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  1. JetBlue

    JetBlue Well-Known Member

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    Blowing it is how she made it this far in politics so it will likely be her first instinct.
     
  2. Br4d

    Br4d 2018 Weeb Ewbank Award

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    I have a couple of thoughts on a potential Kamala Harris Presidency.

    First, she might be a disaster for the Dems but at this point in our history she clearly would be a disaster for the GOP. She would be looking at all the potential criminality around Jan 6th with the eye of an ex-prosecutor and not the eye of a politico.

    This means she would likely be thinking along the lines of "where can I get convictions?" not "what is best for the country?" Obviously there are a lot of people connected to Jan 6th in the GOP establishment and it really would not be hard to get about a half dozen high profile trials going with Trump as the marquee candidate in that process. There are people who aided and abetted the people who would riot the next day by inviting them into the Capitol Building for tours on Jan 5th. MTG is so exposed here it is insane. She actually did not know which areas of the building she was not allowed to take visitors too and she and her posse were escorted out of several sensitive areas by Capitol security.

    Secondly, there is the Abraham Lincoln-Andrew Johnson axis of intent and action to think about. Lincoln was determined to bring the country back together again after the Civil War and he had plans to reconcile with the South and to make the post-war period as peaceful and self determinative as possible. This within red lines like protecting former slaves and ensuring that no organized rearmament occurred. Then he got assassinated and Andrew Johnson became President. Johnson was a southerner who had remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War and he began a series of very harsh and punitive actions against the South, partly in misplaced retribution for Lincoln's assassination. Johnson needed the strong backing of the Northern electorate and needed to prove that he was a Union man and the way he saw clearest to do that was to make the South pay for their rebellion.

    So Biden is likely the better President to have in office right now for the GOP. He's a known factor and he has not launched a punitive action against the Jan 6th rebels to this point. Harris is a completely unknown factor and again the ex-prosecutor is going to be looking at "what cases can we win?" Which should be a very frightening prospect for a party that was knee-deep in sedition on Jan 6th.
     
  3. Acad23

    Acad23 Well-Known Member

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    So basically what you're saying is Kamala's a vindictive bitch.
     
  4. Jonathan_Vilma

    Jonathan_Vilma Well-Known Member

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    Sounds more like a wet dream he had last night.
     
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  5. Br4d

    Br4d 2018 Weeb Ewbank Award

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    I'm sure that's how you took it from deep in your foxhole.

    What I said was the Kamala Harris is an ex-prosecutor and prosecutors have a particular way of looking at an issue - one that is inculcated by our justice system and the political system that underpins it.

    Somehow I doubt that if Harris was male your immediate reaction would have been "Harris is a vindictive bastard? however I might be wrong on that.
     
  6. Acad23

    Acad23 Well-Known Member

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    Not sure a sitting President prosecuting their political enemies is a good look... especially one that was not elected to the position.

    Trump was a vindictive bastard... he tried that shit and didn't get anywhere.
     
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    BrowningNagle Well-Known Member

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    They are prosecuting criminals.

    Ex president or ex president’s nominee, or not, they are not and should not be above the law.
     
  8. Jonathan_Vilma

    Jonathan_Vilma Well-Known Member

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    There are thousands of people advising the President including the VP who is an ex-prosecutor.

    Do you think Biden has no one looking at any of this through the views of a prosecutor?
     
  9. BrowningNagle

    BrowningNagle Well-Known Member

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    Of course he does but Biden is more likely to listen to people like Acad who say prosecuting politicians is a bad idea
     
  10. Jonathan_Vilma

    Jonathan_Vilma Well-Known Member

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    This isn’t a trial. This is an investigation.


    Kamala Harris can’t even speak in public without cackling and huge amounts of backlash with every word she says. Her staff continues to resign and the ones that remain try to hide her. You really think she’s going to go after this hard and fast and take a huge stand like that given the fact that she’s actively doing a bad job any time she’s in the spotlight?
     
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  11. BrowningNagle

    BrowningNagle Well-Known Member

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    seems like a separate argument you are making. I’m not arguing she would be a good president or not, and I don’t see how “cackling” is relevant to the discussion.

    I just agree with Brad that she would be more likely than Joe Biden to enforce the law with the insurrectionist criminals given she has direct experience enforcing the law in her career
     
  12. Jonathan_Vilma

    Jonathan_Vilma Well-Known Member

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    Right. And I’m disagreeing with that. She’d ride out her term and not take any sort of measures that bring the spotlight to her. She can then enjoy her life as the first female President and retire into the sunset because it’s obvious high ranking political official is too big of a spotlight for her to handle.
     
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  13. Br4d

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    There's a difference between being an adviser and being the decider.

    That's what I am saying.
     
  14. Acad23

    Acad23 Well-Known Member

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    Au contraire my little pinhead.

    I'd love to see heads roll... but they only go after low hanging fruit.

    Marjorie Taylor Greene?... c'mon... she's nothing.
    The real crimes happen way above her pay grade... and the evidence is right in front of us.
     
  15. abyzmul

    abyzmul R.J. MacReady, 21018 Funniest Member Award Winner

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    @Cman65 @Petrozza

    Now that the BS Forum has effectively become the Politics Forum, can you please reopen the Politics Forum and sweep all this crap into it?
     
  16. BrowningNagle

    BrowningNagle Well-Known Member

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    No you wouldn’t …

    I literally was just responding to your post when you said they shouldn’t be held accountable
     
  17. Acad23

    Acad23 Well-Known Member

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    Where did I say that?
     
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    Cman69 The Dark Admin, 2018 BEST Darksider Poster

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    Actually, I think Petro is waiting for the mid-terms to open the Politics Forum again. I rarely visited that cesspool anyway so I could care less if its opened again or not..JMO
     
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