I don't agree. There is plenty of evidence that FB will delete any far right nutjob in a millisecond but take weeks or months to get around to taking down Islamic State recruiting videos, or Antifa crap. If you're going to have a no-hate-speech rule, it needs to be enforced 100% the same regardless of who posts the content. Even Nancy Pelosy, someone who I don't have a lot of respect for, has admitted that Antifa is a hate group and themselves behaving in a fascist manner. Its no different than defending an abortion bomber but condemning an IRA church bomber. This whole, overlook the means as long as the end goal suits my needs, is the essence of Bias.
Actually I don't think the Russians were really trying to help trump, I think it was a byproduct not the intent. I see 2 possible motives/goals. 1) brew up hate and discontent to weaken a society. 2) revenge against Hillary Clinton . I think that both were achieved. The ads, which seem to target multiple groups even those never likely to vote trump, succeeded better than one could EVER have imagined in goal #1. Even the discussion about the tampering is even dividing the country, its like a positive feedback loop. I think that when HRC was secretary of state, she did something behind the scenes to screw Putin over. I suspect, but will never know, it was tied to that Uranium sale she brokered. Remember that public mockery over the 'reset' button that was a rebranded staples easy button? That was around the time that Russia went from being a 'friend' to being 'those nasty Soveit holdouts'. I doubt you and I will ever, in our lifetime, ever know what really went on behind the scenes. I do recognized wrath when I see it, this has all the earmarks of the old expression 'hell hath no fury that of a woman scorn". It wasn't just ads that played a strong role, all her secret games she played, hidden off site on an unsecure private server came to light. The hacked, but still true, evidence where the DNC rigged their own primary election to hand Hillary a winning ticket played a huge part too. Nobody likes voter tampering, Russian interference or not, you cannot deny what the DNC did was voter tampering in its purest form.
Maybe, or maybe there is nothing to it but it makes for a hell of a distraction. Kind of like throwing the IRS under the bus to get everyone focusing on IRS targeting conservative groups while trying sideline the investigation into Fast and Furious, and distract the public so as to ram PIPA and the NDAA through congress. There was never a real desire to reform the IRS process, and in fact the director was thrown a life raft if you recall. With all they hype over the NFL and now the facebook Ads, has anyone not noticed the new proposed tax code? What happened with DACA being a big deal? Suddenly they forgot all about that. This is classic magic tricks 101: misdirection, misdireaction, misdiraction. Whenever these headlines pop up, start looking around for the real play.
Hive mind.... good analogy.. and by such its reasonable to suggest that if that 'hive mind' started to 'think' a certain way, the Hive would accept this 'new way of thinking' and make it 'their' way of thinking as individuals. Maybe these 'Russian entities' are onto something in respect to 'thought control' by using Facebook ads to brew a civil war.
Well I think I'm a centrist (maybe?)... its hard to say given the extremes both sides of the spectrum can get these days. What is 'in the middle' these days? I really don't care much for either political party and am pretty much done with both. My views are more libertarian, in that I will fight tooth and nail against any infringement of civil liberties and the constitution even if that means having to live with perceived 'injustice' if the corrective action tramples another's rights in the process. The world is no perfect place and there is no universe were differing points of view can have everything they want and experience nirvana. A happy sailor is a bitching sailor. Over-correction is as harmful as no correction.
but its easier to think it was all one sided and pro-trump, which goes to the heart of the claimed goal in the first place. To divide and heat up tempers.
Why do you hide behind AC posts? That seems pretty cowardice if you ask me. Grow some balls man..
what the hell does "The site believes the ads were [probably] purchased by Russian entities.." mean? Either there is clear evidence that <madeupname> Nikoli Polityetski </madeupname> purchased an add that linked back to an account with the Bank of Moscow, or there isn't. To say that any anti-clinton add _probably_ was purchased by Russian entities, and no body else, is nothing but hearsay and speculation. I hope its not a 'probably' but instead a clearer link than that. Otherwise this is nothing but Jury tampering before a trial (figurative or literal, whatever the case may be)
3000 ads doesn't really seem like a large number to me. I'm pretty sure the 3 or 4 days right before any election, I see nearly that many ads of all the local political races like judges, magistrates, city council, etc. And why is it that most of these articles make it look like all the Russian tampering was pro-trump, when just a day ago there was another article that suggested that these 'Russian entities' were buying a lot of pro Black Lives Matter, as well as anti-immigration ads, in equal amounts. That article suggested these 'Russian entities' where deliberately trying to divide the populace and create racial tensions.
Here is a link to one of the papers re-capping the information. http://nypost.com/2017/09/27/r... Ironically the NYPost cites sources at CNN, which I went back and watched the video with Wolf Blitzer, and yet CNN keeps beating the "Russians cheated to get Trump elected" drum.
the same reason(s) we eventually passed the 22nd amendment. The same reason(s) George Washington set the example of serving two terms. I dont know about you, but I'm tired of all the illegal/non-prosecuted activity coming from congress. They constantly exempt themselves from the laws they make. They sit on intelligence briefings and likely use blackmail to hold their power. There is no reason why these people should be making the millions that they make while serving in office. They should be forced to relinquish all holdings while in office and they should be forbidden from any and all stock investments, including direct relatives, and staff. The fact that insider trading is illegal, and no exemption has ever been made for congress, yet stocks are bought and sold constantly based on exclusive knowledge they had access to, and in most cases, direct influence over, I find abhorrent. The fact that Martha Stewart served jail time for selling shares stocks based on pillow talk her boyfriend happen to mention, yet these senators and congressmen serve in oversight committees and buy and sell stocks based on pre-knowlege and serve no jail time is disgusting. The SEC never prosecutes any of them. They mandate that the entire public buy their healthcare, then go about exempting themselves and give out exemptions to prominent donors as well. People get irate when a president chooses to reverse a decision to stop enforcing a law, yet do not hold their senators accountable who's damn job it is to change the law to begin with. For 20 years they have had the lowest approval ratings of all time, hovering at times as low as 13%, still now only 20%. Yet despite 74% of all Americans disproving of them they are still in power??? Why?
I'll tell you why... polarization. They've played this binary polarization game to such an extreme that people wont DARE vote these assholes out, for fear that the other party might gain a seat. As long as they keep doing this, and the sheeple keep buying it, they can sit on their overpaid, law-breaking asses and do nothing. They've sharpened this polarizing to such a degree that we literally have violent protests and counter protests, with pundits actually CONDONING violence. What the hell would Dr Martin Luther King have to say about this if he was alive today to see any of this??
Eventually fixing elections is going to be rather overt. Right now we just speculate as to if it does or does not happen. Once these assholes amass enough power they are going to do it overtly (or start doing it depending on your view). Without term limits in place, there will be nothing to stop them from creating their own mini dicatorships.
think of it in terms of the pre dot-com collapse. Prior to the dot-com crash, if you were a tech you could practically demand any salary you wanted, verification of skill not required. After the dot-com crash it became much more difficult to even get pay increases. Things like Monster.com stopped being a bidding site for your skills and became more of a 'hope to find a job' site. Then came the housing collapse in 2008 and you see just how bad employers can mistreat employees and they just take it because its truly a buyers market and your options are feed your family or don't. Raising minimum wage doesnt solve this issue, it only helps create it. Sure the corporations have to pay more, but they just take it out of you everywhere else. So they pay you 20% more, but across the entire playing field, all their buddies are gouging you on all fronts another 30%, while your company gouges other employees via cost of goods sold. Its still a buyers market. The market has to become a sellers market for you to prosper. As long as the buyer of your services has the upper hand, he can treat/mistreat you as he sees fit.
Masonry, Concrete (foundations patios etc), Roofing, Drywalling, Landscaping, with the exception of maybe electrical contractor and plumber, I've seen plenty of skilled trades with people that get nervous when a patrol car drives past.
You probably intended to sound funny, but the Horse farms here in my state take good care of their employees. A shortage of workers quickly gets filled. Its not as if deportations are going to leave open positions.
jeesus, you sound like that really old joke about why Mexico doesnt have anyone in the olympics: Because anyone who can run, jump, or swim, is already in the USA.
Ding Ding Ding!, if all those people were forced to deal with their government, the corruption would plummet. They are voluntarily deporting their naysayers.
because she doesn't give a shit about whats good for anyone, she cannot get over her sociopathic vanity. It's Captain Ahab once again determined to kill that humpback whale, to hell with her crew.
dont limit that statement to just Trump. Thats been the damn drum beat for 30 yrs now. Remember that fake-ass war on women bullshit? Or revisionist history that certain parties are responsible for things like the KKK? Seriously? Its part of the global game to tell one group that the other group represents everything wrong in the world and that their group is righteous and without flaw. Both sides get so angry at the aparent flaws the other side denies that all they do is scream hypocrisy and overlook their own issues. As long as they keep both sides fighting they can keep going along bleeding both sides dry of extra money. Forget about all the taxes they bilk out of you, forget that our defense budget is so extreme that it alone is the real reason why we cant have germany's healthcare (one that actually works), forget about the fact that even France can give their people college education for nearly nothing, we're bled dry and get none of that. And if thats not enough, they get you so angry with THE OTHER GUYS that you literally constantly make campaign contributions hoping to right a wrong. All the while they're just pocketing that extra cash. Not one thing has ever really been done.
no government, no warlord, no dictator, can withstand all of its citizens rising up in pure revolt. Even armed with pitchforks the governments would collapse. You cant exist as a government, assuming you didn't get toppled, by eliminating 80% of your population. This is the only means that any free nation has been able to remain free. This is why Iraq and Afghanistan are not thriving. Nobody can do it for you because the same lame fucks that let the shit happen to them the first time, will let it happen to them a second. The french cleaned fucking house of anyone complicit when they had their revolution. Had they not, they would have been right back to where they started. As long as there is a large brainwashed population that feels its better to just bend over unwillingly and let someone shove it in your ass than say fuck-off, it can happen to any society.
I think the mere fear of these changes are having a larger impact than the actual deportations themselves. I keep reading reports that the number entering illegally is way down, simply out of fear. I think what nobody, hopefully nobody anyway, wants to hear about is XYZ violent offender getting caught after multiple crimes and multiple deportations. Why deport someone like that a second time to their own country? Obviously that country wasnt going to keep them imprisoned. I say 2nd deportation of someone like this should be to a remote, uninhabited island, 300miles off shore. Fuck them. The non-violent types I can sympathize, they are just trying to survive and its a sort of cat-and-mouse game. The gang member types, they can rot in the south pacific for all i care.
an executive order is NOT a law. Its a TEMPORARY one at best. A law is PERMANENT until, again, passed by the LEGISLATIVE process. The very authority that gave the previous president the authority to create one executive order, gave another the ability to end it. Neither one is right or wrong. You people are whining because this president is doing the exact same fucking things you defending the previous president for doing. If you dont like it, CHANGE THE FUCKING LAW, or even CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION, then no president can override it. You act like DACA was the fucking 13th amendment. News flash fucktard, No president can violate an amendment, and not even congress can pass a law allowing slavery. It would take a new amendment of repeal of the 13th for that to happen. Stop pissing in your wheaties about these temporary changes and demand a permanent change. Start by getting rid of ALL members of congress. Stop fucking around with blaming one side. There is plenty of blood on everyones hands. Send them all to the figurative gallows. You yourself said it's as much as congress' fault. And no it didn't start with George W, but thats probably when you got out of high school and took notice. This shits been building for a long time. Its like a snowball on a mountainside. You might not notice the snowball slowly growing in size, but eventually it morphs into a full fledged avalanche and by then everyone takes notice but is too late to stop. Sadly everyone yelling snowball for the last 20years or so were accused of conspiracy.
you know you have no argument when you have to take a discussion of legal process and just throw out discrediting remarks about racism because your arguments suck. So was it because Hillary was black too? Or her husband Bill? I guess everybody hates Pelosi because they cant stand that black former speaker right? You're such a fucking idiot. Learn to take credit for your comments spineless coward, and learn to form thoughtful debates. 200+ comments and you're the only want throwing out the race card there fucktard.
Then I assume you would be for TERM LIMITS for ALL ELECTED FEDERAL POSITIONS??? IF you aren't you're still part of the fucking problem and just want your side to be on top again. Cleaning house means get rid of both sides and start over. The old bullshit games need to stop.
By releasing the money seized by previous sanctions. It was frozen iranian investments that were frozen as a punishment for previous terror-related acts. It was not paid out of the federal budget, as all matters of funding are the direct responsibility of the House of Representatives. See US Constitution for all relevant roles of the branches of government. Technically any payment to Iran must be approved by the house.
Pot is not constitutionally banned, nor was any law ever passed explicitly banning cannabis. The 'legalization' of cannabis literally falls in an interpretation of the power, ceded by congress, to the DEA to regulate certain substances. Currently and for decades, it was considered Schedule 1. The DEA has decided that its _more_ dangerous than heroin (Schedule 2) despite no actual deaths. Meanwhile opiat related overdoses are now outpacing drunk driving and gun related deaths combined. The ONLY chemical substance to _ever_ be directly banned by congress was alcohol via the 19th amendment and subsequently repealed via the 21st amendment. If the executive branch so chose to stop its war on cannabis all they would have to do is re-classify it, the DEA is part of the executive branch. In the strictest definition of 'legal', nobody can actually say they have a 'prescription' written by a doctor for cannabis. The reason for this is that in order to write a prescription, you have to have a DEA number and you're only permitted to write a prescription for schedule 2 and lower.
Too much wiggle room has been ceded to the executive branch. Congress (all 500 members) needs to get off their asses and start legislating and stop passing the buck. They need to stop wasting time debating which fruit should be the national fruit and start working on deciding, as a collective, what is to be and not to be allowed. The FCC, the DEA, and the ATF should not be constantly changing their 'views' and 'opinions' on how various things apply or do not apply.
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I don't agree. There is plenty of evidence that FB will delete any far right nutjob in a millisecond but take weeks or months to get around to taking down Islamic State recruiting videos, or Antifa crap. If you're going to have a no-hate-speech rule, it needs to be enforced 100% the same regardless of who posts the content. Even Nancy Pelosy, someone who I don't have a lot of respect for, has admitted that Antifa is a hate group and themselves behaving in a fascist manner. Its no different than defending an abortion bomber but condemning an IRA church bomber. This whole, overlook the means as long as the end goal suits my needs, is the essence of Bias.
Says the anonymous coward with a sack so small he's considering gender reassignment. I bet you have to sit down to pee don't you?
Actually I don't think the Russians were really trying to help trump, I think it was a byproduct not the intent. I see 2 possible motives/goals. 1) brew up hate and discontent to weaken a society. 2) revenge against Hillary Clinton . I think that both were achieved. The ads, which seem to target multiple groups even those never likely to vote trump, succeeded better than one could EVER have imagined in goal #1. Even the discussion about the tampering is even dividing the country, its like a positive feedback loop. I think that when HRC was secretary of state, she did something behind the scenes to screw Putin over. I suspect, but will never know, it was tied to that Uranium sale she brokered. Remember that public mockery over the 'reset' button that was a rebranded staples easy button? That was around the time that Russia went from being a 'friend' to being 'those nasty Soveit holdouts'. I doubt you and I will ever, in our lifetime, ever know what really went on behind the scenes. I do recognized wrath when I see it, this has all the earmarks of the old expression 'hell hath no fury that of a woman scorn". It wasn't just ads that played a strong role, all her secret games she played, hidden off site on an unsecure private server came to light. The hacked, but still true, evidence where the DNC rigged their own primary election to hand Hillary a winning ticket played a huge part too. Nobody likes voter tampering, Russian interference or not, you cannot deny what the DNC did was voter tampering in its purest form.
Maybe, or maybe there is nothing to it but it makes for a hell of a distraction. Kind of like throwing the IRS under the bus to get everyone focusing on IRS targeting conservative groups while trying sideline the investigation into Fast and Furious, and distract the public so as to ram PIPA and the NDAA through congress. There was never a real desire to reform the IRS process, and in fact the director was thrown a life raft if you recall. With all they hype over the NFL and now the facebook Ads, has anyone not noticed the new proposed tax code? What happened with DACA being a big deal? Suddenly they forgot all about that. This is classic magic tricks 101: misdirection, misdireaction, misdiraction. Whenever these headlines pop up, start looking around for the real play.
Hive mind.... good analogy.. and by such its reasonable to suggest that if that 'hive mind' started to 'think' a certain way, the Hive would accept this 'new way of thinking' and make it 'their' way of thinking as individuals. Maybe these 'Russian entities' are onto something in respect to 'thought control' by using Facebook ads to brew a civil war.
Well I think I'm a centrist (maybe?) ... its hard to say given the extremes both sides of the spectrum can get these days. What is 'in the middle' these days? I really don't care much for either political party and am pretty much done with both. My views are more libertarian, in that I will fight tooth and nail against any infringement of civil liberties and the constitution even if that means having to live with perceived 'injustice' if the corrective action tramples another's rights in the process. The world is no perfect place and there is no universe were differing points of view can have everything they want and experience nirvana. A happy sailor is a bitching sailor. Over-correction is as harmful as no correction.
except that it is.. http://nypost.com/2017/09/27/r...
Even admitted to by CNN itself, which you can watch live here http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/2...
but its easier to think it was all one sided and pro-trump, which goes to the heart of the claimed goal in the first place. To divide and heat up tempers.
Why do you hide behind AC posts? That seems pretty cowardice if you ask me. Grow some balls man..
what the hell does "The site believes the ads were [probably] purchased by Russian entities .." mean? Either there is clear evidence that <madeupname> Nikoli Polityetski </madeupname> purchased an add that linked back to an account with the Bank of Moscow, or there isn't. To say that any anti-clinton add _probably_ was purchased by Russian entities, and no body else, is nothing but hearsay and speculation. I hope its not a 'probably' but instead a clearer link than that. Otherwise this is nothing but Jury tampering before a trial (figurative or literal, whatever the case may be)
3000 ads doesn't really seem like a large number to me. I'm pretty sure the 3 or 4 days right before any election, I see nearly that many ads of all the local political races like judges, magistrates, city council, etc. And why is it that most of these articles make it look like all the Russian tampering was pro-trump, when just a day ago there was another article that suggested that these 'Russian entities' were buying a lot of pro Black Lives Matter, as well as anti-immigration ads, in equal amounts. That article suggested these 'Russian entities' where deliberately trying to divide the populace and create racial tensions.
Here is a link to one of the papers re-capping the information. http://nypost.com/2017/09/27/r... Ironically the NYPost cites sources at CNN, which I went back and watched the video with Wolf Blitzer, and yet CNN keeps beating the "Russians cheated to get Trump elected" drum.
the same reason(s) we eventually passed the 22nd amendment. The same reason(s) George Washington set the example of serving two terms. I dont know about you, but I'm tired of all the illegal/non-prosecuted activity coming from congress. They constantly exempt themselves from the laws they make. They sit on intelligence briefings and likely use blackmail to hold their power. There is no reason why these people should be making the millions that they make while serving in office. They should be forced to relinquish all holdings while in office and they should be forbidden from any and all stock investments, including direct relatives, and staff. The fact that insider trading is illegal, and no exemption has ever been made for congress, yet stocks are bought and sold constantly based on exclusive knowledge they had access to, and in most cases, direct influence over, I find abhorrent. The fact that Martha Stewart served jail time for selling shares stocks based on pillow talk her boyfriend happen to mention, yet these senators and congressmen serve in oversight committees and buy and sell stocks based on pre-knowlege and serve no jail time is disgusting. The SEC never prosecutes any of them. They mandate that the entire public buy their healthcare, then go about exempting themselves and give out exemptions to prominent donors as well. People get irate when a president chooses to reverse a decision to stop enforcing a law, yet do not hold their senators accountable who's damn job it is to change the law to begin with. For 20 years they have had the lowest approval ratings of all time, hovering at times as low as 13%, still now only 20%. Yet despite 74% of all Americans disproving of them they are still in power??? Why?
I'll tell you why... polarization. They've played this binary polarization game to such an extreme that people wont DARE vote these assholes out, for fear that the other party might gain a seat. As long as they keep doing this, and the sheeple keep buying it, they can sit on their overpaid, law-breaking asses and do nothing. They've sharpened this polarizing to such a degree that we literally have violent protests and counter protests, with pundits actually CONDONING violence. What the hell would Dr Martin Luther King have to say about this if he was alive today to see any of this??
Eventually fixing elections is going to be rather overt. Right now we just speculate as to if it does or does not happen. Once these assholes amass enough power they are going to do it overtly (or start doing it depending on your view). Without term limits in place, there will be nothing to stop them from creating their own mini dicatorships.
think of it in terms of the pre dot-com collapse. Prior to the dot-com crash, if you were a tech you could practically demand any salary you wanted, verification of skill not required. After the dot-com crash it became much more difficult to even get pay increases. Things like Monster.com stopped being a bidding site for your skills and became more of a 'hope to find a job' site. Then came the housing collapse in 2008 and you see just how bad employers can mistreat employees and they just take it because its truly a buyers market and your options are feed your family or don't. Raising minimum wage doesnt solve this issue, it only helps create it. Sure the corporations have to pay more, but they just take it out of you everywhere else. So they pay you 20% more, but across the entire playing field, all their buddies are gouging you on all fronts another 30%, while your company gouges other employees via cost of goods sold. Its still a buyers market. The market has to become a sellers market for you to prosper. As long as the buyer of your services has the upper hand, he can treat/mistreat you as he sees fit.
Masonry, Concrete (foundations patios etc), Roofing, Drywalling, Landscaping, with the exception of maybe electrical contractor and plumber, I've seen plenty of skilled trades with people that get nervous when a patrol car drives past.
You probably intended to sound funny, but the Horse farms here in my state take good care of their employees. A shortage of workers quickly gets filled. Its not as if deportations are going to leave open positions.
jeesus, you sound like that really old joke about why Mexico doesnt have anyone in the olympics: Because anyone who can run, jump, or swim, is already in the USA.
Ding Ding Ding!, if all those people were forced to deal with their government, the corruption would plummet. They are voluntarily deporting their naysayers.
because she doesn't give a shit about whats good for anyone, she cannot get over her sociopathic vanity. It's Captain Ahab once again determined to kill that humpback whale, to hell with her crew.
dont limit that statement to just Trump. Thats been the damn drum beat for 30 yrs now. Remember that fake-ass war on women bullshit? Or revisionist history that certain parties are responsible for things like the KKK? Seriously? Its part of the global game to tell one group that the other group represents everything wrong in the world and that their group is righteous and without flaw. Both sides get so angry at the aparent flaws the other side denies that all they do is scream hypocrisy and overlook their own issues. As long as they keep both sides fighting they can keep going along bleeding both sides dry of extra money. Forget about all the taxes they bilk out of you, forget that our defense budget is so extreme that it alone is the real reason why we cant have germany's healthcare (one that actually works), forget about the fact that even France can give their people college education for nearly nothing, we're bled dry and get none of that. And if thats not enough, they get you so angry with THE OTHER GUYS that you literally constantly make campaign contributions hoping to right a wrong. All the while they're just pocketing that extra cash. Not one thing has ever really been done.
hence why you should be a libertarian
example please?
no government, no warlord, no dictator, can withstand all of its citizens rising up in pure revolt. Even armed with pitchforks the governments would collapse. You cant exist as a government, assuming you didn't get toppled, by eliminating 80% of your population. This is the only means that any free nation has been able to remain free. This is why Iraq and Afghanistan are not thriving. Nobody can do it for you because the same lame fucks that let the shit happen to them the first time, will let it happen to them a second. The french cleaned fucking house of anyone complicit when they had their revolution. Had they not, they would have been right back to where they started. As long as there is a large brainwashed population that feels its better to just bend over unwillingly and let someone shove it in your ass than say fuck-off, it can happen to any society.
I think the mere fear of these changes are having a larger impact than the actual deportations themselves. I keep reading reports that the number entering illegally is way down, simply out of fear. I think what nobody, hopefully nobody anyway, wants to hear about is XYZ violent offender getting caught after multiple crimes and multiple deportations. Why deport someone like that a second time to their own country? Obviously that country wasnt going to keep them imprisoned. I say 2nd deportation of someone like this should be to a remote, uninhabited island, 300miles off shore. Fuck them. The non-violent types I can sympathize, they are just trying to survive and its a sort of cat-and-mouse game. The gang member types, they can rot in the south pacific for all i care.
an executive order is NOT a law. Its a TEMPORARY one at best. A law is PERMANENT until, again, passed by the LEGISLATIVE process. The very authority that gave the previous president the authority to create one executive order, gave another the ability to end it. Neither one is right or wrong. You people are whining because this president is doing the exact same fucking things you defending the previous president for doing. If you dont like it, CHANGE THE FUCKING LAW, or even CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION, then no president can override it. You act like DACA was the fucking 13th amendment. News flash fucktard, No president can violate an amendment, and not even congress can pass a law allowing slavery. It would take a new amendment of repeal of the 13th for that to happen. Stop pissing in your wheaties about these temporary changes and demand a permanent change. Start by getting rid of ALL members of congress. Stop fucking around with blaming one side. There is plenty of blood on everyones hands. Send them all to the figurative gallows. You yourself said it's as much as congress' fault. And no it didn't start with George W, but thats probably when you got out of high school and took notice. This shits been building for a long time. Its like a snowball on a mountainside. You might not notice the snowball slowly growing in size, but eventually it morphs into a full fledged avalanche and by then everyone takes notice but is too late to stop. Sadly everyone yelling snowball for the last 20years or so were accused of conspiracy.
you know you have no argument when you have to take a discussion of legal process and just throw out discrediting remarks about racism because your arguments suck. So was it because Hillary was black too? Or her husband Bill? I guess everybody hates Pelosi because they cant stand that black former speaker right? You're such a fucking idiot. Learn to take credit for your comments spineless coward, and learn to form thoughtful debates. 200+ comments and you're the only want throwing out the race card there fucktard.
Then I assume you would be for TERM LIMITS for ALL ELECTED FEDERAL POSITIONS??? IF you aren't you're still part of the fucking problem and just want your side to be on top again. Cleaning house means get rid of both sides and start over. The old bullshit games need to stop.
By releasing the money seized by previous sanctions. It was frozen iranian investments that were frozen as a punishment for previous terror-related acts. It was not paid out of the federal budget, as all matters of funding are the direct responsibility of the House of Representatives. See US Constitution for all relevant roles of the branches of government. Technically any payment to Iran must be approved by the house.
Pot is not constitutionally banned, nor was any law ever passed explicitly banning cannabis. The 'legalization' of cannabis literally falls in an interpretation of the power, ceded by congress, to the DEA to regulate certain substances. Currently and for decades, it was considered Schedule 1. The DEA has decided that its _more_ dangerous than heroin (Schedule 2) despite no actual deaths. Meanwhile opiat related overdoses are now outpacing drunk driving and gun related deaths combined. The ONLY chemical substance to _ever_ be directly banned by congress was alcohol via the 19th amendment and subsequently repealed via the 21st amendment. If the executive branch so chose to stop its war on cannabis all they would have to do is re-classify it, the DEA is part of the executive branch. In the strictest definition of 'legal', nobody can actually say they have a 'prescription' written by a doctor for cannabis. The reason for this is that in order to write a prescription, you have to have a DEA number and you're only permitted to write a prescription for schedule 2 and lower.
Too much wiggle room has been ceded to the executive branch. Congress (all 500 members) needs to get off their asses and start legislating and stop passing the buck. They need to stop wasting time debating which fruit should be the national fruit and start working on deciding, as a collective, what is to be and not to be allowed. The FCC, the DEA, and the ATF should not be constantly changing their 'views' and 'opinions' on how various things apply or do not apply.