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04-19-2017 , 02:21 PM

#33676

Palo

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When Spiceman finally gets canned Trump should hire Phil Simms.

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04-19-2017 , 02:33 PM

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When Spiceman finally gets canned Trump should hire Phil Simms.

I hear bill o'Reilly needs a new job.

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04-19-2017 , 02:42 PM

#33678

hard2tel

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Should just lure Hannity with the promise of giving the orange man a blowey

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04-19-2017 , 03:01 PM

#33679

Palo

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I have always thought Hannity was the WOAT but he'd be must see TV as white house press secretary. Over/under 90 days before he pulled a gun on the press corps?

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04-19-2017 , 03:01 PM

#33680

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Not saying President Gronk isn't the greatest idea I've ever heard, but I'm also not not saying that.

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04-19-2017 , 03:19 PM

#33681

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Originally Posted by wheatrich

how did gorsuch do on his first day anyway
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/17/524393..._medium=social

"Gorsuch repeatedly suggested it would be "a lot simpler" or "a lot easier if we just follow the text of the statute." But as the lawyers on both sides and other justices pointed out, the statute has multiple provisions that are interdependent, and nothing about them is simple or easy."

at one point Kagan replied to Gorsuch “This would be kind of a revolution — I mean, to the extent you can have a revolution in this kind of case,”

Apparently in the supreme court world this is a verbal smackdown.

The article is savage

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04-19-2017 , 03:20 PM

#33682

StoppedRainingMen

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So does bill end up as the face of breitbart or something? Seems like the logical next step

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04-19-2017 , 03:48 PM

#33683

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So does bill end up as the face of breitbart or something? Seems like the logical next step

Going to work for The Blaze obviously

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04-19-2017 , 03:49 PM

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04-19-2017 , 03:56 PM

#33685

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Going to work for The Blaze obviously

That's Glenn Beck's outfit right? I think I read on teh twits somewhere that Beck has already reached out to him.

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04-19-2017 , 05:24 PM

#33686

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I am legitimately shocked Tomi McSnowflake isn't on Fox News yet

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04-19-2017 , 05:25 PM

#33687

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lol O'Reily ain't doing that stuff I can't imagine. He has a huge ego, he isn't doing internet streaming or w/e the blaze is.

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04-19-2017 , 07:01 PM

#33688

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I am legitimately shocked Tomi McSnowflake isn't on Fox News yet

They're booked solid sadly:

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04-21-2017 , 04:29 PM

#33689

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Originally Posted by rtd353

I hear bill o'Reilly needs a new job.

tony snow 2.0

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04-21-2017 , 06:00 PM

#33690

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This is definitely some of the hottest fire about the failing Trump administration yet.

Cliffs on the article: there is no meaningful news to talk about because the Trump administration does not do anything, is not equipped to do anything, and is incapable of doing anything because it doesn't know anything and because Trump is nothing more than a huckster who talks about things if he is asked to, but would never actually do something because that's hard.

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04-21-2017 , 07:54 PM

#33691

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TRUMP is the HYPE man.

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04-21-2017 , 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by CPHoya

No. The lawyers have, in most cases, sparingly little to say that is of relevance and even less that is of (even potentially) persuasive value. By questioning them, the weaknesses in their positions can be more ably demonstrated and the Justices can force another Justice to confront a problem with their own position.

Before these arguments are heard, expansive briefing has taken place, and the Justices have in most cases already worked up a draft position paper or opinion, and they have already discussed the case for some time. As between the Justices, each of them know what the other 8 think (most of the time). The issues raised at oral argument have more to do with the direction from the Court, based upon its needs, than they have to do with the desires of the attorneys, which are relevant but not particularly important to the Justices.

That's part of what was so pedantic and ****ing stupid about Gorsuch yesterday. He literally ate up time in oral argument in multiple cases to implicitly argue in favor of his (stupid and incoherent Scalia v. 2 - Now Without the Wit™) judicial philosophy through loaded questions about an issue beneath the floor of intellect of everyone in the room - including him - and at one point actually encouraged one of the attorneys to continue reading a statute word for word. Everyone in the room had read that statute. The attorneys and Justices and clerks had read that statute probably LITERALLY hundreds of times. That served no purpose whatsoever, except sad and obvious political grandstanding and pandering.

It was an embarrassment.

Thanks for answering.

So when Thomas says 99% of the time I know how I'm going to rule before oral arguments, he's basically right, right? So it sounds like Gorsuch is kind of the extreme example of what Thomas is objecting to? And because Scalia was his ideological bro and also very very question-y there were basically no questions left to be asked by the time Thomas felt like it was actually time to ask questions?

I mean Thomas basically is saying that oral arguments are largely pointless, right? That everyone knows how they are going to rule based on the hundreds of pages of filings and the time has basically passed for any *actual* argument to have been made. So so much of the aggressive questioning that has become standard in the Court is pedantic showboating, which is just what you're saying Gorsuch is guilty of?

Anyway, so when Thomas actually does ask a question, lawyers basically **** themselves, right? Here is a case where Thomas appears to ask a series of extremely good questions:

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And when Deputy U.S. Solicitor General Michael Dreeben stood up to support Virginia’s defense of its law, Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, Ginsburg, Kennedy and Scalia all pounced, imploring him to shoehorn cross-burning into the Court’s various First Amendment precedents.

Through all these questions, both Dreeben and Hurd tried in vain to convince the justices that cross-burning carries with it “real threats of bodily harm with a specific intent to intimidate” that override any constitutionally protected expressions of bigotry that might be bound up in the action. But the other justices weren’t hearing them.

http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/VirginiaBlack.mp3

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04-22-2017 , 01:00 PM

#33693

Lawnmower Man

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Bill has 25 million reasons why he should be alive.

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04-22-2017 , 04:12 PM

#33694

lenC

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Angela Merkel reportedly had to explain the 'fundamentals' of EU trade to Trump 11 times

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04-23-2017 , 08:40 PM

#33695

72off

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he going FULL REAGAN before our very eyes?*
*rhetorical

anyway, this whole thing is fairly lol

thread: https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/856255377838665728

Last edited by 72off; 04-23-2017 at 08:40 PM. Reason: still operating under the assumption that this whole President Donny D. Drumpf thing is some bad dream / Matrix type sitch

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04-23-2017 , 11:33 PM

#33696

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Originally Posted by CPHoya

Woody, attacking NK places 10,000,000 South Koreans in grave danger of retaliatory attacks from NK, plus 30,000 American troops live there, plus expats from all over the world. There is risk NK responds with a nuclear weapon.

It's impossible to prevent that NK response, no matter how excellent our first wave of bombings / strikes is.

Not to mention killing millions of North Koreans who did nothing wrong except be born in the wrong country.

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04-24-2017 , 12:15 AM

#33697

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TRUMP: No I have, it's interesting, I have, seem to get very high ratings. I definitely. You know Chris Wallace had 9.2 million people, it's the highest in the history of the show. I have all the ratings for all those morning shows. When I go, they go double, triple. Chris Wallace, look back during the Army-Navy football game, I did his show that morning.

AP: I remember, right.

TRUMP: It had 9.2 million people. It's the highest they've ever had. On any, on air, (CBS "Face the Nation" host John) Dickerson had 5.2 million people. It's the highest for "Face the Nation" or as I call it, "Deface the Nation." It's the highest for "Deface the Nation" since the World Trade Center. Since the World Trade Center came down. It's a tremendous advantage.

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