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"I motion that we impose some serious term limits."
"I second that motion... with a vengeance!"

WastelandCowboy posted...

ParanoidObsessive posted...

WastelandCowboy posted...

A corrupt schmuck who doesn't even live in the same congressional district as us thinks he's qualified to represent us.

The fact that enough of you vote for him to keep him in office is what makes him qualified to represent you, regardless of where he lives.

Conservatives abound up here.

Literally Trump county.

So then your problem isn't really even candidates' locations or term limits, but the fact you don't like your fellow voters? =p

WastelandCowboy posted...

A corrupt schmuck who doesn't even live in the same congressional district as us thinks he's qualified to represent us.

The fact that enough of you vote for him to keep him in office is what makes him qualified to represent you, regardless of where he lives.

But he would have to wait 5 minutes without a post.

He abandoned this topic pretty fast.

Why does anyone still post here?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Monday that it would appeal a federal judges ruling that President Donald Trump may not legally block Twitter users from his account on the social media platform based on their political views, according to a court filing.

A lawyer for the seven plaintiffs who sued, Jameel Jaffer, said that the @realdonaldtrump account on Monday had unblocked the seven plaintiffs.

The White House and the Justice Department did not immediately comment.

Were pleased that the White House unblocked our clients from the Presidents Twitter account but disappointed that the government intends to appeal the district courts thoughtful and well-supported ruling, Jaffer said in an email.

Trump has made his Twitter account - with more than 52 million followers - an integral and controversial part of his presidency, using it to promote his agenda, announce policy and attack critics. He has blocked many critics from his account, which prevents them from directly responding to his tweets.

U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan ruled on May 23 that comments on the presidents account, and those of other government officials, were public forums and that blocking Twitter users for their views violated their right to free speech under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Buchwalds ruling was in response to a First Amendment lawsuit filed against Trump in July 2017 by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and several Twitter users.

The plaintiffs include Philip Cohen, a sociology professor at the University of Maryland; and Brandon Neely, a Texas police officer.

Cohen, who was blocked from Trumps account last June, wrote on Twitter late Monday: We whined. We complained. We sued. We won our First Amendment lawsuit in federal court. And now @realDonaldTrump has unblocked me. Wow!

Novelists Stephen King and Anne Rice, comedian Rosie ODonnell, model Chrissy Teigen, actress Marina Sirtis and the military veterans political action committee VoteVets.org are among others who have said on Twitter that Trump blocked them.

Buchwald rejected the argument by Justice Department lawyers that Trumps own First Amendment rights allowed him to block people with whom he did not wish to interact.

Trump could mute users, meaning he would not see their tweets while they could still respond to his, she said, without violating their free speech rights.

The eruption Sunday was Fuego's second this year, according to CONRED, though the first incident, in February, left far less of an impact.

Shortly after the scale of the devastation became clear, other leaders from around the world offered their condolences and words of support on Twitter.

"All our solidarity and support to the President Jimmy Morales and the Guatemalan people for the loss of human life," Mexican President Enrique Pea Nieto tweeted Sunday.

The foreign ministry in Israel, where Guatemala recently became one of the few countries to move its embassy to Jerusalem, announced that Israel would be sending emergency aid, including food and medicine.

"Guatemala," the ministry announced, "Israel stands with you!"

In the meantime, Guatemalan authorities remained at work on what could be a daunting rescue effort. As of midday Monday, CONRED said the deadly eruption has affected more than 1.7 million people.

Updated at 12:40 p.m. ET

Around midday Sunday, the bright blue sky less than 30 miles southwest of Guatemala City darkened to a billowing gray and with a vicious rumble, one of Central America's most active volcanoes stirred to life again. Mount Fuego spewed ash and lava from its heights, blanketing the lands nearby and leaving at least 25 people dead.

Many people were injured and, with others still missing, Guatemalan authorities fear the death toll may rise further as the aftermath from the sudden eruption becomes clear. More than 3,200 people have evacuated the area.

"It is too early to know the full extent of the damage," President Jimmy Morales said in a statement posted to Facebook. And, as rescue workers sought survivors in the pale gray just miles from his presidential palace in the capital, Morales added that it is a time for Guatemalans to come together in "unity, prayer and solidarity."

He has declared three national days of mourning.

Guatemala's national disaster response agency, CONRED, said overnight that the eruption lasted more than 16 hours before finally quieting. The agency described the substance ejected by the volcano as a pyroclastic flow defined by the U.S. Geological Survey as "a high-density mix of hot lava blocks, pumice, ash and volcanic gas.

The USGS notes that pyroclastic flows can reach temperatures of up to 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit and reach speeds of more than 50 mph, giving them the ability to "knock down, shatter, bury or carry away nearly all objects and structures in their path."

"It's a river of lava that overflowed its banks and affected the El Rodeo village. There are injured, burned and dead people," CONRED General Secretary Sergio Cabaas said on radio.

Eddy Snchez of the country's National Institute of Seismology, Volcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology told the newspaper Diario de Centro Amrica that thick black smoke and ash also fell for miles around the volcano including in San Lucas, Antigua Guatemala, Alotenango, Chimaltenango and Zaragoza.

Most of the victims reported initially were from the village of El Rodeo, according to Guatemala's El Peridico newspaper.

"The only thing we could do was run with my family and we left our possessions in the house," El Rodeo resident Efrain Gonzalez told the BBC. "Now that all the danger has passed, I came to see how our house was everything is a disaster."

Not everyone was so lucky. Pyroclastic flows move quickly, and in Fuego's case, the fiery rivers loosed by Fuego surprised many victims with their speed.

"Not everybody could escape," said another El Rodeo resident, Consuelo Hernndez, according to El Peridico. She spoke to a TV crew as she walked down road loud with sirens, dazed and as layered in ash as the busy roadway she was crossing. "I think they were buried."

Trump cited "numerous legal scholars" in claiming the power to pardon himself, but there does not appear to be consensus on that point. No president has ever attempted it. No court has ever tested it.
One historical view is that a president may have the power, but that it wouldn't grant him or her immunity from prosecution after leaving the presidency. In a legal opinion issued during the administration of President Richard Nixon, the Justice Department argued a president could not give himself a pardon because of the longstanding legal principle that no person could be the judge of his own case.
Trump has begun a practice of pardoning others: Last week he pardoned conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza; before that, former Vice President Dick Cheney's adviser Scooter Libby, Maricopa County, Aiz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio and others.
Trump also has granted a posthumous pardon to boxing great Jack Johnson, which clemency supporters have said could encourage more prisoners or people who have been convicted to try to get their cases onto his desk.

Updated 9:57 a.m. ET
President Trump has the "absolute" power to pardon himself, he argued on Monday morning, then asked rhetorically why he would use it because he hasn't done anything wrong.
Trump made his assertion in a Twitter post following a weekend in which his administration made a sweeping case about executive power.

Just because Trump has the relevant powers doesn't mean he will use them, supporters said.
Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said in an interview on Sunday with ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos that Trump had "no intention" of a self-pardon and in a separate interview, on NBC's Meet the Press, he said that any such move would be "unthinkable" and might lead to impeachment.

"He has no intention of pardoning himself, but he probably not to say he can't," Giuliani said. "I think the political ramifications would be tough. Pardoning other people is one thing, pardoning yourself is tough."

On NBC, the former mayor of New York said, "Pardoning himself would be unthinkable and probably lead to immediate impeachment."

However: "He has no need to do it. He's done nothing wrong," Giuliani added.
Giuliani's remarks followed reports that the president's legal team sent a letter to Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller in late January outlining a legal justification that as president, Trump cannot be held accountable for obstruction of justice and should not be interviewed by investigators.
Trump's attorneys argue that as chief of the executive branch, he has near-complete power over appointees. That means that he could, for example, fire FBI Director James Comey for any reason and the dismissal could not constitute obstruction, they argue, or he could instruct that any investigation be ended for any reason.
Giuliani, speaking on NBC, also said that it was "pretty clear" that the president has the Constitutional authority to shut down any investigation, but added that terminating a probe where the president is the target might lead to impeachment.
Trump said on Twitter on Monday that Mueller's appointment was "unconstitutional" but that he would "play the game" because he had nothing to hide.

The appointment of the Special Councel is totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Despite that, we play the game because I, unlike the Democrats, have done nothing wrong!
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 4, 2018
On ABC, Giuliani also said that the president's recollections about a statement he made about a June 9, 2016 meeting between top Trump campaign aides and a delegation of Russians offering to provide "dirt" on rival Hillary Clinton "keep changing."

"This is the reason you don't let this president testify in the special counsel's Russia investigation," Giuliani told Stephanopoulos. "Our recollection keeps changing, or we're not even asked a question and somebody makes an assumption."

"If I say something wrong on this show... if you were the FBI, my goodness, I'd they could prosecute me for the mistake. They'd say, 'of course it was a lie,'" he said.
Although Giuliani said a decision about whether the president will voluntarily sit for an interview with Mueller's team would not be made until after a planned June 12 summit in Singapore between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, he said "we're leaning toward not" doing it.
"But look, if they can convince us that it will be brief, it would be to the point, there were five or six points they have to clarify, and with that, we can get this - this long nightmare for the - for the American public over," Giuliani told ABC.

WastelandCowboy posted...

Wasn't there one PotDer who got pissed at his neighbor for making noise in the morning?

You got pissed off about people who mow at 6-7.

More than I should, no doubt.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's top deputy is meeting with President Trump at the White House Friday.

It's a prelude to a possible summit between Trump and Kim later this month to discuss the dismantling of North Korea's nuclear program.

Kim Yong Chol was expected to deliver a personal letter to Trump from the North Korean leader. He was greeted on the south side of the White House by Chief of Staff John Kelly.

The White House visit follows two days of meetings in New York between Kim Yong Chol and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Trump had abruptly canceled the planned summit last week, citing anger and hostility from North Korea. But since then, there's been a flurry of diplomatic activity as officials work to revive the meeting, which was set for June 12 in Singapore.

You mean textbook complex god. After all, I'm not a simple god like some kami.

A god complex is an unshakable belief characterized by consistently inflated feelings of personal ability, privilege, or infallibility.

A person with a god complex may refuse to admit the possibility of their error or failure, even in the face of irrefutable evidence, intractable problems or difficult or impossible tasks. The person is also highly dogmatic in their views, meaning the person speaks of their personal opinions as though they were unquestionably correct.[1] Someone with a god complex may exhibit no regard for the conventions and demands of society, and may request special consideration or privileges.[1]

God complex is not a clinical term or diagnosable disorder and does not appear in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

The first person to use the term god-complex was Ernest Jones (191351).[2] His description, at least in the contents page of Essays in Applied Psycho-Analysis, describes the god complex as belief that one is a god.[3]

The California State Senate today approved net neutrality rules that are even stricter than the federal regulations they're meant to replace.

The California bill would replicate the US-wide bans on blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization that were implemented by the FCC in 2015, and it would go beyond the FCC rules with a ban on paid data-cap exemptions. California is one of several states trying to impose state-level net neutrality rules because the FCC's Republican leadership decided to eliminate the federal rules effective June 11.

The California Senate passed the bill by a vote of 23-12, with all 23 aye votes coming from Democrats and all 12 noes coming from Republicans. To become law in California, the bill also needs approval from the Democratic-majority State Assembly and Governor Jerry Brown, also a Democrat.

AT&T and a cable lobby group spoke out against the bill at committee hearing last month, with AT&T complaining that the bill "goes well beyond" the FCC rules. But the Democratic-majority Senate was not deterred by broadband-industry arguments.

"When Donald Trump's FCC took a wrecking ball to the Obama-era net neutrality protections, we said we would step in to make sure that California residents would be protected from having their Internet access manipulated," bill sponsor Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) said in an announcement after the vote. "I want to thank the enormous grassroots coalition that is fighting tooth and nail to help pass [this bill] and protect a free and open Internet. We have a lot more work to get this bill through the Assembly, but this is a major win in our fight to reinstate net neutrality in California."

California's Senate passed a different net neutrality bill in January, but it didn't go through the Assembly. Wiener's legislation "is the first state-level bill that would comprehensively secure all of the net neutrality protections that Americans currently enjoy," according to Stanford law professor Barbara van Schewick.

The bill's core principle is that ISPs should "provide neutral access to the Internet" instead of "pick[ing] winners and losers by deciding (based on financial payments or otherwise) which websites or applications will be easy or hard to access, which will have fast or slow access, and which will be blocked entirely," Wiener's announcement said.

Besides the core rules against blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization, Wiener's bill "prohibits misleading marketing practices and enacts strong disclosure requirements to better inform consumers," his announcement said.

Wiener's bill had support from three former FCC commissioners, including former Chairman Tom Wheeler; dozens of small businesses; labor unions; public interest groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation; State Attorney General Xavier Becerra; and the mayors of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento, and other cities.

A similar bill is being considered in the New York legislature.

A big concern among net neutrality supporters is whether the broadband industry will be able to block state net neutrality rules in the court system. ISPs will argue that states are preempted by the FCC decision to eliminate nationwide net neutrality rules. But the FCC's decision to restrict its own authority over broadband might give states the ability to impose regulations protecting their residents.

@WastelandCowboy posted...

@wwinterj25 posted...

I've never played a single smash game.

how is this even possible? did you guys not have friends who played games growing up?

WastelandCowboy posted...

helIy posted...

WastelandCowboy posted...

Considering that it all stemmed from a couple random postings from a guy on Reddit, I wouldnt bank on their word being truth.

it stemmed from Jason shrier

So we should believe every word that he says as truth?

Thats how CNN and their so-called fake news started.

Do you like not read half the posts in your topics?

WastelandCowboy posted...

Considering that it all stemmed from a couple random postings from a guy on Reddit, I wouldnt bank on their word being truth.

it stemmed from Jason shrier

I've never played a single smash game.

Onix

according to kotaku and Jason shrier, it is exactly just rust with Fallout. however Bethesda has kotaku blacklisted, and Jason works for kotaku.

that screams fake as fuck to me, because Bethesda isn't going to destroy one of their only two ips that people like.

also, the trailer is using f4 assets in the current creation engine.

the current creation engine cannot do multiplayer.

Bethesda has gone on record as saying multiplayer doesn't fit their narritave.

On the livestream they had a guy wearing a Skyrim shirt. This could have been a hint at Elder Scrolls Online thus hinting this will be Fallout Online.

Rumors are it is an mmo.
Plz no.

A game surrounding the base building element from FO4 with an online focus?

No thanks.

Ugh kotaku is saying it is an online game

Apology not accepted.

I really hope it's XCOM style like the older ones. I have a feeling it's not gonna be Fallout 5.

Updated at 10:19 a.m. ET

President Trump resumed his attacks against Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday following reports that he had asked Sessions to un-recuse himself from the Russia investigation and after more erosion of his claim that the FBI spied on his campaign.

Trump used his Twitter account to echo the comments of House Oversight Committee chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., who has been using TV appearances to try to offer some nuanced support to Trump.

Gowdy told CBS on Wednesday he could sympathize with Trump's frustrations about Sessions based on what he called Sessions' reticence about his willingness to take part in the Russia probe.

Gowdy said the problem wasn't necessarily because there had been any wrongdoing in that case, but that Sessions hadn't said before he became attorney general that he felt he couldn't take part in the matter.

Trump quoted Gowdy and added his own epigram: "'....There are lots of really good lawyers in the country, he could have picked somebody else!' And I wish I did!"

Trump's and Gowdy's comments followed a story in The New York Times that said Trump had asked Sessions to reverse his recusal in the Russia case.

Trump wanted Sessions to take control of the Russia matter, The Times reported, in order to protect him he evidently felt he could exercise more control over Sessions than Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed special counsel Robert Mueller.

Gowdy sought on Fox News on Tuesday and then on CBS on Wednesday to put Trump's views into the context of the president's perspective: Trump told then-FBI Director James Comey, according to Comey's memos, that he hadn't done anything wrong but that if any of his staff members had, he wanted the FBI to find out.

And the FBI was doing just that when it sent a confidential informant to meet with three Trump campaign aides in 2016, Gowdy said.

"I am even more convinced the FBI did what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got and that it has nothing to do with Donald Trump," he said.

Gowdy emphasized the goal was to find out about Russia's interference in the election, not to spy on Trump's campaign the opposite of what Trump has claimed. Trump repeated his claim that the FBI was spying on him and his campaign on Tuesday night at a rally in Nashville.

Gowdy and House intelligence committee chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., received a secret briefing last week about the FBI's use of the confidential human source. Gowdy, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and others who have been briefed on the matter say nothing they've learned has shaken their confidence in the FBI or Mueller.

Trump and his supporters have spent months attacking Mueller, the FBI and the Justice Department with a variety of charges, including alleged "abuse of power," "bias" and others, which critics call an attempt to undercut public faith in federal law enforcement ahead of whatever Mueller's office discovers.

@Mead posted...

@ Zeus

tbh, what else do you expect 28 year-old adult children with no formal education and no job to do with their time?

What do you do for a living again?

Did I strike a little too close to home with my remark because you're basically in the same boat as NMB? =p

but it's not about him, he didn't take credit for what he said.

i'm betting the majority of those people wouldn't have thought the same thing if obama had said it