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Not just a dog, a 14 month old puppy... Jesus christ it's still a baby and learning at that point!
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More evidence that she's a horrible person.
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14 month old?! I assumed we were talking about a dog, not that it would be any better. But wow, what a piece of ****.
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For the context
"Puppy was a danger to anyone" > "I didn't bother trying to teach it to not nibble on people so it thought biting was fine", or maybe "the dog jumped up on people because it was excited" or "I didn't bother training it and then got mad because it wS untrained"
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What in the ever loving ****... These people are straight up sociopaths.
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We are not yet at the stage where we have to worry about a President assassinating political opposition (not yet, anyway). And I am broadly in agreement that the President should have fairly expansive immunity for official acts. But there are innumerable things that fall short of murder that can net out with the same outcome (e.g. neutering political opposition or even oversight), and I do not think much/most of what Nixon and his cronies referred to as 'dirty tricks' amount to official acts.Pavel Bure wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 2:13 pmSeems they were drilling down on what constitutes an official act of the president. They were disappointed that no prior court had tried to identify specific acts and rule in that manner. One Justice (Amy I believe) asked specifically about Trump meeting with a private attorney who was willing to spread misinformation about the election and did receive the answer of that not being an “official act.”Troy Loney wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 2:02 pmNo, they're just going to rule in a way that allows the Trump legal team to keep appealing things and make sure this case happens after the election.
I would really like to have faith in our republic and fragile democracy we hold, however I don’t have that faith available. I’m also curious that if they rule Trump’s various actions were official acts then what stops Biden or any President from taking an official act to jail or assassinate their opponent due to any made up pretense they suggest? After all, at that point, it’s the President acting officially however erroneous the reasoning.
SCOTUS also expressed worry about their ruling opening up former presidents to be attack by opponents at will if said President’s actions aren’t considered official.
I see this being delayed, delayed, delayed, while they try to hone in on specific acts. To the point that this will not be finished by election time. Then, sadly, if Trump wins it won’t matter how the court rules or how any institution tries to hold him accountable. I truly believe if we end up with Trump in the White House again, the only thing that can stop him will be the military. If he gets their backing, I do believe this is how our current democracy will die.
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It has become increasingly clear over the last 5-6 years that while our Founders were rightly afraid of an unchecked executive (we had, after all, just embarked in an armed rebellion against a monarch), they were not really anticipating that such an abjectly wanton shi**t smear as Trump would even desire the presidency let alone win office. Our institutions are not strong and robust. They are a patchwork of points of failure whose structural integrity is defined by the individual wills of a surprisingly small handful of people.
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Meanwhile, in Washington DC............................... I think Biden's dog got up to two dozen bite incidents before it was removed from the residence.
I'm a pretty lenient dog-friendly type of person, but I have to say that's like 20+ more incidents than most places would give a dog. The dog that bit me when I was a kid had one other bite incident a few months later and it had to be destroyed.
I'm a pretty lenient dog-friendly type of person, but I have to say that's like 20+ more incidents than most places would give a dog. The dog that bit me when I was a kid had one other bite incident a few months later and it had to be destroyed.
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lol, I can’t imagine being this much of a spineless coward - which, if we’re being honest, is basically the entire identity of the Republican Party at this point.
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Yeah, you know you always wanted to come back and suck my balls some more, Barr!
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We’ve got a 90 year old vs 10 year old as our choices in November…
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count2infinity wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:38 am We’ve got a 90 year old vs 10 year old as our choices in November…
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I think it’s funny how these dogs are terrorizing his secret service detail. And these are the only dogs law enforcement isn’t allowed to execute on spot and they are the rare case where it’s a little justifiedtifosi77 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:09 pm Meanwhile, in Washington DC............................... I think Biden's dog got up to two dozen bite incidents before it was removed from the residence.
I'm a pretty lenient dog-friendly type of person, but I have to say that's like 20+ more incidents than most places would give a dog. The dog that bit me when I was a kid had one other bite incident a few months later and it had to be destroyed.
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Well, he’s got my vote.Gaucho wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:31 amcount2infinity wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:38 am We’ve got a 90 year old vs 10 year old as our choices in November…
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Some more regarding the USC protests
In a fit of bravery from which all of the world should take inspiration, the university has cancelled all commencement activities outright and the campus is currently in a state of quasi-lockdown.
If following a typical 4-yr track, the 2024 graduating class would've been the incoming freshman who had just graduated high school in the COVID-addled summer 2020. There are certainly worse problems in the world than getting hosed out of two graduation ceremonies through no fault of your own, but that kinda sucks.
In a fit of bravery from which all of the world should take inspiration, the university has cancelled all commencement activities outright and the campus is currently in a state of quasi-lockdown.
If following a typical 4-yr track, the 2024 graduating class would've been the incoming freshman who had just graduated high school in the COVID-addled summer 2020. There are certainly worse problems in the world than getting hosed out of two graduation ceremonies through no fault of your own, but that kinda sucks.
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Just take comfort that they have their safe space.
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Graduation ceremonies are vastly overrated IMHO.
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I didn't walk for my undergrad ceremony and honestly I sort of regret it.
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My son took a semester off for his internship, graduated in the fall, and didn’t walk in the spring because by then it had been 5 months and why bother?
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I also read where a lot of the protesters that have been arrested or kicked out of school are asking for amnesty so that it doesn’t follow them around for their adult lives after school.
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Maybe they should run for POTUS.
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What did they do to be expelled?
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Vanderbilt I think was about a divestiture vote or something. The students/protesters were barred entry into a building, and a few of them barged past security; they're the expelled and suspended students. I don't know any details beyond that (or, honestly, if even that bit is totally accurate - there are a lot of campus protests going on around the country right now and it's hard to keep them straight outside of what's going on locally).
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That's what I read as well. I think an immediate suspension that would continue through the next semester would be more appropriate in this case then tarring someones permanent record.tifosi77 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 3:58 pm Vanderbilt I think was about a divestiture vote or something. The students/protesters were barred entry into a building, and a few of them barged past security; they're the expelled and suspended students. I don't know any details beyond that (or, honestly, if even that bit is totally accurate - there are a lot of campus protests going on around the country right now and it's hard to keep them straight outside of what's going on locally).