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Comment Re:New normals (Score 1) 213

Now you're just throwing stuff out and trying to see what sticks.

'Has some probative value' (which you got from a TV show) and 'lying about it is criminal perjury' are not the same thing.

being prosecuted ... is not a given?
Yes. I specifically said no one would prosecute *this* case. Not all lies in court are equal, and immaterial lies are specifically excluded from prosecution. And as you noted, not all punishments involve criminal prosecution.

You conveniently forgot "and misdemeanors."
No, I knew it did not have the same meaning we often associate with it today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.reddit.com/r/legal...

Your posts remind me of a former co-worker who would often state things in legal and other contexts with simple, absolute certainty, even when it was obvious to everyone that he was completely wrong. He ended up spending time in prison for tax evasion because he was so sure that his interpretation of the tax code was correct.

Have a nice day.

Comment Re:New normals (Score 1) 213

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Waving your arms around and saying 'pattern of behavior' is not how you demonstrate that something is material. A primer:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/we...
You may also want to refer to the notes from one of the judges in the case. They described the testimony as immaterial.

Note that this discussion about materiality is in response to your earlier claim that he committed a felony. Your claim was, to be clear, total fucking bullshit. No jurisdiction in the US would have prosecuted a statement like this in a civil case as a perjury charge, let alone as felony perjury.

And in the same vein, there's no way that sexual harassment, which is almost always a civil claim in the US, rises to the level of 'High Crime' required by the Constitution. The same is true for lying about sexual harassment.

Comment Re:New normals (Score 3, Insightful) 213

- In order for perjury to be a felony, or even a crime, it has to be 'material'. This was not.

- As is fucking obvious, 'occurred while in office' and 'related to the office' are not the same thing.

- The constitutional bar is 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors'. This wasn't even close to reaching that level.

Comment Re:New normals (Score 4, Insightful) 213

It didn't fucking matter because that case had nothing to do with the presidency.

Gingrich and crew make a political calculation. They overreached and went after impeachment and removal over something that could have been handled with disbarment. Which is effectively what happened, eventually.

Contrast that with Trump's two impeachments where his crimes were directly related to his role as president.

Comment Re:Picking on Cuba (Score 3, Insightful) 117

Wow. Such penny-wise and pound-foolish bullshit.

If the US takes Greenland by force, we will be kicked out of multiple bases that we use to defend ourselves from Russia and China. We'll lose allies all over the world.

It'll be insanely expensive to replace all of those bases and assets, and in return, we'll get an island that Trump thought looked big on a map. Where we already have bases that we use to monitor Russia.

Moronic.

Comment Re:Picking on Cuba (Score 1) 117

Trump raised $75 million to supposedly prove fraud in the 2020 election.

Where is this proof? Where are the papers and analyses and videos and statistics that show what happened?

Why is the only stuff out there vague claims from youtube grifters and russian ACs on slashdot? Where is the sworn testimony and signed affidavits and and actual details?

Where did that $75 million go?

Comment Re:Checks? Yes. Just don't do it. (Score 4, Informative) 183

The Republicans and the Trump administration are the ones working to disenfranchise voters right now.

They are demanding state voting lists so that they can target the areas where there are more Democrats.

And there's this blatant plan to have the USPS block mail-in ballots in some situations:

https://www.reuters.com/world/...

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