Yeah, he won't tweet anymore, just like he said he wouldn't be golfing while POTUS, too busy. Now he's golfing more than Obama...
Yeah, he won't tweet anymore, just like he said he wouldn't be golfing while POTUS, too busy. Now he's golfing more than Obama...
It appears Kavanaugh can be prosecuted. He may have to plead the 5th before the senate or risk his words being used against him in a court of law. Not likely, but possible.
Can Brett Kavanaugh be investigated for an attempted rape he allegedly committed over three decades ago? In Maryland, it’s entirely possible under the law, according to some experts. Now members of the American public are calling for Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh to open an investigation, especially if the FBI doesn’t.
Christine Blasey Ford, who says that Kavanaugh attempted to rape her during a party when both were high school students, has asked for the FBI to open an investigation. In a letter, she detailed the attack, saying that when she was about 15, and Kavanaugh was 17, he held her down, tried to pull off her swimsuit, and covered her mouth to stifle her protests, while he or his friend, Mark Judge, turned up music in the room so that others at the party wouldn’t hear her.
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Constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe and former federal prosecutor Renoto Mariotti discussed Kavanaugh’s possible risk of legal consequences Tuesday, pointing out that both Kavanaugh and Judge could potentially face charges in the state of Maryland, where they attended Georgetown Preparatory school, and where the assault is alleged to have happened. Maryland has no statute of limitations for some sexual offenses, according to RAINN. When the victim is under the age of 16, these include gross sexual assault, unlawful sexual contact, and sexual abuse of minors.
I don't know about you, but I prefer having the stream of consciousness to not having it, regardless of whether or not I agree with what's being said. The office of the President has only ever been sacred and dignified in rose tinted glasses or marketing spin.
I absolutely would prefer the president to tweet, talk about, or otherwise flail his arms with spittle flying out of his mouth while shrieking "I HATE THESE PEOPLE AND WANT TO BOMB THEM!" over:
Iran-Contra, Watergate, NSA Wiretapping, a year worth of whether or not the president got blown by an intern, the president handing out all the contracts for his trillion dollar wars to his friends over the free market.
The vast majority of presidents have done shady shit on a large scale while smiling and playing the perfect angel for the American public. You put Trump in the middle of the Obama administration and he would've been tweeting that "our NSA wiretapping programs are the best in the world. And they're HUGE!". It wouldn't have taken a computer analyst escaping to Russia for us to know it. It just would've taken one impulsive ass with a twitter account.
I'll take that any day over what we've gotten historically: Fake veneers overtop of real people.
Last edited by Stumplicker; 09-21-2018 at 02:09 PM.
Ya, and he's got enough rope to hang himself too. It may turn out to be a blessing. You got to keep in mind that we can not assume, because his crazy brain is on display through twitter, it's not also covering up and conspiring illegally behind the scenes. It's not binary. He can be both a twit with his tweets and an unscrupulous POTUS.
Last edited by cwolff; 09-21-2018 at 02:16 PM.
No doubt. He's never shown anything but dubious morality throughout his life in the public eye. There's no reason to expect any different now. But even if ya think what he's saying is stark raving mad...he's saying it for you to hear/see, and I don't think anybody would argue that those things are anything other than what he's actually thinking. That's brand new and a great addition to the Presidency.
I get what you're saying and it is fascinating to have a window right into the brain of the president. I've said all along that he's got us in a dangerous situation partly because everyday he's a gift to foreign surveillance and intelligence. They've got his profile down pat by now and know trump better than trump knows himself.
A great addition to the presidency!? Fuck no, his behavior should never be normalized.
Honesty about thought processes is something that should be normalized. In Trump's case, those thoughts are largely narcissistic and/or unhinged, which is as good for the public to know as it is bad for the country to experience. In previous iterations of the presidency we would have all of the bad experience with none of the knowledge.
I'll take the knowledge. It's easier to correct the issues that way.
Last edited by Stumplicker; 09-21-2018 at 02:52 PM.
I guess it's a good thing literally zero people have said that.
This whole story is bullshit and it's going to come out as such, and then we'll get to watch you be triggered all over again, and it's going to be entertaining as fuck.
But regardless of what happens, you'll still be a retard.
Last edited by Methais; 09-21-2018 at 03:00 PM.
No more restraint, no more patience no more sublety. Trump got his phone back. I wonder where they hid it? Probably under the Kale in the fridge.
Senator Feinstein and the Democrats held the letter for months, only to release it with a bang after the hearings were OVER - done very purposefully to Obstruct & Resist & Delay. Let her testify, or not, and TAKE THE VOTE!