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Was going to say, “where have I heard that before?”
It’s been 30-40 years. Not a century. Most adults know fully well they’re repeating garbage from the 80s and 90s.
They learned nothing and don’t care. These people are not reasonable.
Two things:
Absolutely double down on this loser position, please, until you’re voted the fuck out.
Good luck. While I haven’t combed through the Ohio constitution, I hope the legislative branch can’t just remove the judicial, whole or piecemeal. Checks and balances and all that. But if you pull it off at least we can stop pretending this is a functional democracy of any kind, and all we have to sacrifice is Ohio. Maybe it’ll wake up a few people who still think there’s a middle ground to be found with the GOP.
That’s easy: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/05/the-wrong-man/308019/
You decide some guy did it, ruin that guy’s life until he’s falsely convicted or the public forgets all about it. Then if neither of those work after six years you maybe look into other options.
Ask me how you solve a bombing at the Olympics.
What do you mean? They are. If we stopped paying Pete we’d have the current US debt payed off in about 149,052,132 years. Maybe add a few hundred thousand years for interest but I don’t believe that’s significant.
Yes. She’d have to be impeached by the House of Representatives, then convicted in the Senate by a 2/3 majority. Basically will never happen.
I’m sure that when “Mid November 2024” comes around, she’ll suddenly have another reason to delay because Trump will then be appealing the results of the election about 47 times
Hopefully he’ll be in a Georgia prison by then. He can’t pardon his way out of that one either.
Yes, they can appeal to the 11th circuit to have her removed. That’s not an easy thing to do though.
At this point I’m convinced she’s literally in communication with his team or people once removed. This is the most slam dunk case ever. Did he have these documents? Yes. Was he allowed to? No.
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if Azerbaijan invades actual Armenia proper, then that’s a different story.
The possibility of that happening is literally the linked article.
Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan. Always has been.
Internationally recognized, fine. The population was about 120,000. 100,000 fled to Armenia after the attack. I’m sure they care about international lines on a map.
Always has been is categorically false. Armenia has been a country for about a thousand years before the ones who drew the lines on your map.
The “Christians being persecuted” crowd only care about Target selling shirts with rainbows.
They were actually the first Christian nation in 301 AD/CE. Not that state religion is great, but it’s an interesting history given they were sandwiched between the Romans and the Parthians at the time and were pretty much a football between the Romans and whoever was nextdoor throughout the entirety of the Roman empire. If they aligned with “nextdoor” the Romans often ignored them as long as they didn’t allow armies from nextdoor through. And when the Romans had their own puppet king over there, well, bully for them.
Not much has changed. Now they’re sandwiched between Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, and Georgia, with Georgia being a Russian conduit at least militarily if not politically. And Turkey and Azerbaijan are effectively one and the same with Azerbaijian having a dash of Russian influence. That’s not a great place to be if you’re a tiny country served as an appetizer to the surrounding powers.
Anyway, welcome to my TED Talk.
What could of possibly made Turkey fall in line as heavily as it has.
F16s.
Which is yet another reason why the West will hang Armenia out to dry.
Turkey already endorsed a corridor between the two countries through the south of Armenia, immediately after the attack on Artsakh, literally 4 days, while 100,000 Armenians were fleeing.
Why would Armenia open this corridor voluntarily? Azerbaijan already pinky swore Artsakh wouldn’t be attacked. Erdogan knows how this will be solved, and it won’t be pen and paper.
They also have many of the pipelines that send oil/gas from that region to Europe. Hence the hand wringing and platitudes from the West rather than actual help. Aliyev knows this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Gas_Corridor
And when Armenia had the gall to even hint at trying to break from under Russia’s thumb to the West, Aliyev got the ok from Russia to teach them a lesson.
Azerbaijian took Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh 8 days later, in spite of a prior Russian security agreement to prevent exactly that.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but Armenians aren’t muslims, they’re majority Christian.
If, for example, you have 5 Democrats who can’t go along with this, that means you now need 9 Republicans willing to put their own standing in the party at risk.
I think this is the main reason. Also, you don’t become speaker just to be speaker. You do it to advance further, either to higher elected positions or, more likely, to lucrative party fundraising, consulting, speaking engagements, writing books, and/or private sector positions. In today’s world no speaker who is elected with the help of Democrats has a future in the Republican party, anywhere. It’s career suicide. Not just losing elected office. They will be blacklisted everywhere. It won’t happen.
Jordan would be a shit-show of massive proportions. Which is saying something given that it would have to beat out the current shit-show.
EDIT: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/us/politics/scalise-jordan-house-speaker.html
Even though the votes on Thursday had clearly stacked up against Mr. Scalise, some of his allies were still surprised by his withdrawal announcement in a closed-door meeting. Several openly wept.
Congress being a circus shouldn’t be funny, but holy shit I lost it at that one.
I cringe every time someone calls that moron “Coach,” and that he apparently prefers that people do so. This isn’t a game, “Coach.” Try being a Senator for 5 fucking minutes.
And Trump grabbed people by the pussy. This is not new information. 2020 at the latest:
The voters for the party of “family values” stopped pretending to fake it a long time ago. And make no mistake, this is on the voters.
Well that’s not anti-competative. We’re at or above Carnegie and Standard Oil levels of monopoly shenanigans.