Things that made you Facepalm today (Political Version)

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Originally Posted by Solkern

What if trump said this? What if trump said that? What about this? What about that? How about this? How about that? What if he said this? What if he said that? I think he meant this, I think he meant that.

Guess what Methais, he fucking didn’t. He made a veiled threat, period, and it was stupid of him to do. You can make up whatever you think he meant with it, that’s literally the point of a veiled threat.

Congratulations Methais, you now understand what a veiled threat is!
What I personally think he meant means absolutely jack shit, the point is he made a veiled threat, and it was stupid of him to do it.

Whether he’s going to act on what he has planned to do or not, doesn’t change that he made the veiled threat, now does it?

I think he meant he’s going to force them to watch him dance.

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I think you're missing the boat here a little bit, what Trump is doing here is witness intimidation and contaminating the potential jury pool by disclosing evidence pre-hearing. As noted, attempting to harass or dissuade the testimony of the witness outlined in the indictment. Federal law listed below makes it a crime to harass, intimidate or tamper with a witness. Trump at his arraignment hearing as a condition of his release agreed to forgo the commission of any crimes or to have contact with witnesses unless through an attorney. Posting threats or admonitions through his social media platform against a witness to discourage their testimony is a clear violation.

18 U.S. Code § 1512 - Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant
(b)Whoever knowingly uses intimidation, threatens, or corruptly persuades another person, or attempts to do so, or engages in misleading conduct toward another person, with intent to—
(1)influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding;
(2)cause or induce any person to—
(A)withhold testimony, or withhold a record, document, or other object, from an official proceeding;
(B)alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal an object with intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding;
(C)evade legal process summoning that person to appear as a witness, or to produce a record, document, or other object, in an official proceeding; or
(D)be absent from an official proceeding to which such person has been summoned by legal process; or

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Originally Posted by Solkern

What if trump said this? What if trump said that? What about this? What about that? How about this? How about that? What if he said this? What if he said that? I think he meant this, I think he meant that.

Guess what Methais, he fucking didn’t. He made a veiled threat, period, and it was stupid of him to do. You can make up whatever you think he meant with it, that’s literally the point of a veiled threat.

Congratulations Methais, you now understand what a veiled threat is!
What I personally think he meant means absolutely jack shit, the point is he made a veiled threat, and it was stupid of him to do it.

Whether he’s going to act on what he has planned to do or not, doesn’t change that he made the veiled threat, now does it?

I think he meant he’s going to force them to watch him dance.

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Originally Posted by Seran

I think you're missing the boat here a little bit, what Trump is doing here is witness intimidation and contaminating the potential jury pool by disclosing evidence pre-hearing. As noted, attempting to harass or dissuade the testimony of the witness outlined in the indictment. Federal law listed below makes it a crime to harass, intimidate or tamper with a witness. Trump at his arraignment hearing as a condition of his release agreed to forgo the commission of any crimes or to have contact with witnesses unless through an attorney. Posting threats or admonitions through his social media platform against a witness to discourage their testimony is a clear violation.

18 U.S. Code § 1512 - Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant
(b)Whoever knowingly uses intimidation, threatens, or corruptly persuades another person, or attempts to do so, or engages in misleading conduct toward another person, with intent to—
(1)influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding;
(2)cause or induce any person to—
(A)withhold testimony, or withhold a record, document, or other object, from an official proceeding;
(B)alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal an object with intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding;
(C)evade legal process summoning that person to appear as a witness, or to produce a record, document, or other object, in an official proceeding; or
(D)be absent from an official proceeding to which such person has been summoned by legal process; or

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You two and Megan Rapihoe should get together and have a nice big cry together. Then go get some T shots because jesus christ you need.

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Originally Posted by Suppa Hobbit Mage

You two and Megan Rapihoe should get together and have a nice big cry together. Then go get some T shots because jesus christ you need.

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Megan doesn't need the shot.

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Originally Posted by Parkbandit

Megan doesn't need the shot.

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She may not need the shot but she still can’t make the shot. I haven’t kicked a soccer ball since I was 6 years old (because I’m not a communist) and I could have done better. Unequal performance & spectators deserves unequal pay.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/thousands...111608493.html

"Thousands of US sailors, Marines reach Red Sea after Iran tensions"

All good... Biden's foreign policy working as intended.

You can thank Trump for destabilizing the middle east and oil shipment in pointless withdrawal of the monitoring and enrichment agreement struck. Much as he withdrew our cooperation with the World Health Organization right before Covid-19 and trade treaties right before a recession he caused.

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Iran claims it has seized a third foreign oil tanker in the Gulf in a further escalation of tensions between Tehran and Washington and its regional allies, who continue to stare each other down over crippling economic sanctions imposed by the Trump administration.

Iranian state media claimed the tanker was Iraqi and was seized on Wednesday in a northern part of the strait of Hormuz with a cargo of 700,000 litres of oil bound for neighbouring Arab states. The strait is one of the world’s most important waterways, on which a combustible standoff has played out since early July, when a British warship intercepted an Iranian tanker off the coast of Gibraltar.

Leaders of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have explicitly linked the seizure of the Stena Impero and its crew to the capture of the Iranian vessel, Grace 1, which Britain and the US claim was smuggling fuel to Syria. The seizure came amid a campaign of “maximum pressure” designed to
diplomatically isolate Tehran and cripple its oil-dependent economy.

The stated US aim of tightened economic sanctions, which were reimposed in May, is to force Iran to renegotiate the nuclear deal signed between both countries in 2015, but which Donald Trump withdrew from last year. That deal lifted a sanctions regime and allowed Iran to renew international oil trading in return for it agreeing not to enrich uranium – an essential component of a nuclear weapons programme, which its leaders had long been accused of secretly building.

In the wake of Washington reneging on the deal, Iran has vowed to resume uranium enrichment and to continue trading oil, on which its increasingly vulnerable economy depends.

The latest seizure comes days after the US imposed sanctions on Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif – the official who negotiated the nuclear deal with the Obama administration. The unusual move to sanction a global diplomat removes from the table the only senior Iranian official with whom senior US diplomats are familiar, and appears to place further obstacles in the way of a diplomatic solution to the crisis, which regional observers insist has the potential to spill over into a devastating war.

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Originally Posted by Seran

You can thank Trump for destabilizing the middle east and oil shipment in pointless withdrawal of the monitoring and enrichment agreement struck. Much as he withdrew our cooperation with the World Health Organization right before Covid-19 and trade treaties right before a recession he caused.

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That’s really interesting Seran. Since that is the case, why did Biden choose not to lift those sanctions? Why did he impose even more sanctions on Iran last year? If MSNBC told you that Trump was the cause of Reichstag fire in 1933, you would believe it.

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Originally Posted by Suppressed Poet

That’s really interesting Seran. Since that is the case, why did Biden choose not to lift those sanctions? Why did he impose even more sanctions on Iran last year? If MSNBC told you that Trump was the cause of Reichstag fire in 1933, you would believe it.

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That’s both an easy and difficult question to answer. Simply put the landscape has completely changed, dropping the sanctions just isn’t feasible anymore and due to Iran’s recent actions that were a result of Trump’s shift, is also a reason to add more sanctions.
You can predict, without certainty of course how things could have played out if Trump didn’t do a shift in policy etc towards Iran.

Honestly, I’m happy Trump did what he did. I think it showed Iran’s true colors, a government that we just can’t trust at all.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/moodys-do...032059018.html

"Moody's downgrades US banks, warns of possible cuts to others"

I mean with this, the Silicon Valley decimation, and the ratings drop last week... things seem to be going really well. Thanks Biden!

Oh yea... wonder if they'll call it a recession this time around?

""This comes as a mild U.S. recession is on the horizon for early 2024 and asset quality looks set to decline, with particular risks in some banks’ commercial real estate (CRE)portfolios."

Ahhh, just a mild one. No biggie.

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Originally Posted by Seran

Right, so your mental retardation is you think President Biden decides where Russia and China sends it's forces and then ironically cry when the President exercises his /actual/ authority to protect our country from enemies both foreign and domestic.

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Given your extensive, personal experience with real mental retardation... one would think you would have a better grasp of it.