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I have no idea

Classic denial. You know as well as anyone whose policies encouraged having fatherless kids.

Can't a guy die having fun with a tatted hooker any more without being labelled?

Onvacation says

NoCoupForYou says

So are we all gonna die from the Wet Bulb in 5 years or 10 years, yet again?

3 years.

WE need iwog to save us.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

I get so high on life I scare myself!

I love the smell of brass jackets and gunpowder in the morning!

Just because it's impossible doesn't mean you can't beat down and murder the populace into submission until they STFU and comply with the party line.

Yeah, I've long favored a thorough trial in the Senate. Maybe we can hear from some witnesses such as: Comey, Clapper, Brennen, Biden, Susan Rice (of "unmasking" fame), the tag team of Bruce and Nellie Ohr, and the tag team of Strzok and Page. Of course Adam Schiff would be called, as he was a direct witness to the current dog-and-pony show.

I've been betting Trump won't be impeached in the House simply because the Senate trial would be such a disaster for the Democrats. I mean, who gives the opposing party the chance to bat last when an election is just around the corner?

SunnyvaleCA says

Yeah, I've long favored a thorough trial in the Senate. Maybe we can hear from some witnesses such as: Comey, Clapper, Brennen, Biden, Susan Rice (of "unmasking" fame), the tag team of Bruce and Nellie Ohr, and the tag team of Strzok and Page. Of course Adam Schiff would be called, as he was a direct witness to the current dog-and-pony show.

No need to rush that aspect.

They are all facing criminal indictments from the Durham investigation.

komputodo says

Onvacation says

NoCoupForYou says

So are we all gonna die from the Wet Bulb in 5 years or 10 years, yet again?

3 years.

WE need iwog to save us.

True, he was the Oprah of wet bulbs

Wet bulbs for everyone!

SunnyvaleCA says

I've been betting Trump won't be impeached in the House simply because the Senate trial would be such a disaster for the Democrats. I mean, who gives the opposing party the chance to bat last when an election is just around the corner?

Not only that, it ties up any Democratic Party Senator that is running for the nomination (Warren and Biden for sure) for what will likely be months. I've heard they can be asked to be there 6 days a week going through this whole process. Good luck campaigning.... I think this is the main reason the house won't actually impeach. It would handicap and destroy the whole nomination process (not that is wasn't an abortion already).

At the end of that article there was a suggestion that the Democrats might vote instead to censure Trump. This would be a weak sauce sort of move, basically admitting that they couldn’t find an impeachment-worthy crime, but still wanted to slap the POTUS’s hand and tell him he’s a naughty boy.
I bet Nancy wants this very badly.

In the 1980's I had a roommate whose job was to specify and recommend capital equipment for factories.

I never saw him eat food.

All of his nourishment at the house was from marijuana and cocaine. Never saw him drink anything that didn't include caffeine or alcohol (or both).

He told me that he would mostly depend on the vendors for free lunches and dinners, and occasionally get food at the cafeteria or fast food places.

So why would people carrying guns (or the threat thereof) drive down crime?

Because when SECONDS matter, help is only MINUTES away.

Do the math.

OccasionalCortex says

Censuring would be unconstitutional.
Censure only applies to members of the group doing the censuring. So the House can not censure anyone else but a member of the House.

Ah. I suppose that's solid logic. So instead, the House could "vote to condemn Trump's actions" and let the Fake News™ spin it as censure or whatever "scary words" they can label it.

WookieMan says

ties up any Democratic Party Senator that is running for the nomination (Warren and Biden for sure) for what will likely be months

Biden is no longer a senator, but Warren would be tied up. Sparticus would be tied up too, but he's pretty much already out of the race.

Would these senators either have to show up or resign from the senate?

Tim Aurora says

What, no comments on something positive we have achieved over the years

"NON-Fatal Violent Victimization"

Here's Fatal



WOW! Blacks are only 12-13% of the population, Whites outnumber blacks 5-6x over.

The number of Blacks killed INCLUDES attacks by Hispanics on Blacks as "White"!

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-29/race-and-homicide-in-america-by-the-numbers

Liberal misrepresentation of crime facts

I don't think the Democrats are smart enough to figure out that I am really afraid of this impeachment going to the Senate. I sure hope it stays that way.

Is this along with the article that proves that all black inmates are innocent?

SunnyvaleCA says

Biden is no longer a senator, but Warren would be tied up. Sparticus would be tied up too, but he's pretty much already out of the race.

Would these senators either have to show up or resign from the senate?

Jesus. Slip of the keyboard on my end. Meant Bernie Sanders. Good catch.

The guy made the fatal mistake of imitating the female's behavior or taking direction from the female; never listen to a female before you engage in something new, risky, or potentially fatal.

"Come on honey, try getting high with me; you'll like it!"

SunnyvaleCA says

Would these senators either have to show up or resign from the senate?

They're in a lose/lose situation. They show up, campaigning will stop immediately. If they don't show up, they are admitting they know this is all bull shit. I think they are required to show up, so they might have to resign. And even in that case it gives Trump more ammo. So I guess it's a lose/lose/lose at this point.

I just really don't see how Trump loses. I'm starting to think the 7D chess game jokes are no longer jokes anymore. There's not a good solution for the D Senator's running right now. They're going to be made to look like fools even if the house doesn't impeach.

The only person who'd called SF ... Frisco, publicly, was the Harry Chapin in his 'Taxi' song which of course was clearly written by someone from the east coast, not San Francisco.

www.youtube.com/embed/4qYU9b5OF8M

Rin says

by someone from the east coast, not San Francisco.

It still doesn't change the fact that SF sucks!

I have lived in the Bay Area most of my life, and like the way it USED to be. However, I never liked SF for some reason, even before the current plagues. It always struck me as dismal and depressing in some fundamental way. Maybe with the homeless and the economic disparities, it is just finding its true self.

It's kind of like a post card movie set city in which each economic wave re-populates it for a while then moves on. The financial district isn't that, any more, a lot of them went someplace else. The next tech crash will clear it out again. You hear that gays are leaving, too, because even they can feel stifled there, and the tolerances have improved elsewhere. You certainly don't hear the chauvinism about it like you used to.

It is often commented that it is a 'fake' city without much real history or committed culture. Fog, wind and cold can keep people indoors, and the city rolls up after the 2AM closing bell, unlike other major cities.

WookieMan says

I just really don't see how Trump loses. I'm starting to think the 7D chess game jokes are no longer jokes anymore.

I've been paying attention to Dilbert Cartoon creator Scott Adams since shortly after President Trump came down the elevator to declare he was running. Mr. Adams makes a lots of sense, including that President Trump — for whatever his faults — is a branding and persuasion genius. One of Mr. Adams' statements for many things Trump has set up is: Trump has created a situation where if he wins he wins and if he loses ... he still wins; there's no way he can lose in {fill in the blank} situation that he has carefully controlled.

Here's a great clip of Scott Adams from 2016. Well worth the watch if you want to learn about Scott Adams and have a brand new perspective on President Trump.
www.youtube.com/embed/c-sBO6OppAc&t=1098s

Ever notice when white people are the perpetrators, we get their picture. When it’s black people, we get stock photos of police cars.

I've watched that clip before. I think he's correct for sure as far as persuasion. But I also believe Trump understands the long game. Can see moves happening before others if that makes sense. I personally think he knows exactly how this impeachment proceeding is going to play out. He's shot down Biden (which literally could involve criminal proceedings, but I don't think that's the end goal) and he's now going to lock up the Senators running if the House does actually impeach (they would be stupid to do that, but that's something I think he counts on).

Think about if impeachment goes to the Senate? Harris, Sanders, Warren, Klobuchar, Booker and Bennet would either be locked up in impeachment proceedings, resign or not show up. There's not a single positive option for any of them if they're truly interested in running for President. Impeachment will almost wipe out half the current candidates still somewhat showing up in the polls. Biden is toast anyway you want to look at it even though he'll continue to poll well (supposedly).

You already need a massive amount of Republicans to flip for him to actually be removed from office (not going to happen). You have 6 democratic Senators that will need to decide between impeachment or a POTUS run. They're already at a massive deficit needing to get so many R's to flip, that losing 3-6 D Senators makes removal from office a 1,000% impossibility.

The fact remains that if Trump did something impeachable, the House would have done it already. I'm not sure why this is so hard for people to figure out. This isn't an allegiance to anyone, just the facts as they sit there.

San Francisco tenderloin district is not middle of the country.

Society is mixed. Hard for any crime to not be inter-something. No two people are same.

HEYYOU says

The couple was absolutely drowning in debt, and they desperately needed a good year just to keep the farm going.

Living in farm country, in flyover country, I know farmers. Lots actually. There's ZERO reason for them to be $300k in debt. Farming never has been lucrative, never for your typical family farm. A problem arises when your land values triple or quadruple over a decade. You start trying to keep up with the Jones'. You then take out loans against the land and build an addition, get an $80k truck that is completely unnecessary when you absolutely have tractors and trailers that will outperform even the best of trucks.

Don't feel bad for farmers. Also, don't take on debt if you have 3 kids. That's retarded. Sell some land or cut back. Common sense. Somehow Trump did that though....

Don't feel bad for farmers. Also, don't take on debt if you have 3 kids.

I remember that stuff happening in the 80's. Farmers had land that had been in the family for generations, yet somehow managed to squander it.

HeadSet says

I remember that stuff happening in the 80's. Farmers had land that had been in the family for generations, yet somehow managed to squander it.

The last decade or so has been rough on farmers out here in the Western burbs of Chicago, but it's 90% their own fault. No different than the housing crisis. Sure the banks are fucks, but you still signed up to take on debt that wasn't beneficial to your operations. It was so you could have a pretty truck and other nonsense. That's not what farming was about 50 years ago or longer.

What any of this has with "Silicon Valley drug culture"? It's obviously a "rich bored guy drug culture" issue. Now, if lowly ICs started to overdose on heroin every month in any significant numbers....

Dude could have at least went out with some class like David Carradine.

One guy die, and that's a "culture".

Because climate change is not real.

Climate Change is one of the nicely made up religions of the left, fake sky daddy... or what do they say again when they talk about Christians?

The homeless ARE a wellspring of professional clients for the litigation machinery. Best professional client is the aggrieved one with nothing to lose and everything to gain with legal extortion and blackmail.

What else does one do with millions in fake currency?

KNEEL_AND_BLOW_ME says

Wall Street is awash in federal money to float investors while employment participation is lowest ever.

The graph ends at what is presumably the end of 2016.... also with a very large fluctuation during that last year. Not sure what the point is of posting this graph.

Give people a decade of flat line growth and they'll adapt accordingly. My family sure did and we're now making about 10-15% more on one income versus two. And it isn't because of Trump either if you think that's what I'm hinting at.

KNEEL_AND_BLOW_ME says

... while employment participation is lowest ever.

No it isn't. Why does your curve stops years ago?
Plus boomers retirement causing lower participation is not unexpected.