Random Politics & Religion #33: Donald John Trump Is The 45th And Current President Of The United States. All Of Your Viewpoints Are Invalid.

Not the case here but except when related to property

I guess I get all mixed up with who chants the whole lock her up ***and/or why each person wanted her locked up lol... so if the Clinton foundation is involved in shady/illegal stuff what do you think should happen to the clintons?

Thank you, Candlejack, for that excellent demonstration of how the topic of Russian collusion has jumped the shark and is basically now just a meme.

You see, folks, just because you can successfully play a game of "Six Degrees of Vladimir Bacon" doesn't mean that you suddenly have a bombshell. And when you don't have a clue how anything in the real world works (like our friend here), it's best to just stop acting like a hyperactive chihuahua anytime you hear the word "Russia", give it a rest, and let it just play out.

You don't want to be the guy with hundreds of posts about how Mueller's going to nail Trump any day now just to have the same hundreds of posts quoted back at you if (and likely when) it turns out to be a major flop.

I only ask for the impossible, a.k.a. a fair and thorough investigation.

Foreign governments are finding ways to do favors for Trump’s business
McClatchy

Emollients clause stuff. Please do read on.

If you're now staking your hopes of a Trump impeachment on emoluments clause violations, you're looking at an even bigger pipe dream than Russian collusion. The clause is vague, extremely difficult to prosecute, and most cases get tossed out by judges before they see the light of day.

I think if CJ didn't post he would run through the streets naked saying the Russians are coming the Russians are coming. Wait he probably already did that.

He is like Paul Revere if he didn't take his medication....

It's all a Russian conspiracy to get vodka prices to a reasonable price in Moscow so the can tolerated the terrible winter...or so the legend says...

I have said before that I have yet to see an impeachable offense.

I post articles I find interesting.This does not mean I have any investment in them.

Could you post articles that the rest of us might find interesting ?

You wrote an autobiography?

Former House Speaker Boehner 'has evolved' on marijuana

Hopefully the rest of the right will get on board with full legalization. Ever since the "War on Drugs" started we've had nothing but a rampant increase in the social costs of drug use due to the economic benefit from the black market created. Police now go around assuming every person is a hostile armed drug dealing waiting to kill them, and thus Police brutality and overuse of deadly force has happened. Prison is now filled with minor drug offenders thanks to "hard on drugs" laws and due to them having such a record they are now unemployable by legitimate business's, resulting in them turning right back to the black market. Drug dealers and gangs don't care if you have drug related convictions, in fact it's a positive for them.

Just overall legalization and taxation would solve far more issues then it creates. Revenues can be used for state education programs, Police force can be de-militarized, prisons emptied and many unemployable people made employable. Courts empties of all the minor drug related offenses and so forth.

Probably be reading a prescription of Prozac followed by heavy drinking of Jack Daniels...wait that is my autobiography

Your statement makes no sense, it's like asking if the sky is blue.

I find the term black market offensive.

no, he's saying that convicted felons (convicted of drug offenses) are returning to dealing drugs (the black market) because they can't find gainful corporate employment with a criminal record.

mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines enacted during the "war on drugs" have created a vicious cycle of criminality

Drugs =/= illegal substances. The black market is merely a term referencing the natural market that occurs when there is a large demand for illicit substances. Prior to the "War on Drugs" such a market existed but the social costs were relatively small due to lax enforcement. Go back further prior to prohibition and the social costs were practically non-existent by comparison.

Ok at a computer so can type fully. My post was about social costs which break down into two separate categories.

The first is the use of excessive force by the Police due to them "fighting a war" everyday against invisible "drug bad guys". They are trained that every person who isn't a uniformed police officer is an invisible treat and should be treated as such. This is because violent drug dealers are generally indistinguishable from regular civilians on a day to day basis. The black youth the police offer is pulling over might be an innocent university kid or an armed drug dealer and because the office has no real way to distinguish between them they assume the later and are trained to respond to potential life threatening situations with extreme lethality. The police are in a catch-22, if they don't assume everyone is going to shoot them, then they will miss the one who is going to shoot them and end up dead.

The second is the massive prison population and resulting massive unemployable population it creates. Someone gets baged for possession and gets a six month suspended sentence (extremely light punishment), congrats they now have a drug related conviction on their record and will be lucky to work menial jobs for the rest of their life. Or they can join a gang and get far better economic reward. This is why California is pushing to remove minor drug related convictions from people's records. These are majority black youths which results in a huge number of black children growing up without a father figure which results in even more crime and social problems.

Both of those issues snowball into the multifaceted shitfest we have now. Deschedule it and treat cannabis the same as Alcohol and Tobacco, taxed with a minimum age requirement for purchase. Instead of someone buying from the local drug dealer they would buy from the local Cannabis / Convenience store. Social problems solved with an economic windfall for education institutions.

So, the goal is to make the raid seem as petty and pointless as possible? Do they even know what they're investigating anymore?

What's their next move, raiding NBC offices for hilarious outtakes from "The Apprentice"?