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07-13-2020, 02:59 PM
noteggs

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Originally Posted by paulxu

Judge Jackson also said Stone "was not prosecuted for standing up for the president, he was prosecuted for covering up for the president".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51580160

Maybe we are talking about two different things? Obviously you’re talking about the prosecution and I’m talking about what he was allegedly convicted for. May have misunderstood your post on this one. My bad.

Will concede helping Trump was part of his goal. Can’t understand why Stone thought that helping out Jerome Corsi and intimidating Credico would help Tump in anyway especially during an investigation. Well OK, we all know Stone’s an idiot. Whatever happened to let the facts speak for themselves.

FWIW, I do agree with Barr that the original recommendation of sentence was far too much for a process crime and that Trump shouldn’t have commuted his sentence.
07-14-2020, 05:05 PM
GoMuskies

87 year old RBG is back in the hospital. I know that makes people very, very nervous. If she were to die in the next couple of months, it would be a complete shit show.
07-14-2020, 05:43 PM
paulxu

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Originally Posted by GoMuskies

87 year old RBG is back in the hospital. I know that makes people very, very nervous. If she were to die in the next couple of months, it would be a complete shit show.

Are you saying McConnell would change his own rule and try to replace her before the election? Surely you jest. What makes you think that?
07-14-2020, 05:49 PM
GoMuskies

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Originally Posted by paulxu

Are you saying McConnell would change his own rule and try to replace her before the election? Surely you jest. What makes you think that?

Ha!
07-14-2020, 06:39 PM
bobbiemcgee

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Originally Posted by paulxu

Are you saying McConnell would change his own rule and try to replace her before the election? Surely you jest. What makes you think that?

They'll keep her on life support until 1/20
07-14-2020, 06:40 PM
noteggs

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Originally Posted by paulxu

Are you saying McConnell would change his own rule and try to replace her before the election? Surely you jest. What makes you think that?

If something happened, I would hope Republicans would wait until the election is over. They would look foolish if they didn’t. Well that wouldn’t be the first time.

Side note: like the fact her and Scalia had such respect and admiration of thought. Talk about polar opposites. Sounds rather healthy.
07-14-2020, 07:05 PM
boozehound

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Originally Posted by noteggs

If something happened, I would hope Republicans would wait until the election is over. They would look foolish if they didn’t. Well that wouldn’t be the first time.

Side note: like the fact her and Scalia had such respect and admiration of thought. Talk about polar opposites. Sounds rather healthy.

There is a 100% chance that they would do just that, and act like the whole Merrick Garland fiasco never happened. I'd bet a paycheck on it.

Regarding Scalia and RBG - the judicial branch may be the only functioning branch of the government we have left at the present time.
07-14-2020, 08:49 PM
noteggs

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Originally Posted by boozehound

Regarding Scalia and RBG - the judicial branch may be the only functioning branch of the government we have left at the present time.

Maybe? Functioning government may be a loose term for all at this point. Some have referred the press as the 4th branch of government. However, definitely not functioning and a joke. Here is an interesting post from Bari Weiss former opinion editor from NYT.

https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter
07-15-2020, 06:52 AM
boozehound

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Originally Posted by noteggs

Maybe? Functioning government may be a loose term for all at this point. Some have referred the press as the 4th branch of government. However, definitely not functioning and a joke. Here is an interesting post from Bari Weiss former opinion editor from NYT.

https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter

I'm honestly not sure what the point of this post is, or the linking to a resignation letter from an NYT editor (on his own website where he appears to be hawking book and speaking engagements) in response to a comment about the Judicial branch of the government.

The fact that you somehow used my comment to set you off on a meandering path toward attacking the press suggests that you have a pretty strong preoccupation with the media. That's one thing that Trump has done a tremendous job of - getting people to reflexively lash out against the media with a persecution complex we haven't seen. Nothing they write about him can be believed, because the media lies all the time. Especially if they say or report something negative about Trump.

Finally, I read the resignation letter and it seems quite melodramatic. Basically he is resigning because his coworkers are being mean to him and it hurts his feelings. You work for the NYT - they have always been a bunch of liberals. The fact that our current hyper-partisan environment is exacerbating those tensions doesn't surprise me. There's not a lot of unbiased news left (if any) so I would imagine he will just head over to Fox, OAN, or Breitbart where the particular brand of group-think is more aligned with this viewpoints.
07-15-2020, 07:30 AM
murray87

For the record, Bari Weiss is a female. And her resignation from the "newspaper of record" is quite revealing if you ask me. The NY Times has become a paper version of Twitter but apparently that doesn't bother the publishers.