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2020-02-03 at 5:21 PM UTC in Lanny Is No Longer With UsThe Silicon Valley SlasherThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-02-03 at 4:47 PM UTC in Last movie you watchedHmm good question. OK remove Kennedy(he'll be my #11 daddy)put Eastwood in there BUT TO BE CLEAR 60's through to Unforgiven Eastwood. After that its a lil yucky thinking about itThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-02-03 at 2:47 PM UTC in Impeachment is deadThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-02-02 at 11:10 PM UTC in doom 64 coming?
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2020-02-02 at 11:06 PM UTC in Repurcussions If The Republicans Acquit Trump Without Witnesses And Documents
Originally posted by stl1 The Washington Post
‘A massive historical story’: Trump’s impending acquittal could have profound ramifications for future presidents
Philip Rucker
The evidence of President Trump’s actions to pressure Ukraine was never in serious dispute. After a systematic presentation of the facts of the case, even some Senate Republicans concluded that what he did was wrong.
But neither was the verdict of Trump’s impeachment trial ever in doubt. The Senate’s jurors are scheduled to etch an almost-certain acquittal into the historical record on Wednesday.
The impending judgment that the president’s actions do not warrant his removal from office serves as a testament to Washington’s extraordinary partisan divide and to Trump’s uncontested hold on the Republican base. The expected acquittal also has profound and long-term ramifications for America’s institutions and the balance of power between the executive and legislative branches, according to numerous historians and legal experts.
In effect, they say, the Senate is lowering the bar for permissible conduct for future presidents.
“It’s a dispiriting moment for an American system that in many ways was founded on the insight that, because humankind is frail and fallen and fallible, no one branch of government can have too much power,” said Jon Meacham, an American historian and author. “The president’s party, instead of being a check on an individual’s impulses and ambitions, has become an instrument of them.”
This is not the first instance in which Trump has skirted penalties for wielding the powers of his office for personal or political gain. Former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III found that the president repeatedly worked to block or thwart the Russia investigation, acts to obstruct justice that would have prompted charges were he not a sitting president. But Trump sidestepped any punishment then, just as he appears to now with Ukraine.
One of the president’s lawyers, Alan Dershowitz, proffered a sweeping argument on the floor of the Senate last week that Trump using the powers of his office to pressure Ukraine to open a corruption investigation into the Bidens was not impeachable or illegal because it was done in pursuit of his reelection.
“If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment,” Dershowitz said during the trial.
In the face of stinging criticism from constitutional scholars and legal experts, Dershowitz said later on Twitter that his comments were being mischaracterized. “A president seeking re-election cannot do anything he wants,” Dershowitz wrote. “He is not above the law.”
Timothy Naftali, a historian at New York University and former director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, said the arguments advanced on Trump’s behalf in the Senate trial could have lasting consequences for the future of presidential power.
“The Republicans have embraced a theory that permits future abuses of power,” Naftali said. “The outcome of acquittal was predictable . . . but I’m afraid that this process in the Senate is more enabling of an abusive president than expected.”
The nation’s founders gave Congress oversight responsibilities and powers of impeachment as a check on the executive. Yet, with this week’s likely acquittal of Trump, Meacham argues, the Senate instead has become a tool in the president’s perpetuation of his own power.
“It is not hyperbolic to say that the Republican Party treats Donald Trump more like a king than a president,” Meacham said. “That was a central and consuming anxiety of the framers. It is a remarkable thing to watch the party of Lincoln and Eisenhower and Reagan and the Bushes become an instrument of Donald Trump’s. That’s a massive historical story.”
philip.rucker@washpost.com
full article @ http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-massive-historical-story-trumps-impending-acquittal-could-have-profound-ramifications-for-future-presidents/ar-BBZzB3h?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=UE01DHP
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2020-02-01 at 5:16 PM UTC in VictorThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-02-01 at 6:58 AM UTC in your special abilitiesThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-01-31 at 4:59 PM UTC in Trump defense says quid quo pro was LEGAL
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Lets hope so…USA has been going downhill for the last 50yrs…it needs upending by a good strong leader such as Donnie.
Imagine the faggot communist state you'd be living in now if a generation of Obamas and Hillarys had been running the place end over end.
These democrat assholes are the ones thinking someone should be president merely based on Identify.
“She has a pussy...should be president”
“Looks kinda black...should be president”
“He sucks mass cocks...should be president”
The party who’s new members are a retarded bartender and terror supporting Muslim.
In the age of twitter,democracy and republics might be coming to an end. Ppl are too fucking stupid,lazy and easily manipulated.
King trump may be the way to go...
LolzThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2020-01-30 at 7:29 PM UTC in So when you're born, your heart is only going to beat x number of times before you DIE
Originally posted by MexicanMasterRace Thats not what a replicator is… It can convert any matter not just assemble existing matter
If they can successfully 3D print a working human organ such as a heart or a liver which contains many different types of molecules that would be laying the ground work for future research into 3D printing at the atomic level. That would be a replicator. Your problem is lack of vision and imagination. That is because your generation wasn't taught to think or to teach itself. It was taught to parrot and mimic the other young lambs.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2020-01-30 at 6:32 PM UTC in Trump defense says quid quo pro was LEGALQuid pro quo is used in foreign policy aid since the very first time.
They could stand up there and post the number of times Obama did it just a few years ago.
Every fucking one of these assholes are corrupt as fuck. Pelosi has made millions on the military industrial complex. It’s the biggest money laundering scam in history.
They kick back and drink dom perignon and laugh at all this my team vs. your team shit.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2020-01-30 at 2:47 AM UTC in Dump idiot Trump
Originally posted by Technologist No matter who they bring, doesn’t change trumps guilt. 😁
OR... change the FACT of
DemoCRAPPY President Obama doing the very fuq'n thing... DemoNATZIS are wanting to impeach Trump of ALLEGEDLY doing!
just watch this FACT CHECKER... 😆
HypoCRAPS
Originally posted by Technologist Wonder why those folks aren’t being investigated, hmmmm 😂
Hmmmm… INDEED!!The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2020-01-29 at 4:16 PM UTC in Dump idiot Trump
Originally posted by Speedy Parker They only want to call witnesses to drag it out in hopes that a last minute miracle will appear and save their sham.
Yes, the dragging it out thing worked really well last time for them didn't it...lolol fucking dumbos never learn.
They know they are beat but are trying to score points so the defeat isn't so spectacular...The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2020-01-28 at 12:28 AM UTC in Dump idiot TrumpThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-01-27 at 4:47 AM UTC in TOTSEANS Thread
Originally posted by Speedy Parker Fuck Totse . Most of the information that was posted there was incomplete at best, and purposely misleading or dangerous in some cases. Most of you fuckwits that remember it fondly do so because at the time you were to young and stupid to realize that it was a pile of tossed together shit tossed together by mostly shit tossers who never managed to toss anything meaningful in the real world. That's most of you who still think it was so cool. Then there is SpectraL. Who knows why he still enshrines a dead website. As for me, well it was all about the Benjamin's baby.
This is partially true, but it gives me the impression you're a lot younger.
The thing about &Totse is that it's largely a relic of a "perfect storm" of phenomena that cannot be recaptured in the modern era. This is mainly due to the fact that technology has progressed to a point where it redefined society and displaced Jeff Hunter's original vision. You have to realize that, when &Totse was new, this was during a time when intelligent misfires who had a knack for unusual or dangerous knowledge were a pretty uncommon group of people. Basically anything electronic had no GUI, and operating any kind of computer system was still considered a pretty rare skill. Virtually nobody went to college because the average American could thrive on a high school education, so most citizens were only functionally literate. On the other hand, we were an odd bunch of people traditionally understood by the rest of the world as a weird but potentially dangerous, bookish bunch. At best, we were seen as normal people who hid our passions well because we realized that revealing an affinity for esoteric knowledge generally makes you appear untrustworthy or as if you're harboring some sinister motives. It's hard to believe it now, but books like "The Poor Man's James Bond" or military training manuals on counter-intelligence were actually genuinely hard to come by. There were really just entire areas of knowledge that you had to work extremely hard to obtain even a basic mastery of because people simply couldn't find resources.
When Totse showed up, you suddenly had an amalgam of this information all in one place. Not only that, you had something totally new -- a community. For the first time in many of our lives, we finally were communicating with people who shared our values. They weren't talking about the new Brady Bunch movie, who banged the cheerleader, or the baseball game. These guys were talking about things that made a difference. They were posting how to trick evolving telephone technology. They were able to anonymously criticize things about society that would otherwise get them ostracized from public spaces. Most importantly, we were sharing information. When I was growing up, books were rare. I remember reading some of my first Orwell novels because someone typed them up on &Totse, and I know many others had this same experience.
When they eventually added the web facing presence, the site initially restricted membership. The internet was still pretty fresh, and the ideas were still flowing. However, like everything else, 9/11 changed things. Law Enforcement upped their presence on the site. Eventually The Patriot Act was passed. People were distrustful of each other. Suddenly members weren't as quick to say how they really felt, because they were afraid it would follow them into real life. By roughly 2005, the show was pretty much over, and I think I know why. . .
When I was 14, I remember sitting in homeroom and having a bunch of my friends laugh hysterically at me because I met a girl over the internet. I eventually met her in real life, but the prospect of meeting someone online before you met them in person was completely unimaginable to the rest of the football team. A few years later, something eventually changed in our society. That is, there once was a divide between internet and real life. I think major part of of happened was that divide that eroded. It eventually was no longer a thing. I know this might be hard to believe, but there was a time when you'd come home, play games on a computer, surf porn, read things, had a really limited form of social media, go to a few forums especially dedicated to one thing, maybe learn something, watched a Flash cartoon, and then you shut it down to return to real life. In real life you had school, work, family, conflict, and responsibilities. It was around 2005 when the internet started to become real life. This is where &Totse was in it's death throes and was effectively in the state as you described it. People were worried about managing their reputations and were posting things to jockey for recognition rather than for a love of knowledge or passion in a subject matter. This is because, remember, now the internet is real life. Who needs friends at school when you have the anonymous praise of hundreds of strangers? This meant information was poorly researched. Quality became lousy. Nobody held anyone accountable over it. In old &Totse, someone would have caught the mistakes. But this wasn't old &Totse. The community was laughing at a guy putting his penis a burrito. People were in spurious talking about how RobinHoody sent his penis to an underage girl. People were trying to get Pirate Hippie's AIM scree name. Nobody was there for the right reasons anymore. The internet became real life. But instead of real life looking more like the internet, the internet just became ugly like the rest of the world.
The nerds like me clung onto our cerebral notions for dear life. We tried to recreate the space, tried forming communities, tried to find things like it off line, and maybe even embellished it a little bit to try and convince ourselves we were part of something bigger. But really, it was no use. Eventually &Totse became a high school locker room -- poop jokes and all. And for how wise all of us nerds thought we were, it was about it get way worse.
You see, in 2005, any idiot could log onto the internet and do what they want. Now, every idiot was required to be on the internet. Eventually, this trend spiraled into what became the modern era. The internet wasn't even real life anymore. Now, the internet is more important than real life. The one refuge we had became an abstract representation of the worst parts of society. Forums became echo chambers. Unpopular opinions posted online now cost people their jobs or reputations. All of your internet activities are monitored and heavily scrutinized. Law enforcement regularly kicks in doors, destroys reputations, and asks questions later over benign activity. And now, you have an entire generation encounter the world through electronic abstractions that leave them completely unprepared for reality.
So now, when you hear people talking about &Totse, it's usually because there was a part of us that experienced something special there. It's hard to walk away from that into the monotony of the adulthood because for once, as pathetic as it maybe sounds, many of us finally had a place that we belonged to. Just maybe the huge pile of books in the corner of my house and tomes of handwritten notes on a highly specific discipline weren't weird, might actually be valued by somebody. Somebody might take what I learned, use it, and teach me something in response. Maybe we'll put it into action and change something. Maybe we can make the world a more free place for people to think, feel, and interact.
It's not elitist or romanticized, but I don't blame you for not believing me. You just had to have been there.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2020-01-27 at 12:29 AM UTC in Our power got cut offSpec's is on fire in this thread.
Also you and HTS need to capitalize on this by recording yourselves freezing and miserable in your dark apartment and trying to scrounge up the funds to get the electricity re-connected. If you guys were smart you could get mad sympathy, go-fund-me's etc out of this.
I mean besides everything else, who turns someone's electricity off in January in Canadia for just $50? That's mean and scandalous.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2020-01-26 at 11:53 PM UTC in Our power got cut offScron, remember, there is absolutely nothing wrong with saying you don't have the money for xyz. I have been in that situation myself many times. Be straight up, and say "I have no shekels to do what you want me to do, in order for you to help me you will have to pay".The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-01-26 at 11:50 PM UTC in Our power got cut offDid you mention that to your case workers? It is literally their job to sort all this sort of thing out for you.
If you are getting $400 a month to live on/$100 a week, that should all be your money. That's just common sense.
Would anyone else not spend $100 a week on themselves just to stay sane? You deserve money to remain connected with society, to leave your home, to remain socially engaged and to feel like a person whose basic human dignity is upheld and guaranteed by the state.
You should not have to pay a weeks income just for nothing.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2020-01-26 at 11:15 PM UTC in So when you're born, your heart is only going to beat x number of times before you DIEThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-01-26 at 2:38 PM UTC in The Impeachment Inquiry has Begun
Originally posted by Technologist Polls have accurately predicted elections for many years. All of a sudden they aren’t accurate in 2016. Yeah, I wonder why that is? 😁😁😁😁
Because they knew ahead of time who they were going to put in office. Trump winning the white house was the same thing that happened in 1960. They never saw him or JFK coming. They can't kill Trump like they did JFK so they are trying this sham impeachment which isn't working at all. It is sad that you live in one of the best moments in US history and all you can do is cry the tears Rachel Madcow tells you to.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2020-01-26 at 2:05 PM UTC in Coronavirus (is it real)"Sir, we have patient zero"
"bring him in"
BcKkkkAAAAAA
"WAT DO U KNOW ABOUT THE CORONAS?"
BckkKKAAAAAA
"he's not talking sir"
"get the snake"The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
