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Chelsea Manning running for US Senate
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Sat Jan 13, 2018 6:42 pmby Fartsniffage
Chelsea Manning, the former US intelligence analyst who was jailed for leaking classified documents, is seeking the Democratic Party nomination to run for the US senate in Maryland.
Manning will be challenging 74-year-old incumbent Senator Cardin for the Democratic nomination.
Mr Cardin has held the Maryland seat since 2007, and is favourite to retain the seat for a third term in the heavily-Democratic state.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42679005So this is a thing that's happening. What say you NSG, good thing? Bad thing?
Please try to keeping things polite. Manning is a she and she's served her punishment for her crime.
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Sat Jan 13, 2018 6:47 pmby Petrasylvania
The smear campaign will be brutal, and no doubt there will be an unhealthy sprinkle of transphobia.
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Sat Jan 13, 2018 6:49 pmby Uiiop
The shit's she known shows integrity regardless of whether you approve or disapprove of it. That kinda puts her up for the list celebrity candidates/suggestions if not at the top in my eyes.
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Sat Jan 13, 2018 6:54 pmby Thermodolia
We have a megathread for the 2018 elections
Posted:
Sat Jan 13, 2018 6:56 pmby Fartsniffage
Thermodolia wrote:We have a megathread for the 2018 elections
You do?
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Sat Jan 13, 2018 6:56 pmby Soldati Senza Confini
I will go with "no".
I can take that she is a "she", and that she served her time, but a leaker running for government is not who I would vote for.
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Sat Jan 13, 2018 6:58 pmby Soldati Senza Confini
Fartsniffage wrote:Thermodolia wrote:We have a megathread for the 2018 elections
You do?
Yes
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Posted:
Sat Jan 13, 2018 6:58 pmby Aillyria
Eh, she's already served her time, why not. Hillary on the other hand.......
Posted:
Sat Jan 13, 2018 6:59 pmby Thermodolia
Fartsniffage wrote:Thermodolia wrote:We have a megathread for the 2018 elections
You do?
Yup
Posted:
Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:00 pmby Fartsniffage
Well you've already asked for this to be moved or locked.
Posted:
Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:00 pmby Petrasylvania
Aillyria wrote:Eh, she's already served her time, why not. Hillary on the other hand.......
And what crimes have Clinton proveably committed, hmm?
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Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:02 pmby Fartsniffage
Petrasylvania wrote:Aillyria wrote:Eh, she's already served her time, why not. Hillary on the other hand.......
And what crimes have Clinton proveably committed, hmm?
She's a very unpleasant person.
Posted:
Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:03 pmby Luminesa
No political experience, if Trump is a bad idea for that reason then Manning is for the same reason.
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Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:03 pmby Internationalist Bastard
Better then Joe Arpaio.
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Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:03 pmby Insaeldor
Wait, so what you be saying is, you can be charged and convicted of Violating the Espionage Act, stealing government property, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and multiple counts of disobeying orders and you can still run for the senate but a
felony marijuana possetion charge means you can't vote at all for any elected office?
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Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:04 pmby Petrasylvania
Fartsniffage wrote:Petrasylvania wrote:And what crimes have Clinton proveably committed, hmm?
She's a very unpleasant person.
If that was a jailable offense nobody would live outside of a prison.
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Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:04 pmby Fartsniffage
Insaeldor wrote:Wait, so what you be saying is, you can be charged and convicted of Violating the Espionage Act, stealing government property, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and multiple counts of disobeying orders and you can still run for the senate but a
felony marijuana possetion charge means you can't vote at all for any elected office?
Executive pardon.
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Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:06 pmby Purpelia
Fartsniffage wrote:Insaeldor wrote:Wait, so what you be saying is, you can be charged and convicted of Violating the Espionage Act, stealing government property, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and multiple counts of disobeying orders and you can still run for the senate but a
felony marijuana possetion charge means you can't vote at all for any elected office?
Executive pardon.
It's still messed up. Like what kind of sane person is going to vote for someone who is literally a convicted traitor?
Posted:
Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:06 pmby Insaeldor
Fartsniffage wrote:Insaeldor wrote:Wait, so what you be saying is, you can be charged and convicted of Violating the Espionage Act, stealing government property, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and multiple counts of disobeying orders and you can still run for the senate but a
felony marijuana possetion charge means you can't vote at all for any elected office?
Executive pardon.
I though her sentence was just commuted, was she actually pardoned?
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Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:08 pmby Fartsniffage
Insaeldor wrote:Fartsniffage wrote:Executive pardon.
I though her sentence was just commuted, was she actually pardoned?
I....honestly don't know.
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Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:09 pmby Purpelia
Does it even matter? What kind of psychotic political party endorses someone convicted of spying as a political candidate?
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Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:09 pmby Thermodolia
Insaeldor wrote:Wait, so what you be saying is, you can be charged and convicted of Violating the Espionage Act, stealing government property, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and multiple counts of disobeying orders and you can still run for the senate but a
felony marijuana possetion charge means you can't vote at all for any elected office?
Fucked up world we live in
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Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:09 pmby Internationalist Bastard
Insaeldor wrote:Wait, so what you be saying is, you can be charged and convicted of Violating the Espionage Act, stealing government property, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and multiple counts of disobeying orders and you can still run for the senate but a
felony marijuana possetion charge means you can't vote at all for any elected office?
America!
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Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:10 pmby Fartsniffage
Purpelia wrote:Does it even matter? What kind of psychotic political party endorses someone convicted of spying as a political candidate?
Well none as of yet.
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Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:10 pmby Thermodolia
Insaeldor wrote:Fartsniffage wrote:Executive pardon.
I though her sentence was just commuted, was she actually pardoned?
No she was commuted not pardoned. Obama was dumb but not that dumb