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acbytesla said:
I really don't know what you're talking about or concerned with. I watched the first two videos. Why does this matter?
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I don't know if it's important. There was quite a bit of technical analysis on the authenticity of the Flyboard video so I guess it could be more or less important than that.

ETA: Another angle with the same hand-passing-conspicuously-over-foreground-microphone:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/vide...91feff-9f5b-4644-98c9-5fc3588a3c18_video.html

I don't know enough about video to judge if there's a known principle for why this would happen.
 
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FBI facing allegation that its 2018 background check of Brett Kavanaugh was ‘fake’

A Democratic senator has asked attorney general Merrick Garland to facilitate ‘proper oversight’ into concerns on the investigation

Among the concerns listed in Whitehouse’s letter to Garland are allegations that some witnesses who wanted to share their accounts with the FBI could not find anyone at the bureau who would accept their testimony and that it had not assigned any individual to accept or gather evidence.

“This was unique behavior in my experience, as the Bureau is usually amenable to information and evidence; but in this matter the shutters were closed, the drawbridge drawn up, and there was no point of entry by which members of the public or Congress could provide information to the FBI,” Whitehouse said.

He added that, once the FBI decided to create a “tip line”, senators were not given any information on how or whether new allegations were processed and evaluated. While senators’ brief review of the allegations gathered by the tip line showed a “stack” of information had come in, there was no further explanation on the steps that had been taken to review the information, Whitehouse said.

“This ‘tip line’ appears to have operated more like a garbage chute, with everything that came down the chute consigned without review to the figurative dumpster,” he said.
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Delvo said:
According to a Senate employee in a job that might as well not exist because Senators who are serious about actually getting something done simply routinely ignore it because it has no actual authority.
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And this means???


Scopedog said:
In this odd video, after approaching the microphones, his hands conspicuously... Can this be accounted for...

I'm curious about theories of how that audio would end up there and if there are any other less potentially controversial examples. Is this a known and understood glitch in light of the sort of equipment the White House uses?
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Your first post in this thread and I have no idea who or what you are talking about. Just Asking Questions?
 
Roger Ramjets said:
Your first post in this thread and I have no idea who or what you are talking about. Just Asking Questions?
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Seems like you're being intentionally obtuse, but whatever. I'll answer my own question regarding the odd hand interaction with the microphones: optical illusion. Apparently the microphones were larger and closer to him than they first seemed to me.

https://youtu.be/z1_M-HSx6lw

ETA: By the way, you may want to police this thread:

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=350383

They're speculating without waiting for facts and bringing shame to skepticism.
 
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I just read that Biden has scheduled a press conference for March 25th.

What will they find to get needlessly bent out of shape over next, I wonder.
 
Scopedog said:
Seems like you're being intentionally obtuse, but whatever. I'll answer my own question regarding the odd hand interaction with the microphones: optical illusion. Apparently the microphones were larger and closer to him than they first seemed to me.
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It looks like that is the case. Along with compression on the video files. There is another view posted by the Washington Post. This page shows a good comparison:

https://www.ibtimes.sg/green-screen...y-after-his-hand-appears-over-reporters-56232

You can see at about 11 seconds what happens. From the side, his hand his in front of the black mic and the front view show where his hand was directly to the side of the black mic, which puts it in front from the side view.

The front view is actually a bit to his right. His hand appears to got in front of the gray mic. But from the side view you can see that the gray mic in actually off to his right and what appears to be his hand going in front of the mic from the front is actually his hand in front of, but well to the left of, the gray mic.

It is a strange optical illusion that is amplified by the video compression that makes things look strange, like the top of his head getting cut off. It does actually end up looking like a bad green screen video.
 
DevilsAdvocate said:
It looks like that is the case. Along with compression on the video files. There is another view posted by the Washington Post. This page shows a good comparison:

https://www.ibtimes.sg/green-screen...y-after-his-hand-appears-over-reporters-56232

You can see at about 11 seconds what happens. From the side, his hand his in front of the black mic and the front view show where his hand was directly to the side of the black mic, which puts it in front from the side view.

The front view is actually a bit to his right. His hand appears to got in front of the gray mic. But from the side view you can see that the gray mic in actually off to his right and what appears to be his hand going in front of the mic from the front is actually his hand in front of, but well to the left of, the gray mic.

It is a strange optical illusion that is amplified by the video compression that makes things look strange, like the top of his head getting cut off. It does actually end up looking like a bad green screen video.
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The slow-motion part of this video makes it clearer:

https://youtu.be/srLhhb0syOY
 
PhantomWolf said:
You are aware that taking the $15 minimum wage out of the Covid package allowed them to pass it without needing to get Republican votes right? The minimum wage increase needs 60 votes to pass and keeping it in would have either held up the Covid Relief indefinitely or had it prevented entirely.

Is that what you really would have wanted?
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This is fantasy. The Parliamentarian's decision could have been overruled by Harris. The covid relief bill with the wage increase also could have passed by a simple majority
 
Ethan Thane Athen said:
My understanding is they didn't have a simple majority as the independent wouldn't support it?
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Manchin is nominally a Democrat, not an independent.

8 Democratic Senators ended up voting against it. I'm not saying that the bill would have passed, but we should be honest about why it wouldn't have. It wasn't doomed by some byzantine procedural reason, or because of some Parliamentarian.

It failed because it lacked unanimous support within the Democratic party. If you're someone that cares about the issue, it's important to know where the blame rightly lies, which is on every Republican and 8 conservative Democrats that opposed it.
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
Manchin is nominally a Democrat, not an independent.

8 Democratic Senators ended up voting against it. I'm not saying that the bill would have passed, but we should be honest about why it wouldn't have. It wasn't doomed by some byzantine procedural reason, or because of some Parliamentarian.

It failed because it lacked unanimous support within the Democratic party. If you're someone that cares about the issue, it's important to know where the blame rightly lies, which is on every Republican and 8 conservative Democrats that opposed it.
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Angus King is an Independent Senator representing Maine that normally caucuses with the Dems but voted Nay. He says he's in favor of an increase, but wanted it capped at $10/hr.

7 Democratic Senators, 1 Independent, and all 50 Republicans voted against increasing minimum wage.


eta: My bad, the $10'hr was from a 2014 article and I just missed the date. King now says he's for a $15/hr MW but was against the bill because of provisions about the tip credit in the bill.
 
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wareyin said:
Angus King is an Independent Senator representing Maine that normally caucuses with the Dems but voted Nay. He says he's in favor of an increase, but wanted it capped at $10/hr.

7 Democratic Senators, 1 Independent, and all 50 Republicans voted against increasing minimum wage.
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Thanks for the clarification.

My point is that the minimum wage increase failed simply because there weren't enough votes within the Democratic caucus.

Procedural problems or the parliamentarian were not the impediment. The Democratic caucus simply didn't have the votes they needed so it got ditched.

The failure of the min wage hike has prompted some backlash. Sinema from AZ seems to be taking more than most, partly because of the flippant (seeming) way she voted against it, partly because she's seen as a flip-flopping on the issue after making very strong statements in the recent past. There's much grumbling about a primary challenge for her seat, but it remains to be seen if this failure to pass min wage hurts any of these 8 that voted against the party line.
 
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Skeptic Ginger said:
And it could just backfire, stirring ethnic minorities to vote rather than discouraging them.
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I can't imagine that being sustainable though. There are a significant number of voters who simply don't have the ability to get an enormous amount of time off to go out and drive far away to stand in multiple hour lines to vote.

The voter suppression laws that I saw look to be pretty focused on severely reducing access for people to be able to vote, and severely reducing the time so that it will be harder and more burdensome for people to do it.

Granted that many of these laws are set up to negativity affect the lower class the worst, but the implementation will very likely continue to be paired with reducing voting stations in minority areas to make sure they bear the brunt of the laws.
 
The thing that annoys me is that the Republicans have been very successful in pushing the voter fraud narrative without any evidence, and yet they have been pushing laws and policies for decades to unfairly (and probably illegally) stop people from their legal right to vote. Many times specifically based on race. That is the real voter fraud issue, and the Republicans have been getting away with it for decades

The Democratic party has largely failed to even have this raised as a major issue.
 
HoverBoarder said:
The Democratic party has largely failed to even have this raised as a major issue.
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I don't believe that this is true, I've seen lots of Dems talking about this for years.

It's a bit of a chicken and egg problem though. For the Dems to fix this, they need to be voted into office, but to get voted into office, they need to fix this. The very people most inclined to vote for them so they can fix it are the same people who are being targeted for voter suppression.
 
Since Biden became President, I think I have seen one news story about him and I cannot even remember what it was about.

Thank you for that.
 
acbytesla said:
I really don't know what you're talking about or concerned with. I watched the first two videos. Why does this matter?
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Apparently Biden is using CGI and 'green screen' to do any interviews or tv appearances.
Why he's doing this isn't clear, there are several theories flying around twitter and facebook etc.
 
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