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Joey D
Good point on the impeachments.

As for driving offenses, DUIs are a somewhat complicated area. They are typically considered criminal offenses, although this depends on the state. Like, I don't think it's exactly criminal for the first DUI offense in Wisconsin, but in Utah it definitely was a criminal offense.

As for being crooks. Nixon is absolutely a crook, despite whatever he says. His only saving grace was that Ford pardoned him. Harding was also a crook, but he had the good fortune to die before anything could happen to him. Both would've faced indictments and likely prison time had they not been saved through some kind of intervention. Weirdly, there is a small chance that Harding was actually poisoned by someone in the government, but because an autopsy was never done, we don't know for sure what the circumstances of his death were. Officially, it's cerebral hemorrhaging due to a stroke, but it could've also been a heart attack.

I do think most politicians are crooked, though. Maybe not convicted criminals, but the path to achieving power often requires you to be a shady individual. It would not surprise me if half of Congress were in the Epstein files as pedophiles. I'm sure most have either been involved in blackmail, extortion, bribery, insider trading, fraud, tax evasion, or a combination of them. Drug possession and solicitation are almost assuredly part of many politicians' alleged crimes as well, given the stories of cocaine fuel orgies in DC.

I think it's likely fair to say all politicians (at least in America) are crooks. I don't think we should excuse them for it either. They should, if anything, be held to a higher standard since they're supposed to be leaders. And yes, given what we know, Trump is the biggest crook of them all and deserves to be treated like one.
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Having the 60s TV show The Invaders as one of my favourite shows of all time, I am reasonably certain that cerebral haemorrhages are caused solely by the round discs with lights on them that are used by the aliens to kill people... ;)
 
Trumpster business owner discovers that Trump lied about "No tax on overtime" yet can't bring himself to actually blame Trump.

Wait until he finds out that:-
  • There are dollar limits
  • There are income limits
  • The employee still pays FICA tax on the ENTIRE amount
  • The employee has to wait until next year tax time to claim a reduction in the tax bill
  • It expires in 2028
  • It doesn't apply to exempt employees working over 40 hours per week
  • Employees who are married-filing-separately can’t claim it
  • It only applies to federal taxes
  • Tax Policy Center estimates ~9% of households benefit from the OT deduction
Somehow or other, a bill which was exclusively voted for only by Republicans can be blamed with "bipartisan sentiment". Number of Democrats PLUS number of Independents who voted for this 💩 = ZERO



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www.wral.com

NC county elections chair accused of putting cocaine, MDMA in granddaughters' ice cream

The chairman of the Surry County Board of Elections was charged after Wilmington police said they found evidence he placed illegal narcotics in his granddaughters' ice cream.
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I guess it's refreshing that this apparently wasn't a pedophile thing and was instead likely intended to draw negative attention to certainly the Dairy Queen where the act was perpetrated and possibly to local politicians and government.
 
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Only went fire react because wow that proposed new logo was garbage (literally looked like crap I could whip up in MSPaint in like five minutes, even before we went into the pallete-swap Denny's look of it)
 
The cracker barrel story is one of those stories where everyone is just the dumbest worst person. Cracker Barrel was dumb with their new logo (and the old one). The backlash was one of the most childish tantrums I've ever witnessed (and I have 3 kids). The capitulation is also stupid. And the old logo is still stupid. There's nobody to feel bad for. Not even the logo designer (new or old). It's just dumb on dumb on dumb.
 
Danoff
The cracker barrel story is one of those stories where everyone is just the dumbest worst person. Cracker Barrel was dumb with their new logo (and the old one). The backlash was one of the most childish tantrums I've ever witnessed (and I have 3 kids). The capitulation is also stupid. And the old logo is still stupid. There's nobody to feel bad for. Not even the logo designer (new or old). It's just dumb on dumb on dumb.
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This is the new (idiotic) normal.
 
The new logo is what happens when you pay consultants with absolutely no soul to do anything. So the real crime isn't that the logo is "woke" or whatever the hell conservatives claimed. It's that soulless consulting firms exist to milk as much money as possible out of companies while doing the bare minimum of work. You could easily update the Cracker Barrel logo and make it look good while still keeping the old-timey charm.
 
"Thoughts and prayers" virtue signaling would be better than this. Throwing hands up in the air and saying "I got nothing" would be better than this. Doing nothing at all would be better than this.

Kennedy is a drug-addled crank and every worthless sack what voted to confirm the rat should be dragged out onto the mall and have its legs broken. I suspect some of them were scared into confirming by death threats because the rabid Trump base is so given to send them but I still don't care. Break their goddamn legs and make them crawl back into the Capitol.
 
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Korvregn
Or, maybe, I don’t know, you can launch some studies about having some actual gun laws instead?
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RFK might be more capable to do that (as a Kennedy) than to do his current job. Unfortunately, he is qualified to do nothing other than be a vegetable.
 
TexRex
Nothing...not a single goddamn thing...would be so satisfying as seeing this rat's gravel throat obliterated by repeated blows with a baseball bat.
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2026:
"RFK Jr. announces Trump's babysitting club has banned SSRI & psychiatric drugs b/c they claim it causes violence.

Also, the 4th mass shooting just happened today. It's only January".
 



Robert E. Lee (Loser) statue is back at West Point I guess


EACH DIXIE BOY MUST UNDERSTAND THAT HE MUST MIND HIS UNCLE SAM 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️
 
TexRex
Soon.
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Not to be sounding like a total conspiracy theorist, but between this from Vance and Trump talking about how he wants to get to Heaven. He definitely does have something serious, right? Of course even if he was to drop off anytime before the next election, we'll probably never know the full extent of it. They'll never admit anything was wrong with him.

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Spacegoat
Not to be sounding like a total conspiracy theorist, but between this from Vance and Trump talking about how he wants to get to Heaven. He definitely does have something serious, right? Of course even if he was to drop off anytime before the next election, we'll probably never know the full extent of it. They'll never admit anything was wrong with him.
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I don't think so. I'm certainly not reading anything into it and I was joking in the quoted post.
eran0004
If you make fun of sincere questions then people will be afraid to ask. If they stop asking then they stop learning.
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I haven't observed any capacity to learn on that one's part, much less a desire, though some have ventured admirably to educate.
 
Ashli Babbitt will receive military funeral honors - on top of the millions her family has already received because she was killed while attempting to overthrow a democratic election.


We are well past the "benefit of the doubt" stage. If you still support Trump - if you are still MAGA (note: I did not say conservative or Republican) - you are a fascist. Simple as that.


You will be in the part of history books that future generations will be ashamed of - and that future autocrats (or dictators; and let’s be clear, he is trying) will attempt to erase from future iterations of the Smithsonian.
 
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If this is the person to be in charge of America's public health & disease control
O’Neill, unlike Monarez, has no training in medicine or infectious disease science. He is a former speechwriter for the health department, during the Bush years, who went on to work for the tech investor and conservative megadonor Peter Thiel.

During the Covid pandemic, O’Neill voiced public support for unproven treatments that were not supported by scientific evidence, including ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, as well as vitamin D as a supposed “prophylaxis”.

He also posted a number of conspiratorial theories on social media, including the baseless claim that “the name #COVID was chosen to conceal the origin of the virus. This name made it harder to study and probably slowed the response.”
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www.theguardian.com

Who is Jim O’Neill? CDC chief set to bolster RFK Jr plan to remake vaccine policy

Ally of health secretary worked as speechwriter in George W Bush administration and has no training in medicine
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I think the whole country will soon need to be put into quarantine, for the safety of the rest of humanity.
 
Fezzik
If this is the person to be in charge of America's public health & disease control

www.theguardian.com

Who is Jim O’Neill? CDC chief set to bolster RFK Jr plan to remake vaccine policy

Ally of health secretary worked as speechwriter in George W Bush administration and has no training in medicine
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

I think the whole country will soon need to be put into quarantine, for the safety of the rest of humanity.
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So not even remotely qualified. This is more like a Trump/RFK selection.
 

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