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  1. Yeah, sorry. I'm getting them mixed up since SDNY received help from Mueller to raid Cohen's place, and because all of them can pass info to the state of NY, IIRC.
  2. He's not issuing a pardon to Cohen, and it doesn't matter if he disowns them. Cohen's a shithead regardless as to whether or not Trump likes him. He also can't pardon anybody charged by SDNY.
  3. The fact that Cohen is going to jail and testifying against the president, that Stone was arrested and smacked down by a judge, plus the many who have been indicted and Flynn basically getting called a disgrace to the flag, means much already came out of this. Some of you guys need to refrain from associating this with bringing down Trump. Whatever happens to him, the fact that awful people are getting court time, jail time, and are being smacked from the pedestal they thought they were on has been highly enjoyable but a long time coming.
  4. Cohen To Detail Alleged Trump Lawbreaking. White House: He's A 'Convicted Liar'
  5. While it won't get passed the Republican-controlled Senate, the fact that Democrats are not afraid to vote yes on this shows a change in the times. Getting there.
  6. OH, that one. I couldn't figure out how tf you could have beaten the pipe one with no bullets.
  7. In 1990, Lee's dramedy "Do the Right Thing" lost in its best writing category at the Academy Awards, the same year that "Driving Miss Daisy" — about the relationship between a black chauffeur and his white wealthy employer — took home a statue in a separate writing category. "I'm snakebit. I mean, every time somebody is driving somebody, I lose," Lee, 61, said to laughter in between sips of champagne. "But they changed the seating arrangement!"
  8. Spidey beat Incredibles 2. VERY happy to see that! I usually root for the Pixar film because it's typically the best animated film I'll see in a given year and usually one of the best I've seen of a year, period. But Spidey was a remarkable achievement and, interestingly enough, the better of the animated superhero movies.
  9. In my case, I'm not really behind anybody since the field isn't set and I want to watch the debates first, so I can't be disappointed yet. In a wide open field, no candidate needs to consolidate majority support, so it's not even possible yet to know who's walking away with the nomination. I know that Sanders wouldn't need to a convince a majority of Democratic/Independent voters, though. I think even big changes have become accepted by the American public. Americans support a progressive tax on the rich via income taxes, which didn't exist until major reform was introduced to our tax code. Medicare was dubbed as "socialism" (which it is a socialistic program, but it was used as an attack on it) by people like Reagan. Now it's an incredibly popular program. In fact, the ACA is a great example of this because it fundamentally shifted our conversation about health care. Democrats had to fight tooth and nail to get the ACA passed. Now, Medicaid expansion is hugely popular, even in red states. Getting rid of the ACA now requires going up against removing protections for people with preexisting conditions, removing staying on parents' health care, and eliminating Medicaid expansion. It also goes up against people who finally could get cancer treatments, or could get health insurance between jobs that wasn't really expensive COBRA. Conservatives always try to make this sound like the scariest shit, and time after time, they're completely wrong. Gay marriage didn't lead to marrying donkeys and toasters as heyyoudvd predicted. I say Democrats get bold since the bold options typically end up being the correct options, and Republicans will call anything they do socialism. We should be listening to progressives more instead of thinking they represent some fringe faction.
  10. tbh, the performance is great on the base as well; it's just the resolution that's also base (usually 1080).
  11. Indications are that it's PS5. At this point, if PS5 releases next year, then I don't think it's high priority to get the PS4 BC for the reason you stated.
  12. And a lot of Democrats do, more than 20 - 30 years ago. Many progressives continue to change the direction of the party. But still, that's what I mean: many "moderate" Dems (who are just Democrats who can believe in a billion liberal causes but want to call themselves moderate since they think it sounds better) are not always accepting of the progressive vision, and the Democrats in power are always behind what will eventually be accepted. They're behind the times consistently historically. Progressives had a vision for Civil Rights. Conservatives in the south try to block it and failed. Conservatives were wrong. Progressives thought gays should serve openly. Moderates thought there should be a compromise where they can't actually serve but we won't ask what they are. Conservatives were against the "homosexual agenda." The progressive vision won out years later. Progressives were opposed to the Iraq War. "Moderate" Democrats thought they were far-left and came across as anti-America, so they decided to vote for the war with a skeptical frown on their faces. Conservatives were gung-ho about the war. The progressives were right, and the moderates who didn't subscribe to their vision tarnished the party to the point where it was used against them in the 2016 election by a Republican. Progressives thought gays should legally marry. Moderates thought, "Nah, man and a woman, but let's do what's achievable via civil unions." Now moderates support gay marriage because they had to catch up to progressives. Progressives wanted to go further with the ACA, and moderates/conservatives voted against it. Now, even if you run for the Senate in Alabama, supporting it is a minimum requirement. It's to the point to me that I'm tired of calling something extreme just because some assholes on TV and Republicans say something is. Just about everything I've believed in that was considered extreme is now considered common sense. And ironically it's those "moderates" who are trying to dictate that, even after calling these things extreme a decade ago. The only thing extreme, time after time, ends up being what conservatives were thinking at the time.
  13. We go through this all the time. "We're not ready for an anti-war candidate like Dean. Let's get somebody who can win like John Kerry. America will love him. Republicans call him a WAFFLER? Ha, Americans gon' be like, 'then bring on the syrup [which the Democratic Leadership Council actually said]'" The fact is the Democratic Party has gotten more liberal, and people who want a true progressive party continue to take more of a hold on a party that, every time it does the "moderate" thing that Dems are "ready" for, produce really bad policy.
  14. A ton of guys online were celebrating previous rumors that he was no longer attached to the project and was possibly fired. A lot of these guys also think that it failed financially since it didn't make as much money as "event movie with original cast returning for the first time in decades." He's not making fun of you; he's making fun of those weirdos.
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