First Charges Filed in Mueller Investigation

Poor Nedrick..6 more years of cutting, licking and pasting. The body is long gone and the mind can’t be far behind.
 
PhDeac said:
If he lies, he lies.
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Dam, yo.. I didn’t actually think you’d break out slides from your latest presentation..that was sweet :)

Now that’s what I call really sinking in.. Its all about engagement.

Props 2 U Prof
 
Imagine sailor’s and Angus’ disdain if a Hilary associate was caught in a lie like that. Surely they will be along to condemn !
 
Yea, imagine your career long response when she has been caught in innumerable fucking lies.

That’s right.. so “Meh” back at you bitch. How do like that shoe on the other foot Mofuggie? Oh, yea.. is that right? ..well get ready for 6 more years of it right square in your GD Face. MAGA!

:) have a lovely evening
 
Junebug said:
I don’t recall claiming to be. I have libertarian leanings, but I can’t get on board with total deregulation. Market failures happen and the tragedy of the commons can’t be overcome with nothing but sunlight.
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Came across this article about this twitter thread today.
https://boingboing.net/2019/03/07/s...QhglJx_S9TRFxdkV1abfH1dRFWyQIKuI6vnouWhlrBAsA

In a brilliant Twitter thread, UCSB political scientist Matto Mildenberger recounts the sordid history of Garrett Hardin's classic, widely cited 1968 article "The Tragedy of the Commons," whose ideas are taught to millions of undergrads, and whose precepts are used to justify the privatization of public goods as the only efficient way to manage them.
Hardin's paper starts with a history of the English Commons -- publicly held lands that were collectively owned and managed -- and the claim that commons routinely fell prey to the selfish human impulse to overgraze your livestock on public land (and that even non-selfish people would overgraze their animals because they knew that their more-selfish neighbors would do so even if they didn't).
But this isn't what actually happened to the Commons: they were stable and well-managed until other factors (e.g. rich people trying to acquire even more land) destabilized them.
Hardin wasn't just inventing false histories out of a vacuum. He was, personally, a nasty piece of work: a white supremacist and eugenicist, and the Tragedy of the Commons paper is shot through with this vile ideology, arguing that poor people should not be given charity lest they breed beyond their means (Hardin also campaigned against food aid). Hardin was a director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform and the white nationalist Social Contract Press, and co-founded anti-immigrant groups like Californians for Population Stabilization and The Environmental Fund.
Mildenberger argues that Hardin was a trumpist before Trump: He served on the board of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), whose talking points often emerge from Trump's mouth.
(Hardin quotes that didn't make it into his seminal paper: "Diversity is the opposite of unity, and unity is a prime requirement for national survival" and "My position is that this idea of a multiethnic society is a disaster...we should restrict immigration for that reason.")
As Mildenberger points out, this isn't a case where a terrible person had some great ideas that outlived them: Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons was a piece of intellectual fraud committed in service to his racist, eugenicist ideology.
What's worse: the environmental movement elevates Hardin to sainthood, whitewashing his racism and celebrating "The Tragedy of the Commons" as a seminal work of environmental literature. But Hardin is no friend of the environment: his noxious cocktail of racism and false history are used to move public lands into private ownership or stewardship, (literally) paving the way for devastating exploitation of those lands.
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I'm pretty sure that there are double jeopardy problems with the Manhattan DA's indictments. They seem to relate to the same act as the federal charges and the same loan(s).
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
I'm pretty sure that there are double jeopardy problems with the Manhattan DA's indictments. They seem to relate to the same act as the federal charges and the same loan(s).
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Yeah I’ve read that as well. It sounds like he Manhattan DA did a poor job on that set of indictments. Something like 9 of the 16 are potentially for the same thing he was charged in federal for.
 
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