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jberryhill

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14. Conyers wasn't there for this
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 08:04 AM
Apr 2017

Regardless of the stature of the persons who did remain after Conyers left, this proceeding - whatever one's opinion of the validity of the 2004 election - is a piece of theater.

To post it as "testimony" of some kind, absent context is intellectually dishonest. It is certainly literally true, but anyone can hold a meeting, call it a "hearing" and have people swear stuff.

You, me, this guy, or anyone, can swear whatever they want to any gathering of people in an unofficial capacity. There is no free-floating "perjury police" running around to address inconsequential things that people say outside of actual proceedings of some kind.

This one comes down to "some guy said stuff" with no other substantiating evidence several years ago, and then later had to say "other stuff" when it was pointed out to him that West Palm Beach didn't even use touch-screen machines.

If you were alive then I'm positive you remember when Bush stole his second election in 2004


Well, John Kerry doesn't seem to remember the election being stolen either, so maybe I'm just getting old.

Maybe you haven't noticed, but there is a very substantial, broad, and growing body of evidence - beyond "some guys swears to a microphone" - suggesting a number of criminal activities engaged in by the Trump campaign.

Quite obviously there are those who would like to deflect from that, or associate it with incompletely-characterized re-hashes of things from the past which didn't go anywhere.

Why might someone want to do that, do you suppose?

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