Re: the Denver thing (turning off license plate readers to thwart ICE), wouldn't it be really funny if the feds reminded Colorado's leadership that marijuana is still illegal federally and the ATF could cheerfully change its "just ignore it" attitude at any time, leading to shutting down those juicy dispensaries that deposit a massive pile of tax revenue into Colorado's coffers?
I think I found the problem with these assertions.
I honestly don't understand impeachment at all, the last 4 years just made it more confusing than i thought possible.
It's a fancy ritual surrounding the legal process of formally charging the President of the United States with a serious crime and prosecuting him for it. To simplify it, think of the House of Representatives as a Grand Jury (i.e. they decide whether to lay charges or not), and the Senate as the trial court (i.e. they decide whether the President is guilty or not, and if he is, they decide what his punishment should be) and jury. The difference is that the Grand Jury here is a big chamber full of hundreds of fucking idiots instead of just a small room of a handful of idiots, and "the jury" is one hundred other fucking idiots who decide on guilt and penalty.
The only other real difference between this and a regular legal proceeding is that the courts don't have the authority to remove the President from office (only Congress does), and the punishments available to Congress after conviction are limited to fines, barring from holding office in the future, and immediate removal from office (with or without barring from holding office in the future). Nobody even thinks of fines anymore and these retards only think in the here and now (so "future prohibition" isn't good enough), so "impeachment" these days always means "try to kick him out."
Otherwise, it's the same as any high-profile courtroom circus. Lawyers being pricks on both sides, heated arguments, witnesses and cross-examinations, all that bullshit. Highly publicized and edited for content, of course.
Noteworthy tidbits: there have only ever been four impeachments of American presidents. Andrew Johnson was the first, Bill Clinton was the second, and Trump was the third and fourth (they hate him
so much they pulled the same shit twice, and the second one was filed and conducted
after he'd already left office because they wanted to try to prevent him from being eligible to run again).
No American president has ever been convicted in an impeachment, much less removed from office. The whole fucking thing is a circus. Since Clinton was impeached, every individual Congress has had some dipshit write up an impeachment and shoved it into a committee, knowing it would get shot down (so they could claim "hey well I tried" to his constituents). For example, there were over a dozen attempts to get impeachment rolling against Barack Obama. Naturally there were several efforts to impeach Bush Jr. as well, and of course countless attempts to take a swing at Trump.
It's never accomplished anything. Literally wet farts. And an absurd waste of tax dollars and congressional resources.
it's actually not because the political boards suck and exist solely so i mods can move retard arguments out of on-topic boards.
lol I love this so much. This is the only site on the internet that's so open about tard-wrangling its users.
