lowenz on 7/3/2024 at 21:53
Lobbying is the heart of american democracy vs the european "socialist" model. So what? Are you antiamerican? :p
Just make money - with your hard work - to buy favors.....it's how "freedom" (to gain power and influence) works in the american way.....by design.
I repeat, it's how the system is designed to sustain itself.
Tocky on 8/3/2024 at 04:52
Republicans are the ones who pushed for Citizens United and got it. That allowed congress to be bought. Republicans are the ones who let the rich write their laws. The fist passed when there was no Democrat president to stop it was the tax cuts for the rich. The very first one under Trump. They had it loaded in case he won. Biden wants to repeal that one and institute a 15% tax on them to help get the deficit under control. Did you see the state of the union? Biden nailed it and nailed Republicans with it.
Yes there is a lot of fear mongering about the border when Republicans let an orange moron talk them out of a border deal that would help tremendously just so he would have something to run on. Trump has promised a day of dictatorship and I've come to understand he means what he says. He has shown he cares about the US only when he wins. If he loses he will gladly burn all our laws and institutions to get himself in office. And sure you may welcome it's doom but as long as we can get enough Democrats in to override Republicans fealty to the ultra wealthy I still have hope for the US.
Did anyone catch senator Britts rebuttal to the State of the Union? LOL I have never seen a worse acting job in my life and the contradictions were mind boggling. First she says how we should keep the immigrants in Mexico then goes on some tear stained speech about the cartels there raping and trafficking women. Well duh. You want to keep those women over there on that side for that! Then she says how proud she is of her state for the invitro fertilization mess. Mind boggling. Then she talks about credit cards but forgets that Biden has a bill to cut the percent they can charge if only Republicans will pass it. She must think we are as nutty as she is. And the wheedling tear stained acting and appeals to kitchen table gawd bless American values bullshit was so over the top. I was blown away that she thought that crap could fly to anyone with a brain.
Biden looked great and got some good jabs in. I must admit I was a little afraid. By the end of his speech I came to realize I had somehow allowed myself to be bamboozled by Republicans decrying his age. How? I know they lie.
heywood on 11/3/2024 at 14:13
Quote Posted by RippedPhreak
Read it again.
The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.So clearly if he had been impeached
and then convicted by the Senate, he would have not only been removed from office, he would have been disqualified from holding future office. So Congress had its chance to DQ him and didn't. The Rachel Maddow/Jon Stewart/Keith Olbermann types are simply lying to you.
Impeachment only applies to the President, Vice President and civil Officers of the United States. Trump is none of those things. He's an ordinary citizen now, and Congress can't impeach an ordinary citizen.
The real question is whether you can bar someone from office who is only accused of insurrection but hasn't been convicted of it. SCOTUS punted on that, which leaves the door open for a party who holds majorities in both houses and the Presidency to bar opposition candidates from office by act of legislation, without needing a conviction or other legal judgment.
heywood on 11/3/2024 at 14:52
Quote Posted by Tocky
Did anyone catch senator Britts rebuttal to the State of the Union? LOL I have never seen a worse acting job in my life and the contradictions were mind boggling. First she says how we should keep the immigrants in Mexico then goes on some tear stained speech about the cartels there raping and trafficking women. Well duh. You want to keep those women over there on that side for that! Then she says how proud she is of her state for the invitro fertilization mess. Mind boggling. Then she talks about credit cards but forgets that Biden has a bill to cut the percent they can charge if only Republicans will pass it. She must think we are as nutty as she is. And the wheedling tear stained acting and appeals to kitchen table gawd bless American values bullshit was so over the top. I was blown away that she thought that crap could fly to anyone with a brain.
I didn't watch either speech, but I had a pretty good idea of how the night went when the right wing media here in NH didn't say a word about it the next day. If they can't spin it, it must have been bad. I did see Tommy Tuberville defending it by calling her a housewife over and over, and I'm not sure that helps their cause with independent women voters. When Republicans get their asses kicked again in November, do you suppose they will finally wake up and realize they are being led into irrelevance by a clown?
Tocky on 12/3/2024 at 00:29
No. They will never look in the mirror because of what they would find. They have seen that flag clutching fool attempt to end our system of voting by trying to block the constitutional turnover of power and had to abandon all of their "family values" for him. They will never admit they are wrong about the previous president. Best they can do is try to stop women and young people from voting. And minorities, can't forget those, have to redraw voting district lines and limit polling places to stop them.
demagogue on 12/3/2024 at 01:48
Britt's response was super cringe. She had this consistent emotional wobble in her voice like somebody that can't contain their emotion, but a lot of what she was saying was muddled and confused.
The part about it being in the kitchen and playing up traditional womanhood... Some people value that kind of thing. I'm not gonna lecture women on what kind of life they should lead in their private life. But it's surreal for a political response in public life. It captures this moment in political time I guess. We always knew there was going to come a day when it was the Right that took up Identity Politics and empty virtue signalling, and here we are.
heywood on 12/3/2024 at 14:21
There was a backlash to BLM and I think conservatives mistook it as a backlash against liberalism in general. Religious conservative values aren't selling to independents. Apparently, most suburban women voters aren't looking to go back to being objectified and subservient to men, stuck at home cooking and cleaning, trapped in unfulfilling and sometimes abusive marriages the church says they can't leave, forced to have unwanted babies, socially ostracized if they're independent, etc. They're not selling well to moderate Republicans either, as evidenced by the decline of Ron DeSantis after he leaned hard into it.
RippedPhreak on 13/3/2024 at 02:04
DeSantis never had any chance whatsoever. Nor did Haley. I guess they figured might as well toss their hats in the ring in case the Democrats arrest Trump and he mysteriously "commits suicide" one night in his cell while the cameras accidentally get turned off and the guards take a long smoke break.
Other than that happening, zero chance for either of them.
Jason Moyer on 13/3/2024 at 08:10
Quote Posted by demagogue
Britt's response was super cringe. She had this consistent emotional wobble in her voice like somebody that can't contain their emotion, but a lot of what she was saying was muddled and confused.
For a minute I thought I was on the wrong website and it was the intro to some weird political-themed porno.
Qooper on 13/3/2024 at 09:15
I had no idea who this Britt was, never heard of her. But I watched her speech. She tries hard to sound convincing, but she ends up sounding over the top emotional and fake. Her acting looks like she's acting. My advice to her would be to be natural and more direct. No need for theater.
But then the content. She kept on talking about the border crisis. Did she forget that the Reps were offered a border deal that they then refused without explaining what they wanted?