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Xiahou Dun posted:An inherent problem of (many) government systems is a pretty high requirement for good faith actors. It’s really hard to come up with a democracy that has an effective safe guard against just voting in some dipshit who wants to light everything on fire. You don't have to make judges political appointees and most countries with modern democratic constitutions don't. That we do is a relic of the founders' royalist ideas. UK Supreme Court judges are recommemded by a committee whose members determined by law and are mostly professionals like other judges, representatives from regional bodies, etc. The Government can reject their choice and ask for someone else but can't just put in whoever they want. France has a formal independent body for the purpose. I'm sure those methods have their flaws too, but it's not like you elect one idiot one time and he gets to put all his incompetent cronies in to rule for life. VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Dec 14, 2022 |
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Captain_Maclaine posted:The first federal judge ever to be impeached fell into this exact category (he was also almost certainly mentally ill and self medicating with booze). Happened in 1804. I thought they went after him because he was a hardcore partisan federalist (as in the federalist party)?
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plogo posted:I thought they went after him because he was a hardcore partisan federalist (as in the federalist party)? No, that was the first Supreme Court justice they tried to impeach at about the same time, Samuel Chase. I'm referring to John Pickering, a drunk/insane US district court judge (and also on the NH state Supreme Court, as things were squishier and had fewer rigidly defined boundaries those days). The latter's impeachment was used as precedence for the former, though.
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Dons got a big announcement tomorrow. I tried looking at his website to see him announcing his announcement, but the news section is gone and it tries to force you to give a phone number and email to proceed. https://twitter.com/BettyBowers/status/1603117349128880128 Oh wait, found his announcing of his announcement. https://twitter.com/alx/status/1603066885867802624
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OgNar posted:Dons got a big announcement tomorrow. America needs a SUPERHERO. Donny's gonna show up with a Captain America costume from Wish.com isn't he
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Dec 15, 2022 01:11
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He's gonna rant about how Homelander is a good guy.
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Lol not like it matters but blocking exits and preventing people from leaving is wildly illegal.
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I am pretty curious if he actually has something to say or if he just needs attention. Secretly hoping he takes out a book bound in human flesh and starts a song that will turn the seas red and make the sun blink in shame.
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He's going to announce that he's a "candidate" for Speaker of the House. It's gonna be awesome.
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Xiahou Dun posted:I am pretty curious if he actually has something to say or if he just needs attention. He's not nearly that cool. If he tried he's ruin the incantation through mispronunciation and by pausing repeatedly for multiple-sentence self-serving rants and tangents about how awesome he is and how much the old gods begged him to do this with years in their many eyes, etc.
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VitalSigns posted:You don't have to make judges political appointees and most countries with modern democratic constitutions don't. That we do is a relic of the founders' royalist ideas. True, but putting them on ballots doesn't work much better, at least in my experience here in Florida. It's next to impossible to track down information on them at all beyond where they worked or went to school and one really has to dig to find out anything about the judges themselves beyond who appointed them. Which is how I pick who to vote for and sometimes, if I don't really know, I just leave that blank on my ballot. I don't know the answer. Ideally, an elected representative appointing a qualified person makes sense to a certain degree but then that we get is those elected officials jamming the courts with people that will rule in their favor rather than interpreting the law and endless claims of a person being an Obama, Bush or Trump judge. And then if you put them on a ballot, nobody knows the first thing about them really, probably very few people even try to do any research and, to the extent that they MIGHT, it would usually begin and end with their abortion rulings and capital punishment decisions or, like I said above, simply who appointed them. Even the cases they ruled on are oddly difficult to track down unless you're super plugged in. At a certain point, we just have what we have and hope that they're impartial, clear headed, smart and empathetic.
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cr0y posted:Lol not like it matters but blocking exits and preventing people from leaving is wildly illegal. That was definitely a faketweet, not a real thing.
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cr0y posted:Lol not like it matters but blocking exits and preventing people from leaving is wildly illegal. Sounds like someone has forgotten the Romney Death Rally
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OgNar posted:Dons got a big announcement tomorrow.
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Timeless Appeal posted:I mean there's a greater than 0 chance that Trump drinks toxic waste on stage in an effort to literally give himself superpowers. A live version of that one bit in Iron Man 2, Trump fist-pumping only for his rocket gauntlet to rip his arm from the shoulder and impale Eric.
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Artist 1: Okay how do we show Donald Trump as a superhero? Artist 2: We have him do the classic "Clark Kent opening his shirt to show off his superhero costume. Artist 1: Great. What next? Artist 2: How about we have him using his heat vision? Artist 1: Even better idea. Why don't we have him shooting his heat vision all around like he's killing a bunch of people. Like how he started to change into his superheroic alternate identity, but realized he was doing it in front of a crowd of people. So he has to use his heat vision to kill them all, to preserve his secret identity. And then hours later he Artist 2: That sounds great. So we knock this out, early lunch, then hookers and blow? Artist 1: Yeah! Also you know with this announcement that Bonnie Taylor is on standby to say Trump never had permission to play "Holding Out for a Hero"
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It was all for a line of Trump-branded NFTs, and they don't even have the technical wherewithal to actually set up their own blockchain list or whatever to try and fake like there's a premium individuality to these things. So they just call them "digital trading cards," because that sounds like a thing from the 1950s that olds would remember, threw a $100 price point on his lovely photoshop JPEGs and called it a day.
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Class3KillStorm posted:It was all for a line of Trump-branded NFTs, and they don't even have the technical wherewithal to actually set up their own blockchain list or whatever to try and fake like there's a premium individuality to these things. So they just call them "digital trading cards," because that sounds like a thing from the 1950s that olds would remember, threw a $100 price point on his lovely photoshop JPEGs and called it a day. Oh my god
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Lmao I thought you were maybe joking but welp https://twitter.com/onesarahjones/status/1603424779855200267?t=dUkeaklEp4-0H3i_VuJl5Q&s=19 I definitely remember that point in Trump's life and career where he became ripped and shot lasers from his eyes. He probably remembers it too
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Trump must have for sure seen the whole FTX thing go down and say “WE NEED TO DO THAT!”
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Ringo Star Get posted:Trump must have for sure seen the whole FTX thing go down and say “WE NEED TO DO THAT!” "That grift was worth a billion dollars and we didn't get in on that action? What am I paying you people for?!"
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Class3KillStorm posted:It was all for a line of Trump-branded NFTs, and they don't even have the technical wherewithal to actually set up their own blockchain list or whatever to try and fake like there's a premium individuality to these things. So they just call them "digital trading cards," because that sounds like a thing from the 1950s that olds would remember, threw a $100 price point on his lovely photoshop JPEGs and called it a day. I went back and forth on this being a joke so many times and so fast, you could’ve used my brain as a dynamo.
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Wait so a presidential candidate just teed up a "major announcement" and the announcement was him selling JPGs of himself? Is this a way to get around campaign financing or something?
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That was truly dumber than anything I could have thought of. This was like a xmas gift to Colberts writers.
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Ynglaur posted:Wait so a presidential candidate just teed up a "major announcement" and the announcement was him selling JPGs of himself? "Presidential" "candidate" Ynglaur posted:Is this a way to get around campaign financing or something? Much like anything Trump does, this is just a grift - a way to make stupid people give him $100 for a low effort Photoshop. Apparently there's only about 100 designs, BUT you can buy multiples so that you can try and win PRIZES! https://collecttrumpcards.com/prizes So, it's a grift, but they're actually innovating in the NFT space - who cares about individual ownership of a digital JPEG when you can win something theoretically more tangible (if you just give Trump money)? It's the next evolution in the whole thing, and I wonder if Trump didn't just give the whole charade enough of a shot in the arm to keep the whole scam train rolling for another few months.
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OgNar posted:That was truly dumber than anything I could have thought of. I've gone and made ILLEGAL .JPEG COPIES of some of the NFTs and D&D is having a photoshop/caption contest to celebrate. Posters can win YUGE prizes! Thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4019787 OP (with some of the illegal NFTs for everyone to browse) Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:
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Failed Imagineer posted:Wait, I don't remember getting my picture taken shaking hands with Trump.... It was that same year that Time named you "Person of the Year"
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:It was that same year that Time named you "Person of the Year" Yeah, I had a lot going on at the time. Then there was that Netflix psychological thriller series about how I was a serial killer - just really a crazy time for me
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Ynglaur posted:Is this a way to get around campaign financing or something? Yes, but only in that campaign financing is supposed to be used on a campaign and not given directly to Trump.
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Is this new? It also seems to have come out today unless I somehow missed it before. Also its batshit crazy. "Here's my plan First within hours of my Inauguration..." https://twitter.com/MAGAIncWarRoom/status/1603458280550195201 OgNar fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Dec 16, 2022 |
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OgNar posted:Is this new? It's going to be fun watching MAGATS turn themselves inside out trying explain how this doesn't apply to drag shows.
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I mean the obvious solution is to make them unlawful. The whole bullet point is basically a tautology anyway.
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Old James posted:It's going to be fun watching MAGATS turn themselves inside out trying explain how this doesn't apply to drag shows. No need. Anything outside the norm would be unlawful. The Deviant don't get rights like the rest of the white, christian folk do. This is their thinking. We saw it with how they treated the Club Q shooter, thinking he was forced into it by 'groomers'.
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OgNar posted:Is this new? I have questions about those three points. Though I guess the biggest one is "How quickly would he just start yelling out the N word after being inaugurated?"
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“Ban the government from policing lawful speech”? What, like not creating rules to control how private platforms enforce their ToS? However I expect he actually means, “empower government to police speech I don’t like such as platforms that prevent me from violating their ToS” Edit: wait. I bet he means his speech on J06 which some have suggested there is enough evidence now to demonstrate criminal intent to incite a riot and sedition. Murgos fucked around with this message at 13:42 on Dec 16, 2022 |
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mdemone posted:https://twitter.com/schwellenbach/status/1602328925484597254?s=20&t=YgD_nPCjwV2j7xjx5yn8Eg Aren't Secret Service agents subject to some of the most stringent background checks there are? Like if you were caught stealing a candy bar when you were 9, or you failed a history test they know about it before they hire you.
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