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Elephants and Jackasses...

Discussion in 'Permanent Threads' started by Nettdata, Oct 14, 2016.

  1. Aetius

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    What tipped you off, Pete Hegseth constantly referring to "warfighters" and insisting that women and dudes with beards have too much dick-sucking-lips to qualify as such?
     
  2. NatCH

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    “We need strong, heterosexual leaders, like the Romans had! Where’s the Sulla of today?”
     
  3. dixiebandit69

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    Okay, so is anything actually going to happen to the people in charge?
     
  4. Aetius

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    Right now? No. If a Democrat takes the White House in 2028? Really depends on what kind of pardons are issued and how hard people vote. A 51-49 victory with a divided Congress isn't going to give them a mandate to do much. A 65-35 victory with supermajority in the Congress? They could stack the Supreme Court, redirect all ICE funding to DOJ and just Nuremberg this shit.
     
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    So nothing is going to happen.

    Gotcha.
     
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    Instead of stacking the Supreme Court to make up for their electoral shortcomings, maybe they could try to nominate someone the electorate actually likes for once. It can't just be retarded gamesmanship forever.
     
  7. Aetius

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    I mean stack the Supreme Court to overrule that historically corrupt Trump immunity decision. Plus we're probably going to need to need a ruling that the pardon power is not an unlimited President-gets-to-order-subordinates-to-do-crime provision.
     
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    I disagree. They need to focus on grassroots campaigning for House and Senate seats in 2028. 2026 might not be mathematically possible, so they need to make a like a shitty sports team and spend a few years rebuilding the program and the brand. Congress has spent 35 years ceding its authority to the executive branch, might be time to actually have a distinct legislative branch again. The strikes on the Venezuelan drug boats this week likely constitutes a war crime, so they should be ready to hold some trials.
     
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    I'm not sure where you're disagreeing with me. My post presupposes massive Congressional victories in 2026 and 2028. The SCOTUS reforms are just what's necessary to actually allow the prosecutions to go forward without being derailed by Republican judicial wishcasting about "absolute immunity."
     
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    Maybe Im disagreeing with you, or maybe the 3 lunch beers I had are tricking me.
     
  11. dixiebandit69

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    I don't know how closely y'all pay attention to Texas politics, but let me give you a quick recap:

    - Trump said that he wants five new Republican seats in Texas.

    -Texas Legislature does an unheard of redistricting effort between censuses.
    They defend it because "Texans overwhelmingly voted for Trump, so why do we have so many blue districts?!"

    -The rigged maps get thrown out by a lower court judge.

    -Texas Republicans take it to the Supreme Court.

    - In what I can only assume was a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court sided with the Republicans.

    https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/...onal-maps-supreme-court-ruling-2026-midterms/
     
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    Alito chided the lower court for "fail[ing] to honor the presumption of legislative good faith." This presumption exists nowhere in the constitution, so where did Alito pull it from? Another gerrymandering decision in which SCOTUS ignored a lower court's finding of clear racial intent on the part of a state legislature, written by... Alito.

    He has literally invented a rule out of whole cloth where courts can't determine that a legislature created a racial gerrymander, because to do so would be to call the legislature racist, and that's mean to Republicans.
     
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    I'm to lazy to check but I hope you guys are using Time Roman type fonts and none of those inclusive Calibri DEI fonts. Gotta keep up the image, the details are important to keep up the professional image.
     
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    I hate times new roman. It looks so dated, like it was painstakingly written on parchment with a quill, in times when some schmuck got compensated with bread to copy documents written by richer men. I drew these about 23 years apart. The first, last week with a mix of simplex and calibri. The second in 2002, for a company that almost exclusively used times new roman. Which looks better, even though it has waaayyy more crap going on?


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    So Trump is planning on sending out $2,000 checks? Or is it $250 checks? Or maybe $1,500 checks? $1,000? The government is likely providing all of us with $0 checks as soon as the Epstein files are fully released.
     
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    This admin’s official font should be comic sans.

    I’m tempted to write a browser plugin that detects “trump stuff” and make the font change automatically.
     
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    Well, I'm still waiting on the $5K DOGE check, and after that, I'm expecting my $1,500 check to pay for my healthcare for the whole year.