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This thread demonstrates how the “tolerant” left is intolerant of utter stupidity. Hypocrites! /Trumpster logic

Helping people in need has long been a political ploy. It’s not a bad thing. Beats the fuck out of just finding someone to blame.

I'm not sure social media attention-whoring is any more prevalent in the younger generation than they are in older generations. I know at my kid's high school, talking about social media and how it can follow you to job interviews was discussed quite a bit. Meanwhile, you have old fucks storming the Capitol who are honestly surprised that the FBI would look at the Twitter feed.

Waco is in Texas. Sexual Assault in Texas (and other states) is defined by penetration of the anus, vagina, or mouth. (Sec 22.011) As with India, there are other crimes (Indecent Assault, for example) that apply if there is no penetration. Indecent Assault is a Class A Misdemeanor. The law dogs can correct me if I am missing something.

What is commonly misunderstood about Giuliani : he was not working for Trump; he was selling access to Trump. In order to secure that access, he would do shit for Trump, but at the end of the day, Giuliani was being paid by people to either lobby or to acquire face time with Trump. For example, Dimitri Firtash paid Fraud Guarantee (Lev and Igor), who hired Rudy for his consulting expertise on cyber-security. That's a half of a million dollars that flowed from a Russian-friendly Ukrainian fugitive, through a couple small time lowlifes, to Rudy. Michael Cohen and Elliot Broidy were also exposed for selling access/influence. It's a big business. Rudy wasn't doing this shit for free; he was getting paid. It would have been less seedy had he been paid by Trump.

I think Elliot Broidy is the poster child for Republican hypocrisy. In 2009 he pled guilty to "providing excessive gratuity" (aka, bribery) to the chief investor of the New York State Retirement Fund. The charge he pled guilty to was a felony. It then got reduced to a misdemeanor, after Broidy paid $18M to the state in restitution. (You know, if more felons would just fork over millions of dollars, they'd no longer be felons. I should suggest that to the public defenders office.) In 2016, he became the vice chairman of the Trump Victory Fund - the joint fundraising venture between the Trump campaign and the RNC. In 2017, he became one of the three National Deputy Finance Chairmen for the RNC. Convict Michael Cohen was another. In 2018, he admitted to paying 1.6M to a Playboy model to get an abortion and to stay quiet about it. Michael Cohen brokered the deal. It has been speculated Broidy was taking the fall for Trump. Broidy resigns from the RNC. And that's not the bad shit. I will now quote from Wiki to save on typing. [When reading the shit on Qatar, keep in mind that Trump took credit for engineering an embargo of Qatar in 2017.] So, yeah, bribery, abortion, lobbying for the Chinese Communist government, lobbying for Muslim theocracies, etc... But he funnels money to Republicans, so they do not consider him a criminal.

Why not. It will piss off the racists in ten years when we have his name removed.

"Our economy is a rocket ship."

That's why I actually support Parler. They can't help but hate. Let them hate each other.

Those examples are at least about the messages they conveyed. Right-wingers also boycotted Disney because Disney was one of the first large corporations to give benefits to domestic partners. They were so worried about about whether a gay person got dental insurance, they kept their kids from watching kids movies. (And there are still some right-wingers boycotting Disney based on their "agenda".

To any Republican politicians pushing for unity, I say this: I'm not going to unify with white supremacists and QAnon dipshits. They are dangerous to my country, and to me personally. If you want to unify with me to address this danger to our country, I will gladly welcome your help. But I've been asking for it for four years, and have yet to receive any assistance. And it would be easy. You just need to tell the truth. You need to repudiate the white supremacists for their racist, unAmerican bullshit. You need to tell the truth to those who harbor delusions about fake elections, deep state conspiracies, and international cannabalistic pedophile rings. And I realize that's difficult for you, not because you lack the power of speech or because you are still researching whether those delusions are actually true. It's difficult because you won't win elections without those people on your side. But that's what it's going to take to defeat these lunatics. If you're not on my side, you're on theirs. And I will never concede to their insanity.

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That is exactly the point of this thread.

Sure, but the counterpoint is the acquittal of the Oregon Militia. Maybe the Feds completely botched that case, but they fact that every juror came back with "acquit" is truly frightening. It only takes one to hang a jury. I think they will convict people who are shown assaulting cops and probably destroying properties. I don't think you're going to get broader charges to stick on anyone who entered the Capitol. There is some room for interpretation there, and I do not trust a jury of my fellow Americans to interpret facts the same way I do.

Keep two words in mind when the Feds move to finalize charges: "jury selection". There will be Trump supporters in the jury pool. There will be people who think the election was rigged. There will be people who have a hard time distinguishing between a BLM protest on the streets and a insurrectionists storming the Capitol. Trying to get a conviction on even the obvious will come down to jury selection.

Well, he was a bit homo. It's Tennessee Williams, after all.

Didn't Trump call them "haters." I think his current gaslighting attempt is to try to convince people it was actually Antifa who stormed the Capitol. And there are still complete morons on social media who believe that narrative. If he pardons everyone, that is much harder to sell. I could see selected pardons to the Trumpstains who look less crazy, on the excuse that the Capitol Police let them in, but there is no way he's pardoning the scary-looking folks like the Shaman.

BIG DADDY: If I give you a drink, will you tell me what it is you're disgusted with, Brick? BRICK: Yes, sir, I will try to. Have you ever heard the word 'mendacity'? BIG DADDY: Sure. Mendacity is one of them five-dollar words that cheap politicians throw back and forth at each other. BRICK: You know what it means? BIG DADDY: Don't it mean lying and liars? BRICK: Yes, sir, lying and liars.

Here's the thing, White People don't feel association with other rando white people. Sure, I get embarrassed about what percentage of white people voted for Trump, but that's statistics. But, in general, if there is some white idiot on the TV, I don't feel an association. Yeah, it's a different set of rules. Sorry, man.

I would say even 20 years from now it would be "yeah, he got impeached twice, once related to his involvement in the storming of the Capitol." I think that event will be better remembered than the impeachment in 20 years.

Well, the Constitution does read "...he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment." I would read that as he can't pardon people (in other offices) from impeachment. But it could also be interpreted as meaning that he can't pardon anybody (himself, rioters, any piece of shit who helped) for crimes related an impeachment case. It's not like it's every been tested.

Apparently that unauthorized staffer was the executive director. Republican AG Group top official resigns Yeah, the problem is when your political PAC sees that there may be some advantage in supporting delusional bullshit, that resulted in insurrection. It's self-interest, with no ethics, that is the problem.

The outstanding Megan Hunt, my state Senator, is going hard to the paint on the Nebraska AG. Per the AG, they think it was approved by an unauthorized staffer. Which, of course, is a thing that should not happen: unauthorized staffers, but definition, cannot approve buys.

Ignoring the obvious spin out of Pence loyalists, it makes me a little happy that they all seem to hate each other now. You know, I fucking hate them too, so I guess we can find some common ground after all.

She didn't just say it, she wrote it, in a newspaper. Bangor Daily News