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hpslugga

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  1. Their evil was born under Nixon, hit puberty with Reagan, peaked out during the W Bush years and hit the demented-old-guy-with-long-fingernails-shitting-in-jars under Trump. They’re just now figuring out the those jars can be used as projectile weapons.
  2. And it’s not even part of his career. His whole life has been a work…just like Trump.
  3. I don’t think you know how Trump-y that dude really is.
  4. On point a I would agree, but if they actually did that would mean Manchin and Sinema would have been convinced finally to kill the filibuster and to add more judges, so since that would almost have to be the case, point B would be moot because they’d be able to rapid fire those. I have next to zero confidence that it would come to it with this current makeup but at some, we do have to recognize that we are indeed a failed state and therefore have to operate within that framework. In a bi-factional system, when one faction doesn’t operate within the framework we like to call “rule of law,” there’s no reason for the other to do so either. Even if they put forth their most earnest effort to do so, the Democrats are never going to convince Republicans to operate within that framework, so that “when they go low we go high” shit just doesn’t reach anyone serious. It’s lofty rhetoric, sure, but lofty rhetoric doesn’t give us Roe back and it doesn’t protect Obergfell, Griswold and/or Lawrence. At this point, I’m not. The whole notion of “lifetime appointment,” coupled with this Court’s absolute lack of moral integrity, is just an invitation to the most sociopathic judges imaginable to aspire to serve on it. That no longer seems to me a viable option. A Samuel Alito and a Clarence Thomas can never be seen as people whom anyone should aspire to emulate. Well if the second alternative is no longer viable and you’re now only cynical towards it in its current guise, why would you still be troubled by the prospect of making it more democratic?
  5. It’s time that we started discussing this topic and I want to start it off by posting two videos to kinda guide it along at least at first. I would really like to see the lawyers’ takes on it in particular.
  6. Yeah that’s what the upcoming Texas law is. Moment of fertilization, no exceptions for rape or incest, will attempt extradition and subsequent prosecution if anyone leaves the state to do it. That’s precisely why Minnesota and others are literally flipping us off in advance. It’s also why employers like Dick’s are flipping us off in advance. None of that has shit to do with a heartbeat.
  7. There was no 200 years of precedent. You’re just making shit up.
  8. I was gonna say, if there’s a poster on this site who is in a worse position to tell another poster to “learn your history” than @Brothahorn, I’d like to know who it is.
  9. Time will tell but don’t be surprised if in the long run it serves as a “dog finally caught the car and he didn’t know what to do with it” moment. Not at all predicting that, but at the same time, if it turns out that way, I will say “well wouldn’t you know who won the fucking pony?”
  10. See the thing is, Kevin Bacon got flattened in that scene after saying that shit a couple times and he shut the fuck up after that. These naive morons keep saying “all is well” even when you need a spatula to pry them off the pavement. It’s like “all is well” had a bastard child with “‘tis but a scratch!!!”
  11. Those poor guys, they just cannot complete a syllogism. They never could quite do that, could they?
  12. Nah she would just claim the space lasers were running interference for the satellites…just like when Karen was flushing the cocaine down the toilet to protect Henry.
  13. Seriously this is basically what Nixon did:
  14. Right and that’s really my point of that whole thing. Did he have shame? Maybe. Possibly. But was it to such an extent that it made him resign? Fuck no. A shame-triggered resignation means you do it absent the political pressure that put you in that position. In other words, if he was told by those same people “look Dick, you screwed up but we will support you in the impeachment proceedings” and he resigned anyways? Yeah, that’s resigning out of shame. Doing so in response to that amount of pressure? Not so much. All this does is prove once again that the old saying “power never concedes anything without a demand” is absolutely true.
  15. Yeah I would say her legal career is over regardless of whether she’s disbarred based on that almost entirely. She doesn’t have enough time to rebuild her very much damaged reputation.
  16. They wouldn’t do it because they wouldn’t need to. Maintaining their positions would be a realistic option for them. It wasn’t for Nixon and that’s the only reason he resigned. It wasn’t out of “shame,” it wasn’t out of “respect for the office,” it wasn’t out of “love of country.” It was a political calculation. He resigned for the same reason that I don’t attempt to fly off the Empire State Building and survive: the result I would desire is 100% not in the cards.
  17. Again, that’s just not true. He left office having no realistic path to maintain his position. He was told that he was going to be removed by members of his own party. That’s not “shame,” that’s taking the least humiliating path that’s available…again just like Bob Livingston. And again, the republicans wouldn’t do the same because their party is filled almost entirely with degenerates who would defend them no matter what. No Republican president will ever be told by senate republicans “you’re going to be impeached and we will have a hand in removing you.” And again if Nixon had this current batch in congress, no way does he resign. He gets impeached, is acquitted in a straight party line vote, and serves his term.
  18. The best way I can put the comparison of the two is in villains in TV/cinema. As Nixon was Emperor Palpatine, Trump was a bastard child of the Joker and Ernest T Bass.
  19. I’m quite aware of the whole scope of the operation and that wasn’t the point. The point is: 1. he was a willing participant and it received next to zero press coverage even though the sheer depth and depravity of the whole thing was so far beyond Watergate as to render it a footnote. 2. Since that’s the case, it cannot be said that the Republican senators who were going to vote to remove him in his impeachment proceedings were acting on some sort of “principle” or “good of the country.”
  20. Deluded is as deluded does
  21. I’m sorry but I have to jump on this. This seems to be a growing sentiment and I’m not questioning it; I’m denying it entirely. Richard Nixon had been told repeatedly by Senate Republicans in the wake of all the Watergate exposures and when impeachment proceedings were about to commence that they had enough votes to convict and convict they would. He had no chance to survive. Now, if you want to credit those Senate Republicans for actually taking a half assed principle (more on that in a minute), ok fine. And yeah even a half assed principle is considerable compared to what these current degenerates have. In any event, Nixon resigned precisely because he was going to be removed and he was told so. Giving him credit for making that decision is like giving credit to Bob Livingston for “falling on his sword.” No, that man resigned because Larry Flynt had told him he would release all the lurid details of his marital infidelity if he didn’t. Sure it gives to the general public a facade of integrity and it lets the perpetrator step down with some “dignity,” but in the end it’s all for show. Nixon was a monster. Period. If his party was littered with the kind of degenerates the republicans are known to be today, he serves out his entire second term. Getting back to the half assed thing, the Watergate indiscretions weren’t even the worst things Nixon did as POTUS. He, like a few of his predecessors, participated in a long-running program by the FBI known as COINTELPRO. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO. When Watergate was becoming public knowledge, so was COINTELPRO. But watergate was all anyone ever heard about. Why? Because when Nixon was involved in COINTELPRO, he was spying on minorities and minority rights leaders. When he was involved in Watergate, he was spying on half of the arm of power in the United States government. The lesson that should be taken is the following: Spying on the black panther party: Good Spying on the Democratic Party: Bad
  22. Oh no doubt, but the R’s were just better at the rhetoric and the marketing and that’s what drew Reagan to them.
  23. It was all that rabid anti-communist crap. Reagan never got off of that.
  24. Same ole clueless little Jimmy. Dude’s always like “look at me I have something to say!!! It’s important and I agree with it!!!” Nah Jimmy, you ain’t about that life.
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