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Seems Ecuador decided to evict him, and once he was on the street, British police arrested him.

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The facts, huh? Your link is an inaccurate summary of a WaPo story, which it actually links to but I'll repeat it here: https://www.washingtonpost.com...

As anyone can read for themselves, it does not say that the Democrats want totally open borders. That is simply false, and in fact as the article notes they are willing to fund ICE.

Your problem with physics is not my problem. Seriously.

https://consortiumnews.com/201...

*sigh*

I'm guessing this is what you mean by "physics"

July 5, 2016: In the early evening, Eastern Daylight Time, someone working in the EDT time zone with a computer directly connected to the DNC server or DNC Local Area Network, copied 1,976 MegaBytes of data in 87 seconds onto an external storage device. That speed is much faster than what is physically possible with a hack.

It thus appears that the purported “hack” of the DNC by Guccifer 2.0 (the self-proclaimed WikiLeaks source) was not a hack by Russia or anyone else, but was rather a copy of DNC data onto an external storage device.

Which is an misunderstanding of stupidly interpreted evidence.

There's no evidence of the files being transferred off the DNC servers at 22mb/s, there's evidence of the files being written at 22mb/s on July 5th.

Which is more than a month older than the oldest email!!!!!

You're not looking at the timestamp of the hack, you're looking at the timestamp of putting the files on a USB for Wikileaks.

You know that Barr is no longer pretending his letter last week was a summary, right? https://www.washingtonpost.com... He's all but retracted it, but sure, the Mueller report totally cleared his boss, right?

Would this be the same fake-news Washington Post that assured us for over two fucking years that Trump had colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election from Hillary!?

Go on, keep up that ResistWeMuch! and hand Trump the 2020 election too. I'm enjoying you nutjobs going full Thelma & Louise into the Grand Canyon.

You know that Barr is no longer pretending his letter last week was a summary, right? https://www.washingtonpost.com... He's all but retracted it, but sure, the Mueller report totally cleared his boss, right?

It's pretty impossible that complex reasoning, creativity, social and emotional intelligence, and sensory perception will ever be done by a machine.

I mean, all that machines can do for creativity now is create art in multiple styles including abstract weirdness like Dali, create photorealistic art based on crude drawings supplied as source material, write shitty stories, and create pop songs. There's no way that they will ever do more than that in the future, right?

I'm sure that they will never be able to sense emotions in people, nor will they replace a therapist. We certainly won't try to get AI to determine if people are likely to be criminals or re-offend if they have been convicted before.

Computers definitely will never be able to see and sort things, smell, recognize songs, or have a sense of touch or feel pain.

It's one thing to lay out soft skills that a lot of people don't have and say that's where jobs lie in the future. It's a whole different ballgame to ignore the fact that computers are already making inroads there, and already are better than some percent of the population at those things. Unless the authors are expecting technology to suddenly go in reverse, they're packing bags for a ship that's already sailed.

Another JEW down? To be expected. Our president however?? Different story https://www.washingtonpost.com...

* On COHEN? His kind is TAUGHT to LIE from their own "talmud":

Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: "A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them."

&

  Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording."

APK

P.S.=> It's what they do & WHAT GOT THEM TOSSED INTO FURNACES &/or Zyklon B showers + BANNED nation to nation thru time:

Argentines in the 1940 under Peron, Spanish inquistion, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations!

FACT - I welcome ANYONE to validly disprove it (from NON-JEW sources because all they DO is lie): UPDATE & FACT YOU COULDN'T & TRIED "downmod hiding" a FAIR CHALLENGE put to you lol https://it.slashdot.org/commen... ... apk

Another JEW down? To be expected. Our president however?? Different story https://www.washingtonpost.com...

* On COHEN? His kind is TAUGHT to LIE from their own "talmud":

Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: "A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them."

&

  Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording."

APK

P.S.=> It's what they do & WHAT GOT THEM TOSSED INTO FURNACES &/or Zyklon B showers + BANNED nation to nation thru time:

Argentines in the 1940 under Peron, Spanish inquistion, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations!

FACT - I welcome ANYONE to validly disprove it (from NON-JEW sources because all they DO is lie)... apk

how they're all Democrats. Ok, it's not that funny. In fact, it's not funny at all. It's more than a little messed up actually.

GOP must just love the idea of rigging elections. I mean, why do none of them speak out against these situations?

how they're all Democrats. Ok, it's not that funny. In fact, it's not funny at all. It's more than a little messed up actually.

Already being done.

...Obama tried to work out compromises with Republicans on health care by picking a Republican plan, taking months to vote on Republican amendments...

The Republican amendments were not in the final bill. The final bill was made by rewriting a totally unrelated bill, and less than a week elapsed between the introduction of this final bill and its being voted into law in the Senate (on a 60-39 straight party lines vote). Please read this history by the Washington Post's fact checker guy Glenn Kessler.

The key work on creating the Senate version of the ACA was done in secret. Let's take a trip down memory lane.

[...] ...consideration of the bill "proceeded on two parallel tracks," starting when the Senate returned to work on Nov. 30. The first track was public, with the illusion of debate and votes on amendments. The official record shows 506 amendments were offered.

[...]

[John Cannan:] "In actuality, only a tiny fraction of these amendments has any significance" to the bill's legislative history. Only a handful of amendments covered by a unanimous consent agreement (UCA) reached between the two sides had any relevance, he concluded. Meanwhile, "all of those amendments not covered by UCAs were ordered to lie on the table as soon as they were introduced and had no parliamentary standing at all."

That's because the real work was going on behind closed doors, back in Reid's office...

[...]

Once the deals were in hand, Reid on Dec. 19 revealed a manager's amendment revising the proposed bill, which was also scored by the CBO. He filed three successive cloture motions to end debate on the revised manager's amendment, on his original amendment and on the original House bill. He also filed three other amendments that had the effect of "filling the amendment tree" — cutting off opportunities for the Republicans to alter the text.

[...]

The late David Broder, the fair-minded Washington Post columnist, was scathing in his criticism of the spectacle in a column headlined "Health Reform's Stench of Victory." Reid, he wrote, "reduced the negotiations to his own level of transactional morality. Incapable of summoning his colleagues to statesmanship, he made the deals look as crass and parochial as many of them were — encasing a historic achievement in a wrapping of payoff and patronage."

History Lesson: How the Democrats pushed Obamacare through the Senate

But you said that President Obama, specifically, "tried to work out compromises" with the Republicans. Could you please show me some kind of news story or something where he told Harry Reid not to do what Harry Reid did? I don't remember anything like that.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2000/07/16/baraks-separate-peace/a7beab75-2478-4c2e-8db8-e9d79281db84/

A word Barak uses frequently is hafrada--separation. "They are there and we are here," he has said on many occasions. The implication is that disentanglement, rather than peace as it might be more loftily defined outside the region, is Israel's best hope for being able to maintain a vibrant Western democracy and a high-tech economy. The alternative is for Israel to continue exhausting its energies as its army and settlers remain intertwined with a hostile Palestinian population. For their part, the Palestinians would be foolish to miss the Barak moment, as there will not be a more forthcoming Israeli government. They will have to do their part to make Barak's message credible, by making clear that an agreement will be permanent and their renunciation of violence will be irreversible.

Also former government aides who repeatedly fall down while intoxicated until they die of a broken neck in a Washington DC hotel room.

Trump and his associates may have dodged a bullet with the Mueller probe, but I say again, he is nowhere near being in the clear yet. He is facing other legal challenges, including investigations into his organization and his charity, his alleged participation in the Stormy Daniels hush payments, and allegations of sexual assault.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Plenty of examples in this article: https://www.washingtonpost.com...

You're confusing Muller not having access to information with, as I said, the King's Man being willing to prosecute it.

If only Muller had access to the Washington Post, we could have gotten a different outcome!

The Clinton campaign did the same thing. The difference is, we've had 2 years of investigation into the Trump campaign and it was found to not be collusion. Shall we now do the same with the Clinton campaign and the DNC, who financed the dossier which was written by a foreigner, with Russian influences, to damage their opponent? Or is that not collusion?

Maybe you're right, this is more the CIA's job. Obviously you need contacts in Russia to get dirt on Russian business dealings. They can try to corroborate the information in the dossier and you know, exonerate Trump.

Corroborate the dossier! Corroborate the dossier!

They already know. Some like Papadopoulos and Flynt were really jailed for nothing. Manafort at least committed tax fraud, but he did nothing related to collusion claims.
    there is even someone at the wapo willing to say that the whole Mueller enterprise was a massive failure , with press complicitness
https://www.washingtonpost.com...?
Meanwhile you're still clutching at straws.

The Clinton campaign did the same thing. The difference is, we've had 2 years of investigation into the Trump campaign and it was found to not be collusion. Shall we now do the same with the Clinton campaign and the DNC, who financed the dossier which was written by a foreigner, with Russian influences, to damage their opponent? Or is that not collusion?

Eh, no, It was the Republicans who commissioned the 'dossier', the Democrats just picked up where the Republican left off after they decoded Trump was their new god emperor.

Is Trump Derangement Syndrome when you lie and believe it? Or when you lie and expect people to ignore it?

Plenty of examples in this article: https://www.washingtonpost.com...

You're confusing Muller not having access to information with, as I said, the King's Man being willing to prosecute it.

The report has not been released.

The campaigns who funded the research, both Republicans and Democrats, hoped to learn how to campaign against Trump

That is a lie, and you know it. It was funded by the Clinton campaign and the DNC, and the Washington Free Beacon - a new site, NOT a campaign - hired Fusion GPS for some intel but it was not the Steele Dossier.

Quit lying.

Not remembering a secondary detail isn't a lie.

The Washington Free Beacon wasn't affiliated with a specific campaign but they were "anti-Trump", and they were paying for opposition research on Trump.

Steele didn't show up until after the DNC started paying the bills. But he was hired because the research initially funded by the Beacon, and later by the DNC, picked up evidence of Trump/Russia connections.

Maybe because right up until Election night, the Democrats were 93% certain to win the whole thing? Why use it and open up the can-of-worms

Really? Not even when Comey re-opened the email investigation days before the election?

Any why create a fake dossier when there were so many legitimate Trump controversies to dig into? Instead of a story line that keeps supplying dirt and hurting Trump (ie, TrumpU) you end up with a story line that fizzles out with no evidence and discredits all your legitimate dirt.

, especially since it did its job to get the FISA warrants to spy in the first place...

Uhhh, I won't accuse you of lying... but surely you now remember that Carter Page was first subject to a FISA warrant in 2014. He was a target again in 2016 because he kept having contacts with Russian Intelligence recruiters.

The campaigns who funded the research, both Republicans and Democrats, hoped to learn how to campaign against Trump

That is a lie, and you know it. It was funded by the Clinton campaign and the DNC, and the Washington Free Beacon - a new site, NOT a campaign - hired Fusion GPS for some intel but it was not the Steele Dossier.

Quit lying.

The Clinton campaign did the same thing. The difference is, we've had 2 years of investigation into the Trump campaign and it was found to not be collusion. Shall we now do the same with the Clinton campaign and the DNC, who financed the dossier which was written by a foreigner, with Russian influences, to damage their opponent? Or is that not collusion?

Then why didn't they leak that dossier before the election? You know, when it would have actually been useful.

Funny how none of the Trumpists can never answer that iceberg sized plot hole.

Shall we now do the same with the Clinton campaign and the DNC, who financed the dossier which was written by a foreigner, with Russian influences, to damage their opponent? Or is that not collusion?

If you keep posting about it on Slashdot, I'm sure it'll happen.

Those payoffs were not a crime.

But you know what IS a crime, what is conspiracy and collusion? Paying a foreign agent to use made-up (Russian, even!) lies to build a fake dossier to attack your political opponent. And lying about it. Which is exactly what The Clinton campaign and the DNC did. Shall we look into that? I mean, they have a history of collusion, starting with colluding with the media to rig the debates...

The Clinton campaign did the same thing. The difference is, we've had 2 years of investigation into the Trump campaign and it was found to not be collusion. Shall we now do the same with the Clinton campaign and the DNC, who financed the dossier which was written by a foreigner, with Russian influences, to damage their opponent? Or is that not collusion?

Should the Washington Post be considered a terrorist recruiting site?

Should Fox "News" or InfoWars be considered a terrorist recruiting sites? Seems more people have been incited to violence watching them. For example: Cesar Sayoc (mail bomber from FL), Edgar Welch (Pizzagate shooter from NC) ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

In March, conservative radio host and Infowars website operator Alex Jones apologized for promoting the Pizzagate conspiracy. Jones posted a six-minute video on his website in which he read a prepared statement saying that neither the restaurant nor its owner, James Alefantis, had anything to do with human trafficking. The statement came after Alefantis’s attorneys had requested a retraction.

Oh, you sweet summer child.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

The FairTax on the good and services you buy to stay alive are rebated to you in advance, by a mechanism called the Prebate, that is essentially the gov't paying those taxes for you.

No, they're not.

First, $12k per year is not enough for people in most areas to live on. Which means you're going to be spending far more in consumption taxes than you get "rebated".

Second, the poverty line is not what you think it is. It is not the minimum you need to survive. It's the line where we say "you are very far up shit creek". If you need some help realizing this, a minimum wage job pays a little under $15k per year. Here, I'll list the US cities where you can rent a one-bedroom apartment and feed yourself on $15k/year:

No, I didn't forget to type the list. It's empty.

There are 12 counties in the US where you can afford to rent a one-bedroom apartment on minimum wage and not put yourself in severe financial distress.

Otherwise, I feel you have your mind made up no matter what facts I were to be able to find for you

You realized that companies buy stuff at retail yet? 'Cause understanding that might start giving you a clue about just how bad this idea is.

From there you could start to realize what affects this would have on middle and lower income consumers, which would result in them buying way, way, way, way less in goods and services, thus crashing the economy. But the rich folks behind your proposal would be paying less.

2. It's not about the trade balance; it's about unfair competition and dumping. The Chinese were deliberately, and successfully, dumping to destroy the US steel industry.

I agree with you. China has a long history of dumping, and is a long-term strategic threat.

So, clearly, the solution is put big tariffs on Canadian steel:

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

2. It's not about the trade balance; it's about unfair competition and dumping. The Chinese were deliberately, and successfully, dumping to destroy the US steel industry.

I agree with you. China has a long history of dumping, and is a long-term strategic threat.

So, clearly, the solution is put big tariffs on Canadian steel:

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Dude, it is going to get so much worse.

Amazon’s Home Surveillance Chief Declared War on “Dirtbag Criminals” as Company Got Closer to Police

Amazon's Ring Police Portal For Mass Surveillance

The doorbells have eyes: The privacy battle brewing over home security cameras

I have seen neither disposable lighters nor e-cigarettes go off in normal storage. So if we are going on what I have seen then both appear to be safe. However, doing a quick search only reveals one fatality and 195 'incidents' leading to 133 injuries between 2009-2016 for e-cigarettes.

For cigarettes the picture looks much, much worse. The average ANNUAL rate of house fires caused by smoking is 18,100 each year in the US which causes on average 590 deaths each year and 1,130 injuries. So the annual rate of injuries is about 60 times the rate of injuries from e-cigarettes and the death rate is about a thousand times higher (with a significant margin of error due to there only being one recorded incidence of death from an e-cigarette. Worse the domestic fires likely killed and injured people who were not smoking. At least with e-cigarettes the risk seems to be mainly confined to the person choosing to use the device.

If governments are passing laws then they need to look at hard, objective evidence when deciding to ban things not anecdotal stories. When it comes to banning things we have to use solid, objective arguments and not go on what we "feel" because I don't want things I enjoy doing to get banned simply because someone else "feels" that they are bad. The objective evidence is that e-cigarettes are far, far safer than regular smoking from an accidental death standpoint (the toxicology picture is not yet clear it seems) so banning them while allowing regular cigarettes is completely unwarranted.

So many wonderful subcultures have been culturally appropriated and destroyed by mainstream invasion.

There are also subcultures that have died off because no one new came in.

Remember that white girl who wore the Chinese dress to prom?

First, no, I have no idea what you're talking about.

Second, what? Chinese culture isn't a subculture. There are more chinese people than westerners.

I think he might be talking about https://www.today.com/style/te...

Cultural appropriation. One of the least sane aspects of far leftists, where you are permitted to go nuts on a person because you aren't from the culture, and somehow this beautiful young lady in a beautiful dress isn't actually wearing the dress because it looks great, but wearing it to insult the Chinese.

Some of these people take it the whole way to believing that their culture's food be not "appropriated" This person took a shitfit about bone broth, which apparently using the gelatin contained in bones is Chinese only. https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Then there is https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/... A mother who threw her daughter a geisha themed tea party was being abused by these whackos until a Japanese person chimed in and informed them all that Japanese culture borrows aspects from other cultures, and is actually flattered by others borrowing aspects of theirs.

tl;dr version - the person you are replying to is one of those people who loves to keep the "we" and "them" to just "we".

If he was a Republican, you'd be hearing:

- He's the son of a judge
- Went to boarding school
- Dodged burglary and DUI charges
- He married into a Billionaire family

But he's a Democrat, so nothing matters. Different standards. It's so important that he be judged by different standards the media won't even give you the information you need to make any other judgement.

Sure there's a double standard.

Warren tried to explain away her identification as Native American as just wanting to meet people with native ancestors, then the Washington Post investigated and blew that explanation away.

Fox News found out that Trump had an affair with a porn star and paid to cover it up, and then they covered it up as well.

Have left leaning media outlets gone a bit easy on O'Rourke so far? Probably.

But you really don't want to start complaining about a double standard.

Warren never lied about anything. ...

BULLSHIT

That lily-white millionaire falsely claimed to be a Native American many, many times in order to take advantage of preferences extended to true Native Americans.

She started doing it at least as early as 1986, and admits there are more examples out there, waiting to be found.

It wasn't false? Then why did Harvard Law School go from 1 to zero Native Americans on faculty when Warren got caught?

Yeah, that's just a co-inky-dink.

She's a fundamentally corrupt liar.

Journalistic standards have become nothing more than an idealistic concept. Take the Covington kid was tried and convicted in the media for what was effectively face crime. Even a basic check of the facts would have quickly shown that the kid was innocent of the accusations laid against him. Unfortunately it took a $250 million dollar lawsuit against the Washington Post to get them to correct their previous coverage.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Their journalists finally remembered their 'standards' and wrote up a much more accurate story. Too bad it took a $250 million defamation lawsuit in order for it to happen.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Fact of the matter is that journalism is dying because people don't trust journalists.

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_...

If you don't trust someone you don't value them. If you don't value someone you will try to avoid paying for their services.

Journalistic standards have become nothing more than an idealistic concept. Take the Covington kid was tried and convicted in the media for what was effectively face crime. Even a basic check of the facts would have quickly shown that the kid was innocent of the accusations laid against him. Unfortunately it took a $250 million dollar lawsuit against the Washington Post to get them to correct their previous coverage.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Their journalists finally remembered their 'standards' and wrote up a much more accurate story. Too bad it took a $250 million defamation lawsuit in order for it to happen.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Fact of the matter is that journalism is dying because people don't trust journalists.

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_...

If you don't trust someone you don't value them. If you don't value someone you will try to avoid paying for their services.

[ Yes, actually related. :-) ]

The Washington Post has this story, Trump disparages Boeing 737s in private before grounding the plane after deadly crash, noting:

As President Trump consulted with administration officials Wednesday over whether Boeing’s 737 Max jetliners should be grounded after a crash killed more than 150 passengers in Ethiopia over the weekend, he shared his pointed opinion of the type of plane in question.

In his words, it “sucked.”

The president said Boeing 737s paled in comparison to the Boeing 757, known as Trump Force One, which he owns as a personal jet, according to White House and transportation officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. He questioned why Boeing would keep building the model and opined that he never would have bought a 737 for the Trump Shuttle, the small airline he briefly ran three decades ago that relied on 727s before going bankrupt, the officials said. ...

Throughout the process, Trump played the role of aviation expert, despite having no formal training in aeronautics. Trump told advisers about the dynamics and equipment of various airplanes, comparing them to his 757.

His criticism of the 737 — the best-selling jetliner model in history — came just weeks after he attended an event in Hanoi celebrating Vietnam’s purchase of 100 of the Boeing jets.

So there you have it. Trump -- an "expert" at everything, including commercial airplanes and bankrupting airlines as well as casinos.
[ Sorry, couldn't resist a little dig at him here. ]

"And there will not be a separate criminal justice system either."

And this part is just blatantly false, let us not forget "affluenza".

Since the alternative source link in the summary appears to link to an article about stock prices, here's some alternative alternative links that actually contain more relevant information:
- Boeing press release
- Gizmodo
- Washington Post

you get them at public Uni or, more likely, community college. And there's damn few of them. As an added bonus Muffy is a little less stupid as a result. At the very least she had to take some basic writing and history courses and learned a little critical thinking. Yeah, she's probably still pretty dense (she did get a Gender studies degree after all) but trust me, she was worse going in then coming out.

That leaves hundreds of thousands of Nurses, Doctors, Accountants, Engineers, MBAs and Architects putting money in your 401k by growing the economy.

To be blunt, ROI's only a problem if you're willing to give all that up to stiggit to the libs by denying the occasional middle class brat their useless degree.

In my city it is now a criminal charge to leave a child unattended, including not preventing the kid from walking to school.

Note I didn't say "for allowing". There have been situations when a kid decides to walk themselves to school before the parents wake up, and the parents were jailed for it.

I don't know if these laws were the result of helicopter parents or not, and those types sure are bad enough, but even a parent wanting a child to grow up and be capable of taking care of themselves is being prevented by the government by force.

Yes, things are that fucked up.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...
https://works.bepress.com/lewy...
http://5kids1condo.com/very-su...

DST was originally to benefit farmers whose workday was dictated by daylight hours.

Surprisingly, nope. Farmers were vociferously against DST for a long time. Apparently, their intense opposition got them associated with it.

Even Dick Cheney takes a fresh look sometimes...

voting rights were very different then and now. Cities had large concentrations of _eligible_ voters. Today even ex-cons can often vote (as it should be, nothing should cause a person to lose their right to vote, if we have so many ax murders and pedophiles they can swing elections maybe we should do something about that first).

You are right about voting rights being different then. You had to be a landowner to vote prior to 1840. However, most of those landowners didn't live in the cities as you stated. They may have owned a place to live in the urban area but they lived on their plantations in the country. Most of the urban dwellers in that era were merchants who quite often didn't own land. Also, "A People's History of the United States" is rife with errors and bad historical analysis. I blame the popularity of that book for the lack of historical knowledge in Americans under the age of about 35 today.

Now let's be fair.

There have been just four documented cases of voter fraud in the 2016 election

Terri Lynn Rote of Iowa voted twice. FOR TRUMP. She said she did it because Trump told her the polls were rigged.

Phillip Cook of Texas voted twice. FOR TRUMP. He claimed he was just testing the security of the electoral system.

Audrey Cook of Illinois cast a ballot on behalf of her husband. Almost certainly FOR TRUMP as she was a Republican election judge.

Gladys Coego of Florida was caught filling in votes for mayor on absentee ballots that she had been hired to open. There was no evidence she was doing anything to Presidential votes.

Bringing more and more anger and division to our pop culture is only hastening a very ugly future in which we are at open war over our racial, ethnic, and gender divisions.

That's literally what 85% of white people said about black people protesting during the civil rights era.

Just pretend its not there has always been the line from the empowered to the dis-empowered.

I much preferred the Wonder Woman approach myself.

Of course you did. The status quo ain't a problem for you.

You can always take the fifth. It's a right, regardless of other process. Pardon invalidates a conviction (it's preemptively in-hand). A pardon does not apply some blanket immutable legal change of status.

No, that's not true. There are some caveats, but generally if the government guarantees that you cannot self-incriminate (either via a pardon or a plea agreement) then you may be compelled to testify.

She didn't claim Native American Status? https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.