Archangel1313

Aaww. Are you upset that you're getting exactly what you voted for? Mmmm. That's rough.

So...his approval rating is now worse than his own approval rating? Who was the 2nd worst president?

Congress recently passed a law that allows people to be deported without due process. They're not trying to stop him...they're actively helping him.

I'm having a hard time understanding why the fuck this matters so much. You'd think they were discussing critical, top secret information. But, nope...just who the next Pope is going to be.

This is human trafficking. This man was bought, sold and transported against his will, and without due process.

For today, at least. /s

Of course there were. They just weren't sure what the effects of being in space were going to be on his mind and body. They had no idea if he would lose his mind in free-fall, or if he'd suffer a stroke from the g-forces required to reach orbit, or just simply pass out. So the first flight was set to autopilot. It was as much a live human experiment, as it was a test of their equipment. But he definitely had the code to unlock the controls if he needed to.

Bottom line is, he had been a pilot for most of his life, and was fully trained to operate that craft with or without the safety protocols in place. The training that all those early astronauts/cosmonauts went through was insane. The levels of physical and mental competence they expected from them, was more than any standard training given to regular pilots.

It's not like they just grabbed some celebrity off a stage and let them experience free-fall for 11 minutes, so they could plug their upcoming concert tour.

The difference is, Gagarin was actually capable of piloting the craft.

Wait. Are we seriously saying that Katy Perry and Gayle King are on par with Yuri Gagarin now? This just gets funnier by the minute.

No. They weren't "trained to travel in a spacecraft". It was fully automated. They were just passengers on an 11 minute flight.

Seriously, if that makes them astronauts...then everyone who's been on an airplane, is a pilot.

So...according to Neanderthal Barbie, the Pope is evil?

The Supreme Court refused to prosecute Trump (for a blatantly illegal act) and ruled that he was immune to prosecution for "official acts" which they refused to define.

That's what I said.

Then they slow walked the case back to a lower court - deliberately - so the determination was not made until after the election.

That's not what delayed the case. The special prosecutor had to redefine the charges, in order to comply with the latest ruling, by specifying which ones were not included in Trump's "official duties as president". They were allowed to prosecute him for those...but inevitably ran out of time before they could proceed.

*Then in a state court, Trump was convicted, but the judge delared there was no penalty "because only a federal court could apply punishment".

Then a couple of days later the DoJ dopped the case because "the president is immune from prosecution".*

That's because the election happened, and it is long-standing precedent that a sitting president can't be prosecuted...as long as he's in office. They can and most likely still will, return that case to court, as soon as he's out of office.