THE ERA OF TRUMP

[Kath]

More winning, although it will get buried under Rosanne being a racist.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 655281002/

President Trump signs S. 204, the “Right to Try Act” Wednesday afternoon.

In March, the House passed legislation aimed at giving seriously ill patients increased access to investigational drugs, a bill championed by Vice President Mike Pence.

"Right to Try" is named for Jordan McLinn, a second grader from Indianapolis who advocated in Washington for the bill alongside Pence.

The bill will let patients who are near death, or who have a disease that is likely to lead to severely premature death, potentially access drugs that have gone through only preliminary testing on humans. They would have to be ineligible for a clinical trial and have already tried other available treatments.

This is excellent news.

[nmoore63]

I don’t see more prison time in this instance increases deterrence.

[Okeefenokee]

Enabling the direct hijacking of our government - even a 100th of it - has a much greater impact than the murder of a single person. The sentence should be maximized, honestly.

18 years, dude?

You can get shit-faced drunk and kill a kindergartner crossing the street in a DUI and not get 18 years.

The whole thing has to be consistent. You can't have females getting away with 18 months for raping a boy and then some politician getting 18 years for asking what he might get out of an appointment. It's ridiculous to even defend that.

Not really. From a utilitarian standpoint, the power of a senator is exponentially greater than that of any other citizen. Destroying the integrity of that seat, and enabling a rich patron to directly override the wishes of the electorate is exponentially more harmful than killing any single citizen.

The sentence should be exponentially greater.

Do you ever stop being so disgusting?

[SuburbanFarmer]

18 years, dude?

You can get shit-faced drunk and kill a kindergartner crossing the street in a DUI and not get 18 years.

The whole thing has to be consistent. You can't have females getting away with 18 months for raping a boy and then some politician getting 18 years for asking what he might get out of an appointment. It's ridiculous to even defend that.

Not really. From a utilitarian standpoint, the power of a senator is exponentially greater than that of any other citizen. Destroying the integrity of that seat, and enabling a rich patron to directly override the wishes of the electorate is exponentially more harmful than killing any single citizen.

The sentence should be exponentially greater.

Do you ever stop being so disgusting?

I don’t know where we’d be without your insights.

[Kath]

Now President Donald Trump may pardon her for those crimes. He told reporters on Thursday that he is considering pardoning both Stewart and former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Both appeared with Trump on his show "The Apprentice."

Reality TV FTW!

[C-Mag]

The dude is guilty of crimes undermining the very fabric of the rule of law.

String him up.

I have no doubt of that. However, this is Chicago. I suspect it's standard practice and for some reason unknown to me, he was made to pay while others skate for the same offenses. I'm not against punishing those that break the law, but we must have equal justice.

[Kath]

I have no doubt of that. However, this is Chicago. I suspect it's standard practice and for some reason unknown to me, he was made to pay while others skate for the same offenses. I'm not against punishing those that break the law, but we must have equal justice.

The chance for a governor to sell a senate seat doesn't come up very often, but I'll happily put any governor in prison for doing what he did. Not sure how Chicago comes into play - this was an Illinois issue.

[C-Mag]

I have no doubt of that. However, this is Chicago. I suspect it's standard practice and for some reason unknown to me, he was made to pay while others skate for the same offenses. I'm not against punishing those that break the law, but we must have equal justice.

The chance for a governor to sell a senate seat doesn't come up very often, but I'll happily put any governor in prison for doing what he did. Not sure how Chicago comes into play - this was an Illinois issue.

C'mon Chicago politics is famous for its corruption.

[Kath]

C'mon Chicago politics is famous for its corruption.

Of course they are - ridiculously corrupt. How is that related to what the governor of Illinois did? He was not the governor of Chicago.

[C-Mag]

C'mon Chicago politics is famous for its corruption.

Of course they are - ridiculously corrupt. How is that related to what the governor of Illinois did? He was not the governor of Chicago.

Blago was associated with Valerie Jarret and BHO, so much so, Blago attempted to subpoena President Obama in his defense. Blago claimed the POTUS knew all about it and it was SOP.