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  1. 56 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

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    Impeachment is a political proceeding; DOJ/AG prosecution would be a criminal judicial proceeding.  There's no reason both can't be done, barring some sort of official immunity.

    I guess but having another impeachment trial and then a prosecution risks the appearance to Joe blow american idiot of persecution of trump. Especially since the senate republicans won't convict on this due to political bullshit. He needs to be nailed to the wall for his crimes in criminal court at this point. That's the most important thing. 

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  2. 16 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Well, there's a serious question whether a President leaving office moots an impeachment/conviction.  

    That's procedural, but about 50-75% of the "rule of law" is based on procedure.

    The entire 4th amendment is basically procedural, as are the 5th, 6th, and 7th.

    It doesn't have anything to do with the merits of the articles of impeachment, true, but it can't be casually dismissed.

    That's what I was saying. At this point why is this even involving impeachment? This should be in the hands of the DOJ and Garland to prosecute Trump and his conspirators in federal court. 

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  3. 2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    https://www.npr.org/2021/01/25/960354929/in-tiny-kansas-town-pandemic-skeptics-abound-amid-false-information-and-politics?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email

     

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    Protection's "Polio Protection Day" took place on April 2, 1957. Families, many dressed in their Sunday best, lined up in the high school gym to get shots from nurses dressed in starched white uniforms.

    That event, sponsored by what was then known as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (now the March of Dimes), received widespread media coverage.

    The Herd family was front and center. Herd, his parents and four siblings were chosen to ride on the main float in a celebratory parade, he says, because they looked "average" and because his sister, Cheryl, had survived a bout with polio.

    "Mom made us special shirts so we would look good for the occasion," he says.

    Six decades later, the town's role in kicking off the polio vaccination campaign remains a point of pride memorialized by a small monument in front of the old post office.

    "We were an example," Herd says, "of everybody coming together to try and do something good."

    Stan Herd is two years younger than his brother, Steve. An artist renowned for distinctive crop and landscape works, he now lives in Lawrence, where the University of Kansas is located.

    Recalling the event, he says there was no debate about the vaccine or the town's role in promoting it. Everyone thought: "This is what we're supposed to do."

    Not today

    Steve can't imagine the community coming together in a similar way in 2021.

    "Not a chance," he says. "It would be impossible because we'd all take sides."

    The political fault lines that have complicated national and state efforts to contain the coronavirus run deep in Protection and the surrounding Comanche County. Even with COVID-19 cases rising late last year, county commissioners refused to enforce Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's statewide mask order.

    "The big difference between 1957 and 2021 is that the polio vaccination event was apolitical. The COVID vaccine has gotten political," says David Webb, a retired teacher and unofficial local historian, who also participated in the mass vaccination event as a grade schooler.

    The county has a population of just over 1,700 and has recorded 153 COVID-19 cases and nine deaths. Because of the timing of some of those deaths, the county recently appeared atop a national list of COVID-19 hot spots.

    That, says Jerri McKnight, director of the Comanche County Health Department, wasn't accurate "because the data was pulled when we had three deaths in a one-week period."

    Enough, she says, to temporarily skew the numbers in a county with such a small population.

    The health department is getting a "good response" to a survey on its website that doubles as a vaccination sign-up sheet, McKnight says. But she's also getting lots of questions from people skeptical of the vaccine.

    Some are worried about safety, given that it was developed so quickly.

    "That's a big concern," she says.

    A recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that people living in rural areas are less willing to get the COVID-19 vaccine than those living in cities and suburbs.

    Only 3 in 10 (31%) say they will "definitely get" the vaccine, compared with 4 in 10 people in urban and suburban areas.

    McKnight is also hearing from people who believe one or more of conspiracies circulating about the vaccine, including the one about the tracking chip.

    "Yeah, I hear that," she says.

    People believe false information spread on social media, she says, because it comes from sources that many trust in a county that President Donald Trump carried with 82% of the vote.

    "I hate to say that it got pulled in with politics," she says, "but it absolutely did."

     

    Hey Cletus, that mini computer you and everyone else carry in their pockets everywhere is already broadcasting your location at all times. They don't need to microchip anything. 

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  4. 7 hours ago, youdunnf'dup said:

    That’s definitely not what I’m saying lol. What I’m saying is, if winning your conference doesn’t give you an automatic spot in your sports playoff (like literally every other sport at every other level of sports), then what’s the point of even having conferences, and what’s the significance of winning your conference? There is none. Like, why are none P5 schools even in the same division as P5 if they have no chance at playing for a title?

     

    I’m also saying the NFL is a better product than college football. There, I said it.

    Of course it is. It's not even close. I enjoy NFL, NHL, European Football, and even college basketball far more than I did college football. 

    Mlb, cfb, and nba are unwatchable for me. 

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  5. 14 hours ago, Bruh Man said:

    Hearing this is the new guy 

     

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    If they hired Odenkirk to go full Saul character in Congress I'd watch every second. If the country is going to continue to die at this fast rate let's go ahead and make it as entertaining as possible. 

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  6. 1 minute ago, DonkeyCigars said:

    I watched it, I thought it was the best part of that article 😛

    Also, Joe Rogan leaving California to not pay their massive taxes is the most human and relatable thing the guy could have done to convince me he is a rational person. Had he stayed, I'd question his aptitude and sanity.

    And that's fine, but then he shouldn't go and make up bullshit about he's leaving because of the oppressive leftist culture and traffic and all that shit. He was fine with all of that until it came time to get a $120 million windfall. Don't be a liar, just move and don't address it at all if you don't want to say what the real reason is. It's obvious so anyone with a brain can figure it out anyway, and by lying about it so blatantly it kills any chance he has at any credibility. 

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  7. 4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    I partly botched my post, but yeah, Fravor seemed extremely level-headed on the PBS series, and in various interviews.   He's not some dude in Buttfuck, Oklahoma that got taken by Bigfoot onto a spaceship to get anal-probed - he reported what he saw, and backed it up.

    But I still loathe Rogan, both for his previous shenanigans (Apollo moon landing truther bullshit, etc.), and for giving people a platform/credibility, who should not easily have it.

    Let me rephrase that:  If he wants to have some fucking 9/11 truther on, fine, but he should be ready to tear the person's arguments to shreds.  That's a huge part of the problem with our broader media/commentary/news culture as a whole - we have way too many people getting on podcasts/TV/cable TV shows, etc., and they aren't being called out and shredded for the crazy shit they spew.  When he sits there, and nods along, and dances around the craziness, he's all but endorsing it.

    Early on in his podcast there were times he got confrontational with people if he didn't think what they were saying made sense or was that it was straight bullshit. But then he stopped doing it and I imagine he figured out it'll be damn hard to book podcast guests anyone wants to listen to if you get the reputation of a confrontational interviewer. People like Musk don't want to come on and worry about being called out for horrific labor practices and such. It's terrible journalism but he made a business decision. That's why he became useless to me, and not that I fault him for it, but once he made the decision to see it as a business and not what he started it out as it just became a giant infomercial avenue for anyone out there peddling anything or combating public perception issues. There can be no credibility in that. 

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  8. I never had a problem with Rogan because he would have dumb shit and dumbasses on his podcast but he'd also have some pretty good interviews with people like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Sean Carroll all the while making it clear that outside of combat sports and comedy he didn't know shit about government, politics, or much else. 

    I'm thinking the massive success from the podcast caused him to lose sight of that and all of a sudden he started thinking he's an expert on way more things than he ever should simply because he talks to a few smart people here and there. It also didn't help when the crazies he would have on went from being just nutters to dangerous criminals attacking normal people and violently trying to overthrow the government and he failed to completely distance himself from them and condemn their acts. He went from a somewhat entertaining regular dude with idiot friends to a dangerous propaganda spreading scourge on society who became very disingenuous like when he completely lied about leaving California to avoid paying state income tax on that 120 million dollar Spotify deal. 

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  9. I'm about as ignorant on tax code as just about anything. Since the culture of America as already set up for excess and spending what's the reason why abolishing federal income taxes and instituting a federal sales tax wouldn't work? Seems it would be cleaner and the IRS can turn away from hounding regular citizens and turn to focusing on corporations and business paying correctly the tax they collect from pass through cost. That said I'm sure there's something I'm not considering 

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  10. 2 minutes ago, Don Johnson said:

    The can't make a killing if everyone holds strong.  Or at least for them to make a killing, they would have to be the ones to not hold strong.  Are they all going to start fucking each other over?

    Eventually some are going to bail and make the money while blowing it all up. 

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  11. 3 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

    Go to the wallstreetbets subreddit. There's plenty of people set up to make a fuckin killing if everybody holds strong.

    Yeah somebody is going to make the money. But I don't think it's the majority of the people causing this to happen. This was initiated off of a sense of anarchy and lulz.  

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  12. 2 minutes ago, Don Johnson said:

    We know who is losing here, but who is winning?

    That's the rub. the people who are blowing up these hedge funds aren't doing it to make money for themselves. They're doing it for the satisfaction of blowing up hedge funds. They're willing to take financial losses to stick it up the rich evil fucks asses. That sort of motivation isn't exactly accounted for in financial markets. 

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  13. 1 minute ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

     

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    If all the trumpy people were to finally realize that Trump was nothing but a charlatan and banded together with their  sane brothers and sisters to stop fighting each other over republican vs democrat and racism then go after the big money assholes and the politicians who enable them this shit could get really crazy. 

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  14. 4 hours ago, aggie08 said:

    Can someone explain this to me like I went to Texas A&M? Crayon drawings will suffice. I've been checked out from even loosely following the market for months.

    Big evil greedy sheep make bet old, decrepit sheep about to die. Other regular sheep who hate big evil greedy sheep take bet and start giving old decrepit sheep tons of growth hormone. Old decrepit sheep get big and strong. Big evil greedy sheep go crying to farmer that other regular sheep make him lose. 

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  15. 4 hours ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

    Wait. Leader of the Proud Boys is a federal informer?

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-proudboys-leader-idUSKBN29W1PE

    "So this is how you beat your 30 years you piece of shit?"

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    They just signed this guy's death warrant. No way the members of that idiot racist fan club can now think he isn't an undercover federal plant. Well they are supremely stupid so I guess there is a small chance if he can convince them Q sent him instead. 

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