US Politics Thread (2021-24)

[MeoTwister5]

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tr...nts-backwards/

Pants on properly apparently.

[ramlaen]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/07/polit...orm/index.html

The best part is the theater that this legislation isn't a naked power grab attempt.

Originally Posted by MeoTwister5

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tr...nts-backwards/

Pants on properly apparently.

TDS is still a thing and several users here suffer from it.

[EroKing]

Can't believe Muricans people are so bored that a topic of Trump (not) wearing his pants backwards became a thing...

[Ithekro]

Politics can be very boring if both sides are more or less posturing and everything else is waiting for either a court date or the hypothetical other shoe to drop.

[Key Board]

Manchin says that while some places like Texas and Georgia are passing laws to overturn election results

Maybe we should let Manchin take the helm for the infrastructure bill and let him see how impossible it is to get republican compromise

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[Eisdrache]

Originally Posted by EroKing

Can't believe Muricans people are so bored that a topic of Trump (not) wearing his pants backwards became a thing...

For all his backwards ideas it only makes sense that he takes the lead and wears backwards pants.

[ramlaen]

Debunking The Photo Op Myth: Inspector General Refutes Media Account On The Clearing Of Lafayette Park.

https://jonathanturley.org/2021/06/0...afayette-park/

[Key Board]

US Catholic bishops OK steps toward possible rebuke of Biden

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden...693a7e2b28e2da

If the US Catholic bishops want to play politics about abortion, they should be taxed

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[MeoTwister5]

Incidentally the Vatican is actually against the move of the USCCB, citing it as "weaponization".

Also this "decision" is actually non-binding, as the choice to disallow is under the discretion of the bishop of the diocese.

[cyberdemon]

Looks like the first indictments are going out for the Trump organization. Nothing yet on Trump but not surprising. They’d likely want to take their time to make sure their i’s are doted and t’s crossed before indicting him

[ramlaen]

Originally Posted by cyberdemon

Looks like the first indictments are going out for the Trump organization. Nothing yet on Trump but not surprising. They’d likely want to take their time to make sure their i’s are doted and t’s crossed before indicting him

There has to be something in order to be able to indict him in the first place, instead once again we have a person in his periphery who is indicted on an unrelated and/or dubious charge in order to validate their partisan efforts.

[cyberdemon]

Originally Posted by ramlaen

There has to be something in order to be able to indict him in the first place, instead once again we have a person in his periphery who is indicted on an unrelated and/or dubious charge in order to validate their partisan efforts.

That’s a lame defense. It’s not just a person but an indictment on the organization. Do you really think a micromanager like Trump had zero knowledge of it?

[Guardian Enzo]

The Trump organization is for all intents and purposes a mafia family, and that's exactly how it's run. The strategy is to keep anyone from flipping and turning on the boss with implicit and explicit threats bad enough to make prison seem like the better alternative. So fair it's worked, but New York is getting very high on the org chart now and the aim, ultimately, is to fry the big fish.

[cyberdemon]

Trump and jr aren’t very smart. They’ve basically admitted that at least some of the charges are true. They just think that because a lot of rich families are doing it means it’s not illegal. This is in regards to the tuition money. It was done to avoid payroll and income taxes. But they are just passing it off as “gifts”.

[SeijiSensei]

Along with maintaining two sets of books, the fact that Trump signed the checks to Weisselberg from his own personal account tells me their arrogance was so enormous that they thought they would never face an accounting. And, remember, Trump routinely claimed to know more about tax law than even tax lawyers and accountants. His recent claims of ignorance will be easy to disprove just by his public statements.

instead once again we have a person in his periphery who is indicted on an unrelated and/or dubious charge in order to validate their partisan efforts.

Alan Weisselberg has been central to the Trump Organization since the days when it was run by Donald's father. Also the NYAG is following the standard plan for prosecuting criminal organizations. You start with trying to flip those in the second tier then move on to the first tier. My guess is the kids will be on the line next. Ivanka's "consulting" payments would be a good place to start. It's unlikely that the kind of off-the-books payments we see to Weisselberg weren't common throughout the Trump Organization.

[ramlaen]

Originally Posted by cyberdemon

That’s a lame defense. It’s not just a person but an indictment on the organization.

You can call it a defense if you want but the reality of the situation is a prosecution conducting a politically motivated trophy hunt.

Do you really think a micromanager like Trump had zero knowledge of it?

I think the hyper partisan individuals here who have bought into the mafioso caricature are not people to be emulated.

[Endscape]

Originally Posted by ramlaen

You can call it a defense if you want but the reality of the situation is a prosecution conducting a politically motivated trophy hunt.



I think the hyper partisan individuals here who have bought into the mafioso caricature are not people to be emulated.

Funny how you didn't actually answer the question.

[ramlaen]

Originally Posted by Endscape

Funny how you didn't actually answer the question.

Do you need me to simplify my comment about buying into caricatures?

Meanwhile in the world of criminals, remember when this guy was a media darling?
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/08/polit...ion/index.html

[Endscape]

Originally Posted by ramlaen

Do you need me to simplify my comment about buying into caricatures?

... You still haven't answered as to whether or not you believe Trump was unaware of wrongdoings being done in his organization.

[Guardian Enzo]

Why do you encourage him, seriously?