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Sufficient arrogance is indistinguishable from stupidity, that's the kind of behavior that risks going beyond even the generous latitude given to Conservative men.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangJacob Wohl, an alt-right Twitter troll who tried to slander and take down Mueller (which was basically using a spitball to fight a battleship), has been banned after he openly bragging to the media about his intent to violate the site's rules. Specifically, he planned to create fake liberal/left-leaning accounts and spread misinformation and lies.
Edited by Rationalinsanity on Feb 26th 2019 at 7:20:42 AM
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2019/02/26/day-768/
1/ House Democrats introduced a resolution to block and overturn Trump's unilateral national emergency declaration to get the border wall money that Congress denied him. "The President's act is lawless," Nancy Pelosi said. "It does violence to our Constitution and therefore to our democracy. His declaration strikes at the heart of our Founders' concept of America, which demands separation of powers." The House is scheduled to vote today around 5 p.m. or 5:30 p.m. ET. The resolution is expected to pass the House, which would then start an 18-day clock for the Senate to bring it to the floor for a vote where it's also expected to pass. Four Republican votes are needed to ensure passage if all Senate Democrats vote for the disapproval resolution, and three Republican senators — Sens. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Thom Tillis — have already signaled they will support the measure. Congress has never tried to cancel a national emergency declared by a president, and Trump has vowed to veto any measure that blocks funding for his border wall. (CNN / ABC News / Washington Post / Reuters / Politico / Los Angeles Times)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-congress-idUSKCN1QF0FX
2/ Paul Manafort's attorneys asked for leniency as he faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison. In a court filing, Manafort's attorneys described the 69-year-old as a man who has been "personally, professionally, and financially" broken by Robert Mueller's investigation, and as someone who deserves a sentence "significantly" below the statutory maximum of 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy charges. Manafort's lawyers also wrote that because "this case is not about murder, drug cartels, organized crime, the Madoff Ponzi scheme or the collapse of Enron," the former Trump campaign chairman shouldn't be sentenced too harshly. Two federal judges will sentence Manafort on two separate occasions over the next month for criminal charges that include tax and bank fraud, witness tampering, and working as an unregistered lobbyist for a foreign government. (Politico / NPR / The Guardian / Salon)
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/26/698027383/manafort-seeks-leniency-in-sentencing
3/ The House Judiciary Committee believes it has evidence that Trump asked then-Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker if an ally could take over the investigation of Michael Cohen and the Trump Organization in the Southern District of New York. The committee is looking into whether Whitaker may have perjured himself when he testified to Congress that he never made "any promises or commitments concerning the special counsel's investigation or any other investigation" to Trump, who wanted Manhattan U.S. attorney Geoffrey Berman to take charge of the investigations. Berman – a former Rudy Giuliani law partner who donated to the Trump campaign in 2016 and was interviewed for the U.S. attorney job by Trump – recused himself from involvement in the matter last year. (Wall Street Journal)
4/ A federal appeals court rejected claims that Mueller's appointment was unconstitutional. Andrew Miller, a Roger Stone associate, will now have to testify to a grand jury in Mueller's investigation or go to jail after the appeals court said that Mueller was legally appointed by Rod Rosenstein as special counsel in May 2017. (Politico / CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/26/politics/appeals-court-mueller-miller/index.html
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-report-idUSKCN1QF280
5/ Cohen is expected to publicly accuse and present documents that implicate Trump of "criminal conduct" while in office during public testimony before the House Oversight Committee tomorrow. Cohen will reportedly provide lawmakers with information about Trump's financial statements, including documentation of his reimbursement for the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels. Cohen plans to share who signed the $35,000 monthly checks he received as reimbursement for his hush-money payments to Daniels. Cohen is also expected to detail how long Trump remained involved in discussions regarding a plan to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, as well as to detail his "behind-the-scenes" experience of working for Trump for over a decade. Cohen testified behind closed doors before the Senate Intelligence Committee today, where he apologized for the lies he told during his 2017 testimony. (CNN / Axios / Daily Beast / NBC News / Politico / New York Times / Wall Street Journal / Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-cohen-idUSKCN1QF12R
Cohen has been disbarred in New York. Cohen's guilty pleas on charges of tax evasion, excessive campaign contributions, and lying to Congress ensured he would be disbarred. (ABC News)
https://apnews.com/0b012aaaa6454a10a585eb4a848c8541
Thousands of unaccompanied migrant kids suffered sexual abuse while in custody of the U.S. government over the past 4 years. From October 2014 to July 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement received 4,556 complaints, and the Department of Justice received 1,303 complaints, including 178 allegations of sexual abuse by adult staff. (Axios / CNN)
Trump announced that American citizen Danny Burch has been freed after spending 18 months in captivity in Yemen. The State Department suggested that Burch was freed as a result of a rescue operation in concert with the United Arab Emirates. Burch lived in Yemen for years working for an oil company and was kidnapped in Sept. 2017 while taking his sons to a local sports club. (NBC News)
A federal judge approved a move by the Trump administration to ban "bump stocks" for firearms, which allow semi-automatic weapons to be converted to automatic weapons. Opponents say the government does not have the legal authority to enforce the ban. The new rule is set to take effect on Mar. 26, when bump stock owners will be required to turn in or destroy their bump stock attachments. Trump promised to ban bump stocks in the wake of a mass shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas that left 58 people dead in Oct. 2017. (Reuters)
U.S. Cyber Command "basically took the IRA offline" during the 2018 midterms. The Internet Research Agency, a Russian troll factory in St. Petersburg and underwritten by an oligarch close to Putin, was part of the cyber campaign to "influence" the 2016 election and undermine faith in U.S. democracy. (Washington Post)
Sure, and even if he isn't charged with anything he's still declined to run again. Which is undoubtedly a consequence of his actions.
My point is I'm sure this guy feels like he's immune to consequences but that doesn't mean he is, sure he's almost certainly more insulated to them then most of us would like but that's not the same thing as being immune.
Because right-wingers tend to be inclined to join the police, many police departments have toxic cultures, and those swastika-tattooed men have a specific term for infiltrating law enforcement
.
I mean, Trump bragged on air to successfully tampering with a witness. It isn't arrogant to think you can get away with it.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.In addition, we live in a society where white supremacy is the norm. It's not terribly surprising to me that police would disproportionately be more suspicious of and harass black and latinx people, because even before becoming policemen, they have been taught that they are less trustworthy and more dangerous. Like I said earlier, the horrible state of policing is a symptom of a larger problem that goes beyond them.
As a result, even the average person is often more willing to give the nazis or white supremacists space ("free speech", "marketplace of ideas", etc), or equate them with movements like BLM despite how ridiculous that is.
Edited by Draghinazzo on Feb 26th 2019 at 7:47:13 AM
He's actually a left-winger. A straight-up socio-anarchist at times, in fact, with the added bonus of having some better insight in the mindset of southern US country people than most left-wingers. He did a pretty good series on potentially sensible gun legislation. Also the way police training in the US declined in recent decades, resulting in people getting killed senselessly. And, as banal as the inciting incident was, I enjoyed his take on the whole Gillette riot.
I don't quite agree with him on everything (the whole "anarchism" thing just doesn't scale up beyond small communities all that well, if you ask me), but he's not calling for molotov cocktails as the primary means of political discourse, so he's cool in my book.
Since the breakdown of this sort of pairing mechanism in the UK House of Commons has lead to people who should be in hospital being dragged through the chamber, I wouldn't encourage it.
Here's wholehearted recommendation: give him a shot. If you're disappointed, I'll take full responsibility.
[[/quoteblock]]Partly because the Taliban still has a great deal of local support, and partly because similarly to Vietnam and Korea, we can't take them out without also going to war with the outside government supporting them - Pakistan.[[/quoteblock]] This leaves me wondering why Dubya exempted Pakistan from the "with us or against us" policy that he followed throughout his presidency's part of the War on Terror.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.This, so much fucking this.
I would argue that being for criminalizing sex work is very much anti-woman.... Its our body, we should be fully in control of what we want to do with it, and if that is prostitution? Then so be it.
Just make sure there are good health regulations, and strict enforcement for clients who don't understand no means no.
Guess which demographic is rather dominant in the "anti-sex work" camp that isn't in it for "anti-woman" reasons, as you put it.
Edited by MarqFJA on Feb 26th 2019 at 3:17:02 PM
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
I might be misreading your post, but in my observations (as a male raised in a religious environment) religions tend to be pretty damn anti-woman.
Edited by TheAirman on Feb 26th 2019 at 6:30:47 AM
PSN ID: FateSeraph | Switch friendcode: SW-0145-8835-0610 Congratulations! She/TheyTrue, but "tend to be" is not synonymous with "always are". You can be rather "sex-egalitarian" and still hold what many in the Western world would call "puritanical" views on sex, where even kissing outside of marriage is stigmatized. Technically speaking, such views can be harsh against both sexes more or less equally.
Edited by MarqFJA on Feb 26th 2019 at 3:33:17 PM
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.True, but I would argue that sex in a negative light is correlated strongly with the female in most conservative religions.
From personal experience, individuals may be equally reprimanded or directed, but as blocs the female congregants get the shorter end of the stick.
ETA: but a further conversation on that probably belongs in a different thread, since it goes to religion and sex, not necessarily direct American politics.
Edited by nombretomado on Feb 26th 2019 at 4:41:01 AM
x2 Yeah, I'm tossing my lot in with the whole "In practice it tends to be women who are stigmatized the most" thing. Virginity and abstaining from sex before marriage is huge in Christianity, for example, technically for both sexes, but you don't hear about men being "[insert misogynistic slur here]" for having pre-marital sex the way women are. Women deal with misogyny and slut-shaming as a result of those values much more than men do.
Not unexpected, but now it's official:
"House votes to block Trump's border emergency declaration" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-congress-vote/house-votes-to-block-trumps-border-emergency-declaration-idUSKCN1QF2ZH
As one of my teachers put it, "Feminism is divided against a very united misogyny."
But yes, one of the things that will happen as more equality happens is how that manifests will be different as what people define as the good life will vary from person to person.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.With police and racism there's a few elements to it.
The simplest element is just that society itself is racist, which means racists are eventually going to end up joining the police (even if the police are trying to keep them out), and that the system in general is going to be stacked against ethnic minorities. Also, it really doesn't take a lot to cause big problems in policing.
Another issue is also that there isn't much federal regulation, so local police can vary in quality. One police department can be really nice to ethnic minorities while another is openly cruel. This should probably be fixed.
Also, I think police tend to get the impression that ethnic minorities they deal with will claim to be victims of police racism over anything. This creates a pretty unhealthy mindset. I've seen it happen a million times, people see a few false accusations of bigotry then become completely blind to the existence of bigotry.
Leviticus 19:34

In public, for all to see. How stupid are these people?
We learn from history that we do not learn from history