Can't wait for Trump to further monetize the POTUSity with historical ignorance by plagiarizing a translation of a recently re-released book in German, to be "cleverly" titled "My Struggle (to Not Grope Ivanka)."
This isn't Reddit.
George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon
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#62Make Apple Great Again
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
> He literally does not meet the requirements set forth in the Constitution. You need to be more specific. If you mean the emoluments clause, I think it's more accurate to say that it's hard to verify whether he meets "the requirements set forth in the Constitution." If you know of an instance of his business accepting a gift from a "king, prince or foreign state" since he's assumed office , then he's actually in vio…
Does it say "gifts" or "payments"?
"accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever"
Payments in exchange for regular business which would have been engaged in anyway would seem not to apply, although there's disturbing room for corruption there.
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#64I must admit, I'm really confused by how impeachment works in the U.S.. Clinton was impeached for perjury and abuse of power because he took advantage of his position (and a political intern) and then lied about it. Now we have a president who is not giving up his business interests while in office and who has already told some absolute whoppers, including the release of official press releases that were nothing but…
He's 70 years old and his dad had Alzheimer's.
Yeah, the most likely explanation. And on the basis of that he was elected president. Truth is much more stranger than fiction.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
50 years ago: "We, women, are not sexual devices!" 2017: Putting on pink clit caps. I bet 1984 customers is way another set of people.
I don't get why everyone assumes that you can only be a female if you have a vagina
Did you mean femanist?
Edit: I'm not sure why I'm getting downvotes... It seems like a reasonable typo OP may have made given the context?
> I don't get why everyone assumes that you can only be a female if you have a vagina
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#66I must admit, I'm really confused by how impeachment works in the U.S.. Clinton was impeached for perjury and abuse of power because he took advantage of his position (and a political intern) and then lied about it. Now we have a president who is not giving up his business interests while in office and who has already told some absolute whoppers, including the release of official press releases that were nothing but…
The whole point of lying is to blur the lines between truth and lies so people believe nothing.
HyperNormalisation2016
Going to share that thing until I'm blue in the mouth. That documentary mentions that Surkov[0] uses this tactic, confusing the public about what is true and untrue.
I have to say, whether people on the right believe this or not, this has been at least subconsciously adapted as one of their tactics. When there is no truth or lie, then whatever you want is true, which makes you ripe for manipulation by the powers that be.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'm really confused by how impeachment works in the U.S. Impeachment requires a crime. Lying isn't usually a crime, and as best I can tell hasn't been one any of the times Trump has done it (.. yet?). It also hasn't been a crime any of the times Obama has done it. Failure to give up business interests is breaking precedent and confounding ethicists, but also doesn't seem to be illegal. When we come up with somethin…
Failure to give up his business interests is an impeachable offense. He literally does not meet the requirements set forth in the Constitution. He isn't being impeached because his party controls both houses.
I think they are just taking their sweet time with it because he is well enough aligned with their agenda. The second a big enough scandal comes up, away we go.
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#68Can't wait for Trump to further monetize the POTUSity with historical ignorance by plagiarizing a translation of a recently re-released book in German, to be "cleverly" titled "My Struggle (to Not Grope Ivanka)."
This isn't Reddit.
That's too bad that you lack a sense of humor. Try looking in lost-and-found.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'm really confused by how impeachment works in the U.S. Impeachment requires a crime. Lying isn't usually a crime, and as best I can tell hasn't been one any of the times Trump has done it (.. yet?). It also hasn't been a crime any of the times Obama has done it. Failure to give up business interests is breaking precedent and confounding ethicists, but also doesn't seem to be illegal. When we come up with somethin…
Failure to give up his business interests is an impeachable offense. He literally does not meet the requirements set forth in the Constitution. He isn't being impeached because his party controls both houses.
> Failure to give up his business interests is an impeachable offense...[as] set forth in the Constitution
U.S. Const. art. I, § 9, cl. 8. states:
"No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state." [1]
U.S. Const. art. II, § 1 cl., 7 states:
"The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them." [2]
There isn't a lot of case law surrounding these clauses [3] nor guidance from Congress. It could be an impeachable offense, though frankly that's true of anything. Impeachment is a political, not judicial, process.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_of_Nobility_Clause
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Two_of_the_United_Stat...
[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/what-is-the-emolumen...
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The process requires a majority of the House, and then it goes to a trial that requires two thirds of the Senate for conviction. Considering the Republicans have a majority in both, I wouldn't get your hopes up.
Exactly. Clinton's impeachment passed the House majority hurdle but never got the 2/3rds majority of the Senate required for the conviction. Agreed on the Republican majority. I suspect the best the US can hope for is a Republican bloodbath in the 2018 midterms to deliver House and Senate back to Democrat control. I don't believe the chances of that are high though.
Once everyone loses their healthcare they might change their minds