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  1. I think he mentions at least once that he could shut down the Mueller investigation at any time, but he’s leaving it up and running because it will prove him innocent and prove Hillary guilty. 

  2. 7 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

    The last time he was on was an abject distaster.  Dude is so unhinged.

    Goodie, we are going to get the Whiner-in-Chief who comes unhinged when his thoughts aren’t slowed down by having to type on a phone  

    can’t wait for for F&F to tell him he has a busy day and they are cutting him off  

     

  3. 1 hour ago, troph said:

     

    Most here know my back story. I’ve met zero resistance out here. Everyone knows I’m gay and many know the rest of it. I’m sure some quiet haters but for the most part the moms I see are furious about guns, supporters of hashtag metoo and are sympathetic to social issues and opposed to discrim of at least gays generally. The Republicans are losing these otherwise conservative leaning moms - even in affluent conservative suburbs - at a break-neck rate. The men are another story. The number of male Trump supporters out here is astonishing, I think mostly on taxes. They love their recent tax break.

    It's not just that they are losing those moms.  It's that they, or at least Trump, are giving those moms a reason to vote against the GOP.

    It's one thing to ignore a voting bloc or take them for granted.  It's an entirely different thing to give them a reason to vote for the other guy.

    And for a current events example of this - witness Dannie Goeb out there blaming school shootings on abortion or doors or whatever.  That is not the kinds of things those moms want to hear.

  4. 32 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

    Solutions I’ve heard that I am intrigued by or outright supportive of:

    1. Legislation that would hold the gun owner responsible for any crime committed with their guns

    Problems: doesn’t address illegal guns out there with no “owner”, could be hard to prove in court, doesn’t help with people who legally acquire guns and then do harm, possible slippery slope to gun registration?

    2. Securing schools

    Problems: expensive, perception by some that kids would feel imprisoned

    3. Require proof of gun safety training to purchase ammunition

    Problems: may be unconstitutional, doesn’t stop violence committed with legally-acquired guns/ammo

    #2 and #3 aren't going to stop somebody who is determined and patient, and a lot of these guys planned their massacres in great detail.  #2 would simply shift the killing to the streets by the school, the gate(s) of the school, or athletic events, or whatever.  #3 - a lot of these guys, while they had a massive amount of ammo stockpiled at home or wherever, were able to kill plenty with what they were able to physically carry.

    #1 is partly where I'm at.  Way too many of these shootings were with firearms from the home.  I would also toss in a much better background check/red flag system that takes into account household members who have problems - we need to have that discussion about removing firearms from homes with people who have serious mental issues.  And way too many of these shootings had way too many warning signs that were being ignored, deliberately or not.   We already somewhat discourage people from owning firearms when they have a felon in the house (whether it's right or not, overzealous prosecutors can go on fishing expeditions with felons and their family members).  We also penalize people with "dangerous" dogs when those dogs get loose and maul/maim/kill.

  5. 1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    2020 can't get here soon enough.  I actually fear the scenario where the Dems win both the House and Senate in 2018.  If they moved to impeach/indict, I don't know if Trump accepts it.  And if he can get the military to stand behind him, we have a constitutional crisis.   And when people say Mathis would stand up to Trump, you're making an assumption that Mathis is still there.  Trump can easily find someone to replace Mathis.    Would Trump accept a scenario of losing in 2020?   If millions and millions of undocumented immigrants voted against him, why should he comply with an invalid election?

    Maybe my fears are unfounded, but I think we are in a world that we wouldn't have imagined as recently as 2014 or 15.

    Putting aside his draft-dodger status and mocking McCain for being captured, the military isn't big enough.  We couldn't even pacify an already-weakened Iraq - a country we were at war that's 2/3rd's the size of Texas and with less than 8% of the US population.  

    And the very people you need manning the tanks, checkpoints, etc. are the very people you can't rely on - your 18 and 19 year olds in the military care more about getting laid and getting paid, and a Democrat-led Congress could easily shut down the military's budget.  Trump's precious little parade pissed off a whole lot of those guys as well, because if there's anything the junior ranks hate, it's officers/officials who create more work for them, and a parade creates a helluva lot of work, especially if travel to said parade is involved.

    Trump won't have the military backing him, even if it could somehow physically maintain control over the nation, and our military isn't geared towards local occupation anyways.  

    More importantly for Trump, he simply doesn't have a staff that he could rely upon.  All of the people that you would consider to be the ones pushing him towards some kind of Constitutional crisis have already been booted out.  He's had way too much staff turnover during the past year or so, leaving him with a bunch of political opportunists with loyalty only to their careers, or those trying to keep him from fucking up.

    Dictators who come to power, they build a loyal staff that they could absolutely rely upon, and they run things with an iron fist.  He has shown time and time again that he has no loyalty to anybody outside of his family.   The Rick Perrys and Jim Mattis's are not going to go to the gallows for Trump.  He can't even seem to fire people to their faces, and  he has to sneak off to the shitter or use his private rooms to twitter.   

    If Trump had full-on dictator tendencies, and the attitude and balls that go along with it, he would have shut down the Mueller investigation long away, one way or another.

  6. 1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    What Trump really needs is a national crisis to suspend rights to finally take him over the edge.  If 9/11 happened tomorrow, do we not believe that concentration camps (freedom camps?) aren't build up immediately.   And criticisms of the good govt. become subversive actions.     When you see movies like V for Vendetta, we're not as far from that world as you think.  

    With that being said, I actually don't think any of this will occur.  I still believe that enough people would oppose it if we ever had a leader that tried to become a dictator.

    Keep in mind that the very people who are beyond well-armed and who fear the government, helped elect Trump.  Trump has already made comments about gun control and the 4th Amendment that has theme worried.

    And they are very well aware that Trump is not a gun enthusiast in any way.

    These same people started turning on Bush after 9/11 when the government, with a Republican President and Congress, was talking about all kinds of measures like tracking online purchases, gun owners and their ammo purchases, etc. (the whole Total Information Awareness thing scared the everliving shit out of many of them) and they were flipping out after Katrina when cops in Louisiana were confiscating guns.

    And these same people would watch many of the websites/services they use daily going down under a whole "criticism of the government is bad" type of thing.

    They would turn on Trump in a heartbeat, just like they turned on Bush.

  7. 3 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I'm trying to recall if I've ever met a Russian.  I seriously don't think I have.  I had a Romanian prof in grad school, that's about all I can recall.

    Trump must just run in better, more interesting circles.

    We've run into plenty of Russians in Austin in the past few years. Mostly moms at the parks, so there’s a chance they are mail-order brides. 

  8. 34 minutes ago, Dr. Teeth said:

    Did Tammy melt away and die?

    Hey man, The Deep State Conspiracy planted some people at the restaurant in Minnesota to confront her. It’s a war on America!

  9. 12 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    Well, I hope she makes him sweat a little.

    She’s a Hispanic lesbian cop, who served in the US Army, who also worked for the Border Patrol and worked as an undercover federal agent to bust drug gangs, among other jobs. 

    Abbott will have to tread carefully in the debates. 

    He will still probably win, but it will be entertaining to watch his supporters fuck up. 

  10. In a lot of states, you can be criminally punished if you have a dangerous dog and they get loose and maul/maim/kill somebody.  And if you’re dog is considered dangerous in many states, you are required to go above and beyond in securing them, and you’re not allowed to take them certain places, etc. etc.  

  11. 2 hours ago, JohnRedHorn said:

    You dont have to take away guns, you just start charging whoever the legal owner of any gun that is used in a crime with that crime. If dumb ass daddy of this kid was up for capital murder and the death penalty alongside his kid then we'd either see a lot of people deciding to not own guns or we'd get rid of irresponsible gun owners by making felons out of them. 

    In a lot of states, if you have a dangerous dog, and they get loose and maul or kill somebody, you’re in a world of shit legally. With guns, it seems like it doesn’t matter a lot of times if you leave them around for your kids to do something stupid and/or deadly, other than civil lawsuits. 

  12. 4 hours ago, GW Hayduke said:

    I would agree that the concept of sensible gun control is building political steam and would entail something more comprehensive than the past AWB. IMO sensible gun reform would have the primary goal of decreasing the overall rate of firearm-related deaths in the US and a secondary goal of decreasing the frequency/magnitude of mass shootings

    I just don’t think it will be sensible. I think it will be in reaction to the past few years and the fact that the GOP and NRA is hell-bent on telling them to fuck off  

    They may even make the Vegas shooting front-and-center - one guy killing and wounding over 900 people is a pretty good argument for their side when the GOP did basically nothing. 

    The NRA will be happy though. Memberships will go through the roof. 

  13. 2 hours ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

    That was kinda my point. 

    Yeah, my wife had to deal with this shit as a teacher. Teachers are only allowed to say so much about a kid having problems, and she had plenty of kids over the years that clearly had problems, but the parents would do nothing because they don’t want him feeling different, or that’s just how boys are, or we are having a rough patch and he’s acting out , etc. all the while these problems are following the kid from grade-to-grade. 

  14. 4 minutes ago, yoladu said:

    Can anyone care to explain to me why it is so drastically higher in the United States?

    We took in a helluva lot of French, Germans, Brits/Scots/Bog Jumpers, and Guineas in the 1800s.  What if they were playing a long game and were actually sending us the dregs of their societies?  Oh wait, they were.

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  15. 15 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

    It is amazing how much pressure is on kids today. 30 years ago, you had so many options. If you were smart, college was accessible and cheap. Or if you desired, you could go into a trade school and come out with a decent job & easily support a family. If not, there were enough manufacturing jobs that you could get by and work your way up.

    Today, college is ridiculously expensive and no guarantee of a job. Trade schools are still available, but the stigma is negative. And if you can't do any of this, good luck raising a family on $10 bucks an hour with no benefits.

    I don't have an answer, but this problem will get worse before it gets better.

    Military could get a lot of these kids on their feet right out of school.

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