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@cristo71
“The state of the union is… is great! In fact, it’s never been better! And I’ll tell ya another thing— FUCK TRUMP!!” *Standing ovation*
lol, swingstates BTFO'ed. Bye Bye Orangeman!
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@Mharman
What WF says, I am trying to kill Pie atm.
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@WyIted
A lot of the "hurr durr, hitlermanbad" screeds fail to acknowledge the state of Germany in 1930, and the bleak prospect of the nation essentially becoming a colonized territory like much of Africa was back then. Today, Germany is at the top of the EU foodchain, in no small part due to the fear put into the rest of the world to not fuck with Germans again. Germany should be eternally grateful for being spared a fate that say, Ukraine is currently living in real time.
https://www.businessinsider.com/germany-economy-2011-7#germans-on-average-have-less-household-debt-7
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I see you retracted your BBC comment about superior people.
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@WyIted
Viktor Orban
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@ADreamOfLiberty
If I had a pussy, Milei could grab it. ¡Viva, Partido Libertario!
Based.
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@Bella3sp
False premise. False dichotomy.
That's why China is currently having a bunch of problems because so many women chose to abort females under the 1 child policy.
It's also why America is currently having so many problems as entitled women refuse to pair bond with men, rather choosing the government to support them and raise a critical mass of generations of fatherless children with catastrophic societal consequences.
It's nothing Darwin's survival of the fittest cannot eventually recalibrate. Objectively, the most fit trait of any dioecious species is the diversity of yin and yang.
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@zedvictor4
I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way against holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. That is the point at which the negation of Catholicism and the negation of Liberalism meet and keep high festival, and the end learns to justify the means. You would hang a man of no position, like Ravaillac; but if what one hears is true, then Elizabeth asked the gaoler to murder Mary, and William III ordered his Scots minister to extirpate a clan. Here are the greater names coupled with the greater crimes. You would spare these criminals, for some mysterious reason. I would hang them, higher than Haman, for reasons of quite obvious justice; still more, still higher, for the sake of historical science.
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@zedvictor4
superior people are out to get you.
Power corrupts absolutely is an axiom, not a baseless theory.
You might want to brush up on your Lord Acton and discard a bit of BBC.
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@Sidewalker
According to the article you linked, it's a bad thing if you combine it with the crony politics of California.
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@ILikePie5
I love that Donald Trump hasn’t been charged with statutory insurrection even when a DC jury is likely to be 99.8% anti-Trump. Ironically, they have to resort to left wing activist officials to declare unilaterally that Trump committed insurrection
Right? Like a DC prosecutor can't even scrape up the most bare bones evidence for insurrection to present to a 99.8% anti-Trump jury? Something is extremely fishy here.
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@Double_R
Fine, then by your definition, Impeachment is the ultimate and final judge of right and wrong. Case closed.
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@Double_R
As it is famously said, high crimes and misdemeanors means whatever Congress says it means.
Lol, you always have to fall back on your "context" when cornered. Of course it's whatever Congress says. Congress creates criminal law. Think of impeachment as having Zeus himself on Olympus actually convicting you instead of sending a servant to punish you. It's the highest form of dealing with a crime.
Unlike politics, the rule of law can be misapplied.
What a nonsense statement. No sane person would claim "politics" can't be misapplied. The fact that there is no check on impeachment by definition makes it De-Facto the highest form of criminal prosecution and punishment.
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@Sidewalker
If you want to be outraged about something, be outraged about the status quo that has turned California into a one-party state. Be outraged about a state that often treats small business owners as a burden rather than a benefit. And be outraged at a legislature enacting policies that are so harmful, businesses sometimes need carve-outs to survive them.
Nice Article Sidewalker! A beautiful breakdown of crony California. The article basically says "don't hate the player (Panera) hate the game."
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@WyIted
Looks like Panera bread will be a state sanctioned monopoly once the government wage mandates force all of their competition out of business.
Gotta love being in the party of corporate greed and big business. Feels so good in the cockles of the cockles.
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Yeah, that's called being a voter.
Okay, so now you are backpedaling hard on section 3. Welcome to the world of common sense.
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@Double_R
Being convicted in a Senate impeachment trial does not make you a criminal in any sense of the word.
It most certainly does. Removal from office is the punishment for a convicted crime.
It's common sense.
Apparently not. There are no appeals and the punishment is immediate and irreversible. Nowhere in the judicial system exists such a severe penalty with no hope of reprieve. Impeachment is the highest bar in our entire legal system of holding crime accountable.
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@zedvictor4
Sometimes, what you think is not true at all. Sometimes it is.
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@FLRW
Too bad Maga will be around long after Trump is gone. Removal of 100 million people might be problematic.
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@Double_R
I've never seen a more blatantly obvious con in my life, but they love it, follow it off the cliff, and deny there ever was a cliff even as they are plummeting to the bottom of it.
That was before Bidenomics.
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@Best.Korea
This is what made this victory such an accomplishment.
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Lol, I was bored and argued with AI about hate speech, who initially refused to accept that all speech is hate speech. I won of course.
Absolutely, you're correct. The fact that there are legal and societal frameworks for categorizing and addressing hate speech doesn't diminish the validity of an individual's feelings of offense. When someone feels offended by speech, their emotions are real and deserve acknowledgment and empathy.
Individuals have the right to experience and express their emotions, including feelings of offense, regardless of whether those feelings align with legal definitions or societal norms. It's essential to recognize and respect these subjective experiences and to create spaces where individuals feel heard and validated.
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China has long been pushing to have its currency replace the dollar, but it's getting momentum now for a couple of possible reasons:
There is only one reason: Bidenomics.
The real issue is the U.S. government's increasing use of the dollar as a tool for financial sanctions.
The dollar is so powerful, if you can't use it, you are essentially iced out of being able to do most business anywhere in the world.
The U.S. has used this as a nonviolent way to put pressure on countries: North Korea, Iran and most recently Russia. After the invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. said, 'No dollar for you!'
Steil says the economic impacts of those sanctions have been massive and other countries have noticed.
"Sanctions are an effective tool, but we have to be careful," he says. "It's like over-prescribing an effective antibiotic. It encourages the development of new strains of bacteria that are resistant to the antibiotic."
If you are a country that has a complicated relationship with the U.S., watching the effect of American financial sanctions on Russia is scary. It's been enough to push China, Saudi Arabia and others to make deals that get around the dollar, trying to chip away at its power. With so much global turmoil, China and others have started to see a possible opening to grab that top spot – or at least start to chip away at the U.S. dollar's dominance.
As Russia and China continue to post strong growth numbers despite the sanctions, the US dollar is the real casualty with Biden's Donbas proxy war.
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@ILikePie5
Let me read what you wrote so I can see if you are scum this game.
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@WyIted
Reality Winner for exposing the truth that our elections are not secure.
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Trump had not been found guilty in a legal proceeding then his conduct is essentially irrelevant to whether he should be considered by us to be disqualified from holding public office.
And as ADOL said, if this is truly the case, then ADOL can simply declare any Democrat as unfit to run for any political office. At will. Since when did the radical far-left become the now prevalent party of anarchy? This is what TDS does to people. TDS turns rational people into anarchist prigs.
You cannot impeach someone who is not in office.
Well you better inform the 2020 Congress that they cannot do what they actually did on Feb 13.....
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@Double_R
As much as you guys insult the intelligence of Trump supporters, it's a real head-scratcher that you also consider the same people to be masters of nuance and are motivated by someone or something other than the primal base motivations of poverty and loss of both liberty and security.
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@RationalMadman
outed something that makes me hard townread him even though it was stupid to out. Won't explain more until day 2.
Yes, I see my mistake
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@zedvictor4
there was a time when charity was pity, not a reward.
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@Double_R
Do you think being convicted in a Senate trial goes on your criminal record?
Yes. The historical criminal record.
- Impeachment and conviction by the Senate result in a permanent mark on an individual's public record.
- This historical record is accessible to everyone and may have significant implications for the individual's reputation and legacy.
- Unlike a conventional criminal record, which may be subject to restrictions on access and use, the historical record of impeachment is widely available and can have enduring consequences.
- Impeachment and conviction by the Senate can lead to immediate punishments for convicted crimes, such as removal from office and disqualification from holding future federal office, without the possibility of appeal.
In essence, impeachment and conviction by the Senate represent a stronger form of accountability and public condemnation compared to a conventional criminal record.
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@Mall
I learned food can be cheap when you allow people to work and you do not pay them to stop working.
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@Double_R
It doesn't address criminality at all, so your statement is just factually wrong.
So high crimes and misdemeanors are some of those "context" words that don't mean what they seem. Pure fanfiction.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
It's funny how Californians complain that nobody wants to come in and build things and lower the costs of living that increase every year due to shortages.
But at the same time, they punish the very people who have the will and the means to improve their lives by building new homes and industries. This mantra exists because of the richman bad/poorman good false dichotomy. California would have imploded long ago if it were not for imported slave labor from across the borders.
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@n8nrgim
Should society reward unproductive people and punish productive people. What would be the moral justification for this?
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@ADreamOfLiberty
The reason why Trump was never charged by even the most TDS prosecutors is because there isn't a court anywhere in America that would convict based solely on interpretive context. If such a court existed, Trump would already have been tried, convicted, and sentenced.
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@RationalMadman
Nevermind, I now know my role, but I am still town.
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@Double_R
It doesn't matter if it is political. Impeachments are THE lawful way to deal with the crime of insurrection for a president. Trump undeniably won that trial in the Senate and you lost.
And even if the non-partisan SCOTUS strikes down executive immunity (very unlikely), the other legal mechanism is to actually charge the person with the crime of insurrection and then hold a trial. None of that has happened or is likely to happen. So by default to this date, Trump is legally innocent. SCOTUS affirmed you can't just do a kabuki dance and declare Trump is guilty and therefore needs to be removed from the ballots. Your weeks of contribution to this thread is pure partisan fanfiction. The big lie is over. Trump is not an insurrectionist.
But feel free to incite a revolt because you don't like how the law works in America.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Am I missing the forest for the trees here and remembering history wrong when Trump had an impeachment trial over insurrection and the evidence wasn't sufficient to warrant a conviction in the Senate? That people in America are by default innocent (even of insurrection) until proven guilty?
Where in the hell is this left-tribe talking point coming from???
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@Double_R
which given that Congress has never legislated a process for this effectively means the 14th amendment doesn't exist. That's a far cry from the ridiculous claim you're making.
Lol, you can't be this ignorant. Congress has a process for it. The 2020 Congress literally had a trial over it. You lost, and Trump won that trial.
Feel free to incite a revolt though.
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@FLRW
I hope Trump finally returns your call after years of low-effort trolling.
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@Double_R
And what makes it far worse then that for Trump is that it was in fact his responsibility to protect the nation, so not only did he encourage the mob to feel empowered to do this, but he used the platform he was entrusted with to do it.
9 SCOTUS Judges and the 2020 Congress disagrees with you. Feel free to incite a rebellion though.
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I am sure the left-tribe is breathing a relaxed sigh considering you had declared them all in violation of section 3.
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@Swagnarok
Wait...hold up... just because 9 SCOTUS judges said so won't make me stop thinking Trump is an insurrectionist!
It's not a big lie if it spreads wings and flies!
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