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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Lol. Once again, people say things, while refusing to actually provide any evidence. Please, tell me, how is trying to fight fauxgressives who view an old white man as this country's savior "regressive"? Please, Demongodofchaos 2, explain to me how it's "regressive" to try to get it through people's heads that it is their rejection of intersectionality that is preventing progressives in this country from providing unified support against Trump and his supporters.
"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."Pretty sure that deciding what sensitive information gets released to who is exactly in his legal discretion. Or to the extent he did, anyway. I'm sure he wouldn't have let the actual Mueller report get released if he thought he could get away with burying it.
Like, you can disagree with his decisions, and I can agree, but claiming that it's actually criminal? That's a rather stronger claim. Especially because you're just using as a supporting argument for even more out there idea that that means he's above the law.
Edited by Gilphon on Apr 23rd 2019 at 10:00:36 AM
For a Department of Justice employee, slimy and partisan is illegal. The Hatch Act didn't stop existing when Comey was fired; anyone in the Executive branch below the policy-making level is legally barred from participating in a political campaign.
By acting as if he were Trump's personal attorney, William Barr is openly violating the apolitical requirements of the position he holds.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Apr 23rd 2019 at 10:40:13 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Too bad there's a good chance the tax would be ruled unconstitutional.
Fact-checking Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax claims
There is some grey area and just enough leeway that the Supreme Court if it's sympathetic might rule to allow it anyway —
<looks at current lineup of the Supreme Court>
— well, shit.
And considering how Warren's proposals rely on this wealth tax to be funded...
Edited by M84 on Apr 25th 2019 at 3:55:00 AM
Disgusted, but not surprisedWell, the fact is that two groups with different political ideologies are in the same camp and telling the other "no YOU change your mind". And I think that tarring the entire "self-proclaimed Left" with the Bernie or Bust mentality is gross oversimplification - plenty are willing to hold their noses and vote tactically to get what they might see as the lesser of two evils into office.
"...in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."Since Reagan and Thatcher the Overton Window was shifted too far to the right in general on both sides of the Atlantic. Shifting it back left just as hard is merely a balancing move at this point.
"...in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."

Barr might be trying to take bullets for Trump, but he won't break the law for him, especially because the FBI is able to do things on its own, and they won't let a Criminal go free simply because he's their boss's boss. If Barr does turn out to be a Papadopoulos or a Flynn, and would willingly break the law to protect Trump, he'd be raided and arrested along with them, along with being impeached properly.
Yes, things right now look bad (and this is exactly why I'm in favor of the Legislature and Judiciary having an independent Police force), but we're not an Authoritarian State yet; there are those who either respect this country, or fear its institutions, too much to simply break the law for their wannabe Dictator, especially because doing so will most likely end up with them going to Jail.