US Politics Mega-thread - Page 216

On May 22 2018 03:23 PeTraSoHot wrote:
Unrelated note:
My ban period has expired but I'm still unable to send PMs. Can some mod look into that for me plz?

On May 22 2018 09:57 PeTraSoHot wrote:

Would someone be so kind as to PM a mod asking him to PM me about my inability to send PMs?

On May 22 2018 09:57 PeTraSoHot wrote:

Would someone be so kind as to PM a mod asking him to PM me about my inability to send PMs?

On May 22 2018 10:09 Plansix wrote:
https://twitter.com/cbudoffbrown/status/998701637886775299

This is the entire reason why the Republicans spent millions investigating the private server issue. And it’s not like this is a new issue. NPR reportered on this less than two weeks after Trump took office.

https://twitter.com/samsanders/status/998731284808527872

Any amount of information, classified or potentially harmful to Trump himself, could be stolen from that phone. Or put him and his security detail at risk. It was pointed out over a year ago and no one did anything.

On May 22 2018 11:23 Emnjay808 wrote:
Id love a hypothetical where Trump deletes thousands of "classified/non-classified" emails and nothing happens to him.

On May 22 2018 06:40 IgnE wrote:


it's not circular. your second paragraph is closer to the point, but Biff already pointed out where Kant talks about this and you can read the wiki if you prefer a summary.

i like this little essay, if you still feel 'skeptical'

Now I may say without contradiction: that all the actions of rational beings, so far as they are appearances (occurring in any experience), are subject to the necessity of nature; but the same actions, as regards merely the rational subject and its faculty of acting according to mere reason, are free. For what is required for the necessity of nature? Nothing more than the determinability of every event in the world of sense according to constant laws, that is, a reference to cause in the appearance; in this process the thing in itself at its foundation and its causality remain unknown. But I say, that the law of nature remains, whether the rational being is the cause of the effects in the sensuous world from reason, that is, through freedom, or whether it does not determine them on grounds of reason.

For, if the former is the case, the action is performed according to maxims, the effect of which as appearance is always conformable to constant laws; if the latter is the case, and the action not performed on principles of reason, it is subjected to the empirical laws of the sensibility, and in both cases the effects are connected according to constant laws; more than this we do not require or know concerning natural necessity. But in the former case reason is the cause of these laws of nature, and therefore free; in the latter the effects follow according to mere natural laws of sensibility, because reason does not influence it; but reason itself is not determined on that account by the sensibility, and is therefore free in this case too. Freedom is therefore no hindrance to natural law in appearance, neither does this law abrogate the freedom of the practical use of reason, which is connected with things in themselves, as determining grounds.

The hearing came on the same day that the Senate Banking Committee approved an amendment that would block Trump from easing sanctions on ZTE without first certifying to Congress that the company is complying with U.S. law, and a week after the House Appropriations Committee approved a similar provision.

EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox told the barred organizations they were not invited and there was no space for them, but gave no indication of why they specifically were barred.

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Guards barred an AP reporter from passing through a security checkpoint inside the building. When the reporter asked to speak to an EPA public-affairs person, the security guards grabbed the reporter by the shoulders and shoved her forcibly out of the EPA building.

https://www.apnews.com/a3521859cf8d4c199cb9a8567abd2b71

On May 23 2018 04:11 PhoenixVoid wrote:
The AP and CNN was banned from a summit on water contamination held by the EPA.



I can understand CNN, but this is the AP, the most barebones, fact-based reporting news agency around. I can't help but feel this is retaliation for breaking Trump's ties to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, because of the timing and the suspiciousness of them claiming they didn't invite or make space for the AP of all outlets.

At least the EPA did allow them back, but this isn't exactly a good precedent.

On May 23 2018 05:33 Excludos wrote:


I can't understand CNN either. They're far from the worst, and don't deserve half the rep they've been getting from the right winged crowd. It's not like we're barring The Onion here.

On May 23 2018 05:41 farvacola wrote:
Not that Phoenix was doing this, but Golden Mean'ing media outlets a la casually asserting that entities like CNN are just as bad as Fox News is the bread and butter of conservative apologia.

On May 23 2018 05:58 PhoenixVoid wrote:

I put in CNN that way because we are all very well aware of the Trump administration's feelings about them. But the AP? They're the least offensive, most milquetoast reporting agency ever with like Reuters and AFP. Only reason I could see them getting banned was over their recent reveal of Trump's Middle East ties, because they rarely, if ever, get into partisanship or opinions.