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No one cared about her emails until numerous dog and pony shows had been held. Sounds like you’re terrified the same thing is going to happen.

Hard to believe I know He was also part of the Bullingdon club at Oxford University - a society of the absolute worst elitist entitled scumbags who got their rocks off by vandalising and destroying the establishments they partied in turn using mummy and daddy’s money to pay their way out of any legal consequences.

Boris Johnson was twice fired from newspaper jobs for lying about stories and sources before becoming a full time politician. As PM he’s continued to be the exact same person, just with less accountability. Boris has had a corrosive effect on standards in public life in a very Trumpian way, but luckily we’re not quite as purely partisan just yet. Yesterday he did survive a no confidence vote from his own party which could have forced him to resign - but 40% of Conservative MPs voted against him. Imagine if 40% of Republican Senators voted to impeach Trump! One difference there is that our no confidence votes are secret, so MPs are possibly freer to vote their conscience without worrying about backlash from the true believers. Though many of them publicly declared their position for or against anyway. Boris still isn’t safe though, he’s also facing a standards enquiry over whether he deliberately lied to parliament about partygate. On the one hand our ministerial code is clear - ministers (including the PM) who are found to have lied to parliament must resign. On the other hand, regardless of what the enquiry finds, the person who decides if ministers (including the PM) are guilty is the PM. Boris has already broken this thought-to-be-cast-iron code by protecting his foreign secretary against a finding that she bullied staff. On the other hand, because the PM is a representative of rest of the parliamentary party in a way that the US President isn’t, I’d still expect even Boris to resign if the enquiry categorically comes down against him because to do otherwise would annihilate his party’s chances at the next election. Ultimately though he has, like Trump, highlighted how weak our systems of standards and enforcement are when they come up against a man who really doesn’t give a flying fuck about anything except his own ambition and ego.

How is this clear to you? Honestly, the logic is bizarre. You're absolutely right that invested parties make tons of money from the penal system and use it to lobby the political system... but you think this creates a softer system for incercerated criminals? That's crazy. The prison industry makes money per inmate, so it wants more inmates, so it lobbies for stricter sentencing. The prison industry wants to generate greater profit per inmate, so it minimises investment in infrastructure and staffing, so prisons are overcrowded and understaffed. This makes them violent and dangerous places to be, with fewer and fewer 'luxuries' and education / assistance programs for inmates. None of these vested financial interests in the penal system in any way create an easy life for criminals. The real effect is the exact opposite.

Surely term limits for elected officials in pools of 100 and 435 are less important than term limits for appointed judges in a pool of 9?

Man, you have the harshest penal system and by far the largest proportion of incarcerated people in any western nation, and you also have the worst mass shooting problem. Clearly ‘stop being soft on criminals’ is not the solution.

Just don’t fly Ryanair then. I mean, don’t fly Ryanair anyway - they are a terrible, terrible company who don’t care about their passengers.

Airlines do have a responsibility to ensure that the people on their planes are who they say they are, for a number of reasons. But Ryanair are an absolute shit show of an organisation from top to bottom and it kinda figures that someone in their management has taken it upon themselves to institute this bizarre ‘test’.

Oh ok, so it’s Ryanair being total dickheads. That actually does make sense.

But they heard it on Facebook!

I think she's been quite clever throwing the 'peach tree dish' in there. Now when she gets criticised for that she can bite back by pointing out all of Biden's verbal fumbles. While that's happening, the fact that she was talking about government mandated implants electrocuting you if you're not eating Bill Gates' vegan food gets quietly forgotten.

Not sure whether to call it a joke or not but everything about that article smells like bullshit to me.

Because they didn’t meet their target?

He then shared a lengthy message from one of his followers, which posited that Lindell could be associated with Antifa. The post shared by Wood also claimed, without substantiation, that Lindell once offered a 66.6% discount on his pillows, implying that the pillow salesman had links to Satanism. The number 666 is sometimes used in popular culture to refer to "the mark of the beast," a Satanic symbol. These people were in the Oval Office.

Odd system though. Post trial motions accusing a judge of bias are decided on by the same judge? Can’t see how that’d ever go wrong.

Nothing to add, just this whole post bears repeating until it sinks in.

Will he though? "I didn't say that" = bad. "I don't recall saying that" = atta boy.

You would think so, but they haven't managed it yet. Trump on TV and Trump in a deposition are two very different people, it seems. Maybe he just pops a few Xanax before heading in just to damp down the urge to brag.

This isn't his first rodeo. He's been under oath before and can stonewall with the best of them.

Assumption? Whenever it suits you you're very keen to say that Billy has always been a certain way, that way is nothing like you and (partly) that's why you'd never be at risk of doing what he did. Then you want to say that it's simply a complete coincidence that he murdered his family shortly after gaining ready access to the firearms he used. Even though you've already stated that you do believe having guns changes the way people think and behave. It doesnt make a huge amount of sense to me.

There was no exchange about whether she was a girl. There was an exchange about whether someone was being sexist and whether he should have known she was a girl simply from her profile pic of a hemet and sunglasses.

Ah, sorry I misread 'everything' as 'anything'. But at least what you're saying there is that it has something to do with it. Because again, Billy lived with whatever was in his head for a very long time. He only lived with a gun for a few months.

Nothing? Are you sure there isn't something about having a firearm in their hand that will cause a weak person to lose their ability to reason?

That's where no-one else follows your logic.

So being a democrat, which had nothing to do with the murders, makes him like us. But being a gun owner, which had everything to do with the murders, makes him nothing like you? I know you feel like you were attacked first and that’s fair - but you can see why that doesn’t make sense, right?