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Started by FunkMonk, November 08, 2016, 11:02:57 PM

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Maximus

#24570
February 18, 2020, 10:14:14 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 18, 2020, 02:15:24 AM
The number of former DOJ officials calling on Barr to resign has increased from 1,100 to 2,000.
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/4788155002

merithyn

#24571
February 18, 2020, 02:25:54 PM
He's just commuted Blago's sentence.

I can't even read the news anymore without getting sick to my stomach.
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

Grey Fox

#24572
February 18, 2020, 02:31:35 PM
What did Blago do?
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The Minsky Moment

#24573
February 18, 2020, 02:37:55 PM
I'll say this for Trump, when it comes to favoring corrupt scumbags, he can be bi-partisan.
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Syt

#24574
February 18, 2020, 02:38:44 PM
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Razgovory

#24575
February 18, 2020, 02:40:18 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on February 18, 2020, 02:31:35 PM
What did Blago do?


The same thing Trump was just impeached for.  Soliciting bribes.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

merithyn

#24576
February 18, 2020, 02:40:46 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on February 18, 2020, 02:31:35 PM
What did Blago do?

He was an unapologetically corrupt Chicago politician who openly tried to sell Obama's Senate seat, among numerous other things.
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

Grey Fox

#24577
February 18, 2020, 02:46:51 PM
Thank you all.

Trump is legitimizing his behaviour, eh. 2028 Republican candidates thank him.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Habbaku

#24578
February 18, 2020, 02:51:53 PM
That's pretty much the last straw for me. I'll even vote for fucking Warren now.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

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alfred russel

#24579
February 18, 2020, 02:53:28 PM
Huh. I'm suspecting Trump may be not actually be against corruption.  :hmm:
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There's a fine line between salvation and drinking poison in the jungle.

I'm embarrassed. I've been making the mistake of associating with you. It won't happen again. :)
-garbon, February 23, 2014

OttoVonBismarck

#24580
February 18, 2020, 03:28:37 PM
I mean is what Blago did really worthy of a 14 year sentence? 8 years is a long time in the pen.

Admiral Yi

#24581
February 18, 2020, 03:30:20 PM
I don't understand the pattern to Trump's pardons.

alfred russel

#24582
February 18, 2020, 04:02:11 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 18, 2020, 03:30:20 PM
I don't understand the pattern to Trump's pardons.

As opposed to his other official actions? :P
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There's a fine line between salvation and drinking poison in the jungle.

I'm embarrassed. I've been making the mistake of associating with you. It won't happen again. :)
-garbon, February 23, 2014

Eddie Teach

#24583
February 18, 2020, 04:21:40 PM
He doesn't want to be prosecuted when he leaves office so he's trying to set precedent- making mercy for white collar corruption charges a "thing".
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Barrister

#24584
February 18, 2020, 04:28:22 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on February 18, 2020, 04:21:40 PM
He doesn't want to be prosecuted when he leaves office so he's trying to set precedent- making mercy for white collar corruption charges a "thing".

You just know Trump is going to try to pardon himself before he leaves office.
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