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Abnormally mild weather for june, though! Actually looks like the next week won't breach the 90s where I'm at. Humidity's likely to hit 100%, uh. Every day. But still!

... any case, if you haven't done it before and have a freezer, a bowl of ice in front of a breeze (fan, whatever) can help a fair bit. Makes the worst of it slightly less worst, for a bit.

Oh, there's no few that's as bad or worse. Your average batch of junk mail would provide a handful of examples, really, and if you felt like digging elsewhere you'd find plenty of businessfolk that can only be described as goddamn scum. Is what happens when you have strong attempts to limit efforts to curtail those kinds of shitheels.

... though it's probably a good idea to note that being on par with people who make a living draining the bank accounts of the elderly and infirm is, perhaps, not a statement of praise or notation of normality ethics wise for your actions.

E: Basically, don't mistake it. Trump is goddamn scum, particularly so far as business dealings go. But's he's only particularly notable scum because his inheritance let him get away with being scum to more people and people with more money than the more normal sorts tend to prey on.

Of course, he'd have to be successfully impeached or resign first. Nixon resigned just before the impeachment happened and Clinton got accquited by the Senate. What happened with Clinton was pretty blatantly political, even though it was technically the correct use of it.

Eh, one of the fun bits about this whole mess is we don't actually know that. The question of if the president is subject to criminal trial and whatnot while in office has never actually been explicitly and fully answered by the judiciary. Impeachment in the short term may be pretty unlikely, but the possibility of that question coming before the SCOTUS is one that's on the radar if not yet with a strong signature.

... in any case, trump has indeed said he'd be 100% willing to testify under oath. And that statement was not legally binding. It unfortunately doesn't mean much of anything, just like any number of things (taxes? Sanders debate? Top of head empty now but going on would almost certainly be easy if you cared to) he's previously said or promised and then reversed on. Fun times would be abounding if it actually happens, but I'd hold the party poppers for him being fully sworn in.

Well sure it's amateur. If what you're doing is flooding, there's not much reason to use much else for most of it, and it's probably cheaper than alternatives you could be doing something more nuanced with.

I don't think it quite works that way with the WH. I know they forced the Nixon Adminstration to give up the tapes, but I have no idea if they'd have to resort to a warrant.

They didn't with nixon because the white house handed the tapes over when the brass tacks finally came knockin'. If trump was more recalcitrant, I'm not sure which branch of our enforcement infrastructure would be rap tap tapping on the white house door, but I can't see any reason (save possible classified info issues, in which case you only send in minions with clearance) your normal procedure wouldn't happen. You'd still need a warrant before doing any pillage-y things that can happen when someone refuses a legally binding subpoena. Extra bonus points, you'd have precedent on what to do if this level of mess happens again :V

... I'unno about that last bit. By and large what happens of that nature outside the court room/official case related communication/whatever stays outside said court room. Beyond that, trump could ridiculously easily just be lying, and respond to being under oath by taking out a stamp inlaid with "5th" and applying it directly to his forehead.

Leaked, leaker charged, media/electorate has memory of goldfish. Shouldn't forget last one, probably. To a fair bit it was news worthy just because part of it was new. Something being reported before doesn't stop a lot of outlets from flailing about like it's breaking for the first time.

Eh, it's not so much weird as... very GOP, at the moment. They're pretty hyper defensive about... a lot of things, really. Kinda' what happens when you're trying to cover for a conman, heh.

Any case, it just hit me I had completely forgotten about the ohio thing. Anyone happen to be paying more attention and willing to summarize/mention what went down, there?

Wait are there seriously Anti-Comey attack ads?

That is incredulous!

Word choice aside, attack ads bloody nothing. Last I noticed like (at least) half the GOP politician roster was trying for some variation of character assassination against the guy. It's got bonus points for being hilariously inconsistent; they're shitting on him and his credibility regarding basically everything negative (i.e. accurate) he said about trump, and then doing an immediate heel-face backflip and crowing to the skies about how everything he said that could be pretzel-humped into being positive or relief-giving legality wise was truth as absolute as god's own piss. The cognitive dissonance being displayed is giving a pretty good go at being staggering.