There's a good reason she and Scalia were such good friends. Despite almost polar opposite politics, there were few others in the world that were their intellectual equal.
Except: Scalia was a hack. And an idiot. He routinely engaged in reasoning that he would have flipped shit over if it came from another judge. Just one example:
"In 1868, when the 39th Congress was debating and ultimately proposing the Fourteenth Amendment, I don't think anybody would have thought that equal protection applied to sex discrimination, or certainly not to sexual orientation," Scalia said in an interview with the legal magazine California Lawyer.
"So does that mean that we've gone off in error by applying the Fourteenth Amendment to both? Yes, yes. Sorry, to tell you that."
However, if the "original intent" of the amendment's drafters was so determinative that the Fourteenth Amendment supposedly was only meant to apply to black men at the end of slavery it might be safe to assume that the drafters weren't thinking about protecting a white man like George W. Bush from possibly losing an election in Florida in 2000.
Yet, the Fourteenth Amendment was precisely what Scalia and four other partisan Republicans on the Supreme Court cited to justify shutting down the Florida recount and handing the White House to Bush, despite the fact that he lost the national popular vote and apparently would have come out on the short end of the Florida recount if all legally cast ballots were counted.
....lets be clear: aside from USSC judges, Democrats had already in 2013 used 'the nuclear option' to remove the filibuster-ability for pretty much every OTHER appointment
Because the GOP was filibustering pretty much every nominee for purely partisan reasons. Funny how you left that part out.
Don't herniate a disk moving those goalposts, going from "she didn't do anything illegal" to "everyone was engaging in the same illegal action". And those are just the DNC emails - if she were Hillary Johnson, she'd be facing a few decades in prison for her private server at State, just for the obstruction of justice charges for wiping evidence.
Because he's not stupid? If you were getting caught up in the most hysterical witch-hunt since the satanic day care scare in the 80's, you'd want immunity too.
Bullshit. Unions drive up wages and benefits through collective bargaining for that sector of the economy, then people who don't want to pay the dues necessary to earn those higher wages and benefits want to take advantage of them anyway. There's a word for those sort of people.
Freeloaders.
Now, did you or did you not go into your local Chamber of Commerce and demand all the perks of Chamber membership without paying any of the costs involved?
That's just more denialist wankery. If a scientist disputes something said on NBC, but NBC doesn't cover the response (or any other news network), did he really dispute it?
Entitled and whiny? Common man, just because capitalists feel entitled to gouge their customers while stiffing employees in the midst of high profits (while paying a lower tax rate than either) doesn't mean they aren't people too!
Know what happens when companies lose their good employees to greener pastures?
They continue to enjoy the benefits of lowered pay scales, laughing at the unique snowflakes who think their wages aren't lowered for being a tree in a forest.
The companies either learn from their mistakes, or they go under.
Yes, that's the need thing about capitalism: success means success, but failure also means success because it frees up space for the next group of capitalists to come in and begin the next round of exploitation.
Nobody wanted to do extra work because someone else slacked their assignment.
That's the central flaw in the "unions protect the lazy" canard. It's predicated on the idea that Steve is happy to do his own work plus Bob's if Bob starts to slack off. Human beings simply aren't built that way, unless they're in a Biff Tannen/George McFly relationship - in which case Biff could just as easily having George do his work at a non union shop anyway.
That arbiter was a member of the judiciary, their job was not influenced by elections, employer payments, etc etc etc
Still corporatists, though. Either because they had to run for election at some point (and had to pander for campaign donations), or because they were appointed by a corporatist politician, who had to pander for campaign donations to get elected.
I'm generally anti-union because they almost always devolve into pieces of shit
Right. In the same way that if you start your own business, it will mean you will sexually harass your secretary while defrauding your investors, killing your employees with unsafe working conditions, selling fake products to customers and dumping toxic waste in the river. Because reasons.
Many union members in closed shop states (including California, but not Nevada) don't actually like unions, and are only members because paying union dues is a condition of employment.
Then they'd be freeloading assholes, wanting to enjoy benefits won by unions without having to pay for them. Try an experiment: walk into your local Chamber of Commerce, and tell the receptionist you want all the perks of membership without having to pay any dues, and see what kind of face he makes at you.
Yes, nevermind that entire industries have been moved offshore (aside from niche players), like textiles.
The main reason for the trade deficit is that America controls the world's reserve currency, which is a GOOD THING.
Not for the rest of the world it's not, as it allows the U.S. to manipulate exchange rates as one of it's tools in its imperial arsenal. But one issue I've yet to see apologists for corporate trade come up with an excuse for, is how it allows corporations to walk in and tell their workforce to bend over and take it up the ass on benefit cuts, least their jobs be moved overseas. Even if the corporation in question is enjoying record profits.
Unions today exist solely to artificially increase wages / benefits and to perpetuate themselves. But what they really do is deter new jobs by being such a pain in the a$$
Tired anti-union nonsense is tired. Unions act as a counter-balance to corporate greed. If corporate greed isn't a problem anymore, and you can trust the altruism of capital, than you can also repeal all the laws on...
child labor, working conditions, worker safety
...because those laws are as "antiquated" as unions. Don't forget overtime, too - there's no way the CEO would exploit non-exempt employees if given the chance, now would he?
Terror attacks are rare in the US because we've kept the terrorists out.
Because the United States is hard to attack. It's surrounded by the world's largest oceans and two large, friendly nations.
Now there's a concerted effort to ship terrorists to the western world.
Oh, do go fuck yourself, racist Western Exceptionalist. It's not Muslims invading, overthrowing and bombing countries on the other side of the planet from them for bullshit reasons- that's what you are doing to them. And all the 'Islamic terrorism' you can wank on about is either:
1) Directly sponsored by the United States, as when it funds and arms ISIS and Al Queda in Syria or Yemen 2) Blowback from your imperalistic shitbaggery. Want to know how to create a 'terrorist' in one simple step? You take a man who's done nothing to you and murder his family with a drone strike or a regime change.
umm Muslims have been pissed at us long before drones, Iraq, etc.
For good reason, as western imperialist assholes have been fucking with them for the last century. Overthrowing Iran's democracy, installing despots like Saddam and the Shah, killing half a million kids with sanctions and calling it 'worth it' - your shitbaggery started long before Predator Drone strikes.
I think you mean shipping companies and history teachers, since trade routes have, you know, a bit of an impact on history...
In the sense that searching for a trade route is what led to the "discovery" of the Americas. Not that you sailed due north from the Canary Islands before making a 56 degree turn for the 49th parallel and blah blah blah. So you're back to DGAF square one.
BTW, College tuition is only really going wacko because the government stepped in and made student loans so easy to get.
The problem with that canard is that it tries to use supply-and-demand to explain higher tuition costs. Because if that were the case, more universities would jump in the market and thus force prices back down, but that hasn't happened. No, tuition has risen because:
1) States have slashed higher education funding 2) Big budget sports that cost more than they generate in sales 3) Bloated administrative salaries
And therein lies a part of the problem, do you really want YOUR tax dollars going to a deadbeat student living of the system for 10 years to end up with an unemployable Social Studies Major?
That's the problem with conservative hand waving: higher education is an investment in your population and your workforce. If you insist that all investments must pay off, how do you justify the existence of capitalism?
A non-sequitur, that's what. Trump has fuck-all to do with the fact that Clinton was a horrible candidate with a horrible record of bigotry, hubris, incompetence and corruption.
They rejected his tax increases on the 2%, actually.
That and the price of rice in China. Doesn't change the fact that Obama put SS and Medicare cuts into his budget, or that Republicans rejected those cuts.
Fact is, Obama was a centrist, like Clinton, whose "Crime" was not straying from the center.
No. Obama was a right-wing freakshow on both domestic and international policy. Spent $16 trillion bailing out the banks with quantitative easing, while at the same time let the banks foreclose on 9 million taxpayer jobs. Appointed an ousourcing CEO to a jobs panel, used kid gloves on BP after the Deep Horizon disaster, did not prosecute torturers from the Bush Administration that beat people to death, abolished habeas corpus by allowing the military to detain you on American soil without warrant or trial, bombed more Muslim countries than Bush, overthrew at least two democracies, started a war on Libya without Congressional authorization, threatened Iran with military strikes for a weapons program he knew they didn't have, spied on even the communications of allied heads of state....and that's just a sampling of Obama's legacy.
The Mercator projection is ACCURATE for it's data view (to better display trade routes).
Except no one GAF about trade routes aside from shipping companies. As.000000001% of school kids will work in that industry, the Mercator map is a shitty map for them.
So let me get this straight, Africa and South America have that much more land and natural resources than the first world countries - and still can't do nearly as well in terms of development and wealth? That would tend to make one even more dismissive of cultures on those larger landmasses that cannot pull it together.
This is why you should never go Full Libertarian - it makes you go from a reasonable person to one who's eyes start moving in independent directions.
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Except: Scalia was a hack. And an idiot. He routinely engaged in reasoning that he would have flipped shit over if it came from another judge. Just one example:
Because the GOP was filibustering pretty much every nominee for purely partisan reasons. Funny how you left that part out.
Only if Uber is a whip user as well. Since this is all about taxi services.
Speak up, it's hard to hear you when your voice is coming from so deep in your colon.
Don't herniate a disk moving those goalposts, going from "she didn't do anything illegal" to "everyone was engaging in the same illegal action". And those are just the DNC emails - if she were Hillary Johnson, she'd be facing a few decades in prison for her private server at State, just for the obstruction of justice charges for wiping evidence.
Non sequitur.
Or maybe you're prioritizing "balance" over facts.
Because he's not stupid? If you were getting caught up in the most hysterical witch-hunt since the satanic day care scare in the 80's, you'd want immunity too.
Bullshit. Unions drive up wages and benefits through collective bargaining for that sector of the economy, then people who don't want to pay the dues necessary to earn those higher wages and benefits want to take advantage of them anyway. There's a word for those sort of people.
Freeloaders.
Now, did you or did you not go into your local Chamber of Commerce and demand all the perks of Chamber membership without paying any of the costs involved?
That's just more denialist wankery. If a scientist disputes something said on NBC, but NBC doesn't cover the response (or any other news network), did he really dispute it?
Entitled and whiny? Common man, just because capitalists feel entitled to gouge their customers while stiffing employees in the midst of high profits (while paying a lower tax rate than either) doesn't mean they aren't people too!
They continue to enjoy the benefits of lowered pay scales, laughing at the unique snowflakes who think their wages aren't lowered for being a tree in a forest.
Yes, that's the need thing about capitalism: success means success, but failure also means success because it frees up space for the next group of capitalists to come in and begin the next round of exploitation.
That's the central flaw in the "unions protect the lazy" canard. It's predicated on the idea that Steve is happy to do his own work plus Bob's if Bob starts to slack off. Human beings simply aren't built that way, unless they're in a Biff Tannen/George McFly relationship - in which case Biff could just as easily having George do his work at a non union shop anyway.
Still corporatists, though. Either because they had to run for election at some point (and had to pander for campaign donations), or because they were appointed by a corporatist politician, who had to pander for campaign donations to get elected.
Right. In the same way that if you start your own business, it will mean you will sexually harass your secretary while defrauding your investors, killing your employees with unsafe working conditions, selling fake products to customers and dumping toxic waste in the river. Because reasons.
Then they'd be freeloading assholes, wanting to enjoy benefits won by unions without having to pay for them. Try an experiment: walk into your local Chamber of Commerce, and tell the receptionist you want all the perks of membership without having to pay any dues, and see what kind of face he makes at you.
Because the population has grown.
Yes, nevermind that entire industries have been moved offshore (aside from niche players), like textiles.
Not for the rest of the world it's not, as it allows the U.S. to manipulate exchange rates as one of it's tools in its imperial arsenal. But one issue I've yet to see apologists for corporate trade come up with an excuse for, is how it allows corporations to walk in and tell their workforce to bend over and take it up the ass on benefit cuts, least their jobs be moved overseas. Even if the corporation in question is enjoying record profits.
Tired anti-union nonsense is tired. Unions act as a counter-balance to corporate greed. If corporate greed isn't a problem anymore, and you can trust the altruism of capital, than you can also repeal all the laws on...
Because the United States is hard to attack. It's surrounded by the world's largest oceans and two large, friendly nations.
Oh, do go fuck yourself, racist Western Exceptionalist. It's not Muslims invading, overthrowing and bombing countries on the other side of the planet from them for bullshit reasons- that's what you are doing to them. And all the 'Islamic terrorism' you can wank on about is either:
1) Directly sponsored by the United States, as when it funds and arms ISIS and Al Queda in Syria or Yemen
2) Blowback from your imperalistic shitbaggery. Want to know how to create a 'terrorist' in one simple step? You take a man who's done nothing to you and murder his family with a drone strike or a regime change.
For good reason, as western imperialist assholes have been fucking with them for the last century. Overthrowing Iran's democracy, installing despots like Saddam and the Shah, killing half a million kids with sanctions and calling it 'worth it' - your shitbaggery started long before Predator Drone strikes.
In the sense that searching for a trade route is what led to the "discovery" of the Americas. Not that you sailed due north from the Canary Islands before making a 56 degree turn for the 49th parallel and blah blah blah. So you're back to DGAF square one.
The problem with that canard is that it tries to use supply-and-demand to explain higher tuition costs. Because if that were the case, more universities would jump in the market and thus force prices back down, but that hasn't happened. No, tuition has risen because:
1) States have slashed higher education funding
2) Big budget sports that cost more than they generate in sales
3) Bloated administrative salaries
And in that order.
That's the problem with conservative hand waving: higher education is an investment in your population and your workforce. If you insist that all investments must pay off, how do you justify the existence of capitalism?
A non-sequitur, that's what. Trump has fuck-all to do with the fact that Clinton was a horrible candidate with a horrible record of bigotry, hubris, incompetence and corruption.
That and the price of rice in China. Doesn't change the fact that Obama put SS and Medicare cuts into his budget, or that Republicans rejected those cuts.
No. Obama was a right-wing freakshow on both domestic and international policy. Spent $16 trillion bailing out the banks with quantitative easing, while at the same time let the banks foreclose on 9 million taxpayer jobs. Appointed an ousourcing CEO to a jobs panel, used kid gloves on BP after the Deep Horizon disaster, did not prosecute torturers from the Bush Administration that beat people to death, abolished habeas corpus by allowing the military to detain you on American soil without warrant or trial, bombed more Muslim countries than Bush, overthrew at least two democracies, started a war on Libya without Congressional authorization, threatened Iran with military strikes for a weapons program he knew they didn't have, spied on even the communications of allied heads of state....and that's just a sampling of Obama's legacy.
But one with far less distortion than Mercator - which is the point.
Except no one GAF about trade routes aside from shipping companies. As .000000001% of school kids will work in that industry, the Mercator map is a shitty map for them.
This is why you should never go Full Libertarian - it makes you go from a reasonable person to one who's eyes start moving in independent directions.