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  1. Do you like tacos?  Do you like nachos?  Do you like frozen convenience foods?  Do you like all of those things when they come from a convenience store/gas station?

    Then have I got a concoction for you -- 7-11 mini tacos covered with hot dog cheese sauce and pico.

     

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  2. 12 minutes ago, TornACL said:

    psssst.... if you give free shit away, there's about a 95% chance people will say nice things about it.

    even most of you little wannabe aficionados would be complimentary of free food that was handed to you in exchange for your reactions.

    In approx 1992, I was at the Posse East when the Miller representative was handing out free sample pitchers of "Miller Clear" (remember THAT stupid trend?)  Free beer.  To poor law students.  We all took a swig.  We then dumped the rest of the pitcher out, in front of the rep, who nodded.

    "Free" goes a long way.  But it doesn't get you all the way across the finish line.

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  3. 11 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

    Correct.  I'm just pointing out that Mike Pence is actually the safest person in the administration.  Indeed, he can't even be removed by the cabinet via the 25th amendment.  The only way to remove a vice president is congressional impeachment and conviction.

    I get you.  But follow me here: Trump says on Twitter "Pence, you're fired.  My new VP is Ivanka."

    Who's gonna save us?  Congress?  SCOTUS?  You, Lt. Weinberg?  The only real test will be when new VP Ivanka shows up on the floor of the Senate to fulfill her duties of office.  Will she be seated?  I dunno, let's check with [checks notes] Moscow Mitch.

    It's over.  It's been over for a while.  Maybe some of y'all are starting to get that.

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  4. 1 minute ago, Orange&White said:

    If she was "acting in an official capacity" then why was her body camera not rolling?*

     

     

    *rhetorical question

    Weird function of the law.  I suspect the DPD camera policy is "while you are on duty," or something similar.  And Texas law makes LEOs always acting in an official capacity when they observe a crime being committed, but that doesn't = "on duty."  It's a distinction in that the camera policy applies only to "on duty for DPD," not "whenever you might be acting in an official capacity, even when you're off duty" -- because of course, that would be unworkable.  That circumstance could occur even on her day off, as she'd going grocery shopping and sees a purse snatcher and tackles him.  She isn't going to have a body cam then, nor should she.

  5. 1 minute ago, 4th and 5 said:

    That is a fact issue for the jury to decide.

    "I intentionally ran in to a parked car I thought was unoccupied." Known and substantial risk: it is not. Manslaughter.

    If your hypo was you ran over some one because you were defending yourself or another, and your belief was wrong, that would be a better example. It would be murder either way, but one would be justified under Ch. 9.

     

    If the jury finds your belief not credible, it is murder.

    Here, she intentionally shot him. She may have been wrong about the true facts, but her intent is the same regardless: to intentionally (conscious objective or desire) cause the death of an individual.

    It does make me wonder if there should be an amendment to the penal code.  If you kill someone because of a mistake of fact, but that mistake was UNREASONABLE, then it's manslaughter.  Something like that -- insert a reasonableness standard into the equation.  

    Because if this is a case of a gap in the law allowing her to go free, that shit is bad.

    Of course, I think she goes free because cops get the benefit of the doubt, always, and the dude was a scary black man on drugs.  

  6. Just now, immortal13 said:

    This is going to set a really bad precedent when she gets acquitted 

    The precedent has already been set.  This case will just follow it.  If you are a cop, and you kill someone, it was justified.  Because you're a cop, and your training to determine whether someone needs killing or not is unassailable.  A cop killed a black man.  Therefore, it was reasonable and justified.  QED.

    She walks.  She was always going to walk.  Same as it ever was.

  7. 8 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

    So can I honestly ask if you think a single dominant political party is in the best interest of the country?

    Of course not.  But see Hobbes2702's response.  Something else can and should arise to be a second party.  Who knows, I might even support that party.  But the GOP, which at this point is nothing but a toxic blend of a cult, white supremacy, and naked service to oligarchs - with an added dose of continuing to advance core concepts that are either proven failures or are flat-out lies (see the Laffer Curve, see "we're the party of fiscal responsibility) - has no redeeming value left.

    I suspect that many people who belong to the GOP -- think a lot of local level folks, who generally believe along the historical moderate conservative bent (think city officials, local judges, that sort of thing) -- will lead the subsequent party.

    But, I mean, who am I kidding.  The GOP survives, it consolidates power, and it completely destroys the rule of law in the process.  This democratic republic is dead, it's just that nobody has the guts to pull the plug and call it.

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  8. 2 minutes ago, lemonlime said:

    Assuming the country survives this, no one with any decency will decide to enter into politics as a Republican. There's going to have to be a new conservative party, maybe the dems split in two.

    Naaah.  They'll just use their disinformation machine of State TV and their closest ally, an enemy power, to convince the masses that nothing wrong actually happened.  And it will likely work.  Because we're the stupidest fucking country on the fucking planet.  Tuvalu fucking laughs at us. If there was a country called Dumbfuckistan, THEY would laugh at us.

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  9. 25 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    Even when he tries to deny it, he admits to abusing the power of his office. 

    Jesus fuck.

    There was no pressure put on them.

    But there was pressure put on them.

    The man fucking lies, then proves it's a lie, in LITERALLY THE SAME FUCKING BREATH.  He's a goddamned psychopath, and the GOP supports him 100%.

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  10. 1 minute ago, Sbbruin said:

    I was convinced when he was elected that he would be the worst thing that had ever happened to the Republican party, and it has played out accordingly. It will take a decade or more to restore any semblance of respectability to the party.

    Not if I have anything to say about it.  The party should be burned to the ground and the earth upon which the ashes fall should be salted.

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  11. 31 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    Teleprompter set up guys trolling DOTARD by putting the teleprompter too far away for him to see. They know he's too vain to actually wear glasses, like every other normal 70+ yr old.

    There's actually a pretty solid hypothesis out there that he's not so much illiterate as he is blind -- he desperately needs glasses to read anything, but he's too vain to wear them.  So, we get teleprompters with HUGE type on them, or we get him having trouble reading anything normal size.

    There's literally no aspect of him that's not laughably shitty.

  12. Looks like there will be articles of impeachment.

    They won't matter, he'll be acquitted.

    He'll rant "witch hunt" over and over, fully backed by the State TV Network. It will work.  Combined with disenfranchisement efforts, outright vote tampering, and a continuing massive enemy disinformation program welcomed into our country by the GOP with a red carpet, that will win him a second term.  While the office of the presidency will nominally survive his tenure, it will no longer be recognizable.  His successor, Donald Trump Jr. will try to do the same, but won't do it as well, and when it starts to fall apart, there will be bloodshed.

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    sorry you think its fun to throw out insults and talk down to people but we as society ( err crazy leftist who are triggered easily) have decided that is hate speech or you disagree with us you are a racist and must be shouted and shut down immediately 
     
    Thats the first two amendments of the bill of rights the left is trying to dismantle, how many more do you all want to eliminate?

    Wait....a trumpkin is saying the first amendment is being attacked....by....”the left?” That....is fucking rich, from a fanboi of a man who has actually cooperated with foreign regimes to see members of the press arrested (remember that part of the first amendment?). Awesome.
    This has to be a bit, right?
  14. 3 minutes ago, SameSame said:

    That's some delusional shit right there.  Par for the course.

    Well, you actually don't get it.

    If Trump says it, it's what happened.  And I'm not kidding, not even a little bit.  Trump could say "actually, Earth is the 5th planet from the sun," and within an hour, we'd have an army of folks calling anyone who says "umm, excuse me?  It's the third planet" stupid cuck soyboy libtards.  It would become gospel fucking truth that the earth is the 5th planet.  This is how fucking cults work.

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  15. 8 minutes ago, Continental Op said:

    Wait.. If they hadn't been banging for months who was she texting/snapchatting on her way home on the night of the incident?  Was that a different Sex Cop?

    Same Sex Cop.  She was looking to re-start said banging.  That night.

    Good cross-exam question: "y'all say you hadn't been banging for months, but that night, you were sure thirsty for the D, weren't you?"

    I mean, you might want to polish that a little bit to make it courtroom-ready, but it's a good working draft.

  16. Whatever.  Our institutions have failed completely.  The rule of law is only as strong as the willingness of people to follow it.  The current situation shows that it's toast.

    If a lawless third-world corrupt POS takes power, AND the political party in control of our government decides to let him.....that's it.  It's over.  That's all she wrote.

    Seems that not many people realize that we've passed the point where pens, paper, and gavels can do shit.  If the Dems were a legitimate party, they wouldn't be wringing their hands.  They'd be securing support within the military for the end game.

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  17. 3 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

    Can someone explain to me exactly what she has done that is different from all other climate activists?  I'm not arguing against her, I just somehow missed how she became so well-known.   I've gathered that she is a Swedish girl who started skipping school to protest climate change inaction, and then she was speaking to big groups, and she's a vegan who sailed across the Atlantic to come here without emissions, and now people think she's a lock for the Nobel. 

    (And not to take anything away from Greta, but José Andrés is a worthy pick as well.)

    I think the arguments in her favor are that she has galvanized a movement, and inspired a generation.  And, she has been attacked pretty relentlessly, and has stood up to the attacks and fought back articulately.

    José Andrés is fantastic -- my family regularly sends his program money.  He is truly amazing.

    Neither of them is a perfect fit for the criteria -- the winner  "shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".  I think she's got a better case for "work for fraternity between nations," as she's galvanized a movement all over the world, but that's about it.

    Both of them are probably better fits for some humanitarian honors.

  18. 1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I missed Rivera's (sex cop) original testimony on the nature and duration of their relationship.  

    On what appeared to be re-direct examination, I believe he said their relationship ended on the day of the murder, but the sexual aspect had ended prior.  But I'm not 100% sure on that.

    It would be fascinating for a lawyer to advertise something in opening that was almost immediately flat contradicted.  These lawyers should be above that, or maybe they took her word for it, who knows. 

    It would be interesting to know what the actual testimony was, if anyone knows.

     

    I saw Sex Cop at Emo's back in 93.

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  19. 47 minutes ago, RamjetFDO said:

    1980s co-ed fashion included the fluffy-cloud white angora sweater...  awesome look and very expensive of course.

    One day - after getting my Cheeseburger Platter and moving down the line, a blonde co-ed who filled out her fluffy sweater just nicely steps up.  He picks up the bottle of mustard and squirts it DIRECTLY AT HER BOOBS.  She screams and recoils in horror ... only to find out it was a gag bottle with a yellow string (no mustard).

    Man. 80s coeds recoiling in horror.  Don't THAT bring back some memories?  Right guys? 

    Right?.......Guys?

  20. 54 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    It doesn’t matter what’s in the report or the transcript. He abused the power of his office and made the ask/demand Ukraine influence our election. This is impeachable or we are a banana republic with no meaningful constitution or laws. 

    OH! OH!  MISTA KOTTA!  CALL ON ME!  I KNOW WHAT THE ANSWER IS!

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