He died of cancer (not DUI) in 2020. From the first diagnosis of small intestine /bowel cancer in 2013 thru that surgery, a heart valve replacement, and liver surgery around 2017 he probably quit drinking for at most a total of 6 months. He's my brother and deep down I loved him, but I'd have deported him to the land of dumbasses...
Trump disqualified from CO ballot
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democracy - let's go ahead and add this to the growing list of words that you don't know the meaning of
You're responding to my post, but I don't understand the gif (or whatever it is). So I have no idea what point you're making?
"Re the rebels and vagueness, if you were to strip them of their ability to hold office, of course you would have to have some sort of trial. What if the person said “ I wasn’t a member of the Confederacy or I’m not the same John Doe who was?” How are you going to solve that? Via a trial. And a vague law has to be clarified through litigation, of course. That’s a fundamental requirement of all law in our system."
My understanding is that Jeff Davis, in his attempt to keep from being tried for Treason used the fact that the 14th amendemnt barred him from office as an example of how a trial would constitute "double jeopardy"...
This is a pretty facsinating accout including how much he changed from what a witness experienced after meeting him on a riverboat, to the dodering old man that the same witness saw hobble into the Courthouse 2 days later...
"Not many minutes later, Davis walked out a free man, released on bail. And not too many months after that the federal government’s case against him fell apart. There’s no real consensus about why. The explanation that Davis’s lawyer Charles O’Conor liked best had to do with Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, known as the disqualification clause, which bars from federal office anyone who has ever taken an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and later “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” O’Conor argued that Section 3’s ban on holding office was a form of punishment and that to try Davis for treason would therefore amount to double jeopardy. "
What Happened When the U.S. Failed to Prosecute an Insurrectionist Ex-President
After the Civil War, Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy, was to be tried for treason. Does the debacle hold lessons for the trials awaiting Donald Trump?
I'm not sure, but it seems like he's arguing the opposite of your claim that a trial was necessary to apply the 14th, since Davis actually argued that the 14th (applied before trial) basically meant he couldn't be tried without violating the 5th and double jeopardy...
I could be wrong and I might be interpreting it incorrectly, but I was never invested too much one way or another on the ballot issue. I just mainly took issue with people on this board claiming it was a fait acompli, when it seems the analysts are at best divided. I'm personally much more interested in the resolution of the immunity issue,and the onset of the various trials...
That’s a fascinating piece of history. Thanks for sharing."Re the rebels and vagueness, if you were to strip them of their ability to hold office, of course you would have to have some sort of trial. What if the person said “ I wasn’t a member of the Confederacy or I’m not the same John Doe who was?” How are you going to solve that? Via a trial. And a vague law has to be clarified through litigation, of course. That’s a fundamental requirement of all law in our system."
My understanding is that Jeff Davis, in his attempt to keep from being tried for Treason used the fact that the 14th amendemnt barred him from office as an example of how a trial would constitute "double jeopardy"...
This is a pretty facsinating accout including how much he changed from what a witness experienced after meeting him on a riverboat, to the dodering old man that the same witness saw hobble into the Courthouse 2 days later...
"Not many minutes later, Davis walked out a free man, released on bail. And not too many months after that the federal government’s case against him fell apart. There’s no real consensus about why. The explanation that Davis’s lawyer Charles O’Conor liked best had to do with Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, known as the disqualification clause, which bars from federal office anyone who has ever taken an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and later “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” O’Conor argued that Section 3’s ban on holding office was a form of punishment and that to try Davis for treason would therefore amount to double jeopardy. "
What Happened When the U.S. Failed to Prosecute an Insurrectionist Ex-President
After the Civil War, Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy, was to be tried for treason. Does the debacle hold lessons for the trials awaiting Donald Trump?www.newyorker.com
I'm not sure, but it seems like he's arguing the opposite of your claim that a trial was necessary to apply the 14th, since Davis actually argued that the 14th (applied before trial) basically meant he couldn't be tried without violating the 5th and double jeopardy...
I could be wrong and I might be interpreting it incorrectly, but I was never invested too much one way or another on the ballot issue. I just mainly took issue with people on this board claiming it was a fait acompli, when it seems the analysts are at best divided. I'm personally much more interested in the resolution of the immunity issue,and the onset of the various trials...
The Davis case isn’t relevant for three reasons I can think of off the top of my head: it has no precedential value because a court never entered a ruling on that issue that I can see; it’s a dumb argument (felons would fall under that argument and you couldn’t pass a law forbidding them from voting or owning firearms, for example); and it isn’t on point with this issue—to be so, Davis would have had to try to run for President and not been allowed without a trial to determine if he engaged in insurrection.
These posts are fascinating. Keep ‘em coming.
Why do you think your brother had BPD? Did he have manic phases? As a kid or only later in life? Did you ever go throw some back with him? What was that like?
And he tried to spread Trump-level lies. He can’t disappear fro the GOP fast enough.
It's not unusual for late onset alcohol abusers to also suffer from a mental health issue of some sort. The homeless wino under a bridge is the obvious example, but that's far from typical. Some believe the alcohol abuser is self medicating his underlying mental issues, others think the alcohol abuse brings a latent or manageable tendency to the forefront. Chicken/egg. The only way to get to the bottom of it is to remove the alcohol and see what happens.
Until the mid 90s alcoholism alone qualified for ss dis
I've heard the claim but have never run into anyone who was getting SSDI based solely on an alcoholism diagnosis. No saying you're wrong, just saying.
Yup. Ended in 95 or 96. Now it has to be tethered to something else. Drug addiction was a stand alone impairment too
The new GOP Presidential candidates will be someone like him or DeSantis. The Bush/Haley types are the past.
Yep. The viv trump Rogan musk types. Party needs to split. Like the Dems. Let the progressives be their own. 4 parties. Would love to see how votes fall
So about the time all the treatment centers sprang up and were raking in insurance money... couldn't rightly keep paying SSDI if they'd been "cured."
If you're posting just to get approval and a sense of confluence from others,then by all means keep posting images that I don't understand. I have no idea what any of those images signify, they're just weird pics to me...
If you're trying to make a point to me, you need to dumb it down because gifs are not something I really understand. I presume you're trying to comment to me on my post, and I assume you disapprove. But the images just go right over my head...
Probably but I don’t remember. Sometimes public awareness “we”re subsidizing drunks” can occur and be a catalyst
I took the first pic he posted as implying he too gets too drunk in a college town when he’s middle aged.
I’m not sure on the second but I think it’s just a signal that you don’t understand GIFs.
The GOP will die off. We already know Trump types aren’t popular with enough Americans to win.
I think, hope, pray eventually they will cone to their senses. This is not good for our country at all.
The barriers to entry for new parties have to be removed or were stuck with two viable winners at the Presidential level.
You and Dbm and zeke and Lars shouldn’t be in the same parties
Cosmic, this GIF is a subtle acknowledgment that my assumption of mattndalllas’s intentions was correct and that he and I are mountain bros, both appreciating the cold, pure spring waters and hard living that such a life entails.
A "primer" for Cosmic...
Why the Left can't meme
'Woke comedy' will never compete with the despair of the online Right
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Then there is Wojak, perhaps the most popular of Right-wing memes, and arguably the bleakest. The EU report describes how the meme “has gradually been adapted and advanced by far-Right meme culture to portray liberals with blank expressions” who “do not question the information that comes from mainstream press and politics”.
One of the earliest variations of Wojak was NPC, or Non-Player Character Wojak, a grey, lifeless figure who repeats empty phrases like ‘‘The future is female” and “Reality has a liberal bias”. “NPC” comes from online gaming, and reflects the view that most of the population are mindlessly conformist, lapping up the low-brow mass culture which carries a shallow progressive message, and repeating it.
Wojak has evolved into various other forms — Withered Wojak is a favourite, often used in response to the latest self-harm masquerading as life advice spread by journalists and other opinion formers, or to children being exposed to drag queens, or the most recent race-baiting directives from on high. He represents despair that this will never be over and will only get worse.
In the 1600s the French physicist Guillaume Amontons built one of the first accurate and useful thermometers, based on the fact that the pressure of a gas is directly proportional to its absolute temperature (in Kelvin). The relationship between the pressure and the temperature of a gas is therefore known as Amontons' law. It is the precursor to Boyle's law and to the ideal gas law.
So when the pressure in a tire, or a basketball, or a football, or a soccer ball drops with the temperature, it isn't something magical happening, a sensor / gauge error, or even evidence that somebody like Tom Brady snuck around and did something awful to your previously well-infllated item.
It is merely the observable effects of gas physics, known for over 300 years now.
It's a bad sensor @mcmurtry66
That's why you had 100psi in your tires and still had a light on your dash showing low tire pressure. Every 10 degree drop in ambient temp is about 1 PSI.
That's why you had 100psi in your tires and still had a light on your dash showing low tire pressure. Every 10 degree drop in ambient temp is about 1 PSI.
Coincidence? I think not...A "primer" for Cosmic...
Why the Left can't meme
'Woke comedy' will never compete with the despair of the online Right
Then there is Wojak, perhaps the most popular of Right-wing memes, and arguably the bleakest. The EU report describes how the meme “has gradually been adapted and advanced by far-Right meme culture to portray liberals with blank expressions” who “do not question the information that comes from mainstream press and politics”.
One of the earliest variations of Wojak was NPC, or Non-Player Character Wojak, a grey, lifeless figure who repeats empty phrases like ‘‘The future is female” and “Reality has a liberal bias”. “NPC” comes from online gaming, and reflects the view that most of the population are mindlessly conformist, lapping up the low-brow mass culture which carries a shallow progressive message, and repeating it.
Wojak has evolved into various other forms — Withered Wojak is a favourite, often used in response to the latest self-harm masquerading as life advice spread by journalists and other opinion formers, or to children being exposed to drag queens, or the most recent race-baiting directives from on high. He represents despair that this will never be over and will only get worse.
Bipartisan Illinois election board dismisses 14th Amendment case against Trump | CNN Politics
The Illinois State Board of Elections voted unanimously Tuesday to dismiss a challenge to former President Donald Trump’s candidacy, but the decision is not expected to be the final word in the matter, with an appeal all but assured.
So much winning.Bipartisan Illinois election board dismisses 14th Amendment case against Trump | CNN Politics
The Illinois State Board of Elections voted unanimously Tuesday to dismiss a challenge to former President Donald Trump’s candidacy, but the decision is not expected to be the final word in the matter, with an appeal all but assured.amp.cnn.com
Oral arguments currently underway. DEI appointee Jackson getting worked by Trump's attorneys as she doesn't understand the law or the Constitution.
Obviously bidens hand pick leftist will never vote for trump but it looks like a beatdown coming. Sorry bowlmania you may actually have to win at the ballot box. I know heaven forbid the people get to decide.
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The SCOTUS is not buying the Colorado lawyers arguments in the slightest.Looking like 7-2 in favor of Trump
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The SCOTUS is not buying the Colorado lawyers arguments in the slightest.Looking like 7-2 in favor of Trump
So 14th amendment doesn't matter....kind of undermines the Republican position that the 2nd amendment is untouchable.
