Comments by "Voix de la raison" (@voixdelaraison593) on "Hannity: Hunter Biden was peddling his influence" video.
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Litmus test. How to know if your president is a potential Authoritarian Threat (Dictator) to Democracy:
1. Rejection of (or weak commitment to) democratic rules or norms.
Examples.
Q. Do they reject the Constitution or express a willingness to violate it?
Q. Do they suggest a need for anti democratic measures banning certain organizations, or restricting basic civil or political rights?
Q. Do they attempt to undermine the legitimacy of elections, for example, by claiming unverifiable mass voter fraud.
2. Denial of the legitimacy of political opponents.
Examples.
Q. Do they describe their rivals as subversive, or opposed to your presidential powers.
Q. Do they claim that their rivals constitute a threat, either to the country or the prevailing way of life. Such as calling opponents socialists or communists?
Q. Do they baselessly describe their partisan rivals as criminals, whose supposed violations disqualifies them from full participation in the political arena.
Q. Do they baselessly suggest that their rivals are secretly working in alliance against you?
3. Toleration or encouragement of violence.
Examples.
Q. Do they have any ties to armed militias, paramilitary forces, white supremacy groups, etc?
Q. Have they encouraged, or suggested, mob attacks on opponents?
Q. Have they tacitly endorsed violence by their supporters by refusing to unambiguously condemning it?
Q. Have they praised (or refused to condemn) politically violent state actors in the past or currently?
4. Readiness to curtail civil liberties or voting rights of opponents, including the media?
Q. Have they supported laws or policies that restrict civil liberties, such as expanding defamation laws, or laws restricting protests, criticism of the government, or certain civic or political organizations?
Q. Have they threatened to take legal or other punitive action against critics in rival parties, civil society, or the media?
Q. Have they praised repressive leaders or actions taken by repressive leaders?
If the answer is yes to even on of the above questions then you have a wanna be Dictator on your hands.
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EVERYTHING TRUMP ALWAYS COMES UP RUSSIA:
Trump Is a Con Man, but He’s Also a Mark. Corrupt forces find it easy to manipulate this president.
Kenneth McCallion is a New York lawyer who once represented former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko of Ukraine. A few years ago, he brought a civil racketeering lawsuit on her behalf against some now familiar figures like Paul Manafort and the Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash. He knows a lot about corruption in Ukraine, and he said that earlier this year F.B.I. counterintelligence investigators approached him for information about Rudy Giuliani’s Ukrainian activities.
By then, McCallion had already been hearing strange things about what Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, whom we now know as Giuliani’s close associates, were doing in Ukraine.
Parnas and Fruman, both American citizens born in the former Soviet Union, aren’t ordinary political operatives. Parnas has long been a low-level grifter. Fruman owns an Odessa beach club called Mafia Rave, and a joint investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and BuzzFeed News found ties between him and an Odessa organized crime figure named Volodymyr Galanternik, known as “Light Bulb.”
The duo first appeared on the American political scene in 2015 as enthusiastic supporters of Donald Trump. They became big-dollar donors to a number of Republicans; their Instagram accounts would soon fill up with photos of party elites. Then, this year, McCallion learned they were poking around Ukrainian politics, where they were spreading conspiracy theories that Ukraine, not Russia, had interfered in America’s election in 2016.
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