President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Yikes....this is something he wrote recently, without a pseudonym. RW pr*ck.

 

Not a dumb question at all. In most situations, it doesn't make a ton of difference. But there are some situations where it is necessary and a few where it clears up any doubt.

For example, I have a few financial accounts that my wife is not a co-owner of - mostly my retirement accounts, but also a small investment account I play around with and a small savings account at a government employee credit union I maintain. If I were incapacitated but we needed those, she would only be able to access them by going to court and getting herself declared my guardian. She's the beneficiary on all of them if I die, but that doesn't do any good if I am in a coma. Probably the biggest thing is our real property (house, land, etc). If I am incapacitated and she needs to sell it, not having the POA would make it difficult. Having the POA makes those things smooth, should they come to pass.

Also, there's the separate healthcare power of attorney. That's really important to avoid a problem like the Terry Schiavo situation where the spouse and parents disagree on what course of action to take. Healthcare providers are going to defer to the spouse, generally, unless they're aware of family disagreement. My healthcare POA fully empowers my wife to make whatever decision she deems appropriate, but also lays out my wishes for her guidance. You can make them restrictive, but I trust her to know what I want and also wanted to give her room to make an appropriate choice based on whatever the specific circumstances are.

You're never too young (nor are your parents) to get plans in place. Like @Driftwood said, you don't want to wait until it's too late and you never know when that sudden event will occur that makes it too late.

 

Does Dershowitz know anything about the law?
Because I’m pretty sure he’s lying here.

 

Agreed. Dad has initiated "the talk" (well, at least this version of it) multiple times (mostly variations on "do any of you kids want the house?") over the last few years and I know they've done multiple estate planning sorts of things, but a lot of it has been ephemeral, not because I don't want to talk about it (it doesn't bother me) but because without a professional on hand, it doesn't really mean anything.

 

I'm almost like I don't want him locked up. Because it would remove his fear of incarceration, in addition to the reasons you stated.

He'll get his 72 hours in a lockup with all the SS agents to fetch him Diet Cokes and all the Fox News he wants to watch. He'll come out of that worse than Brooksie. He'll be begging to go back.

 

In a sense, Trump is already in government custody, or at least surveillance, due to his Secret Service detail. Bill Clinton once called the White House "the crown jewel of the Federal corrections system." Of course, he had very deep reasons for believing that, but there's more than a grain of truth in it. For someone like Trump, who trusts no one, having people always watching you, even for protection, must be unsettling. Which si why if I were Biden, I'd order the Secret Service to change up his detail like once a week.

 

So dangerous....and tiresome at the same time

 

"What's the downside of humoring him?"

Republicans had every opportunity to put an end to trump. Gutless fucks.

 

McConnell in January 2021: no need to convict at impeachment, we have a criminal justice system....

Republicans/Fox News/RW Twitter today: Not like that!!!!

 

Mike Pence reply on Twitter: