Starker on 24/6/2020 at 04:44
Look, I'm The Fonz 90% of the time, but I don't need a Holden Caulfield in a mid-life crisis constantly whining about how there are too many posts about a topic in a thread specifically on that topic.
Nicker on 24/6/2020 at 05:08
Ayyyyyyyy! Starker!
This guest should provide something to talk about at the Congressional water coolers. Aaron Zelinsky was one of the three prosecutors who suddenly resigned from the Roger Stone case during the sentencing phase. He will be appearing before the house to address allegations that Barr installed Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Timothy Shea to get a lighter sentence for Stone.
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But Zelinsky said he was explicitly told by a supervisor that the push for a lighter sentence was political and had nothing to do with the crimes Stone had committed. He and the other prosecutors "were instructed" to go along because the case was "not a hill worth dying on" and they could lose their jobs, Zelinsky said.
Still, the prosecutors refused to recommend a shorter sentence, Zelinsky said. The morning after they filed their sentencing memorandum in court, the president called it a "miscarriage of justice." Zelinsky said he later learned from media reports that the Justice Department plans to override their recommendation.
"We repeatedly asked to see the new memorandum prior to its filing. Our request was denied. We were not informed about the content or substance of the proposed filing, or even who was writing it. We were told that one potential draft of the filing attacked us personally," Zelinsky said.
At the very least, Bill Bar and Timothy Shea should be suspended until this is investigated. That or being escorted out of their offices carrying a cardboard box of personal effects. That or being escorted out of their offices in shackles.
Sulphur on 24/6/2020 at 07:44
I think you can ignore PigLick's post, Starker. It wasn't terribly serious given he was essentially posting everywhere, so probably the result of some late night debauchery and a questionable (but enviable) blood alcohol level.
PigLick on 24/6/2020 at 12:19
Yeh starks, dont take it personally, its just stream of conciousness(or lack thereof) dribble.
Nicker on 27/6/2020 at 05:21
Sorry but I just could not resist...
We have it from the orange horse's mouth itself, (
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/donald-trump-perfect-person-hannity_n_5ef59e5dc5b612083c4b8e8a?ri18n=true) one of Trump's friends called him a "Perfect Person".
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During a televised town hall with Fox News' Sean Hannity on Thursday, the president claimed a pal had told him he has to be “the most perfect person” because he was not brought down by the Russia investigation.
“Isn't that true?” Trump asked a small audience packed with enthusiastic fans.
Now, back to your weekend.
demagogue on 27/6/2020 at 12:33
Mmm, people want all of this to have some kind of meaning. For some people, it's a bitter pill to accept that sometimes momentous but empty things just happen for no reason. Nothing good comes out of it; there is no deeper meaning; it's just a series of pointless accidents of nature or social forces that have no significance or value beyond the fact that they just happened. I think that's basically what we're facing here, but I do empathize with people that emotionally find that hard to accept and want to push the thought aside and immerse themselves in an endless succession of stadia rallies teeming with enthusiasm. Edit: Or in conspiracies on strings pulled by deeper evils that must be out there, or what will we do unless they are?
It's just another sad part of this farce that the alternative to utter pointlessness is reveling in the only other meaning on offer, that this is so out of the ordinary that God must have had some kind of plan here; that our country and by extension me, my family, and my people really can be great again; that these feelings of pride, finally!, mean something; that the arc of history of our country means something. Of good or ill.
Sometimes I wish history meant something too. :(
But now I mostly think that just being decent to and respecting each other--and perhaps the occasional rush of freedom and possibility one gets in the presence of things that bring a joie de vivre (inspired art, a sport or game well played, great food, whatever does it for someone, and not at the cost of other people's well-being)--are about the only things that really mean anything in the end.
PigLick on 27/6/2020 at 14:14
or as Bill and Ted once said, party on and be excellent to one another!
or was it the other way round?
Nicker on 27/6/2020 at 20:32
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For some people, it's a bitter pill to accept that sometimes momentous but empty things just happen for no reason.
They certainly do but this is not one of them. Again and again, societies and civilizations have permitted sociopaths to usurp control of their lives. Feudalism seems to be hard wired in humans and is the default political system throughout history. Even today, any nation that has not adopted some version of a parliamentary democracy, is a feudal state.
We have a weakness for sociopaths and even with robust political mechanisms in place to prevent abuse, criminals rise to power and predictably, don't know when to stop grabbing more of it. Putin winning a referendum granting him a life long term as president is not an accident. The tyrants of the world are not the result of happenstance, they are the result of fundamental flaws in human psychology, their and ours.
TTK12G3 on 27/6/2020 at 21:49
At most, this resulted in 20 dead US troops. It is as if it was done because it could be done, with no real objective in mind/
