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#287176: Aug 9th 2019 at 3:06:14 PM

I wouldn't expect Trump to face serious federal prosecution after being voted out unless smoking gun evidence emerges that would make not prosecuting a bigger deal than prosecuting.

On the state level, though? If it turns out that, say, Trump's been cheating on his New York state income taxes? I'd absolutely expect the state AG to follow that through to the end, which could lead all sorts of interesting places. The new president can say "hey, that's a state issue, none of my doing" but the anti-Trump base is satisfied that he's facing consequences for something, at least.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#287177: Aug 9th 2019 at 3:14:53 PM

Was unlocking the McConnell campaign a cave or did the ban, which I understood to be temporary, simply expire?

Edit: got a chance to look at the article firsthand. It's a cave

Edited by sgamer82 on Aug 9th 2019 at 4:19:31 AM

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#287178: Aug 9th 2019 at 3:31:41 PM

It's seeming like Wal Mart has temporarily halted ALL videogame sales company wide while its reviewing policy in the wake of recent shootings.

No, they have not. A retraction update was posted to that article which says this:

Shortly after the posting of this story, we were contacted by a Walmart representative who apologized for what was apparently a miscommunication on their behalf. We have since clarified with the aforementioned Walmart representative that the company has "not given any directive to remove video games from the shelves."

IGN apologizes for any confusion or alarm this may have raised. We are similarly pissed.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Aug 9th 2019 at 4:33:03 AM

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Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#287179: Aug 9th 2019 at 4:04:05 PM

Still, I think I speak for most video gamers when I say: Stop using violent video games as a scapegoat. It was dumb in The '90s and it's dumber now.

Edited by Ramidel on Aug 9th 2019 at 3:04:39 AM

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#287180: Aug 9th 2019 at 4:06:14 PM

You actually think they'll listen? Lobbyists will make them turn a blind eye to real issues (ie dev crunch and publisher takeovers) and go with the cliched Moral Guardians excuses.

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#287181: Aug 9th 2019 at 4:08:13 PM

I don't see how either of those two issues are Walmart's responsibility.

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AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#287182: Aug 9th 2019 at 5:01:21 PM

I'm getting a sense of schadenfreude from Trump attempting to take action against video games due to all the alt-right trolls who infest gaming communities everywhere. I know the industry is too entrenched to actually be punished for anything, so the more stridently Trump crusades against it the better.

Anyway, to whoever used the poisoned M&Ms/Skittles/Pepsi/whatever it was equivalent analogy several pages ago during the racism argument... let's not invoke that metaphor if we can help it. The logic behind it is heavily derided for a reason and I already became sick to death of it after seeing it used to justify radfem misandry/transmisogyny and Islamophobia alike.

Edited by AlleyOop on Aug 9th 2019 at 8:12:27 AM

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#287183: Aug 9th 2019 at 5:15:57 PM

I have sometimes wondered if these alt-right geeks would actually turn against their overlords if said overlords ever decided to heavily censor or even ban their beloved video games/websites/cartoons/whatever.

Those sell-by-dates won't stop me because I can't read!
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#287184: Aug 9th 2019 at 5:18:18 PM

I don't think so, not in significant numbers. The reason is that their hatred is something that they have subsumed their individual identity into.

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#287185: Aug 9th 2019 at 5:26:45 PM

Steven Crowder at least has spoken out against it.

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#287186: Aug 9th 2019 at 5:28:52 PM

Actually, you're probably right. It's more likely that if Trump did get his dream dictatorship and showed his gratitude to the alt-right by destroying everything they hold dear, the trolls would just be divided into pro- and anti-Trump factions (the latter of whom would probably just accuse Trump of being manipulated by teh SJWs, of course) which would endlessly sustain each others' hatred until the end of time. :V

Edited by PresidentStalkeyes on Aug 9th 2019 at 1:43:59 PM

Those sell-by-dates won't stop me because I can't read!
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#287187: Aug 9th 2019 at 5:36:10 PM

Divide the right!

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#287188: Aug 9th 2019 at 5:41:15 PM

So anyone surprised Twitter caved?

No?

Yeah, me neither.

Disgusted, but not surprised
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#287189: Aug 9th 2019 at 5:43:14 PM

[up]Called it as soon as it happened.

i'm tired, my friend
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#287190: Aug 9th 2019 at 6:01:27 PM

This is what happens when you elect a meme as president

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Your friendly neighbourhood Regent
#287191: Aug 9th 2019 at 6:03:22 PM

[up][up][up] Your signature continues to be desperately, painfully accurate.

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#287192: Aug 9th 2019 at 6:05:55 PM

Less "surprised", more "reminded of the folly of hope"

Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.
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#287193: Aug 9th 2019 at 6:06:06 PM

I mean the problem with Donald is actually that the memes kind of obscured how disastrous he really is.

Like I get it, Donald's an idiot, he feels like the villain of a cheesy 80's movie. But it stopped being funny a long time before the concentration camps.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#287194: Aug 9th 2019 at 6:08:15 PM

Villains of cheesy Eighties flicks are only funny because they aren't real. Honestly, a lot of them would be monsters if they came to life.

A Card-Carrying Villain with power in the real world would be terrifying.

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Edited by M84 on Aug 9th 2019 at 9:10:29 PM

Disgusted, but not surprised
DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#287195: Aug 9th 2019 at 6:18:08 PM

Honestly, Trump and his ilk have made me seriously re-evaluate the way I look at villains in fiction. It's no longer so easy to mock works for having an Obviously Evil Card-Carrying Villain when it's been proven that such people actually exist and do get into power.

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#287196: Aug 9th 2019 at 6:23:28 PM

I don't about Twitter caving in on McConnell's account, because the original statement from Twitter explicitly said that the account was "temporarily locked".

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#287197: Aug 9th 2019 at 6:24:38 PM

Well, I'm pretty sure it's happened lots of times throughout history - I always figured that these sorts of villains were mocked not because they don't exist, but more because they arise in a context in which they logically shouldn't. And you know what they say about real life being stranger than fiction - fiction has to make sense, real life doesn't. :V

Those sell-by-dates won't stop me because I can't read!
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#287198: Aug 9th 2019 at 6:38:05 PM

https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2019/08/09/day-932/

    Day 931: "Hostile actions." 

1/ White House officials refused requests by the Department of Homeland Security for more than a year to make combating domestic terror a greater priority. While the National Strategy for Counterterrorism, issued last fall, stated that "Radical Islamist terrorists remain the primary transnational terrorist threat to the United States and its vital national interests," it included one paragraph about domestic terrorism and made no mention of white supremacists. FBI Director Christopher Wray testified in July that there have been almost as many domestic terror arrests in the last nine months – about 100 – as there have been arrests connected to international terror. Wray also noted that most of the domestic terrorism cases were motivated by white supremacist violence. (CNN)

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/07/politics/white-house-domestic-terrorism/index.html

2/ Twitter suspended Mitch Mc Connell's account after the campaign tweeted a profanity-laced video of protesters outside his home. According to Twitter spokesperson, Team Mitch "was temporarily locked out of their account for a Tweet that violated our violent threats policy, specifically threats involving physical safety." Mc Connell's campaign manager, however, called Twitter's action part of a "problem with the speech police in America today" and that "Twitter will allow the words of 'Massacre Mitch' to trend nationally on their platform but locks our account for posting actual threats against us." Following the shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, the hashtag "Massacre Mitch" trended on Twitter, in reference to two gun control bills that Mc Connell has refused to bring to a vote. (Courier-Journal / Axios)

https://www.axios.com/mitch-mcconnell-campaign-twitter-account-suspended-4a08e1e5-d0e1-45cb-9e8d-d261e3467972.html

The National Republican Senatorial Committee stopped advertising on Twitter after the social media platform temporarily locked Mc Connell's account for violating the company's "violent threats policy." The NRSC claimed Twitter's "hostile actions" were "outrageous" and said the committee would "not tolerate" or "spend our resources on a platform that silences conservatives." (Politico)

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/08/twitter-mcconnell-account-locked-nrsc-spending-1453032

The White House is preparing an executive order to address allegations of anti-conservative bias by social media companies. While the contents of the order remain unknown, last month Trump said he would be exploring "all regulatory and legislative solutions" to deal with the supposed issue. (Politico)

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/07/white-house-tech-censorship-1639051

3/ The NRA warned Trump against endorsing extensive background checks for gun sales, saying the legislation would not be popular among his supporters. Before visiting Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Trump claimed there "was great appetite for background checks," which the NRA opposes. About 9 in 10 Americans support background checks for all gun purchases, including more than 8 in 10 Republicans, Democrats, and independents. (Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-openness-to-extensive-background-checks-for-gun-buys-draws-warning-from-nra/2019/08/07/a5f82060-b92d-11e9-a091-6a96e67d9cce_story.html

4/ Mc Connell promised that expanding background checks for all gun purchasers would "front and center" in the coming Senate debate on how to respond to gun violence. Mc Connell previously said he will not bring any gun control legislation to the floor without widespread Republican support. Mc Connell, however, rejected Democrats' calls to cancel the August recess and address the issue immediately, saying the proposals needed "discussions" before they were brought to the floor. (New York Times / NBC News / Politico)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-has-real-interest-proposal-expand-background-checks-gun-sales-n1040436

5/ Wall Street banks turned over documents related to Russians who may have had dealings with Trump, his family or the Trump Organization. Bank of America, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank AG, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo all turned over documents to the House Financial Services Committee and the House Intelligence Committee. Separately, Deutsche Bank has turned over emails, loan agreements and other documents related to the Trump Organization to the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James. (Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/banks-give-documents-possibly-linked-to-trump-to-investigators-11565256601?shareToken=st807c341d6159493e8791d19dca182c04

6/ Andrew Mc Cabe filed a lawsuit against the FBI and the Justice Department alleging that he was illegally demoted and fired in retaliation for not being sufficiently loyal to Trump. The former FBI deputy director alleged that Trump "purposefully and intentionally" pushed the Justice Department to fire him as part of an "unconstitutional plan" to discredit and remove Justice Department and FBI employees who were "deemed to be his partisan opponents." Mc Cabe authorized the counterintelligence investigation into Trump's ties to Russia and obstruction of justice after Trump fired James Comey. Mc Cabe was also the subject of a Justice Department inspector general report that accused him of violating bureau policy when he authorized the disclosure of information to the press and then misleading investigators about what he had done. Mc Cabe's termination occurred less than two days before he was to retire and become eligible for full pension benefits. (NBC News / Politico / New York Times / Washington Post)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/ex-fbi-deputy-director-mccabe-sues-fbi-doj-over-firing-n1040556

7/ ICE raided seven poultry processing plants in Mississippi and arrested at least 680 people in "what is believed to be the largest single-state immigration enforcement operation in our nation's history," according to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi. Roughly 600 ICE agents fanned out across plants in Bay Springs, Carthage, Canton, Morton, Pelahatchie and Sebastapol, surrounding the perimeters to prevent workers from fleeing. ICE Acting Director Matt Albence said the arrests were part of a year-long investigation. (KTVU / NBC News / Associated Press / The Hill / Buzz Feed News)

https://apnews.com/3a6a7fc4a8554e50a91c139b0cdf4818?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

8/ An Iraqi man from Detroit died after the Trump administration deported him back to Iraq and was unable to get access to the insulin he needed to treat his diabetes in Baghdad. Jimmy Aldaoud was an Iraqi national, who was born in Greece and came to the U.S. as a young child. He never lived in Iraq and did not speak Arabic. (Politico)

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/07/iraqi-man-dies-deportation-trump-administration-1643512

9/ The deputy director of national intelligence resigned and will step down on Aug. 15 – the same day her boss, Dan Coats, is scheduled to leave. Sue Gordon was in line to replace Coats in an acting capacity until the Senate confirmed Trump's nominee for a permanent replacement. Several Trump allies outside the White House saw Gordon as too close to former CIA Director John Brennan, who has publicly criticized Trump's leadership. (Bloomberg / Politico / CNN / NBC News)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/sue-gordon-has-resigned-deputy-director-national-intelligence-n1040616

The assistant secretary of state for the Western Hemisphere resigned, leaving a vacancy at the top diplomatic office in charge of Trump's efforts to deal with immigration from Mexico and Central America. The position is also in charge of building stronger relationships between the U.S. and South America. Kimberly Breier has held the position since October. She referred questions about her departure to the State Department press office, which refused to comment. (Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/kimberly-breier-resigns-as-assistant-secretary-of-state-for-western-hemisphere/2019/08/07/fab2b6dc-b956-11e9-a091-6a96e67d9cce_story.html

10/ Climate change is putting pressure on the ability of humanity to feed itself, according to a new United Nations report that was prepared by more than 100 experts from 52 countries and, unanimously approved. The report warns that the world's land and water resources are being exploited at "unprecedented rates" and "the cycle is accelerating." Climate change has already degraded lands, caused deserts to expand, permafrost to thaw, and made forests more vulnerable to drought, fire, pests and disease. "The stability of food supply is projected to decrease as the magnitude and frequency of extreme weather events that disrupt food chains increases," the report said. The report offered several proposals for addressing food supplies, including reducing red meat consumption, adopting plant-based diets, and eating more fruits, vegetables and seeds. As a result, the world could reduce carbon pollution up to 15% of current emissions levels by 2050. It would also make people healthier. (New York Times / Associated Press / Nature)

https://apnews.com/afb6990efd7c437da19c6d4d9976899c

    Day 932: "Not a photo op." 
1/ The House Judiciary Committee is officially conducting an impeachment inquiry into Trump and will decide by the end of the year whether to refer articles of impeachment to the House floor. In a July court filing to get the full, unredacted Mueller report, the Judiciary Committee argued that it needed the information because it "is conducting an investigation to determine whether to recommend articles of impeachment." Today, chairman Jerry Nadler clarified that "This is formal impeachment proceedings." That timeline would put an impeachment battle in the middle of the Democratic presidential primary contests. (Washington Post / Politico)

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/08/nadler-this-is-formal-impeachment-proceedings-1454360

2/ The El Paso shooter that killed 22 people told police that his target was "Mexicans" and confessed that "I'm the shooter" when he was arrested. Patrick Crusius also said he had used an AK-47-style rifle and brought multiple magazines with him to carry out the killings. Authorities believe Crusius was the author of a "manifesto" posted online shortly before the attack, saying he wanted to stop the "Hispanic invasion of Texas." (New York Times / Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/el-paso-suspect-said-he-was-targeting-mexicans-told-officers-he-was-the-shooter-police-say/2019/08/09/ab235e18-bac9-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html

3/ The Trumps posed for a photo with an orphaned two-month-old, whose parents were shot dead in El Paso. Melania Trump smiled broadly and held the baby, while Donald flashed a thumbs-up and grinned. The picture was circulated by Melania Trump and not the family. White House aides had not allowed journalists into the hospital during the visit, saying it was "not a photo op." (The Guardian / Yahoo)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/09/trump-el-paso-melania-orphan-baby-thumbs-up

4/ The State Department suspended a foreign affairs official in the energy bureau after his ties to a white nationalist group were revealed. The State Department refused to name the official, but the Southern Poverty Law Center identified him as Matthew Gebert. The SPLC published a report on Wednesday that Gebert hosted white nationalists at his home and published white nationalist propaganda online using a pseudonym. (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-race-state-dept-idUSKCN1UZ01E

📌 Day 930: A U.S. State Department official oversaw a Washington, D.C.-area chapter of a white nationalist organization, hosted white nationalists at his home, and published white nationalist propaganda online. Matthew Gebert works as a foreign affairs officer assigned to the Bureau of Energy Resources. (Southern Poverty Law Center)

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/08/07/us-state-department-official-involved-white-nationalist-movement-hatewatch-determines

5/ The White House has prepared an executive order that would give the FCC oversight over tech companies and how they monitor and manage their social networks. "Protecting Americans from Online Censorship" tasks the FCC with developing new regulations to clarify how and when the law protects social networks when they remove or suppress content on their platforms. The draft order also calls for the Federal Trade Commission to take those new policies into account when investigating or filing lawsuits against technology companies. (CNN / Tech Crunch)

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/09/tech/white-house-social-media-executive-order-fcc-ftc/index.html

📌 Day 931: The White House is preparing an executive order to address allegations of anti-conservative bias by social media companies. While the contents of the order remain unknown, last month Trump said he would be exploring "all regulatory and legislative solutions" to deal with the supposed issue. (Politico)

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/07/white-house-tech-censorship-1639051

6/ Trump walked back his statement that he was "strongly considering" commuting the 14-year sentence of the former Illinois governor who was convicted of essentially trying to sell Obama's vacant Senate seat for personal gain. A day after musing about commuting Rod Blagojevich's sentence, Trump was having second thoughts in response to pushback from conservatives and Illinois Republicans. Now, Trump says White House staff are merely "continuing the review of this matter." (New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/us/politics/trump-blagojevich.html

7/ The DOJ official responsible for the Trump administration's failed attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census is leaving the Justice Department. John Gore, who served as the principal deputy assistant attorney general for the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, said he wants to spend time with his family while "discerning next steps." Gore is currently facing allegations that he provided false testimony and concealed evidence as part of the lawsuits over the citizenship question. (NPR)

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/08/749573662/doj-official-behind-failed-census-citizenship-question-to-leave-department

📌 Day 813: The House Oversight Committee threatened to hold a Justice Department official in contempt after refusing to comply with a subpoena for testimony and documents related to the citizenship question on the 2020 Census. Committee Chair Elijah Cummings said in a letter to AG William Barr that the committee would hold his principal deputy assistant AG, John Gore, in contempt of Congress if Barr didn't make him available to answer questions about Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross's decision to add the question to the census. Gore was slated to testify on Thursday but he did not appear. The committee voted 23-14 earlier this month to compel Gore to testify and for the Trump administration to provide additional documents pertaining to the citizenship question. (NBC News)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/house-oversight-threatens-justice-department-official-contempt-bucking-subpoena-n993516

📌 Day 825: The Justice Department refused to comply with a congressional subpoena for a Trump administration official to testify about the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. The House Oversight and Reform Committee is investigating the addition of the citizenship question despite evidence that it could lead to millions of people being undercounted. John Gore's refusal to appear before the committee is at the direction of Attorney General William Barr. Gore is the principal deputy assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's civil rights division. (CNN / Washington Post)

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/24/politics/census-citizenship-question-justice-department-house-democrats/index.html

Edited by sgamer82 on Aug 9th 2019 at 8:00:05 AM

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#287199: Aug 9th 2019 at 6:38:22 PM

Yeah, what people consider "realistic" in fiction is informed greatly by the real world, but verisimilitude (what actually matters) is not actually the same thing as being 1:1 to real life. The reason people have often criticized those kinds of cheesy over-the-top villains from older media has more to do with the fact that they tend to be uninteresting and one-dimensional which doesn't necessarily make for a good story. Real life doesn't need to make sense or be emotionally satisfying - it simply is, and I often get the impression some people have a hard time accepting that.

Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#287200: Aug 9th 2019 at 6:38:51 PM

Well, with card carrying villains, the problem isn't whether or not they're realistic, I'd say it's more whether or not they're interesting. Trump isn't the kind of figure I love to hate.

Though I actually would argue Trump isn't a Card-Carrying Villain. Evil, sure, but I doubt he sees himself that way.

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