Trump asks Russia to conduct espionage against Hillary Clinton

Is it possible for a reasonable man to think Hillary committed no crime with regard to her emails?

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I think it shows just how shady a businessman he is that he thinks a treaty, a binding contract of mutual defense, can be violated if it’s convenient.

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This is referred to as “Schrödinger’s Asshole.” Whether or not a comment is a joke cannot be determined until the reaction the the comment is observed.

If anyone in the DNC wants to deny they said they wrote the emails attributed to them, I will let them do that themselves. It would be a pretty easy thing to do. I take Wasserman Shultz’s resignation as an admission that she really did write the things that were leaked.

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Several people have already told you that you’re reading the poster’s comments wrong. They are always biting satire, not meant to be taken literally. We like the posts because we appreciate the humor.

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Are you willing to share the algorithm you use to determine which tweet he makes is ‘just a joke!’ and which is policy?

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while they’re at it, the russians could deliver us trump’s tax returns. let’s find out how much in debt the big old cheeto is.

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Title 18 U.S. Code § 2381 defines treason, but since that was written before Congress cravenly abdicated most of their duty to officially declare war, 50 USCS § 2204 was written to officially define enemies using the internationally recognized legal term hostilities*. Under any precedent based reading, or indeed any serious study of the process of defining treason in the USA, treason simply cannot happen without a state of open war, although not necessarily one ritually declared as such by Congress. However, the Obama administration has found it convenient to discard the conventional, international definition of hostilities, in order to avoid being accused of violating the War Powers Act. So it’s all totally up in the air now.

Look, you asked.

 

* “[W]here Congress borrows terms of art in which are accumulated the legal tradition and meaning of centuries of practice, it presumably knows and adopts the cluster of ideas that were attached to each borrowed word in the body of learning from which it was taken and the meaning its use will convey to the judicial mind unless otherwise instructed.” Morissette v. United States, 343 U.S. 246, 250 (1952)

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You are awesome. Seriously. Best Drumpf thread ever.

STAAAAAPPPH. I’m enjoying this, don’t interupt!

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I used the one that allows me to detect that you don’t actually think I have a joke-detecting algorithm.

This is good. Something to remember. And re-use, thanks!

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That’s the thing - he’s not inviting espionage. It’s a joke. It’s also not intelligence. He’s referring to the missing emails Clinton was supposed to turn over to the FBI. If they’re found, should they not be turned over to the FBI?

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That’s true, he’s now saying it’s a joke. That’s quite a convenient excuse, considering that he demurred in the actual news conference when asked if he was joking. Hindsight, etc etc.

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“Death To Spies”

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So. Solitary confinement for the Putin until he bends to the fubbies will? Kay.

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Speaking of solitary confinement:

Dammit, things. This is why we can’t have nice people.

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Jokes require tragedy.

And KAOS.

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Can’t be Espionage Since it is not a government server and Clinton has assured everyone that the 30,000 deleted email have not one bit of government work of any kind in them.

Hillary said that the emails she deleted have no government work or content…they were all about yoga and her daughter’s wedding.

Don’t you believe her?

Absent breaking into a government system (which Hollary’s server was not), and also absent any government or classified content as she assures us, There is no way any break-in could ever be classified as espionage.

But we know better don’t we?