Derec
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That was a good one!Jon Stewart said:
Was that when the fauxgressives wanted to use reconciliation to pass stuff that had nothing to do with the budget?
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Another huge albatross, if not even a millstone, around Kami's back was the whole crime/defund police thing.
Starting in 2019 when she lied (yes, lied, she is a prosecutor and knew better) about St. Michael Brown of the Blessed Swisher Sweets having been "murdered".
Even left-of-center Vox recognized that she and Fauxachontas were wrong.
Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris’s controversial Michael Brown tweets, explained
Then came 2020 and the riots and Kamala flirted with the idea of defunding police. And despite her poor primary performance she got selected for Veep because Biden backed himself into the corner - he pledged that he would not even consider anybody with a Y chromosome, and the 2020 race riots pushed him to not consider anybody white.
In 2024 election, not only did Kamala Harris lose, so did lefty George Gascon in LA. The Alameda County DA Pamela Price, another fauxgressive prosecutor, was recalled. California overwhelmingly (> 2/3 support) passed Prop 36 which repealed an earlier prop that reduced sentences for theft.
Starting in 2019 when she lied (yes, lied, she is a prosecutor and knew better) about St. Michael Brown of the Blessed Swisher Sweets having been "murdered".
Even left-of-center Vox recognized that she and Fauxachontas were wrong.
Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris’s controversial Michael Brown tweets, explained
Then came 2020 and the riots and Kamala flirted with the idea of defunding police. And despite her poor primary performance she got selected for Veep because Biden backed himself into the corner - he pledged that he would not even consider anybody with a Y chromosome, and the 2020 race riots pushed him to not consider anybody white.
In 2024 election, not only did Kamala Harris lose, so did lefty George Gascon in LA. The Alameda County DA Pamela Price, another fauxgressive prosecutor, was recalled. California overwhelmingly (> 2/3 support) passed Prop 36 which repealed an earlier prop that reduced sentences for theft.
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But some of our international "friends" think it's fair to throw us all under the bus because we voted for him... For fuck's sake, I don't so much as know anyone who did, nor do I particularly care to.Let us repeat: Trump didn't win the popular vote by a huge margin.
Donald Trump Has NOT Won a Majority of the Votes Cast for President
Donald Trump’s popular vote total has fallen below 50 percent, and his margin over Kamala Harris has narrowed considerably as all the votes are counted.www.thenation.com
Cue the inane conspiracy theories and post-hoc confirmation bias laden speculation.
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for this election it was too late to do much else and have a good chance. But for the next they really do need a robust primary.
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Phew! Trump didn't win the popular vote by a huge margin. Finally some good news about the election. I guess you take your victories wherever you can find them.Let us repeat: Trump didn't win the popular vote by a huge margin.
Donald Trump Has NOT Won a Majority of the Votes Cast for President
Donald Trump’s popular vote total has fallen below 50 percent, and his margin over Kamala Harris has narrowed considerably as all the votes are counted.
Cue the inane conspiracy theories and post-hoc confirmation bias laden speculation.
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Kamala should make a girl math Tik Tok video explaining how she spent over 1 billion in a matter of a few months, and still came out $20 million in debt. Throw in some of that cackle she's famous for. A little levity like that might help soften the rage coming from donors who dropped the big (and even small) bucks on her campaign. Seriously, there had to be some major grift going on with some of these consultants and celebrities. And one of her platforms for the campaign was going after the "price gagers" (aka "price gougers")!
A high level campaign staffer for the DNC, Lindy Li, is hitting the media circuit talking about the billion dollar spendapalooza:
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I obviously was too subtle with my reference to millions of imaginary people. It is not simply the raw numbers (which ARE exaggerated, especially with regard to time scale, they are claiming those numbers each year) but the alleged nature of these immigrants - for instance, that they all are carting in a big package of Fentanyl ready to corrupt the American people. If this was true then these immigrants wouldn't be super poor. Also Americans should take some responsibility for their drug indulging habit. Drug dealers are only successful because there are so many drug buyers/consumers. Also, they are not all illegals.Dude, leave it to you to parse my responses down to the nitty gritty and assign nefarious intents to all my posts. The fact is, millions of people have illegally crossed the border in recent years, as has been harped on by both Democrats and Republicans alike. These are not imaginary people, they are quite real. Does that clarify things? Spacetime Inhabitants statement is blatantly false, so why don't you harp on him about his blatant falsehoods and stop micromanaging my responses?
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I must be getting old. I am apparently the only one that remembers 2002 and 2004 and the GOP using gay rights as a wedge to drive right-wing turn out in elections by putting anti-gay marriage state amendments on the ballot. Now they are doing the same thing with transgenders. Lying, making shit up, to rile up the base.
Are you suggesting that in losing those elections, supporting gay rights was a mistake too? I'm not losing sleep over recognizing that transgenders exist and that they aren't freaks.
Those concerns vary. Their positions vary. But all I hear (nationally) are generally men complaining. But thanks for informing me of my position and apparent disinterest in how women feel about transgender issues.
No.
Do the math please.
Interesting part is that I wasn't speaking for Hispanics, but speaking to the truth that the average American is not impacted (negatively) by immigration. I know in Ohio, climate change impacts my life (particularly my job in the winter) more than immigration does. Though I do suppose the deportations will likely impact the broader economy negatively.
I can't fix stupid. That is the problem I saw with the upcoming 2024 election. A Trump victory would speak to an unbelievably hopeless electorate, re-electing the man who claimed the election was stolen from him, yet never actually took the claim to court to contest the election(s). Instead getting a mob to riot at the US Capitol Building. This is 40 years of propaganda in the making. These people want to burn it all down because the right-wing programmed to think it was all needless. I can't fix that. I can't fix that they have no idea what they are talking about and all the "problems" that concern them are nothing compared to the real issues they and this nation face.
They complain about the Democrats not doing anything for the common man and "Fauxahontas" is the pinnacle of their commentary on Elizabeth Warren.
I think it needs to be either Congress or SCOTUS.
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Thanks for your opinion.
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Why would Colorado need a federal agency to decide who qualifies to run in their own state? Colorado wasn't making a decision for any other state.
In fact, according to the Constitution, state legislatures appoint EC delegates. Not the feds, much less political parties.
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The problem isn't "incitement", but "insurrection". Look what happened when Colorado tried to use it--a bunch of red states were going to come up with pretexts to use it against Biden. We need an authoritative source on whether an action is insurrection, not 50 states making their own decisions.
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The law needs to make sense. So either we need 50 states to individually concur that insurrection happened, and sign off on it, or one centralized authority indicates as such. Being excluded from serving is a national thing, not a state thing, so it can be reasonably argued that if one states says they are disqualified, no state can allow that person to serve in Government without a note from Congress.
The trouble with the 14th Amendment is it was written specifically for the Civil War. That wasn't remotely a gray area! So it fit fine with the circumstances. Heck, didn't lots of people get permission regardless of their actions? (John Brown was executed for his insurrection... the Southerners were treated quite like royalty for theirs... which cost the lives of over 800,000 Americans. And the South still whines about it.!
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Federal law defines what a riot is. It needs to have all the following criteria:
- A public disturbance
- Involve three or more people
- The group engages in acts of violence
- There is a clear and present danger of damage to property or injury to people
Under federal law, inciting a riot (18 U.S. Code Section 2101) includes acts of "organizing, promoting, encouraging, participating in a riot" and urging or instigating others to riot.
The criminal code clarifies that incitement is not the same as simply advocating ideas or expressing beliefs in speech or writing. To qualify as incitement, the speech must advocate violence, the rightness of violence, or the right to commit violent acts.
Federal riot crimes provide up to five years in prison upon conviction.
Incitement to Riot would be included in any insurrection charges (see following):
- 18 U.S.C. 2383
Covers insurrection or rebellion against the United States, and the punishment for such acts. This includes a fine, up to 10 years in prison, and a permanent disqualification from holding any government office.
- 14th Amendment, Section 3
Also known as the Disqualification Clause, this section prevents people who have engaged in insurrection or rebellion from holding certain offices. Congress can remove this disqualification with a two-thirds vote in each House.
In short, the charges go hand in hand.
I remember being convinced that the Emoluments Clause would get Trump removed. I remember thinking that incitement and insurrection would land him in prison.
Now I've come to the conclusion that Constitutional law means jackshit to the Trump Party and that nearly every charge of weakness and flaccidity leveled against the Democratic party is undeniably true.
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It's erosion started decades ago and now that's come to its fruition.
The only thing we can hope for is that those in power e.g. SCOTUS will exercise their conscience(s) and professional obligations....
The small water heater is a small part of the cost of adding said water heater. I've paid to run another circuit from the panel--easy run, still twice the price of your water heater. By the time you've added a bathroom I wouldn't be shocked at $20k.
But for small businesses it's not a problem--they should have a single-occupancy bathroom anyway.
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Why?
I see no reason for that.
Provide two restrooms, a restroom for anyone male or female, and I see no reason for them to spend any more.
If it's in their best interest to do so, fine. But if there's a restroom for everyone they've done their public duty.
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A father with a very young daughter or mother with a very young son in tow might.
A Lowe's in my area has the usual men's/women's and one single use lockable labeled "family" for whomever may feel comfortable using it.