yoink

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  1. I suspect this is a big part of it. It's also true that she was pretty unlikable and carried a serious amount of baggage. OK airdvr, I've also stated before that the Dems are to blame in a big way for putting forward shit candidates last election, but at that point Trump was a wild card. I understand why people voted for him - it's just possible that he would do everything he promised. The big question is that now you've seen 4 years of his lying, criminal narcissism would you STILL vote for him over a weak Democrat?
  2. That’s my fear. The normalization of abhorrent behaviors if Trump wins a 2nd term will be shocking.
  3. Oh come on. Do a LITTLE research. Its tradition form both parties for important documents. Cheesy, I admit. But to lambast Pelosi for it specifically AND to make out that it makes her worse than Trump is simply rediculous.
  4. Then your view is SERIOUSLY warped.
  5. I saw a YouTube video several years ago where they actually set this up so the test subjects thought it was a real thing. I’ll try and find it. It might have been a VSauce one. It’s definitely worth a watch if you’re remotely interested in human behavior - how people WANT to act bs how they actually do. edit: here it is
  6. Well hoo boy, the Parnas documents sure make for interesting reading. While there's little in there linking directly to Trump there's a WHOLE lot of really ugly stuff. Is it enough to toss Giuliani under the bus? Maybe... and that's when stuff would get really interesting.
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    I'd like to see that analysis. Presumably to make this claim someone has shown you how they've calculated this? How are they determining what normal statistical correlation between randomized sources is? How are they even determining 'correlation' - what's the definition they're using? And then how are they applying that model to a method where they deliberately find sources that they claim are linked and then suggest correlation afterwards? Seems like there's an inherent flaw in there to me... Can you provide a link to where they've broken this down for me?
  8. No. Shit. I honestly thought it was because Trump was either bored or the Iranian had said something mean about Trump on social media over Christmas, but I don’t think that at any point did anyone with half a clue ever think it might have been for anything near a legitimate reason.
  9. How many are still ongoing? there have to be a couple at any point in time otherwise the universe ends, I’m sure.
  10. Not to mention unconstitutional. But hey, for Brent all that comes second to USA MOTHERFUCKING OIL, BABY!!! WOOOOO!!!
  11. Fingers crossed no US personnel were hurt. I wish I could believe Trump would be smart enough to use that as a deescalation route if it were the case... Allow Iran some sabre-rattling in retaliation for assassinating one of their generals, but I can’t get rid the idea that Trump is busy touching himself while looking at a catalogue of ever larger military responses. “phhhwwwoooor! Turn Tehran into a glowing crater?? Seems perfectly reasonable! I’ll be be most strong-man president ever! Bring me the launch codes and a Big Mac!”
  12. Oh, shit. I agree with Wolfriverjoe that Trump is unstable enough to genuinely WANT to use nuclear weapons.He's been fascinated by them for years.... Everyone had better be praying that cooler heads in his administration can keep him on a leash right now.
  13. It can work BUT the objectives need to agreed by both parties in advance, as well as being measurable. ‘Move the business forward’ is a shit objective, for example. The employer also needs to be ready to soften the objectives if circumstances aren’t within the agreed parameters, as well as ensure the employee never receives less than a living wage. I’ve long believed that footballers should have performance related pay. It takes a lot of management time to do right which is why it’s not often done. It’s not new. We were learning about it in my HR masters in 2002.
  14. I honestly thought Trump would wait until at least Monday before being a cretin this year.
  15. I think Trump went with the INTENT to make bank regardless of the consequences for the people or the country. I don't think we've seen that before.
  16. Can you imagine the carnage if parties could remove each others members? Personally I think what McConnell and Graham have publicly stated should be what Ron's patriots should genuinely be marching on Washington about. I'd like to see a non-politically appointed GA who's remit included the behavior of Congress and the House.
  17. Semantics.This is complete fucking nonsense for the sake of arguing. The technicality of exactly which nanosecond a president moves from an unimpeached state to an impeached one ONCE the decision has been made is utter sophistry. When the documents are sent over you'll be saying 'ah ah ah. He's not TECHNICALLY impeached until 23:59:59 that day. LOOK AT THE LIARS!!' or something equally stupid. So yeah. While the house could say 'we have agreed to impeach the president although we still need to courier the documents over to the senate along with our prosecutors to formally call it impeached, but the reality is that we can do this at any point in the future which changes nothing but are choosing not to until the senate stop putting themselves above the law.' it's a bit wordy for easy water cooler conversation.
  18. That's fair enough, but the solution isn't to go 'fuck it, we'll stop doing anything at all'. Continue doing what we were doing and put pressure on the others to catch up before we expand our efforts further. Be a leader, not a petulant child.
  19. I will seriously be considering the Tesla cybertruck for my next vehicle in 4 or 5 years. IF they can get the 500 mile range they claim and hopefully change the stupid name it seems like a decent option. The utility of a pickup with the cabin that fits my whole family, a range better than my Audi and an acceleration that beats anything but a hypercar. Sounds too good to be true, but worth keeping an eye on.
  20. I also had to tell them I wasn’t a terrorist. But no one asked if I was going to maintain and expand my English culture, strangely. (Which is pretty ironic given how much like a 16th century English monarch Trump is acting. You KNOW Henry VIII would be handing out the abuse on Twitter...) Maybe it would do Ron some good to actually go through the immigration process.
  21. See, if you'd said 'to defend the constitution' I could see where you're coming from. I could see why you might think that restrictions on gun ownership might be an attack on the constitution and that patriotism dictates you stand up for it. As a patriot you should be defending the RIGHT to impeach a president, NOT standing up for the president directly - that's just personal opinion. There's nothing in the constitution about ' an Americans defends their president at all cost', is there?