Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Brian Tyler Cohen"
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@813laker especially when he complained in that speech, right after the beauty of Gettysburg's battlefield results of unburied Confederate soldiers, their loss and how poor Robert E. Lee isn't looked upon in a good light any longer.
Yeah, for that matter, then either, as Congress issued a writ of attainder and seized his plantation in punishment for his treason. His family, paid after a court battle years after his death. It's now Arlington National Cemetery.
Lee was also well known to whip his slaves mercilessly for even mild "offenses", at times taking over himself if his employees were deemed "too gentle".
And that us and US thing, wow, just wow. He realized it just recently - I realized it when I was 4.
But, he does deliver the irony. It's coming up on 45 years now since I've last saw someone earn an F- in US history.
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Article III Judicial Branch
Section 3 Treason
Clause 1 Meaning
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
Clause 2 Punishment
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
OK, where in that did Trump take up arms and levy war against the US? We have no enemy, as an enemy would only exist if Congress declared war.
Sedition, yes, absolutely.
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Even worse, with his blathering on Gettysburg, he blathered some nonsense about Robert E. Lee being looked at in a negative light recently. He's been to Lee's old plantation multiple times for official POTUS appearances, as Lee's plantation was seized under a Congressional writ of attainder over Lee's treason. His family paid only after his death and a protracted court fight.
Today, it's Arlington National Cemetery.
And Gettysburg, so beautiful after the battle, with the Union soldiers graves and the Confederate soldiers left all strewn around farmers chewed up, now stinking fields for local farmers to bury. And mourning the Confederate loss in that same speech!
In a suburb of Allentown.
BTW, in longer speech excerpts, he's far, far worse. He literally sounds like he was three sheets to the wind, not unlike his brother, whose death was attributed to cardiac issues secondary to alcoholism.
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Cute Uh-60 in the background of the interview, I liked that bird better with a fully stocked ESSS.
And an AH-64 and AC130 series friend to properly introduce myself.
Well, if a nicer introduction failed, which was rare.
Oddly, I was once investigated, actually had to authorize said investigation, due to some peculiarities of the infrastructure that have since been corrected.
Authorized it, learned of my own errors, corrected them, everyone moved on and SIPRnet infrastructure was improved.
What I didn't do was eliminate the supervisory infrastructure or obstruct the investigation, I fully cooperated and even contributed to it. And I literally could've gotten 20 large in prison. Due to a procedural error that was caused by previous in war theater lapses that were cumulative and once arrested, strengthened overall security.
Defense attorneys would literally shit themselves, but my strategies always work until they don't. Same with theirs.
Everyone being honest helps in that specific scenario of a massive goat screw of my own origination. Got caught out, fixed it and sent the fix downstream, case closed.
Not kill the messenger. Hell, if memory serves, the kid that reported me got promoted and rightfully so!
And oh, "He was federally investigated", yeah, big shit, anyone with an SF85 or SF86 is investigated. Here's your big kids pants, child. Stop pissing yourself.
That's my job in my dotage and injury status.
Dammit...
There is one thing worse than growing older, not living to get older. Nobody I know reported back on how great dead is, only living people have suggested I investigate that option and I suspect that they don't have my best interests at heart.
I'll just get my coat...
Where my spare quantum torpedo is stored. ;)
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@pallidavisholubar7273 treason will never be part of the dialog. Period.
Article III, Section 3, Clause 1:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
Has either Trump or Musk levied war against the US? There is no enemy, as Congress hasn't declared war on anyone.
Now, one can make a case of sedition and massive overreach beyond his authority under the Constitution and he literally can be impeached for any reason that the House and Senate come up with, even for having mussed hair, as the SCOTUS found long ago that impeachment is a political act, not a criminal or civil matter.
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I'm reminded of a few things, for one, how lordly he is treated, far above and superior to how all we serfs are treated.
For another, the courts awaiting his Royal Boon before applying any realistic standard, when any serf would've been beneath the prison for contempt on day one.
Finally, I'm reminded of something he said during his last campaign, speaking of Biden, how Biden would hurt God. I've come to realize, the God wasn't the Judaeo-Christian God, but the Lord God Trump. His followers already knew this and hence, their repeated reactions. Let him acquire the power that he so desires, welcome back the tyrant god-kings of the ancient city states back, setting humanity itself back thousands of years, albeit with thermonuclear weapons that they, nor he comprehends. After all, he never did read the SIOP, which is the instructions on using the infernal things, but did ask the military to use a nuke to put out a hurricane.
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@funsizedtom in other words, never try to make America better, surrender and retreat like a good coward.
Trump's been voluntelling many countries what to do with their own borders. He even tried telling Israel and Hamas to send every Palestinian on the West Bank to Egypt and Jordan, without either nation being consulted, asked or even oh, an e-mail letting them know of his idiotic pogrom suggestion.
Israel and Hamas wisely tousled his hair, patted him on the top of the head and sent him back to bed, while the adults talked.
Egypt and Jordan paid no note, when asked, "What, someone spoke? I thought that was just a fart".
What he pulled was, sending some group of people that nobody in the neighborhood knows about, to enter the next door neighbor's house without warning, then threaten the neighbor's family because they didn't open the door to a crowd they didn't know was coming, why they were there or whoinhell they were, but the neighbor is the bad guy.
No, the neighbor sending the crowd would be pulling buckshot out of their ass if it was my home being banged on by a crowd of unknown, unexpected strangers.
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"They can't disenfranchise thousands of students, can they?"
Why not, they wanted to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of deployed military to kill off mail in ballots.
I say disenfranchise away, but no taxation without representation, so entirely tax free for a decade per denied vote - from local property and school tax to sales tax, booze and cigarette tax, income tax, excise tax, zero taxes, to be paid for by the denying authority's budget. Wanna fight, fine, I fight dirty.
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Indeed, this is one case where, I do believe firmly, his demand for victimhood, should be honored. Let him be the martyr that he proclaims he already is, while experiencing sitting on a stainless steel toilet, rather than his usual gold plated toilet, with no privacy, lowest bidder bunk and enjoying a month of prison food.
If he makes it a week without a major mental breakdown, I'll be more astonished than if Marvin the Martian landed on the White House lawn. Especially if he has to share a cell within the general population and not getting fast food and Cokes at a motion of his fingers.
Now, I see one of three chances that'll happen to his affluenzaness, slim chance, fat chance and no chance, as our two tier system of injustice goes fully onto open display to the world, showing our third world underbelly.
In the old days, the Soviets would've had a field day!
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The largest solar array in the US is 7.28 square miles, if it's a full square, it'd be 2.69 miles x 2.69 miles, which is 10 miles in Trump measurement magic miles.
Meanwhile, coal plants got shut down because coal cost more than any other energy source. I'll not even go into bodies of water that had total fish and bird kills when coal ash spilled into those water sources.
And he'll change energy prices, supermarket prices and the price of unicorn rides, because the POTUS fixes all prices in the nation using Harry Potter's wooden magical marital aid stick.
But hey, he's helping Americans get well paying jobs by halting federal employment that's only open to US citizens, but really loves H1B workers coming in to take well paying high tech jobs.
Thus far, he's fully gone over to opposite land, total Bizarro World, where everything is opposite what he says. Down means up in his lexicon, win means lose, enough said.
But, at least he banished Musk from the White House, much to the irritation of President Musk, who is now consigned to the executive office building off campus.
And he got Hegseth, who will be easily found if he needs his SecDef, such as if we're under nuclear attack, as he know which lampshade his town drunk wears when it's Miller time, which is all the time.
And the Army is getting rid of, as of his taking office, their sealift capabilities. If we need to move an armored division somewhere, they'll have to drive their tanks across the Atlantic or Pacific. And the commandant of the Coast Guard, well she got fired for not stopping the previous commandant from misbehaving while he was in command after she took command, I guess she should've used Obama's time machine.
The man is dumber than a 50 foot tall stack of anvils.
I really need to take up drinking. Alas, can't afford to and I'm sure that Hegseth won't share.
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@SeedFactoryProject not really, buying isn't the same as hiring, as one buys the company, but one then has to retain the workers. Been in outfits that were bought out and all employees summarily dismissed, the organization then failed and only the name, which the purchaser only wanted, remained.
In Musk's case, he bought the companies and in many cases did hire quality managers, which is a fine art in and of itself that very few ever master. Lord knows I am only mediocre at it, because bullshitters abound in many circles, management especially.
He's also a very, very highly skilled showman, much like Liberace. Liberace was a moderately good pianist, not exceptionally good, but good enough for popular appearances. Where he excelled at was as a showman, in that he shined. I still remember wondering at women going insane about "Liberace in hot pants!" for one concert, was all the rage and raked in tons of money. And I noticed every blunder he made during the performance, as I was a pianist as well.
Haven't touched an instrument since the war, hearing loss has ruined that. But, Musk is seeing to it that I don't get my hearing aids, as a hearty "fuck you for your service, no go away and die".
Once they come for my pension, well, got nothing left to lose and a hell of a lot of training in a specific skill set arena and I shan't be alone, things could get downright interesting and a society about to evolve in one direction or another.
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@kakashiofthewhitewolf8679 who cares, Hitler was his own person, so what? That's your defense?
The environment that a child is raised in will be reflected in their learned behavior. This is a very well observed, documented phenomenon. It's like you are denying the law of gravity even existing!
Is your faith in your boy-god so strong that you cannot admit to any evidence to the contrary that is presented before you? I've been confronted with religious zealots during the war, it wasn't pleasant and their actions drove things on occasion toward unpleasant conclusions. Usually, I've managed to reach many and avoid such conclusions, but not always - some insist upon remaining of fixed views, despite all evidence to the contrary and things ended up concluding unpleasantly.
After all, people have to decide for themselves how they'll proceed, try to shoot it out with the sheriff and the posse or give up an unsupportable, untenable position.
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@claritapadilla7110 Iran what? They're in Russia's pocket and as importantly, 6400 miles away.
And oddly, despite Trump's worst efforts, still not with any nuclear weapons and by now, they should have at least a couple of thousand. They do have their own high grade uranium mines and processing plants.
Oh wait, their drone carrier? In WWII, they were called jeep carriers, merchant vessels given a flat top and called aircraft carriers, but couldn't hold a candle to a fleet carrier. Which is why the fleet carriers went out after the Japanese fleets, leaving the jeep carriers in Leyte Gulf. The only thing saving that fleet being the tin cans, aka destroyer escorts, which were about as heavily armored as a VW bug.
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It's not identity theft, they're not taking anyone's identity.
They're stealing personally identifiable information, which is protected by the Privacy Act of 1974. The secure storage of said information covered under a handful of other statues. We're talking 5 years hard time for each case, though god-king would just pardon them and hell, probably refuse to charge them with any crimes, because he's crafted a Constitutional Crisis that neutralizes all law enforcement, save by his Imperial Decree.
The only thing remaining is Congress to impeach him, before he finally figures he can just discharge Congress by decree like Caesar did.
Now, one way to fight that, without using guns and then one faces dinky guns vs artillery and tanks is to just stay home from work. Enough do, the economy shuts down. If one needs to escalate, one blocks entrances and exits to refineries and petroleum storage facilities, halting fuel deliveries and hampering transportation and trade. Then, the wealthy campaign contributors start screaming at Congress to do something because they're losing money. The Army and federal agents sure as hell can't round up half of the population and force them to go to their non-federal jobs or even to their federal jobs.
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First, "I am not aware of", one would have to prove before a court mens rea and what someone knows and that would either require public statements referencing the specific quote/event or telepathy. Additionally, there's the nearly insurmountable hurdle of proving that a blonde is even self-aware or aware of their surroundings.
Second, I heard the testimony with the Georgia Secretary of State telephone conversation and she stated "I have not heard the entirety of that recording", not that she was unaware of that specific quote. That was an evasion, true, but likely factual and well, admittedly, I've not heard the entirety of the conversation myself. Only the damning sound byte that well, knowing Trump from actually meeting him, is consistent with the charges alleged, but lacking in the full conversation that'd likely be even more damning. Well, it would've been, before the SCOTUS elevated him to monarch. After all, Nothing the King does can be illegal.
For the hostages nonsense, granted, weak tea blonde awareness joke aside, weak tea answer, where I'd stipulate that he is entitled to his opinion and his opinions aren't relevant to the matter before the committee, since he's not being reviewed for consent of Senate.
Patel's book, well, I've not read it either and what would remain relevant for her is, would she supervise him and not allow abuses of office and authority, her views on a book you'd then have to prove she had read aren't exceptionally relevant, save if one were to be instead asking if she embraced that enemies list and include said list in one's question and eating up one's questioning time on the floor.
Meanwhile, the Senate doesn't have to give a cause for rejection of a candidate for the cabinet level appointment or certain officers, they can literally vote against someone based upon their eye color or what kind of shoes they wear.
As for the 1001 bit and "I don't know", yeah, dumb answer, the proper answer as coached by every attorney I've known is, "I do not remember" or "I do not recall", one's conversations with others being easily investigated, memos and e-mails also trivial to print out and submit. One cannot prove what is remembered without telepathy.
The hypothetical question, got asked one myself that was rather broad in scope and essentially impossible to refine as asked, so I loathe hypothetical questions. "That order, was it with the space aliens overhead in their flying saucers menacing us or Genghis Khan's hordes risen from the grave? If I'm given an plainly unlawful order, I'll question the order and explain my questioning based upon law, if persisted, I'll refuse the unlawful order and if confirmed, would be forced to report said unlawful order to the House, however I sincerely doubt such a situation would ever occur so clearly and plainly".
But then, I've never been accused of being a yes man and I have indeed questioned unlawful orders, in many cases insisting on a digitally signed e-mail from the offending officer, who oddly demurred from issuing said order in writing. Digitally signed e-mails effectively being a signed written order, the signature being a DoD and court accepted nonrepudiation token and admissible in court.
And yes, I've some familiarity firsthand with both federal civil and criminal cases, thankfully from the periphery.
Now, if I were a spenditmore, would I vote to approve her for the proposed office? Not a chance in hell. From testimony I've heard from the proposed SecDef and now her, I'd trust neither as far as I can throw the entire District of Columbia. I'd at this point have serious qualms as to his other proposed candidates for the various offices he's requesting consent of Senate for.
And that first bit I refer to as a fraudian slip, a false Freudian slip, as I've little respect for any politician, earned richly by far too many.
Reminds me way too much of both "My Fellow Americans" and worse, "Liar, Liar".
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Well, does it matter? Just saw two reports that claimed massive rioting at the White House and to hear what was being blathered, the building must've been leveled and everyone deceased and that there is no right to peaceably assemble or seek redress of grievances with one's government.
And oddly, the building remains intact, nobody had as much as their feelings hurt, well save the god-king wannabe, must've been Harry Potter's wooden marital aid fixed everything as he rode around propelled by unicorn farts.
And eggs remain $9.00 for a dozen jumbo, $8.00 for extra large, $7.00 for large, maybe they'll be selling human eggs next for cheap.
Well, my $6.00 10 pound ham is in the oven, pretty insane when hams are cheaper than a dozen eggs, damned bird flu. And that flu, one that causes serious infections in humans and is highly infectious has been detected in herds of milk cows.
But, raiding of the treasury, transmitting classified data unencrypted via unprotected channels is of greater importance to the god-king and Emperor Musk than the populace having anything to eat. Because a hungry, angry populace worked out so well in France in 1789.
Although, I did have one tool tell me to "die with dignity", I strongly suggested that they lead by example and go first.
I remain mystified as to why my applications for employment at the State Department go ignored... OK, not really, never applied, I'm decidedly not a diplomat.
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@BruceRickett-vr4tc depends on how long it's allowed to continue. Backups can be restored to computers, funding clawed back and put where it belongs again, markets eventually settle, trust eventually rebuilt (even if it takes decades to do), workers rehired and compensated, etc.
If it came to warfare, well, that took a generation and change to largely recover from... Doubt it'd get quite that severe though. With just food stamps, medicaid, medicare, Social Security and VA pensions, that's well over half of a very well armed and pissed off population.
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Honestly, I'd have answered the first question the same way. Then, pin the Senator's ears back on her response, while confirming that Biden won and I'd said as much by confirming that he was POTUS.
Second question, I'd have to answer that yes, there were irregularities, onesies and twosies that really didn't matter, save to the penal systems of a few states, who had to accommodate a very few new guests. My evidence is the handful of Republicans that are convicted and serving prison sentences for election fraud.
I'll not go on further, as I'm even more unqualified than well, any of Trump's picks and I'd not accept an offer for such a position, as I refuse to set myself up to fail and worse, fail my nation by accepting such positions.
Although, she'd really hate life when she said, "I was in Pennsylvania", as my first question would be what county she was in. Because, this Pennsylvanian didn't see her sorry ass anywhere around the capitol. Nobody I know in Philadelphia and Delaware County saw her, nor did anyone I know in York, Cumberland and Lancaster county. And interestingly, every case of election fraud in Pennsylvania, save one, were Republicans and we've cases pending for the recent election in several counties as we speak.
Unlike MAGAts, some of us do pay attention to events, people and things that are not Trump.
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Given his previously proclaimed anti-apartheid and now plainly pro-apartheid commentaries, yeah, there's some oddities going on with Elon, to be generous. But, we've witnessed that even in the US with hippies going far right conservative in their dotage.
As for generational trauma, I grew up in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, with neighbors that had tattoos from the concentration camps. Let's say that it's a given that I've witnessed what generational trauma looks like.
OT, CRJ-900 crashed in Toronto. No fatalities reported. At least the port wing and both horizontal and vertical stabilizer are torn off, the aircraft literally on its roof.
No further specifics currently, but given the degree of damage, that's one hell of a great design in that aircraft! Aircraft can be replaced, lives cannot. Best wishes to all involved!
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Nope, not a scandal at all. It's literally a nothingburger.
Literally, the SecDef got a SCIF installed inside of his home, which he's entitled to. Frankly, they're such a huge pain in the scrotal contents, I'd move heaven and earth to avoid having one inflicted upon me, but his choice. Oliver North had one inside of his home when he was in Reagan's White House.
EmCOAT. Literally RF shielding paint for a SCIF. The $1k door, a secure door that's also required for a SCIF. Then, there's the X-10 locks for the door and the safe for the encryption devices, figure abour $1500 - $2500 each, depending upon the lock style needed.
Yeah, I've some familiarity with the infernal places. Full TEMPEST compliant wiring, sealed conduits, shielded cables and a fair bit more.
And enough of a scrotal contents pain that I'd never want one inside of my house. Whatever it is, it can wait until I get into the office.
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Oh, the cheat nonsense is alive and well, you've obviously not been actually looking to see it going on on various news commentaries pages.
The biggest bit being a misapprehension that "called" the race being some official thing, which it isn't, per even your own content description describing how "AP has called...", largely in response to state counts not being officially announced for senate and house races, but of course were "called" by various media sources and pollsters. Not a lick of whom have official standing to actually make such an announcement on an official governmental basis, as counts and mandatory recounts are ongoing on some tight races.
And with the GOP, that which matters most is, as long as there is even one vote against their candidate, it's cheating.
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This is precisely where such thinking lead us before, with significant numbers of lost lives, including in our militias.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_nativist_riots
Had the right to steal a public fixture, in Philly, a cannon from the port defense installation, then used to bombard a Roman Catholic church, convent/hospital and school. When militia was mobilized, they murdered several soldiers, then the angry commanding general ordered his artillery to surround them, ordering the crowd to return the stolen cannon, then return home or he'd open fire. Weeks of soldiers patrolling the very cradle of our nation's streets with fixed bayonets.
And the Constitution and laws weren't new, it was 1844. The Nativists eventually took over the nation's primary conservative party, the Whig Party, driving off sane members, who formed the Republican Party. The Republican Party's first candidate for POTUS being a relative unknown, some Abraham Lincoln guy.
The Whig Party evaporated with the civil war.
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And here's the fun part, which branch enforces a confinement order by the courts again?
Mr President, we want your agents to arrest you, will you be kind enough to direct them to do so?
Now, civil contempt has better teeth, although I'm uncertain how the levying of fines would work without Executive Branch involvement.
Frankly, the risk of a very literal civil war is increasing by the day, especially when the rule of law is being openly flaunted and Congress has effectively abdicated.
And taking his crayons out to scribble through an amendment he doesn't like, based upon the most ludicrous argument I've ever heard in my life, beyond obscene.
If said aliens are not subject to our jurisdiction, they could not be detained or arrested, let alone be deported. I'm pretty sure that's covered in week one of law school.
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Well, for a first inauguration with the flags at half staff, Trump needs to hop into his time machine. When president Taylor died, flags went to half staff, when Lincoln died, flags went to half staff, when well, every other president died in office, flags went to half staff. Uncertain for Harrison, as presidential succession wasn't established yet...
Inauguration occurred as soon as was humanly possible after the death of the president, so Trump needs to set his WABAC Machine to before 1850, just to be sure his statement was correct - not that being correct or truthful ever was a concern for him at all.
Perhaps we should begin fundraising now for a nationwide fireworks celebratory display for the very moment Trump finally drops dead.
At 3:00, one of the rarest moments of Carter's life, painting himself into a corner and getting asked to step out onto the wet paint. ;)
Been there, done that, got the tee shirt that proudly reads, "Kick me hard". :/
Trump vs deceased McCain, again making history by losing a popularity contest with a deceased person with his flag antics, then acting as if he could've denied a war hero and veteran leader in Congress a goddamned funeral.
What a cheap, petty, short fingered little man, frustrated that his fingers cannot encircle his minuscule member.
Go ahead and sue me. You'll get a wonderful choice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_penis_rule
I did meet the SOB back around Y2K, tri-state Chamber of Commerce function, he was invited as a speaker of honor. He was the boor of the party, all conversations had to revolve around him and his speech was devoted to his successes, centering on a then five year old "success" in bankrupting his casinos. To a room full of business owners, whose eye rolls had me astonished that the Earth didn't flip off of its axis.
The net effect on the event was, the following year experienced a very literal 95% attrition rate of people refusing to attend and the Chambers were forced for an entire year to apologize to their members and promise no recurrence of that prior travesty.
Given a choice between meeting him again and making sweet, sweet love to a wood chipper, I'll go with the wood chipper.
But, there is a positive note to end my tirade. I cannot ever be accused of character assassination for Donald Trump, for one cannot assassinate that which has never existed.
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He's levying war against the US, which means taking up arms against his government? You've got two eyewitnesses to the overt act of making war against the US government that will testify in open court?
Article III, Section 3, Clause 1:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
That's literally the only crime that the US Constitution very narrowly and clearly defines. Indeed, it's the only crime that the Constitution defines at all. He can't give aid and comfort to an enemy, as Congress has not declared war and hence, we have no enemies, only adversaries and those aren't in that definition.
So, stop using his play book, you're worse at it than he is.
And frankly, it'd be hard to even get a guilty verdict for sedition for Jan 6, it was just barely at a borderline by his own words.
Dammit.
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@gmchixx7652 Trump offered that which did not exist.
First, Canadian water is Canadian water, not US water. Second, that water goes nowhere near California, so unless the god-king was going to personally carry it in buckets a thousand miles, that wasn't going to happen.
But, keep worshiping the guy who fired God. Hell will look good on earth.
And enjoy the grocery prices shooting up 50% due to tariffs. And taxes shooting up to cover the increased defense costs, as a lot of really expensive equipment and weapons systems come from Canada.
And when he escalates things, enjoy the NE blackout, as their power comes from Canada. And no gasoline, as our oil that our refineries can use comes from Canada, our oil not being compatible with US refineries and exported.
He's literally planning to have an inverse siege, we besiege ourselves and starve ourselves into Canadian submission. That'll work out about as well as Trump steaks did.
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Has the Supreme Court taken up arms to violently overthrow the government?
"Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."
We lack an enemy, as Congress has not declared war upon any nation. That leaves the SCOTUS levying war against the US. Then, you'd need two witnesses to the actual overt act or a confession before an open court to treason.
So, lacking any of that, nope. Not even sedition or even advocating for the overthrow of the government.
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You don't understand.
Trump is the god-emperor of the universe, so if the universe disagrees, he'll god-kill-nuke-magic it away or else tariff it and the universe will pay.
That's what we get for letting him fire God.
But, he has concepts of a concept of a concepts of a plan - kill everyone by starvation, there'll be no need for health care.
And trust me, having actually met the SOB back around Y2K, long before unreality TV fed his already overinflated ego, it wasn't because Obama was a Democrat, it was because Obama was the wrong skin color.
Just based upon some chance remarks, never anything direct, as he always did enjoy his dog whistles.
My prediction of his new tenure? Expect mass casualties. Literally. Chopped programs, veterans benefits gone, social safety net incinerated, public health gutted and dismantled, food and drugs deregulated and toxic, social unrest due to stratospheric food prices and shortages due to closed borders and nobody to harvest our fields and slaughterhouses and more.
While he tries to deport people from his magical camps that are unfunded and unbuilt, to nations that already told him flat out nope, not accepting non-citizen exiles from a nation that never exiled anyone before.
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Isn't that where the gasoline refrigerator is?
Although, I was present at one supermarket some years back when the food was being freshly smoked. OK, I was briefly smoked.
Just as I got to the cash register, the clerk began having difficulties entering pricing, then the register began smoking.
I suggested she might want to get the manager to see if it was procedure to just unplug the obviously now deceased cash register, as I stepped back from the cloud of smoke. Sometimes, ya just gotta laugh, but prod someone to unfreeze. Obviously, it got unplugged. I just didn't know where the plug was, as in that state, even on broken ring, it'd have seized the token and eventually a timeout would occur, it sure couldn't do anything - the magic smoke had already smitten me. ;)
Now, excuse me while I go the grocery store and get some oil from the frozen section.
The man reminds me of a comedian's response to Saint Ronald Reagan, after making a PR trip to McDonald's to basically show that he was in touch with the common man, the joke made being that the entire effect was ruined when Reagan asked to see the wine list. I'd voted for him back then, but I found the joke hilarious. Alas, Trump's ignorance is real and downright dangerous.
Oh no, my chicken is defective! Lemme get the gun and hot glue that gaping hole in the obviously defective bird!
Damn! I'm completely out of rotisserie olive oil! Gonna have to pick some up, along with some extra crispy water.
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When will billionaires care about the poor and working class? History answered that well in France, when they refined and perfected the usage of the French National Razor.
For the historically challenged, the National Razor was a cutsie name used in reference to the guillotine. Once the wealthy and ruling elites started taking significant losses, they paid very serious attention. Once that murderous and self-destructive wave was over, they continued to pay attention and the wheels stayed on the cart, well, once they got reinstalled.
Currently, Trump's in economic trouble anyway, he no longer has anything resembling a reserve of liquidity, his assets are heavily leveraged and he couldn't even throw bond for an appeal in a massively injurious civil case.
And with Musk, the gloss is off the muskmelon, with multiple recalls undermining the myth of his tremendous innovative wisdom due to Tesla recalls, fires, self-drive vehicles that unerringly collide with emergency vehicles, a boring company that hasn't bored even an earthworm in a decade and more, a brain link company that's literally caught up to bleeding edge devices from the early 1970's and I can go on and on, that plus his Twaddle antics plus SEC intense interest and now anger, he'll start to implode soon enough too.
I'll not show much sympathy for an unsympathetic dweeb who started out his wealth by skillfully inheriting an emerald mine, helping build a couple of websites and buying companies, then taking credit for the companies engineers successful projects.
He's literally the Liberace of the business world and a hint from a pianist, Liberace was a decent piano player, he was far from the world's best, he was just a good showman.
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It's been years since I've heard that example of schlemiel and shemozzle, brings back many memories of when I was knee high to a grasshopper.
I'll just say, Rubio likely will be the poor mashugana left holding the bag, as I really doubt we've got very many attorneys remaining in the land who desire to commit career suicide.
Especially given the example of Giuliani, who is landing on that which is decidedly not his feet.
I suspect they'll all find, they're not working for some grand Emperor, but instead for King Pyrrhus after the battle of Asculum.
Learning the ancient lesson, "Another such victory and I am undone".
With Rubio likely to get the word, "Sir, there are some men outside that would like a word with you".
"Oh, who are they?"
"I'm not sure, however one is carrying a large axe and the other is carrying a pike".
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First, he's not levied war against the United States, which requires by nature the use of arms. So, no treason.
That kind of removed a cause for arrest, not that you'd get him to authorize his own arrest anyway and law enforcement is under the executive branch. Worse, SCOTUS created from whole cloth executive immunity, so that any official act is now legally protected.
Now, removal from office, suffice it to say, half of his cabinet and the VP aren't about to turn on him. So, that rules the 25th amendment out, that leaves impeachment and the GOP is thoroughly in his thrall.
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Hey, he's addressing the high cost of eggs compared to other foods by raising the price of the other foods.
And it'll be all Obama's fault and why he'll ask Congress to declare war on the country of Antarctica to stop the invasions from there.
And it'll jumpstart agriculture in the US, so that the crops can then rot in the fields with nobody to pick them. Which is the fault of NATO, who we'll have to also declare war on and invade that country.
The shame of it is, the average MAGAt will believe it, hook, line and sinker. Hell, he already had, during the campaign, proposed we steal Canadian water for California by running a pipeline from a Canadian river to the locals that need the water, which of course would involve invading Canada.
Because that worked out ever so well the other two times we tried it...
When all of his misdirected efforts finally trigger domestic unrest against his maladministration, he'll direct that sanctuary cities are the root cause of all of the problems with hidden aliens magic magic causing mayhem and order the thermonuclear destruction of those foreign lands.
All because his parents allowed people to poke baby on the fontanelle when he was an infant.
Full disclosure, I do intensely dislike the man as a person, as I've actually met him in person around Y2K. He was the boor of the party, literally, even managing to piss off my wife - a veritable saint, as she managed to put up with me for over 41 years.
Still, we've gotta give Trump some slack, he had a tough time of it as an infant, being breast fed by his father and all.
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@dvddvd5903 alas, no clue how. Originally, the Republican Party sprang from the ashes of the Whig Party, the original conservative party in the US, which had been hijacked by Nativists and religious nut jobs, pushing for literally many of the same insane things. The actual conservatives, showing courage that is now foreign to the GOP, bailed from the party and formed a new party. Their very first candidate for POTUS, some guy named Abraham Lincoln. The Whig Party evaporated in disgrace shortly afterward, never managing to have a successful candidate since the Republican Party formed.
Alas, these days, a defining characteristic of a Republican is easily ascertained, they're required to have a yellow streak down their back that's a mile wide.
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Since Congress no longer enjoys its immunity, the Constitution is moribund.
It could be revived easily enough though. Congress giveth, Congress can taketh away.
Rescind every cent of misappropriated and properly utilized executive budget dollars for this year for the entirety of the executive branch - every agency and branch.
Then, for starters, Kash and Kristi get their positions consent rescinded by the Senate.
Then, consider re-instituting that budget again after Trump appears before Congress stark naked and apologizes.
He'll go into golfing withdrawal quickly enough, since there won't be fuel for the vehicles to even take him across the street. The staff, unpaid, the White House utilities unpaid and once overdue, subject to termination.
The Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse, that knife cuts in both directions via rescissions, courtesy of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
He wants to cross the street, he'll have to pay for the fuel for The Beast out of his own pocket.
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