Michael

Even with witnesses 67 votes was never going to happen.

https://twitter.com/josephabondy/status/1223331368618418176/photo/1

He's the one who argued that it's OK for Trump to leverage military aid to help his reelection.

He and Dershowitz should team up. The Blunder Twins.

The statute I referred to was obstruction of committee proceedings and the second impeachment article is obstruction of Congress.

This is timely. In contrast with Trump legal team, Justice Department lawyer says House can impeach over defied subpoenas Your link does contain a sec...

What happens if it's 50/50? Does Roberts break the tie?

It's cool, in my replacement software that I'm totally not putting off, it automatically combines consecutive posts into one. creativesoul gave me the...

So the defense has moved from "no quid pro quo" to "quid pro quo to help his re-election, but that's OK." :roll:

The articles accuse that he did. I’ll quote them again: This article accuses Trump of withholding aid with a corrupt motive, which is a violation of t...

I refer you again to these:

The Impoundment Control Act violation, described in Article 1. Abuse of Power: The 18 U.S. Code §?1505 violations, described in Article 2. Obstruction...

So I accuse you of cutting someone's head off but don't accuse you of committing the crime of murder, and so therefore the thing I accuse you of isn't...

Is that supposed to be a joke? It doesn't matter how they title the articles. What matters is whether or not the acts described in the articles are cr...

Obstruction of Congress is a crime. 18 U.S. Code §?1505. Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees And despite the title...

Never heard of him.

This trades on ambiguity. Could be interpreted as: P1. Eternal happiness > everything else P2. Everything else > philosophy

Ergo, @"jamalrob" is stupid.

Step-sister so no luck for you.

Mad Max

Good call. At the airport now though. Back to my dull life.

Nobody is saying otherwise.

Because nature doesn’t determine the meaning of words.

You’re missing the point. Nature may determine your sex chromosomes and birth genitals but it doesn’t determine that the word “man” strictly refers to...

Nature doesn’t decree what words mean. Language users do.

I think people tend to deify words too much. They want to say that there is some strict meaning to words like “sex” and “gender” and that they refer t...

I can’t seem to find any bars :sad: My sister loves it though.

I was never heard from again.

Fear of drowning is why I hate the water. Breaking down just makes me even more paranoid.

Speedboat breaks down halfway to Ko Lan. I hate the water.

So hot here in Thailand. Welcome change from freezing England.

Prude.

How is it a false impression if it's true? My point is that even if they're "highly driven, intelligent, powerful and dominant", the fact that they're...

P1 is equivalent to “this sentence is false or P2”, so I think assuming P1 is to assume P2, not to prove it.

1. P1 ? P1 ? P2 2. P1 ? P2 ? ¬P1 ? P2 3. P1 ? ¬P1 ? P2 This sentence is false or I am a woman. I think that assuming P1 to be true is to assume that I...

Chicks with dicks. Best of both worlds.

Yeah, but I'm going to Thailand on Friday so it's all uphill from here.

Except for The Shoutbox. And Feature requests. And Trouble threads/posts/posters.

Perhaps the issue (if there is one) is that a lot of the women in anime seem to be overly sexualised school girls designed to appeal to a young male a...

I think this misses the point. If it were as simple as taking out bad people then I'm sure many would be in favour of taking out Kim Jong-un, Xi, Dute...

To stop following politics.

The separation of powers is balanced against the principle of checks and balances. The President isn’t free to do anything without oversight.

18 U.S.C. § 1505 Although as has been mentioned, impeachable offenses need not be specific crimes. The above notwithstanding, Congress can determine t...

The validity of these memos has been rejected by a federal judge: https://www.scribd.com/document/429138545/Read-judge-s-ruling#from_embed "The Court ...

The (accused) constitutional violations are that of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The House has decided that they are examples of high c...

High crimes and misdemeanors are mentioned in the Constitution. I'm just saying that you have to look at something other than the Constitution to lear...

The Constitution doesn’t specify what counts as high crimes and misdemeanours. You’ll have to look outside the Constitution to understand what the fra...

The universe is at least three times bigger than the world!

What's the relevance of this? I was just explaining that the grounds for impeachment aren't always "vague" and "open". There are legal standards that ...

I think the Mueller investigation showed that this isn't always the case. Part of the reason that no member of the Trump campaign was charged with an ...