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according to 15 seconds of googling, trump tower is only 664' and the average height of the new york skyline is 981', so trump didn't change poo poo
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:according to 15 seconds of googling, trump tower is only 664' and the average height of the new york skyline is 981', so trump didn't change poo poo I don't think the top is visible from anywhere outside Manhattan, there are too many other tall buildings around It might have been visible from across the East River before, but now there's a giant billionaire cash parking condo tower there. Lol
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DarkHorse posted:It really is amazing that everything I feared with a Trump presidency, less a nuclear detonation, ended up happening I wouldn't be at all surprised if it eventually came out that the only reason Trump didn't either order a nuclear strike or do something to kick off a nuclear exchange was because someone told him "Oh, the missiles are getting an oil change, but we'll nuke Portland tomorrow", knowing full well President Smoothbrains would completely forget about it in 15 minutes.
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azflyboy posted:I wouldn't be at all surprised if it eventually came out that the only reason Trump didn't either order a nuclear strike or do something to kick off a nuclear exchange was because someone told him "Oh, the missiles are getting an oil change, but we'll nuke Portland tomorrow", knowing full well President Smoothbrains would completely forget about it in 15 minutes. I'd buy that. I remember in one of the 2016 debates--or more specifically in a televised pre debate event--he needed it explained to him multiple times why being the first to use nuclear weapons is a bad idea. Then in the actual debate he got asked something about "first use policy" and clearly didn't recognize the term. It was horrifying.
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I think Trump Tower was pretty influential for 80s architecture, for better or worse. It's definitely a product of its time. Whether it changed the NYC skyline is another thing altogether.
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I have to say, Trump hoovering up all the fundraising money that would normally go into Republican election campaigns and using it for his own non-election benefits has gone a long way to kneecapping the Republican performance in the last few elections. If he does that and is in jail/prison come the election and that depresses turnout for him (an open question) that it would be doubly bad for the party.
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haveblue posted:I don't think the top is visible from anywhere outside Manhattan, there are too many other tall buildings around It’s not. Trump Tower is very distinct, in the sense of being an eyesore, but luckily you can’t see it from very far. It’s not even by the park or anything, it basically only is visible right by it. I do however have to drive by not one but two of his lovely golf courses every time I go to see my doctor. I’d love to see a big For Sale on one of those when I drive down in June.
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Lara working fast https://twitter.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1770563361257795936
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OgNar posted:Lara working fast I can only read that as Jesus loving Christ. Also is there a way to find out if this can be used for the bond?
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Nitrousoxide posted:I have to say, Trump hoovering up all the fundraising money that would normally go into Republican election campaigns and using it for his own non-election benefits has gone a long way to kneecapping the Republican performance in the last few elections. If he does that and is in jail/prison come the election and that depresses turnout for him (an open question) that it would be doubly bad for the party. Well, also the loving wackos they have hired in the RNC, such as the QANON dude who's taking over the targeted voter department. His only qualification is he believes in the big steal. Never ran anything like this before.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I'd buy that. I remember in one of the 2016 debates--or more specifically in a televised pre debate event--he needed it explained to him multiple times why being the first to use nuclear weapons is a bad idea. Then in the actual debate he got asked something about "first use policy" and clearly didn't recognize the term. It was horrifying. Yeah I remember that. People were lampooning him for not knowing what the nuclear triad was and it was just so, so much worse than that
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Randalor posted:And once again I find myself asking... Trump KNOWS that he's not the president RIGHT NOW, and "just" the political rival. If the Supreme Court does say "A president has full immunity from everything they do in office", there's nothing stopping Biden from ordering Seal Team Six to take out Trump. Do you honestly think he considers the decorum-poisoned Dems a threat? He figures they'd never do a drat thing with it, then he can use it when he gets back in to do All The Crimes. Uglycat posted:I get that there's legal precedence that soldiers have a duty to disobey such orders, but is there any precedence of soldiers actually refusing such orders? Yes. Most soldiers aren't interested in getting themselves thrown in Leavenworth to spend their future making big rocks into little rocks if 'Just Following Orders' doesn't carry at a court martial. Plus they're generally not all that ride or die MAGA. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 03:51 on Mar 21, 2024 |
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I definitely remember the sentiment during Trump's term was "Why is this idiot making us do parades when we could be doing literally anything useful"
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Xiahou Dun posted:I can only read that as Jesus loving Christ. This doesn't change anything. It's a convenience thing for big donors, to save them the trouble of writing two separate checks to the Trump campaign and the RNC. All money donated to that fund has to go to one of two places:
To put things in perspective, the RNC's total cash on hand is less than $9 million. I don't think that'd even cover Trump's attorney's fees at this point, let alone the bond.
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Yeah. If the RNC has the ability to raise half a billion dollars in less than 5 days they would own every elected position in the country.
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As a note, if the judge didn’t allow his ruling to be appealed now, then it could screw the trial later when it gets brought up as part of Trump’s general appeals. Even if it causes delays, it’s always best to give the defendant all the leniency within reason so they can’t get everything thrown out on appeal.
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Donkringel posted:List of properties that will/may be seized. Would it remain open while it is seized? If it closes, they'd lose a ton of business and loyal customers.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:according to 15 seconds of googling, trump tower is only 664' and the average height of the new york skyline is 981', so trump didn't change poo poo Maybe we should be looking into if he helped with 9-11.
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Gucci Loafers posted:Would it remain open while it is seized? If it closes, they'd lose a ton of business and loyal customers. It’s a combination condo and hotel, I’m not sure if the hotel would close but I don’t think they’d evict the condo owners or stop accepting rent. If you’re under the impression that it has a casino, it does not. The gaming board won’t license Trump to run a casino in Vegas.
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Ulf posted:It’s a combination condo and hotel, I’m not sure if the hotel would close but I don’t think they’d evict the condo owners or stop accepting rent.  I suspect he's tried in the past.
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Gucci Loafers posted:Would it remain open while it is seized? If it closes, they'd lose a ton of business and loyal customers. They can only seize New York properties, as far as I understand it. That's why the comptroller got super-pissed when the Org tried to transfer five properties to Florida last week.
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Uglycat posted:I get that there's legal precedence that soldiers have a duty to disobey such orders, but is there any precedence of soldiers actually refusing such orders? Almost an infinite amount. Most common daily one would be aircrew (including drone pilots) refusing to use ordnance when they see civilians or kids. There’s infantry units choosing to cease the assault, artillery not firing when unclear of collateral, etc. The decisions to not start or to abort the employment of weapons is pretty mundane and in no way news worthy. Very few units have specific orders to kill anyone. Seals shooting Bin Laden is pretty contested and lawyered and the story isn’t cut and dry. The events and legality of Bin Laden’s killing os still debated, and that’s one of the most black and white ”bad guys” we get. Besides those specific situations, basically no one in the military operates on any orders that say ”kill this person”. And it isn’t even clear cut in Bin Laden case. Even if there could be (probably was) a head nod that Bin Laden gets it, no one’s gonna write that down as an official task. Too many people in the chain would be questioning it and the JAG would be screaming red faced. Vahakyla fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Mar 21, 2024 |
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DarkHorse posted:It really is amazing that everything I feared with a Trump presidency, less a nuclear detonation, ended up happening it is infuriating 
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atriptothebeach posted:it is infuriating Really hoping for that nuke, huh?
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that fool e: it is scary
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I really think all this hullabaloo about him not being able to come up with the money for the bond is just performative on Trumps end. If the court holds firm on requiring the bond by the deadline and doesn't push back the date (which I think is probable),he will suddenly find the money and post it up at the 11th hour. I'm betting that financial arrangement is already set up with some shady foreign backing. This whining about not being able to pay accomplishes a few things. 1. Of course it gives him more opportunity to grift his moron followers, 2. It is just more potential delay, delay, delay tactics like everything else they've done. 3. I think getting his enemies' hopes up that *consequences* are actually about to manifest, then pulling the rug out at the last second is demoralizing and he is nothing if not petty. Also a demoralized Democrat base is less likely to vote. It sucks but I am not expecting any kind of property seizure to start next week. The most likely thing is an extension from the court because rich, powerful people deserve a break. Or he just posts the bond and everything moves on to the next delay tactic and nobody in the mainstream looks where the money came from because the crime pile is just too massive. .
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Nothing says electable like a nebulous half a billion dollar bailout from a foreign agent.
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Kchama posted:As a note, if the judge didn’t allow his ruling to be appealed now, then it could screw the trial later when it gets brought up as part of Trump’s general appeals. Even if it causes delays, it’s always best to give the defendant all the leniency within reason so they can’t get everything thrown out on appeal. edit: and alex jones
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aventari posted:I really think all this hullabaloo about him not being able to come up with the money for the bond is just performative on Trumps end. It's a poo poo load of money and even successful businesses people with billions would be very unlikely to have that much cash just lying around, even the hire estimates of his wealth put it at like two and a half three billion which this is a percent percentage of, and it's very likely he's worth fair less, and also pretty much all banks don't want to lend to him. I would of been far more surprised if he could just come up with the money.
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aventari posted:I really think all this hullabaloo about him not being able to come up with the money for the bond is just performative on Trumps end. If the court holds firm on requiring the bond by the deadline and doesn't push back the date (which I think is probable),he will suddenly find the money and post it up at the 11th hour. I'm betting that financial arrangement is already set up with some shady foreign backing. Remember when this genius schemer’s plan to cover up him hiding literal nuclear secrets in his bathroom was to delegate it two random jamokes — his golf caddie and a nebulously employed Portuguese man. The ones who were caught on camera, pointing at the camera, on the surveillance video they didn’t delete. Who co-ordinated it via emoji. It’s not that I’m certain there’s going to be The Mattering on Monday — I try to keep a realistic understanding of legal processes and I have the same emotional flinch-response as everyone else after the last several years. But Donny Boy just ain’t that loving smart, and even if someone told him to he’s too impatient and incompetent to carry it out. I’m sure there will be fuckery, there always is, but the Donald the Chessmaster canard needs to loving die.
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If they put one property up for auction, and some Saudi prince bids 600 million, does this all resolve?
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InsertPotPun posted:yeah yeah yeah. literally the same thing that's said every time it's brought up. "you have to let trump win so he'll lose!!" Except that the judge’s own decision literally says “Georgia law on this point is unclear and there aren’t many decisions about it” regarding the appearance of a conflict as an independent ground to disqualify a prosecutor in the absence of an actual conflict. He openly framed it as “I think this is how this works,” of course he’s going to have the appellate court, who’s job it is to settle these sort of questions, settle this question.
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Uglycat posted:If they put one property up for auction, and some Saudi prince bids 600 million, does this all resolve? Who is "they" - Trump, or the state of NY? And what do you mean by resolve - satisfy the judgment, or fulfill his bond requirements for the duration of his appeals?
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InsertPotPun posted:yeah yeah yeah. literally the same thing that's said every time it's brought up. "you have to let trump win so he'll lose!!" I mean, DO you want him to win? Not going through the motions is, in fact, the easiest way to let him win, and he gets to win AFTER delaying it endlessly, instead of delaying but still losing.
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The Islamic Shock posted:Trump's pride > Trump's greed > everything else Let's see. For Pride, we can put in the desire to say he didn't lose and that someone else is a liar. For Greed, we can put in Trump's assets. So Willingness to say that Jean Carroll is a liar and get sued for Defamation again > Trump's assets getting hit with another Civil Forfiture order > everything else (including me laughing.) Yeah, the math checks out.
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Main Paineframe posted:While I can't actually prove this, I feel extremely confident in saying that no president has ever said to themselves "Hmmm, I could just assassinate my opponent for reelection, but I don't want to be vulnerable to criminal prosecution after my term ends". That is not a thing that actually happens. You feel extremely confident that neither Donald Trump nor Richard Nixon have ever even considered "I could just assassinate my opponent for reelection, but I don't want to be vulnerable to criminal prosecution"? Okay, let's examine President Nixon in this light and assess a Nixon-ordered break-in, cover-up and tape deletion in May of 1972, when Nixon's opponent for reelection was shot: Richard Nixon is a murderer who conspired to assassinate a competing presidential candidate. An engraving on the Robert F. Kennedy Main Justice Building, which houses the office of the Attorney General of the United States, posted:NO FREE GOVERNMENT CAN SURVIVE THAT IS NOT BASED ON THE SUPREMACY OF LAW Nixon feared the consequences from the sins that he had committed coming to light; he traded the Presidency for a full pardon given by his Vice-President following the headline-catching revelation that he had wiped 18 minutes from a White House audiotape after a foiled break-in at the Democratic Party national headquarters in June of 1972. Long before 1972 Nixon's choices had already directly, knowingly and sinfully led to the deaths of thousands of innocent people for mere boosts in polls; starting from efforts to sabotage peace talks to win the 1968 elections he only became more cruel once President, with more than a million additional preventable killings being done due to his knowing choices. His political madness and bloodshed was never like an abstract thing constrained to overseas, amongst a wave of political assassinations he repeatedly called American society to violence, and he used as many tools available to him as possible to personally strike against his political enemies. Richard Nixon, President of the United States, posted:When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal. Senator Daniel Inouye - Hearings Before the Senate Select Committee on Richard Nixon's Presidential Campaign Activities, posted:Mr. Dean, I would like now to refer to a memo dated August 16, 1971, and you have testified that this was prepared for Mr. Haldeman, Mr. Ehrlichman, and others at the White House. It is classified "Confidential." Howard Hunt, on joining the Nixon administration, posted:I got a call from Chuck Colson. He was now working for the administration as a political advisor. He told me the White House was setting up a Special Investigations Unit (SIU). Nixon wanted people shut down by any means necessary. President Richard Nixon, speaking about an enemy, posted:[In reply to John Mitchell, who's wife was kidnapped, beaten, drugged and had her life held hostage by Nixon's aides a few weeks after his statement: "I would just like to get a hold of this guy and kill him"] The SIU, with offices adjoining the Presidential suites in the Executive Office Building next door to the White House, was right on it: "This son of a bitch has become a great thorn in the side of the president. Stop him at all costs." G. Gordon Liddy - Nixon aide, FBI agent and ghostwriter for FBI Director Hoover, posted:[Regarding Nixon's order] White House and agency workers met in March, 1972, to work through plans for the assassination, including poisoned medicine(obtained from a CIA physician) and staging a fatal mugging. - On April 13'th, 1972, a man in a business suit mingled with people during his second appearance at a Nixon campaign event. While there he would finalize his decision: he would assassinate Governor George Wallace, a candidate competing against Nixon for President. The man spent the next few weeks studying and planning: he checked out two books from the public library in Milwaukee, both detailing the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy during 1968's presidential election. About 1,000 people were present at Governor Wallace's May 15th, 1972, rally in Laurel, Maryland, they were mostly quiet and it was generally a peaceful crowd. Wallace, who had won 46 electoral votes in the 1968 presidential election, was doing much better than he had in his earlier third party run - he was winning primary elections in Northern states. After he had finished speaking, Wallace shook hands with some of those present, against the advice of his Secret Service guards. The man called out to Wallace, pushed his way through the crowd, aimed a revolver, and opened fire, emptying the weapon. Wallace was hit four times and fell back, one bullet lodged in his spinal cord. Three other people present were also hurt: an Alabama State Trooper, Wallace's personal bodyguard, who was shot in the stomach; a campaign volunteer, who was shot in the leg; and a Secret Service agent, who was shot in the neck. In the shooter's car a short diary would eventually be found. Covering just the last few weeks, the diary invoked Democratic causes for the shooting. In the New York Review of Books, Gore Vidal wrote that E. Howard Hunt — a thriller writer himself — likely created the diary. (I wonder what a comparison AI would think between it and similar Hunt novels.) When Nixon learned the FBI made copies of the diary available to Secret Service investigators, he ordered FBI Director Gray not only to destroy all records indicating that the White House had seen the recovered diary but to issue a directive that "no one is allowed access to the subject, even lawyers." Director Gray became furious when the manuscript was sent to Newsweek, at a time when only the FBI and the White House had copies. The 1972 presidential election produced an abnormally high Republican vote and abnormally low Democratic vote as racist southern voters switched to Nixon en-masse after Wallace finally dropped out; Nixon depended on his intentionally racist 'Southern Strategy,' which was ineffective against the openly monstrous Alabama governor. Democrats won ~40% of the nation's vote after a forged letter prepared by Nixon's team caused the Democratic favorite, Senator Edmund Muskie, to drop from the election in confused disgrace. Gallup polls showed a 20-1 Nixon-McGovern split in Wallace voters, Wallace was attracting ~20% of the vote when he was shot. Governor Wallace had won just 10 million voters in 1968 as a less popular third party candidate who had almost spoiled Nixon's initial win(Nixon in 1968: +~500,000 votes, +~0.5%); in 1972 Wallace was much more popular and winning elections in northern states, as an energized third party candidate(especially with Senator Muskie remaining as the Democratic candidate) he would have split the vote in favor of a Democrat: Wallace must be stopped "by any means necessary." President Richard Nixon posted:[To Cornelia Wallace, moments after her husband was shot] All The Presidents Men posted:Back in 1972, before the first Watergate trial, Howard Simons had summoned some of the Washington Post editors into his office. "You know, there’s one thing we’ve got to think about," he said. "The ultimate dirty trick." Nixon and White House staff followed the Wallace shooting very closely. A cabinet was formed in the Oval Office to react, before a long session in Nixon's private office of the Executive Office Building in which Nixon and his advisors discussed the political effects of the shooting and how the investigation will be managed. "We have got to get a hold of this thing. You understand the record is being made now." In 1971, Secret Service technicians and White House staff installed voice-activated microphones throughout the President's workspaces: within the surface of the President’s desk, in lights by mantels, etc. In his own memoirs, Nixon wrote that he believed existence of the tapes would never be publicly revealed; more than 3,000 hours of audio have been made available for public listening online at https://nixontapes.org/wallace.html. "If I had thought that on those tapes there was conversation that was criminal, I sure as the Dickens would’ve destroyed them." // "I don't want to have in the record discussions we've had in this room. Pull out the tapes you want and get rid of the rest of it. Most of it is worth destroying." There are wild Nixon audiotapes from the Executive Office Building during that night, one specific conversation is on May 15th and begins around 8pm, soon after the shooting. This is like just barely a month before the botched Watergate break-in and the 18-minute long deleted conversation occurs. Nixon insistently ordered Chuck Colson, who worked to compile enemy lists and had proposed firebombing the Brookings Institution, to tell the press that the shooter was a Democrat, "I can tell you he was a supporter- Just say that he was a supporter of McGovern and Kennedy. Now just put that out. Just say that you have it on unmistakable evidence. Just say we have an authenticated report. Tell your man that this is a hot tip, give it to someone that's a friend." Nixon ordered the FBI to take jurisdiction of the investigation away from the Secret Service, and for the 50 Secret Service agents to stand down and not investigate the assassination attempt: "Secret Service will gently caress this up!" Nixon ordered John Ehrlichman, the White House counsel who initially set up Nixon's secret operations unit and who also helped budget another $100 million kidnap/assassination program the year before, to take control of the investigations, and to gain control over the assassin: "God drat it, be sure that the FBI gets there before he is interviewed, that's all I ask." ["I think that would be impossible, Mr. President."] "You don't consider this a federal offense? Establish it and get him out of there right away." Nixon and Colson talk about the assassin: Howard Hunt, who helped plan the Bay of Pigs invasion and the CIA's coup of Guatemala, is given an order to break into the assassin's home, before the FBI would be allowed to search it, explicitly to clear it of anything incriminating and to throw investigators, and the nation, on a trail: "I just wish that, God, that I'd thought sooner about planting literature. I mean, if they found it near his apartment, that would be helpful. - He is going to be a left-winger by the time we are through with him." Nixon bemoaned Hoovers recent death, at how much more difficult everything is without such an FBI director so much on his side. "You got Pat Gray, he will be an accomplice. Use him, and use Colson’s outfit — you know, to sneak out things. I mean, you do anything. I mean, anything!" Richard Nixon posted:[As Vice-President in his Senate office, March 12th, 1954] People in the executive office wait for more news to come in as time passes. There is morbid talk of getting shot and mad talk of what kind of leftist to best put immediate public blame on; frantic, stilted or hushed conversations occasionally make things on the tape difficult to understand. In the recording Nixon seems agitated and possibly drinking, and people in the room make apprehensions to watching what they say. White House Chief of Staff H.R. "Bob" Haldeman does not like this: they cannot talk because of what the record system could catch right now. He attempts to disable the recording system but is stopped by the President, who wants him to leave the tapes alone: "Bob, you're dead." Starting at about 8 minutes in they speak about something clear and incriminating and worth covering up. Nixon changes his mind about ignoring the taping system and, as discussed, this part of this White House tape has been wiped over. This does not seem to have been done multiple times, it seems like a simple and quick once over done on the spot. If the physical tapes still exist and retain any magnetic condition I'd like to see an attempted reconstruction of this conversation. After a few minutes of tape time the audio is resumed, I could be imagining but the tone of the speech seems different, as though the previous few minutes(how many real minutes have really elapsed? It seems they go back to wipe just a few minutes of conversation, but time elapses while the audio device is being managed as well) settled things a bit in the room. The moment immediately following an attempted murder, a political assassination, is not a time to get rid of evidence and destroy records, unless... Running for President against Nixon is incredibly dangerous, favorites were shot in 1968 and 1972, and Nixon was who named Gerald Ford onto the Warren commission, the Senate investigation into President John F. Kennedy's assassination (Nixon was still an informal leader of the party in 1963/1964, Senators wanted someone accepted by the Republicans on the commission and came to Nixon for his recommendation, of Ford). In the investigation following President Kennedy's 1963 death Nixon had outright lied to the FBI agents collecting information, stating he was not in Dallas that day, nor was he there the day before; he actually flew out of the city like 3 hours before the shooting, after being there for a few days. When considering such a direct lie to the FBI, things like 'Jack Ruby working for Congressman Nixon and the House Un-American Activities Committee' start to look incriminating concerning the events surrounding JFK's murder; a really deep dive into Nixon's doings here is a perspective that I feel is interesting, his direct lie to the FBI/Senate on even being in the city where the President's murder occurred was a very very bad thing to do. President Richard Nixon posted:I didn't think of it as a cover-up. I didn't intend it to cover up. Let me say, if I intended to cover up, believe me, I'd've done it. You know how I could've done it? So easily. I could have done it immediately by giving clemency to everybody. Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon posted:Of all the political myths out of which the American Republic was born, none was more hopeful than the crowning myth of the Presidency - That the people, in their shared wisdom, would be able to choose the best to lead them. From this came a derivative myth: that the Presidency, the Supreme office, would ennoble any who held its responsibility. President Gerald Ford's first national address upon taking the Oath of Office posted:The oath that I have taken is the same oath that was taken by George Washington and by every President under the Constitution, but I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances. This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts. President Gerald Ford privately justified his "full, free and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, may have committed" by carrying in his wallet a portion of the text of 'Burdick v. United States,' a 1915 Supreme Court decision which states that a pardon carries an imputation of guilt, and that acceptance carries a confession of guilt. "I suppose we can't call that justice, can we?" atriptothebeach fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Apr 14, 2024 |
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https://twitter.com/sollenbergerrc/status/1770648988644983277 Thank you President Trump, sir, for pissing away millions of dollars that the RNC badly needs on your eternal pursuit of the Holy Jail.
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Tesseraction posted:Thank you President Trump, sir, for pissing away millions of dollars that the RNC badly needs on your eternal pursuit of the Holy Jail. I think a lot of trumps legal troubles could be solved if he just doubled his legal team. You know start spending real money on getting all the comically inept lawyers he can find. The RNC doesn't need any money, they'll just waste it anyway.
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My industry's had a bad couple of years. I wish we had a similar figure to hire is all and pay us all to keep us well, no matter how bad we are at our jobs. True altruism.
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mutata posted:My industry's had a bad couple of years. I wish we had a similar figure to hire is all and pay us all to keep us well, no matter how bad we are at our jobs. True altruism. Except you have to drink the Flavor Aid to get on that money train.
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