That’s definitely going to put a strain on his heart.

Someone needs to hire a lot of porn stars for him, see if they can get him excited enough to have a massive heart attack. Maybe hire a lot of women that look like his daughter?

My grandmother lived with dementia for 20 years before dying at 101.

He wasn’t the president when the crime was committed, ipso facto he didn’t have presidential immunity.

No, it started with Nixon, and his Southern Strategy. Reagan and the Silent Majority–which was fundamentally about racism and the desire to segregate schools, even though abortion was their cause célèbre–made it worse. And Newt Gingritch and the “Contract With America” really threw gasoline on the fire.

The other ended up defeating the Nazis. I’d say the Bolsheviks did a better job, didn’t they?

Uh. The Bolsheviks actively collaborated with Hitler and the Nazis, right up until Operation Barbarossa. The Soviets carved up Poland between themselves and Germany, and tried to invade Finland (Winter War, Continuation War), which is why the Finns ended up allying with the Nazis after Operation Barbarossa.

Leahy Law and Foreign Assistance Act

Read up on that. There would need to be a finding of fact by the relevant US embassy and departments within the gov’t before this comes into play. Without that, that act is irrelevant to Biden attempting to withhold aid.

Could Biden direct the ambassador and relevant department heads to investigate so that he could legally withhold aid? Yes, he could. Should he? Also yes. But it’s not something the president can do unilaterally. Despite SCOTUS’ attempt to make it so, the president was never intended to be the sole sovereign of the country.

It would similarly reverse clintons impeachment since lying to Congress was as president and therefore an official act.

No, this decision wouldn’t affect that at all. This decision covers criminal prosecution, not impeachment. Now, if Clinton had been indicted, tried, and convicted of perjury for lying to Congress after Bush was elected in 2000, then it would be unwinding that conviction, if it was determined that it was an official act as president.

Are you not reading anything you just wrote?

one thing that will move a politician is knowing they can’t get elected again

If you do that with Biden, that means that Trump gets elected, and shit gets a whole helluva lot worse. Not just in Palestine, but everywhere. Of course, you’re going to say that I’m "throwing ‘But Trump!’ at you, but that’s not me - that’s the system that we live in.

You have a functionally binary choice. You can try to minimize damage, or not.

It’s your choice whether you, personally, do what you are capable of doing to minimize damage. And I hope that you have the intestinal fortitude to tell your LGBTQ+ friends to their face what you did, and why you did it, if it all goes the way I expect it will.

Goatwhore - Baring Teeth for Revolt

While I can see that early intervention with puberty blockers would help transgirls, it seems like transboys would need to take something more than just testosterone to get the height growth, once they reach the age of majority. HGH, maybe?

It’s interesting how much of the language around anti-trans rights centers around 'men pretending to be women, and they entirely forget about transmen.

Weirdly enough, it was Adam Smith, the first proto-capitalist, that came up with that idea.

He clearly hadn’t foreseen the possibility of monopolies and abusive trade practices.

Officers later recovered a replica GLOCK 17 Gen 5 handgun with a detachable magazine from the scene, the statement said.

Just so everyone is clear this is what they’re talking about. Without the orange tip–which is easily cut off–this is going to be indistinguishable from a gen 5 Glock 17 to an observer. Things like this are used in Airsoft games, are used for training indoors when you don’t want to use a real gun (they operate on blowback like a real pistol, so you get simulated recoil)), and they’re also modified and used by people that are committing armed robbery when they can’t get a real firearm.

I’m quite familiar with firearms–I have a bunch, I compete–and I couldn’t tell the difference between a replica like that that had had the orange tip removed and a real Glock without holding the item.

If all of the information that’s currently being reported is accurate–and that is a very, very big “if”–then I don’t know what people expect.

It’s not the leaks, it’s the fact that Anthony Blinken has been holding talks in Cairo to try and negotiate a peace settlement.

He would need some kind of finding of fact in the US to support that, and that hasn’t happened AFAIK yet. The ICC has made that finding, but it wouldn’t be legally supportable to use that finding to withhold appropriated funding.

That’s why I qualified it as far-left by American standards.

We’ve had far-left in the past, but student terrorist movements were largely left behind in the 70s.

Most temporary email sites are now blacklisted from account creation. I think that Stop Forum Spam is one of the services taht aggregates ‘bad’ email service providers and checks new sign ups against their lists.

…And exactly, EXACTLY, how do you pressure him in a way that doesn’t actively risk making things far, far worse, not just in Israel, but here in the US as well? Because if your answer is, “don’t vote for him”, well, congrats, you’re going to make things worse.

He’s had that power from day 1

Not as such, no. When congress appropriates funds, the president is legally obligated to disburse those funds for the purpose that they were appropriated for. This is a law, and it’s not something that’s up for debate. That was part of the underlying crime that Trump was first impeached for; he attempted to withhold funds corruptly. Could he have vetoed that? Sure. It also would have vetoed funding for Ukraine though. (And, just pointing out here that Trump would have vetoed assistance for Ukraine, while helping Israel kill more Palestinians faster.)

You can–and should–condemn his rhetoric, because he has been supportive of Israel waging war in Gaza. But he’s also been working behind the scenes, trying to negotiate a peace that Hamas will accept, and that Israel will accept. Even when he’s supporting Israel in public, it’s been clear that he’s been working to negotiate a truce.

Oh, there is definitely a far left. They’re just not doing the same kinds of things that the far right are doing, and they’re smaller by an order of magnitude.

By American standards, the Stop Cop City people are a ‘far left’ group; they’ve used violence (property damage, arson) in order to bring attention to their cause, and to try and prevent an injustice. OTOH, unlike the state’s actions against the far right, which is mostly just shrugging their collective shoulders, action against Stop Cop City has been pretty brutal.

The tl;dr version is - you pay your goddamn child support. That’s it. That’s your only choice. If you currently owe more than $2500, you can not legally get a passport, and any passport you can get won’t be a legal one.