Forgive me on the details, re: Garland. I have cancer and the meds make my memory and mind go a little wonky sometimes. I’m pretty sure you understood what I meant, despite the mistake.

First, I'm very sorry to hear about your cancer, and I hope your treatment ends soon with your cancer in remission. I'm crossing my fingers for you.

Go fuck yourself, I’ve got my own fucking problems. I’m a voting citizen and I get to voice my opinion, chucklefuck. I’m not required to hop and skip out of the fucking cancer ward to save the world.

Second, you go fuck yourself. You're doing it again where you're doubling down on this being someone else's problem to solve. Sure you have a voice and an opinion, and instead of facing the truths of what you're proposing you're saying it someone else's responsibility to come up with a perfect solution and implement it. I'm confident you'll be there at the conclusion of said plan calling out how shitty it was because it didn't do everything. Yes, you have cancer, are you're trying to use that as a free pass to stand on a hill of moral superiority by pointing out a problem and calling everyone else assholes for not solving it to your liking? Those close to me that have (or have had) cancer told me when they found out they had cancer they didn't want to be pitied and treated differently. They wanted to be treated just like everyone else that didn't have cancer. I'm going to show you respect and assume you're the same.

If you want me to pull my punches and let your weak arguments stand unopposed because you have cancer, just let me know. I'll respect that choice of yours too.

We simply don’t agree on “the consequences of doing it.” You think it’s a lot more dangerous than I do, it’s as simple as that. I don’t think prosecuting criminals for crime is really that hard of an issue when the whole point of this damn system is for these folks to represent us and our interests.

I agree we are in different places on where the end result of this would be. The problem isn't so much convicting the criminal today, its what that conviction does to the office of the President forever into the future. I'm not saying this to say we shouldn't do something, but that it isn't about the orange guy today, its about what it means to everyone else after he's convicted.

The fact that you view this as “Only I am smart enough to know the consequences” speaks loudly of how much of a condescending ass you’ve been this whole time.

Nope, not "only I". Apparently all of the leaders of our government for the last 50 years too.

Sorry I don’t have a plan. I have cancer and meds that cost $18.5K a month without insurance. You want me to be in charge of the plan?

In charge? No, a participant? Yes. No one is asking you to lead the team, but if you want to play the game you've at least got to be on the field, not just a spectator in the stands.

“You understand that you and I and everyone alive right now has enjoyed almost 50 years of some of the highest standard of living on the planet.”

Yes I do understand that after WWII we were the only country that hadn’t had our infrastructure bombed to living fuck-all and we were in a unique position to get a stranglehold on the world economy

I'm not talking about post-WWII Truman era. I'm talking about Nixon and his crimes. Thats what we were talking about.

and that included Reagan supporting coups in South America to get friendly dictators installed so we could exploit the living shit out of them for our gain. I don’t exactly feel good about that history, and frankly, neither should you. It was a fluke on the worldwide stage and our shithole country is spiraling into stagnation because we never had a plan beyond exploiting the third world.

I don't feel good about that, but thats a different argument that doesn't have anything to do with Trump or Nixon.

We’re losing that high standard of living right the fuck now, despite the Democrats “doing the right thing.” Amazon is literally about to sue the NLRB out of existence!

And Starbucks tried to do something similar being anti-union, and got smacked down. We now have unions at Starbucks locations all over the place. If you look, you'll always find ugly battlefields. I'm not telling you to stop looking, but understand the battle isn't over, and it could result in a win for the good guys like when Starbucks lost against unions, like when Jim Johns lost against the FTC this week and unilaterally destroyed predatory companies from using Non-compete agreements. source

All I hope is that if Trump wins, your defense of doing it “the right way” comes back to haunt you when the brownshirts come for us all. Having chosen the “lawful good” path won’t save you once Trump is in charge.

So you want the worst to happen if you lose an argument? How does that help anyone?

I'd ask what you see the alternative is to avoid that, but we've been over that. You only point out problems and not even any elements of solutions.