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Just *confirmed* from the front page that there are no tapes

Journal by fustakrakich

And everything your "whistleblower" gave you is second/third hand.

So, there ya go.. We can all go home now... Tune in the BBC and watch Brexit. Something noticeable will happen in a month.

The economy? Will probably get through Christmas alright.

Impeachment... Cui bono? Up to 1.4 mil for Facebook. And the campaign claims they gathered 8.5 mil in 24 hours. There will be an additional 10 mil spent across all media by the RNC and his campaign.

*sigh* I need a way to cash in on this.

Edit: Fixed the header to accommodate those who wish to believe I was unaware.

 

Reply to: Re:I don't believe it.

    (Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday September 28 2019, @08:37PM

    by Arik (4543) on Saturday September 28 2019, @08:37PM (#900037)
    "Call that into question with discovery, and the prosecution will fight like hell, but will rather drop the case entirely than be exposed. Something about protecting sources and methods. You see this in drug and "terrorist" cases when they are suddenly dropped"

    Precisely, this happens over and over.

    So, what use is all that info if you can't use it in court?

    There are plenty of other ways to use it. Blackmail, for one. Insider trading, for another.

    The standoff that evolved in D.C is that whoever holds the Executive gets to ignore the law like this pretty freely, but /not when acting against insiders of either party./ Nixon *should* have been impeached for plenty of other things, but what actually caused him to resign? He got caught spying directly on the other letter. That broke the insider consensus, sort of like breaking the blue wall for a cop we might imagine. And that's very similar to what Trump did here, the case can be made, it sounds persuasive enough if you're already in that camp, but in the end it's a bit weak. I can't see the Senate convicting him and unfortunately I *can* see losses for D's all over the country next year as a result.

    "This is Goodfellas."

    All primate, heck, mammalian politics is fundamentally rooted in the same biological basis. Dogs excrete urine on trees to mark their territory, we excrete ink on paper for the same purpose. Chimps throw feces at each other when they're angry, we throw "smart bombs" and bullets around.

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