That's just doubling down on the aforementioned propaganda of claiming a foreign leader has no legitimacy at home, because his constituents must dislike him as much as other countries, because reasons. You don't need to assassinate people or engage in other juvenile 80's action movie plots when you are overwhelmingly popular with the electorate.
During his term, the constitution was amended to change the term of the president to 6 years. Putin took back the presidency in 2012. His second term began this year and expires in 2024, at which point Putin will be 72 years old. At that point, the real fun begins. Will Putin allow someone else to become president as scheduled or will he change the rules again in the next 6 years?
Or just go back to his old office of prime minister, he's done it before. You can tell Chuck Norris he can cancel his plane tickets.
Easy answer: the company is nationalized with upper management getting fired and shareholders getting wiped out. Workers wouldn't lose their jobs or pensions as they would go back to the same plant and do the same job the next week.
Did you? The most incompetent bureaucrat at the worst Soviet institution didn't have a personal incentive to screw over everyone and everything in the name of a bonus, or ordered to do so to boost share price.
I neither know nor care who "Kris Kobach's" is, or why you make a possessive out of his (her?) name. That's the game of personality politics, and we've had enough of that.
He's one of the top voter ID cultists in the country, who's repeatedly seen his claims shredded in court. Why are you commenting on a subject when you lack remedial knowledge of.
The fact is that it is trivial to walk into a polling place and claim to be anyone you want to be, and without requiring ID you'll likely get away with it.
Then it will be trivial for you to list examples of that happening, clown shoes. John Smith shows up to vote or send in his absentee ballot only to find out "he" has already voted. Voter ID cultists have no problem rattling of dozens of examples of illegal voting to support their claims, despite the fact that none of said examples would have been prevented by ID - felons, not meeting residency requirements, voting in person and by absentee.
So, to get back to square one, if there were a number of John Smiths falsely voting - any number at all - it's all voter ID cultists would talk about. They aren't.
Obviously, because there aren't a plethora of John Smith's who show up to vote or send in an absentee ballot to find out "he" has already voted, obviously. And if voter ID cultists actually cared about elections as opposed to preventing the "wrong" sort of people from voting, they'd be calling for electronic voting machine bans and prison time for politicians who deliberately or incompetently disenfranchise people.
Whether or not it is non-existent is entirely irrelevant to the government state doing what is actually entirely reasonable to prevent it.
So how soon are you going to demand your government take reasonable attempts to prevent a magic man from conducting arial home invasions every December 24th? As long as we're obsessing over and are willing to spend billions of dollars over a problem that is so rare it may as well not exist...
In Maryland in the 1990s they had a good case of massive voter fraud to do with the Saurbrey/Glendenning election.
You mean a case of election fraud, not voter fraud. But voter ID cultists DGAF about voting methods or who's counting the votes, only in obsessing over a problem so rare it may as well not exist: in person vote fraud. The.00000000000001% of cases were an "illegal immigrant" cast a ballot? Of paramount importance. Voting machines that can be hacked or tossing ballots so they can't be recounted, in violation of state law? Ah, who ares.
It is ridiculously easy to register a name if you know the last four digits of their SS number.
Then it would also be ridiculously easily for voter ID cultists to list examples of that happening, if it was an actual problem worthy of people's actual attention.
Or...not, as there is no use case for requiring it.
When a person registers to vote, they get a voter ID (like I've had here for years) but with a photo on it.
A solution for a problem that doesn't functionally exist. Vote fraud that would be prevented by ID is so rare it may as well not exist, which means there is no reason to require ID. Especially when doing so will waste billions of dollars and deny tens of millions of people the right to vote.
And you don't have to show ID to enjoy your rights. Gun nuts can go ahead and skip comparisons to purchases until they read and comprehend the first sentence of their 2nd commandment.
$35, good for 5 years. That works out to less than 60 cents per month. Seniors can get ID for less than half of that.
$35, plus hundreds more and months of farting around with state agencies if you were born without a birth certificate or have lapsed or no identification. Which describes many homeless people as well as those who don't need to drive. Oh, and pikers like Ronald Reagan, who was born at home without a birth certificate, and wouldn't have been allowed to vote during any of his runs for governor or president, if you deranged voter ID cultists had your way.
Honestly, not having the money to get ID when you will have *LOTS* of warning that you are going to need it is not an excuse, IMO
YOU have no excuse when in person vote fraud is so rare it may as well not exist, and you're disenfranchising eight digits of voters for every instance of fraud you would prevent with ID.
But that's the entire reason people push voter ID: not to prevent fraud, but to prevent people who have the right to vote from voting. Because they're the "wrong" sort of people. Poor, old, native americans, college students....
You remembering that's as rare as a unicorn winning a Mega Millions on the same day as winning a Powerball on the same day as being mauled by a great white shark and a grizzly bear within the 24 hours?
Tbe federal government was, among other things, a convocation of independent and sovereign states. The state governments wanted a finger in the control of the feds or they ain't buying into it. What's the past tense of ain't? They t'warn't buying into it.
To provide yet another onion ring between the populace and power, just as the "founders" intended. That's why voting was originally limited to property owners and why electors were under no obligation to follow how their state voted when selecting a president. Which kinda shoots the whole 'the EC is supposed to represent the states" canard right in the face, doesn't it?
Almost all idiotic decisions in government in human history were made by elites, not "the mob". The "founders" weren't afraid of idiots, they were afraid of the common man (or woman) having as much of a say in his own governance as landed gentry. Which is why the elitist pricks limited voting rights to property owning white men, and kept as many insulating layers between voters and real power as possible. That's why we have the EC, and that's why senators were originally selected by state governments, not voters.
Most of those "adaptations" failed quickly (often violently, "President" turns into dictator fast - see Turkey, and Russia
The common western fallacy of thinking that just because a foreign leader is disliked abroad, he must be at home, too. Putin keeps getting elected because he remains popular in Russia, while the best the opposition can put forward are convicted felons. Those convictions could be legit or purely political, but your party is weak-assed-weak if that's the best you can put forward. It would be like 2020 rolling around and the best person Democrats could find to run against Trump is William Jefferson, given a 13 year sentence after dirty money was found in his freezer.
This isn't hard. Let's take Apple as an example - they'd be required to make their phones serviceable and not to try to block repairs with patents. It doesn't mean they'd have to make parts for everything in perpetuity.
And forcible confiscations of taxes from the poor, middle class and rich alike to support such programs IS sensible?
It's the definition of sensible. Randians always squawk about how there INSTAAFL but think living in a first world civilization is free.
Why not? Rich people are capable of understanding society's need for these things, are they not?
And they DGAF as long as they can set sail on one of their ten yachts that cost $40 million. For most of human history, the dominance of the rich and the misery of the majority have been completely overlapping circles on a Venn Diagram. You do know that the quote about "the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals" was an indictment of the system and not a prescription, yes?
A government always has an ulterior motive: to grow.
As much as you'll have ulterior motives to sexually harass your secretary, dump toxic waste in the river and order mob hits on your rivals as soon as you start your own business.
You Randians are so far out there you can see Pluto from your house.
You don't need a government program to fix everything, private donations and effort can actually work to fix problems like the rising cost of tuition.
Then you never would have had a single government program to begin with, if the largess of the leisure class was up to the task. This is why believing in the Easter Bunny as a grown-assed man is more respectable than believing in libertarian dogma.
If Obama had done something to stop Russian election meddling
Which is about as troubling as Obama's "failure" to stop a magic man from flying around on a sled on Christmas, breaking into people's houses every year. You know, something else that is pure fantasy with no connection to reality.
Even Trump's legal counsel has had to walk back from "no collusion" to "collusion is not a word in the code so it can't be a crime" which is, of course, a load of horse shit.
Russiagater's horse shit. Meeting with someone offering to give you information to use against an opponent is not and will never be a crime until an amendment is passed to overturn the Freedom of Association working in the 1st Amendment.
More to the point, why is anyone still trying to fuck this chicken long after it came out that Hillary Clinton not only "colluded" with foreign spies to influence a general election, but paid for the Steele Dossier for that very purpose.
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That's just doubling down on the aforementioned propaganda of claiming a foreign leader has no legitimacy at home, because his constituents must dislike him as much as other countries, because reasons. You don't need to assassinate people or engage in other juvenile 80's action movie plots when you are overwhelmingly popular with the electorate.
Or just go back to his old office of prime minister, he's done it before. You can tell Chuck Norris he can cancel his plane tickets.
Easy answer: the company is nationalized with upper management getting fired and shareholders getting wiped out. Workers wouldn't lose their jobs or pensions as they would go back to the same plant and do the same job the next week.
Did you? The most incompetent bureaucrat at the worst Soviet institution didn't have a personal incentive to screw over everyone and everything in the name of a bonus, or ordered to do so to boost share price.
He's one of the top voter ID cultists in the country, who's repeatedly seen his claims shredded in court. Why are you commenting on a subject when you lack remedial knowledge of.
Then it will be trivial for you to list examples of that happening, clown shoes. John Smith shows up to vote or send in his absentee ballot only to find out "he" has already voted. Voter ID cultists have no problem rattling of dozens of examples of illegal voting to support their claims, despite the fact that none of said examples would have been prevented by ID - felons, not meeting residency requirements, voting in person and by absentee.
So, to get back to square one, if there were a number of John Smiths falsely voting - any number at all - it's all voter ID cultists would talk about. They aren't.
Obviously, because there aren't a plethora of John Smith's who show up to vote or send in an absentee ballot to find out "he" has already voted, obviously. And if voter ID cultists actually cared about elections as opposed to preventing the "wrong" sort of people from voting, they'd be calling for electronic voting machine bans and prison time for politicians who deliberately or incompetently disenfranchise people.
They aren't doing that, either.
So how soon are you going to demand your government take reasonable attempts to prevent a magic man from conducting arial home invasions every December 24th? As long as we're obsessing over and are willing to spend billions of dollars over a problem that is so rare it may as well not exist...
Completely true.
You mean a case of election fraud, not voter fraud. But voter ID cultists DGAF about voting methods or who's counting the votes, only in obsessing over a problem so rare it may as well not exist: in person vote fraud. The .00000000000001% of cases were an "illegal immigrant" cast a ballot? Of paramount importance. Voting machines that can be hacked or tossing ballots so they can't be recounted, in violation of state law? Ah, who ares.
Then it would also be ridiculously easily for voter ID cultists to list examples of that happening, if it was an actual problem worthy of people's actual attention.
They aren't.
Which of your 200 countries have had a voter fraud problem that would have been prevented by ID?
Or...not, as there is no use case for requiring it.
A solution for a problem that doesn't functionally exist. Vote fraud that would be prevented by ID is so rare it may as well not exist, which means there is no reason to require ID. Especially when doing so will waste billions of dollars and deny tens of millions of people the right to vote.
And you don't have to show ID to enjoy your rights. Gun nuts can go ahead and skip comparisons to purchases until they read and comprehend the first sentence of their 2nd commandment.
$35, plus hundreds more and months of farting around with state agencies if you were born without a birth certificate or have lapsed or no identification. Which describes many homeless people as well as those who don't need to drive. Oh, and pikers like Ronald Reagan, who was born at home without a birth certificate, and wouldn't have been allowed to vote during any of his runs for governor or president, if you deranged voter ID cultists had your way.
YOU have no excuse when in person vote fraud is so rare it may as well not exist, and you're disenfranchising eight digits of voters for every instance of fraud you would prevent with ID.
But that's the entire reason people push voter ID: not to prevent fraud, but to prevent people who have the right to vote from voting. Because they're the "wrong" sort of people. Poor, old, native americans, college students....
You remembering that's as rare as a unicorn winning a Mega Millions on the same day as winning a Powerball on the same day as being mauled by a great white shark and a grizzly bear within the 24 hours?
No? Then STFU, bitch.
To provide yet another onion ring between the populace and power, just as the "founders" intended. That's why voting was originally limited to property owners and why electors were under no obligation to follow how their state voted when selecting a president. Which kinda shoots the whole 'the EC is supposed to represent the states" canard right in the face, doesn't it?
Then demand paper ballots, not bitch about the popular vote.
Almost all idiotic decisions in government in human history were made by elites, not "the mob". The "founders" weren't afraid of idiots, they were afraid of the common man (or woman) having as much of a say in his own governance as landed gentry. Which is why the elitist pricks limited voting rights to property owning white men, and kept as many insulating layers between voters and real power as possible. That's why we have the EC, and that's why senators were originally selected by state governments, not voters.
The common western fallacy of thinking that just because a foreign leader is disliked abroad, he must be at home, too. Putin keeps getting elected because he remains popular in Russia, while the best the opposition can put forward are convicted felons. Those convictions could be legit or purely political, but your party is weak-assed-weak if that's the best you can put forward. It would be like 2020 rolling around and the best person Democrats could find to run against Trump is William Jefferson, given a 13 year sentence after dirty money was found in his freezer.
Are you? If your scenario was a thing, the Kris Kobach's would be talking about it 24/7.
They aren't.
This isn't hard. Let's take Apple as an example - they'd be required to make their phones serviceable and not to try to block repairs with patents. It doesn't mean they'd have to make parts for everything in perpetuity.
Yes, you are. Capitalism is an old concept with well known definition. It's not a case of "atheism is a religion like off is a TV channel".
Don't forget the only connection between those dots is the crap between your ears.
It's the definition of sensible. Randians always squawk about how there INSTAAFL but think living in a first world civilization is free.
And they DGAF as long as they can set sail on one of their ten yachts that cost $40 million. For most of human history, the dominance of the rich and the misery of the majority have been completely overlapping circles on a Venn Diagram. You do know that the quote about "the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals" was an indictment of the system and not a prescription, yes?
As much as you'll have ulterior motives to sexually harass your secretary, dump toxic waste in the river and order mob hits on your rivals as soon as you start your own business.
You Randians are so far out there you can see Pluto from your house.
Then you never would have had a single government program to begin with, if the largess of the leisure class was up to the task. This is why believing in the Easter Bunny as a grown-assed man is more respectable than believing in libertarian dogma.
Which is about as troubling as Obama's "failure" to stop a magic man from flying around on a sled on Christmas, breaking into people's houses every year. You know, something else that is pure fantasy with no connection to reality.
Russiagater's horse shit. Meeting with someone offering to give you information to use against an opponent is not and will never be a crime until an amendment is passed to overturn the Freedom of Association working in the 1st Amendment.
More to the point, why is anyone still trying to fuck this chicken long after it came out that Hillary Clinton not only "colluded" with foreign spies to influence a general election, but paid for the Steele Dossier for that very purpose.