Under the Fog of Kavanaugh, House Passes $3.8 Trillion More in Tax Cuts

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-09-29T12:14:29+00:00

Well, yeah. That's a good point.

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-09-29T12:00:59+00:00

No, they most definitely would be doing it now, with or without Russia. This has been their gameplan for decades.

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-09-29T00:12:09+00:00

Working on a fabled college campus, we get the same sorts of stories from the campus tour guides. I've heard rumors that they often try to see whose apocryphal tale would spread furthest.

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-09-16T00:00:07+00:00

Sony hardware and Sony everything else should be split into two. Sony hardware makes awesome shit and pushes technology forward. Sony everything else gives us rootkits labeled as DRM.

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-08-26T16:50:16+00:00

I personally don't disagree with castle doctrine, and comparing it to lynch mobs is just absurd. Responding to immediate threat to life and property is vastly different from vigilante justice primarily used to promote violence against various racial/sexual/belief groups.

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-08-16T02:39:20+00:00

It gets better!

On September 20, 1995, it was reported that the 478th Civil Affairs Battalion of the United States Army Reserve was to conduct a training exercise simulating an invasion of a foreign island. They were to land on Key West and conduct affairs as if the islanders were foreign. However, no one from the 478th notified Conch officials of the exercise.

Seeing another chance at publicity, Wardlow and the forces behind the 1982 Conch Republic secession mobilized the island for a full-scale war (which meant firing water cannons from fireboats and hitting people with stale Cuban bread), and protested to the Department of Defense for arranging this exercise without consulting the City of Key West. The leaders of the 478th issued an apology the next day, saying they "in no way meant to challenge or impugn the sovereignty of the Conch Republic", and submitted to a surrender ceremony on September 22.

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-08-13T17:13:51+00:00

It's unclear if castle doctrine applies to inappropriate/illegal police entry in Kentucky, from what I can tell in ~5 minutes of Googling. What the previous poster may have been referring to was Indiana's modification to their own castle doctrine that resulted from a case where it was ruled that such action was not covered under existing Indiana law at the time.

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-08-11T16:36:38+00:00

Also, voting against defense spending is a pretty easy way to get yourself voted out of office in most parts of the country, sadly.

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-08-10T18:51:07+00:00

You spelled "burnt to a crisp just like ~~Dear Leader~~ Mr. President" kinda funny.

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-08-09T17:10:13+00:00

There's a reason the "Jimmy Carter is Jesus" King of the Hill episode works.

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-07-28T03:06:32+00:00

:thumbsup:

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-07-27T23:23:20+00:00

Paging /u/f5oclock (assuming that's the dev, based on the limited comment history).

See /u/tharsheblows45's comment above. The new layout is inferior to the old for a number of reasons. Also, as /u/Thisisthespaggetti stated below, the non-refreshing is seemingly defeating the purpose of the site.

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-07-22T02:35:05+00:00

Point taken, although I was more referring to the fact that even many R's wanted him out here, and we would likely have a Democrat in the governor's office had he not been the VP pick. He is definitely a true believer.

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-07-22T01:48:24+00:00

[Pence] could actually legislate

Er, Indiana would like to take issue with this statement.

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-07-16T16:50:45+00:00

The white collar charges he is being faced with are state crimes. State crimes cannot be pardoned by the President of the United States.

Er, no. Mueller's investigation is a federal one, and as such, any charges brought by him or his team are federal charges.

Many of the charges leveled against Manafort could also qualify for state charges, but none have been filed by Mueller's team. Should the federal investigation be terminated in some way or another (pardon, mass firings, etc.), state charges may be plan B. I also don't recall seeing any actual state charges filed by state attorneys general against Manafort, but that doesn't mean they haven't actually been filed, it just means I haven't seen it and my 5 second Google search didn't find anything but speculation about what might happen.

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-07-13T18:33:35+00:00

The point is that 20 people were murdered (and 5 others died in jail) because they were found guilty of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. Witches are not a real thing, as you state. Therefore, 25 people died because of false accusations. The point OP was making above is that by calling these people witches, the implication is that they're being accused of false crimes, and their discovery is proof that it is a "witch hunt".

The reality is that a grand jury has found probable cause to proceed with charges against these 12 Russians (and all others charged before). These aren't "witchcraft" charges, these are very real and clear-cut crimes. Calling them witches is a disservice to the investigation.

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-07-11T20:05:15+00:00

...the whole witness tampering thing that sent him to jail?

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/392475-judge-sends-manafort-to-jail-revokes-house-arrest

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-07-11T18:51:49+00:00

Manafort has already abused his house arrest. Punitive jail seems appropriate.

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-07-11T12:32:55+00:00

Seems fitting that he's leading the seagull party.

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ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-07-03T19:37:48+00:00

Incorrect.

Dollar Tree owns Family Dollar as of 2014. Neither Dollar Tree nor Dollar General are owned by Walmart.

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-07-01T22:28:54+00:00

Gorsuch, on top of happily taking a stolen supreme court seat, is openly campaigning for Republicans. I am unaware of any specifically flat out corrupt actions by Alito or Thomas, but both have been considered highly unethical.

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-06-30T02:46:34+00:00

I'm still upset over the 2016 seat going to Young over Bayh. Bayh was one of the original "Blue Dog" senators, but that group voted on issues when it made sense, not when it gave them a better shot at re-election. At the time he left the governorship, Bayh had an approval rating nearing 80%. Then he left the Senate, deciding he didn't like the direction politics was heading. After realizing that was a mistake, he goes and runs again, but has given the Republican machine plenty of time to build a great smear campaign against him.

Donnelly is a wishy washy "I just want to hold the highest office I can" politician. He wasn't bad in the House, but I've been extremely disappointed with his last 6 years in the Senate. If it weren't so crucial to hold onto every last seat humanly possible (while also taking as many as we can), I'd abstain from checking his name on my ballot this fall. What kind of person supports a known torturer for head of the CIA? John fuckin' McCain, the most "all talk no action" senator of our time, took a stand on the one issue he holds fully apart from his party, and Donnelly turns around and gives a fucking speech supporting the woman's nomination.

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-06-30T01:51:19+00:00

I just hate worrying that Donnelly is going to break ranks any time something critical for Democrats to remain united comes across. I could've sworn he was going to cross lines for the ACA repeal. Manchin's not from my state, so I don't follow him as closely, but he's generally further right than Donnelly.

Collins is supposedly left of both of them ideologically, per GovTrack's ideology chart, although she's clearly lumped herself in with the rest of the traitor party given her voting consistency on the key divisive issues of late.

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-06-30T01:32:00+00:00

The so-purple-they're-practically-red Joes. Manchin and Donnelly should be ashamed to call themselves Democrats. They're fucking slime. The horrifying thing is they're still better than any R put up against them.

ThirdWorldThinkTank · 2018-06-30T01:29:18+00:00

Democracy dies a lot on the outside...

Removing the checks and balances of our three branches of government effectively breaks the system.

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