US Politics Mega-thread - Page 4254

On July 13 2016 02:06 Plansix wrote:

I will admit to being a total novice on the subject and pretty bad at it. If high level mathematics is in no way subjective, I will admit to being complete wrong.

But “Facts” in law and “Facts” in math do not have the same meaning.

On July 13 2016 01:20 travis wrote:
lol, this guy just owned her so hard

On July 13 2016 02:13 TheLordofAwesome wrote:
Who is speaking now to Lynch?

On July 13 2016 02:13 TheLordofAwesome wrote:
Who is speaking now to Lynch?

On July 13 2016 02:06 kapibara-san wrote:



is wikipedia lying to me here? cuz it sounds like u either choose to use it or you dont and nobody's claiming to have objective superiority; just sounds like a lot of mathematicians find it more useful to use it as an axiom than to use competing axioms

On July 12 2016 23:28 farvacola wrote:
The problem is that those instances are not serious and have relatively little impact on the actual well-being of individuals. Folks complaining about racial or genderized overtones in advertisements or expressions are one thing; actually substantiating the claim that "PC culture" is doing real harm is another.

Texas Representative John Carter criticized the report, saying he felt the government was "afraid to be accused of profiling somebody".

John Lehman, a member of the 9/11 Commission and Secretary of the Navy under Ronald Reagan, said he felt that the report "shows you how deeply entrenched the values of political correctness have become."

On July 13 2016 02:13 KwarK wrote:
Didn't Lynch wash her hands of the entire matter by stating that as a political appointee she wanted to avoid the appearance of partiality in order to place the outcome above all doubt and that she would therefore comply with whatever the FBI recommended? If so, why the hell is she being questioned? She wasn't even involved because she knew that they'd do exactly this bullshit.

Donald Trump is "going to try" to abide by Ronald Reagan's so-called 11th Commandment that one "shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican." But the presumptive GOP nominee is making no promises, he told Pat Robertson during an interview aired Tuesday on "The 700 Club."

"These are all going to be your troops," the longtime televangelist said, to which Trump responded, "Yeah."

As far as whether he would abide by the commandment handed down 50 years ago by the then-California gubernatorial candidate and future president, Trump was noncommittal.

"Well, I’m going to try. I’m going to try," Trump responded, as Robertson laughed, remarking that it was "tough for you."
Trump continued, "With you, I cannot tell a lie, right? I cannot tell a lie. I'd feel very guilty."

"But I will say this — look, you know, I’ve gotten more votes than anybody in the history of the Republican primaries, and I had 17 people," Trump said. "You know, others had two or three people, so it is much easier to get. Got almost 14 million votes in the primary system, which is a record. Won 37 states. We’ve had tremendous support, but every once in a while you have somebody who doesn't want to support," he remarked.

"I can't promise you that I’ll be treating that person really, really well, but I will try," Trump said. "I’ll think about you every time, OK?"

On July 13 2016 02:16 zeo wrote:

She talked with Bill Clinton before she came to that conclusion. You know the same guy that appointed her as a US attorney in 1999

Ms. Lynch said she had decided this spring to defer to the recommendations of her staff and the F.B.I. because her status as a political appointee sitting in judgment on a politically charged case would raise questions of a conflict of interest.

On July 13 2016 02:16 zeo wrote:

She talked with Bill Clinton before she came to that conclusion. You know the same guy that appointed her as a US attorney in 1999

Donald Trump chided Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a Tuesday interview with The New York Times after she gave multiple comments that were highly critical of his campaign.

“I think it’s highly inappropriate that a United States Supreme Court judge gets involved in a political campaign, frankly,” Trump told the Times by phone. “I think it’s a disgrace to the court and I think she should apologize to the court. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it.”

Ginsburg in recent days has ramped up her criticisms of Trump's campaign. She has said he's a "faker" who should release his tax returns, that she "can't imagine" a Trump presidency, and that "everything" would be up for grabs with him occupying the White House. Ginsburg's comments are unique in that a Supreme Court justice typically doesn't comment on presidential candidates during election season.

Trump went on to say that it was "beneath the court" for Ginsburg to criticize him and argued that her comments would only further energize his supporters.

"And I would hope that she would get off the court as soon as possible,” he added.

On July 13 2016 02:18 KwarK wrote:
That's not how I recall it. I recall her washing her hands of the matter weeks, if not months, before she met Clinton.

Donald Trump has seized on the incident as an example of the Clintons’ fundamental corruption. John Cornyn, the second-ranking Republican in the Senate, has called for Lynch to appoint a special counsel to run the investigation and remove herself from the process. Even Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) has said the meeting sent "the wrong signal" (he later dialed back his criticisms).

And now Lynch herself has felt the need to announce that she will accept whatever recommendations career prosecutors make as to whether to bring charges related to Clinton's emails. "The recommendations will be reviewed by career supervisors in the Department of Justice and in the FBI, and by the FBI director, and then as is the common process, they present it to me and I fully expect to accept their recommendations," she said at an event in Aspen. As for the meeting with Bill Clinton, Lynch said, "I certainly wouldn't do it again."