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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
It would, without question, be a lie.
I have to say that I find it darkly amusing that Pepsi tried to co-opt the protest movement for their branding and then protesters started throwing Pepsi cans at police. I mean, it's not actually funny, but I can't help thinking that if it showed up in a fictional work, it'd be quite the Black Comedy.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"CNN
refused to air a Trump ad that called CNN fake news. Can't imagine why.
I
n "fairness", I remember coming across a video clip recently on twitter showing one of the recent protestors. In the clip, there's the usual protesters and heavily armed police and you see in the clip one of the protesters had an officer a Pepsi. After a Beat in which the officer obviously realizes the intent, he throws the can at the crowd (or possibly the person who handed it to him) as hard as possible. So, I don't know if this is the same city/protest, but the previous incident gives me a slight sense of "turnabout is fair play".
But yeah, thanks Pepsi.
edited 3rd May '17 7:32:05 AM by Hodor2
If you think discrimination doesn't exist, there's no reason to remove anti-discrimination laws. There are a ton of useless out of date laws on the books and no one cares about them because they don't affect anyone.
The only reason to remove anti-discrimination laws is if you want to discriminate against people.
@Madskillz: I do not know how to quote at all, the markups are an unintuitive bitch on this site. Anyway, this is my recollection: Yiannoplous was going to give a speech at Berkeley and there was a sizable peaceful student protest against this. At some point some antifa folks showed up and started setting off firecrackers and fires in barrels. Lots of the cable news networks sensationalized greatly how big these were, but it was still a jackass move to show up and do that shit in a crowd you supposedly agree with. (I personally did not see much of the news exaggerating how big these were, and I watch MSNBC.)
In the end Yiannopolous's talk was canceled amid a fuck ton of tension. The antifa there declared it a victory of their making. Now, this was weeks ago, and I'm reciting this from memory, so there's probably a lot of stuff that I'm forgetting or never knew, but that's the gist of it.
Wasn't he legally obligated to send it? Comey strikes me as a By-the-Book Cop type. He's going to follow the law explicitly even if it doesn't always lead to the best outcome.
edit: There's also a case to be made that if he says he wouldn't send it people will use this as evidence he wanted to fix things for Hillary.
edited 3rd May '17 7:50:45 AM by Kostya
"The book", specifically the Hatch Act (?), forbade releasing sensitive information right before an election due to the potential for influence on the outcome.
What Comey did was release/announce sensitive information, in this case that there were more emails to look at, two weeks before the election, and it's generally agreed that had an influence on the outcome
edited 3rd May '17 7:55:13 AM by sgamer82
IIRC, the standard action when new information is found is to investigate first, and then create the report after you know whether or not something of import is there. You don't want the intelligence agencies reporting on every potential lead, because then Congress would be drowning in a sea of reports. Especially if the NSA was doing it.
Also, that letter he wrote. That's incredibly strange too, since Comey was basically editorializing in it. A professional report (if one had to be written) would be "More e-mails exist. Investigating now." That's it.
People might have used a reluctance to release information as him supporting Hillary, but he could have defended it by citing standard procedure and the Hatch act. Not releasing information that may or may not be incriminating, because no one knows what the information is, is a normal thing to do, because it prevents problems down the road.
edited 3rd May '17 8:01:40 AM by Zendervai
I'm short, Comey violated department of Justice policy, if not the actual law, by releasing info on the new emails so close to the election like he did.
Whether he thought he had to or was working on an agenda, the result is the same. He did a boneheaded thing for bad reasons and, if tactical's post is accurate, he's apparently doubled down saying he'd do it again even knowing what he does now.
edited 3rd May '17 8:04:31 AM by sgamer82
Comey violated the Hatch Act to help Hillary lose.
Notably, his behavior since the election strongly indicates it was specifically to help Hillary lose, not to help Trump win. Comey, like several people in the FBI, seems to have been drinking the Slander Kool-Aid for the last couple decades and jumped on the "Hillary Clinton is literally worse than Satan" bandwagon.
He's been an awkward ally/strange bedfellow against Trump since the election because he hates Trump, but he was the treasonous enemy who literally broke the law to see us fail before because he hates Clinton more.
Do not mistake his actions against Trump as some kind of Heel Realization.
edited 3rd May '17 8:15:48 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.The democrats opening statements to the house hearing on energy policy.
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edited 3rd May '17 8:41:25 AM by megaeliz

Hell, I'm pretty sure his professional wrestling cameos have more depth than his own personality...
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.