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horncyclist

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  1. Not to derail the threat but discussing reparations isn't crazy. I don't know what's right, but we should have the discussion. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/ "Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole."
  2. When you make up the crises, you can make up the victories.
  3. I don't think it was ever established that he touched her and the kiss was part of the act. That part all seemed to be a political attack. The steady flow of stories about touching during photos is what did him in.
  4. Biden's problem is that what's been described is very similar to what forced Al Franken to resign. I do not see how you can draw a distinction. Perhaps arguing that Franken's inappropriate touching was more sexual in nature, but good luck with that argument. Nevermind that we have a President who skips the slight inappropriateness and goes straight for the pussy, but this is apparently the standard we've set. Both cases are probably more an example of mostly harmless behavior that became unacceptable due to changing norms. I think we should probably be more forgiving of such past conduct, but again, this is the world we live in.
  5. This is all still driven primarily by name recognition and familiarity. Biden supporters go to Bernie Sanders because he's the other widely-known candidate. Bernie as nominee in 2020 would be an unmitigated disaster, probably resulting in the reelection of Trump as moderate democrats stay home or vote for Howard Schultz. There is no revolution. People do not want it. I'm sorry. Please do not let your bitterness keep you home.
  6. Can't wait for Trump to tweet about how Biden shouldn't run cause he cant respect women.
  7. I bought some climbing roses impulsively at Aldi. There's a spot on my fence where they'd look nice but can I get them to grow up the fence or do I need a trellis placed in front of the fence? How do I train them? I have trained dogs before. Thank you.
  8. I just donated $50 more and bought a Beto for America shirt. Question: Can I still wear by Beto for Senate shirt or does that just remind everyone that he lost?
  9. I think the solution is to adopt a better special counsel statute. That the regulations Mueller was appointed under limited his work was part of the problem here. Barr should have never been involved. Then again, maybe Mueller should have just made a prosecution decision on obstruction. That's still a little baffling.
  10. They messed with the wrong richest man who the world who happens to own a major newspaper. What a bunch of morons.
  11. If there is evidence in the grand jury interviews that implicates the president in a crime or sub-criminal conduct against American interests, the public has a right to know. Given the public importance, Barr should be working to facilitate a process to allow at least some members of Congress an ability to review the full the report. Instead, he appears to be treating this as any other grand jury matter subject to 6(e). I don't think that is right. And I do not think the democrats are the ones acting in bad faith here. Again, the public has a right know, through Congress if necessary to protect sensitive information but there must be public oversight. Barr's letter, listing four grounds for redaction and suggesting that Trump is going to let him making privilege claims on behalf of the administration suggests there is going to be an effort to suppress as much as possible. That is not what the situation calls for, and many are rightly skeptical of Barr's intent. If this was a democrat president, republicans would have impeached him or her already. Hell, they still want to lock Hillary up three years after Comey cleared her. Now, who's acting in bad faith?
  12. I think he probably used that bolded part to justify making his no obstruction conclusion. He should have deferred to Congress instead. It was not Barr's determination to make. And as an AG appointed by the subject of the investigation, who got the job in part by arguing why the President's actions could not be obstruction, should have been recused from any decision regardless. This reeks of impropriety and subversion of justice. I ask: what precedent are we setting here? Presidents can do whatever they want to interfere in an investigation that they are the subject of, so long as it's mainly done in public and there's no "underlying crime" directly implementing the president when such crime is narrowly defined? Everyone should be outraged at how this process has unfolded. The attack on the rule of law continues.
  13. Trump has his Reichstag Fire. Nice knowing you, guys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
  14. There's so many questions that letter leaves unanswered. I hope the report details the decisions made. What really happened at the Trump Tower meeting? What information did Gates provide? Did Trump's written answer detail the Trump Tower Moscow project? What about the pressure to lie to Congress that Cohen described? What about the Helsinki press conference with Putin? What about Stone's communication with wikileaks? The whole report has to come out and Congress needs to be able to interview Mueller.
  15. I guess Nadler is the best source? Did not exonerate him.
  16. Do they have a definition of executive? And you know what I meant by "attack." You see this all the time. Against Hillary about "wall street" money. She was Senator from New York. Who lives in New York? Finance people. It makes it sound like the industry heads are just cutting them fat checks for $100,000s, buying influence and that couldn't be farther from the truth. It's empty rhetoric designed to mislead people.
  17. I'd prefer a new conservative or center-right party. The Republican party is beyond repair in my opinion.
  18. I think most likely is that he resigns under pressure of removal. Democrats will quickly move towards impeachment. I can't say the timing of when he's gone exactly, or how. I just bought the "Will Trump be President at the end of 2019? NO" position on Predictit for what it's worth.
  19. Is this a fair attack? This stuff is so dishonest, no matter who it is and what the line is. Are engineers at Halliburton not allowed to make political contributions? Do you think ones donating to Beto are climate change deniers? Can they not hold views on a multitude of subjects many of which they probably share with you? This line of attack needs to be eliminated from the public discourse, and I actually like Beto's answer here.
  20. On the silence, if he found out Friday that they would have recommended indicting him on obstruction-- but didn't because of DOJ policy on indicting a sitting president -- and his tweets were a big part of the obstruction case, that might actually shut him up. I stand by my prediction. Trump is done.
  21. My bet is that Mueller never intended to charge crimes at the core of the investigation. He was the investigator. The prosecutions will be left to others. If I'm right, this will all start to play out as soon as Bill Bar briefs Congress.
  22. We'll see. If his removal is inevitable, what's his move?
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