President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

I once ran for school board in my town (non-partisan) back in 2010 but have otherwise never ventured in any political context in my town or otherwise. But this weekend I couldn't take the hate anymore.

It was "Community Day" and wifey signed up to pick up trash and other people were doing great things for our town. In our central plaza were the tables set up for volunteers and lunch etc.

Well who shows up in the AM but some anti-LGBQT+ people standing on the corner with signs. I was walking our dogs and all I saw was the hate and I began thinking of the hate my grandfather faced 150 yrs ago coming to our country. I let fly to those anti-clowns saying they needed to take their hate back to their homes because LGBQT+ people were real people too and the hate they were spewing was the same that my grandfather faced 150 yrs ago. Felt good for a bit then I just flushed the anger away.

 

"Robert Hanssen, the former FBI agent who spied for the Russians, died today in a federal prison. At the time of his death, Hanssen was one of the leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination."

 

You know what "woke" is?

For the vast majority of the history of this country, the socioeconomic machinery has functioned greatly to the benefit of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Christians, more specifically the Rich Male subset of that group.

Perhaps this has not been a net overall positive for our nation. Perhaps it is not the best formula for future prosperity.

Any recognition or acceptance of this fact is essentially the definition of WOKE.

 

I wanted to go back and address this point. From The Washington Post, this afternoon:

As special counsel, Smith has greater autonomy than other prosecutors in the Justice Department. Under department regulations, the attorney general may overrule the special counsel only if the special counsel has failed to follow Justice Department policies and practices.​

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/05/trump-lawyers-meeting-justice-doj/

It’s time for you and Starman to stop dumping everything on Merrick Garland.

 

So basically any time you're faced with someone exhibiting hysterical outrage over "wokeism," it usually takes about 15 seconds to figure out their trigger factors.

 

What a weird thing. Call the national media in and tell them you’re not running?

 

It is exactly that, and that is misunderstood. Espionage act enforces security with regard to defense related documents and war plans, and any such documents count. While there were less than 100 secret/top secret/compartmentalized documents in Trump's stash, they do not have to be for the espionage act to apply. The total count was better than 13,000 documents, and many of those are going to be covered.

Its an enormous security breach.

 

Yeah yeah I know all that.
The only reason of course that Fatfuck hasn't already been tried, convicted and sentenced on a wife multitude of felony charges is Garland's decision to adhere to DOJ opinions issued by his predecessors that no president ever may face criminal prosecution the rest of their lives, because they and their supporters and their darling media buddies would feel they were being politically prosecuted by nasty mesnies.

At some point Garland could say, "you know what, the opinions of my predecessors are full of shit, they were obviously written with the objective of saving the obviously guilty asses of the incumbent presidents from virtually certain criminal convictions."

 

Garland turned Jack Smith loose seven months ago. Smith had the great advantage of access to the testimony and depositions gathered by the 1/6 committee. It looks very much as though Smith will indict on both the Mar a Lago documents and 1/6 conspiracy before Fani Willis drops the Georgia charges in early August.

The OLC opinion prevents indicting a sitting president, but does nothing at all to protect a former president

 

For the record, at the time I thought Clinton should have been impeached and removed for perjury. The nation would have done fine under President Gore for 8 years or whatever.

 

Yeah let's see how it all plays out, but Fatfuck has been blazingly guilty of numerous felonies for several years, requiring no further investigation.
He could and should have been hit with several dozen charges within a month or so of the new administration taking office, and then as time went on and investigations amassed evidence on additional cases, dozens or hundreds of new felony charges could have been dropped week by week. (Once they get into the financial crimes involving mail and internet fraud, the charges could literally soar into the millions.) Remember, of course, he is guilty of all this shit. As long as we're talking as real men of the world.

Yeah yeah, that kinda looks like what happens in banana republic regimes and corrupt autocracies but ya know what? They have a lot more experience with having incorrigible intractable career criminals as chief executives than we do. Sometimes the toilets of democracy need a good plunging.

 

But I can’t believe somebody said mean things anonymously about Poor Ron.
That ducking guy is the reason for this. Bigotry never goes away, but contempt of the LGBTQ community went back up to 11 after DeathSentence waged war on Disney to build his own brand.