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haveblue posted:If you want to feel a little better, remember that impeachment is starting, his approval is trending down, the economy is on the verge of becoming an albatross around his neck, and it's becoming increasingly likely he has an undeniable psychotic episode on live video. None of this makes it certain he'll lose, but compared to where we were in, say, 2017, it's a big improvement. I think you are disregarding how divorced from reality most right wingers are. They will vote for trump even though his policies are directly screwing them. They will think that the democrats are stealing their votes.
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ManBoyChef posted:I think you are disregarding how divorced from reality most right wingers are. They will vote for trump even though his policies are directly screwing them. They will think that the democrats are stealing their votes. This was true of Nixon, as well. Just less so. The interesting question is how much less so.
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Invalid Validation posted:I had to look up the sentence 10 loving years? Jesus it’ll only be like 5 max what a piece of poo poo. It's still a travesty but as someone pointed out earlier in the thread, Texas doesn't shorten sentences or let people out early on parole for murder. So it's only 10 years but she'll serve the full amount.
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Invalid Validation posted:I had to look up the sentence 10 loving years? Jesus it’ll only be like 5 max what a piece of poo poo. Actually side effect of Texas trying to gently caress over minorities in any way possible is that this white girl will not be able to get time off that sentence. Cold comfort, I know.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:finnish iirc, but they're all snow germans so i understand the confusion gently caress. Oh well, "FAKE NEWS MEDIA and I'm going to sue everyone after this is over" took over my brain. Invalid Validation posted:I had to look up the sentence 10 loving years? Jesus it’ll only be like 5 max what a piece of poo poo. Are you loving kidding me? What a loving joke.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:It's still a travesty but as someone pointed out earlier in the thread, Texas doesn't shorten sentences or let people out early on parole for murder. So it's only 10 years but she'll serve the full amount. Apparently this isn't true and most people seem to think she'll be eligible in 5 years. So 5 years is the minimum, and I hope not the maximum.
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Invalid Validation posted:I had to look up the sentence 10 loving years? Jesus it’ll only be like 5 max what a piece of poo poo. Yep, eligible for parole in five years. TDC gives 2:1 good behavior credit for murder (and maybe some other crimes) rather than 3:1 for other offenses. The 19 year old black kid that broke in my house years ago and stole my son's Playstation did four.
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Jaxyon posted:Actually side effect of Texas trying to gently caress over minorities in any way possible is that this white girl will not be able to get time off that sentence. I think that is only for certain murder offenses. From what I read, she'll be eligible for parole in 5 years.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:It's still a travesty but as someone pointed out earlier in the thread, Texas doesn't shorten sentences or let people out early on parole for murder. So it's only 10 years but she'll serve the full amount. Well least there’s that I guess. I guess if we want prison reform then 10 years would be enough to rehabilitate someone but they definitely would have thrown the book at her if she wasn’t white.
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Invalid Validation posted:I had to look up the sentence 10 loving years? Jesus it’ll only be like 5 max what a piece of poo poo. Compare and contrast: https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/1179750826534952961 Invalid Validation posted:Well least there’s that I guess. I guess if we want prison reform then 10 years would be enough to rehabilitate someone but they definitely would have thrown the book at her if she wasn’t white. Doesn't help she's a cop and a Christian too so the real brain worms came out.
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Certain murder offenses??  I mean, she broke into a dudes house and shot him, what else do you need to do?
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pacerhimself posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/nvgop/status/1179530407919775744 Luckily they're all pasty white so the cop that showed up at the end didn't have to shoot them. This is how the Rep party works. Demand what they want, when people don't agree to those, intimidate and assault. It's only a matter of time before one of them brings a gun along
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Rent-A-Cop posted:God forbid they should have to live like the rest of us. Reminder that Steve Scalise got his dick AND balls relocated by a bullet, and yet he is still (a) pro-gun and (b) pro-Trump e: also I don't really care about PJ either way but I just checked out her rap sheet out of curiosity and lol she has 37 probations and 1 ban in 2019 alone. Truly this is a miscarriage of mod justice
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GreyjoyBastard posted:finnish iirc, but they're all snow germans so i understand the confusion Finns are the ones who aren't snow Germans. They're snow Hungarians.
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Brony Car posted:I think that is only for certain murder offenses. From what I read, she'll be eligible for parole in 5 years. Oh neat! gently caress this country
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SKULL.GIF posted:Compare and contrast: while i suspect they're going to eat at least as much time as the cop did, the cop ALSO faced up to 100 (okay, 99) years in prison Brony Car posted:I think that is only for certain murder offenses. From what I read, she'll be eligible for parole in 5 years. yeah i misread the statutes at first and her charge is eligible in 50% of the sentence, with some fiddly bits
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evilweasel posted:uh i think we've definitively disproven that stops you from running again  yep, I misread
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The difference is these cool ladies destroyed something that America actually values
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Hobojim posted:Not American but have been following this carnival sideshow for the last week quite a bit when I'm feeling bored and need to laugh while being terrified at the same time. Essentially, the House of Representatives votes to send articles of impeachment to the Senate, which is a fancy way of saying "we think the President did these bad things." (this vote is just a simple majority). This is what impeached means. After impeachment happens, then there is a trial in the Senate where some Reps say "here is the evidence to show the President did these bad things" and the President can present a defense, and at the end of the trial the Senate votes on whether they agree that the President did the bad things (and that the bad things are worthy of removal from office). If 2/3 of the Senate (67 members) agree, the President is immediately removed from office (and optionally made ineligible to be President or hold certain other positions ever again). Removal and disqualification are the only penalties allowed as a result of impeachment, except that if the High Crimes and Misdemeanors were also regular crimes, they can then be charged, convicted, and punished for those crimes in the usual manner. E: Oh, the current composition is 53 R 47 D (including two independent), so you'd need 20 Rs to join all the Ds. Jethro fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Oct 3, 2019 |
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If Warren gets the nomination can we get a Elizabeth Warren: The Cougar the Country Needs campaign sign?Lemming posted:Why does anyone give a poo poo about this? Its funny.
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dirty shrimp money posted:The 19 year old black kid that broke in my house years ago and stole my son's Playstation did four. I'm not sure why you felt so compelled to mention the kid's race here. This is pretty gross.
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Lemming posted:Why does anyone give a poo poo about this? it's funnier than previous wohl grifts on every level
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https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1179832199320875008 Going REALLY well!
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Bugsy posted:https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1179821913385910273 the best part of the chapo trip to CPAC was matt christman, about to freak out on an uncomfortable acid trip, finding comfort and relief in the farcical wohl/berkman presser in a goofy off-site atrium.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:it's funnier than previous wohl grifts on every level Yeah but like, random idiots say stupid poo poo everywhere I don't mean why do we care (our brains our diseased) but why is there even one guy showing up to take pictures and tweet
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https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1179833128292163585 Going so well, you guys.
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Man I wonder if anyone told them that Cougar Liz Warren pulling 24 year old body builders is actually way cooler than the real Liz Warren
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OurIntrepidHero posted:I'm not sure why you felt so compelled to mention the kid's race here. This is pretty gross. Because race has EVERYTHING to do with how the justice system treats you in America? A black kid gets 4 years for stealing a Playstation. A white girl gets 10 for murdering a (black) man in his own home while he ate a bowl of ice cream.
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OurIntrepidHero posted:I'm not sure why you felt so compelled to mention the kid's race here. This is pretty gross. because it's relevant when discussing how the justice system treats people of different races differently. that should not need to be explained to you. a black kid did 4 years for a nonviolent burglary of what i assume is under $1000 while a white woman who murdered an innocent person will do 5. the point of this comparison is utterly lost without specifying that the first person is black - that petty theft, while black, is 80% as bad as murder while white.
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Midgetskydiver posted:This is a poo poo probation. PJJ has had to respond to this exact attack like 20 times and despite being a little snippy, she did so again in good faith here. Calling for peaceful, disruptive protest is not the same as calling for random murder and it's super lovely that people keep lobbing that accusation with no repercussions. If I have to eat a 6er here to make this point I'll do so- you don't have to agree with PJJ to not be an antagonistic dick to her. Just ignore and move on, preferably without accusations of incitement to violence, which in this day and age, is a serious loving allegation. I'm not addressing PJ's specific posting but it is a valid point to make that calling for peaceful protests and saying the system is a fully fascist lost cause are incompatible statements. Disruptive protests are reliant on the system being at a minimum reform-able, the mechanism of change in such protests is the system. For the most part the purpose behind them is to bring visibility to an injustice to influence the system to change, even disruptive protests are mostly a manner of forcing visibility upon the willfully ignorant. If there is literally no option for redress through our current system the only option left is violence. edit: It's also worth noting that this is the exact mechanism through which GOP has become increasingly radicalized and violent. Don't call for violence directly (though we're now flirting with this point) but describe and convince people of a situation being such that violence seems like the logical/only recourse. Jarmak fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Oct 3, 2019 |
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Delthalaz posted:Man I wonder if anyone told them that Cougar Liz Warren pulling 24 year old body builders is actually way cooler than the real Liz Warren Diamond Liz Warren
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