than $100 million contribution to the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign since 2011. According to the Sierra Club, 304 coal-fired power plants have since either retired or have announced plans to close. They estimate that 40 percent of those closings would have not happened had it not been for the campaign. Over all, he has donated about $278.2 million to environmental and climate change causes, according to a recent tally by The New York Times, and as a mayor of New York City, had a strong record on climate change.
What the facts are:
Mr. Biden and Mr. Buttigieg misrepresented the possibility that their proposals could raises taxes on small businesses.
What they said:
Asked if their plans would raise taxes on small businesses,
Mr. Biden said, “No, taxes on small businesses won’t go up.”
Mr. Buttigieg said, “Not if they are small businesses.”
This is misleading. Both Mr. Biden and Mr. Buttigieg would raise the corporate rate from its current level of 21 percent — to 28 percent for Mr. Biden and to 35 percent for Mr. Buttigieg. That rate applies to all corporations, regardless of size. Though it is rare for small businesses to organize themselves as corporations, some small businesses do so, and they would face higher taxes under Mr. Biden’s and Mr. Buttigieg’s plans.
For business owners who earn more than $250,000 per year. Mr. Buttigieg would also eliminate a tax break that is used by businesses organized as so-called pass-through entities like limited liability corporations. That elimination could raise taxes on some small businesses, albeit those owned by high-income Americans.
What They’re Talking About:
Ms. Warren said Mr. Biden had hoped Senator Mitch McConnell would prevail in his re-election campaign.
What they said:
Ms. Warren: “According to The New York Times, the last time that Mitch McConnell was on the ballot, the vice president stood in the Oval Office and said, I hope that Mitch gets re-elected so I can keep working with him.”
Mr. Biden: “That’s totally out of context.”
Ms. Warren was likely referring to a September 2019 report in The Times about Mr. Biden’s working relationship with Mr. McConnell, the Republican majority leader who during the Obama administration thwarted many Democratic legislative priorities and judicial appointments.
Harry Reid, the former Nevada senator and Democratic leader, told The Times that President Barack Obama had pressed Mr. McConnell to work on a budget package before the 2014 midterm elections, when Mr. McConnell was up for re-election.
Mr. McConnell rejected the offer and said that it would present an obstacle for Republicans in their primaries.
Mr. Biden responded by saying, “Mitch, we want to see you come back,” according to Mr. Reid.
What the facts are:
Mr. Bloomberg referred incorrectly to the relative greenhouse gas emissions of China and India.
What Mr. Bloomberg said:
“In all fairness, the Chinese have slowed down. It’s India that is an even bigger problem. But it is an enormous problem. Nobody’s doing anything about it.”
This is false. China’s emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, rose last year from 2018, according to the International Energy Agency. In fact, emissions have risen each year since 2017, after having declined in 2015 and 2016. Experts say China had been stimulating its economy to try to keep up growth rates. Industrial coal burning is the largest source of greenhouse gases in China, which remains the world’s largest emitter.
What the facts are:
Mr. Buttigieg pointed to Ms. Klobuchar’s votes on immigration and judges.
What Mr. Buttigieg said:
“You voted to make English the national language.”
He also said: “You have been unusual among Democrats. I think the Democrat among all of the senators running for president most likely to vote for Donald Trump’s judges.”
This is mostly true. During a 2007 debate on an immigration bill, Ms. Klobuchar was one of 17 Democrats to support an amendment that would have reversed an executive order issued by President Bill Clinton requiring federal agencies to provide materials in language other than English. It passed, but the underlying bill failed.
Ms. Klobuchar has since disavowed that vote. In an interview on Sunday on the CBS program “Face The Nation,” she described it as “an early vote on English as the official language.” She added: “A number of other Democrats voted the same way, and actually nearly all Democrats eventually voted for it. It was in the base bill. I know that’s not a good idea because it would be hard to translate brochures and voting materials and the like. And I was glad after working on the latest version, the 2013 immigration bill, that that wasn’t in there. It shouldn’t be in there.”
As to judges, Ms. Klobuchar, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was a forceful critic of Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh after Mr. Trump nominated them to the Supreme Court. But according to a recent analysis by the progressive group Think Progress, Ms. Klobuchar voted in favor of more than 56 percent of the Trump judicial nominees who were eventually confirmed, while the other senators running for president have each voted to confirm fewer than half of Mr. Trump’s judicial nominees.
Fact checks and explainers by Michael M. Grynbaum, Jeremy W. Peters, Alan Rappeport, Linda Qiu, Jim Dwyer, Edward Wong and Sheryl Gay Stolberg.
How odd that since trump came along......all of these convicted felons say the same thing....it is the crooked justice system that got them....……..ever go to a prison and talk to anyone that wasn't innocent
Blagojevich returns to Chicago, maintains innocence | Fox ...
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20 hours ago · CHICAGO (AP) — Rod Blagojevich returned home to Chicago early Wednesday, shaking hands and signing autographs after President Trump cut short the 14-year prison sentence handed to the former …
between the justice system....the nations security....our foreign affairs....and the press Atilla the None has just about trashed the whole constitution and put the country at risk with the rest of the world
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20 hours ago · CHICAGO (AP) — Rod Blagojevich returned home to Chicago early Wednesday, shaking hands and signing autographs after President Trump cut short the 14-year prison sentence handed to the former …
between the justice system....the nations security....our foreign affairs....and the press Atilla the None has just about trashed the whole constitution and put the country at risk with the rest of the world
And lets replace experienced people with people who know nothing....but are loyal liars....I guess if he fires enough people he will get the whistle blower and teach anyone else a lesson to not say anything about his corruption
Top Pentagon Official John Rood Leaves at President Trump ...
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8 hours ago · The Pentagon’s top policy official, John Rood, is leaving his position at the end of the month, the department announced on Wednesday. Pentagon Press Secretary Alyssa Farah said in a statement: At the end of this month, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy John Rood will step down from his role with the Department.
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Feb 19, 2020 · The Pentagon's top policy official who warned against withholding military aid to Ukraine last year resigned on Wednesday at the request of President Donald Trump, according to a copy of his ...
Top Pentagon Official John Rood Leaves at President Trump ...
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8 hours ago · The Pentagon’s top policy official, John Rood, is leaving his position at the end of the month, the department announced on Wednesday. Pentagon Press Secretary Alyssa Farah said in a statement: At the end of this month, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy John Rood will step down from his role with the Department.
John Rood: Top Pentagon policy official who warned against ...
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/19/politics/john-rood-pentagon-official-depart/index.html
Feb 19, 2020 · The Pentagon's top policy official who warned against withholding military aid to Ukraine last year resigned on Wednesday at the request of President Donald Trump, according to a copy of his ...
