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08-29-22, 03:57 PM | #4081 |
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What could possibly go wrong
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08-29-22, 10:20 PM | #4082 |
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Your wife is smarter than you?
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08-30-22, 06:50 AM | #4083 |
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What is it about your food processing facility who seems to spontaneously ignites ?
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08-30-22, 07:55 AM | #4084 |
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Considering over a half million fires are reported in the U.S. each year. I’m going with the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.
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08-30-22, 09:43 AM | #4085 | |
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08-30-22, 12:41 PM | #4086 | |
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Claiming that estimated deficit reduction pays for billions in new spending.
That's like saying if you overdraft on your bank account by only half as much as you did previously it justifies spending even more money that you don't have on something else. Quote:
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08-30-22, 02:47 PM | #4087 |
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Are the midterm elections not as safe as the Oranges had hoped after all? I assume the abortion thing is something that impacted heavily against them, considering that there is a bipartisan majority throughout society against banning abortion.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...ions-rcna45336
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08-30-22, 02:51 PM | #4088 |
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^ the "conservatives" lost some female voters for sure
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08-31-22, 06:32 AM | #4089 |
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It would be an insignificant number. Most people's position on abortion is fairly well hardened. There are much more pressing issues for US voters than abortion.
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09-01-22, 02:14 PM | #4090 | |
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09-01-22, 03:07 PM | #4091 | |||
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Depleting our entire strategic reserve to drop the price of gas probably helped good ol' Brandon more. Oh, and giving out free college money for votes never hurts a democrat either.
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09-01-22, 03:09 PM | #4092 |
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09-01-22, 06:40 PM | #4093 |
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Education should be free anyway. Wouldn't you want your kids to get an education without having to refi your house to help pay down the debt, or do you thing those higher paying job opportunities only belong to the rich kids?
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09-01-22, 07:54 PM | #4094 |
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Ah yes more trickle down economics. Raise taxes even further to pay the wealthy their due for providing your free education. Who pays the teachers, administration offices and those who make the curriculum? What about room and board heating and air conditioning? Who pays for the building maintenance and the furniture? Now that government is paying for it who determines eligibility to attend?
Nothing in life is free, but hell let’s continue adding more people to the government plantation by nationalizing the education system. To hell with lower taxes, jobs and a decent wage, huh? If the New York FED was correct then it’s government interference what’s causing tuition prices to skyrocket. To top it off FREE means things turn out like California’s Black Education Failure. More government interference more debacles. https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...ation-failure/
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09-02-22, 04:28 AM | #4095 |
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The Neue Zürcher Zeitung quotes three American high profile law experts regarding whether or not to sue the Donald.
------------------- Donald Trump's handling of classified documents has many parallels to the confidential emails on Hillary Clinton's private server. There was never an indictment then. Why should this be different now? Three legal experts provide different answers. The search for truth in the USA has probably never been as difficult as it is today. The political polarization is so immense that even proven experts have great difficulty maintaining their credibility as neutral observers. This is currently very evident in the investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) against Donald Trump. Among other things, it accuses the former president of having withheld highly secret documents from his private club Mar-a-Lago in Florida and hiding them from investigators. The house search on Aug. 8 strengthened those suspicions. But is that enough to indict a former president and possible future presidential candidate? "Yes," says Harvard professor emeritus and constitutional lawyer Laurence Tribe. "The violation of the Espionage Act is extremely serious and extremely clear," says Barack Obama's former mentor. "The only question is when this indictment will occur." It's also quite likely that Trump will be held accountable for obstruction of justice, he says. "After lying to the government about possessing these highly classified documents, he stored them in unsecure locations." There's no question that instead of turning the documents over to the National Archives or back into the custody of the intelligence community, Trump moved countless boxes of files from the White House to his private Florida residence - a club where foreign guests also come and go - after his term ended a year and a half ago. The former president handed over some of the documents voluntarily, and another only after pressure from a court subpoena. On June 3, a lawyer signed a statement on behalf of Trump's office saying that "to the best of her knowledge" all documents requested by the FBI had been turned over. However, the Aug. 8 house search exposed this as a sham. Even in Trump's personal office, investigators found documents subject to the highest level of secrecy. For Tribe, it is therefore clear: Trump stole these documents from the state and hid them from investigators. For that, he must be held accountable. Alan Dershowitz, however, has a very different opinion. He, too, is a Harvard professor emeritus and describes himself as a Democrat. "I didn't vote for Trump twice and I wouldn't vote for him a third time." Dershowitz believes the FBI's evidence is sufficient for an indictment. But even so, he believes a prosecution is wrong based on the current facts. For former presidents or future presidential candidates, he says, different requirements apply: "You don't indict them unless the evidence is so overwhelming that both political parties agree." "An indictment of Trump has to pass the Nixon test and the Clinton test," Dershowitz says. In the Watergate affair of the 1970s, he says, the president's offenses were so serious and the evidence so overwhelming that the Republican Party had to drop Richard Nixon. At the same time, he said, Trump cannot be impeached today after Hillary Clinton got off scot-free with the negligent handling of her emails. "Otherwise, we become a banana republic where a dictator says, 'For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.'" Indeed, there are some parallels between Trump's handling of classified documents and the Clinton affair. During her time as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, she used personal email servers through which she communicated on business. Among the 30,000 messages the eventual presidential candidate turned over to the State Department in 2014, FBI investigators found 110 emails containing information that was classified at the time they were sent. Of those, 8 correspondences contained information that was considered "top secret" and 36 contained information that was considered "secret." Clinton's lawyers themselves sorted out what they considered to be relevant emails for investigators. The remaining messages were then deleted. The FBI, however, found no evidence that this triage was not done honestly. Clinton's handling of highly classified information was "extremely careless," but ultimately the facts were not sufficient to support an indictment, then-FBI Director James Comey said after the investigation concluded. Specifically, the evidence was insufficient to prove Clinton engaged in intentional and willful misconduct in handling classified information. For Tribe, it's clear that the FBI was following the letter of the law politically independently then and continues to do so now. "All of the claims that Trump is being targeted more harshly than Clinton are a mere distraction from the actual facts." The confidential information on Clinton's email servers ended up there by mistake, he said. "And she never refused to turn it over." Dershowitz, who has repeatedly defended controversial figures such as O. J. Simpson, Jeffrey Epstein, Julian Assange and Trump, however, distrusts government institutions. "The Justice Department generally overdoes things," he said. He was a lawyer in the case of the "Pentagon Papers" on the Vietnam War, he said. "The government said the publication of those papers would be enormously damaging to U.S. security. The Pentagon Papers were published, and they caused no harm." Which Harvard professor should we believe? Tribe, who called Trump and individual supporters "terrorists" on his Twitter account for subliminally threatening social unrest should impeachment occur? Or Dershowitz, whose argument bolsters Trump's narrative of a political vendetta, helping to further erode public trust in American institutions? Perhaps David Laufman is right. "Comparisons to the Clinton case are premature because we don't have all the facts yet," says the former head of counterintelligence and export control at the Justice Department. In his role at the time, the lawyer oversaw the investigation into the email affair. It was a unanimous decision, he says: "There was a consensus that prosecution was not warranted in the Clinton case." However, based on the details already known in Trump's case, Laufman says, "Secret documents were withheld even after a court subpoena was issued. These are far more serious factors than the facts uncovered in the Clinton investigation." Already, he said, the public details are pretty damning for Trump. "And they're going to get more damning as we learn more," he said. "No one else but Trump would have been handled with such merciful kid gloves," Laufman adds. And if the former president ends up being indicted, he said, he will have the opportunity to defend himself in the U.S. and cross-examine the government's witnesses. "That's how our criminal justice system works. He's not above the law. He's not above the Constitution." ------------------------- I'm lining up somewhere between Laurence Tribe and David Laufman.
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