U.S. Politics

[OrbitalDawn]

Second take, conservatives frequently site the benefits of "Western Culture", which I generally agree with, how many countries that still have the death penalty would you regard as being "Western"?

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-with-death-penalty

Perhaps there needs to be a realization that the vast majority of western cultures have abondoned the death penalty..

Plus, one of the underpinning principles in "western" jurisprudence is Blackstone's ratio.

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."

 

[Cray]

Few people support killing innocent people. The problem is, once you've killed them, it's too late.

Sentenced to death, but innocent: These are stories of justice gone wrong.

Since 1973, more than 8,700 people in the U.S. have been sent to death row. At least 182 weren’t guilty—their lives upended by a system that nearly killed them.

www.nationalgeographic.com

More Innocent People than Previously Known Came Close to Being Executed, US Study Finds

For every eight people executed in the United States since the 1970s, one person has been wrongfully convicted and later exonerated, underscoring the risk of innocent people suffering the ultimate punishment, a death penalty research group said Thursday. In a new report, the Death Penalty...

www.voanews.com

Yup, and let's not forget how politically motivated prosecutions in the US are...

More than a few DAs have broken the law so as not to appear soft on crime, hiding evidence and testimony to get their preferred result.. And now the stakes are permanent..

As long as the appointment of chief prosecutor is a popularity contest, there can be no true dispassionate application of justice..

 

[Grant]

Couldn’t we add a 4th?

4) Should Trump get a state funeral or not?

Could be done, but I'm not sure anyone would watch

 

[OrbitalDawn]

lol, Republican Governor from WV calling other Republican Governors politically correct for ending mask mandates.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1367526319085522944

 

[greg0205]

A real twofer, too - Good examples of the shameless dishonesty that's welcome in the GOP and how "sosheeluzm!" doesn't actually mean anything.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1367485664632188933

Marsha Blackburn:

MB: I don’t think you will see me being persuaded that climate change is a genuine threat. What you do see me –

RH: No, but what evidence would it take to persuade you of that?

MB: Well, what you do see me as, being concerned about is conservation and the preservation issues. Now, some of those have shared goals and outcomes and some of those are components where you’re going to say we’re just going to agree to disagree on that issue.

RH: Can I ask, do you accept the theory of evolution?

MB: No I do not.

Also Marsha Blackburn:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1367550849585733635

 

[Cray]

Could be done, but I'm not sure anyone would watch

I feel this clip is appropriate...

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Yup, and let's not forget how politically motivated prosecutions in the US are...

More than a few DAs have broken the law so as not to appear soft on crime, hiding evidence and testimony to get their preferred result.. And now the stakes are permanent..

As long as the appointment of chief prosecutor is a popularity contest, there can be no true dispassionate application of justice..

Reminded me of this John Oliver bit about judicial elections. An absolute joke, imo.

 

[Dave]

Could be done, but I'm not sure anyone would watch

I’ll bet you that the rest of the grifters in his family would try and sell tickets to the event.

and probably gold plated coloured miniature coffins as souvenirs.

 

[Cray]

Reminded me of this John Oliver bit about judicial elections. An absolute joke, imo.

Jesus, have watched it before, but that Ad at 3:25 is so crazy that it almost doesn't seem real

 

[OrbitalDawn]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1367463499836882946

 

[greg0205]

QAnon theorists switch date to March 20 after no Trump inauguration, call the 4th "false flag"

Right-wing conspiracists who support QAnon began to express doubt over the significance of March 4—which they previously believed to be the date of Donald Trump's re-inauguration—last month.

www.newsweek.com

 

[wbot]

Killing someone who is an imminent threat to others is very different to killing someone, who, if properly incarcerated, will never be able to harm anyone else again.

The punishment for murder should be life without parole, the moment you sanction state killing, you sink to the level of the crime you are trying punish.

I don't agree but I'll just leave it at that

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Deeply unserious, ******* of a person.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1367571206908575754

 

[AlmightyBender]

Deeply unserious, ******* of a person.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1367571206908575754

What an utter cretin

 

[cerebus]

Shot:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1366846908480815106

Chaser:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1367243450140086274

 

[RanzB]

Deeply unserious, ******* of a person.

Is this who Chris means when he talks about the party of the working people?

 

[greg0205]

Oops...

Federal investigators are examining communications between US lawmakers and Capitol rioters

Federal investigators are examining records of communications between members of Congress and the pro-Trump mob that attacked the US Capitol, as the investigation moves closer to exploring whether lawmakers wittingly or unwittingly helped the insurrectionists, according to a US official briefed...

www.cnn.com

 

[Temujin]

 

[greg0205]

Who wants to tell them?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1367548888106827777

 

[greg0205]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1367572122684432386