DC Tom

I'll tell you this much: if I'm empaneled, when the judge questions the jurors, I'm doing my best to work "Epstein didn't kill himself" in to one of my answers.

I have jury duty today. Schiff and Swalwell monologing would be a blessed relief. Is it possible to die of boredom? I'll let you know.

"Take out" loans.

But you were punished for not paying it back. Which is appropriate.

Can confirm. I doubted it, at first, but then put my hand in where the balloon was slashed...

They took someone else's money. Paying it back is not "punishment."

No, this is.

They're not my "big words." I'm quoting the memo directly. The subject is "Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children." The first two lines of the last paragraph is "This memorandum confers no substantive right, immigration status or pathway to citizenship. Only the Congress, acting through its legislative authority, can confer these rights." https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/s1-exercising-prosecutorial-discretion-individuals-who-came-to-us-as-children.pdf I was REALLY looking forward to a DACA supporter explicitly disagreeing with the memo establishing it.

Really, though, I'm looking for someone - anyone - to disagree with what I posted.

Pretty sure he, like Epstein, didn't kill himself.

When did this start being bribery? How withholding foreign aid be extortion, but giving it be bribery? It can't be both. This theory of the crime makes no sense. It even makes less sense, the more time passes.

As they should be, since it's a DHS memo concerning the exercise of prosecutorial discretion with respect to individuals who came to the United States as children, and confers no substantive right, immigration status, or pathway to citizenship, because only Congress, acting through its legislative authority, can confer those rights. To deny the President the right to overturn an exercise of prosecutorial discretion set forth not by his predecessor, but by his predecessor's subordinate, would be utterly ridiculous. This is where the progressives will jump up and say it's cruel to repeal it. To which I repeat: no, it's cruel to maintain it as is, since it confers no substantive right, immigration status, or pathway to citizenship, because only Congress, acting through its legislative authority, can confer those rights. So have Congress confer the rights, and repeal this illegal nonsense.

THAT'S who he reminds me of. People keep making "some animals are more equal than others" Animal Farm references. But he reminds me much more of Dean Wormer from Animal House. Trying and failing at every turn to punish President Blutarsky.

Well, if you look at all the facts - who set up the GoFundMe, who the donors are, etc., it's pretty clear that Epstein didn't kill himself...

Wait...the anonymous whistleblower, who's name the media can't even mention under pain of death, has a GoFundMe account???? What the ***** kind of anonymity is this?

But HE doesn't know that, so I felt compelled to explain. Just so he could come back and say that it is illegal, because Trump wasn't pursuing foreign policy, but personal interest. Because Trump's propensity for criminality makes this a criminal act, which proves his propensity for criminality. Then he'll tell me my mother wears army boots or some other third-grade bull####. Then I'll call him an idiot. So @Tiberius, let's skip the drama. I'm willing to stipulate you're going to make some nonsensical reply to me, and you can stipulate you're an idiot, and it'll save us both a lot of time. Deal?

Foreign policy. I mean, that's exactly how foreign policy is conducted. There's absolutely nothing illegal there.

Doubt the ME uses Twitter for ID'ing a body.

Additionally, to play devil's advocate, genetic identification is a last resort, when you don't have fingerprints, dental records, etc.

They were actually bailouts of entire markets, not banks or people. Unemployment was two months away from hitting 20%, because companies couldn't float commercial paper and were going to miss making payroll, which would have thrown them in to immediate bankruptcy (and we're talking big companies, like GM), because the lenders didn't have enough capital above their required reserves to buy commercial paper at any price. The entire capital market system was about to go under. I mean...people still don't understand this? People think Lehman Brothers going under at 1am on a Monday morning was about protecting the executives, not US Treasuries?

Well, that would make you wrong then, wouldn't it?

Taking bribes, not prosecuting corruption cases, . https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/world/europe/political-stability-in-the-balance-as-ukraine-ousts-top-prosecutor.html "The United States and other Western nations had for months called for the ousting of Mr. Shokin, who was widely criticized for turning a blind eye to corrupt practices and for defending the interests of a venal and entrenched elite." Which basically amounted to insufficient revolutionary fervor. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/europe/joe-biden-ukraine.html?module=inline It's interesting to track the timing of the stories, too. Hunter Biden joins Burisma in April 2014; VP Joe Biden addresses the Rada in December 2015, calling for "an overhaul of the office of prosecutor general [and] change in the energy sector..."; Biden strong-arms the Ukraine into ousting Shokin in March of 2016. Then news articles from therein are about "Biden's Ukraine problem," right up to April of 2019 when Hunter Biden leaves Burisma. Within three months of that, the stories morph from "Biden's Ukraine problem" to "Trump's Ukraine scandal."

Release the balloons, then shoot them with the 21-gun salute. Problem solved!

This is the sort of thing that belongs in Bob's thread.

I'm not blocked? Why has your idiotic stoner ass not blocked me already?