I’m starting to give legitimate consideration to the question, “Are they trying to lose?”
I know, “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence”, but… Come on! At what point is it no longer an “adequate explanation”?!
Normandy. Launching attacks on fascists for 80 years.
And the few who have turned on him now prefer the guy who literally had a worm eat part of his brain.
This reality must be satire.
I haven’t had my blood boil like reading that McConnell piece.
I can’t even put the rage into words.
That must be hyperbole, right?
Like… The Enron guys at least, right?
The whiplash when I realized it wasn’t a critique of those ideas but endorsing them.
It literally read like they were outlining those positions as straw men to be torn down, and then was like, “Yep! That scarecrow has the right idea!”
I get the hate for those movies, but I honestly enjoyed them all.
They are what got me to watch TOS, finally. Then I did a full watch through of the series. They were great for revitalizing the fan base and making new fans.
I honestly love having the movies as a different universe/timeline. Saves us from tone whiplash, like Shakespeare TNG Picard vs Rambo Movie Picard.
I want to see this variation of a zombie movie.
Patient zero is a prominent politician.
His handlers continue to puppet him, because they already spent so much on his campaign.
Followers literally line up to be bitten and infected.
To confirm what you mean by “I’m a conservative”, which of these commonly held “conservative” beliefs (each which implies a lack of empathy) do you not subscribe to (i.e. “I don’t think like that…”)
That, or she should be named “Mary” instead, I guess.
Honestly, I put animal abusers in a lower circle of hell, along side child abusers.
It’s about the power differential. The difference between a white adult male and a black adult female (for example) might be considerable, but its not going to be even close to the power differential between either of those adults and a child or a pet.
Bill Gates is a higher class of billionaire.
And I’m sure there were some relatively nice nazis in WWII Germany. Still nazis.
I’d love to tax the kleptocrat class and pay to fix some of the country’s problems, but I’m worried a woman and her doctor might do medicine deemed heresy by my twisted interpretation of a book of fables I never actually read (and may not even believe). Also the gays and brown people scare me, and somehow the only way I can save myself from them is to give Elon Musk ownership of San Francisco.
Something tells me Bill is saying that publicly, then discreetly paying lobbyists to oppose such moves.
Hmm, I see, I see… But, pray tell…
The GOP logic seems to go like this.
So, obstruction of justice is legal now, so long as you succeed. Got it. Thanks.
Also, fuck off. I’m not reading another reply. You are unwilling to discuss this topic in good faith, or you lack the brain cells to do so.
Insufficient evidence to prove a crime? Maybe. I disagree, but I’m neither a lawyer nor a judge.
But “collusion” itself isn’t a crime, and the evidence clearly showed evidence of collusion between the GOP and Russia.
The number of connections between the GOP and Russia, financially and ideologically, and Russia’s proven interference in 2016 and since (not to mention the GOP visit to Moscow on July 4th) are evidence enough to show there is “collusion”.
The problem is our laws on campaign finance and foreign political influence are Swiss cheese.
And then they turn around and act like, “Well, he didn’t get convicted of a crime, so clearly it was all a hoax.”
No. It wasn’t a hoax. There was evidence. Just not enough to do anythong about it, apparently. (And I still argue only because of the amount of interference run on the investigation.)
EDIT: And just in case you want to come back and obtusely repeat your argument, here’s the report in full. After 181 pages of evidence, here’s the conclusion.
IV. CONCLUSION Because we determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment, we did not draw ultimate conclusions about the President’s conduct. The evidence we obtained about the President’s actions and intent presents difficult issues that would need to be resolved if we were making a traditional prosecutorial judgment. At the same time, if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.
Its in black and white: they had already determined that they would not make a “prosecutorial judgment” (recommendation to charge Trump with a crime), since Barr said that should be left to the Impeachment process. But despite that, the report makes clear, in no unclear terms…
Persistent rumors that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia over the election became the catnip that drove reporting. […]
But when the Mueller report found no credible evidence of collusion […]
Aaaaand I stopped reading.
The Mueller Report absolutely found credible evidence of collusion, despite heavy-handled interference by Trump, Barr, and the rest of the GOP. It unfortunately failed to result in any prosecution (in no small part due to Barr), and failed to pressure Republicans to vote to remove Trump when he was impeached.
As disappointing as it is to see it end, 5 seasons is a decent run, and I’d rather it end before they “jump the shark” or just fizzle out.
And apparently since 2001, there have been fewer than 100 cases (I think somewhere in the area of 50-60 cases) where a non-citizen attempted to vote.
Less than 100 cases. In over 20 years.
It’s an obvious, bald-faced smokescreen, covering their plans to rig the election or commit a coup should they lose.
Holy shit… How can you rightly identify that the US military (and the US government’s use of said military) is evil, and that killing people for their ideas just spreads those ideas, but then somehow come to the conclusion that public health mandates during a pandemic are unconstitutional and “billionaires in this country got rich by actually serving their fellow man”?
Fucking hell, the propaganda machines are in overdrive.
Appreciate a veteran telling kids not to join the military. (Assuming this was written by an actual veteran, and isn’t just fictional propaganda.)
The rest is idiotic corpo bootlicking unrelated to the topic.