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Again. You're not king remember? But how am I to understand this? You're OK with child abuse? Seriously?

You should. They're your neighbours so you'd better work it out.

Let's start with psychological abuse. You can basically verbally abuse your kids because protected by free speech and child protection services can't ...

OK. :brow: Do you have any sensible policy suggestions to deal with these problems given the nature of reality where you're not king? Or are you on th...

What about defamation? What about spreading lies about a competitor causing him to lose money? What about copyright infringement? What about psycholog...

Because there will be a trial in the Senate, Maw. I know you've got your mind made up about his guilt regardless of what the Senate will conclude. Tha...

If the EU is done with it come end of October there will be a no-deal Brexit despite what the UK Parliament thinks of it.

I agree but Street is right about the underlying issue. There's something broken if a society is this polarized, the two parties are almost always at ...

It does to me. A lot people think it's a sort of legal proceeding and if he survives impeachment, they can play it as "not guilty" and that will be to...

It's "presumed innocence". That's a big difference and it's a legal concept that requires the jury and judge to uphold the standard of there not being...

Good question. There's new facts out compared to last time. I think the relevant House committee members must already know something we don't, because...

Oh noes! :groan: "Let's throw about accusations to distract from the fact my statements are baseless and I don't have an argument." If trying to tease...

At least Europe.

I've dealt with your "corrupt intent" remark as inconsequential to impeachment at least 2 posts back and again in the last. You're mysteriously dense ...

I wasn't referring to our disagreement on the matter but the fact that Barr and Mueller disagree. You're appealing to authority and it makes me wonder...

Again, you didn't answer it and are just repeating yourself. What if reasonable people disagree? What then? How do you suggest to resolve this on the ...

You answered yes that you were aware of several documents and statements yet nothing in your answers reflect actually knowledge of them. That's why I ...

Again a mischaracterisation. Mueller didn't refuse, he believed he was bound by department policy that he wasn't allowed to and that indeed Barr's ass...

I am aware that Barr, a Trump appointee, claimed no crime was committed. But then I'm not the one on record in this thread misrepresenting Mueller cou...

This is contrary to what Mueller has repeatedly said. See my previous post on the matter directly quoting him. This is also in Volume 2 of the Mueller...

Mueller was very clear as to why he did not comment on whether Trump should be "pursued" in his May 29 statement: In other words, no amount of evidenc...

Because they haven't been litigated I say possible because I presume his innocence. But there's plenty in the report that gives me pause (as a lawyer)...

Read the Mueller report. 10 possible instances of obstruction of justice.

Except he lied about more than just a confusion of dates: 1. He lied about when he was contacted, while it was clear he was contacted precisely becaus...

So, do you think it's accurate then?

Why do you call it an intervention in politics? Why not say it is a decision based on constitutional principles?

No I don't. You need to read the full report.

You're both more or less wrong. There's no such thing as criminal collusion. The hoax is that Trump introduced a term he could never be convicted of. ...

This is nonsense. The rules of the game affect how the game is played. The electorate does not have unlimited power or knowlegde, even if they could h...

don't lie. You'd know more if you did.

Not again. Over half of Brexit voters don't want a no deal Brexit. So at most 25% of those who voted in the referendum for Brexit are in favour of no ...

link please?

While I agree there are consequences to how the EU operates resulting from the way it is constituted I would resist the notion that flexibility is a g...

It wasn't an argument against the point you were making, merely that I think the "flexibility" qualification required more context. The basis not to a...

I think the issue here was that it wasn't an opt out, which you decide before signing up to an aspect of the EU legal regime but an attempt to renegot...

This analogy doesn't work. The EU passes laws which often have direct effect in the national legal order even if national legislators fail to implemen...

And yet there are European countries part of the EU that are less democratic. The democratic deficit of the EU has been exaggerated for years now foll...

Expulsion from the USA could be perfectly done by Ice, as it had been doing, without separation. The court system was also overloaded because the chan...

There was no loophole. Children were separated from their guardians before the Trump administration when there was doubt about their familial relation...

The strangest choice of words considering who we're talking about. It's as if it's projection. For the rest, your love note was tldr as I got nauseous...

Exactly. And the reason for that is that there appears a divide between people who think the end justifies the means and those who don't. And in the U...

Because if impeachment fails, it will be held against all democratic candidates raising his chances of re-election. I think the effect on Democrats be...

Maw, it's not that I don't see your point, it's that I think you're overestimating the effects. Your rationalising, with numbers even, what is all abo...

They may disapprove but will it change their voting behaviour? I don't think so.

You assume people care. You do, other Democrats do. The average Republican clearly doesn't because anything is better than a Democrat. They'd have vot...

Why do you believe waiting with impeachment until possibly after the elections is wrong? If he's reelected you still get a chance.

Trump is immune to scandals. If you throw shit at shit, it still looks the same. Moreover, the idea the media landscape of watergate is the same as no...

I didn't say never, I said, wait until after the presidential election. Edit: Also a nice example of the elitist bullshit that has people that "are to...

Great. If that's the case then it will be a horrible case of inexperience compounded by impatience.

That's not politics over principle. That's employing politics to reach the principled goal of removing an unfit president. If they lose the election, ...