Current Events > B8 Politics Containment Topic #1: Fuck Fandom

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Lot of board invasion to CE lately

I'm out of loop did another board get banned? Or is title meant as to keep political discussed contained to this thread.

I'm out of loop did another board get banned? Or is title meant as keeping political discussions contained to this thread.

On Board 8 political discussion was largely kept to a single "containment" topic. With the new rules that topic has been banned so now it has to be created on this board for the group of us to keep having our conversations.

On Board 8 political discussion was largely kept to a single "containment" topic. With the new rules that topic has been banned so now it has to be created on this board for the group of us to keep having our conversations.

We have people coming in from other boards just to talk politics?

This is sad and hilarious at the same time. Fandom kills everything it touches

On Board 8 political discussion was largely kept to a single "containment" topic. With the new rules that topic has been banned so now it has to be created on this board for the group of us to keep having our conversations.

We have people coming in from other boards just to talk politics?

This is sad and hilarious at the same time. Fandom kills everything it touches

CE would be a lot better off by following B8's example and having a continuing series of politics topics and keeping the discussion there but it'd never work, too many people and too many of them would actively flaunt trying to keep it contained.

Justice Elena Kagan pushed Trumps attorney on just how far presidential immunity could go, raising the hypothetical scenario of a military coup by an ex-president.
How about if a president orders the military to stage a coup? Kagan asked.
If its an official act, there needs to be impeachment and conviction beforehand through Congress, Trumps attorney, D. John Sauer, said.
Kagan asked if Sauer believed such a coup would be an official act.
On the way you described that hypothetical, it could well be, Sauer said.
That sure sounds bad, doesnt it? Kagan said.

Justice Elena Kagan pushed Trumps attorney on just how far presidential immunity could go, raising the hypothetical scenario of a military coup by an ex-president.
How about if a president orders the military to stage a coup? Kagan asked.
If its an official act, there needs to be impeachment and conviction beforehand through Congress, Trumps attorney, D. John Sauer, said.
Kagan asked if Sauer believed such a coup would be an official act.
On the way you described that hypothetical, it could well be, Sauer said.
That sure sounds bad, doesnt it? Kagan said.

I have been summoned! Alas I need to now have CE in my posting history lol but it is what it is!

Yeah the Scottish government stuff is pretty interesting. Its quite the gamble by the SNP as there will now be a confidence vote that is going to be extremely close. Assuming nobody jumps ship the opposition has it by a single vote but theres a wrinkle. Now Labour, the Conservatives, and the Lib Dems are all voting against the government of course, and the Greens have indicated they will as well. However, there is one MSP called Ash Regan who was elected for the SNP and even stood for the leadership last year but left for a small nationalist party called Alba (the reason being shes a transphobic crackpot and wanted to make a big deal out of that by defecting). Now if she votes with the government, itll be a tie, the Presiding Officer will break the tie and presumably vote with the government. It seems she has said she hasnt made her mind up yet so the SNP will presumably be lobbying her pretty hard.

Now what is very apparent is a recent rightwards shift in the SNP, which is in part due to them trying to keep their big conservative faction in check. The SNP are basically split down the middle between the left-leaning progressives usually from Scotlands central belt and the conservatives usually from the rural areas, all united by support of independence. They seem to be about equal in number, though the left-leaning faction has been dominant for years and years. So my assessment is that the SNP are facing the same problem as parties like Sinn Fein in Ireland where they have two diametrically opposed factions tearing the party apart.

If it does go through it will most likely lead to an election with Labour as the big winners as theyve peeled off both moderate unionists from the Tories and Lib Dems and left-leaning nationalists who are fed up with the SNP. Of course paradoxically this could hurt Labour in the general election due some time this year by making them spend money on a whole other campaign. So yeah, quite an interesting situation!

Justice Elena Kagan pushed Trumps attorney on just how far presidential immunity could go, raising the hypothetical scenario of a military coup by an ex-president.
How about if a president orders the military to stage a coup? Kagan asked.
If its an official act, there needs to be impeachment and conviction beforehand through Congress, Trumps attorney, D. John Sauer, said.
Kagan asked if Sauer believed such a coup would be an official act.
On the way you described that hypothetical, it could well be, Sauer said.
That sure sounds bad, doesnt it? Kagan said.

"Just impeach the person doing a military coup" is so stupid.

How exactly is that a solution? You think they won't use the military to shut down the impeachment hearing also?

Sorry folks, Ive never been to B8 but I would like to add my two cents if you all dont mind.

*ahem*

Fuck Fandom.

Sorry folks, Ive never been to B8 but I would like to add my two cents if you all dont mind.

*ahem*

Fuck Fandom.

As he considers immunity in a case centered on a president's refusal to accept his electoral defeat, Justice Samuel Alito suggested that not giving presidents immunity will actually discourage peaceful transfers of power.
Alito pressed Michael Dreeben, the attorney for the special counsel, on the idea that an outgoing president who looses a hotly-contested election will be disincentivized from leaving office peacefully because he will fear prosecution by the administration of his successor, a "bitter political opponent."

Complaining about needing to be on CE while posting on CE is not going to go too well, methinks.

But this board isn't really that bad IDK why everyone has their panties in a bunch about coming here. I would have preferred the Politics board to stay the one place to discuss politics and lock that one up but alas Fandom doesn't really think anything through.