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Might as well offer a carrot before getting the stick out. Leave the carrot on the table after the stick comes out.

anyone heard about the new Minneapolis shooting yet? Female officer mistakes gun for taser and shoots a suspect, suspect expires, now riots round XLVI? "Mistakes" despite being a 25+ year veteran of the force. If we pretend that this was a legitimate mistake she's still guilty of negligen...

What is really interesting is that Spanish flu originated in the USA, but is called Spanish flu because Spain had the most cases. Considering Covid-19 has most cases in the USA, maybe it should be called the American flu. More that Spain wasn't suppressing reporting on it in the name of wartime mor...

I've seen a few savvy people that have basically said "I'm not accusing him of money laundering or other financial crimes, but this certainly looks a lot like a money laundering operation." Full disclosure of his tax returns might make that an easier thing to figure out with enough assuran...

I think it is a terrible, terrible mistake to conclude that a meaningful number of Republicans voted not guilty out of fear of Trump's Terrorists. Deep down, on a fundamental level, the majority of Republicans in government are genuinely horrible people. They do not want democracy to exist, they do...

I think it is a terrible, terrible mistake to conclude that a meaningful number of Republicans voted not guilty out of fear of Trump's Terrorists. Deep down, on a fundamental level, the majority of Republicans in government are genuinely horrible people. They do not want democracy to exist, they do ...

Bring it on, I say - let the Republicans read the telephonebook for hours to prevent relief checks - and broadcast it... Lets see if they are willing to threaten filibuster if they actually have to DO it, and be seen. Ah, I see you are under the impression that Republicans plan for free and fair el...

As expected. Tb, my hopes for this ticket were that he would have to step down after a year or so and Harris might steer a bit further left than he would... Yeah, I know... But it is more plausible than Biden even leaning slightly to the left. He's showing signs of going a bit further left than I n...

1223 is up.

And then the huge issue for Trump? He likely owes a shitload of money to people who won't try to sue him for it. They'll deal with unpaid debt in far, far more unpleasant ways. Would take a pretty ballsy mobster to order a hit on an ex-president of the United States. And the Secret Service is by al...

Issues with a self-pardon: Unlikely to stand up in court. Open him up to gargantuan civil liabilities as accepting a pardon is often taken as an admission of wrong-doing. It is not terribly unlikely that some of the Federally illegal shit he's done would open his ass up to State crimes. See Civil Li...

The Infidel wrote: ↑2021-01-13 04:28pm

Broomstick wrote: ↑2021-01-13 04:26pm 10 votes left to count

If we just need a simple majority it's won, but I think there might be a period where they can change their vote. Admittedly, I'm not up on the procedure nuances of the House.

Ah, I thought you needed 2/3 or something like that.

2/3 for a conviction in the Senate.

Parler may not stay dead that long. All they need to do is move to a foreign webservice, and they'll be back up. Of course, the question is, how would it's users react to it being hosted in say, China? Pardon my ignorance, but why a foreign webservice? I would think that a rich enough benefactor co...

Looks to me like the police didn't even try to stop them. No shooting them in the face (as happens to MOST people who try to trespass on the Capitol). No teargas, rubber bullets, tasers... Just calmly walking in front of them. No tackles. They fucking let it happen.

I don't want his terrorist followers to be able to find him and try to bust him out. Send his to an undisclosed supermax facility and toss his ass in solitary. He's an existential threat.

Apparently the DoD has declined to send in the National Guard.

Trump should be impeached, convicted, and in a supermax prison (solitary confinement) before the end of the day. Should. But probably won't. Probably won't even be impeached.

Right-wing terrorists have breached the capitol.

What IS it with republicans still voting for an openly oligarchic borderline fascist party with a shit-for-brains maniac in command? Don't they see that the GOP is sliding into la-la-land? Can't they see it because they themselves are shit-for-brains? Or they think the openly oligarchic borderline ...

At least wait until the Georgia runoffs are done. Those will determine who controls the Senate and Trump's latest phone call might have an effect on them. Any effect will be vanishingly small. The number of early voters has been enormous. We can hope, but cannot guarantee, that this is a good sign....

The problem is that student loans and tuition are such that for many people if they don't take out loans they don't go to school, and they have few to no choices about the loans to do that. That's not entirely true... There's also the option of joining the military and risking life, limb, mental he...

The problem is that student loans and tuition are such that for many people if they don't take out loans they don't go to school, and they have few to no choices about the loans to do that. That's not entirely true... There's also the option of joining the military and risking life, limb, mental he...

Millenials are kids who graduated around 2000, so born in the 80s. I don't know how long student debts typically take to pay off in the US, but this is mostly going to affect Gen Y/Z (oh and every future generation). Time to pay off depends on various factors. There are a lot of millenials that hav...

Manufacturing of -80 freezers isn't really an issue. The hard part is going to be distribution on grounds of "federal government isn't gonna wanna fund it." If we had an actual, functional federal government making sure every single vaccine distribution point in the country had adequate -8...

Here's a deeply amusing thought: Trump's notorious for stiffing lawyers . If he's facing down extensive criminal charges he might have a hell of a time finding a criminal defense attorney willing to take him on as a client. He'd eat up massive time and resources defending so he might straight up be ...