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Posts posted by Francisco 2.0
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Oh, Deadspin (RIP) is still around, but most of the former writers are here, for the next three days. Go forth now and prepare to be entertained. You know who you are:
https://unnamedtemporarysportsblog.com/
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1 hour ago, DigglerontheHoof said:
What would happen if every dem senator and congress person go up and walked out of the chamber as soon as trump started to speak at the SOTU speech?
Lack of decorum would be shouted endlessly.
Campaign ads would get cut within minutes.
"Look at how terrible the dems are! They don't care about the country!"
And it would work.
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We may be witnessing the end of the United States presidency as we know it. It doesn’t come in large, destructive gestures, like the demolition of the White House. Instead, we most often see it arrive in the mild utterances of old men. Such was the case on the Senate floor on Wednesday, when Alan Dershowitz spoke up in favor of President Trump’s autocracy.
QuoteWe should have seen this coming, as Trump hardly ever misses an opportunity to reach for more power, not even amidst a process ostensibly about stripping it from him. Ironically and most unfortunately for the Democrats who sought even a modicum of accountability for President Trump’s high crimes and misdemeanors, the impeachmentprocess is being perverted into a process to make Trump into a dictator.
QuoteTrump’s defense against impeachment has, to this point, been somewhat bifurcated. At once, Trump was supposedly utterly innocent of the charges being brought against him — it was a perfect call with the Ukrainian president, we keep being told; just look at the White House’s doctored transcript — and it was also perfectly fine if Trump did everything he was charged with, because he is allowed to do whatever he likes. It was hard to discern which argument was more disturbing or less befitting of a president.
SpoilerHowever, Dershowitz went all in with the latter on Wednesday in his response to Republican senator Ted Cruz’s question about whether posing a “quid pro quo” would ever be appropriate conduct. Dershowitz responded by asserting that a president had the powers to shield himself from impeachment merely because, well, if you’re a star, they let you do it.
“If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment,” Dershowitz offered.
Let’s pick that apart for a moment. “Broad” doesn’t adequately describe that standard. Leave aside the “quid pro quo” part of that — ”if a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest” both is a confusing and alarming sentence. Presidents may be popularly elected, but I’d argue that no president is elected in the public interest. That is something that is proven over time by their service, and certainly not anything for the president — him or herself — to solely determine.
This kind of argument opens the door not only for disgraced president Richard Nixon to be exonerated for the Watergate break-in and cover-up, but for future presidents to do even worse. Would presidents, convinced that it is in the public interest for their discriminatory policies to continue, promote voter suppression to keep black and Hispanic people away from the polls if they believe it would help them get elected? Would they seek to cancel an election altogether? We consider these things hyperbolic, perhaps, but then look at what Dershowitz said on the Senate floor on Wednesday. That actually happened. This is actually happening.
He went on yesterday to argue that a more straightforward case of corruption would look like a president withholding funds unless a foreign leader put his name on a hotel and gave him a million-dollar kickback — a curious example, given who our president is. What isn’t an example of corruption, he argued, is what Trump is doing. “A complex middle case is, ‘I want to be elected. I think I’m a great president. I think I’m the greatest president there ever was. And if I’m not elected, the national interest will suffer greatly,’ ” Dershowitz said. “That cannot be an impeachable offense.”
There were some confusion even amongst Republican senators after he was done, though they’ll surely end up buying it. House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, the Democrats’ impeachment manager, slammed the “very odd argument” Dershowitz put forth, adding that “it’s carte blanche” for any president to request foreign interference in an election on his or her behalf.
That hits at the heart of what this is all about. Many ask, “Why are Republicans so desperate to defend this guy, Donald Trump of all people?” They miss the point. Republicans may not want to see Trump turning the State of the Union into a barnstorming complaint against impeachment, or perhaps they do. But the Senate majority doesn’t want to dodge John Bolton or a real investigation into the Burisma-Biden matter because simply because they are afraid to discover the truth about Trump’s personal guilt. This isn’t about ending all this before next Tuesday night to avoid some embarrassment. It isn’t about him.
This is about Republicans maintaining the ability to manipulate elections here at home. Trump, so desperate to win his election the first time, welcomed foreign interference along with the traditional domestic voter suppression his party offered. Pandora’s Box has been opened more widely than the president and the Republicans probably ever anticipated, and now they are willing to argue that Trump has the powers of an autocrat all so that they can maintain this ability to reach out to whomever they need to in order to win elections.
This is how reckless Republicans are with America, willing to give untold amounts of power to a man whom they still don’t fully understand in a frantic attempt to maintain their own grip on advantage in a country that has already elected a black president once and whose demographics are quickly turning against them.
The irony of it all is that Republicans, who have never made a real policy argument for black and Hispanic votes (and instead stigmatized and hindered them), are now stuck offering ridiculous reasoning to keep their charlatan, criminal president in office. It pays to have a case to make, but when the agenda is furthering white patriarchy and oligarchy at the expense of our natural resources, voter suppression becomes a useful tool.
This is how we end up with a lawyer standing on the floor of the Senate, already one of the most unrepresentative elected bodies, arguing for dictatorship.
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1 hour ago, Mo Horn said:
I was going to say bed Elaine Chao, but then thought nah that might still not be enough.
Hell, Mitch would watch, and possibly tape it.
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2 minutes ago, Mdhorn said:
Which means our soldiers, contractors and eventually civilians will have to deal with more landmines. Can anybody see anything wrong with this?
He's dead; otherwise, yeah:

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8 minutes ago, Nolacycling said:
Why doesn't the B10 want them? AAU?
At the time, the Big 10 was expanding by 1 team to get to a dozen. They took Nebraska, and left Mizzou hanging. So, they took the SEC offer.....and then, the Big 10 expanded by two more (Rutgers lol).
Honestly, had Mizzou kept their powder dry, they probably would have ended up in the Big 10.
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What a glorious (or sad) time we live in. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has to remind GOP senators during an impeachment trial of the President that they cannot include the whistleblower's name in questions.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/29/john-roberts-whistleblower-name-mentions-109292
QuoteChief Justice John Roberts has communicated to senators that he will not read aloud the alleged Ukraine whistleblower’s name or otherwise publicly relay questions that might out the official, a move that’s effectively blocked Sen. Rand Paul from asking a question.
In a behind-the-scenes fight, Paul, a Kentucky Republican, has composed questions that violate Roberts’s edict, according to several Republicans familiar with the dynamics. It’s a vintage Rand Paul effort that’s annoying fellow Republicans and could come to a head on Thursday.
QuotePaul – who has strongly opposed the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump – has been floating the alleged whistleblower’s name in media interviews for months.
But Roberts signaled to GOP senators on Tuesday that he wouldn’t allow the whistleblower’s name to be mentioned during the question-and-answer session that started the following day, said the sources. Roberts was allowed to screen senators’ questions before they were submitted for reading on the Senate floor, the sources noted.
QuoteAnd Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other top Republicans are also discouraging the whistleblower’s identity from being disclosed as well. Paul has submitted at least one question with the name of a person believed to be the whistleblower, although it was rejected. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) composed and asked a question regarding the whistleblower earlier Wednesday that tiptoed around identifying the source who essentially sparked the House’s impeachment drive.
Spoiler“We’ve got members who, as you have already determined I think, have an interest in questions related to the whistleblower,” Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) said. “But I suspect that won’t happen, I don’t think that happens. And I guess I would hope it doesn’t.”
Paul has complained that he is being preventing from asking a question about the origin of the Ukraine investigation, although he didn’t get into specifics with reporters on Wednesday evening.
“It’s still an ongoing process, it may happen tomorrow,” Paul told reporters.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) first revealed the existence of the whistleblower complaint publicly in mid-September, when he subpoenaed the document from the director of national intelligence and accused acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire — under the influence of the White House — from preventing it from reaching Congress.
But Republicans allege that Schiff and his staff improperly interacted with the alleged whistleblower, who worked at the National Security Council when Joe Biden was vice president.
House Republicans threatened to out the whistleblower during impeachment hearings in that chamber, and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) identified a person believed to be the whistleblower in the Judiciary Committee, although Gohmert didn’t identify him as the whistleblower during the exchange.
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What would be funny as hell is if this wasn't actual cash, but scrip you could use at a Trump property, with an expiration date of November 2020.
The MAGA-rally folks would fight to the death for the chance to spend a free night in a bedbug ridden property.
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3 minutes ago, Js1 said:
Would this be considered “walking around money?” Did that fat racist fuck Tahoe die choking on a donut?
The next step in the evolution of throwing out money to buy votes:

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8 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:
It's more newsworthy when one of Trump's associates isn't in prison or under indictment, Ted.
Ted's audience doesn't even know or care who Parnas is. They just see Schumer + criminal + ejection from "trial"= no good.
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47 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:
WW 3 = War on Drugs
WW 4 = War on Terrorism
WW 5 = War on Christmas
After starting strong and winning the first two , we dropped the last three, and are now 2-3 in World Wars. We might not make a World War Bowl Game.
I think I'm missing the Infrastructure Week War of 2017.
The Tax Cut Wars of 2017.
Or the Trade Wars of 2019.
Or that exciting pseudo-war with Iran (currently ongoing).
America is going to be so fucking great once all these wars are over with. I'll shed tears.
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7 hours ago, hayden_horn said:
i suspect that the nra going broke has had quite a chilling effect on the laundered russian nra money, tho
Maybe it's always been relatively close, discounting what the NRA would contribute. With that curtailed greatly, combined with the GOP's 19th century stance on social issues as a party, things have changed.
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Hey, it's an election year. Time to remind everyone that Mexico is paying for a wall:
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Please, drink bleach to counteract the Coronavirus:
QuoteAs the global death toll from an alarming new coronavirus surged this week, promoters of the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory were urging their fans to ward off the illness by purchasing and drinking dangerous bleach.
The substance—dubbed “Miracle Mineral Solution” or “MMS”—has long been promoted by fringe groups as a combination miracle cure and vaccine for everything from autism to cancer and HIV/AIDS.
QuoteThe Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly warned consumers not to drink MMS, last year calling it effectively a “dangerous bleach” that could cause “severe vomiting” and “acute liver failure.” But those warnings haven’t stopped QAnon devotees—who believe in a world where Donald Trump is at war with shadowy deep-state “cabal”—from promoting a lethal substance as a salve for a health crisis that speaks to the darkest recesses of fringe thought.
“I’m going to have to get home, and MMS the whole state,” prominent QAnon promoter Jordan Sather told his audience in a recent video. “MMS the whole shit out of everything.”
Quote“Chief Police 2,” a prominent anonymous QAnon account on Twitter, also pushed MMS as the coronavirus spread. On Friday, the account’s operator urged its nearly 18,000 followers to buy “20-20-20 spray,” an MMS concoction.
“New followers protect yourself with the 20-20-20 spray,” the tweet read.
SpoilerQAnon, a conspiracy theory reminiscent of Pizzagate that started with a series of online posts in October 2017 from an anonymous figure called “Q,” imagines a world where Donald Trump is engaged in a secret war with a cabal of pedophile-cannibals in the Democratic Party, the finance industry, Hollywood, and the “deep state.”
Despite or perhaps in part because of such outlandish ideas, the theory has taken root with a segment of Trump’s base, with QAnon believers regularly appearing at the president’s campaign rallies. Trump has also routinely retweeted QAnon content, even though apparent devotees have been charged with murder and linked to other violent incidents.
Coronavirus’ spread was a perfect fit for QAnon conspiracy theorists and others on the fringe right, who have already adopted the idea that the disease has been manufactured by shadowy forces. Sather, for example, has cited a 2015 patent for a potential avian coronavirus vaccine to suggest that the human form of the disease was deliberately created. Conspiracy-theory hub Infowars, meanwhile, has promoted the false idea that Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates’ philanthropic efforts are just a cover for a “depopulation agenda” centered on the virus.
“In the conspiracy-theory community, Bill Gates is seen as this sort of budding eugenicist,” Mike Rothschild, a journalist who tracks the QAnon movement, told The Daily Beast.
While conspiracy theorists may disagree about what cabal is behind coronavirus, many of them agree on the “cure”: MMS. The substance, which becomes bleaching agent chlorine dioxide when combined with a citric acid like lime juice, has perhaps most prominently been promoted by a website linked to Jim Humble, a self-proclaimed archbishop who says he found MMS while on a gold-mining expedition in South America.
Through a Mexico-based church, the “Genesis II Church of Health and Healing,” MMS is offered for sale for $45. The church’s website claims it will eliminate coronavirus, among other ailments.
“ALL KITS HAVE THE 20-20-20 ESSENTIALS THAT CAN KILL THE CORONAVIRUS, OR ANY OTHER VIRUS JUST SPRAY YOUR MOUTH TWICE A DAY,” the church’s website reads.
Humble didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Despite the obvious dangers of consuming bleach, MMS has also been embraced by a wider non-QAnon fringe eager for various miracle cures. On Facebook, for example, mothers desperate for a cure for autism promote the baseless idea that MMS will cure the disorder.
Rothschild said QAnon personalities promote MMS in the same way that other right-wing figures sell vitamin supplements.
“It’s lucrative,” he said. “You can sell this stuff to people and make a mint off of it.”
In August, the FDA said it was “not aware of any scientific evidence” that MMS has medical properties. In 2009, a woman who took MMS to avoid contracting malaria died almost immediately after swallowing it for the first time.
“Ingesting these products is the same as drinking bleach,” FDA Acting Commissioner Ned Sharpless said in an August 2019 statement.
Meanwhile, more than 2,700 cases of coronavirus had been confirmed as of Monday, while the United States told travelers to “reconsider” Chinese travel. Despite the dangers associated with MMS, and despite the IRL consequences of the coronavirus outbreak coming into sharper focus, new Twitter accounts continued to pop up pushing MMS as the disease spread. One tweet advocated a bizarre anti-coronavirus regimen of MMS bleach and colloidal silver, a substance known to give people who take it a bluish tint to their skin.
Coronavirus is just the latest disease to be used to sell MMS, according to Rothschild. There was no reason to believe it would be the last.
“I don’t understand how people who promote this stuff can sleep at night,” he said.
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You don't even need software for this:
Obviously, I wouldn't upload something with SSN's or other personal info, but I use it all the time here at work. Quick, easy, and free.
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1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:
Hilary set up Bolton's home server ?
No, no.
Bolton set up Hillary's server. And on the side, served as the accountant for the Clinton Foundation, while simultaneously receiving $115,000 per month personal services fee from George Soros.
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12 minutes ago, Thetexashammer said:
Does the bar allow you to advise people to commit felonies? What you're describing is punishable by up to five years in jail.
http://ms.fd.org/sites/ms.fd.org/files/uploaded-files/cja-resources/files/maxpenaltie2.pdf
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/208
It's Trump's America, so anything goes now. Moose out front should have told you.
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The Senate Trial of Donald J Trump 2020
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From the outside looking in, you can't understand it. And from the inside looking out, you can't explain it.