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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.
Just *confirmed* from the front page that there are no tapes
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Everything bows to success, even grammar.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Saturday September 28 2019, @08:10PM (2 children)
That would mean there's lots of tapes, implicating everybody, which is perfectly plausible, but this is why we have this Mexican Standoff. Without real evidence in the courtroom, we are totally dependent on the credibility of witnesses and their testimony. 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
This is Goodfellas. A system run by wiseguys, and people want to pretend it's something else, like out of 7th grade civics.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday September 28 2019, @08:37PM (1 child)
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.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday September 28 2019, @08:57PM
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.
Not even primate, not even animate! It's universal. Everything, people, animals, planets, and galaxies will grow as big as they can to dominate their environment until they either run out of fuel or material to accrete, or explodes. We are so very natural in every way. But we express it through positively dreadful theater. How many visiting aliens do you think could really sit through Hamlet, or Harrisburg, whatever that guy's name was?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..