Haven't been for decades. The corporate news media just makes it sound like they mean it. Even they know they're full of shit.
And he did it on the Fourth of July.
Along with the rest of the republiQan putin-suckers.
On Tuesday afternoon, the bipartisan leadership of the Senate Intelligence Committee issued some important findings, concluding that the U.S. intelligence community was correct in its assessment: Russia attacked the U.S. elections in 2016 and did so in the hopes of putting Donald Trump in the White House.
It was right around this time that seven Republican members of Congress -- six senators and one House member -- were in Moscow. Making matters much worse, however, is what the GOP lawmakers had to say while they were there. The Washington Post reported:
The only thing she didn't do to escape justice was declare presidential immunity.
well clearly you're guilty. Hang on a second while we check the cold case files to pin something on you.
tfw I agree with Liz Cheney
Betraying the Constitution comes first though. We can prosecute them for failing the rest of the world next.
Shocked. Yes, shocked I am that
It did, and they did? Well how about that.
What If China Paid Trump While In Office But The Supreme Court Said The Question Was Moot? It did, and they did? Well how about that.
. . . For starters, we need to emphasize again that Trump’s getting money from foreign sources is not simply a paperwork detail, it’s a flat out violation of the US Constitution, which Republicans used to say was a pretty big deal. The “foreign emoluments clause” ( Article I, Section 9, clause 8) is pretty clear on the matter:
“[N]o Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
“Emolument” is simply a ye olde word for an “advantage, profit, or gain received as a result of one’s employment or one’s holding of office,” and it has generally been interpreted as a ban on taking any gifts or payments from a foreign. The clause very much applies to presidents, and prior to Trump, it was taken quite seriously. As the report notes, John F. Kennedy had to turn down Ireland’s symbolic offer of honorary Irish citizenship, and Barack Obama was allowed to accept the Nobel Peace Prize “only after the DOJ determined that the selection process was independent from the influence of the Norwegian government.” (It was a 20-page decision.) And even then, he donated to charity the $1.4 million that went with the honor.
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Trump just bulldozed right past such petty concerns, and because he was such a tornado of chaos and scandal (way off the Fujita scale, what with the bulldozer being tossed around in the whirlwind too), his Constitution-defying business operations never got him in any trouble. Even when good government groups tried to sue to get federal courts to pay attention, the suits got thrown out of court because judges said the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue, since Trump’s defiance of the Constitution hadn’t directly harmed them.
Have no fear, citizens! The American Judicial system will adjudicate this conflict with characteristic speed and wisdom! Expect everything to be a kind of malevolent higgledy-piggledy for 30 years. After that, there'll be some sort of tacit understanding of a gentleman's agreement which will be used as a rule of thumb for certain non-monetized works which may be certified for limited un-scraping status. It's win-win!
I have friends who, against better counsel, have android phones, and the group texts were forever breaking. I finally brokered a deal for us to use Signal, which has been great. So (1) Android users in a group text on iPhone is a super pain in the ass, and (2) If everyone's using Signal, it's cool.
Reminder that Crystal Mason is still serving five years in prison for casting a provisional ballot on advice from the poll worker while on supervised release.
Spoiler alert: Texas
The poll asked: "I wish I could go back to a time before everyone was 'plugged in'" And people answered Strongly Agree / Agree / No Opinion / Disagree / Strongly Disagree
Other than noting it was a "Harris Poll" it said nothing about how many respondents there were, how they contacted them or anything else.
Would the world be better if everyone wasn't face-down in an illuminated rectagle every moment they could be? Before climate change became so ridiculously notable? Before Trump? Etc? It probably would be nice. It doesn't mean there shouldn't be Internet, or anything else, really.
There was a point where being online meant you'd read a manual and knew a damn thing. That was nice. But hey. We've got an open-source federated social media platform now, so. Po-TAY-to, Po-TAH-to.
Anyway, I think the phrasing of the title is clickbait.
"Sir the asteroid and the alien armada will be here at roughly the same time - in about 20 minutes."
sigh Fine, I'll have one of those . . . coffee . . orange juice ginger things. I mean - what the hell, right?