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1 hour ago, David Dennison said:

I'd like someone on the right to explain how giving more power to the executive branch of the federal government by allowing him to hamstringing the states' criminal justice systems is in any way conservative.

The bedrock principle of American conservatism is that laws are for the little people. This is perfectly in line with that.

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50 minutes ago, UTDD said:

Gamble is potentially a big case in that the Supreme Court could hold that double jeopardy applies to state governments because they are not separate sovereigns under the law.  (this is currently an exception to double jeopardy under another case from I think about 60-70 years ago)  I think there are pros and cons for this in that one could argue that a state should not prosecute someone for the same crime that for example has already been convicted under federal law.  Some also argue that there are few federal and state law overlaps and that having no separate sovereign exception would have a fairly low impact overall.  Also keep in mind some states already have a law barring the state from putting on trial a person for the same crime that has already been convicted on the federal level.  On the other hand, in theory this could also mean that if someone receives a pardon from a federal conviction, this could bar states from prosecuting because they had already received a conviction.  This might be relevant in the context of presidential pardons in particular.   

I was wondering about this.  If Mueller has sealed indictments or could bring charges against people who have not been charged, and those potential charges overlap with a state, could he not just hold onto them and let the the states go forward with their charges first?  Seems that way the double-jeopardy issue would go away, or at least be postponed, and if they were convicted on state charges without having been convicted on federal charges, they could not be pardoned.  Along those same lines, would the Gamble concept apply to different charges related to the same crime?  Like federal tax evasion vs. state tax evasion.

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12 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

It probably ran through her mind.  "You finally had your chance to ask a question and you walked out."

“President Trump, there are people claiming that you aren’t as wealthy as you claim, and that you won’t release your financial records because you’re a coward, and your lawyers and family control you and won’t let you release them, showing the world how wealthy you actually are.  How do you respond?  Are you too much of a coward to release your records?”

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Nah, I would have stated that "I want that comment to hang in the air for a moment." And have uncomfortable silence for a few seconds, then ask my question. Point out what an idiot he is in a way he cannot really control. 


That’s not what reporters do
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1 minute ago, Buzzrock said:

 


And she should report on that

 

In my hypothetical, would she not be reporting on his statement live? Pointing it out and letting others think what they want?

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As difficult as it might be with Trump, I think the press should try to distance from emotion to whatever degree possible.  Otherwise, they just fuel the anti-press movement, and no good can come from that.

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57 minutes ago, pyrohornIII said:


I'm going to bet about 2 dozen perfect questions passed through her mind the minute she sat down.   Should be a meme somehow with all the suggestions you guys are making. 

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1 hour ago, SmokeyTheBear said:

In my hypothetical, would she not be reporting on his statement live? Pointing it out and letting others think what they want?

It's my position that journalists have to be dispassionate and resist editorializing in its many forms. Pundits can do whatever they want.

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2 hours ago, Pancho Negro said:

 

Obama would have been crucified by the right with a comment like that. He’s getting away with murder and they’re letting him while the people watch and laugh. Such disrespect for the office.

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2 hours ago, Js1 said:

I would have said I respectfully withdraw my question and sat down. Or turned around and left. 

You don't have to sit there and be insulted like that.

Her "I'm sorry?" was pretty good on the spot reaction.  There was no mistaking the implication.  She just called the President an ass hole.

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1 minute ago, High Plains Drifter said:

Either Bannon or Miller, trying to be a fly on the wall.

nah, they've dispatched miller to hunt down the bat, as he views eating them alive and smearing their blood across his face as visceral warpaint as a special treat.

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4 hours ago, sachick said:

What's so infuriating is that you can't do shit about being belittled. You just have to stand there and accept the insult.

No no... You are supposed to cry and bring up the fact you went to Yale when something you don't like happens. 

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30 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

nah, they've dispatched miller to hunt down the bat, as he views eating them alive and smearing their blood across his face as visceral warpaint as a special treat.

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1 hour ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

Her "I'm sorry?" was pretty good on the spot reaction.  There was no mistaking the implication.  She just called the President an ass hole.

I agree. She forces him to either repeat the insult or skulk away from it. President Bonespurs skulks and asks for the proceedings to move along. He looks like a cowardly jackass. It's a shame that such a person is so widely loved.

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I would give all my husband’s money for that bat to dive bomb into Trump’s nasty hair and get all tangled up.

I bet when Trump screams it sounds like a humpback whale.

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Using data from the American National Election Studies, we investigated the relationship between cognitive ability and attitudes toward and actual voting for presidential candidates in the 2012 and 2016 U.S. presidential elections (i.e., Romney, Obama, Trump, and Clinton). Isolating this relationship from competing relationships, results showed that verbal ability was a significant negative predictor of support and voting for Trump (but not Romney) and a positive predictor of support and voting for Obama and Clinton. By comparing within and across the election years, our analyses revealed the nature of support for Trump, including that support for Trump was better predicted by lower verbal ability than education or income. In general, these results suggest that the 2016 U.S. presidential election had less to do with party affiliation, income, or education and more to do with basic cognitive ability.

 

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Awesome.  I was asking for a study like this before.  We always say education is a great (negative) predictor for being a Trump supporter.  I've wondered if that isn't an overly insulting way to look at it:  maybe being blue collar is more tightly correlated, and of course blue collar and lack of higher education are correlated.  These people aren't dumb, they are just believers that Trump helps blue collar people. 

That study looks like it answers my question -- it's not overly insulting.  It's just that dumb people like Trump.

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1 minute ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

Awesome.  I was asking for a study like this before.  We always say education is a great (negative) predictor for being a Trump supporter.  I've wondered if that isn't an overly insulting way to look at it:  maybe being blue collar is more tightly correlated, and of course blue collar and lack of higher education are correlated.  These people aren't dumb, they are just believers that Trump helps blue collar people. 

That study looks like it answers my question -- it's not overly insulting.  It's just that dumb people like Trump.

I haven't come across a Trump supporter yet who wasn't stupid, foolish, or a bad person.   Those are pretty much the categories. 

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10 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

I haven't come across a Trump supporter yet who wasn't stupid, foolish, or a bad person.   Those are pretty much the categories. 

I think there needs to be a distinction between Trump voter and active Trump supporter. 

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6 hours ago, GRHorn said:

Not even close to the same thing. Only a total douchebag would compare the two.

I'm a douchebag. No argument there.  

But I wasn't comparing the two.  I was observing Trump's background re- service makes him a poor messenger for the point.  I usually try to separate the message from the messenger but his ubiquitous bullshit makes it far harder than normal to isolate him from issues and their relative merits.  

That said, neither of avoiding military service nor embellishing extent of service is a positive qualification for holding office.  So I'll be true to douchebag form and offer up a similarity though not an equivalence.  

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48 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

I haven't come across a Trump supporter yet who wasn't stupid, foolish, or a bad person.   Those are pretty much the categories. 

You need another category to account for the evangelicals, a great many of whom are solid, stand-up people in every way, with the caveat that they will torture their belief system and their moral compass in unbelievable ways rather than admit that their Republican president is a a decidedly un-Christ-like and immoral piece of shit.

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4 minutes ago, Paul Wesley said:

You need another category to account for the evangelicals, a great many of whom are solid, stand-up people in every way, with the caveat that they will torture their belief system and their moral compass in unbelievable ways rather than admit that their Republican president is a a decidedly un-Christ-like and immoral piece of shit.

They fall within my "foolish" category.  My in-laws are like that, and they were foolish.   And they regret their vote now. 

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24 minutes ago, Paul Wesley said:

You need another category to account for the evangelicals, a great many of whom are solid, stand-up people in every way

Unless you're different from them, then they're not so nice. 

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1 hour ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

Awesome.  I was asking for a study like this before.  We always say education is a great (negative) predictor for being a Trump supporter.  I've wondered if that isn't an overly insulting way to look at it:  maybe being blue collar is more tightly correlated, and of course blue collar and lack of higher education are correlated.  These people aren't dumb, they are just believers that Trump helps blue collar people. 

That study looks like it answers my question -- it's not overly insulting.  It's just that dumb people like Trump.

I barely dipped my toe in CR for my first few years after signing up at the old site. I learned who the morons were from interacting with them on the other boards. It's uncanny what a correlation there is between them and support for Trump. 

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Awesome.  I was asking for a study like this before.  We always say education is a great (negative) predictor for being a Trump supporter.  I've wondered if that isn't an overly insulting way to look at it:  maybe being blue collar is more tightly correlated, and of course blue collar and lack of higher education are correlated.  These people aren't dumb, they are just believers that Trump helps blue collar people. 
That study looks like it answers my question -- it's not overly insulting.  It's just that dumb people like Trump.


Is it wrong to discriminate against dumb people? Is it their fault?
Posted
6 hours ago, HenryJames said:

 

I've seen this a few times over the last couple of weeks but still dont know what was going on here. Anyone know?

Posted
53 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Is this how we got in trouble in the 30's?  I kid..... I kid.... I think.

If you are referring to the embracing of Nationalism, Protectionism and the fostering of ethnic division then the answer is yes.

 

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WHY is he such a gaping asshole?
 
 https://twitter.com/markharrisnyc/status/1046943386287124480?s=21
 
In response to this tweet -
 



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