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formermav43

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  1. Most of the Bill of Rights (including the 1st Amendment) have been made applicable to the States under the 14th amendment-its called incorporation. (Not a lawyer, I’m certain they could explain in more detail.)
  2. Agreed. “I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!”
  3. If you’ve never placed any hope in this country, it’s much easier to deal with.
  4. Strange criteria for hiring a football coach.
  5. Good luck with getting that by the Constitution.
  6. 20+ million Seventh Day Adventists stand as an alarming counterexample.
  7. I am a beignet!
  8. This might be a more effective message from a guy who doesn’t average 5,000 posts a year on surly.
  9. The Colorado state capitol, actually.
  10. This is my favorite highlight from his time there.
  11. Yeah, I was thinking that too. A revolution fomented by the privileged and powerful is the American way.
  12. What do you think “at this moment” means?
  13. Not only begged past tense-according to the tweet that prompted my post, the plan is STILL to take a couple of votes on a resolution to urge Pence to invoke the 25th amendment and only if he fails to act to take up impeachment. That’s not their job, and it’s certainly not “turning the gears of impeachment as fast as they will go.” Its looking for an out.
  14. He was just referring to the consensus of historians. He’s not wrong. Buchanan is either 1 or 2 in all of these (and thus worst overall): ”In compiling its 10 Worst Presidents rankings, U.S. News averaged presidents' scores from three separate metrics: C-SPAN's 2017 Presidential Historians Survey, Siena College's Presidential Expert Poll and the Presidential Greatness Rankings conducted by professors at the University of Houston and Boise State University. Those narrowly missing the cut were Presidents Zachary Taylor and George W. Bush, who tied for 11th-worst among the nation's 44 commanders in chief. President Richard Nixon, who had previously ranked among America's 10 worst presidents in previous iterations of the U.S. News rankings, was remembered more fondly by recent presidential surveys. He ranked 15th-worst, just ahead of Martin Van Buren and Calvin Coolidge. Ulysses S. Grant made the biggest jump since 2014, when U.S. News last updated its Worst Presidents methodology. Grant was considered the seventh-worst president in U.S. history just a few years ago. He's now considered historically average, ranking 22nd-best out of the 43 presidents that were considered. U.S. News opted not to include President Donald Trump, who has yet to finish his first term. But he was deemed to be the worst president on the Presidential Greatness Rankings and third-worst in Siena's Presidential Expert Poll.“ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usnews.com/news/special-reports/the-worst-presidents/articles/ranking-americas-worst-presidents%3fcontext=amp
  15. We don’t know precisely. But it’s a lot. We were involved in it all over the place during the Cold War. Just one example: “The United States government provided planning, coordinating, training on torture,[15]technical support and supplied military aid to the Juntas during the Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and the Reagan administrations.[2]Such support was frequently routed through the CIA.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor
  16. Like I said on another thread, it’s the fake tough guy begging for someone to hold him back. What a joke.
  17. Wow, they’re moving so rapidly! This is like the fake tough guy at the bar begging someone to hold him back.
  18. I don’t buy that. There was similar handwringing over the election, and they didn’t even hear the case. Maybe they would have gone that way before Wednesday, but now? Most justices care about the reputation and legacy of the Court (even if it’s just out of self-interest). They’ve got their majority, which is what they wanted. They owe him nothing. I think they’d happily hang him out to dry. *This doesn’t apply to Alito and Thomas, obviously.
  19. Too bad the guy in the video wasn’t as tough as you 🙄
  20. Fair enough but in my defense.... can't a man just have his soapbox? I’ll allow it, especially since you took it better than Bullneck. It’s natural to see a “both sides” type post and not realize he’s pulled a bizarro head fake.
  21. This all started with a post where he not only accepted it, he was pushing back against TwiceHorn’s oversimplification that the sentiment in the thread was “Trump supporters deserve to die.” His whole point was that the conduct itself was beyond the pale, and that even if it weren’t Trump supporters, everyone would decry it. If it weren’t @Anastasis, it wouldn’t have even raised any sort of response.
  22. But he’s right in this instance.
  23. That's a bad precedent. You want unelected cabinet members, without any mental health expertise, determining that he's crazy? I'm not arguing that he isn't, but that's an abuse of the intention of the amendment. And I think we should be wary by now of how these sorts of actions can have unintended consequences down the road.
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