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Imagine decades down the road having to explain to someone that yes, in 2018 the head of state of one of the most powerful nations in the world made a public statement about how his dick was so big and he could use it to end the world if he wanted to. e:  My doggo.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Congress already tried this, and it's what got Andrew Johnson impeached. (Turns out it's unconstitutional) Yeah, it would probably need a constitutional amendment. I think if we make it to a post Trump political universe such an amendment may become a possibility.
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The only way you could actually do anything to save this country is through the de jure death of the GOP, because there is no way in the world they will ever stop getting worse, much less fade away in any democratic fashion.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Yeah, it would probably need a constitutional amendment. I think if we make it to a post Trump political universe such an amendment may become a possibility. This seems like a great political environment to have a constitutional convention in.
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If we could get a constitutional amendment to that effect, we wouldn’t need one, because Congress would have the will to impeach a corrupt executive.
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Petr posted:This seems like a great political environment to have a constitutional convention in. You could probably do it with a democratic president. To cut your dumb post off at the pass, that would be in 2021.
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Petr posted:This seems like a great political environment to have a constitutional convention in. I mean, if the blue wave fails and the Republicans finally get their 3/4s state legislatures, it absolutely will.
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Platystemon posted:If we could get a constitutional amendment to that effect, we wouldn’t need one, because Congress would have the will to impeach a corrupt executive. Wouldn't need it then but might need it later etc. We have to start thinking about future needs not just crisis to crisis musical chairs.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:dunno I could see it happening if he is actually factually incapable of even rubber-stamping executive orders They do need congress. If Trump sends a letter to congress saying "Fake News! I am totally capable of being president! gently caress Pence, MAGA!!!", then Congress has to vote in favor of Pence and the cabinet by some kind of supermajority or Trump gets his powers back. edit: 2/3 majority of both houses Rigel fucked around with this message at 07:23 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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Jan 3, 2018 07:20
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axeil posted:https://www.verywell.com/the-clock-drawing-test-98619 Refusal being grounds for dementia is such bullshit. Back when she was alive (and 102 goddamn years old) grandmother would respond to psychologists saying, "HOW ARE YOU TODAY, MRS PORTER?" by snubbing the hell out of them. And then mom would have to cross the commonwealth and go demonstrate that grandmother could have a perfectly normal conversation with anyone she didn't hold in seething contempt.
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Mystic Mongol posted:
Yeah that sounds vaguely kafkaesque nightmarish
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theflyingorc posted:You could probably do it with a democratic president. Wait, are you sure? I'm pretty sure you made a math error or something here.
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Mystic Mongol posted:
Refusal being grounds for dementia is such bullshit. Back when she was alive (and 102 goddamn years old) grandmother would respond to psychologists saying, "HOW ARE YOU TODAY, MRS PORTER?" by snubbing the hell out of them. And then mom would have to cross the commonwealth and go demonstrate that grandmother could have a perfectly normal conversation with anyone she didn't hold in seething contempt. [/quote] There's a definite bullshit element -- of course people in a nursing home don't know what day of the week it is, it doesn't matter -- but none of that stuff is supposed to be the only deciding factor in the test -- they're screening questions to tell you "ok, either this person is severely addled OR taking the piss, so we need to do a more detailed examination." Same with the clock thing -- it's not decisive by itself, maybe the person's just blind, but if they screw it up time to take a closer look.
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Jan 3, 2018 07:38
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I didn't realize the clock thing wasn't just a TV (Hannibal) thing and learned something. Thanks Trump Thread! 
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Where can I buy one of these?
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stolen gifts for the new thread https://i.imgur.com/tqZm14R.mp4   
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axeil posted:The clinician (often a doctor, psychologist, or social worker) gives the person being tested a piece of paper with a pre-drawn circle on it and asks him to draw the numbers on the clock. if the left "circle" was pre-drawn by a doctor then the doctor might very well have Alzheimer's. That patient didn't stand a chance when trying to drawn a clock on a pear.
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La fille complice
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Katt posted:if the left "circle" was pre-drawn by a doctor then the doctor might very well have Alzheimer's. That patient didn't stand a chance when trying to drawn a clock on a pear. Cmon. Anyone in their right mind draws 12-3-6-9 at the cardinal points first, then fills in the other numbers to make an evenly spaced clock, even on a pear.
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Doctor: draw a clock Me: 
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Blitz7x posted:John Titor turns 20 this year, just in time to lead the resistance after Washington falls what a loving failure of a time traveler this dipshit was/is/will be
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"The man make a tweet" was a perfect and constantly relevant thread title and I hope it returns at some point. Every single day the man make a tweet.
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Glad to see we aren't dead or in the throes of economic collapse yet. But we still have time.
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Kavros posted:Glad to see we aren't dead or in the throes of economic collapse yet. But we still have time. We are less than a quarter in and the insurance mandate and dreamers are hosed. The stock market is resembling Bitcoin in that prices are bloating as corporations buy back as much stock as possible to reap huge dividends next year off tax cuts alone, not increased productivity that actually generates jobs. Carrier and others are getting subsidies to offshore more work, and Republicans aren't holding them accountable. The nuclear taboo is being toed, with open threats now normalized. Dude, we can't sustain this rate of loss, looting, and human tragedy.
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Henry Crustwheel posted:what a loving failure of a time traveler this dipshit was/is/will be Yeah. Apparently he was on the rural side of a rural/urban civil war and consider Russia to be their ally in the nuclear exchange for blowing up all the cities. Russian then becomes Neohick USA's largest trading partner... ...I don't know like where this is going.
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:Yeah. Apparently he was on the rural side of a rural/urban civil war and consider Russia to be their ally in the nuclear exchange for blowing up all the cities. Russian then becomes Neohick USA's largest trading partner... There's the plot twist: Titor was a villain all along trying to keep their hell timeline on track.
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Trump is absolutely so sociopathic and narcissistic that he would want to be the one known forever as destroying the world and civilization in a nuclear fire.
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I would bet a lot of money that he has joked about that at least once with the most uncomfortable staffer in history.
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Saladin Rising posted:New thread, insanity still reigns: This is the first time I saw a tweet I thought for sure was a parody that ended up being real. Good loving god.
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https://twitter.com/brendannyhan/status/948197152349704192 Though some warnings about online “echo chambers” have been hyperbolic, tendencies toward selective exposure to politically congenial content are likely to extend to misinformation and to be exacerbated by social media platforms. We test this prediction using data on the factually dubious articles known as “fake news.” Using unique data combining survey responses with individual-level web tra c histories, we estimate that approximately 1 in 4 Americans visited a fake news website from October 7-November 14, 2016. Trump supporters visited the most fake news websites, which were overwhelmingly pro-Trump. However, fake news consumption was heavily concentrated among a small group — almost 6 in 10 visits to fake news websites came from the 10% of people with the most conservative online information diets. We also find that Facebook was a key vector of exposure to fake news and that fact-checks of fake news almost never reached its consumers.
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what you're saying is that every conservative needs to die, as they are a pestilence without rhyme or reason
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We live in a Verhoeven movie and it rules. Until it doesn't, but whatever. Kiss me quick before I wake up.
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Aves Maria! posted:what you're saying is that every conservative needs to die, as they are a pestilence without rhyme or reason I've been saying that about boomers for years.
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Another year, another set of insane Trump tweets. I wonder why??? Oh anyways, this op ed is real fuckin good https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/opinion/republicans-investigation-fusion-gps.html 
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Jan 3, 2018 10:57
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My only hope is that when Trump does try "pushing the button", his staff just loads up a modded version of the Fallout 4 opening where everyone looks Korean.
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the_steve posted:My only hope is that when Trump does try "pushing the button", his staff just loads up a modded version of the Fallout 4 opening where everyone looks Korean. The button just causes his chair to fall down a trapdoor that deposits him in the White House garbage containers. Amongst the many discarded boxes of filet-o-fish his administration has created.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Yeah, it would probably need a constitutional amendment. I think if we make it to a post Trump political universe such an amendment may become a possibility. How does implementing something like that work? Is a majority required in Congress? The Senate? What sort of numbers would be required to force this through?
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Moreau posted:How does implementing something like that work? Is a majority required in Congress? The Senate? What sort of numbers would be required to force this through? Two‐thirds of both houses of Congress. Three‐quarters of the state legislatures.
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Platystemon posted:Two‐thirds of both houses of Congress. Friendly reminder that at this moment we're closer to an ultra-regressive freedom-killing Constitutional Convention than a liberal paradise-producing one.
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Saladin Rising posted:New thread, insanity still reigns:  He must have seen this and felt the need to set the record straight.
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