If Trump starts blocking his own party's legislation to that scale, then you're going to have a full scale war between Congress and the White House, and the Republicans wouldn't have that much difficulty getting enough Democrats onboard to override his vetoes. The system was set up so that, at the end of the day the Presidency can be contained. But I still don't see impeachment. Imagine what that would do to the Republicans. It would make the Tea Party years seem like a walk in the park. It would be a civil war. Maybe they have to do it in the end if they can't force Trump's hand, but they're going to try that route first. Remember there are initiatives he wants to push that require Congress's say-so, so being obstructionist is a two-way street.
Considering Flynn's troubling links with Russia, you think this was just about him forgetting to tell Pence a few details?
Seriously, three weeks in and Trump's longest standing campaign ally has resigned in disgrace. For chrissakes, even Nixon's worst didn't come to light until the second term.
There is talk among Washington reporters that they actually wonder if Trump is in possession of his faculties. I imagine similar conversations are held in Ryan's and McConnell's offices. McCain must be over the moon right now.
I think we are a long way from a Trump impeachment and conviction. I still can't see the Republicans sacrificing themselves when they control Congress and, at least no.inally the White House.
The smarter way to play this is to let Trump destroy his credibility and remaining political capital, and then inform him that he can either hand over day to day governance to Pence and then spend the rest of his term playing President on TV, or face impeachment. You get an effective Pence presidency without the nightmare that would be a forced removal from office.
Ticketmaster was nailed on this something a decade or so ago as I recall, where one of the reseller sites was actually their company. Ticketmaster basically has a lock on tickets for any significant concert, and while multiple jurisdictions in North America have tried to bust the monopoly, it always ends up with a slap on the wrist and Ticketmaster promising to be good in the future, even as they dream up new ways to screw over consumers. I'm quite sure the way you see it is exactly the way it works, they'd get nailed with antitrust lawsuits if they actually had any hard relationship with the resellers, so it just ends up being a quid quo pro instead. Still actionable, I suppose, but a helluva lot harder to prove.
The poor people end up in nose bleed, but the last time I did that, I ended up watching the band on the video screens and asking myself why I would pay over a thousand bucks for tickets, hotel, meals and gas when I could go buy the live DVD of one of their concerts for $30 on Amazon six months later.
That being said, I said Pink Floyd in 1995, and that is one band where nosebleed seats don't matter. But those guys knew how to put on a big venue concert, and really, nobody gives a shit which little ant on stage is David Gilmour.
My hunch is that at least some of the bots are their's.
At any rate, the face value of a concert ticket is meaningless. Since Ticketmaster and the venues find so many clever ways to hold back tickets, distribute them to resellers and other parties before you ever get your hands on one, the dollar value is just pointless. They might as well have tickets called "Cheapest, Cheap, Affordable, Expensive, Really Expensive and HOLY FUCKING SHIT YOU REALLY LOVE THIS BAND!!!!"
After I went to see AC/DC in 2015 in Vancouver, I said that was it for me and big venue concerts. It was an incredible concert, to be sure, but the amount of money and time it took to get there was just outrageous. My wife and I had just as good a time heading over to watch King Crimson in December 2015 in a nice 3000 seat venue where you could actually see the band without the need of a video screen, where volume levels weren't so insane that you were still functionally deaf 48 hours later, and where the venue wasn't filled with beer-swilling psychotics. When I went to my last Rush concert there was literally a drunken couple in the row ahead of us who got into a fucking brawl. Seriously, those people must have paid over $300 for tickets, and to do that and then spend god-knows how much to get pissed up on venue beer, and then get into a fight and get thrown out! Fuck it, big venues suck, and Ticketmaster's evil schemes to fuck you out of more money than the face value of the ticket just puts the cork on it.
I think you're mistaken. I am in deadly earnest. I think the parent is an idiot. It's okay, there are lots of idiots out there, and by all accounts Baby Jesus loves them, a lot more than Baby Jesus loves Mexican and brown-skinned people.
I think it's likely the latter. At this point there's still way too much emotional investment in some quarters to Trump to admit that the Russians are quite willing and capable of all manner of mischief. Which seems odd, considering the US isn't the only place Russia is mucking around, and concerns over electoral and political integrity is a growing issue in Europe right now.
The Church's official, or at least semi-official position on refugees, is not one universally shared by the membership. Conservative Catholics are starting to look a lot like they're Evangelical counterparts.
That's not a definition of a nihilist. A nihilist rejects the notion of morality as a binding social force entirely, or at least a social force that applies to them. I, for instance, don't believe in some absolute set of moral values. History itself pretty much falsifies that claim. But I do believe humans need rules, and that rules that attempt to guarantee as much liberty as possible while still allowing a functional social contract are preferable to the alternatives.
As to many Conservatives, well they, like many Progressives, will certainly invoke the sacred truths necessary to get their base to vote for them, but that's marketing, not ideology.
Well, McCain, at the sunset of his political career, clearly is in a "I don't give a fuck what anyone thinks" kind of mood, and while McConnell remains somewhat deferential, he doesn't seem at all thrilled with the Administration either. Mind you, that really was the intent of the Senate, that Senators' longer terms and one-third per election was meant as a partial insulator of the sort of electoral winds that preoccupy the House and the White House.
Still, you're right. The GOP leadership have become a sort of modern group of von Papens, staring on impotently in disbelief as the new leader shocks and awes everyone. The chief difference is of course the historical leader I speak of actually seemed to have some notion of what he's doing, whereas Trump literally does seem to be stumbling around blindly. That shocks me because we've all been told countless times what brilliant people the likes of Bannon and Conway are, and yet, as so often is revealed, those that are skillful at achieving power are often astonishingly bad at its application.
My prediction is that Conway, Bannon and Spicer are not long for this world. Not only are there rumors floating around that the Kushners are in a tug of war with Bannon, but even without that, Bannon's use of his newfound influence to push through Executive Orders is making Trump look foolish and unprepared, and as we know, nothing is ever Donald Trump's fault, so we know when Trump looks foolish, he looks for fall guys. Just look at Paul Manafort's take.
If I believed Trump wasn't an idiot, I'd almost wonder if letting Bannon and Conway fuck up so badly was part of a plan that would end in a Trumpesque version of the Night of the Long Knives.
When was Hillary Clinton POTUS so she could do these terrible things from her high position of power that you speak of.
Seriously, you're left defending Trump by creating an imaginary Hillary Clinton presidency to point to. But it doesn't work like that. Trump claimed to be draining the swamp, but I guess what he really meant is that he was going to make a new swamp, twice is smelly and with him right at the moment.
I think we live in an age where those breaking the rules no longer even pretend that they should. I was reading a Conservative Catholic forum a few minutes ago where they're demanding the Ninth Circuit Court justices be impeached for the audacity of challenging edicts from on high. I'm beginning to see the kinds of people that empowered the Bolsheviks, Brown Shirts, Khmer Rouge and all the other dictatorships out there, people who believe any challenge to the leader's authority is effectively a high crime.
I live in BC. Almost all our power is hydroelectric, and it can deal with peak periods. You're talking bullshit, both on quantities required, and ability to deal with peak usage. I'm going to be charitable and assume you're just a fucking moron, and not a sociopath.
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If Trump starts blocking his own party's legislation to that scale, then you're going to have a full scale war between Congress and the White House, and the Republicans wouldn't have that much difficulty getting enough Democrats onboard to override his vetoes. The system was set up so that, at the end of the day the Presidency can be contained. But I still don't see impeachment. Imagine what that would do to the Republicans. It would make the Tea Party years seem like a walk in the park. It would be a civil war. Maybe they have to do it in the end if they can't force Trump's hand, but they're going to try that route first. Remember there are initiatives he wants to push that require Congress's say-so, so being obstructionist is a two-way street.
Considering Flynn's troubling links with Russia, you think this was just about him forgetting to tell Pence a few details?
Seriously, three weeks in and Trump's longest standing campaign ally has resigned in disgrace. For chrissakes, even Nixon's worst didn't come to light until the second term.
It was funny when there was talk of him being nominated for cabinet that he'd have to get permission from his probation officer.
The line from the Breitbart crowd seems to be that Flynn is a minor figure of no importance and it's all Sally Yates' fault.
Awesome man, seriously fucking awesome.
There is talk among Washington reporters that they actually wonder if Trump is in possession of his faculties. I imagine similar conversations are held in Ryan's and McConnell's offices. McCain must be over the moon right now.
I think we are a long way from a Trump impeachment and conviction. I still can't see the Republicans sacrificing themselves when they control Congress and, at least no.inally the White House.
The smarter way to play this is to let Trump destroy his credibility and remaining political capital, and then inform him that he can either hand over day to day governance to Pence and then spend the rest of his term playing President on TV, or face impeachment. You get an effective Pence presidency without the nightmare that would be a forced removal from office.
Because even a pseudonym represents some sort of buy in.
What percentage of Muslims do this. Go on, provide the statistic and how you arrived at it.
Poor pwecious alt right snowflake. How dare courts question decrees or act as a check on the power of the executive
He's got a foreign sounding last name, and that makes him a potential terrorist. They should have beat him a bit, y'know, just in case.
Ever heard of corporate taxes? Sales taxes? Excise taxes?
Translation: I try to minimize the qualifications of people who say things I don't like to hear.
If Russia is planning on handing Snowden over, I highly doubt that they would give him the opportunity to flee.
Ticketmaster was nailed on this something a decade or so ago as I recall, where one of the reseller sites was actually their company. Ticketmaster basically has a lock on tickets for any significant concert, and while multiple jurisdictions in North America have tried to bust the monopoly, it always ends up with a slap on the wrist and Ticketmaster promising to be good in the future, even as they dream up new ways to screw over consumers. I'm quite sure the way you see it is exactly the way it works, they'd get nailed with antitrust lawsuits if they actually had any hard relationship with the resellers, so it just ends up being a quid quo pro instead. Still actionable, I suppose, but a helluva lot harder to prove.
The poor people end up in nose bleed, but the last time I did that, I ended up watching the band on the video screens and asking myself why I would pay over a thousand bucks for tickets, hotel, meals and gas when I could go buy the live DVD of one of their concerts for $30 on Amazon six months later.
That being said, I said Pink Floyd in 1995, and that is one band where nosebleed seats don't matter. But those guys knew how to put on a big venue concert, and really, nobody gives a shit which little ant on stage is David Gilmour.
My hunch is that at least some of the bots are their's.
At any rate, the face value of a concert ticket is meaningless. Since Ticketmaster and the venues find so many clever ways to hold back tickets, distribute them to resellers and other parties before you ever get your hands on one, the dollar value is just pointless. They might as well have tickets called "Cheapest, Cheap, Affordable, Expensive, Really Expensive and HOLY FUCKING SHIT YOU REALLY LOVE THIS BAND!!!!"
After I went to see AC/DC in 2015 in Vancouver, I said that was it for me and big venue concerts. It was an incredible concert, to be sure, but the amount of money and time it took to get there was just outrageous. My wife and I had just as good a time heading over to watch King Crimson in December 2015 in a nice 3000 seat venue where you could actually see the band without the need of a video screen, where volume levels weren't so insane that you were still functionally deaf 48 hours later, and where the venue wasn't filled with beer-swilling psychotics. When I went to my last Rush concert there was literally a drunken couple in the row ahead of us who got into a fucking brawl. Seriously, those people must have paid over $300 for tickets, and to do that and then spend god-knows how much to get pissed up on venue beer, and then get into a fight and get thrown out! Fuck it, big venues suck, and Ticketmaster's evil schemes to fuck you out of more money than the face value of the ticket just puts the cork on it.
I think you're mistaken. I am in deadly earnest. I think the parent is an idiot. It's okay, there are lots of idiots out there, and by all accounts Baby Jesus loves them, a lot more than Baby Jesus loves Mexican and brown-skinned people.
Maybe it's because you're an idiot.
I think it's likely the latter. At this point there's still way too much emotional investment in some quarters to Trump to admit that the Russians are quite willing and capable of all manner of mischief. Which seems odd, considering the US isn't the only place Russia is mucking around, and concerns over electoral and political integrity is a growing issue in Europe right now.
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The Church's official, or at least semi-official position on refugees, is not one universally shared by the membership. Conservative Catholics are starting to look a lot like they're Evangelical counterparts.
That's not a definition of a nihilist. A nihilist rejects the notion of morality as a binding social force entirely, or at least a social force that applies to them. I, for instance, don't believe in some absolute set of moral values. History itself pretty much falsifies that claim. But I do believe humans need rules, and that rules that attempt to guarantee as much liberty as possible while still allowing a functional social contract are preferable to the alternatives.
As to many Conservatives, well they, like many Progressives, will certainly invoke the sacred truths necessary to get their base to vote for them, but that's marketing, not ideology.
Well, McCain, at the sunset of his political career, clearly is in a "I don't give a fuck what anyone thinks" kind of mood, and while McConnell remains somewhat deferential, he doesn't seem at all thrilled with the Administration either. Mind you, that really was the intent of the Senate, that Senators' longer terms and one-third per election was meant as a partial insulator of the sort of electoral winds that preoccupy the House and the White House.
Still, you're right. The GOP leadership have become a sort of modern group of von Papens, staring on impotently in disbelief as the new leader shocks and awes everyone. The chief difference is of course the historical leader I speak of actually seemed to have some notion of what he's doing, whereas Trump literally does seem to be stumbling around blindly. That shocks me because we've all been told countless times what brilliant people the likes of Bannon and Conway are, and yet, as so often is revealed, those that are skillful at achieving power are often astonishingly bad at its application.
My prediction is that Conway, Bannon and Spicer are not long for this world. Not only are there rumors floating around that the Kushners are in a tug of war with Bannon, but even without that, Bannon's use of his newfound influence to push through Executive Orders is making Trump look foolish and unprepared, and as we know, nothing is ever Donald Trump's fault, so we know when Trump looks foolish, he looks for fall guys. Just look at Paul Manafort's take.
If I believed Trump wasn't an idiot, I'd almost wonder if letting Bannon and Conway fuck up so badly was part of a plan that would end in a Trumpesque version of the Night of the Long Knives.
When was Hillary Clinton POTUS so she could do these terrible things from her high position of power that you speak of.
Seriously, you're left defending Trump by creating an imaginary Hillary Clinton presidency to point to. But it doesn't work like that. Trump claimed to be draining the swamp, but I guess what he really meant is that he was going to make a new swamp, twice is smelly and with him right at the moment.
I think we live in an age where those breaking the rules no longer even pretend that they should. I was reading a Conservative Catholic forum a few minutes ago where they're demanding the Ninth Circuit Court justices be impeached for the audacity of challenging edicts from on high. I'm beginning to see the kinds of people that empowered the Bolsheviks, Brown Shirts, Khmer Rouge and all the other dictatorships out there, people who believe any challenge to the leader's authority is effectively a high crime.
I live in BC. Almost all our power is hydroelectric, and it can deal with peak periods. You're talking bullshit, both on quantities required, and ability to deal with peak usage. I'm going to be charitable and assume you're just a fucking moron, and not a sociopath.