Comments by "possumverde" (@possumverde) on "Fox News" channel.

  1. If law enforcement recieves an anonymous tip that a crime may have been committed, they investigate, find evidence, and go to trial, the identity of the tipster becomes pointless. They simply made claims. It's the evidence and testimony gathered during the investigation that matters. The whistle-blower would only need to reveal their identity if their report is used as evidence at trial. There's no reason for that to happen so they can remain anonymous.
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  2. Personally, I prefer the separation of church and state...
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  3. Nah, an insurrection would have already dragged the old farts out of their mansions and had a...spirited conversation with them.
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  4.  @paparooster9569  Not since Reagan's first term (when the Presidential Records Act went into effect) they don't. Also, none of them have ever been dumb/dishonest enough to violate the law which prohibits classified documents which have not been officially marked as declassified from being removed or destroyed (which applies even if a President has verbally declassified them.) None have been silly enough to try and pull Trump's "standing order to declassify" nonsense either. Unlike Trump, other Presidents actually bothered to educate themselves on what a President can and can't do.
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  5. Fired yes. Unless the leaker obtained it illegally (hacking or obtaining it when their job doesn't grant them access to it etc.) there's not really much to prosecute them for. Such drafts are not themselves classified information, thus simply leaking them to the press isn't actually illegal. Something in the "government property" family of charges might be possible but that's likely as far as it could go.
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  6. Evil requires intelligence. The people supporting the President on this do not meet that qualification.
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  7. It'd be a shame if blue states started exercising their right to secede...Who would pay for all the forced children that will be overflowing all of the red state trailer parks...
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  8. Last I checked, the God of the Abrahamic religions wasn't very fond of liars. Mr. Dershowitz knows full well that his arguments in the Senate were completely false and contradictory to the intent of the constitution's authors. Still, he made them. The man chose money and fame over honesty. Nothing to admire or sympathize with there...just good old fashioned greed.
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  9. Get Kentucky to lay off the Jim Beam long enough to sober up and ditch McConnell and maybe New York will consider it.
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  10. There is no fence. The only arguments in favor of criminalizing abortion (prior to viability) are subjective in nature and laws should be based on objective arguments. I'm not a fan of abortion myself but to base laws on subjective beliefs is wholly tyranical and leads directly down the path to a pseudo-theocratic government which this country was never intended to be. People should follow their beliefs and let other's follow theirs unless a strong objective argument can be made against said beliefs. Edit: Also, the pain argument doesn't work as it is subjective. Mothers feels quite a bit of pain and for a much longer time when giving birth. Prior to that, there are months of discomfort etc. as the fetus feeds off of the mother's body while providing no benefit in return.
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  11.  @lavalord96  Unfortunately, in a strictly objective sense, prior to viability if the fetus is to be considered a unique organism, the best description of it would be a parasite. A parasite is a unique organism which can't live without a host and offers no benefit to that host. I personally don't like looking at it like that but at the same time, how I look at it is subjective and since I don't think laws should be subjective, I don't see it as my place to fault those who do see it that way. I consider myself to be more or less pro-life personally but pro-choice when it comes to politics and the law. I just don't see it as my or anyone else's place to overrule the mother's decision regardless of their motivations. At least not up until viability perhaps.
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  12. March
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  13. It was a veteran who got DOGE'd and became suicidal... everybody knows that nobody's home over the weekend. They're busy spending taxpayer money for the President to play golf.
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  14. Nope. That's only in movies and television. In reality lie detector tests are not reliable. That's why they aren't admissible at trial.
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  15. ​ @Pete_952 Very little is written in plain english in the Constitution... That can be easily seen simply by comparing the current interpretation of the 2A to the original intent/interpretation of those who wrote and ratified it. While the problem is worse with the original amendments due to the authors decision to use flowery poetic language for esthetics rather than precise "legalese" for clarity, even later amendments (like the 14A) have enough unnecessary vagueness in them to be a nuisance to interpret (as we are now discovering.)
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  16. He's resigning so that Trump can't pull any temporary replacement shenanigans to get Patel in without confirmation.
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  17.  @ct000374910  The law is practically unenforcible due to it's vague wording. It uses "on or near" but never specifies a distance for "near." Unless one sets foot on the properties given or impedes travel from going/returning, a first year law student could get such a charge tossed. Were that not the case, "intent" would still need to be proven and intent is one of the hardest things to prove in most cases. Also, it's not really been tested and many if not most constitutional scholars consider it a potential violation of the 1st amendment.
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  18. If you had a better understanding of the laws involved and how the legal system works, etc. you'd understand why such affidavits should remain sealed until he's indicted. There's nothing shady about it, it's how things are supposed to work in criminal investigations. Long story short. The affidavits will contain specific information concerning the investigation as a whole. Information which the defense team could potentially use to compromise the overall effectiveness of the investigation. For example, knowing precisely which laws are being focused on or who a confidential informant is might lead to the realization that other evidence/witnesses which investigators may not yet know exist will eventually become relevant. Thus, pre-emptive actions can be taken to deal with them (likely denying investigators from building as strong of a case as they otherwise could have.
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  19. Independents, centrists, and moderate conservatives don't like him much either after this childish and felonious stunt. I guess that means he has acheived nirvana... Dude just traded his chance at being President for a chance at doing time...
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  20. Ask her why her state has the 6th lowest population density and yet is 8th in covid deaths/100k. SD accounts for ~0.37% of US covid deaths but only ~0.27% of the total population. That's ~37% more than their fair share of such deaths.
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  21. Grow up
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  22. While Stefanik, Nunes, and Jordan (when not babbling on about people who aren't relevant to the case) are acting like 12 year olds with their stunts and grandstanding.
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  23.  @DoAllUCan2StanD  His staff definitely deserve some credit. Were it not for them following behind him quietly cleaning up his messes and undoing the stupid things he does, things would be even worse than they currently are. I seriously doubt they will be able to continue doing so if he gets re-elected. His mental issues combined with the stress of the job will eventually send him completely off the rails.
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  24.  @TheMovieMasturmind  The first clip is just a single triangular object (likely a drone) seen with some sort of laser range gated imaging system the Navy's testing (the reason the written report is classified.) The other two are just backscattered images of the same object. The low quality image, camera angle, panning, and the fact that it's being viewed from a moving ship, are the only reason it's movement seems so fast and erratic.
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  25. When the recount is done, Biden will still be the winner. What's troublesome is Trump's spiteful sabotaging of our national security on his way out.
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  26. There was no false conviction. The ruling does essentially state that it only applies to official Presidential capacity. Only a corrupt/incompetent judge along the lines of Cannon would even think any of the charges he was convicted of are covered by it. (Though the way SCOTUS worded their decision does open the door wide for corrupt judges to abuse it.) No competent judge would rule that it applied in Georgia either. Trying to convince a state official to find a way to change the outcome of a state election is not part of a President's official capacity. That was done entirely by Donald Trump, private citizen who lost a recent election.
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  27. If we were at war, Pooty would have already tried to launch nukes and been removed by a military coups or the Russian people themselves. The sorry state of the Russian military may be enough to deal (in a very sloppy fashion) with a country like Ukraine but against the military of a country on more equal footing, they wouldn't hold long at all. Poor training, maintenance, and over reliance on conscripts pretty much negate any advantages they may otherwise have. Nukes would be the only option...and likely the end of Russia.
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  28. I read his children's book... he's an excellent pick for a dictator... not so much for a President of a democracy...just saying.
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  29. Trump's about as opaque as one can be...
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  30. ​ @pep590 He put his retirement paperwork in months before the order to deploy came down... after 24 years of service. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. Vance's behavior on the other hand is shameful...and then there's the draft dodger who had the gall to disparage a Vietnam POW for getting shot down and captured.
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  31. @MarkTodd-q2k  A man who had 24 years on the job and whose retirement paperwork was already in and being processed before the deployment order ever came down. He didn't abandon his men. He retired and was replaced with someone else. It happens all the time.
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  32. With one of SCOTUS's excuses for throwing out a ~50 year old law being public opinion, can we throw SCOTUS and Congress out as well? Their approval ratings are both significantly lower than the percentage of the public who think abortion should be legal with some restrictions... (SCOTUS ~40%, Congress ~20%, abortion ~48%)
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  33. Not saying much. Florida's always been a sh*t hole.
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  34. Hopefully he'll stay out of it and just let them fight it out.
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  35. Indeed. Separation of church and state. Also, his choice to get nailed to a tree rather than avoid it doesn't speak wonders for his decision making skills.
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  36. Better question. Why does the President still have his?
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  37. To be that happy about completely destroying his reputation and credibility as a legal scholar seems a bit...delusional. I hope this isn't a sign that Trump's mental disorder has somehow become contagious...
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  38. Someone's going to have to find some way of fixing the housing problem or the economy will fail for sure. People can't buy anything if the vast majority of their pay is simply going towards a roof over their heads. Sadly, Trump won't touch the issue with a ten foot pole since he made his living via real estate scamming. The corporations slowly but surely buying everything up and unreasonably gouging on the pricing are his buddies. So who's left to choose from?
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  39. If you remove journalists from war you'll only have more wars. They put a human face to conflicts and keep them from becoming just numbers on a screen.
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  40. I'm not saying I agree with the mandates but in a strictly legal sense, OSHA did have the power to make such mandates. SCOTUS got it wrong and it really shows when you compare the arguments in the majority opinion to those in the dissenting. This ruling had more to do with politics than Constitutional law.
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  41. Among the 50 states, South Dakota ranks 8th in covid deaths per 100,000 while having the 6th lowest population density (with only a dozen or so cities with populations above 10,000.) That's not exactly something to brag about... For perspective, The deaths per 100,000k rate is ~30% lower in California whose population density is nearly ~2,500% greater. Also, SD accounts for ~0.37% of the total US covid deaths but only ~0.27% of the total population. Perhaps a few more precautions should have been taken...
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  42. If you can make an objective argument as to why abortion should be illegal (prior to viability) let's hear it. Otherwise it's not your place to force your subjective beliefs onto others. You do you, and let others make their own decisions.
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  43. You're not necessarilly correct about them showing hard evidence if they had it. The investigation committee can't prosecute/punish anyone as a result of the hearing. As a result, if revealing such evidence in committee could potentially damage an actual criminal investigation by the DoJ, then it would be in the commitee's best interest to leave it out. Especially in a situation like this where the committee has already shown enough circumstantial evidence to warrant reccomending that the DoJ perform such an investigation.
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  44. Bah. They've added and subtracted justices many times in the past. In the end, the effect is far less pronounced than the side doing it would hope for. That's why it's been awhile since the last change. The public backlash outweighs the benefit. I seriously doubt it's being strongly considered now. More likely it's being floated around as a bit of misdirection.
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  45. Repeatedly spouting false statements intended to anger the audience while strategically throwing in the word fight is more than enough to warrant impeachment. Actually, the repeated lies about the election being stolen are enough all on their own.
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  46. Most war journalists are freelancers. Media outlets don't like risking their own or paying hazard pay and thus prefer to get coverage from freelancers when they can. Using old credentials is also common as it can help get them closer to the action and get people talking.
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  47. He may get sentenced to more than 4 years.
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  48. It wasn't necessarrily difficult to find their addresses to begin with.
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  49. Trump decided for them when he signed the executive order removing liability protection from social media. If they can be sued directly for content they allow, then they have to be able to censor their content. They're publishers and can refuse to print whatever they like (or whatever makes them vulnerable to a law suit.) Ironically, his own order will likely lead to even more censoring of his tweets (out of legal necessity) and probably the eventual suspension of his account if he can't stop acting like an edgy 12 yo...
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  50. The kind that has his portrait on our $20 bill...
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