the four horsemen have to be confirmed by the senate first. they are:
-Attorney General: Rudy Guiliani
-Secretary of Defense: Chris Christie
-Dept of Homeland Security: the crazy sheriff from milwaulkie who thinks racism doesnt exist unless it comes from blacks (btw...he's black), and that BLM is an ISIS sleeper cell
the dick cheney in this equation is Pence, or did you forget he was offered the job in terms of being in charge of both foreign and domestic policy? and as for corruption, all the bullshit you fools accuse clinton of, Trump has actually done.
because voter disenfranchisement works. or did you just forget that voter ID laws have that effect? or that 3 different states purged primarily democrats before the election, NC going so far as to do less than a week before....?
newsflash: trump isnt president yet. and putin has a history of influencing elections and installing puppets.
again: mere months ago conservatives were bitching because obama used diplomacy instead of bombing russia. now they are falling all over themselves to defend associations to russia.
the difference is we now have a president and supporters who no longer remember what it means to be Americans, what our American principles and ideals are or what they mean.
if they did, they would never have supported trump. Trump is the antithesis to those things. And supporting him means you no longer support those things.
that no aspect of the Republic should ever be held in one individual or even one group's hands
The problem is that's exactly what's happened when 1 Vermont vote is worth 3 in Texas.
Or that the minority side in texas has 0 voice in the electoral college, while being 3x larger in size than the majority side in Vermont. Or California vs Delaware.
This is beyond anything the founder's intended. This was not their expectation.
Frankly I reject the notion that it creates any sort of check on the popular will. And in most states electors are expected to be rubber stamps of the majority vote. that serves no purpose in dampening the popular will.
and this past election makes it quite clear that mob rule, angry populism lashing against rational expertise, did win regardless of any supposed check from the EC. so that's invalid too.
the check against mob rule is the use of elected representatives and a three branch government.
and now youre spouting BS about Trayvon Martin. literal, actual, full on ignorant racist bulls**t meant to justify the death of a young black kid walking home.
when cops shot black people in the back, he didn't immediately back the cops. got called divisive. when a florida man started a fight with a black kid and then killed him, he didn't immediately support Zimmerman. and got called divisive.
the country is literally in the best shape its been in in decades and your moronic conservatives are running around like the country is falling apart, and now you've elected trump, a man who truly is divisive, who is the most openly racist, misogynistic, and otherwise bigoted person to run since David Duke, who is more corrupt and less qualified than Reagan ever was. basically everything you idiots have ever falsely accused Clinton of, Trump actually is guilty of.
no. the primary opposition to Obama for 8 years has been rooted in his skin color, and conservatives have willfully ignored reality for 8 years.
Obama was not divisive. Conservatives were, because they couldn't handle having a black guy in the white house.
-Voting rights for minorities, aka rampant disenfranchisement, gone -abortion rights, gone -LGBTQ rights, gone -Women's rights, gone -Minimum wage, gone -religious rights for non-Christians, gone -Child labor laws, gone -Social Security, gone -Medicare/Medicaid, gone -more religious rights for corporations to force on employees -unions, gone -stable growing economy, gone -the ability to survive another economic depression, like we did in 2008, gone -the American ideals of liberty and justice for all, gone
-America, gone.
Welcome to The Gilded Age 2.0*
*Only white Christian males with money need apply.
one could make the argument that Heinlein intentionally chose a very alien enemy to highlight and embody how we dehumanize our enemies through propaganda to make them seem less than human. remember, Heinlein lived through WWII, so he saw the way the Japanese and Germans were depicted. especially the Japanese (since there were still far far more people of German descent and even with family still over there who might call BS on going too far). and we continued to do the same in regards to communist Russia.
if it were valid criticism you'd have a point. but its not.
its naked bigotry and outright lies based in ignorance and falsehoods trying to cloak itself under the guise of "criticism" despite having no valid claim to that word.
no, hundreds of thousands of "middle eastern fighting age males" are not being imported. no the screening isn't laughable (but your ignorance is).
no, those weren't central tenets anymore than grabbing a random line of law out of Exodus makes it a central tenet of Christianity. by focusing on just those parts of Islam you reveal your own ignorance about everything else in the religion, labeling an entire religion on the basis of a few extremists who falsely claim the religion and base their world view on just a few sentences of the book. that's no more valid than labeling all Christians as homophobes and bigots on the basis of the Westboro Baptists obsession with homosexuals deriving a single line of the Old Testament.
Its not hypocrisy to defend their right to exist against the ignorant, such as yourself, who say they have no such right, even as we criticize their shortcomings (the real ones) which we do. but notice we don't criticize all of Islam for the failing of one country. Iran has compulsory Hijab. that's bad. France has tried to ban the hijab. That's ALSO bad. The Taliban's interpretation and implementation of womens rights (ie, none) is bad. But not all Islamic countries are the same, and there have been more female heads of state from Islamic countries than western European's have (note the exclusion of central and south America cause they also have had several).
In fact, most of the things you complain about and try to paint as applying to ALL of Islam really only apply to a few people in a few countries who are abusing their power. Should we denounce all democracies because the NSA was reading everyones email? Should we denounce all christianity because a handful of priests abused alter boys and were shielded by their bishops? Prior to the Iranian Revolution and the Taliban's defeat of the Mujahedeen and subsequent takeover of Afghanistan, both those countries were fairly secular and even westernized nations.
they call it racist because its also usually seen, and opposed, on ethnic grounds, which is pretty close to "racist". and religionist and ethnicist aren't really words in use yet.
and really, what you're describing, is really just your own nostalgia at not being able to be openly and publicly prejudiced anymore. we're not thin skinned because we disagree with the open use of slurs, nor is disagreement with such usage naiveté. instead we are better people for it, as is the nation.
as no, we don't require a cadre of protectors we disagree with. this may be news to you, but many of us are veterans and police officers and other guardian type folks.
Heinlein's book is largely garbage. among his works, it's probably one of his weakest. the main redeeming quality, beside some fairly entertaining space opera, is when it's main character is viewed as an example of good leadership (hence it's presence on the Commandant's Reading List). and I don't think he wrote it to be a treatise on government; he simply chose a background setting that fit the story he wanted to tell. but calling its backdrop fascist is accurate.
in short, shutup dude, you don't know what youre talking about. the kids are gonna be alright, just like you were, despite your forbears making the same dire predictions.
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the four horsemen have to be confirmed by the senate first.
they are:
-Attorney General: Rudy Guiliani
-Secretary of Defense: Chris Christie
-Dept of Homeland Security: the crazy sheriff from milwaulkie who thinks racism doesnt exist unless it comes from blacks (btw...he's black), and that BLM is an ISIS sleeper cell
-Secretary of State: Sarah Palin
sleep tight america.
the dick cheney in this equation is Pence, or did you forget he was offered the job in terms of being in charge of both foreign and domestic policy?
and as for corruption, all the bullshit you fools accuse clinton of, Trump has actually done.
because voter disenfranchisement works.
or did you just forget that voter ID laws have that effect?
or that 3 different states purged primarily democrats before the election, NC going so far as to do less than a week before....?
youre a fucking moron.
so exactly how many dictators and fascists and hate mongers does it take before it becomes one?
because the leftists of then are totally the same people with the same beliefs as leftists of today.
once again you fail.
newsflash: trump isnt president yet.
and putin has a history of influencing elections and installing puppets.
again: mere months ago conservatives were bitching because obama used diplomacy instead of bombing russia.
now they are falling all over themselves to defend associations to russia.
bwahahaha
the difference is we now have a president and supporters who no longer remember what it means to be Americans, what our American principles and ideals are or what they mean.
if they did, they would never have supported trump.
Trump is the antithesis to those things.
And supporting him means you no longer support those things.
that no aspect of the Republic should ever be held in one individual or even one group's hands
The problem is that's exactly what's happened when 1 Vermont vote is worth 3 in Texas.
Or that the minority side in texas has 0 voice in the electoral college, while being 3x larger in size than the majority side in Vermont.
Or California vs Delaware.
This is beyond anything the founder's intended.
This was not their expectation.
Frankly I reject the notion that it creates any sort of check on the popular will.
And in most states electors are expected to be rubber stamps of the majority vote.
that serves no purpose in dampening the popular will.
and this past election makes it quite clear that mob rule, angry populism lashing against rational expertise, did win regardless of any supposed check from the EC. so that's invalid too.
the check against mob rule is the use of elected representatives and a three branch government.
No.
Wrong.
Not insightful.
Republic just means we don't have a king for a head of state.
That has nothing do with being or not being a democracy.
The two terms are orthogonal.
Specifically, we are BOTH a republic and a democracy .
Nope.
Wrong.
why should one Vermont vote be worth 3 in texas?
that's not defensible.
truth hurts.
almost everything armored dragon said was false.
but then that's par for the course, isn't it?
and now youre spouting BS about Trayvon Martin.
literal, actual, full on ignorant racist bulls**t meant to justify the death of a young black kid walking home.
Conservative definition of divisive: he didn't treat racists the same as he treated their victims.
the horror!!
no im pointing out the truth.
when cops shot black people in the back, he didn't immediately back the cops. got called divisive.
when a florida man started a fight with a black kid and then killed him, he didn't immediately support Zimmerman. and got called divisive.
the country is literally in the best shape its been in in decades and your moronic conservatives are running around like the country is falling apart, and now you've elected trump, a man who truly is divisive, who is the most openly racist, misogynistic, and otherwise bigoted person to run since David Duke, who is more corrupt and less qualified than Reagan ever was. basically everything you idiots have ever falsely accused Clinton of, Trump actually is guilty of .
no.
the primary opposition to Obama for 8 years has been rooted in his skin color, and conservatives have willfully ignored reality for 8 years.
Obama was not divisive.
Conservatives were, because they couldn't handle having a black guy in the white house.
-Voting rights for minorities, aka rampant disenfranchisement, gone
-abortion rights, gone
-LGBTQ rights, gone
-Women's rights, gone
-Minimum wage, gone
-religious rights for non-Christians, gone
-Child labor laws, gone
-Social Security, gone
-Medicare/Medicaid, gone
-more religious rights for corporations to force on employees
-unions, gone
-stable growing economy, gone
-the ability to survive another economic depression, like we did in 2008, gone
-the American ideals of liberty and justice for all, gone
-America, gone.
Welcome to The Gilded Age 2.0*
*Only white Christian males with money need apply.
Obama constantly speaks untruths.
all the sockpuppets in the world wont make your comment factual.
Conservative definition of divisive: he didn't treat racists the same as he treated their victims.
the horror!
Orphans of the Sky.
its a chase plot, and those are easy to adapt to the screen.
and you get commentary on religious dogma too.
or The Green Hills of Earth.
one could make the argument that Heinlein intentionally chose a very alien enemy to highlight and embody how we dehumanize our enemies through propaganda to make them seem less than human. remember, Heinlein lived through WWII, so he saw the way the Japanese and Germans were depicted. especially the Japanese (since there were still far far more people of German descent and even with family still over there who might call BS on going too far). and we continued to do the same in regards to communist Russia.
if it were valid criticism you'd have a point.
but its not.
its naked bigotry and outright lies based in ignorance and falsehoods trying to cloak itself under the guise of "criticism" despite having no valid claim to that word.
no, hundreds of thousands of "middle eastern fighting age males" are not being imported.
no the screening isn't laughable (but your ignorance is).
no, those weren't central tenets anymore than grabbing a random line of law out of Exodus makes it a central tenet of Christianity.
by focusing on just those parts of Islam you reveal your own ignorance about everything else in the religion, labeling an entire religion on the basis of a few extremists who falsely claim the religion and base their world view on just a few sentences of the book. that's no more valid than labeling all Christians as homophobes and bigots on the basis of the Westboro Baptists obsession with homosexuals deriving a single line of the Old Testament.
Its not hypocrisy to defend their right to exist against the ignorant, such as yourself, who say they have no such right, even as we criticize their shortcomings (the real ones) which we do. but notice we don't criticize all of Islam for the failing of one country. Iran has compulsory Hijab. that's bad. France has tried to ban the hijab. That's ALSO bad. The Taliban's interpretation and implementation of womens rights (ie, none) is bad. But not all Islamic countries are the same, and there have been more female heads of state from Islamic countries than western European's have (note the exclusion of central and south America cause they also have had several).
In fact, most of the things you complain about and try to paint as applying to ALL of Islam really only apply to a few people in a few countries who are abusing their power. Should we denounce all democracies because the NSA was reading everyones email? Should we denounce all christianity because a handful of priests abused alter boys and were shielded by their bishops? Prior to the Iranian Revolution and the Taliban's defeat of the Mujahedeen and subsequent takeover of Afghanistan, both those countries were fairly secular and even westernized nations.
more bigoted BS from you.
shocking.
they call it racist because its also usually seen, and opposed, on ethnic grounds, which is pretty close to "racist". and religionist and ethnicist aren't really words in use yet.
and really, what you're describing, is really just your own nostalgia at not being able to be openly and publicly prejudiced anymore.
we're not thin skinned because we disagree with the open use of slurs, nor is disagreement with such usage naiveté.
instead we are better people for it, as is the nation.
as no, we don't require a cadre of protectors we disagree with.
this may be news to you, but many of us are veterans and police officers and other guardian type folks.
Heinlein's book is largely garbage. among his works, it's probably one of his weakest. the main redeeming quality, beside some fairly entertaining space opera, is when it's main character is viewed as an example of good leadership (hence it's presence on the Commandant's Reading List). and I don't think he wrote it to be a treatise on government; he simply chose a background setting that fit the story he wanted to tell. but calling its backdrop fascist is accurate.
in short, shutup dude, you don't know what youre talking about.
the kids are gonna be alright, just like you were, despite your forbears making the same dire predictions.
Trump lost the veteran vote
Sadly, no he has not.