Agree. Inasmuch as the studies and data already exist out there, I would say that this is about as close as the military comes in the absence of total all-out civil war to dragging their feet on “obeying” an order that strikes them as pointless and full of shit. Military studies and their endless shuffling it around…

I may have my timelines wrong, but it is kind of a confusing situation. My understanding is that NYT published an article after Rep. Scalise was shot on the softball practice field (which wasn’t very long ago). In that article, one of the ideas/themes presented was the way in which extreme political rhetoric can or…

Any tea party-types complaining about this will also be whining about the judge being a federal, appointed judge, rather than some “constitutional sheriff” over her “sovereign citizen”-ship. (All the eyerolls).

No I cannot.

This is the way it’s worked in the past. If you accept a pardon for criminal wrongdoing, you are admitting culpable conduct from a civil liability standpoint. One wrinkle: his criminal conduct was “violating a federal (Bush-appointed, I might add) judge’s criminal contempt order.” But: the judge’s order…

First: This needs stars.

I think the idea is that if you accept a pardon for a criminal charge/conviction, you are admitting you did something culpable from a civil liability standpoint. At least that is how it has worked in the past.

I’m pretty sure a president can pardon someone charged with a federal crime at any time after that person has been charged. Usual process: DOJ investigation, DOJ recommendation for a pardon, 5 years of sentence served, and some expression of remorse from the person convicted. But none of that was done in this case.…

That’s what I thought it was about; a trial balloon in pardons. But pardons can be tricky. If you accept one, you lose your 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination, and you will be deemed admitting that you did something wrong from a civil liability standpoint. And he can’t pardon anyone for state-law…

I guess so, except that actually makes sense, so it’s difficult to believe that Trump would plan that much.

And not only has Sheriff Joe Asshole been pardoned, but now Sebastian Gorka has resigned? WTF is going on?

Dark non-comedy. Trump just pardoned Sheriff Joe Arpaio. It’s a fucking shitstorm, the whole thing.

And don’t forget: whenever FEMA shows up, according to Alex Jones, that means only one thing: enslavement into FEMA “concentration centers” and tainted bottled water that will make all the frogs gay.

I can imagine they would be quite the menace in any town/semi-urban setting. Here in MS, turkeys get the shit blasted out of them every spring during turkey season, so they’re usually hurrying the hell back into hiding from rednecks with guns. (Hurrying the hell back into hiding from rednecks with guns is also a…

Old and gentile here: my first reaction was a WTF recoil. Waaay too close. This doesn’t look like “Oh, wow, it’s just like that tee shirt that Steven Universe was always wearing!” This outfit would definitely have made me do a neck-snapping double take if I saw it in the store window. I’m glad they’re ditching…

Your coach sounds like an ass. You and your mom sound like BADASSES. Good for the both of you.

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Excellent. Hell of a golf cart, too. You just know he’d have Oddjob drive that thing all over the greens.

Probably the only job sector that can claim significant growth under the Trump administration: Constitutional lawyers / ACLU / his own criminal defense lawyers. Make America Lawyer-Up Again!

Did they have generals at his military school? And wouldn’t they be long dead by now? THOSE generals?