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@mustardness
Congress good.
Orange man bad.
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@mustardness
Will you continue to approve of Congress when they do not impeach Trump?
Is that your breaking point with Congress?
Laughable.
I suspect you will still approve of Congress if your NPC masters instruct you to do so.
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@mustardness
I am glad you are among the few 10% that believes Congress is doing their job today.
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@Alec
It ends with death in many cases, and innocence is relative.man carrying a rifle does not result in life or death for an innocent person. Your big boy analogy is inconsistent.
The fact of the matter remains. Every male does not have the choice with their body when it comes to selective service.
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@disgusted
If a woman's BODY cannot be forced by the government to carry a fetus, then a man's BODY cannot be forced to carry a rifle.
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@coal
What's your opinion on why Obama brokered a 115 billion$ arms deal with Saudi Arabia?
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@Mharman
It's okay to pull out as long as a dictator is in charge to keep the peace.
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If we are to follow policy trends though....
Obama got involved in Syria's civil war....Trump pulled the troops out.
Obama got involved in Yemen's civil war....it's very likely Trump will pull out of Yemen as well at some point.
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Yemen is a big mess right now and USA really does not have an easy fix for Yemen.
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@Tejretics
- BBC News ----It's okay 7/10
- Al Jazeera--- This is my favorite source. 10/10
- Reuters---7/10
- The Economist---6/10
- The Wall Street Journal---- 4/10
- The New York Times---5/10
- The Financial Times---6/10
- The Diplomat----6/10
- South China Morning Post---7/10
- The website of the Council on Foreign Relations (https://www.cfr.org)----4/10
- The website of the Brookings Institution (https://www.brookings.edu)----9/10
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@Plisken
There is no blanket right to privacy. The Constitution itself enumerates certain rights that restrict the government from interfering with our lives (privacy)
But there is no blanket right to privacy from the government, as that would be de-jure anarchy.
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@coal
Bell Hooks is a postmodernist oppressionist writer vested heavily in identity theory. It was required reading for me when I took a college course in feminism.
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@Dk-McDan
YYW has historically undervalued his contributions. That's not unusual with people of high IQ.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
He probably wished to be part of the Khmer Rouge that slaughtered thousands of times more children than American guns.
“to stop the weeds you must also pull up their roots.”
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@coal
Will you be genuinely surprised if this thread becomes the most visited on Dart?
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@mustardness
I am glad you are among the few 10% that believes Congress is doing their job.
Every society needs their Jokers.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
You should be happy that the Demonrats are not able to clean their own house. It will mean no future for them as a party when the bills come due.I do not find what Russia does the same as what actual citizens of this country do to be the same. Let me rephrase then, I do not see any elected Democrats denouncing this in any meaningful way, sure there's probably couple here and there who have, but as a political party not so much, considering how they jump on the Russia bandwagon.
There is no "extreme left" when it comes to the Democrat party. Everything is extreme.
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@mustardness
“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster...
for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
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Every failed impeachment weakens the Congress.
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@mustardness
Lol, Congress impeaching Nixon was the beginning of the end of the Congress as it helped to start the impeach wars where Congress spent more time attempting to impeach sitting presidents than actually doing their job legislating for the country.
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This is an incredible read for anyone without a NPC brain.
This article was written in 2011 and clearly outlined how a person like Trump could get elected if the Congress continued to ignore the people.
Is there a lesson here for today's Senate? Cato's (the younger of course) endless obstruction succeeded wildly for a time, but it finally empowered his rivals and fatally weakened the Senate he cherished so much. It wasn't any one filibuster that helped wreck the Senate's legitimacy. It was a pattern of obstruction that had begun to look permanent.
Our democratic norms are too strong for senators to ever fear a president governing like a Caesar. (LOL) And our legislatures aren't hurt by the occasional obstruction that forces public debate on a divisive issue under extraordinary circumstances -- yet ultimately gives way, as in Wisconsin, to the majority and the next election.
But when the filibuster starts to become the RULE, rather than the exception, the minority may find itself with more and more power in a Congress that matters less and less. Minority rule will ultimately mean more power for the presidency, the lawyers who draft executive orders, unelected judges, and the federal bureaucracy. Placing limits on the filibuster is the wisest course for any senator who cares about the institution's future.
There's a reason, after all, that there's no filibuster written into the Constitution. Our Founders were deeply read in classical history, and they had good reason to fear the consequences of a legislature addicted to minority rule. As Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist No. 22, "If a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority...[the government's] situation must always savor of weakness, and sometimes border upon anarchy." It was true in the time of Cato, and it's still true today.
Let's all say a prayer of mourning for the Congress, and ultimately, the future of America.
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@mustardness
The Congress is forcing Trump to cross the Rubicon with its single digit approval numbers. Beware.
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If a woman cannot be forced by the government to carry a fetus, then a man cannot be forced to carry a rifle.
Right to Privacy lulz.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
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Thanks California for being the homeless capital of the world.
Looking more and more like Venezuela every year...good job.
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@Alec
You're so nutty. you know nothing about what obesity does to the body and the pain it causes.Dying from obesity is nowhere nearly as painful as dying from starvation or disease.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
As a NAVY veteran...thank you Dreadprirate.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
fun fact..NIH says 300,000 Americans die from cheeseburgers (obesity) every year.
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@Alec
"If we can't assimilate the people we already have in this country, what makes you think we can do it in Africa?"
Most people in the US as of right now are assimilated
Lol, no they are most certainly not. 22% of the population does not speak English, and about half of that don't speak English AT ALL.
Most of the Urban centers of America are subdivided into a great many cultural ghettos where people live completely different from one cultural ghetto to the next.
In fact, America is the least culturally homogenous nation on the planet.
Go ask random people on the street what it means to be American? You will get hundreds of different answers, some radically different.
America has completely failed at assimilating people to embrace the core beliefs of the founding fathers. Liberty and Democracy and Freedom are just afterthoughts to many cultures living in America today.
What a joke claim to say "most people in the US as of right now are assimilated."
The fact that an open border policy is even being suggested in the Congress proves that we are a nation completely beyond the concept of assimilation.
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@disgusted
Fun fact: If the Congress never approves any cabinet appointee, all of the positions become "acting"
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The closest the people can get to selecting cabinet positions is through presidential elections every 4 years. The People have selected Trump's cabinet members for the next 4 years.
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@Ramshutu
Have you read Hillary's book? It's a page turner!
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@Polytheist-Witch
The OP doesn't realize the the ONLY way to FORCE cultural assimilation is through genocide.
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@Alec
Your quest to "save Africans" is silly.
Millions of people die yearly from Warlords in Africa, yet the African people are fine with it.
Similarly hundreds of thousands of Americans die from cheeseburgers and automobiles, yet Americans are fine with that.
Life is more than a death statistic.
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@Polytheist-Witch
Wanting to kill native people is pretty poor conduct but you can't help being white.
Whites are some of the most self-loathing creatures on the face of the planet.
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@Alec
If we can't assimilate the people we already have in this country, what makes you think we can do it in Africa? Is there something magical about the soil there?
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@Ramshutu
The people don't get to select Cabinet helpers any more than they get to select the winner of the Democrat party presidential candidate.
It's all done with superdelegates.
All the people can do is "approve" of the superdelegate's choice....which they failed to do in 2016.
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@Ramshutu
I agree... how is "Democrats rig elections" considered fake news...or even "news" at all? It's literally the very reason why we have Trump for the next 6 years.
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@Swagnarok
Not to mention, when the world runs low on oil, coal will be used instead.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
History has shown that you can NOT replace a culture with your own culture at gunpoint without mass genocide followed by reseeding the population.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
This is actually going to help criminals more and hurt police. Gun registration has created millions of filed off serial numbers used in crimes, and now with ammo registration, criminals will probably modify their guns to collect spent casings which the police routinely use to track people down. Criminals RARELY are caught with registered anythings.
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@Alec
Also, you can purchase a slave in Mauritania or Libya.
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@Alec
Ask the African people that tolerate the Warlords. You know George Washington and the founding fathers would rather die than tolerate Warlords.
Africa is..different.
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@mustardness
The lack of a wall is only costing Mexico 6 million dollars a day. They can foot that bill.
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@mustardness
The next president will be much worse than Trump in 2024 if the Congress continues to fail the American people.
When Congress fails, the Romans demand an Emperor.
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Africa hates freedom.
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@mustardness
All Trumpanzees spent time in jail. It's called the Obama years.
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