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@Death23
Well, the homelessness thing is more complicated than you’re making it out to be. It’s not a direct comparative measure of compassion.
Okay granted there are many factors in play for the homeless including geographically being close to the border, but there really is no excuse for the systemic poverty to GDP ratio California has boasted for the past 50 years.
Where is your outrage? Why after 50 years are they still the nation's leader in that metric?
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@Dr.Franklin
The government had more power back then than it does now!
haha okay.
Everything Madison worried about and tried to prevent is now our political reality.
James Madison (1751-1836) in The Federalist (1788) Essay 62 outlines some of the "mischievous effects of a mutable government" which constantly changes the law to suit its own needs or the needs of its supporters:
The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood: if they be repealed or revised before they are promulg[at]ed, or undergo such incessant changes, that no man who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow.
Liberty Fund has an excellent edition of The Federalist with several aides for the reader to better understand the arguments in the text. In essay no. 62 James Madison raises the very interesting point that citizens will find it very difficult to obey the law if it is constantly changing (“mutable government”), either by growing enormously in size to be beyond the grasp of ordinary people, or by being incoherent, or being repealed or revised before they are promulgated. We even have the situation where massive and complicated laws are passed without having been read or debated by the legislators themselves, let alone discussed in the press and by the people. When this sad state has been reached, the law itself, as Madison eloquently says, “poisons the blessings of liberty.”
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The data suggest that both groups are equally compassionate, but feelings take a back seat to actual policies. GoP is generally opposed to social services for the poor and those policies have consequences, as my source has shown.
And yet, California has been the leader of inequality with the highest rates of poverty and homelessness to GDP ratios in the nation for over 50 years. All run and managed by the most left political cartel with zero opposition.
I guess you could say the left "loves their poor" so much that they want to make more of them.
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@ILikePie5
Hell the Democrats have an impeached and convicted federal judge in the US House lol.
Who? lol!
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@3RU7AL
Corporations would be significantly less evil without government assistance.
They would also be a lot less evil if they were not allowed to purchase the ability to write the regulations that destroy competition and make hedge fund investors rich through their well paid Washington DC lobbies.
There is more real estate dedicated to corporate lobbyists than actual public government buildings. It's ridiculous.
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@Double_R
If you’re asking why they haven’t moved to prosecute Trump, well first of all they still might. We don’t even have an attorney general yet. But even if they don’t, the decision probably won’t be a legal one but rather political. Biden has said repeatedly he wants to look backwards not forwards. He doesn’t want this to tear the country apart which I can understand. But that has nothing to do with how clear this all is.
So you are okay with Biden essentially pardoning Trump, a known criminal in your eyes? I wouldn't be.
That guy definitely shouldn't be pardoned. I mean look at what he did to that poor bison to get that hat.
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@Double_R
Is this a joke? No, it’s because republicans decided to create a new rule that no justice will be confirmed in the final year of a presidency, only to confirm one in the final month of Trump’s. It’s blatant hypocrisy in order to maintain power.
It's a matter of history. The Senate flipped in Obama's 2nd year which led to the 3 SCOTUS appointments. The Senate historically decided who deserved to sit in the SCOTUS before there was even a GOP.
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Being worse in every single stat other than GDP and saying your party gives a damn about the common man/woman/human
Oh, you mean like New York and California run by criminal leftists for over 50 years unopposed?
On that, we can agree.
Highest 2 states in GDP to homeless ratios in the Nation.
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@Death23
Just let the poor die. It’s what the GoP does:
Both parties don't give a crap about the poor. Especially the ones that don't lobby.
It's so funny posting a stat where .0041666666% of the population "saved" is supposed to be something that proves without dissent that you care about the poor.
All the poor.
It's like saying you're working in an office building with a person that knows an Asian, so you care about minorities LOL!
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@Dr.Franklin
The American Dream is a sociopathic notion that the highest satisfaction in life comes from succeeding at any cost, ruthlessly outcompeting others and showing the losers no mercy. Rich car, rich house, elite friendship circle. That is what Obama tried to both prove wrong as an endgame-goal and enable, at the same time, impoverished people or otherwise held back minorities, so as to allow them a fair shot at the American Dream too.
The American Dream was that you had the freedom to contribute to society in any way you chose without the government stopping you. That you could own and manage your private property without government interference.
That DREAM officially ended during the FDR era after the SCOTUS Wicker v Filburn case when the court granted Government the power to not only confiscate private property but also manage your private property. The icing on the cake was affirmative action where the government decided if you were born with certain DNA, then you would have to take a backseat to someone who had the proper DNA, thus ending the equality of opportunity where you were able to choose how to contribute to America.
A reversion back to feudal times where the government is the overlord and the classes are stratified by DNA.
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Lol, Obama pushed Obamacare which flipped the Senate majority 2 years into his reign which allowed 3 Scotus picks to his enemies.
With good presidents like Obama, I would hate to see a bad one.
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@Danielle
Lol @ this fear mongering nut job. Okay Tucker -- which elites? I just want to know who to be terrified of!
To be fair you would have had to sit thru 6 minutes of bloviation to get to it.
It's far easier to spend 6 minutes explaining why you can't get to that point, and it also makes you a winner.
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@Danielle
Even Broken clocks are wrong all the time.
-Mark Twain
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@Danielle
I didn't watch the video either. We both win.
^5 GF
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@Danielle
If the video answers my question about who's involved...
I remember a pretty pertinent quote alleged to come from Mark Twain.
"A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read."
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@Double_R
There is a reason Trump got to appoint 3 Supreme Court justices and hundreds of federal judges in his tenure, and it wasn’t because they all just happened to be open.
The main reason is because Obama lost the Senate majority by pushing a compromised broken healthcare plan written by lobbyists to the tune of 10,000 pages that wasn't fundamentally viable across most of the country. Republicans didn't really have to use much Political theatre for that.
Obama theatrically claimed poor people were going to die if you didn't support him. Even that theatre wasn't enough to hide the major flaws in the policy, from federal mandates, compulsory purchases, to the eventual elimination of a large swath of private insurance options.
Obamacare wasn't going to work no matter how many right-wing conspiracy theories were muzzled by MSM. It just wasn't, even by the admission of most rational people on the left after seeing all the problems with it over the years. If you still think Obamacare was a failure all because of the GOP, then you are not very well informed at all.
That bad policy is ultimately what led to the 3 SCOTUS judge picks. Obama told the GOP to sit in the back of the bus. Well okay, we now know what to expect when the left gets a supermajority in Congress. We expect endless crony politics as lobbyists write self-serving legislation thousands of pages long. That doesn't help the little guy much at all.
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@Danielle
you couldn't do it lol.
Well duhcakes. If you don't watch it then I can't present it.
Grats on winning btw.
Also to clarify
I'm always amazed and jealous of your HIGH level of curiosity and your commitment.
I don't want you to think I was being snarky.
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@Double_R
Not going to answer the question I see. That’s ok though, I guess I wouldn’t either knowing that there is no way I could appear serious while doing so.
I can easily lob this charge right back at you. You are claiming an insurrection happened and I asked you why the FBI isn't acting on the evidence you think exists.
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@HistoryBuff
So why would the FBI be unable to jail him?
Because they don't have enough evidence yet. Keep dreaming though. Stupid due process bullshit or something.
Remember this gem?
It's been 4 years, is this your idea of the law working as intended? That Trump gets another 4 years to walk around freely?
I mean I guess if you like endless investigations, but when the FBI has actual evidence, they can and have jailed everyone around Trump.
That's your idea of the law working as intended? Have you seen Trump smiling lately? I have.
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@ILikePie5
Bets on predictit.org have now hit rock bottom on every line on impeachment. I won't be able to make any money on this :(
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@sadolite
You are assuming the rule of law still exists.
45 Senators have already gone on record saying they believe having a Senate trial over a private citizen is unconstitutional. What might actually be unconstitutional is the Senate exonerating a private citizen by throwing the charges out since there is no way 2/3 will convict citizen Trump, constitutional or not.
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@HistoryBuff
well, despite trumps efforts to steal an election using lies and violence, the process worked as intended.
So you are happy with the rule of law saying the FBI won't be able to jail Citizen Trump? Is that your idea of the law working as intended?
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@Double_R
Question: is this just projection, or do you really think democrats are worse than republicans?
Worse in what way? That both sides use theatrics to gain more authoritative power and destroy their competition, and the left is just better at doing that?
Good for them I guess.
I’m also really curious as to what you would be saying about this insurrection if it were Joe Biden who lost and then spent the following two months telling the country the election was rigged, right before summoning antifa to the Capitol and telling them to “fight like hell or you’re not going to have a country any more”, for them to storm and takeover the Capitol draped in Biden 2020 flags... tell me you would consider any attempt to hold him accountable to be “political theater”.
If it was an actual insurrection, Biden would already have ordered the FBI to imprison citizen Trump. Can you guess some possible reasons why old Joe hasn't done this?
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@Danielle
Feel free to ignore this evidence from a fellow skeptic from an unequal State since you are probably overloaded on all that natural curiosity.
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@ILikePie5
@ebuc
Call your doctor immediately for insurrections lasting longer than four hours.
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Thank you for proving me right lol.
I am glad I could disprove evidence I never had to present to you. Thanks!
I'm always amazed and jealous of your level of curiosity and your commitment.
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@Danielle
Well, the video identified 2 parties, but I guess you are still in shock from living so long in the country's 2nd most unequal income State. So I understand your reluctance.
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@ebuc
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@HistoryBuff
why would the question of impeachment have anything to do with the FBI?
Don't you want to see Trump punished? The FBI could have him in jail tomorrow, yet you are still glued to this political Theatre that could go on for years. Where is your outrage?
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this is, in no way, a response to what I said. When the president commits an impeachable offense, you impeach him.
Then you agree this Theatrical Display is about securing power and has nothing to do with punishing Trump or justice or "protecting democracy" since the FBI is more than capable of doing all of this in a timely manner to any citizen.
You can't possibly think Republicans can "play games" with the FBI....do you?
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@Danielle
I guess I can go into a comprehensive list as to exactly who got exemptions from Lockdown mandates, and check the value of their assets and compare them to small businesses like that restaurant, and possibly show why the rich purchase exemptions in the form of lobbies and donations, but this will take some time to convince you so be patient.
I heartfully apologize for posting just one real-world example as a weak form of evidence.
For someone like you living in New York where you have suffered with the 2nd largest income inequality in America for over 50 years, I can see why you are skeptical.
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@HistoryBuff
They could have been killed. And they are still too spineless to stand up to a man who attacked democracy and endangered their lives.
Nothing is stopping Schumer from walking over to the FBI, except for common sense of course.
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@ILikePie5
60% of the people are betting GOP takes the House in 2022...damn I can't find anything out of value :(
Where is the fake media when you need it? Damn you CNN for losing viewership!
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@ILikePie5
H'mmm.... 10% of the people with money to bet think there will be a hearing of witnesses. Let's see if that can reach 20% and ill cash in on that one.
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@ILikePie5
I think I'll buy if somehow it gets to 10% think Trump will be convicted in the Senate so I can make a decent profit.... I'll only get about a dime back for every dollar spent.
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@ILikePie5
Predictit.org has Trump at a 6% chance of being convicted in the Senate. Might be a little high.
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@HistoryBuff
It doesn't really matter. 45 Senators have already gone on record indicating this is all political theatre for retards. SCOTUS probably won't ever have to weigh in.
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@HistoryBuff
banning a president that has committed impeachable offenses is precisely why impeachment exists. Of course it is true that it could do exactly what it is designed to do. Why would that surprise anyone?
The surprise would be the SCOTUS allowing Congress to do it to a US Citizen who was not currently a government official.
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@ILikePie5
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@ILikePie5
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@ILikePie5
This is going to be interesting if the SCOTUS fumbles the ball should Congress vote to strip citizen Trump of the opportunity to participate in elections.
It would mean that Congress could simply wait until they know who would be in the primaries, and preemptively bar them from government service using bogus charges like "hate speech" that would never hold up to the standards of an actual impartial court proceeding. It would mean my fortunes in crypto will go thru the roof as I plan a hasty exit.
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@HistoryBuff
the founding fathers wanted presidents to be immune from punishment during their last month in office.
Nobody is stopping Chuck Schumer from taking a walk over to the FBI building.
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@ILikePie5
This is so funny the Constitutional gymnastics involved removing a government official who is also not a government official.
Scotus most definitely will put Congress in its place if they decide to break character while playing out the political theatre for retards.
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@ILikePie5
I forgot to mention that the reason he wasn’t convicted 50/75 was because enough Senators believed that the trial was unconstitutional
Founding fathers put this in the Constitution as an emergency tool, and not as a form of political punishment. SCOTUS will most likely back that up if it gets that far.
If the Congress was actually serious about the charges, the FBI would already have Trump in custody. The entire thing is just theatre for retards.
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@ILikePie5
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@ILikePie5
I love how a History Buff doesn’t know their own history.
He believes in postmodern History.
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@ILikePie5
Belknap’s trial was presided by President Pro Tempore Thomas Ferry, which was fine but I’d argue it was illegal because he had already resigned and thus was a private citizen. If he held any office he would’ve been impeached and removed anyways.
Correct. Belknap could have easily petitioned SCOTUS for a constitutional ruling if the impeachment trial affected him in any way after he resigned his commission as an officer. He just didn't give a fuck at that point since he was acquitted anyway.
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@ILikePie5
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a historic move, the U.S. Senate decided to switch to voting by mail for Trump's second impeachment trial. After all the votes were counted by an intern in a back room with no cameras, the Senate ruled to convict President Trump of incitement to violence by a vote of 8275 to 3.
"Our holy democracy has spoken," said Senator Chuck Schumer. "Do not ask any questions or you are a blasphemer against the sacred sacredness of our vote. Everyone can go home now!"
A couple of troublemaking Senators attempted to overthrow the Constitution by bringing up the point that there are only 100 Senators, making it impossible to arrive at a tally of 8275 to 3, but they were quickly removed from the Senate Chambers and condemned for "threatening Democracy and attempting to suppress the votes of people of color."
The Senate then moved on to other business, passing universal healthcare by a margin of 320,000 to 4.
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@ILikePie5
Did you see Sadolite's hilarious post about how the Senate voted to make impeachment constitutional? I had no idea amending the Constitution was so easy!
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