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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: December 29, 2023, 09:21:24 PM »
It is the issue of who can be appointed to the position that is in question.

https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/583/
Perhaps Trump should have taken that to the Supreme Court right after Smith was "illegally" appointed.  That would have saved him a ****ton of legal fees.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: December 29, 2023, 03:54:35 PM »
It has to do with the fact he was not working for the Justice Department when he was appointed.

Where in the code does it say that he has to?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/515
That code does not allow for the creation of a federal office by the Attorney General, something that only Congress can do.
The Attorney General did not create a federal office.  The Office of Special Council already exists and has since 1979.  The Attorney General simply appointed Jack Smith to serve in the role of Special Council for this investigation and prosecution.  Perhaps you are confusing the office with the role.
https://www.justice.gov/d9/press-releases/attachments/2022/11/18/2022.11.18_order_5559-2022.pdf
The Office of Special Counsel is not perpetual.
Maybe not, but it was established long before Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith to the position.  What's your point?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: December 29, 2023, 05:26:28 AM »

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: December 28, 2023, 04:39:03 PM »
It has to do with the fact he was not working for the Justice Department when he was appointed.

Where in the code does it say that he has to?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/515
That code does not allow for the creation of a federal office by the Attorney General, something that only Congress can do.
The Attorney General did not create a federal office.  The Office of Special Council already exists and has since 1979.  The Attorney General simply appointed Jack Smith to serve in the role of Special Council for this investigation and prosecution.  Perhaps you are confusing the office with the role.
https://www.justice.gov/d9/press-releases/attachments/2022/11/18/2022.11.18_order_5559-2022.pdf

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: December 28, 2023, 04:38:27 AM »
It has to do with the fact he was not working for the Justice Department when he was appointed.

Where in the code does it say that he has to?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/515

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: December 27, 2023, 03:51:33 PM »
In the long run, the top-notch jackass will probably be found to have no legal standing to prosecute the case to begin with.
Why would you say something silly like that?  Why wouldn't he have any legal standing?  It's not as if former presidents are immune from crimes commuted while in office. 


Wait... Do.. do you think Jack Smith was asking SCOTUS to rule on the case without an actual argument/trial being done?  Because thats what you seem to imply above.
That is exactly what happened.
No.  Jack Smith asked SCOTUS to hear oral arguments and then rule on the appeal on Trump's motion to dismiss so that the actual trial can proceed.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: December 26, 2023, 07:03:42 PM »
It so happens, he does not. Trump isn't the jackass bring stupid fucking arguments to the court.
Whether or not Trump has presidential immunity is not a "stupid fucking argument".  It's the heart of Trump's defense.
Tell that to SCOTUS.
Jack Smith already did and got "bitch slapped" for it.

I will qualify it further by labeling it a stupidly ill-timed and ill-placed argument which was treated accordingly by SCOTUS.
We all know that Trump's presidential immunity argument won't stand up in the lower courts and is headed to SCOTUS anyway, so Smith just wanted to save everyone some time.  So SCOTUS said no.  BFHD.  In the long run it probably hurts Trump more than Smith.

BTW.  Presidential immunity is not Jack Smith's argument; it's Trump's.  One that was rejected by Judge Chutkan and the Trump legal team is now appealing.  Smith was simply trying to expedite the appeal to SCOTUS because we all know that it's headed there anyway.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: December 26, 2023, 05:45:24 PM »
It so happens, he does not. Trump isn't the jackass bring stupid fucking arguments to the court.
Whether or not Trump has presidential immunity is not a "stupid fucking argument".  It's the heart of Trump's defense.

The second line of the text you quoted.
"Why wouldn't Trump take the opportunity to exonnerated by the highest, indesputable court?"
I think that the reason that A80 won't answer this question is because deep down he knows that Trump won't be exonerated by any court.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: December 26, 2023, 03:29:34 AM »
*sigh*
I'm trying to present my argument from Donald Trump's perspective, not from Jack Smith's. 

Wouldn't it be to Trump's benefit to have the Supreme Court decide that he has presidential immunity as soon as possible so that all of those pesky felony charges would just go away?
Wouldn't it be to every US Citizen's benefit to allow the conduct of due process within the courts and not have jackass top-notch prosecutors making jackassed arguments to the wrong court?
Not if it means that Trump can escape justice by running out the clock, getting himself reelected and having the Justice Department drop all actions against him.
Well, your position is simply ridiculous and one that clearly identifies who is truly the extremist.
If wanting to keep a vindictive, egomaniacal, pathological liar out of the White House makes me an extremist, then sure, I'm an extremist.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: December 24, 2023, 07:16:20 PM »
*sigh*
I'm trying to present my argument from Donald Trump's perspective, not from Jack Smith's. 

Wouldn't it be to Trump's benefit to have the Supreme Court decide that he has presidential immunity as soon as possible so that all of those pesky felony charges would just go away?
Wouldn't it be to every US Citizen's benefit to allow the conduct of due process within the courts and not have jackass top-notch prosecutors making jackassed arguments to the wrong court?
Not if it means that Trump can escape justice by running out the clock, getting himself reelected and having the Justice Department drop all actions against him.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: December 24, 2023, 06:33:26 PM »
*sigh*
I'm trying to present my argument from Donald Trump's perspective, not from Jack Smith's. 

Wouldn't it be to Trump's benefit to have the Supreme Court decide that he has presidential immunity as soon as possible so that all of those pesky felony charges would just go away?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: December 24, 2023, 03:10:16 AM »
How can a supposed "delay, delay, delay strategy," exercised by Trump possibly = a shit-ass argument posed by a top-notch federal prosecutor by the name of Jack Smith? Are you now claiming that Jack Smith is one of the "deplorables"?
If the Supreme Court were to decide that Trump enjoys presidential immunity, then the 91 felony charges go away, right?

If presidential immunity makes those 91 felony charges go away, then wouldn't you want that to happen as soon as possible?

All that dragging out the process as long as possible does is rack up more lawyer bills for Trump.

Or do Trump and his lawyers realize that presidential immunity isn't a thing once out of office and they need to run out the clock and hope that Trump wins another term so that he can kill these cases once and for all?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: December 22, 2023, 11:06:43 PM »
Looks like Trump's delay, delay, delay strategy is working.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/22/politics/supreme-court-trump-immunity-jack-smith/index.html

Is it just me, or does it seem that if it's true that Trump does indeed enjoy presidential immunity, then he would want the Supreme Court to say so as soon as possible so that all of those pesky felony charges can just go away and he can focus on destroying democracy once and for all?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: December 22, 2023, 08:42:54 PM »
Nah, manufacture a fake scandal, keep talking about all the evidence you have when you have no evidence, and anybody could lose to Trump. Hillary wasn't special.
With all of the reals scandals that Trump was (and still is) involved in at the time, Hillary must have been very special to lose.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: December 19, 2023, 11:34:55 PM »

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: December 17, 2023, 04:00:36 AM »
So the value of a Trump NFT is based on the value of the Ethereum crypto currency, and the value of Ethereum is based on... nothing.  Seems like a sound investment to me.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: December 14, 2023, 08:30:00 PM »
Pfft.  And dine with the peasants?
No no, you get the limited edition NTF, which is only limited because no one wanted to buy it.
Well, he does make you buy enough NFTs to assure him that you are at least an upper middle class peasant.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: December 14, 2023, 12:19:05 AM »
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-selling-pieces-mugshot-suit-read-the-fine-print-2023-12

From the article:
"In the event President Trump is unable to attend the Bonus Gala Dinner," or the dinner cannot happen for any other reason, "then we may reschedule the Bonus Gala Dinner or individuals who qualified for the Bonus Gala Dinner will be awarded a limited edition Trump NFT in lieu thereof, as determined by us in our sole discretion," according to the terms.

Yeah, you may have to wait until Trump gets out of jail before he can make it for your dinner.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Do rockets push off the air?
« on: December 13, 2023, 01:35:32 AM »
Visual evidence of a rocket exhausting gas is not evidence.

FTFY.
*sigh*
Two simple questions for you:
1) Is momentum conserved in a closed system?
2) Is momentum conserved if matter leaves a closed system?

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Do rockets push off the air?
« on: December 12, 2023, 12:37:30 PM »
A rocket is a closed system.

It is a fact it loses matter to its external environment.

It takes in nothing in exchange from its external environment.

All facts.
If that's true, then you shouldn't have any trouble citing a credible source that agrees with you.  If you can't do that, then don't bother replying.
You have not posted anything that disagrees with it.

There are plenty of videos on this forum conclusively demonstrating rockets ejecting matter into the external environment.

It is established a rocket is a closed system.
You have not cited anything that says that a closed system can eject matter into the external environment.   I have cited several examples saying that closed systems cannot eject matter into the external environment.  I can cite more if you want. Can you cite any?

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