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Meanwhile 43% of Republicans think the President should be able to shut down news sites compared to 36% who agreed with the 1st's idea of a free press. http://www.nationalmemo.com/po...
One of the things I hate about rightists is how quick to censor they've always been. Sure they go on about the freedom to be assholes, but anything considered immoral by them is quickly censored. This ranges from the Hayes code (not an actual law but driven by threat of law) to a woman outright saying she'll trade sex for money.
And when you look worldwide, you have right wing countries such as Russia prosecuting Pussy riot for speaking, various religious countries that will throw you off the nearest building for what you say, or lure you into their embassy to suffocate and dis-member a journalist who their Crown Prince was pissed off at. The right wing seems to worship these types of countries, especially the ultra right wing Saudi Arabia, along with their President who continuously attacks the press.

Have fun living with the consequences of shooting your neighbor's brother in law, or estranged son, when they come over unexpected that one time your neighbor forgot to tell you...

There is so much that can go wrong with such an arrangement. I would argue more bad than good can come of it.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/the-person-youre-most-likely-to-kill-with-your-gun-is-you/

I do see the violence on the right but I do make a distinction between actions v words and lone wolfs v groups.

Actually, what you do is try to embrace a false sanctimony as you fail to admit to the violent organizations on the right, from the Bundy Ranch militias, the Respect the Flag group, the Huttaree, and even the various Tea Party groups and others on the right-wing clamoring for a revolution. Which included Donald Trump, in 2012, with his infamous Tweetstorm.

If you want to admit to them, then fair enough, go ahead and condemn them. Say they're deplorable. Say they're repugnant. Say they're dangerous.

I don't blame the Chicago kidnapping on the left anymore than I blame the Charleston shooting on the right.

Yes, yes, you already made it clear that you want to ignore how Dylan Roof is merely one among many on the right espousing such views, but that won't make it not a fact that "they do exist in abundance.

Sorry, but Dylan Roof wasn't merely some lone isolated nut following the beat of a drum only he could hear, there's a whole marching band.

By their fruits we know them.

As for the rest of your diarrhea... try harder.

I will, you're not worth giving up on. You deserve to be informed. You deserve to have the strength of character you need to admit the truth. You can have the fortitude to boldly proclaim that the shit stinks all around. It's a dysentery that

Since we're having a dick measuring contest, mine's BIGGER!

730 jobs (or even a 1000 if you wanna use that number) VS 1.5 MILLION Suck on that hawg, bitch!

1a: What do actual structural engineers have to say about his wall?

Twelve million, six hundred thousand cubic yards. In other words, this wall would contain over three times the amount of concrete used to build the Hoover Dam — a project that, unlike Trump’s wall, has qualitative, verifiable economic benefits.

Such a wall would be greater in volume than all six pyramids of the Giza Necropolis — and it is unlikely that a concrete slab in the town of Dead Dog Valley, Texas would inspire the same timeless sense of wonder.

That quantity of concrete could pave a one-lane road from New York to Los Angeles, going the long way around the Earth, which would probably be just as useful.

Concrete, of course, requires reinforcing steel (or rebar). A reasonable estimate for the amount of rebar would be about 3 percent of the total wall size, resulting in a steel volume of 10,190,000 cubic feet, or about 5 billion pounds. We could melt down 4 of our Nimitz-class aircraft carriers and would probably be a few cruisers short of having enough steel.

But the challenge is far greater than simply collecting the necessary raw materials. All of these hundreds of miles of wall would need to be cast in concrete facilities, probably project-specific ones that have been custom built near the border. Then, the pre-cast wall pieces would need to be shipped by truck through the inhospitable, often roadless desert.

The men and women doing the work of actually installing the wall would have to be provided with food, water, shelter, lavatory facilities, safety equipment, transportation, and medical care, and would sometimes be miles away from a population center of any size. Sure, some people would be willing to to do the work, but at what price? Would Trump hire Mexicans?

This analysis also ignores the less sexy aspects of large-scale engineering projects: surveying, land acquisition, environmental review, geological studies, maintenance, excavating for foundations, and so on. Theoretical President Trump may be able to executive-order his way through the laser grid of lawsuits that normally impede this kind of work, but he can’t ignore the physical realities of construction.

1b: 3 billion dollars? Sorry jack, not even close. constructing a new relatively simple interstate interchange can run between 200mil and 1bil depending on how much land you need to buy for right of way, how many bridges, etc. the cost of trumps wall would be quite a bit higher.

2: No, we don't send Mexico 1bil a year. Not even close.
Total aid given to Mexico for the last several years:
2014: 218
2013: 272
2012: 282
2011: 477
2010: 310
2009: 166
2008: 104
2007: 109
2006: 96
2005: 68
2004: 45
2003: 58
2002: 83
2001: 44
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TOTAL: 2.3 billion over 14 years.

ever get tired of being ignorant?

Ahh... another full of shit conservative. You need to pull your head out of your ideological ass and take a look at reality.

Once reason the ACA has such low numbers is because there are as many liberals who don't like it as their are teabaggers that don't like ANYTHING associated with Obama (Obama Derangement Syndrome). Liberals are at least intelligent enough to undertsand there's two reasons for not liking the ACA... the conservative reason: it goes too far (even though the Heritage Foundation originally came up with most the crap in it); and the liberal reason: it's not universal healthcare, which is easier to implement, has no loopholes, and would be less costly for taxpayers both publicly and privately. But the ACA doesn't just benefit insurance companies, and only someone devoid of any fucking clue would still be stupid enough to think that.

NSA spying on citizens? Think back, if you will, to the people who were against the PATRIOT Act when the cowardly conservatives rammed it through in 2001. Predominately liberals. Most of those people are still against it, as well as TSA, ad the Homeland Security proliferation. As much as the teabaggers whine about it, when push comes to shove, they're still for it: http://www.nationalmemo.com/house-republicans-hold-a-hearing-to-defend-nsa-surveillance/

Marijuana? Seriously? Are you a fucking idiot as well as illiterate and living in a cave?

Bailouts? Had we not helped the banks and let them crash, you'd look longingly back to the great recession as the nice little slowdown preceding the next Great Depression. Again, only someone without a clue would think letting that large a portion of the entire countries economy collapse into chaos is a good thing. However much liberals realize something had to be done (as opposed to republicans who thought the economy was just fine (think: the GOP platform at the time; McCain specifically saying it out loud), many liberals want to see heads roll. Bankers should be in jail, any bank too big too fail should be broken up and never allowed to grow again, and Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act should be repealed. The problem: even bringing that up nets a rousing chorus of "that'd be socialism" from the fucking idiots on the right that don't understand what the word means, and are too stupid to look it up.

Many liberals disagree with Obama on a lot of little things, and some big things, BUT, he is a hell of a lot better than ANY republicans would ever begin to be. Republicans need to get back to putting this countries needs over their parties politics.... something they haven't done in about 20 years now.

If Obama came out tomorrow saying everyone should keep breathing, 4-8 minutes later every teabagger in this country would be dead, a well as most of the republican politicians who have enabled the fringe Birchers wanna-be's.

> I could come up with a lot of dreamscape systems

What Rance Priebus is advocating is not a 'dreamscape system'. It is a workable plan that has actually been partly implemented and endorsed by the RNC. If it been fully applied at the last election Mitt Romney would likely be our President.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/rncs-priebus-endorses-plan-to-rig-electoral-college/

Right now US lawmakers couldn't pass gas in a chili house. I think they've managed to pass all of 15 laws this session, and next month they plan on working only 7 days (all that doing nothing has apparently exhausted them). Their polling numbers hit a record low this month. So they can't actually do anything, and everybody hates them.

Snowden should be more worried about what polar bears think of him than the US Congress.