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Yeah, he had some mistakes. Some of the things you mentioned I kind of feel are only mistakes in hindsight. Like Garland, for example. Unless we wanted to go nuclear, we had to get a consensus pick that Republicans would vote to confirm. They said they would for Garland (it was refreshing to...

Apologies if this is over-sharing: I am 46 years old, don’t have kids, don’t want them, and I am thinking of getting the ol Snip-Snip. Could you imagine if my state passed a law saying I couldn’t? Or if a state passed a law saying it’s illegal to use a condom? Or illegal to use a birth...

Oh man, that’s a blast from the past! I haven’t heard anyone repeat that old myth in years. Everybody was able to read the bill, bud. Geez. Republicans had a ton of input. Obama really wanted this massive piece of legislation, early in his first term, to be bipartisan—and unfortunately...

Are you also old enough to stay on topic? If not, are you old enough to remember all the things the GOP did to ruin and torpedo it? The GOP largely fucked Obamacare, and they did it on purpose.

The bill isn’t for free contraception, just enshrining the right to be able to have access to it and buy it. You may recall that the reasoning used to overturn Roe also put Griswold v Connecticut on the potential chopping block. It’s interesting: despite abortion being a recognized right...

That white belt TS with 2 total posts is a 2012 account. That’s…something. <mma4>

They certainly are. In fact, they’ve basically declared war on education as they’re deeply worried that their kids might, in the course of actual learning, encounter ideas contrary to their Mommy and Daddy’s right wing politics. There’s a reason that so many conservative ideas don’t survive in...

They said their suspicions were that it was Russian disinformation, and that turns out to have been incorrect. I don’t think even Hunter is denying it’s his, is he? I think they had every reason in the world to think that crazy story was disinfo, but it turned out to essentially be true, I...

I’m going by memory, but I believe he and his wife went to recover it from the grocery store dumpster, but it was gone. So at that point they called police to report the whole thing. Police had a suspicion that a local dumpster-diving homeless dude might have it, so they tracked him down and...

That’s fair. You did not actually say they lied, my apologies. Yes, they turned out to be wrong.

I agree with @Oddmonster By and large, I don’t care what happens to Hunter. It’ll go through the justice system, and be whatever it’ll be. I *do* think these charges are not super serious in the grand scheme of things, and that plea deal that some like to call a sweetheart deal was no such...

I can agree that their opinion holds a lot of weight. But what part of their signed letter—I’ll link it again here—is a lie? I think their response was very measured, and I actually don’t see a single lie anywhere in that document. I think a better place to point is the laziness of the media...

I didn’t miss it, I just wasn’t swayed by it. Was he sued merely for having an opinion, or was he sued because he publicly said multiple disparaging things about people or companies that had no basis in fact, and used those statements to damage that company’s reputation while simultaneously...

Oh man. Characterizing things like defamation, libel, or slander as “suing someone for their opinion” is a new one for me. <lol> That’s right up there with characterizing criminal conspiracy as “making plans with your friends.” I guess every deafamation case in history is meritless then?

Hunter wasn’t the one who dumped the gun by all accounts. The statute itself though doesn’t say anything about using it in a crime; what I was pointing out, is that the charge has a huge range of sentencing guidelines and what sentence a defendant gets depends mainly on the case factors. What...

Same! Knob Creek is a Jim Beam product. I don’t care a ton for the low end Jim Beam products, but Knob Creek, Bookers, Little Book, Baker’s and a bunch more are great.

What you said about the debates doesn’t seem to be accurate. The NY Post broke the story on October 20. Trump and Biden only had one debate after that, just 2 days later, on Oct 22. There was only one moderator, Kristen Welker of NBC. Entire debate transcript is here. At no point that I...

That wasn’t the FBI, and those weren’t “findings.” It was an opinion, clearly labeled as such. The DOJ? Trump was president, Heretic, this happened before the 2020 election. The AG was Trump’s nominee, Bill Barr. The FBI Director? That was Trump’s nominee as well, Christopher Wray. And...

Are you serious? An immediately unverifiable laptop containing damaging photos and controversial emails of the son of a presidential candidate suddenly materializes, 3 weeks before the election, with the story that it was dropped off several years ago, never picked up, the computer store owner...

I’m not disagreeing with him being charged, I’m just saying I think it’s unlikely he gets much more than a fine and maybe probation. I’d think jail time for a first offense where no one got harmed by the weapon would be unusual.