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eke out posted:Hi, thanks for your second post in this thread. If you'd refer to the OP, you'd see that rapid-fire TVIV style posting during hearings is allowed here, while reactions without context would not be in USPOL. Good to know that the rules only matter until they don't. Thank you for the explanation, guy who shits on everyone who posts like you did a moment ago!
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eke out posted:Hi, thanks for your second post in this thread. If you'd refer to the OP, you'd see that rapid-fire TVIV style posting during hearings is allowed here, while reactions without context would not be in USPOL. For what it’s worth I am stuck in class and I do appreciate anyone elaborating even though it is not mandatory! It is a good thread.
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eke out posted:yeah lol the "libertarian" doesn't care about the argument that there is literally no limit to the Executive's authority to solicit corrupt assistance in reelection If the President can do anything in the public interest to help his re-election, surely he can just declare that running against him is illegal.
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Jan 30, 2020 20:01
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Framboise posted:Has it ever really been alive? It's was always "An American Lie" Which I'm working on: A long, long time ago... I can still remember How democracy used to make me smile And I knew if we had a choice Then we could make our nation rejoice And, maybe, we’d be happy for a while But January made me shiver With every vote that Mitch delivered Bad news from the trial; I couldn’t take one more liar I can’t remember if I cried When I heard about Trump’s endless bribes But something touched me deep inside The day our democracy died So bye-bye, you American Lie Took an Uber to the Starbucks, but the Starbucks was dry And them Senate boys were talking bullshit 'n lies Singing, "This’ll be the day democracy dies” "This’ll be the day democracy dies"
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Literally Kermit posted:For what it’s worth I am stuck in class and I do appreciate anyone elaborating even though it is not mandatory! It is a good thread. while Pam didn't pause for 30 seconds like yesterday, it was memorable nonetheless https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1222955730900279296
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eke out posted:the crazier you make the hypo the less likely it is to protect them, but yeah, probably, so long as it was clearly in his official capacity as a member of congress The Supreme Court disagreed with you. Pushing or sharing to the media is not protected
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eke out posted:while Pam didn't pause for 30 seconds like yesterday, it was memorable nonetheless See? That wasn't too difficult. Good job! (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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I assume that burning whistleblowers is a-okay because it might help get him re-elected? Stickman fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Jan 30, 2020 |
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Jan 30, 2020 20:19
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Dapper_Swindler posted:Not yet. Wait until tomorrow. Plus acquitting without witnesses is a really bad move on the gop part. And what is stopping Trump from just, uh, calling off elections?
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Fart Amplifier posted:The Supreme Court disagreed with you. Pushing or sharing to the media is not protected i assume you're talking about Gravel but i think him arranging to have the Pentagon Papers published is probably different than a hypo where Schiff personally reveals something top secret in a discussion right outside a SCIF i would certainly agree that the limits of speech and debate are still mostly untested and courts would probably prefer to not have to rule on them at all eke out fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Jan 30, 2020 |
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KillHour posted:So Schumer could leave a SCIF and tell all the top secret classified info to anyone who will listen and it would be totally kosher? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravel_v._United_States e: I'm way behind on the thread, woops
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Grouchio posted:And what is stopping Trump from just, uh, calling off elections? Elections are run by the states.
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Grouchio posted:How so? I'm sure other folks want to know how this isn't the dems loving up another trial again. They're run individually by the states and he has no oversight over them.
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Philbin may be quite bad at this but every time Sekulow goes up it's clear that things could be so much worse
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Suddenly open laughter in the chamber. Rewinding to catch what that was about e: Justice Department just argued in court today that Congress can't use the court to enforce their subpoena. The only remedy is impeachment. Hence the lols. Tunafish fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Jan 30, 2020 |
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Jan 30, 2020 20:36
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ummel posted:The baseball shooter was a leftist/liberal. Not sure if that was what you were trying to say, but it was unclear to me when I was reading through your post. I know. My point is if even the lefties have gone that nuts and they aren't known for their gun-hugging calls for revolution, imagine how much worse the right wing nuts must be.
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A Terrible Person posted:See? That wasn't too difficult. https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1222944512856788995
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Jan 30, 2020 20:41
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The people should decide who will be President, which is why the President is the candidate that gets the second most votes in the election.
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Oracle posted:I know. My point is if even the lefties have gone that nuts and they aren't known for their gun-hugging calls for revolution, imagine how much worse the right wing nuts must be. My fear is that voter registration is public information in many states, available with an information request. Name, address, party affiliation. Boy howdy, I can see how the chuds might be able to leverage this information during an election riot to do some good old fashioned domestic terrorism on the terrible socialist communist fascist Demoncraps who subverted the righteous election process with their tricks. This is why I am not technically registered to any party. I'd rather not be on some chud's "to murder" list because I lived next door to him after an electoral upset. It doesn't require them to spark a full civil war or anything. Just an angry orange man who gives them an excuse to lash out and create a temporary (but visceral) spike in domestic terrorism and a pointer to a list of people to blame.
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A Terrible Person posted:Good to know that the rules only matter until they don't. Thank you for the explanation, guy who shits on everyone who posts like you did a moment ago! Username/post combo
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Jan 30, 2020 20:46
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Jan 30, 2020 21:02
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This gently caress is doing a Trump 2020 Campaign speech lol
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Jan 30, 2020 21:06
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Holy poo poo WH counsel is giving a Trump stump speech from the well of the Senate during the President's impeachment trial.
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mcmagic posted:This gently caress is doing a Trump 2020 Campaign speech lol JOIN US 
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GreyjoyBastard posted:please tone down the posting about posting thanks I had to bite my hand to keep from cracking up during a lecture From the producers of “I WANT NOTHING I WANT NOTHING” we get a giant font note about when the trip was, but apparently no reminder Hunter Biden is a member of the Biden family poo poo like this nourishes me
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Jan 30, 2020 21:22
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PIZZA.BAT posted:They're run individually by the states and he has no oversight over them. It's not impossible. Trump comes on tv election night: "I've learned that there has been significant interference in our elections, I'm asking the state election reps do not certify the results of any election until we figure out what's going on". Followed up by Mitch saying no new senators will be confirmed until the investigation is completed. It would be like the 2000 election x 30. Would be a nice chaotic thing where the chud state governments do not certify and the non chud governments do, leading to a loving madhouse nutjob shitshow?
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Meatball posted:It's not impossible. Isn't this what happened in House of Cards
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In a world plagued by CHUDs, he hunts them down for pay. Coming 2021 to Netflix: The Mitcher.
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Meatball posted:It's not impossible. There aren't 270 electoral votes worth of Republican governors. The federal government doesn't actually administer national elections. The states vote, and they send their results and representatives. Senators are employed by the states, not Mitch. Swearing people in is a formality. Xombie fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Jan 30, 2020 |
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BigglesSWE posted:I’m kind of amazed that someone thought of this. The last few years has really shown how fragile the American political system is when one side decides to ignore all the pinky swears and decorum-standards that hasn’t been replaced by hard, concrete legislation. This is from ten yea *checks notes* five hours ago, but it's an interesting historical tidbit - the framers did this for exactly the opposite reason you'd expect today. Before the 12th Amendment, the President and VP were the candidates who got the most and the second-most votes in the electoral college, respectively, meaning that the VP was almost certainly the President's political rival - so if the VP had been in charge of impeachment proceedings, you'd expect him to be hustling the Senate toward removal.
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Thom12255 posted:Isn't this what happened in House of Cards Oh I didnt see that, I only watch bad tv. I agree it's very far fetched and unlikely, but this whole election, combined with the Republicans' willingness to cheat and our society's capacity to just shrug and let them off the hook for it is really loving with me.
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:This is from ten yea *checks notes* five hours ago, but it's an interesting historical tidbit - the framers did this for exactly the opposite reason you'd expect today. Before the 12th Amendment, the President and VP were the candidates who got the most and the second-most votes in the electoral college, respectively, meaning that the VP was almost certainly the President's political rival - so if the VP had been in charge of impeachment proceedings, you'd expect him to be hustling the Senate toward removal. Yeah, but it turns out that when there *isn't* an impeachment in progress having the president and the guy who would become president if he goes away being political enemies isn't such a great idea
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Meatball posted:It's not impossible. would only work if they deployed the national guard to the democrat run statehouses with the implicit threat of violence for non compliance
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Meatball posted:Oh I didnt see that, I only watch bad tv. You underestimate how much Republican loss of power at the state level since 2016 has completely hosed them over.
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Meatball posted:It's not impossible. The issue with this is it would almost certainly be asking for succession at best or civil war at worst. Any option would mean if they were to hold on to power it would be meaningless. Now we live in the worst timeline and it is obvious that Trump and the GOP are not acting rationally or with a full deck of cards.
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