If only they would run for Congress rather than screwing around every four years and knocking over the table.
If only they would run for Congress rather than screwing around every four years and knocking over the table.
Well of course it’s going to get worse. One of the parties will not allow even moderate, reasonable gun legislation. Every former Trump supporting loon with a grudge can get a gun with no problem.
Thanks. A handy verse to throw in the face of those who claim to be Christians.
These third party types always claim that they want to reform the system. That’s bullshit. If you want to reform this system then you need to start at the bottom. You need to recruit candidates and invest in winning at local and state level first. Those are the most winnable offices for an outsider/independent. Hell, win a few critical states and you can get enough states in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact which, while not an ideal solution, would be a good first step in reforming the system.
Once you have some power and recognition at the state level, you need to aim for Congress. Start winning seats in the House and Senate and you can really start making change. That is where the real power of change resides. How many times have we seen a president with a divided House and/or Senate have their policy goals effectively neutered by legislative antagonism? Without support from the House and Senate, a 3rd party president would be powerless.
Stein cannot possibly enact positive change even if there were a literal miracle and she became president. The only thing, literally the only thing she can do by running for President is get Trump elected.
Someone should explain to those Muslims in Wisconsin that Stein literally cannot win their state. She has no electors. State law requires that a candidates electors be nominated by state office holders. The greens have no state office holders so they cannot nominate any electors. Even if Stein were to somehow win the state, she can’t get the electoral votes for Wisconsin. All she can do is again steal enough votes from Harris to give the election to Trump.
Trump started it. Back in 2020 there was a coronavirus stimulus package going through the legislature. The Democrats tried to include some amendments that would make it easier for people to vote during the stimulus. Basic stuff like easier mail in voting and extended voting days. Trump’s reaction on Fox News showed that they clearly understand that more voting is bad for Republicans.
“The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again”
That she is still, at her core, a republican piece of shit
Seconded. I like to remind people that while in office, she voted with Trump over 92% of the time.
Name five cops who don’t.
“That’s why I wanted to ask the broader question, which is, if you’ve changed your position on X, Y and Z, how can you assure voters that those positions won’t change again once they elect you?”
What a moronic concept. Why would anyone demand that their elected representative be monolithic in their positions? When you get new information, you sometimes need to adjust your positions to accommodate reality, but I guess that something the Republicans have never really been good at.
As Billy Joel said, “I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. The sinners are much more fun.”
It’s shit like this that makes me not give a shit when cops get ambushed or murdered. The whole profession is a cesspool of sociopaths that the world would be better off without. I try no to subscribe to the whole ACAB attitude and believe that they aren’t really all bad, but it’s virtually impossible to hang onto that belief when dangerous officers like this are kept on the force.
Wouldn’t that mean that this transparent political hit job was a colossal waste of time on the part of the Republicans?
Not really. Their whole goal is to make sure they can say that Biden is impeached at least as many times as Trump even though they know that they’ll never get a conviction in the senate. The whole investigation is not in the interest of justice or good governing. It’s pure politics. When you point out that it’s all just for show, they’ll turn around and say that the Trump impeachments were the ones that were all for show. And their base, the only one’s they care about, will believe it.
Here’s the kicker. The reason they want to be able to say that is because they are trying to 100% equate Harris with Biden. Watch the first few seconds here (youtube) where Vance says, “It’s hard to believe just how bad the Kamala Harris administration has been…” There hasn’t been a Kamala Harris administration. It’s been the Biden administration, obviously, and Sofa King knows it. This is not a mistake on his part. This is the new play, everything Biden has done, they will try to lay at Harris’ feet including Biden’s impeachment.
That’s the Republican method of operation. Accuse your opponent of doing what you are doing. When you point out that it’s their guy doing it, they just claim you are the one lying. Their base is so deeply programmed they believe it.
I don’t think it’s a fair assumption that the faith groups are doing that. The facility itself really isn’t a prison. The article says:
“It will cost millions to renovate that building to get it up to the jail standards,” she said. “There’s no bars, there’s no doors. It’s like a dormitory. And the women have it beautifully decorated.”
An good argument could be made that the type prisoners sent to such a facility are very unlikely to re-offend in the first place. That chance is further reduced simply by the fact that it’s not a facility that is focused on punishment and is focused on rehabilitation with or without religious overtones. I don’t for a moment believe evangelizing them helps keep them out of prison.
“She gets it, and she’s a healthy, beautiful woman, and they’re rated equal, but she got the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and she got it for — and that’s through committees and everything else.”
“She got it for…” And he cut himself off? She got it for what, Donnie? What did she do to deserve the highest civilian honor that you are too afraid to say out loud?
I was basing that on Biden’s 18 year term limit proposal that allowed an appointment every 2 years.
President Biden supports a system in which the President would appoint a Justice every two years to spend eighteen years in active service on the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court has too much power and Article III of the U.S. Constitution contains the solution. The important part is in the second paragraph below. The Supreme Court, by design, has original jurisdiction only over “cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party.” SCOTUS has appellate jurisdiction in all cases mentioned in the first paragraph, and here is the critical part, “with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.”
Congress has the authority to take away the court’s appellate authority in the vast majority of cases. They could create a Supreme Appellate Court that would decide the vast majority of the cases that SCOTUS now decides. Congress could strip SCOTUS of all authority other than that specifically defined in the Constitution; that of “cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party.”
Article III, Section 2
The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority;–to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls;–to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction;–to controversies to which the United States shall be a party;–to controversies between two or more states;–between a state and citizens of another state;–between citizens of different states;–between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens or subjects.
In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.
The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
As Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted during the oral arguments when SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade:
“there’s so much that’s not in the Constitution, including the fact that we have the last word. Marbury versus Madison. There is not anything in the Constitution that says that the Court, the Supreme Court, is the last word on what the Constitution means. It was totally novel at that time. And yet, what the Court did was reason from the structure of the Constitution that that’s what was intended.”
Each branch of government is supposed to be a check on the power of the others. The Legislative and Executive branches are not powerless against the current court, except for the fact that the Republicans in the House and Senate stand in the way of meaningful reform. Vote blue at every level if you want to save this country. Because right now we have a royal court backed up by the GOP in the legislature that is really ruling the land and that’s the only way we will ever change it.
If each president gets to appoint 2 judges over a 4 year period, how would that make the problem worse without one party winning every election?
The only part that shocks me, well, puzzles me really, is that the potential shooter knew where and when to be at the club when there was nothing on Trump’s schedule saying he would be there.