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27 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:
Deep RedState?
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8 minutes ago, HenryJames said:
If we can do the same for Oklahoma I may have to completely rethink my stance on this matter.
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6 hours ago, Jester said:
TLDR: fuck term limits for SC Justices.
Lifetime appointment is the one thing that keeps the SC honest.
Look. A good judge is a good judge. They don’t let politics into play. They apply the law. To. The. Facts. I know. Novel concept, right?
I’ve been in front of great “republican” judges and great “democrat“ judges. Then those great judges get washed out in the next blue/red wave for no reason. It sucks and I wish judges didn’t have run on a political ticket.
If there are term limits...the SC is gonna be a grifter factory. “Hey, rule this way and in 10 years and I’ll put you in the board of company X paying Y million a year”. It would be fucking terrible
I get your point and understand there are downsides. But do lifetime appointment SC judges get washed out in the next blue/red wave? They don't. If every President were guaranteed let's say 2 appointments to the bench with the oldest serving members being retired then at least we can maintain some sense that the makeup of the court matches, to some extend, the current will of the people (in an indirect way). Can the same be said now, even remotely? I don't think so. Right now it's a crap shoot (fuck you cancer!) but the GOP has figured out how to game the system better by nominating and getting seated much younger SC judges who will be in place for decades. If the only Dem response is to do the same then we have a race to the bottom to nominate the least qualified, ideologically pure candidates who a given side (Dem or GOP) thinks will toe the line for a few decades to come. I'm not sure how that makes for a better outcome for the country.
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1 minute ago, Blotto said:
Damn, just read the news. Set aside all of the political bullshit for now, I hate that how she had to spend her last days. I'm a huge term limit guy for Congress and every bit as much for the Supreme Court. A 12 year term would have allowed her to serve her country on the bench and then 15 years of life after the court. As it is, she no doubt felt obligated to soldier on when her prognosis was grim. Rather than pack the court, I would prefer a more constant churn of justices.
This. The GOP has caught on to a very important point about lifetime appointments. Get on the bench young and you've effectively packed the court for a couple of generations. But it also means you risk elevating someone with less than complete life experiences. Term limits for the SC should be something looked at.
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8 minutes ago, workswithseed said:
Yeah, but I really hope that Mitch doesn't force this. I know politics, but the country is fractured and needs calm.
Are we talking about a different Mitch here?
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Damn it! Terrible loss for her family and an inspiring woman. An absolute tragedy for the country. I had hoped she'd hold on long enough to see Biden elected and sworn in and she could retire for some period of time before she passed peacefully. This year has sucked so badly.
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17 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:
He tried to trade it for Greenland.
Well, let's look at that. Puerto Rico would have gone from a neglected backwater of the US to being a Danish dependency with free health care, an improved education system and much more social mobility. If that deal would have gone through he strangely WOULD have been the best thing to ever happen to the island.
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10 minutes ago, gmr548 said:1 hour ago, Jive Turkey said:“Nobody even close.”
He's just trolling at this point. Has to be. No one can be this stupid
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4 hours ago, HenryJames said:
2016 Republican Platform supported statehood for Puerto Rico.
Platform? We're talking about a platform?
Platform 2020: Whatever Dear Leader says (at that moment)
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11 hours ago, Pancho said:
Hyperbole much, Bill? He seems to be taking oratory queues from the Liar in Chief. It may have been a few years since he read a history book. Maybe he should brush up on some stuff that was glossed over back then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws
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7 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:
When reading about the TikTok deal in the past I really kind of blew off the idea that the US government would threaten a company with banishment, compel them to sell assets under duress and then demand part of proceeds that results. He just came out and enumerated it exactly.
Conservatism at its best? Right wingers love their taxation is theft memes. How is this not theft?
This man MUST lose in November.
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1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:
Ole Miss joined the Big 10
She just had to rattle off all the states for effect and I would guess the copy used postal abbreviations. MI != MS Kayleigh!
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37 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:
Why does every damn thing have to have his name on it? I realize he wants it. Stimulus check sent to my dead father had his name on it. Government communication should be from the US government, not re-branded as largess from Dear Leader.
I didn't get this card. Maybe it got sidelined next to the pallet of dead chicks in the mail. Makes sense that his guidelines would fit on a postcard though:
1. Don't wear a mask, it's not manly
2. Liberate <Fill in your state here>!
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41 minutes ago, CowboyFred said:
I guess what I'm saying is that based on what he's said there it is not crazy to assume he was speaking with Putin or someone else in Russia...
Possible. My money is on him making it all up.
Since he hates anonymous sources he could always just tell us who it was. But he won't.
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1 minute ago, Mrs Whiggins said:
Congress
can'trefuses to stop this man, no one can.FIFY
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1 hour ago, Gil Bang said:
Can charges be brought on this? Or is the fact they did it to themselves as opposed to someone else a legal out?
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13 minutes ago, elfenix said:
for those who pretend to worry about bird deaths:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/black-paint-on-wind-turbines-helps-prevent-bird-massacres/
no word on cancer rates
Didn't change cancer rates at all. Total failure! Might as well not bother repainting other turbines. Waste of money. #WindThemDown
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1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:
I never paid much attention to daily briefings before this shit show admin, but were they always contentious like this? From Spicer on it's just been the secretary yelling at reporters. I can't imagine it was.
No, this is brand new territory. It's not that there weren't tough questions from sometimes less than friendly reporters. That's part of the job and to be expected. What's happening with this administration is amateur shit show hour. And the difference now is not the reporters, with the possible exception of crap outlets like OANN even being let in the door, but the other side of the dais.
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14 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:
So can we expect Dr. Fauci to never be "available" for any media interviews until after the election at which point he will be terminated?
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8 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:
Such a terrible liar.
He used the magic word that indicates he's lying (well, REALLY lying beyond the norm). Any quote of his that includes "Sir". Do we have a bingo card with that on it?
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2 hours ago, Neonmoon said:
Fuck it, let's do the Sweden model, right?
Which one?
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USPS doesn't want Congress to see what's going on behind closed doors:
Sure, require a longer advanced notice from a member of Congress (more so than they did in the past apparently) such that they have plenty of time move piles of backedup up mail elsewhere and out of sight. Seems legit.
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39 minutes ago, PsychMike said:
C'mon folks, eliminate 2 more meals a week to donate to my campaign! Also, eat ramen. Off brand, not that fancy ramen shit!
Definitely Ramen. Can't find cans of soup in the store anyway, what with antifa stocking up and all.
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8 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:
Don't kill yourself on election day, wait a week
A top Democratic data and analytics firm told "Axios on HBO" it's highly likely that President Trump will appear to have won — potentially in a landslide — on election night, even if he ultimately loses when all the votes are counted.
Which is exactly one of my fears. How much pressure will DJT and the RNC apply on election night for Biden to concede and results to be declared?
Do you recall the relatively small group that protested the recount in FL in 2000? I fear something far worse this time around.
I live in CA now, so I'm fairly confident my mail in ballot will be counted. If I lived in some other states the level of confidence would be far less. This is the America in which we live, which is chilling.
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Which one is it? I haven't kept up with the super duper new military weapons we've been developing.
Hydrosonic? Is it Aquaman's plane?
Or Hydrasonic? Does it soften skin as it destroys one's enemies?