A Biden victory would be a loss for Iraq

[screwball]

1 hour ago, NoviceInvestor said:

True- it’s about Freedom. 🙏

exactly.  watch for pennyslvania I believe they will side with trump tomorrow. that will make nevada and pennyslvania

[dinarham]

What's happening here is right out of  Mein Kamph {sp?} and it's all fear based . First comes covid ,spun out of control to implement the fear . Then they make us wear masks ,so dehumanizing ,  because now they  control  what you put on your face ,then censor the news ,make people  give their phone numbers out to before being seated at an eating establishment ,and it goes on . Taking guns away might be a problem though. "Ding dong ,hello. I'm  the neighborhood social worker , and I would really love it if you would turn over your guns". I think not. Stripping away our 2nd amendment rights cannot be enforced . I'm no killing machine ,but I bought more guns .

[Dinarrock]

Think we will have just a few more states side with Trump...happy days ahead folks!

 

[KaitlynnD]

Why? I mean I get the point but doesn't this also imply that the foreign relations will be strengthened especially to immigrants because of Biden? Although, I am also a little scared of how he can work with China and how it can impact the world and not just Iraq. 

[ChuckFinley]

 

 

[cutter73]

@ChuckFinley I watched this last night...😡 people make me sick anymore... it's one great big **** show anymore.

[Theseus]

12 hours ago, screwball said:

all over skynews....the great reset

You will hear more of the "great reset" as we move closer to January 21, 2021.  Date sound familiar? It should it is the day after the current Inauguration Day for the President of the United States.  It was also announced that this would be the meeting in which the "great reset" plans would be announced.

 

For some people they believe this is why the IMF has stalled Iraq on the Iraqi RV. DVs  have said this before but whether they believed it or not is yet to be determined.

 

Just keep an eye out for the news on the great reset going forward, especially if Biden takes the Oath of Office. PDJT was for removing the Fed Reserve and any President in the past that has been against the Federal Reserve has not bode well for them. There is a theory that all four Presidents that were assassinated were all against the Central banks and tried to implement a Treasury bank to cover currency for the US of A. (Lincoln (1865), Garfield (1881), McKinley (1901) and JFK (1963)). Jackson (1835) narrowly missed being shot due to misfire of both of the assassin's guns. Some will attribute these to Tecumseh's Curse aka 20-year Curse or Curse of Tippecanoe. Some other but these President's all had one thing n common and that was they all wanted to get rid of the Federal Reserve type system in lieu of a Treasury Banking system which is outlined in the Constitution. Inother words get rid of gold backed standards and put a fiat currency system in its place where the USD is associated with interest of the US of A's debt.   

[Pitcher]

https://amgreatness.com/2020/11/16/rnc-monitor-catches-election-worker-in-georgia-switching-trump-votes-to-biden/
 

RNC Monitor Catches Election Worker in Georgia Switching Trump Votes to Biden

Debra HeineNovember 16, 2020

An RNC monitor who was observing the ballot recount in Georgia said an auditor was caught changing votes from Trump to Biden three times in three minutes.

“Now, that’s just while I’m standing there. So does the second checker catch it every time?” Hale Soucie, the monitor asked  a Project Veritas undercover reporter.

Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe sent a team of undercover journalists to the Georgia recount to record any suspicious activity.

It wasn’t long before one of his “insiders” came across some “irregularities.”

“This lady, three times in three minutes—from 2:09 to 2:12—she got three wrong,” Soucie told the Veritas reporter. “Does it get corrected the next time?” he fretted.

As usual, the “mistakes” all went one way.

Soucie said he had to leave that table to observe election workers at the next who were also behaving suspiciously. He said a counter was handing an auditor a ballot, and then the auditor accepted the vote for Biden without even bothering to check it.

“She’s not even looking at it, she’s putting it in,” Soucie said. “That person is supposed to be auditing it,” he explained.

Soucie said he reported the problem to the Cobb County election officials who told him they’d talk to the auditors.

After that, the auditor “got all cutesy,” Soucie noted, sarcastically putting the ballot up close to her face to examine the ballots when she knew he was watching.

He said when he started walking away, he saw her glaring at him.

“That’s when things started getting real shady—like really tense and crap,” Soucie told the Veritas reporter. He said that no matter where he was standing in the room, she and a couple of others would call their bosses and point at him.

“I haven’t touched anybody, haven’t talk to anybody,” the RNC monitor said defensively. “all I’m doing is writing down and observing and telling what happened.”

Soucie said that he observed several other election workers talking with the auditor and pointing at him. Then, while he was taking a stroll around the room, he said he heard the hostile auditor railing against him.

“I’m paid by the taxpayer and this f—king ******* is coming out and watching me,” she allegedly complained.

Soucie later explained why the situation concerned him.  If votes aren’t being counted correctly and the auditors aren’t bothering to check those ballots, then “stuff could be sliding through,” he said.

Republicans have been very unhappy with how Georgia election officials are handling the recount.

Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Patriots, complained on Friday that the state was not allowing enough monitors to observe the process, and slammed it as “a fake recount.”

“Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is doing a tremendous disservice to the people of Georgia by conducting what can only be described as a ‘fraudit’ which fails to provide a complete examination of the election system, the voter rolls, and the eligibility of those who voted,”  Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning said in a statement.

Last week, Rep. Doug Collins (R-Georgia), who’s leading Team Trump’s election integrity efforts in the state, and Georgia GOP Chairman David Shafer sent an itemized list their concerns in a letter to Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger.

[Pitcher]

Just now, Pitcher said:

RNC Monitor Catches Election Worker in Georgia Switching Trump Votes to Biden

 

I guess we need a Rep at every damn counting table to have a fair election.  How is it that every person who counts votes is a Dem?

[Rochester]

 

[Pitcher]

https://thenationalpulse.com/news/stats-reveal-stuffing-the-tail-scheme-similar-to-sub-prime-scheme/
 

EXC: New Stats Analysis Reveals Potential ‘Stuffing The Tail’ Voter Fraud Scheme Similar To 2008 Sub-Prime Mortgage Meltdown

New analysis of Pennsylvania election data buttresses the Trump campaign’s assertions that a host of voting irregularities and potential fraud contributed to a victory in the critical swing state for Joe Biden.

A new report seen by The National Pulse begins: “This scientific analysis of the reported Pennsylvania (PA) 2020 Presidential voting results, is a non-partisan effort by unpaid citizens and volunteer experts. Our only objective is to play a small roll in helping assure that all legal PA votes are counted, and that only legal PA votes are counted.”

The report concludes: “These statistical analyses do not prove fraud, but rather provide scientific evidence that the reported results are highly unlikely to be an accurate reflection of how Pennsylvania citizens voted.”

MATHEMATICALLY EXTRAORDINARY.

On pages 14 and 15 the report reveals:

“We seek to estimate the fraction of registered Democratic voters that voted among the outlier counties. We want an unbiased estimate, so we removed Allegheny and Philadelphia counties as they are rather unique. Ten counties were used for simple linear regression.

“The data are fit well with a simple line.

Biden2020 = -21215.45 + 1.1943149*Democratic

“This means that the number of Biden votes in ten of the outlier counties was 101%± of registered Democratic voters (vs the majority of other PA counties where it was 70%± — an extraordinary statistical difference). That is not logical or reasonably explainable legally. The most likely explanation is that excess votes were added to the Biden total that did not come from voters.“

On page 18, an executive summary of a “Testable Hypothesis of Fraud using a Predictive Model in the Pennsylvania 2020 Presidential Vote for Montgomery County,” states:

“These facts suggest a mathematically extraordinary event occurring in multiple counties simultaneouslyat a magnitude well above what is needed to change which candidate won Pennsylvania’s electoral votes.”

Predictive models in the report reveal tens of thousands of potentially fraudulent votes across Pennsylvania, leading the statisticians collaborating on the report to conclude that a “singular or small set of actors in a position to intercept and modify all precincts data” may have participated in a “vote fraud scheme to increase Biden’s votes in Democrat heavy districts that would be undetected by the workers at the precincts but exceedingly trivial to detect.”

READ IN FULL:

The report continues on page 19:

The Biden vote change over Hillarious Clinton’s vote in 2016 in Montgomery County, PA shows a mathematically fraudulent result that is adding votes unnaturally to the tail of the distribution. High turnout or massive changes in voter preferences cannot statistically create this result in any reasonable probability. The signature is mathematical evidence of a classical form of fraud called “stuffing the curve”. The 2008 sub-prime mortgage risk management meltdown is a recent example of this kind of fraud.

STUFFING THE CURVE.

Another phenomenon explored in the report is the Biden vote change over Hillarious Clinton’s vote in 2016 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

The data appears to “show a mathematically fraudulent result that is adding votes unnaturally to the tail of the distribution.”

In other words, the report alleges that additional ballots were added to counties that were expected to go for Biden “with the assumption the addition will not be noticed due to the already high Dem/Rep ratio.”

For example, an “astonishing 16-point increase in the take of new votes favoring Biden” exists, requiring “not only a matched turnout of supporters to keep pace with Trump turnout at a higher required multiple, but anomalous amounts of additional new turnout on top.”

“In a large set of precincts the gains by Biden alone exceed 100% of the precinct’s new registrations,” it adds.

ALLEGHENY COUNTY.

On page 22, the data modelers state:

A predictive model hypothesizes up to 30,500+ fraudulent votes in Allegheny County alone, with the model able to expand to other counties with more time. Biden’s votes alone are being inflated. The hypothesis suggests a singular or small set of actors in a position to intercept and modify all precincts data applied a “stuffing the gaussian” (different variant on what happened in Montgomery – indicates possibility of a different actor) vote fraud scheme to increase Biden’s votes in Democrat heavy districts that would be undetected by the workers at the precincts but exceedingly trivial to detect in a Gaussian differential.

On page 23 they continue:

Initial analysis was a bit of a surprise, as instead of a “stuffing the tail” attack (as in Montgomery), this was a “stuffing the …. everything…?” kind of behavior. With all precincts game for adding Biden counts, the visualization above suggests it is not a straight multiplier (like Milwaukee: see Milwaukee vote fraud prediction report), and it must be additive.

The report summarizes:

• There are some major statistical aberratioons in the PA voting records, that are extremely unlikely to occur in a normal (i.e. un-manipulated) setting.
• The anomalies almost exclusively happened with the Biden votes. Time and again, using a variety of techniques, the Trump votes looked statistically normal.
• Eleven (out of 67) Pennsylvania counties stood out from all the rest. These counties showed distinctive signs of voting abnormalities — again, all for Biden.
• The total number of suspicious votes in these counties is 300,000± — which greatly exceeds the reported margin of Biden votes over Trump. (We don’t know how many of these are artificial Biden votes, or votes switched from Trump to Biden.
• These statistical analyses do not prove fraud, but rather provide scientific evidence that the reported results are highly unlikely to be an accurate reflection of how Pennsylvania citizens voted.

[3n1]

2 hours ago, Pitcher said:

 

I guess we need a Rep at every damn counting table to have a fair election.  How is it that every person who counts votes is a Dem?

 

thanks pitch , what a sad state of affairs .... the counter caught getting 3 switched votes from trump in three minutes  needs to be jerked out by the collar and sent back out to rejoin the antifa rioters , to be honest i wouldnt expect anything different but if in fact true , the real hijack was done thru manipulating the electronic voting software ... digital is convenient but can be just or more corrupt , more complicated to detect easier to hide ...... sick of it all ....... cheers 

[6ly410]

 

[Pitcher]

Nothing to see here.  We had a fraudulent free Election.   BS

 

 

https://breaking911.com/breaking-pair-charged-with-voter-fraud-allegedly-submitted-thousands-of-fraudulent-applications-on-behalf-of-homeless-people/
 

Pair Charged With Voter Fraud Allegedly Submitted THOUSANDS of Fraudulent Applications on Behalf of Homeless People

November 17, 2020

(Photo by George Frey/Getty Images)

CALIFORNIA — Two men have been charged in a 41-count criminal complaint for allegedly submitting thousands of fraudulent voter registration applications on behalf of homeless people, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced today.

53-year-old Carlos Antonio De Bourbon Montenegro, aka Mark Anthony Gonsalves, and Marcos Raul Arevalo, 34, were each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit voter fraud, eight counts of voter fraud, four counts of procuring and offering a false or forged instrument and four misdemeanor counts of interference with a prompt transfer of a completed affidavit.

Montenegro faces an additional 10 counts of voter fraud, seven counts of procuring and offering a false or forged instrument, two counts of perjury and five misdemeanor counts of interference with a prompt transfer of a completed affidavit.

The case was filed for warrant on November 12.

[READ NEXT: Stolen Ballots Found Under a Rock On Side Of Road In Glendale, Arizona]

Montenegro allegedly submitted more than 8,000 fraudulent voter registration applications between July and October 2020. Montenegro also is accused of falsifying names, addresses and signatures on nomination papers under penalty of perjury to run for mayor in the city of Hawthorne.

The District Attorney did not specify which political party the duo intended to help.

If convicted as charged, Montenegro faces a possible maximum sentence of 15 years and eight months in state prison, while Arevalo faces a possible maximum sentence of seven years in prison.

[Theseus]

4 hours ago, Pitcher said:

 

I guess we need a Rep at every damn counting table to have a fair election.  How is it that every person who counts votes is a Dem?

Because most demoncraps are out of work and have the time. Or they are paid illegal aliens who are told count the way they are told or face deportation. Your pick! 

[Synopsis]

https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6210368679001/?playlist_id=3166411554001#sp=show-clips

 

Go Moola Nova!

[Pitcher]

Does anyone believe the Runoff for the Senate will be fair and without fraud in Georgia.   Stacy Abrams claims to have already collected 600K ballots.  If you were not registered to vote for the Election on Nov 3rd you can still register to vote for the Runoff Election.  You can move into the State in the next 7 weeks and still be eligible to vote.   The signatures on file are not being vetted properly with the ballots being collected.  Expect more fraud and a steal in the Georgia Runoff Elections.

 

 

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/politics/another-georgia-county-has-uncovered-2700-missing-votes-secretary-states-office-says/5W734FA755CK3NCR4P7A27DXVM/
 

Another Georgia county has uncovered 2,700 missing votes, Secretary of State’s office says

WSBTV.com News Staff

ATLANTA — The Georgia Secretary of State’s Office says another county has found missing votes during their audit of the ballots in the presidential race.

During the hand recount, Fayette County uncovered 2,755 votes that were not included in the initial count. Secretary of State official Gabriel Sterling said those ballots were scanned onto a card, but those votes were never uploaded into the initial count. He says there were several backups designed to catch this issue and that it falls to workers who didn’t follow procedure.

Of the votes that are now being added to the total, 1,577 were for President Donald Trump, 1,128 for Joe Biden and the rest were for Jo Jorgenson or write-ins. That changes the margin in the state by under 500 votes. with Biden now leading Trump by 12,929 votes.

Content Continues Below

Our 1-on-1 interview with the Secretary of State, on Channel 2 Action News at 6 p.m.

Fayette is the second county to report an issue with missing votes. On Monday, Floyd County uncovered 2,600 votes that were missed during the initial count on election night. The Secretary of State’s office said it was human error and called for the elections director in the county to step down. An investigation has been opened in the county.

Those votes changed the margin by about 800 in favor of President Trump. The margin was similar in the Perdue-Ossoff race and will not affect the runoff, Secretary of State Official Gabriel Sterling said.

Sterling said they are also investigating a potential memory card with 224 votes on it in Walton County that may have been missed.

[RELATED: Secretary of State says random audit of voting machines found no evidence of tampering or hacking]

Counties across the state have spent days recounting each ballot. More than 5 million ballots were cast in the state of Georgia.

All counties must be completed by midnight Wednesdayso the state can certify its election results by Friday.

[SPECIAL SECTION: Election 2020]

The Secretary of State’s office also opened two investigations in Fulton County. The first is into how the water leak at State Farm Arena was handled, and the second is how election monitors were handled.

Sterling emphasized that a reason for this audit is to catch problems such as these and investigate any potential issues before they certify the vote.

Of the other counties that have completed their recounts, here is the breakdown of the results:

• 57 counties had no deviations from their original ballot count
• 21 counties were either plus or minus one off the original ballot count
• 32 counties are off by single digit numbers and are being investigated

[Barbara020548]

On 11/15/2020 at 4:55 PM, ed8149jack said:

What is wrong with you people. This was a fair election, Trump lost.  Obama did not give any money to Iran, it was there money our government had seized.  Iraq controls it's own government and determines their currency. Don't let the Right wing media get you all worked up.

Totally agree. I'm with you.

[Pitcher]

Thanks Barbara, and I wish for you all the peace in the world.  Are you angry at the posts I am putting up showing fraud by Dems?  You best learn to deal with it because I will be posting many more.  Here’s something for you to get more angry about.

 

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/tue-am-trump-legal-team-zeroes-expulsion-election-observers-data
 

Trump legal team zeroes in on expulsion of election observers, data irregularities

President Trump's campaign legal team has beefed up with several senior lawyers as it prepares to challenge hundreds of thousands of votes cast in Democratic stronghold cities like Detroit and Philadelphia without required GOP observers, arguing the expulsions created disparate treatment or unequal protection of voters in violation of the Constitution.

The team led by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and longtime Trump private lawyer Jay Sekulow has been expanded to include former Justice Department officials Victoria Toensing and Sidney Powell, former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova and trusted campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis.

Paul Clement, a George W. Bush administration solicitor general with a strong record of arguing in front of the Supreme Court, would likely argue any cases that reached the nine justices, officials told Just the News.  

The lawyers are prepared to argue that votes that were counted on election night and the day after without GOP observers present in Democrat-led cities should be thrown out because they were tainted by a process that was left open to fraud and abuse and illegally treated voters differently in various jurisdictions. The Trump campaign lawyers have identified 680,000-plus votes in Pennsylvania and about 250,000 in Michigan they believe fall into the category.

To augment the case, the lawyers are securing affidavits and declarations from citizens who allege:

• they went to the polls to vote and were told they had already voted when they had not cast ballots
• they are listed as voting in a state where they did not cast ballots
• they witnessed fraudulent or improper vote counting activities as observers or election officials
• extreme statistical anomalies uncovered in a handful of battleground states' vote totals are prima facie proof of fraudulent or untoward vote collection and counting activities

The request to discount large numbers of votes is a high legal and political hurdle to surmount, but it is not without precedent. In the last year, North Carolina threw out an entire special congressional election in its 9th District after evidence emerged that mail-in ballots were tainted by a ballot harvesting scheme tied to a GOP operative. And in New Jersey, a state judge earlier this year ordered new municipal election in Patterson, N.J., after evidence of ballot fraud emerged.

Both cases involve mail-in ballots, which are at the heart of the Trump campaign's arguments that rule changes by state officials — not approved by their legislatures as required by the Constitution — coupled with the exclusion of bipartisan vote count observers created election irregularities in parts of Michigan, Pennsylvania and other states that violate the equal protection clause of the Constitution.

"The President's election integrity efforts have always focused on guaranteeing that every legal vote is counted fairly, accurately, and according to the law. This is what our system requires and demands. The campaign has passionately advocated for his re-election and over 73 million Americans agreed the President deserves a second term. The litigation, however, is not a political endeavor; it is a legal one," Ellis told Just the News.

"President Trump is fighting to ensure that the people can have confidence in the legitimacy of the results for this election and every election in the future. Led by Mayor Giuliani, our legal team is aggressively pursuing the best legal remedies to stop the coordinated, systematic, pervasive irregularities, fraud, and outright disregard for the law that hijacked the 2020 election. Our U.S. Constitution contemplates that our election system may be attacked through corruption and our founders provided the remedies to safeguard our free and fair elections through our Electoral College system. The President will fight to preserve and protect our constitutional republic and our great nation."

Alan Dershowitz, the famed Harvard law professor and successful appellate lawyer, told Just the News that the Trump campaign's strategy appears aimed at throwing the results of three battleground states' elections where Biden leads into doubt and forcing the House of Representatives to choose a winner because neither candidate can lawfully claim he has the 270 electoral votes necessary to win.

"Their goal is not to get Trump to 270 or more electoral votes, it's to keep Biden from getting 270 electoral votes and throw the election to the House," he said in an interview Monday evening.

Dershowitz said the Trump team must go beyond sufficient legal arguments and also provide the courts evidence that the number of votes cast into question is enough to have swung each challenged state's election.

He also sharply criticized news media and Democrats for attacking Trump's lawyers for waging the court cases. Some activists have even doxed certain lawyers, outing their contacts and addresses. "It's abhorrent that his lawyers are being attacked," he said. "The lawyers are doing exactly what lawyers are supposed to do."

[horsesoldier]

Data irregularities ..... that’s a very charitable explanation for FELONY FRAUD. Book’em Dano ( Hawaii Five 0 )

[Pitcher]

Barry boy showing us all how to come together after an election.  He’s nothing more than a divisive, racist, hypocrite.  

 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8957681/Obama-Trump-complaining-lying-doesnt-responsibility-character-whos-no-John-Wayne.html
 

Barack Obama says Donald Trump is a real-life 'Richie Rich'

Barack Obama tore into Donald Trump during an interview published Monday where he said the president is a 'Richie Rich' type and far from the traditional ideal of American masculinity – like John Wayne or Clint Eastwood, he noted.

'I think about the classic male hero in American culture when you and I were growing up: the John Waynes, the Gary Coopers, the Jimmy Stewarts, the Clint Eastwoods, for that matter. There was a code,' Obama told The Atlantic, 'the code of masculinity that I grew up with that harkens back to the '30s and '40s and before that.'

The former president said he thought if a 'right-wing populist' would rise to the presidency, he thought it would be someone 'more appealing' than Trump.

 

'I'm not surprised that somebody like Trump could get traction in our political life. He's a symptom as much as an accelerant,' Obama said, adding: 'But if we were going to have a right-wing populist in this country, I would have expected somebody a little more appealing.'

'There's a notion that a man is true to his word, that he takes responsibility, that he doesn't complain, that he isn't a bully—in fact he defends the vulnerable against bullies,' Trump's predecessor detailed of American manhood. 

Barack Obama lashed out at Donald Trump Monday, calling the president a real-life Richie Rich who complains, lies and doesn't take responsibility

Obama said that Trump is far from the idol of American manlihood, which he claims are more like the types John Wayne (left) and Clint Eastwood (right) played in movies

On the other hand, Richie Rich is a character (portrayed by Macaulay Culkin here in 1994) who was the richest kid in the world and got everything he wanted

'And so even if you are someone who is annoyed by wokeness and political correctness and wants men to be men again and is tired about everyone complaining about the patriarchy, I thought that the model wouldn't be Richie Rich—the complaining, lying, doesn't-take-responsibility-for-anything type of figure,' Obama said.

Richie Rich was a comic character created in the 1950s and was the world's richest kid, getting anything he could possibly want – and was dubbed 'the poor little rich boy.' The comics were made into a TV cartoon and eventually were adapted into a movie starring Macaulay Culkin in the 1990s.

Obama says Trump is more Richie Rich than John Wayne.

The former Democratic president said in his interview with The Atlantic: 'I did not believe how easily the Republican establishment, people who had been in Washington for a long time and had professed a belief in certain institutional values and norms, would just cave' to Trumpian populism.

He added, however, that the populist shift in the Republican Party really garnered traction in the 2008 election, when he and Joe Biden ran a successful campaign against John McCain and Sarah Palin.

'The power of Palin's rallies compared with McCain's rallies—just contrast the excitement you would see in the Republican base,' Obama noted. 'I think this hinted at the degree to which appeals around identity politics, around nativism, conspiracies, were gaining traction.'

Obama and former first lady Michelle became much more outspoken as the 2020 election approached, and since the results came back projecting Biden as the victor over Trump, they have upped their attacks on the sitting president.

Trump has still refused to concede to Biden, insisting he is the true winner of the election and claiming his lawsuits in several swing states will prove so in the coming weeks.

Two weekends ago, Biden declared victory after multiple media outlets called him the winner once enough states projected him winning their Electoral College votes – putting him over the 270 vote threshold needed to win the White House.

Since Election Day, Trump has spent his weekends at his golf club in Sterling, Virginia as he continues to refuse to concede to Joe Biden, claiming he was the rightful winner of the election

Obama tells Oprah he was 'thrilled' when Biden won election

 

Obama claims the populist right-wing movement was able to garner much more traction due to social media, which he suggested should be treated like a digital media company rather than a third-party facilitator of open speak.

'I don't hold the tech companies entirely responsible, because this predates social media,' Obama said. 'It was already there.'

'But social media has turbocharged it,' he added. 'I know most of these folks. I've talked to them about it. The degree to which these companies are insisting that they are more like a phone company than they are like The Atlantic, I do not think is tenable. They are making editorial choices, whether they've buried them in algorithms or not. The First Amendment doesn't require private companies to provide a platform for any view that is out there.'

'If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what's true from what's false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesn't work. And by definition our democracy doesn't work. We are entering into an epistemological crisis.'

HOW OBAMA LETS LOOSE ON OTHER WORLD LEADERS IN HIS NEW BOOK

VLADIMIR PUTIN: SHORT AND USED TO SUPPLICANTS

'Physically, he was unremarkable: short and compact -- a wrestler's build -- with thin, sandy hair, a prominent nose, and pale, watchful eyes. ... I noticed a casualness to his movements, a practiced disinterest in his voice that indicated someone accustomed to being surrounded by subordinates and supplicants.'

Former US president Barack Obama in a new book describes Russian's then prime minister Vladimir Putin as 'physically unremarkable' after this July 2009 meeting in Moscow

NICOLAS SARKOZY: LIFT- WEARING BANTAM COCKOUT OF TOULOUSE-LAUTREC

'With his dark, expressive vaguely Mediterranean features (he was half Hungarian and a quarter Greek Jew) and small stature (he was about five-foot-five but wore lifts in his shoes to make himself taller), he looked like a figure out of a Toulouse-Lautrec painting.

'Conversations with Sarkozy were by turns amusing and exasperating, his hands in perpetual motion, his chest thrust out like a bantam cock's, his personal translator... always beside him to frantically mirror his every gesture and intonation as the conversation swooped from flattery to bluster to genuine insight, never straying from his primary, barely disguised interest, which was to be at the center of the action and take credit for whatever it was that might be worth taking credit for.'

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: CHARMING LINEBACKER WHO COULD JUSTIFY ANYTHING TO KEEP POWER

'Built like a linebacker, with a square jaw, broad features, and a gray comb-over, Netanyahu was smart, canny, tough and a gifted communicator in both Hebrew and English.'

'Netanyahu could be charming, even solicitous, when it served his purposes.'

'But his vision of himself as the chief defender of the Jewish people against calamity allowed him to justify almost anything that would keep him in power -- and his familiarity with American politics and media gave him confidence that he could resist whatever pressure a Democratic administration like mine might try to apply.'

ANGELA MERKEL: NO-NONSENSE HER EYES WERE A TELL

'Merkel's eyes were big and bright blue and could be touched by turns with frustration, amusement or hints of sorrow. Otherwise, her stolid appearance reflected her no-nonsense, analytical sensibility.'

RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN: POWER COMES FIRST

'Personally, I found (Erdogan) to be cordial and generally responsive to my requests. But whenever I listened to him speak, his tall frame slightly stooped, his voice a forceful staccato that rose an octave in response to various grievances or perceived slights, I got the strong impression that his commitment to democracy and the rule of law might last only as long as it preserved his own power.'

MANMOHAN SINGH: INDIAN PM'S TURBAN GAVE HIM AIR OF A HOLY MAN

Former president Barack Obama in a new memoir voices deep respect for India's former prime minister Manmohan Singh, seen here in a 2013 White House meeting

'A gentle, soft-spoken economist in his 70s, with a white beard and a turban that were the marks of his Sikh faith but to the Western eye lent him the air of a holy man...

'I would find Singh to be wise, thoughtful and scrupulously honest.'

HU JINTAO: CHINA'S CHIEF HAD AN ENDLESS STACK OF PAPERS

'Whatever the topic, he liked to read from thick stacks of prepared remarks, pausing every so often for translations to English that seemed to have been prepared in advance and, somehow, always lasted longer than his original statement. ... I was tempted more than once to suggest that we could save each other time by just exchanging papers and reading them at our leisure.' 

[Pepperina]

BOY O BOY...Pitcher ❗️ YOU GO GUY ‼️  

                THANKS.  ❗️

Right Back Atcha    ‼️ 

[WheresmyRV?]

Gave you a greenie Pitcher, you didn't deserve that red one.  Keep on posting, love them all. 

[Shelley]

Unbelievable .... Obama one of the worse Presidents of this country , sounds like he’s jealous of President Trump in these interviews , he’s probably scared to death of all that will eventually come out to show everyone that he didn’t give a damn about America or it’s people !!!

[Theseus]

12 minutes ago, Shelley said:

Unbelievable .... Obama one of the worse Presidents of this country , sounds like he’s jealous of President Trump in these interviews , he’s probably scared to death of all that will eventually come out to show everyone that he didn’t give a damn about America or it’s people !!!

Oh he gave damn about damning America and its people. He is and still is seething the day Trump was elected because he once invited Trump personally to a function then proceeded to lambast him. Trump got his pound of flesh and then some from 0Bummer and he will never live it down. The best way to show 0Bummer was the worst POTUS outside of a few others was to do exactly what Trump did  - break records and leave 0Bummer's 8 years in the dust inside of four years. 0Bummer is just that a has been washed up President who is trying to get back into good graces with the Sleepy Creepy Biden win. There was a time a former President didn't say bad things about the current one. That time is long gone now but it was during our lifetime it changed.

Edited November 18, 2020 by Theseus