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February LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of February?

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

9 23.08%

John Kelly

7 17.95%

Kellyanne Conway

1 2.56%

Rex Tillerson

3 7.69%

Jared Kushner

0 0%

Hope Hicks

4 10.26%

Gary Cohn

0 0%

Ryan Zinke

0 0%

Rod Rosenstein

13 33.33%

Write-in

2 5.13%

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02-01-2018 , 02:23 PM

ScreaminAsian

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02-01-2018 , 02:27 PM

ScreaminAsian

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02-01-2018 , 03:23 PM

uDevil

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The only person on the list who is opposing big orange atm is Rosentein. A write-in for Wray would also make sense but there's no way to know yet if his show of integrity over the memo bs is real. Most of the others have embarassed him but survived by showing some level of submission.

02-01-2018 , 03:27 PM

ScreaminAsian

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losing 2 fbi directors within a year definitely screams innocent

02-01-2018 , 03:30 PM

Paul D

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Originally Posted by uDevil

Hicks will get the boot with Papadopoulos treatment if Der Fuhrer feels threatened.

02-01-2018 , 03:51 PM

ScreaminAsian

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02-01-2018 , 03:54 PM

ScreaminAsian

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02-01-2018 , 04:08 PM

tomdemaine

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

losing 2 fbi directors within a year definitely screams innocent

To lose one FBI director may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose 2 looks like treason.

02-01-2018 , 04:10 PM

Loki

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To reasonable people

02-01-2018 , 04:29 PM

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StimAbuser

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Originally Posted by uDevil

Don't you have to get rid of Sessions first to get rid of Rod?

02-01-2018 , 04:39 PM

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DrChesspain

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Champstark wrote:

For your daily dose of anti-Semitism:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42898882

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Poland's Senate has approved a controversial bill making it illegal to accuse the Polish nation or state of complicity in the Nazi Holocaust.

The bill amendment, which sets fines or a maximum three-year jail term as punishment, must be signed off by the president before entering into law.

President Andrzej Duda says Poland has the right "to defend historical truth".
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The country has long objected to the use of phrases like "Polish death camps", which suggest the Polish state in some way shared responsibility for camps such as Auschwitz. The camps were built and operated by the Nazis after they invaded the country in 1939.

But the more contentious point raised by the bill is whether it will outlaw references to acts of individual complicity by Poles with the Nazis - something historians say there is clear evidence for.

Although I'm Jewish, I tend to cut Poles some slack in regards to possible collaboration, since their country was pretty much prison raped by both the Soviets and the Nazis.

02-01-2018 , 05:38 PM

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AllTheCheese

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Not sure where to post this, but I want microbet to see it.

Paging microbet, microbet to the LC thread.

https://theintercept.com/2018/01/31/...w-free-speech/

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A FEDERAL JUDGE on Tuesday ruled that a Kansas law designed to punish people who boycott Israel is an unconstitutional denial of free speech.

02-01-2018 , 06:17 PM

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Of course it's a minivan.

02-01-2018 , 07:35 PM

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uDevil

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Originally Posted by StimAbuser

Don't you have to get rid of Sessions first to get rid of Rod?

That's one way. I keep hearing people suggest he can do it directly too. A quick search gives

Quote:

Trump could order Rosenstein to fire Mueller, fire Rosenstein if he refuses, then repeat the process with the official who would be elevated to fill Rosenstein’s position. If that person also refuses, Trump could repeat the process through the line of succession until someone does as he says. This is largely what happened in the "Saturday Night Massacre" of 1973, when President Richard Nixon ordered three Justice Department officials to fire the Watergate special prosecutor until one finally agreed. In another scenario, Trump could fire Sessions, with the expectation that Sessions’ successor would seize control of the case from Rosenstein -- and fire Mueller. Under yet another scenario, Trump could order the repeal of the special-counsel regulations, then fire Mueller himself.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.blo...-quicktake-q-a

02-01-2018 , 08:16 PM

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The above reflects my understanding as well.

02-01-2018 , 09:30 PM

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02-02-2018 , 10:34 AM

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BTC currently 60% below its December peak. I, for one, am shocked that charts have been perfectly following the classic bubble model.

02-02-2018 , 10:58 AM

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Legal people,
Is there any real difference between states that ignore federal marijuana law and Idaho ignoring Obamacare rules? I feel pretty hypocritical being fine with the first, but outraged by the second.

02-02-2018 , 10:58 AM

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Sorry if shared already.

02-02-2018 , 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by zikzak

BTC currently 60% below its December peak. I, for one, am shocked that charts have been perfectly following the classic bubble model.

BFI is lit at the moment:

Quote:

Originally Posted by DoctorZangief

Curious how many of the retail doomsayers have the slightest clue how any of this tech works.

How many of you have ever used a mixer? A mining rig? A mining pool? Set up a node? Seen a forensic demixer work? Used XRB to transfer wealth? Talked to a single person from the IRS/CRA about it? Researched energy surpluses from green tech and Chinese expansion? Spoken to a single expert from China/Korea/India/Russia about it? How about from Japan/Estonia/Belarus? How about a lawyer? How about someone from your jurisdiction's regulatory body? Do you have any idea whether your local government is for or against its adoption? Do you have the slightest clue what the **** you're talking about?

How about you read a ****ing book you ignant-ass nostradumbasses with your unfalsifiable amateur hour fud garbage.

02-02-2018 , 11:16 AM

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bobman0330

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Have you even been to Estonia bro?

02-02-2018 , 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by spidercrab

Leaving aside the moral issues for now (although you should actually not leave aside the moral issues!), they seem the same. States are not responsible for enforcing federal laws. Maybe there's some nuance that makes them different, but mostly it seems like Idaho playing for attention. I would have expected that big insurers DGAF what the Idaho Department of Insurance thinks and are mostly worried about federal rules anyways.

02-02-2018 , 11:30 AM

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It's entirely legitimate to say that sometimes state's rights deliver outcomes you like and sometimes they don't. Being ideologically committed to state's rights just for the sake of state's rights is sub-optimal and in the real world everyone flip-flops on this issue. Even as the South was preparing for war over state's rights they were gleefully insisting that federal fugitive slaves laws should overturn New York's anti-slavery laws.