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TwiceHorn

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  1. No president has ever threatened to prosecute his enemies from a past administration. Impeachment is a different deal altogether; it's not criminal, it happens during the administration; it's inherently political.
  2. Yeah until and unless Trump and Trumpism pass into faded memory, this is what we've got.
  3. That's not an agency rule. It's a statute passed by Congress nearly 40 years ago.
  4. Point of order, they can still do hearings.
  5. Wait, you mean the rollout of Trump's vaccine? Operation what was it? You never prosecute for perjury unless you can prove the absolute untruth of what was said.
  6. I imagine that's why he did it, not out of fear that they would be convicted and sentenced, but that you can beat the rap but not the ride. Criminal venue is quite narrow and would likely place most of these cases in DC, so fears of more Cannons are overplayed. And she's an outlier even so.
  7. Although it is a form of corporate welfare, I can't say that I really disagree with it. It's a policy that applies to all vaccine developers and manufacturers, and, although Pfizer and Moderna made out financially, I'm not sure that's true for all vaccines and I think the landscape would be considerably different without it.
  8. Guess how long such immunity has been around? https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/300aa-22 The point is that vaccines serve a greater public good, even if they are not perfect and even if some people are injured by them. Guess whatever it takes to support a position you want to support. Notorious librul rag questioning the calls for Fauci's prosecution https://reason.com/2022/12/16/what-do-republicans-want-to-prosecute-fauci-for-exactly/ And, no one sane is calling for Fauci to be prosecuted, it's only performative assholes like Rand, Ted Cruz, MTG, Biggs and the rest of the fuckwad squad. They're not serious people.
  9. And he's also been gobbling Trump crank for a year or more. And he's South African. And a grifter deluxe. https://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/patrick-soon-shiong-taxes-nanthealth-foundation-236728
  10. No it isn't. What's horrendous is the demands for prosecution for a government official, who has official immunity, incidentally, and an apparent willingness of the president-elect to prosecute. The pardon is a symptom, not the disease. And Rand Paul is a full-time cunt about everything, always. Ask his neighbor. I'm sick of these fuckers.
  11. Unlike the Trumpian fantasies of the prosecutions mounted against him, these will be actual bullshit charges that should be dismissed or acquitted hastily.
  12. And, if that happens, we're about to see how those procedural protections provided defendants who are inclined and able to take advantage of them work.
  13. Yeah, the precedent is a candidate-president-elect openly threatening to prosecute his enemies, which the pardons preempt.
  14. Responsibility for the Covid pandemic? Really? Really Rand? You cunt. You pube-headed cunt. If anyone wonders why rationals balk at anything put forth by conservatives on this issue, this pretty much explains it in a nutshell.
  15. Well, she does seem to have more parts in common with an Electrolux than an actual human female. Or maybe a Dyson.
  16. I'm not, that's why the third paragraph of my post indicating that it's all a load of shit. But orignalism, such as it is, is just a form of textualism, expanded. And both of them preceded the postmodern Supreme Court by decades. All constitutional interpretation is a load of shit, insofar as it purports to provide the "one true rule." But they do have legitimate theoretical underpinnings. And, I have always contended that Supreme Court jurisprudence is calvinball and always has been. The justices pick and choose interpretive devices to justify decisions reached on other grounds, and always have. It's just a bit more naked now, and certain of them, anyway, contend that orignalism is the one true rule. And when you employ textualism and orignalism, you get stuck with a document as-written and as-understood in 1789. That is, a retrograde and fairly unimportant document.
  17. Well, instead of admitting that Elmo spent Soros^3 money to influence the vote, he's pretending that Elmo fixed the Dominion and Smartmatic computers so they couldn't rig the election. Or he actually believes that. Now that he's said it, he probably actually believes that.
  18. Hoors.
  19. Funny thing, although Dad was a vet and qualified for USAA even under its old rules, we had Allstate because Dad worked for Sears early in his career. We switched to USAA when I got my DL because it was the cheapest, and cheapest across the board. I think part of USAA's problem is having increased the coverage pool
  20. Vivek Rama-Ramas-not-gonna-work-here-anymore.
  21. Good, Tom, fucking impeach him. Unfortunately, Congress can jawbone about this until they're blue in the face, but there's little legal recourse.
  22. So, apparently, Tik Tok went dark yesterday as a result of the ruling. Today, it is back and crediting Trump for bringing it back. This is the worst fucking timeline.
  23. Oh, I think there are enough smart people, but remember, now, intelligence and education is elite or woke or some shit. So the electorate is not going to defer to the smart ones.
  24. That's not at all what I said. He's got a bad rap. Some of it deserved, most of it not.
  25. Weird law, I can't quite figure it out. Most federal laws end up codified into US Code ("U.S.C.") and part of it is here, at 15 USC 9901. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/9901 But parts of it specific to TikTok don't seem to have been codified yet and can be found here, in the general statutes. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ50/pdf/PLAW-118publ50.pdf around p. 66.
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