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  1. I was talking more in principle. H-E-B has likely made some backroom deals, has done things in a grey area, or used the state to urge landowners to give up their property so they can build at some time or another in their history, but the beauty part is you're not forced to have to buy groceries there. So you like certain corporations...good to know.
  2. It was a good example. One that would lend to the argument that Trump has contempt for democracy. I'm sure you would agree that all Presidents should follow the Constitution no?
  3. Not an argument.
  4. A President opining about circumventing the constitution....that's never happened before at all....
  5. No. You are a moron. Did I do it right?
  6. You have a lot of time for ad hominem but no time for arguments I noticed. Care to enlighten the board as to why the Trump Administration has a contempt for Democracy? Off the top of my head, his veto Congress' measure to block the sell of arms to Saudi-Arabia would be in the mix, but what threshold would the Trump Administration as a whole have to hit to be in the "contempt for Democracy" zone? And by the same measure, would past administrations meet said threshold?
  7. I disagree. H-E-B is not an enemy of the people, they provide an abundance of food at a low cost and high quality. As long as a corporation is not committing fraud/theft, using the government to push out competitors and respecting property rights, then they are only a provider for the demands of the people.
  8. Can the argument be made the Corporate Press is in Cahoots with the Deep State actors within the government to maintain the "trump is a racist/Putin Puppet" Narrative? I think so. One could also argue that there is a disdain (rightly so imo) for socialism from the Trump administration but not a contempt for democracy. If anything, the media role in fanning the flames of the anti-trump narratives is a product of the "rule of elites" from the literal definition of fascism (which I believe comes from the unelected powers that be in the federal apparatus.)
  9. The corporate press is the enemy of the people. https://youtu.be/722XR7VmQo0
  10. TRAP laws are an interesting example of government intervention in the free market (this being private abortion clinics not funded by tax dollars.) These laws are arbitrary and lead to burdensome regulations that hinder the cost of operations for private abortion providers. Some posit that these arbitrary TRAP laws are political in nature and even claim that they are administered by the evangelical powers that be within the state. It's ironic in a way. You have the Right agenda to make it hard for private abortion clinics to thrive in Texas, thus leading to more demand for Planned Parenthood which (irony again) is funded with tax dollars that the Right is against going toward abortion?!?!! Make sense? Hell nah.
  11. What is your point?
  12. Yeah Trump's wrong on Capital Punishment for sure. Humans will always be violent, gun control measures are not the answer in my, what appears to be unpopular on Surly, opinion.
  13. Yeah but her message of anti-regime change wars is getting major publicity and many are happily donating because they believe so strongly in that message. I wouldn't call the spreading of this idea a "waste."
  14. Great post. She's genuinely anti-war and wants Peace. Anyone claiming that she is an Assad apologist and a tool of Russia is just another NPC.
  15. It's great we have this central authority that gets to push a button to delay the much needed economic anguish we should face to liquidate the malinvestment and allow the market to correct itself. Another meltdown is in our future.
  16. Not really an argument, but whatevs. What was the racial joke you are referring to?
  17. She smashed Harris. Tulsi is a strong woman and it's sad to see the establishment and the NPCs just go all operation mocking bird with shit like "Assad toadie" etc. She worked in a hospital in the Sunni triangle and saw the effects first hand of our regime-change wars.
  18. The question is whether or not he made the Proclamation to preserve the Union or to Free the slaves? By his rhetoric, it's well argued imo that he was more about Federal Power as the letter highlights.
  19. No not really gotcha. Just the history that is suppressed because it goes against the narrative that is convenient for the Federal apparatus we see today. What type of mental gymnastics do those on the left have to go through to get around the blatant fact he was racist by the standards that are used today? Lincoln was about Federal Power, and as the letter to Greeley highlights, he would've done anything to preserve it. Are you denying Lincoln didn't say those words in his debate with Stephen Douglas? Are you denying that he didn't write the words to Greeley? Are you denying he suspended Habeus Corpus? The case can be made that these precedents during Lincoln's tenure paved the way for future presidents to abuse executive power not granted to them by the Constitution.
  20. Lincoln's letter to Horace Greeley:
  21. How did Lincoln change? People tend to forget in a legal and originalist constitutional sense, Lincoln set dangerous executive precedents that have been abused by GWB and Obama. Namely war powers that were not constitutional, he deployed troops to swing elections in the north (Delaware,) and most notably suspended habeus corpus. Are you saying that since he said racist things like the below, that you are willing to forgive Lincoln because he "changed?" "I will say that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and between the white and black raced which I believe will forever forbid the two races from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they can not so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race." -Abraham Lincoln, in his 4th debate with Stephen Douglas in 1858. Even the Emancipation Proclamation was deemed illegal by abolitionists. Lincoln's intent on the Proclamation was not altogether altruistic, but one to subdue the enemy (the South) at all costs. The mere fact that slavery still continued to exist in the North after the proclamation only strengthens the argument that he was a man concerned with Power more so than the perceived nobility of ending slavery. Also, slavery didn't cease in the North until the 13th amendment was ratified. My original comment on Reagan and Lincoln being both racist and overrated was definitely a troll post, but you can't deny Lincoln wasn't racist. Reagan's rhetoric, like many have cited, doesn't surprise me given the time. I'd say it's distasteful looking back for sure, but we're all human and I'm sure he's not the only white President that's said some distasteful things. Given Lincoln's comments above, I'm surprised his monument is still up in Washington!
  22. Disgusting rhetoric from Reagan. Him and Ole' Lincoln seem to have much in common, both racist and overrated.
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