The Gaming Den

For the record, Fox News cut away from some of the most damning moments during the impeachment trial to literally broadcast nonsense. There’s no doubt that they same would have happened during witness testimony.

Maybe if Democrats could have mounted a pressure campaign denouncing Republican efforts to call, what 300 witnesses or what ever defendant counsel said, it might have turned the table. But you seem to have already concluded that Trump’s supporters won’t be dissuaded, so I don’t understand why that a...

MOWR WITNESSES would have changed the outcome? Absurd. If a public record that correlated deed and intent wasn’t enough, what could extending the trial with witnesses ever hope to accomplish?

Do seemingly harmless NPCs with surprising hidden powers count? I’m think of a 0-level human with almost maximum psionic potential beating the shit out of players in the Lost Carverns of Tsojcanth.

Mitch McConnell won the long game, with judiciary appointments. Ignoring that is to claim luck, circumstances or god, for fuck sake, filled appellate courts with conservative judges. You really are a dumbass. I’m going back to blocking all your posts.

If the resulting dialogue of what I proposed generally to address malfeasance in the democratic process is imperceptible to you, then your perception is unqualified. Because it is categorically factual that voters make choices based on perception of intent. And it is categorically factual that voter...

I would encourage evaluating every possible method to undermine the right, regardless your unqualified perception of effectiveness.

We'll We've established that it's 100% legal for an outgoing President to attempt a violent coup. I hope that Biden remembers this and takes it to heart in 2028. He's more competent than Trump and probably could get a third term out of it. This is certainly the case Constitutionally. And, to Kaelik...

I’m embarrassed to admit I forgot a fundamental travesty in the electoral process which is the restoration of voting privileges for the convicted once they have served their sentence.

While my original point was murky, it should be clear that now I was suggesting a dialogue to attack the technicality of acquittal that has, according to the Washington Post this morning, been specifically cited by 5 Republicans. The result would either make it more difficult for a Republican to con...

“Don’t hate the player. Hate the game.” The game is definitely rigged and will remain so until the business of government includes the electoral process as well. That means outlawing gerrymandering, using a different method for how congressional representation is calculated, requiring all fdc regula...

I watch a lot of political ads. The consistency game is what you play to establish a persona worthy of election. I’m suggesting that the ante for the consistency game gets risen. Nothing. Nothing can be done about the state of the Republican Party now. You have to make the current strategy to win ha...

I don’t think it’s all or nothing, Kaelik. Marjorie Taylor Greene ran Trump’s playbook step by step and now she has been legislatively removed from all her appointments in congress. And if you think people who are actually interested in policy haven’t noticed that her untenable position has made her...

I wouldn't suggest actually attempting to pass legislation, RIGHT NOW, regarding the language of the constitution. I'm saying that you get your opponents on the record regarding their willingness to entertain legislature that strengthens the language of the Constitution. So if a Republican voted to ...

Political calculus requires you to engage your opponent on each of their positions and convince voters of their indefensibility until you prove your superior ground.

My positions are neither stupid, nor impossible. They are simply positions from which to play the game.

Whatever wrote:Mitch is literally 100% personally responsible for the vote being delayed until Trump was out of office. That's his excuse because he wanted it to be. Take it away and he would absolutely find, or create, something else.

Agreed.

it stands to reason that the door too amend the Constitution to clarify the impeachment process has been flung wide open. Fuck no, it doesn't. Amending the constitution requires 2/3 of both the House and the Senate, and 3/4 of the states. It's a nonstarter. I know of at least 3 Republican senators ...

I'm not a lawyer either, but I know enough about the Framer's intent to understand that the Constitution is an imperfect document and there is a mechanism in place to amend the Constitution to clarify that language. It was clearly demonstrated that a majority of conservative and liberal Constitution...

If you can’t parse the subtext of my point, you are a terrible lawyer.

To put this in den terms, if Republican neckbeards are going to OSR the constitution, “only” because a tenuous interpretation of the RAW, they should have their feet put to the fire and adopt a homebrew, eg: amendment, to the document.

This being the 2nd time that an official has been impeached, but acquitted on the technical argument that they can be convicted for having left office, the only real way to address the Republican hand-wringing about the constitutionality of impeachment is to introduce an amendment.

Hey, Lago. Post the video to which you’ve commented?

A simple etymology search would refute your claim about the word orc. If you can find a couple of pre-Tolkien sources that talk about a race of orcs, I'd love to see them. Bonus points if they hate elves. I won’t vouch for the legitimacy of this website: https://www.etymonline.com/word/orc But the ...

A simple etymology search would refute your claim about the word orc. And I remember reading somewhere that it was as a slur used in Europe for Huns or Mongols. Whether the word half-elf was used before Tolkien is pedantic. Elf is a word that existed before Tolkien and a person, place or thing havin...

Yes. Definitely legal spin, but I think it only covered hobbits and ents. Orc was a word long before Tolkien and anything can be half-something.