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  1. 5 hours ago, Longhornsnus said:

    BuT AkShUlLy it's because heart attacks in young men at the peak of their physical fitness is totally normal and common and can be expected from time to time, just as a natural cause.

    You do know that cardiac arrest and heart attack are not the same thing?  No, you clearly don't know that.  There hasn't been any reporting that he suffered a heart attack.

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  2. 1 hour ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    I mean, I don't get the objective. We all know what happened. The world knows what happened. The information is out there. It cannot be suppressed at this point. And to what end? It makes no sense.

    History's what they say it is.  Trump won the 2020 election.  Ukraine is run by Nazis.  Putin is a hero.  Kim Jong Un is a misunderstood, US ally.  There's a pedo ring out of a pizzeria in DC.  And the earth is flat.  Millions of Americans believe these things.

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  3. 24 minutes ago, Parliament said:

    So I hope I don't get judged for saying this...

    If they killed the weakest 1-2 passengers, they could go longer on the oxygen.

    Yeah, but who the fuck would want to live longer in that tiny tube, with a dead body or two, no bathroom, no food, no water, slowly suffocating in the dark.

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  4. On 6/8/2023 at 9:26 PM, Your Mom said:

    I wish something like that was in the cards but it’s not. My mom and sister are beach people. I couldn’t give a fuck about going to the beach for the rest of my life if it were up to me.  
    My mom hasn’t traveled a whole lot in her life, so we’re trying to make it a great trip for her and it will need to be tropical. 

    How about Hawaii?  The only large ship cruise I've done is Alaska on Celebrity, and as others have said, Celebrity is nice, not a floating Walmart, but not enough time in port to explore more than the touristy gift shops.  I've also done a Nile cruise and a windjammer up the Maine coast, both of which were fantastic. But I would guess a Hawaii cruise would get a less trashy crowd (more expensive, harder to get there).

  5. 1 hour ago, Ghost of LL said:

    Last time I was there, the readers were not set up for that.  But it's been a few years, so things may have changed.

    I was there a few weeks ago.  Just tapped my credit card in and out of the tube with no issues.

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  6. 5 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:


    Except for impeachment, his pardon power is limitless 

    He won't even need to pardon himself.  He'll just tell the federal prisons not to execute the order of confinement.  He'll be the head of the executive branch, and his employees, who are likely trumpers anyway, will simply not imprison him.

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  7. 1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

    The sitting president is the head of the Executive branch - which controls the DOJ. He can simply order that all ‘witch hunt‘ charges be dropped, and with the separation of powers being what they are I do not see why that would be a problem.  Other than politically. 

    Pardoning himself is a problem. Dismissing charges? I think it’s relatively easy.  If half the DOJ resigns because of that, he will be happy.

    Exactly.  Hell, he could just order that the federal prison system not execute the confinement order.  Even if he's in NY State prison, he'd get out under the supremacy clause.  

    He could be on video handing over a document entitled nuclear secrets to Putin, and still nothing would happen, even if he were somehow convicted.

  8. 4 hours ago, Slacks said:

    OK... So... We'll thinks he gets convicted? 

    Indicted to me means, "He'll be exonerated because he's rich and whatnot." 

    Whatnot isn't the W word I would normally use. 

    Without strong evidence, doesn't this backfire? 

    I don't think it matters.  Either way, he's "elected" president in 2024.  And I mean the quotes around "elected," because he's already done the dry run for stealing the presidency.  The sitting president isn't sitting in prison.  Or even being criminally tried.

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  9. On 3/20/2023 at 9:57 AM, RomaVicta said:

    Ten years ago they'd changed hospice qualification to a prognosis of death within 6 months. My father had no one thing bringing him down, so this gave the doctor lattitude for prescribing hospice care which Dad, still competent, was glad to do. It is an abandonment of curative care for afflictions that are leading to death. Of course, he would get treatment for transient ailments.

    He was a competent shot-caller to the end. Even made the decision to cease bi-pap treatment on his own when no family was present. Tough old bird.

    My mother was on hospice for years.  She was a lot younger than Carter, but had terminal cancer and was given less than 6 months to live (a prognosis that never changed) and managed to live more than 5 years after that prognosis, despite not receiving treatment.

    Edit to add:  Just telling this story to say that it can happen, not that it's likely.  And honestly, her quality of life when she was on hospice was piss poor given how sick she was that entire time.   

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  10. 9 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

    You must follow Gym Jordan’s twitter. 

     

    Well, I'm convinced.  Because 26 people were shot in Chicago, we should do nothing about school children being shot.

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  11. 17 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

    We are a red, white, and blue ball of cancer.  And the ball of cancer is open carrying. I don’t think anyone is contending that. 

    You're right we should ignore gun violence.  Because of climate change, racism, deficits, immigration, and health care.  None of which you actually intend to improve anyway.

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  12. They're all garbage.  And lazy.  There's no actual investigative journalism.  It's all commentators opining about one or two top stories of the day, and ignoring the rest of the world.

    But if I had to rank:

    1. MSNBC--yes, it's to the left.  But there is some actual journalism on occasion, probably through NBC News

    2.  CNN

    3. Fox---solely "entertainment" trafficking in misinformation and grievances.

    2 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    yet CR people regularly watch FOX and CNN.  If they hate CNN so much, why watch the Trump show last night at all??? If you hate Fox , why watch Hannity or Tucker?   

    The trump show was bullshit.  A.  They shouldn't have been giving someone who tried to overthrow the government a platform to spout lies.  B.  And this goes with ranking the networks, a "journalist" trying to confront someone isn't journalism.  Their job shouldn't be to score points off subjects.  It's to uncover and let us know what's going on in the world.  The trump show did none of that.

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  13. 23 minutes ago, Stilicho said:

    I would say that once this violence touches someone they love, the desire to be part of the tribe will evaporate.

    Uvalde says otherwise.

    Desire to be part of the tribe won't evaporate.  That's not how cults work.

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  14. 43 minutes ago, Bookman said:

    I think it's inevitable. I don't understand the Republican strategy of doing nothing. They should be playing defense and trying to find a compromise.

    There's NRA Russian money to be had.  Who the fuck cares about constituents?  Especially in gerrymandered districts and when you're planning on ignoring unfavorable election results anyway.

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