Lincoln

Trump sent Rudy to do the strongarm work off the books. Sending a personal representative to conduct state business would be a major issue. The closed hearings were necessary to keep early witnesses from huddling up and fabricating a passable story. If the next guy doesn't know what like the last guy told, they can't cover up so easily. I appreciate your willingness to engage but at this point it seems like your posts amount to excusing problematic behavior, coming up with unlikely potential scenarios that dont consider the reality of the situation, and making broad accusations against the Democrats. Alot of the phrases you use read right off the Fox News playbook. Things like "people have been out for Trump since the beginning" and the whistle blower being associated with the Dems. As if those are somehow unreasonable positions or detract from the merits of the evidence against Trump. Not trusting media sources is another one. "Don't believe what you see and hear, listen to me" says Trump. That's some 1984 shit. At this point I don't see how there's anything that will convince you off your points so I'm probably gonna have to dip out of this thread. I would encourage you to keep and open mind though and think critically about anything you read or watch. I know right wing media is garbage but I also know there's a lot of crap from the left leaning sources too. Try to find the good stuff, it's out there.

Most people have the wherewithal to not say something like that while being filmed for tv. That clip of him mocking the disabled reporter during the campaign has been going around again. That alone would have cost anyone without a built in cult an election. The idea that he would mock someone like that is atrocious, but to project that image as a world leader is unforgivable. Hand waving away all the bullshit that falls out of his mouth as hilarious or otherwise inconsequential is doing everyone a huge disservice.

Yes, this is a major point. Doing all this through a personal lawyer and back channels is a tipoff that this is for the benefit of trump himself, not the country. Biden doing it was through official channels, and everyone understood that which is why nobody has had a problem with what he did. There's also the point that Trump did not actually care if the Biden we're doing anything wrong, or even that Ukraine actually do an investigation. He was only after the announcement, because that would be politically damaging. If this was official business and he was legitimately concerned, he would want to know the answer.

This is right wing talking point bs. The Democrats are doing their jobs. The Republicans are the ones openly declaring they'll defy the law to keep their party in power. And that's after decades of pulling the party hard right to compensate for their shrinking base. There are no bridges left to burn after the right has spent the last 30+ years tearing them down.

The articles that passed are not directly for breaking the law. They are more like being accused of not doing his duties properly and being unfit to continue holding his position. Still valid reasons to remove him according to the Constitution, but not going to get him convicted in court. Obstruction of Justice and bribery, 2 of the other charges considered, are actual law breaking. I think those were not voted on because it's not as clear cut to prove and it would give the Republicans something to latch on to draw people's attention away from the more easily provable claims. That said Trump is very clearly a criminal who's been skirting the law for decades and finally got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. we might actually see charges against a former president whenever he leaves office. I've seen it suggested that getting elected was probably worst case scenario for Trump because he now has people paying attention to the things he got away with before.

Where are you getting this about the whistle blower? Afaik they haven't been outed yet. That's actually one of the major concerns for the Senate trial, that the Republicans would call that person to testify and blow their protection just out of spite. At this point their tip has been corroborated by like 17 people. There's nothing they can say now that justifies exposing them. And its pretty disengenuous to assume their motivation is strictly due to associating with the Dems (which, again, source?) rather than having actual concern over law breaking or abuse of power. And what are you going on about with the closed hearings? Again afaik they were run by the book and both sides had opportunity to do whatever they needed. The only complaints I've heard were from Republicans who were outright lying. Oh and the group that threw a fit and stormed a session they had no clearance for.

He was an outsider and the party was all in on Clinton basically from the start. He had a good showing. He's in second place nationally right now. He just needs to get to the point the media can't (literally) ignore him and the party can't try to push him aside any more. And Biden is basically sweating it out trying not to torpedo himself until voting.

The house is delaying the start of the trial because McConnell has already declared he'll be working with the white house to fix things in their favor. Letting that happen accomplishes nothing. Trials rarely having smoking guns in real life. What we do have is a mountain of evidence and testimony that demonstrates corrupt or criminal patterns and behaviors. None of this has been "crying wolf". The Mueller investigation directly led to several felony convictions. Trump himself is an unindicted conspirator identified by that investigation. The downside was that it covered too much ground to be easily digestible by the public. Hence the impeachment investigation focus on new crimes, and very narrow articles that everyone can understand and are very difficult to dispute.

I'll check into it if I remember. From what I know of him, he has some pretty out there ideas on various topics.

He is dangerous to the ultra wealthy. Some of them own media properties, so they use that against him. The rest of the candidates, save for maybe Warren (idk for sure), are pretty friendly to the upper class.

Also Reddit. So, lots of reputable sources, with many insightful comments from the crowd to provide context. Most of the talking points from the right are misdirection or willful misinterpretation of facts. They do not argue in good faith. Without getting into minutia, the president strong arming an ally country to damage his personal political opponent is pretty clearly abuse of power. Obstruction of Congress comes out Trump directing basically everyone loyal to him to ignore lawfully issued subpoenas. I haven't seen any convincing defenses against either of those.

I mean i grew up in a red state and was registered R for a long time. And I still side with them on certain issue like gun rights. But today's Republican party is so obviously corrupt from the top down I cant in good conscience support them. Combined with the fact they constantly vote for the interests of the rich regardless of what they say to the public, they are doing basically nothing to justify me voting for them. I did vote for Gary Johnson last election. But again, California, so it doesn't matter. This time around I think the Dem primary is the real race, and rules here do allow me to vote in that race even being registered L.

Are electoral college votes redistributed after every census? Without that it won't matter much. The electoral college is a fair idea in concept but at this point it pretty safe to say it's broken. With bush you could reasonably make.the argument for it, but Trump lost the popular vote by 3 million plus. That is terribly skewed against the will of the people.

Trump has plainly been corrupt and unfit for office going back to the election. Impeachment was a necessity because the opposite stance is tacit acceptance the president is free to do as he pleases regardless of law or rules of governance. The idea that this hurts the Democrats with anyone other that Trump's diehard base is right wing propaganda. On the contrary failing to hold the president accountable would be a bad look for the Democrats. Trump will not resign, he's a narcissist so his ego won't let him. Plus he's staring down indictment by SDNY for actual crimes as soon as he's out of office. I also don't see him being removed by the Senate as McConnell and company have openly admitted they are willing to violate their oaths in service of Trump. What's interesting is pelosi might just sit on the articles now they've passed. This prevents Republicans from running a sham trial and Trump from being "exonerated". That's probably the most damaging thing that can happen until the election. As for the election I don't see Trump winning again. Too many on the left are fired up the idea of him being reelected and too many in the middle realize they made a mistake voting for him last time. Sanders and Warren would be great for the people, but Warren is losing steam and Sanders is fighting a media blackout. Biden would be better than Trump but he's not going to improve anything for anyone. Stopping the bleeding would be good enough though. Buttigeig probably closer to Biden than the first 2. I'm libertarian voting D no matter what but I live in California so it doesn't matter.

Nothing official. There is at least 1 homebrew cd game that came about after they figured out how to emulate the hardware.

I forget what the reason is but this was a planned release that was ready to go and just never sold. Think cheetahmen 2 or nba elite 11. Something to do with Sony's rules around publishing a game. They were effectively barred from doing the release. The guy who owned the physical copies sold a few off privately at a convention (Portland?) and all the high dollar copies are people scalping them. This guy in particular is selling a bullshit story to go along with it. I actually got to play one of these as a friend was given a copy.

The warranty sheet is the one that has the serial # printed to match the console, unless I'm mixing up papers. That was a must have for me.

How are you picking games? Random or easy or? I'm assuming you have a bunch of weird titles that most westerners aren't familiar with, it'd be cool to see some of those with gameplay pics

The adapter was a Kickstarter by someone else a while ago wasn't it? Did hyperkin buy them out or steal the idea? And psa for anyone interested, there's a guy who put out rom patches for most of the zapper games, which you can use on a flash cart/repro. Edit: I looked it up. It's "modern mallard" from July 2018. It didn't get funded. It was an adapter board for dh and replacement zapper internals. I'd say there's a good chance hyperkin's thing is a continuation of that project.

thread with some good info here. ceramic stovetop cleaner is the generally accepted suggestion. there are a handful of others that are divisive.

I voted expensive only because those are the ones I always check but any cart I sit down to play I'll clean properly the first time which usually requires opening

IIRC I changed the pixel ratio to better match what my NES was showing on screen. I used the matchup screen from punch out and some post it notes to mark the outer portrait corners, then switched to the avs and tweaked until it was close.

The first time I played half life I got bored waiting in the shuttle during the intro sequence and jumped out. Apparently that is not supposed to be allowed. The shuttle left and I couldn't continue to the next scripted sequence.

HDMI will be around a long time. The standards makers will just upgrade HDMI protocols incrementally. It'll always be backwards compatible. TV's in 2019 support resolutions from the 1940s. 720p support isn't getting dropped in your lifetime.

Pat Contri has asserted for a long time now that the panesian games have been hoarded. Regardless of your opinion of him he's generally on point and I'm inclined to accept he's right. For as high profile as they are they are rarely available even at not-serious prices.