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Okay so neither Republicans or Democrats can be trusted. ONLY people who support Trump i.e. only those who stand by whatever he says can be trusted to tell the truth.  Lol welcome to the clown show. 

OK, let's get some documentation at that there claim.

This is not saying the media is perfect; or even unbiased. They are often sensational, jump to conclusions, speculate a lot and assume the worst; but the idea that they are systematically selling a false narrative is unsupported claptrap, sold by a political wing that needs you dismiss any unflattering story.

The goal wasn’t to stop the funds, it was to get Ukraine to *announce* that they were  investigating the Biden’s. Why is that so difficult?

Wow, how absurd. So to be clear, your position is that the president of the United States is a nobody to foreign countries like Ukraine?

What’s more absurd, is that this claim is being made in the face of an actual Ukrainian ( the only one who has spoken about it publicly so far) who was an advisor to Zelensky at the time while this was happening saying everything I’m saying. But why let facts get in the way right?

The point isn't the ultimate outcome. The point is the intent and actions taken with regards to the intent.

If someone does his very best to murder someone else, but ultimately fails, this would still be a crime. In a similar fashion here, it's true that money apportioned to Ukraine must go to Ukraine eventually from a legal standpoint, but this doesn't really address the manner in which the aid was attempted to be used as leverage.

And what about Georgia's Republican Secretary of State and Republican Attorney General both insisting after many investigations there was no fraud? 

Didn't a number of Republican officials responsible for their state election results 'already check for fraud?

Oromagi, address what pue just said. If there is no fraud why did the convenient break in happen? 

It’s really interesting the little hoops these guys are jumping through in order to not address the key central points.

Stock market is doing a pump and dump atm. Get some crypto bro and fight the power.

So if I go into a store with a handgun that’s not loaded, point it at the cashier and tell her to give me her money… I did nothing wrong because I couldn’t have shot her so I had no leverage. Ok.

You seriously think that the Ukrainians see themselves being extorted by Trump and think to themselves… “well it’s in the US budget so we’ll be fine”?

This seems unlikely to me, but more generally, I think political structures should reflect the will of the people. I don’t support direct democracy, but I don’t think indirect democracy should be so detached from what the public wants. 

And the last mark of a bully is personal attack. Attack my words all you want. Me and my avatar are off limits, bud.

How is that? Ranked choice voting, for instance, would probably allow for the success of more than just two parties. The system I support would just allow whoever’s supported by most American people at any point in time to have political power – and it’s not obvious to me that that would systematically favor any one political party. At the moment, it would favor the Democrats. Six years ago, it would have favored the Republicans. Four years ago, it’d be pretty close. 

I think there’s a pretty strong case for abolishing the Senate, yeah. Or radically reforming it. Majoritarian politics is not ideal, but the level of small state overrepresentation in the Senate is probably worse, in my view.

1. Reform the US political system, by abolishing the filibuster, making DC and Puerto Rico states, creating independent redistricting commissions, abolishing the Electoral College, and adopting ranked choice voting for most elections.
   

So what? all of politicking is a quid pro quo. It's just only bad when the orangeman does it and only good when someone with a D does it.

Nothing new to see here. Move on.

It sounds like he asked for him to do him a favor and just be honest. Being even handed and honest, is literally the opposite of quid pro quo. 

Harris is working to restore some of the anti-corruption and economic development measures that proved fairly effective during the Bush and Obama administrations

Correct. Wylted has already been unbanned 

More Blacks died from "mass" school shootings than whites

Those are absolutely the wrong kinds of insurrectionists. Not only do their costumes suck, but they are really bad at taking a bullet in the neck from a DC cop.

If only q-Anon threw more necks at DC police bullets, maybe Democracy could have been actually threatened.

Mabye if they dressed them up as cosplay shamans...

If only we could get the world to put Hamas into the "nutjob" category.

Just add me to the list of gun murders if your intent is to take my gun. Simple as that. No debate required. I will defend my firearms to the death.

School shootings are one of the ugliest global occurrences. That's my two cents. I imagine you've all had this argument a thousand times and not moved an inch. 

If I made the same threat I'd be banned, no doubt. 

you'd electrocute my testicles

More people also killed by hands and feet than rifles.

In your opinion, would you say that hands and feet are the real problem?

I certainly don’t feel safe knowing that people are walking around with hands and feet now that I know the facts

knives only kill so much compared to guns, because there are so many more knives out there than rifles. this is fourth grade science that you are struggling with

people like to say assault rifles are not that dangerous, because there are only a few hundred murders with them per year out of only around ten or so thousand of gun murders. the thing is though, the percent chance an assault rifle will be used to kill someone is significantly higher than the chance other guns will be used to kill someone.