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Really? Are you sure the lesson isn't that it's wrong to kneel on someone until they die, begging for mercy? Floyd's underlying vulnerability doesn't make it any less murder. Murdering a weak or frail person is still murder. Chauvin killed him. And now he's rotting in prison for it, and your uninformed denials will not change the facts.

There's a very big difference between being aware of facts and understanding causation. You don't understand any of it, but you're happy to blame Biden or the liberals or whomever it feels convenient to blame at any given moment. It's silly. You're the "Thanks, Obama!" meme brought to life.

Floyd was autopsied twice. Both concluded homicide. His murderer was convicted and now sits in prison. You can make any uninformed, irrelevant claims you like, but the facts is that Chauvin killed Floyd. You lying about it years later isn't going to rewrite history, nor will it free the murderer.

I know you blindly pastor the things you hear in your media bubble, but I take comfort in the fact that you can't discuss any of them. My favorite is that you think that record oil production--and record exports--have "squashed" the industry and driven up fuel prices. Can't make this stuff up--but it doesn't seem to stop you from trying.?

You're volunteering that you're as dumb as a stump, rather than as dumb as a post? And yes, "dumb as a post" is a very common idiom, but I suppose a stump shouldn't be expected to know that.

That's simply not accurate. Not even close. Americans overwhelmingly (71 percent) believe that in terms of U.S. policy towards the Middle East, it is either “very important” (42 percent) or “somewhat important” (29 percent) to protect Israel. This belief is impressively bipartisan: 80 percent of Republicans and 72 percent of Democrats feel protecting Israel is an important aspect of American policy. What’s more, Americans feel that supporting Israel is more important than other geopolitical priorities. Roughly three-quarters (74 percent) of Americans say it is important that the U.S. fund military aid to Israel, the highest of any issue, beating border funding and foreign humanitarian aid (72 percent each), military aid for Ukraine (61 percent) and economic/military aid for Taiwan (52 percent), per CNBC polling. Frankly, in my five decades of experience in politics, including polling extensively on issues related to Israel and the America-Israel relationship, the current support for Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorists who seek its destruction is like nothing I’ve seen before and speaks to the impact of the savagery the entire world witnessed on Oct.7 There's a lot of self-congratulatory back-patting in this thread about historical and political awareness, but very little in the way of nuance. It is entirely possible--and far more evolved--to be able to recognize Israel's right to peaceful existence and to acknowledge what is, objectively, a multi-generational humanitarian crisis for the Palestinians. Sympathy for Palestinians, whose children suffer, die and become embittered the same as any other people, does not equate to animus toward Israel or support for Hamas.

Nah, our mistake is that we overestimate the decency of the other voters.

You know, Google is paying significant bounties if you can get their AI to jump the guardrails and do something crazy. I think OP could be worth some money.

Yes, I'm well aware that it's a US political forum. But you don't live in this country. You don't vote in this country. You don't belong to a political party in this country. Hence, you sounds like a deluded fanboy talking about US politics, saying "we're"going to do X,Y, and Z! Rah! Rah! Rah! You have zero part in any of it. You aren't going to do anything here. Like those losers who watch football on TV and think "we" win the game. You're welcome to comment on foreign politics, but for fark's sake, have some dignity about it. Tape your Trump-boner to your leg and pretend to be an adult. You're not part of any "we" here.

No, he's generally unpopular. His approval average is the lowest of any president ever and he left office at 34%. I know you're a fanboy, but there is no reason to expect someone with a 34% approval rating to be reelected. Yet somehow you've convinced yourself that it's impossible that the polls were right. Lol You're just not rational. Miles from it.

I've been on this board for a year, jackass.?

How can you still not understand how a plea deal works? These people aren't pleading guilty because there is no evidence. They are pleading guilty because they expected to lose in court and have been offered a deal for lesser charges and lighter punishment in exchange for cooperation. This isn't like Manafort and Stone. Trump isn't POTUS. He can no longer buy silence with pardons.

Trump was an unpopular president polling poorly in the middle of an economic crisis caused by a medical pandemic. Honestly, it's honestly weird that you think he should have won. There's nothing wrong with mail-in balloting. It's not like the shoebox with a slot on top to elect a senior class treasurer. It has the same checks in place as in-person balloting. Votes are validated and cross checked the same way. Why do you think the many audits conducted by butthurt Republicans continued to validate the process and count?

Nonsense. Biden was polling ahead, and indeed won as projected. Not only was it possible, it was expected. There has never been any evidence of fraud discovered, despite Republicans doing recounts and audits and court challenges galore. Your "reasoning" is as sound as saying, "Only a complete liar would sit there and say the Lizard People aren't running the government!" You're begging the question, and it's a very stupid question in the first place. Maybe the weirdest feature of conspiracy kooks is that you think that other people should believe your bizarre theories without any evidence to support them.

@West Boy, your silly thread title is NOT aging well. She's got another one. Chesebro plead guilty too, with obligation to testify against co-defendants. Chesebro, who was charged alongside Trump and 17 others with violating the state’s anti-racketeering law, pleaded guilty to one felony charge of conspiracy to commit filing false documents in a last-minute deal. His plea came a day after fellow attorney Sidney Powell, who had been scheduled to go to trial alongside him, entered her own guilty plea to six misdemeanor counts. In Chesebro’s case, he was sentenced to five years’ probation and 100 hours of community service and was ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution, write an apology letter to Georgia’s residents and testify truthfully at any related future trial.

There was no fraud at scale in the 2020 election. It's the most scrutinized election in history. And if there had been fraud, and you still couldn't produce evidence after exhaustive recounts, audits and court challenges, then Republicans clearly not smart enough to be running the country anyway.

No you're not doing any of that, unless you're talking about closing the Canadian border. And at any rate, two years from now you'll be claiming you never predicted anything. ? Your whole America fetish is bizarre. Like me going on a German message board and self-identifying Bavarian regionalist. Go worry about your own politics.

Can you possibly find some nugget of decency and stop lying about this over and over and over again? I know you're not American, but we find it insulting to sweep the deaths of our servicepeople under the rug as if they never happened.

This scumbag made a fortune exploiting and causing the misery of others. He should absolutely forfeit the fortune. In a karmically just universe he'd pay back the misery as well.

You asked why she wasn't charged with theft. She was. And it's not like being told the twelfth time will help you understand, but the nature of a cooperative plea deal is a quid-pro-quo. The prosecutor allows the accused to plead guilty to lesser charges in exchange for honest testimony against other defendants. The accused avoids the risk of harsher sentence for more serious crimes. The prosecutor gets a "win" and a shot at a worse crook. In this case, Trump is the bigger, grosser, oranger fish.

Jeebus, what is wrong with you? She was. Do you not have even a basic knowledge of what you're complaining about? Powell was originally charged on seven counts: Violation of the Georgia RICO act 2 counts of conspiracy to commit election fraud Conspiracy to commit computer theft Conspiracy to commit computer trespass Conspiracy to commit computer invasion of privacy Conspiracy to defraud the state

An attorney can request access to something through legal channels. This was simply a case of hiring people to illegally access and steal it. Which you don't seem to have a problem with.

I dunno man. Why? Go to Amazon, order a thinking cap, strap it on and ponder why it should be illegal for any random person to steal proprietary software for our voting systems and voter data?

"Looking" at a voting machine? Well, that's a lie and a half. Prosecutors allege that Powell conspired with Hall and others to access election equipment without authorization and hired computer forensics firm SullivanStrickler to send a team to Coffee County, in south Georgia, to copy software and data from voting machines and computers there. The indictment says a person who is not named sent an email to a top SullivanStrickler executive and instructed him to send all data copied from Dominion Voting Systems equipment in Coffee County to an unidentified lawyer associated with Powell and the Trump campaign.

Yes, the second is the same. Just as the first time, they are hoping for a speaker they can support, and they will NEVER get it if they simply support McCarthy, who gives them--and their constituents--nothing in return. A narrowly divided house call for compromise, not capitulation. I am still optimistic that this is a chance for a bit of a bipartisan reset more like what they have in the Senate. It doesn't mean that everyone will suddenly become buddies, but we need an end to the GOP purity test--and I'm hopeful a moderate Republican will step forward. So are the Democrats. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/jeffries-encourages-moderate-republicans-to-join-democrats-and-end-house-deadlock