There's also the easy access to things like firearms that can be both fast and effective at suicide which we can't do much about because the 2nd amendment people don't give a crap about how many people are killed by their firearms as long as they can have their dick compensator.
So, you get done explaining how resourceful people are at finding ways to kill themselves (and, by explaining that guns are "fast," seem to be implying that getting crushed on the pavement of the freeway after a jump isn't?), and then suggest that people who want to retain the right to defend themselves are responsible for the behavior of people who want to kill themselves? Even if you were willing to amend the constitution and take away everyone's right to self defense (though of course, not take away millions of guns in the possession of criminals who don't care what you think), do you really think that would stop the thousands of drownings, hangings, wrist-slittings, ODs, jumps, asphyxiations, and all the rest, rather than actually INCREASE the number of those things?
Meanwhile, in a vain attempt to control people's agonized decisions to end their lives by controlling objects (but only for law-abiding people, the overwhelming majority of which never hurt themselves or anyone else with a gun), you're willing to prevent, say, my 5'2" wife from being able to defend herself because you think "those 2nd amendment people" (who are actually, you know, "Bill of Rights people). Such defensive uses of personal firearms occur hundreds of thousands of times every year, preventing and stopping violent crime. But you'd like to take away that means of self defense, and gamble on people bent on ending their own lives suddenly becoming less resourceful than they've been for all of human history. No, your actual agenda has nothing to do with suicide. Just be honest about it.
Some people are susceptible to "lifestyle" advertising, itching to personally enjoy a scenario they see played out in an image or other advertisement. Some of those people are financially illiterate or can't make good judgment about how well they can handle a monthly payment. The same ad may be only passingly interesting to a normal person, but be a "financially dangerous trick" to someone who processes it (and life) differently. That's not FB's problem to sort out.
No, it makes sense to REDUCE bureaucratic overlap by looking at the growing need for new services in a new domain in the context of the multiple DoD/Intel agencies that are reinventing the wheel or double-budgeting for the same types of activities.
We already HAVE (and have had, for decades) people expanding our military operations into space, and looking at (as well as actually doing) defense and even combat mission issue that involves stuff in orbit. Every branch of the military has or has involvement in space-based assets and operations, and our defense intelligence entities are all hip deep in it. We should be making all of that overlap as streamlined as possible, and we absolutely DO need to be looking at what it takes to protect those assets at both the strategic and tactical level.
So, the huge level of activity our military and intelligence already have in space-related matters is "fantasy?" How poorly informed are you on this? Consolidating these activities in one branch with expertise in that area makes perfect sense. Right now it overlaps in a very inefficient way across all sorts of military and security and intelligence entities.
The Air Force already does a lot of this. But there's tons of overlap with other branch activities and very much so with other agencies. Consolidating this sort of thing under one branch focused on that activity makes sense. In the same way it makes sense for the Navy to run the boats, rather than for the Army to float their own
troop carriers. The Coast Guard, at first blush, looks like a redundant mini-Navy, but their mission is very different. Hence it's its own branch.
This just never gets old. But they've got to do something about losing that drone barge video literally seconds before the booster puts down. Such a tease.
Man, your insightful powers of persuasion are impressive! I also really appreciate how you've avoided the tactics used by people who know they don't have any sort of argument to make and thus rely on childish techniques like lazy ad homimen, and instead you went right for the detailed rebuttal complete with examples of why the verbs chosen for headlines have no impact on the meaning of those headlines. Excellent work! Thank you for your contribution.
No. But we DO have a problem with unhinged headline writers using phrases like "Trump administration tells Supreme Court..." (emphasis mine) in order to make it sound like that's what happened, because that sounds scary and dictatorial. Even the summary corrects the headline (to "asks"), but too many phony hand-wringing screechers will never get past the headline because they know that if they do, it will take the fun out of their narrative.
If asking a court to revisit some issue makes an administration a dictatorship, then that would make BIll Clinton a dictator, Barack Obama a dictator, and Hillary Clinton (who told us about all sorts of things she was going to use her court-appointing powers to "correct" because she wouldn't have a legislative majority) a would-be dictator. Or, people who write headlines could consider being honest, instead of looking for ways to prop up phony partisan narratives for low-information audiences with no attention span.
Much like one of the main goals in the 2016 efforts was to hurt Democratic turnout.
No, the Russians, just like every major media outlet in the US, the DNC, the Clinton machine, and every other foreign government, were convinced that Clinton was going to win. Their main interest was in stirring the pot to keep her machinery off-balance, busy with domestic squabbling, and less able to arrive at a coherent policy position unpleasant for Russia. They knew that Clinton was in no way a creature of character, but of poll-based position taking. The better the chaos, the better for Russia. Of note, Russia only really ramped up its (still, very small) social media chaos efforts AFTER THE ELECTION. But also for the same reasons: to increase discord generally, and anti-Trump venom specifically. Because he was going to be the POTUS, not her, and they had to re-aim their chaos machine at who actually won.
As for the party split... no, that's just Democrats really, truly not having learned a damn thing about why they've lost nearly a thousand legislative seats, most of the governorships, both houses of congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, and millions of two-time Obama voters who have walked away from them in disgust. Not only has that party not learned a thing, they're doubling (quadrupling?) down on the same bad premises. It's no surprise that socialist ignoramuses are winning primaries with tiny numbers of voters being actually involved. The entire message/brand on the Dem side is utterly hollow. It's based on nothing but Trump hatred, and a lot of folks have simply had enough. It doesn't take any Russians to make that true.
Have these people seen Lake Mead lately? It's down so far it's two feet from the point where everyone its water (released through the dam) will have to face automatic cut-backs. There ISN'T any "extra water" to pump back up into the lake. Not even close. The lake's been drying out for years.
Which foolish merchant service provider isn't taking their cut at the time they run the charge and/or prior to remitting the cash to the retailer? How can Movie Pass have to pay them after running transactions? Or maybe they struck some sort of deal that avoids a huge number of small transaction fees, replacing that with one big monthly bill for services. But that would be very unusual, especially when dealing with a young, financially questionable business model. Card processors take their cut up front for a reason - because otherwise they'd get burned all the time.
The British soldiers stationed in the colonists' homes, where the the colonists were taxed without representation and denied their ability to defend themselves or manufacture their own finished goods... those were not "allies." And that's kinda the point, right?
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It was going so fast it dislodged the last two letters in "center."
We fought a whole war, and traveled across an icy Delaware River on Christmas night to murder people who spell "center" wrong. And no, the trunk of a car is not a boot.
I didn't say the Democrats had stopped being craven obstructionists trying to maintain a midterm campaign issue, I said it was part of why people voted that way.
the only thing that "push back against abusive trade practices" got so far was to piss off those large economies enough that they started to get rid of their rivalries to band together against the US
Yeah, you can tell because the EU trade rep just sat down for a one-on-one with Trump and the wrapped it up by starting with an agreement for zero tariffs on industrial trade. Why? Because the post-war taxes that Europe has been applying to US goods for decades needed to go, and pressure from Trump is why it's happening. Not to pester you with actual current events or anything.
Trump has zero experience with diplomacy, and it shows.
If what you consider to be successful diplomacy is what people like Obama had on display (you know, a Chicago political machine "community organizer" who did a short and utterly non-productive stint in the Senate before becoming President and immediately embarking on an apology tour and making a train wreck out of pretty much everything he touched), then I'm not going to worry about your opinion.
As for keeping your doctor, if you think that was a lie maybe you are being lied to by your media.
Please clarify. Are you saying that Obama didn't repeatedly make that promise, or that he did, and it was true? Because he said it, emphatically and frequently, and it not only turned out to be wrong, he knew at the time it was BS. So not clear what you're trying to say, here.
Not really. Trump was a vote for a lighter regulatory load, textualist jurists, a movement towards something like actual control of our borders, and a push back against abusive trade practices on the parts of other large economies. For some, sure, it was a vote simply to keep the corrupt Clinton machine from once again having the power they craved.
Hey, look! Another unhinged lefty doing everything he can to make sure that left's miserable losses over the last several years continue apace. Thanks!
You're not even using remotely correct legal language, which suggests you don't understand the topic at all.
has produced numerous indictments
Not a single one of which involves the Trump campaign, which you know, otherwise you wouldn't be using such vague, hand-wavy language about it in a effort to do EXACTLY what I was talking about. That only works on low-information people in your own echo chamber. Why do you think nobody else understand the basic facts of the matter? You seem happy that there are indictments, but you're pretending to be too uninformed to remember that in both rounds of indictments, the DoJ was very specific: no Americans were in on anything related to the campaign season, and there was no impact on the actual results of the election. I know, disappointing, right?
People like you work actively to undermine the American system because you're stupid.
Says the guy who is too stupid to relay basic facts correctly, or (more likely) thinks for some reason that it's rhetorically useful to pretend to be that stupid. Who knows why, since that doesn't make smart people want to suddenly abandon their knowledge and go along with your narrative.
People like you have been working to block the investigation claiming it has taken too long
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So, you have some sort of cognitive disorder that prevents you from distinguishing between "wrap up" and "block?" If you research those phrases, maybe you'll feel better.
and ironically supported decades worth of investigations of the Clintons
How is that ironic? It's two totally different situations. There hasn't been a lick of evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, which you know. On the other hand, the Clintons have been embroiled in countless investigations because they did a long series of separate things that each merited investigating. Again, which you know, but are pretending you don't so you can make low-information people in your own bubble nod their heads in agreement.
Democrats and their workers in the media absolutely must continue to conflate good old fashioned public discourse influencing (by the Russians... as if they're the only government that does that!) with the fantasy of their having "hacked the election." Keeping those two topics - one routine, the other delusional fiction - melded together in front of low-information liberal voters is their only way of continuing to distract from why the Dems lost nearly a thousand legislative seats, most of the governorships, both houses of congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, and the good will of millions of two-time Obama voters who left in disgust.
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There's also the easy access to things like firearms that can be both fast and effective at suicide which we can't do much about because the 2nd amendment people don't give a crap about how many people are killed by their firearms as long as they can have their dick compensator.
So, you get done explaining how resourceful people are at finding ways to kill themselves (and, by explaining that guns are "fast," seem to be implying that getting crushed on the pavement of the freeway after a jump isn't?), and then suggest that people who want to retain the right to defend themselves are responsible for the behavior of people who want to kill themselves? Even if you were willing to amend the constitution and take away everyone's right to self defense (though of course, not take away millions of guns in the possession of criminals who don't care what you think), do you really think that would stop the thousands of drownings, hangings, wrist-slittings, ODs, jumps, asphyxiations, and all the rest, rather than actually INCREASE the number of those things?
Meanwhile, in a vain attempt to control people's agonized decisions to end their lives by controlling objects (but only for law-abiding people, the overwhelming majority of which never hurt themselves or anyone else with a gun), you're willing to prevent, say, my 5'2" wife from being able to defend herself because you think "those 2nd amendment people" (who are actually, you know, "Bill of Rights people). Such defensive uses of personal firearms occur hundreds of thousands of times every year, preventing and stopping violent crime. But you'd like to take away that means of self defense, and gamble on people bent on ending their own lives suddenly becoming less resourceful than they've been for all of human history. No, your actual agenda has nothing to do with suicide. Just be honest about it.
Some people are susceptible to "lifestyle" advertising, itching to personally enjoy a scenario they see played out in an image or other advertisement. Some of those people are financially illiterate or can't make good judgment about how well they can handle a monthly payment. The same ad may be only passingly interesting to a normal person, but be a "financially dangerous trick" to someone who processes it (and life) differently. That's not FB's problem to sort out.
No, it makes sense to REDUCE bureaucratic overlap by looking at the growing need for new services in a new domain in the context of the multiple DoD/Intel agencies that are reinventing the wheel or double-budgeting for the same types of activities.
We already HAVE (and have had, for decades) people expanding our military operations into space, and looking at (as well as actually doing) defense and even combat mission issue that involves stuff in orbit. Every branch of the military has or has involvement in space-based assets and operations, and our defense intelligence entities are all hip deep in it. We should be making all of that overlap as streamlined as possible, and we absolutely DO need to be looking at what it takes to protect those assets at both the strategic and tactical level.
So, the huge level of activity our military and intelligence already have in space-related matters is "fantasy?" How poorly informed are you on this? Consolidating these activities in one branch with expertise in that area makes perfect sense. Right now it overlaps in a very inefficient way across all sorts of military and security and intelligence entities.
The Air Force already does a lot of this. But there's tons of overlap with other branch activities and very much so with other agencies. Consolidating this sort of thing under one branch focused on that activity makes sense. In the same way it makes sense for the Navy to run the boats, rather than for the Army to float their own troop carriers. The Coast Guard, at first blush, looks like a redundant mini-Navy, but their mission is very different. Hence it's its own branch.
The president of the country that has to rely on the Russians to launch their astronauts to the ISS
Manned flights for two new US-based systems (from Boeing and Space-X) to take our people to the ISS begin in less than a year.
This just never gets old. But they've got to do something about losing that drone barge video literally seconds before the booster puts down. Such a tease.
Man, your insightful powers of persuasion are impressive! I also really appreciate how you've avoided the tactics used by people who know they don't have any sort of argument to make and thus rely on childish techniques like lazy ad homimen, and instead you went right for the detailed rebuttal complete with examples of why the verbs chosen for headlines have no impact on the meaning of those headlines. Excellent work! Thank you for your contribution.
USA. Now officially a dictatorship?
No. But we DO have a problem with unhinged headline writers using phrases like "Trump administration tells Supreme Court ..." (emphasis mine) in order to make it sound like that's what happened, because that sounds scary and dictatorial. Even the summary corrects the headline (to "asks"), but too many phony hand-wringing screechers will never get past the headline because they know that if they do, it will take the fun out of their narrative.
If asking a court to revisit some issue makes an administration a dictatorship, then that would make BIll Clinton a dictator, Barack Obama a dictator, and Hillary Clinton (who told us about all sorts of things she was going to use her court-appointing powers to "correct" because she wouldn't have a legislative majority) a would-be dictator. Or, people who write headlines could consider being honest, instead of looking for ways to prop up phony partisan narratives for low-information audiences with no attention span.
They should all have to get to work in rickshaws, too, and buy their shoes from local cobblers.
Much like one of the main goals in the 2016 efforts was to hurt Democratic turnout.
No, the Russians, just like every major media outlet in the US, the DNC, the Clinton machine, and every other foreign government, were convinced that Clinton was going to win. Their main interest was in stirring the pot to keep her machinery off-balance, busy with domestic squabbling, and less able to arrive at a coherent policy position unpleasant for Russia. They knew that Clinton was in no way a creature of character, but of poll-based position taking. The better the chaos, the better for Russia. Of note, Russia only really ramped up its (still, very small) social media chaos efforts AFTER THE ELECTION. But also for the same reasons: to increase discord generally, and anti-Trump venom specifically. Because he was going to be the POTUS, not her, and they had to re-aim their chaos machine at who actually won.
... no, that's just Democrats really, truly not having learned a damn thing about why they've lost nearly a thousand legislative seats, most of the governorships, both houses of congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, and millions of two-time Obama voters who have walked away from them in disgust. Not only has that party not learned a thing, they're doubling (quadrupling?) down on the same bad premises. It's no surprise that socialist ignoramuses are winning primaries with tiny numbers of voters being actually involved. The entire message/brand on the Dem side is utterly hollow. It's based on nothing but Trump hatred, and a lot of folks have simply had enough. It doesn't take any Russians to make that true.
As for the party split
Have these people seen Lake Mead lately? It's down so far it's two feet from the point where everyone its water (released through the dam) will have to face automatic cut-backs. There ISN'T any "extra water" to pump back up into the lake. Not even close. The lake's been drying out for years.
Which foolish merchant service provider isn't taking their cut at the time they run the charge and/or prior to remitting the cash to the retailer? How can Movie Pass have to pay them after running transactions? Or maybe they struck some sort of deal that avoids a huge number of small transaction fees, replacing that with one big monthly bill for services. But that would be very unusual, especially when dealing with a young, financially questionable business model. Card processors take their cut up front for a reason - because otherwise they'd get burned all the time.
So, the only thing wrong with the Timecube was that it was only half the story. Timecube is dead. Long live Octotime.
Is that when you started murdering your allies?
The British soldiers stationed in the colonists' homes, where the the colonists were taxed without representation and denied their ability to defend themselves or manufacture their own finished goods ... those were not "allies." And that's kinda the point, right?
Star Spotted Speeding Near Black Hole at Centre of Milky Way
It was going so fast it dislodged the last two letters in "center."
We fought a whole war, and traveled across an icy Delaware River on Christmas night to murder people who spell "center" wrong. And no, the trunk of a car is not a boot.
Control of your borders is still nonexistent
I didn't say the Democrats had stopped being craven obstructionists trying to maintain a midterm campaign issue, I said it was part of why people voted that way.
the only thing that "push back against abusive trade practices" got so far was to piss off those large economies enough that they started to get rid of their rivalries to band together against the US
Yeah, you can tell because the EU trade rep just sat down for a one-on-one with Trump and the wrapped it up by starting with an agreement for zero tariffs on industrial trade. Why? Because the post-war taxes that Europe has been applying to US goods for decades needed to go, and pressure from Trump is why it's happening. Not to pester you with actual current events or anything.
Trump has zero experience with diplomacy, and it shows.
If what you consider to be successful diplomacy is what people like Obama had on display (you know, a Chicago political machine "community organizer" who did a short and utterly non-productive stint in the Senate before becoming President and immediately embarking on an apology tour and making a train wreck out of pretty much everything he touched), then I'm not going to worry about your opinion.
As for keeping your doctor, if you think that was a lie maybe you are being lied to by your media.
Please clarify. Are you saying that Obama didn't repeatedly make that promise, or that he did, and it was true? Because he said it, emphatically and frequently, and it not only turned out to be wrong, he knew at the time it was BS. So not clear what you're trying to say, here.
Not really. Trump was a vote for a lighter regulatory load, textualist jurists, a movement towards something like actual control of our borders, and a push back against abusive trade practices on the parts of other large economies. For some, sure, it was a vote simply to keep the corrupt Clinton machine from once again having the power they craved.
I typed in the names of all the "shadow banned" people and they auto-populated into the drop down just fine and I don't follow any of them.
That's not how it works. Follow them, and then notice that even when they post stuff ... you don't see it. That's why this is so skullduggerous.
Specifically what behavior?
Insufficiently doing what Nancy Pelosi says to do.
Hey, look! Another unhinged lefty doing everything he can to make sure that left's miserable losses over the last several years continue apace. Thanks!
states were found guilty
You're not even using remotely correct legal language, which suggests you don't understand the topic at all.
has produced numerous indictments
Not a single one of which involves the Trump campaign, which you know, otherwise you wouldn't be using such vague, hand-wavy language about it in a effort to do EXACTLY what I was talking about. That only works on low-information people in your own echo chamber. Why do you think nobody else understand the basic facts of the matter? You seem happy that there are indictments, but you're pretending to be too uninformed to remember that in both rounds of indictments, the DoJ was very specific: no Americans were in on anything related to the campaign season, and there was no impact on the actual results of the election. I know, disappointing, right?
People like you work actively to undermine the American system because you're stupid.
Says the guy who is too stupid to relay basic facts correctly, or (more likely) thinks for some reason that it's rhetorically useful to pretend to be that stupid. Who knows why, since that doesn't make smart people want to suddenly abandon their knowledge and go along with your narrative.
People like you have been working to block the investigation claiming it has taken too long
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So, you have some sort of cognitive disorder that prevents you from distinguishing between "wrap up" and "block?" If you research those phrases, maybe you'll feel better.
and ironically supported decades worth of investigations of the Clintons
How is that ironic? It's two totally different situations. There hasn't been a lick of evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, which you know. On the other hand, the Clintons have been embroiled in countless investigations because they did a long series of separate things that each merited investigating. Again, which you know, but are pretending you don't so you can make low-information people in your own bubble nod their heads in agreement.
Democrats and their workers in the media absolutely must continue to conflate good old fashioned public discourse influencing (by the Russians ... as if they're the only government that does that!) with the fantasy of their having "hacked the election." Keeping those two topics - one routine, the other delusional fiction - melded together in front of low-information liberal voters is their only way of continuing to distract from why the Dems lost nearly a thousand legislative seats, most of the governorships, both houses of congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, and the good will of millions of two-time Obama voters who left in disgust.