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aware of dog posted:My guess is the Kekistan flag, a made up country they use to claim that their racism and bigotry is just their culture and if you criticize them for it then you're the real racist. Oh. I hate everything. Edit: Two in a row I think! 
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Majorian posted:It's amazing to me that they apparently don't realize how awful this looks. "If you've done the time, you may as well do the crime." They know that everyone who dislikes them already suspects they're considering it- this projects their "strength" to their base and if the testimony does occur it's only because they "allowed" it.
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Majorian posted:It's amazing to me that they apparently don't realize how awful this looks. I'm constantly blown away by the fact that the first step to authoritarianism is apparently not giving a poo poo. It's the same kind of brazen dildory that he exhibited with the whole "'move on them like a bitch" comment from the Pussygate tape, just writ large.
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Jun 2, 2017 21:49
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Chilichimp posted:She's loving polish catholic! Shomer loving shabbos!!!
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Chilichimp posted:She's loving polish catholic! THAT'S THE JOKE
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howe_sam posted:The guy who owns the National Enquirer is a close friend of Trump If it wasn't made clear enough in its cover a couple weeks back, "WORLD WAR III COMING! HOW TRUMP WILL CRUSH OUR 8 ENEMIES!"
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:Oh If anal sex why Santorum?
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enraged_camel posted:THAT'S THE JOKE And when you get a divorce you what? Get a new drivers license, get a new library card? You STOP being Jewish?!?!?
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Mustached Demon posted:I think so yeah. I'm not going to defend it but in moments of intense grief people do strange things. When I found out my sister had been murdered I just went totally blank, walked into the middle of the street, and waited for a car to hit me. People don't act rational in extreme situations, and I wager for a nutjob like Santorum this applies ten times over. Edit: this is no way a defense of Santorum as a person, but rather that humans do some weird loving poo poo when they are in the throes of grief Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Jun 2, 2017 |
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Chilichimp posted:And when you get a divorce you what? Get a new drivers license, get a new library card? You STOP being Jewish?!?!? you declare bankruptcy, and the money you owe to the jewish lobby is forgiven
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Chilichimp posted:And when you get a divorce you what? Get a new drivers license, get a new library card? You STOP being Jewish?!?!? Well you most certainly have to turn in your honorary yarmulke.
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enraged_camel posted:you declare bankruptcy, and the money you owe to the jewish lobby is forgiven You're living in the loving past!
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Wildeyes posted:If it wasn't made clear enough in its cover a couple weeks back, "WORLD WAR III COMING! HOW TRUMP WILL CRUSH OUR 8 ENEMIES!"  (Seriously, I couldn't. Russia, China, ISIS, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and North Korea only got me to seven. Al Qaeda? Did they count "Syria" as an enemy? Am I missing Mexico? Venezuela? What the hell does the average tabloid reader think about?)
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enraged_camel posted:you declare bankruptcy, and the money you owe to the jewish lobby is forgiven You're killing your father, enraged_camel.
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Xae posted:I get that executive privilege can stop someone from being forced to testify, but can it stop someone who wants to testify? I looked it up, and legal experts from a couple different articles are saying that there's no automatic legal penalty for Comey if he defies Trump and testifies anyway. If he still worked for the government, Trump could have compelled him not to testify because he could fire him for insubordination. But its too late for that, Comey is a private citizen now. It appears the only way to really stop Comey from testifying other than asking him not to and hoping he complies, would be to go to court and get a judge to issue an injunction against Comey from testifying. Then he couldn't testify for fear of violating a court order. Obviously this has never been done before because the person congress wants to hear from in these cases has almost always been an ally of the president or a federal employee who didn't really want to testify anyway, and the assertion of executive privilege stops congress from being able to punish them for refusing, but in this case Comey does not like Trump and wants to talk.
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Alter Ego posted:Ahahaha, holy poo poo. LaserShark posted:"What can I do today to make my administration look even more totally corrupt. Wait, I know!" From this morning, on the exact same subject, too. PLAGIARIST! 
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Oh, I saw that one while waiting in the checkout line at Target. I couldn't come up with eight enemies even by tabloid standards I shared the post with my cubicle neighbor and now we're debating and quibbling over a list of enemies and whether we can reach a definitive eight - by lunatic or rational standards. It's kind of fun on a lazy workday, so thanks National Enquirer.
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Rigel posted:I looked it up, and legal experts from a couple different articles are saying that there's no automatic legal penalty for Comey if he defies Trump and testifies anyway. If he still worked for the government, Trump could have compelled him not to testify because he could fire him for insubordination. But its too late for that, Comey is a private citizen now. found the problem with the logic trump's still gonna do it.
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Majorian posted:It's amazing to me that they apparently don't realize how awful this looks. They don't care.
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Fart City posted:I'm constantly blown away by the fact that the first step to authoritarianism is apparently not giving a poo poo. It's the same kind of brazen dildory that he exhibited with the whole "'move on them like a bitch" comment from the Pussygate tape, just writ large. It's not really that surprising. Rules only have power when people respect them. If nobody is willing to enforce them, as the Republicans have more than demonstrated, then the only thing preventing a total dictatorship is the leader's own sense of decency. I think the most harm caused by the Trump presidency won't be because of anything he does, but rather just what he represents. He's a man who has spent his whole life brazenly ignoring the rules and being rewarded for it all the way into the highest office. How can anyone respect the rule of law when someone like him comes along and proves that if you ignore it, nobody will stop you?
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empty whippet box posted:If we get proof that trump is literally getting cucked by melania in exactly the fashion that internet republicans are obsessed with totally absolutely 100% not being, I wonder how many of them would finally stop supporting him. Not over climate change, misogyny, being a rapist, a moron, none of that. Because cuck Uuuuh, I think you'll find that Trump ALLOWED the cheating to happen: it's called "delegating" libtard. Trump's alphamalemanmusk is so overpowering that Melania would be on him 24/7 if he didn't and he's got a job to do Making 'Merica Great 'Gain! Unlike that lazy filthy Kenyan who I bet still took time to have sex with his wife on MY tax dollars! I bet the Head of Security even worked cheaper so it was yet another masterful negotiation for Trump.
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Does Comey not publicly testifying even do much since he has already told Mueller everything?
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Pander posted:found the problem with the logic I don't think you understood. I'm not arguing whether or not Trump can assert executive privilege or if he will. Some people (including me) had wondered "well so what if he claims executive privilege, Comey doesn't work for Trump, can he just ignore it?" The answer appears to be that yes, Comey could tell Trump to gently caress off and testify anyway without any fear of any kind of legal consequences UNLESS Trump runs to court first and quickly convinces a judge to issue an injunction against Comey, and he's running out of time to do that.
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Chilichimp posted:And when you get a divorce you what? Get a new drivers license, get a new library card? You STOP being Jewish?!?!? Lay off Ivanka. She's a loving show dog. She has loving papers, dude.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Oh, I saw that one while waiting in the checkout line at Target. I couldn't come up with eight enemies even by tabloid standards Things you consider enemies and things Trump and his supporters consider enemies are two very separate things. France, Mexico, Germany and Canada are apparently enemies of Trumps America.
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Alrighty, so which paper gets the scoop that drives the weekend?
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FlamingLiberal posted:Does Comey not publicly testifying even do much since he has already told Mueller everything? Not really, since Mueller exists, everything else pales in comparison for what Trump should be afraid of. The consequences here are more political and for our entertainment than legal. The impeachment train won't start down the track until Mueller issues some kind of report and shows congress the evidence he has uncovered.
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Pander posted:found the problem with the logic what the legal experts are saying is trump doing it doesn't make a difference, not that he shouldn't
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Rigel posted:I don't think you understood. I'm not arguing whether or not Trump can assert executive privilege or if he will. Some people (including me) had wondered "well so what if he claims executive privilege, Comey doesn't work for Trump, can he just ignore it?" Oh I understand, I'm just saying I think they'll still try to assert that anything Comey discusses is covered by executive privilege, and therefore anything he releases is fake news/lies/whatever. It'll be nonsensical legalese word salad with the only goal being to disrupt the flow of the story and make his base think Comey is on Team Hillary / Sore About Losing The Election. Comey's gonna testify regardless.
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This man is falling apart in the brain https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/870745312545173508 https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/870745940432478208
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empty whippet box posted:lol if he obstructs justice to prevent testimony that said he obstructed justice The thing I think would be even more amazing is if he obstructed justice to prevent testimoney that said he didn't actually obstruct justice but he's panicking because he thinks it does.
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So I've been hearing different things from different people, but is solar/wind affordable for large scale production without government subsidies?
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Pander posted:Oh I understand, I'm just saying I think they'll still try to assert that anything Comey discusses is covered by executive privilege, and therefore anything he releases is fake news/lies/whatever. It'll be nonsensical legalese word salad with the only goal being to disrupt the flow of the story and make his base think Comey is on Team Hillary / Sore About Losing The Election. Thats not really asserting executive privilege. Of course Trump is going to say Comey is lying, fake news, etc. The purpose of executive privlege is for the president to tell congress that no, they can't compel this person to talk, thats private because of national security. They are thinking about preventing Comey from talking, once he tells Congress about his conversations with Trump, its too late for executive privilege.
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Personally if it is that obvious that Comey can just ignore him, I think trump won't try to bluff that he'll pull executive privilege because it would make him look weak when Comey testifies anyway. Or I don't know.
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Good thing he pointed that out, we woulda felt hella dumb if our country only had electricity when its sunny.
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Kekekela posted:Good thing he pointed that out, we woulda felt hella dumb if our country only had electricity when its sunny. I don't get how he can think this is such a slamdunk answer. It's one of those fake "checkmate liberal" statements made in total sincerity.
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Alright I'm probably not going to get any love here for this. I view Santorum's fetus thing as a symptom of lovely conservative values towards reproduction. It wasn't a child it was a miscarried fetus. Treating a miscarriage just like the death of a family member does nothing to help normalize that miscarriages happen. It's something like 30%, at the very least, of fertilized eggs end in miscarriage. poo poo, some evidence puts that number closer to 50% but we really do not know. Normalizing miscarriages as a part of life go a long way in helping couples cope with the fact that sometimes the body just doesn't want that fetus/zygote/clump of cells to grow into a human. Plus I do not believe a fetus is a human until it can survive outside the womb but that's me.
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Rigel posted:Not really, since Mueller exists, everything else pales in comparison for what Trump should be afraid of. This is precisely backwards,because impeachment is a political, not a legal, process. All the theater is important
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yeah, reading through US v. Nixon, I see no legitimate basis to argue that executive privilege allows the President to block a subordinate from voluntary testimony, and that would be obviously unconstitutional under the 1st amendment as well it's purely a way to tell congress to go gently caress itself when congress issues a subpoena, trying to compel disclosure
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